Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but laugh: "Brother, you are really open-minded, and you are still in the mood to laugh when you encounter such strange things. I would like to teach Brother Wei, I see that your qi and blood are very strong, so naturally you are still As for a living person, as for becoming a god... I don't think there is anything so cheap in the world!"
"Hey, what if we don't be more open-minded? There are many mysterious and unpredictable things in this world. Brother Yu has heard a lot of them in Beijing. He knows that you can't escape by hiding, and it's even more useless to be hesitant and worried."
Wei Yingdian sighed, and then laughed at himself: "Actually, I just figured this out. Fortunately, Brother Yu was also a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, and he always prided himself on being happy and knowing his fate. Unexpectedly, once the matter concerns him, he won't understand it before he sees it. Shinto has always been precious. Even if the king of the country talks about the constitution, he will not confer it easily. Even the evil god who is not popular in the countryside has been supported by countless foolish men and women over the years. How can a mere old woman do it? "
Speaking of this, Wei Yingdian hesitated for a moment and then said softly: "To be honest with you, brother Yu was sacrificed in his dream last night. When he saw the old woman standing alone, with her shadow hanging over her, her expression was sad and her heart was sincere, I felt something in my heart. With a compassionate heart, when I woke up, I just thought it was a dream, and I felt lost. I didn’t expect that there really was such a house and such an old woman here. If I didn’t go and see it with my own eyes, I would feel uneasy!”
Immediately, the former doctor of the Ministry of Rites of Da Qi actually raised his hand to one of Qi Jing and said with emotion: "The world is dangerous and life is difficult. I cherish my goodness. Brother Yu, take the first step!"
After saying that, he turned around and strode out of the inn, followed immediately by the Wei family boy who was standing quietly aside.
Qi Jingzhi looked at Wei Yingdian's back in surprise. He felt that this person was really a little different. He was so frightened and unsteady just a moment ago, with his eyes wide open as if he wanted to eat someone. In the blink of an eye, he calmed down and actually had the courage to do so. Go and find out.
He immediately followed him out and caught up with Wei Yingdian in a few steps, admonishing him: "Brother Wei, it's hard to predict whether it will be good or bad when you go here. It's really too risky. If you really want to go, as you are, you can go to Yunxiang County first and find someone. The demon-suppressing agents in the county can help you, or you can pray at the City God's Temple. If your soul was drawn out by some evil spirit last night, the underworld will hear it and respond."
Wei Yingdian kept walking, shook his head and said, "Since the Zao woman is well-known far and wide, I don't think she is evil, and her intention of offering sacrifices is sincere and she has no intention of harming me. There is really no need to make a fuss about it."
Qi Jingzhi nodded and said leisurely: "Then let me accompany you to the stage! Speaking of which, Brother Wei was not the only one to eat dates last night!"
When Wei Yingdian heard this, he was overjoyed at first, and then he was stunned. Finally he remembered Qi Jingzhi's bag of jujubes: "If you don't mention it, I have forgotten, where did I get my jujubes?"
Qi Jingzhi shook his head: "I'm confused too, so let's go to Zao Nu's house and have a look first."
While talking, the three of them left the inn, hired an ox cart in the town, and meandered towards Qu'ahou Lake.
Qi Jingzhi was sitting on the swaying ox cart, quietly looking at the scenery of the water town that was very different from Songling County along the way, which was quite pleasant.
Wei Yingdian obviously had something on his mind, but he still managed to keep his spirits up, giving guidance to Yan Lan along the way, and not forgetting to ask the coachman to ask questions. Unfortunately, he didn't find out much about Zao Nu, and instead he heard a lot of erotic stories about Otter Girl.
Qi Jingzhi laughed secretly in his heart, but also couldn't help but sigh at the wonders of the world. Wei Yingdian only talked about the fate of riding together in the same boat yesterday, and he didn't want to be traveling in the same car with this old man again today.
After walking for a few miles, a large sparkling lake suddenly appeared in front of several people.
