When Sha Lan saw it, she immediately smiled and shouted, "Old grandmother." ”

The old grandmother was thin and small, and her hair was braided in two small braids, and the ends were pinned to the back of her head with a pin.

It's not good to say, many old ladies have this hairstyle, and most of these hairstyles can be kept for several days without messing up.

It's almost the same as in the past, basically when I met my grandmother, she was wearing blue and black clothes, no matter winter or summer, the clothes would not be worn on the body, not too thin in summer, and not too thick in winter.

"Sha Lan, come and play at home, your parents-in-law (grandparents) have gone to the field at the foot of the locust tree." The old grandmother (great-grandmother) said as she recruited towards Shalan, and the wrinkles on her face were like ripples on the surface of a lake.

Thinking that it is now the end of summer, it should be the time to hoe the grass, and the corn stalks in the field are lush and green, and the corn is almost ready to eat, and the mouth of this sand blue is filled with a burst of the smell of burnt corn, which is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the aroma is pleasant. One bite is hot and fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless.

The door of the grandmother's house is a wooden door, dark yellow and almost black, and it opens inside; The ground is muddy, uneven, but very compact. The house of the old grandfather and grandmother is not big, but there are a lot of things.

As soon as you enter the door, you can see several large wooden cabinets in the northwest corner of the room, and the material of the wood is no longer visible after a long time. Then a high and low bed was placed against the wall of the hall for the Bodhisattva, which had been specially made by a carpenter many years ago, and the bed was covered with a very thick quilt and several layers of sheets, some of which were so old that they could not be seen in their original colors.

Elsewhere there were many sacks piled up, and the sacks were filled with grain from previous years.

The fire was placed in the middle of the house, the ancestor was turning over the baked potatoes in the belly of the fire, and there was tender corn on the fire rack to burn on the fire, the old grandfather raised his head, and saw that Sha Lan was coming, his face was shining red, and even the wrinkles seemed to be less and thin.

My grandfather wears a sweatshirt, not as thick as my grandmother's clothes, and my grandfather's pants are almost the same, either blue and black or gray and yellow cloth pants, the same material, the same style, almost the same.

"Sha Lan is here, come and sit here, there is a bench here." The old grandfather beckoned Sha Lan to sit down.

As soon as she sat down, Grandma turned over a steaming potato, blew it a few times before sending it to Shalan, and then lifted the fire rack to the fire.

As soon as the fire was lit, the tender corn on the fire rack crackled.

After the scalded potatoes are peeled off the burnt skin on the outside, the light and tender yellow color is full of aroma, and when you bite into it, it is full of fragrance.

I ate one roasted potato and one corn each, and my grandfather's family hadn't come back yet.

Grandpa wants to smoke clay cigarettes, which smell very good; Grandpa went to the wooden threshold of the hall to sit and smoke, Grandma cleaned up the potato skins on the ground, and Sha Lan also followed Grandpa out and sat on the wooden threshold like Grandpa. Take a closer look at the grandfather's appearance of smoking a cigarette, the grandfather saw it, took two puffs of cigarettes, put the cigarette gun aside, looked at Sha Lan who was sitting next to him obediently, as if drinking a glass of mellow wine, indulged in this wonderful afternoon, and said to Sha Lan comfortably:

"Does Sha Lan know the white hole under the Hazelnut Bridge?"

Sha Lan was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and replied to her grandfather, "I don't know? ”

Seeing Sha Lan shaking his head, Grandpa first picked up the cigarette stick, took a big puff of cigarette, and exhaled a long puff of white smoke before dragging a rough voice to speak: "I don't know that Grandpa will tell you about the White Python Cave today." ”

"In the past, the old people used to say that very early on, there was a python in the white hole, which grew so big that it was stuck in the hole and couldn't get out, and when it was hungry, it would open its mouth wide and suck people on the road into the mouth......"

At that time, the road at the entrance of the cave was an official road and an important road, and there were not many roads before, most of them were high mountains and cliffs, and wild beasts were everywhere, so the passing travelers and merchants had to take this road.

