The old madman disappeared from the village in this way, and the old and young masters in the village could no longer hear the old madman's swearing, which made the old and young masters in the village unsteady, and where would the old madman go? After looking for so many places and not seeing her, would she starve? Will she be bullied? Will she come back herself? People gathered around the dinner party to worry about the old madman and talk about it like this.

"In my opinion, this time the old madman is afraid of what she will do, so he will not dare to come back. ”

"She's a madman and can still know to be afraid?"

If she didn't know to be afraid, Grandma Liu would have been able to drag her home. It was because she was afraid that she would have to be tied up and locked up when she went home, so she didn't want to go back, so she tore up with Grandma Liu, which made Grandma Liu fall. I guess she ran away in fright when she saw that Grandma Liu had an accident. ”

"That makes sense, and I think it should be the same. The last time she ran out, someone saw her running around the ground, and someone teased her and asked her what she was doing, she said unexplained that she seemed to be looking for a big tooth, and in the end she might have lost her way, so she couldn't come back, this time I guess it's not like this, the children all said that they ran out after seeing her fall off Grandma Liu, and she was afraid of causing trouble. ”

"This old madman is really crazy, and he can't be seen when he lifts his legs!"

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Just as people were talking about the old madman with a mouthful of gnocchi, they suddenly heard someone shouting "old madman" from outside the village, and suddenly people looked out of the village with their mouths open and their mouths open.

It was Lai Mao, the son of Lai Baoqing in the village, who shouted all the way, and shouted all the way, with a thick layer of sweat on his scalp. People greeted Lai Mao and asked what was the matter, and Lai Mao gasped and said that he had seen the old madman.

"This child, what kind of dreams do you talk about in broad daylight, people have been looking for her for several days and have not found her, where can you see her old madman?" someone asked Lai Mao in disbelief.

"On the mountain, in that mountain, I saw it, and the sheep didn't dare to drive it, so they ran back, scared to death!" Lai Mao gasped for a long time, and then pointed to the outside of the village with his finger, but his face was still white and there was no blood at all.

"This kid is scared, look at what kind of face he is!" someone said in surprise as he glared at Lai Mao's face.

"Son, what do you see?" someone asked worriedly.

"The old madman was hanging from a tree, his tongue sticking out very long, and his eyes wide. Lai Mao said tremblingly.

"What?" Lai Mao's words were no less than putting a big thunderbolt among the people, so that the people almost threw their rice bowls to the ground, and the gnocchi in their mouths choked in their necks.

"What are you talking about?" someone still didn't dare to trust what Mao said, and asked.

"I was tending the sheep, and when I saw that it was getting early, I drove the sheep back, and when I came to a hill, I saw the old madman hanging from a tree. Lai Mao still hadn't woken up, and his whole body was trembling.

"Quick, get this child home and drink some salt tea first, suppress the shock, and then find someone to call this child a soul." Someone held Lai Mao's shoulder and sent Lai Mao to Lai Mao's house, and he shouted at Lai Baoqing and his wife from afar to quickly give hot salt water.

Lai Baoqing and his family didn't know what was going on, so they hurriedly rushed out of the yard.

"His third aunt, what's the matter?" Lai Maoniang saw that Lai Mao had sent Zhu Sanjiao's woman back with a shoulder on her shoulder, and she was very surprised, and her face was so frightened that she lost blood.

"The child was scared. Zhu Sanjiao's woman repeated what Lai Mao had just said to Lai Baoqing.

As soon as Lai Baoqing and his family heard that Lai Mao saw the old madman hanging himself from a tree in the mountains, their eyes widened in shock, and they didn't say anything for a long time.

"Don't be stunned, you two should hurry up and give the child some salt water to drink, suppress the child's shock, and find someone to call the child the soul later." Zhu Sanjiao's woman saw that Lai Baoqing was so frightened that her hands and feet trembled, and hurriedly reminded them, "What are you two shaking, hurry up and get the child a little salt water to drink." ”

Lai Maoniang woke up Lei Bang and was busy going to the stove to prepare salt water for Lai Mao, but Lai Baoqing's trembling hands were still trembling, he looked at his son, as if he didn't know him for half an hour, and then asked Lai Mao with a trembling mouth: "Child, are you scared?"

