Chapter Eighty-Nine: Qingling Earthquake [Second Watch]
Snow, pouring underground.
Wearing a red hat and going into the house, her grandmother woke up.
"Red Riding Hood, do you have a guest? Ahem, ahemβ"
The hoarse voice sounded again, accompanied by a violent cough, and it sounded like the old woman might have died soon.
"Yes, grandma, there was a man who went to a relative, got lost, came in to avoid the snow," replied in a red hat.
"Help me up," said the old woman.
The red hat answered, and then only the sound of a cry was heard, plus another violent cough, as if the grandmother in the red hat had gotten up.
After a while, as the coughing sound approached, the red hat helped her grandmother out of the east room.
I subconsciously looked up at her grandmother, full of doubts.
I think there may be something wrong with this old woman, because the yin qi in the house she lives in is too heavy, and ordinary people will definitely not be able to bear this yin qi, unless that person is not human......
However, when I actually saw the old woman, I was a little confused.
She has a rickety back, a thin figure, wearing an old cotton jacket of green cloth, holding a cane in her dry hands, her head is snow-white, her face is full of wrinkles, her eyes are cloudy, and there are some symptoms of eccentricity.
However, these superficial phenomena are still secondary, and the key problem I found at this time is that this old woman doesn't have any yin qi on her body, which makes me a little confused.
Shouldn't she live in a house like this as sinister as wearing a red riding hood? Why does she have no yin qi at all, and she is completely like a normal person?
This is definitely not a normal situation, there are no eggs under the nest, and the more normal the grandmother behaves, the more abnormal it is.
"Little boy, I look at you, you're not a local, right, where is your home?" The old lady sat down at the table, clutching her crutches in both hands, and gasped for breath as she looked at me and asked.
"Grandma, he's from Guan Shen Town," Dai Red Riding Hood answered for me first.
The old woman glared at the red hat and reprimanded her, "I didn't ask you, what did you say?" Cook the pot, is dinner ready? β
"Not yet, I'll go," the old grandmother said, and the red hat could only turn around and walk out with a face full of grievances.
After wearing the red hat and leaving, the old grandmother continued to look at me and said, "Little girl, what's your name?" β
"Liu Yijian," I replied.
"Oh," the old lady sighed, and then suddenly looked at me and asked, "Why don't you come out to survive during the day?" β
"Survival?" I was stunned, I didn't know what she meant by this, I guessed that it was a relative, so I pretended to understand, smiled at her, and said, "Well, yes." β
"Amazing," the old woman gave me a thumbs up, and then asked, "How have the mountains been peaceful lately?" β
"On the mountain?" I was puzzled again, and finally I could only follow her words and say, "Yes, it's all too peaceful." β
"That's good," the old woman coughed, squinted at me, lowered her voice, and asked me with a mysterious face, "How did you find my granddaughter?" β
Now I wondered even more, how did she know that I was here to wear a red riding hood?
Seeing that I hesitated to answer, the old grandmother smiled and said, "You don't have to hide it from me, I actually know who told you." β
When she said this, she sighed and said: "If you want to attack her, I can't stop it, but this child is really a little bitter, and he doesn't have a few days to live, you come here in white and black, I'm worried that she won't be able to hold on, so I beg you, can you let go of this time and let her delay for two days?" β
"Grandma, what do you mean, I didn't understand, I didn't want to hurt Red Riding Hood," I said with a frown as I looked at the old grandmother.
"Don't bluff me," the old woman looked at me and said, "You think I'm dizzy, deranged, and don't understand anything, tell you, in fact, I know everything, I know everything." β
I felt tired from talking to her, so I got up and said, "Grandma, why don't you sit down first, and I'll help Red Riding Hood." The snow is so heavy that I don't think I'll be able to leave for a while, and I might have to stay at your house tonight. β
"Okay, okay, let's live, let's live, one is coming, two are coming, all the same, I'm just such a granddaughter, you can do whatever you want, it's a big deal that I will give you this old life," the old grandmother looked at me, her neck trembled slightly, and said.
"You misunderstood, I was really passing through," I said, and came out of the house, full of doubts, into the pot house.
The pot house was low and cramped, full of firewood and grass, and when I entered, I was squatting on the ground in a red hat and lighting a fire.
Because the snow was too heavy, the house was damp inside and outside, and after the firewood was burned, the smoke was so strong that people couldn't open their eyes, and they wore a red hat while burning the fire, while wiping their tears and coughing, the situation was very painful.
I squeezed next to her and sat down on the haystack.
"Why are you here?" Red Riding Hood looked at me and smiled.
"I'll help you," I said to her.
She nodded, didn't speak, and continued to light the fire.
"Your grandma, uh, isn't she a little confused?" I hesitated for a long time, but finally asked the doubts in my heart.
"Yes, the doctor said she has Alzheimer's, she often speaks indistinctly, and she has a bad temper, so don't talk to her, she can't carry it," said the red hat to me.
"Well, I see," I nodded, pondered for a moment, and then pulled out the pair of bells from my pocket, slipped them in my hand, and shook them at her and asked, "Do you know this?" β
The red hat turned his head to look at the bell, his eyes obviously surprised.
"It looks familiar," she said, taking the bell and examining it carefully in the palm of her hand.
"Think again, where the hell have you seen this thing?" I looked at her and asked with some hope.
"I really can't remember, I don't have a good memory," she sighed helplessly, and as she spoke, her little hand subconsciously fiddled with one of the bells, her fingernails gently picking at the opening of the bell.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the bell suddenly vibrated rapidly.
"Humβ"
There was a screeching sound, which shocked me and Wearing the Red Riding Hood, and the Red Riding Hood subconsciously threw the bell to the ground.
"What's the matter with this bell? Could it be that there is a mechanism in it? Red Riding Hood asked, a little nervously.
"No, it's just a normal bell, and I don't know what's going on." As I spoke, I reached out and picked up the bells, only to find that one of the slightly yellowed bells was actually wet, covered with water, and even had some snow particles on it.
This made me curious, and I looked down at the ground and found that there was only a pile of hay, and there was no snow water, so where did the snow water on this bell come from?
I was a little confused, and subconsciously looked at the hand wearing the red hat, and found that her hand was also dry, which was even more strange.
However, just when I was wondering, the little fool probably got bored and wanted to come out to have fun, so he got out of my purple mansion and stood next to me and looked around, as if he wanted to find something interesting.
However, what I didn't expect was that at this time, she turned her head and saw the bell in my hand, and she couldn't help but tremble all over, and shouted to me: "Brother, quick, put the bell away, I'm afraid!" β