In such a remote mountain village, an old man with gray hair was carrying a tall firewood down the mountain. He fell down just now, 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 the big rock beside the path.
He should be wearing a Taoist robe, his sleeves fluttered by the wind, and he was looking down at something with his back turned to the old man.
"Xiaosheng, there is a cliff underneath, it's dangerous, come down quickly."
When the man turned around and saw his face clearly, the old man couldn't help being stunned. He has lived for more than seventy years, and he has never seen such a good-looking man like this young man.
"Old man, what's under this cliff?"
The old man was stunned for a second when he heard the light and pleasant voice, before replying, "I don't know what it is, there is no village living down here, and the road is hard to walk, no one has been there before."
"I heard that there is a river, but I don't know if it is true."
Wei Mingyan nodded, stood on a tall rock, and took out a tortoise shell from his sleeve, "Thank you for showing me the way, it's fate if I run into it, how about I make a fortune for you?"
"Foretelling?"
The old man has seen fortune-telling. When he was young, his father took him to the old blind man who lived at the foot of the mountain to do fortune-telling for him. The fortune-telling meant that his sons and daughters would be rich and powerful in his life. When his father was happy, he would give more money to him. Got two eggs.
So many years have passed in a flash, his wife died early in his early years, and he doesn't want to marry again. He has no sons and half daughters, and he doesn't have any great wealth. It's a pity that the old blind man left long before he got married, otherwise he could still say that he counted. Not allowed.
Because the old blind man doesn't believe in fortune-telling, he carried the firewood and shook his head with difficulty, "No need, I don't have the money to do it."
"It's getting dark, it's not easy to go on the road at night, you'd better go down the mountain quickly."
"I'll do the math for you, no money."
"No no no, I don't believe this..."
The handsome Taoist seemed not to have heard his words. He dropped the big rock, lost the tortoise shell, looked at the copper coins that fell on the stone, and raised his eyebrows slightly. Bereaved wife, bereaved son, current age, seventy-nine... "
He parted his lips, but didn't say the rest.
The old man paused as he was about to continue walking, he turned his head to look at Wei Mingyan, his eyes filled with disbelief, "How did you know that my wife was pregnant when she died?"
The Taoist priest picked up the tortoise shell and folded it in his sleeves, "Old man, you are destined to be a granddaughter, but it's not a biological relationship, and the relationship is shallower."
"Accurate, accurate..."
The old man murmured, "I picked up a child before, but she was thrown in the mountains. She was only that old without a father or a mother. She looked pitiful, so she stayed and raised her like a granddaughter."
"The lack of fate means that this granddaughter has already left you. May I ask why?"
"I'm not capable, I'm too poor, and my little granddaughter suffers with me. Her uncle knows someone in the city. That family wants to adopt a child. He told me, and I asked him to take her away."
"She is good-looking and well-behaved. After going to that family, she can go to school anyway, so she won't suffer with a bad old man like me."
Wei Mingyan walked slowly to the old man's side, looked at the tall firewood on his back, and the bruised back of his hand, and asked warmly, "Did you not contact her again after sending her away?"
The old man shook his head, "I can't contact her. Her uncle said that if people want to adopt a child, they are afraid that she will remember things. If I don't contact her, she won't remember. They will treat her as their own child."
After he finished speaking, he said, "Your calculation is really accurate, you have real skills."
Wei Mingyan raised his eyes slightly, looked at the firewood, and chuckled lightly, "Then you still want me to do a fortune telling?"
The old man hesitated, "Do you really not charge money?"
Seeing this, the Taoist priest's smile remained unchanged, and he said warmly, "If you are sorry, you can take me in for a night tonight, as I don't have a place to live."
"That's fine, but my family is poor, so I may not have anything good to entertain you."
"Then thank you, let's go down the mountain first."
"Okay, okay... By the way, this dog can eat human food, right? I heard that what kind of dog food do young people feed their dogs now, and they are not allowed to eat human food."
Looking at the old man in front of him who was bent into a shrimp by the weight of the firewood on his back, Wei Mingyan touched Rhubarb who was obediently by his side, and said softly, "Don't worry, I have prepared something to eat."
The old man looked 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 black and blue, it looks really scary." They ran into a villager carrying a hoe on the way down the mountain. When they saw the old man, they were taken aback for a moment, and after seeing it clearly, they hurried up to meet him.
