all the way without saying a word, followed my grandmother to the door of Chen's blind man's house soon, this is the first time I came to Chen's blind man's house, and it is also the last time.

     At a glance, the yard is not big, quite dilapidated, and there is a circle of earthen courtyard walls, on which artemisia grass grows. The gate of the courtyard was open at this time, and my grandmother led me into the courtyard, and I looked into the courtyard again, and at a glance I saw a grape trellis, and on both sides of the grape trellis there were two thick and tall plane trees, and the grape trellises were built by the trunks of the two plane trees. Grandma said, "What's this called?" One servant and two children, what kind of feng shui should be in the house, which probably means that there are servants in the family, and there are children who serve tea and pour water. However, I guess that it should be my poor brother who is serving tea and water to Chen's blind man's house now.

    Because it was already dark at this time, I didn't see some details in the yard too clearly, I looked at the grape trellis and the plane tree, and I felt that there seemed to be a basin-sized grinding disc under the grape trellis, black, maybe a flat stone. I wondered what this thing was for, and what it meant to put it under the grape trellis.

     Suddenly, the grinding disc moved, as if it was a living thing, I was startled, quickly pulled the corner of my grandmother's clothes, and whispered to my grandmother: "Grandma, look, what is that!" ”

    Grandma turned her head to look under the grape trellis, turned back to me and said calmly: "That's the old turtle raised by your blind grandfather, it has been raised for decades, don't make a fuss." ”

    "Really? I blinked twice, "Why is there such an old turtle?" "I've never seen such a big old turtle when it grows so big, I said, I turned around and was about to walk towards the grape trellis, my grandmother grabbed me, "Don't touch it, this old turtle has spirituality, this is the first time your blind man gave people a grave, it climbed on the surface of your blind man's feet." ”

    When I heard it, I became even more curious, and there is such a thing? I really wanted to go over and see it, but my grandmother pulled me very tightly, so I had to give up, or I had to go over and have a good look.

     Grandma pulled tightly, and walked towards the only dilapidated old house in the yard, which was the old house of the Republic of China in the past, and the house where I lived with my grandmother at that time was exactly the same as this.

    At this time, the lights were on in the room, as if they were still oil lamps, and the lights were dim and flickering. There is a bamboo curtain hanging in front of the door, and through the gap in the curtain, you can see a figure shaking inside, looking at the figure, like the blind man. When I walked to the curtain, there was still a sound inside, I held my breath and listened carefully, and immediately stood up excitedly, it was my brother's voice, the voice was not loud, as if he was reciting some mantra.

    Grandma opened the curtain and pulled me into the house, there was an oil lamp lit in the room, and my brother sat on a small stool next to the oil lamp.

    "Grandma! Elder brother! My brother saw us at a glance and jumped up from the stool with joy.

    Almost at the same time, the ruler in Chen's blind hand smashed hard on my brother's head, and my brother immediately shrank his neck. I said in my heart, this old blind man can't see with his eyes, and his ruler is quite accurate.

    Chen said to my brother: "What did the teacher tell you, everything must be single-minded, Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and his face did not change, sit down, and then give me a back!" ”

    My brother covered his head with his hands and sat back on the stool, looking pitiful, I looked at my nose and was sour, but my brother's tricks of pretending to be pitiful were all difficult to use here to Chen Blind, because Chen Blind couldn't see.

    I took a step to walk towards my brother, but my grandmother grabbed me, glared at me fiercely, and didn't tell me to pass.

     Chen Blind Man turned his head and smiled at me and my grandmother at this time, and said: "Brother and sister are here, I heard it as soon as you entered the yard, but my brother is disciplining this apprentice, and he didn't go out to greet you, forgive your sins." ”

    Grandma hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, what's going on in Huangshan?" ”

    Chen Blind smiled again: "Yes, your two grandsons are very good." ”

    I looked at my brother, honestly sitting on the stool like a sheep and carrying it again, it was really a little bit 'sad that he is not that, angry that he is not that'. I turned my face to look at the rest of the room, and the thin-lipped woman was there, sitting honestly on a bench in the northeast corner. The furnishings in the room are old, and when you walk in coldly, you feel like you are really in the old society. On the east side of the house, next to the north and east walls, there was a small bed in the north-south direction, which seemed to be the bed where my brother slept. A little south of the small bed is a room, which seems to be the bedroom of Chen's blind man, the format is almost the same as the room where my grandmother and I live, my bed is also facing north-south, and the south end of the bed is also close to the inner room where my grandmother sleeps. I don't know if it's a coincidence, or if there's something else to say.

    The thin-lipped woman also stood up from the stool at this time, and said to grandma: "Bai Xiangu, you are here." ”

    Grandma smiled faintly at her, looked at the woman, and asked, "Are you alone, what about you man?" ”

    The woman replied, "I am a man who works in other places and rarely comes back. ”

    Grandma nodded, then went straight to the point and said, "Last time we were short of time, I didn't have time to tell you, do you still have children's clothes at home?" ”

    "Yes, I didn't even want to throw it. The woman said.

    "That's good, it saves a lot of trouble. Grandma said, "Go home now and get one, and we'll go when you bring the clothes." ”

    The woman answered, said politely to Chen Blind, and immediately went home to get the clothes.

    After the woman left, Chen Blind groped his way to the table of eight immortals in the middle hall, I looked at the table, there was a set of tea sets on the table, a tray with patterns, and a ginger teapot was placed in it, and there were six tea bowls with the same color as the teapot around the teapot, and the tea bowls were buckled in the tray, and there were patterns on them. I don't know much about it, so I feel that this set of tea has been around for some years.

