My grandfather sometimes thought of me too smartly, and he would often test me by saying a sentence that he had learned when he was in private school. When I couldn't answer, he said, "Impossible, don't you know that?" You are all college students, and you are too much of a student, so you can read the I Ching by heart. Don't know this? "I said I really don't know. My grandfather said that the current teachers are too useless, and they don't even teach students basic knowledge of Chinese culture.

I knew I couldn't think of a way to hide from the lightning when I stared at a hen hatching eggs, but in order to make my grandfather think that I had really thought about it, I pretended to think about it for a long time, and then told my grandfather that I hadn't thought of it.

Grandpa said that hens hatch eggs to avoid the effects of lightning. The hen chooses the position and direction of the egg, not only to avoid the position of the lightning strike, but also to avoid the thunder vibration affecting the chick formation in the eggshell. If the cultivating spirit wants to avoid the thunderstorm, it only needs to stay in the place where the hen hatches the eggs.

The day after my father signed the agreement with Xie Xiaomi, I went to the Chinese medicine store to buy some Chinese medicine, and the Chinese medicine was packaged in a package, and each package contained one and a half dollars for mulberry branches, one and a half dollars for mugwort leaves, five cents for realgar, and five cents for cinnabar. The medicine is prepared according to the method of removing corpse gas. After boiling the Chinese medicine, my father pretended to say that it was a special herbal tea brought from Sichuan for the Xie family and the people he brought to drink it.

That night, Xie Xiaomi made a lot of noise in his father's room, but no one in the Xie family's compound came to his father's room to find out. Therefore, Grandpa knew that Xie Xiaomi's corpse qi charmed the people living in the Xie family, and he would not wake up no matter how noisy he was.

At noon the next day, my father pretended to go to the Xie family's father to ask what to do next. The Xie family's father's face has changed, and he is adamant that this marriage cannot be completed. That was Xie Xiaomi's first retreat to the Xie family's father as agreed.

Grandpa didn't do much to keep it, and picked up the bride price he picked up the day before as it was.

Although the marriage contract was canceled, since then, Grandpa and Xie Xiaomi's interactions have become more and more frequent, and they have become rare confidants. Xie Xiaomi often sneaked out to fight against her grandfather's poetry and discuss ancient poems. Xie Xiaomi likes ancient poetry very much, and Grandpa is very familiar with ancient poetry, so they have a common language.

A few years later, when Miss Xie's body became increasingly difficult to maintain due to long-term decomposition, her father advised Xie Xiaomi to give up Miss Xie's corpse skin and reincarnate in order to obtain a new living skin. At that time, Xie Xiaoxiao already had the ability to take other people's bodies, but she listened to her grandfather's words and went to reincarnate. Grandpa thought it was to help her, but she didn't expect that she had an accident in the process of reincarnation.

Of course, that's all for later.

Grandpa returns from the Lost Bridge and brings back the news that the marriage contract has been cancelled. Daddy's father was very angry. Grandpa persuaded him with good words and told his father not to worry.

A few months after my father returned to Thrush Village, he felt that life was very boring. Because the Qing court was on the verge of collapse, the new warlords were ready to move, the foreigners were constantly harassing, and the outside world was changeable, and my grandfather had no intention of continuing to travel. In the thrush village, with the care of his father, he has no worries about food and clothing, no need to work, and there is nothing else to do every day except reading, writing, and writing. So, my father began to tell fortunes and predict bad luck, so as to pass the long and endless time. As long as someone asks, he will help and will not take money. Most of the people who came to ask at first were to see the lively pictures, but after finding that Grandpa's words were true, more and more people came to Grandpa. Grandpa's fame in occultism gradually surpassed the fame of reading sage books before.

Luo Buzhai usually helps the grain officer settle the accounts, and when he is free, he comes to his grandfather to discuss the art of Xuanhuang with him.

Sometimes, the crooked Taoist priests of the neighborhood also come to join in the fun.

In addition to worrying about his father's health, his father lived a very comfortable life in those years.

After Grandpa's reputation spread, the people who came to him were strange, and things were often unbelievable.

One day, an old woman came to her father and said that her daughter-in-law's milk had been stolen.

At that time, Xie Xiaomi's father happened to be here, and she told her family to worship Buddha outside, but she came to Thrush Village. When she heard the old woman say that her daughter-in-law's milk had been stolen, her face was flushed with shame.

Luo Buzhai was also there that day, he stood up and helped the anxious old woman with burning eyebrows to sit down, and asked, "Auntie, how could your daughter-in-law's milk be stolen by others?" ”

The old woman waved her hand and said, "I'm not talking about the milk, it's the milk for the child!" A few days ago, her milk was still sufficient, but yesterday she suddenly said that it was gone, and my grandson was so hungry that she cried. ”

Luo Buzhai asked, "You didn't ask your grandson if his father stole it?" He deliberately raised his voice very high, so that Xie Xiaomi, who was on the side, could hear it and embarrass her.

The old woman said, "My son is working as a carpenter outside, and he is not at home." ”

Xie Xiaomi couldn't stand their conversation, and interjected: "Auntie, this Ma Xiucai is not a barefoot doctor, how can he solve the matter of your daughter-in-law feeding the child?" ”

When the old woman heard Xie Xiaoxiao say this, she smiled awkwardly and said, "Didn't I rush to the doctor when I was sick." My grandson, who had just completed the moon, was pitifully hungry, and I panicked. I heard that Ma Xiucai could figure out the reason for everything, so he hurriedly ran here to inquire first. ”

The old woman was leaving.

