Chapter Twenty-Three: Whimsy

"Seven Door Palm Lamp?" Song Baiyi couldn't help but look at me, and then at the old ghost, wanting to say something, but didn't say it. I don't know what the old ghost means by the seven big palm lights, but it sounds very majestic.

"What? You don't think so? The old ghost said: "Lao Tzu has taken a fancy to him." "

"It's not that it can't be, it's just that" Song Baiyi hesitated for a long time, strengthened his courage, and said cautiously: "Big brother, you have been in the river for so long, you may not know the current way of the world, which is different from the past. "

"Lao Tzu doesn't care what the world is now, if you want him to do it, he will do it, and now I will ask you a word, do you recognize him?"

"Big brother." Song Baiyi's Adam's apple moved, swallowed his saliva, and said: "Those things are in the past, in the hands of the older generation, in fact, they have passed, you have been in town for so many years, you have been wronged, and you have wasted your time in vain." Big brother, the world is now peaceful, and it is no longer a time of war and chaos, and we can't afford to make much waves. "

"Fart!" The old ghost's temper was very short-tempered, and when he saw Song Baiyi's hesitant appearance, he immediately became anxious, patted the table and said, "Do you think Lao Tzu is?" What is called the past! "

"Big brother, I know you don't like to hear this, but what my brother said is the truth, what we did back then, now tell people to listen, people will think that we are crazy and talking nonsense"

"Really?" The old ghost had already lost his temper, but at this time, he suddenly suppressed his anger, smiled gloomily, and said: "You know, Lao Tzu has never disdained to talk nonsense to anyone in his life, and now I will tell you why Lao Tzu came out this time." "

The old ghost's grim smile was a little terrifying, but behind that gloomy smile was a kind of solemnity and solemnity, which made people think without doubt that what he said was true. Song Baiyi's expression suddenly became unnatural, and his lips trembled a few times.

"You give Lao Tzu a word by word clearly." The old ghost leaned out, leaned towards Song Baiyi, stared straight at his face, and said, "Lao Tzu has been in Zhenhe, those things are more accurate than you see!" Lao Tzu believes that he will not be wrong, and now it is five years before the sky collapses! "

"What!" Song Baiyi's face suddenly turned pale, his body shook violently, and he almost fell off the chair, he seemed to have been touched by the words of the old ghost to something that had been hidden in the deepest part of his heart for a long time, not only his face was pale, but his forehead immediately sweated.

"You know, once the sky collapses, what will be the consequences, your life is stable now, full of children and grandchildren, and you are in charge of a family, it's very comfortable, isn't it?" The old ghost sneered: "Lao Tzu is not afraid to tell you, in another five years at most, it will be too late for you to pull this group of people to fill the river!" "

"Big brother, don't laugh" Song Baiyi was completely frightened by the old ghost's words, his hands trembled back and forth, and he slowly wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"I don't have the heart to laugh with you." The old ghost put away his sneer, paused, his tone softened a little, and said: "Lao Tzu let you be pitted, Zhenhe has been in the river for fifty years, no one has come to see me, and no one has picked me up, although Lao Tzu has a lot of anger in his heart, he has a lot of fire, but he has been boiling for so many years, just think about it, you bastards, if it weren't for the collapse, Lao Tzu wouldn't be too lazy to move his nest, and he wouldn't be too lazy to worry about anything with you." Old Five, think for yourself. "

Song Baiyi frowned, got up and paced back and forth next to the chair for a few steps, a little lost his soul, after a while, he stopped, looked at the old ghost, and said, "Who is this baby?" "

"It's Chen Laoliu's grandson, you remember it for me."

"Big brother, what do you mean?" Song Baiyi gritted his teeth and said: "Brother, let's say something from my heart, since you left, the Song family has begun to wash their hands, thinking about living a few days of down-to-earth life, after so many years, it is not good or bad, there is always a stable food to eat, the juniors below don't know those things at all, and now they really want to drag the Song family into the water again, big brother"

"Whatever you want." The old ghost became very calm, glanced at Song Baiyi lightly, and said: "If Lao Tzu doesn't talk anymore, he won't force it, but from now on, he will completely kick the Song family out of the Seven Gates and eat by the river. "

Song Baiyi's face suddenly turned to ashes, and the old ghost's words seemed to have a huge deterrent effect, which put him in a dilemma. The old ghost squinted his eyes and stopped talking, Song Baiyi walked around the room at least a dozen times anxiously, and finally nodded to the old ghost as if he had made a lot of determination.

