Chapter 34 The Book of Houses and Funerals
Walk along the outer wall of the valley to the end, at the foot of the main body of the mountain range, there is a small cave again, there is a pile of gravel in front of the door, which was used to block the entrance of the cave before, the entrance of the cave is about two meters high, one meter wide, it looks very narrow, but go inside, it is a different cave, through the burning fire can be seen clearly, it is a rectangular cave of about 100 square meters, the smoke produced by the torch floats out of a small black hole in the cave, think about it, this is the air hole of the cave.
"Grandma, how many caves have you opened here?" In this cave, where all the daily necessities are complete, but there is a thick layer of ash that cannot be used, Yi Xi couldn't help but sigh a little.
"That's it," the rare Matilda didn't choke Yi Xi, and it was also a relationship that saw her deceased husband feeling a little lost, "I stayed here with your grandfather's grave for a while, and I would go to the cemetery to see him every day, until your grandfather was almost seven months old, even if it was me, there was no way to live here anymore, so I left here after all traces were eliminated." ”
"The environment is good, warm in winter and cool in summer, but, grandma, there doesn't seem to be a quilt here."
"Isn't there a lot of sun-dried leaves out there? Lying on it is much more comfortable than a quilt. ”
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"Great-grandson, do you have a habit of cleanliness?" Looking at Yi Xi who was carefully sweeping the corner of the cave with his face covered, Matilda asked with some curiosity, because this was the third time he had cleaned this place, not only washing all the pots and pans with the water from the nearby small lake, but even wiping the entire rock negative with a rag made of worn clothes.
"A little," Yi Xi clapped his hands and wrapped up the most dusty garbage in this stone room, "Maybe it's the psychological shadow of the past, I live in a dirty place, and I always feel uncomfortable, but it hasn't reached the point where I have to wash my hands all the time, grandma, I'll go to the creek to take a bath in a while, and collect some dry weeds and leaves by the way, do I need to leave Pixiu behind?" ”
"Big fart," said Matilda, who had shrunk herself to the size of a cat, crossed her hands with a look of disdain, "what do I have on you that I can't see?" ”
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After a toss, it was dark, and with the help of Matilda, Yi Xi, who didn't eat meat, picked some mushrooms, and put them together with the seasonings that Matilda had asked him to prepare, and put them together with medicinal materials, such as salt, which is indispensable for human beings, and cooked a pot of French-style mushroom soup in the cave, on the one hand, it was more comfortable inside, and on the other hand, it was also a fire test in the cave, even if it was very dry here, but after all, it was winter, and it was cold to death, if people lived here directly, With Yi Xi's physique, she is bound to get sick, so using this excuse, Matilda also hopes that Yi Xi can eat some meat, like the wild boar that she threw at the mouth of the cave and was half dead.
"Hiss~" It seems that because he was really hungry because he was wading through the mountains and rivers, Yi Xi actually ate the entire pot of mushroom soup, and after a long time, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, in fact, this is also the last cigarette on his body, because before coming, Matilda had told him that during the foundation building period, it is not possible to eat, use, any other substance with medicinal effects, naturally, this also includes nicotine that has an anesthetic effect itself, but for Yi Xi, it is not a big problem, and his personality determines his willpower is very strange, as long as he doesn't want to, Even if he was addicted to smoking, it was as if he couldn't feel it.
"Dear great-grandson," the cat-sized Matilda floated in front of Yi Xi, "you have to eat meat, the Five Elements Alchemy is no better than others, if the body's nutrition can't keep up, let alone strengthening, whether you can survive or not is a question!" ”
"Grandma, me"
"I know, Matilda gently pinched Yi Xi's cheek, I haven't forgotten what you said that day, but as a man, sometimes if you always hold on to the past, it is inevitable that there will be some"
After thinking about it, Matilda still didn't say the following words, after all, this is his own great-grandson, "You don't eat meat, is it because of the taste of meat, or is it because"
"When I see that thing, I feel sick to my stomach, if I say that I have not eaten it, my stomach has already begun to rebel, as for the taste," Yi Xi carefully recalled the previous one, "A few times, I also tried to let myself eat it, because my body is really bad, but unfortunately, even if I cut the meat into meat sauce and put it in other dishes, as long as I eat it in my mouth, it will be the same disgusting, but not because of the taste, but because I know that it is minced meat." ”
"Have you ever tried drinking blood?" Although Matilda likes the whole person very much, it doesn't mean that she has the ability to use her mouth cannon (use eloquence to persuade the enemy), and she can use words to make Yi Xi come out of the nightmare, but she can keenly grasp the key from Yi Xi's words, Yi Xi doesn't eat meat, just because he knows that it is meat.