"I don't think there's anything wrong with the child, it's just you. An old man, as timid as a girl. The old men in the village heard that the old madman had hanged himself in the mountains, and many people went to the mountains with big teeth shouting. I think that if all the old men in the village were like you, none of them would dare to help Big Tooth collect the old madman's body. Zhu Sanjiao's woman was so frightened when she saw Lai Mao's father that she couldn't wait to pee on her crotch, so she pouted and said, "You haven't seen the old madman die like this, if you saw the old madman just now, I guess you won't be able to climb back." ”

"Who in the village will call the soul of the child?" Lai Mao's two hands finally stopped trembling, and he looked at the woman with Zhu Sanjiao and asked, "I haven't heard of anyone in the village who will call the soul of a child." ”

"The matter of calling the soul will wait until noon, and at this time the soul is not working, so let's suppress the child first. When Zhu Sanjiao's woman saw Lai Mao's father's appearance, she wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, she wanted to kick him twice, and she thought that she shouldn't kick him herself.

"What should we do now?" asked Lai Mao's father with a sad face.

"What to do...... Hey, a big man, why are you so!" The woman with Zhu Sanjiao looked at Lai Mao's father, sighed as if she hated iron and steel, and said, "If you break your mouth here, maybe you will be abused, a man, why don't you have a little backbone! What can you do now, hurry up and suppress the child's shock! Comfort the child with some words that are not afraid." Just like you, the child is not afraid and you are afraid. ”

Lai Mao's father gave Zhu Sanjiao's woman a white meal, and he couldn't say anything in his heart, so he had to pout, lowered his head and peeked at Zhu Sanjiao's woman, and then took Lai Mao from Zhu Sanjiao's woman's hand.

"You two first crush the child, I have to go back and call the child's father to see if he can help, the old madman is gone, and the big tooth and their father are even more uncomfortable. After Zhu Sanjiao's woman handed over Lai Mao to Lai Mao's father, she arranged for Lai Mao's father to go back in a hurry.

Lai Maoniang brought out a bowl of very hot salt water from the stove room, she walked to Lai Mao, carefully looked at Lai Mao from head to toe, and then looked at it from feet to the top of her head, and suddenly pointed to Lai Mao's hair and screamed to Lai Mao's father: "Look, the tips of the child's hair are all up, this is to scare the soul!"

Lai Mao's father leaned his head towards Lai Mao's head, stared at it carefully, nodded and responded to Lai Maoniang, and said: "The tips of the child's hair are branching up, and it must be scared away." Where have you ever seen a dead man?"

Lai Maoniang handed the bowl in her hand to Lai Mao's father, reached out and grabbed Lai Mao's hands and touched them for a while, saying: "The tips of this child's two hands are also cold, which is a sure thing to scare away the soul." ”

Hearing Lai Maoniang say this, the bowl in Lai Mao's father shook suddenly, and half of the bowl of salt water was spilled.

"Why are you panicking?" Lai Maoniang saw that Lai Mao's father shook the salt water in the bowl, glared at Lai Mao's father, and complained, "This has not been spread out to a major event, if it is spread out to a major matter, you are not so scared that you will sleep and roll on the ground." ”

"Is this still a trivial matter for the child to lose his soul?" Lai Mao's father whispered back to Lai Maoniang.

"It's not that the child can't be called back, I'm just worried that the child will be scared out of something else. Lai Maoniang said.

"The child has never seen a dead person before, and now he has seen a dead man for the first time, and he is still a hanged ghost, can he still scare the child out of a bad way?" Lai Mao's father looked at Lai Maoniang and said with a shudder in his heart.

"A child can be as timid as you, and you don't dare to move at night when a mouse sounds in the house. Lai Maoniang pursed her lips and glanced at Lai Mao's father, and said, "I'll call the child Soul first, and then let him drink some salt tea to suppress the shock." As she spoke, she held Lai Mao with one hand, and with the other hand, as if she was lifting something from the ground to Lai Mao, she bent her waist and began to shout: "Lai Mao, come home! Lai Mao, come home! Lai Mao, come home......

Lai Mao's mother called Lai Mao for a while, and took the remaining half a bowl of salt tea from Lai Mao's father for Lai Mao to drink.

