Chapter 20: The old bastard spirit ashore
The downer river drowned another child, this thing Hu Laoshi know, the heart is also particularly difficult.
When he first heard of this matter, Hu Laoshi immediately in his heart sure that the main culprit of this matter, is that old wangbaoshen. Hu Laoshi felt that he was responsible, if it was not for his own incompetence, could not get rid of the old wangbaoshen, how could the village children in the downer cattle river bathing in the disaster?
Then again, the respect and trust that the villagers had shown him these days was obvious. They were all taking Hu Laoshi's word that there was an old wangbajing spirit in there that would plague the little children. They also listened to Hu Laoshi's words, and all of them sternly warned their children at home, usually try not to go to the river to bathe, even if they want to go to bathe, they should only do so when the river is crowded with people and there are adults.
This was also Hu Laoshi's intention, after all, in the countryside where the river is guarded, it is completely impossible to completely eliminate the children going to bathe in the river. If you really do that, maybe it will force those children who are just at the age of playfulness, more and more thinking about bathing, and will avoid the adults to go to the river to secretly bathe. In that case, the risk factor would be even higher.
If you let the children bathe, you can pick an adult in front of you, then they will endure, wait, there are adults in the river bath, they will go. Normally, as long as there were adults present, even if the children were in danger, the adults could fish the children out in the shortest possible time, and no fatal drowning would occur.
But this time, things have become second nature.
Hu Laoshi stayed at home and did not go out, he was afraid to see the villagers, afraid of the villagers to ask him if this is the old Wang Bajing did, when can we get rid of the old Wang Bajing? He was afraid that the villagers would look at him with different eyes, with eyes of trust and expectation.
Just when Hu Laoshi was worried and couldn't think of any way to make sure that he could get rid of the old wangbaoshen, my second uncle went there and confessed that he would not be able to get rid of the old wangbaoshen. My second uncle went there and confessed that he would help Hu Laoshi just to get rid of the old wangbaoshen.
This made Hu Laoshi feel much more confident, and his pessimistic mood, which had been painful and helpless, improved a lot. He immediately went out to look for us young people, with Zhao Erniu, plus us young people, as long as the old wangbaoshen can be controlled by themselves for a short while, then there is a full grasp of the deal.
Hu Laoshi was in a much worse mood on the way to our house, just like us. He also saw the village's old ladies old ladies small daughter-in-laws, carrying baskets in twos and threes to go to the riverside children of the river god temple to offer incense and kowtow to worship …… those who saw him Hu Laoshi, will also politely say hello, say a few words. Although they did not ask Hu Laoshi when they can get rid of the old bastard spirit, when the village can save some, but their eyes look to Hu Laoshi, with a hint of doubt, a hint of disappointment, a hint of hope …….
All this makes Hu Laoshi ashamed and guilty, difficult to the extreme.
However, this mood did not fry Hu Laoshi for a long time, when Hu Laoshi went to my home to look for me, but the ghost of God walked through the mouth of our alley, walked to the mouth of the river embankment, and stared at the incense and fire flourishing people gathered head of the River God Temple, Hu Laoshi's mood and good up.
Isn't this exactly what he hoped to see? The more the villagers worship the River God Temple, the more the temple's incense flourishes, the more the old wangbaoshen will hurry to stay in the River God Temple, the more it can't leave here.
Aren't we hoping that the old wangbaoshen will go ashore and stay in the River God Temple? Aren't we worried that after the old bastard has finished this job, he will slip away and we won't be able to find him?
With the villagers' sincere and devout offerings, the old wangbaoshen will not be able to leave.
After Hu Laoshi was so sure in his heart, he immediately turned his head toward our house.
At this time, I just lay down on the bed to rest not much time. Brothers sent me back to the home, and I greeted, will go back to eat.
The sky, already completely dark.
In the small kitchen of the south house, candles were lit, and the weak candlelight spilled through the window into the yard, dimly reflecting a large area, and the shadows cast by the window prongs split the pale patch of light into several pieces. In the kitchen, the sound of stir-frying came out, my mother is cooking.
Hu Laoshi greeted me at the courtyard door, "Yinle, are you home?"
"Hey, at it." I hurriedly agreed.
Hu Laoshi had already walked into the yard, and when he heard my voice in reply, he pushed open the door of the east room and walked in, saying, "Why don't you light the wax? This house is dark."
"Well, it's lit." I reached out and touched the candles and matches on the window, lit a candle, leaned against the side of the window, twisted my body to tilt the candle, and after a few drops of wax oil dripped down on the window sill, stacked the candle on top of it, which stood steadily on the window sill. The weak candle flame swayed slightly, and the room was much brighter.
Hu Laoshi walked to the bedside and sat down, took out a cigarette packet and lit it, and did not say anything, smoked it.
