I really admire the courage of Lantern Festival. In this case, I definitely dare not look in. Because when I was a child, I heard my grandfather tell me a similar story. Now I think about it, maybe it was his personal experience, and it was also his grandfather's story, which left me a psychological shadow. I still dare not look into the darkness through the gap, for fear of seeing something I shouldn't see...

It was when my grandfather was about fifty years old, and that year I was only six or seven years old. I don’t know if my grandfather of that age had participated in the fight, even though my grandfather once warned me: Don’t worry about the world, and don’t forget the world’s art. Unfortunately, my uncle lost the first word “no” and never forgot about the world’s art, but he has also participated in this world.

The second uncle is the one with the most similar temperament among my father, brothers and sisters, who is the most similar to my grandfather, so I think the things that my second uncle did when he was young must have done when he was young.

But what makes my grandfather better than my second uncle is that he not only inherited the skills of Faqiu, but also had superb medical skills. Due to some reasons, my grandfather did not practice medicine. However, my grandfather is famous. If people from all over the countryside get sick or even encounter some inexplicable evil diseases, the first thing they think of is my grandfather.

Early that morning, Team Zhang from Baliqiao ran to his grandfather's house in a panic. After asking for the door to open, he didn't even have time to enter the door. He told his grandfather in anger that his son looked very tired after going out to play at noon yesterday. He ate a few bites of food and went to bed. As a result, he slept until dinner. The family called him several times but didn't wake up. He just heard a word in his mouth: There were eyes in that crack!

The family thought that the child might be tired of playing and dreaming and talking, so they didn't care too much. As a result, until the night, Deputy Teammate Zhang's son kept sleeping and could not wake up no matter what. While the child was asleep, he was still muttering the words: There were pairs of eyes in the gap!

Now the deputy teammate Zhang and his wife were a little worried. They asked the older elderly man in the village. The old man told them that it might be that the child was scared and lost his soul, so they had to conjure the soul quickly.

I have heard of the saying that summoning children’s souls since I was a child. It is also one of the “feudal superstitious” methods I have seen that have no scientific basis but have immediate results. This is really inexplicable.

My father was a witness to this kind of thing. In the 1960s and 1970s, when all the people had to go to the fields to participate in the production labor. At that time, my father was still very young, so my grandmother had to take her father to go there. During this period, my father was playing in the fields, and suddenly there was a big rabbit that ran out of nowhere. The rabbit had red eyes and sagged ears. My father was startled by the sudden death and burst into tears.

Grandma tried every possible way, but she couldn't comfort her father who was crying until night. So grandma handed her father over to her, took one of her father's small cotton jackets, and came to the place where she was scared during the day. Grandma opened her small cotton jacket, walked around that place three times in a row, then hugged her small cotton jacket in her arms, turned around and walked straight home. Grandma walked back to her father who was still crying at home, and she would never look back during this period.

At that time, grandma covered her little cotton jacket in her arms on her father and said it was strange. Dad stopped crying immediately and fell asleep quietly. When he woke up the next day, his father had nothing to do, as usual. This method of summoning souls was different from that in various places, but the form was similar, and the effect was obvious for children to be scared, and it was almost effective.

Why use the word "almost"? Because the situation they encountered was an exception when Team Vice President Zhang came to look for his grandfather that day. At that time, they used all kinds of ways to collect the child's soul, but none of them worked. The child was still sleepy. What was even more worrying was that the child's face had turned pale and his breath had become much weaker, but the sentence was still chanting from time to time: There were eyes in that crack!

Many old people in the village came to see him and thought that this was not just a soul loss, but probably because they were possessed by evil spirits. If this continues, I am afraid that the child will not be able to survive the next day and must quickly hire a master. So he always thought that this was a superstitious Deputy Team Zhang, and he did not dare to delay any more at this time, and ran to invite his grandfather in one breath.

After hearing the description of Team Zhang's deputy, his grandfather felt that it was not too late. He asked Team Zhang to rush back immediately, make some preparations, and clean up the company by himself and come immediately. When Grandpa rushed to Team Zhang's house, Team Zhang was waiting anxiously at the door. When he entered the house, Team Zhang's wife was sitting on the bed wiping tears. When he saw Grandpa coming in, he knelt on the ground and begged Grandpa to save his children.

Grandpa told her not to panic, then went up to check the child and listened to the child's words like muttering.

"Eyes in the gap?" Grandpa measured a little, and his brows frowned. Grandpa could see that the child must have received a sudden shock and became like this, but it was useless to collect his soul, and he was afraid that something would be stationary.

