Then Liu Chengcai answered the grandfather's previous question, "I have a rough idea of what is going on, but I have to wait for the evening to make sure." ”

Hearing Liu Cheng say that he had roughly figured out what was going on, the eldest grandfather nodded and said, "That's good, that's good, it's long time to stop." After saying that, he stood in the house for a while before going out.

After that, Liu Cheng put away the cinnabar brush and other objects, looked out the door, and saw that his grandfather was still guarding his father's body and did not enter the house, and then said to me, "Take me to your grandfather's house to have a look while your grandfather has not come back." ”

"Now?" I don't understand what he's going to see in Grandpa's house now.

Liu Cheng hummed, "Right now." ”

I immediately took him into the house where my grandfather usually lives, the things in my grandfather's house are very simple, there is only a writing desk, a wardrobe and a bed, Liu Cheng entered the house, immediately opened the drawer of the desk, and then turned it inside, and then opened the wardrobe and looked around, and found nothing for a long time, but Liu Cheng saw the clothes that his grandfather put next to him and had not had time to wash off, and saw that the pocket of the clothes was bulging, and immediately walked over and touched it, Then he pulled out a palm-sized brown box from his grandfather's coat pocket.

I just opened the box to see, but it was empty, only the bottom of the box was stained with some red things, Liu Cheng looked at the box a few times, and then put it back in his grandfather's clothes pocket as it was, and explained to me, "I can't let your grandfather know that I turned over his things." ”

Liu Cheng is mysterious, but there must be a reason for him, so I nodded directly and agreed without thinking about it, "Okay." ”

After that, we put the things in the house back as they were, and when I was about to leave my grandfather's room, I suddenly felt a chill behind my back, as if something was staring at me behind my back, so I quickly turned around to look, put my eyes under my grandfather's bed, and was so frightened that I reached out to pull Liu Cheng, but my hand passed through his body, and I could only say, "Master, something is staring at me under the bed." ”

Liu Cheng also hurriedly looked under the bed, and moved to the side of the bed, and when he reached the head of the bed, he bent down and took out a wooden basin from under the bed.

In this wooden basin was a small straw man, strung by a wooden stick, and when Liu Cheng picked up the scarecrow, I shivered again and hurriedly said, "It's looking at me." ”

Liu Cheng turned the scarecrow over, and saw a yellow sheet of paper nailed to the back of the scarecrow, and on the paper was my name and birthday, Liu Cheng looked at it and frowned.

"It looks like there's a scarecrow that has been burned." I pointed to the ashes in the tub.

Liu Cheng took the scarecrow and looked at it for a while, then put the scarecrow back in the wooden basin, pushed the wooden basin back under the bed, and told me, "Don't tell anyone about this." ”

"Is Grandpa trying to harm me?" I subconsciously thought that the scarecrow that was burned was my father, and it was me who didn't burn it, so my father had an accident.

Liu Cheng shook his head and said, "Your grandfather has taken care of you for so long, if he wanted to harm you, he would have done it a long time ago, so you don't have to wait until now." ”

I think about it, I have been dependent on my grandfather for so many years, and I am his own grandson, so he has no reason to harm me.

After that, Liu Cheng and I went outside the house, my grandfather was still sitting under the old locust tree and smoking, and my mother was leaning on the old locust tree with her eyes blankly, but she didn't see where the eldest grandfather went.

Liu Cheng stepped forward and asked his grandfather, "Where is Sun Qing's grandfather?" ”

Grandpa said, "I went back, and said I would come back in the evening." ”

Liu Cheng nodded after hearing this, and then asked his grandfather, "Is there a mountain temple near here?" ”

When Liu Cheng asked this, his eyes never took his eyes off his grandfather's face, and when his grandfather heard the words 'Mountain Temple', his face obviously froze, and then returned to normal, "There is one, but the four old ones were knocked down at that time, and no one built a mountain temple after that." ”

Liu Cheng then asked, "Where is the mountain temple?" ”

Grandpa looked at Liu Cheng in surprise, "Master Liu, weren't you in this tomb before?" You should be clear about things here. ”

Liu Cheng looked embarrassed, "I used to sleep just lying down, and I rarely came out, and I didn't know anything about the outside world." ”

Grandpa nodded, and then pointed to the back of my house, "It's just behind my house, and now it's been converted into cultivated land, and there is no trace of the mountain temple." ”

Liu Cheng and I followed my grandfather's fingers and looked over, and there were indeed only cultivated fields, and there were no mountain temples.

After that, Liu Cheng talked to his grandfather about the time when he broke the four olds, and when he talked about it in the afternoon, an old man surnamed Li in the village came to my house, saying that something happened to my family, no one was cooking, and he wanted to invite me and Liu Cheng to his house for dinner.

The purpose of the people in the village is actually very simple, that is, to learn that Liu Cheng is a Taoist priest, and they want to come to Liu Cheng.

