Chapter 3: Ghost Dreams in the Night
I don't know how long later, I heard someone shouting my name, and I opened my eyes in a daze, only to find that it was the deserter who was shaking me so hard that I was dizzy.
"Okay, okay, what's shaking."
"You're a pig, you can't wake you up with such a big movement." The desertion suddenly became anxious: "Go and see, your master is crazy and wants to kill someone!" ”
"What?" My mind suddenly got big: "Where?" ”
"Dragon King Well, hurry up." Desertion yelling.
Without saying a word, I jumped straight out of bed. When I ran to the Dragon King's Well, I was shocked to find that my grandfather was holding a machete, and there were even blood stains on the machete.
The whole village surrounded Grandpa, and the village chief scolded: "Liu Laoshi, what are you doing, what are you doing with a machete?" ”
"Here we go." Grandpa's old face was full of fear: "Among you, one of you is **." ”
"What's it? Liu Laoshi, don't talk nonsense, put the knife down quickly. The village chief said angrily.
I was frightened and hurriedly ran out: "Master, what are you doing?" ”
The master said: "Baby, count quickly, is there one more person in the village?" ”
I don't know why my grandfather asked me to do this, but I did it anyway and counted the villagers.
After counting, I felt a panic in my heart: "Village chief, there is one more person in our village." ”
"One of them is **." Ye said: "If you don't find out the **, the whole village will suffer." ”
The village chief still didn't believe it: "Yangzi, why are you messing around with your grandfather, quickly persuade your grandfather to put down the knife in his hand." ”
As soon as the village chief's words fell, he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Second uncle, aren't you dead?" How did you come back again? ”
In an instant, the whole village was in chaos, and more and more people shouted: "The second uncle is a dead man, and the second uncle is back." ”
The crowd went crazy all at once and ran to their homes. Only the grandfather was still standing in the Dragon King Well, motionless.
"Master, what's wrong with you?" I hurriedly grabbed my grandfather: "Come home." It's not peaceful here. ”
Ye sighed: "If you don't find out the **, the whole village will suffer." ”
"Let's go home first."
"Baby, you go back first." Ye said, "Ye will sit here for a while." I want to be quiet for a while. ”
I insisted on refusing, but in the end, under the reprimand of the master, I could only go back.
I hadn't taken two steps back when I heard a pop behind me. hurriedly turned his head, but found that his grandfather, who was standing by the well, was gone.
Not good. My mind went blank in an instant. Grandpa jumped into the well!
I even forgot to cry, just rushed to the well, shouting loudly Grandpa, Grandpa!
However, there was no response, and it was deadly quiet.
I finally realized the severity of the situation, and I started crying with a whimper, and hurriedly ran back, called the village chief over, and salvaged my grandfather with a rope.
This dragon king's well, known as the Eye of Death in the village, is very evil, and no less than ten people have fallen into the well for decades. Even if the salvage was carried out in the first place, the body would not be able to be recovered at all.
As you can imagine, I didn't find my grandfather's body at all. I sat on the edge of the well in despair, looking at the bottomless Dragon King Well, and was so desperate that I wanted to commit suicide.
"Baby, go back." The village chief advised me, "I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”
I looked at the village chief with tears in my eyes: "Village chief, you go back first, and I'll sit here for a while." ”
The village chief nodded, and had to go back with the villagers first.
I cried by the river for two whole hours, wet with rain and fog. I looked at this deep well weakly, dead quiet, and I knew that my grandfather would not come back.
Why did grandpa commit suicide by jumping into a well? What is the ** he said?
**。 I snorted coldly, I must catch the ** and avenge my grandfather.
When I went back, the first thing I did was go to my grandfather's room.
But as soon as the door opened, I was dumbfounded, because there was a wooden man standing in my grandfather's room......
It turned out that the grandfather had dismantled his bed and made a wooden figure. This wooden man has sound limbs and even a head cut out of a wooden plank. Moreover, its structure is very complex, densely packed with parts made of various small woods.
Looking at the face drawn on the wooden board, although the lines are simple and there are only a few strokes, I always feel that the face is very similar to the face of the third master.
After I carefully checked the wooden man to make sure that the wooden man had no clues, I sat down, boiled a pot of boiling water, brewed grandpa's favorite jasmine tea, used the tea set used by grandpa, and looked at the wooden man in a daze.
