My grandmother had the courage to look at those eyes, and saw that these eyes did not have upper and lower eyelids, and there were simply a pair of round green beads embedded in the eye sockets, which were shining, really like snake eyes, and suddenly, this green head suddenly grinned grotesquely, and my grandmother suddenly gasped, this thing even had green teeth, it was extremely weird.

"Zhi'er, what are you looking at, why don't you hurry up and help!" My grandfather shouted coldly at the pot.

My grandmother was startled by the shout, and at the same time, the little green head in the tree, as if startled by my grandfather's shout, flashed and disappeared into the leaves.

My grandmother gathered her eyes at this time, turned her head to look at my grandfather, and saw that my grandfather was still there rowing firewood and firewood, but it seemed that he couldn't light it alive or dead.

My grandmother looked back at the tree again, and saw that the place where the green head appeared just now had been tightly covered by a compact mass of leaves, and I wondered if the green head was hidden behind the leaves, and it was not visible on the surface of the leaves anyway.

At this time, my grandfather urged the pot again, and my grandmother had to withdraw her gaze and walk towards the pot, but her heart was up and down, and from time to time she had to look back at the place where the green head appeared just now.

When I came to the pot table, my grandfather was still there vigorously rowing the fire, my grandmother felt very strange, and glanced at the fire in his hand, these foreign fire heads are all new, and the paper did not look damp, what happened? After thinking about it in my heart, a cat squatted next to my grandfather, planning to take the fire from my grandfather's hand and try it myself.

But my grandfather said to her, "Leave it alone, hold me a little fire, and don't wait for it to be blown out by the wind." ”

Hearing my grandfather say this, my grandmother subconsciously glanced into the pot, and saw that there were already a lot of foreign fire sticks on the firewood in the pot, and looked up at the tree, the leaves on the tree didn't even move, there was no wind at all, and immediately understood what was going on. So he said to my grandfather: "Brother, let's come, it's not the wind at all." ”

"What else could it be if it wasn't the wind?" My grandfather said firmly: "Don't believe it, I'll wait until I paddled your ......."

"Snort", my grandfather didn't finish speaking, a few foreign fires in his hand finally rowed for him, but the spark just jumped up from the head of the foreign fire, and then extinguished it on the ground, my grandfather suddenly scolded, and then scolded, and threw the scrapped foreign fire stick into the pot in a huff.

When my grandmother saw this, she reached out and was about to grab the fire from my grandfather's hand, when several women who were responsible for carrying water from the well returned.

"Yo, Brother Liu, it's not too short for you to light the fire, why haven't you lit it yet, if you boil bath water for your wife, your wife won't have to wait naked until the Year of the Monkey!" One of the middle-aged women in their forties put down her picks and said. The other women all laughed. Although it was a non-derogatory joke, it caused my grandfather's face to turn red and he couldn't hang it anymore.

My grandmother's face was also red, and she hurriedly took the fire from my grandfather's hand and whispered, "I'll come." As he spoke, he opened the foreign fire box and saw that there were only two left. My grandmother pulled one out of it and looked at the women, who were already busy filling the pot with water, and no one was paying attention to them.

My grandmother then took a deep breath, her lips slowly squirmed, and she whispered: "Impressive, the sun rises in the east, the fire in the south, the wind in the north, and the fire and star king are fast and urgent, and they are as urgent as the law!" ”

Cha!

A single foreign fire was rowed by my grandmother, the flames jumped suddenly, not extinguished at all, even the straw used to start the fire, as soon as I raised my hand, my grandmother directly threw the burning foreign fire stick into the pot, I saw the firewood in the pot at the moment when the foreign fire stick fell on the top, "whew" to the ground, all burned, the flames that came out seemed to explode, how high the bottom of the pot jumped up in an instant, a woman carrying a bucket was adding water to the pot was caught off guard, and was frightened by the flames that screamed "ah", I almost didn't throw the bucket into the pot.

Then several women looked at my grandmother and looked at each other, and it was then that they noticed that the little daughter-in-law was looking at her.

The middle-aged woman in her forties asked my grandmother with a terrified face, "How did you light this fire?" ”

My grandmother smiled and shook the fire box in her hand, "Light it with a fire." ”

Several women looked at my grandmother a few times, and the middle-aged woman in her forties asked, "Which village are you the little daughter-in-law of the village?" ”

My grandmother glanced at my grandfather, who cleared his throat and said with a smug expression, "This is my daughter-in-law." ”

"What?" As soon as my grandfather said this, several women looked at my grandmother, and then at my grandfather, the middle-aged woman smiled at my grandmother awkwardly, and the other women showed a look of disbelief, estimating the age of my grandfather and my grandmother, how could it be a couple.

At this time, my grandmother picked up the lid of the pot next to the pot, stood up and covered the pot, and accompanied my grandfather to light the fire. A few women looked at the two of them and muttered to the other side of the tree to cool off.