"It's okay, didn't it rain last night? The road was slippery and I fell down. It's nothing serious and it doesn't hurt much."
"It doesn't hurt, does it? It looks weird. I have 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 looked at the black and blue bloodstains on the old man's face with some hesitation, and looked at Wei Mingyan who was walking slowly, "Uncle, what is this?"
"Oh, this is..."
"Hello, my surname is Wei. I'm a fortune teller. I'm staying in the village tonight." The handsome Taoist priest answered without waiting for the old man to finish his introduction.
"Fortune teller?"
The villagers looked at Wei Mingyan. He was indeed wearing Taoist robes, but he was probably too young.
He heard from his eldest son that monks now have to go to college and they need a diploma. The monks in the temple are all young, and this fortune teller is probably the same.
The villagers and the old man had the same idea, and they didn't believe it very much, but they didn't say what was in their hearts.
"That's fine, Uncle, go back first, I'll ask the kid at home to bring the medicinal wine."
Wei Mingyan turned around and glanced at the villager, "Wait a minute."
The villagers turned around suspiciously, and the stranger said long, "Your brows are blue, and you look bereaved. It's best not to let your son go out today, especially not near places with water."
Hearing these words, the faces of the villagers suddenly changed. Who would want to hear that his son would die, but this man is a Taoist priest, and even though he didn't believe it, he was still a little trembling in his heart.
"Lao Liu, you have to tell the elder. He just calculated it for me, and the calculation is 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 himself.
The villagers nodded hesitantly, their eyes still didn't believe it, but because of the old man's words, they still said, "Then I will watch Cai Cai not let him go out, uncle, if you are in pain, 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 sixth eldest son is going to college, and he also believes in science, so he doesn't believe in science very much. Don't be surprised, he is very nice. When his mother was sick, I helped him send him to the town. , I always remember my love, and usually love to help me."
"I know."
Wei Mingyan listened to the old man's explanation, smiled and glanced at the villagers' backs, his eyes thoughtful, "Good intentions are rewarded."
***
The so-called sixth villager returned home with a hoe on his shoulders. Her daughter-in-law was just cooking and laying out the dishes on the table. Seeing her husband coming back, she casually said, "Wash your hands and eat."
The sixth child looked around the yard and saw that his son was not playing in front of the pile of sand where he was always there. Thinking of what the young Taoist priest said just now, he felt inexplicably panicked for a moment.
"Where's Cai Cai?"
"Watching TV in the house, you call him out after washing your hands, this little thing won't even eat with the TV on."
"Look, I will definitely not go out for a whole day after dinner."
Hearing his wife's answer, Lao Liu heaved a sigh of relief, but at the same time felt amused that he actually believed these words.
Cai Cai likes to watch TV so much, especially these few days, squatting in the house every day and refusing to go out, how could she go to the water, she really is a charlatan.
But his son said, to believe in science, those fortune-telling and so on, are all feudal superstitions, and have no scientific basis at all.
The sixth child went to the house to call for someone, and his wife was about to get the bowls and chopsticks, when 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, hurriedly greeted her, and helped her son untie his big bag, "Why did you come back without saying a word, tell us in advance that your father will pick you up. "
"What's the point of such a long journey, where are my dad and Cai Cai?"
The young man strode forward with a smile, and said as he walked, "I have saved up a month's leave, plus I applied in advance, this time I can stay at home for ten days, so I can spend time with you."
In the room, the pouting little boy, who was unhappy because he was not allowed to watch TV, was about to step over the steps when he heard his brother's voice. run outside.
"elder brother!!"
"Cai Cai!" The young man smiled and hugged his younger brother to tease him, "Did you listen to your parents? Did you?"
"Yes, yes! Brother, don't tickle me..."
The woman smiled and went to add bowls and chopsticks, and the sixth child also looked at the eldest son and the younger son with a smile on his face, kissing non-stop, his eyes were full of love for the two children.
The family sat together to eat happily, listening to the eldest son talk about his work in the city, the sixth child smiled and remembered what happened today.
"Just now I met a Taoist priest who told me that I had blue brows and that I was going to lose my son. He also said not to go near the water, and I was shocked when I came back and couldn't see Cai Cai."
"Bah, bah, why are you talking about this! Even if our dishes are good, you will say that they are not good." The wife gave her husband an angry look, and picked up a chopsticks dish for each of the two sons.
"Eat more, grow your body."
