Chapter 2: Receiving the Righteous Son (2)
On the third day, my grandmother didn't let my grandfather and my dad get into trouble. As for my uncle and two aunts, they didn't have any opinions, and they were taboo about gods and ghosts, and they were afraid that something would happen to them, so they didn't let them come.
Therefore, only my grandmother, my grandmother and my mother, three women, "sang" this good show together. At that time, my mother was pregnant and had to stay in the house, and my grandmother was outside to deal with things, but my grandmother was as busy as the detective captain.
My grandmother and her mother-in-law were outside in a state of confusion when they accidentally saw a man walking slowly from the east side of their house, and this person looked very grotesque in appearance and dress.
The person who came was at least 2 meters tall, and he looked like an iron pillar at a glance. Dressed in green clothes, it seemed to be an old military uniform, his face was red like a heavy date, and he seemed to have drunk too much, and he was striding from far and near. My grandmother hurriedly pulled her mother-in-law, and when my grandmother turned her head and saw this person, her eyebrows couldn't help but wrinkle and hurriedly pushed my grandmother into the house, telling her not to speak, and to take care of the incense burner. Immediately, she continued to sweep the floor as if nothing had happened.
My grandmother has a black dog called Kuroko. This dog was brought back by my dad in the pastoral area, because my parents lived in a building, and the sunspots were so noisy that they couldn't put it at my grandmother's house to take care of the family. Don't look at the dog's size, but my grandmother and my grandmother both regarded him as a treasure, and there was no sense of safety at that time, and he was generally reluctant to bolt unless necessary, so he let it go back and forth in the house and yard.
This time was special, my grandmother tied the sunspot with an iron chain thicker than her wrist. At first, the sunspots in the courtyard screamed happily, and the chains they dragged rattled as if they were threatened by something. But as the man got closer, he became afraid, and his voice became more and more wizened, and finally he lost his voice, and lay motionless in the corner of the wall, looking in the direction of my grandmother.
The abnormality of the sunspot also made my grandmother nervous. She counted the other party's footsteps in her heart, but after just counting two steps, there was no movement, and she peeked but there was no one. Are you dazzled? My grandmother was wondering, when suddenly a voice came from behind her: "Old man, do you have anything to eat?" ”
Damn! The grandmother was so frightened that she almost cried out, but fortunately, the old lady had seen a lot of things when she was older, and she really had a kind of "Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and the color remained unchanged, and the elk was in the left and his eyes were not instantaneous", she pointed to the table calmly.
Without answering, the visitor picked up the pastry with mung beans and ate it, and ate it all in just two bites, and then laughed: "Haha, delicious!" Delicious! After speaking, he took out an arrow from his pocket and threw it on the table with the mung bean, and turned to leave.
My grandmother peeked over and saw that he was walking strangely. Said to be walking, but rather half-floating, as if supported by someone, her feet did not touch the ground at all, my grandmother gasped and said that she was not afraid that it was fake, and she was so frightened that she trembled and wanted to break the broom. And the next scene made her even more incredible - the man was gone!
Yes, just like that, it disappeared out of thin air! My grandmother thought she was dazzled and rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand, but there was really no one, and she looked at the pastry on the table, and there was indeed a piece missing! What the hell did you live in broad daylight? That's how my grandmother came out of the house.
"Mom. Did you see the guy just now? Why did he disappear all of a sudden? ”
"Yufen, did you see it too?"
"Aang."
The two of them were stunned outside for a long time before they regained their strength. It was my grandmother who opened her mouth first: "It's thanks to Jingtian that they are not here, otherwise it will be even more chaotic." ”
At this time, it is estimated that I was too dishonest at that time, and I may have been lying down for a long time and felt tired and wanted to turn over, but I accidentally kicked my mother, and she moaned in the house "ouch" in pain, and my grandmother hurriedly told my grandmother to go into the house to see, and my grandmother waved her hand to hurry over. Just as my grandmother stepped through the door, two figures appeared in the distance.
These two people, one with a yellow face and the other with a black face, the yellow face is so long that it is not stumbling, full of energy, wearing earthy yellow clothes, carrying a pair of rolling pins; The one with a black face has a big beard, and his appearance is fierce but he is also upright. He was dressed in black and was very majestic, and he carried an iron rod in his right hand. The two of them walked over and stood in front of my grandmother, talking and laughing.
The yellow-faced asked, "Old man, when is it?" ”
My grandmother didn't answer and continued to sweep the floor.
