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Chapter IX Liao Haode

"Hey, does it really work?"

Just after Ye Tian silently recited the word "Shu Zang" in his heart, his eyes suddenly brightened, because the mysterious turtle shell appeared in his mind again.

This made Ye Tian feel a little excited, because before this, he never knew how to use this thing. Now that he can summon it easily, he believes that he will be able to solve the mystery of the turtle shell in the future.

"Well, why did the word "Kanyu" fade away?

Ye Tian suppressed the excitement in his heart and focused on the turtle shell. When he looked at it, he immediately noticed something different.

When helping Mr. Miao read Feng Shui at noon, Ye Tian clearly remembered that among the twelve words of divination, fortune telling, numerology, fortune telling, dream fortune telling, and choosing auspiciousness, the two words "Kanyu" and "Physiognomy" were clearly distinguishable.

All are lit.

But now the word "Kanyu" is dim, and only the word "Xiangshu" is slightly brighter, which is obviously different from the surrounding words.

"Ye Tian, ​​what's wrong with you? This Monkey Candy that my uncle gave you is so beautiful..."

After seeing his uncle give Monkey King's candy man to Ye Tian first, Guo Xiaolong kept staring at Ye Tian. He wanted to see the excitement on Ye Tian's face, which would also satisfy his own little vanity.

Heart.

However, after Ye Tian took the candy man, he froze there, which made Guo Xiaolong feel a little uncomfortable. He had no choice but to remind Ye Tian how the candy man in his hand came to be.

As the saying goes, the children of the poor will become rich early. Although the two of them are about the same age, Ye Tian knows exactly what Guo Xiaolong is thinking. He smiled and said: "Oh, she is very beautiful, Xiaolong, how about...

Shall I give it to you first?”

Guo Xiaolong waved his hands repeatedly, glanced at his great-uncle secretly, and whispered: "That's not okay. Just take what my great-uncle gave you, otherwise I will be scolded..."

"Okay, thank you, Xiaolong, your grandson is almost ready..."

Ye Tian was not polite, and after answering casually, he looked at Guo Xiaolong's uncle and grandfather, but in his heart he focused on the word "Physiognomy".

Just when Ye Tian saw the old man's face, the word "Xiangshu" on the turtle shell suddenly decomposed, and the entire turtle shell spread out, forming mysterious symbols, which made Ye Tian dazzled.

.

However, having had the experience of reading a fortune teller before, Ye Tian was not in a hurry. He only felt a slight dizziness in his mind. After a few seconds, a few lines of words appeared in Ye Tian's mind.

"Liao Haode, born in 1933, went to Taiwan in 1949, moved to the United States in 1959...

When I return home this time, I want to bury my parents together, but the place where my mother is buried is nowhere to be found. I will return to the United States in three days..."

"Are you really from the United States?"

Looking at these few lines of words in his mind, Ye Tian laughed. Although they were not detailed, they were enough for him to understand the past events of Liao Haode's life.

What's more important is that the turtle shell actually figured out Liao Haode's purpose of returning home to visit his relatives this time. In other words, this compass like a turtle shell can not only predict a person's past, but also predict their future.

"Can you help him? See if you can figure out where his mother is buried?"

The few lines of words in his mind were slowly fading away. Ye Tian suddenly thought of this question. Even if he could figure out Liao Haode's purpose of returning to China, if he couldn't help him, it would still be like taking someone else's candy for nothing?

"Six hundred steps from the beginning of the village, two steps below..."

Just when Ye Tian was asking the turtle shell in his heart, those few lines of words had completely disappeared. Just when Ye Tian wanted to turn his attention to this question, a line of small words suddenly appeared in his mind,

"What does this mean? Which village? Why is it so confusing?" Looking at these words that disappeared quickly, Ye Tian frowned.

It stands to reason that things like finding the dragon's acupoints require the name and birth date of the person concerned. He just thought about it for a moment, and Turtle Shell gave such an answer. Ye Tian didn't know whether it was true or false.

"Shuzang, come out here..."

Ye Tian was a little unwilling to give up and muttered something in his heart. The turtle shell was summoned for him, but all the words on it had turned into a gray color and could no longer be opened. Ye Tian also

Somewhat helpless.

"Whatever, it's up to him to believe it or not..."

Ye Tian muttered something in his mouth, saying that since the turtle shell appeared in his mind, no matter whether he was doing a fortune teller for the old Taoist or a feng shui for Mr. Miao, there seemed to be no mistakes.

But Ye Tian couldn't tell the old man directly. If others didn't believe it, wouldn't it be embarrassing in front of overseas Chinese? After thinking about it, Ye Tian secretly pulled the little fat man.

"Ye Tian, ​​what are you doing? My candy man is about to be ready..." Guo Xiaolong was very dissatisfied with Ye Tian's behavior and glanced straight into the crowd, fearing that his grandson's candy man would be taken away.

Already.

"Hey, if you follow your uncle, how many sweets won't be eaten..."

