When Lao Li Tou said this, he took out his cigarette pouch and swallowed the clouds, although he described it in detail, but he could also feel the surprise and horror of that experience.

I asked him why he was carrying a wooden box, and why there was a gilded chicken in it, but he didn't continue to chatter, just squinted at me and snorted twice.

This old Li Tou looks like a feng shui on the surface, but he didn't expect to do illegal things behind his back, if doing feng shui is superstition, then tomb robbery is a real crime.

I swallowed at the thought of this, if the organization knew that I was involved with such a person, the political component would be even more impure.

"After so long, you haven't asked, what happened?" I asked, leaning over and suppressing my voice.

He lowered his mouth and said thoughtfully: "How can you not worry, this is a major matter of human life, our third brother is to blame for this fate, but if he harms other innocent people, he will lack the virtue of the eighth generation, but it is strange here, if something really happened, why haven't there been any movements for so many years, I estimate that it was the big head who finally filled in the soil and didn't let the murderous corpse run out." ”

Lao Li Tou showed remorse, and said vigorously that if he had been bolder at that time, he might have cured the murderous corpse, or maybe he would not necessarily cheat the corpse if he followed him into the cave, in short, he thought that all this could have been avoided, and he would not have hid in this small village for ten years.

I asked him if he had thought about leaving after such a long time, and he didn't answer directly, only that he was destined to be buried in this mountain, and human life could not escape the destiny of heaven after all.

"Uncle, tell me about other things about the inverted bucket, what is it like in the tomb?" Seeing that the topic was a little heavy, I interrupted, after all, I was also curious about how he learned his feng shui skills from such a thin old man, who had done such a partial lower nine doors when he was young.

"What? You kid want to make a living in this area too? He asked.

I waved my hand again and again, saying that I would never touch this thing in my life, but I had never heard of this thing, so I was just curious.

Seeing my far-fetched explanation, Lao Li Tou smiled and said: "Our feng shui line has rules, so that one does not look at the other and does not say, one does not look at the fate of the dying person, and the other does not say that it is not to talk to the layman about internal affairs, do you have a fortune teller in your ancestors?" Are there any earth rats in the family who visit the grave? The ones you told you have broken the rules. Unless ......"

"Unless what?" I tilted my head and asked.

Lao Li didn't answer immediately, but asked me to tell him the date of birth, so he pinched his fingers and calculated it carefully, and after a while, he said: "Unless you are my apprentice, learn my skills, and send me to the end." He looked at me, and he was serious about it.

I bent my body and immediately leaned back, I didn't expect him to make such a move, and the previous words were so lively, just for the last sentence.

To tell the truth, I was originally an unswerving materialist, insisting on the primacy of matter, but what happened these days did have an impact on my cognition, whether material consciousness and spiritual consciousness are opposite or interact with each other, I also have contradictions, simply put, whether superstition should be defeated with a rod or objective existence makes me wonder.

Lao Li Tou saw that I had nothing to say, so he first opened his mouth and said that there was no need to make a decision now, after all, we still have to be in this small village for a long time, and then come to him when we figure it out, and he also said that he had accepted two apprentices in his life, one in the capital and the other went to the Soviet, and he didn't plan to accept any more apprentices, but if I had this will, I would accept me as the last closed disciple.

I asked him why he wanted to accept me as an apprentice, I was neither strong nor martial arts foundation, he said that Feng Shui has nothing to do with physical fitness, mainly because I first looked at my face with Yin and Yin, plus pushed my birth date, and determined that my life has a canopy star, indicating that I have a fate with the Tao, and I am a good seedling for practicing Feng Shui Yin and Yang.

I still politely refused him in person, although I cut the queue here, but I still have to go back to the city in the future, and then wait for the assignment of work, and then go on a blind date with a lesbian baby, and that's it for a steady time in this life, if I do him, don't say that I have to be beaten, and the family will have to suffer together.

Lao Li Tou's house is open all around, just to see a large field, at this time I saw Qiangzi and others have been holding the sickle out of the door, originally a few brothers were a little suspicious that I was a little mysterious these days, so I hurriedly said goodbye to Lao Li Tou and went to meet the team.

It was already very bright, the village chief knocked on a small section of railroad tracks hanging on the top of the tree, dangdang made a metallic sound of gathering, Hadron and glasses squatted at the base of the wall with a worn green military hat, Fang Qing stood under the big tree with a flower scarf, and I ran along the ridge to say hello to them.

"Huazi, what have you been doing these days, why are you so mysterious? Feelings are to be separated from the ranks of the masses? "Hadron saw me pull my hat from my waist and threw it over.

I said weakly with a painful face, I don't know if my stomach is cold, I jumped all night, and ran all night in the public toilet dormitory.

When Fang Qing heard this, she took out a bowl and poured it into it, and handed it to me: "Stomach upset is not a small problem, in serious cases, you will be dehydrated and suffer from heat stroke, don't drink raw water during this time." ”

"I'm obedient, when can Comrade Fang Qing treat me like this, even if I jump for a week, I'll be sweet." Hadron looked at pantothenic acid from the sidelines, and said with a gag.

