Lanxi, who was drowsy on the bed just now, was still a little unwilling to give up. He asked Chujiu, what was Mr. Qin doing when he was walking back and forth with a lantern?
Chujiu, who was sitting in front of the stove boiling water, threw the firewood in his hand into the stove.
"Guo Guo's soul was driven away by the drowned ghost. Master Qin brought Guo Guo's soul back. The lantern was to guide Guo Guo's soul."
After a long time, Chujiu saw that Lanxi was still not asleep. Chujiu sat by the bed, made a face at Lanxi, and asked Lanxi if she was scared.
Lanxi whispered to Chujiu that she was a little scared. Chujiu smiled heartlessly and said that those evil spirits would only look for GuoGuo, not her.
"Why?"
Lanci asked curiously. Chujiu couldn't explain it clearly. He didn't know the specifics. Master Qin and the others didn't tell him, but he guessed that the evil spirits wanted to snatch Guoguo's body.
"Ah? Then the brother's body was robbed by evil spirits, is he still the brother?"
Chu Jiu thought for a while and told Lan Xi that most of the time he would still be Guo Guo during the day and become a different person at night.
"On the ninth day of the lunar month, I see that your skin is very itchy. Do you want to eat fried shredded pork with hot pepper? Let your sister Lanxi rest. You are a melon kid and you are scaring your sister."
The leader of the village shouted outside the house, which made Chujiu shrink his neck in fright and made a face to Lan Xi.
Only then did Lanxi realize that Chujiu was trying to scare her. She pulled a quilt over her head and was just about to go to bed when she heard Chujiu say to himself, "That's right."
"The ninth day of the lunar month!"
Lanxi stood up from the bed and slapped Chujiu hard on the forehead.
"Hahaha, I think among these girls, Mi Li can cure Chujiu."
Master Qin happened to see Lanxi beating Chujiu and said to the village leader with a smile.
The leader of the village was also speechless for a while, saying that Chujiu was also very strange. The more he loved her sister, the more he liked to tease others.
Finally, Chujiu sat in front of the bed and counted hundreds of sheep for Lanxi before Lanxi fell asleep.
When Lan Xi woke up, it was close to noon. Mi Li came and prepared a table of meals with her grandma Jian Shu.
After several people had eaten, Chujiu hurriedly lay on the bed and went to sleep. Mi Li ran to Lanxi and asked Lanxi in a low voice what happened.
Lanxi also knew little about it, but she told Mi Li what Chujiu told her.
"No wonder grandma brought the stars."
Mi Li finally stopped being curious, but Lan Xi became curious. The "squeaking" things in Grandma Jian Shu's backpack turned out to be stars.
Xingxing is a strange monkey that almost all the children in the village have seen. When Grandma Jian Shu came to the village a few years ago, she took Xingxing with her.
When Lanxi saw Xingxing for the first time, Xingxing was sitting on Mili's shoulders. When they saw Lanxi, they started to do somersaults and handstands, making everyone laugh all the time.
The only one who started to grin when he saw Chujiu was the fierce Chujiu. He would always pick up some wild fruits from the trees and secretly smash them at Chujiu.
When I was still a child, I was ridiculed by my sisters for saying that I was inseparable from the stars. One person and one monkey chased him in the village for a whole day and night.
Later, Xingxing was the most affectionate with Chujiu and listened to Chujiu's words the most. Xingxing followed Chujiu and did whatever he did.
That summer, on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, when my sisters took a bath, hid their clothes, and exchanged for candies, Xingxing followed them the whole time.
The leader of the village hung Chujiu on a tree, and when he beat Chujiu violently, Xingxing would secretly stuff wild fruits into Chujiu's mouth.
Later, Grandma Jian Shu never brought Xing Xing to the village again. She said that after Xing Xing returned to their village, she started to peek at girls bathing and hide other people's clothes, so she was locked up by Grandma Jian Shu.
Mi Li later told everyone that Xingxing was different from other monkeys and had some special abilities. He was also the future guardian beast of Wangfeng Village.
"Where are the stars? Are they at Grandma Jian Shu's place?" Lan Xi thought of the interesting stars and asked casually.
Mi Li pointed inside the room. Lanxi saw a monkey lying next to Chujiu who was sleeping on the bed, imitating Chujiu's posture.
"No wonder when he was a kid, everyone said he was like a monkey."
Lanxi covered her mouth and chuckled, while Mi Li rolled her eyes at Chujiu. She said that grandma told her that when Xingxing saw Chujiu for the first time, she thought Chujiu was a monkey and competed with it for favor, so she didn't like Chujiu.
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"Mi Li, you glanced at Chujiu again. Who doesn't know that you love Chujiu the most?"
"Seeing these two monkeys gives me a headache, and the village is going to be in chaos."
Mi Li said goodbye to everyone and went to find other sisters, saying that he was going to dig bamboo shoots in the forest and go fishing to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner the day after tomorrow.
Nothing special happened before sunset. Xingxing stole a medicinal material lying next to Lanxi and hid it in Chujiu's room.
Grandma Jian Shu beat Xing Xing. The village leader thought it was Chu Jiu who ordered Xing Xing and beat Chu Jiu.
Chujiu was so angry that he beat Xingxing again, and then Xingxing became angry. Chujiu was on the first floor, and it stayed on the second floor. When Chujiu went upstairs, it jumped to the first floor and stayed there.
After sunset, the adults' expressions became tense. Although several people sat around the table drinking tea, their eyes were staring outside from time to time.
About nine o'clock, the stars suddenly chirped several times.
The adults rushed out of the house one after another. Lanxi, who was boiling water, heard a "bang" and the door of the room was slammed shut by the village owner.
Not long after, the temperature in the room began to drop, as it did the day before, and there was an uncomfortable gloomy feeling. Even though Lan Xi was wearing an extra cotton-padded jacket, she still felt cold and shivering.
Fortunately, the temperature of the water in the barrel did not drop too fast. Lan Xi felt that this was the luckiest thing.
During the day, Mr. Qin and the others took me out of the barrel and put me on the bed to check my injuries.
The leader of the village sighed that the master was so powerful, he had asked him to prepare this prescription more than ten years ago.
At twelve o'clock at night, Lanxi didn't know what was happening outside. The roar of the village leader, the chanting of the monk, and the cries of the stars were all mixed together.
In addition to the severe cooling in the room, Lan Xi was not sure whether she was hallucinating. She seemed to hear the cry of a baby.
For a while, Lanxi saw me sitting in the barrel, and her body was shaking, and then she became motionless.
Thinking of what happened the day before, Lan Xi did not peek out from the crack of the door this time. Instead, he stayed close to the barrel and checked the changes in water temperature and potion.
It was almost one o'clock in the night, and the movement outside the house began to become quieter. I heard that the village owner and Grandma Jian Shu had already returned to the house.
The great monk moved from the direction of the east window to the direction of the door of the house. The sound of chanting became quieter, but there was no more sound of knocking on the wooden fish. The wooden fish made a "ta-ta-da" sound, and Lan Xi felt that the air was changing.