"Ah...... Hmm!"
Tan Wenbin's scream was about to come out when he was covered by a hand and blocked back.
His eyes widened and he stared at the old face in front of him in horror.
The old man smiled, and when he was about to say something, he found that the young man had his arms wrapped up, his legs were wrapped down, and his waist was twisted with force.
"Huh?"
The old man let out a suspicious sound, as if he recognized that this was a hand-to-hand combat technique.
"Huh?"
Tan Wenbin was completely shocked, because he found that he was clutching at the empty space, as if the old man had no substance at all, but the problem was that his mouth was really covered by the other party.
"Young man, let go of you, but don't make noise, I'm old and can't hear the cry."
Tan Wenbin nodded.
The old man took his hand away from Tan Wenbin's mouth.
"Yuanzi, Runsheng, there is a ghost!"
"Hehe."
The old man was amused, got up, and dug out the coffin where Tan Wenbin was.
"Yuanzi, Runsheng!"
Tan Wenbin sat up while continuing to shout, looking at the old man vigilantly.
The old man ignored it at all, walked to another coffin, stretched out his hand and waved at an incense burner placed below, the incense ignited, and white smoke rose.
I saw him take a deep breath, and the white smoke split into two strands into his nose.
"Ah......"
The old man made a comfortable voice, and a morbid blush appeared on his face.
"Yuanzi, Runsheng!"
Seeing that Tan Wenbin was still persevering, the old man sighed: "Don't shout, they can't hear it."
Tan Wenbin finally stopped shouting and wondered: "Who are you?"
"I sleep in my house, who do you ask me?"
"Your family?" Tan Wenbin seemed to realize something and asked, "Are you a yin and cute grandfather?"
"Yes, it's me."
"Are you still haunted?"
"What does it mean that the ghost does not disperse, I am not dead."
"Not dead?"
"Nonsense, if I die, what will I do as a ghost pestering my granddaughter and ruin her fortune? My brain is not in the water again."
"Then you ......"
The old man pointed to the coffin behind him: "Hey, I'll sleep on this bed."
There were two coffins in the outer room, that is, the store, and three in the inner room.
"Then what is this? It's not a ghost, why couldn't I touch you just now?"
"I'm strange, stunned baby, aren't you in the industry?"
"What kind of business?"
"It's a corpse fishing business."
Tan Wenbin puffed out his chest and said firmly: "Of course!"
"Then you don't know that you are walking in the shadows now?"
"Go to the yin?" Tan Wenbin touched his body, "Is this called going yin?"
"When I came out, I didn't want to pay attention to you, who knew that you were jumping around there all the time, so I pulled you, but I didn't expect you to scream."
"What about my friends?"
"When you go to the shadows, you can't see the living, so it's useless no matter how you shout just now."
"No......"
"Won't you know anything?"
"Well, it's nothing, it's nothing, I didn't see you come out during the day, why did you come out at night?"
"I want to be able to come out during the day, my body is not good." The old man pointed to his head, "Cerebral infarction, paralyzed."
"So you go out to the shade every night?"
"Let your mother fart, do you really don't understand or fake don't understand, who can walk in the underworld as simple and frequent as eating and drinking?"
"Isn't it?"
Tan Wenbin raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
"Snap!"
He has always felt that Xiaoyuan's action of closing his eyes and going to the shadows with a snap of his fingers is very stylish.
"Today's Ghost Festival, I have to get up at night to do business."
"It's so late, it's a ghost business."
"Isn't it?"
Tam Man Bun: "......"
"I won't talk to you, I have to open the store."
The old man passed through the curtain and walked into the front room, and immediately, he was stunned because he saw the boy standing in the front room.
The boy was looking at him with a scrutinizing gaze.
The old man was surprised and said: "I haven't opened the shop door yet, how did you come in?"
Chase Li didn't answer.
The old man touched his head: "No, you are not wearing a robe, I know, are you with that stunned baby?"
Li Chaiyuan nodded.
Tan Wenbin also ran over from the back room at this time, and when he saw Li Chaiyuan, he immediately waved his arms excitedly: "Brother Xiaoyuan, I am yin, I am yin!"
The excitement is like a child discovering that he has just learned to ride a bicycle.
The old man touched his chin, looked at the boy, and said: "It turns out that you are a serious person."
"What do you mean?" Tan Wenbin asked curiously.
The old man pointed to the boy: "I didn't know he was standing here before, which proves that he is very strong."
"Strong?"
"Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat dried shrimp, you are dried shrimp."
"Are you a big fish?"
The old man glanced at the boy again and said lightly: "Little fish."
