At this moment, there was another strange noise in the woods, and I concluded that there must be more than one big-headed ghost.
"Senior, there is a fat fox around."
"We can't take advantage of these beasts." Before he finished speaking, the old man had already chased him out.
"Hey, senior..."
I was worried that Lao Dao'er would suffer alone, so I told Xiaoli to take good care of Xiaoyaozi and chased after me. We caught up to a forest at the head of the village and stopped.
The fat fox didn't dare to fight with the old Tao'er because of his power. But the two of us chased it hard and insisted on cutting it into pieces.
The fat fox couldn't hurt us, and couldn't get away, so it finally escaped through the soil. I didn't expect that this evil beast had the ability to use the five elements to escape. After the fat fox escaped, a dark wind filled the woods.
I tried to steady my body, but I heard strange noises all around, a big withered blue hand stretched out from the ground, and there were several evil ghosts floating in the sky with teeth and claws.
"Boy, don't panic, this is a temporary fantasy set up by the fat fox using the woods." Old Taoist reminded.
It dawned on me, so I shouted twice, bit the tip of my tongue, and spat.
"This is it!" We found the exit door and rushed out of the maze.
But we didn’t know that two or three hours had actually passed in the few minutes we were in the confusion. After thinking about it, we were secretly stunned. The highest state of using innate Bagua is to use the objects that can be touched around us to cast spells and form formations at any time.
, even an inconspicuous piece of gravel can form a formation if it is positioned correctly, but it must be within the five elements.
Back then, Zhuge Liang was sitting firmly in his tent and trapped Lu Xun's large army of soldiers and horses with only a few rocks and a few rotten trees, which shows his mystery.
"This place is truly a crouching tiger, hidden dragon. Even evil beasts like a fat fox can use the woods to escape from the earth. It seems that this villain of the Blood Worship Cult is not an ordinary person." The old Taoist suddenly gained the same ambition as others.
"Know yourself, know your enemy and you will be victorious in every battle. Only by facing your opponent squarely can you defeat your enemy." When I said this, I started to look anxious again.
When I walked out of the woods, I smelled a fishy stench. I immediately thought it was the smell of the fat fox. When I thought about how I almost got eaten alive by it, I will never forget it in my life.
The old Taoist slapped his forehead, shouted "No," and hurriedly ran towards the village.
I originally thought that when we were tricked by the tiger and left the mountain, the fat fox turned to attack Xiaoyaozi and the others. But when we arrived in the village, we found that Xiaoyaozi and Xiaoli were safe and sound, and finally my heart fell to the ground.
"What's wrong with you two?" Xiaoyaozi asked weakly.
"It's okay, just leave us alone and take care of yourself. Thank God." The old Taoist waved his hand and said, "Let me tell you, you owe me your life this time. You don't have ten bottles of good wine."
This is unbearable."
Xiaoyaozi closed his eyes helplessly, not wanting to argue with the old Taoist.
"I think everything will be fine tonight. Let's get some sleep first and wait until daybreak to discuss the matter again."
Afterwards, the few of us fell into a deep sleep.
When he woke up, Lao Tao'er was holding a bowl of rice soup and putting spoonfuls of it into Xiaoyaozi's mouth. Xiaoli took the initiative to take it. Xiaoyaozi's energy level was much better than yesterday.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Xiaoyaozi smiled at me.
"This night and day is like living in two lifetimes. It's so good to be alive."
"Senior, you are still very weak, how about next..."
"No need." Xiaoyaozi just wanted to get up, but his whole body ached, as if small insects were pecking between the bones, and he grinned in pain.
"Stop showing off. You've been trying to show off your whole life, but you're the only one who can handle it?" the old Taoist said sarcastically.
spring
In Hua Qiushi, the four seasons alternate as usual, but a beautiful ravine turned into a ravine of death overnight. Perhaps the autumn geese flying south are carrying the souls of the village and flying to a paradise without killing.
We carried the corpses of the villagers to one place, but I didn't let Xiaoli come out for fear that she wouldn't be able to bear it.
The piled up corpses gave me a chill in my heart.
The old Taoist wiped the blood on his hands, but he was very calm. According to him, no one can care about life and death, but after seeing it too much, he will become numb.
As the black smoke disappears from the sky, dust returns to dust, dust returns to dust.
It was already afternoon after the hard work, and Xiaoyaozi was able to walk, but his body was still very weak.
"Senior, you recovered very quickly."
"You survived the catastrophe." Xiaoyaozi himself laughed happily.
"Well, you're not dead. But if you keep laughing, you'll be close to death." However, Lao Taoer never forgot to tease Xiaoyaozi, as if these two enemies had an unsolvable grievance in their lives.
Unexpectedly, the old Taoist stopped laughing as soon as he finished talking about Xiaoyaozi. He laughed too hard just now, which affected his internal organs, and he coughed twice. As expected, he was extremely happy and sad.
"When I first came down from the mountain gate, my master divined something for me, saying that I would be in danger of life and death. He also said that the secret of heaven should not be revealed. He only left me a few words. I never understood it until the fat fox bit him last night.
It was only when he hurt me that he suddenly realized that his life was over, but he never thought that I would be alive again." After Xiaoyaozi said this, he couldn't help but become happy again.
"What words can reveal life and death?" I couldn't help but ask curiously.
Xiaoyaozi sat up, frowned, and said to me: "It's late at night and the corpse is speechless. The scholar has a white face and is mourning. Erlang is trapped in the red water of Jiujue. The luan sings in the dusk sky and the sun shines three times."