The eldest son was a little helpless. He had been working for a year, so he couldn't grow his body anymore. But thinking about it this way, watching his mother cook the dishes, he still happily ate them.
Their family is a rare happy family in the village. The relationship between the husband and wife is harmonious, and everything is always negotiated. The husband is considerate to his wife, and the wife cares about her husband. With the addition of electrical appliances, although the younger son is a bit naughty, he can be regarded as a well-behaved elf, and he is usually very active in ordering him to run errands.
The family is harmonious and beautiful, I don't know how happy they are.
After dinner, the youngest son took the eldest son to the house to whisper, and the sixth son helped his wife clean up the dishes. Although the son was happy when he came back, he felt empty and uncomfortable for some reason.
"Let's keep an eye on Cai Cai for a while, don't let him go out, I always feel bad."
"You have soft ears. This kind of thing will not be accurate. When I was not married before, my second aunt's sister got married. The fortune teller said that she and my brother-in-law were a match made in heaven. What happened? I cried and returned within half a year." The family is divorced."
"I know, but that man doesn't look like a liar, he looks like the fairy in the painting, and Uncle Genzi also said he is accurate, you know Uncle Genzi never lied."
Hearing Uncle Genzi, the woman paused while washing the dishes, with a hesitant expression on her face, but she quickly found the reason, "Uncle Genzi is more deceitful than you, he must have been fooled by someone, that person told you water By the way, we, Cai Cai, don’t like to go out at all, so we should stay at home and stay by the water.”
"All right, all right, if you're worried, I'll watch over Cai Cai and not tell him to go out, that's all right."
Although she didn't agree with her husband's words, she couldn't see his distressed frowning, so she agreed.
"It's rare for Huahua to go home. Go to the house and talk to him. If you're tired, let him rest. Don't make Cai Cai noisy."
The sixth child nodded, fingers in his pocket, and was about to take out a cigarette to smoke, when he suddenly remembered that the eldest son didn't like smoking by himself, so he quickly stuffed it in again.
His son always said that smoking was harmful to his health, and every time he saw him smoking, he planned to take him to a big city for a full body checkup.
That's fine, what are you doing with that money, my son is at home these days, at worst he avoids being smoked.
Seeing her man enter the house, the wife continued to wash the dishes with a smile, and her happy mood continued because of her son's return.
She feels that she is 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, there was only Cai Cai who was still a baby and a few hundred dollars that was not enough to feed a child. The conditions were not good, and her husband still took care 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 entire village, no family is willing to support a child for nothing, so she is really lucky.
After washing the dishes, the woman saw that her husband had cleared the table, and walked into the house with a wave of her hands. The youngest son was smiling and quarreling with the eldest son. The husband didn't know if he was tired during the day and was lying on the bed snoring. The sky-shattering sound.
She came to her sons lightly, "Okay, you two go to your own room to play, dad is tired, let dad sleep."
Cai Cai still wanted to stay and watch TV, but the eldest son was sensible and picked him up, "Go, brother will take you to play poker in our room."
It's a game for two brothers, and a deck of cards lasts all day.
Watching two sons go out, woman smiles and sits on the edge of the bed, undressing her husband
shoe.
"Let you talk to your son and sleep with your shoes on."
The man on the bed opened his eyes in a daze and wanted to take it off, but she pushed him down, "Okay, I know you are tired, go to sleep."
People in the village generally went to bed early, and the woman went out to take a bath, and was ready to go to bed lying beside her husband.
This side was falling asleep, and suddenly there was the loud cry of the youngest son from the side room over there.
Lao Liu, who was sleeping soundly, woke up with a jerk, and quickly turned over and got out of bed, "I'll go and see Cai Cai."
The woman quickly put on her clothes and followed behind. The son's room was not far away, and they arrived within two steps.
Opening the curtain, only the youngest son was on the bed alone.
"Cai Cai, what's the matter, Cai Cai?"
Seeing the child grow up, the sixth child has long regarded him as his own son, and hurriedly stepped forward to hug him in his arms and coax him.
"Brother, my brother is gone, I want my brother..."
The little boy was crying out of breath, tears streaming down his face.
The husband and wife looked around and did not see the eldest son, so they hurriedly called, but fortunately the call was answered quickly.
"I'm hungry. I'll go to the entrance of the village to buy something to eat. Is Cai Cai awake? I think he left after falling asleep."
