All Chapters_Chapter 24: Divination
"Ahh
I screamed in horror, and at this moment I was almost frightened, and my left foot, which was grabbed by the hairy arm, was numb, and I couldn't move at all.
I felt a strong force coming from the hairy hand, and my body was jerked to the ground by it, and it dragged me down the river.
I screamed and struggled, and I grabbed the stones on the bank of the river with both hands, and even dug my fingers into the dirt in a vain attempt to prevent myself from being dragged down the river by the monster.
I had a hunch in my heart that once I was dragged into the river by this monster, I was really finished, and the fear of this moment was even greater than the feeling when the white fly pounced on me on the back mountain.
I struggled, but to no avail, and I could feel my body being dragged into the foul water.
The red eyes, the size of eggs, seemed to have a magical power, and when I stared at them, I felt my head begin to dizzy, and the starry night sky continued to spin and turn upside down in my eyes.
At this critical moment, I heard a coquettish voice not far away: "Evil animal! Stop it! ”
I suddenly perked up, and my originally confused head instantly became sober, this is Mu Yueting's voice, she is my senior sister, she came to save me!
The instinct to survive overrode everything, and I was now dragged into the river by the monster, and I kicked my feet and screamed, and grabbed a huge rock on the bank of the river with both hands, and I clung to it and didn't let go.
It was too late, and just when I was about to hold on, Mu Yueting finally arrived, and she reached out and threw out a puff of golden powder and sprinkled it on me. I closed my eyes, and the golden powder fell on my face, and there was no strange feeling, but then I heard a terrible scream behind me, and I felt the hairy arm that had grabbed my left foot loosen, and I hurriedly got up from the water and ran back with my life.
Mu Yueting screamed, jumped up from the ground, the dust in her hand glowed with white light, and rushed towards the monster in the river, the monster seemed to know Mu Yueting's power, it roared in the river, jumped into the water with a pop, and soon disappeared.
I sat on the ground, shivering, my whole body was wet with the river, and I still had palpitations when I remembered what had just happened, I never thought that I would encounter such a monster by the river, especially those red piercing eyes, it was so terrible.
Mu Yueting walked over, she glanced at me, didn't speak, stretched out a hand to support me, and walked to the wooden house on the side. My legs are paralyzed at the moment, half of my body is leaning on Mu Yueting's shoulder, although she is a few years older than me, but following her, there is a different sense of security.
At this time, my master and the old man Li also came out of the wooden house, and when he saw me, he hurriedly walked over and hugged me and walked into the house.
The master seemed to be a little annoyed, and he said to Old Man Li, "That's what you said about it?" ”
Old man Li smiled, the whites of his cloudy eyes looked a little terrifying under the starlight, and he said: "Isn't the little guy in danger, the old man said not to run around tonight, but this little guy doesn't listen to persuasion, beware of being pulled down by the water ghost in the river as a stand-in." ”
The blind old man leaned towards me as he spoke, and I listened to it with a little horror, and hid in the master's arms and did not dare to show his head.
"Okay, you old fellow, why are you scaring my apprentice?"
Master carried me into the house and said that he would change my wet clothes and pants, but I refused, and went to the next hut to change into clean clothes, calming down the panic I had just felt.
When I made it, I saw Master and Mu Yueting sitting quietly on the side, watching Old Man Li's divination.
I saw that the old man Li had three quaint copper coins in his hand, he put his palms together, said something in his mouth, and then put the copper coins in his hand into the hexagram plate on the table, which was engraved with dense small characters, and I just looked at it and felt that my eyes were spent.
Old man Li repeated six times in a row to put the copper coin into the hexagram plate, and then kept saying some complicated spells in his mouth, and kept making strange movements in his hands, looking like he was chattering.
Later, I learned that Old Man Li got this called Liuyao Bagua Prediction, which first originated in the Western Han Dynasty, at first it was measured with fifty-five yarrow, and it was only in the Song Dynasty that there was "money instead of yarrow". The predictor puts the three copper coins in his hand, clasps his hands tightly, thinks about the things he wants to divide, let the measured information melt into the copper coins, shakes them with his palms, puts them into the hexagram plate, and throws them six times to form a hexagram. With hexagrams, and after the change. Combined with the words of the I Ching, as well as the stem and branch of the year, month and day of the hexagram measurement, the desired result can be inferred.
