Chapter 12 Kowtow to the old village chief
Zuo Panlong parked a Jinbei car in front of the store, it was tattered, there were a lot of charms pasted in the car, and there was a strange sandalwood fragrance, which made me panic and feel like a hearse.
At that time, there was no mobile payment, and 70,000 yuan was not a small amount, and it had to be withdrawn from the bank.
My Chinese medicine shop was a little away from the nearest bank, and when I got in the car, I was sleepy and staggering, and I fell asleep in the car after two clicks. I don't know how long I slept, and I was woken up by the suona and the noise of the crowd. When I opened my eyes, I found that the car was parked in a village.
Didn't you mean withdrawing money?
What a place!
I opened the door and looked at it, and everything was familiar.
It took a while to come back to my senses, isn't this the ancestral hall of Wax Daokou Village?!
There is a coffin in the ancestral hall, and there is a couplet pasted at the door. There were more than a dozen tables of chairs outside, apparently holding a funeral. People walked around next to me, and a few villagers who knew me greeted me: "Pi, how many years have you not been back to the village to see, you have become a young man." ”
Uncle Duan, who was carrying a clay gun against me back then, looked a lot older, and handed over a cigarette: "Xiaopi, you are back...... Chang Geng, Xiaopi is back. ”
Uncle Chang Geng hurriedly walked out of the ancestral hall and took my hand: "Big nephew, I can look forward to you!" ”
My whole person is in a state of confusion, and the dead fat man of Zuopanlong doesn't know where to go.
"Uncle, where's the left coiling dragon?" I asked Uncle Chang Gung puzzled, and then pointed to the coffin in the ancestral hall: "Which old man in the village has passed away?" ”
Uncle Chang Geng's expression was sad: "My father died." Master Zuo went on errands and came back in a while. ”
The old village chief is dead?
Calculating the time, I have been away from the village for more than ten years, and the old village chief has lived for more than 80 years, which is considered a long life. The deceased is big, and they can't come, and I still understand the basic etiquette in the countryside. At that time, although the old village chief wanted to sink me into the Yellow River, but when I got sick, he was willing to pay 500 yuan to ask the third grandmother to save me, and the grievances were written off as soon as possible.
I said to Uncle Chang Geng, uncle, you mourn, I'll go and give the old village chief an incense.
Uncle Chang Geng seemed very moved: "My father still talked to you when he was angry, saying that he was sorry for you in this life." If you can really kowtow to him, the old man's mouth will crack with laughter under Jiuquan. ”
I stopped and prepared to wash my hands in the nearby hand basin.
Uncle Chang Gung grabbed me and said, good nephew, let's not worry, Master Zuo will come to read the sacrifice in the evening, and you will put incense on it then.
I took a look, and there was indeed no incense in front of the coffin of the old village chief, and I guessed that the villagers were waiting to worship when the sacrifice was read at night, so I nodded and agreed.
At this point, I understand.
Zuo Panlong originally came to the old village chief as a priest, recalling that he said that he went to catch ghosts together, but was killed by ghosts lying on the bed, and his heart beat a drum, that ghost can't be the old village chief, right? But what did the fat man bring me here for? Stretched out his hand and quickly touched the dog treasure in his arms, and found that the thing was still there, Fang was a little relieved.
Uncle Chang Geng pulled me to sit down on the table to eat.
The old and middle-aged women in the village asked me where I had been all these years, but I had not heard from me at all.
Someone casually talked about the past events that happened at the wax crossing, and sighed, saying that fortunately, the crazy woman's daughter-in-law fell into the Yellow River and died, otherwise many people in the village would have suffered.
I replied.
In the blink of an eye, I caught a glimpse of a woman in the corner, with her hair disheveled and dirty, sitting on the ground with a bowl to eat.
When the villagers saw that I was puzzled, they told me that she was a military mother, who had been crazy for many years, and after the death of her military father, no one cared about her, and she lived on a little charity from the villagers.
I was saddened, walked up to her, took out two hundred dollars and stuffed it into her hand.
At the beginning, the military lady said with a crooked nose, you are a good person. Later, she seemed to recognize me, her expression paused, her face changed greatly, and she gave me a big "spit", scolding me for harming people, I must be a short-lived cub, and I will die in the Yellow River sooner or later.
The villagers advised me not to have to meet her.
After the banquet dispersed, it was already evening, everyone dispersed, leaving Uncle Chang Geng's family and the old village chief's relatives, and Uncle Duan and Uncle Duan to help keep the spirit, and they also stayed.
The left panlong never returned.
Uncle Chang Geng and a few of his relatives told me, Master Zuo doesn't know when he will come back, Xiaopi, you go and kowtow to the head and incense, and sleep at your uncle's house at night.
I couldn't get through to Zuo Panlong's phone, my house had not been lived in for more than ten years, it was so dilapidated, I couldn't even clean it up, and I thought it had to be like this.
