Chapter 3: The Death Knell

After a while, the big weasel seemed to be dehydrated, and only a layer of fur remained on its body, and its jagged bones were exposed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

After seeing that the big weasel was dead, he came out from behind the stone with confidence, put a torch on it, looked for the lost child in the hole, and finally found the infant child in a small dirt pit for a long time, and at this time he seemed to faint from hunger, and no longer had the strength to cry, and the grandmother tied the child to her back, and took off the weasel skin with a firewood knife, and lifted up a fist-sized lump of flesh on her abdomen, picked it up and put it in her arms, and brought a lot of wood from outside, and hid back in the forest when she was ready.

As soon as the morning dawned, I saw that the weasels, who had gone out to forage, ran back to the cave, and when she saw them come back, my grandmother hurriedly piled up the piles of wood that had been prepared towards the entrance of the cave, lit a fire, and smoked all the weasels in the hole.

The grandmother, who returned to the village with the child, was welcomed back to her home by the cheers, and from then on, the village came to her grandmother for help with everything.

When he woke up in the morning, Lin Tao found that he actually fell asleep last night after listening to it, and Xue Lou did fall asleep sitting on the chair next to the bed.

This can make Lin Tao angry with himself, he actually slept in the bed and the girl did sit on the chair, and he didn't cover anything.

In the morning, I came to my grandmother's house again, and saw that my grandmother's expression seemed to be a little better, and I looked at Lin Tao smiling kindly. beckoned to Lin Tao and motioned for him to sit down.

"When the child grows up, after grandma is gone, you have the opportunity to go to a ruined temple in the mountains and ring the bell." Grandma said with difficulty, and wanted to say something next, but she didn't have the strength anymore.

In the evening, Lin Tao and Xuelou were chatting in the courtyard, and suddenly there was a bell ringing in his ears, and Lin Tao, who was talking, immediately stopped talking and looked at the sky and thought.

"What's wrong?" Looking at Lin Tao's strange expression, Xue Lou was also a little nervous.

"Did you hear the bell ringing?" Lin Tao's words made Xue Lou even more nervous.

"I've heard my grandmother say that only people who have their own natal cup can hear this kind of bell ringing."

"Possess a natal cup? I've never learned cupping, let alone natal cup. Lin Tao said inexplicably.

"Come in quickly, Lin Tao, your grandmother can't do it." Lin Tao's mother pushed open the door and shouted at the two.

Lin Tao and Xue Lou ran into their grandmother's house, but found that their grandmother was mentally explaining something to her daughter, and when they saw the two come in, they beckoned them to sit next to them.

"Child, grandma is running out of time, you have to listen to grandma finish speaking. Lin Tao still remembers, when you were a child, I took Ah Lan to play with you, and you promised your grandmother. Of course I remember what my grandmother said, but I was still young at that time, so how could I count it. Just thinking about how to deal with my grandmother, my grandmother spoke again.

"Child, you don't know how happy I was when I saw the two of you together...... grandmother's words not only made Lin Tao bow his head, but he didn't know how to refuse a word that was about to leave, Xue Lou also blushed slightly and lowered his head.

"Knock ......" another bell rang out.

"You guys go out first, I have something in my heart and want to talk to my grandson."

"Kid, you heard the bell just now. That is grandma's life-chasing bell, those of us who have a natal cup are going to bury the first shedding of the natal cup worm when we practice our natal cup, and bury it under the seed of the broken temple in the mountain for mine, and we will sprinkle our own blood on the bell, let the bell protect the altar, and we will hear it when there is danger in the altar, but this time it is true that grandma's longevity is coming. ”

"Grandma, I heard Xuelou say that only those who have a natal cup can hear it, and I haven't had a natal cup, how can I hear it." Lin Tao said curiously.

"Child, do you remember that you came here when you were a child and had a serious illness, in fact, you were put off by someone else, I didn't catch up with him and ran away by him, in order to save you, I will feed you the essence blood in my natal cup, so that you can save your life."

"This, I remember, and when I woke up, what was the bowl of sweet water that grandma gave me, I never drank much of that sweet water that can grow my strength again, but why did others give me a cup of grandma?" Lin Tao was confused.

"Haha, that sweet water is an animal's inner tank, and after living for a long time, all kinds of spiritual herbs and medicines are stored in that inner tank, but it's a big tonic, so you must have strength when you drink it." As for who gave you the cup, you will know when you have the opportunity to go to the Gepo Temple in the mountains that I told you. Grandma smiled mysteriously at Lin Tao, then took Lin Tao's hand and put it to her mouth, took a heavy bite, and drank the blood that flowed out.

"Shhh Grandma, what are you doing here? Lin Tao immediately withdrew his hand in pain, but saw that the place where his fingertip was bitten no longer bleed.

"Grandma's time is running out, you will understand it yourself later, remember that grandma will take away what I left after she leaves." After saying that, my grandmother lost her lustre, and lay on the bed, only to see the breath out but not the breath.

"Mom, Xuelou, come in quickly, grandma doesn't seem to be able to do it."

When the two came in, my grandmother was already angry, and with her last strength, she took Lin Tao and Xuelou's hands and said weakly to Lin Tao: "Take good care of her for me." And he closed his eyes forever.

At noon the next day, with the help of the villagers, Lin Tao followed the funeral procession to the side of the mountain stream next to the village and pulled his grandmother's coffin onto the cliff.

When I returned home, I packed my grandmother's things and drove them to the county seat to send them home.

"Xuelou, where are you going?"

"I didn't know that since my parents died, I had been living with my grandmother and only going out to school. Anyway, I'm graduating now, so let's go out and find a job first. ”

Lan Xuelou felt very uncomfortable, he lost the closest person in the world, but Lin Tao, who had a marriage contract with him, had no intention of taking him away.

"Alright then, this is the address of my house, and I'll have time to sit down later."

Saying goodbye to the snow building, Lin Tao and his mother got on the train home, and Lin Tao, who couldn't sleep on the sleeper, recalled his grandmother's words and went to the broken temple in the mountains to find a cup, but my grandmother didn't even tell me the location of the temple, how to find it. There is also Lan Xuelou, a woman who has a marriage contract with herself, although she played together when she was a child, but now it is a society with free marriage, Lin Tao is quite disgusted by the words of such parents, but at this time she is quite guilty of Xue Lou, not only because Xue Lou has taken care of her grandmother for so long, but also because she did not do what she promised her grandmother, she turned over, covered the quilt and fell asleep.