My grandmother looked at my dad, didn't speak, and pulled me out the door. When I came to the yard, I saw that the light in my grandmother's house was still dark, I was still young at that time, and I couldn't think about it so much, but now I think about it, my dad should not be the grandma I found in the hall, my grandma seems to have just come back from outside, and should have come back later than me.

I was dragged into the hall by my grandmother, who turned on the lamp and asked me to sit on a chair in the middle hall, and she turned around and went into the back room, took out an oil lamp from the house and lit it. At that time, the power supply here was not normal, there were power outages every three or five times, and every household still had oil lamps and candles in their homes.

My grandmother put the oil lamp at my feet, pulled up the right trouser leg for me, squatted down and picked up the oil lamp to check my right foot and neck. I also lowered my head to look at my right foot and neck, and I saw five faint finger prints on my neck, four fingers on the front of my ankle, and my thumb on my heel, all of them were pale black, not the kind of black that was particularly eye-catching, but the kind of pale black that looked like smoke.

My grandmother pressed the five finger prints with her fingers one by one, very lightly, and then looked up and asked me, "Does it hurt?" ”

I shook my head and replied, "It doesn't hurt, it's just a little numb and a little cold." ”

My grandmother stood up from the ground, "You sit still, grandma can find something for you to smoke." With that, she put the oil lamp on the square table next to me, and my grandmother turned and went into the back room again.

After a while, Grandma took out a bundle of incense and a large clump of wormwood leaves from the house. The wormwood leaves may have been from last year, and they have long since dried, and some of them are still rolled, and if you accidentally grab them, they will break into foam.

The incense and wormwood leaves were put on the square table, and my grandmother went to the courtyard water pipe to get half a basin of cold water, and the basin was placed at my feet, and all the wormwood leaves were put into the basin, and then sat down on the chair on the other side of the square table to batch the bundle of incense.

The incense we sell here is the kind that is particularly ancient and traditional, generally four to six sticks are glued into a batch, and when burning, you need to carefully open them one by one.

At this time, I sat on the chair and was sleepy, this is my practice, after crying a lot, I became sleepy, the upper and lower eyelids fought, the head was planted, my grandmother saw it and told me to count the incense, she approved one, I counted one, when I counted to the thirty-sixth, my grandmother stopped approving it, put the thirty-six incense sticks together, and put the remaining incense back in the back room.

We burn incense for the immortals here, and if we want to save trouble, we will burn three, and if we want to be sincere, we will burn them in bundles, a bundle of seventy-two, which is called the incense of heaven and earth, and the thirty-six incense sticks that my grandmother approved at this time are not burned to the gods, but to deal with ghosts, and then I did the same.

After the incense was ready, my grandmother squatted on the edge of the basin and looked at the wormwood leaves inside, at this time, the wormwood leaves had been soaked in semi-soft because of the water, and the water in the basin was no longer as clear as before, a little muddy and dark.

At this time, I wanted to sleep again, yawning for a long time, and my grandmother raised her head and said to me, "Don't sleep yet, wait until the leaves are soaked and grandma will wash you before sleeping." ”

I wiped away the tears that had been squeezed out of my yawning and nodded.

Just then, my dad pushed the door open and walked in, and my grandmother looked back at him and got up from the ground.

My dad walked up to my grandmother, looked at the incense on the square table, then at the basin, and asked my grandmother in a slightly unhappy tone: "Mom, where did you take the Yellow River after eating?" ”

My grandmother seemed very calm at this time, helped down the table and walked to the chair she had just given, and sat down slowly. My grandmother said, "I didn't go anywhere, so I took him to the mass grave in the south of the village." ”

"What?" My dad was stunned, and soon, my dad raised his voice a little: "Mom, what are you taking him there for?" ”

"Practice your guts." As she spoke, my grandmother turned her face to play with the incense on the table, and my dad looked at my grandma's eyes flickering, and soon, my dad asked again in a slightly anxious tone, "Mom, did you teach him those things?" ”

