Chapter 8: Huang Yixian
Back to the home in Sanyuan Township, walked to the bedside, I quickly turned out a black wooden box from under the bed, opened the wooden box, and placed on the top is a book, the book is a thread-bound version, the paper is a little yellow, presumably it has been many years, the cover of the book is made of dark yellow kraft paper, and there are four big characters written on it with a brush, but I don't know any of them, although I am eight years old, but I have not gone to school, so I don't know many words, including one to ten, and it is estimated that there are less than a hundred.
In addition to this book, there is also a stack of money in the wooden box, all of which are ten yuan a piece of "Great Unity", I counted, there are more than 30 sheets, all of which are saved by the master on weekdays to help others do things, he once said that he will help me save a lot of money, and when I grow up, I can marry a daughter-in-law. Now this "big" sum of money is in my hand, but the master is gone, and I can't help crying when I think of this.
After crying for a long time, I wiped away my tears, put the book in my satchel, and pulled two out of the stack of solidarity and put them in my trouser pocket, and put the rest back in the wooden box. In this era, more than 30 pieces of unity is not a small amount, and it is not safe to put it on my eight-year-old doll, so it is better to stay in this house. Although Master is gone, this house still belongs only to Master and me.
After packing a few more clothes, Qi Erye took me on the shuttle bus to the county seat, and when I arrived at the county seat, it was already afternoon, and Qi Erye led me all the way to inquire, and finally found my uncle's home after dark.
Uncle Shi's surname is Huang, his name is Yixian, because he opened a feng shui shop in the county, so he is also called "Huang Yixian".
Uncle Shi lives in a somewhat quaint old mansion at the north gate of the county, and the old house has a pitch-black gate with a plaque on it, and the plaque is engraved with three golden characters, except for the first "seven", the other two I don't know. Directly below the plaque, there is a bronze gossip mirror, Master once told me that the Bagua Mirror is a very powerful magic weapon, it seems that this should be the feng shui shop opened by Uncle Shi. Due to the late day, the shop was closed, and the door was also closed.
When Second Master Qi stepped forward and knocked on the door, I was so nervous that I didn't know what kind of person this uncle was who was about to live with me.
The door opened, but a very childish little head poked out of the door, it was a little boy! And it seems that the age is younger than me.
"Who are you looking for?" The child asked in a childish voice.
"Uh...... Find your grandpa! Second Master Qi took it for granted that this little boy was Uncle Shi's little grandson, after all, Master was already in his sixties, and according to this speculation, Uncle Shi should be in his fifties, so it is not surprising that there is a grandson of five or six years old.
"Huh? You must be wrong! The child finished and prepared to close the door.
Second Master Qi hurriedly stretched out his hand and pushed the door back: "Wait! Isn't Huang Yixian your grandfather? ”
When the child heard this, he immediately laughed: "Haha, he's not my grandfather, he's my father!" ”
"Ahh ......" Second Master Qi opened his mouth wide in shock.
The child turned his head and shouted, "Dad! Someone is looking for you! ”
Soon, there was a heavy sound of footsteps from inside the house, and after a while, a thin old man who was not tall, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, and a half-bald head, stood in front of me and Second Master Qi.
"What are you looking for me?" Uncle Shi glanced at me and Second Master Qi and asked suspiciously.
"You are Huang Yixian?"
Uncle Shi nodded.
Second Master Qi gently pushed me: "Don't call Uncle yet!" ”
I glanced up at my uncle, quickly lowered my head, and called timidly, "Master...... Teacher. ”
"Hey! Wait a minute! I don't know you, why did you come here and recognize the teacher! "Uncle Shi has never seen me, let alone Second Master Qi, and when I suddenly screamed like this, he was naturally startled.
Second Master Qi hurriedly explained: "Huang Xianye! This kid is really your nephew, he is Mo Daochang's apprentice! ”
"You mean my Senior Brother Mo? Could it be that this child is the baby he picked up back then? I didn't expect to grow so big! He obviously knew about my existence, and when he heard Second Master Qi say this, he immediately squatted down and looked at me carefully.
"Where's my Senior Brother Mo? Why didn't he come? Uncle Shi looked at me for a while, raised his head and asked Second Master Qi.
Second Master Qi let out a long sigh: "Alas! Mo Daochang can't come! With that, he told his uncle about what happened in Qiping Village.
After listening to Second Master Qi, I couldn't cry again, and Uncle Shi also took off his glasses, rubbed his reddened eyes, and then stroked my little head lovingly, and said, "Since it is Senior Brother Mo's will, then this baby will follow me in the future." ”
In this way, I stepped into my uncle's house from then on.
