Grandpa

The old lady led Shao Yun up the mountain.

Shao Yun went and asked casually, "By the way, that Mr. Peng, how is it?"

"Mr. Peng has already gone back after breakfast. I heard that something urgent happened in the company and he needs to go back to deal with it immediately." The old lady panted while wiping off the hot sweat from her forehead.

"Ah."

The two of them didn't talk anymore, they stopped and stopped along the way, passed through Shaoyun to the cemetery they saw yesterday when they were catching bamboo rats, and then turned over a hill and came to a valley.

There is a small yard in the middle of the valley, and a large vegetable field is opened in front of the yard, surrounded by fruit trees, which looks lively.

The old aunt pushed open the wooden courtyard door, "Old Immortal, I invited Shao Shaoshi here."

After a while, a trembling voice came from inside: "Okay——"

Not long after, an old Taoist nun with a cane, wearing a black Taoist robe and black cloth shoes walked out of the small bungalow. Her head was bald with folds and folds, and her back was almost bent at ninety degrees.With difficulty, she raised her head and looked at Shao Yun and the two of them: "Come in."

Shao Yun went to bow to her, then raised his feet and walked inside.

When he approached, the old Taoist girl leaned on her crutches, turned around slowly, and led the two of them to walk in.

Stepping into the main hall against the light, there are hundreds of porcelain dolls and a huge incense burner on the altar, and Shao Yun froze in his footsteps.

The old Taoist pointed to the table and bamboo mat under the altar: "Sit."

The old lady immediately took off her shoes skillfully and sat cross-legged.

Shao Yun went to follow suit, and then saw the old Taoist nun put the crutches in the corner, turned around slowly, and entered the next room. After a sound of dripping water, she came out with a saucer.

"Please—" She poured a cup of tea and handed it to Shao Yun.

Shao Yun straightened his body, took it with both hands, and lightly sipped it. The fragrance of the tea was overflowing, and the taste returned, "Good tea."

The old nun's wrinkled face suddenly burst into laughter, and she said proudly: "Of course, my tea is picked from the 400-year-old wild tea tree on the cliff at the back of the mountain. At midnight, the dew The heaviest, the quality of the picked shoots is the best, and they are fried overnight without being exposed to the sun. If you can get four and a half catties a year, it is already a good harvest."

"I see." Shao Yun laughed along with him.

The old nun shook her head: "It's a pity that people are old and their bones are broken. If it was more than ten years ago, I could go straight up and down the cliffs, but now I can't, I walk like a snail. And they help—" As she spoke, she raised her finger and pointed to the rows of porcelain puppets on the altar.

"whee--"

Hearing the old Taoist's words, there was a faint sound of children laughing in the air.

The old aunt shrank her neck involuntarily. Every time she heard such a voice from the old fairy, she felt her scalp go numb and her body got goosebumps.

"Otherwise, Pindao won't be able to drink such good tea now." The old Taoist nun sighed.

Shao Yun went and smiled: "I heard the words of the Taoist priest, but it sounds like the accent of Li Sheng. Why do you actually live in Hexia Village now?"

The old Taoist nun was in a trance for a while, and the water vapor in the teacup rose up, obscuring her vision.

She seemed to see an old friend with a glance, and there seemed to be thousands of words rushing out of her stomach.

"My hometown is in Orange City, Li Province. The Qing Dynasty was over when I was born. My grandparents were mud-legged for generations. My parents raised me until I was 15 years old. At that time, the warlords fought and the people were in dire straits. There were five brothers and sisters in my family, and one was just born. Not long ago, my younger brother, the whole family fled to Geng Province, and saw that they had been out of food for several days. I was born upright and had some good looks, so my parents sold me to a colonel and officer at that time as a concubine. 30 yuan Guangyang."

"But not long after the stable life, the officer was usurped by his subordinates and killed, and his wife and concubine and I fell into the hands of the victors. Since then, we have been reincarnated several times and lost half of our lives." Her plain narration did not seem to be talking about herself. s story.

