123. Magic Stick (14) (1/2)

123. Magic Stick (14) (1/2)

In such a remote mountain village, an old man with gray hair was carrying a high load of firewood down the mountain. He had just fallen down, but luckily it didn't hurt much. It took him a long time to pick up the firewood again.

When I walked halfway up the mountain, I suddenly found a man standing on a big rock beside the path.

He should be wearing a Taoist robe, his sleeves were blown by the wind, and he was looking down at something with his back to the old man.

"Hunter, there is a cliff at the bottom. It's dangerous. Come down quickly."

When the man turned around and saw his face clearly, the old man couldn't help but be stunned. He had lived for more than seventy years, and he had never seen a man as good-looking as this young man.

"Old man, what's at the bottom of this cliff?"

The old man listened to this light and unusually pleasant voice, and was stunned for a second before replying, "I don't know what it is. There is no village living down there, and the road is difficult to walk. No one has been there."

"I heard there is a river, but I don't know if it's true."

Wei Mingyan nodded, stood on a high stone, and took out a turtle shell from his sleeve, "Thank you for showing me the way. It's fate that we met each other. How about I tell you a fortune?"

"Fortune telling?"

The old man had seen a fortune teller. When he was young, his father took him to an old blind man who lived down the mountain to tell his fortune. The fortune teller predicted that his children would be rich and powerful in his life. When his father was happy, he would give him more money. Got two eggs.

So many years have passed. His wife died young and he didn't want to marry again. He has lost his son and a half daughters, and he has no wealth. It's a pity that the old blind man left long ago before he got married, otherwise he can still say that he has the final say. Not accurate.

Because the old blind man didn't believe in these fortune tellers. He carried firewood and shook his head with difficulty, "No, I don't have money to tell fortunes."

"It's almost dark. It's not easy to walk at night. You'd better go down the mountain quickly."

"I'll do it for you, no charge."

"No, no, no, I don't believe this..."

The handsome Taoist priest seemed not to have heard what he said. He dropped the big stone and threw away the turtle shell. He looked at the copper coins that fell on the stone and raised his eyebrows slightly. "I lost my mother at the age of three, my father at the age of sixteen, and I lost my father at the age of twenty-seven." Lost his wife, lost his son, now seventy-nine..."

He opened his lips but did not say the rest of the words.

The old man paused as he was about to continue walking. He turned to look at Wei Mingyan, his eyes full of disbelief, "How did you know that my wife was pregnant when she died?"

The Taoist priest picked up the tortoise shell and put it in his sleeve, "Old man, you are destined to be a granddaughter, but you are not a biological child, so the fate is shallow."

"Really accurate, really accurate..."

The old man murmured, "I picked up a child before. She was left in the mountains. She was only a little older without a father and a mother. She looked pitiful so she kept her and raised her like a granddaughter."

"The fate is shallow, which means that this granddaughter has left you. Can I ask the reason?"

"I have no ability and am too poor. My little granddaughter is suffering with me. Her uncle knows someone in the city who wants to adopt a child. He told me and I asked him to take her away."

"She is good-looking and well-behaved. If she goes to that family, she can go to school at least and won't have to suffer with a bad old man like me."

Wei Mingyan slowly walked up to the old man, looked at the tall pile of firewood on his back and the scratched backs of his hands, and asked in a warm voice, "Did you not contact her again after sending her away?"

The old man shook his head, "We can't contact her. Her uncle said that people want to adopt a child because they are afraid that she will remember. If I don't contact her, if she doesn't remember, they will treat her as their biological child."

After he finished speaking, he said, "Your calculation is really accurate and you have real ability."

Wei Mingyan raised his eyes slightly, looked at the firewood, and chuckled, "Then are you still willing to let me tell your fortune?"

The old man hesitated, "Do you really not charge money?"

Seeing this, the Taoist priest's smile did not change and he said warmly, "If you feel sorry for me, just take me in for one night. It just so happens that I don't have anywhere to stay."

"That's okay, but my family is poor and I may not have anything good to entertain you."

"Thank you then. Let's go down the mountain first."

"Okay, okay... By the way, this dog can eat human food, right? I heard that young people nowadays feed dogs whatever dog food they want, and they are not allowed to eat human food."

Looking at the old man in front of him who was bent like a shrimp under the weight of the firewood on his back, Wei Mingyan touched the rhubarb that was following him obediently and said softly, "Don't worry, I've prepared food."

The old man glanced hesitantly at the young Taoist priest who had brought nothing but a dog, and swallowed back what he wanted to ask.

***

"Uncle, what's wrong with your face? It's so black and blue, it looks really scary." On their way down the mountain, they met a villager carrying a hoe. They were stunned when they saw the old man, and then they hurriedly came up to him after seeing clearly.