When my master saw that Old Man Li had finished divination, he hurriedly asked, "Old fellow, how is this matter?" In the entire Chengdu territory, in terms of divination, you are second to none. ”
Old man Li didn't answer my master's words, but stared at me with a pair of eyes full of whites, and the wrinkles on his face were piled together, making me creepy.
it! Why does this blind old man like to stare at me when he is fine, it's so scary! And he is blind, can he still see people? I moved back, not daring to approach Old Man Li.
"Quack."
Old man Li opened his mouth and laughed strangely, and then said leisurely: "The people who recently committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river in Nanhe, the water ghosts and monkeys in the river, and the zombies that appeared in Chengdu, all the root causes have to go to Dujiangyan to find them." ”
"Sure enough."
I saw Master's brows furrowed, and then asked Old Man Li, "Is it something under Dujiangyan?" ”
Old man Li smiled strangely: "Old fellow, I advise you not to get involved in this matter, or enjoy happiness on your Qingcheng Mountain with peace of mind, you can't lose your life for some things." ”
The master suddenly frowned and said, "Hmph, those things have all run to Qingcheng Mountain, how can I not care." Old man Li, you just need to tell me what is under the Dujiangyan. The last time I went there, I always felt distracted. ”
Old man Li opened his mouth, revealing a few yellow teeth inside, and he said, "Don't say anything about this!" Unspeakable! ”
"Old man Li, you are not upright about this matter, we have been friends for so many years, what else can't be said!" When the master heard Old Man Li's words, he was immediately unhappy and asked Old Man Li.
"Old fellow, you are also a cultivator, you should know that the secret of heaven cannot be revealed. If my old man had told you today, I'd have died in this house tomorrow. "Although Old Man Li spoke to my master again, he kept staring at me, and I could see that a layer of goosebumps was crawling on my body.
"How serious is this?" When the master heard Old Man Li say something so serious, the smile on his face was put away. At this time, he also noticed that Old Man Li had been staring at me, and couldn't help but say, "Old guy, what are you staring at my apprentice!" He's a little special, but you don't have to. ”
Old man Li slowly turned his head to the master, his face was a little hesitant, after a long time, he seemed to have made a big decision, and said in a low voice: "Your apprentice is not simple, maybe the matter of Dujiangyan is still related to him." ”
"How is that possible!"
The master suddenly stood up from the stool and said, "I also know something about this doll, although I don't know how their Chen family let this doll have this great luck, but it can't be related to Dujiangyan." The Chen family has only planned for more than 300 years, and this Jiangyan was cultivated by Li Bing in the Qin period, how can the two be related! ”
When Old Man Li heard the master's questioning, he looked at him with a smile on his face and didn't speak. I was very puzzled by what they were saying, and I couldn't understand what they were saying.
The master looked at Old Man Li like this, and after a while, Master's face suddenly changed, and he exclaimed, "Yes! It's that bronze mask, it's not something that ordinary people can have!"
"Tsing Yi Guqiang, bronze masks, or Sanxingdui?" Master whispered to himself, with a hint of confusion on his face, as if he couldn't figure it out for a while.
After a while, Master woke up from his thoughts, nodded at Old Man Li, and then took us to say goodbye to him and left. When I stepped out of the wooden house, I felt much happier, and what I feared most was that I would stay at Old Man Li's house tonight, and I was a little scared when I thought of the cloudy eyes on his face.
When we left, Old Man Li stood at the door as if to see us off, and the moment I turned around, I saw a look of worry on his old face.
Master took us to a big hotel in Chengdu to stay, and when we walked on the road, many people looked sideways, an old man in a long robe, a girl in a Taoist robe, and a little doll with a melon skin head, this combination is really weird.
Later, when I asked Master why he didn't wear Taoist robes, Master smiled and said that our lineage is not orthodox Taoism, and our ancestors seem to have another lineage, so we don't stick to clothing. And when I asked why Mu Yueting kept wearing a Taoist robe, she said coldly: "I like it." ”
I was choked and speechless.
When the sun lit up the earth the next day, I saw Master sitting beside the bed with a face full of iron. The master said that he had some bad premonitions last night, so he rushed to find Old Man Li alone early in the morning, only to find that Old Man Li was dead.
Old Man Li's withered face was extremely hideous, his eyes full of whites were plucked out, and two cloudy eyeballs hung outside. His mouth was wide open, and his tongue was severed at the root, as if someone had forcibly torn it off for him.
And on his neck, there are two more handprints, jet-black handprints.