"What are you doing with this hat? This is the official hat of the Ming Dynasty, if someone finds out, be careful to accuse you of misdeeds! Daddy said.

At that time, although it was a turbulent era in the late Qing Dynasty, once the matter of making the official hat of the former dynasty was exposed, it was a great event.

Perhaps because the Qiang customs have always been followed here, and it has not been affected by too many Manchu mandatory regulations, Abba Xu disappetically snatched the hat from his father's hand, put it on himself, and then pointed and said, "What kind of bad intentions?" Even if the Manchu emperor falls, I won't care about the slightest. This hat of mine is for you and for me. ”

"For us? What are you going to do? Daddy was puzzled.

"You see, the hat has a wire shape and a crown on top of the head. If the weak king touches the top with his hand, the crown can separate the distance between the hand and the head. It won't be able to touch your top, and it won't make you a weaker. This is how to protect ourselves if we fail. Abba Xu took Daddy's hand and let Daddy's hand press on the crown of the hat, imitating the appearance of the weak king touching the top with his hand.

This kind of preparation for failure before it starts, Grandpa doesn't know whether to call it a smart plan for a rainy day, or a lack of confidence that hurts his morale.

Abba Xu saw the clue in his father's expression, and said to his grandfather with a smile: "It's not that I don't have confidence...... You can't say that...... It's because the gap between our strength and it is too big. My master once told me about the hierarchy of wizards and ghosts. Due to the different spell schools in different places, the rank of wizard and ghost is different. My master himself re-divided a grading standard, just like when you get fame and fame, you can also be promoted to the Hanlin and so on. ”

"The weakest nature is excluded from the rank, just like you don't have any fame before you get the Xiucai exam, although these people have all read, but they don't give the lower level is called nephew, the higher one is called uncle, the higher one is called grandma, and the highest is called ancestor. That weak king is at the ancestor level. And I'm just good enough to be at the nephew level. Do you think there is a big gap between us and its strength? Do you think I should try to protect myself first? Abba Xu said.

Abba's words are telling the truth. Although he is more capable than Abba Xu of other villages, he mostly relies on the power of ghosts, so he does not mean to belittle himself by claiming the rank of nephew.

Grandpa put down his hat and didn't talk about it, but was very interested in this kind of level distinction, and hurriedly asked what level the roe deer he had just caught was.

Abba Xu said that this roe deer is also at the level of a nephew.

Later, Grandpa has always used this level to distinguish the strange forces he encounters.

He once secretly told his grandfather that although the millet buried in the back garden looked young, its ability was far more than that, and the millet was at the level of grandma, almost reaching the strength of the ancestor level. It's just that children are too playful, just like no matter how smart a student is, it is difficult to fully exert his strength at the age of playfulness, and Xiaomi's potential is far from being realized.

Daddy asked what level the many types of ghosts belonged to.

Abba Xu replied one by one, and when he was impatient, he took out a thread-bound book and asked Grandpa to read it himself. That book is Abba Xu's master summed up the experience of more than 100 kinds of ghost levels, and there are many overlaps with the "Hundred Techniques Exorcism" that his grandfather studied later.

Daddy spent the whole night skimming through the book.

Abba promised to take back his book before dawn. He said that the book should not be read during the day, otherwise something ominous would happen.

Although Grandpa closed the book before dawn according to his request, something ominous still happened - the weak king found the radish village!

On the evening of the day when the weak king came to the radish village, my father already had a bit of an ominous premonition.

That evening, Dad and Abba Xu had just finished eating. Grandpa suddenly felt uneasy, as if he had lost something important, but he obviously didn't lose anything.

Many people with a keen sixth sense will have a premonition before a big event comes, just like a horse can smell danger and stop, just like an old cow will cry when its owner has murderous intentions. Many living beings, including human beings, have this kind of extraordinary perception, a perception that is not attached to the physical organs.

Seeing that Grandpa was restless, Abba Xu asked him what was wrong.

Daddy couldn't tell why.

Abba Xu habitually took out his claw hexagram and divined it on the spot, asking if something bad was going to happen. The hexagram is two arcs facing upwards, representing the unlucky yin hexagram.

It's not that the yin hexagram means it's bad.

In the divination of the sheep's horn hexagram, the holy hexagram has the meaning of giving and protecting; Yin hexagram has the meaning of receiving and approving it; Yang hexagram has the meaning of making its own decisions and refusing to participate.

In addition to the yin and yang hexagrams, there are also horse head hexagrams.

The horse head hexagram is the hexagram that is dropped, neither face up nor face down, but the tip of the hexagram is inserted in the mud, resembling a horse's head. The horse head hexagram is the worst hexagram, and the appearance of the horse head hexagram indicates that something bad will happen, of course, the appearance of the horse head hexagram is very rare.

