The hanged old principal slowly walked down from the rostrum and walked toward the crowd stuck at the exit. He said he was walking, but his feet were not visible. It would be more appropriate to say he floated past. The scene at that time was,
The more timid ones were already stunned by fright, and a few of the more daring ones smashed the windows with stools and jumped out of the windows before running away. At this moment, the old man who had been staying under the rostrum
The Taoist priest suddenly moved. He first went up to the rostrum, put several boxes of cigarettes on it into his robe, then grabbed a box of matches in his hand, and took an unknown person's tea cup with his other hand and drank it.
After a sip, I held the tea in my mouth but did not swallow it.
Then he jumped off the rostrum and walked a few steps behind the old principal. The old Taoist bit the tip of his tongue, and the blood from the tongue mixed with tea was sprayed on the old principal's face. "Ouch!" the old principal screamed, and the flesh on his face
Half of it was burned by the mouthful of pink tea. After that, the old Taoist priest struck a match, put the lit match to his mouth, and then blew a fierce breath at the old principal. This breath turned into a
The fireball flew to the old principal. It looked as if gasoline had been poured on it before. The old principal's whole "person" turned into a big fireball. In just a moment, the big fireball burned the old principal into a flying ball.
Ash.
Seeing that the old principal was burned by a fire, the crowd crowded at the exit fell silent. Then they saw the old Taoist priest pulling up a stool and sitting back under the rostrum, lighting a cigarette and smoking it one after another.
After this incident, the local people finally learned about the old Taoist priest's abilities. The things that had been confiscated by the Red Army soldiers were returned one after another. Although they did not dare to go in and burn incense in a big way, some people had secretly given the old Taoist priest some money in the middle of the night.
The Taoist priests sent food, drinks and some daily necessities. And if something strange happened nearby, the local revolutionary committee also began to arrange to ask the old Taoist priests to help. The old Taoist priests were not greedy and just gave them two packs of cigarettes and a bottle of liquor.
Solve the problem.
Since the old Taoist priest has long been on the list of the five black categories, he is still indispensable for criticism in some scenes. However, special care has been taken to the extreme. Special actions such as jet planes are completely exempted. Others will be criticized on the chest.
If you hang a big sign, it will be so heavy that you can't even lift your head. For the old Taoist priests, they just put a piece of paper on their chests to express their meaning.
When Zhang Xiaolan arrived at the Taoist temple, she saw the old Taoist priest squatting at the door of the Taoist temple smoking. Unexpectedly, after not seeing each other for many years, the old Taoist priest recognized Zhang Xiaolan at a glance: "Is she Xiaolan?"
After Zhang Xiaolan heard the words "Xiaolan girl", she couldn't bear it anymore. She was filled with grievances, resentment and shame to the extreme. She suddenly found a channel to vent her tears, and her tears fell like broken pearls.
The Taoist priest sighed, and did not go over to persuade her. She just looked at Zhang Xiaolan silently. The life of being on the run these past few days had exhausted her strength. She didn’t know how long she had been crying. Suddenly, Zhang Xiaolan’s eyesight went dark, and her whole body fell.
Fall to the ground.
I don’t know how long it took, but it was already midnight when Zhang Xiaolan woke up. She was lying in the Taoist temple, and the old Taoist priest was sitting beside her bed. Before Zhang Xiaolan could speak, the old Taoist priest said: "It’s really hard for you, being alone outside.
I also met a bunch of beasts. Just think of it as a fate. But the bad things are over, and it will be fine when you come back." Zhang Xiaolan was stunned by these words, and she didn't say anything. The old Taoist priest seemed to have seen through her.
He looked at Zhang Xiaolan and said, "You were talking in your sleep just now. You were crying even in your dreams, begging that beast named Xie Pang to let you go."
Did she dream and talk in her sleep? Zhang Xiaolan didn’t feel anything at all. Moreover, the old Taoist priest knew a lot. Even if he talked in his sleep, he wouldn’t have to talk about it from beginning to end, right? But it’s hard to figure it out. Zhang Xiaolan doesn’t have any respect for the old Taoist priest.
Suspicious. The family did not dare to go back, so Zhang Xiaolan had to live in this Taoist temple temporarily. The old Taoist priest had no objection and placed her in the secret room where the scriptures were stored. Fortunately, in the special environment of the time, no one dared to enter the temple to burn incense.
.Zhang Xiaolan lives in Guanli, and no one knows.
Perhaps because of the fright she suffered before, Zhang Xiaolan's nerves and body had always been tense. When she suddenly relaxed, her body couldn't bear it. Zhang Xiaolan suddenly fell ill within a few days of living in the temple. The illness came like a mountain, and that day
Zhang Xiaolan started talking nonsense. Fortunately, the old Taoist priest was very good at medicine. After checking Zhang Xiaolan's pulse, the old Taoist priest went up to the mountain to collect medicine and boiled it for Zhang Xiaolan. He waited on Zhang Xiaolan for a month before he finally saved her life.