The impatience of the black face asked angrily: "Old woman, ask you, speak quickly!" ”
With the first incident of the man in green, my grandmother is not surprised. As long as he doesn't speak, the two people in front of him can't do anything. So she continued to sweep her floor, as if she had not seen the two of them.
The black-faced man wanted to say something, but was stopped by the yellow-faced man, turned to my grandmother and said, "Does the old man have anything to eat?" ”
My grandmother pointed to the small table, and the two of them walked over in unison, each picking up a pastry with soybeans and black beans and eating it, also in two bites. After the two of them finished eating, they laughed, and the yellow-faced one left an animal tooth and the soybean, but the black-faced one buckled a black stone from the iron rod and put it together with the black bean. Then the two of them walked away with a smile and a smile, until there was no sign of my grandmother, and then I breathed a long sigh of relief. Although she knew that she would not be in any danger, this elusive appearance, even if she had lived through the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and the New China, she was also an eye-opener, and she felt that she had not lived in vain in her life.
The old grandmother was thinking about it when she felt a small breeze blowing behind her. Not to mention the comfort of this gust of wind, the warmth is like the sun shining on the ears of wheat. It was the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and it was already freezing in the northeast and Inner Mongolia, so it was definitely unusual to have such a gust of wind. My grandmother's heart, which had been somewhat relaxed, tensed again, and she swept the floor as if nothing had happened, her eyes secretly looking into the distance. Originally, she thought that what kind of amazing person appeared this time, but she was already mentally prepared. Unexpectedly, this time it was actually a little boy!
People who come look like they are thirteen or fourteen years old, although they are childish, they also have a hundred steps of majesty, and they look like silver dolls. Grandma thought at the time that it would be good if her future great-grandson would grow up like this. Thinking about it, she couldn't help but smile, and then reacted that something was wrong, and quickly tightened her face!
In an instant, the little boy had already arrived in front of her, and asked coldly, "What are you laughing at?" ”
Grandma didn't react, and replied casually: "It's nothing!" Only then did he feel that something bad was wrong, and he hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand, but it was too late.
When the silver doll-like child heard my grandmother speak, she laughed twice and disappeared without a trace, and the pastries with white beans on the table were fried to a smash, making the table full of pastry dregs. My grandmother thought to herself, "Broken, broken!" This time it's the end of the calf! He sat on the ground and sighed, a little overwhelmed.
My grandmother had been watching over my mother and the incense burner in the house, and when she heard her mother-in-law sighing in the house, she hurriedly came out to see the situation, and she thought that her mother-in-law had fallen and ran over to help her up, and then asked, "Mom! What's wrong? ”
"What about Yufen, Mom made a big mistake!" My grandmother took a few puffs of cigarettes: "Just now a little boy like a silver doll came over, I was distracted and accidentally spoke, and the child disappeared directly in front of my eyes, and he didn't even move the pastry!" With that, she patted her thigh and pointed to the table.
My grandmother hurriedly walked over to check on the situation. To say that my grandmother is worthy of her mother-in-law's hand-picked person to take the key, although she has never read, she is bold and careful. She saw that although the pastry with white beans was fried to a pulp, the pastry with red beans next to it was intact, and she couldn't help but smile when she saw it.
She squatted beside her mother-in-law and whispered, "Mom, don't worry. The bits I want to come, the pastries they eat are all related to these beans. You see, the white one is gone, but the red one is fine. In my opinion, there is still a turning point in this matter, so let's continue to wait for the first time, and when the last one comes, we will see the situation. ”
"That's all there is to it." After listening to her daughter-in-law's words, Grandma Tai was a little more down-to-earth and took a break to drink tea.
My grandmother wanted to replace her, but my grandmother wouldn't let her. He pushed my grandmother back into the house, and swept the floor by herself, sweeping the broken pastries off the table without leaving any traces. She swept around the yard again, sweeping, sweeping, sweeping...... Until evening, when she said this, she swept the yard all day, and her heart went up and down, especially the little boy made her even more uneasy, and she was always thinking about what to do.
Just as she was thinking nonsense, another person walked not far from the courtyard. Before the man arrived, the things he was carrying around his waist rattled and sounded so pleasant that my grandmother's eyes were immediately attracted, but because it was so far away in the evening, she couldn't see the person at all. Under the dazzling sunset, only the shadow of the man could be seen stretched for a long time. It wasn't until the man walked out into the yard that my grandmother could see it.
