Chapter 5: Thunderstorms

Lei Luo didn't know how long he had been unconscious, when he woke up, there was no one in the room, and he felt that he should be lying in the hall, he tried to move his muscles and bones, but he couldn't move, and his whole body hurt when he moved, as if the bones in his body were falling apart. After trying it, he found that the only thing that could move was his eyes, which by the light of day should have been afternoon, and his eyes had moved down from the cobweb-covered ceiling, then to the gray earthen walls, and then to his own body, and Lei Luo found himself lying in the hall.

The body couldn't move, but the mind was still clear, what was going on?Why was there thunder and lightning in front of the cliff, where did the purple lightning come from?Why did the family put themselves in the hall?Yu Lao...... As soon as he thought of Yu Lao, Lei Luo became excited, how is Yu Lao? Yu Lao! As soon as he thought of Yu Lao, Lei Luo suddenly felt ominous, and sadness came from it, and a surge of qi and blood surged, and he suddenly shouted loudly and sat up from the bed. I don't know why there is such a big inertia, the whole person rushed out with this momentum, and hit the opposite wall, seeing that his head was about to hit the wall, Lei Luo naturally held his head with both hands, and his body quickly turned around, "bang" sounded, his back hit the blue brick wall, and Lei Luo obviously felt that the wall shook violently.

Just now, Lei Luo couldn't move his whole body, but now he actually has such a great force, and his reaction is so fast and sensitive, it is really unimaginable before. What is wrong with me? When I was stunned, I heard the cry of a strong man. The strong man has been lying next to his master, I don't know how long he has been with him, and when he saw his master wake up, he was naturally very happy, licking and hugging around Lei Luo......

The door to the hall was pushed open, and my father entered.

Lei Luo didn't care about the pain in his body, grabbed his father, and asked more than ten whys, but his father couldn't speak, just shed tears, hugged Lei Luo, and kept chattering: "You really woke up, you really woke up." ”

Lei Luo slowly calmed down, because he had already seen that there were many things that Dad couldn't understand.

After crying for a long time, Lei Luo's father gradually calmed down. Greeted Lei Luo and said, go, follow me to burn incense for Yu Lao. Lei Luo couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, huge grief swelled up, it seemed that his premonition had come true, and tears welled up like broken threads.

Dad lifted a bamboo basket, filled it with some incense and candles, and led Lei Luo out of the house. Next to the well water in the village, Lei Luo's mother was washing vegetables, and when she saw Lei Luo coming out, she happily threw down the vegetable basket and rushed over, holding Lei Luo but not letting go. The father said something badly, and the mother let go of the thunderfall, and her eyes were full of tears.

Mother walked home with a basket and kept telling Lei Luo to come back early for dinner. Lei Luo nodded to his mother and followed his father out of the village. The father just walked, did not stop, did not speak. No matter what Lei Luo asked, he just walked like that, his steps were heavy and slow, looking at his back, just like the back of Yu Lao that night, it seemed that he had suddenly aged a lot.

Leaving the village, Dad took Thunderfall to the public cemetery on the hill. The hill in the cemetery is called Honggazi Mountain, which is said to be a mountain, but it is actually a hill, and the place where there is no vegetation on the top of the hill is all red soil, like a huge pot lid covering the mountain. Eighteen years ago, when Yu Lao came to this village, he said that this mountain has good feng shui and is suitable for burial, so the villagers moved their ancestral graves to this mountain, and Yu Lao became the grave keeper of this cemetery.

Eighteen years ago, would Yu Lao have known that his own grave would also appear on this hill in eighteen years? Could it be that eighteen years ago, he was setting a tomb for himself? Walking along the winding path up the mountain, there are scattered graves all the way, whether rich or poor, whether prominent or ordinary, whether good or vicious, after death, they all became a handful of red clay in this red cover mountain. The only difference is that the graves are large and small, some luxurious and some shabby - but the people in the tomb are no longer visible.

Looking at the graves scattered on the hillside, Lei Luo's restless heart slowly calmed down, rich and glorious, birth, old age, sickness and death, but in just a few decades, the dead are gone, and treating the living well is the right way. Looking at his father's old back, Lei Luo was enlightened. This hillside seems to have such a strange magic that can make Lei Luo feel peaceful.

After turning a few corners, a tomb appeared in front of me, a new tomb, the tomb money on the head of the tomb is still brand new, the tombstone is also newly carved, and the line of seal book in the center of the tombstone makes people clear: the tomb of Mr. Yu, the great benefactor of Leihuang Village.

