Chen Shi returned home, still a little confused. Grandpa called him to eat. He only took two bites before putting down the bowl and chopsticks. He returned to the room with one foot high and one foot low. He fell on his back on the bed and stared at the beams with wide eyes.
"You brat, are you still going to eat? If you don't eat, feed the dogs!"
Grandpa threw the food in front of the black pot.
The black pot smelled it, shook his head, and turned to leave.
"My own dog, I don't know if it tastes good..." Hearing this, Heiguo came back with a smile on his face, wagging his tail, sniffed, and opened his mouth to eat, but it was too difficult to swallow, so he had to turn around and leave with his tail between his legs.
"The food cooked today does taste a bit too much, almost all of it is medicinal, and none of it is edible."
Grandpa frowned slightly and reflected on himself, "Next time, be more restrained. At least the dog can eat it. The dog would rather die than eat, and Xiao Shi would definitely not eat it."
It was dinner time, and Chen Shi got up, feeling a little listless.
The ruined temple on the barren mountain was the only place he found where he could practice seriously. Now this place was shattered by a meteorite. If he only relied on starlight to practice, it would be unknown how long it would take for him to get rid of his status as a useless person.
He wanted to retake the scholar examination and then the judicial examination, get rid of his current life, and at least earn a lot of money to support his grandfather in his old age.
Grandpa is getting older and older, and he doesn’t want his grandpa to have to run around taking care of him, a little useless person, when he reaches old age.
But now, a sudden meteorite has turned his dream into a fantasy.
He was devastated.
But the days would go on, and Chen Shi soon got out of this state, because his grandfather cooked a sumptuous dinner.
This dinner did not have any weird-tasting herbs, and there was nothing wrong with it except that there was too much salt.
This was the first time in two years that Chen Shi ate food that tasted normal. After taking two bites, his eyes turned red and he almost cried.
"Is it salty?"
Grandpa stood in front of the altar table with his back to him, eyes on his shoulders staring at Chen Shi, and asked, "I can't taste it, maybe it's a little salty."
He had lost all sense of taste, and he could even eat candles with relish.
Chen Shi shook his head: "It's not salty, it's so delicious."
Grandpa smiled and said, "You can become a master only if you eat the most hardships. Double the amount of medicine at night." The ruined temple was destroyed, and a stone from the sky broke the mountain. "
"There are so many things like this in Xiniu Xinzhou, why should we care?" Grandpa said slowly while eating the candle.
"Have many such things happened?"
"Hmm. A lot."
After the meal, Chen Shi took the initiative to clean up the pots and pans without his grandfather's instructions, and he was very diligent.
After taking a medicated bath, Chen Shi practiced Sanguang Zhengqi as usual. From the next room, he heard the voice of his grandfather using the Thousand Miles Telephone Talisman to contact his father. Grandpa repeated the old tune and told his father, Chen Tang, that he was old and did not have a few days left, and wanted Chen Tang to take Chen Shi to the city.
However, there are always various excuses at the other end of the thousand-mile message.
Grandpa asked Chen Tang again whether he would be back during the Chinese New Year.
The opposite is still an excuse.
The Thousand Miles of Sound Symbol burned out, and the room became dark, with only a long sigh coming.
"Ah Tang, I really can't live much longer, I'm worried about Xiao Shi..."
Chen Shi in the yard was dejected and continued to immerse himself in cultivation, but his cultivation speed was greatly reduced, not as fast as in the ruined temple on the barren mountain.
At midnight, he returned to bed and stared at the dark beams. It took a long time before he fell asleep.
Hijikao heard the sound coming from Chen Shi's room and couldn't help but listen.
"Grandpa, don't worry about me, I can take care of myself..."
Kai Guo is a little confused. Grandpa has obviously gone out. Who is Chen Shi talking to?
It quickly stood up, quietly opened the door of Chen Shi's room, and looked inside.
"Grandpa, I am not a cripple. I will not get sick again. I will get better. I will pass the exam to be a scholar and a good candidate."
床上，陈实睡的不太踏实，说着梦话，「我会让你过上好日子……我不喜欢爹，我又没有见过他，爷爷不要把我送人好不好，求你了……爷爷别把我送人，我会好好孝顺你……」
黑锅看了一会，陈实翻身睡过去，不再说梦话了。
Hijikao stepped forward, covered him with the kicked-off quilt, quietly went out, and closed the door with the knocker in his mouth.
Early the next morning, grandpa packed up the car and prepared to go out. Chen Shi was a little nervous and asked, "Where are you going, grandpa?"