He was about 40 years old, with a dark complexion and a menacing complexion, a flame scar in the middle of his forehead, especially those eyes that were steaming with murderous aura. Don't look like this, this person has the unique temperament of a scholar, elegant and decent, wearing a gray tunic, carrying an earthy yellow satchel, and a pair of black leather shoes are shiny and shiny. If you don't look at that face, you would be a university professor, and when you open your mouth, you will be even more civil: "This mother-in-law, in a hurry, can you beg for a bite to eat when you pass by here?" Then he clenched his fists.
This person's appearance is definitely the most vicious of those who came today, even if he sees it, he has to retreat. My grandmother was furious, but with the previous experience and lessons, she had to resist it, and raised her hand tremblingly and pointed to the table. The person who came to the table walked up to the table like the previous ones, picked up the pastry with the red beans and put it in his mouth and chewed it.
After a while, he swallowed the pastry and said, "Just drink a little." ”
When my grandmother heard this, how dare she slack off? Quickly took out the twelve bottles of horse poles, and the man clapped his hands when he saw the wine: "There is wine!" There is wine! After speaking, he didn't care about others, and opened the wine bottle and poured it down, this filling is 8 bottles!
This scene made my grandmother look stupid. According to some old people, people liked to drink spirits at that time, especially in the cold Northeast and Inner Mongolia, and some people were eager to pour 100% pure alcohol into their mouths. Unlike modern people, who think that low-alcohol alcohol is healthy, drinking two sips of beer is enough to relieve fatigue. Now the maximum height of the horse pole is only 75 degrees, which is considered a relatively strong wine, and the alcohol content at that time was much higher than 75 degrees. As soon as he drank this wine, the wine burps could float out for more than ten miles. My grandmother had seen something that could be drunk, but she had never seen anything so drinkable, and she was so scared that she almost forgot what she was doing. If it weren't for my mother's stomachache in the house, she wouldn't have reacted, she saw that the other party was almost drunk, and fell to her knees with a "plop".
Seeing this, the man hurriedly supported him with his hand: "Old man, what do you mean by this?" ”
"Sir, do you have a painting on your waist?" My grandmother asked cautiously.
The man narrowed his big eyes into a slit and asked coldly, "What if there is?" What if not? ”
Hearing this, my grandmother knew that there was a way. Busy explained: "Sir, don't get me wrong. Listen to the old woman. So I told the cause and effect of the incident, that is, I forgot to talk about the white bean pastry.
The man laughed when he heard my grandmother's words, and said to himself, "This guy is actually causing me trouble," and then turned to my grandmother and said, "Don't worry, old man, I know about this." I can give you the painting, and I can take your great-grandson as a son, but I can't name him for the time being, because the time has not yet come. ”
"Well, look......" My grandmother looked at him expectantly.
Without thinking, the man took out a calligraphy and painting directly from his satchel, which was clean and wrapped in good silk, he took it in his hand and weighed it and said to himself: "I think back then, you were the treasure that the man painted with the tears of a child, meridian gong and blood, and today you should be a gift to my unborn son." After speaking, he handed the painting into the hands of my grandmother: "Old man, I accepted your great-grandson as my righteous son because I had a relationship with him, but I can't call you an elder here." Thank you for your understanding. ”
"I don't dare, old woman! This is to save my great-grandson's life, and as long as he escapes this catastrophe, my family will burn incense and pray for you for generations. "After saying that, my grandmother will kneel and kowtow again.
The man hurriedly helped him up and said, "Old man, remember. This painting should not be hung up first. If you want to keep the child safe, you need to find three more people, one is the former Huoju Taoist of the Guandi Temple, the other is the Miaoran monk who also practiced in the Guandi Temple, and at the same time, you need to find Zhang Xiucai from the previous grammar academy. When the time comes, let the three of them wait in this courtyard and never leave. He took out three yellow charms in his bag, and at the same time tied the jade that resembled an awl around his waist, these two of which no one dared to take out casually at that time, and they both had to bear great consequences, and my grandmother hurriedly put them away for fear of being seen by others. This one is not surprised: "Remember, give them these three talismans to understand naturally, and this jade, when the time comes, you must put it in the clothes made for the child, and then put the clothes together in the crib prepared at your house." After saying this, he got up and walked away, as fast as if he had not drunk.
My grandmother, who had been watching from the house, cautiously came out of the house and asked, "Mom, how is it?" ”
My grandmother breathed a sigh of relief and said happily, "Okay, okay, no problem." Next, wait for Chunxia to go to the hospital to give birth, and then we will do what the man said. ”
"Okay, then let's clean up." My grandmother also breathed a sigh of relief, and as soon as she turned around, she seemed to remember something, so she asked, "Mom, did you ask about the white bean?" ”