Seeing a few women leaving, my grandfather asked my grandmother, "Zhi'er, what kind of trick did you just use?" ”

My grandmother smiled and said: "I made the 'fire trick', just now your foreign fire was extinguished, it was blown out for the naughty little devils, read the 'fire trick' please go down to the fire De Xingjun, those little devils will not dare to blow again, if you can't light the fire in the future, just read this." ”

My grandfather was stunned when he heard this, "In this broad daylight, the little ghosts dare to come out?" ”

"Some imps can walk in the shade of trees during the day, didn't our dad tell you?"

"Nope." My grandfather shook his head, followed, and actually sighed, "Our father is just eccentric, he will teach you everything, but he won't teach me." ”

My grandmother licked her lips and didn't say anything, because until this time, my grandfather didn't know that he was "incomplete" and couldn't learn this, and the reason why he didn't tell my grandfather was because he was afraid that my grandfather would be sad to say it. In my grandfather's heart, he always thought that my grandfather was eccentric, but thinking that his wife learned it, he was relieved.

Neither of them spoke anymore and concentrated on boiling the pot.

After a while, the green smoke curled, the hot steam in the iron pot gradually bubbled, and the cheers of the group members training not far away came, and everything seemed so harmonious and calm.

However, my grandmother's heart was not at peace, and she never let go of the green head that had just poked out of the leaves, and from time to time she had to look up into the leaves above her head.

"Zhi'er, what have you been looking at the tree?"

My grandmother's overly frequent upward movement did not escape my grandfather's eyes. My grandmother smiled and said, "It's nothing, I just think how can this locust tree grow so big, how many years does it take?" ”

"It doesn't matter how long it lasts." As he spoke, my grandfather lifted the lid of the pot and looked at it, and saw that the water inside was boiling, and told my grandmother not to add firewood to the pot, and he lifted the lid completely by himself.

As soon as the lid of the pot was lifted, a stream of hot white steam came out of the pot, rose up, and followed by a sound of "bang-la-la" from the leaves directly above the iron pot.

My grandmother has been keeping an eye on it, and when she heard the sound, she hurriedly looked up, and saw that the leaves directly above the iron pot were swaying by the hot steam, and at this time, a cluster of leaves next to her suddenly shook, and my grandmother hurriedly turned her eyes to look, and the shaking leaves were the same as just now, and they parted again, and a small green head came out of it.

This time, the green head actually had a bitter face, and two lines of green liquid flowed out of the beads of the eyelid beads, and it felt like he was crying, with tears in his eyes.

My grandmother's heart was touched for some reason, and at the same time, she felt as if the green head was begging for something to herself.

At this time, my grandfather had already put the lid of the pot next to the pot, and unconsciously picked up the water scoop, scooping hot water from the pot into the iron teapot, and the hot steam from the pot was still rising, and the leaves of the trees above were shaking.

My grandmother understood, and immediately walked to the lid of the pot, raised her hand to pick up the lid and buckled it back onto the pot, my grandfather was scooping water out of the pot, and the lid was slammed on my grandmother, which startled my grandfather.

"Zhi'er, what are you doing!"

My grandmother looked straight and pointed to the tree, my grandfather couldn't understand what my grandmother meant, so he looked up at the tree, but he didn't see anything, "Zhi'er, what do you tell me to see, don't worry, there are no insects on this tree, and it won't fall into the pot." ”

My grandmother hurriedly pulled the corner of my grandfather's coat and whispered, "I didn't mean that, there is a little gadget living on this tree, and we smoked it when we boiled water." ”

"What?" My grandfather looked at my grandmother in amazement, "You're talking about evil things?" ”

My grandmother nodded.

"Really?"

"What am I lying to you about?"

My grandfather raised his head and looked carefully into the tree, but he still didn't see anything, and then said to my grandmother, "This old locust tree is too evil, and it's a little ghost blowing a fire in the shade of the tree, and it's an evil thing on the tree......

At this moment, a young man came running over from a distance, the young man was sweating profusely, and he came over and asked my grandfather, "Brother Liu, the water is boiling, I just saw you scooping water into the teapot." ”

My grandfather smiled, "Okay, okay." As he spoke, he lifted the iron teapot at his feet. The young man hurriedly picked up a porcelain bowl from the side of the pot and held it in front of my grandfather, who picked up the iron teapot and poured him a full bowl.

After the young man left with the bowl, my grandmother whispered to my grandfather, "Tomorrow you can discuss with your regimental commander, don't boil water under the tree, change places, if you annoy that thing on the tree, maybe something will happen." ”

My grandfather nodded, "I don't need to ask our regiment leader for this little matter, I can call the shots, and when the training is over today, I will ask them to dismantle the pot and change the place." With that, my grandfather turned the conversation around and asked my grandmother, "What the hell is this evil thing on this tree, do you see?" ”

My grandmother paused and said, "I see it, but I don't know what it is, so I'll ask my dad when I get home." ”

At this time, when I saw one coming, a group of people ran over one after another, and my grandfather hurriedly poured water for them, and it was not good for the two of them to say anything in front of so many people.

These local armed forces, generally there are no strict rules, it is said to be training, in fact, it is a group of young people dancing together with guns and sticks to consume excess energy in the body, if anyone is tired, talk to the leader, drink water and pee or something