klooooo our family was really poor earlier. My dad and eldest brother are two strong laborers, who are both serving and working in the city, and they are tired and tired, although they can also earn money. But as soon as the subsidy is subsidized, the money is like a puddle of water and disappears in the blink of an eye. It's okay to barely make ends meet, and to send your children to school, but you can't save the balance. No matter how much the family tosses, they can't get rich.

At that time, I was still young, half an adult, and I was crazy every day, so I didn't know what my family was facing. The burden is basically all on Luo Dami's body. My eldest brother said that he thought of many ways to make a fortune at that time, but he didn't do it. At that time, he drank when he had nothing to do, complaining that he was born poor, and this life was so promising.

It was spring. After a few rains, Luo Dami went to the mountains to pick mushrooms and saw Fan Xiong.

Fan Xiong was carrying an easel on his back. Holding a little girl about thirteen or fourteen years old in his hand, he should have gone to the mountains to collect wind when he saw that posture. But why do you still have children? Looks a little weird. At that time, my eldest brother was at a low ebb in his life, how could he have the heart to think about this, seeing Fan Xiong, they had a relationship because of me, and he said hello and wanted to leave.

Fan Xiong was very enthusiastic to stop him and told him that she didn't know the mountain road when she first came to Pantao Mountain, and she still needed her eldest brother to be a guide these days. Saying that, he stuffed a sum of money. My eldest brother is also unprofitable and can't afford to be early, so when he sees that there is a benefit to take, he naturally agrees, pats his chest and says that there is no problem. In those days, Luo Dami led Fan Xiong, and the little girl, who went around the mountains when they had nothing to do, of course, they didn't dare to go to places that were too dangerous, and once something happened, they couldn't take responsibility.

Not to mention anything else, the scenery is extremely beautiful, especially in spring and autumn, it is simply a paradise. The mountains are continuous, the mountains are full of flowers, it is completely a natural and magical landscape painting, beautiful to the slag.

When Fan Xiong saw a beautiful scene, he first took a photo, then put on an easel, waved his pen and ink, and sketched. It would take her hours to paint, and Luo Dami couldn't accompany her, so he went back to the village to clean up the fields and do farm work, and made an appointment to bring her back. As the days passed, Luo Dami began to lose his mind, and later found a very strange thing, no matter where Fan Xiong went, he had to lead the little girl. He asked Fan Xiong who she was, and joked if she was her illegitimate daughter. Fan Xiong's face changed at that time, he had no head and no face to reprimand my eldest brother, the woman who has read the book is different, she scolds people and does not spit dirty words, but her tone is extremely harsh, and every word is heart-wrenching. My eldest brother was stupid, if it weren't for the money, he would have walked away a long time ago.

In the next few days, Fan Xiong didn't ask Luo Dami to accompany him, and went to sketch on his own, and my eldest brother also forgot about this stubble. A few days later, Fan Xiong suddenly found Luo Dami and said that he would invite him to dinner to thank him for his efforts in the past few days. Luo Dami, it doesn't matter, if there is a free meal, go there. During the meal, Fan Xiong suddenly asked Luo Dami a question, do you want to get rich?

Luo Dami Gagale, who doesn't want to get rich? I don't want to be stupid, I think about it in my dreams.

Fan Xiong's expression at that time was a little strange, and Luo Dami recalled it now, describing it as a bit treacherous. Fan Xiong told him that acquaintance is fate, and she has a way to give Luo Dami a fortune. Luo Dami didn't have much friendship with her, just because of my acquaintance, and now they got together by chance, he only knew that Fan Xiong was a painter in the city, and he belonged to the gang that didn't distinguish between grains and bodies, and she didn't know it when she heard it. Luo Dami said casually, okay, that's good.

Fan Xiong said that since you are interested, come to the inn at nine o'clock tonight to find me, and I will help you find a way. Luo Dami didn't think deeply about it at the time, he drank wine, so he thought that he would go home and sleep after drinking, and get up tomorrow to carry the work. At night, it was also an inch, and Luo Dami had just come home and encountered a debt. At that time, there was no small western-style building at home, it was a three-room tiled house, in disrepair, it rained and leaked, and there was no balance at home, so I could only borrow some money, and the roof was re-paved with asphalt. This money is all small money, but I didn't expect the creditor to come to the door, and people made it clear that the elderly in the family were hospitalized and were anxious to wait for the money. At that time, my father was still alive, and he was kind enough to communicate with others, making tea and making water, and the creditor did not forgive, and his words were very ugly. Luo Dami had no ability or money at that time, and his temper was so bad that he couldn't raise his head when he was scolded, and he squatted in the corner of the wall and shouted luck. When the creditor scolded and left, he took a cigarette hard, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stood up and left. He has made up his mind, as long as there is a glimmer of hope to get rich, he will fight for it, this poor life is really enough, even if it is rich for a day, it will be fine, and his life will not be in vain.

At nine o'clock, when I arrived at the inn, I saw Fan Xiong waiting for him in the room, and Fan Xiong was still the little girl beside him. The girl was very quiet, and she kept listening to the Walkman on the bed, and she didn't look at Luo Dami.

Luo Dami said to Fan Xiong, no matter what the price, I want to get rich, just say what you need me to do.

Fan Xiong told him that the ancients had a saying that the small rich are thrifty and the big rich are made by the sky. Whether you can be rich or not depends on a person's life, and everything else is nonsense. If the fate is poor, the gold dug will turn into copper. If you are rich, you will pick up white paper and turn it into cloth. Fan Xiong said to him, I will do a spell, ask the ghost mother to make a fortune, and make you rich. Luo Dami chuckled in his heart when he heard this.

