How could my grandfather ever see so many toads? He saw the toads in the net crawling everywhere, and he was afraid that all the toads he had caught all night had escaped! So he quickly picked up a wooden stick, pulled the toads out of the net one by one, made a stick according to his head, and put them in a sack! When the sack was full, he carried it to the brook, disemboweled all the toads in the sack, and rinsed them in the stream.

He killed bag after bag, and was busy for three days and three nights, before he washed and peeled all the toads he caught! After skinning the toad, he saw a hill of meat on the ground! Those stripped red toads, in different postures, pressed against each other, staring at the big eyeballs, as if they didn't understand why they died here!

The big green-headed flies like a fog flew from all directions with a "buzzing" sound, and they flew excitedly, as if they had come to Elysium! They can't wait to land on the toad's carcass and lick the juice off them!

The foul-smelling internal organs of the toad, which had begun to rot, attracted countless yellow ants, which poured out of the rocks and woods in a steady stream to participate in this grand feast that was rare in a hundred years!

My grandfather waved his clothes to coax away the flies, but he couldn't do anything about the ants on the ground, so he had to speed up the work! He broke many branches on the mountain, sharpened one end of the branch with a knife, and then washed and peeled a number of toads, and washed them up, put them on the branches, and set them on a rack to dry! When he had done all this, he saw on the bank of the brook, beside the broken kiln where he lived, the corpse of a dried toad with white flowers, the sun shining obliquely from behind the scattered clouds, and the water in the brook swaying and rippling!

My grandfather slaughtered so many toads in a few days, and even he couldn't bear to see it, and sighed in his heart: "I made this the evil of that sect, don't say it's these toads, even the ants also have spirits, right?" ”。

Thinking of this, my grandfather snorted a few times in succession, and then remembered that he hadn't closed his eyes for several days, and he dragged his tired body and walked towards the cave where he lived, while thinking: "Relying on these toad meat, I won't be hungry this winter, but what should I do in the spring next year?" You can't eat toad meat for a lifetime, right? ”。 Thinking so, he lifted the curtain of the broken cave where he lived! This curtain was stolen from the clothes of the villagers, the whole curtain is green, although it is not good-looking, but it is very cold, since this curtain has been had, he has never been frozen awake in the morning!

In the middle of this tattered curtain, a piece of cloth with red flowers is inlaid with small sizes! He remembered that the cloth had been given to him by a little girl who lived at the end of the village! At that time, the little girl, holding a bun in her hand, looked at him with bare eyes!

My grandfather asked her, "Little sister, do you have any cloth in your house?" ”。 When the little girl saw my grandfather, she seemed to be very frightened, and immediately turned around and ran back into the house! My grandfather looked at the back of the little girl, and looked at the pigtails like a mouse's tail behind her, and he felt a kind of utter desolation! He walked on his way, and had barely taken a dozen paces when he heard a timid voice behind him shouting to him, "Wait a minute!" ”。

My grandfather turned around and saw the little girl with a handful of rags in her hand, catching up with him like a whirlwind! The little girl stopped in front of him panting, raised the rag in her hand very proudly, and said to my grandfather, "Do you want this?" ”。

My grandfather lowered his head, he felt a pang of shame in front of this little girl of the same age, after all, he was a flower child who couldn't even eat, how could he talk to such a lovely little girl? But the little girl didn't dislike him in the slightest, so she grabbed my grandfather's hand, shoved the rags into my grandfather's hand, and said to my grandfather, "Take it, we have a lot more at home!" ”。 The little girl stuffed something into my grandfather, and she jumped away, and when she was about to reach the door, she seemed to remember something again, turned around and ran back, took my grandfather's hand and said, "By the way, I forgot to give this to you just now, you must be hungry!" ”。

The little girl showed my grandfather the white-flour bun in her hand and stuffed it into his hand as well! My grandfather was stunned, and he didn't know what to say, until the little girl went straight away, and he couldn't say a word of gratitude!

Suddenly, he heard the little girl scream, and then his head "buzzed", and he was dizzy! He was knocked to the ground with a heavy punch by a man with five big and three thick! My grandfather was stunned, he didn't know why the angry man in front of him was beating him, he had to hold his head, curl up, and let the man's fist rain down on his body, for a while he thought he was going to be killed, his mouth and nose, there was a lot of blood, and the clothes on his body were torn by him!

