Soon we arrived at the grove, and there was no major change here. We stepped on the fallen leaves of previous years and arrived at the tree where the yellow bird once lived.
"Is it here?" Master Liu first looked up at the overturned bird's nest on the tree branch when he arrived at the tree, and then asked casually.
Zhao Jie and I nodded at the same time, "Yeah".
Afterwards, Master Liu started to walk around the tree a few times, and then found under the tree the molting nest that You Xiaoqing once made for the little green snake. Master Liu still found out.
Master Liu leaned down, cleaned the weeds around, and then said, "What is this nest for?"
I didn't dare to speak for a while because it was a secret between You Xiaoqing and I, but Zhao Jie shook his head and said, "I don't know, I haven't seen it before."
Master Liu leaned down and seemed to feel that he was not close enough to the "nest" on the ground, so he simply climbed down, and then put his nose to the grass root and smelled it carefully.
I was afraid that Master Liu had discovered the little snake's secret, so I asked Master Liu if he had discovered anything. Master Liu stood up and said, "There are Yin spirits who have stayed here, and..."
Having said that, Master Liu paused for a while, then took the small gold-rimmed box out of his pocket and continued, "And it has the same aura as the Yin spirits living in this box."
After speaking, Master Liu turned to look at me and asked, "Xiaoyong, tell me the truth. When You Xiaoqing followed you to this forest, did she bring this small box with her."
I couldn't help but groan in my heart, and after blinking my eyes a few times, I was about to lie, but Master Liu grabbed my ear and said, "Don't lie, I have a supernatural power that can tell if you are lying or not. If you lie, let's see how I'll deal with you when I go back."
Can you see if a person is lying? Well, this kind of magical power was invented by Master Liu to scare me. He just judged based on my expression. After all, I am a child. As long as I lie, there will always be some subtle changes in my expression and eyes. Well, the changes are not so. subtle.
So when I was about to try to resist and say "I don't know", Master Liu slapped me on the ass.
"Crack!" A crisp sound resounded through the woods, and of course it was accompanied by my "ah" scream of pain.
Master Liu continued to threaten me: "You're still lying, right? If you still refuse to tell the truth, I can't find the reason, let alone a way to enter the ancient tomb, then you won't be able to save You Xiaoqing, and she won't be able to. Really going to be eaten by big worms."
I just calmed down and asked Master Liu, "You Xiaoqing is in the cemetery below our school?"
Master Liu nodded and asked me, "When did I lie to you?"
Zhao Jie was also beside me and said, "Xiaoyong, you can say anything, Master Liu is not for your girlfriend You Xiaoqing."
"She's not my girlfriend!" I argued.
Master Liu interrupted me and said, "If you don't tell me, then I don't care about You Xiaoqing."
I quickly said, "I said, I said..."
So I told Master Liu about the little green snake in its entirety, and when I heard my story, Master Liu couldn't help saying "Huh": "You said that You Xiaoqing came with that Yin spirit to shed its skin, Ha, that thing really knows how to choose a place, under the tree of this yellow bird is the place where you have the most aura, look over there..."
I looked in the direction of Master Liu's finger, and about twenty meters away from the tree, there was a "Tiantianyang", a kind of very tall poplar. This kind of poplar will only grow in high places. Except for the top of the tree, there are no branches on the tree, as if a pillar is going straight into the sky, so it is named Tiantianyang.
When I saw the poplar tree, I asked Master Liu, "What's the matter, Master, it's a poplar that drills into the sky."
Master Liu said: "In this poplar forest, the roots of all the trees are almost intertwined, and they will indirectly have contact with the tree. Especially the tree we are standing on now is a child of the tree. The main root of the mother tree is the same, so the essence absorbed from the sky-crazing poplar will all be transferred to this tree through the root, so that the tree has an extremely strong spiritual energy gathered around it!"
Zhao Jie curiously asked Master Liu, "Is the thorny poplar the mother of this tree?"
Master Liu shook his head: "No, this tree is the mother tree of the poplar, the poplar is actually a mutation, or a sick poplar, it grows fast and tall, but its wooden body is basically empty. , It is also convenient to transmit the essence of the sun and the moon, but after all, it is only a common thing, and it can’t bear the erosion of those essences for a long time.
After speaking, Master Liu looked at the mother tree again and said: "As for this poplar tree, it is different. The spiritual energy in its body is channeled through the drilled poplar, so it absorbs more gently and will not affect its lifespan. On the contrary, it will create a chance for it, if it seizes this opportunity, the spiritual energy in its body can help him cultivate into fineness after a hundred years."
"Chengjing?" I couldn't help being a little stunned.