    Chen Blind Man quickly touched the teapot, turned over a tea bowl, and poured a cup of tea. Chen Blind said: "Come and sit down brother and sister, this is the West Lake Longjing that someone else gave to my brother, you can taste it." ”

    "Blind brother, you're welcome. Grandma said, and walked over to the chair at the table and sat down.

    Chen Blind Man brought the tea bowl to his grandmother and said, "After a while, I will summon the soul of the child of the Cui family, and my brother will not go, and my brother will ...... now." Now I just want to pass on all these skills to your grandson, when will it be finished, and when will my brother's wish be fulfilled. ”

    Grandma listened to what Blind Chen said, frowned and glanced at Blind Chen, but Grandma didn't say anything, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, but after the tea bowl was put down, I saw that Grandma's face became a little heavy. Of course, this must have nothing to do with West Lake Longjing, these elderly people have seen through a lot of things, and grandma seems to have guessed the real reason why Chen Blind Man is in a hurry to help my brother grow seedlings......

    Grandma was drinking tea here, and Blind Chen picked up a ruler and walked around my brother again. At this time, I stood beside my grandmother, showing my grandmother to death, I couldn't go to my brother to disturb my brother, and I couldn't run to the yard to see the turtles, and the whole room, except for my brother's whispered recitation, seemed dull and dim.

    Perhaps, some friends are curious about what my brother recited at this time, you are so lucky, I really remembered a few sentences, my brother reversed: "A sheep Wu Geng cow, B monkey has a rat head, C chicken Ding pig goes, Ren rabbit kui snake swims ......" what does it mean, don't ask me, the ghost knows.

    More than ten minutes later, the thin-lipped woman came back, holding a dress and a pair of pants in her hand, which looked quite new, and it was estimated that her child had not worn them a few times.

    The book says it is short. After the woman entered the door, my grandmother hurriedly got up from the chair, said goodbye to Blind Chen, and took me out with the woman.

    On the way, my grandmother chatted with a woman, and I listened with my ears pricked up.

    The woman is not yet thirty years old this year, and she married his man for a few years before giving birth to this child, but she didn't expect it to ...... The woman cried again.

    Grandma chatted with the woman about something else, the parents were short, but when the woman mentioned her neighbors, even relatives and friends, the tone and tone, as if everyone was sorry for her, she herself also said that she was very popular in the village, everyone said irresponsible things to her, as long as she heard some trouble, she would run to other people's houses and quarrel with others.

    Grandma listened, so she told her that in the future, be more tolerant of others, stand in the position of others and think about it, the children in the family can have this kind of thing, it is because the fortune of the family is low, if the fortune is high, there is naturally the blessing of the gods, and the fortune of the family is maintained by their usual accumulation of virtue and good deeds.

    The woman nodded again and again after listening, whether she heard it in her ears or in her heart, I don't know this.

    While talking, we came to the place where the women and children drowned, which belongs to the junction of our village and the west village, surrounded by crops, quite a quiet place.

    I looked into the pit, the pit here is not too wide, the slope is also very gentle, and it is a good place for us children to choose to go into the water.

    Grandma walked to the edge of the pit and looked at the water, then turned back to the woman and asked, "Is this it?" ”

    The woman nodded, raised her hand and pointed to a place on the water on the opposite bank, and said, "They said that they fished the child up from there." ”

    Grandma looked at the place the woman was pointing to, turned her face and said to me, "Huang He, you stay away." ”

    I stay away? Why do you tell me to hide? Reluctantly, I walked along the path by the pit towards our village for more than ten meters until I saw that my grandmother and the woman had become two black shadows, but I could still tell which one was my grandmother.

    At this time, the time was about ten o'clock in the evening, and there was no moon in the sky, and there was a slight wind, which was quite cool.

    I stood in the distance and looked at my grandmother, and I saw two figures shaking, and I didn't know what they were doing, and after a while, suddenly from my grandmother and they came a woman's shout, the woman dragged a long scale, and it sounded ethereal and weird.

    "Yong-Wang-, come back-come-...... Yong-Wang-, come back-come-......"

    In the middle of the night, hearing this voice, those who don't know will definitely get goosebumps.

    The woman shouted a dozen times and suddenly stopped. I looked at them as hard as I could, and I saw my grandmother go to the water's edge and squat, and after a while, there was a fire around my grandmother, and it seemed that my grandmother had set the yellow paper on fire, and then my grandmother stood up, and the burning yellow paper was in her hand, and with a wave of her hand, all the burning yellow paper was sprinkled into the water for my grandmother.

    At this time, I saw a thing, white, slowly crawling out of the water, crawling towards my grandmother and the woman little by little, my scalp suddenly tightened, just about to shout, but the thing was gone again, I blinked my eyes twice and looked again, or no, I wondered, is it because I am dazzled?

    At this moment, my grandmother's voice was heard, "Huanghe, come here, go back." ”

    Listening to my grandmother shouting, I thought, go back, I didn't just go back here, grandma walked over to me, and called me back to do something.

    I trotted back, and my grandmother was whispering to the woman at this time, "From now on, you can't look back into the pit again, take the path, and you can't talk when you meet people on the road, you walk in front, I and my grandson follow you, all the way to the cemetery, when to walk to the grave, when to stop." ”

    The woman nodded, and I glanced at the woman, and the pants that the woman had been holding were gone, and she was holding the dress tightly in her arms, and it seemed to have just been fished out of the water, and it was still dripping down.

    After the grandmother explained, the woman was also quite simple, hugged her clothes and walked away, and after the woman walked five or six meters away, grandma stretched out her hand and pulled me, following behind the woman.