Uncle Shi's house is a three-story small building, the first floor has a feng shui shop, the upper two floors live in, there is an old guy in the shop - Uncle Zhai, Uncle Zhai is already a handful of years, no relatives and no reason, alone, Uncle Shi let him live at home. Zhai Bo's left leg is somewhat disabled, and he limps when he walks, and it is said that he once fell to save his uncle's life. Therefore, Uncle Shi respects him quite a lot, saying that he is a guy in the store, but in fact, he is more like a relative.
Uncle Shi's only son is named Huang Zongwei, nicknamed "Cheap", when he was just born, his mother died because of dystocia, Uncle Shi said that it was because his life was too heavy, and his mother was killed, so he had to take a cheap name, so he simply took the nickname "Cheap". JB I'm more than a year younger, maybe because of the proximity of age, I quickly got acquainted with Cheap.
The cheap guy was just at the age of entering school, and my uncle felt that I shouldn't be idle at home, so he sent us both to Jiefang Primary School in the county seat.
We became classmates, and this is the same for 12 years, from elementary school to high school, we have always been in the same class, and he has become my most hardcore good friend and good brother.
The feng shui shop opened by Uncle Shi is called Qibao Zhai, and the so-called Seven Treasures is taken from the meaning of the Taoist Seven Treasures - "Three Clears and Four Royals". The main business of the shop is the buying and selling of feng shui objects, of course, Uncle Shi will occasionally take on some "private" work, helping people to do magic things such as dispelling evil spirits and eliminating disasters.
However, although Uncle Shi made a living from Feng Shui metaphysics, for some reason, he strictly forbade me to touch this aspect of things with the cheap, and never taught us, so on the surface I called him Uncle Shi, but behind the scenes I called him his nickname Huang Yixian, and the cheap didn't mind at all, but shouted with me.
Although Huang Yixian refused to teach us the art of feng shui, I still had the ancient book left by my master, and after we gradually became literate, we finally figured out what the four words were written on the cover of that book - Yin and Yang Xuanshu. This "Yin and Yang Mystic" is a feng shui mystery book, which records all the mysterious things related to feng shui and yin and yang. Among them, there are various methods of exorcism and evil spirits, out of curiosity, I and the cheap people hid from Huang Yixian and secretly learned.
In fact, I don't have much interest in this aspect of things, and the reason why I learned, there is a very important reason, the master has always hoped that I can inherit his mantle, and before his death, he also told me to leave this "Yin and Yang Mystic" and two magic weapons, when he was alive before, I was not obedient, and I failed to remember the spells he taught to "subdue demons and subdue demons", and now that he is gone, I can no longer live up to his wishes.
Also, the cause of Master's death has always been a mystery, what happened to him at that time? Is it the stiff hair that Ma Laoqi's corpse has transformed, or the ghost attached to the ghost coffin? Master Weishenme's rune paper, magic weapons, and peachwood swords, etc., failed to work? And that rain, why did it come so suddenly? Where did that evil thing Zuihou go...... To figure all of this out, I have to understand the way of yin and yang first.
However, relying on such an ancient book alone, it is not easy to learn, not to mention that the things in it are very profound, with my current age and the cheap can not understand at all, just say those complex traditional Chinese characters, many of us do not know, so the cheap every time the unknown text copied down, and then took it to ask Huang Yixian, Huang Yixian also thought that it was cheap and easy to learn, and every time it was very patient to explain, slowly, we were basically able to understand.
However, the book seems to be missing a part, because there is only a cover, not a back cover, and there are traces of tearing off the back, and what is even more strange is that the book is obviously written on jute paper, but judging from the traces left by the torn part, it seems to be another kind of black silk paper. The fact that the book used two different paper materials made me puzzle me for a long time, but fortunately, the torn off part didn't seem to affect the previous content, and over time, we no longer cared about why the book was mutilated.
By the time we were in the third year of junior high school, the book was basically read by us, although there were many things in it that we still couldn't understand, but I also thought that I had learned a little, so I always wanted to find an opportunity to practice.
For this reason, I secretly got yellow table paper and cinnabar from Huang Yixian, imitated the patterns in the book, and copied a lot of paper talismans to ward off ghosts and evil spirits.
At first glance, these paper talismans are like that, but in fact, if you want to make a real exorcism talisman, it is not just a simple copy of the drawing, after the painting, you have to open the altar of the talisman, the so-called sacrificial talisman, in fact, a bit similar to the enlightenment of Buddhism, the purpose is to let the paper talisman absorb a certain amount of heaven and earth aura, in this way, in order to exert its due power, and if there is no sacrificial talisman, let alone a demon exorcism, I am afraid that even the general filth is difficult to shock.