"I went to the county town to buy medicine. I have run out of medicine at home."
Chen Shi thought for a while and said, "The reason why the meal grandpa cooked last night was delicious, was because there was no medicine at home?"
"Well. I'll be back in the afternoon, don't run around."
The old man sat in the car, holding a compass, and ordered, "If you are hungry, I will make a meal. I will give you something good to eat in the evening, brought back from the county town."
Chen Shi was looking forward to it.
The wooden cart leaves the village.
Chen Shi went out to worship his godmother and practiced for a while, but he became hungry very quickly, so he extorted a few eggs from Yuzhu's ducks, stole some sweet potatoes and a watermelon, and returned home after eating and drinking.
The godmother of Huangpo Village was sitting on a tree, with her dark eyes open, holding a red fruit in her hand, waving to him.
"While grandpa is not around, you want to poison me to death, right?"
Chen Shi sneered, returned to the room, found pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and planned to draw some talismans and sell them secretly for money.
"Kaiguo, are we good buddies?" Chen Shi put one hand behind his back and approached the big black dog with a smile.
The black pot stepped back alertly, already guessing what he wanted to do.
Chen Shi rushed forward, Tu Qiong saw him, revealed the knife hidden behind his back, and shouted: "A good brother should stab a good brother... Why don't you stab me? My blood doesn't have the fragrance of yours... How about we share the money if I draw the talisman and sell it?"
He was fighting with the black pot, and he was beating like crazy. Suddenly there was a fierce knock on the door, and then the door was pushed open, and a dusty man broke in. He was wearing burlap clothes and a pair of worn-out straw sandals. He was startled when he saw a man and a dog fighting.
"Is this the home of Master Chen Fu?"
The man hesitated and said, "Something happened in our village! There is an evil spirit and several children have been lost. Please ask Master Chen Fu to help eliminate the evil!"
Chen Shi let go of the dog, got up, and said to the man: "My grandfather went to the county town to buy medicinal materials and will not come back until this afternoon."
The man looked disappointed and cried out: "What should we do? ? If we wait until the afternoon, I'm afraid everyone will die! "
"Well... Is there any reward for removing evil spirits for you?"
Chen Shi's eyes were bright and his breathing was a little quick. He asked, "Do you have any silver?"
The man hesitated for a moment, then took out three or four finger-sized pieces of silver, about five taels or so, and murmured: "We in Huangyang Village have only scraped together this..."
Chen Shi grabbed the silver, held it in his hand, and said with a smile: "My grandfather is a Chen Fu master, and I am also a Chen Fu master. I will take over your business! Just wait for me for a while, and I will pack up and follow you!"
There was only a dog barking and the child's voice coming from the house, which sounded like a conversation.
Woof!"
"Don't worry, nothing will happen. Saving one life is better than building a seven-story pagoda, not to mention the loss of several children and several lives."
"Woof..."
"You want to say that it is unreasonable to be evil during the day, right? I also think it is a bit unreasonable. However, I must earn this money. When I encounter a barren mountain and a ruined temple next time, I will not need to ask my grandfather for money, and I will have money to repair the ruined temple." The light will not be discovered by the eyes of the sky, and maybe it will not be destroyed, and I can continue to practice. "
…
After a while, Chen Shi packed up and went out carrying a bookcase. The bookcase was taller than him and was filled with things, probably weighing more than twenty kilograms. However, Chen Shi carried it on his back, but it was as if there was nothing, as if he could not feel any weight.
"Heiguo, I left a letter to grandpa, telling him where I went."
Chen Shi wrote the letter and gave it to Gouzi, saying: "When grandpa comes back, you will give him the letter. If I encounter danger, ask him to come to Huangyang Village quickly to rescue me. . ”
Hei Guo ran quickly to the middle hall with the letter in his mouth, and placed it under his grandfather’s memorial tablet. Then he ran back quickly, holding a small knife in his mouth, and motioned to Chen Shi to put the knife into the book box. If he was in danger, he might be able to save his life by using his own blood to splash the evil spirits.
Chen Shi knew that it was worried about his own safety, so he had no choice but to let it follow.
The man quickly led the way, and the two of them and the dog headed towards Huangyang Village.
Huangyang Village is located at the northern foot of Qianyang Mountain. It is not far away in a straight line, but the mountain road is rugged and difficult to navigate. Both sides of the road are barren mountains and dense forests, where wild animals often appear.
On the way, Chen Shi roughly understood the matter.
There was an abandoned house in Huangyang Village. It was originally home to a family named Tian with a family of eight. Suddenly one day, everyone in the Tian family, men, women, old and young, died suddenly. Even the domestic animals, including chickens, ducks, cats and dogs, died suddenly!
