Volume 1: Wu Yun Rises _ Chapter 21: White Rice Hexagram
At this time, Zhao Youzong's home was completely shrouded in firelight, and the fourth uncle and I had already rushed to my grandmother's mourning hall.
Seeing the big turtle in the hands of the fourth uncle, the father and the two aunts were also frightened, for them, the fourth uncle was silent, and the father and aunt were probably used to seeing the fourth uncle dealing with strange things, so they didn't ask too much.
At this time, Zhao Youzong's house was wrapped in a fire, and there was a noise that began to come out, and my father and little aunt were alarmed, but they didn't go out to keep a wake for my grandmother.
Thinking of the curse in my own place, I was a little distracted, and after my father left, the fourth uncle took the initiative to greet me and pulled me out of the door.
Unexpectedly, the fourth uncle actually handed me a sharp dagger and asked me to disembowel.
"Do you want to make soup for it?"
The fourth uncle shook his head, "Take out all its internal organs and see if there is anything like a round egg, I can use it." ”
I looked at the fourth uncle with a hesitant face, he probably understood what I meant, "I want to divinate in three hours, I have already been contaminated with blood just now, and if I am contaminated again, it will not work." ”
I was surprised that the fourth uncle suddenly wanted to do divination, but the fourth uncle didn't answer, and asked me to kill the turtle first.
The dagger was so sharp that it could penetrate the turtle's chest and abdomen with all my strength, and I found a basin of water, and pulled out all its entrails, most of which were yellow oil, and I did find an egg slightly larger than a fingernail, and the whole body was red.
The fourth uncle nodded lightly and said, "Sure enough, I became a sperm." ”
"What is this?"
"It's a turtle treasure, as long as this thing is produced, the life span can be extended several times, and it is quite similar to our Taoist knot."
I sighed, and was about to ask the fourth uncle what to do with this thing, when he suddenly said, "You go and cook it and eat it." ”
The thought of this thing swallowing corpse oil made me suddenly sick to my stomach, "Why am I eating this?" ”
"You have a strange curse now, I can't protect you all the time, this is the turtle pill, the aura of the turtle is gathered here, as long as you eat it, nothing dirty can escape your eyes, it takes a long time for the incense candle spell to burn out the yang energy, I slowly think of a way, and before that, I can't be hurt by the yin ghost."
What the fourth uncle said made sense, although I didn't want to eat it, I could only take it in my hand.
The sticky and sticky thing was very heavy to the touch, and under the urging of the fourth uncle, I had to make a fire to cook the soup, and after half an hour, I estimated that it was cooked, but I saw half a pot of dark red blood and water.
At this time, the fourth uncle washed his face and hands, sat quietly in the side room, and prepared for divination, I didn't want to alarm him, so I had to endure the fishy smell, ate the turtle treasure, and stroked his chest for a while before he spit it out.
I don't know what the fourth uncle asked Bu to do in the middle of the night, and after waiting for a long time, he didn't come out, and curiosity drove me in.
Incense is lit in the side room, and the fourth uncle's peach sword is placed on one side of the incense altar, and the incense is surrounded by the peach sword.
There was a blank piece of paper in front of the fourth uncle, and a small cloth bag was placed beside him, which seemed to contain rice.
When he saw me come in, he suddenly asked, "What's the name of that ghost keeper?" ”
I sighed and replied, "Zhao Youzong." ”
The fourth uncle took a brush, turned cinnabar, and wrote the three words "Zhao Youzong" in bright red on white paper.
I secretly muttered in my heart, could I find Zhao Youzong in this way.
Originally, I thought he was going to ask Zhao Youzong's birthday, and I knew that the diviner was going to ask this, but he didn't.
He suddenly muttered, "The number of days is five, the number of the earth is five, the five are compatible and each has its own combination, the number of days is twenty and there is five, the number of the earth is thirty, and the number of heaven and earth, fifty has five, so it becomes a change and the ghosts and gods also do——"
When he spoke, his hand suddenly reached out to the bag, which was indeed filled with white rice, and the fourth uncle grabbed a handful, but not a single grain was exposed.
When his hand hovered over Zhao Youzong's three words, his hand suddenly let go of a slit and scattered a column on the white paper.
Then he stopped halfway, started another column, and scattered six columns on the white paper in an instant, and the white rice in his hand was just used up.
There is a lot of white rice stained with bright red cinnabar.
I couldn't understand what kind of doorway this was, and the fourth uncle looked at it intently for a while, "It turned out to be a hexagram, for water, for wells, for rivers, and for hiding." ”
I didn't expect to be able to divinate in this way, I have seen all kinds of strange fortune telling, and the fourth uncle Bai Mi can be divined casually, which really shocked me.
After seeing him, he pondered for a while, "Water can't hide, wells can't accommodate people, there is only one possibility of the river, where is there a bridge near here?" ”
I thought about it for a while, and on the river not far from the village, there was a big stone arch bridge, and I told the fourth uncle the location.
The fourth uncle stood up suddenly, "Zhao Youzong, who escaped, must be recuperating under the bridge." ”
I didn't expect the fourth uncle to be so sure, and I was skeptical.
At this time, the sky was already clear, and the fourth uncle went to get people alone to prove that his divination was correct.
As soon as the fourth uncle walked to the door, he was blocked by a group of people from outside, and the leader was the village chief.
The village chief directly called the name of the fourth uncle, and asked, "Why do you want to hurt people?" ”
"What's harmful?" The fourth uncle, like me, was puzzled by the village chief's words.