Grandpa suddenly stopped talking, pursed his mouth, pulled the cuffs of his indigo clothes, and took a puff of cigarette before he continued:

"Everyone has a legend that pythons eat people, many people are afraid to walk this road, if you really have to go, you would rather walk around the mountain," the thorny mountains and forests can be imagined as difficult to walk, even the threat of jackals, tigers and leopards is no less than that of pythons.

"According to the old people, every time the python wakes up, it opens its mouth and sucks it violently, and even the people on the opposite mountain can suck it, which is really incredible."

A suspicious thought suddenly flashed in Sha Lan's mind, if everyone was eaten by pythons, how could anyone know that those people were eaten by pythons?

Perhaps seeing Sha Lan's doubts, Grandpa then said: "The python's spell is very powerful, whenever it wakes up and feels hungry, if there is someone on the opposite mountain, it opens its mouth and sucks hard; Immediately, the wind will blow fiercely, and the big trees on the opposite mountain will be uprooted, and the people will fly up directly from the mountain and be swept towards the white hole. ”

This is too fast, Sha Lan thought to herself.

"It turns out that everything is good and bad,"

"The old people all said: The heavy rain never ends, and the fire never ends."

If the momentum is too strong, it will often run out of strength prematurely at once.

"The python swept the man to the road outside the white hole, and when he ran out of breath, he fell on the road and fled." Grandpa said more and more seriously, and even forgot to put down the cigarette stick.

Sha Lan thought, probably because the python is huge, and the power of opening its mouth and sucking it is so huge, there must be some definitions in the world that cannot be surpassed, such as rules, and powerful things must have a dead hole. Probably the python also happens to be like this, it can suck something remotely into its mouth with a strong suck, and this is also a powerful force that it cannot repeat for a certain period of time. The accumulation of qi takes time, ranging from ten days and a half to three or five days, and the specific time is uncertain. It must be impossible to repeat twice in a day.

"Then it didn't eat people, won't it starve to death?"

"Of course, it won't be able to eat people, it has to eat, except for those who can't figure out how close to the white hole they walk, and those beasts who don't know the height of the sky."

What if people are far away! Will it be too late to fall on the road before the white qi is exhausted, and then fall into the abyss valley, and fall to pieces. In this way, there are really not many people who can survive.

But in the end, there are still people who survived, naturally, and some people know.

I heard that there were also people who were digging and hoeing in the valley at the beginning, looking up and seeing the hurricane sweeping people towards the white hole. Because no one knows how many people died in the white hole, and the people who fell into the valley were all bones. ”

Python cholera, the crow was cornered, but there was only one miracle. It's okay to survive in desperate situations.

"This miracle is a man who has no father, no mother, no children, and is suffering from incurable, no worries, and does not live long, so he stepped forward, and finally he decided on a plan."

Grandfather said: "He picked up a load of realgar, pretending to go to the white hole to pass by, and when he arrived, the python really sucked him into his abdomen, but the flat burden was tied to the man's body, and he couldn't spit it out anyway, and even the realgar entered together." ”

"So much realgar enters the body, it will definitely die,"

"What about the man?" Sha Lan wanted to know the end of that man.

"Dead." Grandpa's dark eyes showed calmness and wisdom, and there was a bit of kindness on his lips. As if that was normal.

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Rota slept in his coffin until twenty years ago, when a girl took a scythe from harvesting parsley and sage to open the darkness on his face, he could not remember the girl's appearance, but he remembered the smell of the town, the smell of parsley and sage, thyme and rosemary.

But there seemed to be something different, his girl was very afraid of her, she thought he was a devil, and tried all her best to escape from his side, he was very reluctant, but he still let her go, after all, people and ghosts have different paths.

But after she left, she never came back, and he missed her very much, and when he met someone, he always wanted him to tell him how his girl was doing, and what she was doing, but the first sight of the person who came wanted to run away from him.

The man also had a scythe in his hand, which smelled of rosemary and thyme, and he finally understood that his girl would never come back, and he went back to the cold coffin, and wanted to never wake up.

