Chapter 110: Untwisting braids

Someone said, "I'll take you to the dwarf willow slope." ”

Grandpa nodded: "The others can stay here." Too many people followed, afraid that she would not show up. ”

Someone immediately said, "That fake monk said the same thing last time, and he ended up doing something like that." How can we trust you. An elder next to him immediately gave him a mouthful: "You fool! You don't suspect that other people's fake monks are coming, but you suspect the thrush master Ma. He's still a relative of ours, can he lie to us? What a fool! Master Ma, don't worry about it. ”

Grandpa smiled and said to the man who offered to show us the way, "Let's go." ”

The three of us soon came to the low willow slope. The low willow slope is actually next to the road where my grandfather and I met the ghost official, and of course there is still some distance from that fork. The last time I passed here, I saw this low willow slope, but I definitely didn't see that all the willows were planted here. The slope is not high, and the more than a dozen acres square are overgrown with willow trees. The willows are about the same height as me, no wonder I saw them as bushes the last time I passed by.

The leader walked to the front of the low willow slope and stopped.

Grandpa dropped the burned cigarette and said, "Go in." ”

The man shook his head and said, "I can't go in." ”

"Can't get in?" I was surprised and asked, "Why can't such a short willow tree go in?" ”

The man said, "It's good if you're tall, but you can't go in because you're short." ”

"Why?" I asked. I looked at the dwarf willow trees opposite, and the moon showed a round arc above the willow bushes, as if a beautiful woman was watching us from behind a masked gauze.

The man said, "Not only is the willow tree here short, but its wicker also grows strangely, and the willow branches between two trees close to each other are easily entangled, like a girl's braid." They surround this place like hands in hand, and ordinary people can't get in at all. Last year, the electric poles planted in the village were all walked around, and they couldn't get in even if they tried their best. ”

I saw that the electric poles lined up from the village had indeed turned around when they walked to the low willow slope, as if to avoid this dangerous place.

"Let's take a look." Grandpa said, stepping on the cigarette butt on the ground and grinding it vigorously. Grandpa was the first to walk towards the dwarf willow.

When you walk to the periphery of the low willow forest, you can't walk past the first two trees you encounter. The branches of the two trees are entangled wherever they touch, like a natural sewing artist sewing the edges of the two trees together.

I disdainfully said: "You can't go over while standing, can't you just crawl over?" "When I was a child, I was very naughty, and I was very proficient in catching sparrows, chasing rabbits, playing war games, climbing trees, drilling holes, and jumping hurdles on the back hills of the house.

The dwarf willow in front of me can stop my grandfather's footsteps, but it can't stop me from crawling. I immediately bent down to pass through the gap beneath the willows. As soon as I got down, my head immediately felt foggy, and my chest tightened and I felt short of breath, as if someone had stepped on my back. I simply can't crawl as nimble as I normally would.

Luckily, my grandfather was right next to me, and he quickly pulled me up: "Silly boy! Why are you in such a hurry? ”

As soon as I stood up, the person immediately came to his senses again.

"How did you forget? I said that you have to walk around the willow tree at night, how can you lie down. Grandpa lost his temper. It is true that someone said that they should walk around the willow tree when walking at night, but it is not grandpa, and if it was grandpa, I would definitely not lie down recklessly. Grandpa is like this, he knows many things himself, and he thinks that others also know or should know. If someone else doesn't do it, he will say, "I said I wanted you to ......, how do you ...... This. "It never cares if he really said it.

I did, however, hear a few elders tell children not to walk in the shadow of the willow trees at night, and finally walk around. But they didn't say why they did it.

"I just breathed so hard." I say.

Grandpa glanced at me dissatisfied, and said, "That's why the shadow of the willow tree is stepping on your back." The female ghost in her prime has an unclear relationship with the willow tree, so be careful with the willow tree at night. I nodded.

"How do you get in?" The man who showed us the way asked softly.

Grandpa said, "You must go in." At first, I wasn't sure the ghost prostitute was inside, but now I'm sure. Not all willows are attached to a woman's soul, but Liang Zai's reaction just now proves that the willows here are unusual. I'm sure she's already waiting for us among the willows. ”

"Then I'll lead the way here, and I'm not going in." The man trembled and said, "I don't know how to hunt ghosts at all, and if I go in, I will only be killed." ”

Grandpa said, "Okay. You go first. ”

When the man heard his grandfather's words, he turned around and ran away as if the man who was about to be executed had received a pardon from the emperor. The sound of thumping footsteps shattered the silence of the night.

My grandfather and I looked at each other and smiled. The wind whined.

"How do you get in?" I asked my grandfather, "I can't walk in, I can't climb in." What to do? ”

Grandpa said, "There is a way." Grandpa lowered the iron threshold and touched the dwarf willow. Because the iron threshold is only covered with a layer of iron sheet on the outside, and the inside is all wooden, grandpa is not too heavy, and the atmosphere is not breathing. The iron threshold is placed on the ground, and due to the darkness of the night, it looks like a pit recessed into the ground, but instead of a protruding object, giving the illusion of three-dimensionality.

"To her, this dwarf willow is just a little trick. Then I can untie the knot with a little subcalculation. Grandpa nodded after looking at the dwarf willow, and was sure.

Grandpa sat down and asked me to place two yellow paper talismans on his flat palm. Grandpa's voice calmed down, his eyes closed slightly, and he opened his mouth to breathe. At this time, although the wind in his ears was still whining, the dwarf willow no longer swayed with the wind. I know, grandpa started casting spells.

I was waiting for my grandfather to untie the knot of the ghost prostitute when he suddenly coughed. The dwarf willows swayed again in the wind. I looked at my grandfather puzzled. Grandpa coughed twice. I suddenly felt that my grandfather in the wind was also swaying with the wind like a weak willow, without concentration. "What's wrong?" I asked worriedly. At that time, I doubted for the first time that my grandfather's body would be able to hold on.

Grandpa moved his muscles and bones on the spot, and then put on a posture to cast a spell, and said, "Liang Zai, you set up a formation for me." The wind made my heart uneasy. ”

"What do you want?" I asked. Before my grandfather gave me the ancient book, he taught me a few simple formation methods, all of which were arranged with stones, and there were different formations in different directions of the arrangement.

"Do you remember the array that shielded the wind from the sound?" Grandpa asked.