Yu Hao paused here, then continued,

"In the past two years, that fox hasn't come looking for me.

Until five days ago, my adoptive father told my dad: the time has come, we should go up the mountain.

The next day, my dad and adoptive father went up the mountain and felled two century-old mountain peach trees, dragging them home to make a coffin.

Peach wood belongs to yang wood, and it can ward off ghosts and evil spirits, so it definitely shouldn't be used to make coffins. I knew they were using peach wood to make the coffin in order to suppress the fox's ghost.

After my adoptive father finished making the coffin, he started looking around me. I knew he was 'assessing the heavens'.

My adoptive father once told me that he used to be a xiangshi (physiognomist), but he never looked at the other person's face when reading fortunes. Even if you thought he was reading your face, he wasn't looking at your face, but at the things around you. Da Feng Novel

My adoptive father said that the highest level of fortune-telling is xiangtian (assessing the heavens), not xiangren (assessing people). This so-called 'heaven' is not about observing qi, but about observing the changes around the client, inferring good or bad fortune through external objects.

My adoptive father was always able to arrive in time to save me because of his xiangshu (art of divination).

I always felt that my adoptive father had once had a glorious past, but he never talked about his past. The only thing he told me was: you are not suitable for learning the Divine Glimpse of Heaven Technique. I'm here waiting for someone, also waiting for an heir.

If that heir doesn't come, I'll take the Divine Glimpse of Heaven Technique into the coffin with me, and there will be no one in this world who knows how to assess the heavens.

My adoptive father looked at me for three consecutive days before telling me: 'Tonight at midnight, we'll release the fox and make our move! If we come back tomorrow morning as agreed, you'll come with us and go bury the coffin.'

'If the two of us don't come back tomorrow morning, you go towards Guizi Shi (Devil Stone) and see if the coffin is there?'

'If the coffin is at Guizi Shi, you run quickly and don't look back no matter who calls you. Run to the town and report the case, saying that the two of us went up the mountain to chase a fox and disappeared. Be sure to explain that the fox we were chasing wasn't an ordinary fox.'

'Then, you find a place to stay in town and wait for someone to come looking for you. The person looking for you should be a woman, her name has the character 'wind' in it, you can follow her when she comes.'

My adoptive father told me to go back and rest well. The two of them left under the cover of night when it was just getting dark. As a result, the two of them really didn't come back.

Following my adoptive father's instructions, I followed the small path to Guizi Shi to see what was going on. As a result, I was almost scared to death in the mountains.

Guizi Shi doesn't refer to a single stone, but a collection of stones.

Every stone there is black, the color is like a lump of coal, but it's not natural coal. Each stone is about the same size and height, about the size of a child.

The Guizi Shi are the size of children, and their shapes are also like children. Although the stones haven't been carved, and their features aren't obvious, their posture is no different from children.

What's even stranger is that no matter how much it snows in the mountains, it can't cover those stones. Those stones seem to be able to stretch their heads out and breathe in the snow, and they all stick their heads out in the snow.

People who have seen those stones say that those stones are little devils, that's how the name Guizi Shi came about.

Under normal circumstances, mountain herders won't go to Guizi Shi for fear of being tainted by evil spirits.

But my adoptive father moved the coffin there.

When I rushed over, I saw the coffin that my dad and the others had made propped up on top of the black stones.

Sixteen black stones, like two rows of little devils, were lined up together carrying the coffin, facing the hillside, looking like they were going to carry the coffin up the mountain!

I looked forward and saw an old woman in black sitting on top of the coffin.

The more I looked at the old woman, the more familiar she looked, as if I had seen her somewhere before.

The more I looked at her, the more I felt like I had seen her before. Before I knew it, I wasn't afraid anymore, and my feet moved towards the old woman as if they weren't listening to me.

I hadn't gone far when I suddenly remembered where I had seen the old woman before. Wasn't she the old fox who led me into the graveyard?

Just as I remembered who the old woman was, she suddenly turned her head, revealing half of a fox's face.

I was so scared that I ran down the mountain for my life. As I ran down the mountain, I heard my dad calling me, then I heard my adoptive father calling me, and that old woman was also calling me. I even heard someone singing.

In short, all sorts of chaotic sounds rang in my ears all the way. Following my adoptive father's words, I ran all the way down the mountain without daring to look back once, and finally ran to the town to report the case.

The police didn't believe me at first. After a lot of persuasion, they finally filed a case for me and told me to come back and wait for news.

After waiting for a few days, I finally waited for this big sister to come."

Yu Hao seemed to breathe a long sigh of relief, "That's pretty much the story!"

I was slightly silent and said, "Where is the Guizi Shi you mentioned? Where is that big tomb? Did your adoptive father leave any other instructions? For example, did he leave anything at home?"

Yu Hao said, "I'm not very good at describing the location of Guizi Shi! It's there..."

I waved my hand slightly, and Shen Qingbai spread a map on the table.