marry a ghost

It is the fifth month of the lunar calendar at this time, at the end of spring, everywhere is full of vitality, everywhere is green and verdant, Wei Shi found out the address of Mao Laoxian's home, and rode a bicycle along the road early in the morning. The road went to Ci'en Town next door.

Mr. Mao is an old man in his seventies and eighties, wearing a thick Taoist robe and sitting in an airtight room with a hand stove trembling. As soon as he enters, there is a sense of twilight and the lack of ventilation in the place where the old people live. The resulting gloom rushed towards his face, and when Wei Shi stepped in, he couldn't help feeling dizzy for a while, and he still held his breath to catch his breath.

Wei Shi was sitting on a wooden chair, and Mao Laoxian, who was opposite him, closed his eyes, wondering if he was dozing off or thinking about something. Wei Shi didn't wake him up, but waited patiently by the side according to the instructions of Mao Laoxian's family. He is not in a hurry, he has been looking for it for so long, and it will take a while.

It's really not easy to meet this old Mr. Mao. We waited in line for a while, not to mention the 200 yuan tea money, which used up more than half of Wei Shi's pocket money. At this point, Mao Mr. Lao's family members also said that they went in to see Mr. Mao, and whether he would like to help read the hexagrams is still a matter of discussion.

Hearing what they said at the time, Wei Shi immediately clenched his fists, staring at Mao Laoxian's skinny monkey-like son without blinking, trying hard to restrain the urge to punch him. Not good, and quickly added, "Of course, the general old man will agree to read the hexagram. Don't worry, if it really doesn't work, let's talk about it later."

The stupid kid in front of me doesn't look weak and fair, but his eyes are fierce. Looking at his aura, he knows that he is willing to let go. There is no need to offend, so as not to make things stand still and end badly. After all, this kind of divination thing Although the town doesn't care about it, but something is really going to happen. If a hat of feudal superstition and provoking troubles is removed, good things will turn into bad things. There is no need to fight with a little kid like this.

Mr. Mao finally opened his eyes. His eyes were cloudy and lifeless. He looked at Wei Shi who was sitting opposite him, and asked Wei Shi to report Wei Xin's birthday to him in a hoarse and old voice. The date of birth on the yellow talisman paper was handed to Mr. Mao.Mr. Mao wore presbyopic glasses first, and under the dim light, he spread an old book on his lap and counted slowly.

Counting, counting, his face slowly changed, the yellow talisman fell from his trembling hand and fell to the ground.

Wei Shi was only in his teens, and it was the time when he couldn't sit still for a moment. After waiting quietly for so long, he was a little impatient. Where is it, can you figure it out?"

Mr. Mao picked up the yellow talisman slowly, "Listen to my old advice, don't go looking for your brother, he won't get it back."

Wei Shiteng stood up abruptly, and said loudly, "Impossible! I can definitely get it back, old man, please do the math again." Wei Shi walked up to Mao Laoxian in two steps, and what Mao Laoxian said just now was obviously Knowing something, but unwilling to tell the truth out of some scruples, Wei Shi looked at Mr. Mao pleadingly.

Mr. Mao looked at him first and sighed, "Okay, I'll try it."

Mr. Mao asked Wei Shi to step aside a little. He took out a few ancient coins with a smooth surface and placed them on the table in front of the shrine. He bought three sticks of incense sticks, and after praying, put them on the stove with a thick layer of ashes. After that, he knelt tremblingly in front of the altar, chanting with his eyes closed, and pinched a stick of incense with his fingers. A piece of yellow talisman was lit on a candle, and it was thrown into a large bowl filled with water.

At this time, the three incense sticks suddenly went out by themselves, and only the green smoke that had not yet dispersed rose up.

Mr. Mao shook his body violently, and opened his eyes. He looked at the three sticks of incense sticks without red fire tips, and shook his head, "No way, you see, Sanqingshen doesn't agree to divination, so I can't either." The solution, even the incense is extinguished by itself, I haven’t seen this for many years, so give up.”

