Chapter 5: Kneeling and begging

At that time, it was almost winter, and all families were busy stockpiling food for the winter. Grandpa taught in the morning, helped harvest sweet potatoes, corn and other crops in the afternoon, and helped the village chief's daughter-in-law take care of the two chickens and three ducks that were free-range.

When Captain Zhao came, Grandpa yawned and washed his face with water. The door of the cold courtyard was pushed open, and Captain Zhao ran in panting.

Grandpa was a little happy to see him, this running was like flying, obviously his legs were good. Unexpectedly, as soon as Captain Zhao saw him, he grabbed his grandfather's hands on the spot: "Comrade Xiaolin, help!"

Captain Zhao grabbed and shouted, which scared his grandfather's soul away, and he was stunned in place at a loss. Fortunately, the village chief and his wife heard the sound and walked out in their coats, and they were also shocked when they saw this scene.

"Xiao Zhao, what are you doing, what's wrong?" Village Chief Chen hurriedly came up to help, and Grandpa also came back to his senses and hurriedly helped Captain Zhao into the house.

The village chief's daughter-in-law poured a large cup of hot water, and Captain Zhao finally stabilized his mood after drinking it dry. But the chagrin and haggard look on his face was really very different from Captain Zhao seven days ago.

The feeling for grandpa is that in just seven days, he seems to be seven years old!

"Xiao Zhao, don't worry, there are no outsiders here, you can tell me slowly. Village Chief Chen said comfortingly.

Captain Zhao sighed and told him what happened after he returned to the village, which was also an experience that Grandpa thought was quite bizarre.

After hearing the solution from his grandfather that day, in fact, Captain Zhao was also a little skeptical.

There are some things that you can not believe in your mouth, but after all, they have been passed down for thousands of years, and there is always a certain reason for their existence. Therefore, Captain Zhao will come to invite Uncle Zeng, just to hold this glimmer of hope.

It's embarrassing to think about your identity as the captain of the team, but it's not a way to think about the men in the village lying like this. With a horizontal heart, he secretly offered things at night and knocked his head down.

I waited in horror for four days, got up in the morning and touched it, and I was overjoyed that the red mark on my leg and stomach was really gone!

As the saying goes, there is no such thing as an impermeable wall in the world. The matter of Captain Zhao's kowtow to the tree somehow spread in the neighboring village.

As soon as those who had an accident heard that it was so effective, they didn't need Captain Zhao to say it, and one by one they took the initiative to line up in front of the big banyan tree and kowtow to beg the 'immortals' on the tree for forgiveness.

Captain Zhao opened one eye and closed one eye, as if he didn't see it, this matter could settle quickly and it was also a matter of his heart.

But that night, Captain Zhao heard the screams of his crying father and his mother, and scared him so much that he almost peed his pants in the middle of the night. Or did his daughter-in-law remind him, isn't this the voice from the house of the educated youth Zheng Huanian?

Captain Zhao hurriedly put on his clothes to look, the screams were gone, but he couldn't open the door. Captain Zhao is also anxious, this person can't have an accident!

After finding an axe and breaking into the door, Captain Zhao suddenly smelled a choking smell of blood, and when he looked inside, his face turned white with fright.

I saw that the young Zheng Huanian's bed was almost red with blood, and the person was already pale and blue, unconscious on the bed, and what was even more outrageous was that there was an axe next to the bed, and the axe blade was cutting on Zheng Huanian's right leg!

The leg was cut to a bloody blur, the bright red flesh turned out, and the red-black plasma kept pouring out.

To say that Captain Zhao is not afraid, it is a lie, how do you look at this scene, Zheng Huanian himself cut off his leg with an axe!

But at the moment, it is important to save people, the amount of bleeding, let it go for a while, and people should be cold. When Captain Zhao hurriedly carried Zheng Huanian to the village health center, and asked the old doctor to stop Zheng Huanian's bleeding and give medicine, the sky was bright.

The old doctor sighed and said that this leg could not be saved, and he would be disabled if he did not amputate it.

Where in Captain Zhao's heart could he not understand what was going on?

At this time, compared with chagrin, there was more anger rushing to my heart, and my heart said that a young man cut you with an axe, and you will harm the whole village, Lao Tzu fought for his life today, and he also wanted to cut down your demon tree!

How did Captain Zhao know that there was a big snake spirit living on the tree? Just thinking that the big banyan tree was doing trouble, his liver was on fire, so he wanted to find a guy to cut down the tree.

It was the old doctor who stopped him and didn't let Captain Zhao act impulsively. He pointed to Zheng Huanian's neck again and did not speak.

When Captain Zhao saw it, his heartbeat was about to stop. I saw that on Zheng Huanian's neck, there was a faint blood mark!

If there is a mark on the leg, it is a leg cut, and if there is a mark on the neck, don't you have to cut off the head?

Imagining the strange picture of cutting off his own head, the courage that Captain Zhao had just mustered was suddenly wiped out.

The old doctor persuaded him: "This matter is not something we can handle, the captain still has to go to Taiqing Village and ask the old man surnamed Lin to do it." ”

Captain Zhao had no idea in his heart, so he could only listen to the old doctor's advice, and he didn't dare to sleep, so he drove the boxcar in the brigade to Taiqing Village non-stop.

After listening to Captain Zhao's narration, Village Chief Chen immediately said, "Zhuzi, go and invite Lin Zhenren over." ”

Grandpa didn't say a word, and went straight to the cowshed to find Uncle Zeng.

