It was completely quiet, and I didn't even have a chance to say hello to my grandfather, but my heart was already at peace. Listening to Maitreya's words, I also felt that the thin old man was a little strange, and when there was no one on the riverbank, the two of us ran over quickly, grabbed the old man and left.

"How many days has this old man not showered?" Maitreya frowned, and as soon as he touched the old man, he felt a faint smell on his body, which was quite unpleasant.

"This smell" I thought was very abnormal, this thin old man with a hemp rod was obviously a living person, but his body exuded a kind of rancid smell of corpses when they were decomposed, and the smell was disgusting.

"The smell of the dead." Maitreya glanced left and right, and said, "Let's get him away first." ”

We quickly left the riverbank, where Kimble had been in the place for some time and was familiar with it, and took us back to the cemetery with us. He has a small shack here, and his wife and children are all in the shack, to be honest, when I see his young children and his stupid daughter-in-law, I feel a kind of guilt in my heart, if there was no river reclamation at that time, he would not have ended up in this field.

"It's fine." Jinbao saw the apology on my face, smiled reluctantly, and said: "Life is very good now, I have never been far away before, but now I have traveled so far and I have gained a lot of knowledge."

"Jinbao, I apologize to you for my father, if it wasn't for those things at that time, you wouldn't have been"

"Water baby, don't say that." Jin Bao raised his eyes to look at Maitreya who was guarding the old man outside, thought about it, and whispered: "The sixth master dragged a village of people to fill the river, it was a last resort, although the people of a village died, but let them die so that more people could live well." This river has to be patrolled and towned, and it can't be done by the sixth master alone, he has to have helpers, and those Yin soldiers are helpers. ”

I vaguely understood Jinbao's words, the purpose of the people in the Seven Gates of Hejiazi has always been to care for the shortcomings, help not help relatives, if there is really something, they will pick up people close to them to sacrifice. We live in Xiaopanhe, and if we choose people to fill the river, we can only pull the villagers in the village and let go of the innocent people in the other villages.

I chatted with Jinbao for a few words, and then turned my head to look outside, and Maitreya had gotten some water and was pouring it on the old man. When I walked out of the house, the old man seemed to be frightened by the big jackal in the stone coffin, and he had not moved until now, and he could not wake up from the cold water.

"He's not going to just go over like that, is he?" I raised my hand to probe the old man's snort, which was very faint, as if it were a sign that he was about to lose his breath.

"I can't wake up anyway." Maitreya turned his face and quietly squeezed his eyes at me, and said, "You go and get a shovel, just dig a pit here and bury him."

"Don't, don't!" Before Maitreya's words fell, the thin ghost-like old man suddenly opened his eyes, sat up from the ground, and hurriedly said, "I still have gas, I have gas, I don't have to do it." ”

"Old thing, really pretending to be dead." Maitreya laughed, squatted in front of the old man, looked at him with interest, and said, "Are you from the Divine Hexagram Sect?" Surname Gou? ”

The hexagram door mentioned by Maitreya is one of the thirty-six side doors, and it is also a special one. The Jianghu rice that the thirty-six side doors used to eat, rolling on the knife edge, and begging for a living with their heads on the waistband of their trousers, are all reckless men, but the Shengua Gate never does anything to fight and kill, they claim to be able to count five hundred years before and five hundred years later, spy on the heavens, and squeeze into the thirty-six side doors, which is completely full of numbers. I also saw it refreshingly, when I was on the river beach today, this old man didn't mean to embarrass his grandfather, and as soon as he got up, he jumped to the side with his head in his arms and hid, and he was as timid as a mouse.

"It's surnamed Gou" The old man's glasses were shattered in the chaotic fight, he opened his eyes and looked at us with difficulty, and said: "I followed the number, I didn't do anything, there is a debtor, who should be found, who should be counted, and the innocent cannot be implicated"

"We understand people, how things are, can you still see it?" Maitreya smiled very honestly: "Gou Banxian, I am not looking for you to settle accounts, but I want you to give a divination." ”

"That's fine." When Gou Banxian heard that it was just fortune telling, his heart immediately relaxed, and he grinned: "It's not me bragging, our hexagram door, the truth is that King Wen passed on the sixty-four hexagrams, no matter if you measure good fortune, marriage, fortune, and hundred spirits, if you don't count accurately, you throw me into the river to feed Wang Ba." ”

Gou Banxian spit on the stars with a mouth, but this old guy is not completely nonsense, the Yellow River Beach surnamed Gou Hexagram has a long history, how many years have been going back, that is really a half-immortal character, it is said that Qianlong Ye at that time, the surname Gou was the most famous, and the wealthy family looked for the Gou surname to divinate the hexagram, and the half-immortal explained the hexagram, a word of ten taels of silver, and one penny less.

