Hopefully, this lie will allow him to live like this and never be exposed. Grandpa prayed secretly in his heart. On the one hand, Grandpa thinks that Abba Xu did die a grievance, although his previous methods of exorcism and ghost hunting were quite controversial, but in the end, the general direction is good, and he is not a good person, but at least he is not a bad person. On the other hand, Daddy saw his methods against the weak king last time, and if he was there, the odds of winning against the weak king could increase by three points.

"Actually, none of us have seen your body, and there are still doubts about your death." Daddy said to the pale-faced Abba Xu, "We later caught the beggar who attacked you, and although he said that he had suffocated you to death, we followed him to the designated place and did not find your body. The beggar was also very surprised. ”

Abba Xu listened to his grandfather's words as if he was petrified.

"The beggar confessed that he had been instructed by the spirit to harm you, and that he would harm you in the way of others. But he thinks that the ghost you are driving knows that his companion wants to harm you, and follows him to the vicinity of the Zhuzhu Lake in Munigou, and rescues you when he is holding you in a clay pot, and then creates an illusion of being held in order to confuse the beggar and make him think that he has succeeded. ”

"So the one I saw was a hallucination, a ghost for me?" Abba Hsu quickly believed the lie.

Perhaps he himself is more inclined to this lie, so it is easier to believe that it is true. Most of the time, people are like this, they don't deliberately discern between right and wrong, but are willing to choose the side they are more willing to believe, whether it is right or wrong.

Abba Xu felt much more relieved after listening to his father's lies, and his pale face gradually regained its blood color.

"But...... Don't go back, the farther away from the radish village, the better. Daddy thought about what the crab executioner had said, and thought to himself that if Abba Xu returned to the stockade and was told the truth, he would still dissipate like a puff of smoke. Therefore, only by not meeting the people in the village can Abba Xu continue to live.

"That's where I've never left." Abba Hsu is clearly reluctant to give up on his hometown.

Grandpa persuaded: "Think about it, that beggar was instructed by the ghost to harm you, and you were rectified by them like this, and you lost face. If a ghost hunter is tricked by a ghost, will others still believe you? Even if the people in the village don't talk about you, Abba Xu from the other villages will definitely seize this opportunity to attack you. Don't even think about staying in the stockade. ”

"I've helped so many people before, they won't believe in my abilities just because I was framed by a ghost this time, right?" Although Abba Xu's words are so, there is no confidence in his words.

Grandpa can see this clearly.

Grandpa said: "Don't talk about others, you saw your bamboo slipper's reaction today, right?" Even it won't come near you anymore. Grandpa knew that Bamboo Slip sniffed out that Abba Xu was not the previous Abba Xu, and he didn't dare to approach him because of fear. But in order to keep Abba from returning to the village to know the truth, Grandpa had to continue to make up lies.

Once a lie is told, more lies are needed to make up for it.

Abba Xu lowered his head and sighed, "You're right. The people I've helped before don't necessarily thank me because I've taken too much money from them. The spirits don't help me because they're afraid of me, but because I can provide for them. Abba Xu in the other villages is even more unlikely to let me go, and we have been different from beginning to end. I can't go back. ”

Grandpa hit the railroad while it was hot: "Hmm." Then come with me. I have a lot of good land in my house, which used to be taken care of by my father. When I go back, he will definitely pass on the family business to me. You can go to my hometown and help me take care of these things. "Daddy had seen Abba Xu haggling with the people who came to him, and he knew that he was good at calculation. After receiving money, he works faithfully and does not discount, which is a manifestation of his sense of responsibility. A person who is good at calculations and responsible is definitely the best person to be a bookkeeper. It would be best if he came to help take care of the family's property.

Although my grandfather and mother said that my father's kung fu was famous in the whole county, abacus competitions could be seen everywhere after the liberation, and he must have won the championship in any competition in which my father participated. Not only can he calculate as fast as he can, but he can also put the abacus above his head to calculate, and his hands are crackling, which is like an acrobatic trick, and he can get full applause.

But everyone in the family knows that my father is not a person who is good at calculation, not because he is not good at mental arithmetic, but because of his personality. He played his abacus so well, just to amuse himself and everyone, and he didn't mean to use the abacus to care.

Therefore, after Grandpa inherited the family property of the grain official, he had to have a shrewd bookkeeper to help him.

Abba didn't know where to go for a while, but when he saw his grandfather stretching out an olive branch, he was naturally willing to take it. He nodded, "Okay." Then I'll go with you to your hometown first, and if it's suitable, I'll stay. If it's not suitable, it's not too late for me to find a new place to live. ”

In this way, Abba Xu became his father's bookkeeper and personal bodyguard.

