Then, there is the sound of the door lock being opened.

My heart was clenching, almost to the extreme.

And the footsteps of grandpa are getting closer and closer.

I clutched the ring ruler tightly, sweating in my palms, and saw my grandfather walking towards me with an axe in his hand, dripping with blood. However, seeing that I was nervous, my grandfather's face showed a little doubt.

"What's wrong?"

Hearing my grandfather's voice, that familiar feeling, I came back to my senses, waved my hand and said, "No...... It's nothing......" he said, and subconsciously glanced into the courtyard.

Grandpa also glanced into the courtyard.

He ...... He's dead? "I asked, if the lame horse died, Grandpa would be a murderer. Even if what the cripple said was not true, the grandfather would not be able to get away with the charge of murder.

"Yes, dead, but not what you think." Grandpa explained that he seemed to be a little tired, threw the axe aside, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep.

I wanted to ask, but my grandfather said, "Lin Yi, go to sleep, there shouldn't be anything going on tonight, you can sleep peacefully." ”

"Oh, yes! I'm tired, you go and burn the things in the yard and close the door......" Grandpa's voice seemed weak, as if he was really tired.

I let out an "oh" and immediately ran away from my grandfather's house.

However, as soon as I arrived at the door of the house, there was a sound of snoring in my grandfather's house. I stared at the corpse of the lame man in the courtyard from afar, thinking about what my grandfather had just said, and my heart was full of mixed feelings.

I went over and closed the door first.

Grandpa means that he wants me to help him destroy his corpse?

Seriously, at this moment, I don't know what to do.

I tiptoed over and shone a flashlight, but I was surprised.

I rubbed my eyes because I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

There was only a scarecrow lying on the ground in the courtyard.

This scarecrow is dressed in clothes, with paper on his face, drawn with a nose and eyes, and his penmanship is clumsy, not as vivid as his grandfather's paper man.

At the back of the scarecrow's head, there was a hole, and there was crimson blood pouring out of it.

Moreover, at the entrance of the cave, there was a hairy thing, a strange stench, which emanated from here.

I reached out, held my breath, pinched the furry thing, and pulled it out.

Only then did I see clearly that there was an old yellow skin in the scarecrow's head, and its skull was a mess. It turned out that grandpa's axe smashed its brain.

Seeing this clearly, I breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, I was also puzzled.

Because what I saw turned my perception on its head again. Before that, I could not have imagined, nor could I believe, that it was not the lame horse who was talking to me, but this old leather.

Therefore, what Grandpa did just now was not to kill people, but to eliminate harm.

The scarecrow has an old skin in his head, which is really weird, and the more he looks at it, the more panicked he becomes. Without much thought, I did as my grandfather said, and burned all the fire, along with the scarecrow and the old skin.

Staring at the thing, it turned to ashes, and I was relieved to go back to sleep.

What I saw just now has slightly untied the knot in my heart.

I won't believe the words of a yellow skin, but the paper in Grandpa's shrine is real, and what does that mean, still makes me suspicious.

Tossing and turning, not falling asleep.

From time to time, the paper face that grinned at me would drift into my mind, and I smiled silly, wrapped in the quilt, and my back was still cold.

It's really too much like Brother Hanzi.

By the next day.

I didn't wake up too early and vaguely heard someone talking outside. When I got up, I opened the door, and I saw more than a dozen people outside, staring at the bamboo forest outside the courtyard wall of my house, pointing and talking. Among these people, there was two fat, and when he saw me going out, he immediately came over and said, "Boss, you ...... Why are there so many old skins outside your house? ”

I've seen it, and I'm almost startled.

In the bamboo forest next to it, there were dense yellow skins, not to mention thirty or forty, and they were all hung on the bamboo poles, sticking out their tongues one by one. Uncle Gen, who was old and lost his teeth, sighed, and said with his mouth running in the wind: "A baby, hurry up and call your grandfather to get up and find a way to solve this matter." The old skin hanged himself, that is cursing people to death, your family...... I'm afraid there's big trouble coming! ”

After Uncle Gen finished speaking, he didn't want to stay longer, so he turned around and left.

I followed my grandfather, and I was exposed to it all day long, and I also knew what Uncle Gen said. The villagers also knew this statement, and they also felt unlucky, and they were surprised to see it, and they all left in a hurry.

Just left the second fat, I asked him to go back too, he said it's okay, he is not afraid of this. He also said that he came to tell me a strange thing about Dongwa Village. I asked him what was wrong, and he lowered his voice and told me that the lame horse in Dongwa Village had died, and I heard that the death was particularly ugly, not to mention that the person was burned black, and his head was smashed to pieces.

When I heard this, I felt a chuckle in my heart.

Because, I remembered the scarecrow and the old leather last night.

It seemed that seeing that I didn't speak, the second fat asked me, "What's wrong, isn't this unusual?" ”

I came back to my senses and said, "No...... How did the lame horse die? ”

The second fat scratched his head and said, "I don't know about this, many people say that the lame horse's hands and feet are not clean, this is retribution." ”

After talking about it.

I asked Erfat to go back, looked at those yellow skins, frowned, and went back to the house to call my grandfather. There was a knock on the door, but there was no movement.

The door of my grandfather's house was hidden, and as soon as I pushed it, the door opened.

When I entered the house, I saw that my grandfather was still lying down, he used to get up early on weekdays, but at this point today, he hadn't gotten up yet. Grandpa generally thought that maybe he was tired last night, and when he got up late, I went over to call him, and shouted, but there was no movement.

