The fat man and I were sleeping in one of the trains, when suddenly the train stopped halfway. After careful inquiry, the conductor said that the diesel engine of the train was broken, and he had to wait for the next train to change trains.

Like many passengers, I sat on the train in a bored daze. At this time, the fat man suddenly said to me: "Haisheng, why don't we get out of the car and go shopping!" Play and go. ”

I was surprised, "Is this really going to work?" ”

The fat man said with a big grin: "There's nothing that can't be done, you see, aren't we entering the scope of Yichang now?" Besides, even if we go early, we have nothing to do, so it's better to take a walk and enjoy the scenery of the Three Gorges. ”

I thought about it, it's okay to take advantage of the free days to walk around the Three Gorges and have a good time. Immediately, I hit it off with the fat man and got off the train with two suitcases of luggage.

The place where we got off was very remote, and it seemed to be in a small village near the Three Gorges. After getting off the bus, the fat man and I did not look for a hotel to stay in, but took advantage of the evening sunset to approach the nearby village.

Yichang is located in the lower reaches of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and you could say that Yichang is one of the most treacherous cities in China.

Of course, this refers only to some of the townships. Many towns and villages are located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, although the Yangtze River is one of the four major dragon veins in China. However, it is also one of the dirtiest places.

At a certain time and season, when the water of the Yangtze River is directed to the basin, countless corpses are dragged downstream and piled up along with the flow of the Yangtze River.

In the cognition of many people, today's society has advanced science and technology, even if there are ghosts, I am afraid that ghosts are also sneaky, and they dare not come out to harm people openly during the day.

However, a colleague who returned to Shenzhen from Yichang personally relayed to us an incident of ghost pulling people that he saw in Yichang, and this incident still happened during the day.

This colleague's surname is Zheng, let's call him Master Zheng. About a few years ago, Master Zheng came to Yichang with a friend. While marching to a scenic hill, an incident occurred that made Master Zheng remember it vividly for a long time.

The protagonist of this incident, the cowherd who pulls the cow to graze on the mountain.

In the morning, when Master Zheng saw the child, he was still playing with the cow very happily. But after more than an hour, when Master Zheng looked at the child again, he saw that the child was doing some inexplicable movements.

How to describe it, it's like pulling with someone. The child was crying and screaming, his feet glaring back, one hand slapping the air.

Master Zheng Dingqing took a look, where are the children playing? It's clearly a ghost pulling people

When Master Cheng arrived at the child's side, he found that the child was only a little distance away from the cliff. And when Master Zheng saved this child in the hands of the unjust soul, he almost fell off the cliff to meet Master Huaguang.

Master Zheng, who had stabilized his footsteps, looked at Dingqing under the cliff, and instantly gasped. I saw a large number of corpses floating under the cliff, which can be described as resentful. As the water rushed, from time to time more garbage and corpses poured down the cliffs.

In addition to Master Zheng's ghost during the day, we have often heard strange stories about the Three Gorges in Yichang. Therefore, if you want to explore, in addition to Xiangxi, I think Yichang, especially those in the countryside facing the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is really a good choice.

When the moon was getting dark, the fat man and I found a place in the village to stay, and the owner of the house was an old woman, who looked very kind. I was about to negotiate the price with her, but the fat man walked up before me.

The fat man clasped his hands together at the old woman and said, "Old man, we are Taoist monks who have traveled here, and we want to spend the night with you, and by the way, we will have some fasting and dinner, I don't know if you should allow the old man?" ”

When the fat man took out the refuge certificate for taking refuge in Taoism, the doubts on my mother-in-law's face immediately dispelled, and she immediately welcomed us into the house with a smile and politely poured us two glasses of water.

The mother-in-law's surname is Huang, and she seems to be very obsessed with Taoism, and as soon as she sat down, she couldn't wait to find the fat man and test the hexagram.

The old people are generally worried about their future generations. Of course, this is not blindness, but the experience of this industry for a long time, and over time, I have this experience. Granny Huang is no exception, and it is her son who asks for the hexagram.

According to the hexagram, Granny Huang's son seems to be a bad gambler and prostitute. And in the hexagram, he entered the palace at the funeral gate, and I am afraid that his life will not be long. It was the fat man who hesitated for a while when he broke the hexagram.

"My kid, I run out all day long, and I don't know how to come home to see. As a mother, who can put your heart down. I just want to ask the master, when will you see when my child will come home? The old woman asked worriedly and eagerly.

The fat man paused for a while, then pinched his five fingers and smiled: "Granny Huang, don't worry, he will come back today and tomorrow." ”

"What the master said is true?" The fat man's words made Granny Huang overjoyed. Facing Granny Huang's anxious eyes, the fat man nodded fiercely and said, "Really! ”

"Good, good...... Biaozi is finally willing to go home, okay! Unexpectedly, the fat man's simple words made Granny Huang cry in an instant.

"The two little masters are hungry, I'll go cook now, you sit down, and it will be fine soon!" After the old woman was excited, she propped up her old body and walked to the kitchen next to her.