"you, our pure team of educated youths won't allow you to stir things up." As he spoke, he pushed the kettle to Qiangzi and turned his head to go to the field.

No woman except my mother had ever cared so much about me, and my face burned and my heart was filled with joy.

The rice in southern Anhui was harvested early, and it didn't take long for Huangmei to harvest the first batch of early rice, and our four educated youths and villagers lined up in the field, everyone carried a basket and a cat waist, holding the rice in one hand, and dancing with a sickle in the other hand to harvest joy in the vast field.

Harvesting rice was a tedious and repetitive task, but we were so energetic that we didn't stretch our bent waist until noon, when the rails were banged again, and we got up from the fields to finish our work.

"Damn, I'm tired, this waist is broken!" The strong son crossed his hands and twisted his body to call.

"I don't think you're full of energy, why are you scolding your mother again?" The glasses are actually too tired, and I don't forget to stink him when I sit on the stone and bow down.

"If it weren't for Fang Qing's presence, how many of our brothers would have sold so much?" Hadron replied.

"Comrades, I don't talk nonsense with you, my stomach hurts again, Qiangzi will help me talk to the village chief in the afternoon, I have to go to Lao Zhou to grab the side medicine." I asked Qiangzi to help me take a leave of absence in the afternoon, saying that I was going to go to the barefoot doctor Zhou Haisheng to prescribe some medicine to take, but in fact, I was going to Lao Li Tou's, after all, it had been discussed yesterday that I had to deal with the female ghost at noon.

"Okay, don't worry about going boldly, I'll make it clear to Fang Qing." Qiangzi patted his chest and joked seriously.

I took a shortcut along the field stalk to Lao Li Tou, but I saw that Pan Shun had arrived, and he was fiddling with Lao Li Tou.

I saw a ladder set up in front of Lao Li's door, and Pan Shun was standing on the ladder with a bronze mirror hanging upside down on the lintel in his hand, and covered the mirror with a red cloth.

"Uncle Pan, why didn't you see you when you cut rice?" I shouted at him.

"Brother, early in the morning, Master Li asked me to buy a ghost exorcist, I'm not idle." Pan Shun turned around and saw that it was me who came, so he opened his mouth and replied, almost knocking the mirror down.

I looked at the scattered things on the ground, including peach branches, roosters, kitchen knives, red strings, incense candles, a stove full of incense ashes, and a pot of iron sand.

"Boy, tie the rope to the basin, it's almost noon!" There was a voice from above the house, it was Lao Li Tou standing on the roof, he threw down a hemp rope, and asked me to tie it to the iron sand basin.

I slid the hemp rope to tie the hemp rope to the basin and tied a cross knot according to his instructions, and slowly lifted the basin and let Lao Li Tou hang it on the roof, and then he spread the basin of iron sand evenly on the top.

Don't look at Lao Li Tou's age, the movements of moving up and down are still very neat, this guy must have been a practitioner when he was young.

The noon sun shone directly on the village, the temperature was more than ten degrees higher than in the morning, and every house was cool in the house with their doors closed, and the whole village was as if there was no shadow in the night.

I asked Lao Li if the ghosts are not all afraid of the sun, can they come out at noon?

Lao Li Tou explained that the anode must be yin, noon on the surface is the time when the yang energy is the most prosperous of the day, but in fact, it is also the time when the yin energy begins, this trace of yin energy dares to invade when the yang is in full bloom, it must be the most fierce, the reason why he chose to summon spirits at this time, for a while to borrow yang against yin, and the second is to avoid attracting other lonely souls and wild ghosts.

"Wait a minute, an old woman in a blue shirt will come over and beg for water, you must not pay attention to her, she will leave in a while." Lao Li Tou told us to arrive, and then looked at the old wall clock in the house, and felt that the time had come, so he picked up the stove and sprinkled all the ashes of the incense burner on the ground.

Before I could see it, he took three more sticks of incense and lit them, recited the mantra in his mouth, bowed in the direction of the goose mountain, and placed them horizontally on the stove (later I learned that the respectful incense worship was inserted vertically on the ground, and the horizontal incense on the stove was a provocation, a kind of agitation for ghosts), and helped the red rope on Pan Shun's middle finger, and tied the other end around the incense burner.

The same method as last night, Lao Li Tou wiped the rooster's neck and dripped blood on Pan Shun's finger, and the blood flowed along the red rope to the outside of the incense burner.

This time Pan Shun did not cry in a trance, the whole person was very sober, the two of us looked at each other and then looked at Lao Li Tou, his eyes looked straight outside the door without a word, as if waiting for something.

Lao Li Tou sat on the chair, we stood beside him left and right, so more than ten minutes passed, there was no verbal communication, just stunned, I was already soaked, my brain was sweating profusely, just when I almost couldn't hold on and wanted to turn back and get a chair, the door really walked in a woman in a blue cloth shirt, full of wrinkles.

"I'm from the next village, can you give me a bowl of water to drink when it's too hot?" The woman pointed to the left with her hand and said with a smile on her face, her voice a little hoarse.