The shore of the lake is surrounded by a long embankment that has no beginning or end. Not far from the embankment is a neat house with white walls and black tiles.
There are two towering jujube trees in the courtyard, with red jujubes hanging all over the branches. From a distance, the red clouds look like fire, and the wind carries the faint fragrance of jujubes and wine.
Qi Jingzhi could clearly see that the dates on the tree were indeed the same as those in the date bags.
Wei Yingdian was already impatient. He immediately jumped off the bullock cart and hurried to the front of the house. After trying his luck, he knocked hard on the door.
Unexpectedly, the courtyard door was only ajar, and Wei Yingdian opened it with a knock. He only glanced inward and froze in place.
Qi Jingzhi stood beside Wei Yingdian, looked up into the courtyard, and saw an incense table placed under the two jujube trees.
There is an incense burner placed on the incense table. The incense residue inside the burner has long been cold. There is a porcelain plate in front of the burner. In the dish are neatly arranged red dates.
Needless to say, this was the place where Zao Nu held a sacrifice and the doctor received the feast last night.
Wei Yingdian finally came to his senses, and instead of walking into the courtyard, he took a deep breath and asked in a loud voice, "Is Zao Nuo at home?"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone from the main room with the door also answered, sounding old and hoarse: "I don't sell our dates. If our guests are hungry and thirsty on the way, they can just go and pick a few to satisfy their cravings."
Hearing this, Wei Yingdian's expression changed again, and he asked again: "We are not here to buy dates. May I ask who the old man sacrificed last night?"
As soon as these words came out, there was silence for a long time inside and outside the main room, and then there was only a creak. An old woman with chicken skin, gray hair, and a hunched back came out of the door. She raised her head and squinted her eyes, looking at the few people at the courtyard door in confusion. An uninvited guest.
After seeing the other party's appearance clearly, Wei Yingdian first nodded heavily towards Qi Jingzhi, then gave a deep salute to Zao Nu, and said loudly: "The two jujube trees in your house have fruit like clouds and a fragrance that floats ten miles away. We can't help but see them from a distance. The greedy man is so excited that he has the audacity to come to the door."
He paused and then said sincerely: "I'm ashamed to say that I once served in the Ministry of Rites in the capital, and I know a thing or two about the rituals of sacrifices, but I am ignorant and have never heard of jujubes being used as sacrifices. I am taking the liberty to ask for advice, please forgive me for the rudeness!"
After listening quietly, Zao Nuo said slowly: "I am just a country woman. She doesn't know anything about sacrificial rituals. Yesterday was my deceased husband's memorial day. Because my family was poor and had no money to buy wine and meat, I had to put some food on the table. Just offer the jujubes produced at home to him!"
Speaking of this, the old woman looked up at the jujube trees in the courtyard, with a touch of sadness in her expression: "Speaking of which, the late husband planted these two jujube trees with his own hands during his lifetime. Unfortunately, he did not wait for the results. He just let go and left, and thirty-one years have passed in the blink of an eye."
From the moment he saw the house from a distance, Qi Jingzhi secretly opened his spiritual aperture and concentrated on sensing the changes in the spiritual energy around him. Except for the accumulation of wood energy around the two jujube trees and the fresh smell, he did not find anything unusual. .
After Zao Nu opened the door, he shifted his gaze from the two jujube trees to the other party. The other party was indeed just an old woman in her dying years.
However, Qi Jingzhi was keenly aware that when Zao Nu looked at the jujube trees and mentioned her late husband, the breath of the two jujube trees suddenly fluctuated, just like a raindrop falling into the lake, stirring up circles of insignificant waves. Tiny ripples.
But before Qi Jingzhi could sense it carefully, the aura on Wei Yingdian's body suddenly undulated violently, interrupting his search for the source of the strange movement in the jujube tree.
This is not because Wei Yingdian, the former doctor of the Ministry of Rites, has a hidden cultivation level, but when he heard the words "Thirty-one Years", his mind suddenly became confused and restless, and the energy and blood in his body also fluctuated greatly. .