"Don't promise so quickly, think clearly, this is not child's play." The old ghost said quietly: "You know the rules of the Seven Gates. "

"Big brother, you make it clear, it will collapse in five years at most." Song Baiyi smiled bitterly: "I don't agree, is there any other way?" "

"It's good that you understand, Lao Tzu has to talk less." When the old ghost saw Song Baiyi agree, he immediately stood up and said as he walked out: "Over the years, who have you been walking around more with." "

"The sixth brother has no contact at all, the seventh family is broken, the second brother and the third brother are still there, I want to find them, and the fourth brother has no news." Song Baiyi followed behind and said, "You know, the fourth brother has a strange temper, and the place where he lives is so yin that even I don't dare to go, so I have been going back and forth less over the years." "

"Tell them that Lao Tzu is back." The old ghost took me out of the door, and said without looking back: "Lao Tzu will go to the fourth child by himself, and I will see you here in a month." "

The old ghost didn't stay any longer, and took me away from Baoliu Village, I was full of questions, I didn't dare to talk nonsense in the village, I felt very uncomfortable, and as soon as I left the village, I asked the old ghost like a cannonball.

"What are the Seven Gates? What is a Skyslide? What is Town River? "

"When it's time to tell you, Lao Tzu will tell you, don't keep chasing and asking." The old ghost said: "Did your master teach you to practice the style?" "

"Piercing the horse." I thought about it, in my impression, my grandfather is best at water, whether kung fu is good or not, I really don't know, because since I can remember, he has never fought with anyone, when I was very young, my grandfather called me Zamabu, every day to patrol the river Zamabu, that is the routine of thunder and immovable.

"Lao Tzu teaches you something, you learn hard." The old ghost was walking, suddenly stopped, turned back to me and said: "Baby, you are going to do a big thing, your father asked Lao Tzu to take care of you, but there is not much time, in a few days, Lao Tzu will go far away, and when I leave, you will have to go by yourself." "

I thought about what I heard today, the old ghost didn't shy away from me when he talked to Song Baiyi, and I remembered what they said. Although I was stunned at the time, it was not without heart, I pondered, the old ghost has been in the stone coffin for many years, listen to him, if it weren't for the fact that he had to do something very important, maybe he wouldn't have come out.

Naturally, I thought of what he said about the sky collapse, and I estimated that the old ghost came out of the stone coffin, and there was a lot of ** related to this.

"What big am I going to do? Did you confess it, or did my grandfather confess it? "

"It's not Lao Tzu, it's not your father." The old ghost's expression became solemn and said, "It's heaven." "

"Do what?" I felt a lot of pressure from the old ghost's expression, and he was serious.

"What to do, you will understand sooner or later, Lao Tzu has never studied, how important this matter is, Lao Tzu and you can't tell you clearly, just tell you one thing." The old ghost turned his head to look at the river not far away, and said, "Do you know how this river came from?" "

I was stunned for a moment, and said in my heart why is this question asked by the old ghost so boring, the Yellow River has been flowing in the Central Plains since ancient times.

"Baby, don't be self-righteous, do you think what you know is true?" The old ghost raised his eyes and looked at the big river not far away, and said, "This river was deliberately dug up by someone, do you believe it or not?" "

"!" I felt that the old ghost was talking nonsense, how long the Yellow River was, I didn't have a specific concept at the time, but at least I knew that it almost crossed the whole of China, and it was not a small river ditch, and it was dug out when it was said: "What about the Mongolian people? From Dayu's water control, this river is there. "

Most of the boatmen were born poor, and they had to run for life since they were young, except for those who were wealthy, the children of poor families rarely studied, but the boatmen were familiar with the Yellow River, and every legend about the Yellow River was memorized. The story of Dayu's three times without entering the house has been told many times.

"That's right." The old ghost didn't care if I believed it or not, and said: "When Dayu controlled the water, this river had just been opened, if it hadn't been opened, what kind of water would Dayu treat?" "

I stood there and froze, although the old ghost made me feel mysterious and scary, he didn't seem to be a good liar, and he wouldn't deceive me for no reason. But what he said was too bizarre, the Yellow River was opened by people? I couldn't accept this question at once, and stood in a daze for a long time before I pulled out my legs and chased after him, but the old ghost only said so much, and when I asked him again, I refused to say it.

"Forget it." I was a little angry, but after thinking about it, I realized that the old ghost was afraid that I knew more things, and less and no more, so I leaked these things, and his mouth was as tight as a stone, and he couldn't knock it open with a hammer: "If you don't say it, forget it, don't ask me anything in the future, and if you do, I won't tell you." "

"The temper is not small." The old ghost grinned: "It's the same as when Lao Tzu was a child." "

"I won't talk to you." I kicked the pebbles under my feet and asked as I went, "Where are we going now?" "

"Yinshan Gorge."

"Pull it down!" I was taken aback, and I couldn't help but tug on the old ghost's sleeve: "You don't want to die, don't you!" "