In order to avoid Abba Xu's matter from being discovered, Grandpa Xu gave Abba Xu a new name, called Luo Buzhai, homonym radish village. For Abba Hsu, the name is a bit of a remembrance of his hometown. For Grandpa, this name always reminds him not to mention what happened in Radish Village, lest one day he accidentally lose his words and tell the true cause of Abba Xu's death.

The next day, Grandpa bought some daily necessities for Luo Buzhai and some dry food, and then set out on the road to Thrush Village together.

After that, along the way, Zhu Yuzi explored the road in front first, found the best path and then returned to lead them on the road, and Luo Buzhai could also share some luggage for his father. With Zhu Chuzi and Luo Buzhai, the speed of travel is much faster than before. They soon entered the territory of Hunan and returned to Thrush Village.

When the grain officer saw his son from a long distance returning, he immediately announced his son's marriage.

Grandpa felt that he should rest for a while before thinking about marriage. The grain official said with a gloomy expression: "The sooner you get married, the sooner I can hold my grandson." Your father and I are running out of time, and I am afraid that I will not see that day, so I want to arrange it for you as soon as possible. In case I can't see the descendants of our Ma family, I will see you start a family and start a business, and you will be blind after death. ”

Grandpa didn't understand why his father suddenly said this, thinking that his father was just an excuse to force him to get married as soon as possible.

Grandpa went to Luo Buzhai to discuss.

Luo Buzhai said, "I think it's better to listen to your father." His days are numbered. ”

When my grandfather heard him say this, he was shocked and asked, "Where did you see that my father's time is short?" You used to just exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts, but I didn't see you being able to tell fortunes. ”

Luo Buzhai said: "It's true that our Abba Xu haven't learned fortune-telling or anything like that, but don't forget, I can speak Chinese because I have learned Chinese abroad." Why learn Chinese? That's because I learned some Xuanhuang techniques from the Han Chinese. Among them is a fortune-telling mantra called weighing bones. ”

Grandpa suddenly realized.

"Weighing the bone is to use a person's birth date to determine the weight of his bone, a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, and a certain time correspond to a weight, and the weight of the eight words is all added up, which is the weight of the person's bone. That's why this method is called bone scaling. The lightest bone weight is two two two, and the heaviest is only seven two one. Thus, there are fifty-one fates that are calculated. There are 51 mantras. I used to learn it, but I didn't know how to use it, and I didn't believe it very much≡ after experiencing the incident of being plotted by a beggar, I woke up as if I had been empowered, and suddenly understood the true use of the bones. ”

Grandpa thought to himself, what is that kind of Daigo empowerment, that's a big dung empowerment.

Grandpa had long heard of symmetry bones, and he didn't quite believe that the fate of people in the world was only fifty-one, so he didn't study it in depth. Despite this, Grandpa still believed Luo Buzhai's words. Because Luo Buzhai is a person who has already died once, his body has long been rotten, and now he is an ambiguous "outer body", maybe seeing things will indeed be different from normal people. He may look at people like a ghost looks at people, and he can see things that others can't.

Ghosts look at people who are strong in yang or blessed as if they were in flames. The flames burned too strongly, and the ghosts did not dare to easily harass them. This is also one of the reasons why people with strong yang energy or great fortune often do not see ghosts.

Grandpa guessed that Luo Buzhai might be able to see the true weight of people in other ways.

Sure enough, Luo Buzhai's words confirmed his father's conjecture. Luo Buzhai said: "Although I don't know your father's birthday, I weighed his bone weight as seven taels and one penny, and only two coins is the largest bone weight." Generally speaking, the heavier the bone weight, the better the blessing. Seven taels and one penny is already a very blessed bone. ”

Grandpa interrupted him and asked, "Since he is very blessed, why do you say that his time is short?" Blessed people should turn evil into good fortune! You are talking nonsense! ”

Luo Buzhai said patiently: "The heavier the bones, the better the blessing, but the blessing is too great, and it is not something that ordinary people can bear." It's not uncommon for people with thin lives and great fortunes, right? They are often because their lives cannot bear such great blessings, so they either die early or become seriously ill. To use a simple analogy, this man is a ship on the sea, and good fortune is a jewel on the ship. The more jewels the better, but if the ship is too heavy, it is likely to sink. As soon as I came to Thrush Village, I heard about your brother's death after he was on the list, and with all due respect, this is the earliest manifestation of your father's great fortune. He was blessed to have such a smart and knowledgeable son, but he couldn't bear it in his life, so such a sad thing happened. ”

After Luo Buzhai, who was Abba Xu, said this, his father fell into a long silence.

In the silence of the night, there was only the sound of bamboo slippers running on the beams overhead.