In the eyes of rural people, the Taoist priest is a more powerful character than Duangong, and Wang Duangong, who will be the same, will be courteous wherever he goes, let alone a Taoist priest, Liu Cheng did not refuse, and asked me with a glance, "Are you going?" ”

Because my father had just had an accident, I didn't know whether I should go or not, so I looked at my grandfather and asked my grandfather's opinion, and my grandfather said, "Go ahead, follow Master Liu to increase your knowledge, and the children are hungry." ”

So I followed the old man surnamed Li and Liu Cheng to his house, the old man's name is Li Huaijun, his wife died a few years ago, his son is working outside, and now he lives alone, his generation is the same as my grandfather, I have to call him Grandpa Li.

The road to Old Man Li's house is the same as going to my grandfather's house, on the way to Liu Cheng has been looking left and right, as if he is looking for something, Old Man Li also saw Liu Cheng's gaze, so he asked Liu Cheng, "Did Master Liu leave something behind?" ”

Liu Cheng smiled and said, "I dropped a talisman, I want to see if I can find it." ”

Old man Li was stunned when he heard this, then he fumbled around and took out a talisman, handed it to Liu Cheng and said, "On the way to it just now, I saw this talisman and picked it up, Master Liu, you see if it's the one you lost." ”

Old man Li has a well-known problem, that is, he likes to pick up things outside, and he will pick up the discarded old batteries and worn clothes that other people's homes throw away on weekdays, and now he has several bags of sacks containing these waste items at home, and the people in the village say that he is poor and crazy, but the old man Li said that he didn't have to wear rags when he was communized in the past, and if he comes again in the future, these things he picks up are likely to save his life.

When others see the rune paper, they must be afraid of getting stained with unclean things, but I am not surprised that Old Man Li picked up the rune paper.

Liu Cheng took the rune paper, opened it and looked at it, I also glanced at it next to me, and was surprised that this rune paper was somewhat familiar, and hurriedly said to Liu Cheng, "This is not ......"

Liu Cheng immediately made a silent gesture to me, and then said to Old Man Li with a smile, "This is it." ”

That rune paper is the rune paper that Liu Cheng gave to the grandfather just now, maybe the grandfather lost it on the road when he went home, but Liu Cheng was looking for it all the way, as if he had known that the grandfather would lose the rune paper, which made me confused.

I didn't say much along the way, and went straight to Old Man Li's house.

In the past, Old Man Li's house was full of other people's torn clothes and shoes, and there were some things that others didn't use, but this time, in order to welcome Liu Cheng, he also cleaned the house, and the shabby things he picked up were also neatly stacked in a corner of the house.

But although it was cleaned, there was still a musty smell in his house, and no one wanted to come to his house on weekdays, so I rubbed my nose in disgust when I entered the house, and Old Man Li smiled awkwardly and said, "These things are waiting for me to find a time to throw them away, I used to think that they might be used one day, but now that the days are getting better, I can't use them, they are all moldy." ”

Liu Cheng didn't show any disgust, but looked at the dilapidated sacks in the corner of the house with some appreciation, and responded politely, "The world is unstable, and it's a good thing to take precautions." ”

Old man Li laughed twice, let's sit down for a while, he went into the stove house by himself and got busy, and after more than half an hour he came out to talk to us, sat down and asked Liu Cheng, "Master Liu is a Taoist priest, and he has great skills, I have a question I want to ask you, you can see if you can help me answer it." ”

I'll just say, there is no trouble to ask Liu Cheng to help, how could he invite us to dinner for no reason.

Liu Chengzheng said, "You say. ”

Old man Li said, "My son wrote to me some time ago, saying that now the dogs outside don't watch the house, the cats don't catch mice, and they eat better than people. ”

Liu Cheng smiled, "It's people changing, not the sky changing, you can rest assured, even if the sky changes, it has nothing to do with us ordinary people." ”

Old man Li nodded and said, "There is one more thing, I haven't been able to let go of it all these years, Master Liu, you will consider it again." ”

I wondered why he had so many questions, but Yoo Seung listened patiently.

Old man Li said, "In the past, we had a mountain temple here, which was very effective, but if you go to the mountain temple to ask the mountain god, you will definitely have good weather and rain, so every year there are more or less offerings in the mountain temple." But then they pushed the mountain temple, which was nothing, but one day I saw a woman coming out of the mountain temple with a girl in her arms, and the woman was hungry and didn't look like a human being, and the girl was probably starving to death. I estimated that the woman was the god of the mountain, there was an offering so I couldn't be hungry, and the temple was knocked down at that time, and there was no food to eat, so I took the baby into the village to beg for food, and the people in the village estimated that the woman was the mountain god, but she just didn't give her food, and then the woman left with the baby. I was uneasy at that time, and said that the mountain god was quite blessed by us on weekdays, so I wanted to go and catch her, and I could give her food, but when I went to the mountain to look for it, I only saw a broken shoe, she and the female doll were gone, I haven't seen her again for so many years, I guess I have starved to death in the wilderness to feed the wolf, and I brought back the shoes. After so many years, I can't let go of this matter, Master Liu, tell me, is that woman a mountain god? ”