I see Hu Lao Si face seems to have a bit of happy expression, then cold snort, said: "Yo, Hu old man looks like a good mood this day ah, what good things ah?"
"Huh?" Hu Lao Si sensed that my voice was a little off, then said: "What is happy, the village died, if I can be happy out of the ghost."
"You are in this line of work, seeing ghosts is not a rare thing." I said with no expression on my face, reached out to the cigarette box, pulled out a cigarette to light up, and inhaled fiercely.
No matter what excuse you give, Xuanmu Niangniang will not come. You can invite her left and right, but she will not come, no matter how many times you invite her.
I skimmed my mouth and said, "What's annoying, they love to worship who worship who, it's none of my business."
"Your second uncle looked for me today." Hu Lao Si said with a smile.
"Hm? My second uncle? What did he ask you for?"
"He decided to help me get rid of the old turtle spirit."
"What?" I sat up, staring at Hu Laoshi's face and eyes for a while, to make sure he wasn't telling lies, then said doubtfully, "Strange, why did my second uncle go to you and help you?"
Hu Laoshi smiled and said, "This is not to help myself, but also to help you, to help you, to help everyone in the village …… " Hu Laoshi paused and then said, "Of course, most importantly, he is helping himself. "
"How do you say that?"
"Your second uncle, isn't he about to become a father?"
"Well that's right." I nodded, I guessed the whole village knew about this.
"When a child grows up, he always has to go to the river to play ……," Hu Laoshi smiled and said with deep meaning, "Having a child at forty or so years old, that's a real treasure."
I suddenly realized, I guess it is really such a reason. But I didn't think about it, whether it was because of this reason or not, anyway, my second uncle promised to help and eradicate the old bastard spirit, this thing is true. With the help of my second uncle, dealing with the old wangbaoshen, it may be really much simpler. At first that black snake spirit, is not by the second uncle to easily sent to deal with it, but also by the second uncle to peel the skin made into a belt, now tied on the waist it.
"Feelings for this matter, you old happy, I think what matter." I pretended not to take it seriously and said.
Hu Laoshi again light on the cigarette bag, bar two mouths said: "this day, you see the village people go to the River God Temple on the offerings yet?"
"Well, see, the village of the gang of old women and small daughter-in-law, all the fucking wall grass, inverted up, fast it." I had a look of disgust and contempt on my face.
"That's right." Hu Laoshi squinted his eyes, barred his tobacco pouch, and said faintly, lightly, "The old turtle spirit has received so many offerings, does it still want to leave? Hmph, I guess it's time to go ashore in the next two days, it can't help it ……"
I thought about it is so, but for Hu Laoshi this kind of self-confident appearance, but I am very disgusted, he is confident that this several times, are not confident of success. I said, "again these two days? Your mouth said that the old bastard essence ashore time, have passed a few two days?"
"Can it all be blamed on me?" Hu Laoshi said with a glare.
I'm speechless, it's true that several of our unauthorized actions indirectly caused Hu Laoshi's plan to fall through.
"Get well, when we get the old turtle spirit, we still count on you guys to contribute." Hu Laoshi finished this sentence, then got up and walked out the door.
I thought to myself, "Hu Laoshi is really nonchalant, don't you want to ask me if I'm happy to go and work with you to get rid of the old bastard spirit?
At night after the brothers came, I told them what Hu Laoshi said. As a result, we are immediately excited, each child righteous indignation, fists rubbing palms hate can not run in the middle of the night down to the downer cattle river to pull out the old Wang Bajing big disassembled eight pieces of stewed meat to eat.
Well, I naturally can't say I'm still a little angry a little unhappy to go. In the heart always feel a little twisted, as if we on the pole bows to have to go to kill the old Wang Bajing like, he Hu Laoshi came just need to command a voice, greetings, we have to follow Hu Laoshi to kill the four sides? Our men that has always been decisive, by their own nature to the. If this is not the case, it will not be to the present situation ah.
Chen Jin said: "Yin Le, you kid can hurry to get well, or else, this time with the old bastard Jing war, you have this body with injuries, can not help but also have to add to our mess, how bad ah?"
"Bullshit, I am limping a leg, also better than you kid." I said angrily, "Besides, I have a belt made of Wuzui leather in my hand, I'm afraid of a ball!"
"That's true, your kid is really lucky, alas, it's hard not that your family that old ancestor, really give the surname Zhao left Fumeng not?" Chang Yunliang said with a somewhat jealous smile.
"That is!" I was smug.
Chen Jin pooh-poohed and said, "Why didn't that old ancestor of yours bless you not to get hurt? Good guy, this old injuries did not go, new injuries and added, even look like you have made a great achievement, feelings of us a few are watching the show, the pressure is not doing anything ah?"
"Hey, I did not say that, the eyes of the masses are bright." I said with a show of hands.
"Fuck you!"
