Grandma's hands trembled so hard that she barely repaired the broken spots, while I looked at the lantern and frowned.

Black dog blood is against ghosts, but I vaguely remember that I also encountered a big snake.

"Grandma, is the big snake also afraid of black dog blood?" Looking at the lantern, which had become a little crooked, I asked my grandmother with some anxiety.

Grandma's hand paused, raised her cloudy eyes and stared at me: "Have you met a long worm?" ”

"Hmm." Long worm is the old generation of the big snake in the local dialect, I hesitated for a moment, and then I will meet the long worm on the mountain in detail.

After listening to it, Grandma's face became even more gloomy, and she muttered: "I already knew that something was going to happen, and I have been worried about it for so many years, but I didn't expect that something would happen, and there would be an evil thing." ”

"Little rhino, you don't have to be afraid, you have the blessing of the mage, by the way, did you wear the Buddha bead that grandma gave you before?" Grandma asked, and she couldn't wait to touch my neck.

After pulling a blackened Buddhist bead out of my clothes, I showed a reassuring look.

But I dislike this bead very much, because I think that if it weren't for this bead, the monk wouldn't have followed me all the time.

"As long as you wear this mage, you will definitely be blessed, so you have to put it away anyway." As she spoke, she put the beads back into my clothes and carefully patted them on my chest.

"Grandma, I don't want this Buddha bead." I pulled out the beads with my hands with some repulsion.

Grandma's face suddenly changed: "No, you are not allowed to say such willful words in the future, otherwise you won't go to this mountain, and grandma will find another way to deal with the black baby." ”

"What else can I do, what have you become, can't I lose it?" I hurriedly put away the beads again, my grandmother's complexion softened a little, and after mending the lantern, she leaned back on the rattan chair and fell asleep.

And this sleep is actually a whole day's sleep, if it weren't for grandpa noisily asking grandma to buy wine in the evening, I guess grandma can continue to sleep.

As soon as my grandmother opened her eyes, she trembled all over, and then nervously grabbed my wrist and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"It's almost six o'clock." I replied.

When she heard this, she was a little anxious, and she took my hand and walked towards the door, saying as she walked: "I'm old, it's useless, and I actually slept to this point." ”

Grandma said as she ran in the direction of the tomb mountain out of breath, but she met Heiwa's mother halfway, and she was also heading towards the tomb mountain.

Grandma knew what she wanted to do as soon as she saw that she was carrying a big bucket in her hand, and scolded repeatedly: "Didn't Tiezhu tell you that you can't go up the mountain?" ”

"Granny Mei, it's been two days since I saw it, and I don't go up the mountain, what should I do with the baby." Heiwa's mother choked up, and she knew at a glance that she hadn't slept well for several days.

Grandma tried to persuade me, and finally persuaded my aunt to go back and took me to the entrance of the foot of the tomb mountain.

I thought that my grandmother would accompany me up the mountain, but in the end, my grandmother just stood at the foot of the mountain and asked me to go up with the "lantern" alone.

"Grandma, I don't know the way." I looked at my grandmother and said, in fact, I was worried that I would meet the big snake again.

Grandma glanced at the lantern in my hand, then glanced towards the mountain, and let out a long sigh: "Don't be afraid, you will be fine with the protection of the mage, grandma has already dealt with that thing before, as long as grandma goes up the mountain, it can smell grandma's body, so grandma can only wait for you here." ”

She said and looked at the dark night sky again, there was not even a moon tonight, and my grandmother leaned over to help me light the white candles in the lantern, but the night wind was howling, and I was a little worried that the candles would be blown out.

"You carry it up, and if the candle goes out, go down immediately." Grandma told me with a serious face.

At that time, I didn't know that this candle was not an ordinary candle, the body of the candle was engraved with the eight characters of Heiwa's birthday, and the candle was extinguished on the mountain, which meant that Heiwa's soul was scattered.

Therefore, no matter how much you shout, it will be useless, you can only go down the mountain.

I nodded, pretending to be calm and carrying the lantern towards the mountain, and as I walked, I quietly turned back to look in the direction of my grandmother.

"Little rhino, don't look back, shout seriously." Grandma's eyes were sharp, and when she saw me turn around, she shouted at me.

I could only walk forward, and as I walked, I shouted Heiwa's name according to what my grandmother had taught me before.

"Black baby, black baby." After walking for about ten minutes, my throat began to dry out, but I didn't see Heiwa's soul at all.

Could it be that Heiwa's soul has been dispersed? Thinking so, he glanced at the lantern in his hand again.

When I first went up the mountain, the flame in the lantern was still very faint, but now it was getting brighter and brighter, and even if the night wind was howling, it only swayed slightly.