And Uncle Zeng had already gotten up, and he didn't go to herd the cattle very unusually. Instead, he was holding a knife and slashing a wooden stick that was the length of his arm and the thickness of his palm.

Seeing that Uncle Zeng was there, Grandpa breathed a sigh of relief, went up and told the neighboring village with righteous indignation.

After finishing speaking, the grandfather scolded: "Uncle, that goblin is not a thing! If you cut off your legs, you have to cut people's necks, which is too much!"

But after scolding, the grandfather found that Uncle Zeng didn't say a word from beginning to end, as if he hadn't heard, and he was sharpening the stick with a straight face.

Grandpa was a little anxious, squatted down and asked, "Uncle, did you hear that?"

"Look, I'm not deaf. Uncle Zeng accosted a sentence, but that's all, and shut up again without saying a word.

The sound of knives cutting wood came one after another, and Uncle Zeng didn't say what to do, nor did he get up to go to the village chief's house, leaving his grandfather next to him like a transparent person.

"Uncle, Uncle Chen, please come over!" Grandpa paced back and forth beside him, but seeing that Uncle Zeng was unmoved, he couldn't help but say something again. Uncle Zeng didn't even look at him this time, and sharpened the wooden stick in his hand by himself.

Grandpa is out of trouble now, what can he do? Please don't move people! Can he still carry the old man on his shoulder?

After a while, Xu was in a hurry, and Village Chief Chen and Captain Zhao appeared at the entrance of the cowshed together. Village Chief Chen glanced at his grandfather, probably guessed what was going on, and came in and said, "Brother Lin, ......"

"Jianguo, you don't need to say much. Without waiting for Village Chief Chen to finish speaking, he stopped his words, "I can't go to the neighboring village." ”

The meaning of this is very clear, he knows what is going on, but he doesn't want to take care of it, or maybe he can't. Grandpa didn't know what kind of situation Uncle Zeng belonged to, but he really made him angry.

Village Chief Chen was blocked by Uncle Zeng's words, and he didn't know what to say.

But Grandpa didn't care so much, and said angrily: "Uncle! Cultivators pay attention to compassion, why don't you save yourself when you see death?"

His voice was not small, but Uncle Zeng didn't even look at him, as if he didn't exist.

was ignored, and grandpa was even more angry, if it weren't for the old man in front of him being his own uncle, he would definitely go up and beat people.

The atmosphere was stiff, and at this time, Captain Zhao strode over, pursing his lips and twisting his eyebrows, as if he had made up his mind.

didn't say anything else, and knelt directly in front of Uncle Zeng: "Old immortal, I, Zhao Dabao, have never knelt in the sky or on the ground, I kneel to you today! Please take action and save that child, he is still young, and it is my fault if I want to, he shouldn't die!"

Captain Zhao knelt down, and my grandfather's heart trembled. It is said that men have gold under their knees, and in the years of that year, face was more important than money, and the weight of Captain Zhao's kneeling was quite heavy.

At this moment, even Uncle Zeng was moved, opened his mouth, but sighed lightly, and continued to sharpen the wooden stick with his hand.

Captain Zhao's expression was almost desperate, my grandfather was angry, he just thought that my great-uncle was so cowardly?

"Uncle, you're so impersonal!" Grandpa roared angrily and went up to pull Captain Zhao up. He really admires Captain Zhao now, such a bloody man, it's really not worth kneeling as an old man.

"Captain Zhao, don't worry, although I, Lin Dazhu, don't have the ability to exorcise evil spirits, I will definitely help you cut down the demon tree today!" Grandpa said loudly deliberately.

As I said earlier, my grandfather was a tough temper. If others don't let him do anything, he wants to do something!

Is he stupid? Grandpa, he's not stupid, he has his own cleverness. Our Lao Lin family has been passed down for several generations, and almost all of them are single-handed, and my great-grandfather and my great-uncle are relatively rare.

Uncle Zeng entered the Daomen, and now he is fifty-six years old, and he has no descendants. My grandfather is a lone seedling of the Lao Lin family, if he breaks, the Lao Lin family will be broken.

My grandfather was gambling that his great-uncle would not really let him die.

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, Uncle Zeng's eyes widened, and he shook his hand and hit his grandfather on the leg with a stick, beating him and screaming.

"You are a stunned child, the old Lin family is your only seedling. If something happens to you, how can you explain it to your father?" Uncle Zeng reprimanded his grandfather loudly, then sighed again, stood up, looked at the three people in front of him and said, "Don't blame the old man for being ruthless, I really can't go to the neighboring village." However, there are also people who can go. ”

"Who? who is it?" Originally, Captain Zhao couldn't go when he heard that sentence, and he was almost desperate, and when he heard that there was a savior, he wanted to grab a life-saving straw and ask.

Grandpa was also curious, how could there be other Taoist priests in these ten miles and eight towns?

But then, Uncle Zeng dragged him over, pointed out to Captain Zhao and said, "Captain Zhao, you can take this kid with you." I promise that not only will the young man surnamed Zheng die, but from now on, Baisha Village will never have to worry about that big banyan tree. ”

Uncle Zeng swore an oath, as if the young man in his hand was a master of heaven. But all three people except him were dumbfounded, including my grandfather, who was even more stupid.

He's going to be able to use a hammer!