I was so frightened that I couldn't scream, but the turtle didn't look at me again, and after a few strokes, he climbed ashore and into the depths of the bamboo forest.

Before I could react, a sudden thunderclap exploded in my ears, and when I came back to my senses, I saw that the bamboo forest was full of smoke, and a large smoking pit was split into the ground next to the big turtle, and the surrounding bamboo was on fire.

Look at the big turtle again, it was so shocked by the thunder just now that it turned over, the shell couldn't turn down, and it began to flutter blindly on all fours, but after fluttering for a while, it still couldn't turn over, and suddenly turned its head and looked at me again, and those eyes were the same as people's, and their eyes were like asking for help.

But I was already scared when I sat by the river, and when she turned her head to look at me, I was so frightened that I ran home screaming with my bare ass, and forgot to take my clothes and umbrella

I didn't dare to look back, but I also knew that the thunder must have split the big turtle, and then it began to rain in the sky, and it rained heavily, and I ran home against the rain and began to cry.

When my dad saw me, he asked me what's wrong? What happened?

I cried and told him about it, and my dad laughed, not only didn't believe me, but said that I must have done something bad, and came back to lie and make excuses.

I don't blame him for not trusting me, I was really naughty when I was a child, and I made many mistakes and lied.

But this time it was true after all, I tried my best to explain to my dad, but he just didn't believe it, I was angry, ran out of the door in the rain, and went to my grandfather's house crying.

At that time, my grandfather was still there, and he usually counted me the most, and I cried with my grandfather when I entered the door, and my grandfather asked me what was wrong, and then I told the matter, but I didn't expect my grandfather's face to change immediately

When I described this, my dad asked me, "Did you tell your grandfather about this?" Why didn't I hear him mention it?

How do I know, but my grandfather did believe me as soon as he said it, and later took me back to the woods to see it

I went on, and that was when the rain was about to stop.

My grandfather held an umbrella in one hand and led me in the other, and went into the bamboo forest under the rain, and when I got to the side of the ditch where the accident occurred, I saw that the place where the turtle had fallen had been split into a big hole, and the rainwater accumulated in the pit to form a big mud ditch.

But when I looked closely, I could see that the big turtle was floating in the muddy water with its feet facing the sky, and its whole body was scorched and blackened by the thunder, and its shell was shattered, and black smoke was emitting from the parts that were exposed to the water.

I was only six years old when I saw this, I was so frightened that I cried again, and my grandfather comforted me and said, don't cry, this is Wang Bajing's tribulation that was struck by lightning, and we ordinary people must not interfere

At that time, there was no concept of whether Wang Ba was a turtle or a turtle, and my grandfather later told me that in short, this kind of thing was called Wang Bajing when it was cultivated into Taoism.

After that, my grandfather took me out of the bamboo forest again, and told me on the way that I should never tell anyone about it, not to anyone.

He took me home, sat at the door, lit a cigarette, touched my head and said, "Son, you must forget this matter, if you think about it, it will not forget you."

I couldn't understand my grandfather's words, but out of curiosity I asked him what the hell was going on?

My grandfather sighed and said: That is Wang Bajing's catastrophe, but unfortunately that Wang Bajing has eaten people before, God is destined not to spare it, this is not retribution

After speaking, my grandfather glanced meaningfully in the direction of the bamboo forest, and then told me something.

He told me that the rumors of Wang Bajing's cultivation had been around since he was a child, and that many people had seen it with their own eyes at that time, and he was one of them.

At that time, he was only eight or nine years old, and one day he was washing clothes with my grandmother by the river outside the village, and it was a sunny day, but suddenly it was overcast, and then I heard many people shouting and screaming in the distance, and my grandmother led my grandfather over to watch the excitement.

When I looked closer, I saw a very long tail hanging down from the dark clouds in the sky, stirring up water in the river with a whirlwind, and someone next to me shouted that the dragon in the sky was thirsty and came to suck water.

Then the water began to bubble, and a large turtle began to flutter right under the tail, and kept jumping up and down the water as if it wanted to climb up the tail.

My grandfather said that it should be the Wang Bajing who was killed by lightning in the bamboo forest, about the same size, and there were green hairs on the shell.

But in the end it failed to jump, and then the tail retracted into the clouds, and it was gone, and the sky cleared, and the big turtle plunged into the water and disappeared.

Later, the rumors of our troubles here have not stopped, and there is one more thing that my grandfather remembers most clearly, but he said that he did not see it with his own eyes, but heard about it.