"It's okay. Didn't it rain last night? The road was slippery and I fell. It's nothing serious. It doesn't hurt much."

"Doesn't it really hurt? It looks weird. I have some medicinal wine. I'll bring it to you later."

"It's okay. I have rough skin and thick flesh, so it doesn't hurt anyway."

The villagers were hesitant to look at the dark blood stains on the old man's face, and then looked at Wei Mingyan who was slowly walking over with confusion, "Uncle, what is this?"

"Oh, this is..."

"Hello, my surname is Wei. I am a fortune teller. I will stay in the village tonight." Taoist Master Junmei answered by himself before the old man finished his introduction.

"Fortune teller?"

The villagers looked at Wei Mingyan. He was indeed wearing a Taoist robe, but he was probably too young.

He heard from his eldest son that now monks also have to go to college and need a diploma. The monks in the temple are all young, and I guess this fortune teller is about the same.

The villagers and the old man had the same idea. They didn't really believe it, but they didn't say what they thought.

"Okay, uncle, go back first. I'll ask the boy at home to bring the medicinal wine."

Wei Mingyan turned around and glanced at the villager, "Wait a moment."

The villager turned around in confusion, and the stranger said, "You have blue eyebrows, and you look like you have lost your son. It's best not to let your son go out today, especially not near water."

Hearing these words, the villagers' expressions suddenly changed. Who is willing to hear that his son will die? But this man is a Taoist priest. Although he doesn't believe it, he still feels a little scared.

"Lao Liu, you have to tell me what the tunnel leader said. He just calculated it for me and it's pretty accurate. Don't let Cai Cai go out today. My wound is fine and it doesn't hurt at all."

The old man believed it quickly, after all, he had just experienced it personally.

The villager nodded hesitantly, still not believing it in his eyes, but because of the old man's words, he still said, "Then I'll watch Cai Cai and won't let him go out. Uncle, if you feel pain, just call me. I just brewed this medicinal wine this year. It works.”

He hesitated and glanced at the handsome man who looked more like a star than a Taoist priest, "Thank you, Taoist priest, for reminding me."

Watching the villagers leave, the old man said to Wei Mingyan, "The eldest son of the sixth son is in college. He also believes in science, so he doesn't believe it very much. Don't be offended. He is very nice. I helped send his mother to the town when she was sick when he was a child." , He always remembers me and loves to help me."

"I know."

Wei Mingyan listened to the old man's explanation and glanced at the villagers' backs with a smile, his eyes thoughtful, "Good intentions are rewarded."

***

The villager known as Lao Liu returned home with a hoe. Her daughter-in-law had just finished cooking and was placing dishes on the table. When her husband came back, she casually said, "Wash your hands and eat."

Lao Liu looked around the yard and saw that his son was no longer playing in front of the pile of sand where he always was. Thinking of what the young Taoist priest said just now, he felt inexplicably panicked for a moment.

"Where's Cai Cai?"

"He's watching TV in the house. Call him out after washing your hands. This little guy won't even eat when the TV is on."

"Just watch, I won't go out for the whole day after eating."

Hearing his wife's answer, Lao Liu breathed a sigh of relief and at the same time felt funny that he actually believed these words.

Cai Cai likes watching TV so much, especially these days. She squats in the house every day and refuses to go out. How could she go to the waterside? She is indeed a charlatan.

His son said that he must believe in science. Fortune-telling and other things are all feudal superstition and have no scientific basis at all.

Lao Liu went to the house to call someone, and his wife was about to get the dishes and chopsticks. A young man stood outside with a big bag on his back and shouted, "Mom!"

"Hua Hua!!"

The woman who had just left the table raised her head in surprise and hurriedly came over to help her son untie the big bag on his body, "Why did you come back without saying a word? You told us in advance that your father would pick you up. "

"What are we going to pick up after such a long journey? Where are my dad and Cai Cai?"

The young man smiled and strode forward, saying as he walked, "I have saved up a month's leave, plus applied for it in advance. This time I can stay at home for ten days and spend time with you."

In the room, the little boy was pouting unhappy because he was not allowed to watch TV. He heard his brother's voice just as he was about to step over the steps. His eyes lit up, and the unhappiness on his face was wiped away. He walked with his short legs. Run outside.

"elder brother!!"

"Naicai!" The young man smiled and picked up his younger brother to tease him, "Have you listened to your parents? Have you?"

"Yes, yes! Brother, please don't tickle me..."

The woman smiled and went to add the bowls and chopsticks, and the sixth child also looked at the eldest son and the younger son with a smile on their face, kissing each other non-stop, with his eyes full of love for the two children.

The family sat together happily eating, listening to the eldest son talk about his work in the city, the sixth child smiled and remembered what happened today.

"I just met a Taoist priest who told me that I had blue eyebrows and that I was going to lose my son. He also told me not to go near the water. I was shocked when I couldn't see Cai Cai when I came back."

