Chen is not young and lost, the cage owner in Liuzhuang is the reincarnation of his biological mother.
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"Zhang Wan too?" Wen Shi held the cloth in a daze.
The handwriting on it was faintly recognizable, showing a bit of sassy beauty. It was still unfamiliar to him, but because of some involvement, it became special.
"What is it?" Bu Ning asked in confusion.
Xia Qiao and Zhang's siblings also looked at this side in confusion, waiting for the next paragraph.
Wen Shi looked at their dazed appearance, and suddenly realized that Chen Dao had told him a lot, more than he thought. It was a past that no one else knew about, nor even the rumors mentioned...
It's just that he forgot about it later.
"It's nothing." Wen Shi told Bu Ning that only Xie Wen could decide whether to mention these matters, and he couldn't overdo it.
"Oh." Bu Ning was very measured, and with the presence of two outsiders from the Zhang family, he immediately folded his sleeves and refrained from asking.
Just talking about Liuzhuang...
At the beginning, the only one Master brought down the mountain was Wen Shi.
The reason why he remembered this place is because after Wen Shi came back, he went straight to the meditation cave in the mountain to look for him, and asked in detail what kind of disaster method "there will be a catastrophe in six days", because he said too much before. general.
He felt puzzled at the time and asked, "But what happened?"
Wen Shi told him about Liu Zhuang's situation.
"It was also the mountain that collapsed and the village suffered. Is it related to the formation we set up on the mountain?" Wen Shi asked.
"No, what we do is like it's going to rain, bring a paper umbrella with you, so that you won't change your life against the sky. I'm measured... "
He said, "I'm measured", but after all, he couldn't be at ease, so he arranged a few more hexagrams on the spot.
No matter how you calculate it, Liuzhuang's disaster has nothing to do with what they did in Songyun Mountain.
He also found that, in Liuzhuang, the trend of mountains and villages and the distribution of villages are very similar to those in Songyun Mountain. They are often confused in hexagrams.
From this point of view, it wasn't that there was any problem with the array they laid out, but that what he initially predicted was wrong.
Six days later, it was not Songyun Mountain, but Liuzhuang that had a catastrophe.
In the final analysis, this is a fallacy, but it cannot be regarded as a false alarm. After all, in another part of the world, hundreds of families were indeed killed in a natural disaster.
Since then, Bu Ning has more scruples in his heart. Even if some things are foreseen, they are no longer easy to pull other people, and most of them are quietly taking precautions or leaving a way out.
After all, he can't guarantee that there will be no more fallacies, nor can he guarantee that he will accidentally exceed the limit. Chaotic change is the taboo of taboos, and the consequences are unimaginable. The retribution is only on oneself, if innocent people are involved, it is really hard to blame for the death of a hundred people.
Later, he and Guan went down the mountain and traveled around the four fields. One year in a certain place, I remembered that Liuzhuang, whom Wen Shi had mentioned, was nearby, so I followed the trend of the mountains and forests to find it.
At that time, Liuzhuang was already overgrown with grass and trees, and the ground was full of barren graves. Because of the natural disaster, the local people felt that the place was too ferocious and unlucky.
No one calls it Liuzhuang anymore. When you mention it, they say it is Guizhuangzi. Later, in order to avoid it, it was changed to Guizhuangzi.
Afterwards, there is no way to know.
…
"Where did you find these things?" Xie asked in a loud voice.
Bu Ning suddenly returned to his senses, and found that Xie Wen and Wen Shi were looking at the Zhang brothers and sisters.
The name "Zhang Wan" appeared too suddenly, and it was deeply related to the Zhang family. Zhang Lan was thinking about it with his head down. He had been running through a lot of gossip and rumors in his mind. He was kicked by Xiao Hei, and then he realized that Xie Wen was actually talking to them.
She turned her head and glanced at Zhang Yalin, and found that her unfortunate brother didn't know what he was thinking, and his reaction was slower than hers, so she hurriedly replied: "down the mountain."
The ancestors looked at her silently, with "nonsense" written all over their faces.
"..." My aunt has passed the strength now, but her legs and feet are not weak. She thought about it, pointed to the door and said, "Are you going for a trip? Why don't I lead the way."
"Okay." Xie asked in response.
As a result, Bu Ning and Wen Shi turned their heads to stare at him.
Bu Ning was respectful, and his expression was not too obvious.
It's different when you smell it. Standing on the edge of the couch, he swept Xie Wen back and forth with his brows locked, from his neck to his fingers, and asked worriedly and suspiciously, "Can you stand up?"
These words were too straight, and Bu Ning silently took a step back, allowing the junior and junior to play freely.
Of course he wouldn't withdraw when he smelled it. He was seriously thinking about whether it would be more convenient to carry or carry.
