Hearing Wang Duangong say that the old man was a man with a sword, Liu Cheng immediately came and said with interest, "The knife is also the way; The Taoist, the believer. 【】Establish faith with a sword, and act with faith. The credit knife man is passed down from the Guiguzi lineage, and has the ability to divinate life and death and predict the future. And the credit knife man often goes out of the mountain before the change of the world, and uses the means of the credit knife to give the world a hint, but most of the people in the world only see the credit knife man to make money, but they don't notice the words left by the credit knife man. ”

Hearing this, I asked an old question, "Why do you always refuse to speak thoroughly, only half of what you say, and leave half of it?" ”

I heard my grandfather tell me that my grandfather had also been to the knife man in the place where they used to live, and he left two sentences at that time, saying that when Yi Zi ate and the gods and ghosts were displaced, he would come back to collect the knife money.

At that time, no one paid attention to these two sentences, but within a few years, the communization began, and people were really hungry and went around looking for food, and all the wild vegetables and tree bark in the fields were eaten, and finally they exchanged children for food, which seems absurd now, but it really happened at that time.

In addition, the ghosts and gods were displaced, and it was also around those years that all the temples and Taoist temples in various places were overthrown, and the gods and ghosts enshrined in them were not displaced?

If the knife man had been clear, perhaps others would have been prepared to react.

When I heard Huang Yunqiu relay what the old man told her before, I had this feeling, this kind of person seems to be very afraid of explaining things, and always keep it for others to understand for themselves.

Liu Cheng looked at me and smiled, "There is a rule for fortune tellers, when a dying person asks him to tell his fortune, he will never tell that person explicitly, but hints in various ways, there are two ways, one is to say that the person's life is excellent, and the other is not to take that person's money." Once leaked, it is very likely to be used to change history, which will cause discouragement, defeat, loss of power, and even harm to others, oneself, the country and the people. ”

Wang Duangong seemed to be the first time to hear that the credit knife man was so magical, and immediately said, "Master Liu, when you say this, I really think it's a little strange, I have seen a knife man on credit before, most of the credit is kitchen knives and scissors, but he is a machete on credit, no one wanted to ask for it at that time, and I can't use it anyway, but I took a handful." Wang Duangong stood up as he spoke, groped his way into the room, and walked out with a knife wrapped in cloth after a while, Liu Cheng hurriedly stepped forward to take it, and Wang Duangong said again, "I have always kept this knife, Master Liu, you can take a look." ”

Liu Cheng took off the cloth on the knife, and the shape of the knife inside was exposed, after so long, the knife was still shining brightly, Liu Cheng turned over the knife and looked at it, reached out and touched the blade, and then next to the blade was written the words 'Three Corpses Cold Guangli'.

After looking at it for a while, Liu Cheng frowned slightly, and then asked, "Did that old gentleman leave anything behind?" ”

Wang Duangong said, "He said that when the little dragon loses his courage and the old dragon loses his head, he will come back to collect the money for this knife, Master Liu, what do you think he means by this?" ”

My father said that he saw an old dragon and a small dragon under the old locust tree, the old dragon was Liu Cheng, and the little dragon was me, and in 1966, the old man also told Huang Yunqiu about the old dragon and the little dragon.

I just think it's amazing, that old man can really see the future? Anticipated today's events decades ago?

However, this little dragon lost his guts, and the old dragon's severed head is not a good word, the little dragon lost his guts, Liu Cheng said not long ago, saying that the gentian was taken away, indicating that the little dragon has now lost its guts.

And the old dragon cut off his head, doesn't it mean that Liu Cheng wants to lose his head?

A few of us immediately looked at Liu Cheng in a daze, Liu Cheng naturally understood that the old man said that the old dragon's decapitation meant him, but he said unhurriedly, "This knife is called" guillotine knife ", the torture knife used to behead in ancient times, because decapitation will lead to the separation of human heads, which is also equivalent to bone bruising, and the prisoner is likely to turn into a powerful ghost, in order to prevent the prisoner from coming back to retaliate after death, he will engrave Taoist proverbs on this blade." Taoism has the saying of beheading three corpses, and the three corpses are people's greed, hatred, and stupidity, and this sentence is engraved on this knife, which means to cut off the greed, hatred, and stupidity of the prisoner, so that there is no resentment and infatuation, and there will be no revenge. ”

Wang Duangong nodded again and again, and then asked, "What did he do with this guillotine knife for us?" ”

Liu Cheng smiled and said nothing, returned the knife to Wang Duangong, and no longer discussed this matter, but said, "If the old gentleman comes back, you will help me to keep him, and I will say that Zhengyi Beiyin has a problem and needs to consult him." ”

Wang Duangong responded in a loud voice.