Soon the villagers down the hill violently lifted his darkness, and they angrily pierced his limbs with spikes, exposing him to the sun, and the spikes were so hot and the sun was so hot that they burned his body and burned his skin. But as the years wore on, and his soul was gradually dissipating, a man pulled out the nail and told him that in the future a man would pass by, and that she would bring his greeting to his girl, and she would bring that girl to him.

So he never returned to that coffin for more than 20 years, he wandered through the mountains and forests, transformed into all kinds of appearances, he observed everyone who passed by, and the mountain became his eyes.

One day, two men went up the mountain with a little girl, and an impulse suddenly arose in his heart.

He knew two men, one of whom had people nail his body with a long nail, and the other had once driven a long nail into his palm.

The burns from the spike were still there, he had wanted their lives, but now he was grateful for them for bringing her to him, the girl had more fragrance on her body, and when she laughed, he suddenly wanted to forget the smile he had forgotten for a long time.

There is an aura on this girl that makes the ghostly thing irresistible.

He was thinking that after so much time, his girl would have long since died, and it would not be his girl who would come back, so it would be better to let this girl accompany her through the long years after that, it seems that it would be good.

He knows the girl's story, but if she is willing to accompany him, he will treat her as well as his own girl, make her forget that person, and let herself become the person in his = her heart, even if it is okay to deceive her for the rest of her life.

She reminded him of his former lover, and also made him see his obsession clearly, he now just wants to create a future that is the same as the past, and no longer worries about the impossibility of coming back to spend the long years since.

He deceived everyone and took the girl back to the yard he had built for his lover, which was their past.

But soon, the girl's lover was found, and he beat Rota back into the abyss of endless darkness.

Having seen the taste of the sun, how could he be willing to return to the boundless darkness.

It's like a wild beast that is injured and doesn't feel it when he licks his wounds alone in a cave, but once he returns to the cave after being booed and warmed, he can't stand it.

The girl soothed him, not angry, not afraid, as if he were a friend.

Then the girl and the man were going to depart, and they lived not far away, and sometimes they came to see him, and sometimes he went to see her.

Once, the girl listened to his story. She told him that she would go and find a girl for him with the scent of parsley, sage, thyme, and rosemary.

However, before she had time to look for it, a girl stepped on the mountain, and when Ning Qiao was wandering in the mountains, she saw her sitting on the edge of the cliff crying, and after asking, she learned that the girl's father asked the girl to drop out of school to help people with housework and be a nanny, and the girl was very sad and wanted to die.

Ning Qiao found out that she was Rota's lover in her previous life, and in the end, she stayed on the mountain to accompany Rota, lived in the small courtyard on that side, and never went down the mountain again.

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Rota slept in his coffin until twenty years ago, when a girl took a scythe from harvesting parsley and sage to open the darkness on his face, he could not remember the girl's appearance, but he remembered the smell of the town, the smell of parsley and sage, thyme and rosemary.

But there seemed to be something different, his girl was very afraid of her, she thought he was a devil, and tried all her best to escape from his side, he was very reluctant, but he still let her go, after all, people and ghosts have different paths.

But after she left, she never came back, and he missed her very much, and when he met someone, he always wanted him to tell him how his girl was doing, and what she was doing, but the first sight of the person who came wanted to run away from him.

The man also had a scythe in his hand, which smelled of rosemary and thyme, and he finally understood that his girl would never come back, and he went back to the cold coffin, and wanted to never wake up.

Soon the villagers down the hill violently lifted his darkness, and they angrily pierced his limbs with spikes, exposing him to the sun, and the spikes were so hot and the sun was so hot that they burned his body and burned his skin. But as the years wore on, and his soul was gradually dissipating, a man pulled out the nail and told him that in the future a man would pass by, and that she would bring his greeting to his girl, and she would bring that girl to him.

So he never returned to that coffin for more than 20 years, he wandered through the mountains and forests, transformed into all kinds of appearances, he observed everyone who passed by, and the mountain became his eyes.

One day, two men went up the mountain with a little girl, and an impulse suddenly arose in his heart.