There were already a lot of people gathered on the street, talking in whispers with each other, their faces full of curiosity, it is estimated that no one has ever seen such a thing as being carried out and turned around after being put into a coffin and then carried back.

Xu Yuanzhi and I followed the team to Old Man Xie's house.

"Sir, do you have to do this?"

The two brothers Xie Lianshan still didn't give up, after all, everyone hoped that their Lao Tzu would be able to settle down, and asked again.

Xu Yuanzhi nodded.

The two brothers looked at each other and sighed, "That's it, let's open the coffin." ”

After speaking, they beckoned a few people, and it took a lot of effort to pry the heavy coffin open.

The coffin was pried open, Xu Yuanzhi glanced inside, and said, "This dress is not good, you have to change it." Find the most torn clothes. ”

Xie Lianshan listened to Xu Yuanzhi's words, and probably knew what was going on, after all, he was also a person who had seen the world, his lips trembled, his eyes turned red, and he turned around and entered the house.

It took a long time to take out an old dress.

After changing into old clothes, he took off the straw mat on the kang, Xu Yuanzhi wrapped the corpse of Old Man Xie with a straw mat, tied the two ends with straw ropes, and said, "You can go." ”

"Daddy...... Daddy, son is not filial......"

Looking at the empty coffin next to it, and then at the father who was rolled up by the mat, the two brothers finally couldn't help but pounce on it, kowtowing and crying.

As soon as they cried, the close relatives and friends who came to help next to them all cried, and for a while, the crying in the yard shook the sky.

Crying and crying, but people always have to be buried, and half an hour later, the two brothers of the Xie family carried the body of the old man Xie out of the door.

I followed closely behind, and secretly said in my heart, where will Heaven bury Old Man Xie?

According to Xu Yuanzhi's intention, let the Xie brothers go around in the city, but the two brothers obviously didn't want to bury their father in the downtown area.

Although there are many people who understand feng shui, and many people know many basic theories of feng shui, there are definitely not many people who are really proficient in it.

When we came out of Xie's house, the sun was still quite high, and it turned all the way to the beginning of the lantern, and the straw rope was stretched long, but it was as strong as a cow's tendon, and there was no sign of breaking.

There are a lot of people in the city, and at this point, there are even more people, and there is a long queue of people who follow and watch the excitement along the way.

The two brothers of the Xie family were still immersed in grief at first, crying while walking, and at this time they were already tired and out of breath, and the beads of sweat crackled down their foreheads.

Xu Yuanzhi had been following quietly at first, and at this time, seeing that the sky was about to darken, he persuaded: "It seems that it is really the will of heaven, you two go down the road." ”

The Xie brothers seem to be a little unwilling.

Xu Yuanzhi also said that if they don't go down the road, even if it is dawn, the rope will not be broken.

The two had no choice but to carry the body onto the road.

Strange to say, they had just walked a few steps on the road, and at an intersection, the straw rope broke with a "bang", and the body of Old Man Xie fell to the ground at once.

When Xie Lianshan saw this scene, he immediately knelt on the ground and cried.

After crying for a while, he grabbed Xu Yuanzhi and whimpered: "Sir, how can people be buried at this crossroads, there are people coming and going here all day long, and there is a lot of traffic, if my father is buried here, how can his old man rest in peace?" Sir, can you think of another idea? ”

Xu Yuanyi pulled him up and said, "Don't cry, this is actually a good thing." ”

Meddlesome?

Everyone was stunned, is this a good thing? What's so good?

The eyes of the crowd stared at Xu Yuanzhi in unison, waiting for him to give an explanation.

"Old Man Xie fell here in the providence of heaven, from the moment he was stepped on by ten thousand people, all the sins have been cut off from him, and your descendants will no longer be implicated by cause and effect, this is the blessing of your Xie family."

Listening to him say this, I understood what Providence meant, but obviously the two brothers of the Xie family didn't understand what his father's sins were at all, and pulled Xu Yuanzhi to give them an understanding word.

Xu Yuanzhi had no choice but to tell the truth of the matter.

After listening, they were silent, and the tears in their eyes continued to roll down.

I understand their feelings very well, in their hearts, their father has always been a highly respected and meritorious hero, but it is precisely because of what they think of as great merit that today's death has no place to be buried, and it is estimated that it is unacceptable to put this matter on anyone.

After crying for a long time, the Xie brothers dug a pit and buried his father, and several people went up to step on the soil. No grave bag, no inscription, no incense, candles, paper money, people who don't know would never dream that a person was buried under this prosperous crossroads.

And so it ended.

Afterwards, Xie Lianshan fulfilled his promise and gave Xu Yuanzhi a set of storefront houses on Health Street.

It's really a send!

These are two two-storey houses facing the street, located in the old town, slightly shabby, but there are quite a lot of people nearby, which can be regarded as a downtown area.

