Grandpa's expression froze on his face, his eyes suddenly became spoiled, he looked at me with a smile on his face, moved his mouth, and his head sank into the water little by little and disappeared.

It all happened between the lightning and flint, looking at the churning river, I lay on the boat like crazy and cried, my grandmother passed away before I was even born, it was the first time in my life that I lost a loved one,

I was the only one on the boat, the person who blew out the candle never appeared, my grandfather never came out, and the water of the Yellow River was still flowing slowly, rolling countless stories that had happened here for thousands of years into a wave into the endless river and into the sea.

I don't know how long I cried on the boat, and I don't know how I got home, but when I entered the door, my father had already returned, and when he saw me enter the door, he was shocked, "Where's your grandfather?" ”

I didn't know what to tell him, I wanted to speak, but I didn't have any strength, I just stood there dumbfounded, tears streaming down my face.

Dad hesitated for a moment when he saw me like this, and then the whole person was like a lightning strike, his body fell backwards, squatted on the ground and hugged his head and cried, "Just one step, one step!" ”

Seeing my father's heart-rending appearance, I wiped away my tears and said, "What's wrong, what are you hiding from me, don't you even tell me now?" ”

My father looked at me with red eyes and tears: "We are all for you, baby, if it weren't for your grandfather, you wouldn't have come to this world at all!" ”

My body shook slightly, trembling and said why, my father said: "In order to let you live, your grandfather knelt on the edge of the Yellow River and made a grand wish to cross the corpse that died in the Yellow River, but I didn't expect this day to come so early, your grandfather counted people and ghosts for a lifetime, after all, he still didn't count the Yellow River, they came up in advance to ask for your life!" ”

I shook my head, I couldn't believe everything my father said, "Dad, what happened to me when I was born, who is going to take my life, is it Yingzi and them?" ”

Dad opened his mouth and was about to speak, a thunder swept through the night sky, reflecting the whole yard as if it was day, Dad was crazy, shaking his head and saying: "Can't say, can't say, they're going to ask for your life, baby, you run with me, I'll take you out!" ”

Dad said that he was about to come and take my hand, and I noticed that in my father's arms, holding a mud tire.

The mud fetus was like a newborn baby, curled up, eyes tightly closed, and facial features vivid, like a living person!

"Dad, what is this?"

I shook off my father's hand and reached out to grab the mud tire, but my father hurriedly dodged and hugged the mud tire in his arms, "You can't touch it, you can get out alive with this thing, come with me!" ”

I ignored my father, and turned to look at my grandfather's house, where the lights were on, and a figure appeared in the window, and the moment I looked past, the dark figure turned away.

"I'm not leaving, I'm going to avenge my grandfather!"

After saying that, I threw off my father and rushed into the house, and pushed open my grandfather's door, and the middle-aged man was standing there looking at me, as if he had expected me to come in.

"Please, avenge my grandfather!"

I knelt in front of the middle-aged man and looked up at him, but there was no expression on the middle-aged man's face, I gritted my teeth and slammed my head to the ground three times, "Please!" ”

The middle-aged man said lightly: "I have no relatives with your family, but have an enmity, why should I help you?" ”

"The crow has the righteousness of feeding, the sheep knows the grace of kneeling milk, grandpa raised me as an adult, I am not humane, but I died because of me, if you avenge my grandfather today, your grudges with him can be counted on my head, if I want to kill or chop you, if I frown, there is a vain life!"

The middle-aged man snorted coldly, "If I want to kill him, how can he survive until now?" It's just that it's rare to see a child like you now, but there are rules in one line, the sheep don't fight, the rooster doesn't show its head, I can't break the rules because you are an outsider. ”

I didn't understand the meaning of the rules in his words, but I heard the second half of the sentence clearly, and I knocked my head to the ground three times again, "If you can afford me, I beg you to take me as an apprentice!" ”

I didn't dare to look up, my head was firmly on the ground, if he refused me again, there really would be no one to avenge my grandfather.

There was silence in the room, and just when I was still restless, I heard the middle-aged man say: "From today onwards, your child is my Ji Zongbu's apprentice, do you have anything to say?" ”

I looked up and found that my father was standing at the door at some point, looking at the middle-aged man with a mud tire in his arms and a shocked face, and nodded in astonishment, as if he was stupid.

It turned out that his name was Ji Zongbu.