The brothers all laughed.
Naturally, I laughed as well, and the unhappy state of mind caused by the drowning of a child during the day was suddenly gone. To be honest, we are not some so-called saints, worrying about the world and grieving for others. We are just ordinary people, that is, in the small period of time after the drowning incident, we will be sad, sad, and even have a trace of guilt because of the grief of the suffering family. But after all, it is not the next of kin, we can't afford to be so sad every day because a child died in their family, right?
Don't despise me, most people are like this, only a few people who have a high and noble heart above all else will be sad. Unfortunately, I, and my buddies, are a small minority of that majority.
That night after my buddies left, I blew out the candles and lay quietly on my bed in the darkness. I couldn't sleep, so I thought I'd feel the comfort of the belt as it healed my wounds.
Did not let me disappointed, in my drowsiness about to fall asleep, the belt really as in the past, scattered bright comfortable energy, just like a mountain stream, trickling water flowing along the blood vessels in my body, the stream passed through the place, suddenly born elegant comfortable feeling, floating …… At that time, I thought, people say that after taking drugs will be I felt like flying up, I think, rather than this belt give me a better feeling, although not that want to fly feeling, but also have a quiet lying in a mountain stream, the four fields of fragrance comfortable and cool feeling. Immortal leisure time, but also so right?
I thought so in my heart, smiled slightly, and fell asleep comfortably.
The next day at eight o'clock in the morning, I was still sleeping soundly under the blanket, when Hu Laoshi ran over to me in a hurry and called out to me.
"Yinle, Yinle quickly get up, are you feeling better?"
I opened my eyes with some annoyance, looked at Hu Laoshi angrily, and said in a bad mood, "What are you doing? Is someone dead?"
"Aiya quickly get up, call your second uncle and your gang to go, old turtle spirit, ashore!" Hu Laoshi face full of excitement and anxious look.
"What? The old bastard spirit went ashore?" I sat up, rolled out of bed, wearing big pants and dragged slippers to run out, said, "Don't be anxious, go to the mouth of the riverbank and wait, we'll be there in a while!"
Hu Lao Si in the back of the child ai ai promised, I turned my head to look at him, good guy, and put on his yellow robe.
While running to my second uncle's house, I thought to myself, this is good, the old bastard bastard is dead!
To the door of my second uncle's house, I did not even enter the door, directly shouted two voices, second uncle answered the voice, I told my second uncle to go to the mouth of the embankment and wait, I went to look for people. Then I ran towards Chen Jin's house.
After informing Chen Jin, Chen Jin and I split up to look for others.
This kind of thing is to be a degree, late for fear that the old bastard spirit run ball, then we are not in vain?
Soon, in addition to Chang Hanqiang and Yao Jing two people have something at home could not come, other people are all here. Running along the east side of the canal to the north, almost to the mouth of the river embankment, far away, I saw my second uncle and Hu Laoshi two people are smoking cigarettes squatting on the side of the east canal do not know what to chatter about it. They are about twenty meters away from the mouth of the river embankment, so that even the roof of the River God Temple can not be seen, well, so that the old bastard spirit will not be able to see us this many people gathered together. Moreover, even if it found out that there were so many of us, it wouldn't necessarily know that the purpose of our gathering was to deal with it, right?
We quickly ran to the front, Chen Jin yelled: "What's going on? Are we going to do it?"
Hu Laoshi stood up and raised his hand to signal us to be quiet, he touched out the talisman paper from his pocket, except for Chen Jin and me, Hu Laoshi gave each of us a piece of it and said, "Put the talisman paper on your eyebrows, I'll cast the spell a little bit, and you'll be able to see the old turtle spirit, and no matter what happens, you have to think of a way to stop that old turtle spirit and definitely not let it escape to the river. "
"Zhong Zhong!"
"Don't worry!"
My brothers nodded and agreed, and took the talisman paper with their hands, dabbed some spittle and pasted it on their eyebrows, and one by one, they looked like zombies in a movie, with a zombie suppressor talisman pasted on their heads.
My second uncle took over the talisman paper in the hand turned over, casually thrown away, see us a few are surprised to see him, the second uncle laughed: "I do not need this thing, what evil things dirty things, I can see."
"Huh?" Our brothers and sisters were shocked, Second Uncle still has this ability? That means he must have seen something evil before, how else would he know he can see dirty things? That's true, otherwise, how could he have killed Wuzui and the black snake spirit?
The problem is, he never, ever believed in these things before.
Several of us were confused.
Hu Laoshi was also full of doubts and asked, "Erniu, you, you can really see it?"
"What? Don't believe it?" Second Uncle laughed.
"But you're not yin and yang eyes! This I can see." Hu Lao Si frowned and said, "Our entire village, born with yin and yang eyes, nowadays there are only two children, Yin Le and Chen Jin, the others are definitely not, how can you possibly see?"
