Chapter 30: The Quartet

A month and a half after Xingmiao left, she sent back a letter saying that she had stayed at her mother's house after returning to the north, and that her mother was not in good health and was now on medication to maintain herself.

She has been to my house, my dad is also unlucky, the old wound on the waist was actually a broken bone, these years have not been raised, last autumn pickled sauerkraut when moving the water tank, a force and the waist flashed, this is good, new injuries and old injuries, lying overnight and the next day can not get up, go to the hospital to check is just a simple contusion, but dad is so painful that he can't straighten his waist, can only lie down, not to fifty can not leave the bed.

She has also been to Jiyang, the eldest sister's career has become bigger, and the entire Ye's enterprise covers most of the southern business district, but some of the places where the expansion of the branch enterprise is not safe, and roadblocks and robberies occur from time to time, everyone advises her not to be too black-hearted, and the industry is too big to worry about, but she said that it is now a society under the rule of law, and she must believe in the people's public security, the party and the government.

Aunt Lu said Guihua, why are you so stupid, if those things you believe in are useful, why haven't you caught the robber until now? The second sister also thought so, and followed up and said that the eldest sister was stupid.

The second sister is going to take the university entrance examination this year, and she hasn't filled in the application yet, she said that she wants to choose a school closer to me.

I'm fifteen years old, and I'll be officially a monk in another year, but I want to go back to Longmiao Village, even if I become a Taoist priest, I have to be closer to home.

I didn't dare to tell Master for fear that he would be sad.

One day, Master called me into his meditation room, and that was the first time I went in, and I thought that the room of the Lord of One View was different from the meditation room of ordinary disciples, but I did not expect that the room that greeted my eyes was the same as the one where our brothers lived.

"Fulu, sit down. ”

I asked Master what instructions he had for coming to me, Master smiled, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were basically invisible, he sighed, and asked me softly, "Fulu, I heard that you are also leaving?" Although I knew that Master would ask, I didn't expect him to be so direct.

I nodded and replied, "Yes." ”

After hearing this, the master turned away and stopped talking for a long time.

"Apprentice, you will accept nine apprentices for the teacher in your life, in addition to your eighth junior sister, you also have a junior sister, you have not seen it, and it is estimated that you will not have the opportunity to meet each other. Among the nine people, the teacher is particularly important to you, although you are not officially ordained, the master has high hopes for you, you also know a few of your senior brothers, except for your senior brother, the remaining few can not become a weapon, your senior brother is too honest, more than enough to be a second-in-command, for the teacher to accept you is also because the previous life is destined for you and me to be a master and apprentice, more than ten years ago for the teacher to see you full of aura, intelligent nature, and is a lonely star, and the red world will not have too many ties, I want you to inherit the mantle after a hundred years, in charge of the view, but also to carry forward the Dao of the door, but how do you know that your heart is too heavy, alas, it is not that the master is not close to people, you are also human nature to miss home, so, tomorrow as a teacher, I will allow you to go down the mountain, but you have not set foot in the red dust for a long time, you don't know the world, and I am not very relieved to go down the mountain alone, but let your sixth senior brother go with you, do you think it is good?"

I couldn't hide the joy in my heart, and I was about to bow to the Master and leave, but the Master stopped me again.

"I know you are eager to return to your hometown, but the master only gives you two years, your family has been rampant with ghosts and monsters in recent years, this time you go down the mountain to let you practice, you can go to the magic weapon library to choose a few magic weapons to take away, the magic friend is sometimes stubborn, you can discipline him on my behalf." ”

I asked Master if I could live at home, Master said that it was okay in the short term, but not in the long term, I asked what it was in the short term, and Master said that you can live there, as long as you don't delay the exorcism and guardian path, I thought I had heard it wrong, and wanted to ask again, but Master sighed, took out a package from the cabinet on the bed, handed it to me, and said, "This is the property left by your parents when you first entered the mountain gate, and I have exchanged it into currency in the market. Alas, you don't know if it's a blessing or a curse when you go down the mountain this time, as long as you don't covet the prosperity of the world and forget that you still have a master, thank God. ”

On the day I left the Taoist temple, the master stood at the door and watched us for a long time, and the sixth brother and I, dressed in Taoist robes, kowtowed to the master three times, although I was happy to be able to go home, but I was still reluctant to go home to the Taoist temple where the master and the senior brother and I had lived for seven years.

