Ding Yiguang carried his mother on his back, walked hard in the wind and rain, walked, with a strong physique and a resolute will, unconsciously walked for more than two hours, and came to a mountain with a high ridge and a steep mountain pass, which is the famous Fengmen Pass of Longmen.

After a torrential rain, the clouds cleared.

The sun rises in the east, bringing with it a magnificent rainbow.

The land was washed clean by the rain, and the air was fresh.

Ding Yiguang felt that his shoulders were getting heavier and heavier, and the water flowing from his cheeks to his mouth was salty, I don't know if it was rain or sweat. He felt more and more thirsty, and saw a Merlin by the stream in front of him, and when he walked there, he untied his clothes and put Wang Zhifen down.

Ding Yiguang went to the stream, took a few sips of water to drink, and then rested with Wang Zhifen against a big plum tree for a while.

At the moment when Ding Yiguang wiped the sweat on his face with his sleeves, his eyes inadvertently saw two northerners in gray and black clothes coming in the distance behind him.

"Oh, no! Someone is chasing! Ding Yiguang's heart twitched violently, and he turned sideways and whispered to Wang Zhifen.

Although Wang Zhifen's eyes were dizzy, following Ding Yiguang's hope, behind a vague white curtain, he could still distinguish that two northerners were chasing in the distance, and asked eagerly: "What should we do?" ”

Ding Yiguang looked around and saw that there was an old plum tree with intricate roots in the depths of the plum forest, and the trunk was as thick as two people hugging each other, so he suddenly had an idea and said, "Let's go and hide behind the old plum tree first." ”

Wang Zhifen: "Okay. ”

Ding Yiguang immediately picked up Wang Zhifen, quickly hid behind the old plum tree, and squatted down.

The one who came was indeed a debt collector from the north.

Fortunately, Ding Yiguang, who was resting on the side of the road, spotted them early and wittily hid behind the plum tree.

The two debt collectors stopped at the foot of the wind gate, and looked up to see the high and steep col in front of them, and a rugged path winded up like a long snake, with thorns and thatched grass on both sides.

The man carrying the long stick asked suspiciously, "Will Ding Yiguang hide in Merlin?" ”

The man with the big knife searched Merlin, shook his head, and said, "There is no inside." ”

Ding Yiguang's mother and son hid behind the thick old plum tree in the depths of the plum forest, and the swaying and dense branches and leaves blocked the sight of the two monks, so they did not find the figure of Ding Yiguang's mother and son.

The man with the long stick turned his head and found a small village in the distance on the right side of the col, and said, "It seems that Ding Yiguang will hide there." ”

The man with the big knife in his hand: "Okay, let's go to the village and search it." ”

The two debt collectors turned onto the path on the right and headed towards the village.

Seeing that the chasing person was gone, Ding Yiguang thought for a while, and said to Wang Zhifen: "If we go to this side of the road again, they will turn back the same way if they can't find us, so it is easy to meet us." Let's go through Merlin and go around the mountain trail on the left to go up to Tianlu Mountain. ”

Wang Zhifen followed Ding Yiguang's point, looked through Meilin, the mountain col over there was steeper, the woods were denser, and asked, "There is also a trail leading to Tianlu Mountain over there?" ”

Ding Yiguang nodded: "Well, I have walked through that mountain trail several times before to collect medicine, although the mountain is steep and very rugged, but it is several miles away, after Fengmen Pass, and then go up to Tianlu Mountain." ”

Wang Zhifen looked at the trail and said, "In this case, we have no choice but to take the mountain trail." ”

Ding Yiguang carried Wang Zhifen behind him again, walked through the dense plum forest, and climbed up along the mountain trail on the left, the uphill road was not easy to walk. Ding Yiguang felt that the mother on his back was getting heavier and heavier, but he gritted his teeth and stepped forward step by step, sweat running down his cheeks and down his face......

Without some wind and frost, how can you get the fragrance of cold plums? ! The great mother's love made him bear great difficulties and resistance, step by step, and march towards the sky.

Ding Yiguang finally passed the Fengmen Pass with his mother on his back, and a village appeared in front of him. Here, there are many large and small stones on the roadside of the field, and there is a small stream flowing by the roadside, and the dark green basil on both sides is tall and dense, with small yellow-white flowers.

Ding Yiguang stopped, looked at the village in front of him, and thought: Is it better to find a place to rest in the advanced village, or continue to move forward?

"Guang'er, what are you thinking?" Wang Zhifen saw his son standing silent, and couldn't help but ask.

Ding Yiguang turned his head and said, "Mother, I'm thinking of finding a place to rest first." ”

"Then go to the village and ask, Luodong Village is in that direction." Wang Zhifen saw that his son wanted to find a place to rest, and couldn't help but think of Liang Wenda's father Liang Risheng and his daughter who went to a distant relative's house in Luodong Village, Tianlu Mountain, to avoid debts.

