Chapter 3 The Brass Bell Rings
Although I was scared, I still stared at Uncle Lai.
Suddenly, a white thing slipped out of the house.
It wasn't until I realized that it was the snakeskin.
I turned my head and saw that the fat man was holding a bloody boning knife in one hand, constantly waving it in the direction of Uncle Lai, looking like I have a knife in my hand and you don't come over.
Although I don't know what will happen to the snakeskin when it leaves the blade, I can see Uncle Lai's head slowly coming in through the door and know that the fat man is in debt again.
After Uncle Lai Zi came in, I saw the whole picture of Uncle Lai Zi clearly.
With his arms close to his body, his whole leg dragging to the ground as if he had no bones, and then like a snake, he jerked up and grinned at me.
The fat man was so frightened that he threw away the knife, and lay on the ground with his head in his hands, thinking that this would be safe.
"Hiss!" Uncle Lai Zi let out a heavy breath from his mouth and let out such a sound.
I felt a lot of pain in my neck.
With a wipe of his hand, he actually bled out.
Seeing the fat man lying on the ground shaking constantly, and the two red dots on his neck began to bleed, I knew where the blood on my hands came from.
It seems that the snake resentment that grandpa once said is starting to attack.
I wanted to run away, but I couldn't move my body in the slightest degree from the fear I had.
suddenly remembered that grandpa was still looking for the white snake outside, so he had the courage to call grandpa.
The scene where my grandfather, who I was expecting, rushed in to save us did not happen, but Uncle Lai Zi suddenly approached me.
Uncle Lai Zi slammed his hands on my shoulders and opened his mouth to bite me.
I closed my eyes in fright.
Poof.
I didn't feel any pain.
On the contrary, Uncle Lai Zi suddenly "hissed".
When I opened my eyes, I was faced with Uncle Lai's painful expression.
And behind Uncle Lai, the fat man was holding the knife, with a look of fear flashing in his eyes.
Uncle Lai's body didn't move, and his whole head suddenly turned backwards.
When the fat man saw this scene, he was so frightened that he threw the knife away, and he was about to run away and shout as he ran: "Help!
It's a pity that he didn't run a few steps before he was caught up by Uncle Lai, who wrapped him up like a snake, and the fat man rolled his eyes.
Just now the fat man overcame his fear to save me, but now he is entangled by Uncle Lai, and I don't know where the courage came from when I saw the knife under my feet, so I picked it up and rushed out.
It's fake to say I'm not afraid, and when I went to the yard and saw Uncle Lai Zi pestering the fat man, I was almost scared to pee.
But I think about what would happen to my grandfather if I was here, in the face of two people who died so miserably, my grandfather was not afraid, and dared to go to the white snake by myself, I gritted my back molars and approached step by step.
I saw the white snake skin that was tightly attached to Uncle Lai's body, and I saw that the opening left by the snake skin that had been nailed to the table was bubbling with black blood, and I knew that there must be something wrong with this snake skin.
Gritting my teeth and weeping, I rushed up and stabbed myself into the snakeskin.
Uncle Lai Zi was like a frightened cat, and he spread the fat man and ran aside.
And the boning knife in my hand was left on Uncle Lai's body.
The fat man fell to the ground and kept coughing, and his whole body was still convulsing.
Uncle Lai Zi was not scared away by my knife, but stared at me even more viciously.
I slowly retreated, my legs shaking so much that I couldn't stand.
The only thing left in my hand was the brass bell stained with kerosene.
But the brass bell has a fart!
I used all my strength to throw the copper bell at Uncle Lai.
The brass bell is in the middle of Uncle Lai's head.
But what is the use of a broken bell, almost no effect, the copper bell instead bounced back and fell to the ground.
Jingle bells!
A crisp brass bell rang out.
The bell, which had no copper core, actually made a sound.
A sigh came from behind him: "There is no way to be lucky or bad, especially if you take it yourself." ”
It was my grandfather's voice, and I immediately cried out as if I had found the backbone of my heart.
Grandpa picked up the brass bell and shook it, but there was no movement, and he couldn't help shaking his head, and the expression on his face was very strange.
Then my grandfather shoved the bell into my hand.
At this time, Uncle Lai Zi also circled over, opening his big mouth to bite grandpa.
Grandpa turned over a wooden nail and appeared in his hand, waving his hand violently.
Uncle Lai Zi immediately had an extra wooden nail on his head, and most of the wooden nail was submerged in his skull, and he seemed to be lifted back by a huge force.
Grandpa raised his hand and waved his hand again, and wooden nails kept nailing to Uncle Lai's body.
Uncle Lai Zi let out a terrible scream.
Grandpa rushed forward in a few jumps, I had never seen grandpa so nimble.
Grandpa pulled out the boning knife from behind Uncle Lai, stretched out two fingers with one hand, clamped the snakeskin attached to his back, tore it violently, and then stabbed the boning knife into Uncle Lai's heart, and then with a force on his wrist, the handle of the knife was broken by Grandpa.
Then Uncle Lai Zi also lay motionless on the ground, and Grandpa hit a scoop of well water and splashed it on Uncle Lai's body.