The sixth brother looked very excited, and he said that he could finally eat meat openly.

When he got on the train, he carried something in both hands, which was the sausage and smoked chicken and roast goose he bought, and I paid for it.

As soon as he sat down, he started eating, loud and laughing while eating, so that everyone around him looked at him, I looked at him with disdain, he asked me what I was doing with him, and I said viciously, "Give me half of the food!"

The train stops and goes, and the sixth brother always goes down to buy food, I asked him if he was so virtuous when he took the train, and he said that this time he followed me to get naked, and the master didn't buy it for him in the past.

In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the train left Shanhaiguan, I felt a faint yin aura, and the sixth brother was chanting in a low voice, "Dao Ke Dao, very Dao, famous name, very famous, nameless heaven and earth, famous mother of all things...... There were bursts of snoring around me, and I couldn't help lowering my eyelids.

"The next stop is Haicheng, it's time to get off the train in a hurry!" the flight attendant shouted into the carriage in a thick northeast accent, I asked the sixth brother when we could arrive, and the sixth brother said that it should be there in the morning.

Before May Day, the weather in the north was so hot that we just walked out of the train station and were sweating in the scorching sun. The men and women on the street were all short clothes and shorts, and my sixth brother's clothes and hair accessories were so different, I couldn't stand the heat, so I dragged my sixth brother into a shoe and hat shop, picked out a few cheap and simple short sleeves and pants and put them in my bag, and I was going home in a while, I couldn't let my family see that I didn't even have clothes.

Walking out of the store, the sixth brother asked me if I could find my own home, I said enough, he said find a car to send us to your village, I was a little worried about the money, but I couldn't resist the sixth brother, so I had to wave my hand to call a car.

We got off the car at the gate of the village committee of Longmiao Village, I couldn't help but be a little nervous, as if my every move was in the eyes of my family, I tried to restrain my excitement and timidity, and took the sixth brother into the door of the village committee, there was only an old man with glasses reading the newspaper, I asked him where the village chief went, he looked at me, and said, "The store next to me is playing cards." ”

I and the sixth brother came to the door of the store, there was a commotion inside, opened the door and a smell of smoke gushed out, and then looked inside, good guy, it followed the fire, the people inside asked us who we were looking for, I said I was looking for the village chief, I saw the third uncle with a cigarette in his mouth approached me and looked at it, asked me what was the matter with him, I smiled, and told him that I was the third child of Ye Laosi's family, the third uncle reacted for a long time, patted his head, and shouted happily: "Haibo, you come out quickly, don't fight, let's go to your brother-in-law's house to drink!"

I knew that Hai Bo was my uncle's name, but I didn't expect him to be here, but I saw his boss reluctantly walking out, muttering as he walked: "You know how to exploit the common people, if I am the president of the country, the first thing I will do when I come to power is to push you to the end." ”

The third uncle didn't take it seriously, and led me to my uncle, I actually didn't have much impression of my uncle, and my uncle didn't recognize me until a while, so he couldn't help but say that he pulled me back home.

Over the years, the family has changed to a big house, I heard that it is the only two-story building in the village, the previous house was left to my uncle's family, my grandmother is old, I don't want to live too narrow.

When I came to the door, I didn't dare to go in, the third uncle and my uncle asked me to open the door by myself, I didn't dare, but then the door was opened from the inside, and out came a girl with glasses, about her early twenties, shoulder-length short hair, a lot of white hair, a yellow hairpin on her head, a yellow skirt, she was a little startled when she saw us standing outside the door, her eyes were very puzzled, and she looked at me again, and instantly showed a smiling face, she took my hand and walked into the courtyard, and shouted happily: "Dad, my brother is back!"