"When Huaguo was established, I was rescued, and found my family by accident. They tried their best to persuade me to find another man, so that I could have someone to rely on for the rest of my life. I listened and found someone who was about my age. The widower Qian Xu married, I conceived a child at the age of 39, fought half my life, and finally gave birth to the child without incident, but I didn't expect the widower to see that the child was a girl, so he threw the child away. I fell to my death. I don't know where the strength came from, so I grabbed the scissors on the head of the bed and rushed up..."

"The widower didn't die. We went to prison together. He was sentenced to death. I had a 30-year term. I was lucky enough to worship a master in prison, but he died of illness after only ten years of learning Taoism. I came out of prison. It was already in the 80s, I was penniless, and I begged all the way to Hexia Village. Thanks to a bowl of sweet potato porridge from Chen’s sister who saved my life, I simply settled down in Hexia Village and lived for 30 years. .”

With these few words, most of her life has passed.

The old aunt opened her mouth, she had never heard of the old fairy's past before.

"Pindao has never been here before, so it's inevitable that you talk too much. Master Shao, don't blame me." The old Taoist blew away the fog in front of her eyes, and her blurred face became real again. She took a sip of the teacup slowly .

"It's okay, senior has been worried for half his life, but now he is kind to others and adds merit to himself. He should be a role model for my generation." Shao Yun said leisurely.

Hearing what Shao Yun said, the old nun smiled even more. If she was an ordinary old man, she would never approve of what she did.

"I'm not good at studying Taoism. The thing that can make me settle down is the fertility medicine." She stood up, pulled out a tin box from under the altar, and pushed it in front of Shao Yunqu.

Shao Yun went to open the box, and the stench came over his face. He slightly covered his mouth and nose, and saw a small black pill the size of a lychee in his eyes, and a thick layer of dark air lingered all over his body, probably made of a baby's placenta. of.

I only heard the old Taoist said quietly: "This world is always unfair to my daughter's family. I worked so hard to give birth to the child, but because of the lack of such a thing, my father threw me alive. Since then Wandering within the Three Realms, with no home to return to, and no merits and virtues of their own, their lifespan will never end, and they will not go to the next life.”

"When I went to Hexia Village that year, there were drowned babies in the village, and there were not many girls who were induced to give birth. Of course, this was a common problem in that era. There is nothing to say. It's just that I couldn't bear it. I thought of my missing daughter. So I moved my mind to save them."

Taoism believes that children must have a very deep bond with their parents in the previous life. If they did not, they would not be reincarnated in this family. They all say that there are two kinds of bonds: repaying gratitude and repaying grievances.If the children come here to repay their kindness, and their parents kill them, this is not a kindness repayment, but an enmity.The next time he comes again, it will be a complaint.If the child came to complain, and the parents killed him, the resentment would add to the resentment, and in a blink of an eye it would become a world feud, the kind that would last forever.

The baby spirit came for reincarnation, but in the end it ended up as a soul scattered in the Three Realms, helpless, and might end up being bullied by the old ghost.The resentment is over, the infant spirit's resentment will not go away, and the evil spirit will linger around its destined parents for a lifetime, and the bad luck will never disappear.

The so-called transcendence is to resolve their grievances.Taoism transcends, setting up an altar, eliminating karma and solving problems, and then leading the infant spirit into the Taoist 33-day spiritual realm, leaving suffering and gaining happiness, and reincarnated as a human after the life of the sun is exhausted.

"It's a pity that not all infant spirits are willing to be saved. They only want to be reincarnated as adults, and their resentment is hard to dispel. I have no choice but to do my best to satisfy their wishes."

"In addition, the countryside is not as feudal and backward as it used to be, and horror stories like drowning babies have almost disappeared. But in big hospitals in the city, things like abortion have become normal. Although It is inevitable that everyone has their own difficulties, but in the end they committed murder. It happened that all the infant spirits near Hexia Village were sent away by me. He helped bring the bodies of aborted babies from the hospital to me."

Shao Yun went and nodded. It's no wonder that Hexia Village has suddenly emerged among the villages in Shili Baxiang. There is an old Taoist nun who has been doing good deeds for decades.