Thinking of this, he has already bent slightly.
Just as he was about to reach out, he felt his forehead being flicked with two fingers.
"Indiscriminate salute." When Xie Wen's low voice fell in his ears, a gust of wind swept by, and the burqa fabric brushed the profile of Wen Shi's face.
He narrowed his eyes and straightened up, only to see the person on the couch standing by the door.
The large red robe was draped over him, and the exposed half of the neck was withered. From the fingertips under the sleeves, it could be seen that the half of his body near his heart was not much better.
He put the withered hand behind him and pushed open the door.
Zhang Lan stayed for a while, dragged Zhang Yalin, and hurried out of the door with a few puppets, and headed down the mountain.
Xia Qiao hesitated and followed Bu Ning.
"Master, you..." Bu Ning was still a little worried when he went out.
"No." Xie asked back.
"Oh."
He had just finished his answer when he came over when he heard it.
Xie Wen still had a strip of cloth hooked on his fingers, raised it to cover Wen Shi's eyes and said, "Don't stare at people, I asked you to carry it on your back last time, but you were unwilling to ask me to climb—"
In front of Bu Ning, he stumbled over the threshold and held onto the door frame with a bang, turning his head to look at it.
Xia Qiao nodded quietly behind him, indicating that he was real, that it was a long story, don't ask.
The Zhang brothers and sisters had already walked up the mountain road, but they were startled by the movement and looked back for unknown reasons.
Bu Ning was already well-mannered, and walked towards them gently: "It's okay, you have to lead the way."
Wen Shi retracted his gaze from his senior brother's back, gave Xie Wen a blank expression, and said, "Then go ahead and I'll watch."
His tone was cold, but his neck was bloody. It is estimated that he was annoyed, and the hand hanging by his side pinched his knuckles.
***
The village at the foot of Songyun Mountain is still desolate and desolate.
There is no moonlight here, there are dark clouds in the sky, the thunder is constant, and the gust of wind is unstoppable.
When they came, they didn't think there was anything unusual about this scene. Now, Wen Shi and Bu Ning recalled those nights many years ago.
Bu Ning foresees that when there is a catastrophe, the mountain will also look like this, with wind and clouds, thunder and lightning. In the middle of the night, the doors and windows of every household in the village are closed and no lights are on. At first glance, it looks like no one lives...
"Well, it's right here." Zhang Lan walked to a farther place against the wind. The black passage they took when they came was still swirling around her like a vortex.
Xiao Hei almost squatted down against the whirlpool and scratched the ground a few times: "It's right here, there's something underneath, but it's too deep, you can feel it when you get close, you shouldn't be able to dig it out."
Zhang Lan nodded, pointed at his younger brother and added: "He put all six puppets out, and that thing can't be stirred up, and it's firmly inside."
Zhang Yalin wiped her face, wondering if she wanted to thank her more or hoped she would stop talking.
After choking for a long time, he mumbled, "After all, Zhang Wan is the one who set up the formation."
A woman who could almost become the head of the family would not obviously lose to them.
"I'll try it." Bu Ning came over, half-kneeled by the vortex, leaning over to listen to the sound of the ground.
That is the sound of the array. Those who are proficient in the array technique to a certain extent can hear the layout of the entire array based on the sound of the array. It's much easier to break it up, and you can go straight to the point.
Bu Ning listened for a long time and said, "No wonder..."
"Why?" Wen Shi asked.
"No wonder the puppet can't be shaken." Bu Ning stood up straight on the ground, and said, "The formation is not difficult to understand, but the things underneath are hard to get hold of. It actually has nothing to do with this formation. It is a letter left by the people who set up the formation."
Hearing: "What kind of letter?"
Bu Ning pointed to himself: "Similar to me, I took a little bit out of my spirit."
It's just that in order to provide for the entire Mountain Sealing Formation, he divided half of the spirits out. Ordinary people only need a small number of letters to leave, and only certain people can open the letters they leave behind.
Zhang Yalin and Zhang Lan obviously understood, and they retreated: "If you believe it, it will be a little troublesome. How can you know who it is for? Don't we... "
Before the words "blind man touches an elephant" were spoken, they saw Xie Wen broke three dead branches from a tree beside him.
He patted Wen Shi's shoulder lightly and pulled him behind his back. Then he lifted his sleeves and inserted the three dead branches into the soil one by one at the place where Wen Shi was standing.
Then, his dry and long hand pressed heavily on the ground—
In an instant, the situation changed.
Hundreds and thousands of cracks crept into the ground from under his palm. In the blink of an eye, it was like a thousand blooming giant lotus, with a terrifying abyss between the petals.
Countless black mists rose from the abyss and shot straight into the sky.