"Heiwa, Heiwa, I'm Xiaoxi, I'll take you home, come out quickly." Looking at the brighter candlelight, I also have a bottom in my heart.

Grandma said that the brighter the light, the closer the black baby is to me.

Now like this, I think the black baby should be around me, so I directly raised my voice several times, and finally simply yelled out.

In this dark tomb mountain, my shouts kept echoing.

"Little rhino, little rhino."

When my voice was hoarse and desperate, finally came the voice of the black baby from the woods, and it was the same voice I had heard in my dreams, with horror.

"Heiwa, is that you?" I asked aloud excitedly, and my fear dissipated most of the time.

"Little rhino, little rhino." The black baby screamed, the voice close to me, and I ran quickly towards the source of the sound, and finally saw half of the head exposed in the tall grass.

As soon as I saw the dark eyes, I recognized it as Heiwa, and rushed over excitedly to hug him, but my hand passed directly through Heiwa's body.

Only then did I remember that the current black baby is a soul.

"Don't be afraid, I'll take you home." I looked at Heiwa and said word by word.

Heiwa should have been frightened, her frightened body was shaking, her soul was weak, and she stood up slowly, I couldn't hold his hand, so I kept telling Heiwa to let him follow me.

Along the way, Heiwa's mouth kept reading my name, I carried the lantern, nervously three steps and turned back, I was afraid that he did not follow me, and I was afraid that I would go the wrong way, of course, the most afraid is that the evil thing suddenly appeared, then I and Heiwa will not want to go back.

But fortunately, we went surprisingly smoothly along the way, and there were no ghosts approaching, and when we got to the bottom of the mountain, my grandmother glanced at the black baby behind me, and breathed a sigh of relief.

She asked me to carry the lantern in front, and she recited Heiwa's birthday behind her, all the way to Heiwa's door, I wanted to watch Heiwa's soul possession, but my grandmother sent me home.

Whatever you say, you don't want me to see it, and you don't want me to go into Heiwa's room again, and it is useless to plead repeatedly, so I can only go back.

At home, I waited until more than three o'clock in the morning, grandma came back, she was exhausted, I ran over to hold her arm, her body was paralyzed, a stumble almost fell, so I tried my best to hold her steady, and began to call grandpa.

Grandpa came out of the room scolding, and saw grandma say a word that he deserved without pain.

Grandpa didn't want grandma to take care of these ghosts and gods for a long time, for fear of getting into trouble.

"Yesterday I met Ji Zhishu, and he asked me to tell you not to engage in feudal superstition, you haven't made a lot of money in the past few years, and you have found me a lot of trouble." Grandpa scolded, and didn't help grandma, so I could only prepare to help grandma to her room.

Grandpa seemed to remember something, and immediately walked quickly to the door, and directly reached out to stop me and grandma.

"Grandpa, what are you doing?" I was a little unstable, and I was even more anxious when I saw that my grandfather was still blocking the door.

"Don't help her to my room, look at her like this, she's very depressed, you help her to the backyard guest room." Grandpa frowned, and pushed grandma in the direction of the backyard with disgust.

"Grandpa, if you are afraid of being discouraged, then let Grandma live in my house." The guest rooms in the backyard have not been cleaned, there is ash everywhere, and the doors and windows are broken and have not been repaired.

But my grandfather was hard-hearted, saying that my room was far from him, and he had to place my grandma in the backyard, and told me not to get too close to my grandma, otherwise I would be frustrated.

He kept saying that he was frustrated, in fact, he meant that grandma was a little listless during this time, and coughed constantly, I knew that it was because of me, grandma would be like this, I was guilty, and naturally I didn't want to listen to grandpa, grandpa simply didn't care about me, and went back to his room to sleep after scolding the money-losing goods.

"Grandma, let's go, go to my house." I stretched out my hand to help my grandmother up, but she waved her hand and said that it was good to live in this backyard, but I just asked me to pour her a bowl of water, and she fell asleep after drinking it.

I stayed by my grandmother's side and listened to her heavy breathing, and I knew that my grandmother was really tired these days.

She slept for three days in a row, and woke up from time to time to see me during the three days, and then she fell asleep again, covered with night sweats and coughing, and the village doctor had come to see her, saying that it was a cold, and nothing else could be found.

When my grandmother was sober occasionally, she forced me to go to school, and I was worried that my grandfather would not take good care of her, so I guarded her, but she insisted again and again, and Heiwa's mother came to take care of my grandmother these days, so I went to school again.

Heiwa was already in school class, and her face was ruddy, which was very different from him who was lying in the house like a dead corpse before.

It's just that I found that he kept his head down in class all the time, as if he was afraid of something, I lowered my voice and asked him a few times, he opened his mouth at me, wanted to say something but looked at Teacher Chen's back again and then fell silent.