Hundreds of years ago in Sichuan, there was a terrible massacre. It is said that under the massacre, Sichuan, which had more than 10 million people, was killed to only 50,000 or 60,000. Some people say that the leader of the righteous army named Zhang Xianzhong should be blamed, and some people say that it is blamed on the Qing court when they killed Zhang Xianzhong, and by the way, they slaughtered Sichuan and blamed Zhang Xianzhong for the crime.

As for what the truth is, I, as someone who has only attended an old school for a few years, can't say. But it was precisely because there were no people in Sichuan at that time that the population had to be relocated from other provinces. This is the famous "Huguang fills Sichuan". At that time, "Huguang" usually referred to the two lakes and two Guangzhou, that is, the current Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, and Guangxi. Except for the eastern Sichuan region, which suffered less disaster, most of the Sichuan people today have ancestors from the two lakes and two Guangzhous.

Speaking of which, the eastern Sichuan region happens to be the foundation of the ancient Ba country, because it is located in a multi-ethnic mixed area, many places of witchcraft, spells, after the fusion of various factions in the Huguang region, it has formed the eastern Sichuan region, the law is different. Most of these spells have a low threshold, and many cumbersome steps are omitted, and most of them have spread to the people due to the war, and they have not formed a faction very systematically.

This makes people with this kind of craftsmanship become the so-called "masters" in the eyes of the ignorant people. In fact, most of these masters' crafts are relatively simple, only a certain kind of spell, and most of them do not make a living from it, usually like ordinary farmers, just when the people are in need, they simply help out.

"Sesame oil woman" is one of them.

In the eastern Sichuan region, there are many people who use "gong" and "mother" to refer to this kind of metaphysical person, and this word is only to distinguish gender. Because most of these spells are female or male. And among the titles, there is the word "mother", which is very much. For example, Sesame Oil Po, Ask Mi Po, Guanhua Po, etc.

Although I have not personally seen the craftsmanship of the sesame oil woman, I have heard the master talk about it. They would use a wine glass with half a glass of sesame oil in it. When the sesame oil woman asks about things, she usually asks for the other party's birthday, and then holds a thin wick hemp rope in her hand, and every time she asks a key place, she ties a knot on the rope, and after asking, she soaks the rope into the sesame oil wine glass, and after it is impregnated, she tastes the sesame oil on the rope with her tongue. It is said that in this way, it is possible to produce color illusions in the mind of the sesame oil woman, and this illusion usually has a certain cause and effect and foreshadowing.

I asked Master what kind of illusion it was. The master said that he didn't know either, but he had only heard that a picture would appear in front of the hemp oil woman's own eyes. This picture may not have happened in real time, but it can always find an inevitable connection with this event. Once the outcome is expected from this fantasy, it is possible to judge the priority of the matter. Strictly speaking, the sesame oil woman, like the flower woman, belongs to the spirit medium. They themselves are a medium, and through the means of asking God to ask questions, they express some things that ordinary people cannot know in advance.

This is also the reason why, after Captain Li told me about the fantasy that the hemp oil woman saw, I expected that the child would not be far from death. Whether in religion or among ordinary people, the rope is a tool, and the main way that the rope and people are combined is to bind and bind. In the picture that the hemp oil woman saw, the rope tied the child's hands and feet and pulled it into the distance, and the child was unaware, which means that the rope was a tool to take him away.

I told Captain Li my opinion, and Captain Li also said anxiously that this was the reason why he invited me to go, because the sesame oil woman said the same thing when she explained the vision she had seen. But the hemp oil woman can only ask about things, and there is no other means to stop this from happening, so she can only tell the child's mother a result, but there is no way to prevent this result from happening.

So I have a general understanding of things, but there are many key nodes left, and I still need to see the child himself, or even go to the bamboo forest to read it, and according to the analysis, I can make a conclusion.

Since it was early to go out, by noon we were already in town. The town was still about half an hour's walk from Captain Li's sister's house, so we went to the canteen of a supply and marketing cooperative in the town at noon to have a simple meal, and then hurried to the victim's house.