Grandpa stopped her and asked, "Tell me, how did your daughter-in-law suddenly run out of milk?" I'm not a barefoot doctor, but I might be able to help you. ”

"Really?" The old woman stole a glance at the pretty girl in the house, afraid that she would say something to drive away.

Grandpa knew the old woman's thoughts, and said, "You are here to ask me, what others say doesn't count." ”

Xie Xiaomi pouted.

The old woman sat down again and told her daughter-in-law about everything.

It turned out that the old woman's daughter-in-law had only given birth to a child for more than a month, and after the child was born, the daughter-in-law's milk was very sufficient, unlike some newborn women who were anxious about the lack of milk. In the words of the old woman, the pair of things on her daughter-in-law's chest is the food that the child brought from there, and the child's clothes are good and he will not go hungry. Some of the children did not bring food from there, so they had no milk to drink when they arrived, and they starved themselves until they were yellow and thin.

Xie Xiaoxiao laughed in a low voice beside him: "Whether the child has milk or not, it depends on whether the child brings food from there, not to mention whether the mother has milk or not." This is the first time I've heard of it. ”

The old woman saw that she had an unusual relationship with her grandfather, so she did not dare to refute her, and continued to say her own words: "I see that a person whose children have no milk to drink is jealous of my grandson and has stolen my daughter-in-law's milk. Otherwise, my daughter-in-law wouldn't have run out of milk all of a sudden. The day before yesterday, she said that it hurt so much that her grandson couldn't finish drinking it, and she couldn't squeeze out a drop when she got up yesterday morning. Ma Xiucai, do you think things are weird? ”

Grandpa thought for a moment and said, "Can you take me to your house to have a look?" ”

The old woman couldn't ask for it, so she quickly nodded and said, "Of course you can!" Even if you go to a barefoot doctor, the doctor has to look at people's faces and feel people's pulses, right? ”

Xie Xiaomi was surprised: "Ma Xiucai, do you really want to go?" ”

Daddy nodded.

So, Grandpa, Luo Buzhai, and Xie Xiaomi followed the old woman to her house. The old woman is not from Thrush Village, but her home is not far from Thrush Village. Her village is separated from Thrush Village by an old river, and after crossing the old river, turn right and walk two or three miles.

After entering the old woman's house, the grandfather looked in the room and asked the old woman's daughter-in-law some things. Her daughter-in-law herself found it strange. Grandpa asked who he had seen and what he had done the day before yesterday. Her daughter-in-law said that she had seen a few people the day before yesterday and didn't do anything, because she had just come out of the moon, and she couldn't do anything yet.

Xie Xiaomi leaned over and asked, "Ma Xiucai, do you see any clues?" Do you want to undress and check her ...... Cough...... Ahem......"

Daddy didn't bother to take care of her.

Luo Buzhai walked around with his father, figuring out his father's thoughts. In the days of following his father, Luo Buzhai learned a lot of things, but his father surpassed him too much, making him useless.

"How? What do you think? Did you come up with it? Xie Xiaoxiao asked anxiously. She didn't lose half of her enthusiasm because her father didn't care about her.

Daddy pouted at the little kid Nunu, who was only a full moon, and then said to Xie Xiaomi, "I have figured out how to save you." Sooner or later, the skin of your corpse will be so decomposed that it will not be able to be controlled. I think that then you can be reincarnated so that you have your own body. ”

Xie Xiaomi didn't care and said, "It's still far away." Now I'm living a good life, I don't have to think that far. ”

Grandpa walked to the table next to the bed, squatted down to look at the ground, rubbed his fingers against the ground, and then asked the old woman and her daughter-in-law, "Have you used other things to fill milk?" ”

The old woman and her daughter-in-law nodded in unison.

The old woman said, "Sometimes she swells so much that she squeezes out some and puts them in a cup. ”

Grandpa stood up and looked at the cup on the table, and said, "You have to pay attention in the future, don't put the milk out casually, and pour it into the toilet in time." ”

Dad pointed to the cup on the table and asked, "Did anyone other than the two of you touch the cup with milk the day before yesterday?" ”

The old woman and her daughter-in-law both said no.

"Then did anyone ask your daughter-in-law for milk?" Daddy asked.

Luo Buzhai immediately rushed to say: "Who wants this thing?" ”

Xie Xiaoxiao pouted and shook his head, meaning that the matter asked by his father was a bit marginal.

The old woman also said: "Usually some women have milk to feed their children, but they also let their children drink a little milk from other women. In this way, the child will grow up and be in better health. But my daughter-in-law has just come out of the moon, and no one has come to beg for milk yet. She said that the previous words were to excuse her father and save face for her father in front of those two people.

This time, the old woman's daughter-in-law was different from her. Her daughter-in-law's eyes lit up and said, "Someone really asked me for it." The day before yesterday, Granny Wu came to my house and said that her hand was bitten by a centipede, which was swollen and painful, and asked me to ask for milk to apply to the wound. She said it could treat the pain of a centipede bite. ”

"Granny Wu?" Daddy asked.