Chapter 6: First acquaintance with ghost thieves
He sighed not the old blind man, but his own fate. No matter what grades you get in the exam, which school you are admitted to, and then look at this impoverished family, you can't afford to pay for tuition at all.
If there is any reason why he is reluctant to this hometown after his grandmother passed away, it is Zhang Huifang. Every child will always have this ignorant feeling when they are teenagers, Huifang may not be as good at dressing up as a big city girl, but she is kind and sensible, and she never dislikes Cheng Feng's background.
"Slow down...... Why are you running so fast today? I'm going to be tired! Huifang was running with a snort, sweating and couldn't keep up with Ma Chengfeng's footsteps.
This kid has caught up with the rabbit in every step, who can catch up? He jumped up and down in front of him excitedly, never feeling his body so light.
"Ran away, come back!" If Huifang didn't shout, Ma Chengfeng almost ran up the hill along the path at the school gate. It's not that he's playful, he really can't stop the car!
The playground bulletin board is pasted with a big red good news, and the top line is written with Ma Chengfeng's name. With a full score of 700 that year, Cheng Feng took the 694 exam, not to mention the high school in the county, even if he went to Fengtian Provincial City, he was the top student.
The eyes of the whole class glared at him fiercely as if they were class enemies.
At noon, Ma Chengfeng went home with his head drooping and weak, and immediately smelled the smell of meat before entering the courtyard gate. He took a few steps and rushed in. In the small courtyard, the old blind man was dragging a chicken thigh and stuffing it into his mouth. The chicken feathers all over the ground under her feet, isn't this the old hen that lays eggs in Aunt Wang's house? How did you get him roasted?
Cheng Feng pointed at his nose and said angrily: "You? You're going to steal chickens? ”
"Huh? Boy, you can eat things indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense, which eye did you see the old man stealing? This is what they gave to the old man voluntarily, don't you believe it? If you don't believe me, ask me? Not only do they want to give me food today, but as long as I live here for a day from now on, I will continue to eat, believe it or not? The old blind man pulled off a chicken wing and threw it at him.
He hadn't eaten meat for almost a month, and although he was hungry, he didn't have any appetite today. He threw the score slip and went into the house by himself. As soon as he entered the house, he was immediately dumbfounded, and there was a thick stack of gross tickets on the small kang.
"You? You're an old immortal! You just steal other people's chickens, and you even steal money? Send them back! That's a year's worth of food for people! Ma Chengfeng rushed out angrily.
He was scolding, and on the village road at the gate, he saw the village secretary running over with a few strong men. Come on, it seems that people have come to the door, and this old blind man is afraid that he will be beaten by fat.
Unexpectedly, the old branch secretary, who usually stared at him, knelt directly at the door of the Ma family's small courtyard with people. "I don't know if the master will miss the distance when he visits! Hey...... Ma Daxian, what, can you please help me calculate, when can I take another step up? The village party secretary had a hypocritical smile on his face, and he almost called his father.
The old blind man wiped the greasy corners of his mouth and replied ignorantly: "Wait, the old man is tired today, Ming'er looks at the mood." ”
"Yes, yes, your old body is important, then we will come back tomorrow." As he spoke, the pious village party secretary hurriedly took out a red envelope from his pocket and threw it into the courtyard, and the other villagers also followed him to leave the chickens, ducks and pork he brought, and then bowed his waist and slowly retreated. It was really like the eunuchs of the Qing Dynasty meeting the emperor.
Ma Chengfeng's eyes widened and his mouth widened, and all the words in his mouth flowed out, and when he pinched it, the red envelope was ten gross tickets.
"What's going on? The old man said he didn't steal, right? Did they send it on their own initiative? I can't do without. He pointed to the wad of money on the kang and said, "This is your tuition fee for this year." Think of it as the money I gave you for the accommodation for the past two days.
Ma Chengfeng has lived for 16 years, and he has never eaten so much as he did today, and his stomach is round. He couldn't figure it out, even if this old blind man had no skills, how could he let others willingly bring food and drink by himself? It seems that from now on, it is really time to re-recognize the profession of "thief".
The old blind man told him that in fact, he didn't do anything, and after he left in the morning, the old blind man was hungry, and he walked two steps to see the crying sound from Aunt Wang's house, and he asked carefully to know that Aunt Wang's youngest son had a high fever for several days. He touched the child's head, sniffed the child's snort, and immediately said that this child is not an ordinary disease, it is something evil in your family, and the child's weak yang qi is naturally easy to recruit.
The Wang family has a good reputation, and he has never offended anyone in the countryside, and his husband has earned some money by working in the city in recent years, and he has built a new house for the family. I can't think of the cause.
As soon as the old blind man heard that the new house had been built, he said, "I'll go and walk around your house."
After being blind for many years, his sense of hearing and smell will be surprisingly keen, and when he walked into the new house of the Wang family, he immediately pointed to the beam above his head and said, there is something on the beam of your house, you can find a ladder to climb up and take a look.
Aunt Wang was sick and rushed to the doctor, and she really believed him. When he climbed up the beam, he was almost scared to death, and in the corner of his house, there was a dead cat, which seemed to have just died, and the body had not yet decomposed. However, it stands to reason that dead things are easy to attract flies, but there is no shadow of flies in the house for the past two days, what is going on?
