After making up my mind, Xu Yuanzhi and I stood up and patted the soil on our buttocks, ready to act separately, when we suddenly heard someone behind me shouting to me: "Changsheng, is it really you?" ”

I turned my head to look, and an old man about Xu Yuanzhi's age appeared behind me, looking me up and down, as if he wanted to see something from me.

"Who are you?" I looked at him and asked suspiciously. Everyone else is avoiding me, why did you take the initiative to come to the door? Besides, I don't know you.

"Do you know Cheng Bugui?" At this time, Xu Yuanzhi, who was standing beside me, clasped his fists at the old man and saluted.

I realized in my heart that he was also a Taoist priest.

The old man replied: "This is Xu Yuan's Dao Master, right?" Really has good eyesight, poor Dao Sun Guanghe, can be regarded as Cheng Bu's junior brother, and has been waiting for the two of them here for more than a day. If the two of them don't dislike it, they can go to the poor Taoist temple to talk about it. ”

Xu Yuanzhi and I couldn't find Cheng Blind, but now that his junior brother is here, it's just right, at the moment, I didn't be polite to him, picked up my luggage and followed him.

followed him out of Yitang Village, and walked seven or eight miles to the northeast before he saw a brand-new Taoist temple from afar.

In this temple, he was himself, and after letting us in, after boiling water and making tea, the guests and hosts sat separately, and he stared at me without hesitation.

Being stared at by him with straight eyebrows, I suddenly felt a little helpless.

In the end, it was Xu Yuanzhi who broke this embarrassing atmosphere: "Sun Daoyou, dare to ask where Cheng Bugui is now?" ”

"Very good...... It's good......" Sun Guanghe's words make people a little confused, do they mean that Cheng is blind and good, or does it mean something else?

"Fellow Daoist, what's so special about this kid? You've been looking at him from the moment we entered. Xu Yuanzhi spoke again.

I was wondering in my heart, how could this person who claimed to be Cheng's blind junior disciple suddenly appear in this Yitang Village? Where did the blind man go again? What's going on with this temple?

Sun Guanghe didn't answer Xu Yuanzhi's question, but smiled at me and said, "Does Xiaoyou have a lot of questions?" Listen to me slowly, after you left this willow beach, Cheng Bu returned and asked someone to bring me a letter to be his companion. Three years ago, Yitang Village engaged in village planning, so the dilapidated temple was demolished, and then this Taoist temple was built here, so that my senior brother and I could live and practice. ”

"What about the blind man?" Xu Yuanzhi broke the posture of the casserole to ask to the end.

"My senior brother is naturally an immortal."

"What? ...... died," Xu Yuanzhi and I were shocked, and at the same time suspicious, "When did you die?" I just received his letter the day before yesterday, can't it be so fast? Why doesn't it work? ”

A series of questions were asked.

Sun Guanghe smiled slightly and said: "Yesterday morning, where can people with five disadvantages and three deficiencies still need the complexity of the world, and it is also his wish to enter the earth as soon as possible." ”

"And where is he buried?" Xu Yuanzhi obviously didn't believe his words, and asked again.

"Senior brother, his wish was cremated...... Not yet buried. ”

What? My doubts intensified.

Xu Yuanzhi suddenly quieted down and said calmly: "That's fine." But I don't know what last words Cheng will not return? ”

"This ......," Sun Guanghe pondered and said, "Don't hide it from the two of you, senior brother, he really has a last word, which is about this little friend." ”

What can I do? Is it about something I don't know?

I looked at him intently, not knowing what he was going to say next.

Sun Guanghe sighed for a long time, and didn't seem to know how to talk about it.

After a long time, he asked, "Are you here this time just to understand what happened back then?" ”

It seems that you old boy is also a good person.

I nodded, and didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence.

"In that case, I'll start at the beginning."

After speaking, he took a sip of tea and cleared his throat again, as if intending to have a long talk.

I stared at him nervously and eagerly, listening to him tell me something unbelievable.

It happened more than twenty years ago.

On the hill behind this Yitang Village, there is an old house with blue tile gray walls and eaves.

No one can tell where the old house came from. According to the village chronicle, the old house was already there before the village chief was completed.

No one ever tried to open the door of the old house and go inside. Although the old house was very old, it was not dilapidated, but it was very evil.

First of all, countless years have passed, and no one has ever repaired it, but it still has its doors closed and towering.

Secondly, many people have found that on the night of the full moon, there are always many animals gathered outside the old house, including snakes and rats, as well as foxes and weasels......

It is not surprising that these animals appeared in the deep ravine, and it was strange that they all stood upright like human beings, and their front paws were together in the old house, and they were worshipping that room.

The old man said that those animals have spirituality, and they can cultivate and dedicate themselves to the Tao after a long time. They worship the old house, and there must be something great in that house!

So the villagers stayed away from the old house.

But one spring, the door of the old house was suddenly opened!

The door was opened by a family of four strangers, all unkempt and ragged, as if they had traveled a long way to this place.

The one that caught the eye was the young woman, who was pregnant.

They actually lived in the old house!

Speaking of this, Sun Guanghe looked at me and said, "You should have thought of it, right?" This outdoor villager is your family, and the pregnant woman is your mother. ”

I nodded and motioned for him to continue.

I noticed that when he talked about my family, he used the words "ragged and unkempt", which shows that my family was very embarrassed when they first came to Yitang Village.

Could it be that they hurried here to avoid something?

But what did they live in that wicked old house? Is it because you are a newcomer and have no place to stay, so you have to live there? Or is there some other reason?

But why didn't the cow madman tell me before?

I've lived here until I'm nine years old, which is not a short time, why haven't I heard anything about it?

I was thinking about it, Sun Guanghe said: "The west of this Yitang Village is a mountain, the east is a water, although it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, but it is notoriously poor, the villagers live in difficulty, and they are forced to go out to make a living when the farmers are idle in winter and summer, so everyone can't figure it out, why do this outsiders run here?"

So, the villagers who didn't understand went to the old house to take a look, and to their surprise, the old house was empty, and there was nothing.

But some people say that the invisible thing is the most evil thing, if this old house is not evil, can there be so many animals to worship?

The incident proved that the villagers' worries were superfluous, and after a year, nothing happened in the old house, and the foreigners of that family were also very responsible, cultivating wasteland, carrying water and chopping firewood, although they did not communicate much with outsiders, but they were also diligent.

The people in the village gradually took off their guard against them, and subconsciously regarded them as members of the village.

But in the spring of the following year, someone suddenly discovered a big strange thing!

Why was the doll in the belly of the young foreigner woman not born for a long time?

It is strange to say that when they came, the woman's belly had been bulging for about four or five months, and that another year had passed, and she showed no sign of giving birth!