He had also heard the conversation in the house before, and knew that the old man was Yin Meng's grandfather, but he did not let down his guard.
But now, he can be considered confirming that the other party is "harmless" because the other party is showing weakness.
In fact, since this period of time, the boy has been struggling with what he has been thinking about: Should he pounce on him and bite him?
No way, he really didn't know how to fight in a yin state.
Last time in Lu Ba Village, the little girl in red was also dispersed with powder.
In the books of Wei Zhengdao that I am currently reading, there is no detailed explanation of the yin.
This should be a basic subject, and Wei Zhengdao didn't bother to mention the basics, but Li Chaiyuan just couldn't.
It's like he can do high-order operations, but he can't add, subtract, multiply and divide.
It can be used, because although he doesn't understand what "addition, subtraction, multiplication and division" means, he memorized the answers to basic arithmetic.
This is also the reason why he often overdraws and has nosebleeds, although there is a reason why his body is still young and his body is not well developed, but it is mainly because his calculations are massive.
"Brother Yuan, right?"
The old man did have a different attitude towards Li Chaiyuan, and he added a polite word after the title, unlike Tan Wenbin who was stunned by the baby.
"Hmm." Li Chaiyuan responded, "Hello."
"Yin Fuhai, sitting at Fengdu Wharf, I don't know which pier Brother Yuan is sitting on or which Dragon King is worshipped?"
Saying that, the old man also made a set of gestures on the river.
Not every industry will give birth to black words and gestures, this form of mutual identity is originally to eliminate conflicts and avoid conflicts.
Another well-known person who likes to pose is the bandits.
The wharf means a snake on the ground, and sitting in the dock means that he is only a part of the wharf, not he is the one who takes it.
The Dragon King refers to everyone on the river.
Li Chaiyuan rarely comes into contact with serious peers, and this information is also analyzed literally.
But he didn't know how to reply, what was the position of his grandfather?
Nantong Haohe Wharf intervened?
But in fact, the place where my grandfather lives is still far away from the Hao River in the city, and the most important thing is that no one has taught him how to do local gestures.
I still blame the grandfather for being so unreliable that his great-grandson doesn't even know how to report it when he goes out.
In contrast, Li Chaiyuan felt that Uncle Shan of Runsheng's family might understand some of this, but Uncle Shan never did this to his grandfather, and maybe he didn't regard Li Sanjiang as a real peer at all.
Li Chase Yuan only had the inner door ceremony of the Qin and Liu families, but it was not very appropriate to do this.
However, seeing that the boy did not return the salute, the old man was angry and his tone became heavier:
"Since you don't look down on me as a person sitting at Fengdu Wharf, why do you live in my house again?"
Li Chaiyuan had no choice but to return a set of Liu's inner door gifts.
If you return this set of gifts, you don't have to talk to report home.
Obviously, the old man was knowledgeable, and the moment he saw this set of return gifts, the old man's whole body became transparent.
This was so frightened that he almost ended up in a negative state.
Guessing that even the body lying in the coffin was paralyzed again, and it convulsed twice.
After a long time, the old man calmed down, and when he spoke this time, not only did his previous anger dissipate, but he changed to a flattering look:
"The Liu family is coming, distinguished guests, rare guests, it's really good, how many years have passed, and someone from the Liu family has gone to the river again."
In the flattery on the old man's face, there was no flattery.
Li Chaiyuan asked: "Do you know the Liu family?"
"All the old Wang Ba on this river have heard of it."
"I mean, do you know that the Liu family is gone?"
"I know." The old man said calmly, "It is precisely because I know why the Liu family is gone that I respect them even more."
"My surname is not Liu."
"The outer door of the name?"
"Hmm."
Although she has not yet officially entered the apprenticeship, a named disciple in the future can be regarded as a tacit understanding between the two parties, just waiting for Ah Li's illness to heal.
"That's the same, please forgive me, old man, I can't entertain you in person."
"Don't look outside, I'll call you old man, you can call me Xiaoyuan, so that we can be more comfortable."
"Honorable guest...... Oh no, Brother Xiaoyuan and my Mengmeng are friends?"
"I guess so, but I'm here to return the favor."
"Ancestor? Oh, I see, then your generation is too high."
"Is the old man no longer in business?"
"Ah, what to do, what to do."
The old man didn't move the door panel, but put his hand on a mirror on the wall and turned it gently.
The originally thick door panel became a little transparent at this moment.
Li Chaiyuan and Tan Wenbin both saw black figures appear on the street that should have been quiet in the middle of the night outside.
However, in this black figure, there are also a few bright ones.
It should be a living person, two of them were drunk and two were alone.
