However, Su Rou pointed at Old Wu as if he had discovered a new world and said, "Oh, don't blame Brother Xiao Ding. You see, his master can't even play."
Old Man Jiang smiled even more unscrupulously, took two puffs of the dry cigarette that Old Man Wu had just handed him, and then said: "Two melon babies."
When old man Jiang laughed at us, Xiao Ding stopped. When Surou and I sang and talked about him just now, he just smiled shyly. When I mentioned his master, he became anxious.
"No, no...it's not like that. It's not meant to be played, and...it's not meant to be sung." This little Ding became incoherent in a hurry, and neither Surou nor I could figure out what he was saying. .
"He means to tell you that the bamboo flute is not a flute for playing ditties. It is used to drive away snakes. Do you think the snakes didn't bite just now? It wasn't Xiaoding who was playing the bamboo flute to drive away snakes. A snake? And their master gave us medicine powder." Old Man Jiang finally came out to help Xiao Ding out of trouble.
"But the bamboo flute doesn't make any sound, how can it drive away snakes? Why is it so nervous?" I was very curious, and Surou had never heard of these things. He stared at my master with his narrow eyes, waiting for the answer. .
"Just take a look." Old Man Jiang calmly smoked his cigarette pot and pointed to the bottom of the table for us to take a look.
A strange thing happened. The snakes that were originally gathered here began to move. They were no longer as densely packed together as before, giving people a feeling of anxiety and hesitation, but began to move towards the curtain one after another. The other end swam slowly and seemed to be going out.
"Master, tell me quickly, what's going on?" I immediately jumped on Old Man Jiang's back, pulling on his collar and asking.
Old Man Jiang grabbed me, and then said: "I don't know what other people's special skills are, or how to play them. But I can tell you the principle. You know the snake How do you see the world? Basically, you rely on your tongue to feel the heat and vibrations. In order to survive in the wild, snakes naturally have a set of instincts about what kind of heat and what kind of vibrations are dangerous. To put it bluntly, playing the bamboo flute Repeling snakes is to imitate a kind of vibration to make snakes feel that they are in danger. But there are a lot of details here. These vibration methods are the secrets of snake exorcists. There are other methods. There are many, for those who play with snakes. As a master, there is almost no snake that cannot be dealt with, and when you reach a certain level, you can even communicate with snake spirits."
I was stunned for a while. It turns out that snakes... what, their eyes are useless without tongues? What is that little bamboo flute vibrating
"This... this bamboo flute is... not an ordinary flute. The method of making it is... very particular... and... difficult to make." This little Ding stuttered when he was excited, but my master came out to explain, As soon as the siege was saved, he became proud.
"Wow, so fierce, so powerful!" Su Rou was already amazed, and I nodded repeatedly.
But I was a little strange. I looked at my master and said, "Master, how do you know so much? Do you also know that snakes use tongues?"
Old Man Jiang glanced at me with some pride and said: "Is this strange? So I asked you to study hard, thinking that becoming a Taoist priest would eliminate the need for studying? I'll tell you, I came out of a university back then, and I still I have studied abroad and majored in biology. There has never been a true Taoist priest who is uneducated and has no skills. If he cannot learn, he cannot learn metaphysics, because people who do not understand science think that everything is caused by strange power and chaos."
Speaking of excitement, Old Man Jiang slapped me on the butt: "I won't tell you that much. Anyway, just remember it for me. If you lose points in your studies in the future, I won't be able to spank you!" "
Okay, I admit that I almost cried when I was scolded by Old Man Jiang, and the slap just now was really hard! I just really didn’t expect that my master, who is like a blind stream, is also a scholar of reading. No, no, no, a top student, he must have been stupid because of reading.
"Let me tell you, don't think that snake exorcists are a mysterious profession. They are more mysterious than the world's best zoologists who study snakes..." Old Man Jiang continued to lecture me, but At this time, Old Wu Tou came to my rescue.
"Old Jiang, the snake has been driven away. Should we go deal with the snake spirit?"
"Snake spirits, we need to get rid of them. If we don't get them, we'll be in trouble. If we don't get them, these snakes will have to gather here. The earth nourishes yin, yin gathers snakes, and snakes generate yin. If we want to save these dead souls, we must completely break this gathering yin." We must deal with this snake spirit." Old Man Jiang muttered in a broken voice, as if the snake spirit was putting him in a difficult position.
