Chapter 14: Dead Wood Sprouts
He turned around and was about to fall asleep, but who knew that when he turned around, he saw a man standing outside the window under the moonlight, a shadow, with a cloak that looked like a woman, standing outside his window.
Grandpa grabbed a firewood stick and shouted, "Who the fuck is outside!" ”
In fact, in his own home, grandpa has always been very bold, Chairman Mao is the red sun in his heart, there is a portrait of Chairman Mao hanging at home, and He Zhenren has said that the portrait of a great man has the air of Tiangang to ward off evil spirits, after he shouted so much, a woman's voice came from outside the window: "Brother Gengchen, it's me!" ”
When grandpa heard it, wasn't this the voice of the educated youth He Xiaoyu? The heart also relaxed, and walked out with a wooden stick, and saw He Xiaoyu standing there with her hair scattered, and a big girl standing outside her window at night, her wife and children were still sleeping in the house, and the grandfather was also very embarrassed, so he shouted: "You little girl, why don't you sleep in the middle of the night, hurry up and go to sleep!" ”
After speaking, he closed the door of the firewood room, He Xiaoyu outside the window stood on the windowsill and took a look, and then went back to the room, this night, grandpa will inevitably think about something, man, a yellow flower girl is standing outside the window and looking at you, can you not think about it? But the people of that era were always decent, and some thoughts were fleeting in their heads and did not stay long.
The next day, grandpa found He Zhenren early in the morning, and explained that others helped to feed the cattle, and the haunting in the village was indeed frequent during this time, and grandpa was too lazy to avoid not getting too close to He Zhenren, so the two of them went to the cypress tree, and originally wanted to go from house to house to take a look, who knew that when He Zhenren arrived in front of the cypress, he secretly walked behind the cypress tree, took out a yellow charm and pasted it on the cypress.
"Isn't it who there are no goblins after the thunder splits the tree? What are you doing with the stickers? Grandpa asked inexplicably.
"I'll give it a try." He Zhenren smiled, grandpa didn't dare to interject, after a while, the rune paper was still fine, He Zhenren made an amazing move, under the stunned grandfather climbed up the cypress tree, and stepped on the branch to climb the branch that was struck by lightning and looked at it a few times, and finally the whole person stood at the top of the tree, like a monkey and looked around, then went down the tree, He Zhenren clapped his hands, pointed to the north of the family and said: "If you guess correctly, the master is in this family." ”
He Zhenren said this, even if the grandfather admired He Zhenren very much, he had to refute: "Old immortal, this time I have to say that you are really blind, I know this family, it is the Song family, Song Xiaoguang is still a child is a rare sincere child, the father of the family died early, it is not easy for the old lady to pull him to grow up, it is difficult to live in the past, that is, he can eat a good meal recently, if he is a master, I Guo Zi writes upside down." ”
He Zhenren's face changed a little, and his grandfather also knew that he had said the wrong thing and immediately shut up, and said: "But since your old man said it, then let's go and see, don't delay?" ”
What's wrong with Grandpa's words? - He Zhenren is now very depressed in the cowshed, not because he has helped a lot in the recent village affairs, that is the master who will be pulled out to criticize and fight in three days, but what about before the four olds? He Zhenren sat on the supreme view, full of immortals, to put it a little cheesy, that day was quite good. And if this Song Xiaoguang was a master, would he be so poor? It's a bit of a sarcasm for He Zhenren.
Grandpa knocked on the door, Song Xiaoguang's mother was at home, the old lady was sixty or seventy years old, but she was in good spirits, and when she saw my grandfather, she said, "Gengchen, why are you here, this little rabbit cub?" Come, let my aunt take a look, I heard that she has become an official recently, and she is majestic? ”
"Old aunt, the revolutionary task is heavy, and the minister didn't come to see you, how are you lately?" Grandpa laughed.
"Okay, yes." Song Xiaoguang and his wife said with a smile, the relationship between the countryside and the neighborhood is so harmonious, after speaking, the eldest aunt is going to let my grandfather into the back room, He Zhenren has not said a word since he entered the yard, at this time grandpa looked at him, He Zhenren winked at grandpa, signaled that he could enter the house, everything was as usual.