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Not long after Zhang Xiaolan recovered, her body began to change again. She began to experience acidosis and retching without warning. Zhang Xiaolan was a little girl in that era. She didn't know what was wrong with her body and thought she was just recovering from a serious illness.
After that, she suffered from gastrointestinal discomfort. The old Taoist priest also looked at her strangely. Finally, one day a few days later, the old Taoist priest told Zhang Xiaolan a fact that she could not accept no matter what - she was pregnant. When Zhang Xiaolan was sick before
, the old Taoist priest took her pulse and found out that she was already more than two months pregnant.
After learning that she was pregnant, Zhang Xiaolan was completely confused. There was no need to think about going to the hospital for an abortion. That required a letter of introduction and identification from her employer. Zhang Xiaolan's household registration was still in that small fishing village. Even if she wanted to get rid of this evildoer,
There was no other way. It was impossible for Zhang Xiaolan to go all out to report the crime. In that era, her life would be ruined just by being herself. Another ordeal of fate made her nerves become a little abnormal.
Zhang Xiaolan became silent and looked at the beams above the main hall of the Taoist temple in a daze every day. Finally, the old Taoist priest comforted her and came up with an idea: "If it doesn't work, just give birth to the child, and he will be my little disciple. I don't care about this matter."
No one knows if you don't tell me. Just pretend that nothing happened. In a few years, if you miss him, just come and see him. If you don't want to, just pretend that you never gave birth to this child..." The old Taoist priest tried to persuade him to death, but in the end it was easy to get rid of him.
Zhang Xiaolan had no choice but to follow the old Taoist priest's advice.
From then on, when people came to the old Taoist priest to "solve trouble", the old Taoist priest also changed the conditions. Two packs of cigarettes and one bottle of liquor were no longer enough, and they were upgraded to eggs and ribs. The old Taoist priest gave Zhang Xiaolan all these things.
She was pregnant. Six months passed in the blink of an eye. Zhang Xiaolan's belly was getting bigger day by day, and she was about to give birth in just over a month.
One day, the old Taoist priest was "invited" by the rebels to criticize him. Zhang Xiaolan hid in the dark room under the main hall and waited for the old Taoist priest to come back. At this time, two people secretly entered the Taoist temple. The two people went straight to the main hall where Sanqing was worshiped.
They kowtowed and prayed. Zhang Xiaolan heard clearly in the dark room that the people who came were her biological parents. Zhang Xiaolan had been missing for more than half a year and there was no news. The local government where she jumped in only said that Zhang Xiaolan fell seriously ill after the Chinese New Year.
After that, she disappeared without any reason, and after searching for more than half a year, she couldn't find her. Zhang Xiaolan's parents really had no idea, so they sneaked in when no one was in the Taoist temple, and prayed to the gods to bless their daughter to turn danger into good luck and show up as soon as possible.
As they talked, the old couple became emotional and cried bitterly before leaving the Taoist temple.
Zhang Xiaolan couldn't stand it for a long time and wanted to show up to reunite with her parents. But looking at her paunchy appearance in the mirror, she felt it was hard to say anything. Finally, she gritted her teeth and waited until her parents left the Taoist temple before she came out of the darkroom. At this time
When Zhang Xiaolan recalled what she had experienced over the past six months, her spirit completely collapsed. Shortly after her parents left the Taoist temple, Zhang Xiaolan found a beam in the side hall and hanged herself.
When the old Taoist priest returned to the Taoist temple, Zhang Xiaolan was already cold. Under her hanging body, the umbilical cord was connected to a newborn baby boy hanging in the air. During the hanging process, Zhang Xiaolan struggled to move the fetal air.
, the moment she died, she gave birth to the fetus prematurely. The baby boy survived, but Zhang Xiaolan had no way to save her. The old Taoist priest could only perform a ritual for her and temporarily buried Zhang Xiaolan in the Taoist temple.
later.
The next step was to deal with the baby. The old Taoist priest claimed that someone abandoned the baby in front of the Taoist temple. He was destined to have this baby, so he put the baby under the door wall and named him Zhang Rantian.
After Zhang Rantian finished speaking this long paragraph, he rubbed his ears that were red from the cold, and said, "Do you know now why everyone in the Xie family should die?" After listening to Zhang Rantian's somewhat provocative question, the scene was silent.
Even Fatty Sun, who has always been indifferent, couldn't find the words to respond. Finally, Hao Zhengyi asked from another angle: "So the method you used to kill the Xie family was also taught to you by the old Taoist priest?"
"If he was willing to teach me, I would have avenged this revenge long ago." Zhang Rantian sneered and continued, "Before I reached adulthood, I was raised by my nominal master. He relied on the incense money from the Taoist temple.
