Chengtian Ba ​​Suo

Since that day, there has been one more person in the family. 【 】Although the villagers didn't say anything about your grandfather's addition of a strange-looking pet, the strangeness in their eyes is still clearly discernible.

One day, your grandfather was coaxed to pick some wild vegetables.After he left, the adults in the family took out the pork they had been reluctant to eat and put it in front of the beast, saying, "Beast, you are psychic. Let's leave today, we can't support you."

The beast looked at the meat and ran out suddenly.After a while, it came back with a pheasant in its mouth.The adults were naturally happy, but thinking of the eyes of the villagers, they still shook their heads resolutely.

In the distance, laughter sounded again.Faced with the adults' increasingly anxious eyes, the beast finally retreated.He didn't take that piece of meat away, he just stared at your grandpa's bed for a few moments, and then ran away quickly.

But when he came back and didn't see the beast, your grandfather naturally started to make a fuss, and the wild vegetables he just picked were trampled under his feet.Since that day, your grandpa's tears have not stopped.

Until a month later, the family of three had another guest.It's a child, as old as your grandfather.Claiming to be surnamed Shi, he is an orphan.During the war, it is nothing to be an orphan.The people in the village are simple in heart, so his parents took him in.Since then, the family of three has become four.

That child matches your grandfather very well, and they often play together.Your grandfather also likes to be with him very much, because the child surnamed Shi has a familiar smell on him, which makes his heart very warm.

When Grandpa Shi said this, he was smiling.I looked at him very curiously at that time, and asked: Where is that child?where are you now?

Grandpa Shi smiled and stroked my head, saying: Silly boy.

Later, my father took me away from here.One day, Grandpa Shi suddenly asked someone to call, saying that Grandpa was critically ill.

When my father and I rushed back to our hometown, my grandfather could only lie on the bed, dying.He didn't look at me and my father, and didn't say a word to us.Just trembling, he took out a small book from under the pillow, which recorded the events of his life.The most numerous of them are still the beast.

He couldn't open his eyes anymore, he could only scratch at random.Grandpa Shi hurriedly grabbed his hand, and Grandpa was quiet for a while.Suddenly his face became rosy, and he spoke forcefully.He opened his eyes, stared at his old partner and said: "You have to promise me that you will help me take care of my descendants. I will go now, and see you in the underworld in the future!"

Grandpa Shi nodded heavily.

"Beast! Where are you? I'm here to find you!" Grandpa said vaguely, his face paled quickly.

"I'm here! I'm always by your side! Dude, you can go at ease."

Grandpa went, and it was very peaceful.

Later, his father burned all the classics left by his grandfather, and Grandpa Shi had a big fight with his father over this.After that, we never saw each other again.Today, it is the first reunion in more than ten years.

When I was a child, I thought Grandpa Shi was just telling stories.But after experiencing so many weird things with the old man, I suddenly felt that maybe this story is true.Because of the old-fashioned performance, I feel very strange.

What happened?I couldn't help but ask.

The old man kept frowning slightly, he seemed to be thinking, and after a long time he said to me: You, Grandpa Shi, may not be human.

ah?I opened my mouth wide, is this cursing or something.

I felt a strange aura from him.The old Taoist said: It's very strange.Some kind of demon, but more ancient and sacred, like...

I waited impatiently for the old Taoist to continue, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't finish.

like what?I couldn't help but ask again.

The old Taoist shook his head and said: It's hard for me to say, because I can't be sure yet.But what is certain is that he is unusual, very unusual.

It is rare for an old Taoist to respect a person so much, the Emperor of Qinling Mountain counts as one, and the Basuo that I have inherited counts as one.Others, he mostly ignored them.

The story you told is very interesting, the stone beast... the old Taoist seems to be muttering to himself: Transforming people... Maybe the things described in the ancient books really existed.

The old Taoist was talking nonsense, and I didn't fully understand it.

what are you talking about?I asked: What happened to Grandpa Shi?That's just a story.If what he was talking about was really my grandfather, as the Basuo inheritance, wouldn't the ancestors be able to discover the strangeness of Grandpa Shi?

