The day of fortune-telling for the dragon

Shui Lingling Bai gave birth to a child who died as soon as he said it. Many people have sighed.However, Hua Jue was very happy being a broken sleeve, since the grandmother who raised him passed away, no one cared about him anymore.

Under the care of his neighbors, he read divination and fortune-telling for others, and sometimes used geodesy to help hide-and-seek children cheat a little. The price was a piece of rice flower candy, and he lived a life where one person and one cat could eat enough at home. , it seems that there is no other pursuit.

He followed the proprietress' advice and took a long way home, avoiding the crowded Loushui Bridge.When he got home, as soon as he stepped into the water-soaked small yard where he grew weeds, Hua Jue raised his voice and shouted, "Hua Dabao, it's time to eat."

Hua Dabao is the name of his raccoon cat.

Like the growth process of most spoiled cats, this cat was a heart-wrenching milk cat group when it was a cub, but when it grew up, it directly became a ball-like apprentice in the cat world, often running Going to the wall to fool around with the little female cat raised by the neighbor, even daring to grab food from Hua Jue at every turn.

Grandma Hua took this fat cat as her favorite during her lifetime. The cat is a big treasure, and Hua Jue can only be ranked second. Hua Jue used to like it.Now that they are dependent on each other, Hua Jue directly downgraded Hua Dabao's status from his equal to his son's, and everyone said that the cat had his surname.

Hua Jue put the umbrella on the ground and drenched in the water, went into the room to search around, and called out again: "Dabao?" After failing to find it, Hua Jue poured the dried fish into a clay bowl, tilted her head towards the stove He looked under the stage, expecting to pull out a piece of fat cat's tail, but touched the ashes with his hand, and only pulled out a piece of black stuff from it.

The thing was very thin and very hard. Hua Jue broke it and found that it was also very resilient, reminiscent of the fragments of armor written in some legendary biographies.Hua Jue touched it again, and smelled a slight fishy smell, pinching her fingertips, it seemed to be blood.

Hua Dabao has made great achievements abroad, and there is also a habit of bringing home anything interesting when he sees it. Hua Jue has found a stunned rabbit, a broken mouse tail and hot pancakes under the stove, but He didn't recognize what Hua Dabao brought this time.

Hua Jue scooped up water in the water tank and washed the thing off, thinking that Hua Dabao was fighting outside, it seemed that he had never seen blood, and it might not be that the boat capsized in the gutter this time.Thinking of this, he hastily threw a few small dried fish into his mouth to chew, held up an umbrella and stepped into the rain again, and went out to find his precious cat son.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and it is getting torrential. The raindrops are rushing down the umbrella ribs, almost blocking people's sight.Encountered a fork in the road ahead, Hua Jue pulled out a dog's tail grass casually, the grass swayed in the wind for a moment, and fell to the front left side, Hua Jue acted as if the grass had chosen the path for her, and raised her foot Go to the left road.

He searched around, asking a few passers-by, seeing more and more passers-by on the road, and seeing faces he didn't recognize flash past one by one, Hua Jue realized that he had reached the bridge near the river.

As the proprietress said, everyone gathered here, without exception, all dressed in black, silent to each other.The black clothes were soaked in water, and the thin silver thread on it occasionally showed some dim silver light. These people were just the Taoist group that had filled the whole Jiangling recently.

Hua Jue barged in alone, dressed in red and holding an umbrella with Mo Jiangshan on a white background, she looked particularly out of place.In the gray rain, many people noticed this young man and looked sideways.

Hua Jue felt that the atmosphere was a little weird.

These people didn't speak, they put on a show together as if they had made an appointment, and then turned their heads away after a few glances at him, showing no intention of making way for him.The crowds were crowded, and the river bank was occupied by this pitch-black mass of people, so crowded that even a fly could not fly in.

Hua Jue looked on the bridge again, and saw two Taoist priests, one old and one young, the old one was immortal, with flying beard and hair;The two of them wore more clothes than the Taoist priests on the shore, and their demeanor was much stronger. They were probably the heads of the Taoist priests.

Are you talking about a Fa conference?Hua Jue thought to herself.But who would hold a meeting in such a ghostly weather?

He actually kind of envied these people.Organized people are good. When they ignore people, they can ignore them all together, and they seem to take advantage of them all the time; if there is a way to ascend, they can fly a big lump, and they are not lonely at all. , while Huajue has only one fat cat that is delicious and lustful.

Thinking of this fat cat, Hua Jue cheered up, and began to probe his brain again, hoping to find Hua Dabao.

In the end, it didn’t matter. The half-submerged bluestone steps under the bridge were protruding the fat head of a civet cat, and the rest of its body was submerged in the water, swimming around in a small area with its four claws flapping. Look a little comfortable.

Hua Jue's hanging heart was half relieved, and she slowly squeezed through the crowd, ready to go down and grab Hua Dabao, but was stopped by all the people around—the group of Taoist priests were all equipped with knives for some reason, and the white light turned over, several times. Dao Daoguang lay in front of Hua Jue: "Be acquainted, don't get in the way!"

Hua Jue has grown so big and hasn't been pointed at by someone with a knife. He is a little dazed: "I... just went to pick up a cat."

Those people didn't seem to understand what he said at all, and remained motionless.Behind the crowd, a faint voice came out: "This person is called Hua Jue, and this is the Jiangling fortune teller they are talking about."

Hua Jue looked up, but couldn't find who was speaking.He heard a little disdain and joking in the voice, and soon, someone answered: "May I ask which expert it is from?"

This time Hua Jue didn't wait for anyone to introduce her, and replied directly: "I don't have a master."

"Hey, it turned out that he was self-taught." Someone hidden in the crowd laughed, and then the rest of the people laughed one after another, and part of the laughter gave him this seemingly misnamed young man. The other part maliciously gave him this feminine attire.

