White Bone Monkey King

Guer Village is an ordinary small mountain village that relies on the mountains. The green mountains are secluded, the smoke is lingering, and there are twenty or thirty families at the foot of the mountains.

As it gets dark, the farmers in the paddy fields wash off the dirt on their bodies in the stream outside the village, then carry hoes on their shoulders, step on the field ridges with bare feet, and walk together toward the entrance of the village.

These farmers shouted to a pile of straw, and immediately several children ran out laughing and chasing each other, calling affectionately "Daddy, Daddy". As the sun set, fathers carrying hoes held the hands of their children. Hands, walking towards his home talking and laughing.

When they reached the entrance of the village, several rural black dogs, yellow dogs and white dogs that were chasing the orange cat up the tree immediately gave up on the orange cat and ran towards their owners wagging their tails happily.

Smoke curled up from cooking stoves, and the aroma of food spread over Guer Village. Soon, the voices of the hostesses calling for dinner could be heard.

The scenes of figures, large and small, under the sunset represent the warmth of the Ming family.

After eating, every family sat around the entrance of the village, looking at the last sunset in the bloody sky, and began to talk about the strange phenomenon of shorter days and longer nights in recent days.

There was only one house in front of the house that was particularly deserted. An old yellow dog with a white beard and nose lay listlessly under the eaves to enjoy the cool air.

Suddenly, the voices of the villagers at the entrance of the village suddenly became quiet. The very old old yellow dog also raised his head at this time, opened his muddy old eyes and looked towards the entrance of the village, then stood up and barked.

"Dahuang, why has your beard turned white? It's me. Have you forgotten Xiaonan? Once I naughtily went swimming in the river without telling my parents and almost drowned. In the end, you jumped into the water and rescued me..."

The child standing outside the yard was talking about past memories. The dim-eyed old yellow dog seemed to be able to understand human nature and knew that the child did not mean any harm. It stopped yelling at the child and began to circle around the child suspiciously. Smell all over the body.

After confirming for a long time, it carefully touched the back of the child's hand with the tip of its nose. Feeling the familiar body temperature and touch, the old yellow dog whimpered and shed tears like a human. He whimpered and licked the child back and forth. s face.

Seeing Dahuang recognize him, the child was also happy to hug Dahuang and laugh out loud.

"What's going on outside Dahuang? Who were you yelling at just now?" At this time, an old man's voice came from the house, and a farmer in his thirties walked out of the house with a sad expression.

Dad, a cry with tears in his eyes made the old man freeze on the spot.

"Dashan, I heard Xiaonan's voice just now. Is our Xiaonan back?" A rural woman with an apron tied around her waist ran out of the room in a panic. She was obviously only about thirty years old, with a deep look on her face. Deep wrinkles and half-grey hair leave behind strong traces of time.

Seeing the young figure standing outside the yard who had been worried about countless days and nights, the old woman was as stunned as the old man, tears wet her cheeks, but she was a little afraid to recognize her, for fear that it would be another empty dream.

Saying "Mom, Dad, I finally found my home", the old woman could no longer bear the longing that she had suppressed for ten years. She recognized the child and cried in her arms.

In the end, the family of three hugged each other and cried. Even the old yellow dog seemed to be as energetic as he was ten years ago, barking and wagging his tail so fast that it almost flew up.

At some point, many villagers gathered outside the yard of this family. They were all surprised and nervous looking at the figure of a child who had not grown up in ten years.

"Li, Li Zheng, do you think he is a human or a ghost? Is it really Xiaonan who has come back?" A villager was so nervous that his tongue was tied and he stammered.

Another villager also nervously echoed: "How about we go to the neighboring village and ask Mr. Zhang to come and take a look? Don't think that our Guer Village really attracted some unclean things to pretend to be Xiaonan and harm Zhang Dashan's family."

Just when the villagers were discussing and Li Zheng was a little undecided, two outsiders arrived from Guer Village, a young Taoist priest and a tall, fat middle-aged man.

"Sorry to disturb the donors. The two of us have been traveling day and night. We are thirsty and pass by your place. Can you please buy me two bowls of tea?" The young Taoist priest got off his mount and looked at each other hugging each other in the yard and crying. A family of three, holding hands and smiling.

"Taoist Master, be careful, he is..." A well-meaning villager wanted to remind him, but then he heard Xiaonan's joyful shout.

"Kind brother Taoist priest and kind fat uncle, how did you know my family lives here!"

The villagers of Guer Village were really dumbfounded this time, with confused expressions on their faces. For a moment, they felt their brains were mushy and their thinking was a bit out of control.

Li Zheng, who had gone to the county town for several years to study in private schools when he was a child, had seen the vast market. He looked at Xiaonan and the Taoist priest, showed a thoughtful expression, and asked the villagers not to talk about it until he went to Zhang Dashan's house to ask in person. Understand the situation before making next steps.