Grandpa left me with too many doubts, and I only now realize that my grandfather is so unfathomable, and he has too many doubts.
It was easy to stay up until dawn, and the first thing I did was to go to the Dragon King Well, hoping to find my grandfather, even if it was a corpse.
However, the Dragon King's Well is still quiet and terrifying, except for the dense footprints on the shore, there is no trace of last night's strange things.
During the day, I packed up some of my grandfather's clothes and supplies, and built a mound for my grandfather in the courtyard.
This is our custom here. The mound is to be built in the courtyard of one's own house. As for the exquisiteness, I don't know.
I sat in front of the mound and watched the great sun in the east, gradually moving to the west, turning into a sunset, until it disappeared.
I suddenly felt that this courtyard was so unfamiliar. Grandpa's voice still ringed in his head: "Son, get out of here." ”
It's also time to leave, the dragon king's well leads to the underground river, and grandpa's body must have rushed down the underground river to the Yellow River. Even if they died, the corpse would run aground on the shore.
I stood up, dusted myself off, knocked my grandfather's grave twice, and then went back to the house and packed my bags.
I'll lie in bed and rest early, so I won't have the energy to go out tomorrow.
"Baby, still sleeping!" Just as I was sleeping in the clouds, a series of familiar voices came to my ears.
I hurriedly opened my eyes and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was Grandpa!
Grandpa, you're still alive! I was so pleasantly surprised that I wanted to jump out of bed, but I felt a big rock pressing against my chest, and I couldn't stand up at all.
"Don't move." Grandpa said to me, "Baby, let me take a few more looks." ”
I found that my grandfather's face was very pale and a little scary. But when I think that this is my grandfather, the fear in my heart will be expelled a lot.
"Master, you're hungry, I'll go and give you a pancake." I don't know how to describe the excitement at the moment, but I think grandpa must not have eaten or drunk for a day.
Grandpa said, "Baby, don't move." Ye came back just to tell you, Ye left you some things under the stone mill. You dig it out when no one is around. Also, that wooden man, you have to find a complete human skin to cover it, can spare your life at a critical moment, remember? ”
"Master, I won't do it. That's your stuff, you dig it yourself, you don't want to go, okay? I pleaded bitterly.
Grandpa sighed: "Ye can't help himself, baby, listen to Ye, I'm leaving." ”
As he spoke, he sighed a few times and turned to leave.
"Grandpa......" I cried out heartbreakingly, reaching out to try to grab grandpa, and jumped up from the bed, but my body couldn't move at all!
Finally, after my heart-rending roar, I opened my eyes.
It turns out that a qiē is a dream. I was saddened and looked down at the moonlight on the ground.
Wait a minute! I was pleasantly surprised to find that there were water footprints on the ground, spreading all the way to the outside of the door.
It's not just a dream, I really saw my grandfather.
I was so happy in my heart that I didn't bother to put on my clothes, and followed the footprints and chased them out. The water footprints kept spreading in the opposite direction of the Yellow River, and I chased them all the way out.
But what disappointed me was that I didn't find my grandfather until I came to the foot of the mountain outside the village. I sighed in disappointment, thinking maybe I was overthinking.
But when I left, my eyes inadvertently fell on a pair of neatly arranged shoes at the foot of the mountain.
Those shoes, so familiar, they were grandpa's shoes. I hurriedly pounced on it, took the shoes in my hands, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the shoes were still wet.
What I saw just now wasn't a dream, grandpa really came back!
"Grandpa, I know you're still alive, you came out to see me." I shouted loudly, hoping to get a response from my grandfather. The only thing that could respond to me was the roar of the river and the echo.
Although I don't know why Grandpa didn't come out, I still sat down at the foot of the mountain without hesitation: "Master, if you don't come out, I'll sit here until the Yellow River dries up." ”
After a moment of silence, I suddenly heard a scream in the village.
"Second uncle, what are you doing?"
"Second uncle, why are you back again?"
"Don't, don't."
Oh no, my heart pounded, what the hell is going on? What's really going on in the village?
Without saying a word, I turned around and walked back to the village.
But not long after walking, the village suddenly became quiet, and there was no movement.
What's going on? I was hot-headed for a while, but when I went back, I found that there was no one in the village, and the doors of each house were open, and there was no one in the house at all.
Grass, what about people? I shouted for someone to come out, but I ran through the village and saw no one at all.