Chapter 14: Protecting the Child
The fourth grandmother was furious and threw the porcelain bowl in her hand at the black hair that dragged her grandson's feet. The porcelain bowl didn't hit, but the chicken blood inside splattered out, dyeing the surroundings bright red. The chicken's blood splashed on the black hair, "smack" and smoked, like red iron thrown into the water. The thing seemed to be scalded by chicken blood, and it was so painful that it didn't let go of the child's feet.
It turned out that the fourth grandmother saw that the two grandsons had not come back for a long time, so she looked everywhere, and later saw the two of them salvaging things next to the lotus pond, and heard their conversation again, and knew that the water ghost was seducing her grandson. The clever fourth grandmother remembered that she had just killed a chicken in order to welcome her grandson from the city, so she immediately quietly went back to the house and brought out a bowl of chicken blood, and splashed it on the water ghost when she appeared. To say that these four grandmothers are not simple, why? More on that later.
Seeing that the water ghost was still dragging her grandson's feet in severe pain, the fourth grandmother also jumped into the water in a hurry, grabbed the black hair and plucked it hard, and scolded while pulling: "You are going to die, you will harm other people's children when they die, right?" It's distressing when your own child dies, and you are happy when someone else's child dies! You brute, you! Her wrinkled lips kept turning, and her filthy curses kept cursing the water ghost.
To say that the fourth grandmother's scolding kung fu is really good. Once her chicken was stolen, and she couldn't find out who stole it, so she used the most direct and simple method - sitting on a chair at the head of the crowded village and scolding in the most vicious language for a whole morning. Spit Xingzi drenched her front placket. Later, the person who stole the chicken blushed and took the initiative to find her, wanting to lose money at the market price. The fourth grandmother's mouth was swollen like a pig's bubble, and it took three days to disappear.
Another time, in the middle of the night, the people who had fallen asleep near the fourth grandmother heard her scolding for two hours outside the house in high spirits, in a low voice, and full of tricks. The next day, people went to her house and asked what they were doing last night. She said that she woke up last night and encountered evil. Because toilets in rural areas are usually built separately, she has to go out of the bedroom door and walk under the eaves to the toilet. But a ghost shadow at the door of the toilet was blocked there, motionless. So the fourth grandmother used the power of the lion's roar to scold the ghost shadow. She said that ghosts are most afraid of the wicked, and the more fierce you scold, the more they will not dare to provoke you. She was afraid that when she turned around, the ghost would take the opportunity to play tricks from behind, so she kept cursing in the face of the ghost's shadow.
At first, the ghost shadow was indifferent and stalemate with the fourth grandmother. The fourth grandmother is ruthless, if you don't leave, I will scold until dawn. After two hours of vicious cursing, the ghost finally flinched and slowly moved the toilet door.
After listening to the experience of the fourth grandmother, I felt that grandpa's way of dealing with ghosts in some aspects was similar to this. For example, breaking the head of a dustpan ghost and burying it upside down in the soil is to scare it into the most brutal way to prevent it from messing around.
There is also a little bit that is almost missed, the fourth grandmother is the person who guards the land temple in Changshan Village.
In this way, the fourth grandmother used her hand that often held the rank of the father-in-law of the land to pull out the long hair of the water ghost. The water ghost was pulled out by the fourth grandmother like this, and squeaked in pain, like a mouse caught in a mouse trap. The water ghost finally couldn't twist the fourth grandmother, let go of the child's feet, fled back to the bottom of the water and retracted into the dense lotus bushes.
The fourth grandmother didn't care about chasing the water ghost, so she hurriedly pushed the child's ass and sent him to the embankment. Looking at the child's feet again, they were bruised and swollen, as if they had been injured by a heavy object. The child's sore teeth touched, but he couldn't cry due to excessive panic.
The fourth grandmother climbed ashore by herself, hugged her grandson and comforted: "Okay, okay, the water ghost was driven away by grandma, don't be afraid." The child cried out with a "wow" and trembled.
The younger brother asked, "Grandma, why didn't the water ghost drag you into the water?" ”
The fourth grandmother touched the child's hair and said, "Grandma's hands often touch the tablet of the father-in-law, which can ward off evil spirits." It didn't dare to touch a single hair of its grandmother. After saying that, he looked at the lotus bush, and the waves there had calmed down, and the thing had disappeared without a trace.
The fourth grandmother didn't say a word, and went to find the mountain father with the child with swollen feet on her back. Daddy immediately bowed and apologized. The fourth grandmother did not give up, and said: "My grandson was robbed, but what if other people's children in the village are caught by water ghosts again?" ”
So, the mountain father came to his grandfather to hunt ghosts. Grandpa happened to receive all the crops in the field to the house, so he agreed to the mountain father. Shan Dad bought a good cigarette and gave it to his grandfather, who pushed it away and said, "My grandson is also in your village, and I am doing this for the safety of my grandson." How to collect your stuff well. Besides, it's not easy for you......"
As soon as he said this, Daddy's tears crawled out of the corners of his eyes, and he held Grandpa's hand and wept silently.
Grandpa came to live in our house, and the mountain father asked Grandpa to start hunting ghosts immediately. Grandpa pinched his fingers and calculated, and said, "It's going to rain in the next two days, I'm afraid it's not conducive to catching water ghosts, so let's wait for the weather to clear." ”
Daddy asked, "When will it rain?" How many days are you going to have to wait? ”
Grandpa said, "If it starts raining tomorrow morning, it will stop at night." If it starts to rain tomorrow at noon, I'm afraid it will rain for four or five days. ”
I don't know if my grandfather's old book without a cover tells me how to predict the weather in addition to how to catch ghosts. Anyway, grandpa said it so clearly, so that the mountain father couldn't help but be convinced.
It didn't rain the next morning, and it started to rain lightly at noon. Grandpa reached out to catch some rainwater, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, and said, "There is a smell." ”