"It was yesterday thirty-one years ago..."
There was a hint of vibrato in Wei Yingdian's tone: "May I ask if the year, month and hour of my husband's death was...is it..."
He murmured for a long time before spitting out a year, month, day, and hour.
After hearing this, Zao Nu showed some hesitation on her face, and finally couldn't help but ask, "How did the guest know?"
After hearing this, Wei Yingdian's face turned a little pale, and he shook his head without answering.
He stared blankly at Zao Nuo for a long time, then suddenly woke up and looked away at the young swordsman beside him.
Qi Jingzhi's mind was very clear, and when he saw Wei Yingdian's appearance, he could not guess that what he just said should be his birthday. The day when the old woman's late husband died was the day when Wei Yingdian was born!
Thinking of this, the young man couldn't help but curl up the corner of his mouth, and praised in a low voice: "If it is true as Brother Wei thought, the person who planted this jujube tree must have been a living sage with no bad karma and an untainted heart!"
Wei Yingdian was stunned and quickly lowered his voice and asked, "Brother, what do you mean by this?"
"Brother Wei, as far as I know..."
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He suddenly stopped and shook his head with a smile: "It's just an unformed idea. I don't know if it's right or not. Brother Wei doesn't need to care. Today's incident is too shocking. How to deal with it is up to you. Decide!"
In fact, the young man originally wanted to say that the souls of the dead need to wash away their mortal karma in the underworld before they can break free and fly into reincarnation. Zao's late husband just died, and your brother fell to the ground. This connection is too tight.
But then he thought about it, he just heard about reincarnation and didn't know the details. Furthermore, if you can’t be a flawless sage yourself, you can’t just think that others can’t do the same, right?
In short, it’s better not to speak rashly about things you don’t understand.
Wei Yingdian's mind was already in confusion. Seeing that the young man refused to say anything, he had no intention of delving further. He reached out and searched all over his body for a long time and took out a lot of scattered silver.
He turned back and glared at his boy, scolding him: "What are you doing standing there stupidly? Why don't you give me all the money you have!"
Just looking at the age of this boy, one can tell that he is not the kind of confidant who grew up with his master. He is probably not aware of Wei Yingdian's birthday.
The boy was confused at first, but now he was even more confused, but he did not dare to disobey his master's wishes, and he honestly emptied the last coin in his body.
Wei Yingdian gathered the coins together, held them in both hands and handed them to Zao Nu, apologetically saying: "I came out in a hurry today, I only have these..."
The Zao woman looked at Wei Yingdian with surprise and doubt in her eyes, even with a hint of vigilance: "This guest, the old woman said before, if you are hungry and thirsty on the way, just pick a few dates from the tree to eat, but this is The two jujube trees have been ordered by someone and will not be sold to outsiders."
She paused and her tone became more firm: "Not only are the dates not for sale, but these two date trees were planted by my late husband, let alone them!"
Wei Yingdian quickly shook his head: "I don't buy dates, let alone trees. I just saw that the old man was lonely and helpless, but he could take pity on us and other passers-by. I have to refuse!" Chinese website
After hearing this, Zao Nu became more and more puzzled.
She took a few steps forward and approached the courtyard door. She looked at Wei Yingdian carefully for a moment. She was convinced that she did not recognize this person. She immediately shook her head slowly and said, "You are such a strange guest. A few dates are not worth anything, but you want to give so many dates for no reason." Give me the money, but the old woman can’t accept it!”
One of them wanted to give life and death, the other refused. After a long stalemate, Wei Yingdian suddenly walked into the courtyard and put all the money in his hand on the incense table. Then he bent down and stood in front of the incense burner and bowed three times. bye.
Seeing this, Zao Nu's expression suddenly changed, and she asked hesitantly and tremblingly: "Who are you?"
At this moment, a sweet and soft voice suddenly came from outside the courtyard wall next to the lake embankment: "Grandma Zao, I'm here to beat jujubes again!"