Lai Mao drank the small half bowl of salt tea, wiped his mouth, and said: "Mother, this salt tea is so salty, it's dead." ”

"After drinking this salt tea, I won't be afraid in my heart, just be salty. Lai Maoniang saw her son speak, and the stone in her heart fell a little. She turned her head to look at Lai Mao's father, who was standing there muttering something quietly, and he closed his eyes every time he muttered. Lai Maoniang was puzzled and asked, "What are you muttering there?"

"I begged the old madman not to scare our family's Lai Mao. Lai Mao replied.

"Okay, I don't think it's a big deal, you didn't hear him just now that he thinks the salt tea is salty, and after a while, the hysteria will come. Lai Maoniang said to Lai Mao's father, "I guess the people in the village should go and help Zhao Daya and his father and son go to collect the old madman's body, you can also go over and take a look, if you can help, you can help." ”

When Lai Mao's father heard that he wanted him to help Zhao Daya and his son collect the old madman's body, he couldn't help but shudder again.

"You, why are you so timid!" Lai Maoniang saw Lai Mao's father trembling and complained.

"Everyone has eaten before they go to help, our family hasn't eaten yet, I'll go over and take a look after eating." Lai Mao's father made an embarrassed excuse and said, "How can you have the strength to help if you don't eat?"

"Our sheep are still on the mountain!" Lai Maoniang saw that Lai Mao's father was reluctant to go, so she immediately reminded Lai Mao's father.

As soon as Lai Mao's father heard that his sheep were still on the mountain, he immediately let go of his legs and ran out of the yard.

When Lai Baoqing ran to the mountain in one breath, there were already a lot of people gathered in the mountain, Zhao Daya and Er Gazi were crying when they let go of their throats, he turned around the crowd twice, trying to see the old madman who had been unloaded from the tree, but he felt scared, it is said that the hanged people are all the same, staring at the two eyes, and the tongue is very long and drooping in front of the chest, not to mention looking at it, even listening to other people's legends, cold sweat and shivering on his body.

The old madman hanged himself, but the old and young masters in the village didn't understand, could a madman hang himself?

Guessing that the old madman was afraid, he hanged himself with his trouser belt. "Some people can only ponder like this.

"How did she tie her belt to the tree?"

"You don't see that this tree is not high, and she can still land on her feet when she hangs down. ”

"She hanged herself by falling herself!"

"I don't know how many days she has been hanged, no wonder I can't find her everywhere, in this mountain, who would have thought that she would come to this place, she would really find a place. ”

"Fortunately, the weather is not hot now, otherwise, in the past few days, the body should have risen and smelled. ”

"This old madman, who estimated that the death of Grandma Liu frightened her, and knew that he was in trouble, so he came to this place and hanged himself to give Grandma Liu his life. ”

"It's very likely, it's called daring to do it!" Someone admired the old madman.

Zhao Daya took off the clothes on his body and wrapped the old madman naked, holding the old madman and putting it on a frame car, Er Gazi held the handlebar in front, shouting and crying one by one, the old and young masters around him stretched out their hands to help the body of the old madman fall off the frame car, and two people helped Er Gazi to hold the handlebar, and when Zhao Daya put the old madman's body firmly, he helped pull the frame car back.

Lai Baoqing watched people leave slowly like this, and his body couldn't help but tense for a while, and he felt that the sweat pores all over his body were opened. He quickly looked around, but still did not find his gelding. Suddenly, there was a whirring sound in the grass nest next to him, and soon there was no movement. He looked into the grass nest beside him, and there was nothing in the grass nest, what was the matter? Could it be the old madman's soul that had stirred the grass nest? He felt a cool wind blowing through the tips of his hair, and in the cool wind there seemed to be a hand gently tugging at the tips of his hair. He couldn't help but muttered in his heart: "Old madman, don't scare me, I haven't seen your naked body, and I haven't said anything about you, I'm the gelding who came to find our house." He muttered in his heart for a while, feeling that the sweaty pores all over his body were still squeaking and cooling, and the tips of his hair were still gently pulling at something cool, and there was a burst of dampness and heat in his crotch, and he ran back with his legs, but he felt that his legs were sinking like falling on a thousand pounds.

When Lai Baoqing caught up with the old and young masters in the village, his body was sweating, and his legs felt no longer as heavy as falling stones, but the cool taste on his body was still tightly wrapped around him.