Knowing that we were coming, Captain Lee's sister and husband had been waiting for us at home since the morning. Seeing that I was such a young man, the people in their family still didn't believe me. However, Captain Li repeatedly assured that this was the only one in our village who knew how to do it, and he had helped many people in the village, and the master was a famous forest chief in the city, so it was right to hand it over to him. Although I was a little fluttered by this toution, I also had a feeling that it was difficult to ride a tiger, in case I messed up this matter, it would be a loss of face for the master. The reason why he agreed to Captain Li to come was mostly to escape from Aunt Xu's house and avoid embarrassment, and now he can only bite the bullet.

After a brief understanding of the situation, it was similar to what Captain Li told me on the road. It's just that the father of the child seems to be a little unhappy with his wife's secret of going to the sesame oil woman. Judging from the tone of his voice to me, it seems that we people in the industry still look down on us. It's just that he has the respect he deserves, and he doesn't lack the same. I asked about the child's birthday, and arranged a nine-square grid in the palm of my hand.

In the end, the hexagram I got was Kan Yigong, which belongs to the water, due north. Main black. The winter solstice of the Lord, the youngest son of the Lord's family. The master's siblings.

This hexagram gives a relatively complete message, because it is only more than a week before the child has an abnormality, which is relatively speaking, not a long time. And the Qimen algorithm that I arranged in the palm of my hand is also the closer the day, the more accurate the calculation.

I sorted out the things on the hexagram, and in order to convince the child's father that I had real talent and learning, I said to them, may I ask the bamboo forest where I found the child, but it is due north? The child's parents looked at each other, then nodded and said yes, about ten miles away from here, it is no longer this village, but a neighboring village.

I nodded, and then asked, "Are there obvious bruises or signs of binding on the child's hands and feet?" The child's mother said that when she came back that day, the child had no clothes on, and she didn't know where the clothes went. But in the past few days, I have indeed seen bruises on the wrists and ankles of the child's hands that seem to have been tightened by something and the blood is not smooth. Not only that, but even the child's waist has this mark. At this point, the child's mother began to cry, and she said, "It's very similar to what the sesame oil woman in our village said, the child's hands and feet are tied with ropes."

Considering that the time in the hexagram is the winter solstice, after counting the days, it should be 10 days earlier than the day of the child's accident. So I asked, on the day of the winter solstice, did the child do anything that impressed you? The child's father said at this time that they don't remember much about such a long time. But at that time, the children were going to school every day, and they all felt the same, and there was nothing particularly worth remembering.

I shook my head in my heart, because the Qimen hexagram does not deceive. Something must have happened around that day. As for the water and the main black in the hexagram, I don't understand why for the time being, just because in the five elements, black is water, but when it appears in the hexagram at this moment, it must have its interpretation.

To put it simply, the meaning of the whole hexagram is probably that the youngest son of the family did something in the north during the winter solstice, which is related to the black water thing, and the direct connection is the hands and feet of the young son.

So I proposed, I wanted to see the child. The child's father said to me, "Then come with me, the child has just had lunch, and now he is playing in it." I asked him if the child had any other symptoms besides becoming introverted and silent and not interested in the things around him. The child's father said that it was not, the relatives at home, as well as the neighbors and classmates who came to see him, he could know and greet him, and he felt that the child just didn't know what happened that day, and he had been in a trance.

Hearing him say this, I know that he is actually a little distrustful of finding someone like me to watch the child. It's just that his brother-in-law, Captain Li, is enthusiastic about helping, and he is embarrassed to refuse directly. I don't care, I can help within my ability, as for whether others believe or not, that is not up to me.

When I went to the house, I saw the child on his stomach on a small stool drawing, and when he saw me entering, he looked up at me, but he didn't say anything, and continued to draw with his head down. The child's father said, "Son, an uncle has come to see you."

Mi'er is a kind of name for the children in Sichuan when they love the children in the family. So I walked over with a grin, trying to pretend to be the big brother next door, I said to the child, the child, what's your name? He didn't look up, and replied softly, My name is Zhang Heping. I nodded, although I knew that he couldn't see my actions, in those days, countless people's names had words like peace, nation-building, patriotism, and national day. I approached the child to see what he had drawn, and found that the picture was very abstract, and it looked like a mosquito coil, circle after circle. It's like a regular graffiti.

In order to disprove one of my previous suspicions and confirm that the soul in the child's body was his own and not something else, I took something out of my bag and handed it to him, and said to him, "Uncle has a fun toy here, do you want to play with it?"

This was a means for me to test him, because what I handed him was a brass gossip mirror.