"Nonsense, if I say I can see, I can see." The second uncle got a little upset and said, "I don't know why I can see it. Anyway, I've been able to see things that others can't since I was a kid."
"Never heard of it." Hu Lao Si shook his head and frowned, still a little unconvinced.
"That's because I'm too lazy to tell." My second uncle got impatient and waved his hand, "Speak up, what will we do after stopping that old bastard spirit?"
We are also urging Hu Laoshi, we are going to get rid of the old wangbaosi today, why do you keep on dwelling on this issue? Back to kill the old Wang Bajing, and then slowly ask, as long as Comrade Zhao Erniu is free and also have the leisure to take care of you, as long as you dwell on it.
Hu Laoshi also seems to feel a little wordy, awkwardly smiled twice, said: "a moment after the past, you immediately put the River God Temple to surround, especially the side of the river, absolutely can not let the old Wang Bajie to run over. As long as, as long as block five minutes, five minutes on the line, I will cast a spell to be able to trap it, after trapping it, you guys listen to my words, I to greet, you guys will rush up to the death, at the same time also be careful not to let it take advantage of the opportunity to run away …… Well, there are five minutes of time, I will be able to cast the three-marshade true fire, burned it to death. "
"Told you so." My second uncle hummed, waved his hand and said, "Yinle, Jinzi, you boys, go! Follow me."
Immediately, several of us were full of excitement and excitement, and we followed behind my second uncle to the River God Temple at the mouth of the river embankment.
To the river embankment to see the River God Temple, the second uncle immediately accelerated the degree, striding to the front of the River God Temple, and then the body a turn, stood in front of the temple four meters away, feet apart, arms crossed and hugged in front of the chest, a look as if nothing had happened. Several of us also hurriedly stood one after another, surrounding the River God Temple.
The River God Temple sits south to north, facing the downer river bridge under the section of the river, the river water flowed, clear to the bottom. This day the weather is not good, the sky is cloudy, seems to rain at any time.
I smoothly pulled the belt from the waist of my pants, and stared at that river god temple with a fierce anger, ready to strike at any time.
Just …… how I look, I can t see where that old bastard spirit is. Could it be that it hides in the mud below the river god temple?
I turned my head to look at a few other buddies, are also full of doubt, stretched out his head to the small river god temple, hated can not drill into the ground to find the old bastard spirit. Chen Jin yelled: "Damn, where is it? Why can't we see that old bastard spirit?"
Hu Laoshi really shouldn't wear that robe, so hot weather, body wrapped tightly, not hot. He is old, naturally not as fast as our group of people, so Chen Jin yelled, only just walked over, already sweating profusely. Came to the front, Hu Laoshi as if he did not hear Chen Jin's words, the body sat on the bag to the ground a side, reach out from the inside of the touch out of the mahogany sword and talisman paper out, stood still body to practice.
"Hey, Hu Laoshi, where is that old bastard spirit? He's not in the temple!" My second uncle frowned and said, "I do look at the temple seems to have something to stay, wet, and a kind of evil atmosphere, it can not be the old wangbaoshen ran away, right?"
A few of us hurriedly gazed at, really, that small temple on the god platform, really a little wet. Evil aura children other buddies can not feel, but Chen Jin and I two people but see out, really, the small temple floating a light greenish-black gas.
Hu Laoshi was stunned for a moment, frowned and said, "The evil animal wants to hide, humph, wait for me to cast a spell to force it out!" As soon as the words fell, Hu Lao Si immediately raised his peach wood sword with his right hand, and put his left index finger and middle finger together, holding a few pieces of talisman paper and muttering in his mouth. After muttering a few words, he shook his left hand and bellowed out, "Here!" Several pieces of talisman paper puffed up with a fire, Hu Laoshi's fingers shook, and the burning talisman paper fluttered and fell above the River God Temple, and soon burned to ashes.
A few of us stared intently at the talisman paper and the River God Temple, afraid to miss any strange changes, this is not the usual to see, perhaps will not see again.
However, nothing strange happened.
We all looked at Hu Lao Si. Hu Laoshi is also frowning tightly, worried, he hung his head down and looked around, suddenly his right hand peach wood sword pointed down the Ox River bridge, said: "There, the dog days of the old turtle spirit ran into the river!"
"Huh?" We hurriedly looked in the direction Hu Laoshi pointed.
We saw that on the river bank about ten meters away from the stone bridge of the downer ox river, an old trumpet big enough to be the size of an eight-imperial table slowly climbed from the bank to the water grass at the river's edge, and when its whole body dived into the water, it also turned its head to look at us. In those eyes, there was clearly mockery and ridicule, as if it was angry at us, laughing at our incompetence ……
"Where to run!"
Suddenly, my second uncle yelled out, turned around and ran fast towards the old bastard spirit by the river!