Chapter 8: Parting
Because it was already dark last night, we stayed in the cave for the night.
The corpses of the fox demons and the village chief were all left aside by Xue'er, and I felt some relief when I looked at the scattered corpses.
"Cough~cough" Grandpa coughed up another mouthful of blood in his mouth.
Seeing my grandfather cough up a mouthful of blood, I immediately panicked.
"It doesn't matter, Ye'er will take me down the mountain first. Grandpa waved his hand and said.
Xue'er and I helped my grandfather out of the cave, and there was a world of difference between the sun outside the cave and the darkness and shade inside the cave. At this time, I saw that my grandfather's face was pale and completely bloodless.
"Grandpa, you must hold on until you go down the mountain, and when you return to the village, I will immediately go to Dr. Zhao from the next village to see you. I said anxiously.
"It's okay, grandpa can still hold on to this little injury, let's go down the mountain first" grandpa smiled.
"Grandpa, the direct sun is not good for me during the day, I'll go to see you when the sun goes down," Xue'er said with guilt on her face at this time.
"It's okay, Xue'er, grandpa is fine, then you can come to see me again at night" Grandpa was not upset that Xue'er couldn't come to see him during the day.
"Hmm" Xue'er nodded and said, "Xiao Yezi, then I'll go first, you take care of grandpa all the way, see you in the evening"
"Don't worry, I'll take care of grandpa" After saying that, Xue'er smiled slightly and ran towards the right side of the cave.
"Grandpa, why can't Xue'er see the sun during the day?" I asked Grandpa suspiciously.
Grandpa sighed lightly: "Xue'er is now a ghost, and the yang energy is beneficial to people during the day, and the yin energy is beneficial to ghosts at night."
After listening to my grandfather's words, I couldn't help but feel distressed when I looked in the direction where Cher left.
I helped my grandfather all the way down the mountain, and when I arrived at the entrance of the village, it was already afternoon.
When the people in the village saw me coming back with my grandfather in my arms, they all gathered around. When everyone saw that Grandpa was injured, they didn't bother to ask about what happened on the mountain, so they all rushed to take Grandpa home first.
With everyone's help, my grandfather and I quickly returned home. After placing the grandfather, Uncle Wang of the next door instructed a relatively strong young man from the village to go to the next village to find Dr. Zhao.
Jiang is the surname of the village, many families in the village are surnamed Jiang, and the guy who was entrusted to the next village is also surnamed Jiang.
"Boy, tell us what happened to your grandfather, what happened to you on the mountain, and why didn't the village chief come back with you?"
I told me all the experiences from going up the mountain with my grandfather to rescuing my grandfather, including the conspiracy of the village chief, but I hid Xue'er from me, and only roughly said that I met a master to rescue me.
The people of the village were amazed and couldn't believe it.
"I really didn't expect that our village chief for so many years deceived all of us," Aunt Zhang frowned and said in a low voice.
Because the mountain village is far away, although it is the next village, it is also a long way, and in the hours I waited for Dr. Zhao to come, the house was filled with the villagers' incredulous and abusive voices against the village chief.
"It's coming, it's coming, Doctor Zhao is here," Brother Jiang shouted.
The room fell silent for a moment, and Brother Jiang led Dr. Zhao into the house, and the villagers immediately respectfully said that they must save my grandfather and so on.
Dr. Zhao frowned immediately after helping his grandfather treat the wound on his chest.
I saw Dr. Zhao take out the heartbeat measuring instrument from the toolkit, and then take out a small flashlight, and shine it in his grandfather's eyes, and his mouth shines back and forth, frowning to "no."
I looked at Dr. Zhao's expression was wrong, and I immediately sweated, afraid that something would happen to my grandfather.
Immediately after that, Dr. Zhao got up and paced back and forth in the house in contemplation, and the villagers did not dare to make a sound, so they could only look at Dr. Zhao quietly, for fear of disturbing Dr. Zhao's thinking.
A few minutes later, Dr. Zhao beckoned the villagers to bring a bowl of water, and the villagers did not know why, but they still took a bowl of water and handed it to Dr. Zhao. I saw Dr. Zhao take out a handful of small paths from the tool kit, light a candle and disinfect it, and then make a small cut on his grandfather's index finger and drip the blood into the bowl.
The villagers stared at the blood in the bowl in a daze, and after a while, the blood in the bowl began to turn black, and everyone's eyes widened.
"Sure enough," Dr. Zhao frowned and said, "Jiang Lao, I was poisoned, and this poison is very domineering, Zhao is powerless."
As soon as Dr. Zhao said this, the villagers immediately exploded, and I watched my grandfather burst into tears.
Dr. Zhao didn't want to stay here longer, and said, "I will prescribe a few pairs of medicines that can extend Jiang Lao's life for a few days" sighed and got up to leave, and I suddenly couldn't cry.
I lay on my grandfather's bedside, hating myself for being incompetent at the time, not being able to protect my grandfather well, and I took all the blame on myself.
"Okay, Ye'er, isn't grandpa still okay now, don't cry anymore, you're already so old and crying, if she knows, she will laugh at you" Grandpa touched my head and said.
After listening to my grandfather's words, I cried even more intensely, and Uncle Wang couldn't stand it anymore, so he beckoned the villagers to wait in the yard.
Half an hour later, my grandfather asked me to help him go to the courtyard to see everyone. Pushing open the door, everyone watched me and my grandfather remain silent.
"With the concern of everyone Lao, it's a pity that I only have a few days left to live, if I leave, Ye'er will cause any trouble, everyone must take care of it more, he is still young and very ignorant. Everyone's got a lot of understanding."
Everyone nodded in response and didn't say a word.
At dusk, after Grandpa greeted everyone away, Xue'er came after a while.
Grandpa asked me to go out first, and Cher and I didn't know what to talk about at home. I saw that Xue'er also had more sadness on her face after she came out.
For the rest of the day, Cher would come every day, and just like that, on the fourth day, Grandpa died. The news spread throughout the village, and everyone rushed to worry about Grandpa's funeral.
I cried silently at my grandfather's funeral and secretly vowed to "become stronger and protect everyone around me".
After the funeral, I kept a vigil for my grandfather at home for seven days, and during these seven days, Cher also accompanied me every day to wake my grandfather's wake.
On the eighth day, I was going to leave here, and before my grandfather died, he gave me half a jade pendant, saying that it was something about my background. I discussed with Xue'er and planned to leave here, but Xue'er found that the jade pendant that my grandfather gave me had spirituality and could be used to parasitize ghosts. Xue'er also decided to leave with me in Jade Pei.
I packed up my things early in the morning, and before leaving, I cleaned the house carefully, and looked at the reluctance that I was about to leave the place where I grew up.
After saying hello to the elders in the village who had taken care of me and my grandfather at the time, I took Xue'er and walked out of the village.