Chapter Ten: Knowing Life and Death
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The sun rises and the moon sets, and the day and night change. In the blink of an eye, four days passed. The summer countryside is not the busy season. In addition, the weather is hot, no one is willing to risk the fireball to do things. It can basically be said that they are doing nothing. Zhou Shaojin has nothing to do at home. During these four days, he has been thinking about how to quickly obtain merit points, but he has never had any clues.
He was a little immature and a bit of risky thought in his heart, but because he was at home, he was worried that he would be seen by his family or acquaintances. The conditions were limited and he could not implement it at all. The combined reasons caused him to be embarrassed. He was eager to get points to buy the martial arts in the Impermanence Order, but it just couldn't solve the problem of points. This feeling made him a little depressed, as if he saw a mountain of gold, but you couldn't get it.
In the morning, after breakfast, it was past eight o'clock, and the sun was rising. Zhou Shaojin took a stool and sat down under the big osmanthus tree in front of the house, and started playing with his cell phone in his hand.
"Where did you go out early in the morning? You are only back now." "Go and see my youngest aunt. Last night, my brother Peng called and said that my youngest aunt couldn't get out of bed..." "You youngest aunt is the one on the stage..." "Yes!"
The voice of conversation came from the small road on the left side of the house. When Zhou Shaojin heard the sound, he saw his mother talking to his fourth grandfather's son Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi was the third son of his fourth grandfather, and Zhou Shaojin called him Uncle Third.
"Uncle San!" When Zhou Shaojin looked over, he happened to see Zhou Yi looking at him, and then he smiled and called out.
"Shaojin is getting more and more handsome. When he goes to Beijing, he can find a few girlfriends!" Zhou Yi's personality is not the calm and serious one. Although he is older than Zhou Shaojin, and he is nearly thirty years old, his children are five or six years old, but he often jokes when he sees him.
"Girlfriend, I want to find a few in Beijing, but then I'll be afraid that it will be too far away. My mother doesn't agree." Zhou Shaojin also joked halfway: "Why do you help me enlighten my mother?"
"This is OK, your mother is here, I'll tell her."
"Okay! As long as you have the ability, not to mention finding a girlfriend in Beijing, I am happy even if you are finding a girlfriend abroad. I am just afraid that you will not be able to do so and others will not look down on you."
Yin Jinlian also spoke up when she heard this, and Zhou Yi couldn't help laughing—
"Did you hear it? Shaojin, your mother has already spoken. She said that. Then you can find a foreign girlfriend to bring it back for her during the Chinese New Year."
Zhou Shaojin couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and did not take the joke to heart. However, he has to say that after graduating from the college entrance examination, many of them have changed a lot. Just say, like now, if he had asked for a girlfriend before the college entrance examination, if he had asked for a girlfriend, his family would firmly object, but he would never agree. But now, listening to his mother's words, although it was just a joke, he could hear that if he said he had found a girlfriend at this time, he would probably never object or disagree.
There was a faint smile on his face, but the next moment, Zhou Shaojin's face paused, and a message suddenly came from the impermanence order in his mind-
"Zhou Guihua died at 3:00 tonight at the age of 71!"
Suddenly, such a message appeared in his mind, which made Zhou Shaojin's expression stop for a moment, and his whole body stiffened. At this time, neither his third uncle Zhou Yi nor his mother Yin Jinlian were paying attention to him, so naturally no one noticed something wrong with him at this moment!
"This is another function of the impermanence order, sensing life and death?"
Zhou Shaojin's eyes moved, and a look of shock flashed in his eyes. He knew that this should be another function of the Impermanence Order - perceiving life and death!
There are two functions in the Impermanence Order. One is to help him leave his soul out of his body, and the other is to sense the life and death of a person within a certain range. He has experimented with the soul out of his body, but he can't feel life and death. This is equivalent to a passive function of the Impermanence Order. Zhou Shaojin has always been unclear about the situation of the collective and only has a rough idea in his mind, but now he thinks he has a clear understanding of this function.