"No, Yi Xi shook his head."
"Then try it," said Matilda, who came to the cave with a porcelain bowl in one hand, and gently scratched the vein of the boar's leg, and a stream of blood poured into the bowl, and after it was almost full, he burned the wound with a torch, but at this time, the boar was so badly injured that it did not even make a wailing sound.
Yi Xi smelled the blood in the bowl, it was very fishy, fishy and disgusting, but it was not the feeling of vomiting that Yi Xi was worried about, it was just a normal physiological reaction of people, compared to the problem of eating meat and even spasms all over the body, it was obvious that this Yi Xi could be overcome, and now he is also a diamond that everyone grabs in a sense, if he doesn't arm himself, the end is destined to be no better! Thinking of this, Yi Xi turned his heart sideways, opened his mouth, and drank the whole bowl of hot wild boar blood into his stomach, although he wanted to vomit a few times during the period, he was forced to choke back!
"How does it feel?"
Yi Xi wiped the corners of his mouth, "It feels good, my stomach is warm, my body seems to have become stronger, and I don't know if it's my illusion, even my ability to sense whether everything is spiritual or not has been improved, I think, I already like this wonderful feeling." ”
"That's good," seeing that Yi Xi was able to drink blood, Matilda's heart was relieved, and even happy, compared to meat, the nutrients in the blood were more abundant, but there was a strange feeling in her heart, her great-grandson seemed to have been turned into a bloodthirsty monster by herself, "Then, you take a general look at these two books first, starting tomorrow, you will learn the Five Elements Alchemy with me during the day, and study your grandfather's "House Sutra and Funeral Sutra" at night, and wait for you to awaken with you." After the Heavenly Spirit Eye has mastered this book, I will go to read "Feng Shui Array". ”
"Zhilu said, grandma," took a hard puff of the cigarette that had just been placed on the stone bed, Yi Xi threw the remaining cigarette butt in the fire, put three antique books that were by no means ordinary paper to the touch, squatted on a stone and looked at it, and Matilda also turned himself into a cat and lay on the book "Feng Shui Array", in addition to this posture is more comfortable, more I still don't want Yi Xi to read this book first, because it will only pull out the seedlings and help him, but make his mind confused.
"House Sutra, Funeral Sutra", this is the only one of the three books with a hard wooden shell protection of the wire-bound book, the shell is very new, think about it, this should be his grandfather rebinding, Yi Xi thought of it, open the book, a smell of sandalwood came to the face, it seems that the paper is not moldy, and this fragrance also has a certain relationship, and then Yi Xi found that the paper in the book is of different colors, the upper part is white paper and black characters, and the lower part is black paper and white characters, nine times out of ten, the white one talks about the house scripture, and the black one talks about the funeral scripture.
After turning the book back to the title page, Yi Xi saw the 'preface' written by his great-grandfather.
"Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety are not perfect, when the smoke is everywhere, Yu Feng Shui to protect the country and defeat the enemy, the battle of Verdun, slaughtering millions of people in foreign countries, but do not want to curse the body, no children under the knees, the ancient saying cloud, no filial piety has three, no queen is great, not Xiao descendants Yi Chen did not dare to break my Yi incense, can only cut off my life, Feng Shui art does not want to pass on to future generations, but pity Yi inheritance and Yu Yi learned to lose to the world, so he made two books, one book for the "House Scripture, Funeral Sutra", is the Yi family ancestor, I reorganized, a book for me to see the family of the book of life Feng Shui Array Technique", is my own understanding, if there is a fate to learn, do not hurt the heavens and reason, raise your head three feet, but there are gods, Yi is not a descendant of Yi Chen, no pen. ”