Grandpa finally said something: I indirectly killed the cat, which caused the cat to be resentful of me. If a cat eats fish and shrimp, these things will also produce resentment. Over time, it turned into a catastrophe.
It can be said that when injustice is repaid, the old saying: Kill less and do more good deeds to accumulate virtue still makes sense.
When I woke up completely, it was already dawn, and it was like I had a nightmare. I only remembered some simple plot, that is, I felt very hungry and yelled for something to eat.
Grandpa called Aunt Du and her son over, stewed the bled rooster, and asked my mother to cook some dishes, and the two families gathered together for a meal.
Everyone was worried that some things would have a bad impact if spread, so they agreed to keep it in their stomachs and it was best not to mention it again in this life.
After I fully recovered a few days later, a strange incident came from the county hospital. Lao Zhaotou, a critically ill patient, suddenly disappeared and his whereabouts are unknown.
There was a stiff black dead cat lying on his bed. After the hospital reported it, they investigated it for a long time, and it is still a mystery.
The two families who knew the truth pretended that nothing had happened and continued to do what they had to do as usual.
After my grandfather took care of my health, he went on a long trip. When he came back, he told my parents that he asked an expert to give me a horoscope, saying that I was born in the earth, and that I was born in the golden year of wood, moon, water, sun, and fire, so I was born with all five elements. .
This is destined to be different from ordinary people in my life. I am rich and powerful, and I can dance on the tip of a knife. The name Zhou Bin is not enough to protect me from disasters. The master gave me a new name called Zhou Quan, my nickname is Xiaodao.
After I changed my name, my health got better and better day by day, and I became more and more clever. The only drawback was that I became more courageous and curious about everything.
After I entered elementary school, I became more likely to get into trouble. My grandfather saw that I had a little too much energy, so he started formally teaching me medical skills when I was in the first grade of elementary school.
Firstly, my grandfather felt that he was old and was anxious to find an heir for the ancestral medical skills. Secondly, it was a blessing in disguise for me. Although I was tortured by the black cat, under the influence of herbal medicine and acupuncture, the turbidity in the body was eliminated through the dates. The energy indirectly changed my bones.
This is a rare talent. As long as you lay a good foundation at a young age, you may surpass your grandfather's achievements in the future.
Because my grandfather is not talented enough, he cannot perform many of the secret skills passed down from his ancestors. Now he puts all his hopes on me. When I have time, he asks me to memorize prescriptions, read the Huangdi Neijing, Qianjin Prescription... The courses are fully booked.
In fact, what my grandfather taught were things that were considered feudal superstitions at the time. Medical skills were only part of it, and more were the Five Elements and Bagua, I Ching, Feng Shui, and even meditation and Qi training.
My mother was so frightened that she was always on tenterhooks. She kept telling me by ear every day not to leak anything. The movement to break the four-year ranking was getting more and more intense at that time. If word got out, the whole family would be in trouble.
The more she behaved like this, the more I became interested in these things. Plus, I was really talented. I practiced hard from dawn to dusk for nine years. Except that the heat was not enough, I basically mastered the theory, but there were not many opportunities to practice.
There is a strange rule from my ancestors that people under the age of eighteen are not allowed to enter the industry. People with real illnesses such as headaches and fever can still practice their skills, but evil illnesses must not be touched.
Grandpa’s classification is between real diseases and evil diseases. Most of the patients have real diseases, which are very easy to treat. They set out with herbal medicine and silver needles and come back soon.
If someone is hesitant when he comes and secretly goes into the back room with grandpa to talk secretly, this is called evil disease, such as losing one's soul, looking for someone, being possessed by a ghost... the name sounds unusual.
Grandpa attaches great importance to evil diseases. Every time he goes to the doctor, he brings an ancestral rattan box. When he comes back, he has to bathe, change clothes, burn incense and kowtow. The advantage is that you get a lot of money, at least a few dozen yuan.
The whole family knows that as soon as the rattan box leaves home, it means money is coming in.
The rattan box is usually placed neatly in front of the portrait of the ancestor in the back room, and no one can touch it except grandpa and me.
It was only when I was fifteen that I was allowed to touch the things inside. There were five ancient purple coins, yellow mounting paper, red paint, and a small short knife in the box.
According to my grandfather, these things can ward off evil spirits and are used to cure evil diseases. I can't use them now until I have enough energy and blood.
After that, I had a new mission and received a comprehensive set of martial arts training.
I don’t understand the relationship between martial arts and medical treatment, but I really feel the benefits.
One year later, my physical fitness is far superior to that of my peers. My eyesight and hearing are very sensitive, I can jump high and far, and my mental reactions are also very fast.
Even though we are not fighting, we still have a lot of younger brothers gathered. During the holidays, I took them to catch scorpions, toads, and poke hornets' nests all day long... There was nothing I didn't dare to do.
Before graduating from junior high school, we traveled through countless kilometers of barren mountains, rivers and deep ravines.
Children in rural areas are all raised free-range, and we are not too young at this age. Adults don't care about them deeply. There are only three places where we are not allowed to go.
