As the rain drops fell from the sky, the surrounding white water vapor reflected the whole courtyard more lonely and mysterious, the big locust tree in the courtyard of the second son's house was washed by the rain, and the heavy locust leaves actually made a "rustle" sound, just like a lot of invisible people pacing in this yard in the rain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Everyone hugged the grandmother to the house of the second son's house to hide from the rain, the second son has been taking care of the second son in the house, the movement just now was big, she poked her head out to see what the situation was, but what she saw was the wonderful part, after the black snake was killed by the grandmother, the second son couldn't help but shout in the house.

The second son hurriedly beckoned Grandma Tai to sit on the kang, and took a stool for everyone, and was talking about going to pour water for everyone to drink, but was stopped by Grandma Tai, "His aunt, don't be busy yet, you, hurry up and put on a raincoat and go to the shovel to deal with the black snake first, remember, take the peach shovel, don't use the flat shovel!" ”

The father of the second son asked stupidly: "Grandma, why can you only use peach shovels?" Isn't it possible that this thing is still picky? ”

Seeing that everyone was full of doubts, my grandmother took over the conversation and explained: "That guy has been cultivating for many years, and he can't deal with ordinary snakes like ordinary snakes. ”

I thought to myself, grandma is going to improve the food, and I can't prepare it for a while to give us stewed snake meat to eat, my brain, I love to deviate :) Seeing me swallow my saliva vigorously, grandma continued: "We don't want to eat it, after chopping it carefully, find a newspaper to wrap it, and then tie it tightly with hemp rope, just put it next to the doorstone of your house, and then dispose of it together after we deal with the white snake." ”

Let put this thing next to the door-blocking stone I probably know the reason, in the countryside, pay attention to the place, there will be a door-blocking stone at the door of the house, in fact, it has a history, the scientific name should be called "stone dare dang", just like Zhong Kui, is the god of defilement and evil spirit, in the folk is very respected, presumably put the dead snake that may also make trouble next to the "stone dare to be", is to let the righteous pressure of this stone suppress its evil spirit. But why should you use newspaper wrappers and hemp rope to tie them?

I'm like this, I slipped around casually, and blurted out what I was thinking.

Grandma explained: "There is no difference between the newspaper itself and the paper, the difference is that there are words on the newspaper, and the 'text' is a thing of extreme yang, and the dense words on this newspaper can just suppress the evil spirit of this black snake." ”

Grandma's statement, now reminds me of a lot of things, for example, the Chinese New Year to paste the Spring Festival couplets, hanging money, the school corridor often hangs framed calligraphy works, the most connected is probably the cultural play market those who sell cultural toys, especially the old objects, you will find that they are using layers of newspapers to wrap these objects, presumably also afraid that there will be evil spirit on the objects over time, use the words on the newspaper to press it.

Grandma continued: "And the hemp rope is made by hand-twisting, in the process of kneading, in order to make the rope more dense, people have to rub it on the thighs with saliva, so it is stained with a lot of people's yang, and this hemp itself is also a yang thing, so it is safer to tie a few more with hemp rope." ”

Grandma's explanation was the Tao, and Grandma Tai, who was close her eyes and recuperate next to her, couldn't help but nod her head in praise. Since this is the case, don't delay, so the second son's mother put on a raincoat, and took a peach shovel, newspaper and hemp rope to deal with the dead snake, not to show it for the time being, and said that these people in the house, everyone's eyes were on the second son on the kang, only to see the second son lying upright on the kang, not like he was asleep, but he couldn't wake up.

Grandma Tai stretched out her hand to hold the wrist of the second son, her eyes were slightly closed, as if she was thinking, and she seemed to be distracted, and after a while, her brows were suddenly locked again, and the father of the second son asked with a crying voice: "Grandma, is the second son okay?" Why don't you wake up? Don't frown, if you can't save it, what can we do! ”

Grandma Tai ignored him, and asked me again: "What did you two see when you two went to the west of the village last evening?" You didn't touch that big pit, did you? ”

At the mention of the big pit, I almost didn't cry, not only did I touch it, but I also caught something from it to play! Alas, I regret this, what are you doing there, poking a hornet's nest, teasing Lao Hei with a stick, and shooting flies with a reed stick with a rubber band is not better than this, but there is no way, I will go, it is better to tell the truth, I have a fierce struggle in my heart. Not to mention that people will grow up involuntarily, it's not that people want to grow up, it's that people think more and more, so people grow up.

"We're going! The big pit was also touched! I lowered my head and squinted upwards at Grandma's expression.

Grandma didn't mean to reprimand me, which made me relax a lot, but she asked again: "Just you two, don't you see others?" ”

"Yes, there are two adults, standing by the river not far away, as if looking at something in the river, motionless, the woman is wearing white clothes, the man is wearing black clothes, and the strangest thing is that the clothes worn by the man are like the clothes worn by the people in "Water Margin", with a big shirt."

When Grandma Tai heard this, she looked at Grandma for a while, and both of them were silent for a long time, as if they were thinking about their own thoughts. After a bag of cigarettes, Grandma Tai raised her head sharply and asked the four generations, "Seniors, have you seen the two people Liangzi said?" ”

"I've seen it, many children in the village have seen it, and they always see it in the evening, and we all think that people from other villages have come here to see the scenery of our big river."

"Uncle him, have you seen these two people?" Grandma Tai turned around and asked the father of the second son who was squatting at the door of the back room smoking tobacco leaves.

"I haven't seen it, I always go to the west in the evening to chop some firewood for cooking, and I've never seen what they said about men and women in black and white!" The second son's father replied very simply.

"Old lady, this is strange, children can see, but adults can't, and they always appear in the evening, and they stand motionless by the river, could it be ......" Grandma's next words made each of our hearts tighten.