He was a rural kid who had heard about these gods and ghosts since he was a child, and he believed in them very much. There is a little hesitation in his heart, there is a sentence he has always remembered in his heart, there is no free lunch in the world, there is no glory and wealth given empty-handed, and it is not a blessing or a curse to fall rich out of thin air.

There is a vivid example of our neighboring village, the village was demolished, and a lot of demolition fees were given above, and the peasants who were originally facing the loess with their backs to the sky suddenly got this money, millions, and I don't know how to spend it. There is a half-grown child, who got money and went into a nightclub every day to find a lady to take drugs and gamble, and contracted a disease in his twenties, and finally died on the street. Without this money, he would have been able to live a peaceful life even though he was poor.

Luo Dami asked if there was any danger. Fan Xiong smiled and said that if you ask the ghost to borrow money, it will be very dangerous to take chestnuts from the fire and eat from the tiger's mouth. But as long as she does what she says, it's fine. Of course, whether you can control yourself with money depends on you, I believe that Brother Mi must have this self-control.

Fan Xiong told my brother two conditions: one was to join her church.15 The other was to make a fortune in the future, and to build the Wanying Palace in Pantao Mountain. Wanying Palace, that is, the Yin Temple, is dedicated to worshipping lonely souls and wild ghosts. Luo Dami was poor and white at the time, and he had no concept of these things at all, so he casually agreed. Fan Xiong's church has a very terrifying name, called the True Buddha Sect of the Netherworld. Fan Xiong briefly explained that the biggest elder of this church is a woman called Shenggu, and Shenggu is the reincarnation of the true Buddha of the underworld. As the name suggests, this church is to communicate the two worlds of the underworld, worship the ghosts, believe in the underworld, and believe in death. Feast of Abundance.

Death, Pham Hung said, is the most beautiful thing in the world.

Luo Dami was so cold when he heard it that he felt like he was on a thief ship. He shuddered and asked how he could join the church. Fan Xiong said, "As long as you kneel three times and bow nine times to the Holy Aunt, and she will give you blessings and empowerments, even if you have completed this ceremony, you will be our dear brothers and sisters."

Luo Dami asked, where is the holy aunt?

Fan Xiong is a man who picks a salty concubine and a man∨ iii

Luo Dami was struck by lightning, and he never expected that this inconspicuous and delicate girl would actually be a saint with the highest status in the church. Although the girl was wearing headphones, it seemed to be telepathic, and she slowly raised her head to look at Luo Dami.

Speaking of this, Luo Dami took a breath of cold air and said to me: "At that time, as soon as I met this little girl's eyes, I immediately had a very strange feeling. Her eyes are not childlike at all, and I have never seen anyone with such eyes, very deep, very deep."

The girl's eyes seemed to be extremely demagogic, deep and bewitching, Luo Dami's knees were weak, and she knelt on the ground with a pop. Walking on his knees as feet, he came to the little girl. The girl took off her headphones, chanted slowly, stretched out her right hand, and slowly placed it on top of Luo Dami's head. I don't know if it's a psychological effect, Luo Dami felt a stream of heat pouring in from the top of his head, and his whole body was filled with a strange heat.

Then there were three kneeling and nine knocks, Fan Xiong pulled him up with a smile and said, we are all brothers and sisters now, the family doesn't need to be so polite, help the brothers earn money, that is what should be shared, without further ado, do it tonight.

The three of them took advantage of the darkness to enter the mountain, and arrived at the burial place of the ancestral tomb at about eleven o'clock in the evening.

Hearing this, I asked, "Is this the place where our mother was buried?" "

Luo Dami sighed and nodded. This ancestral tomb has been barren for some days, overgrown with weeds, quiet in the middle of the night, and the wind seems to have died suddenly, not at all. The thin moonlight fell from the black clouds, and he could see nearly a hundred tombs scattered on the hillside, that kind of atmosphere, Luo Dami said, he will never forget for the rest of his life.

Fan Xiong took him to the cemetery at night, and if he wanted to ask the ghost to borrow money, the first condition was to find five tombs that were relatively rich during his lifetime. Luo Dami is a local, familiar with the road, turning on the flashlight in the middle of the night, looking at the tombstones one by one. The weeds here are dense and mixed, and the ground is full of dark pits and shallow ditches, which will be emptied. The three of them walked very slowly, and Luo Dami already had a sense of awe for the little girl, for fear that she would be impatient, but secretly observed, the girl's face was gloomy and calm, expressionless, and she looked like a puppet papier-mâché person.

They finally found a very rich tomb, the whole tomb was made of marble, although some years of wind and rain, but the majesty is still there. The tombstone bears the name of Ma Youwei. This Ma Youwei is a relatively wealthy owner in a neighboring village, who opened a stone quarry during his lifetime, and made a lot of money by taking the opportunity of building roads. It's a pity that at the age of forty or fifty, he traveled west with a crane in his prime, and when he died, he was buried in a beautiful manner, which was considered to have earned enough face. Originally, he could go to the cemetery to be buried, but the family didn't know who to hear, this ancestral grave land has good feng shui, and the descendants who were buried here were developed, so they buried him here.

Fan Xiong pointed to the tombstone and said, start with this person. She told him that she wanted him to do one thing now. Luo Dami could only obey his words when he came to this point, and asked what else was going on. Fan Xiong pointed to the tomb behind, you go and dig open the grave and take out the ashes inside.