Wei Shi became silent, but Mao Laoxian didn't urge him, and closed his eyes again to doze off.

After a while, Wei Shi finally spoke again, "Then you always teach me how to read hexagrams, and I will do the calculations myself after I learn it!"

Mr. Mao opened his eyes a little unexpectedly, and looked at the half-grown child in front of him, standing there with a stubborn and determined face, looking at him nervously, Mr. Mao shook his head again, "Learn these things, go this way Road, there is a price to pay, you are still young and ignorant, go back, go back, don't mess around."

Wei Shi raised his voice, "That's my younger brother, you always help me this time, I'm not the kind of kid who doesn't know what to do, I know the seriousness of the matter, even if you don't help me all the time, I will think about it myself There is a way!"

In the end, Mr. Mao didn't agree to Wei Shi's worship of himself as a teacher to learn to read hexagrams, but he didn't do it completely. He gave some books about hexagrams in his hand to Wei Shi. And tell him that if he must find his younger brother Wei Xin, he can try to go to the land of water and shade in the north.

Wei Shi returned home with a stack of books.

Mother Wei didn't go to work anymore. She lost her husband and youngest son one after another. Taking care of her, while learning the things in those books by myself, I am very busy.

Fortunately, ever since Wei Shi told her that he would find Wei Xin that day, she seemed to believe Wei Shi's words. After answering "still looking", she went back to the house and continued to wait.

Sometimes Wei Shi looked at her and didn't know what to do.

Day by day, the biggest problem facing Wei Shi is not finding Wei Xin but the pressure of real life. Since Wei's mother stopped going to work, the family has no income, and it won't last long if it's just two people. Eating is a big burden.

This does not include Wei Shi's tuition.

Wei Zhuang’s tradition is different from the outside world. More than a hundred years ago, Wei Zhuang established an ethnology school, and anyone with the surname Wei could enroll for free. After it was taken into public ownership, it was divided up again, and the clan school was automatically disbanded. In order for the children in the clan to be able to go to school, a "free school" was set up after discussion among several respected elders in the clan.

The elders have set such a rule: Every household in Weizhuang should donate a sum of money to "Yi Xue" every year, as much as you like, 51 is fine, and each family should pay the amount they can afford according to their family background and intentions. , And those Wei family children who have studied through "Yi Xue" and got a job must return all the money spent in "Yi Xue" so that the subsequent Wei family children can afford to go to school.

In this way, the children in Wei Zhuang have become talents, and there are not a few of them who have mixed outside.

This is also because Wei Zhuang is different from the outside. They all have the same surname, a bloodline passed down from an old ancestor, and they have lived together for hundreds of years. The cohesion of their own family is much stronger than that of the outside. Even if he envies Wei Zhuang for having so many promising children, he can only sigh in vain.

So Wei Shi didn't have to worry about tuition fees, and when he was worried about living expenses, his uncle Luo Xuguo in the city suddenly contacted him to let him study at ease. Wei Shi didn't have to worry about living expenses, he would Calling him on a monthly basis, Wei Shi accepted the arrangement without any objection, and then devoted all his attention to studying and learning divination.

Studying is okay, and Wei Shi can handle it easily. When it comes to reading hexagrams, Wei Shixue is driven crazy. Those profound contents and specious words often make him confused and completely incomprehensible. He tried to find Mr. Dong for advice first, but Mr. Dong directly rejected him, saying that the two of them had no fate as master and apprentice, and he had already done it by giving him those books.

Wei Shi had no choice but to explore slowly by himself.

Even if he memorizes the "Book of Changes" backwards, he may not be able to truly understand the meaning of it. Learning a little superficiality is already a great thing. At the same time, he reads a lot of books, including Qimen and Xuanmen.

A year later, Wei Shi began to learn divination by himself.

He picked up a few of the ancient coins handed down from his family. These ancient coins are relatively old. They have no patina or rust on them. They are still bright and have no earthy smell. It has never been buried in the ground.