Wang Duangong didn't know the person who took the stone, and it didn't make sense for us to stay here any longer, after which Wang Duangong left us to eat at his house, but Liu Chengwan refused, took us to a small shop in Santou Village, and used the money my grandfather gave me to buy some necessities for daily life, plus some incense and candles, and took us all the way back to the Taoist temple.

Due to the long delay in Santou Village, it was already sunset when we returned to Qingshan Temple again, and when we went back, the people who chiseled the stones also called it a day and left, and the stones were neatly stacked aside by them.

This Qingshan view is not big, live outside the house where the scriptures are chanted and burn incense on weekdays, there are four small rooms next to it, two of which are used to live in people, Taoist words, this is called 'guest hall'.

Chen Yingying and Huang Yunqiu are naturally one room, and Liu Cheng and I are one room.

In the afternoon, Liu Cheng forced me to put incense on the statue of the god in the Taoist temple and kowtow, and recited the Eight Great Mantras several times before letting me go, and then ran to another room to make a fire and boil water, ready to cook noodles, he can not eat, I can't not eat.

I walked around behind his ass and asked him while he was busy, "Aren't we going to look for the gentian?" ”

Liu Chengdao, "Do you have a way to find that person?" Since you can't find it, just wait for him to come to the door. ”

I asked again, "Is the old dragon talking about you?" ”

Liu Cheng stopped what he was doing and smiled, "Otherwise, who else?" The guillotine was used to behead me, but it's the first time I've lived for so long that I know someone wants to behead me, and I'd like to see who is so bold. ”

After Liu Cheng finished speaking, he continued to bend down and hand over firewood.

Busy until more than nine o'clock in the evening, Liu Cheng said that he wanted to go to Santou Village to do something, so that we could stay in the Taoist temple and not run around, we responded to his words, and he changed out of the Taoist robe and went out of Qingshan Temple.

The three of us sat bored in the courtyard of the Taoist temple, Chen Yingying didn't like to talk, only me and Huang Yunqiu kept talking.

I was very curious about Taoism and the mountain temple, and I kept asking her about this, while Huang Yunqiu was curious about me and Chen Yingying, and kept asking me if Chen Yingying and I were a couple.

After chatting in the courtyard for nearly an hour, we suddenly heard footsteps outside the gate of Daoguan Mountain, this barren mountain and wild mountain usually does not come at all, and Liu Cheng will not come back so soon, so we hurriedly stood up and looked outside.

Not long after, a tall, thin man in shabby clothes stood at the door of the Taoist temple with two sacks.

We looked at it and were shocked, isn't this person's appearance and body shape exactly the same as the person described by Zhao Shide? Huang Yunqiu immediately stood in front of me and Chen Yingying, wrinkled her brows and asked, "What do you want to do?" ”

Huang Yunqiu used to be a Taoist priest, and she was also a mountain god, so she was not small, so she subconsciously protected us behind her.

After Huang Yunqiu asked, the person standing at the door tilted his head and looked at me and Chen Yingying behind her, then smiled and said, "I have two treasures in these two sacks, one is called wolf heart, and the other is called dog gall, if anyone can agree to call them twice, I will give this treasure to whom, this treasure is terrible, if you get my baby, you will become a god and an immortal in the future." ”

As soon as he heard the dog, Huang Yun's brows furrowed even tighter, he looked this person up and down but didn't say much, glanced back at me and Chen Yingying and said, "You guys go to the house first." ”

Chen Yingying and I hummed and stepped back.

The man at the door looked at me and Chen Yingying, and then smiled slightly, "You can just shout 'baby, please turn around', if you agree, I will really give it to you." ”

We still didn't say anything, Huang Yunqiu looked at him vigilantly.

He froze for a while at the door of the Taoist temple, and finally bent down and opened the two sacks, and as soon as they were opened, a red light appeared in them, and in a short time, a gray wolf and a vicious dog came out of the sacks, baring their teeth at us.

The man bowed his head and said to the gray wolf and the vicious dog in front of him, "They don't want to call you, so go find them." ”

As soon as the words fell, the gray wolf and the vicious dog were about to kick towards us, and just as they were leaving, Huang Yunqiu turned into a black wolf, staring at the vicious dog and the gray wolf and groaning, and at the same time pounced on the gray wolf and the vicious dog, and in just a moment, the gray wolf fell to the ground, and the vicious dog came directly towards me and Chen Yingying.

It's just that this vicious dog came to me and Chen Yingying, as if it was lost, stopped, and its eyes kept switching between me and Chen Yingying, as if it was picking someone.