So when you have nothing to do at night, it's best not to wander around the cold streets alone, because this street may be much more lively than you see.
The old man sat back behind the counter, as if waiting for a customer to come to his door.
Tan Wenbin stood in the tail corner of the counter, carefully looking at the "pedestrians" outside.
Li Chaiyuan walked to the opposite side of the old man and asked: "Is it a ghost street characteristic?"
"I've heard that there are similar places in several other places before, but I haven't been there, I don't know the specific situation, but there shouldn't be many like our Fengdu Ghost Street."
"Are they ghosts?"
"Yes, no, every Ghost Festival, they will come out on this street at night."
Tan Wenbin asked: "Haven't you caught one to study?"
The old man hurriedly waved his hand and said: "If you come to the door, you are a guest, and I am not a black shop."
At this time, a black figure walked in, his figure was blurred, he couldn't see clearly, he could only see it in general, it was a person.
He stood in front of the counter, the old man whispered to him, what exactly he said, Li Chaiyuan didn't hear clearly.
After a while, the black shadow left, and at the door of the store, he dropped a piece of money and floated into the water tank.
As soon as the money fell in, it turned into black ash and scattered.
The old man smiled at the corner of his mouth and touched his beard.
Only then did Li Chaiyuan know that the water tank in front of this store was originally for this purpose.
But Yin Meng herself didn't know that she was talking about the wrong usage of spreading rumors.
Li Zhuiyuan asked: "What is the deal?"
The old man smiled and said: "Yangshou."
"Huh?"
"If my bones can still move, I can make some other things myself and put them on here tonight, and I can also help run errands and make a wish or something, but now I can only walk and sit here, and I can't do anything real.
Although I am paralyzed, there is still a long time left, but in my situation, living one more day is dragging down one more day.
It's better to sell these cumbersome days and exchange some yin virtue for Mengmeng.
My granddaughter is good, but she is very arrogant, and it is really unnecessary to stay in this coffin shop for me, it can only delay her years."
The old man's attitude towards his granddaughter reminded Li Zhuyuan of his grandfather.
"How much can you sell?"
"I can't sell much, I really have great merit, how could I be this lonely ghost."
"Yes."
"But if you can sell a little, mosquito legs are also meat."
Li Chaiyuan pointed to the inner room and asked: "Don't you call Yin Meng?"
"If you can't wake up, not everyone can go yin, she can't leave." When Tan Wenbin heard this, he immediately smiled, which meant that Runsheng couldn't leave either, but he did!
"Can't you learn this the day after tomorrow?"
"Some people are born to be able to do it, and some people are born with it, and some people don't say it the day after tomorrow, so they just happen by chance, but they can indeed learn."
"So, did you deliberately not teach her?"
"Well, what's the point of learning this, it's not necessarily a good thing to be able to see these things. In a peaceful situation, this industry will not be prosperous.
To be honest, I hope she can live happily, find something she likes to do, marry a good person in the future, have a child, and live an ordinary life."
Grandpa, this is how he expects himself.
"I think she is a good learner."
"Just be healthy, girls will be good at it, and it will not be easy to be bullied."
At this time, Tan Wenbin said: "Brother Xiaoyuan, I am so dizzy and painful."
The old man said: "Stunned baby, go back to sleep, if you go to the shade for a long time, people will not be able to stand it, don't lose control and drift to the street later, then you will become a lonely ghost."
Tan Wenbin asked a little scaredly: "That ...... How does it end?"
"Each family has its own formula." The old man looked at Li Chaiyuan, "Didn't you teach him?"
Li Chaiyuan: "Close your eyes and imagine yourself on the bottom of the sea, floating up."
Old man: "......"
Tan Wenbin closed his eyes obediently and began to imagine that his heels were on tiptoe, and his hands were gently flicking up and down.
After a while, Tan Wenbin opened his eyes with a painful expression: "I can't wake up, Xiaoyuan, my head hurts even more, ah......"
Li Chaiyuan didn't know what to do, so he could only look at the old man: "Old man, do you have a way?"
"I ......" The old man got up, walked up to Tan Wenbin, read it in his mouth for a while, and then slapped Tan Wenbin on the forehead.
Tan Wenbin, who woke up from the coffin, although he had a splitting headache and was very sleepy, still managed to climb out of the coffin, lifted the curtain, and came to the outer room again.
But seeing that the door panel was still standing there and there was no other figure, he realized something, patted his forehead, got back into the coffin, closed his eyes, and called out directly.
"Okay, he's gone back, if this kid hasn't learned before, he is a bit spiritual, has he experienced anything?"
"I have experienced."