Buried in the ground, especially the ancient coins buried with them, cannot be used for divination, because they are stained with evil spirits, so they are not accurate.

Wei Shi didn't use Wei Xin's horoscope to calculate from the beginning, but used Wei Ning's horoscope that he had played with since he was a child. Wei Ning knew that his brother had become like a magic stick for more than a year. What he said was all about this hexagram and that aspect. When I heard that he wanted to be the first hexagram in his life and wanted to use his own horoscope, he agreed without saying a word, and he had to watch from the side, saying that he was afraid Wei Shi miscalculated his horoscope.

Wei Shi scolded him a piece of bullshit, then stepped aside to prepare to go.

Everything is ready-made. Over the past year, Wei Shi has prepared a lot of fortune-telling property, including a small bronze mirror, a mahogany sword carved by himself, a stack of yellow talisman papers, a few ancient coins, and strings. Incense, paper money, incense burner, and some god-like drawing paper were all placed in front of him.

Wei Shi is also wearing a "Taoist robe" that he drew by himself. This "Taoist robe" is actually an obviously ill-fitting T-shirt. The top and bottom of the body fall to the thighs. Wei Shi drew a gossip and a Yin-Yang on the chest Fish, looks nondescript.

When Wei Ning saw Wei Shi coming out wearing such a dress, he couldn't breathe from laughing.

Wei Shi watched Wei Ning with dissatisfaction as he hugged his stomach and laughed like hell, walked to the table with airs on his shoulders, and started the first act of his life.

In fact, general fortune-telling does not require such a big scene at all. Those fortune-telling fairies on the roadside just hold a cloth strip, hang a couplet, move a small bench and sit there, but Wei Shi wanted to show solemnity, and more importantly, I was afraid that my ability was not enough, so I tried to use some spells recorded in the book to make up for it.

It was already dark at this time, and when it got dark, Wei Zhuang would become very quiet, there was nothing urgent, no one would move around outside, all the houses were closed, everything was quiet, only the sound of night birds , more silent.

Wei Shi's palms were a little sweaty. He respectfully inserted the incense stick into the incense burner, and lit the white candle on the candlestick. The ancient coin was dipped in the water where the yellow talisman paper was placed, and after shaking off the water on it, he put his palm together and solemnly told the gods of the four directions. Then, he pushed his palm outward, and the ancient coin fell to the ground. Any rollover will fall directly to the ground.

Wei Ming looked at the hexagram given by the ancient coin, and calculated bit by bit.

Wei Ning, who was waiting by the side, saw his seriousness, and couldn't continue to laugh at him, coughed lightly, and sat up straight.Wei Shi frowned and looked at the three ancient coins, muttering in his mouth, "No way, could it be that the calculation was wrong, it shouldn't be like this." Wei Ning couldn't bear it any longer, so he patted him on the shoulder , "What is this? What did you figure out?" Wei Shi raised his head, his expression a bit uneasy, and he put away the three ancient coins on the ground, "It's nothing, it must be a wrong calculation, it seems that I haven't learned enough yet. "

Wei Shi was a little depressed. He was counting Wei Ning's marriage just now, and the hexagram is unclear. The hexagram shows that Wei Ning's destined marriage has a yin and a yang, and the yin and yang are unbalanced. He is not looking for a human demon. Even if it is a human demon, it is also yin and yang. Obviously, it is impossible at all, it is only possible that he miscalculated.

Wei Shi felt that it was all because of his inexperienced studies. In order not to lose face, he didn't tell Wei Ning the hexagrams. Wei Ning didn't go home that day, but slept with Wei Shi. Wei Shi slept soundly. He was not stable, and always felt that there was a cold gaze staring at him, as if he was going to stare at him, which made him have goosebumps. Wei Shi snatched all the quilts that Wei Ning was covering, and wrapped them tightly Yes, and fell asleep again.

The next day, Wei Ning yelled while sneezing, and never slept with him again, always grabbing the quilt!