This scared me, even if I slept soundly, it wouldn't be like this. After pondering it carefully, I chuckled in my heart, and I found that my grandfather's face was pale and bloodless.

When I touched my nose again, my grandfather was out of breath.

No, Grandpa must be fine!

I must have made a mistake, Niu Da Huang's house is not far away, he has a good relationship with his grandfather, I have to call him over!

I turned around and ran, all the way to Niu Da Huang's house, and told Niu Da Huang about my grandfather. He looked shocked and ran to my house with a medicine box on his back.

When I arrived at my door, Niu Rhubarb was also startled by the old skin hanging in the bamboo forest. However, he didn't have time to pay attention to it, and went straight into my grandfather's house.

I stood nervously at the door, watching the rhubarb diagnosis.

Niu Rhubarb was so busy that he even pinched my grandfather's people with a puzzled face.

However, his doubts also gave me some hope, at least to be sure that my grandfather's situation was not what I imagined.

I asked Niu Da Huang what was wrong with my grandfather, and he thought for a moment and said, "Your grandfather's situation...... It's strange, the heart is still there, and the breath is gone. It's like I'm alive, but I can't wake up, I don't live or die, I ...... I've been a barefoot doctor all my life, and I've never seen this! ”

"What then?" I asked.

Niu Rhubarb didn't answer, he said, "I don't know about this!" Well, I'll go back and look through the old medicine books to see if there's anything like your grandfather. Yiwa, I see this...... I'm afraid it has something to do with those old skins outside, you be careful! ”

After Niu Rhubarb finished speaking, he left.

I sent him outside, but I found that the old skins that were originally hanging in the bamboo forest were all gone, and those things were not really hanged at all, but hung on the bamboo and pretended to die, just to curse people to death. Niu Da Huang scolded me and told me to be careful, and he also said that I must not tell anyone about my grandfather, especially strangers. If someone you don't know comes to your door, it's best to turn them away.

I nodded and took note of Niu Rhubarb's words.

Of course, I was also thinking in my heart, our village is poor and remote, and we usually don't see any strangers, why would Niu Rhubarb say that?

As soon as Niu Rhubarb went back, he never came to my house again, I went to his house to look for him, and found that his door was locked, and people didn't know where they went. When I asked my neighbors, no one knew, which made me a little depressed and worried about my grandfather. My uncle has been busy with Brother Han's funeral, and my sister-in-law's funeral hall must have become unattended.

After locking the door, I went to the mourning hall of my sister-in-law and walked around, and found that the mourning hall had been removed, and now only a rotten shed remains.

I went to my uncle's house and asked, and my uncle said that my grandfather found a piece of land to bury my cousin-in-law last night. However, my uncle doesn't know exactly where he is buried.

After speaking, my uncle asked me again, why didn't you see my grandfather?

I told him that my grandfather was so tired from a busy night yesterday that he was still resting. A trace of doubt flashed in the uncle's eyes, and asked my grandfather if there was anything wrong, but before I could say it, my aunt pulled my uncle over, saying that the bolt was gone, and my uncle still had the face to chat here, and I had never seen such a father......

Brother Han Zi was buried in the old grave slope, this name is right, and no one can object, because this is the rule of the old Jieling Village, and the Lin family should be put into the old grave slope after death.

It's just that on the way out of the funeral, someone always asks why my grandfather didn't come?

Because, in general, this kind of white thing is presided over by my grandfather.

Uncle and I prevaricated with some rhetoric, but when they heard it, they didn't believe it. also secretly said that this is my aunt's unkind handling and offended her father-in-law.

If it weren't for my uncle, I really didn't know that my grandfather had buried his cousin-in-law last night. Grandpa's sentence, it's okay to make a fuss, I thought he would really let go, but now it seems that the villagers, grandpa still can't see them having an accident, or help.

And my grandfather's current unconscious state is eighty percent related to the fact that he saved those people.

But just when I thought that my grandfather had solved the matter of my cousin-in-law, my aunt was the first to have an accident. Early in the morning of the second day after Brother Hanzi's burial, the eldest mother went to the bamboo forest to pick up bamboo shoot leaves, and accidentally slipped and fell, and her brain just smashed on the sharp bamboo stubble.

She was poked into a big hole in her head, and she was gone on the spot.

The death was the same as that of the cousin-in-law.

As soon as this incident came out, it immediately caused panic.

Because my aunt did the wrong thing at that time, and now she has been punished. And it is not only my aunt who can't get along with the dead, but also those who don't let my cousin-in-law be buried in the old grave. One of them, named Chen Ada, once kicked my cousin-in-law's coffin, and on the night after my aunt died in the bamboo forest, she was anxious to go to the toilet at night, and somehow she plunged into the pit and drowned.

People related to this have accidents one after another, and those who haven't had an accident are afraid.

Relying on layers of relationships, those people pooled money and invited a Taoist priest from somewhere.

The Taoist priest was well-dressed and decent, and he didn't seem to know which villager he heard from that my grandfather had some ability to see incense and feng shui, so he went to the village to eat and came directly to my house.

My grandfather never woke up, and during this time, Niu Rhubarb sent me a pill and asked me to stuff it into my grandfather's mouth. He also made a special statement that no one should let them see my grandfather, let alone approach my grandfather, especially some strangers who came from unknown sources.

Although this Taoist priest has the charm of the Taoist priest who saved my life by turning talisman water in my grandfather's mouth, he is just a stranger. I used to think that it was unlikely that a stranger would come to my house in the poor and remote area of Laojieling Village, but this Taoist priest seemed to be the stranger I didn't expect.