After Li Zheng finished speaking, he walked into Zhang Dashan with a smile: "I have seen two guests from out of town. I don't know what to call them?"

"The old man doesn't need to be so polite. Just call him Fatty Li and call me Jin'an." This young Taoist priest followed Xiaonan all the way to Jin'an in Guer Village. The other person was naturally Fatty Li Que.

"It turns out to be Taoist Priest Jin'an, Li Xiashi." Li Zheng handed over his hand.

Li Zheng turned to look at the child again, looking up and down: "Xiaonan, do you still remember Grandpa Li Zheng?"

"Of course Xiaonan knows Uncle Lizheng. The rhubarb is what you gave to Xiaonan and me, Uncle Lizheng. But why are you and your parents getting older, Uncle Lizheng? It seems that many people in the village are getting older?" the child said in a childish and curious voice. .

At this time, Zhang Dashan and his wife wiped the tears on their faces, hurriedly invited Jin An and Fatty Li into the house, and gave them sour plum soup to quench their thirst.

"There is no tea at home to entertain guests. We only have this jar of sour plum soup. Drinking sour plum soup in summer is the best way to relieve the heat and refresh yourself." Zhang Dashan and his wife were very enthusiastic. When they saw that Jin An and Fatty Li had thin skin and tender meat, they were different from rough country people like them. They wanted to Wiping the wooden bench with his sleeves, the two people quickly stopped him.

"There's no need for this, it's us who bothered them. It would be better to have sour plum soup." The two of them drank three bowls of sour plum soup in a row and praised it for being delicious, making Zhang Dashan, a pair of honest farmers, embarrassed.

Xiao Nan also sipped the sour plum soup and said that it tasted just like the one in his memory. Zhang Dashan and his wife's eyes turned red when they heard this, and they couldn't help crying again.

"Xiao Nan, do you still remember the pear tree in my yard? You used to be naughty and used to climb the tree to steal pears when I was away. Once you fell from the tree and lay in bed for a month. "Li Zheng looked at the child Xiaonan kindly and said that distinguished guests are coming today, and asked Xiaonan to pick a few pears to fill the bellies of the distinguished guests.

With that, Li Zheng called for someone to explain a few words and took Xiao Nan to pick pears. Even the old and listless big yellow dog seemed to regain his vitality when he saw his little master return, wagging his tail and accompanying the little master to Li. The main family.

After Xiaonan left, Li Zheng's expression turned solemn. He stood up and saluted Jin An: "Although a countryman doesn't know much, he has seen a lot of people with his eyes. The Taoist priest can tell that he has real skills." The master, you still want the Taoist priest to tell Xiao Nan what’s going on?”

Zhang Dashan and his wife also looked at Jin An nervously.

The room was extremely quiet for a while, and all three pairs of eyes looked expectantly at the young Taoist priest in front of him.

Jin An did not answer immediately, but asked: "Do you know what Xiaonan's biggest wish is?"

"He said he missed home, and said he would never run away from home in anger again."

"A child, eager to return home, came from Fucheng to Gu'er Village. He ran home day and night without stopping for fun. Even when he was tired and hungry, he slept in the open air."

Next, Jin An began to slowly narrate what happened to Xiao Nan, but he deliberately concealed the fact that Xiao Nan was abducted by human traffickers and drove a stake. Instead, he used a white lie to say that Xiao Nan accidentally slipped and drowned, and the body drifted down the river to the vicinity of Fucheng. After Fucheng Yamen found the bones, they temporarily stored them in Yizhuang. They have been helping Xiaonan find her family and confirm her identity.

It's just that Gu'er Village is too far away from Fucheng, and Xiaonan's family has never been found, so he used the corpse exorcism technique to temporarily allow Xiaonan to return to the Yangtze, but he came back with a wish, and at the same time to confirm Xiaonan's identity.

After hearing Xiaonan's experience, even Li Zheng, who had experienced most of the ups and downs of his life, couldn't help but sigh, saying that he had watched Xiaonan grow up since he was a child, and he never expected that so many things had happened to this child.

When she heard that Xiaonan was dead, although she was mentally prepared to see that Xiaonan had not grown up in ten years, Zhang still couldn't bear the blow and was overly sad. When Mrs. Zhang woke up again, she was inconsolable and shed tears. She hugged Zhang Dashan and cried sadly.

Zhang Dashan is the pillar of the family. He gritted his teeth to prevent himself from falling first. He suppressed the sadness in his heart and asked Jin An with red eyes, how long can Xiaonan live?

