When I got home and settled my grandfather, it was already dark. My grandmother didn't stop for a moment, said to my grandfather, and drove the donkey cart back to Huanghuadong. By the time she arrived at Huanghua Cave, it was already completely dark. The donkey cart was tied to a date tree under the mountain, and my grandmother rushed up the mountain in the dark. This time, my father was left at home, and my grandmother was left alone.

When she arrived at the first Taoist temple platform on the mountain, she found that the whole mountain was quiet, usually at this time, there should be Xinyangzi apprentices on the platform at the entrance of the first Taoist temple to cook on the fire, not to mention the fire today, even a figure can not be seen.

Walked to the gate, the door was closed, the inside was dark, retreated to the center of the platform, looked up to the top of the mountainside and looked at the road, the gate above seemed to be open, and a glimmer of light came from inside, and it seemed that everyone had gathered there.

Could something be wrong again? My grandmother muttered to herself and hurried along the path to the highest temple.

Waiting on the second platform, my grandmother finally felt a little wrong, it seemed very quiet in all directions, but there was a faint cry of a child in the quiet, I have to say that this feeling is very contradictory, as if the whole world was quiet and only this little cry was left, and then look at the light from the top Taoist temple, there was no figure shaking under the light, it seemed very deserted. In this second Taoist temple, there were several apprentices of Xinyangzi who were asleep, but at this time it was also dark.

My grandmother picked up her pace again and went straight up the road. When my grandmother was about to reach the third platform, she heard clearly, the child's cry came from the hall above, and the sound was very similar to Xue Laosi's two-year-old girl.

My grandmother quickened her pace again, and when she came to the third platform, she saw that there was still no one on the platform, and the wings on the left and right sides of the hall were also darkly lit. Isn't Xue Laosi lying in the right wing, how can the lights be dark at this time, where have all the people gone?

My grandmother was puzzled, hurriedly walked into the hall to see, and saw an oil lamp lit on the offering table of the statue of Sanqing in the hall, the statue of Sanqing was solemn, but there was no one in the hall, the child's cry came from the ear room in the right rear corner of the hall, my grandmother turned her head to take a look, that was where Xinyangzi stayed. (Empty falling, pronouncing lao, the fourth tone, not pronouncing luo.) ）

I saw that the door of the ear chamber was closed, and there was a bright light shining in the crack of the door, and my grandmother walked to the door and gently pushed the door, and the door was hidden, and it opened with a creak, and a bright light came out of it. My grandmother looked inside, and there were a dozen candles lit on a small round table, and the small ear room was several times brighter than the main hall.

Under the candlelight, Xin Yangzi squinted his eyes and frowned, holding Xue Laosi's daughter and coaxing. Perhaps because there were many adopted children in the past, Xinyangzi was quite skilled in coaxing children, walking back and forth in the ear chamber while shaking. However, this girl didn't seem to eat Xinyangzi's set, and squeezed her eyes and cried in Xinyangzi's arms.

When my grandmother pushed the door open, the girl immediately stopped crying and looked at my grandmother, perhaps she was confused and recognized the wrong person, and stretched out her two little arms to my grandmother, and shouted: Mom! Mom!

The little girl said "Mom" twice and added a little tearful face, almost didn't call my grandmother's heart, and hurriedly walked over to take the girl from Xinyangzi's hands. Xin Yangzi was suddenly relieved, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from the corner of his forehead.

While coaxing the girl, my grandmother asked him, "Dao Chief, it seems that you are the only one left in the view, but what about the others?" ”

When Xin Yangzi heard this, he glanced at my grandmother with a guilty face, and said in frustration: "All of them went down the mountain to chase Xue Laosi." ”

"What, what's going on?" My grandmother frowned.

Xinyangzi sighed and said: "Today's lunch, that Xue Laosi suddenly got out of bed, ran away, we were not prepared, and when it was reflected, he had run down the mountain, Xue Shizhu and a few of them hurriedly went down the mountain to chase him, Poor Dao was afraid that they would have an accident, so he asked the apprentices to accompany them down the mountain, and Xue Laosi's daughter-in-law, handed over the child to Poor Dao, and also followed them to chase Xue Laosi, and until this time he did not return to ......" Xinyangzi finished speaking, sighed again, and looked anxious. At this time, Xin Yangzi was almost seventy years old, older than Old Man Xue, of course, he could no longer be expected to chase Xue Laosi.

When my grandmother heard this, her brows frowned even tighter, Xue Laosi's soul was incomplete at this time, it shouldn't be possible to get out of bed and run around, this thing is a bit weird, maybe he was possessed by something.

My grandmother hurriedly asked Xin Yangzi, "In which direction did Xue Laosi run away?" ”

Xin Yangzi shook his head and said, "Poor Dao was giving incense to the Yellow Flower Great Immortal at that time, and when the apprentice told Poor Dao, that Xue Laosi had already run down the mountain. ”

My grandmother thought about it, guessed and said, "Will we go to the mass grave?" ”

Xin Yangzi shook his head again and said: "According to the poor road, it shouldn't be, if you go to the mass grave, there is a road on the mountain, why bother to go far." ”

My grandmother nodded, and at this time, the girl in my arms put my grandmother to sleep, and my grandmother handed her to Xin Yangzi and whispered: "You put this child on the bed, I'll go down the mountain to Lao Xue's house to have a look." ”

"Fairy Gu wait a minute." Xin Yangzi hurriedly stopped my grandmother and said, "It's getting late, and it is inconvenient for the fairy aunt to go down the mountain alone, so it's better to go with you in the poor way." ”

My grandmother's eyes lowered, looked at the girl in Xinyangzi's arms, and said, "It's not safe to leave this child alone on the mountain, so the Taoist chief should stay and take care of this child......