Master Liu continued: "There's nothing strange about this, 'Essence' has existed since ancient times, and they generally do not harm people, because they absorb the natural energy, they are gentle, and even helpful, of course there are also A few are because of too much resentment, so that's different."
I wanted to continue listening, but Master Liu didn't seem to want to explain any further, and instead asked me: "You said just now that You Xiaoqing's little snake shed its skin and gave you a complete snake skin, do you still keep it? ?"
I nodded and said, "Keep it, it's in my schoolbag."
Master Liu looked at the poplar tree and said, "This is your chance, take advantage of it."
Then the three of us left the grove and started to walk back. When we got home, I took out the snake skin from my schoolbag and showed it to Master Liu. I took the milky white snake skin in my hand. After a while, he said: "It is full of spiritual energy. It seems that the Yin spirit that You Xiaoqing raised has a very high cultivation level. If this snake skin is used by a cultivator as an introduction to medicine, I am afraid that its cultivation level will also jump up a lot. cut."
After reading it, Master Liu returned the snake skin to me, and I said, "It's useless for me to take it. If it's useful to you, foster father, just take it."
Master Liu shook his head: "This is your chance, how can I take it, who else said it's useless for you to take it? Your spiritual eyes have not deteriorated this year, it is thanks to the spiritual energy on the snake's skin that you protect your body, The Yin Qi that suppressed you did not continue to spread."
I didn't understand a little, so I asked Master Liu: "Master Liu, didn't you just say that it is a yin spirit, and its yin qi is very heavy? Why can its aura help me suppress yin qi?"
Master Liu patiently explained to me: "The skin that the yin spirit sheds is actually the thing on its body that goes against the direction of yin qi, in other words it is yang qi, and the extremely cold yang qi is related to the yin qi on your body. Both belong to the 'cold' nature, not only will it not hurt your body, but it will also be of great benefit."
I could understand what Master Liu said, but as usual, I won't ask again, because if I keep asking Master Liu's explanation, I will be more incomprehensible, and even more boring.
At this time, my mother also came to ask us what we had achieved today, and Master Liu said, "It's nothing, by the way, I may take Xiaoyong to go out in two days, four or five days."
Regarding taking me out, Master Liu said a few years ago that in order to cure my illness, I have to go out with Master Liu from time to time, so my mother agreed directly, and my family also absolutely trusts Master Liu.
My mother nodded, and Master Liu said that he would talk to me and Zhao Jie alone, and let my mother do the work first.
Afterwards, Master Liu took out the small golden-edged box and asked Zhao Jie and me, "Would you like to know what's inside?"
Zhao Jie and I nodded at the same time, and Master Liu said, "Keep your eyes open."
Immediately, Zhao Jie and I really widened our eyes, and Master Liu slowly opened the gold-rimmed box.
"what!"
Zhao Jie and I couldn't help being taken aback!
There is a bloody rag-headed doll lying in the box. It is very small, but it looks terrifying. The most terrifying thing is that three words are written on the rag-headed doll's belly: "You Xiaoqing!"
My mother heard me and Zhao Jie calling, and asked what was going on outside. I quickly said, "It's okay, it's okay."
My mother didn't come to see it. After all, Master Liu is here.
Soon Master Liu covered the gold-edged box again, Zhao Jie and I took two deep breaths, and Zhao Jie asked, "Master Liu, what's wrong with this doll, it's full of blood, and why is there You Xiaoqing on it? Name? It's been in You Xiaoqing's house for so long, why can't her family see it?"
Master Liu said, "This doll has a 'curse', and it's a blood curse. The person who cursed is naturally You Xiaoqing, but who would give such a hateful hand?"
Master Liu said to himself, "You Xiaoqing's family didn't see it, that's because the box was covered with blindfolds. Ordinary people will only see that the box is empty when you open it. You can see what's inside. That's because I've figured it out."
Zhao Jie and I didn't know what to say for a while, so we just stood there waiting for Master Liu to continue talking or ask questions.
Master Liu looked at us and said, "Okay, you two go outside and punch Da Hong a few times. I have something to do here."
When I was about to leave the house, I asked Master Liu if I could solve You Xiaoqing's "curse" first, and Master Liu said, "This blood curse is a witchcraft, if I untie it, I will definitely fight and provoke my anger. The person who cast the curse will harm You Xiaoqing, so I can't solve this curse for the time being, but don't worry, if I find that the curse hurts her a little bit, I will immediately forcibly break the curse."
I just said "um", I still completely believe what Master Liu said.
Zhao Jie and I met, but all I was thinking about was that terrifying rag-headed doll, and that doll's sluggish, blood-soaked little eyes...