If it is really Basuo inheritance, it can be found naturally.As the master of Basuo, your grandfather entrusted the descendants to him before he died, and he definitely did not speak randomly.

Maybe he was confused then.I countered.

The old Taoist shook his head again: Basuo is one lineage, inherited in the sky, how could it be possible to be confused.Even if you are confused, you are pretending to be confused.There are many things that you know, but you don't have to explain it clearly.

The old saying makes sense, but I still can't believe it.Grandpa Shi, who used to have a close relationship with me, is actually a stone beast in his mouth?

This is too outrageous!No less than Obama suddenly came one day and said he was my distant cousin.

Don't you think, your family is weird?The Basuo inherited family, but except for your grandfather and your mother, everyone else is very ordinary.

You mean... I vaguely understand what the old man means.

The old man looked at me without explaining too much.From the look in his eyes, I knew I was right.

That's right, none of my relatives conform to the logic of Basuo's inheritance.Except for grandpa and mother, those seven aunts and eight uncles are ordinary people.

Is it really as I guessed, Grandpa's life experience, in fact...

This makes me a little hard to accept, because the truth is too exaggerated.I think that anyone who suddenly finds out one day that people who were originally considered to be blood relatives have no real blood relationship, he may collapse.

This kind of truth, I prefer to always exist in the stage of conjecture, because it is difficult to accept.

If none of them are relatives, how many of my relatives are left...

This is unlikely... I intend to refute the words of the old man.

Whether it’s true or not, I don’t think there are many people who want to know, and I’m afraid there are not many who can tell you the truth, so you don’t need to think about it.said the old Taoist.

I looked at him, and suddenly a strange emotion called gratitude came to me.

That's right, haha... I pretended to laugh casually, but even I could hear it, the laughter was too fake.

Forget it, let's find something first.As I said that, I walked to the room where my grandfather lived.

The old Taoist didn't say much, and followed closely behind me.It can be seen that he is very interested in grandpa's room.

The door of the room was not locked. When my father left, all the keys except the door were thrown away.Perhaps he thought that no one would come here, so there was no need to lock it.

I pushed open the wooden door, and there was a constant "creaking" sound, the door panel was a little skewed, and the upper door beam was about to fall off.

A shake of dust fell from the sky and swayed on me.I was choked and coughed a few times, waved my hand and covered my nose.

The curtains at the back of the house were only half drawn, and the sunlight came in through half of the windows, but it couldn't illuminate the whole room.

I walked over and wanted to open the curtains, but there was a "crash" and another "bang", and the curtains were pulled down by me directly.A lot of dust scattered, and I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed because my body was already covered with dust.

The old man didn't notice it, and walked around the house.

Grandpa's room is not much more furnished than outside.Desk, chair, bed, wardrobe.Originally there was a bookcase full of books. When my father burned the books, he also burned the bookcase.

I opened the closet first, and there was nothing here.Everything was burned by the father.

Then, I looked under the desk and under the bed in turn, but found nothing.

Is there really nothing left?This made me a little disappointed, and at the same time I was indignant at my father's recklessness.

Nothing... I walked up to the old Taoist and said.

impossible.The old Taoist said: Even my five-element meridians have left eight secret scrolls, so how could there be nothing left in the place where I passed it down personally.Unless, the real Basuo inheritance is not here.

I thought about it and thought what the old man said made sense.If the previous guess is true and grandpa was not born and raised here, then he obviously couldn't bring much as a child back then.Although I don't know why my grandfather was like that when he was a child, the ancient land where Basuo's ancient books are really left may not be here.

That would be difficult.I don't know any other place except here.I am both helpless and lost.

You don't know, but your grandpa Shi may know.said the old Taoist.

Oh yes!It dawned on me.

Before his grandfather died, he gave Grandpa Shi the book that recorded the big and small events in his life.If there is anyone in this world who understands him best, it is probably only Grandpa Shi.