Chapter 19: Bone Powder (text)
I asked the villagers what was going on, and they said, "Just now you scribbled in the dustpan with chopsticks after closing your eyes, and you attracted a lot of wild monkeys, but thanks to your master, you were not taken away by them." ”
I only felt weird when I heard it, on the other hand, Meng Changqing, he was looking hard in front of the dustpan, but the more he looked at it, the tighter his brows wrinkled, and finally beckoned to me and let me pass.
I went over and asked him, "What's wrong?" ”
He looked at the lines on the dustpan for a while, and then looked at my grandparents, and said to me in a bit of a strange way: "Dry position, ten meters!" ”
I know that it is due north, within a range of ten meters, and it has not yet left the house of my grandparents.
I was also a little confused, thinking that he had miscalculated, so I thought about how to save his face for a while, he is usually very powerful, and it is understandable that he occasionally makes mistakes.
"Or do it again."
I discussed with Meng Changqing, and at that time I decisively thought that he had miscalculated, but with so many people watching, I didn't want him to lose face, so I had to let him calculate it again.
Meng Changqing glanced at my grandparents, and then went to the cupboard ten meters away and took out a white medicine bag.
I was shocked when I saw the medicine bag, and my grandmother was also shocked, and then explained, "Mistake, mistake, that's my medicine." ”
Meng Changqing shook his head and said, "This is not medicine, this is ashes." ”
After speaking, Meng Changqing opened the medicine bag, revealing a dark white powder full of bread.
When the grandfather saw this powder, his eyes widened, and then he stepped in front of the grandmother and slapped it, and the grandmother fell to the ground, and then the grandfather pointed at the grandmother and scolded: "You are lawless, drink the ashes of your nephew." ”
Grandpa was about to fight again, but was stopped by Meng Changqing, and asked grandpa to figure out things first before getting angry.
Grandma was stunned, and it took a while to say that this package of medicine was given by Uncle Zhang.
Uncle Zhang was in the house at this moment, and when we looked at him, he got up and ran out of the door, and when my grandfather saw him running, he picked up the hoe standing on the side and chased him out.
The villagers were afraid that something would happen, so they chased them out.
Grandma was frightened by what had just happened, and stood in the middle of the room trembling, muttering, "The sac is ashes, the bag will be ashes." ”
Meng Changqing's and I focused our attention on the outside again, and when I turned my head, my grandmother had already entered the room tremblingly with the bag of ashes on the table.
I was about to stop my grandmother, but the villagers outside pulled my grandfather back at this time, and then Uncle Zhang walked in in a daze.
When Uncle Zhang came in, his eyes were glazed and he looked like a walking corpse.
This is also a sign of the upper body of the ghost, Meng Changqing told me that people are divided into men and women, good people and bad people. Ghosts are also divided into ghosts and ghosts, the bad ones are called ghosts, and the good ones are called ghosts, like Li Yan belongs to the ranks of ghosts.
Different kinds of ghosts have different appearances, and the ghosts can't be contaminated with the earth's qi, so they need to tiptoe. The charm of the upper body will lead to confusion and no normal thinking.
Uncle Zhang's current situation is that he is charmed, and I know that this is Li Yan's doing.
After Uncle Zhang came in, Grandpa suddenly broke free from the hands of the villagers, waved his hoe and slammed the hoe on Uncle Zhang's back, and scolded in his mouth: "You brute, we usually don't blame you for not being satisfied with us, what are you digging dead people's graves for?" And they were given to people to drink. ”
Uncle Zhang was knocked by his grandfather like this, and fell directly to the ground, and Li Yan also separated from his body, which frightened the villagers.
After Li Yan came out, no one chanted a spell and couldn't return to the bracelet, and she couldn't stand the eyes of the villagers, so she stood in the middle of the house with a helpless expression.
Meng Changqing saw that she was at a loss, recited the mantra, and when she heard it, she cast a grateful look at Meng Changqing, and then entered the bracelet.
After Li Yan entered, her grandfather was angry and waved her hoe again, but this time she was stopped by Meng Changqing and asked the villagers to hold her grandfather.
After that, he pulled Uncle Chamber, who was humming on the ground, up, and although he was beaten, he was fine.
Meng Changqing pulled it up and asked him, "Did you dig up the ashes?" ”
Uncle Zhang was a little nervous, and said in a trembling voice: "I didn't know that it was ashes, what I took was obviously leopard bone powder, I really didn't know that it was ashes." ”
"Then who got your leopard bone powder?"