Then came the crawling sound of thin ropes, as if ten thousand worms had come out of their holes.
The black fog surging and blending, everyone avoided on different plots, while vigilantly looking for the source of the climbing sound.
The next moment, they finally saw clearly.
It was countless Hui Gu, stretching her spider-like arms and legs, twisting her neck, and crawling up from the ground.
In just a split second, he jumped to the broken land.
my day!
Zhang Lan vaguely heard that his younger brother exploded, and the two straightened the puppet line, held the talisman paper, and faced the monsters that crawled out of the filthy place.
"Isn't it a letter?" Wen Shi's face was sullen, he simply turned his back against Xie Wen, tugged his fingers long, and asked in a deep voice.
"Don't be nervous, it's a letter." When Xie Wen spoke, his voice came from Dizie's back and resonated low in his chest.
When he smelled, he turned his head and saw the hazy figure of a woman.
Like Bu Ning's spirit, even if she stood on the ground, the soles of her feet were empty.
Although I have never seen it before, I know it when I smell it...
This is Zhang Wan.
Mortals enter reincarnation with spirit, and each life will change their appearance. Except for spirits with an extremely sensitive sense of smell, ordinary people simply cannot detect the origin of who is with whom.
Only in very occasional moments, there is a sense of deja vu.
Zhang Wan and the cage owner in Liuzhuang had several reincarnations, and their appearances were very different. I don't know how different I am from my biological mother, who is far from dust.
But she looked over with complicated and unspeakable eyes, as if she remembered every life.
She said to Xie Wen, "I finally... see you."
Zhang Biling's letter said that Zhang Wan had a son in the second year of her arrival in Tianjin. When the other party became an adult, she accidentally crashed into a dead place in a cage and never came out again.
But she said to Xie Wen: I finally saw you...
It was as if she actually knew clearly that the person she had raised for 18 years was actually a body that lingers in the world.
The black fog wraps around, like a false barrier. It seemed that no one could see her through the thick fog except Xie Wen and Wen Shi who was standing beside Xie Wen.
Xie Wen was quiet for a long time and said, "Do you remember me?"
He did not use "know", but "remember".
Zhang Wan laughed, "I shouldn't have remembered it originally, but because of some... I don't know if it was a good or bad coincidence, and I remembered it."
I remember a long time ago that there was a family named Xie in Qiantang, a big family of Zhumen and several generations of officials.
In front of the house is Qushui Mingtang, and in the back is the deep house compound. In the courtyard, there are lake ponds and koi, good wood and good grass, and the mahogany corridor surrounds the rockery and the longevity stone, which is prosperous and elegant.
Thinking of the young son of the Xie family, Zhilan Yushu, who is open and transparent, whoever sees it can't turn his eyes away, he opens his mouth with a compliment, saying that he is a gentleman with grace and grace, and he was outstanding when he was young. , a happy life.
That little boy is her son.
From the father's surname Xie, a single name and a question.
Ask, leave also. God's gift.
She thought that this gift would last for decades, until she got old and died.
Who would have thought, a blind fortune-teller who walks the streets said that the little boy is good everywhere, but his life is not good. Scorpio Lone Star, kinship is severed.
When the blind man said this, he did not shy away from it, just in front of the young master.
The other party didn't care, laughed it off, and politely gave the blind man some money.
The blind man disappeared, but the Xie family really began to decline.
She was the first to go.
He was terminally ill and difficult to treat. When he left, Xie Wen was still young.
Fortunately, there is an old servant who has watched him grow up and can take care of him. But she was still uneasy and reluctant. During that time, she always lingered outside Xie's house. After a long time, she slowly forgot that she was no longer there, as if everything was the same as before, but the family didn't pay much attention to her.
She watched helplessly as the Xie family fell day by day, and finally, with a paper order, more than a hundred people from top to bottom were all executed. But Xie asked by accident and escaped death. It really corresponds to the sentence Scorpio Lone Star, kinship is cut off.
The son who used to be Zhilan Yushu later fell ill, and he was not awake for a long time between imprisonment and life and death.
One day, when she was wandering by the sickbed, she was accidentally pulled into a place.
There, the Xie family is still a big family of Zhumen, and the people are prosperous. Fish play in the pond, and loquats are hit by the rain in the courtyard. She saw Xie Wen, who had been lying on the bed for a long time, wearing a robe, leaning on the corridor, talking to the old servant beside him with a smile, twisting the fish food with his fingers and throwing it into the lake.
At the time she didn't understand.
If only now, she would know at a glance.
That is a cage.
The cage owner called Xie Wen.
No one in later generations knows that the first cage that the grandfather and grandfather of the judge solved was himself.
The author has something to say:
There are also cages for serious diseases and disasters.