"Oh, that's caused by too many collisions."
"Will I get tired after walking in the shade for a long time?"
"Of course you won't be tired, you are very strong."
"What is the fruiting method?"
"You should have stood outside the inner room and listened to our speech, but I didn't feel your presence the whole time."
"Be more specific."
"This ...... You really don't know?"
"It looks like it's pretending?"
"No, it's just surprised, you don't know, how did you exercise?"
"It's also a lot of experience."
The old man shook his head: "No, experience can only be enlightened, you have clearly been tempered."
Li Chaiyuan thought of Ah Li.
If it refers to tempering, it should be to enter Ahri's "field of vision" to see the scenery.
Every time he "came out" after watching the scenery, he would be dazed and uncomfortable for a while, but as the number of times increased, the side effects became smaller and smaller.
After waiting for a long time, I didn't see the second black shadow coming to the door.
Li Chaiyuan asked: "Business is not good?"
The old man smiled and said: "If you open the coffin shop, you won't be full of guests."
"If you can't do another business, you don't want your Yangshou."
"Besides Yangshou, what else can I give now?"
"I gave Yin Meng money in reality, and you are now teaching me to walk the yin."
The old man leaned back, although he had already noticed something was wrong, but he really didn't expect such words to come out of the boy's mouth.
"Are you doubting the identity of my Liu family?"
"No, it's confirmed, because only in the Dragon King Temple can such a strange thing happen."
"Do you want to do this deal?"
"Do it, but don't take your money."
"No, I have to give money, because free is often more expensive."
"You misunderstood, I think all I can teach is the basics, and I'm really embarrassed to accept your money."
"What I lack is the foundation."
"Okay, I can teach you the twelve methods of walking yin passed down from my Yin family, but it will take a long time to learn this, how long will you stay here?"
"I'll leave tomorrow afternoon."
"There are many details and taboos in this method of walking yin, and it is difficult to really learn the introduction without anyone teaching by word and deed.
Why don't you consider staying here for a while?
For example, stay for a month, so that you can at least ensure that you learn one subject."
"It's okay, you can teach me."
"Then I'll list all twelve methods, you choose one, let's familiarize ourselves with it tonight?"
"No, let's start with the first one."
"Oh...... Okay."
At first, even though he knew that the other party was the Liu family, the old man still thought that this child was a madman and his heart was higher than the sky.
But as he taught, he realized that he was the frog at the bottom of the well.
He first described each method, then demonstrated it, and finally mentioned some points to pay attention to.
The boy sat on the chair, and after thinking for a while, he was able to use it, the first time he was jerky, the second time he was skillful, and the third time he was perfect.
The second and third ...... It's all like that.
Halfway through, he began to wonder if the other party had already learned the Yin family's Yin method and came to him to pretend to confirm it, but he quickly gave up this idea.
Because he didn't know the last three methods yet, he could only repeat the formulas and precautions passed down from generation to generation to the boy, and he couldn't demonstrate.
The boy was still the same, sitting on a chair and thinking for a while, and then came to analyze with him: According to the characteristics of the previous nine methods, whether it should be like this next, whether it should be like that, and where is the key point here.
Then, the boy used it.
After the other party used it, he also taught himself in reverse and let himself try to practice.
The teacher-student relationship was quietly reversed.
The old man never dreamed that one day, he would be taught his ancestral methods, which was really ridiculous, but the fact was in front of him, and he couldn't help but believe it.
What is even more shocking is that the other party has learned, crushed it and told it to himself in detail, and he feels greatly inspired and understands it more deeply, but he still can't use it for a while.
After the other party finished studying, the sky outside was still dark, and it was still a while before the rooster announced the dawn.
The old man was very frustrated, he leaned against the wall dejectedly, looked at the boy who was still in high spirits, and let out an emotion: "No wonder you are from the Liu family."
For him, this is really just a basic question, and it is to make up for the conceptual understanding after the previous serious jumps.
"That is, now that you are liberated, if you put it aside, when you grow up, you will definitely be the kind of big man who calls for wind and rain."
"Old man, was the Liu family very powerful before?"
After studying, Li Chaiyuan was willing to chat, especially about the Liu family's previous stories.
"Look at what you said, there has always been a saying on the river, called the court of flowing water and the iron Cao gang.
Many of the famous Cao gang bosses in history are just small gods like the Liu family, pushed to the table.
Back then, the only one who could compete with the Liu family in name was the Qin family.
This kind of big family doesn't care about the little things on the river at all, and they focus more on the secrets under the river, which is their real heritage."
"Old man, you know so much."
"Ha, there are many passers-by here, and I also loved to make friends in my early years and like to set up a dragon gate formation.