I got up from the ground with tears of joy and said, "Are you willing to avenge my grandfather?" ”

Ji Zongbu nodded, "But not now, you wait for me for a while." ”

After saying that, I walked out of the door, my father and I were stunned for a while before chasing out, just after he went out of the door, the dog in the village barked like crazy, and after a while, I heard a heart-rending scream from the direction of the village chief's house, and when Ji Zongbu came back, he was carrying the ghost mother-in-law in his right hand.

The ghost mother-in-law didn't have the slightest resistance in his hands, he was pinched by the neck and carried in the air and struggled wildly on all fours, his mouth let out a roar, and the expression on his face was extremely distorted, like a demon.

My father and I were frightened by the sight in front of us and took two steps back, Ji Zongbu coldly held the ghost mother-in-law in front of him, his eyes were deep, he stared at the ghost woman and snorted coldly: "You are too bold!" ”

After that, I saw that he pinched the palm of the ghost mother-in-law's hand and tightened suddenly, and his ears heard a crisp "click", and the ghost mother-in-law's body was thrown to the ground like a dead dog.

I just felt that my brain was blank, and the ghost mother-in-law was killed by him like this?

Although I don't know how powerful the ghost mother-in-law is, I have seen the five deep wounds on my grandfather's arm with my own eyes, which is definitely not something that a normal person can do.

The ghost mother-in-law fell to the ground, Ji Zongbu's movements did not stop, and he unhurriedly took out a ball of rope from his arms, and tied a special iron ring to the end of the rope, this iron ring is a bit like a keychain, with three thin chains on it, the chains are only the thickness of a pencil lead, shining with a faint white metallic luster in the moonlight, each chain is no more than five inches long, and a small hook is connected to the end, the shape and size are similar to a fish hook, and there are barbs hanging on it.

"This thing is called the stripping basket, specially for these beasts to undress, these hooks can be increased or deleted according to different situations, after hooking the position, pull the end of the rope, so that the position of several hooks is evenly stressed, you can pick off the whole skin without leaving a gap, will not tear, simple and fast."

Ji Zongbu seemed to tell me, then squatted down and pulled out a dagger at his waist, and with a very skillful stroke, he gently wrapped it around the forehead of the ghost mother-in-law, and then cut the entire Tianling cover, pressed the ghost mother-in-law's body with his hand, and then said to me: "You come and pull the rope." ”

I stepped forward and grabbed the end of the rope a little at a loss, looking at Ji Zongbu, although my heart was shocked, I didn't dare to be careless, I grabbed the rope with both hands, and began to tense little by little.

The five barbs of the stripping were hooked on the ghost mother-in-law's heavenly spirit cover, and when I pulled it like this, the hook was torn out with the skin and flesh, and the whole skin was gradually separated from the flesh and bones, leaving layers of white film that wrapped the flesh and bones, and I forcibly stripped off her entire skin with a breath of disgust.

Looking at the appearance of the ghost mother-in-law again, I gasped, under this skin, there is a monster hidden!

The monster looked like a child of three or four years old, with a hunched body, covered with dark green scales, a face like a monkey, a ball of meat like a plate on its head, and a turtle shell behind it!

"This is the Yellow River Water Boy, an amphibian, who has been cultivating for some years, and skillfully borrowed the old woman's skin to go ashore to confuse people's minds, and now it is dead, so you can dispose of it."

Ji Zongbu said lightly, as if he had done something that had nothing to do with him, I saw him turn around and was about to go back to the house, so I hurriedly stopped him and said, "What about Yingzi, and the thing that came to my house, he killed my grandfather!" ”

"Those two things are very powerful, now is not the time, you wait by the river, wait for the Yellow River to dry up and call me."

Ji Zongbu stopped when he passed by his father, "When the matter is over, you can put this thing wherever it comes from, and don't talk nonsense if there are other things that shouldn't be said, be careful to die." ”

Daddy's face changed while holding the mud tire, and he sighed long, "Second baby, you will understand your grandfather's intentions sooner or later." ”

I didn't know what to say, I hesitated for a long time but gave up, picked up the stripping basket from the ground, washed it and put it in my pocket, and said to my father: "Dad, you can rest well, just hand over this corpse to me." ”

Dad looked at me meaningfully and carried the mud tire into the house, I stood in the yard for a while, found the rope that bound the corpse of my grandfather before, tied it around the neck of the water boy, dragged its body to the old locust tree in the middle of the village, and hung it on it, the whole process, Yingzi has been standing aside and watching coldly.

After doing all this, I sat alone by the Yellow River, looking at the tumbling river, praying that the river would soon dry up, and when you dried up, grandpa's great revenge would be avenged.