The butler beckoned people to carry the fainted monk to the couch in the Buddhist hall. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The onlookers were so frightened by the strange things in the courtyard that they trembled, and only two young male servants stepped forward to help carry them.

Old Lady Shen hit the ground with a faucet cane: "How can this be, how can this be, boss, what does your daughter-in-law want to make trouble?" Our Shen family is not sorry for her. ”

Shen Liang's face was not good-looking: "Mom, what is this and what does it have to do with her." ”

One woman screamed, "How is it okay? She is looking for death by herself, and she is still holding on to the people of this family, what does she want to do? ”

Su San and Yu Wei glanced at each other, thinking: Shen Liang's wife turned out to be a suicide when he was looking for death! No wonder the Shen family wants to set off flames.

It was Shen Liang's younger siblings who spoke, Shen Liang pretended not to hear it, and asked in a low voice: "Mom, why don't you go back to the room first, these things are not haunted, there must be a reason." ”

"The reason is that if your daughter-in-law dies, she will harm our family."

Old Lady Shen looked at the courtyard that was humming a pot of porridge, and became even more angry.

The rest of the Shen family also looked at the dead sparrows on the ground and the wriggling caterpillars on the spirit seat, with different expressions.

Then I heard a woman's voice say, "Hey, this spiritual seat has been painted with something." ”

The second young grandmother of the Shen family glared at the past and saw that it was a delicate woman, dressed in a blue cloth cheongsam, dressed very plain and generous.

"Who are you? How did you get in? What nonsense? The second young grandmother was immediately unhappy.

"These two are my classmates, college classmates."

Shen Liang introduced. The second young grandmother snorted in her nose: "College students are amazing." ”

"Shen Xian......" Su San suddenly thought that Shen Liang said that he was his classmate, so it was definitely not okay to call Mr. Shen, so he immediately changed his title: "Joseph, this spiritual seat should have been coated with the juice of a plant!" Only smeared on the four words of Shenmen Liu, this juice is the favorite of caterpillars, and I think the biggest is probably the juice of nettles! ”

Su San knew this kind of caterpillar with yellow stripes in the middle and sides of the black body, she had seen it on the hillside behind the church when she was a child, and the scene was too shocking at the time, so when she grew up, she looked around for entomological information and learned that the caterpillar was the larva of the nettle butterfly.

It was a summer, and Su San went to the back mountain to play alone.

There are a lot of nettles in the back mountains, this plant is also called stinging grass, bite grass, scorpion grass, was once an important fiber plant, ancient Europeans used its fiber to weave clothes very early. There is a story in Grimm's Fairy Tales about "Six Swans", in which Alyssa picks nettles to weave clothes for her brother. At the same time, the fairy tale also tells that Alyssa's hands have always been red and swollen because of the poisonous stings on the stems and leaves of this plant, which can produce irritating dermatitis when it comes into contact with the skin.

The nuns had already told the children the story of the six swans, and everyone knew that the nettle field in the back mountain could not be visited. Su San walked there bored this day, glanced at the nettle ground, and the whole person was stunned, his scalp was numb, and the hairs on his body stood up. It turned out that this large nettle leaf was densely crawled with a kind of black caterpillar! In the center of the caterpillar's back is a yellow line, and it looks like all the nettles are a sea of black.

Oh my God, it's disgusting! Su San was so frightened that he turned around and ran, as if the caterpillar army was about to catch up.

This memory was so terrifying that Su San later remembered the appearance of the caterpillar and also found out their name: the larvae of the nettle butterfly.

These butterflies are yellow with three black spots on their wings, and they lay their eggs on nettle or hemp leaves, and the larvae grow up by sucking the sap of these plants.

There must be nettles in the place where this larvae are found, so it is clear why so many larvae can be attracted to crawl over. It must be that the nettles in this courtyard have been removed, and only the four words of Shenmen Liu's on this spirit card are coated with nettle juice, so a large number of caterpillars are attracted to it. Su San whispered his thoughts to Shen Liang.

"Nettle?" Shen Liang looked at the housekeeper, "Did there be nettles in this yard in the past?" ”

As soon as the housekeeper brought the doctor into the Buddhist hall, he stopped and replied, "Yes, I planted that thing in this courtyard for a week in the past to prevent theft. ”

The fine hairs on the stalks and leaves of nettles are a good anti-theft weapon, and there are very few people in this yard, so it is normal to plant this thing to prevent theft.

"In the past few days, there have been many people in the yard, and I am afraid that the nettles will be shoveled out if they sting people."

Sure enough, after the nettle was removed, some of the fish that had slipped through the net wanted to hide in the surrounding grass, and suddenly found the smell of nettle juice and gathered over.

Shen Liang secretly admired this Miss Su's cleverness and wit, and hurriedly explained the caterpillar to everyone, proving that this was not a haunting.

The old butler patted his head and said: "Yes, the eldest young master is right, I remembered that this kind of caterpillar has indeed been seen on nettles in the past, so this is not a haunting, someone is making trouble." ”

The second young grandmother pointed to the dead sparrows all over the ground and asked, "The caterpillar may have crawled from somewhere else, but what about this sparrow?" How did you eat this rice and die? ”

"Of course, someone poisoned Miri and deliberately did these things."

Shen Liang replied.

"Big brother has something to say." The second young grandmother said unhappily.

"Alright, go get a chicken." Old Lady Shen commanded.

A monk realized what she was going to do and hurriedly shouted, "Wait, don't kill!" ”

"Master, I'm here to save people, I can't take care of it."

The monk saw that Mrs. Shen was very resolute, and knew that it was useless for him to stop him, so he stood aside and recited the Buddha's name in a low voice.

Soon a servant came over with a rooster in his arms. The rooster was very bold, and when he saw that the yard was full of people, he was not frightened at all, and the old housekeeper put the bowl with rice in front of the rooster, and the rooster lowered his head and began to peck, and after eating for a while, he was very happy to flap his wings. When he had eaten and drunk his fill, the rooster actually crowed out of place.

The second young grandmother pointed to the rooster and said, "Look, the rooster is alive and well, this rice is fine." ”

Rice is no problem, so what is the problem?

Su San squatted down and checked a little bit.

She believed that the sparrows must have been poisoned and not a so-called haunted event.

Yu Wei also searched the ground little by little, his fingers touching the ground inch by inch. Suddenly he raised his hand and said, "Look, what I found!" Black sesame seeds! ”

Black sesame seeds!

Su San's spirits were all lifted.

Sparrows are not stupid, and of course they know that sesame seeds are better than broken rice. Most of the sparrow's choice must be sesame seeds.

And who would notice that the black sesame seeds are sprinkled into the yard in the dark night?

So all the sparrows that ate black sesame seeds died, but the bowl of rice was non-poisonous.