Chapter 15: Fighting Demons
I listened to it and caught some rain, but I couldn't smell the smell of what my grandfather said.
Although Grandpa said that it was not suitable to catch water ghosts in the rain, the mountain father still came wearing thick rain boots. Daddy stubbornly asked, "Can you do it today?" Grandpa shook his head.
But my grandfather told me to bring an umbrella, and I asked, "Why don't you go out and get an umbrella?" ”
Grandpa said, "Let's go, let's go to the lotus pond and have a look." ”
So the three of us walked together through the mud to the lotus pond. Grandpa walked around the lotus pond and said, "This water ghost's grievances are too great, I'm afraid I can't clean it up alone, so call a Taoist priest to help." I add a Taoist priest to be able to subdue it. "As soon as Grandpa said it, I remembered the crooked Taoist priest next to the school. The old lady who cleans the school said that she often heard the noise in the broken temple of the crooked Taoist, and it seemed that many people gathered in the small broken temple, but she never saw the crooked Taoist priest entering and leaving alone. I wonder if the crooked Taoist priest collected a lot of ghosts in the ruined temple.
Of course, Grandpa didn't know the crooked Taoist at all.
Just when Grandpa was discussing with Father Shan where to find a Taoist priest, someone on the south bank of the lotus pond shouted. We turned our heads and saw that it was a woman who had come to the lotus pond to wash clothes. The woman was carrying a laundry bucket and screaming loudly into the barrel. I looked towards the barrel, and a hairy thing crawled out of the barrel, and the long black hair wrapped around the woman's hand!
Daddy understood what was going on before we did, and cried out, "It's broken!" "Rushed to the woman who was carrying water. My grandfather and I immediately followed.
The thing snuck into the bucket while the woman was fetching water. The water in the pond is cloudy when it rains in the summer, so it is difficult to spot other things mixed in the water. When the water was clear, it didn't dare to come out, and it kept hiding on the side of the lotus bush. When the woman lifted the bucket, the thing took the opportunity to wrap itself around her hand. The woman was so frightened that she threw away the bucket, but the long hair of the thing wrapped around her hands and could not shake it off.
Daddy grabbed a handful of black fur from the thing and dragged it in the opposite direction. The thing was like a black sheet that screwed up water and dangled between the hands of the woman and the mountain daddy. But because of the rain, the mountain father slipped under his feet and fell down on his back. Black fur falls off his hands. The thing shook up its black hair and hit Daddy's face, and immediately Daddy groaned in pain, covering his face with both hands, and bright red blood seeped out from his fingers. That thing had so much strength in the water that it made me gasp!
The black fur of the thing wriggled like a snake in the rain, pulling the woman to the shore. The woman's face was deformed with fright, and she sat in the mud with her feet against the ground in resistance.
Grandpa walked over quickly, stretched out his index finger and middle finger and two fingers and tapped it on the object. The black fur of the thing was all erect like a giant hedgehog! It is estimated that there are some acupuncture points for it. Grandpa's finger was punctured by it, and Grandpa hurriedly retracted his hand, sucked his finger with his mouth, and spat out a cloud of green liquid.
It let go of the women for the time being, and the black hair was pointed at the grandfather like a needle. Grandpa scolded and dug some red clay on the ground and smeared it on the injured area. Grandpa pushed my chest and told me to stay away. At this time, the mountain father also stood up, and dense blood stains appeared on his face as if he had fallen.
The mountain father put his palms together and begged the water ghost: "it, child, I'm your husband, don't you know me?" I beg you not to hurt anyone, okay? I beg you! After speaking, he wiped the tears and snot from the corners of his eyes and nose, mixed with the blood on his face.
Grandpa said, "Don't talk nonsense with it. Where does it remember you! If the water ghost remembers it, can your son drag your daughter-in-law into the water? It's raining all around, and it's very powerful, so be careful! ”
Daddy said, "Doesn't it remember me?" Then it must be harmful, right? Then you can harm me, you drag me away as a stand-in. You and your son are gone, and it doesn't mean much for me to live. After saying that, I cried heartbreakingly. The rain fell on him, and the tiny droplets of water on his head and shoulders formed a mist, like a dream.
The thing stood up and stood still for a while, as if it was really listening to the mountain daddy's cry. When the mountain father cried, his fur gradually softened, as if he was also moved by his words, and was reminiscing about the events of his life. My tense nerves eased slightly.
Unexpectedly, the thing suddenly bounced and flew to the height of a person, and pounced on the mountain daddy!
It turned out that its black fur went soft in order to gain strength and jump. On the other hand, this action of it paralyzes us. But it could jump so high with just those hairs that I couldn't have imagined. Father was obviously caught off guard, watching in horror as the thing flew above his head, forgetting to run away or resist. Grandpa seemed to have stopped him, but it was too late.
The thing knocked the mountain father down and pressed on him, and the black hair wrapped around the mountain father's neck, causing the mountain father to face to be scarlet, with green tendons and dead eyes. The other black hairs whipped him all over his body like whips. Daddy grabbed the thing with both hands as if it were tearing it apart, but the action strengthened the force of his neck.