Chapter Twenty-Four: Burning Armor and Asking for Directions
The shadow of the tree moved an inch, and time moved a minute.
"The cycle of cause and effect, retribution is not happy."
Cheng Blind is definitely a master, and inadvertently touched the affairs of Carpenter Fan's house, shook his head and walked back.
At this point, it's almost noon again.
"Why doesn't this cause and effect go directly to Carpenter Fan? Pity these two children. "In my mind, I have long thought that these two children of his family are dead, but the thought of a five-year-old child dying because of his father's iniquity still makes me a little unbearable.
Cheng Blind sighed as he walked: "When people have a thought, heaven and earth will know, if good and evil are not rewarded, there will be selfishness...... He harms others and children, and the retribution ultimately falls on his own children, which is cause and effect. ”
That's the reason, but I still couldn't get around, and asked, "What about the corpse?" Now there is no one alive or dead, grandpa, where do you think they will be? ”
"Changsheng, do you know why I'm blind?" Cheng Blind came to ask coldly.
I was stunned, people with physical disabilities generally hate outsiders to talk about it, but he is not shy about it, he is really a strange person.
I ...... "I was about to say how I know, but before I could say it, he interrupted me."
"I have been a blind man since I beat my mother's womb, and I heard my master say that I leaked too many heavenly secrets in my previous life, and I have been punished by God in this life."
What did he mean by that? It makes me a bit of a second monk, and I don't know what to do. Don't you want me to ask again?
After dinner, I made a pot of tea, and as soon as I poured him a cup, he ordered: "Go and brush another cup, and after brushing you will sleep, there will be something to do at night." ”
I don't drink tea, why do you want so many cups by yourself? I sneered. But the body honestly picked up another cup and went into the courtyard.
"Are the Four Seas Brothers at home?"
A trembling word came from outside the door, and then Old Man Fan, the carpenter's father, walked in on crutches.
"I'm here again, and I have to bother you, Brother Niu."
Old Man Fan's body is usually quite tough, but at the moment he looks completely out of shape, the whole person is very haggard, his eye sockets are deep, his hair and beard are all white, and his hand holding the crutch is constantly trembling.
It's only been a night, and he's become like this, and it seems that this incident in his family has really hit him hard.
"Changsheng, what about Niu Sihai?"
"He's out and won't be back until a few days." I'll be honest with you.
"That'...... Is that gentleman from yesterday still there? He asked again unwillingly.
"Old man Fan, right? House please. Without waiting for me to reply, the blind man of the house gave me an invitation.
"Mr. Cheng, I didn't know what to do yesterday, don't be angry. Hurry up and calculate which direction I should go to get the child back. It's been almost two days, and all the big guys who can find it have been found, but they don't, how can this be a good ......" Old Man Fan was a little anxious.
Cheng Blind fumbled and poured him a cup of tea, and then asked him to sit down, and then said seriously: "Lao Fan, don't blame me for not listening to what I say, and I am not in a hurry to find a child at this time, they will not be able to run away." Relax and have a cup of tea. People, you have to look away when you encounter something. ”
I really don't understand whether this blind man is unintentional or intentional, so isn't it obvious to sprinkle salt on other people's wounds?
Sure enough, when Old Man Fan heard what he said, the whole person shook twice, and he almost fell down, and finally held on to the table to stabilize his figure.
"Alas...... It's all my fault, God gave my granddaughter six chances to be reincarnated in my family, but in the end, she ...... I regret it......"
Speaking of this, Old Man Fan beat his chest and feet, and cloudy tears poured down.
Neither of us bothered him, and when he had cried enough, Cheng Blind said: "If you want to find someone, you have to go back and rest at night, and I will go over as soon as it gets dark." ”
After dinner, at about nine o'clock, Cheng Blind and I went to Carpenter Fan's house.
The door of his house was wide open and the yard was lit up, apparently waiting for us.
As soon as I entered, I saw that the manhole cover of his house was lifted, and a red rope was hanging on the edge of the well.
As an aside, his well is the kind of wide-mouth well, which is different from the machine well in the ruined temple.
