Chapter 1: Ghost Baby
When the first morning light broke through the clouds and was auspicious, Ji Lao Stick sat on the bluestone slab in front of the door with a bag of dry tobacco, sometimes showing a sincere smile on his face, and sometimes frowning and sullenly exhaling a puff of smoke......
The son is finally born!
Ji Lao Stick was naturally very excited, but he didn't expect that the time when the little rabbit cub was born was really a headache, July 15!
The so-called July 15th is naturally calculated according to the lunar calendar, which is what the folk call Halloween!
The time of the son's birth happened to be the hour of the 15th day of the seventh month, that is, the heaviest moment of the day, although Ji Lao Stick had no prejudice against his son, but this small mountain village was precisely taboo about this! If the old men and old ladies in the mountain village knew about it, it was inevitable that the newborn son would be burned to ward off evil spirits......
Ji Lao Stick took a few more puffs of dry tobacco fiercely, and his brows condensed into a big pimple.
With a bang, Ji Lao Stick gently closed the wooden door of the house, this door is really fucking rotten, Ji Lao Stick cursed a few words in his heart.......
Ji Lao Stick came to his wife's side, and his eyes stared at his wife affectionately. After a night of tossing, the wife finally fell asleep, the little guy next to her closed his eyes and did not cry or make trouble, if the son was not born on July 15, how good it would be!
Ji Lao Stick sighed lightly in his heart, and then held the baby who was still sleeping in his arms, glanced at his wife, Ji Lao Stick closed his eyes that were about to shed tears, and strode out of the wooden door.
The boy didn't flick his tears, but he didn't get to the sad place! Ji Lao Stick had no way, he knew that in a few hours, at noon the old things in the village who thought they had read moral articles for a few years would come to his house and burn the child alive!
But now, they don't dare, they are afraid of this newborn child! The old people in the village of the child on July 15 call it a ghost baby, and in the concept that their ancestors have passed down from generation to generation, the ghost baby will definitely bring disaster to this peaceful little mountain village, so this baby cannot be kept! In their eyes, this child is the embodiment of demons and monsters, otherwise how could they be born on July 15? Therefore, this group of old fellows must have come at noon when the yang energy was at its peak.......
Ji Lao Stick didn't want to break up his family, no one in the feudal family dared to break this rule, but there was nothing he could do...... But he is a man, and at the same time he is also a father, and he will use his own means to keep his son alive!
The moment Ji Lao Stick walked out of the house, a line of tears quietly slipped from the corners of Ji Lao Stick's wife's eyes, her body twitched, and her dry and pale hands clutched the sheets tightly.......
The little guy seemed to have a premonition that something was going to happen, and at this moment he closed his eyes and waved his white and tender little arms and cried, which was very miserable!
As soon as his son cried like this, Ji Lao Stick almost shed tears again, his body shook significantly and significantly, and then he took a deep breath and walked to the village.
In order for his son to survive, Ji Lao Stick can only send his son out and send him to his second uncle!
Ji Lao Stick came to the entrance of the village, and a carriage was ready.
A man saw Li Lao's staggering footsteps, and hurriedly walked forward: "Second brother, don't worry, I will definitely send the child to the second uncle!"
Ji Lao Stick glanced at the baby in his arms, and then at his own brother: "Third brother, the child will be handed over to you." Although the second uncle doesn't treat our vein very much, but we only have this single seedling in this vein, we still have to rely on the second uncle, remember, we must send the child to the second uncle's house......"
The man glanced at the little baby, leaned over, and gently caressed his nephew with his thin cheeks, his eyes were full of love......
Seeing this, Ji Laosan felt indescribably sour, "Second brother, there is no heir left after the death of the eldest brother, and now that our Lao Ji family has finally left a man, I will fight to the death to send the child to the second uncle's house!" The man paused, "It's just ...... This child will definitely be looked down upon by people under the fence in the future, but this child will be miserable......"
Hearing this, Ji Lao Stick shook his head, "It's nothing, it's better than being burned to death by the old people in the village to sacrifice to the sky." ”
Ji Laosan listened to the words of the second brother, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the little guy who was just born was going to be sent under the fence, and he had to leave his parents, which was really too bitter!
"By the way, second brother, have you named the child?"
Ji Lao Stick smiled bitterly, "That fortune teller in the village doesn't know how long it has been since he left, you and I are both cultivators, how can you come up with a name?"
Ji Laosan couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, but he was far more clever than the second brother, "Second brother, I don't think it's as good as this, the child will be called Ji Fei."
When Ji Lao Stick heard this, he laughed innocently, "You still have a way to be a second brother, although I don't know the meaning of this name, but I can pronounce it smoothly, then Ji Fei is good......"
After that, the two brothers hurriedly discussed a few words, and Ji Laosan pulled the carriage and gradually disappeared.
Ji Lao Stick looked at the vanishing carriage, his heart was sour, the son he had been looking forward to didn't expect to be born and gradually walked away.......
