Chapter 20: Grandma Has Something Happened (text)
At this moment, there was a miserable white woman's face outside the window, staring into the room, looking at her red collar, and I immediately remembered the woman in red I saw when I peed last night.
When she saw that I saw her, she immediately made a gesture of waving, and I was stunned and thought to myself, what did she mean by this? The last time you saw me, you ran away, but this time you greeted me.
I've experienced so much today that I should have been scared of things now. After two glances at her, he got up and walked to the window.
After that, she looked at me and whispered, "Is your grandfather at home?" ”
I said at home and then asked her, "Who are you?" ”
When she heard that my grandfather was at home, she lowered her voice and said to me, "My name is He Qicui, and I came to ask you to do me a favor." ”
I don't know if she's a human or a ghost now, and I don't know her well, so I didn't immediately agree, but asked, "How can I help?" ”
"If you have time, please go to the hill cemetery to help me dig a diversion ditch next to the grave to drain the water, there is an underground ditch where I live, all these years have not been peaceful, a few days ago I heard that you are going to burn paper for someone I don't know, I know that you are a good person, so I want to come to ask you for help."
Sure enough, it's a ghost, I didn't feel the slightest surprise after listening to it, I guess I've been with ghosts all my life.
I didn't know her well, and I didn't know if her real intention was to let me help dig the ditch, so I plucked up the courage to say, "Since you want to ask me for help, what did you run when you saw me yesterday?" ”
The woman's mother spoke fluently in her native dialect: "I see that you are untying your hands, and I can't see the boy's pee, so I left first." ”
I was stunned to hear this, it turned out to be this reason.
I thought to myself that if I really just let me dig a ditch, it would not be a big deal, and if I promised her, it would be regarded as accumulating virtue for myself, and when the time comes, I will know more ghosts and monsters nearby, and I can be like Meng Changqing, and those things can respectfully call me Mr. when they see me.
I was about to nod my head in agreement, but she screamed and fell backwards.
After she fell, my grandfather appeared in my sight, he was holding a handful of dried wormwood in his hand, and when he saw the woman fall, he was busy pumping on her.
The woman's screams kept coming from the bottom of the window, and I hurriedly asked my grandfather to stop, but he said, "She is a red monkey, you go to bed and hide in bed." ”
I shouted at the window, but Grandpa couldn't stop at all, so he thought about it and ran out.
But when I went out, I saw the woman screaming on the ground, rolling smaller and smaller, and finally turning into nothingness.
When Grandpa saw that she was gone, he panted against the wall and slowed down.
I saw that he beat the woman alive and dissipated, and I covered my forehead and sighed, and now I felt that he was very cold-blooded.
He soothed me for a while and told me to go in, not out at night.
I saw that the woman had already dispersed, and I had no choice but to give up, and I had not yet asked her which grave it was, and I thought that if I had time, I would go to the hill to look for it, and if I found it, I would dig a ditch for her to divert the water, and I hoped that she would still feel it.
Meng Changqing hasn't come back yet, I lay on the bed by myself and turned on the light and took out the note I saw in Xiaoxiao's father's coffin today and looked at it several times, and I wanted to ask my grandfather what it was, but I couldn't help it.
Meng Changqing didn't come back until the next morning, I wasn't worried about his accident, but he had been outside for a long time, and I always felt that I was in danger.
In the past, my second grandmother protected me, and during this time, he protected me, but now they are all gone, and I feel lonely.
Grandma was stimulated last night and spent the whole day in bed resting today, and I got bored at home and ran around the bottom of the village.
When I arrived at the door of the second grandmother's cowpen, I stopped to look at the big yellow cow again.
When the big scalper saw me, he got up again, and then stared at me blankly, with tears in his eyes, as if he had worked hard, and he could not shed it.
As I was watching, a villager came up to me and said, "After your second grandmother left, this cow rarely eats, only a little every day." ”
I said, "No, how can you get fatter and fatter if you don't eat?" ”
The villagers also felt very strange about this, although the cow's face had lost a lot of weight, but its belly was bigger than before, and it was because of this that I felt that it had gained weight.
I watched the cow here for a while and left, and then I looked at the door of the second grandmother for a while, remembering that the second grandmother used to sit at the door and tie the insole, and the picture of me and Xiaoxiao squatting on the ground playing with mud was funny.