The first two sentences have come true. After the zombie was brought down, Xiaoyaozi was almost killed by the fat fox, but wasn't he just here to wear mourning clothes? But there is another mystery in the last two sentences that I didn't figure out.
clear.
I listened to Xiaoyaozi's explanation in a few words and got a general idea. After listening to it, I looked shocked and said: "Isn't your old man the 'judge of life and death' for the Lord of Hell? This hexagram is so accurate, but this
What do the last two sentences mean?"
After saying that, I also frowned.
"You can pull me down. What Master said is that you have been lonely all your life. No one talked to you in the dead of night, and no one even took care of your body when you died." The old Taoist ridiculed again.
From their conversation, I learned that Xiaoyaozi and Lao Daoer were brothers in the same sect. Their master was called Taoist Hechen. He had made great achievements in Qimen predictions. Countless people asked him for divination. But...
Such a master of externalization ended up losing his wife and son. Taoist Hechen knew that he had revealed too many secrets and deserved this retribution. From then on, he closed the hexagram and only asked about the future, not the future.
"Senior, there is something I don't know whether to say or not?"
"Say it."
"Why do you brothers always like to pinch each other?"
"Pfft." The old Taoist laughed immediately after hearing this, "I don't have the same knowledge as him, so don't compare me with him. We are very different."
"Definitely, just pretend I didn't say anything."
I know that these two brothers must have some past events that have not been revealed, and they both have hidden frustrations in their hearts, but this kind of thing cannot be solved for a while, and I can't continue to ask further.
Xiaoyaozi's wounds have scabbed over, so he doesn't want to delay his walk. He wants to return to town first and then make further plans.
"Where should I find the mysterious man?"
"Actually, it's not hard to find."
"ah?"
Xiaoyaozi looked at my surprised expression and shook his head: "That's what I said, and that's how you heard it."
I let out a long sigh, feeling disappointed beyond words.
"But, I suspect he has at least two things in his hands."
"Why do you say that?" I asked in confusion after hearing this.
"The mysterious man said that once he gets the 'Pangu Heart', he can get rid of the sores on his face and live as long as the world. It sounds like crazy talk, but it is true. With a cultivation like his, as long as he gets it all
These four major things, not to mention the life span of heaven and earth, and the transformation into immortality, it is not a problem to live for another fifty or sixty years."
After hearing this, I smacked my teeth and said, "It makes sense."
"It makes sense, but it's useless. Where can we find him?" the old Taoist said to me angrily.
But Xiaoyaozi's eyes were shining brightly at this time, and he said word by word: "Please enter the urn!"
I understood for a while and was confused for a while, but I knew that Xiaoyaozi must have some way to lure out the mysterious man.
Before leaving, I took Xiaoli with me and asked her to be entrusted to Huang Meiling when I got back. Huang Meiling would definitely like it if she had such a beautiful and sensible daughter.
The four of us were sitting in a small boat, drifting along the current. But when we went back, we should have gone upstream, but I didn’t know why I had to go in the opposite direction.
A few sparse families on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were busy in the yards, and a few children followed their parents around. They really felt a little homesick. I looked at Xiaoli on the side, looking longingly at the "family photos" in the yards on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Will she still have a home?
The sky is getting darker and the surrounding air is starting to get colder.
I curled up my neck and shivered from the cold. Xiaoli found a military coat somewhere and put it on me. The coldness on my body did not fade, but my heart felt warm.
The winter in the mountains is so cold that it can make you feel chilly. Even when you are wearing a coat, your face will be full of snot, and there will be no place to wipe the swollen snot, and it will be wiped on the sleeves of the coat.
The old Taoist still held the homemade shotgun by his side, saying that this toy could control the power of life and death, and was the king of soldiers. It would make ordinary ghosts run away, and he would feel at ease holding it.
I curled my lips after hearing this: "Senior, this thing of yours is controlled. If you come to town with it, you are guaranteed to be arrested by the police and put into the cell. When you get there, you will get whatever gun you want, you local cannon."
You are not the king of soldiers."
After hearing this, the old Taoist's mouth opened wide: "You know nothing, you don't care whether what I'm holding is the King of Soldiers. Anyway, if anyone dares to charge at me with a big blade, I'm sure to beat him all over the face."
"Tch, you have to rest for ten minutes after firing this gun. By the time you finish loading the bullet, the big blade will have already chopped off your head and used it as a chamber pot." Xiaoyaozi now had the strength to chat with the old Taoist.
Listening to the two of them chatting, time passed quickly. It was already dark. I looked on the shore and saw that they had arrived at Zhao's store.
This Zhaojiadian is not a village. There used to be a "big cart shop" with the owner's surname Zhao, and everyone called it Zhaojiadian for convenience. This big cart shop was a place for traders who came and went to drive the carts, or where the owners of the carts rested along the way.
There is a big kang bed and several partitions.
Many villages in the countryside that are named after shops are also changed from the cart shop. Now, cars and buses have replaced the ox carts, and there are fewer and fewer people selling things. The cart shop
It has disappeared into the long river of history.
But this Zhao's store did not close because there were no customers. I heard that there was no human habitation for dozens of miles around this Zhao's store at that time. Those who drove back and forth had to stay here for one night, buy some corn pancakes, and then continue on their way. The business was very prosperous.
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But when I sleep here, I can hear women crying every night, but the drivers are all rough men with big muscles and round waists. How can there be any women? As soon as I go back and forth, the news spreads that Zhao's store is haunted, and there are also reports of seeing a female ghost on the river.
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Chapter completed!