Before we reached the door of the house, we heard the door "bang" and was pushed open, Aunt Lu ran out without wearing shoes, and when I saw that I cried happily, my father also walked out on crutches, they were old, and there were more gray hairs, and when I left home, they were still full of black hair, and I couldn't help crying loudly when I thought that I had not been able to be with them for six or seven years.

That night, except for the eldest sister who did not come back in the south, all kinds of relatives who did not know gathered at my house, I took off my robe and changed into the clothes I bought during the day, and sat next to my father, the second sister and my father kept serving me vegetables, and the sixth brother did not speak, but only cared about eating with his head down.

As soon as the table was removed, Aunt Lu brought a plate of watermelon, the sixth brother ate several pieces, and I also ate two pieces, and when he saw me go home, my father was very happy, drank several glasses of wine, and kept patting my shoulder and laughing.

Dad said, Fulu, let's go see your grandma tomorrow, I'm afraid she's almost at the end of the day, it should be these days.

Uncle said that grandma was fine last year, but after moving here, her health became worse and worse, and she coughed after the New Year, and she didn't even have the strength to cough these days, but she couldn't get up and couldn't eat.

I washed my face and said to my father, I'll go now.

Walking into the courtyard where I used to live, I don't have much impression of this place, the wall where Fuzi lay has been rebuilt by the neighbor's house, the orange bricks are piled up, and the female ghost aunt is sitting on the wall looking at me and laughing.

Grandma was lying on the kang, her eyes were sunken, her face was also very haggard, her lips were not bloody, and her silver hair looked very bright in the light.

My aunt helped my grandmother up, saying that the third son of the eldest sister's family was back, my grandmother opened her cloudy eyes, her lips moved, and she suddenly looked at me with wide eyes, and her hand was pointing at me, as if she was happy and frightened, I carefully observed my grandmother's Yintang, but I didn't find a trace of haze, but my grandmother's face seemed to be covered with a layer of black fog, and it seemed that it was just an ordinary filth invading the body.

I asked my aunt to let go of my grandmother and let her lie flat on the kang, and although the family was puzzled, they still did so.

I raised my sword fingers flat on my chest, silently recited the mantra in my heart, and then held my grandmother's dry and thin hand, and suddenly my grandmother sat up suddenly, everyone was shocked, I waved my hand to signal that they were okay, grandma coughed a few times, and breathed a few times, and then stroked her chest, and said a few words of "comfortable".

Seeing that my grandmother had improved, my aunt hurriedly waited for the old lady, and my uncle also helped cook, with a smile on his face, looking at me while talking.

Grandma said that San'er is able to endure it now, just come back, and there is no need to suffer when you go out.

I slept at my grandmother's house at night because my father was worried that my grandmother would come back to light.

I slept in the same room with my sixth brother, and he said that he had never slept in the Northeast Huokang, and I asked him, isn't your home in Shenyang, and he said that he had been in the south since he was a child. I asked the sixth brother: "Don't you sleep on the kang when you go home for the New Year?"

The sixth brother was smoking, and almost choked when he heard my words, he shrugged his shoulders with laughter, and finally stopped laughing, and he said to me: "Silly old seven, it is true that Shenyang is the northeast, but the northeast is also divided into cities and rural areas!"

There was nothing wrong all night, but when I woke up, the female ghost aunt came to me again, and kept pointing outside, as if I was in a hurry, I jumped off the kang all of a sudden, I thought something happened to my grandmother, but my grandmother was washing her face, and the family was fine.

There was a commotion outside, and I opened the door to look, as if someone was fighting, and my uncle's cousin was also watching the excitement.

I went into the crowd and looked, and a group of young men my age were beating a girl whose hair was covering her face, and she couldn't see her face clearly. I couldn't look at it anymore, so I pushed away one of the boys with pigtails, and he was unsuspectingly pushed by me, turned around and yelled, "Who the pushed me?!"