Jin An shook his head solemnly: "His memory still remains when he left home ten years ago. His biggest wish when returning to Yang this time is to go home and see his parents. Let's help him fulfill this innocent wish together and don't reveal the truth."

Hey, poor child, Li Zheng sighed sadly, and then said that he would explain this matter to the villagers, saying that Xiaonan suffered a serious illness after disappearing, and his body never grew up, and he stayed at the age of seven or eight.

"Good." Jin An smiled and nodded, saying that in the coming days, he would let adults like them help Xiaonan realize his dream together. He hoped that he would be happy, carefree, and reincarnated in peace of mind in the rest of his life.

"Thank you Jin'an Taoist Li Xiashi for your great kindness to our family. I can't repay it. Please Jin'an Taoist Li Xiashi, let us and my wife kneel down." At this time, Zhang Dashan helped Zhang and was about to kneel down and kowtow, but Jin'an , Fatty Li stopped him.

Jin An said: "You have repaid your kindness by treating us to drink sour plum soup to quench our thirst."

Fatty Li also said that this is the truth, tit for tat, don't feel like you owe us anymore, you should spend more time with your child in the coming days, and don't let him leave with regrets.

For the next seven days, Jin An and Fatty Li stayed together in Guer Village. When Xiaonan came back and learned the news that the two were staying, she danced with joy. The child imitated adults and personally brought clean bedding for the two of them at night. Make the bed for both of you personally.

In this way, Jin An and Fatty Li stayed at Xiaonan's house for seven days. During this period, Xiaonan was very sensible and shared the housework with the family, sweeping the floor, wiping the table, helping to cut grass in the fields, and helping her mother mend clothes with an oil lamp at night. I wash my father's feet every night... It seems that I have grown up and become wiser all of a sudden. I have endless things to do every day and keep the house in order. Even the silly sheep are temporarily lent to Xiaonan by Jin'an and put on the oxen to plow. Plowing paddy fields.

The more sensible Xiao Nan became after she came back this time, the more grieved Zhang Dashan and his wife were. They secretly wiped away their tears countless times. How could any parents not feel sorry for their children? They advised Xiao Nan not to work so hard, but Xiao Nan was still busy at home in a sensible way every day. Housework.

The world of children is always innocent. Ever since Jin'an let the goat accompany Xiaonan to plow the fields, the children of Guer Village have been curiously looking at the goat every day. They go back and forth. The children in the village have become familiar with Xiaonan. These children are in the fields every day. Chasing and playing, green mountains and green waters, blue sky and white clouds, peaceful mountain villages, carefree.

Happy time is always short, the moon is always perfect, and people are always together. On the seventh day, the villagers came to Zhang Dashan's house to see the child off.

The child whose wish was fulfilled left peacefully in his sleep, with a peaceful and happy smile on his face. At this moment, he was no longer a lonely soul who was separated from his parents and was driven to a stake to death and suffocated in the Zhenhai Stone. He is not a ghost, but a wealthy child who goes home to see his parents for the last time and performs his last duty of filial piety.

Folks say that people who are about to die will feel it in advance and make arrangements for their funeral in advance.

This child did many things in the last seven days of his life. Did he really not know that his end was approaching?

In front of Xiao Nan's grave, Jin An, who personally performed the rituals for Xiao Nan and completed the last journey, looked at the grave soil in front of him with complicated eyes and did not move for a long time.

When the funeral procession returned to Zhang Dashan's house, they found that the old yellow dog was dead, curled up and sleeping next to the little master's bed.

Dogs are spiritual, not to mention humans?

The big yellow dog has a white beard. A dog in its teenage years is equivalent to a human being in his seventies or eighties. It runs around with its little master every day these days, as if it were ten years ago again. This is the last moment of reflection, and it will persist until the child is delivered. It closed its tired eyes only after the owner's last journey.

Fatty Li couldn't hold back his tears anymore. The elders burst into tears, but no one laughed at him. In the end, Fatty Li dug the hole himself, buried the loyal dog next to Xiaonan's grave, and carved the tombstone for the loyal dog himself.

Jin An and Fatty Li stayed for another day to recite the meditation mantra to Zhang Dashan and his wife to help them deal with the great sadness in their hearts. They set off back to the capital on the third day.

Although he had just experienced what happened to Xiao Nan, Jin An had not yet gotten over the sadness in his heart, but it was precisely because of what happened to Xiao Nan that he was deeply touched. He kept helping those poor children return to the sun one by one to fulfill their last wishes. In a short time, In a short period of time, I saw a lot of sorrow, separation and helplessness in the world.

It is difficult for a doctor to heal himself, and it is difficult for a doctor to save himself. It is easy to save others in this world, but who can save Jin'an at this moment?

"Is this the art of exorcising corpses?" After sending off the last child, Jin An looked at the ancient road into the long night, his back lonely.