The villagers' reverence for Yu Lao can be seen from this tombstone. For all the villagers of Leihuang Village, this old man is the savior of the village and the patron saint of all the villagers.

Dad handed over the incense candles and paper money, and motioned for Lei Luo to burn them together, and Lei Luo naturally knelt down. There are thousands of questions in my heart, but I can't ask them. At this time, Dad spoke.

"There are some things that have been hidden from you for so many years, and it's time to tell you. Dad's figure is vicissitudes and far away, Lei Luo burned paper money while listening to his father tell the story of the past.

"Son, you should know that our village is called Leihuang Village. There is an ancestral motto in the village......"

"I know. Lei Luo said, "The general meaning of Zu Xun is that the villagers should not leave the village without permission, otherwise there will be very bad results." The father looked at Lei Luo, and there was a smile on his old tired face, and said: "I heard the ancestors say that the ancestral training was engraved on a stone tablet earlier, the age is too old, and the stone tablet has long been lost without knowing where it was lost. ”

Hearing this, Lei Luo suddenly thought of the stone wall full of prophecies he saw in the cave, and he didn't know if the proverbs of Leihuang Village that his father said had anything to do with the stone wall inscriptions.

The father looked at Lei Luo, and the sadness on his face was overflowing. Lei Cheng couldn't see his father so sad, burned a few pieces of paper, and said to his father in a comforting tone: "Dad, what does that ancestral training have to do with what you are going to talk about today?"

The father sighed, took out another stack of paper money, and said as he burned it: "The problem is your father, when I was young, I used to go out of the village. That year, I was in my early twenties, and despite the opposition of your grandparents and your uncle, I secretly followed people from other villages to Wolong Town, more than 300 miles away, to dig for gold......"

Speaking of this, my father's hands began to tremble, and his tone was a little nervous: "I was sick for less than three months, and all the doctors there didn't know what I was sick about, so they had to come back with illness...... Something unusual happened when I came back......"

Father's voice was frightened and desperate, and when he thought of the unusual things back then, Boss Lei trembled, as if the past from many years ago was still in front of him.

"When I came back, it was a blue sky, and suddenly there was thunder rolling overhead, and lightning was all over measur...... From the time I entered the village, this Leihuang Village was struck by lightning every once in a while, the big trees were broken by the waist, and the houses were destroyed...... Everyone is in danger, and people are panicking. Everyone said that I was a calamity, and that I had broken the rules of Leihuang Village, and that I was going to be beaten to death and sacrificed to the heavens--if it wasn't for your uncle's stopping, I would have been beaten to death by everyone! ”

Lei Luo couldn't help but tremble when he heard this. In the meantime, what kind of force dominates everything in the dark?

At the mention of Yu Lao, his father's expression suddenly calmed down a lot, rubbed his hands, and continued: "Yu Lao appeared as a fortune teller, he said that our village has good feng shui, but some things are not done right, and he will be punished by heaven. Everyone had never seen this man before, and when they heard that he was right, they asked him what to do? He said that when the nobles of our village came into the world, the village would be peaceful. You know, the people in the village are superstitious, and they really believe in Yu Lao. Everyone also went to him to tell fortunes, and this Yu Lao is also really capable, and everything is said very accurately, so everyone offered Yu Lao up like a fairy. That old man Yu seemed to be specially sent by God to rescue this Leihuang Village, so he settled down in our Leihuang Village, told fortunes for everyone, saw a doctor, instructed the villagers to move the cemetery, and dug wells. ”

"I didn't believe in fortune telling, but your uncle dragged me to find Yu Lao. I patiently asked the old man Yu to calculate a hexagram for me -- I still remember the expression on the face of the old man when he gave me the hexagram, and as soon as he finished the calculation, he nervously asked me: Is the surname of the little brother Lei? You must know that although our village is called Leihuang Village, only our family is surnamed Lei. I thought that your uncle had already given him my information, so I casually answered yes. Yu Lao seemed to have found a rare treasure, kept clapping his hands, and then gave your uncle a note. ”

Lei Luo guessed that the things on the note must be very secret, but his father's words surprised Lei Luo. What was written on the note was an address and a name, the address was a small village in another county, and that name was Lei Luo's mother. That old Yu actually asked Lei Luo's uncle to propose marriage to Lei Luo's father, and what was even worse was that the uncle went to propose marriage, and it actually became a marriage.

Lei Luo's parents got married in such a daze.

Things are complicated when you think about it, in fact, in that ignorant era, ignorant mountain villages, it is really normal - Lei Luo's mother has been sick since birth, and her chest is like a fire burning all year round. One day there was a fortune teller in the village, Lei Luo's mother didn't believe in fortune telling, but the chest problem was really uncomfortable, so she rushed to the doctor, and the dead horse became a live horse doctor, and went to calculate a hexagram, and the gentleman said: When the Lei family comes to propose marriage and marries the Lei family, the pain can be completely eliminated.