Grandma glanced at me, nodded, and said unhurriedly: "I have taught him, I started teaching him when I was less than four years old, and I have been teaching him for many years." ”

"What do you teach him to do?" My dad's voice was louder, and it seemed to me that it was a bit of a rejuvenating teacher, and then my dad raised his hand and pointed at me, and then said, "You still want him to be like you, and ask someone else to pour boiling water on his neck!" ”

I didn't understand what my dad meant, I turned my head to look at my grandmother, my grandmother's face darkened, and she slowly turned her head to look at my dad, I saw that my grandmother's eyes seemed to be about to shed tears, and my grandmother said to my dad in a low voice: "Zhenlong, you said, your dad can't learn this, why did your grandpa take me out of the mountains and pass these on to me?" ”

My dad twisted his face when he heard this, and said disdainfully, "How do I know?" ”

"You don't know...... Then mom will tell you. My grandmother sighed, and then said: "Our ancestors have this craft, we can't lose it, your grandfather brought me back from the mountain, I just don't want to break this craft, I want to ask my mother to continue to pass it down, if I beat my mother in this life, when my mother dies, how can I have the face to see your grandfather and your grandfather?" You don't want to learn, my mother can only pass it on to my grandson, think about it, my mother is so old, how many years can she live? Do you want to make your mother die without blinding? ”

My dad listened and gritted his back molars, as if he couldn't find anything to refute my grandmother, he looked at me and asked, "You took him to the mass grave to practice his courage, why did he scratch the ghost's feet?" ”

My grandmother also glanced at me, and said with some embarrassment: "Originally, I took him to practice his courage today, but this child's yang energy is too heavy, and those things can't reach him at all, so my mother pinched a piece of 'yin mud' to suppress his yang energy, that is, I want him to see and understand, who knows, he accidentally stepped on someone's grave, it was nothing, but the grave ...... That is the grave of an old bachelor in our village, the old bachelor was unreasonable and intolerant of people during his lifetime, whoever offended him, he gave the mouse medicine to someone's chicken coop, destroyed other people's crops, and after he died, he felt that the whole village could not live with him, and he was not angry, and he was reluctant to leave. When Huang He was two years old, didn't a woman in our village come to ask for food, in her forties, died at the door of Lao Zhang's house, do you remember? ”

My dad looked at my grandmother inexplicably and asked, "Why did you get involved with that person who asked for food again?" ”

"I'll just ask you, do you remember?"

My dad nodded: "I remember, the woman who asked for food was very timid, and went to Lao Zhang's door to ask for food, but the big wolf dog of Lao Zhang's family barked, which scared her to death. ”

"Yes, the woman happened to be buried next to the old bachelor, after the woman's first seven passed, it was time to go, the old bachelor pestered her not to let her go, and then the two of them got better, on the day of the two of them getting married, just about to worship the church, our Yellow River cried, that time the crying was very strong, the woman, she was timid before she was born, and she was even less timid after being a ghost, and when our Yellow River cried, they listened to it as if the sky was thundering, and as a result, our Yellow River scared the woman away, and the old bachelor hated our Yellow River, But he didn't dare to come to our house to make trouble. Today, I suppressed the yang energy of the Yellow River, but unfortunately, the Yellow River stepped on his coffin again, and after alarming him, he saw that the yang energy on the Yellow River was insufficient, which had to be calculated together with his new and old accounts. ”

My dad frowned after hearing this, with a little anger on his face, and said, "Mom, are you saying that the finger prints on the feet and neck of the Yellow River were caught by the old bachelor?" Tomorrow I will go to the mass grave and dig up his grave and smash his bones! ”