Under the big locust tree at the edge of the village, at some point a thin woman staggered to the side of Ji Lao's stick, lay on his shoulder and whined and cried quietly.......
"Don't cry, the child, although the child will suffer a little from the second uncle, he can survive, and he can learn some skills, and when he grows up, he will definitely be able to pick us up!"
"We all have to live!Someday the child will come to fetch us....will...will!!," the woman bowed her head and leaned on the shoulder of the old stick, looking at the path that stretched into the distance.......
But it was said that Ji Laosan was holding the baby Ji Fei and driving the dilapidated carriage and rushing forward non-stop. The sun is three poles, the scorching sun is on the head, although Ji Laosan's forehead is faintly sweaty, but for some reason, Ji Laosan always feels extremely cold on his body, as if he is in an ice cellar, indescribably weird!
Ji Laosan looked at the baby in his arms, the little pink guy was sleeping soundly, and he didn't feel a trace of cold at all. He couldn't help but be suspicious in his heart, and then thought of Ji Fei's birth days, even Ji Laosan was bold, and at this moment, he felt a chill behind him.
"Could it be that the child on the fifteenth day of July must be a ghost baby?" The more Ji Laosan thought about it, the more bottomless he became, and his heart trembled suddenly, the more he felt that the little guy in his arms seemed to be as heavy as a thousand pounds, and he was about to break his arm......
The dilapidated carriage croaked through a desolate graveyard...... The creaking sound startled a group of jackdaws, in this situation, if Ji Laosan hadn't thought that the little guy in his arms was his nephew, he would have the urge to keep him directly here!
"Xiao Jifei, don't scare your uncle... Obediently, when the third uncle of Jijiadi arrives, he will buy you candy to eat. In order to avoid inner turmoil, Ji Laosan pretended to be calm and said to the little baby in his arms.
Then Ji Laosan threw the whip, and the horse galloped wildly.
After a while, the carriage passed through the mass grave, and Ji Laosan just exhaled, but found that a Taoist priest in a black robe was squatting on the narrow road in front of him......
Ji Laosan frowned slightly, and hurriedly shouted to dismount, "What's the matter with your old way?"
The Taoist priest did not move, and the wide black robe hid his body very secretly, and Ji Laosan couldn't see the Taoist priest's face clearly.
"Hey, hey, hey..."A sinister laugh came from under the black robe, "Poor Dao has been waiting here for a long time!" said the man's cheek peeking out of the black robe.
Ji Laosan's eyes were sharp, and he inadvertently glanced at the Taoist priest, but he was shocked into a cold sweat at a glance. What a hell of a day!
Ji Laosan's body shook and almost threw Ji Fei out of his arms, and then looked at the Taoist priest in the black robe, is this still a human being? I saw that this Taoist priest's face was as pale as dry bones, without a trace of blood, and the skull was completely lined out, and at a glance, this Taoist priest looked like a moving skeleton!
Rao is Ji Laosan is bold and has seen a lot of supernatural events, and Ji Laosan also feels that his legs are slumpy and his whole body is cold at this moment.
The skeleton-like Taoist priest didn't take a second look at Ji Laosan at all, his eyes were firmly fixed on the baby in Ji Laosan's arms, revealing a greedy look. The Skeleton Daoist strode forward, intending to take the baby out of Ji Laosan's arms.
How could Ji Laosan hand over the baby in his arms to this strange Taoist priest, and immediately blocked the skeleton Taoist priest aside.
"What are you going to do?" Ji Laosan said in a fierce voice.
The Skeleton Daoist frowned, there was no expression on his pale face, he just slowly took out a finger from his sleeve, only to see that the Skeleton Daoist's palm was dry and slender, if it weren't for the fact that there was still some residual flesh and skin on it, no one would think that this was a living person's palm at all!
The skull Taoist priest's index finger was a little, and gently poked it on Ji Laosan's head, only to see Ji Laosan's eyes open, with a look of disbelief, and his lips that were already slightly blue said with difficulty: "You... What are you......"
The Skeleton Daoist didn't answer his words, because Ji Laosan was already blinded at this time, and he had obviously been dead for a long time.
The skeleton Taoist priest picked up the baby who was still sleeping from Ji Laosan's arms, and slapped his dry palm on Ji Laosan's skull, only to see puffs of white smoke suddenly coming out of the skull......
The skeleton Taoist priest seemed to have a spiritual heart, and the white smoke had not yet dissipated, only to see the Taoist priest open his shriveled lips and inhale slowly, and the white smoke seemed to have a spirit and flew into the skeleton Taoist's mouth.
The Skeleton Daoist frowned slightly, "Hmph, it's really some useless information! Ji Fei? This name is extremely ordinary......
After that, the skeleton old man didn't look at Ji Laosan again, and with a flick of his sleeve robe, a gray flame erupted from his sleeve, directly burning Ji Laosan and the carriage here into ashes!