Uncle Duan went to the ancestral hall to circle incense.
coldly, I heard Uncle Duan inside, "Ah! There was a scream, and then, I saw him running out of the ancestral hall with a frightened face, his left hand covering the crook of his right arm, and he was bleeding all over his body.
I exclaimed, "Uncle, what's wrong?" ”
Uncle Duan's face turned pale, he raised the crook of his right arm, and there was a neat row of tooth marks in the crook of the arm, and blood dripped down the tooth marks, and he stammered: "I was ...... by the old village chief Took a bite ......"
I wondered if the old village chief was over 80 years old, why were his teeth still so neat?
Later, I suddenly reacted, no, didn't the old village lie in a coffin and died, defrauding the corpse?!
The ghost that the left panlong of the dog day is going to clean up is really the old village chief!
I turned around and wanted to run.
A few villagers grabbed me, and Uncle Chang Geng knelt on the ground with a "poof" and said with a crying voice: "Good nephew, don't go!" The old man said before he died, he was going to sink you in the Yellow River, he lived all his life, and he owed you alone, if you don't come back and kowtow to incense, and say forgive him in front of his corpse, he doesn't want to go! Whoever gives him incense will bite whomever he wants, and he has already bitten several people in the village. You're good, go in and kowtow to the old man! ”
The fat man who dared to love the left took me back to the village, thinking about me here!
Why is the dead old man so perverted?
Where do I dare to go!
"Uncle Chang Geng, you go and tell the old village chief that I have forgiven him a long time ago, and forgive him for the eighteenth generation of his ancestors! He should leave early, don't delay the hour, don't dwell on the in the past! "I pushed Uncle Chang Geng and walked out.
Uncle Chang Geng hugged my leg alive and didn't let go: "Skin, Master Zuo said that you have a dog treasure on your body, which can suppress the old man, and he won't dare to cheat the corpse when you go in." After you kowtow, he won't bite again, and the whole village is waiting for you to save him! ”
Several people on the side were echoing, including Uncle Duan, who was bitten just now.
It was also when I was young, and when I heard the sentence "The whole village is waiting for you to save me", I was a little enthusiastic, and I thought that the dog treasure was on my body, which could avoid all evils, and the old man should not be able to do anything to me, so I couldn't help but hesitate.
Uncle Chang Geng, Uncle San, and the old village chief pulled the belt frame and got me to the entrance of the ancestral hall.
As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the ancestral hall, there were violent screams from everyone.
The black coffin lid was opened, and the old village chief was standing on top of the coffin, his eyes were wide, the corners of his mouth were still dripping with the blood that had bitten Uncle Duan just now, his teeth were full of red and bloody, and the corners of his mouth were grinning, smiling at me. That eerie appearance, how terrifying and terrifying.
The pride I had just surged up vanished in an instant, and I turned around and wanted to run away.
I didn't think about it, there was a huge push behind me, I stumbled, my foot hit the threshold, I fell and ate, and the whole person lay on the old village chief's lap.
Immediately, I heard "Bang! With a bang, the door of the ancestral hall was closed and locked.
"Master Zuo, what are you doing, Xiaopi is still in there alone!" Uncle Chang Geng asked anxiously.
"Noisy chicken feathers! If you want to keep your village from dying, let him chat with your father inside for a while! ”
The conversation outside is enough to prove that it was the fat man Zuo who kicked me into the ancestral hall and closed the door just now.
I greeted the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the fat man in my heart, and hurriedly got up to open the ancestral hall door, but the old-fashioned ancestral hall door was made of thick camphor wood, and the outside was a big copper lock, where could I push it?
No matter how much I scolded, the outside didn't even pay attention to me.
Turning his head, the old village chief jumped out of the coffin, his mouth was chirping, his throat made a "cooing" sound, as if he saw the food, swallowing saliva, his cloudy eyes stared at me deadly, and the corners of his mouth were about to reach the root of his ears.
I was terrified.
The old village chief was full of cruelty, and said in a sharp voice: "Pi, you are back!" ”
I was going crazy, my brain was buzzing, I almost fainted, and my hairs stood on end.
At this moment, we don't care about our faces, my ankles are weak, I knelt down to the old village chief with a "poof", a sturdy head knocked on the ground, put my hands together, raised it high above my head, and said in a trembling voice: "Old man, Xiaopi kowtows to you!" I wish you a long and 100th birthday...... No, evergreen, early to Bliss! ”
The old village chief smiled "hehe", and the woman-like sharp voice sounded again: "Pi, how old are you this year?" ”
Why does the old guy suddenly care about my age, does he want to introduce me to someone?
I immediately suppressed this thought, slammed my head on the ground, didn't dare to lift an inch, and replied to him with trembling hands: "Back to the old man, I will be twenty years old in a few days." ”
As soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly felt a chill down my spine.
Twenty years old?
Before leaving, Sister Jiu'er repeatedly told me that I couldn't set foot in the village until I was twenty years old!