I said, "Are you embarrassed that a large group of men beat a woman?"

When the girl heard my voice, she quickly crawled over and shouted, "Uncle Seven, save me!"

I hurriedly asked my cousin to call the family, and my cousin was only ten years old, and she ran and jumped home.

I asked Xingmiao what was going on, she hadn't spoken yet, the pigtailed man who was pushed away by me just now asked me which onion I was, I didn't bother to pay attention to him, but I noticed that he was full of black gas, and his face also revealed an evil spirit, I saw that the family had come, so I helped Xingmiao to turn around and want to leave, but several people led by the pigtail man waved their fists at me, I took care of Xingmiao with one hand, grabbed the fist that greeted me with the other hand, and tried my best to resist, but I still took a few kicks.

At that time, the situation was very chaotic, and when I saw the sixth brother walking from the gate while carrying his shoes, I felt a little annoyed and shouted: "Sixth brother, kill them! Don't let any of them run away!"

The sixth brother said "hey", and instantly appeared in the group of people, crackling, I handed over Xingmiao to my family, and also turned around and rushed in.

After a while, all seven people on the other side were lying on the ground, I stepped on the head of the pigtailed man, and asked him why he was happy, he didn't say whether he was alive or dead, the third uncle happened to come to the neighbor's house to do something, I asked him if he knew a few people lying on the ground, he looked at these few flowers, and said that it was not from the village, let me start lightly, and it would be bad to make a fuss.

I smiled, noncommittal, but thought to myself, it would be easier to do it if it wasn't from this village.

After finishing everything, I rushed back to my grandmother's house, and I was able to walk around after eating.

I asked her what happened in the morning and why she was beaten, and she saluted me and Sixth Brother and told her what had happened to her.

It turned out that she returned to her mother's house in Jinzhou to visit relatives, and accidentally met several cultists cheating, and one of them seemed to have been seen somewhere, so she stepped forward to expose the other party, but the other party was overwhelming, she was still a woman after all, and she could only escape with all her might.

She didn't want to affect her mother, so she had to buy a ticket and escape back to Longmiao Village by car, how did she just get off the train and be entangled by these people, the other party seemed to be just teasing, in fact, there were a lot of tricks, and the tricks were fatal, she guessed that the other party must be an accomplice of the cultists, but she was hard to beat everyone with her fists, and no one helped passers-by when she called for help.

When she fled to the village, the other party took away the burden behind her and threw it into the nearby garbage can, she kept running, and finally fell down tired, the other party rushed up and beat, there were many onlookers, and some people tried to persuade the fight, but the other party said that this woman was shooting flowers, specializing in abducting and selling children, so the people who originally wanted to help looked lively.

I comforted Xingmiao a few words, and looked back at the face of the sixth brother, who was blue and swollen at the moment, scolding and scolding, clamoring to slaughter those miscellaneous pieces.

I said, "Go, Xingmiao, and I'll take revenge on you." ”

A group of three people came to my house and opened the door to the cellar.

When the people inside saw someone coming, they were all struggling hard, and the sixth brother blocked their mouths when he locked them in, and I said that the sixth senior brother was a man of immorality who scolded the deaf and beat the blind, and he still didn't admit it, but as soon as he entered the cellar, he kicked the people inside one by one, and the seven cultists all screamed like killing pigs, but they could only make a "whine" sound.

The sixth brother picked up half a brick out of nowhere and wanted to smash them, but I stopped him, just like the third uncle said, it's not good to make a fuss.

I took the rag from the pigtailed man's mouth, pulled his blood-stained hair, and asked him with a smile, "Why did you beat my aunt?"

Xingmiao is commensurate with Aunt Lu's sisters, and she is indeed my aunt according to her generation.

He desperately said that they were just ruffians and hooligans, trying to knock people out and sell them to other villages.

