My name is Yu Jianhua, born under the red flag, grew up in New China, the reason why I took such a name is that my father said that there were too many people called Jianguo at that time, if I have a little difference from others, it must be related to Feng Shui.

Feng Shui is almost synonymous with superstition, but the weird experiences I have encountered may turn your perception upside down, and the origin of it all starts with a donkey's hoof.

In 1969, like most young intellectuals, I responded to the call of the state and went to the countryside to receive re-education from poor and middle peasants.

There were four of us in the queue, and Yao Guodong, who was thin and tall, was an activist who studied Mao Xuan, and the pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose that never took off was a witness.

Zhao Weiqiang, who is fat and short, is sloppy in everything he does, and I often laugh at his father for giving him the wrong name, which should be called Zhao Reluctantly.

There is also a girl named Fang Qing, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a capable short hair that looks very smart, just by imagining how beautiful she looks with two long braids.

Fang Qing said that she is from Heilongjiang, and the reason why she is so far away is that she doesn't want to stay in the north of the country with ice and snow for the rest of her life, she wants to see what the mountains of the motherland look like, and she wants to refine her heart in this vast land of the motherland.

The mountainous areas of southern Anhui are different from the north, there are rolling mountains everywhere, due to the lack of water and electricity, the dissatisfaction of the water and soil and the extreme lack of materials, I had the idea of being a deserter, and I felt that staying in this kind of place in addition to mountains or mountains for ten or eight years will make people lose their expectations for life, but fortunately, the villagers are very friendly to us young people who cut the queue, and from time to time they will hold a coarse grain bag to send us some potato brown rice, so that our unchanging life in the queue is more or less sweet.

Jilian Village is very small, there were only about 20 villagers before we came, and there were only a handful of young people, except for Yanni, the only daughter of the old Orion family, only the village chief's family had just married a daughter-in-law.

Although we are often taken care of by the villagers, but we are never willing to be a "food party", we are responsible for carrying water, chopping wood and hunting tasks, Yao Guoliang loves to read, he chose to carry the work of carrying water, so that you can take a look at Mao Xuan while picking up the flat burden, it is considered to be both production and life, Zhao Weiqiang was arranged by me to cut wood, and the purpose of I did this is because I can go into the mountains and forests with Fang Qing to hunt and increase the opportunity to be alone, I admit that my thoughts are a little impure, But such a beautiful and generous girl makes anyone feel a little ninety-nine in their hearts.

When it comes to hunting, it is actually to go into the mountains to catch some hares and pheasants, after all, those of us who have never been soldiers, and those wild boars and other large beasts in the mountains have no way to deal with it.

Although it is to hunt some small prey, but there are still fierce beasts such as bears and wolves roaming in the mountains and forests, Yanni has followed her father to hunt more than us since she was a child, and there is a flintlock pistol at home, which can play a protective role in critical times, so nine times out of ten we will call her to go with us.

On this day, as usual, Fang Qing and I went to Yanni's house to look for her, and when we walked to the door, Yanni hurriedly ran out.

"Little Nizi, why is this in such a hurry?" I stopped her and asked about the situation.

Yanni said eagerly: "The rich sister-in-law is about to give birth, and my father called me to help!" ”

Some time ago, I just heard that Wang Fugui's wife had a big belly and was about to fall, but I didn't expect that she would really give birth in the past few days, so I discussed with Fang Qing to go to the village chief's house to see the situation first.

Although the village chief's family lived at the entrance of the village, fortunately, the village was not large, so we trotted all the way with Yanni to the door of the village chief's house, where there were already seven or eight people around, and there were bursts of painful wails from time to time in the house.

I'm a gay man, so it's naturally not easy to go in, so I can only let Fang Qing go in first to help and stand at the door to listen to the news.

"I see that my stomach is too heavy, I'm afraid it's not good."

"My mother-in-law said that a few days ago, the rich daughter-in-law left a little untouched the heel, I'm afraid there is trouble!"

The group of old men squatting outside the house were talking about each other, but only one of them sat on the stone grinder and smoked a dry cigarette.

Although I haven't talked to him much on weekdays, I learned from other people that his name is Li Baocheng, who only came to live in this village ten years ago, and knows some feng shui.

"Lao Litou, you see that my daughter-in-law and children here will not have problems, right?" The village chief of Yongqiu, who was pacing back and forth on the side, couldn't wait, walked up to Li Baocheng and squatted down and asked.

Li Baocheng glanced at him, smashed his cigarette and replied: "I told you before, the locust tree in the yard has to be dug up, why does it still grow here?" ”

The village chief was a little confused, and it was obvious that he was asking his daughter-in-law, so why did he get involved with the tree again.

Li Baocheng knocked on the cigarette pouch and continued: "This leafy branch is a little yin, and some things like to hide on it, I'm afraid that it will rush to your daughter-in-law at night." ”

Hearing him say this, everyone's hearts sank, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, don't really tell him right.

After a while, there was a loud cry of a baby in the house, and Fang Qing walked out of the back room and said to everyone that he was born, he was a big fat boy!

Now everyone's hanging hearts have finally stabilized, and I am still thinking in my heart that this old Li Tou really dares to talk nonsense, and he is not afraid of offending the village chief.

Unexpectedly, just after reporting the good news, Yanni ran out again and shouted to the village chief: "Oh no! The rich sister-in-law is out of breath! ”

Yanni's hands trembled violently, and her eyes showed a bit of panic, even if she was a veteran hunter, she couldn't calm down in the face of a human life that said no.

I gently patted her arm to try to soothe her, but her originally transparent eyes conveyed a sense of powerlessness to me.

The village chief was stunned, his mind blank, not knowing how to face this sudden situation.

"And the breath, and the breath!" Wen Po hurriedly walked out with a baby wrapped in red cloth and shouted.

