Under the bed in Uncle Zhai's room, I found a one-foot-square black wooden box. This black wooden box seemed to be old and covered with dust. The brass corner on one corner was somewhat damaged, and there was a hanging hanging on the box.
The copper lock is also stained with rust.
I didn't bother wiping off the dust on the box, picked it up, ran back to Jianjian's room, and handed it to Uncle Zhai.
Uncle Zhai took out a bunch of keys from his waist. After trying several times, he unscrewed the copper lock and opened the black wooden box. An unpleasant pungent smell immediately hit my nose. I hurriedly
Covering his mouth and nose, he looked into the wooden box and saw that there were some bottles and cans and a few things that looked like dog skin plasters. In addition, there was a rusty and somewhat incomplete piece of paper.
Bronze Bagua mirror.
Uncle Zhai took out a piece of dog skin plaster from the box, and after tearing it open, he tried to put it on Jianjian's chest. Seeing this, I quickly stopped him and said, "Uncle Zhai, you have kept this plaster for so long, how can it still be cured?"
What? How about I go to the Chinese medicine shop next door and invite Doctor Liu to come and have a look."
Uncle Zhai ignored me and just stuck the dog skin plaster on the black mark on Jianjian's chest. Unexpectedly, as soon as the plaster touched Jianjian's skin, he immediately let out a scream, and then his body became violent.
The ground twitched.
This situation shocked me, and I hurriedly said: "I can't stand it anymore, please tear off the plaster!" After saying that, regardless of whether Uncle Zhai answered or not, he reached out and tried to tear it off.
Unexpectedly, Uncle Zhai lifted the dry tobacco pole in his hand, held my stretched out hand, pushed it hard towards my chest, and immediately pushed me aside.
I just felt my chest hurt from being pushed by him. I never thought that the seemingly thin Uncle Zhai could have such great strength.
The look on my face became more and more painful, my eyes were closed tightly, veins popped up on my temples, and big beads of sweat oozed from my forehead. I was so anxious that I ignored the pain in my chest and shouted loudly: "Your dog-skin plasters are all gone."
It’s past the expiration date and you’re still posting it blindly! Look at how I’m being tortured by you! Why don’t you tear it off quickly!”
Uncle Zhai turned his head and glared at me: "What do you know? His disease can only be cured by my expired dog skin plaster!" At this point, he suddenly changed the subject and asked: "Tell me, what happened to you two yesterday?"
Where did Wan go?"
I didn't expect that Uncle Zhai would suddenly ask this, and I felt a little panicked. Before I could answer, he asked again: "Have you gone to the southern suburbs of the county?"
When I heard "the southern suburbs of the county town", my heart suddenly skipped a beat, and I thought to myself: "How did this old man know that we went to the southern suburbs of the county town? Could it be that Jianjian said something to him when I went to get the medicine box just now?" Thinking of this
, I became more and more panicked, and stammered: "I... we... went to a classmate's house, and he... his family lived... in the southern suburbs of the county..."
After hearing this, Uncle Zhai didn't say much. Instead, he turned around and stared at Jianjian lying on the bed, looking worried. After pondering for a long time, he said softly: "There will be less time in that place from now on."
go!"
Uncle Zhai has always been very easy-going, but I have never seen him so serious. I guess he must know something about the ruined earth temple. I couldn't help but be a little curious, but I didn't dare to ask more questions.
After about ten minutes, Jianjian didn't seem to be in so much pain, and his face softened significantly, and the dog-skin plaster on his chest actually emitted black mist as thin as a gossamer. Zhai Bo saw that
Then he grabbed Jianjian's wrist and checked his pulse for a while, before his frown finally relaxed.
He stretched out his hand and tore off the dog-skin plaster. When I saw it, the mark on Jianjian's chest had disappeared without a trace, leaving no trace at all.
"Uncle Zhai, what kind of disease does Jian Jian have?" I couldn't hold back my curiosity and finally summoned the courage to ask.
"He is not ill! He is possessed by an evil spirit! Fortunately, the evil is not deep, so my exorcism sticker can still come in handy, otherwise I would have to do a ritual." Uncle Zhai said, throwing away the dog-skin plaster.
aside.
"Then...how could he be possessed by evil spirits?" I asked knowingly.
"Something evil happened at the south gate. I guess you two happened to bump into it last night."
"What evil happened?" I continued to ask.
Uncle Zhai glanced at me and said with a smile: "You brat, why are you asking so many questions? I'm not afraid that the boss will beat you if he finds out!"
As soon as I heard this, I immediately didn't dare to ask any more questions. My uncle explicitly prohibited Bianjian and I from touching this matter, and we were not even allowed to ask any more questions.
Uncle Zhai stood up and said, "I have to go see the shop. You go and have breakfast first. I'll help you get one later." After saying that, he picked up the black wooden box, turned around and limped down.