"Gou half-immortal, you are just a half-immortal, don't brag." Maitreya smiled and said, "Is it really possible to calculate everything?" ”

"Whoever brags about who is the turtle grandson, or that sentence, it's not accurate, throw me into the river to feed Wang Ba." Gou Banxian looked at Maitreya, smiled as if flattering, and said, "If the calculation is accurate, let's discuss, or let me go?" ”

"Cheng, if the calculation is accurate, let you go immediately." Maitreya was smiling, but as he spoke, the smile on his face was invisible, and he slowly looked at Gou Banxian and said, "I don't want you to count the fortune and marriage, just let you calculate what is in the stone coffin in the river today." ”

"This" Gou Banxian's mouth opened wide all of a sudden, looked at Maitreya, and then looked at me, a bead of sweat oozed from his head, and he smiled reluctantly: "That's a big jackal, with so long fangs, it looks weird and scary." ”

"Really?" Maitreya sneered, took out a bright knife, took Gou Banxian's hand, slowly helped him trim his nails, and said: "King Wen's sixty-four divine hexagrams, count the world, don't escape, that thing in the river, other people don't know, you won't know, what should be is what, tell the matter well, we just listen to it, never spread it, your nails are very dirty, how many days have you not repaired?" By the way, I don't have good eyes and my hands are often shaking, so don't blame me if I don't pay attention and trim off four or five of your fingers. ”

"Don't" Gou Banxian suddenly trembled with fright, and said with a sad face: "You can't brag to me, the sixty-four divine hexagrams are actually sparse, they are all tricks to deceive people and mix up rice, can you let me go?"

"Enough!" Maitreya was sure that this person was timid, so he suddenly broke off and drank, and suddenly pressed Gou Banxian's hand to the ground, and the knife was inserted between his two fingers, and he said to me without looking back: "Take a shovel, dare not say it, bury him immediately!" ”

I turned around and ran to the shack, got a hoe out, and dug a hole next to Gou Banxian. Gou Banxian's face was like dead ashes, like a pendulum, and his whole body was shaking up and down. I dug a hole and watched what he said, but I couldn't tell if he didn't know or wouldn't say.

I dug the pit with my hands and feet, and before the pit was dug deep, Maitreya grabbed Gou Banxian and threw it into the pit, filling it with earth. Gou Banxian's courage was too small, and when he was frightened like this, his pants were wet, and he wanted to crawl outside when he cried and shouted to his mother. Maitreya pressed his head and said, "Does it count!" ”

"Calculate" Gou Banxian was about to cry, his mouth was loosened, and Maitreya pulled him up, but as soon as Gou Banxian got into the pit, he had a bitter face and said, "Let me count it." ”

"Forget it." I interjected next to me: "Don't ask him, just bury your worries." ”

"No, no." Gou Banxian hurriedly explained to us: "Everything in this world has a fixed number, some are hidden from heaven and can't be calculated, and some can be calculated, but you don't dare to count, you just ask such a big thing, don't wait for me to say it, the sky will accept me." ”

"Stop talking nonsense! You have counted it for so many years, and the sky will accept you, and it will be collected a long time ago! ”

"I'm not lying." Gou Banxian wanted to shed tears as he spoke: "The people of our Divine Hexagram Gate are all miserable, sometimes they don't know the depth, they count the things that shouldn't be counted, and they say things that shouldn't be said, if the sky doesn't accept it, they will also suffer retribution, you see"

Gou Banxian lifted the gown on his body, and at that moment, I almost threw it up, and finally understood how he always had the rancid smell of dead people. His stomach was full of pus, large and small, rotten into holes, and the skin and flesh were a mess, and the white, white, red, and red rotten flesh and pus and blood emitted a foul smell.

"When I was young, I was ignorant, I was divining for others, and I always wanted to calculate accurately and make a name." Gou Banxian's lips trembled, and said: "These sores are my retribution, I can't get better for a lifetime, there are always one or two hours a day, and my body hurts to death, I beg you, don't force me, let me live a few more years." ”

Gou Banxian is not like a wicked person, and he doesn't do bad things, I can't bear to implicate the innocent, and I don't want to force it, but those things are really too important to me, I have to know, hesitated and thought for a long time, I gritted my teeth, dragged Gou Banxian aside, and said in a low voice: "You calculate the matter for me, even if your life is gone, it doesn't matter, I, give you a second life!" ”

Although Gou Banxian is timid, he is an understanding person, and as soon as he heard my words, his eyes suddenly widened: "The life-continuation diagram of the seven gates of the river? ”

"You know something, I don't hide it from you, Chen Liujin is my father, he left alive today, when I see him again, I will ask you for a life continuation map, I will count my words!"

The second life is a huge temptation for anyone, Gou Banxian was really tempted, lowered his head and thought about it, after a while, he raised his head and said: "There are some things, I really can't calculate, and there are other things, I can calculate but I don't dare to say, as long as I have a mouth here, there will be thunder on my head immediately and kill me." ”

"You do your best!" I saw that he was tempted, and then continued: "I will definitely say what I say, and give you a life extension map!" ”

"Done!" Gou Banxian was ruthless like a gambler betting, and said: "I can see that little brother, you are a believer, and you have a hexagram!" ”

As soon as he spoke, he threw out a few money-like tortoise shells from his sleeves, a few tortoise shells were black and shiny, I don't know if they were old things that had been used for generations. Maitreya and I closed our mouths, and Gou Banxian threw the tortoise shell, and watched there silently, muttering words in my mouth, and chattering for a full twenty minutes before slowly raising my head.

"How? Did you figure it out? ”

"This thing can be calculated." Gou Banxian licked his lips and said, "I'm just afraid that if I say it, you don't believe it." ”