Uncle Zhang's face was full of anxiety, for fear that his grandfather would beat him again, so he said: "My own family, I bought it for several years, and I only gave it to his grandmother some time ago, it's really not ashes." ”
Meng Changqing was stunned for a moment after hearing these words a few years ago, and then asked: "Who told you that leopard bone powder can cure rheumatism?" ”
When Uncle Zhang heard this, he thought for a while and said: "On the day when Mu Wantong took Haiwazi out, Li Dahai came to my house to drink, and he asked me for Haiwazi and Mu Xiaoxiao's birthdays, saying that he wanted to help them take a look at their relatives. He listened to me and told me about a home remedy he heard some time ago, and asked me if there were any leopard bones I bought a few years ago, that thing can cure this disease, I thought they were all villagers, so I gave it to Grandma Haiwazi, it was really not ashes. ”
Meng Changqing listened and hurriedly asked us about Li Dahai's origin.
This Li Dahai is not from our village, but he is from the same township as us, he is a duangong, and he usually makes a living by showing people graves and telling fortunes, and he and his second grandmother are the only two clergy left in our neighborhood.
After knowing where I was coming, Meng Changqing hurriedly asked the villagers to lead the way to find Li Dahai, and I was not allowed to go, saying that he knew my birthday and couldn't get too close to him.
I followed his words and stayed in the house, and Grandpa Ye took him over.
After Meng Changqing left, his grandfather also blew the villagers away, he was angry at this moment, and he would be furious when he heard others say a few more words.
After the villagers left, I went into the house to see my grandmother, who was sitting on the eaves of the bed with the bag of ashes shivering, and I went in to comfort her for a while, and then she handed me the ashes in her hand, saying that she was tired and wanted to lie down and sleep.
After my grandmother went to sleep, I went out to look for my grandfather, but he didn't know where to go.
I shouted around, but I didn't see him answer, I thought to myself that he had a lot of things to do today, and he was under a lot of pressure, and I was afraid that something would happen to him on this big night, so I went out to find him with a flashlight.
I guessed that my grandfather should have gone to the back hill by this time, and although I was scared, I still had the courage to follow the fact that my family's lives were safe.
As soon as I got to the bottom of the hill, I heard a murmuring sound from above, but I didn't hear it clearly because of the distance.
When I got closer, I saw a black shadow standing in front of Xiaoxiao's father's grave, this shadow was my grandfather, and when I was about to call him, my grandfather bent down and put something into Xiaoxiao's father's coffin, and after putting it down, he shook a bell in his hand.
I had seen this bell before, and I asked him what kind of bell it was, and my grandfather said that this bell was hung around the mule's neck for fear of getting lost, and then the mule fell to his death, and the bell was taken off and put at home.
I saw my grandfather ringing the bell, and I didn't know what he was going to do, so I wanted to see it again, but I didn't go out immediately.
Grandpa shook the bell for a while, then stopped and read in a very lame Mandarin: "Where is the wandering soul left, the false alarm, the strange grave in the mountains and forests, and now I invite the mountain god and the general of the five roads, the land and the house of the party, and the true soul of the family." Take back the possession and build up the spirit. The gate of heaven is open, the gate of earth is open, and the boy sends the soul for thousands of miles. I am in a hurry with the order of the Taishang Laojun. ”
I was stunned when I heard this, and I didn't understand when my grandfather would read these things. It must have been some spell, I hadn't heard him do anything about it before.
After the grandfather finished reading, he kept ringing the bell for about two or three minutes before stopping, and then closed the lid of the coffin.
After that, he didn't stay for half a second and left here directly.
After he left, I went to look at Xiaoxiao's father's grave, and then looked through the large hole in the coffin, and found a rectangular piece of yellow-mounted paper.
When I took it out, it showed Li Dahai's name written on it, and the words 'Xinhai, Yiwei, Bingzi, Wuzi' and so on.
Underneath these words were runes that I couldn't read at all.
It was the first time I saw my grandfather get these things, and I was suspicious and put this note away.
When I got home, my grandfather was sitting on a chair and smoking, and when he saw me coming back, he asked me sharply, "Where did you go?" ”
"I'm going to the latrine." I casually thought of a place to sue him.
He only sighed, holding the cigarette pouch silently, and only asked me to go to sleep after a while, and he waited here for Meng Changqing to come back.
I didn't dare to disobey him at this time, so I ran back to bed, and I didn't sleep all night when I went back to bed, thinking about what I did in front of Xiaoxiao's father's grave at night.
In the middle of the night, I couldn't sleep and looked out the window, and I was startled by the sight.