"As for those who don't want to be saved, I buried them in the bamboo forest first to find other reincarnation opportunities for them."

Naturally, these baby spirits can't compete with other ghosts who have passed through the formal path of the underworld for the chance of reincarnation, so she puts her mind on those successful people who have a lot of money or official fortune but have lost their children and grandchildren for various reasons.

"These people have profound luck, and they are all the favored children of heaven. Since they are going against the sky to change their fate, they must pay a price. What they have lost is their own luck. It is not obvious in a short time, but after a long time, The less serious ones are stagnant, and the more serious ones have their businesses severely damaged or lose their official positions. Of course, there is room for maneuver in everything. If they do more good deeds after returning home, although they cannot make up all the lost luck, but they can protect them. It is not impossible for the whole family to be safe and sound."

The old aunt was silent, these words had never been said by the old god.She couldn't help thinking, what would happen to the group of dignitaries who had begged for fertility medicine from the old god, knowing that the old god had concealed such an important secret from them?

Thinking of this, the old aunt's heart trembled.

I only heard the old god continue to say: "It's just that I have selfish intentions."

She smiled wryly, and said quietly: "I'm afraid that those high-ranking officials and rich people won't come to me for fertility medicine after knowing this fact. Then the baby souls here really can only wander in the world, and Hexia Village has also lost one of its items." Income. So I concealed something, and only lightened the cause and effect. Or explicitly asked them to do more good deeds after the birth of their children, and donate more than [-]% of their income every year. It’s a pity that not everyone will remember In my opinion, over the years, there have been many dignitaries who have gone bankrupt or fallen because of this incident."

Shao Yun went silent and did not comment.

Just because those who went bankrupt or fell off the horse easily, if they hadn't lost their own virtue and were caught by others, how could they have fallen to this point just because of bad luck.

From another point of view, the old Taoist nun can be regarded as acting on behalf of the heavens.

Didn't you see the faint auspiciousness in the sky above Hexia Village?

Speaking of this, the old Taoist nun's face was stained with bitterness.

"Wang Shengli returned to Hexia Village 13 years ago. The woman he brought back was a hundred-year-old ghost!"

The old lady shook her hand, and the tea spilled on the table.

Shao Yun went to open his mouth, and frowned slightly, a hundred-year-old ghost?

Immediately he gave a wry smile, it turned out to be a century-old ghost, no wonder he couldn't see through the weirdness of the Wang family.

"At that time, I was at the peak of my cultivation, and with the help of many baby souls, she still had a Wang Shengli to protect. We barely fought to a draw. She also seemed to want to live peacefully with Wang Shengli, Threatening me if I reveal her identity, especially Wang Shengli, I will publicize the real situation of my fertility medicine, and teach those dignitaries who have been deceived by me to come back and take revenge on me and Hexia Village, so that Hexia Village will not be peaceful."

"I had no choice but to agree. In addition, she was really focused on living with Wang Shengli after that, and even did not hesitate to harm her cultivation in order not to let the resentment around her hurt Wang Shengli. I was completely relieved."

"It's just that I didn't expect to live in peace for so many years, but because of the abuse he suffered when he was a child, Wang Shengli suffered a lot of physical damage. In a blink of an eye, the sun was fading away, and he was about to die."

Shao Yun went to put down the teacup in his hand, and said expressionlessly: "So the three consecutive years of fires in Hexia Village were all for Wang Shengli."

"That's right, she relied on absorbing blood from ordinary people to supplement Wang Shengli's life. It's just that those people whose blood was drained by her would eventually turn into mummies. She created it in order to destroy the corpses and wipe out the traces." I am now old and frail, and my energy has declined severely. Even if her cultivation level is not as good as before, I can't do anything to her, so I can only watch her do all kinds of evil things."

Shao Yun said with a blank face: "I have heard a little bit about what happened back then. Regarding Wang Shengli, it was indeed the Wang family who adopted him and the six families surnamed Chen who killed his family of four who were sorry for him. But now , the wives and children of these people were never innocent, and the tragic death of Wang Zhuang and others...she has gone crazy."

The old Taoist said quietly: "That's why I invited the young master over."

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