My grandmother hurriedly waved her hand at my father, "Zhenlong, you are forty years old, why hasn't your temper changed at all, you know that you beat and smash, is this the way to solve the problem, and if you beat your mother, you shouldn't agree to your grandfather to teach you martial arts, you don't care about this matter, not only the old bachelor, but also an old widow who hanged herself, the old widow lives in the east of our village, and hanged herself a few years ago, just because the neighbor said that she stole the vegetables in front of his house, the old widow said that she didn't steal, no children and no daughters, and no one supported her, and she couldn't think about it. hanged herself, and after three years of death, she came back to his neighbor to take revenge, but as a result, our family Huang He cried, so frightened that she no longer dared to enter the village, and the revenge was not avenged. ”

"She caught it too?" My dad frowned again, because the old widow is good, the old bachelor is careful, even if he grabs my feet and neck, this kind old widow also comes to arrest him, obviously my dad, the son who can "roar in the sky", has been mixed to the point of anger between people and ghosts.

My grandmother nodded, "She caught it too." ”

My dad looked at me and asked, "Then where were you then, why don't you care?" ”

My grandmother said: "I'm just watching from the sidelines, I thought, Huang He can say two cruel words, and if he says it, he can scare them away, who thinks, this child is too wretched, he knows how to cry, I don't care about him as soon as I am ruthless, I want to teach him a lesson from those things, and he can have a little bit of success in the future." ”

As soon as my dad heard my grandmother's words, he raised his hand and slapped me on the head, scolding: "Why did you give birth to such a child, and if you encounter this kind of thing in the future, you will fight them!" ”

My dad is very much like my grandfather.

This slap was quite painful, I wanted to fall asleep, but after this slap, I wanted to cry, but I didn't dare to cry, I held back.

At this time, the wormwood leaves in the basin were completely softened, my grandmother walked to the basin and squatted down, pinched out two pieces from it and looked at it, turned her head and said to my father: "It's not early, you go back to the house to sleep, don't worry, our child is different from other children, if you put other children along, you can't come back at all, even if you can come back, now you have a high fever and can't wake up, this child is a good material, but lack of exercise." ”

"Then I'll go back to the house, Mom." My dad looked at my grandma, then at me, turned to leave, and walked to the door a few steps, my dad seemed to remember something again, and turned back to my grandma and said, "Mom, just teach him one, don't teach the second child anymore." ”

My grandmother nodded.

After my dad left, my grandmother stirred the water in the basin with her hands, picked up the water and washed my feet and neck, washed it a dozen times, and fished out a few wormwood leaves from the basin and pasted them on those finger prints.

After wiping her hands, my grandmother stood up and picked up the incense on the table, lit it with an oil lamp, and asked me to straighten my legs and lift my feet flat, my grandmother squatted next to me, rested on wormwood leaves, and began to smoke my feet and neck, and asked me as she smoked, "Do you feel it?" ”

I replied, "It's a little cold." ”

My grandmother said, "Tell me when it's hot." ”

Grandma said that after a while, I felt that the wormwood leaves attached to my feet and neck began to heat up, at first I felt very comfortable, warm, and later, it got hotter and hotter, and then I screamed: "Grandma, it's hot!" ”

My grandmother hurriedly took the incense away. After extinguishing the incense, my grandmother asked me, "Do you hate the two people who grabbed your feet and necks in the woods?" ”

I shook my head.

"Do you want to seek revenge on them?"

I shook my head again and whispered, "I don't dare." ”

"If grandma takes you over to take revenge on them, will you dare?"

I asked my grandmother, "Can you beat them?" ”

My grandmother smiled, "Of course I can beat them, and tomorrow my grandmother will take you there again to avenge you." ”

When I heard this, I asked, "You're not going to leave me behind, are you?" ”

"No, grandma will take your hand this time and go over together."

I shook my head again, "I don't want to go, I don't dare." ”

My grandmother twitched her face slightly, "We don't have a brave child like you in our family, your grandfather killed the dragon king in the river at the age of nineteen, and your father also killed a dragon in the rose spring at the age of twenty-two. ”

I nodded and my grandmother smiled, even though she didn't know that I was scared......

(Thanks to the crown of "anny1238" for the tip, thank you!) ）