"Look, Lai Baoqing's two trouser legs are dripping water. Although the minds of the old and young masters were not on Lai Baoqing, who caught up, someone still found that Lai Baoqing was wetting his pants.

Lai Baoqing looked down at his two trouser legs, only to find that the two trouser legs were still dripping with urine, and the guy in the crotch seemed to be bubbling out.

"Lai Baoqing, what's wrong with you?" someone asked Lai Mao's father softly.

"It's fine. Lai Baoqing shook his head and replied in a panic.

"Scared?" Zhao Tietou slowed down from the crowd and asked by Lai Mao's father's side.

Seeing Zhao Tietou slow down and accompany him, Lai Mao's father felt that the cool air on his body slowly dispersed. He glanced up at Zhao Tietou and said, "I was a little scared in my heart, and I didn't find the gelding that came to look for our family." ”

"Just now when people came over, they saw a gelding coming back to the village by themselves, and the old and young men wondered if it was the sheep that your family had put on their wool. Didn't you see it on the way over just now?" Zhao Tietou heard that Lai Mao's father came to look for sheep, and he was scared like this, and he didn't feel a feeling of incomprehension.

Lai Mao's father shook his head and said that he had not seen his own gelding.

"It's time to run home at this time, you go back and take a look, if you don't come back, let's come out and look for two more people, we can't lose it." Zhao Tietou comforted Lai Mao's father and said, "The sheep are herded, go back and see if there is no one at home, go to the house with sheep in the village to look for it, maybe it will be in which one." ”

Lai Baoqing didn't know that he was nodding his head towards Zhao Tietou.

Zhao Tietou glared at Lai Mao's father, he didn't know him, what's the matter, this Lai Baoqing was so scared that he lost his soul? He shook one hand in front of Lai Mao's father's eyes, and Lai Baoqing's eyes didn't blink as if he didn't see his hand. He patted Lai Baoqing's shoulder suddenly, and at this time, Lai Baoqing woke up like a spirit.

"Your gelding!" Zhao Tietou teased Lai Baoqing.

"Where is my gelding?" Lai Mao's father hurriedly looked around.

"Ran home!" Zhao Tietou wanted to be happy, but he couldn't.

Lai Mao's father still looked like a wandering spirit had not returned, and his face was white again.

Zhao Tietou looked at Lai Mao's father, what is wrong with this Lai Baoqing, it seems to be normal just now, why is he like this again? I am afraid? I must have scared myself into this virtue! He reached out and grabbed Lai Mao's father's hand, Lai Baoqing's hand was as cold as taking it out of the ice slag, and his palms were still wet with sweat, as if he had just been pulled out of the water. He looked at Lai Baoqing, and suddenly felt like a big stone in his heart, this person is really not ordinary and neat, he is also a big man, and he is really different when he encounters things. As far as Lai Baoqing is concerned, he didn't see the old madman dead, so he was frightened into this kind of virtue, if he himself rushed to this kind of thing, what would it look like? No wonder people say that the ten fingers stretched out are not unusually neat.

Lai Baoqing followed Zhao Tietou to the village in a trance, and he didn't know if the matter of the gelding he was going to find his family was still in his heart.

Zhao Tietou looked at Lai Baoqing from time to time, and he was also thinking in his heart whether Lai Baoqing would really scare out something wrong this time, if Lai Baoqing scared out something, such a demonic disease is not easy to regulate, and if it is not good, it will end up crazy and stupid and don't know the way. In this way, Lai Maoniang will suffer some sins, and some will suffer. A family of three children, the youngest Lai Cang just walked down the aisle, that is, Lai Mao can help her watch Lai Cang all day long, her work as a woman is not enough to feed a few people in this family, that is, the production team gives some care, and that day is tight enough. Zhao Tietou pondered this place, and couldn't help but scold himself in his heart, what a bastard, this kind of pondering is too damaging, Lai Baoqing is a big man, and he won't be scared out of the problem, go back and let Lai Maoniang pour more salt water into his stomach, maybe he will be awake and okay after sleeping, how can he be so easy to scare out what is wrong!

Lai Baoqing followed Zhao Tietou back to the village, and the people standing at the entrance of the village looked at Lai Baoqing's appearance, and they all frowned and became confused. Seeing that he didn't respond, people tried to shout two more words "Lai Mao's father", but Lai Baoqing still didn't squeak like a wooden man.

