Chapter 40: Thirty Years Ago
"Sir, this is not the place to talk, go. Talk in the house. The second uncle hurriedly said politely, this may be the biggest charm of the second uncle, I found that he can play any role, the village tyrant of the lock village, the hooligan who laughed with the proprietress, and now he is like a believer with this wizard.
The wizard was still pounding the ointment over there and didn't get up, which made the second uncle's invitation very embarrassing, but the second uncle was still not annoyed, just stood there silently, and the wizard poured all the medicinal juices into a basin, and then continued to pound the medicinal juices, which exuded a strange fragrance. This is a very ordinary looking herb, I stood here and waited sleepy, but the second uncle and Chen Jiu were both standing there respectfully, even if I yawned for a long time, I couldn't say anything.
It took more than two hours for the piles of herbs to be wiped out. The old man glanced at the second uncle and commanded the second uncle, "Spread this white." ”
The second uncle was like his subordinate, he pulled the white cloth on the ground mouse, the wizard took out a small brush from the room, and slowly and evenly applied the medicinal juice on the corpse of the ground mouse, I asked Chen Jiuliang a little depressed: "What is he doing here?" Mummifying? ”
"I don't know. Now I also feel that this old man is very mysterious. Chen Jiuliang said.
It was another hour, and at this time it was almost dark, and we waited for hours as if we were grandsons in front of this wizard, and when the wizard applied the ointment all over the body of the ground mouse, he could be regarded as looking at the second uncle, but he was looking at me and I would rather he not look at it, because his eyes were full of whites, and they looked very terrible.
"Let's come in and talk." The old man beckoned.
When I entered the wooden attic, it was very simple to furnish some fortune-telling things, but as soon as I entered the door, I saw the incense burner offerings, which were two paintings, and I was immediately attracted by these two paintings, they were worshiped in front of the incense burner. This position must be a god, but where are these two gods gods, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are monsters. One of them could be seen to be a woman, dressed in gorgeous clothes, but the head on her head was a weasel head.
Because of the relationship between the lock village, I have a considerable sensitivity and rejection of the weasel species, and the other picture, which looks even more bizarre, is a general dressed in full armor, but on the head, it is the head of a cobra.
This is dedicated to two goblins, one a weasel and one a snake.
This wizard, the god worshiped by the wizard, I still clearly remember how helpless and helpless he was when He Zhenren knelt down for the yellow skin, the cultivator and the monster are incompatible, but here the monster is worshipped with incense, this old wizard can be a good person is strange.
And the second uncle also stared at the two idols, he looked at me for a while, both knew each other's thoughts, he shook his head at me, motioned for me not to say anything, and he continued to give the wizard a close.
"No matter what you say, you can't go into the mountain, the last time those people entered the mountain, they have angered the mountain god, I worship day and night to stop, and you are also going to the place of the mountain god, if I don't stop you, your death is a trivial matter, but if the mountain god gets angry, the village will suffer." The wizard said.
"Who is the Mountain God?" The second uncle asked.
The wizard pointed to the statue and said, "The great god of the beetle snake is the mountain god, and the other one is Huang Daxian Niangniang." "The giant is every carry.
I almost laughed, although there are ghosts in my grandfather's notes, but I feel that those are real, those monsters are flesh and blood, but I feel that this is a beetle god weasel Niangniang, after he said this, it feels very funny, that is, the level of deceiving elementary school students.
A nest of snakes and rats, a nest of snakes and rats, is that what you are talking about? Snake and weasel or two?
"Little doll, what are you laughing at!" The wizard's white eyes stared at me and said coldly.
"Wizard, today I saw you pull out that little snake from my friend's body, and I adore you very much, so I will definitely listen to your words, but you can explain what is going on." The second uncle said.