Coincidentally, Wei Shi didn't want to sleep with Wei Ning anymore, and it was midnight, always haunted.

After this time, Wei Shi was honest again and studied diligently for a year. This year he was already in the third year of high school, and he became nervous about his studies. Not something that will come in handy.If it was purely for getting Wei Xin back in the past, now it is also partly because of his interest. Those profound and profound knowledge have long attracted Wei Shi deeply, making him unable to stop.

It has been more than two years, nearly three years, everyone said that Wei Xin could not be found, only Wei Mama and Wei Shi were still insisting, Wei Mama's inquiries every half a month never stopped, and Wei Wei I never slack in my study at the time.

On this day, Mother Wei asked Wei Xin again. Wei Shi thought for a while. He had done the hexagrams a few times recently and guessed all the questions asked by the teacher. The accuracy rate was quite high. Wei Shi thought maybe It's time to find out Wei Xin's whereabouts.

This time, Wei Shi didn't let anyone watch. He locked himself in the room, prepared all the things, lit a stick of incense and started "asking God". The so-called "asking God" is Worship to the four directions to get a glimpse of the secret. If the incense stick is extinguished or broken, then it means that the hexagram is not counted, and accidents will happen if the hexagram is counted.

Wei Shi stared nervously at the stick of incense.

He didn't forget that the stick of incense that Mao Laoxian lit back then went out directly, so Mao Laoxian immediately refused to divination for Wei Xin. This time, he wondered if the same thing would happen.

There was a curl of green smoke from the red top of the incense stick. After a while, it still did not go out, and there was no other change. Wei Shi heaved a sigh of relief. This meant that it could be counted. That's the most important thing, he can't lose his sense of proportion and cause the divination to fail.

This time, Wei Shi did get a hexagram, which was similar to the hint given by Mr. Mao back then.

Mao Lao first said "the land of water shade in the north", but Wei Shi's hexagram shows that it is near here. To the north of Weizhuang, the land of water shade, isn't that the tomb of Weizhuang, passing through The creek that divides Weizhuang into two in Weizhuang flows down from the tomb in Weizhuang. Wei Shi's first reaction was that this is impossible. How could Wei Xin be near here? But the hexagram will not lie , Wei Shi now has a little confidence in his divination ability.

I would rather trust it to have it than to trust it to have nothing.

No matter what, you have to take a look, maybe, maybe it's true!

Wei Shi couldn't sit still for a moment, he didn't care about the fact that it was already dark, and he didn't care about the old emergency that Wei Zhuang said in his old life, he wrapped his flashlight in a black dress, walked out of the door evasively, and walked to the grave hill go.

It just rained yesterday, and the mountain road was muddy. From time to time, nocturnal birds flapped their wings and uttered a few shrill calls, which startled people's hearts and souls, and there were insects crawling in the grass at the feet. There was a rustling sound, and the snake or the four-legged insect disappeared on the road with lush weeds. Wei Shi was already used to this, so he was not afraid. He took a stick and tapped the grass in front of him, Scare away the poisonous snakes and insects hiding in the grass.

There is a strong aroma of vegetation in the air, shadowy, with the freshness of rain, it smells very good.

All the way to the grave, Wei Shi's mood was quite bright, but when he got close to the grave, the atmosphere suddenly became gloomy. All kinds of tombstones and undulating graves stopped silently in this small valley. Be it night birds or insects, they all disappeared suddenly, as if they were afraid of disturbing the people in the grave.

Even the moon in the sky withdrew its bright light and became dim.

Wei Shi tore off the black clothes that covered the flashlight, and tied them around his waist casually. He couldn't help but walk very lightly, and walked along the narrow path in the middle of the grave. His forehead and palms were covered with cold sweat. After a while, He saw the tombstone he was holding in his arms when he went evil back then. The writing on it was even more blurred than before. Wei Shi looked at the surrounding mountains and deep valleys.

This is the land of water and shade, could Wei Xin really be here?