Yelanggou, Green Water River, and Laocaiyuan, these are three forbidden areas, and there are extremely evil things in them.
There are white-faced wolves in Yelanggou, drowned ghosts in Green Water River, and demons in Laocaiyuan. These are the three major shadows in our childhood memories.
However, as I grow older, my fear of these three places has naturally diminished a lot.
Especially in school, they received fearless education about destroying the four olds and defeating all ghosts and monsters. They would definitely no longer believe in these rumors about ghosts and monsters, and would even feel angry about their cowardice as a child.
I have long had doubts about my grandfather's theory. What he taught was completely contrary to the education I received in school. Aren't these all the dregs of feudal superstition?
Because when I was in the second grade of junior high school, I went home and raised a question, and was scolded. Although I didn’t dare to mention it again, I was still unconvinced.
We are currently in the transition period from teenagers to young adults, and we always want to do something earth-shattering. Taking advantage of the gap between junior high school and high school, I found my best friend Du Jun and started planning.
Du Jun is Uncle Du's only son. We are the same age and have played together since childhood. He is also my mother's godson.
Their ancestors were in business and were once considered very wealthy. During the years of sports, they were punished. During the most difficult period, the family was extremely poor. If my mother hadn't supported him in the past, he would have been even thinner than he is now.
Although Du Jun is thin, he is not lacking in strength. He dares to attack and fight with all his strength in a fight. He is as bold as me and has the most evil ideas.
As soon as I mentioned this idea to him, Du Jun immediately came up with a solution: I don't need to take part in this matter, so let the squad leader call on more people to go to the three forbidden areas together.
If everything goes well, it helps us achieve our wish. If everything goes wrong, the squad leader will take the blame.
I put my arm around his shoulders: "Dajun, you still have a way! Okay, just go ahead and do this."
With his sharp tongue, Du Jun quickly deceived the squad leader to a point of excitement. Just after the summer vacation, he put forward a slogan: walk around Yelanggou, swim in the Green Water River, destroy the old financial institution, and pay tribute to the remaining old ideas. fire.
Such an exciting thing quickly gathered a dozen brave classmates.
Early this morning, we quietly left the village in batches, all holding self-defense weapons, such as sickles, wooden sticks, and kitchen knives.
First we went to Yelanggou and then Lushuihe. In one morning, we successfully conquered these two restricted areas.
As expected, those rumors are all deceptive. There are no wolves in Yelanggou, not even wild dogs. It is just dense grass, many pits, and some lonely graves without owners.
The Green Water River is even finer. There are some green aquatic plants growing on the bottom of the river. Several people have drowned in the past. The adults are worried about danger and scare the children.
After these two places are taken care of, only the last Lao Cai Yuan is left. This is a truly terrifying place, and the reputation of the three forbidden areas is mainly supported by it.
Lao Cai Yuan was built by a family named Jia in the past. The Jia family was very wealthy. During the war, they built a large courtyard and kept some guards. Later, they moved away for unknown reasons, leaving only an old housekeeper to look after the courtyard.
Before liberation, there was a serious infectious disease in the village. At this time, the old housekeeper had died of illness. Out of hatred for the landlord class, some seriously ill people moved there to fend for themselves.
It’s not that we’re seizing your house. Anyway, it’s the village’s joint decision to borrow a place to recuperate. If your family comes back, at worst we will move out, and of course we may confiscate the house directly.
Later, I heard that the Jia family was wiped out during the war. This courtyard has really become a place to recuperate. There are more and more patients who cannot survive there, and people die every now and then. Even the timid family members are not afraid of this. I must dare to collect the corpse.
After everyone died, the yard was completely desolate. Many people passed by at night and heard ghost screams, and green will-o'-wisps were still floating in the summer evenings.
So everything was said, some said that the wandering souls outside the Jia family were coming back, and some said that these were all consumption ghosts who had died too many, and they didn't want to leave after they got used to living here...
Over time, it became a legendary haunted house. Not only did no one dare to pass by it within a radius of several meters, but it also prevented some people from trying to occupy it.
The famous haunted house is not too far from the village. When you leave the village and cross a stream, you can clearly see it from the grass to the south.
There was a large courtyard in the distance. The roofs and corners of the walls were all broken. The walls were covered with vines. All the light seemed to be absorbed there. The whole courtyard felt inexplicably eerie.
When we got here, the footsteps of more than ten people were a little slow, and there was no excitement at all in the morning. The key is that the horror legend is too deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the closer we get, the more scary this place becomes.
"Students, the final destination is just ahead. We must not give up halfway. As long as we are united, all monsters and monsters are paper tigers... Let's go and defeat the old financial institution."
Seeing that something was not right in the atmosphere, I hurriedly delivered an impassioned speech. Relying on my former authority, I managed to stabilize the morale of the troops and took the lead in crossing the stream.
At this time, I would never have dreamed that such a reckless action not only almost killed my friend, but also caused a strand of white hair to grow on my forehead at a young age.