"Bah, bah, bah, why are you saying this! Even if our food is good, you say it's bad." The wife rolled her eyes at her husband angrily, and gave each of the two sons a chopstick of food.

"Eat more and grow stronger."

The eldest son was a little helpless. He had been working for a year and how could he still gain weight? But thinking about it and looking at the food cooked by his mother, he still happily ate it.

Their family is one of the rare happy ones in the village. The relationship between the husband and wife is harmonious, and everything is discussed and negotiated. The husband is considerate of his wife, and the wife cares about her husband. The eldest son has been admitted to a key university and has been working for the family for one year. With the addition of electrical appliances, although the younger son is a bit naughty, he can be regarded as a well-behaved elf. He is also very active in asking him to run errands and so on.

The family is harmonious and beautiful, and I don’t know how happy they are.

After dinner, the younger son took the older son into the house to whisper, while the sixth son helped his wife clean up the dishes. Although she was happy that her son was back, she felt empty and uncomfortable for some reason.

"Let's keep an eye on Cai Cai for a while and don't let him go out. I always feel uncomfortable."

"You have a soft ear, and you can't be accurate with this kind of thing. Before I got married, my second aunt's sister got married, and the fortune teller said that she and my brother-in-law were a match made in heaven. What happened? Within half a year, I cried back. The family is divorced."

"I know, but that man doesn't look like a liar. He looks just like the fairy in the painting, and Uncle Genzi also said he was accurate. You know that Uncle Genzi never lies to others."

Hearing Uncle Genzi, the woman paused in washing the dishes. She looked hesitant on her face, but she quickly found the reason, "Uncle Genzi is easier to deceive than you. He must have been fooled by someone. That person told you about water." Bian, we Cai Cai don’t like to go out at all, we just stay at home and stay by the water.”

"Okay, okay, if you're worried, I'll keep an eye on Cai Cai and not ask him to go out, okay."

Although she didn't agree with her husband's words, she couldn't see his frowning expression of distress, so she had no choice but to agree.

"It's rare for Huahua to go home. Go inside and talk to him. If he's tired, let him rest. Don't let Cai Cai make any noise."

The sixth child nodded, put his fingers in his pocket, and was about to take out a cigarette to smoke. Suddenly he remembered that his eldest son didn't like smoking by himself, so he quickly stuffed it in again.

His son always said that smoking is harmful to health. Every time he saw him smoking, he planned to take him to a big city for a full-body check-up.

That's fine. Why spend that money? My son is at home these days. At worst, he will avoid being smoked.

Seeing her man enter the house, the wife smiled and continued to wash the dishes. Her happiness because her son was back continued.

She felt that she was really lucky to be able to marry such a good man and give birth to such a good child.

When her sister and brother-in-law passed away, she was left with only an infant Caicai and a few hundred yuan which was not enough to support a child. When her brother-in-law's relatives threw the child over as if they were throwing away some garbage, it was clear that at that time the family The conditions were not good, but her husband still took charge of the child.

This man raised Cai Cai as his own child, and Hua Hua also accepted this younger brother, played with him, and taught him to read and write.

Looking at the whole village, which family is willing to feed a child for nothing, so she is really lucky.

The woman washed the dishes and saw that the table had been cleared by her husband. She waved her hands and went into the house. The younger son was laughing and fussing with the older son. The husband didn't know if he was tired during the day and was lying on the bed snoring. The thundering sound.

She came to her sons lightly and said, "Okay, you two go and play in your room. Dad is tired, so let him sleep."

Cai Cai still wanted to stay and watch TV, but her eldest son picked her up and said, "Let's go, brother will take you to our house to play poker."

This is the brothers' game, and a deck of cards can last all day.

Watching her two sons go out, the woman smiled and sat by the bed, undressing her husband.

shoe.

"I asked you to talk to your son and go to bed without taking off your shoes."

The man on the bed opened his eyes in a daze and wanted to take off his clothes, but she pressed him down, "Okay, I know you are tired, go to sleep."

People in the village generally go to bed early. The woman went out to take a bath, lay down next to her husband and got ready to sleep.

I was sleeping here when suddenly the loud crying of my little son came from the side room over there.

Lao Liu, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly woke up and quickly got out of bed, "I'm going to take a look at Cai Cai."

The woman quickly put on her clothes and followed. Her son's room was not far away, and they arrived within two steps.

When he opened the door curtain, his youngest son was the only one on the bed.

"Cai Cai, what's wrong, Cai Cai?"

Lao Liu watched the child grow up and regarded him as his own son. He quickly stepped forward to hold him in his arms and comfort him.

"Brother, my brother is gone. I want my brother..."

The little boy cried so hard that he couldn't breathe, and tears fell down his face.