After the well water touched Uncle Lai, it was like splashing on Luo Tie, sizzling white mist, and the marks on the necks of me and the fat man slowly disappeared.
When the white mist dissipated, Uncle Lai Zi also returned to his normal appearance, but he lay there straight and did not move.
The village chief came to knock on the door at dawn, and when he saw Uncle Lai lying in the yard, he didn't ask much, and he beckoned a few people from the village and carried him away.
Grandpa took me and the fat man all the way to watch Uncle Lai's family enter the coffin, Uncle Laizi was placed in the locust wooden coffin, grandpa put a copper coin in the four corners of the coffin, and then sealed the coffin.
"The resentment of the white snake was sealed into Laizi's body by me, using locust wood to absorb yin qi, and placing copper coins around it to prevent yin qi from gathering, as long as the coffin is not opened, there will be no problem after half a year. "Grandpa seemed to be talking to me, and it was like talking to himself.
I still clutched the bell tightly in my hand.
When it was time to get home, Grandpa looked at the oil lamp on the table and threw it aside.
Usually grandpa wouldn't treat this baby oil lamp like this, it could only be because of the copper bell in my hand!
I put the bell on the table, this is grandpa's treasure, let's give it back to grandpa.
"Take it, the bell will be yours from now on. Grandpa was silent for a while and said.
I immediately picked it up again, shook it, and nothing moved.
"Grandpa, the bell won't ring again!" I said.
Grandpa touched my head and dragged me to his house.
There was actually a secret compartment in Grandpa's cabinet, and I watched Grandpa take out five three-inch-long nails from the cabinet, which were similar to the wooden nails that Grandpa used before, but the materials and styles of these five nails were a little different.
"This is the nail of the coffin, and it is also our ability to watch the house. Grandpa nailed five coffin nails to the beams of the house, and the spacing was exactly the same.
Then my grandfather took out five sticks of incense and lit them in turn, and I was surprised to find that the smoke from burning incense actually rose slowly, and did not spread around the five coffin nails.
"Get down on your knees!" Grandpa snorted.
I was so frightened that I immediately fell to my knees.
"Do you know what I do?" came Grandpa's majestic voice.
"Mr. Bai!" I replied curtly.
"Do you know what Mr. Bai does?" Grandpa asked me again.
"No... I don't know!" I bowed my head.
"Raise your head!" Grandpa stared at me and said, "You are eight years old, I didn't want you to lead you into this industry, and you can go out to work like your father in the future to live, when your father was eight years old, he didn't have this opportunity, although I regret that I can't pass on the craft, but I'm also glad that you are not deeply involved." ”
"I didn't want you to see everything about Laizi's family, so that you can live in peace without knowing anything, and my affairs will be brought into the soil, and no one will know about it anymore. ”
"The white snake grudge is powerful, but it is nothing in my eyes, so I also want to take this opportunity to see if you have the opportunity to inherit our family's craftsmanship, so as to leave a coffin nail, if you pick it up, I will pass on the craftsmanship to you, if you are afraid, I will not mention this matter. Grandpa's words were sonorous and powerful, and I realized that my grandfather did not open the door at that time not so that the villagers could see the tragic situation in Uncle Lai's house, but to open another door for me.
"I didn't pick it up!" I said immediately, picking up the knife without noticing where the coffin was.
"But I never thought you would find this brass bell!" and it rang!" said my grandfather, who sighed when he heard me ring the bell.
"Why?" I asked with a puzzled expression, and when I was talking about the coffin nails, I suddenly said about this copper bell, which made me even more confused.
Grandpa did not answer me, but stood under the five coffin nails and said to me, "Bow to me three times and bow nine times!"
Although I still had doubts in my heart, my grandfather's face was serious, and I immediately kowtowed.
Strange to say, after I kowtowed at the beginning, the five incense sticks on the ground were extinguished.
Grandpa looked at the five incense sticks, and then shouted with a serious face: "Go on!"
I was even more confused, so I had to continue to prostrate.
This time it was even more strange, every time I bowed, a coffin nail on my head fell, but fortunately I was caught by my grandfather.
Grandpa looked at me with a cold face: "You don't even want to save my grandson?"
I was frightened by my grandfather's face and a little overwhelmed.
Grandpa stomped his right foot on the ground, and with great strength in his hand, he nailed five coffin nails to the beams of the house, and most of them were nailed in.
"Goodbye!" Grandpa seemed to squeeze the three words out of his mouth.
I immediately kowtowed again.
This time there was not the slightest movement in the coffin nails, until I stood up after the last head knock, my grandfather's face was as sallow as paper, and he insisted until I stood still and then took three steps back and vomited a mouthful of blood.
I was terrified and immediately hugged my grandfather.
"This teacher! Grandpa smiled slightly, but soon changed his serious face and grabbed my wrist.
"You have to remember that once the brass bell rings in the hands of another person, you have only two paths. "The strength of Grandpa's hands is very strong, and it hurts me to pinch it.
"One is to run quickly with the copper bell, how far to run. Grandpa said.
"And then?" I waited for a while for Grandpa to speak, and then I had to ask.
"Kill him, whoever it is!"