"How do you know that there is a dead cat on the beam of Aunt Wang's house? You blind thief, did you do it in advance? Your name is a thousand arts! You think I don't understand? Ma Chengfeng said angrily.
"Hey...... The old man never disdained these three indiscriminate tricks, let me tell you, it was the Wang family who offended those carpenters when they built the house, which is the usual method of the old carpenters. This type of carpenter is also called a 'ghost craftsman'. Fortunately, I found out in time, otherwise the family of three would have died! ”
"Finished? That's it? You cheated people out of a stack of money with just a few words? ”
"What is deception? The old man said a thousand words, and saved their family's lives with one word, what is this money? Boy, learn something, hehe......"
It doesn't matter who this old blind man is, whether he has real skills or not. Anyway, Ma Chengfeng has not had a good impression of them since he was a child. Grandpa is a Jianghu person, in the end, he abandoned his wife and children, and grandma didn't see him for the last time when she died.
The sky was getting dark, and in the quiet village, there was no movement except for the babbling and chanting of a few fake monks of the Liu family. Ma Chengfeng still habitually put on his clothes and walked out, and he had to find a grave to sleep in.
"In the future, you won't have to sleep with the dead, from today onwards, the old man will replenish your soul!" The old blind man sat up from the kang and pulled Ma Chengfeng out with his coarse cloth bag on his back.
Under the night, a gust of wind swirled straight into people's necks. On the grave hill, a young man walked with his head bowed on his arms.
"Have you arrived?" The old blind man stopped, and Ma Chengfeng stopped in front of a lonely grave on his right hand and watched. The grave was short, there was no tombstone, and a few new grasses had grown on it after a day's work.
Ma Chengfeng walked over and carefully plucked the weeds, and then cultivated a new layer of soil. "This is my grandmother's grave, strange, why does the new grave always grow grass?"
The blind horse smiled faintly, approached and leaned over to touch the grave soil, and then sniffed. "In the future, the grass on the grave is not allowed to be dragged down, and if the grass does not grow, it is a lonely grave, and there is no aftermath. The direction of your grandmother's grave is okay, but you can dig a small canal two meters around the grave to divert the rainwater, and find a peach tree sapling tomorrow, and I will personally help you plant it. ”
"Blind, aren't you a thief? Do you still know Feng Shui? ”
The old blind man said, "Hehe...... I just know a little bit about the skin, and I believe me, I won't hurt you. ”
The night is getting thicker, and it is dark in the tunzi at the foot of the mountain, after last night's incident, every house in the tunzi is closed, and even those idle drunks who like to play mahjong in the small shop in the east of the village on weekdays are gone. The wind was blowing on the hill, and owls and cuckoos were chirping strangely in the wilderness. From time to time, the mountain rat peeked out of the grass and looked at the two intruders vigilantly.
The old blind man leaned against the old tree with his eyes closed and snoring like thunder, and Ma Chengfeng sat on the branch above his head, his eyes only shining green. In the thick darkness of the night, you may not be able to see a person hiding here, but those dark green eyes are like a cat ready to pounce on its prey.
What kind of person has bright eyes at night? Thief!
The soil at the head of the new grave on the top of the hill was still intact, piled up as high as a hill. It's hard to imagine that Liu Laohan crawled out from under here last night.
In the night wind, there was a faint jingling of copper bells from the village, and the rhythm of the copper bells shaking was extremely strange, low and high, slow and urgent, and the hearts of the listeners kept trembling, and there was a feeling of wanting to dance with this strange melody.
"Hmph...... And sure enough, it was! The old blind man stretched and stood up.
Thorn ...... Thorn ...... Thorn ...... Under the grave, Liu Tiezhu began to scratch the coffin board again.
"It's out, it's out!" Ma Chengfeng hugged the branch and was afraid of falling from it again, but he forgot that he was not what he used to be now, and his body was faster than before, not to mention a zombie, even if ten people were surrounded by him, he might not be able to catch him.
"What's the panic, look at the way you haven't seen the world, aren't you just a corpse? I'll do it in minutes, blind man. ”
The wind was blowing, the lightning was thundering, the black clouds were getting lower and lower, and for a while, birds and beasts were scattered on the grave mountain, as if the world was apocalyptic. A withered claw finally protruded from under the grave, his nails slender and the backs of his hands covered with corpse spots. Streams of foul-smelling corpse gas blew in the wind.
"Uh...... Whoa......" came a corpse roar. Liu Tiezhu's body jumped out from under the grave, his hands stretched out, his whole body stiff, and every step he took forward was more than two meters away.
The strange copper bell in the pear tree tun at the foot of the mountain had a faster rhythm, and Liu Tiezhu's corpse followed the rhythm of the copper bell and jumped down the mountain. The old blind man's ears kept twisting, judging Liu Tiezhu's position, and then his fingertips flicked, and the small pebble pinched between his fingertips bounced out with a whizz, this old guy's secret weapon kung fu was already perfect, and the pebble directly hit Liu Tiezhu's kneecap. The guy stiffened and fell to the ground.