"Go to the doctor!"

"The town is so far away from us, I'll take an ox cart to go!"

The scene became a pot of porridge, the women were so anxious that they stomped their feet, and the men wanted to pay attention to what they said.

"Lao Litou, the people in our village treat you well, hurry up and think of a way to save you!" At this time, someone walked up to Li Baocheng and pointed at him and shouted loudly.

As soon as the words fell, the village chief, who had no owner of the six souls, knelt in front of Li Baocheng as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, begging him with a crying voice to let him find a way to save people.

Li Baocheng thought for a while, and said: "There is a way, but it's just ...... Just asking for something. Then he took a puff of his cigarette.

The village chief's eyes lit up when he heard that there was a way, and he returned to care about what he wanted, as long as he could save his daughter-in-law, even if it was the moon in the sky, he would find a way to pick it for him.

Li Baocheng said that it was not so fantastical, that is, he had to find a donkey's hoof that had not seen the light.

The unseen light is still in the womb and has not yet been born out to see the light and shadow, and the unseen donkey hooves, as the name suggests, are the unborn donkey fetal hooves in the womb of the female donkey.

Jilian Village is a poor village among poor villages, and there is a donkey used to grind beans in the village chief's house, although this is a female donkey, but there is no other male donkey breeding, and it is too late to hold Buddha's feet for this time.

When the village chief heard this, his originally strong body was paralyzed like yellow mud, although this difficulty is not as difficult as catching turtles in the moon and five oceans in nine days, but it is indeed difficult to climb to the sky.

At this time, I felt that Li Baocheng deliberately found an excuse to be perfunctory, he knew that such a thing could not be obtained at the moment, and at this time I didn't believe that a broken donkey's hooves could save lives, it was really feudal thinking that killed people, so I came up with the idea that I still had to go to the hospital, and it would take too long to find the doctor, so I simply let the rich sister-in-law get on the ox cart and pull it directly to the town.

As soon as my opinion was published, it was unanimously vetoed, because the mountain road was potholes, and the body of the rich sister-in-law was weak.

"Don't be verbose, hurry up and find the donkey's hooves, if you can find it, you can live, or you will bury me together." Li Baocheng saw that we were still having a small meeting there, and stood up and shouted.

The village chief hurriedly arranged two groups of people to move, all the way to the town to ask for a doctor, and all the way to find the donkey's hooves.

Although I don't believe Lao Li Tou's words, but I still have a bit of luck, in case he really asks him to save it, I volunteered to go to the neighboring village to find out, although the situation in the villages here is almost the same, but there is no investigation and no right to speak, everything has to think about the good.

Just as we were talking about our respective course of action, Yanni suddenly opened her mouth and said that she seemed to have such a thing at home.

Yanni's family has been hunting for a living for generations, especially in such a mountainous area, it is not uncommon for ordinary people to catch some pheasants and wild boars, even ordinary people have never heard of it, after all, every hunter has its own objects to watch the house.

The village chief said excitedly to Yanni that this is not the time to joke, your rich sister-in-law's life is all on this, but I can't fool your uncle!

Yanni thought for a moment, then nodded firmly: "Promise Mao Zhuxi!" ”

Without further ado, I followed Yanni to her house to get the donkey's hooves, and I didn't care about words along the way, just thinking about hurrying up, but when I arrived at Yanni's door, she stopped and asked me a little tremblingly: "Brother Yu, if my father knew, would he beat me up?" ”

Obviously, I also forgot the existence of such a person as Yanni's father, although Yanni's father is polite and cheerful, but no one is allowed to touch the trophies in his house.

But the current situation is urgent, and her father went into the mountains early to hunt and didn't have time to explain in person, so I could only say to her: "The current contradiction is the contradiction between saving the life of the rich sister-in-law and being beaten by your father. ”

Yanni hadn't read much but knew right from wrong, so she took me into her father's bedroom, took out an object wrapped in a red cloth from the cupboard, and carefully placed it on the table.

I slowly untied the red cloth, and inside was a round glassware, filled with a black donkey's hoof that sank to the bottom.

It was the first time in my life that I had seen such a small donkey's hooves, which did not seem to be fully developed, but the hoof hairs on them were clearly visible as the liquid rippled.

Without further ado, I wrapped the red cloth again and carried it in my arms and rushed towards the village chief's house, my heart was pounding, and I kept silently hoping that Li Baocheng really had such a ability to save people.

When the village chief saw us coming back, especially when he saw the red cloth bag in my arms, he was very excited, so I handed it to Lao Li Tou and said, "I got what you wanted, and it depends on you whether it will be successful or not!" ”

Lao Li Tou uncovered the red cloth and looked at it, revealing a smile: "If you have it, it's done!" Then he immediately walked into the house.

Later, I didn't know what happened in the house, but after about half an hour, Fang Qing jumped up and ran out and said that the rich sister-in-law woke up!

After this incident, I, a thorough materialist believer, muttered in my heart, I am afraid that there is really something inexplicable in this world?

Later, I returned to the educated youth point, and under questioning, Fang Qing told me about the scene that happened after Lao Li Tou entered the house.

When he entered the inner room of the rich sister-in-law, he took the donkey's hooves out of the bottle, and after comparing them with chopsticks, he divided the donkey's hooves into two, half of them were boiled in the stove, and half of them were boiled in the pot, and then he poured the water from the boiled donkey's hooves into the mouth of the rich sister-in-law, and the rich sister-in-law coughed violently as if she was choking on the water, and woke up violently.

Although I don't know whether the method he used was a folk Chinese medicine or a Taoist spell, the result was indeed to save people, and since then I have been impressed by him, and I have become even more curious about him as a person, especially the next thing that happened, so that I became his last closed disciple in a daze.