"This village has fallen off the tail village, the village has not always been, it was the Qing Dynasty when the ancestors brought us to settle down, and from the beginning of the ancestors, there is a rule here, that is, there is a mountain god, I can also roughly guess what you are doing, you are afraid that you have come to the wrong place, there is a forbidden place in this mountain, it is indeed like a tomb, but is not, it is the home of the mountain god, from the beginning of this village, the ancestors have set up a rule, it is okay to eat the mountain by relying on the mountain, even if it is to kill the snake, Because this is a gift from the mountain god, so there is nothing to do, but thirty years ago, I suddenly opened my eyes as an old blind man, although I still look blind, but whether I can see only I know, and then there was a snake plague, the snakes all over the sky rushed down the mountain like crazy, this village is almost gone, and then I learned that it turned out to be a man and a woman from other places who broke into the forbidden land, stole the things of the mountain god and angered his old man, and the villagers knew that I knelt in front of the mountain god for a few days and nights. But no one knew that it was actually the man and woman who put things in later, which kept the stockade. It was they themselves who begged for forgiveness from the mountain god. The wizard said.
"And then?" The second uncle suddenly became nervous.
"Then there was nothing to do for almost thirty years, but a few days ago, there was an inverted bucket that slipped into the mountain, broke into the mountain god's bedroom, and stole the things that the man and woman sacrificed to the mountain god, and then I opened my eyes again, if I guessed correctly, the mountain god was going to be angry, so a few young people, I really didn't scare you, you can go into the mountain to play now, the mountain god may be angry at any time, you come at another time, I will find a few young offspring to take you into the mountain." The wizard waved his hand and motioned for a send-off.
But at this time, the second uncle's face was very strange, and it was not natural to look at this wizard.
"Old man, I believe you, but since you told me the truth, I will also tell you the truth, I am not the only one who wants to enter the mountain now, there are still a group of people behind, and the group of people behind is very powerful, and they will definitely not listen to persuasion, you can't stop them." The second uncle said.
"Come and talk about it, if you really want to find your own death, what can I do, you can go, take care of yourself." The wizard waved his hand and motioned for the send-off, his attitude was very resolute, and I was very upset, so he just flickered a few words indiscriminately and sent us away?
But the second uncle's face was very bad at this time, and he left the wooden attic with me and Jiuliang, and after getting out of the attic, he even changed into a trot, and we finally kept up, and when we arrived at this guest house, the second uncle grabbed the proprietress, grabbed a handful of 100 yuan bills and stuffed them into the proprietress's bra, and said: "Big sister, do the old brother a favor, go and call a few old people in the village, preferably the old man who experienced the snake plague thirty years ago, and these money should be used as running expenses." ”
After two days of observation, I know that this proprietress is actually a slut who sees money, not a heroine like the proprietress of the Longmen Inn, grabbing the money and entering the village, I was puzzled by the sudden excitement of the second uncle, and asked him He just waved his hand to me and said, "You'll know later." ”
After a while, the proprietress invited a few old people to come, and the second uncle told the proprietress to cook a few dishes, and after eating for a while, he took out a photo and asked, "Old gentlemen, I heard the wizard say today that the snake plague was because the man and woman who came thirty years ago stole the things of the mountain god?" Can you still recognize the man and the woman? ”
"Why can't you, I can recognize those two people when they turn to ashes." An old man with a mouth full of almost no teeth said.
The second uncle handed over the photo almost tremblingly, and the old man looked at it and shouted as if he had seen a ghost: "Yes! It's them, who are you?! ”
"I'm not familiar, I won't tell you anything, these two people are monsters, and the three of us are Taoist priests, so we are here to catch these two monsters." The second uncle said, after speaking, he put away the photo and said: "Come, eat, don't talk about this, we are following the demonic spirit, it seems that these two people are gone, we will continue to chase the demon." ”
When the old men were sent away, the second uncle pulled the two of us to the room, threw me a cigarette, and he took three puffs in one breath and said, "Eldest nephew, I think I roughly understand what's going on." ”
"Second uncle, don't sell it, I'm dying." I said.
"Thirty years ago, didn't it feel familiar to you? At that time, it was the time for your grandmother Xiu'e and the educated youth Zhuo Anu to elope! The second uncle frowned.