Grandpa put down the small shovel in his hand and instinctively wanted to rush out of the yard.
Suddenly I remembered that my master had told my parents many times that I must not leave the courtyard gate.
Listening to the noise and suona outside getting smaller and smaller, Grandpa's heart felt like a cat scratching his head, wanting to see what was so lively outside.
Driven by curiosity, grandpa suddenly thought that since he couldn't go out of the courtyard gate, I didn't have to go out to see.
Grandpa moved a chair and placed it on the wall. He stepped on it and stood on tiptoe. He could just see outside through the wall of the yard.
On the path leading to the mountain outside the yard, more than ten people wearing linen clothes and a circle of white cloth around their heads were surrounding a bullock cart. The sound of suona was played by the person walking in the last row among this group of people.
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Although my grandfather was only seven years old, he recognized it at a glance. This formation was for a funeral. Someone had died and was to be buried on the mountain. There was a dark coffin placed on an ox cart surrounded by a group of people.
The moment he recognized the coffin, Grandpa thought of his master's warning that something terrible would happen to the coffin within seven days, and he felt frightened.
Just as he was about to jump off the chair, he suddenly felt a chill on his back, his eyes darkened, and he fell off the chair.
The moment my grandfather fell to the ground, he heard a scream coming from the house, which was his mother's voice, and then he fell unconscious.
When grandpa woke up again, it was already dawn the next day. His parents and master were sitting around the table, their faces gloomy. Grandpa didn't know what happened, but he guessed that it was probably related to the funeral he saw.
"Where's Mr. Li?"
Seeing that everyone was silent, Grandpa asked his friend in a low voice.
As soon as he asked the question, his father gave him a firm slap on the face with red eyes. The father exerted enough force in this slap that the grandfather lay on the ground.
Grandpa's mother didn't say anything, but walked over and hugged him. Grandpa saw that his mother's eyes were also red, as if she had just cried.
Lao Li sighed and said that it was all fate and no one was to blame, but it was a pity for the little boy who died for his grandfather.
When he heard Lao Li talking about the dead baby, the grandfather immediately thought of the little friend he had been playing with for a few days. He suddenly stopped crying and looked at Lao Li without daring to breathe.
Lao Li took his grandfather from his mother's arms, put him on the ground, took his hand, and walked outside the house.
The two came to the next room. Li Jun was wearing new clothes and lying quietly on the kang. When grandpa saw Li Jun's face, he screamed in fright, hid behind Lao Li, and burst into tears.
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Li Jun's face was ferocious, his brows were furrowed tightly, and one of his eyes was wide open. When grandpa saw it, he felt that Li Jun was staring at him.
"Qin De, I hope you can go over and apologize to Li Jun seriously and ask him to close his eyes!"
Lao Li pulled his grandfather from behind to in front of him. He dragged his grandfather not far from Li Jun with one hand, and pressed his head with the other hand to make him look at Li Jun on the kang.
Grandpa was so scared that his legs were weak at this time, and he had long forgotten to cry. No matter what angle he looked at, he felt that Li Jun's open eye was looking at him. Grandpa struggled desperately to resist, trying to get out of here.
"Qin De, please see clearly! This is what you should look like now!"
Lao Li roared, and Grandpa was stunned.
"This is what you should be like now!"
"This is what you should be like now!"
These words kept echoing in Grandpa's mind. Strangely enough, Grandpa suddenly felt less afraid, and instead felt a sense of sadness in his heart.
After standing by the kang for a while, grandpa finally spoke. Grandpa cried and told Li Jun that it was all his fault. He shouldn't have climbed up the wall to look outside. He was the one who hurt Li Jun.
Grandpa lowered his head and cried while talking. He didn't remember how long he cried and talked. When he raised his head again, Li Jun's open eye was closed and his tightened brows relaxed.
"Qin De, please keep vigil for Mr. Li for seven days, and treat him as the person closest to you. During the funeral, you must wear mourning for him, and burn paper for him every year to reduce your sins. Remember,
If a man dares to take responsibility, he will bear the consequences of what he sows."
After Lao Li finished speaking, he left his grandfather behind and walked out of the house. The young grandfather did not understand what the master said, but he knew that he had killed Li Jun. As expected, he stayed with Li Jun except for eating and going to the toilet.
Around Jun, I kept apologizing to him.
Seven days later, my father led a carriage, with Li Jun sleeping in the coffin on the carriage. Grandpa, dressed in sackcloth and holding a mourning stick in his hand, followed the carriage and scattered paper money.
After burying Li Jun, Lao Li told his grandfather's parents that he would come back here before the end of the year, so he gave this yard to them, and then left the county with his grandfather.
Later, my grandfather learned that he was destined not to live past the age of seven and to be haunted by hundreds of ghosts. If he had not met his master, he would have left this world that year.