Upstairs.
At noon, Huang Yixian came back from the countryside. As soon as Uncle Zhai saw Huang Yixian, he whispered in his ear for a long time. Huang Yixian's face became more and more ugly. I saw it from a distance, and my heart couldn't stop beating wildly.
I don’t know what Uncle Zhai said to him. If he knew that Jianjian and I got home after ten o’clock last night, he would definitely beat me up.
However, after Uncle Zhai finished muttering, Huang Yixian did not call me over, but went straight upstairs and walked into Jianjian's room. By this time, Jianjian was fine. Maybe he didn't sleep well last night, plus
After all the hard work in the morning, he was still a little weak, so he was lying on the bed sleeping. Huang Yixian walked over and, without saying a word, opened Jianjian's clothes and looked at his chest, and then took his pulse for a while.
After confirming that he was indeed fine, he breathed a sigh of relief.
I stood outside Jianjian's door, not daring to go in. Huang Yixian came out of Jianjian's house, glanced at me, and said, "Come with me, I have something to ask you!" His tone was quite calm, which made
My tense heart relaxed a little.
I followed Huang Yixian into the study, and now I felt completely relaxed, because the study was filled with Huang Yixian's treasures. He was afraid of accidentally breaking them, so he never hit me in the study.
"Did you go to the southern suburbs of the county yesterday?" Huang Yixian asked straight to the point as soon as he entered the door.
I guessed that Uncle Zhai must have told him, and I didn't dare to hide it, so I had to bite the bullet and nodded.
"Did you see an earth temple on the road?"
I nodded again, but immediately regretted it. The Earth Temple in the south of the city had been abandoned for many years and has now become a garbage dump. It is usually difficult to tell that it is an Earth Temple. But now I told Huang Yixian that I had seen the Earth Temple.
, isn’t it exposed?
My mind turned around and I quickly explained: "That Earth Temple has become a garbage dump. My classmates told us that it used to be an Earth Temple."
"It turned into a garbage dump?" Huang Yixian looked a little surprised, but then he recovered his expression and asked again: "So, is there a peach tree next to the Earth Temple?"
I never expected that Huang Yixian would actually ask about the peach tree. My head started to buzz, my cheeks felt hot, and I was so nervous that I didn't know how to answer.
Huang Yixian noticed something was wrong with my expression, glared, and shouted: "You brat, are you hiding something from me? Tell me quickly, or I'll break your legs!"
I definitely didn't dare to say that Jianjian and I were secretly making peach wood swords, but if I didn't explain something now, it seemed like I wouldn't be able to pass Huang Yixian's test. In desperation, I had to say: "We have a toy
The good classmate lives in the southern suburbs. His family is relatively poor, so he wants to pick some plum peaches to sell peach cores. Yesterday we went to help him pick plum peaches! We saw that the plum peach tree next to the Tutu Temple had a lot of plum peaches, right there.
But because the tree was too tall, the top ones couldn’t be reached, so...so we...just sawed down the whole tree..."
"What!" After hearing what I said, Huang Yixian's face changed drastically. He picked up a toy on the desk and raised it high above his head, as if he wanted to hit me. However, he glanced at the toy and put it down gently.
Oh, it was a white jade toy, it must be worth a lot of money, and he was reluctant to do it. Moreover, I actually knew that he was just scaring me, not to mention that this was in the study, so even if he really wanted to hit me, he wouldn't.
There is actually a set of rules for beating me with open hands like this. Every time, I am asked to kneel in front of the portrait of the founder of our sect and kowtow to admit my mistake. Moreover, he must hit me with the ruler. In his words, he
After all, he is not my master, so he cannot hit me casually, but the ruler was given to him by his master. Using it to hit me is tantamount to teaching his apprentice for the master.
Even though I knew he was just scaring me, I was still so nervous that I lowered my head and didn't dare to express my anger.
After Huang Yixian paced back and forth in the room angrily for a few times, he suddenly stopped and shouted at me: "Do you know how much trouble you brats have caused!?"
I buried my head lower, not daring to look up at him, let alone answer him.
However, although he was very angry, he didn't seem to have any intention of beating me, because he never asked me to kowtow in front of the Patriarch and admit my mistake.
After a while, Huang Yixian sighed and said: "Oh, no wonder you guys, you don't understand these things, that's all. You go out first, and help me call Uncle Zhai."
I felt relieved and hurriedly slipped out of the study. Unexpectedly, as soon as I went out, I bumped into Uncle Zhai head-on. Because I was just burying my head in walking quickly and didn't pay attention at all, I almost bumped into Uncle Zhai.
Even though Uncle Zhai was thin and lame on one leg, nothing happened to me when I hit him so inertly. On the contrary, I was knocked so hard that I tripped over the threshold and almost fell down.
Fortunately, Uncle Zhai had quick eyes and quick hands and grabbed me by the collar.