Xu Yuanzhi didn't care at all, and he was quite well-deserved. He said that things like breaking evil spirits and looking at feng shui cannot be measured by money, and sometimes, a talisman and a mention are related to the fortune of a family for several lifetimes, which is priceless.

Having said that, Xu Yuanzhi was still invited by the two brothers to go to their homes and even units, and arranged a feng shui bureau for each of them to generate wealth and hope.

Xie Lianshan works in the district government, and everyone calls him Secretary Xie, and the official should be not small. Xie Liansheng opened his own company as the boss, and his business was also booming.

As a courtesy, Xie Lianshan dragged the relationship and arranged me into a school, and I finally started studying again.

The deeds of Xu Yuanzhi's coffin were spread by people who added oil and vinegar to it, and it was boiling for a while.

In Jinyi, Xu Yuanzhi can be said to have become famous in a fight. Many people come here and ask him to tell fortunes, read feng shui, or if someone's home is not clean, they also ask him to hunt ghosts and exorcise evil spirits.

Later, Xu Yuanzhi directly cleaned up the first floor and opened a fortune-telling parlor, and he has been very busy ever since.

In this way, we settled down in Jinyi.

I've also gradually adapted to life here, and only occasionally I think of the mountains and rivers of Willow Beach. Junior high school, high school, and ten years later, I was admitted to a university in Jinyi.

In the past ten years, I have learned a lot of knowledge such as feng shui, hexagram numerology and other knowledge with Xu Yuanzhi, and the Taoist classics left to me by the bull madman are about to be rotten.

It's just that I never knew what level my Dao skills had reached, because I never had the opportunity to use them.

This decade has also been a decade of suffering.

If Xu Yuanzhi just made money to feed the two of us, then we should be about the same if we didn't have good clothes and food, but this goods just went to four earth balls.

The four things' claim for aura was simply a bottomless pit, and it was better at first, but then a piece of spirit jade of eight thousand yuan was shattered into scum overnight, which was even more ruthless than a robber.

In order to feed them, we are destitute, often eating the last meal without the next, and from time to time we have to rely on the support of Secretary Xie.

In order to feed them, Xu Yuanzhi took orders everywhere, but with his little ability, he met a slightly more powerful ghost, and when he came back, his nose was blue and his face was swollen.

That's not all, he also borrowed money from people everywhere, borrowed natural treasures, started to borrow from fellow Taoists, and later developed to borrow from customers, and then later, it was directly rumored that the old Taoist priest surnamed Xu on Health Street was a liar, and he caught who borrowed money from whom.

This bad reputation was like a spark on the grassland in late autumn, and it soon spread throughout Jinyi, and there were fewer and fewer people looking for Xu Yuanzhi to tell fortunes, but more and more people came to collect debts.

I wanted to smash the dirt ball countless times to see what it was, but I was afraid that Xu Yuanzhi would collapse, after all, he had been raising it for so many years, so he had to give up.

In fact, he was already on the verge of collapse, and he didn't want these dirt balls, but after all, he had already worked hard for ten years, and he couldn't bear it.

If you continue to raise it, you don't know that you will see the results in the Year of the Monkey.

In the end, he had no choice but to take three of them to pay off the debts of his fellow Daoists, leaving only one for himself.

Growing up in this environment of lack of food and clothing, my desire for money is beyond ordinary people, and I have long had the consciousness of making money, and I will go out to work every winter and summer vacation.

In the summer of my freshman year, I made an appointment with a few classmates to work at a breakfast restaurant as in previous years.

I didn't think about it, but after only two days of work, I received a letter.

The letter was written by Cheng Blind Man, to the effect that he was sick and afraid that he would die soon, and he also told me to go to school well, not to worry about him, and not to go back to Willow Beach to see him.

Looking at this letter, I can't tell what it feels like.

Xu Yuanzhi and I have been in contact with Cheng Blind for all the years we have lived in Jinyi, and thanks to his support when we can't eat, otherwise I would have starved to death with Xu Yuanzhi, an unreliable Taoist priest.

Especially in the past few years, my tuition fees have been paid by Cheng Blind, and now that he is sick, what should I do?

Ten years ago, the words of the cow madman telling me not to go back still linger in my ears......

Now, I'm an adult, and I don't think about things as one-sidedly as I did when I was a kid.

When I was a child, I really thought that I had a shallow relationship with Yitang Village, but now that I think about it, that's not the case at all.

Everyone has a curious heart, and my curiosity is even more so, and over the years, in addition to the three major mysteries that I can't figure out, I have often considered another question, and that is what happened when I was born.

My grandmother and the cow madman both told me that I was cut out of my mother's womb before I was full-term, and I was calculated by someone, so who killed my mother and calculated me? What is the purpose of calculating me?

As soon as I thought of these questions, I immediately abandoned the instructions of the bull madman, and I wanted to go back.

Not only to see Cheng Blind for the last time, but also to understand what happened back then, maybe I can find a little clue, find out the murderer in detail, and avenge my mother.