Before a person dies, tell him the news of the deceased in advance, including the name and the specific time of death, and cut off life and death!
This is definitely a method of gods and ghosts. Although he has become impermanent and knows the existence of ghosts and gods in this world, he still feels a little uncomfortable when he gets the information from the impermanence order. He can't help but guess whether there is really a book called the Book of Life and Death in the underworld, which records the life and death of living beings in the world.
However, after only a moment of dissipation, Zhou Shaojin calmed down. After a brief ups and downs, he was replaced by an excitement. In the past few days, he has been frowning about the merit points, but now this message is definitely a timely help for him. The only thing he needs to figure out now is who Zhou Guihua is? Where do you live?
Although the news from Wuchang Ling told him the name and specific time of the deceased, Zhou Shaojin knew nothing about the information, such as where the deceased lived and whether it was far from his home.
Although he felt that the information given by Wuchang Ling was not comprehensive, Zhou Shaojin was not at this time. What he had to do now was to determine who Zhou Guihua was and lived there. However, the other party's surname was Zhou and the same surname as him. He guessed that it might have something to do with him. He thought about the conversation between his third uncle and his mother just now, and he had a vague guess in his heart.
Looking up, the third uncle Zhou Yi had already left, and his mother also carried a bucket and walked towards him, preparing to go to the water tank to fetch water.
"Mom, who is his youngest aunt just now?" Zhou Shaojin asked his mother.
"Why, why are you asking about this? It has nothing to do with you?" His mother asked back.
"I'm just curious. Uncle's youngest aunt is just the same as my grandfather and her surname is Zhou, so I'll ask if she is our relative." Zhou Shaojin smiled, with a deliberately curious look on her face.
"It's also a bit of a relative." Yin Jinlian didn't think much about Zhou Shaojin's answer, and thought for a while and said, "Finish, your third uncle's youngest aunt is a distant cousin of your grandfather. However, she hasn't been walking around for decades. She doesn't know whether she recognizes her or not when she meets her. The name seems to be Zhou Guihua. Now she lives on stage, she is Liu Er's mother-in-law. You should know Liu Er, the fat man you studied with in elementary school."
"Oh, Liu Er, then I understand."
When Zhou Shaojin heard his mother's words, he suddenly realized that Zhou Guihua didn't know, but Liu Er knew that his elementary school classmate from the fourth to sixth graders was a fat man at that time and he often played with him. He remembered it very clearly, and Liu Er's home lived on the stage. The village next to them was very close to each other, less than three miles away.
As for what my mother said, Zhou Shaojin has not been moved for decades. Nowadays, it is not a bit blood relationship, but a relationship with the same surname must be good. In fact, many times, even if relatives are not moved for many years, they will become unfamiliar with each other because of the distance between relatives. The so-called distant relatives are worse than close neighbors.
"That's probably not wrong."
After a little relieved, Zhou Shaojin knew that Zhou Guihua in the Wuchang Order should be the youngest aunt of his third uncle. And according to what Ji San's uncle said just now, it was judging that Zhou Guihua could no longer get out of bed, and she was obviously terminally ill, and everything was reasonable.
"I don't know how large is the perception range of the Impermanence Order?"
After confirming Zhou Guihua's identity, Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but think of a problem, that is, the range covered by the perception of the impermanence of life and death. The information in the impermanence of life and death is that the impermanence of life and death can be perceived within a certain range, but there is no fixed number of how big it is within a certain range. Zhou Guihua lives on the stage and only gathers between his two places. So, even a little farther away, can the impermanence of life and death of people over three miles away be perceived.
All of this is unknown.
His mind has been changing. In the past few days, Zhou Shaojin has been thinking about how to obtain more merit points in the Impermanence Order. He vaguely felt that it would be unreliable to rely solely on people's death to send the souls of the dead back to the underworld to obtain merit points to meet his needs. He needed to find a new way.
He once thought of trying to find a ghost himself, but this was just an idea and did not take action. If he wanted to take action, he had to leave home and go outside.
Chapter completed!