"Someone saw you set fire to Zhao Youzong's house, what grudge do you have against him, why did you burn him? There were several skulls in his house, who were the others who burned to death? ”
The fourth uncle frowned, as if he didn't expect someone to see our whereabouts, and asked the village chief who saw it.
Before the village chief could answer, a woman with a cold expression came out from behind him, staring at the fourth uncle, "It's me." ”
Li Honghua?
Seeing Li Honghua come out, the fourth uncle was not in a hurry to refute, I walked up and said, "In the middle of the night, how can you be near Zhao Youzong's house?" ”
I know that Li Honghua's residence is still far away from Zhao Yuanzong's house.
Li Honghua gritted her teeth and said hatefully, "I've always been kind to him, but last night, I bumped into you and hurt him!" ”
The people who came with him began to whisper, Li Honghua didn't care about others, and suddenly pointed at the fourth uncle, "He is not a good person, he wanted to insult me yesterday and gave me a charm of ecstasy!" ”
The fourth uncle just sneered, as if he didn't bother to explain.
Seeing that the fourth uncle didn't speak, Li Honghua became more and more excited, and pointed to the fourth uncle and said, "He is no longer from this village, he is an evil Taoist, and he was haunted that night, maybe he made it, otherwise why wouldn't he help exorcise the ghosts!" ”
Li Honghua's words drove the emotions of many people, and they asked the fourth uncle to give an explanation.
The fourth uncle said lightly, "Just find Zhao Youzong." ”
Everyone didn't expect Zhao Youzong to be alive and asked him where he was.
"He's hiding under a bridge now, and those who burned to death have been killed by him before!"
But they didn't believe it, the fourth uncle took a step forward and said, "You will understand when you go with me to see!" ”
Li Honghua suddenly shouted at the top of her voice, "He must have harmed him, he is trying to escape!" ”
As soon as Li Honghua shouted like this, a circle of people immediately surrounded the fourth uncle, and it seemed that they didn't want the fourth uncle to leave.
The fourth uncle has not been in contact with the people in the village for a long time, and the haunted ghosts did not help people exorcise ghosts before, and the villagers have lost their reverence for the fourth uncle.
"Get out of the way." The fourth uncle stretched out his hand to push the person who was blocking his way.
Someone immediately grabbed his hand, and my father and I hurriedly tried to persuade him, but it obviously didn't work.
The fourth uncle snorted coldly, turned around, stretched out his hand, tore off the man's hand, and pushed a palm towards the people around him, and the dozen or so people were all unstable on their feet, and they all sat down on the ground in an instant.
"Although Taoism cultivates qi, it can't allow you to slander casually, if I want to leave, no one can stop me."
The fourth uncle took another step forward and said to Li Honghua, "I said why is the yin qi on your body so heavy, it turns out that you have been staying with the person who raised the little ghost for a long time, and you are also blinded, I don't have the same knowledge as you, and when I bring Zhao Youzong back, you will all understand what is going on." ”
After finishing speaking, the fourth uncle walked away quickly, and although those who fell down got up, they didn't dare to stop him anymore, but just followed him.
Li Honghua bowed her head and walked away in shame.
My father and aunt asked me what was going on, and I didn't want to say more, so let them ask the fourth uncle themselves later.
In a few moments, it was already dawning.
There are graves buried everywhere in the countryside, and when I was waiting for the fourth uncle, I suddenly found that there were a few white dolls with bare buttocks in a cemetery not far away.
At first, I thought whose children were playing, but then I thought about it, whose children can come out to play without clothes in the morning? Moreover, the graves were covered with dew, and were clammy and cold.
Thinking of this, I wanted to go to see what was going on, and when I got closer, I found that there were six children with bare buttocks, all of whom were crying on their stomachs, and the crying was very miserable, which made people panic.
At this time, I already understood that they were definitely not normal children, and I could see them, most likely because they devoured the turtle pill last night.
In order to confirm my thoughts, I approached and shouted, and the six little dolls immediately stopped crying, looked at me, jumped into a ditch next to the graveyard, and disappeared.
I looked over, but I didn't see the little doll, so I had to turn around with a puzzled face.
At this time, the fourth uncle and they had come back, I saw someone carrying it from a distance, and when I got closer, I saw that it was Zhao Youzong, the fourth uncle was right, and he was really caught back, his hands and feet did not know who was connected, it may be the fourth uncle, who was carried like a dead dog.
Li Honghua should have wanted to drag the fourth uncle, but it didn't work at all.
Zhao Youzong's face was like ashes, and he didn't answer anyone who asked him, at this time the villagers had already understood that those dead people had absolutely nothing to do with him, and the village chief told him like the fourth uncle, and then began to reprimand Zhao Youzong.
The fourth uncle only wanted to know who saved him last night, but Zhao Youzong seemed to have changed to the same appearance as before, his eyes were bloodshot, he turned his head to look at the fourth uncle, and ignored it.
Under a big locust tree, the villagers put Zhao Youzong down, and seeing that Zhao Youzong really didn't speak, the fourth uncle told him about stealing the bones of the dead, as for refining corpse oil and raising ghosts, the fourth uncle didn't say a word.
The villagers' eyes widened, and an incredible expression appeared on their faces, they didn't expect that Zhao Youzong, who was usually taciturn, would do such a thing, and asked the fourth uncle whose bones he stole were all about.