Ye Tian complimented the little fat man silently, and then said: "Xiaolong, does your uncle and grandpa have something to do when he comes back this time?"

"It's okay. I just came back to see us. By the way, my uncle also gave us a lot of things. Let me tell you, the TV set I have at home is the only one in my village. Ye Tian, ​​please come to my house to watch it when you have time.

TV, Shanghai Beach is so good, Xu Wenqiang is the most handsome..."

Guo Xiaolong didn't understand Ye Tianwen's words, he talked in a mess, and even gestured with his hands to show what Xu Wenqiang would look like after shooting. He didn't even pay attention to the Sun Monkey Candy Man inside, which was almost ready.

Seeing Guo Xiaolong's attitude, Ye Tian wished he could take him to his house to watch TV right now. He quickly said: "Ahem, Xiaolong, I will definitely go when I have time. By the way, I have to leave now. Help me give it to your uncle and grandpa."

Say goodbye..."

"Leave now? Well, I have to go for a walk with my uncle and uncle, and I won't go back until later..."

Without someone to show off to, Guo Xiaolong felt a little bored, but he decided in his heart that when school started, he would invite all his close classmates to watch TV at home.

"Okay, Xiaolong, goodbye..."

Ye Tian waved his hand to Guo Xiaolong, and before leaving, he suddenly leaned into his ear and whispered: "Xiaolong, what your uncle and grandpa are looking for is six hundred steps away from the village..."

It's not that Ye Tian doesn't want to make it clear, but he actually doesn't know where Liao Haode's mother is buried. Anyway, with just such a clue, it means that he didn't take someone else's candy in vain.

"What is my great-uncle looking for? Six hundred steps from the end of the village?"

Guo Xiaolong looked at Ye Tian's little body squeezing into the crowd in the distance. He shook his head inexplicably and turned around, only to find his great-uncle standing in front of him holding a candy figure.

"Xiaolong, is your classmate gone?"

Just by revisiting the skill of the candy blower, Liao Haode felt that his trip to the market was not in vain. You know, when he was a child, he was just like these children, eager to buy a candy player.

"Ye Tian is gone, uncle, he asked me to say goodbye to you..."

Guo Xiaolong took the monkey candy man, looked at the old man beside him, and asked a little strangely: "Uncle, did you come home to find something?"

"Huh? Xiaolong, why do you ask grandpa like this?"

Liao Haode was stunned for a moment when he heard this. Xiaolong's parents knew the purpose of his return, but Xiaolong didn't know? There is no need to talk to children about such things.

"My classmate said that what you are looking for, grandpa, is six hundred steps away from the village..." Guo Xiaolong scratched his head, but still said what Ye Tianlin said when he left.

"What? What did your classmate say?"

Liao Haode originally just asked this casually, but he didn't expect to hear such a sentence. He was suddenly shocked and grabbed Guo Xiaolong.

"Grandpa, he...he said that what you are looking for is six hundred steps away from the village. He didn't say anything else..."

Seeing his always kind uncle with his face flushed and eyes wide open, Guo Xiaolong was so scared that he held his mouth shut and was about to burst into tears.

"Six hundred steps from the village, six hundred steps from the village!"

Liao Haode muttered a few words in his heart, turned around and said: "Xiaolong, let's go home..."

At this time, Liao Haode felt as if a huge wave was rolling in his heart. At this moment, he did not have the intention to think about why Ye Tian said such words, but focused entirely on the "six hundred steps from the village".

A word came up.

Before liberation, Liao Haode's father was an official in the Ministry of Education of the Nationalist Government and worked in Nanjing for many years. However, Liao Haode's mother often returned to live in the countryside. After he was 10 years old, Liao Haode went to school in Nanjing with his father.

At that time in 1949, the Kuomintang was completely defeated. Due to the emergency situation, Liao Haode's father took his son and left for Taiwan before he could pick up his wife. This departure separated the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait were separated forever.

After arriving in Taiwan, Liao Haode's father discovered that millions of troops had poured into such a small place, and many generals even lived in military villages.

The so-called military dependents' villages were built to accommodate the Kuomintang troops and their dependents who were forced to migrate to Taiwan from various provinces in mainland China. The buildings were low-rise and the environment was much worse than on the mainland.

However, Liao Haode's father was a talented person who was proficient in several languages. After living in the military village for ten years, he took his son to the United States and opened his own company and settled there.

That is to say, the year before last, Liao Haode's father died of illness in the United States. Before his death, he told his son that he must bring his ashes back to the country and bury him with his wife. This is how Liao Haode made his trip back to China.

It was only after returning to his hometown that Liao Haode learned that his mother had passed away in the early 1950s.

In the movement that swept across China, many families with overseas connections and even ancestral graves suffered catastrophes, so even the elders of the family could not tell the specific burial place of Liao Haode's mother at this time.

This result made Liao Haode a little disheartened. He was already preparing to return to the United States, but he didn't expect to suddenly receive such a piece of information.

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