This woman looked at the kind eyebrows, dark skin under the appearance of a peasant woman, if it wasn't for Lao Li Tou to say hello before, I might have to go to pour water, this time Pan Shun and I didn't dare to pick up, but when I looked unconsciously in the direction of her finger, I found that she was pointing to Goose Mountain, and the nearby village was still a good distance away from the place she pointed to, I swallowed my saliva, and my back was cold.

Seeing that we were speechless, the woman moved a few steps forward and stepped on the ashes of the incense burner, and said, "Little comrade, just beg me for saliva, and I will die of heat." ”

Still no one replied to her, Lao Li Tou took out his cigarette pouch and smoked it sideways.

The woman suddenly hung down and stared at me with an expressionless face, and I quickly turned my head to look at the ground, not daring to look at her.

There was a stalemate for a while, and we were there, and she stood motionless and did not speak, until at last I peeked in her direction, and found that the person was gone, and the ashes of the incense burner she had stepped on did not leave any footprints.

"Uncle Li, is she gone? What should I do now? I pinched my voice and asked, Lao Li Tou stood up and put away the cigarette pouch and said, "Hurry up and lift the cloth on the mirror!" ”

After hearing this, Pan Shun hurriedly picked up the bamboo pole and lifted off the red cloth, and at this moment, a babbling woman's voice reached the cochlea.

There was no one outside the door right now, but the woman's strange voice came in, and the sound made my hair stand on end, and I immediately thought of the hell I saw last night.

Lao Li Tou picked up the four-foot-long peach wood branch on the ground and cut the ashes of the incense burner on the ground, and the black shoe prints the size of two rural women immediately appeared under the ashes, and he poured the rooster blood in the bowl on the footprints, and a strange scene happened: many black spots appeared on the ground inexplicably, and the black spots went all the way into the inner room along the door.

"Grandma's actually entered the house, and the two of you stood guard at the door, and as soon as the mirror landed, you called me." Lao Li looked into the inner room, opened his mouth to admonish, and then paced into the house with peach wood.

Pan Shun and I stared wide-eyed, and then looked at the bronze mirror above our heads, and I thought to myself that this bronze mirror was firmly hanging on the nails, and even if the wind blew it, it couldn't blow it down.

Lao Li Tou shouted and scolded loudly in the house, how ugly the language was, and while scolding, he made the sound of wooden branches beating the table and stove, like playing drunk.

The two of us didn't dare to go in, standing at the door under the scorching sun, sweating profusely for a long time, Pan Shun may have been too hot to stand it, so he took off the blindfold covering one eye, his eye was hollow, and he looked a little panicked.

"Uncle Pan, what kind of hunting do you say you are doing? The eyes were scratched off, and now they are haunted by ghosts, so don't do this job. I said to the side.

"My family has been chasing mountains for three generations, and my family has not left an acre and three points of land, how can I live if I don't go to the mountains to hunt some wild things? My family Yanni must not starve to death. Pan Shun looked at me in surprise.

I heard Yanni talk about his family before, Yanni's grandfather went up to do the pearl agate business, pearl agate has to use buckets to measure, when the wealth was rich, he went back to the village to buy a large field house, raised two long-term workers to take care of the house and field, but the grandfather was not angry and got addicted to gambling, the shop, the house and the field were lost, fortunately, the house where the long-term worker lived was too small to sell, and finally did not break and returned to the village to live, and it did not slow down for decades.

He and I were playing with him, and the bronze mirror on the lintel suddenly fell to the ground with a thud, and the mirror was broken into four pieces.

"Uncle Li, the mirror has fallen!" I hurriedly called out to Lao Li, who strode to the door to look at his glasses, and then looked up at the roof.

"Looks like it's going to the house." As soon as Lao Li finished speaking, there was a sound from the roof, like someone running in circles above.

"Did you run up?" I pointed to the roof and asked, Lao Li nodded, saying that the roof was sprinkled with iron sand, and the female ghost couldn't get out as if she was lost, so she could only spin there, and when the last sun went down, she would turn into a moth and escape.

"Escape? That's not a busy job in vain, Master Li, can't you take her in? Pan Shun touched his forehead and questioned when he heard this, obviously afraid that this female ghost would come back to seek revenge in the future.

Lao Li Tou looked at Pan Shun, saying that he was not afraid of fierce beasts on weekdays, but now he was scared like this by a female ghost, and said that he could rest assured that this female ghost had been exposed to the sun for most of the day and had turned into seven or eight points, at least in the past twenty years, she would not come out to harm people again.

Lao Li Tou continued to say that last night he carefully looked at the feng shui of the female ghost's tomb, the two old trees in front of the cave are like long snakes entrenched, the double pillar optimus is difficult to enter the sun, the forest is heavy and the fog is difficult to disperse, the yin gas condenses into a beach, the yin qi plus the fog makes the hole yin and wet, plus the female ghost hanged and died of deep resentment, it became a auspicious burial grid, the feng shui gentleman who looked at the cave was not enough, he wanted to use the auspicious land to dispel evil, but he did not expect the climate in the mountainous area of southern Anhui, the auspicious land has become a fierce place, and it is strange if there is no problem.