The master's appearance in the county is called God's will in his words. A few years ago, the master sensed the fate between himself and his apprentice, so he followed this sense to search for him, traveled many places, and finally came to this county.
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In fact, the master had found his grandfather a long time ago and also discovered that his fate was different. In the event of such a catastrophe, the time to accept a disciple would be after this catastrophe.
So the master began to make secret arrangements, purchased this remote house, and at the same time prepared for the upcoming catastrophe.
The master met Li Jun when he was shopping in the next county. In fact, when he met Li Jun, the master saw the ending and just wanted to use his own ability to change the ending.
When choosing this yard, Master checked nearby and found that no one would pass away in the nearby villages. But God is not as good as God. What I thought was foolproof turned out to be a mistake. Master still left out the property belonging to the neighboring county.
of a small village.
Master took his grandpa to many places, and would stay in each place for half a year. During this half-year period, master would find a place to live near the school, and then arrange for grandpa to go to school.
Basically, my grandfather would change his residence in a different city every semester, and of course he would also change schools. For many years, he traveled to almost half of China, except every winter before the Chinese New Year, he would return to this county to reunite with his parents.
In addition to studying, Master would read various books to Grandpa and teach him some Feng Shui knowledge.
Grandpa remembers that when he was ten years old, they lived in Beijing. My grandpa seemed to be very busy that year, and he often couldn't be seen for several days.
It was also this year that grandpa met Mr. Xu for the first time. Master took grandpa, who had just turned ten, to a building. Everyone in the building was wearing green military uniforms.
The master took out a letter from his pocket. After reading it, the soldier at the door respectfully led his grandfather to the door of an office.
There was an old man with a square face sitting in the office. When the old man saw his master, he was extremely affectionate at first, and then he looked sad.
The master and the old man went to another room to chat. Grandpa was bored in the office and played with a pocket watch on the table.
Later, the master asked his grandfather to call the old man Uncle Xu, and Uncle Xu gave the pocket watch on the table to his grandfather.
For many years to come, after Grandpa arranged his school and accommodation, he would often go away for a month or two. One year, he even went away for half a year. This was the only time that my grandfather attended the same school for a full year.
As my grandfather grew up, he understood many things and realized that his master was helping the country deal with some things, but he did not belong to any force in the country.
When grandpa celebrated his eighteenth birthday, my master drank a lot of wine.
That day, the master told his grandfather that what he did had only one purpose, which was to protect this country from interference from other realms. There are still some people like him. They walk in the world and have a common code name called realm keepers.
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Later, my grandfather understood that the meaning of boundary guardians was to deal with the existence within a certain range of the country that would disrupt the order of the world.
Later, my master came back from a trip and told my grandfather that he had a junior brother who had learned other skills from his master. This junior brother was my uncle.
When the master left his grandfather, it was when New China was just founded, and his grandfather was 21 years old. The master told his grandfather that he was going to travel around and would definitely come back when his grandfather got married.
Grandpa started following his master when he was seven years old. Over the past ten years, he has changed from a child to a young man, but his appearance has not changed at all.
Grandpa once asked the master how old he was. The master would always answer with a smile, "You are as old as you think. Age has no meaning to him."
When my grandfather returned to live in Shanxi, he discovered that his master was extremely rich. Over the years, he never seemed to worry about money.
And every year when he returned to the county town to celebrate the New Year, his grandfather would give his father a heavy cloth bag. When he grew up, his grandfather knew that the bag was filled with white ocean.
Sure enough, when grandpa got married, the master came back. After a nice drink, he told grandpa that he would come back in nine months.
Why nine months? Because my grandma is about to give birth in nine months. When Master came this time, he came in a jeep and left two days after my father was born.
The master looked at the newborn baby, frowned, and told his grandfather that he could not teach his father even a single bit of what he had learned.
Every year from then on, grandpa would receive a letter from his master, or a green jeep would drive directly to his door. Grandpa would go to the designated place according to his master's request to help solve some problems.
The penultimate time I saw Master was during my trip to Sichuan. It was the first time I met my uncle, and it was also the first time I saw Master in several years.
After the matter was settled, Master called his grandfather and uncle to the room and told them that it was comforting to see the two of them being able to resist each other now. He didn't have much time left and wanted to spend his last days without worries.
Grandpa cried and asked the master if he could tell his name. If the master left in the future, he would have to engrave his name when he made a spiritual tablet.
The master hit his grandfather with a crutch and scolded him for being unfilial and thinking about making a burial place before he died. However, he still answered Lao Li, but with the word "Yellow River" in front of it.
That day, my grandfather learned that the Yellow River Basin was the area under the jurisdiction of the Grandmaster. Any strange things that happened in this area would be solved by the Grandmaster.