Ten minutes later, in the Xue family's practice room.

According to Uncle Ming, this was originally a study, but later because Xue Jing liked to dance, he opened up this place with the bedroom next door and converted it into a practice room. I asked Xue Jing's aunt to avoid it, let Zhou Yan stay outside the door, and then the three of them sat on the ground and watched the two of them quietly.

"Lin Zhuo, why are you looking at us like this?" Uncle Ming was puzzled.

I pondered for a moment and looked at Aunt Ming, "Auntie, have you changed your name?" ”

She was stunned, "Yes...... Is it changed, can you see this? ”

"I don't ask your current name, can you tell me your previous name?"

"My name used to be Fang Yue," she said, "and my current name, with my mother's surname, is Wei Xiaolan." ”

I nodded, "Fang Yue's name is good-sounding, smart, talented, and judging by Auntie's temperament, it must be after a well-educated family." ”

Wei Xiaolan looked at Uncle Ming, "Jianming and I are classmates, my father was an officer in the army before he retired, and he is not a famous family, but he is a child in a big yard." ”

"You are too modest", I smiled, "Changing such a good name to a very ordinary-sounding name, there must be something bitter in it, is it for Xue Jing?" ”

She sighed, "You're right, it's about her. ”

I thought for a while, "If I'm not mistaken, Xue Jing should be the child who begged, right?" ”

"Yes, it is indeed what we begged for", Uncle Ming said lightly.

"But she's over twenty-one, why is this happening?" Wei Xiaolan looked at her husband helplessly.

Uncle Ming smiled bitterly, "It's ...... There must be a problem. Lin Zhuo, don't scruple if you see something, if you need to ask us, you can just say it, we will not hide it from you. ”

"Uncle Ming, Aunt Ming, you are all people who understand", I said, "As a junior, I can't say too much about the privacy of the elders, I am doing things for my brother-in-law, and I have to take care of these." So I can't ask, but I hope you can tell me exactly what you have to say about Xue Jing, especially where she came from. ”

Wei Xiaolan looked at Uncle Ming, "Jianming, let's talk about it." ”

Uncle Ming was silent for a moment, and let out a long sigh of relief, "Okay, I'll tell you." Twenty-three years ago, our Xue family won the right to mine a mine in the mountainous area of western Hebei Province. That place is in the depths of Taihang Mountain, called Panlonggou, and it is very poor. I worked there for more than two months with the first engineering team, and after the construction was completed, I fell ill. Xiaolan ...... Oh no, her name was Fang Yue at that time, and she heard that I was sick, so she rushed to Panlonggou to take care of me. ”

"Well, what about later?" I asked.

"She studied traditional Chinese medicine, knew the nature of medicine, and knew how to see a doctor," said Uncle Ming, "She took the medicine to Panlonggou and quickly cured me, but because I was relatively weak, she insisted on staying with me, so we rented a house in the village outside Panlonggou and lived." She lived there for about a month, and one night she dreamed of a young girl dressed in yellow and white. ”

I looked at Wei Xiaolan, "Since it's your dream, then you might say it in more detail." ”

Wei Xiaolan nodded, "That girl is very handsome, she asked me, do you want a daughter?" I said yes, although I have two sons, we both like girls and have always wanted to have one. The girl smiled and said, Okay, there is a temple in the mountain behind Panlonggou, you go there to worship, and the god in it will give you a daughter. ”

"So you're going?" I looked at her.

"I didn't go," she said, "because I didn't believe it, so I didn't take it seriously." But a few days later, I dreamed of the girl again, and I felt strange about what she said in the dream the same as the first time. ”

"The point is, I also dreamed later," Uncle Ming said, "but I didn't see anyone in my dream, but I heard a woman say to me, go to the back mountain to worship God, bring your daughter back, and then wake up." At that time, because of the mining, I had a very thorough understanding of the topography of Panlonggou, and I had never heard of any temples. But after hearing Fang Yue tell me about her dream, I paid attention. So I found a time to invite the old village chief to have a drink and asked him if there was a temple nearby. ”

"What did he say?"

The old village chief said that there is a cave in the back mountain, and a stone statue is enshrined in it, I don't know how many years it has been. Before the liberation, incense was very prosperous, and after the Cultural Revolution, almost no one went there anymore. The old people said that the stone statue was a deer god Niangniang, which is said to be a divine deer in the sky, because the demon subdued and eliminated the demon fell on the Taihang Mountain, and the rest is not clear. ”

"Deer God Niangniang...... my heart moved, "Uncle Ming, go on, what happened later?" ”

"The day after I invited the old village chief to drink, there was an accident in the mine, which collapsed and injured several people," he said, "I was so anxious that I didn't rest for two days and two nights, and I was at the scene of the accident to direct the aftermath, and then I fainted from exhaustion." In a daze, I seemed to see several figures running out of the mine, and then a girl came in from outside, and she looked at me for a while, and patted me on the head, and then I woke up. ”

"After the accident, the old village chief went to our house to see him," Wei Xiaolan continued, "He was mysterious, saying that we might have offended the deer god Niangniang, and suggested that we hurry up and pay our respects." We were scared at the time, so when he got better, he hired a guide and took us to the back mountain. ”

"So when you worship the deer god Niangniang, you are asking her for protection, not for a son?" I looked at her.