"Okay, wait until I drive away these snakes completely, and then we can deal with the snake spirits." Old Wu Boss nodded and said, then stuffed the small emerald green bamboo flute into his mouth and played the drum He blew on his cheeks.
Su Rou was completely confused by what was going on here. He pinched his face hard and screamed "Hey, hey, hey" because the blow was too heavy.
"Sanwa'er, you must tell me that I am definitely not dreaming." He told me very seriously after pinching the pork.
"You are indeed not dreaming." That was all I could answer him, because I was new to this, and the matter was complicated, so I didn't know how to explain it to Su Rou.
"Kid, you are definitely not dreaming. You are exposed to state secrets. If you let it out, the consequences will be very serious." Suddenly a person spoke. I turned around and saw that it was several soldiers in the courtyard that day. One of them
"What...what consequences?" Surou is very courageous, and he can only threaten him with food, but he may be too influenced by me, and he is only afraid of the People's Liberation Army. After seeing what the People's Liberation Army said, he became scared. , I can’t even speak.
"Shoot, shoot them all, shoot the whole family." The man looked serious and was not joking at all.
"Ah...Then I won't watch." Surou immediately covered his eyes to watch the excitement, and then shot the whole family? Can it still be like this
I was angry. I couldn't bully my friend like this. I was protected by my master. I was about to say something when I was pulled over by Old Man Jiang. He said in my ear: "These things You can't tell it out, the people won't understand, it can only add to panic, and the country won't let you talk about it. You can go and have a word with Surou later, he just watched it anyway, and you must not talk about it until you grow up. It’s…”
Old Man Jiang paused when he said this. I was stunned and asked, "What will happen when we grow up?"
"When he grows up, tell him again that he won't be shot." Old Man Jiang laughed slyly and ignored me. I was so angry that my master was so exhausted! !
But even though I was young, I still knew that this matter was serious. I walked over, opened Surou's hand, and said to Surou with guilt in my heart: "Surou, you really can't tell these things. It’s a secret, just like the secrets of the People’s Liberation Army’s wars cannot be known by spies.”
"I'm absolutely not allowed to say anything, Sanwa'er, you've seen it too, what should I do?" I was moved in my heart, it was rare that Su Rou still remembered me at this time.
But I could only tell him with a guilty conscience: "Even if I have Master here, if I tell anyone, I will still be shot."
"Ah, really?"
"Really." I could only express guiltily.
After a short silence, I asked Surou: "Do you still want to see it? If you don't want to see it, I'll ask my master to take you out."
"Look, why don't you watch it? Anyway, after watching it for a while, I said shoot him. After watching it, I said shoot him. I... I just want to see it, so I will risk it." Su Rou said with dignity and awe. This kid, like me, knew that he was curious. Even if you kill the cat, you will still rush towards the gun.
I knew Surou wouldn't tell anyone, so I didn't say anything. In fact, what I didn't understand was, since these things were kept secret, why would my master let Surou follow me? Too strange.
It wasn’t until I grew up that I realized that Master had roughly calculated that Crispy Pork would enter my life. He had known about these things earlier, and they were inevitable anyway.
After talking to Surou for a while, I looked up again and saw that there were no snakes in the entire curtain. They were all gathered at one end and crawling out neatly.
Everyone was very patient. It was not until 10 minutes or so that all the snakes were gone. Then my master took the lead and said, "Let's get out of the snake spirit!"
My master jumped off the platform, held my and Surou's hands and walked in front, followed closely by Mr. Old Wu, and the others quickly followed. After walking on the bumpy ground for a short time, we reached a patch of land. the front of the cloth.
This piece of cloth was part of the curtain, and I really didn't see anything wrong with it. As a result, Master pulled the cloth away, and I discovered that the cloth was movable, just like a door curtain, and there was another one behind it. The circle was about twenty or thirty square meters in size, and there was a big pit in the middle. How deep it was, I couldn't tell from my angle.
My master pulled Surou and I up and walked towards the deep pit. I don’t know why, but the more I walked, the more depressed and cold I felt. As we walked, my face became ugly.
"I forgot that you are sensitive to those things and are easily susceptible to them." Master stopped and looked at me: "Why don't you recite the meditation mantra I taught you?"
I hurriedly recited it, this time loudly, and I felt comfortable after reciting it. Old Man Jiang had expected this and continued to lead me forward.
It wasn't until I reached the deep pit that I stopped. I looked in subconsciously and was stunned.