Ding Yiguang said uncertainly: "Mother, what are you doing inquiring about Luodong Village?" ”

"Uncle Risheng is there." Wang Zhifen told Liang Risheng's father and daughter about going to a relative's house in Luodong Village, Tianlu Mountain two years ago.

Ding Yiguang pondered for a moment and said, "Mother, I want to ask Uncle Risheng so rashly, it's not good, it's not good to attract the attention of some people with ulterior motives." ”

"Oh, your mother really didn't expect this, Guang'er, what do you say?" A hint of worry appeared on Wang Zhifen's face.

"Mother, don't worry, there will be a road before the car reaches the mountain. Let's go up the hill first. Ding Yiguang said comfortingly.

"Then let's go up the hill first." Wang Zhifen felt that what his son said was reasonable, and nodded and said.

"Hmm." Ding Yiguang walked with his mother on his back for a while, and suddenly, he saw a figure appear at the turn of the path.

The figure drew closer, a man he hadn't seen before, fifty miles away.

The man was brightly dressed, and at a glance he knew that he was a man of wealthy family.

The man nodded towards Ding Yiguang: "Sister-in-law, little brother, hello." ”

Ding Yiguang returned a gift: "Hello uncle!" ”

Ding Yiguang put down his mother and rested on a stone beside the path, and looked at the man, with a Chinese face, kind eyebrows and eyes, gray hair and beard, and a sad face. Ding Yiguang aroused compassion and asked, "Uncle, seeing that your face is full of sorrow, have you encountered something on your mind?" ”

When the man asked, he sighed long, and then told his sorrows:

It turned out that this man's surname was Ding, his name was Tianxiao, and he was the village chief of Dingjia Village, and he was one of the richest people in the Tianlu Mountain area.

He is over half a hundred years old, and he should have been a grandson wrapped around his knees and enjoying the joy of family. But providence made people, and Tiangong played such a cruel joke on him: his twenty-year-old son Ding Jinfa is the only seedling of his family's five generations.

The year before last, on Ding Jinfa's twentieth birthday, he suddenly got a strange disease: he often had dizziness and headaches, ringing ears, irritability, rapid heartbeat when he walked a little faster, panting, and powerless. All day long, he was exhausted, groggy and wanted to sleep, and recently he coughed up phlegm and wheezing, and vomited blood.

At the age of 20, it should be the time to start to enter the great picture of life. But fate made Village Chief Ding, the only one seedling, suffer from this serious illness.

In order to treat his son's illness, Village Chief Ding looked for doctors everywhere, and he had seen hundreds of Langzhong and taken no less than a thousand prescriptions. But his precious son's illness was good and bad, and he was not cured.

In desperation, Village Chief Ding wanted to marry a daughter-in-law for his son to chong chongxi, so that his precious son could recover from his illness.

With the family situation of the village chief Ding, anyone who has an unmarried daughter within a radius of ten miles will want to climb into this family business.

But when those who wanted to climb into this family business learned the truth about the precious son of Village Chief Ding, they all retreated one by one.

Let the iron-mouthed matchmaker go all over the Tianlu Mountain, in and out of the mountains, to the girls in the boudoir to be in each family to say kiss, the drum is like a reed, wear out the skin of the mouth, the parents are shaking their heads and waving their hands, and none of them are willing to agree to this family business.

Village Chief Ding waited anxiously at home every day for news, and when the red sun sank, the iron-mouthed matchmaker stepped into the door dejectedly, and every reply broke his heart.

What's even more terrifying is that Wang Jinfa, who sleeps on the hospital bed, often has nightmares, and screams in fear from time to time in the middle of the night: "Ghost, ghost, ghost ......"

It is often said that "if one person attains the Tao, the chicken and dog ascend to heaven". It's the same thing: when one person gets sick, the whole family is not at peace.

The serious illness of his only son caused the village chief Ding to be hit and tortured again and again, causing him to sleep and eat restlessly, becoming thinner and thinner, and his health gradually deteriorated.

After Ding Yiguang knew the situation, he asked, "Village Chief Ding, who else have you invited recently?" ”

Village Chief Ding said: "I recently invited Witch Hao to my house to practice. ”

"How?" Ding Yiguang asked further.

When the village chief Ding asked, he told Ding Yiguang about the process of inviting Witch Hao to come to his house to ask God to exorcise ghosts:

In desperation, I invited a Witch Hao in her fifties from out of town at a cost of 800 yuan.

This Hao witch is famous far and wide. People who believe in her praise her Bu Ji for asking the murderer, the magic is vast, she can go to the heavens, send down the netherworld, perform witchcraft, invite the heavenly soldiers and gods, exorcise ghosts and cure evil diseases, very effective.

That day, Witch Hao came to my house before five o'clock, saying that she could not cast a spell until it was dark, and asked me to invite her to eat a full meal before she had the strength to do it.

When it got dark, under the guidance of Witch Hao, I respectfully installed incense and candles in front of the altar, prayed, and then knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times.