Before she finished speaking, and without waiting for Zaoguo's reply, a long wet bamboo pole reached higher than the courtyard wall, and gently hit the jujube branch that extended outside the courtyard wall.
As soon as the pole fell, a dozen of the largest and reddest dates immediately fell off the jujube branch. Then I heard the sound of some falling into the water and some falling on the wooden board.
When everyone looked up at the swaying branches of the jujube tree, Qi Jingzhi suddenly turned his head, his eyes so bright that they seemed to penetrate the courtyard wall.
He quietly exited the courtyard gate and walked along the outside of the courtyard wall towards the lake embankment. Then he turned the corner and saw a small boat without a canopy floating under the jujube branches by the lake.
Standing on the small boat was a young and beautiful woman holding a pole to puncture the boat to hit dates.
This woman's clothes are so thin that they can no longer be called clothes. They are just surrounded by a few large green leaves. When she raises her pole to hit dates, the beauty of the girl is inevitable, and the white flowers dazzle the eyes.
When she saw Qi Jingzhi, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she couldn't control the strength in her hands. When the pole came down, dates fell like rain on top of her head. She kept jumping to avoid it. The big green leaves on her body either deformed and moved, or simply fell. fell down.
"Oh, I just made new clothes today!" The woman's already sweet and soft voice added a bit of coquettishness and tenderness.
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He kept his clothes on, while twisting his waist and swaying openly, showing off his figure to Qi Jingzhi.
Qi Jingzhi's eyes and ears were covered with a light haze, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up, teasing: "Your new clothes are really not strong."
The young woman, who was almost naked, smiled sweetly: "Little brother, don't you hear that the lotus clothes are tied with silk ribbons, and they come and go suddenly? It's good if the clothes are beautiful enough, but if they are made too strong, it will be troublesome to take them off, right?" "
The smile on Qi Jingzhi's face grew stronger. He heard and saw that the woman in front of him was just a shadow. What stood below was clearly a small black-haired beast that was only half a man tall and covered with wet body. It was squeaking towards him. Squeaking and squealing.
He looked away and saw that in addition to the dozens of red dates that had just fallen, there were also many small emerald green fruits piled on the boat. He couldn't help but curiously asked: "What are these on your boat?"
The woman took back the jujube pole and said with a smile, "This is Huling, with thin skin and tender flesh, sweet and juicy. Little brother, would you like to come up and try it?"
She twisted her delicate body, stretched out her white and slender arms, and pointed to the large patch of blue leaves on the lake in the distance. She spoke softly and softly: "The two of us rowed there, and I peeled them with my own hands. Give it to little brother!"
Qi Jingzhi shook his head and asked curiously again: "I see that there is no blood evil energy on your body, which shows that you have never hurt anyone. You are obviously in the body of an otter. Why do you like to lure human men to make peace with you so much?"
The woman's face changed drastically when she heard this, and her fear was palpable.
She looked at Qi Jingzhi intently, then screamed, jumped straight into the lake, and disappeared almost in the blink of an eye.
Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this. He had never seen such a timid and naive spirit before. He had clearly not tried to seduce him so heartlessly before. He really had no sense of foresight or defensiveness at all.
He shook his head, turned around and walked back to the courtyard gate. He saw that the gate had been closed again, and Wei Yingdian's master and servant were standing outside waiting for him.
This trip to Zao Nu's house was completely different from what he had imagined when he came. He did not encounter any danger at all.
"Have you told the old man your guess?" Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but ask.
"After all, it's just a guess! Even if there is reincarnation in this world, once you die, your future will be lost!"
Wei Yingdian shook his head, with a complicated expression on his face: "Human ghosts and ghosts, how can there be a couple who have been together for hundreds of years?"
Qi Jingzhi nodded, thinking of the kid who delivered dates last night, and immediately asked again: "Brother Wei, have you ever thought that this might be a trap, whether it's an illusion or a trick, designed to deceive someone as pure and kind as you?" Honest man!"
After hearing this, Wei Yingdian was silent for a long time, and then finally uttered: "Whether it is really an illusion, who can tell clearly?"