Grandpa asked in detail about where the child played during the day before, and then led people there. Grandpa looked at the place from a distance and immediately felt something was wrong. The place was almost flat in a radius of more than ten miles, full of weeds and some short shrubs. There was a mound in the middle of this wilderness, and there was a big locust tree growing on the mound. Moreover, the locust tree was so big that standing under the tree, the shade of the whole tree could be said to be covering the sky and the sun.

It was the day of summer at that time, and the scorching sun outside was blowing, and the people were sweating constantly. However, under the shade of the tree, it was very cool. Moreover, when people stood under the tree, they could even feel a chill, not only the chill felt by the body, but also a chill coming from the bottom of their hearts.

Grandpa told me that he felt that there must be something wrong with this big locust tree. Because he had heard people before that the willow, the locust tree is known as the five ghosts in the tree. There are also folk songs saying: Don’t plant mulberry in front, don’t plant willows behind, and don’t plant ghosts in front of the door clapping. Grandpa told me that at that time, and I believed it when I was still young, but now after I talked to my second uncle about the background of our Zhuo family, I knew that my grandfather must have hidden it from me in this part, maybe he didn’t want me to be involved in the circle of backfighting again.

Not to mention the eyesight of my grandfather, even a half-baked man like me who has been studying with my second uncle for a few days, I know that within a radius of more than ten miles, there is only this big locust tree. The locust tree belongs to the Yin and likes to grow in places with heavy Yin energy. Moreover, this locust tree grows so huge. From the perspective of Feng Shui, the point of the locust tree must be the place where Yin energy gathers within a radius of more than ten miles, and there must be problems with the mound under the tree.

Grandpa must have seen this not-so-complex Feng Shui situation at a glance, and the things I saw must have been much more than I thought of.

Grandpa told Deputy Zhang that if he wanted to save his child, the root cause was here.

Team Vice President Zhang nodded repeatedly, saying that as long as he could save the child, he followed Mr. Zhuo's instructions. Grandpa nodded, and immediately someone used quicklime to circle the small mound, killed two roosters, and poured the chicken blood on the quicklime. The chicken blood with water added to the quicklime immediately boiled under the action of quicklime.

Deputy Captain Zhang called a few more young men, and grandpa ordered them: "Saw the tree!"

Some of them muttered, "This is a century-old tree. I heard from the old man that this tree has spirituality, so it cannot be sawed."

Deputy Captain Zhang glared at him, "Who said this? This statement is feudal superstition. Whoever talks randomly will be the remnants of feudal forces and will be judged by the people!" Deputy Captain Zhang put a big hat on his back and dared to accept it. The others stopped talking.

Deputy Zhang thought about it and probably felt that he was a little bit like he wanted the state officials to set fire and not allow the people to light the lamps, so he continued, "I tell you, I invited Mr. Zhuo to come to see the children. Cut this tree to clear the roots of feudal thought. Moreover, the wood of this tree should be used in production and construction."

In that era, this was originally a Feng Shui Yin and Yang technique, but it turned out to be full of extremely positive construction significance.

No one raised any objections now. Several young men in the village shook their arms and started to saw the tree. Unexpectedly, the locust tree had a very hard texture. Several young men took turns to go barefoot. After sawing it for a long time, the big locust tree fell to the ground. What was shocking was that a lot of black water flowed out from the broken part of the locust tree. Everyone couldn't help but talk.

Grandpa asked Team Deputy Zhang to quickly get a child's clothes, and circled around the small mound, shouting the child's name three times, running home in one breath without looking back, and covering the clothes on the child's body, so the child will be safe and sound.

Teammate Zhang acted as he said. Sure enough, the moment the clothes were covered on the child, the child woke up and opened his mouth to shout hungry. The family cried with joy and knelt down to thank his grandfather one after another. The villagers even regarded his grandfather as a god.

Actually, I understand in my heart that this is not a difficult thing for descendants of the Faqiu family like my grandfather.

That night, Team Zhang, deputy teammate, kept his grandfather at home for dinner and invited him to stay at his home that day. Originally, with his grandfather's personality, he would definitely not agree, but that time, his grandfather did not refuse because he knew something would happen the next day. He planned to handle it before leaving behind the villagers, so as not to leave any troubles.

I also asked my grandfather why he did this.

Grandpa told me that people should accumulate virtue and do good deeds to make up for their deeds that they have lost in doing wrong things.

I didn't understand it at that time, but now thinking about it, my grandfather's words still refer to him. He often fights and robs tombs and will consume some good deeds. Doing some good deeds can also be considered accumulating good deeds for himself and seeking blessings for his descendants.

Grandpa thought it was not bad at all. Early the next morning, someone rushed to Team Zhang's house in a panic and asked, "Is Old Fairy Zhuo still there?"
Chapter completed!