If there is a yin hexagram in the good thing, it is good. Ask bad thingsIf there is a yin hexagram, it is not good. Because the yin hexagram has the meaning of receiving and approving it. Abba Xu asks if there will be anything bad going to happen, and the appearance of the yin hexagram means acknowledging that something bad is going to happen.

This method of divination is the easiest, so it is the most common. However, the problem of divination is also the simplest. For more complex problems, this method of divination cannot be used.

Abba Xu looked at the two arcs facing upwards for a while, and then comforted his father: "Don't worry, even if there is anything, am I not by your side?" ”

As soon as Abba Xu's words fell, they heard the sound of "Da Da" on the street outside the door. They looked out the door together, and saw the weak king as stiff as a scarecrow jumping against the background of the yellow mud wall.

Because the clothes on his body have not been changed for many years, the clothes have been torn like a rag. Its face resembles a granite washed by wind and rain, and a thin layer of green moss grows on it. Even though it was very different from the last time Daddy saw it, Daddy still recognized it at a glance.

It had a striking scar on its face, which stretched from the corner of its eye to its chin. The flesh beneath the scar's skin turned out, like a flesh worm crawling out of the corner of its eye.

That scar made my father believe that the weak king was a weak man, and it would never be skin and flesh, nor blood and bones. But when he saw the nails of the weak king's hands, Grandpa hesitated. The nails of those hands were more than three inches long, apparently growing later. The bones and nails of the weak man will continue to grow, but the nails of the weak king in front of him are growing violently, but the bones are not growing.

"My ancestors!" Abba Xu put away the horn hexagram, hurriedly turned around and went to the ghost card, lifted the covering cloth, grabbed a handful of incense ash and smeared it on his face. This will prevent the weak king from seeing his true colors. Then, he quickly took out two Ming Dynasty black gauze hats from the drawer of the table, put one on himself, and handed it to his father.

Grandpa put on his hat and glanced at the threshold of Abba Xu's house.

The threshold for his house is too low. But now it's too late to raise the height.

"Run!" Grandpa had seen the scene where it easily knocked down more than 30 weak men, and knew that the two unsuspecting people were not its opponents, so 36 strategies were the best strategy.

At this time, Abba Xu was more determined.

"Don't run yet. Although the preparation has not been done these days, since it is here, it will let you see how powerful I am. There was a rare flash of resoluteness in Abba's eyes.

Seeing that he refused to retreat, Grandpa had no choice but to fight side by side with him, although he couldn't help much, it was good to be by his side for psychological comfort.

"Bamboo slipper!" Abba snorted.

A black shadow quickly shuttled in from the outside and crawled into the palm of Abba Xu's hand. It was the mouse that Daddy saw when he first met Abba Xu.

What can a rat do? Grandpa's heart was flustered like a drum.

Abba Xu raised his arm and threw the rat onto the roof. There is a small opening in the roof that leads to the roof.

The roof of the radish village is different from the roof of the rainy area in the south. The roofs in the south are mostly sloping, with dense tiles like fish scales, which are convenient for rain drainage. The roofs of the radish village are almost all flat roofs, and they are only used to dry corn or firewood, which is a bit of the meaning of the southern grain drying field.

The rat squeaked when it went up to the roof, and the rat's paws scratched at it.

When the weak king was about to jump to the door, suddenly countless round beans slipped down from the eaves and poured down like heavy rain. The beans jumped up and down in front of the door and scattered a large slice. Beans include soybeans, broad beans, peas, mung beans, kidney beans, and adzuki beans, and the types are mixed and difficult to distinguish. Beans come in black, yellow, cyan, red, and so on, in a variety of colors. Maybe the number of beans is too small, so Abba Xu got all kinds of beans together and hid them on the roof early. And the roof must have a piston switch or a loophole that allows the rats to leak out as long as they get in or out of there.

Grandpa saw the pouring beans clattering on the ground and stones, gurgling and swishing, like a disorganized but melodious tune.

Daddy understood what Abba meant by this. The weak man is not afraid of anything, but he is afraid of a high threshold, and that is because he is afraid of tripping and falling and not being able to get up. These beans are dry and crispy, and they must be slippery and unsteady to stand on when stepped on. If the weak man steps on it, it will be difficult to maintain his balance. This is the same as the role of high thresholds. The weak man is afraid of the high threshold, and he should also be afraid of these beans.

Daddy expected that there were a few invisible Abba Xu's friends outside the door to help. Because although the beans were scattered everywhere, they obviously didn't jump out far, and they were all concentrated on the road between the weak king and the threshold. One by one, the beans stopped, and they continued to spin, not lying there peacefully. This is also due to the troubles of his friends.

If it were an ordinary person, it would not be possible to free up thousands of hands to spin each bean. But for the ghosts, this is just a trick, so naturally it is not a problem.