It's almost dawn, it's time for you to rest, in fact, I'm too tired, hehe."
"Hmm." Li Chaiyuan nodded, "Today, just two guests?"
"Yes, yes."
The first customer came in right after opening, and the second customer was a professor who came in halfway.
"However, the second customer didn't give money."
"Huh?" The old man was stunned for a moment, he remembered that the boy was thinking with his eyes closed, but he didn't expect to notice this, and immediately explained, "The deal couldn't be negotiated, so naturally there is no need to give money."
"Didn't it work out? But after the second guest left, your face immediately became ugly."
"I'm tired, really, I haven't worked so hard for a long time."
"As you said, they are all basic things, even if the first nine methods have been demonstrated, it is just a gesture of effort.
So, old man, are you because you are tired, or because you gave a lot of money to the second guest?"
"You're kidding, hehe."
"I will meet you, your deadline is approaching now."
"You ......."
"Is it inconvenient to say?"
"I have no face to say it."
The old man lowered his head and rubbed his face with his hands, half ashamed and half shocked, the boy in front of him had obviously noticed it a long time ago, but he had to wait until he had finished teaching all the twelve methods before he mentioned it.
This mind is really terrifying.
"Then don't say it."
Li Zhuiyuan raised his hand to snap his fingers to end the yin, it took a long time today, he felt that he should sleep until noon, fortunately, he didn't delay the afternoon boat.
"Let's talk about it, I'm afraid you will know if you leave late during the day."
"Will I know?"
"My son is dead."
"Yin Meng said that after her parents divorced, her father went to work in the south, and there has been no news since then."
"I originally thought that he couldn't stand the stimulation of divorce, so he immediately ran to the south alone after the divorce, and he didn't want his daughter to want this family."
"What about the facts?"
"He's dead."
"Dead?"
"He did not agree to the divorce, and was killed by the woman's partner with the man she is now marrying, and the body sank under Xiwanzi."
"How did you get divorced?"
"We are a small place here, and the rules may be stricter now, put aside the past, just get married and have a banquet, you don't need to get a certificate, when you need a certificate, you can make up for it temporarily.
Divorce is even simpler, and each person goes back to their own home.
At that time, he left a letter, saying that he was useless, he was a waste, his daughter-in-law couldn't keep it, he had no face to continue staying at home, and he went to work in the south to look like a person, so don't read it.
People will die at that time, and the letter will be forged."
"You never doubted it?"
"I'm stupid, I really didn't doubt it."
"Who told you that?"
"He came back by himself, and at the temple fair last month, he went home and told me personally.
Because the bridge was built in Xiwanzi, his body was found when the foundation was laid, and the police had no way to find it after a long time.
I'm angry, so I'm going to ......."
"I'm tired, my head hurts."
"Huh?"
"Stop talking, go to sleep."
When I woke up, I slept until noon.
Li Chaiyuan got up from the coffin, and Runsheng was holding a rag to help wipe the counter.
Seeing that Xiaoyuan had woken up, he immediately entered the inner room and pushed Tan Wenbin, who was also still asleep, awake.
"Hey, you can really sleep." Yin Meng said with a smile.
"Hmm." Li Chaiyuan responded.
Tan Wenbin rubbed his eyes and came out, and at noon, he shouted directly: "Yin Meng, your grandfather is not dead."
"Of course he's not dead, I died yesterday, he just had a cerebral infarction and couldn't wake up."
"Yes, did you go yesterday?" Tan Wenbin recalled carefully.
Li Chaiyuan: "She didn't say anything."
But the meaning of the words is similar to that of my grandfather dying, although it is indeed similar.
Tan Wenbin immediately apologized with a smile: "Well, I'm sorry, hehe, I made a mistake."
Yin Meng said: "Do you want lunch? I'll do it."
Li Chaiyuan: "Let's go out to eat."
Last night's trotters were still a bit shady.
At this time, two boys walked in from outside the store, who looked two or three years older than Li Chaiyuan, and they ran in with red eyes.
"Sister, sister."
"Sister."
As soon as the two boys came in, they called out to Sister Yin Meng.
"Who are they?" Tan Wenbin asked.
"My mother gave birth later."
"How do you feel like you have a good relationship?"
"Well, when they occasionally go to the county seat, I will buy them some food and give them some pocket money."
Tan Wenbin: "You are still weird."
"Really?"
"It's as good as a water in your brain."
At this time, the two boys ran over, hugged Yin Meng and cried:
"Woohoo, sister, it's not good, Mom and Dad fell into the river pond and drowned this morning!"
(End of this chapter)