"Grandma, what are the bones?" Ke Xun decided to ask step by step.
"Here, this is," the old lady stretched out her wrinkled hand like orange peel, and stroked Ke Xun's forehead tremblingly, "the skin on the outside of a person is called the skin appearance, the bones inside the skin are called the bone appearance, the human appearance Life, there are seven points in the bones."
Wei Dong whispered from behind: "Is this street fortune-telling method accurate for the old man..."
I'd rather she couldn't count, I'd rather she be like a fortune teller on the street... all a lie.
Zhu Haowen said without hesitation: "It is said that in the scientific world, there are also researches and theories that 'can judge the personality, adaptability and psychological function of a person based on the shape of the skull'. So relying on the shape of the skull to face fortune-telling, also It's not totally unfounded."
Wei Dong: "...you said that I don't know if I should be comforted or panicked..."
Zhu Haowen ignored him, his eyes continued to fall on Ke Xun's plump forehead covered by the thin palm of the old lady.
"Do you mean the shape of bones?" Ke Xun is continuing to ask further.
However, the old lady shook her head and pointed her finger on Ke Xun's forehead: "The shape of the bone is also called the bone aspect, but the bone aspect I am talking about is the essence, energy, and spirit of the bone. The bone is the foundation of the body, so it is Facial appearance, the spirit that a person expresses on the face is actually the spirit of the bones. But ah, some spirits can be seen through the skin, and some spirits are rooted in the bones. Fix, what I see in your bones is the root in your bones... It's a pity... I'm old and dim, and I don't have enough Taoism.
"You don't know, what do you mean?" Zhu Haowen also stepped forward and took a few steps, standing by the bed and asked.
The old lady looked up at him, withdrew her hand on Ke Xun's forehead, and gestured in the air: "You guys are similar to each other... There is something, it's dark, it's all overgrown..."
Wei Dong, Luo Xie and Wu You slammed together when they heard the words, "It makes me feel numb all over." Luo Xue rubbed his arms as he spoke.
"Do you mean the bones are black in nature, or is there something black on the outside of the bones?" Zhu Haowen continued to ask.
"It's not outside," the old lady shook her head, and stared at Ke Xun's face with her dim and cloudy eyes, "it's in the bones."
"Is the whole bone black?" Ke Xun was also stared at by the old lady and felt uncomfortable, so he couldn't help rubbing his face.
"No," the old lady continued to stare at him laboriously, "some places are not dark, and some places are dark."
"… Is this black and non-black place interlaced like stripes, or something else?" Zhu Haowen asked further.
"It's mixed," the old lady looked away from Ke Xun's face, and slowly rubbed her wrinkled eyelids and corners with her hands, "Oh, old man, I can't see clearly..."
"That should be mottled," Ke Xun looked up and looked at Zhu Haowen, "What's the reason for this, 'that kind of thing' will make the bones black?"
"That kind of thing" is of course something that is included in the painting, but it is difficult to say it clearly in front of the old lady.
"It's the bones, stupid boy, the bones and the bones are not the same thing," the old lady patted him on the knee, "I've seen a lot of bones in my life, and it's the first time someone like you has been seen. See, the grandfather did not teach how to understand this bone phase, alas, it's a pity you young people..."
"Then how do you decide that this omen is not a good omen?" Wu You asked hurriedly.
The old lady sighed: "I saw it for the first time. My master met once before. At that time, I was still young, and I hadn't been a teacher yet. The thing is that I heard my master talk about him. People who have only seen this kind of bones find it strange, but unfortunately they can't solve it, but within two days of seeing them, those people all died, and the death was so miserable..."
"The amount of information is too much," Ke Xun said, "Grandma, please take your time and tell us carefully, you see, we young people are more handsome than each other, and you are also reluctant to let us go. Is something wrong? Think slowly, talk slowly, as much as you can remember, okay?"
"Okay, okay, okay," the old lady waved her hand and said to Wei Dong, "You don't stand still, sit down, sit down."
Wei Dong responded and found a place to sit down. Ke Xun said, "Tell me about the people your master has seen first. How many people are there in total?"
"Say it's five or six people," the old lady thought for a long time before giving a vague answer, "Anyway, there are several, not one or two. My master said that I have never seen so many people with this kind of bones. There must be more than one or two people."
"Do you know how old these people are and what they do?" Zhu Haowen asked.
The old lady thought about it for a long time: "I remember that there are men and women, old and young, so my master thinks it's strange. There are all kinds of people, and they are all a kind of bones."