The man must have been tired in the end, he finally let go of my grandfather, pointed at him and scolded: "You stinky Huazi, you dare to deceive people to Lao Tzu's head!" ”。 My grandfather was beaten by the man and was dying, and he couldn't get up, but he still stubbornly endured the pain and defended: "I didn't lie! ”。

The man was even more annoyed, and threw his fist again, but the little girl cried and hugged the man's leg and shouted, "Don't fight, he didn't lie to me, it's really ......!" ”。 The man curled his fist and asked, "Really?" ”。

The little girl was crying so much that she nodded vigorously and said, "Dad, you hit the wrong person!" ”。

The man grabbed the little girl's arm and scolded, "What do you know? Where did I make a mistake? Which of these sorghum flowers is not a thief? If you are a thief, you should fight ......! ”。

The little girl cried even more sadly, she jumped on her toes and shouted: "He is not a thief, he is not a thief, you lie!" ”。

The man was helpless and threatened her: "If you cry again, Lao Tzu will sell you into the kiln!" ”。

The little girl was frightened by his father, she stared at her big black eyes, looked at her father, and then looked at my grandfather, and finally was dragged away by her father! My grandfather lay on the ground and couldn't get up for a long time, but the appearance of that little girl has been deeply imprinted in my grandfather's heart ever since!

My grandfather remembered that the little girl had a pair of big watery eyes, a small melon seed face, dotted with dozens of sesame-like freckles, she did not bind her feet, and on her big feet, she wore a pair of embroidered shoes with peonies embroidered on the toes!

My grandfather had recognized the little girl ever since, and whenever he passed by her house, he had to stand on tiptoe and look into her yard, and once he was lame by a mad dog that came out of the yard! That's it, and it didn't dispel my grandfather's longing for that skinny, bean sprout-like girl, who made her the first girl to shed tears for my grandfather?

My grandfather lifted the curtain and was about to enter the cave when he heard a sobbing sound behind him! My grandfather was very curious, because in the place where he lived, there was no one at all, so who was crying? My grandfather then turned back and followed the cry to a small grove next to the cave!

As soon as he walked into the woods, he saw an old lady sitting in the woods, the old lady had gray hair and bloated body, a pair of big bubble eyes like copper bells, a big mouth and a nose, and the pimples on her face were full of pimples, and she looked like a big toad from a distance!

My grandfather suddenly saw such a person, and he couldn't help but be startled by her! As soon as I was about to turn around and run back, I heard the old lady babbling and singing! My grandfather pricked up his ears and listened to this, and then he breathed a sigh of relief! It turns out that there is a local custom, when crying and mourning, you often have to sing instead of crying!

My grandfather thought it was strange, and said in his heart that since this old lady's family was dead, why did she come to this barren mountain and mountain to cry and mourn? He hid behind the tree and listened carefully, and then he understood that the old lady's son had been killed at some point, and she couldn't find her son's body here, so she sat on the ground and cried! She patted her thighs while crying and said, "Poor my son, you have practiced all your life, but now you have ended up like this!" My mother is too old to get justice for you, and when your children grow up, I will let them avenge you! ”。

The old lady paused for a moment, then gritted her teeth and scolded: "At that time, I will definitely let him cut off his children and grandchildren, and there will be no bones left!" ”。 After that, there was another burst of howling and crying! My grandfather was so sad that he couldn't help but shed tears, thinking, "What a big hatred is this?" Kill all the sons of other people? ”。

Before he could finish his thoughts, he heard the old lady cry out again: "God, if anyone can help me avenge the murder of my son, I will repay him with what I buried under the toad stone!" ”。

When my grandfather heard him mention the toad stone, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he said, "What did she bury under the toad stone?" Isn't it a treasure of gold and silver? ”。 Thinking of this, my grandfather poked his head out and wanted to ask the old lady who killed his son. Why don't you report to the police? Before he could say this, he heard a loud "click" above his head, and a scorched thunder hit out of thin air! There was a fishy wind and black air in the woods, and it immediately fascinated my grandfather's eyes!

When the strange wind passed, my grandfather rubbed his eyes, and then looked in the woods, where was there still the shadow of the old lady? My grandfather was so shocked that he was about to scream when he saw a heavy rain in the sky!

My grandfather was frightened by this, and was poured by this cold rain, and suddenly got a serious illness, and this serious illness came fiercely, so that it took my grandfather's life! It wasn't until the spring of the following year that my grandfather gradually recovered, and after a winter's torment, he had become skinny and weak!