After my mother-in-law walked away, I immediately couldn't wait to ask the fat man: "Lao Wang, what are you doing here?" ”

The fat man didn't speak, but just glanced at Granny Huang who was walking to the kitchen, and whispered to me: "You look at the wind, if Granny Huang comes out, tell me!" ”

After speaking, the fat man slipped into Granny Huang's room in a daze.

Ten minutes after entering, the fat man slipped out again.

I grabbed the fat man, leaned over and asked, "What are you doing here?" You can't be sneaking into someone's room to be a thief, right? ”

The fat man pointed to a small grass in the window of Granny Huang's room, rolled his eyes at me, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, I'm going to let the grass go."

The grass seemed to have been picked by the side of the road when we first came over, and we really didn't see any mystery in it. So, I pushed him: "Stop talking about dumb riddles here, saying, what are you doing with grass in people's windows for no reason?" ”

The fat man looked at me with disdain, and then explained to me in a whisper, he said that this grass was not an ordinary grass, but a folk legend of Wangzi grass.

In some regions, there is such a custom.

If the parents die, then plant a bunch of grass on the grave, the name of this grass plant is unknown, long stems, several poles are puffy, spring hair and autumn fall, such as the mother according to the door to look at the son, so the name of the child grass, take the meaning of the child to hope.

This is the origin of Wangzi grass.

The fat man sighed: "We picked a plant of Wangzi grass on the way, and now we have met an old woman waiting for her son to return home. Perhaps, this is providence. ”

I pointed to the grass and asked, "Does this thing really work?" ”

The fat man replied without hesitation: "It works, it must work." I have measured the direction of the house here, and the window sill is the gossip Kunfang, and the place where I inserted it is facing the earthquake. Kun is the earth, and it is the mother. Zhen is the eldest son, and while I inserted it in this place to cooperate with the nine fortunes for three years, it also took the meaning of the mother's hope for the return of the son. Today and tomorrow are the most prosperous days of the exchange, which will surely make Kun He earthquake and make the wanderer return home. ”

Seeing that the fat man said so confidently, I can't say anything more.

An hour later, Granny Huang walked out of the kitchen with her meal. I made eye contact with the fat man and called him out.

Walking out of the house with the meal, squatting on the big stone at the door, I asked the fat man puzzled: "Fat man, what is wrong with your brain today, what kind of fame are you doing?" "What I mean by this is that the fat man inexplicably took out the certificate of refuge in Taoism, and did not let me give money, but also said that he would turn his fate.

As if he had expected me to ask this question, the fat man asked me rhetorically: "Haisheng, do you remember how the people in our Dharma Sect and the Taoist priests who entered the world practiced in the world?" ”

I didn't even think about it, and immediately replied: "Naturally, I stepped on my shoes, wore a hundred torn clothes, slept in the open air, turned my fate into food, promoted the Tao in my practice, and accumulated merit." ”

It's almost a question that doesn't need to be thought about, and I don't know about people in Taoism. However, people in the Fa religion have been like this since ancient times, using the Fa to follow the right path and tempering their abilities in practice and actual combat. As for the word merit, although it is intangible, both Fa and Taoists pay attention to accumulation.

In the eyes of the Taoist priest, merit is something that can resolve the five evils and three deficiencies, if a person does more good deeds and accumulates more merits, not only will he be healthy and can live a long life, but also can bless future generations.

"Yes, even though society is different now. But wouldn't it be a pity if we didn't try this kind of footlife? The fat man said vaguely as he ate

I rolled my eyes and almost laughed: "Fortunately, you were lucky enough to find an old woman who believes in Taoism." If you are an ordinary person, you will not be treated as a thief, but also as a psychopath. ”

As he spoke, the gobbling fat man accidentally grabbed a small pile of white rice to the ground. Then, under my unresponsive gaze, the fat man actually bent down and picked up the mouthful of rice.

"Fatty, what are you doing here? The rice that fell on the floor is already dirty, so you shouldn't be so stingy that you can't even give up a bite of white rice, right? Looking at the fat man who was washing the dirty rice with clean water, I couldn't help but ask

The fat man didn't seem to mind, and after drizzling the dirty rice with water, he immediately stuffed it into his mouth. He turned around and smiled at me, "Even if it's a foot, then you have to be completely integrated into the life of a footholder." A drink and a peck are all cause and effect. Since the good Samaritan has given us food, then we must not be picky, we must eat! This is planting a blessed field for them. ”

"Good Samaritans are blessed after all." After smiling, the fat man took a big bite of white rice again.

Looking at his honest appearance, I suddenly felt something inexplicably more in my heart, and a sudden feeling of enlightenment emerged.

For the refinement of the Fa, the fat man may not be as good as me, but for the understanding of the Tao, the fat man is far higher than me, and he always inadvertently infects many people with kindness, and gives me a lot of insights with his actions

Maybe...... This is the fat man!