"What's going on?" people asked Zhao Tietou beside Lai Baoqing in a daze.

"Maybe I'm scared, I've been so stunned all the way. Zhao Tietou replied to the people.

"Can a big man still be scared?" people were even more confused.

"I guess I'm scared!" Zhao Tietou said with certainty.

Before Zhao Tietou's words fell, Lai Baoqing actually pulled his throat and let go of his throat and cried.

People looked at Lai Baoqing with wide eyes, and they didn't know which one Lai Baoqing was singing with their mouths open.

After Lai Baoqing let go of his throat, he closed his eyes and shook his head, muttering something that no one could understand.

"Lai Baoqing, this is what kind of monster has you bumped into!" people immediately concluded in their hearts.

"Lai Baoqing is a lack of yang energy, and he is entangled with some spirits. Someone put such an assertion out of his mouth.

Lai Baoqing cried in the sky and on the ground for a while, and then began to count Zhao Daya and Er Gazi.

"Did Lai Baoqing hit the soul of the old madman?" someone listened to the number in Lai Baoqing's mouth, and immediately concluded again.

Lai Baoqing sat on the ground with his buttocks, holding his two feet and necks with both hands like a real woman, and his nose and tears were like wax on his face to talk about Chen Guzi's rotten sesame seeds, but these things about Chen Guzi's rotten sesame seeds were all related to Zhao Daya's family, and some were even between the old madman and Zhao Daya.

From these things that Lai Baoqing cried and talked about, people concluded that Lai Baoqing had bumped into the soul of an old madman. So, some people regarded Lai Baoqing as an old madman, and followed the words in Lai Baoqing's mouth to ask some things about Grandma Liu.

"Lao Grandma Liu was killed by me, I have to give her her life!" Lai Baoqing still cried with snot and tears, "Although our old eagle's nest is a little poor, but who caused the trouble and who is responsible for it, I still know that I fell to death Lao Grandma Liu, and I have to give Lao Grandma Liu my life, but after this, Gazi has no mother, and Big Tooth has no woman, how can the two of them live alone." ”

People were even more sure that Lai Baoqing had bumped into the soul of the old madman, so someone went to the broken taro cellar and shouted Zhao Daya.

Zhao Daya in the broken taro cellar was choking and crying with the body of the old madman, Ergazi knelt in front of the old madman's head and shouted "Mother" and cried sadly, and suddenly heard that the soul of the old madman hit Lai Baoqing's body, Zhao Daya immediately stood up, arranged for Ergazi to keep a good watch, and went out with the comer.

Zhao Daya came to the place where Lai Baoqing was sitting, and at this time, Lai Maoniang also came.

As soon as Lai Baoqing saw Zhao Daya, he immediately opened his voice more openly, but for Lai Maoniang, Lai Baoqing didn't see the same.

As soon as Zhao Daya saw Lai Baoqing greet him like this, he immediately helped Lai Baoqing, and cried out with tears: "you!"

Lai Baoqing and Zhao Daya really hugged their heads and cried like two people.

The people around him persuaded the old madman to leave Lai Baoqing quickly, saying that the old and young masters in the village would not let the big tooth and the children suffer any grievances, winter clothes and summer shirts, the girls in the village would help sew and repair, and there was a place at home that needed the help of the old and young masters, as long as the big teeth and their grandfathers and sons said, no one would shirk it.

Lai Baoqing cried for a while, his voice gradually became quieter, and finally yawned a few times in a row, and he woke up like a dream. He looked around, then under his buttocks, scratched his scalp and frowned and asked the people around him what was wrong, he remembered that he was looking for his own gelding, why did he sit here?

People told him about hitting the soul of the old madman, Lai Baoqing patted his head, and then frowned and pondered what had just happened.

"Let's go, let's go back. Lai Maoniang pulled Lai Baoqing up from the ground and shook his pants on his buttocks that had been sticky to the urine that had not yet dried.

"Did our gelding run home?" Lai Baoqing was stunned for a while and asked Lai Maoniang.

"I ran to the house of the chicken eye, and the chicken eye was brought back. Lai Maoniang sighed and said, "I knew you were like this, so I wouldn't have let you go looking for sheep." ”