As soon as my grandmother said this, the girl suddenly opened her eyes, looked up at Xinyangzi, turned her face to look at my grandmother, and cried again, and at the same time, two little arms stretched out to my grandmother. My grandmother couldn't help it, so she asked for a girl from Xinyangzi and coaxed it again.

This night, my grandmother failed to go down the mountain to find Xue Laosi, basically coaxed the child all night, until dawn, the child fell asleep, my grandmother at this time the upper and lower eyelids also fight, holding the child lying on the bed in the left wing room and falling asleep.

The next day, until the third pole of the day, my grandmother woke up, because she slept in clothes, and did not need to wear clothes, turned over and sat up and got off the bed, put on her shoes and looked back at the bed, the little girl was still asleep, and she slept quite soundly.

Open the door and walk out of the wing, the sun is dazzling, the air is fresh, my grandmother looked into the distance a few times, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, this mountain is really a good place.

At this moment, a series of footsteps came, and my grandmother turned her head to look, and saw Xin Yangzi walking onto the platform little by little, her face heavy.

My grandmother suddenly remembered that Xue Laosi ran down the mountain yesterday, and she still hasn't believed it, so she hurriedly walked over and asked Xinyangzi, "Dao Chief, have your apprentices come back, have you found Xue Laosi?" ”

Hearing this, Xin Yangzi first nodded, and then shook his head. When my grandmother saw it, she was puzzled, but as far as Xinyangzi's sad face was concerned, something must have happened. My grandmother hurriedly asked, "Dao Chief, is something wrong?" ”

Xin Yangzi nodded very lowly, sighed and said, "Bai Xiangu, late last night, something big happened......

Xinyangzi led my grandmother to sit down on a few stone piers on the platform, and told my grandmother about what happened late last night.

It turned out that Xinyangzi's apprentices had already returned at dawn, and they brought back terrible news, but at that time, because my grandmother had just coaxed the child to sleep, Xinyangzi couldn't bear to wake her up.

Xinyangzi's apprentices said that after they went down the mountain with Old Man Xue's family, they searched everywhere at the bottom of the mountain, but they couldn't find Xue Laosi, and several people kept finding Erchangtian, and they were all tired. At that time, Old Man Xue said to Xinyangzi's apprentices, it's not too early, you guys go back to Guanli first, I'll take my daughter and daughter-in-law home to see, if there is no one at home, let's look for it again.

Xinyangzi's apprentices are also very responsible, and they have searched all the ten miles and eight villages under the mountain, but they have not been to Old Man Xue's house to find them, so it is better to go to their house to have a look, and go back to give the master a satisfactory explanation. So, several apprentices offered to go home with Old Man Xue and them, and if there was no more at home, they would go back to the mountain. When Old Man Xue heard this, he didn't say anything, and took them home.

At this time, there was only one Gong family left in the old man Xue's house, their eldest daughter-in-law and third daughter-in-law, since Xue Laosi went crazy, they all felt that the family was evil, and they took the children back to their parents' house.

When I arrived at the door of Lao Xue's house, it was already three and a half days, and a group of people found that the courtyard door and the door were open.

Because it was dark, they couldn't see anything, so they waited for a group of people to come into the house, light the oil lamps, and look into the house...... All of them were frightened.

I saw a person squatting in the west corner of the house, this person was covered in blood, and he was holding a pair of scissors in his hand, and the scissors were also bloody, and he looked at that face, his eyes were dull, and his face was expressionless, this person was none other than Xue Laosi!

Xue Laosi noticed that everyone was looking at him at this time, and suddenly opened his mouth and smirked, and the laughing crowd was creepy.

When everyone stabilized their minds and looked at him, there was a string of bloody footprints beside him, the footprints stretched from Old Man Xue and Gong's bedroom to Xue Laosi's feet, and then looked at Xue Laosi's feet without shoes, which were also full of blood.

Old man Xue immediately yelled that it was not good, and rushed into the bedroom like crazy, and as soon as he rushed in, there was a "poof" sound.

Seeing this, Xinyangzi's apprentices picked up the oil lamp on the table and went into the bedroom, holding the oil lamp to shine into the bedroom......

"Ahh Xinyangzi's apprentices, Old Man Xue's son-in-law, and Xue Laosi's daughter-in-law were also frightened.

I saw a person on the bed in the bedroom, **naked "big" character tied to a person, judging from the half-white hair on this person's head and the shriveled on his chest**, it was an old woman, on this old woman's small belly, there was a big mouth, blood, intestines and stomach, the mouth flowed to the bed, and fell to the ground, Old Man Xue just rushed into the house and fell to the ground, it was the blood on the ground that slipped and fell!

At this time, Old Man Xue trembled and crawled up in the blood nest, looked at the bed by the light of the oil lamp, and directly "rooted" the ground, rolled his eyes, and turned his back......