Chapter 1: The Nine Dragons
When I was fifteen years old, I had a dream in which I was overwhelmed by nine black dragons. When I woke up, my grandfather had been bitten to death by nine snakes, and he was still wearing my clothes when he died.
My grandfather was a fortune teller, telling fortunes and solving worries, I remember when I was a child, many people came to my house to line up to find my grandfather to tell fortunes. Those people came from all over the country, from wealthy real estate merchants to beggars and lazy people. Some people don't hesitate to wait for three or five days in order to find their grandfather to count it once.
Because he was too accurate, everyone gave him a title, called Zhou Banxian.
Because of the presence of my grandfather, the income of our town has increased at once, and there are seven or eight high-end hotels in the town, and there are countless restaurants.
However, such a person was bitten to death by a snake!
Grandpa was found by my dad in the back mountain, and when he was found, the nine wrist-thick snakes were still wrapped around his body, biting his body. My dad was instantly furious, and with a knife on his shoulder, he directly cut the nine snakes to pieces, and the snakes were all poisonous snakes, so my grandfather was already dead when he was found.
While wiping my grandfather's body and changing his life jacket, my dad took off one of my underwear clothes from my grandfather's body. I didn't ask my grandfather why he was wearing my clothes, I cried as much as I could. Later, my dad told me that my grandfather was dying for me in my clothes, and that the nine snakes were supposed to bite me, but they were replaced by my grandfather. I asked my dad why a snake came to me, and my dad said that someone wanted to harm me and want to make our Zhou family have no children and grandchildren, but he didn't tell me who that person was.
However, on the night of my grandfather's death, something strange happened, and our chickens and ducks were like crazy with the old sow that gave birth to their cubs, and they hit the wall with their heads until they died.
The next night, countless rats lined up to hit the wall outside my yard, and all of them were killed.
On the third night, weasels, hares, wild cats, foxes, and other rare animals in the mountains died outside my yard. Like the poultry and rats before it, they all killed themselves.
Seeing this strange sight, I asked my dad what was going on, and my dad told me that those animals were here to make a way for my grandfather, and that it was called the burial of all beasts and the death of all souls. Grandpa is a master of the Tao, these animals have been blessed by him, and they can die with Grandpa, and they can be reincarnated as humans in the next life.
On the night of the fourth day, no animals were killed, but an old man who looked seven or eight points like my grandfather came to my house.
He is my second grandfather, my grandfather's younger brother, he is different from my grandfather, grandpa is good at fortune-telling, and he is good at killing ghosts. He left home since he was a child, wandered the rivers and lakes, and didn't come back until today, and I also learned from my grandfather that I had a second grandfather, who I had never seen before.
After the second grandfather came back, he didn't say anything, just stood beside his grandfather's coffin meaningfully, he raised his hand and gently touched the coffin.
Then my dad took me back to the house.
This night, the second grandfather has been guarding his grandfather's coffin, and in the middle of the night, I still hear his voice. He wasn't talking to himself, he was talking to my grandfather.
Seven days after my grandfather's death, my second grandfather asked my father to arrange for my grandfather to be buried. Next to my grandfather's grave, they also dug a big pit and buried the animals that had been killed.
Later, the second grandfather told me that burying those animals was grandpa's intention! Grandpa said that those animals didn't do anything wrong, they just wanted to be reincarnated as humans, and it was also a great merit for Grandpa to be able to fulfill them after death.
On the night of my grandfather's burial, my second grandfather said that he wanted to take me away, and he said that it was my grandfather's arrangement. Although my father was reluctant to let me go, he did not object.
My mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to me, and it was my grandfather and my father who brought me up, and now that my grandfather is dead, I am also leaving, and my father is left alone in the family. That night, my dad drank a lot, talked a lot, and shed a lot of tears.
The next morning, I left home with my second grandfather and came to a place called Yunzhou City.
Here, the second grandfather did not kill ghosts every day as I imagined, but ran a shroud shop and lived a normal life. During the day, I helped in the shop, and at night, my second grandfather taught me fortune telling, feng shui, physiognomy, and drawing talismans.
Grandpa didn't teach me before, he just let me read! I can understand it, but I've never practiced it.
I asked the second grandfather who killed the grandfather, but the second grandfather didn't tell me, he just said that I would find out sooner or later.
The second grandfather said that my talent was the highest in the Zhou family in hundreds of years, and in just three years, I learned the Zhou family's fortune telling, feng shui, physiognomy, and drawing talismans.
On my eighteenth birthday, my second grandfather had my last meal with me!
After drinking some wine, the second grandfather said to me: "Zhou Geng, now that you are eighteen years old, there are some things I should tell you!" ”
I poured wine for my second grandfather!
"My Zhou family was one of the four major families of the Xuanmen Sect hundreds of years ago, and at that time, our Zhou family produced a peerless genius. That peerless genius could have made the Zhou family the Xuanmen Supreme. However, the other three major families of Xuanmen, Qi, Yin, and Zhang, in order to preserve their status, united to exterminate the people of our Zhou family! In order to keep their bloodline, the ancestors of the Zhou family went to the people and lived incognito. ”
"Eighteen years ago, as soon as you were born, your grandfather calculated that you were another peerless genius of my Zhou family! In order not to let you be discovered, your grandfather lived in seclusion in the mountains, hiding in the land of hidden dragons, who knew that they still found you after fifteen years of hiding. So they used the Nine Street Entanglement Array to kill you! And your grandfather, in order to save you, can only die for you. ”
Speaking of which, the second grandfather picked up the glass of wine and drank it all.
"Child, my Zhou family has no quarrel with the world, but they are aggressive! Now, you have learned all the skills of me and your grandfather, and today, I will hand over the secret skills of the Zhou family to you, hoping that you can bring the Zhou family back to the top! ”
As he spoke, the second grandfather took out an old linen book and handed it to me.
I stretched out my hand and took the book, and was about to open it, but was stopped by the second grandfather: "You can't open this book yet, this book is the life of my Zhou family!" ”
"Remember, you can only open the book and read the content after you have done three things, you have no practical experience now, and reading it is not good for you.
In addition, you will have to meet a woman surnamed Guo before you can start using the skills I taught you.
Finally, don't do anything for someone with the surname Feng. ”
"Second grandfather's shroud shop, you will take care of it yourself in the future!"
Dropping this sentence, the second grandfather picked up a glass of wine and left, and he didn't come back after leaving......