"This ......" she hesitated for a moment and looked at Uncle Ming, "The first time we went, we really didn't mention the matter of the child, we just asked the deer god to bless us." But when I came back, I dreamed of the girl again, and she asked me, "Don't you want a daughter?" Why not? The more I woke up, the more I thought about it, the more I couldn't let go, so after dawn, we went again, this time with the two of us, without a guide. ”

"Yes", Uncle Ming took it, "At that time, we didn't know why, we wanted to have a daughter, but Fang Yue fell ill when she gave birth to our second son during confinement and couldn't conceive." In those two years, we went to many big hospitals for examinations and took a lot of medicine, but it was useless. Over time, this matter became a problem for both of us, so when she told me, I agreed without even thinking about it. ”

"The second time I saw Lu Shen Niangniang, just to ask for a son......" I nodded, "made a wish?" ”

"Yes", Wei Xiaolan said, "Jianming said that if Lu Lu Shen Niangniang can give us a daughter, then we will build a big temple outside Panlong Gou, and invite the statue of the deer god Niangniang to the temple and be worshiped by incense from all directions." ”

"I see......" I pondered.

"That deer god Niangniang is indeed very effective", Uncle Ming looked at me, "I don't shy away from it, at that time, because of long-term fatigue, my health was not very good." But since the deer god Niangniang came back, the situation quickly recovered. After a month, Fang Yue became pregnant with Xue Jing. ”

"After Aunt Ming became pregnant, did she go to repay her vow?" I looked at them.

"I want to repay my wish, but I don't have a chance", Uncle Ming sighed, "It was a year later, she gave birth to Xue Jing, I thought to myself that the child has passed a hundred days, and the mine is running well, so I am ready to donate a sum of money to build a temple." But when I went back, the people in the mine told me that the cave in the back mountain had collapsed. I thought to myself, this can't be done, at least we have to dig up the statue of the deer god Niangniang, but when we dig the cave and see, the statue is gone, so the temple is not built. ”

"Then Xue Jing started to have problems, right?" I asked.

He nodded, "Yes, every once in a while, I am scared, or I have an inexplicable fever." Later, her grandfather introduced a person, who was an old man and very capable. He said that Xue Jing was a begging child, and in her previous life, she was a maid by the side of the deer god Niangniang, and took advantage of the opportunity of the deer god Niangniang to go outside to do errands, and secretly gave us a dream, in order to go down to earth. Seeing that our couple was very pious, the deer god Niangniang allowed her to be reincarnated, but as a punishment, Xue Jing couldn't leave the deer god Niangniang thousands of miles away until she was twenty-one years old. ”

"So, he chose Shijiazhuang?" I looked at him, "If I'm not mistaken, this place belongs to Luquan City, and the maid of the deer god Niangniang lives in Luquan, so it can be regarded as giving her an explanation, right?" ”

"Yes, that's what he said," Ms. Wei said.

I smiled faintly, "Uncle Ming, that old man also said something that you are not allowed to say to other people, right?" Otherwise, Xue Jing's matter, I'm afraid you would have told my brother-in-law a long time ago. ”

He was silent, and he could see that he was embarrassed and conflicted.

"It's okay Uncle Ming, you don't have to be embarrassed", I said, "If it's inconvenient to say, I won't ask for it." Since Xue Jing's accident two days ago, you and Aunt Ming have been having strange dreams for the past few days, right? This dream can always tell me, right? ”

"We dreamed of a man," he paused, "and he said that we didn't believe in our words and wanted to take Xue Jing away...... It's torturous to have dreams like this every day. In general, we are embarrassed to trouble Xiao Qiye, this time there is really no way, Xue Jing is the pearl of our palm, if she has a mistake, then we really can't live. ”

It became clearer and clearer in my mind, "That man, what does it look like, remember?" ”

"I can't see clearly, it's just a shadow in a dream, faintly," Uncle Ming said.

I looked at Aunt Ming, "You dreamed of that man too, right?" What name did he call you in his dreams? ”

"Fang Yue", she lowered her head, "He told me that even if he changed his name, he could find me, it was useless." ”

"Your current name should have been changed by that old gentleman, right?" I looked at her, "Actually, I know in my heart that you and Uncle Ming don't dare to say it directly about the old man, because there is something unspeakable, for fear that his words will become true." I don't want to spy on the privacy of the Xue family, I just want to save Xue Jing, and I can't escape this after all. It doesn't matter, you don't need to say that you are embarrassed, you just know it in your heart. ”

"Lin Zhuo, we ...... We really ......" Uncle Ming sighed, "Since I asked you to do something, I will definitely believe you." But the old gentleman was also a very remarkable figure when he was alive, and we dare not believe his words! ”

"Please be considerate", Aunt Ming said, "The old gentleman has said first, if these secrets leak out, then my daughter's life may be ......"

I smiled faintly, "So, he really used a spell on Xue Jing...... This old man has good intentions! ”