The couple looked around and saw that their eldest son was nowhere to be seen, so they quickly called him. Fortunately, the call was answered quickly.

"I'm hungry. I'm going to buy some food at the entrance of the village. Is Caicai awake? I saw he fell asleep before leaving."

Hearing his son's voice, Lao Liu breathed a sigh of relief and hung up the phone after answering a few times.

Putting down the phone, he hugged his youngest son and coaxed him, "Cai Cai is good, my brother went to buy some delicious food and will be back soon."

"No!!"

The little boy who usually behaves as soon as he says it is unwilling to let go at this moment, "I want my brother now, I want my brother!"

"Naicai! Be obedient. My brother will be back soon. He is at the entrance of the village. Don't cry." The wife was a little angry. Isn't this child usually very well-behaved? Why are you not obedient at all today?

"My brother just left. I saw him leaving. I want my brother. Dad, go and get my brother back. Dad, go and find him!"

The little boy shook his adoptive father's hand and cried so hard that he could hardly breathe, "Dad, go quickly, go!!"

The child's cry was the sharpest and harshest. Lao Liu felt uncomfortable listening to it. In addition, he had been restless since he woke up just now, so he simply stood up and walked out.

"I'll go pick up the kid."

"It's late at night. Huahua is not a child. What else are you doing? Don't worry about Cai Cai. It's probably because he hasn't seen his brother for too long and he's making a fuss."

"No, I don't know why I feel so uncomfortable. I can just go for a walk."

Moreover, the words that the young and strange Taoist priest said during the day kept ringing in his mind.

He said he told his son not to go out and stay away from the water.

At that time, the eldest son hadn't come back yet, so he thought the Taoist priest was talking about Cai Cai, but now Hua Hua is back too. If you really want to calculate it, Hua Hua is his biological son, and Hua Hua has been afraid of water since he was a child...

The cry of his youngest son and the uncertainty in his heart made the head of the family move faster.

Their home is relatively close to the foot of the mountain, and there is indeed a river from the entrance of the village, but the bridge over the river is surrounded by railings. It is okay for children to fall if they are playful in the water. Huahua is so big, there is no way he will be fine.

Although he was thinking this way, Lao Liu still felt like he was holding a breath of air in his heart. He quickly walked to the edge of the millstone not far from the river. Looking from here, he could see the light of a mobile phone flashing across the bridge. Move towards him.

It should be his son Huahua, and the man breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that he really thinks too much. Didn't his son tell him all this? Believe in science.

He was about to call his son's name when he suddenly heard a collapse sound, and then his son's scream.

——Plop!

The man watched helplessly as the bridge collapsed and his son fell into the water. He had no time to think and rushed over madly.

His son fell into the water.

Huahua is in danger.

He jumped into the water and tried his best to pull his son up. Until he reached the shore, these two sentences were in his mind.

"Cough cough cough...Dad?"

The young man only splashed in the water for a few times before he was rescued. Apart from choking a few mouthfuls of water because of panic, he had no other major problems. He recovered from the panic for a while, and then realized that the person who saved him was his biological father. .

Before he could ask why he was here, he was suddenly pulled up.

"dad?"

The man was soaked all over and couldn't help but shudder when the cold wind blew him. However, the words of Taoist Priest Bai Tian rang in his mind.

——It’s best not to let your son go out today, especially not near water.

"Dad? Ahem, where are we going? Can we go home and change clothes first?"

He silently pulled his son, who looked confused, to a dilapidated house in a panic and knocked on the door.

"Woof woof woof!!"

"Woof woof woof!!"

When the dogs in the village heard the noise, they all barked, each one louder than the last.

The door opened, and after seeing clearly that the person who opened the door was the handsome Taoist priest, the man knelt on the ground with a plop.

"Thank you, Taoist Master, thank you Taoist Master!!"

"You don't have to thank me."

Wei Mingyan glanced at the young man who was standing there with a confused look on his face and was soaked all over, and said, "If you hadn't taken in that child, you wouldn't have been warned."

"Children often have the most accurate intuition."

Lao Liu was trembling all over. He straightened up and asked, "Master, my son has saved his life. Will he be in danger in the future?"

Although he didn't believe this, he often heard the old people in the village say when he was a child that those who saved a life like this must pay a price.

"His life has changed, no one can tell."

"Then, do I, should I take out the money..."

"Um……"

Wei Mingyan pondered for a second, then looked at the young man who was still confused, and raised his eyebrows, "Young man, your surname is Science?"

Zhong Hua nodded subconsciously, and then smiled when he saw the handsome man in Taoist robes in front of him.

"What a coincidence, I believe it too."

"Ouch??"

The yellow dog that no one could see waggled its tail on the ground and watched Wei Mingyan help the young man into the house, following the instructions.

"We are destined, come and have a chat?"

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