He said that it was during the Cultural Revolution, when my grandfather and my grandmother had just gotten married, and my father had not yet been born.

At that time, all of us here grew cotton, and after the cotton was sold, the remaining cotton stalks were soaked in the river outside the village, soaked for two or three days, and then fished up, and the skin on the cotton stalks was peeled off and dried to weave hemp rope, or sold to hemp rope processing households.

But there is a natural pigment on the cotton pole, and the water of the whole river has become purple red after soaking in the water for a long time, and the water also emits a smell, and the fish, shrimp and crabs in the river can't stand it for a long time, and many fish are poisoned, and the crabs and turtles in the water begin to climb to the shore, and commit suicide collectively on the shore in batches.

Many children in the village are ignorant, and when they see those things crawling out, they use ropes to tie them up and pull them all over the street, and play with them as toys.

But then one day finally had an accident, a large cotton grower in our village at that time suddenly fell into the river when he was soaking cotton poles by the river.

But before he could pull it, he saw him splash twice in the water and then suddenly sink to the bottom with a pop

The people around were stupid, and just reacted to go into the water to save him, but the water had already begun to bubble up with blood, and the body of the big cotton farmer then floated up by itself, but there was only half of his head left, and he didn't know what to bite.

According to eyewitness villagers, his body began to bubble in the water as soon as it surfaced, and then a green-haired big wangbagai emerged from under his body and swam away

After that, another rumor began to circulate in our local area, saying that the day before the accident of the big cotton planter, he bragged to his friends while drinking, saying that he dreamed the night before that a big man Wang Ba talked to him, saying, you soaked those dirty things in the water, and killed many of my children and grandchildren, I warn you, if you don't get those things away, I will kill you.

As a result, the big cotton grower didn't take it seriously at all, thinking it was just an ordinary dream, and the next day he still pushed a cart of cotton poles to the river to soak, and then something happened

My grandfather said that since that incident, no one in the village dared to go to the river to soak cotton poles, and they all fetched water to soak in the water tank at home, and the reason why he said that Wang Bajing had eaten people, God could not spare it, was talking about this matter.

However, my grandfather told me that since the accident of the big cotton planter, he has never seen the big king eight appear, and the rumors have gradually been forgotten by people

When I finished speaking, everyone was stunned.

There was silence in the living room for a long time, and Yang Xiaoru suddenly pouted at me and said: I really don't know if you were pretending to be stupid or stunned before, don't you remember this clearly?

I, I don't know what's going on, I can't remember anything before, but as soon as my dad prompted me, I remembered it all at once.

After I finished speaking, I listened to Yang Laodao play with the folding fan in his hand and asked: Boy, when the old turtle crossed the catastrophe, why didn't you save it when you had the chance?

Save? How to save? I was stunned for a moment.

It made Thunder Crack run over at the time, and if you had pushed him at that time, wouldn't he have survived?

I don't dare.

I replied, "Master, you are easy to say, I was only six years old at the time, and even an adult would not dare to rush over when he saw this situation, right?" How do I know if that thing will eat me in one bite? I'm a kid

You think so, but it may not think so, it's not, it came to you and the old turtle practiced for thousands of years and was wiped out, do you think it can easily let you go?

Master, what do you mean, the old man who dug a pit at the entrance of the village at night was the big king eight back then?

I felt a chill in my back and asked, "But what about the woman in red?" What's the matter, in order to seek revenge on me, even the daughter-in-law was brought?

Yang Laodao didn't answer, but suddenly asked me again: Let me ask you again, have you ever entered that bamboo forest again?

Entered.

I nodded without thinking about it, and replied: I have been bold since I was a child, and I was scared at first, but after a few days, I thought about it and thought it was very interesting, so I had the courage to go in again, but when I went in to see it again, the mud pit that let the thunder split out was gone, and the body of the big turtle was gone, as if nothing had happened, and then gradually I forgot about it, and then the village expanded and shoveled down the bamboo forest and changed a few rows of houses, and I never thought about it again

Yang Laodao nodded, and then said: Actually, your grandfather was right at that time, everything in the world has its own calamity, and Wang Bajing's tribulation has nothing to do with you in the first place, if you really pushed it at that time, its calamity would have become your difficulty, and your own life would have to be taken into it, but the old turtle couldn't see this, and it had a grudge in its heart if you didn't save it, and as a result, this grudge became a calamity on you

Master, do you mean that I will die horizontally and vertically?

As far as I know, this time it's really hopeless.

Yang Laodao nodded gloomily and sighed.