When grandpa and He Zhenren entered the house, this aunt also recognized He Zhenren as the old fairy on the mountain, and almost knelt down, He Zhenren hurriedly helped him up, so far grandpa personally has not found anything abnormal, they are all decades of old neighborhoods, who still doesn't know who?
He Zhenren drank some water, stood up and walked around the house, stopped at the door of the inner room, turned back to the old aunt and said, "This eldest sister, is there anyone else at home?" ”
"This..." The eldest aunt immediately swallowed, grandpa was drinking water, so he didn't spit it out, did he really value it, Song Xiaoguang really hid someone in his house?
"That's it, auntie, didn't Xiaoguang go to work in the field, and there are still people in the house?" Grandpa also stood up when he saw this posture.
The eldest aunt panicked suddenly, stood up and blocked the front of the house, and said, "Gengchen, no one, there's nothing in it." ”
The eldest aunt reacted like this, no matter how stupid the grandfather was, he could see that something was wrong, but it was not good to force the door to open the door at the moment, and he was not harboring criminals, and his grandfather was not a policeman, and he still had to take care of the neighbor's face, so the grandfather said: "It's good if there is no one, it's good if there is no one." ”
After speaking, the grandfather pulled He Zhenren to continue to sit down, the two of them were ready to spend a time to wait for the rabbit, the two of them kept drinking tea, the old aunt is a shrewd person, but after all, she is a country woman, my grandfather and He Zhenren do not go, she looks very uncomfortable like sitting on pins and needles, and has been touching here and scratching there, these two people have been sitting until noon, and when Song Xiaoguang came back from working in the field, Song Xiaoguang saw his grandfather, and he was also stunned, but he still greeted: "The captain is also here, mother, what are you doing, hurry up and cook." ”
After speaking, I rummaged through the cabinet and found a bottle of elephant carrying baby elephants (a very popular wine in our side at that time) and wanted to drink a few glasses with He Zhenren My grandfather, He Zhenren kept signaling my grandfather not to speak, everything was developing normally, the three people walked one, and when Song Xiaoguang poured the second cup, He Zhenren pressed Song Xiaoguang's hand and said: "The dead wood is still recurring in spring, is it a blessing or a curse?" ”
"What do you mean?" Song Xiaoguang was stunned for a moment.
He Zhenren smiled: "You know what I know, more ministers, let's go." After speaking, I pulled my grandfather, who was still in a daze, and walked out, and when he left, he leaned in front of the old aunt's ear and said: "If you believe me, just listen to me, the one hidden in the back room, she is not a person." When Xiaoguang went to the field in the afternoon, you came to me, if you don't believe me, within three years, you will be ready to collect Xiaoguang's body. ”
After saying this, He Zhenren left without looking back, grandpa looked at the old woman, looked at the stunned Xiaoguang in the house, and hurriedly followed He Zhenren very helplessly, and when the two of them were about to walk to the cowshed, He Zhencai said: "Don't you know what it means?" ”
"Just say it, I'm going to suffocate." Grandpa said.
"It seems that I miscalculated, although the tree was struck by lightning, but the spirit on the tree did not die, it was attached to the trunk, today I went up to the tree to take a look, and found that the dead trunk actually sent out new shoots, although small, but not dead, this is not a dead wood long green shoots, the spring breeze blows and grows? Look at it again, Song Xiaoguang's house, which is facing the tree, is pulling the curtains in broad daylight, but it still feels cloudy, there must be an article, do you know what I saw first after I went in? "What a true humanity.
"You keep talking." Grandpa is now left with admiration.
"I saw a rafter, a charred black rafter (the rafter is wood used to support a tiled house in the countryside), but small green shoots appeared on the top." What a true humanity.
"What do you mean?" Grandpa asked.
"When the tree was split by lightning, the main trunk was split off, was it picked up by Song Xiaoguang's family and used as a rafter?!" He Zhenren asked.
Grandpa patted his thigh and said: "You are really godly, I can't even remember it, after being split by lightning, everyone said that it was evil, just Xiaoguang's family repaired the house, so I carried the fallen branches back, I began to think that it was used to burn the pot, who knew that it was a rafter!" ”