I put him down and said to the sixth brother, "The sixth brother is affected, can you help me break his leg?"

The sixth brother said immodestly: "Which of us is with whom, leave this matter to me, you take a few steps back, and be careful to splash your blood!" As he spoke, he picked up the pickaxe leaning against the wall and hit it the pigtailed man's right leg, Xingmiao and I both heard the sound of broken bones, Xingmiao was still a woman after all, and she couldn't see this kind of thing, so she was so frightened that she hid behind my back.

The sharp pain made the pigtailed man faint all at once, and his accomplices were so frightened that they wanted to run but couldn't move, and they all let out pleading voices.

"Say, who asked you to hunt down and kill my aunt! You can live if you say it, and if you don't say it, you can burn it to ashes and use it as fertilizer!" I don't know where I got the courage to say these words, and I don't know why I became so cruel, Xing Miao said that I have grown up, and I am no longer the Ye Fulu who can only cry and pee his pants.

The pigtailed man's accomplices looked at each other, and they all scrambled to say first, I said that as long as you tell the truth, as long as you explain everything, you will be able to live.

Things were clear, it turned out that they were members of an organization called the "Quartet Sect", but they were just minions.

They say that the Sifang Sect is a folk religious organization, and they have never seen who the leader is, and they will not know at all, the doctrine of the Sifang Sect is "the awakening of the world, the enlightenment of immortals", it is said that the congregation is all over the three northeastern provinces, and there are believers of various identity classes. A few of them joined the church not long ago, and this time they were sent out to join the name, and they had blood on their hands, so they were better promoted.

They also confessed that several of them belonged to the Jinzhou branch, the leader was named Liu Kai, and he lived in Jiuli Village, Jinzhou, Liu Kai was very ruthless, with more than a dozen lives on his hands, and he also instructed his subordinates to specialize in robbery and theft.

The brothers of the branch were dissatisfied with Liu Kai, but they knew that he was a ruthless person, so they had to endure it, and they all complained about him behind their backs.

"Auntie, don't be afraid, what do you want to do with these people?" I turned around and asked Xingmiao, she said let it go, I nodded and said to her, "Auntie, you go into the house first, and we will help you find the burden later." ”

I let go of those people, and the pigtailed man was carried away by them, but the sixth brother seemed to be a little unwilling, he kept saying that I was weak, and what to do if the other party retaliated once I let people go, I suddenly realized and hurriedly chased after him.

On the way there, I asked the sixth brother what to do with these people when I caught them, and the sixth brother said: "If you catch them, you will be killed, and you can't leave a single living mouth, if you want your father to have a peaceful birthday, be soft-hearted, and today is just to try your master's kung fu to teach you." ”

I laughed, my master dares not to be your master!

I never dared to do it, it was all solved by the sixth brother. The sixth brother seemed to be really angry that day, and kept calling me a waste.

I carried the wonderful burden into the house, she was preparing dumplings with Aunt Lu, Aunt Lu asked me where I was, I said I went to help my aunt find the burden.

The sixth brother had a cold face at me all day long, and asked Xingmiao, why did the sixth uncle look unhappy, and he said that he didn't know what was wrong, there were always a few days a month.

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and the aunt instantly made a big red face and didn't ask the sixth brother again.

The next day, I told my dad that we wanted to go to Jinzhou for two days, and they both said that Jinzhou was more prosperous than Jinping County, and we wanted to go around.

Xingmiao also said that she happened to go back to her mother, so let's stop by.

Aunt Lu stuffed a handful of money to me, and asked me to buy whatever I wanted to eat, I thought about it, and the money on my body was really not much, so I took it, and the second sister was afraid that I would not spend enough, so she stuffed a few more into my jacket pocket, and then carefully buttoned me.

When I went out, the second sister told me to be careful outside, I would rather suffer losses than quarrel with people, cross the street to see the traffic lights, come back early, don't play outside for too long, I said at most three or five days to return, the second sister smiled and sent us out of the door, she stood at the door and watched us go away.