She has a fairy temperament, incompatible with the countryside, no matter what kind of mud she is stained with, you can see at a glance that she does not belong to the countryside.
When I was watching here, a villager invited me to sit at his house, but I refused, since I was ghosted, I rarely went to places other than my second grandmother's house, and now it always feels awkward to go to other people's houses.
The villagers naturally knew why I didn't want to go to their house, and they didn't poke it, so they stood here and chatted with me for a while, during which they talked about me and Xiaoxiao, and he said that the two of us were childhood sweethearts, and if they came together in the future, he would definitely not be surprised.
I smiled, I don't understand the matter of men and women. I know what love is, I don't know what love is.
When I was chatting with the villagers, Hu Haiyan walked quickly from the side of the house, and was stunned for a moment when she saw me chatting with the villagers here, and then came over to say hello with a smile.
Hu Haiyan left without saying a word after saying hello, I looked at her back and gave her a blank look, angry for slandering me and Meng Changqing yesterday morning.
After she left, the villager said to me: "Let me tell you, this Hu Haiyan's life is very disorderly, as soon as her man went out, she got involved with Zhang Shike, and the two of them went into the city together some time ago, I suspect that they went to have an abortion." I'll tell you this, don't talk nonsense outside. ”
I nodded my head again and again, but I thought in my heart that you don't know how many people you have talked to, I guess he has said it to everyone in the village, and there is no one to say before he told me, a little brat.
This person's gossip is well-known in our village, the village is the first to be troubled, Fang Yuan's poisonous tongue is unparalleled, generally not many people are willing to have a deep friendship with him, and they don't want to tell him if they have something, as long as he knows, it won't be long before the whole village will know.
But after chatting with him for a while, I felt that he was not a poisonous snake as the villagers said, but he was too straightforward, and he never thought about the consequences when he asked questions, nor did he think about whether he would offend people, anyway, what to say.
It was very interesting to chat with him, and the more I chatted with him, the more energetic I became, and when I was having a good chat, I saw Meng Changqing walking up the dirt road under the village.
When I saw it, I called out to Master from afar, and he looked at me before continuing to walk.
When he came to me, he put his hand on my head and asked, "Is your grandfather at home?" ”
I said yes, he frowned when he heard this, and then stretched out and said, "Ye Hai, in fact, you don't necessarily need sexual cultivation to learn Dao arts, do you know why I have to let you do sexual cultivation?" ”
"Why?" I asked, puzzled.
Meng Changqing exhaled and said: "In Taoism, the theory of fate is the highest level of things, fate is destined by heaven, and fortune is determined by surrounding conditions. Your life is extremely poor, your luck is surprisingly poor, and you will always experience some of the five disadvantages and three shortcomings. Because of this, you will suffer much more than ordinary people, if your mind is not firm enough, it is easy to go on the wrong path, and in addition, the people around you may also have this and that kind of accidents, so that you can practice the mind so that you can have a strong enough heart to bear what you will face in the future, if you don't be able to bear it at that time, not only will your mind change, but the people around you will suffer. ”
I didn't understand what he meant by telling me this, but I heard a deep concern in it, where would an ordinary master think of such a step? He had already helped me plan my future.
After he said this, I hummed and said, "I will never go down the wrong path." ”
He smiled when he saw that I was so firm in his answer, and then told me to go home.
On the way, I asked him if he had any news from Li Dahai, and he said, "I didn't get any news, Li Dahai had a bad brain when we went." ”
I was a little surprised when I heard this, and suddenly remembered what my grandfather had done in the cemetery after they had left and the note in my hand, and I was about to sue him, but I was afraid that he would misunderstand my grandfather, so I kept silent about it.
Meng Changqing and I had just walked under the chestnut tree near the house when we heard my grandfather's voice calling me loudly.
I answered, and he told me to go back immediately.
His voice was in a hurry, and I thought something must have happened, so I hurried back.
When I rushed home, I saw my grandfather standing at the door with scarlet eyes, and when he saw me going, he said, "Your grandmother has an accident." ”
I was stunned for a moment and hurriedly asked what was going on.
He pointed to the side room, and Meng Changqing and I hurriedly ran in to take a look, and we were completely stunned.
Grandma was lying straight on the ground, a rope hanging from top of her, and there was an extremely obvious black-purple strangulation mark on her neck.