The fortune teller is naturally Yu Lao.

"After marrying your mother, she became pregnant with you very quickly, and it is strange to say that since she was pregnant with you, your mother's strange problems have really disappeared cleanly. On the night I gave birth to you, your mother was in pain in bed for two hours, but she couldn't give birth. I thought it was going to be a difficult birth...... But at this moment, thunder began to thunder again in the sky, and the thunder rang out one after another. It was denser than ever, and then there was lightning, thunder, and rain. In the loudest thunder, you were born. From the time you were born until now, Leihuang Village has not suffered a single lightning strike......"

Hearing this, Lei Luo always felt that he was listening to a legend, where was Lei Luo born, which is clearly a sign that some demons and monsters have become spirits. He couldn't help but interrupt: "Dad, you mean that I was brought by Lei, and I am the noble person in the mouth of the fortune teller?

Dad didn't answer Lei Luo, and continued: "Since then, you have become the great savior of this village, and everyone loves you very much. Yu Lao said, among the people in the village, you are the only one who can get out of this village......"

Thunderfall knew that everything his father said was true, but it always sounded like he was listening to a story.

Lei Luo looked at his father's eyes, and suddenly felt familiar but unfamiliar, all this that his father said could never be guessed with common sense.

"You have made up for the troubles caused by your father and me. Father continued, "Since then, Yu Lao has become a living immortal in Leihuang Village. The village chief once asked Yu Lao if he would leave the village, and Yu Lao said that he had leaked the secret of heaven, and sooner or later he would encounter a thunderstorm, and when the thunderstorm came, it was the time when Yu Lao left-I didn't expect this thunderstorm to come so quickly. ”

The thunder in the clear sky, the thunder flowers on the cliffs, and the purple electricity are all still vivid, and I can't let the thunder fall not believe everything my father said, the question is, why is all this? What kind of force is manipulating all this?

At least, Lei Luo understands why his name is Lei Luo, and why the people in the village love him very much, and often look at him with a strange eye.

Lei Luo understands that many things are just the beginning now, and what Yu Lao said before leaving, Lei Luo still remembers it vividly: "Thunder is a disaster, and Lei Yuan is the first to solve." The universe is wild, and the mountain rain is coming. The original sin was punished, and the fog was lifted. There is also the passage that he said to Lei Luo: "Mortals are guilty, and sin is not unto death, mortals are evil, and evil should not be punished." Careful education, leading the good like a stream, is the right way!" "How many mysteries are hidden in this? How many secrets are hidden? The caves on the cliffs, the giant swords and longbows on the murals, and the keys that Yu Lao gave himself -- is it a blessing or a curse that awaits him in front of him?"

It's a pity that Yu Lao left in a hurry, otherwise he would have been able to answer the mystery of this.

Thinking of the key, Lei Luo subconsciously touched his pocket, and the cold sweat suddenly came down, the key was gone.

"Are you looking for the key that Yu Lao gave you?" the father stood up, patted the smoke and dust on his body, and said, "I'm afraid that the key will be lost, so I'll keep it for you, let's go, go back and give it to you." ”

The huge red cover mountain, the lonely path, Lei Luo looked back at Yu Lao's tombstone step by step, Yu Lao, you know under the old spring, can you solve these many puzzles for me?

On the way home, I met a lot of people in the village, and everyone saw Lei Luo, as enthusiastic as ever, with bright smiles on their faces. It's just that from between their eyebrows, Lei Luo can still see a sadness, and that sadness is naturally because of Yu Lao.

When I got home, my mother's meal was early. Lei Luo was afraid that he had been in a coma for several days, and his stomach was already hungry, so he devoured it, and asked his mother vaguely while eating: "Mom, ...... today?" Today, how...... So much meat?"

Lei Luo's mother smiled and said, "Old Yu is kind to our whole family, and the funeral should naturally be done by our family, and your father will kill a pig in the pen......"

The mother touched Lei Luo's head and continued: "You can rest assured to eat, my mother left you a big lump of lean meat, and after you finish eating, send the lean meat to Wan'er to ......."

When Lei Luo heard this, he grinned stupidly.

Boss Lei took out the key of Yu Lao, solemnly handed it to Lei Luo, and instructed: "This is left to you by Yu Lao, don't drop it." Lei Luo naturally knew what was going on, so he found a strong rope, put the key on, and hung it around his neck.