"Did your master say where you saw it?" Ke Xun asked.
The old lady answered this question quickly: "It was at my master's house, and those people came to my master to start a class. It seemed that they were going to do a very dangerous thing. I heard that my master's hexagram was accurate. Specialists came to my master from all over the world. When my master saw it, he was shocked. He wondered why these people's bones were so strange. The master didn't dare to give them a zodiac sign. He only taught a lesson about good luck and bad luck. Avoid this viciousness. If it doesn't happen later, something will happen to those few people."
"How did your master know that something happened behind those people?" Zhu Haowen sharply grasped the doubts.
The old lady patted her legs on the edge of the bed, and sighed, "My master is very curious, he was young at that time, and he made such a fierce prediction. He said that he had seen it once in his life, and he was scratching his head in his heart. It was like, I wanted to know what was going on, and I heard those people mentioning what kind of study to go to, so I remembered it, and I ran there for the next three days, I really caught seeing those people one day. After he went in, he came out again after a while, and he felt that something was wrong, saying that those people seemed to have fallen in with evil. People were shot to death, and the blood holes in their bodies..."
"Wait... You wait," Wei Dong interrupted with a black face, "Murdered by guns? Dare to ask which era was that?"
"In two or three years," the old lady said, "there were wars everywhere and it was a mess."
Wei Dong made the final decision. This old lady looked at her eighty-year-old. When her master was young... No, it was chaos at that time.
"Your master said it's like being caught in an evil spirit, do you know exactly what it is like?" Ke Xun continued to ask.
The old lady glanced at him and answered him in a slow and hoarse voice: "My master said that when those few people came out of the study, they had no souls, they were no different from the living dead, and sooner or later they would die. "
These words made everyone shudder.
"Then did your master tell you in detail what the bones of those people look like?" Ke Xun finally reached the most crucial question step by step.
The old lady seemed to have a deep memory of this incident, so she didn't recall it for too long, she raised her skinny hand and gestured in front of Ke Xun: "My master said, it is the black lines penetrating from the bones, then Several people, the whole body is densely covered with bones. It looks like a pattern, but my master doesn't recognize it, and I don't recognize this on you..."
"Can you tell me what kind of pattern is it?" Ke Xun asked.
The old lady looked worried: "I can't tell, there are twists and turns, and there are circles and turns..."
"Can you draw it?" Wu You said anxiously, before the old lady could react, she randomly dug out some tissues and an eyebrow pencil from her bag, and shoved it into the old lady's hand, "Try to draw painting."
The old lady took her reading glasses from the bedside table, and while looking at Ke Xun who was sitting in front of her from above the lenses, she drew on the paper with the eyebrow pencil in her trembling old hands. The trembling chaotic lines can't see anything at all.
Wu You went to ask for a serious pen and paper to ask the old lady to draw again, but the pattern drawn was still a few messy lines that looked like they had been electrocuted.
The old lady put down the pen and shook her head while taking off her glasses: "No way, I'm getting old, and I can't see people clearly without a pen..."
The old man is indeed too old, and he usually trembles when he raises it, not to mention the relatively fine operation of drawing with a pen.
Everyone felt helpless, but they couldn't force it. Ke Xun could only say: "Then do you remember, what is the name of the study that your master said that those people went to?"
The old lady thought about it for a long time, and finally shook her head: "I don't remember, or my master didn't say it."
Zhu Haowen said, "Where did your master live before? Is it this city?"
The old lady nodded: "His ancestors have lived here for generations."
"Is there anyone in his family now?" Ke Xun asked hurriedly.
But the old lady shook her head and sighed: "My master didn't take care of the children, he said that if we did this, all the leaks were heavenly secrets, and they were all to be punished by heaven. God made him die, I'm afraid it would be retribution... I Since I learned this business, I have three disasters and eight disasters every year, and I almost passed it several times, isn't it also retribution?"
At this point, it was difficult to make any progress. Ke Xun and the others accompanied the old lady to gossip. Seeing that the old lady was not in good spirits, they resigned and left.
"That 'living dead man without a soul'..." Wei Dong was the first to speak until he walked out of this residential area, "Do you think... It's a bit like those people who died in paintings, staying in the real world. the same as the 'skin'?"
Everyone was silent for a while.
No one would have thought that nearly a hundred years ago, there were such a group of people who had the same experience as them.
So, what is the final outcome of those people
Is it as the old lady's master saw, all died tragically, and not one was left
Or will someone be lucky enough to survive