Hua Jue didn't know that the Taoist who led this group of people was named "Ruyi Taoist", and his name belonged to the famous Qinggong Taoist School in the north. Since he came to Jiangling, he has been suppressed by his reputation as Mr. Hua Xiao. I was very upset.

There are many scattered people in the south, many clans in the north, Taoist priests in the south laugh at the Taoist priests in the north for being pedantic, and those in the north laugh at the rough and unruly in the south. Three-legged cat kung fu; they only think that Jiangling is a small place, and Hua Jue is just a monkey dominating the king.

Hua Jue stood in the rain holding an umbrella. Hearing what they said, he gradually put away the doubt in his eyes. He said seriously, "I don't need your attention. I'm just here to pick up a cat—" His voice was smooth. He went out, but was suddenly interrupted—there was a huge wave of more than ten feet suddenly set off in the river!

The wave came so unexpectedly that even the ground shook. The river surged up and slammed on the bank of the river, killing everyone.Hua Jue's whole body was thrown aside by the huge shock, and directly bumped into the lion's head on the stone railing.The other people were not much better than him. Although they had been prepared and grabbed each other in advance, many people rolled into the muddy ground, and their mouths and noses were bleeding.

Hua Jue was drenched all over and took off the umbrella. He quickly crawled over and grabbed the umbrella back to protect it in his arms, and then grabbed the railing to look at Hua Dabao.In the river, the cihuamao's fat head still loomed faintly, but the thumping movements became smaller and smaller.

Hua Dabao is fun, but cats are alert by nature, and their perception of danger can only be faster and deeper than humans. Seeing that there is no one around, Hua Jue hurriedly got up and rushed under the bridge. While running, she heard Hua Dabao's screams ——

He also thought that the cat was bubbling to take a bath in the river. Looking at it, it seemed to be entangled by something and could not move at all.That cry hit Hua Jue's heart straight, and the fat cat, which was soaked in water, also drooped its ears and looked at him longingly, very desolate.

The stairs that Hua Jue walks are high and steep. When the water does not rise in winter, this path is originally used for women to go down to the river beach to wash clothes and fetch water after the water recedes. There are also fishermen who go down here to dig ice. fishing.He cautiously went down to the edge of the river, stretched out his hand to bring his cat over, lifted it without moving, only to find that Hua Dabao's tail was entangled with something, and Hua Dabao struggled hard, almost wiping off a part of his tail Mao, but just can't get rid of it.

Hua Jue touched down along the cat's tail, and pulled out a long string of white hard paper pulp, densely engraved with obscure characters.It is unbelievable that the paper melts when it meets water. These papers are melted, but they are as firm as iron paste.

Hua Jue understood it clearly: "The curse of resolving grievances... the curse of purifying the heart... the curse of killing ghosts..."

Hua Jue was once entrusted by someone to seal a haunted well. Although he is promoting and trying new types of spells recently, he knows all kinds of runes very well.

There are 72 Taoist spells, strong and weak, depending on the situation, Hua Jue used the spell of resolving grievances at the beginning.That time, there was movement in the old well of a family, and the people in the house had nightmares every night. Some people said that the house was haunted. After Hua Jue passed by, he pulled out a big hedgehog from the crack in the wall beside the well.

The Five Great Immortals, Hu Huang Bai Liu Hui, are the five animals of fox, weasel, hedgehog, snake and mouse. It is said that they are the most likely to become spirits, so it is best not to provoke them easily.Hua Jue understood the hedgehog as soon as she saw it, asked the family members, and finally found out that two or three years ago, the male owner of the house found a little hedgehog by the window, roasted it and ate it. A bunch of thorns were left.Unexpectedly, three years later, the little hedgehog's mother came back to take revenge and entangled the family.

Hua Jue sealed the well with the curse of resolving grievances, forbidding the hedgehog to enter and exit, then squatted at the base of the wall and did some ideological work for the big hedgehog for a long time, and fed it a lot of good wild fruits, the hedgehog just made a hole and left up.

If it were someone else, they would use a ghost-killing curse after the curse of resolving grievances, so as to suppress the cultivation of the hedgehog spirit, and even slowly suppress it to death.Hua Jue persuaded the hedgehog away based on the principle that peace is the most important thing if the worldview is inconsistent, and then gave the family hundreds of Fengshui charms for the town house, ensuring that no monster dares to set foot on the land for a hundred years.

One curse is right for one thing, but now Hua Jue saw no less than twenty curses in the string of paper pulp dragged behind the cat's tail, and there were only a few more. The death curse that came out!

The river water was bitingly cold, Hua Jue rolled up her sleeves and groped down, and sure enough, she caught several long paper strings and tied them on extremely thin wires, which seemed to traverse the entire river.There are dozens of such wires at slightly wider intervals, directly blocking an invisible barrier in the river.

Hua Jue bit her finger and wiped Hua Dabao's tail, and the charm holding the cat's tail fell off automatically.He understood that it wasn't his cat that was entangled by these spells, but that Hua Dabao was probably involved by the way. The real purpose of these spells was to trap something else.

What kind of thing needs hundreds of heavy symbols to stop it?

Hua Jue suddenly found that the surroundings were quiet. He hugged the cat, and the people on the bridge and the shore did not stop him like before.The young man standing at the end of the bridge tilted his head and blinked at him, looking like he was watching a show.

Hua Jue swallowed nervously, carefully withdrew her hand from the river, and wrapped it tightly with the wet cat in her clothes.Two or three feet away from him, a huge black shadow loomed, filled with mist, and quickly disappeared.At this moment, Hua Jue felt that someone glanced at her—a sharp, indifferent, without the slightest temperature, coming from the turbid and bottomless water.