Hearing his son's voice, Lao Liu heaved a sigh of relief, answered a few times and hung up the phone.
Putting down the phone, she hugged her younger son to coax her, "Cai Cai is good, my brother is going to buy something delicious, and he will be back soon."
"No!!"
The little boy who was always obedient when he said it was not willing to let go at this moment, "I want my brother now, I want my brother!"
"Cai Cai! Be good, my brother will be back soon, he is at the entrance of the village, don't cry." The wife is a little angry, isn't this child usually very good? Why are you not listening at all today.
"My brother just left. I saw him go. I want my brother. Dad, you go and get him back. Dad, you go!!"
The little boy shook his adoptive father's hand, crying so hard that he couldn't breathe, "Dad, go, go!!"
The child's cries were the most piercing and piercing, and Lao Liu felt uncomfortable listening to them. In addition, he had been restless since he woke up just now, so he simply stood up and walked out.
"I'm going to pick up the kid."
"It's late at night, Huahua is not a child, what are you still picking up, don't worry about Cai Cai, it's probably because I haven't seen my brother for too long, and I'm making a fuss."
"No, I don't know how to make it feel uncomfortable. It's okay to go out for a walk."
Moreover, he kept ringing in his heart what the young strange Daoist priest said during the day.
He said to tell his son not to go out and stay away from the water.
At that time, the eldest son hadn't come back, so he thought that the priest was talking about Cai Cai, but now that Huahua is back, if it's serious, Huahua is his own son, and Huahua was afraid of water since he was a child...
The crying of the youngest son, as well as the uncertainty in his heart, made the head of the family quicken his pace.
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 on the river is surrounded by railings, and it is okay for children to play in the water and fall into it. Huahua is so big, it is impossible to be okay.
Even though he was thinking this way, Lao Liu still seemed to be breathing heavily in his heart, and quickly walked to the edge of the millstone not far from the river. From here, he could see the light of a mobile phone flashing on the bridge. Move towards him.
It should be his son Huahua, the man breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that he really thought too much, didn't his son tell him all about it? Believe in science.
He was about to call out his son's name when he suddenly heard the sound of something collapsing, followed by his son's scream.
— Plop!
The man watched the bridge collapse and his son fell into the water. He had no time to think and rushed over frantically.
His son fell into the water.
Huahua is in danger.
Jumping into the water, desperately clamping his son up, until he landed on the shore, these two sentences were always in his mind.
"Cough cough cough... Dad?"
The young man was rescued after only splashing a few times in the water. There was nothing serious except that he choked on a few sips of water due to panic. He recovered from the panic after a while, and only then did he realize that the person who saved him was his biological father. .
Before he had time to ask why he came over, he was suddenly pulled up.
"dad?"
The man was drenched all over, and couldn't help shivering when he was blown by the cold wind, but what the Taoist priest said during the day rang in his mind.
— It is best not to let your son go out today, especially not near water.
"Dad? Cough cough cough where are we going? Can we go home and change clothes first?"
He dragged his confused son silently, and came to a dilapidated house in a panic and knocked on the door.
"Wow woof woof!!"
"Wow woof woof!!"
When the dogs in the village heard the movement, they all barked, one by one louder than the other.
The door opened, and after seeing that the person who opened the door was the handsome Taoist priest, the man knelt down on the ground with a plop.
"Thank you Daoist, thank you Daoist!!"
"You don't have to thank me."
Wei Mingyan glanced at the young man standing there with a confused face and drenched body, and said, "If you hadn't taken in that child, you wouldn't have been warned."
"Children, intuition is often the most accurate."
Lao Liu was trembling all over. He straightened up and asked, "Master, my son has recovered his life. Will he still be in danger in the future?"
Although he didn't believe this, he had heard the old people in the village say that when he was a child, he had to pay a price for saving his life.
"His fate has changed, and no one can figure it out."
"Then, should I take the money out..."
"Um… "
Wei Mingyan pondered for a second, looked at the young man who was still in a daze, and raised his eyebrows, "Young man, is your surname Science?"
Zhong Hua nodded subconsciously, and then saw the handsome man in Taoist robe in front of him smiling.
"Coincidentally, I believe it too."
"Aww??"
The yellow dog, which no one could see, wagged its tail on the ground, watched Wei Mingyan help the young man into the house, and tried to lure him.
"We are destined, come, talk?"