The government did not ask anything about this matter. After all, this kind of thing happened too many times in the countryside, and the government could not ask questions, so it became an unsolved case.
Later, there were rumors that the farmhouse was haunted. Over time, it became an abandoned house and no one went in.
"There was a naughty child in our village who climbed over the wall and got possessed by the evil spirit. He cried and laughed, saying, "Whoever wets the bed will be eaten, and whoever wets the bed will be eaten."
The man said, "It didn't work even if I put up peach charms, and the child's mother also gave offerings to her godmother, but it didn't work either. Something happened that night."
Chen Shi listened intently and said, "What happened?"
"There was a child in the village who wet the bed and was taken away."
The man looked strange and said, "The child's father saw a huge shadow on the wall of his house in the middle of the night. He opened his mouth, stuck out a long tongue, sucked his child away."
This is too evil.
“Yesterday, two more children disappeared, so that other families did not dare to let their children drink more water, for fear that they would be eaten if they wet the bed at night. Some families would wake up their children in the middle of the night to let them pee, but something happened. Today during the day, the children of the old Liu family The man named Fugui was peeing when he was caught by a long tongue hanging down from the sky. He also sucked it and disappeared.
"Then what?"
"Then he will be eaten."
"The godmother of your village has not intervened in this matter? Can she allow evil to enter the village?"
The man shook his head and said: "Not all godmothers protect the villagers. Some godmothers think that there are too few sacrifices and will cause mischief. Some people say that the godmother of our village killed a family of eight named Tian. It is said that that night, the godmother of our village did not drive away evil spirits, but let an evil spirit enter In the village, the eight members of the Tian family were killed. It seemed that the godmother had a grudge against the godmother because she had spoken rudely to her. After the eight members of the Tian family died, the godmother asked us in a dream to bring more incense and offerings, otherwise the godmother would end up like the one named Tian.
Chen Shi frowned, aren’t all godmothers kind?
Why do you still do evil?
They came to Huangyang Village and saw that Huangyang Village was in a dilapidated state, with old houses, mostly thatched huts. The people in the village were also wearing tattered clothes, as if they were fleeing. Both children and adults are all dishonest and weak.
There are several children in the village. Some are timid and hide behind their parents, while some are bold and clamor for water. They must have not had water for a long time.
"An evil that preys on children who wet the bed? This evil should be attracted by the urine of children. In other words, the reason why the children were taken away was not the wetting of the bed, but the urine of the children. I am still a child...wait a minute, I was cut. Did I lose my virginity before I was born? I was only nine years old at that time, so I shouldn’t have lost my virginity..."
Chen Shi just thought of this when he was suddenly hit by someone, and saw a half-year-old child about his age running past him.
The child bumped into him, stopped hurriedly, turned around and apologized to Chen Shi. He was a thin boy, very shy, with half a piece of snot hanging under his nose.
"It's okay, it's okay."
Chen Shi waved his hand magnanimously and said with a smile, "Aren't you afraid of me?"
If the child from Huangpo Village had bumped into him, he would have been kneeling on the ground, kowtowing and begging Boss Chen for his life.
The skinny boy asked curiously: "Why should I be afraid of you?"
Chen Shi thought of the children from the same village who knelt in front of him and cried for mercy, and smiled empathetically: "The children in our village are afraid of me and dare not play with me."
The skinny boy scratched his head: "Then you don't have a friend?"
“I also have a godmother. I also have a scapegoat. I also have scholars. They are all my friends.” Chen Shi said with a smile.
The thin boy also smiled: "Would you like to have one more friend?"
Chen Shi's eyes suddenly lit up. This is the first human friend he has made after waking up!
The key is to stay alive!
The village elders surrounded the man who was guiding Chen Shi. An old woman said tremblingly: "Sanwang, I asked you to invite Master Chen Fu. Where is Master Chen?"
The man Sanwang glanced at Chen Shi and whispered, "Besides, our village doesn't have much money. I'm afraid we won't be able to hire other talisman masters, so we can only hire this young one. For five taels of silver, which talisman master is willing to come?"
Everyone looked at Chen Shi and saw that Chen Shi was talking to the air. He was still talking and laughing, and couldn't help but look at each other.
Sanwang boldly asked, "Master Chen Fu, who are you talking to?"
"My new friend!"
Chen Shi smiled and said, "By the way, my name is Chen Shi, and my nickname is Xiao Shi. What is your name?"
"My surname is Liu, and my name is Fugui." said the thin boy.