He always helped me go to college. He taught me everything he thought he could teach me, but..." At the end of the sentence, Zhang Rantian suddenly became hysterical. He raised his head and pointed at the sky and shouted loudly, "
But they didn’t teach me how to take revenge!”
Fatty Sun looked at Zhang Rantian suspiciously and said, "Didn't your master teach you this craft?" Zhang Rantian took a deep breath and said, "Does he think I can't learn it if he doesn't teach me?" As he said that, he turned his head.
Looking at Fatty Sun, he said: "He didn't tell me a lot of things, and he didn't even say how my mother died. Guess how I knew?" At this time, I felt that something was not right with Zhang Rantian, and by the sea
The wind was biting and we were shivering from the cold, but he was sweating profusely. Moreover, Zhang Rantian's eyes looked dull, and his cheeks looked like they had applied blush. This unhealthy redness extended all the way to his neck. His
This situation is like a lunatic I saw in my hometown when I was a child. When the lunatic was not sick, he was a good person, but when the lunacy started, he became what Zhang Rantian looks like now.
Before Fatty Sun could answer, Zhang Rantian asked and answered his own question: "That year I just graduated from college and went back to my hometown to live with my master for a few months. One night when I got up to go to the toilet, I heard my master talking to people in the side hall.
Talk. I opened the crack in the door and looked inside..." When he said the last sentence, he suddenly walked a few steps towards Fatty Sun, widened his eyes and asked Fatty Sun: "What do you think I saw?" Zhang Rantian's
This move startled Fatty Sun. He involuntarily took a step back. After a moment, he said in a soft voice: "What did you see? Speak slowly, don't be in a hurry."
Zhang Rantian looked at Fatty Sun with dull eyes, and did not speak for a while. Suddenly Zhang Rantian's body shook, and he seemed to have regained some consciousness. Zhang Rantian gasped and took out a medicine bottle from his jacket pocket, holding it in the palm of his hand.
He poured a handful of pills into his mouth without counting them. After chewing a few times, he tilted his neck and swallowed them whole. After two or three minutes, the redness on Zhang Rantian's face receded.
At this time, he seemed a little tired. After noticing the strange looks that we people were looking at him, Zhang Rantian took a deep breath, looked at the medicine bottle in his hand at Fatty Sun, and said, "Don't worry, what I took was not poison, it was
Sedatives. After so many years, if it weren’t for sedatives, I would have gone crazy, and I wouldn’t have persisted until now.”
Seeing that he had returned to normal, Fatty Sun said tentatively: "It's not me, but you haven't said what you saw when you opened the crack in the door. How about you slow down and wait a while?" Zhang Rantian waved his hand and said: "
It makes me feel better to say it." He took a deep breath, and became much calmer when he spoke again: "My master was too old at the time, so old that he didn't even notice me hiding at the door. I saw my master and a
The female ghost who was hanging from the beam was talking, and I was so frightened that my hair stood up when I took one look at it."
"Originally I wanted to run, but when I heard what he said clearly, my legs felt like they were nailed to the ground and I couldn't take a step back." At this point, Zhang Rantian closed his eyes and calmed down.
Then he said again, "I still remember those words clearly, and I haven't forgotten a single word. I heard the master saying to the female ghost that after so many years, I have grown up, and you still have such resentment.
Can't you let it go? Ran Tian is your biological flesh and blood. You have watched him grow up day by day for so many years. No matter how much resentment you have, you should let it go. People and ghosts have different paths. But I couldn't listen to what my mother said at that time.
Understand."
"Although the master accepted me as his apprentice, he did not allow me to participate in any rituals, big or small. The first female ghost I saw was my biological mother whom I had never met before. But when I met, I couldn't even listen to what she said.
Understand, can you imagine how I must be feeling? After listening to the master's words, I sat down on the ground outside. The noise was a little louder, which alerted the master in the side hall. I couldn't hide it anymore, but I couldn't hide it anymore.
When I looked for my mother's soul in the side hall, she hid herself and refused to see me."
"No matter how much I begged my master at that time, he just refused to tell me the truth of what happened. Later, I knelt down and kowtowed, and my head was broken. Looking at the blood on my head, he really couldn't resist me, and finally he
He told me what happened back then. He also taught me how to find my mother, but he refused to teach me how to understand nonsense. He didn’t teach me, so I learned it on my own. I found it in the collection of books in the temple.
I bought a book called "The Book of Ghost Stories". I used "The Book of Ghost Stories" to translate my mother's words. Do you know what my mother said?"
When he said this, Zhang Rantian's mood began to get excited again. He turned back and glanced at the Xie family members who had fallen on the ground, then took out the small medicine bottle and poured out all the sedatives left in it.
He put it in his mouth, swallowed the pills and said: "She said two words over and over again - revenge!" When he finished speaking, there was a loud "click" in the clear sky, and a dry thunder struck down.