The cooker told me that there are two kinds of "flowers" in the mouth of our Zhuang family, one is called safflower, and the other is called sycamore. When a woman is pregnant, she has no gender, and it is the flower woman who picks flowers from the mountains and gives them away, and gives birth to girls when she gives sycamore flowers, and gives birth to boys when she sends saffron.

She particularly emphasized that the spell of building bridges and seeking flowers is the foundation of our Liu family's public law, and in the entire territory of Gui Province, no folk Dharma inheritor dares to argue with our family. So I have to study very seriously, and I can't embarrass my ancestors.

The third book, called "Bai Ji", is a kind of story scripture that tells ancient myths and legends.

There is also a fourth book, which is "Oiling and Destroying Plague", which is mainly used to drive away evil spirits and sing with the rituals.

I opened a book casually, I know most of the words in it, and if I can't call it, I can also look it up according to the dictionary.

I have always had a good memory, and when I was in elementary school, I was very good at memorizing texts, and these scriptures only took a little more time, so it was not difficult.

Liu Ruxiang saw my confident expression and smiled contemptuously: "I will listen to you when you read two sentences." ”

Seeing her like this, I feel angry, how can I say that I also graduated from primary school, bullying me for not being illiterate?

I immediately turned the first page, swore with my mouth open, and read it directly.

But before she finished reading the first line, Liu Ruxiang covered her mouth and couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at, I mispronounced it, isn't that how it is pronounced?" I scratched my head and asked her.

Liu Ruxiang snatched the book and read it again, but the voice was completely wrong! It's completely different from what I read out.

"Oh, no, you're ......"

As soon as I wanted to speak, Liu Ruxiang waved her hand to interrupt me.

"Since ancient times, we Zhuang family members have only language and no writing, you know? In the past, the Shigong scriptures used square words and local characters, which were not systematic, and one master read the law, and many inheritances were ruined in this way. And when you go to school, you teach Chinese characters and new forms in class, so it's normal to not understand this. ”

"It's good now, it's all from Chinese characters to find a similar pronunciation of the substitute, only a small number of people who don't have the corresponding pronunciation need to be specially learned, and the difficulty is greatly reduced."

I was stunned, and suddenly my face was embarrassed, I didn't expect there to be so many doorways here.

"Little bunny, don't get tired. I will teach you to read these Shigong scriptures a few times, and if you can't remember your own pronunciation, you can turn around and copy while reciting them. ”

Liu Ruxiang said, moving the small bench and calling me to read in the courtyard. She read it to me once, then asked me to read it three times, and then corrected the mistakes.

She has a good temper, and taught me hand-in-hand, and it took me three days in one breath before I could memorize half of "Oily Plague", and I was a little sorry for her working so hard.

I originally expected that these scriptures would be similar to those in the textbook, but I didn't expect them to be so awkward, and I memorized two sentences and half a sentence wrong at the beginning.

But fortunately, I can read it, and even if I can't memorize other scriptures, I can recite them according to the phonetics. As long as you study hard and practice hard, you can understand it well.

Soon, I followed Liu Ruxiang and got a chance to practice spells.

That morning, an aunt in the village suddenly brought a middle-aged man to my door, and said by name that he was looking for a master named Hexiang.

At that time, the rice cooks were teaching me to recite scriptures, and when she heard someone looking for her, she immediately got up and welcomed people in, and learned about the situation from her aunt.

This man is a villager next door, called Meng Lao'er, and he came here this time to ask my master to do a ritual of building a bridge and asking for flowers.

I carefully looked at the middle-aged man in front of me, he was seven feet tall and had a majestic physique, but his face was faintly pale, and he stopped running over in a panic for a while, and his forehead was still sweating.

"What do you want me to do?" Liu Ruxiang put down the Shigong record book in his hand.

"I ...... I, my father-in-law, am my mother-in-law, and she can't give birth to anyone. The middle-aged man looked at us and dodged several times in a row.

Liu Ruxiang chuckled: "I think, I'm afraid it's not your mother-in-law's problem." ”

"You, your face is pale, you sweat incessantly, your qi is weak, and your kidneys are weak. This is a sign of overindulgence. ”

As soon as Liu Ruxiang's words fell, Meng Laoer's face showed embarrassment: "Actually...... Not what you think, but literally, my mother-in-law...... It seems that the things that are born are not people. ”

Liu Ruxiang thought calmly, turned her head and glanced at me, and let me go into the house.

I said yes, but I was still curious what they were talking about, so I went into the room and leaned against the wall, pricking up my ears to eavesdrop on what they were saying.

"This thing has to start with my wife's pregnancy, when she was just pregnant, she was different from others, she especially likes to eat fruit, almost as a meal."

"At first, I didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but later, my belly gradually got bigger, and the guy in there was not honest and moved a lot. My wife couldn't sleep at night, she was rolling in pain, and she said that the thing inside was like grabbing her with her hands. ”

"Also, we rural people say what sour and spicy girls say, but my family doesn't like it, she has to eat raw flesh and blood when she is four or five months pregnant!"

"Every time I go to the market, I bring her pig's blood, and I don't cook it, so I put a piece of it in my mouth and stuff it into my mouth. One day I forgot to buy it, and there was no meat left at home, and then you know, when I went to bed that night, I was woken up in pain, and I saw that she bit me on my thigh, and the skin was bleeding......"

I hid behind the door, and all of a sudden my head was frightened. What the hell is this, why does this woman like to eat raw flesh and blood during pregnancy, what kind of demon is in her belly?

Meng Lao Er showed a strange look on his face, patted his left thigh, and said that the bite was here, and the wound only grew in half a month.

Then he continued: "Later, when I was about to give birth, there was no movement, I never saw red, and my amniotic fluid did not break. Until one night the moon rose very high, bright and round, and we had just laid down that night, and my mother-in-law suddenly said that she was going to give birth with a stomachache. ”

"The result...... As a result...... "Meng Lao Er was hesitant, and his eyes were a little evasive."

"Don't worry, what's the result." Liu Ruxiang urged him not to rub in.

"Several men in our village used a door panel as a stretcher to carry her to the town to deliver the baby, but the amniotic water broke halfway through, and several older men had no choice but to deliver the baby on the spot."

Speaking of this, Meng Lao Er paused, his face full of horror: "I saw with my own eyes that a monster was born in my mother-in-law's belly!" ”

"First came a hairy head, and the face of that thing was all sagging dark brown skin, dry and hideous, stained with red slime, and when the eyes opened, they actually emitted a faint green light, like a cat's eyes."