In our place, there is such a saying that "the magnet hangs in the well, and the lost person returns", if someone in the family is lost, a magnet will be hung in the well with a red rope, then the lost person will come back by himself, taking the meaning of a loving mother and a son.
In fact, this is just a custom, and it is of no use at all.
It seems that this Fan carpenter's family really has no choice, and even uses such a method.
Hearing that we were coming, Mr. Fan greeted us.
Carpenter Fan and his daughter-in-law were both at home, but his daughter-in-law's eyes were red, her face was swollen, and her eyes were dull and looked to the side, as if she had lost her soul, and she didn't even seem to see us coming. Carpenter Fan squatted in the corner with his head in his hands, sighing vigorously.
It is indeed one of the saddest things in life to lose a child in old age, but I can't show any sympathy for him. During the day, those long-tongued old ladies said that in order to give birth to a son, he killed his newborn daughter and went to break the fetus to borrow his life, which made me feel that he was to blame.
"Get up, didn't you see Mr. Cheng coming? There is no courtesy at all. Old Man Fan poked him twice with a stick, and then he stood up, beckoned us to sit down, and made another pot of tea.
Cheng Blind was not polite, and after sitting down, he instructed him to prepare some incense, candles, paper money, cinnabar brushes, incense burners, and a big rooster with a double crown.
Taking advantage of the time when Carpenter Fan went to prepare things, he asked Mr. Fan for the birthdays of his two children.
Soon the things were ready, and the blind man took out the turquoise turtle shell again.
According to the hexagram book, this turtle shell is the most effective instrument of all divination objects.
Legend has it that when Dayu ruled the water, the turtle emerged in the Luoshui, carrying the Luo book, dedicated to Dayu, Dayu was able to control the water successfully, and demarcated Kyushu, set nine chapters of Dafa.
Yin and Yang believe that the back of this tortoise shell is bulging like the sky, and the abdomen is flat like the ground, implying that the sky is round and the place is round, and it is an artifact that reaches the sky.
Cheng Blind put the turtle shell on the table, lit a candle, wiped the rooster on his neck, and sprayed the turtle shell red all over his body with warm chicken blood.
Then he put the shell on the candle and roasted it.
After a while, the smell of chicken blood and burnt paste filled the room, and I choked on several sneezes.
When the blood of the chicken dried up and the color became charred, and the turtle shell began to emit black smoke, he put the turtle shell back on the table, and asked me to use a brush dipped in cinnabar to write the birthday of the two children of the Fan carpenter family on the turtle shell.
It's strange to say, as soon as my pen stopped, the turtle shell made a crisp sound with a "click", and there was a big crack, and Cheng Blind didn't care about burning his hands, touched it carefully, and said in a deep voice: "The child is in the west." ”
How is this different from what I thought?
I always thought that the two children fell into the river and drowned, and their bodies were washed away by the river, so that there would be no dead and no corpses, but how could they run to the west?
To the west is the cemetery in the village, the mountains are steep and steep, the road is narrow and difficult to walk, no one wants to go there if the immortal does not go to the grave, and the Baosheng and Xiaocui of the Fan carpenter family are only five years old, how can they run there?
Old Man Fan was also surprised, and he asked Carpenter Fan: "Have you looked for it over there?" ”
Carpenter Fan nodded: "I've searched all the places I can find, and I've been there four or five times." ”
Old Man Fan glanced at Cheng Blind and asked hesitantly, "Sir, could it be wrong?"
Cheng Blind was confident: "There will be nothing wrong with the hexagram, and you will definitely find the child if you go over there." ”
After speaking, he pointed to the incense burner on the table and said, "Let the child's mother walk over there with the incense burner, shout as she goes, call out the child's soul, and follow the soul to find the place where he is." ”
After speaking, he added: "The incense in the incense burner cannot be extinguished, and it is immediately connected after a stick is burned, which is burned to the lonely souls and wild ghosts on the road. If the child's soul can't come, the child won't be found, so remember. Find a few more people to come with. ”
After Cheng Blind finished speaking, he turned his head to the side of Carpenter Fan's daughter-in-law, as if looking at her.