Without saying a word, the old man took off one of his shoes and handed it to Chujiu. He kept scolding Chujiu. He couldn't do this again. He would get sick if he caught a cold.
After Chujiu left, the old man sat on the stone bank and lit another pot of dry smoke. He happily told me that this little baby was too skinny and it would be uncomfortable to be sick.
I sat on the stone bank, looked at the beautiful scenery, and answered casually, Chujiu has been naughty since he was a child, but he has a good heart.
The old man said with a smile that he could see it. The simple and kind-hearted doll was as lovable as his granddaughter.
"This? This!" The old man dropped the fishing rod in his hand and rubbed his eyes, as if he had seen something incredible.
I thought the old man had caught a big fish with his fishing rod, so I turned around and was equally surprised. At the place where I washed my feet before the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, several big fish one foot long swam over. After the big fish circled in the water a few times,
My stomach turned and I floated in the water.
The old man took off his other shoe, stepped into the water, picked up a few fish and threw them into the fish basket. Just as he was about to land, he saw several big fish swimming in the distance. Several big fish were also in the water.
, after swimming a few laps, my belly turned white.
After picking up more than 20 fish in one breath, the old man felt his feet were a little cold. After coming out of the water, he stood on the stone.
After the water on his feet dried, the old man looked at me strangely: "What your little baby said just now is actually true! I thought he was just making the old man happy."
I recovered from the shock and thought to myself that the Taoist method was too powerful. I can make a fortune just by relying on Chujiu in the future!
Hearing what the old man said, I didn't know how to answer, so I could only pretend to be ordinary. I told the old man: "My brother's feet are very smelly. Every time he washes his feet in the river, the fish will stun him."
We didn’t like to eat the fish he picked up in the past.”
The old man smiled even more happily, and said that it was really strange. This little doll was also very strange. Even if the gods came, it would probably be incomparable.
As soon as the old man finished speaking, there was movement in the fish basket. I walked over and took a look, and the fish that had turned up their white bellies came to life one by one, jumping up and down in the fish basket.
"I have rarely been able to catch such a big fish in the past. I think this one can be sold for 80 cents and 1 tael. Most of the fish I can catch usually weigh from half a catty to 80 taels."
I pointed to the lake: "Is it this big?"
Another group of fish, slightly smaller than before, rushed over from a distance.
The old man smiled from ear to ear and jumped into the water again. This time I also took off my shoes, jumped into the water, grabbed one with each hand, and picked up all the fish.
This is the first time I have been so excited to catch fish with my bare hands. When I was in Lijia Village, my friends and I took a big fishing net and it took a long time to catch one or two carp.
From a distance, I saw Chujiu holding a cloth shoe in his hand, walking slowly this way with a smile on his face.
"Haha, grandpa, do you believe in my feet now? Isn't it great? There will be more in a while. I will definitely be able to fill your fish basket today."
The old man nodded happily. It is estimated that Chu Jiu now said that he could drink all the water in the lake in one breath, and the old man would probably believe it.
On the ninth day of the lunar month, I put the old man's cloth shoes on the stone bank and called me to get ashore, saying that it was almost time and I had to go on my way.
When saying goodbye to the old man, Chujiu ran up to the old man mysteriously, lay down next to his ear and whispered something, and the old man kept nodding.
When Chujiu and I were about to walk to the old house, the old man's crying voice came from behind: "Thank you, little fairy!"
I turned around and saw the old man holding a shoe in his hand and waving it towards us. Chujiu took my arm and ran along the alley.
Chujiu told me that he stuffed fifteen yuan into his shoe, the ten yuan I gave him, plus his own five yuan. He also crushed another fish-attracting pill into the old man's shoes.
In the shoe.
When he left, he told the old man that his divine foot had passed through the old man's shoe. In the next three days, the old man only had to put that foot in the water and soak it, and fish would come.
"No wonder you ate other people's corn tortillas. It turned out to be a premeditated plan."
I slapped Chujiu on the head. Chujiu rubbed his head and said that he ate it on purpose so that grandpa and him would not have any causal ties. He helped grandpa catch fish, and grandpa gave him cakes.
Fish for loaves, nothing is owed to each other.
When we got back to the car, Wan Li had already woken up and was sitting in the cab waiting for us.
After getting in the car, I told Chujiu that it turns out Taoism still has such a method. I thought it was just about exorcising demons and catching ghosts.
Chujiu told me that this is not a Taoist method, but a kind of voodoo technique. And it is the lowest form of voodoo technique. It is actually a special kind of pill.
He heard the mother-in-law who gave her the pills the recipe for making this medicine to lure fish.
Use one green-shell duck egg, one tael of mutton, one tael of flour, ten grams each of naoyanghua (also known as: old morning flower), wild star anise, and fennel, three tablets of sleeping pills, mash them into a paste, and mix half and two percent of mutton oil.
Make it into a paste and make it into the size of a pigeon egg. After it is left to dry in a cool place, it will shrink into pills like this.
In the past, there were some deceitful masters who fooled the common people, saying that they could call all the fish in the fish pond to their feet and catch as many as they wanted.
In fact, I secretly learned the art of voodoo, made this pill, smeared it on my feet, and put it into the pond water for about ten minutes.
When the fish smell the smell, they immediately run to their feet to fight for food, and then they are anesthetized by the sleeping pills dispersed in the water, just like catching a fish to death.
After listening to Chu Jiu's explanation to me, he drove thousands of miles and curiously asked us what happened. I told him everything that happened at the pond.
Wan Li seemed to be particularly interested in these things. Before setting off, he heard his boss vaguely mention that Chujiu and I were not ordinary people. He said that he was bored on the road and asked Chujiu to tell him more about these weird things.
Chujiu was straightforward and told him vividly about the "ghost knocking on the door" scam we encountered before when we went to Jing Fei's house.
After Wan Li listened, he suddenly realized that this was how things turned out. He thought there was really an evil spirit knocking on the door. Then he yelled until he couldn't get enough, and asked Chu Jiu to continue talking.
Chujiu did not agree readily this time. Instead, he told Wan Li that he would teach him how to drive a car. Wan Li was a little embarrassed, so he finally promised Chujiu that he would have the opportunity to teach him in the future, but it was impossible to use the car he drove and had to use an ordinary car.
car.
Just like that, when I got tired of talking about it on the ninth day of the lunar month, it was up to me to tell some interesting stories. Most of them were stories that my grandfather told me when I was a child. I will retell them again.
Wan Li also told us a lot about the strange things he thought, but after half of the story, Chujiu and I analyzed them to the end. Unknowingly, Wan Li's relationship with us became closer and closer.