Jiang Li turned a blind eye to my gaze and continued to talk to my grandfather about the second grandfather.

However, he was talking about some inconsequential things, and after talking for about an hour, Jiang Li got up to leave.

After leaving my grandfather's house, I asked Jiang Li clearly, "Master, why did you give your grandfather a bracelet?" ”

Jiang Li's work, even if it is an extremely small thing, there will be a reason for him, and he will never give his grandfather a bracelet for no reason.

After hearing this, Jiang Li said thoughtfully: "The people behind the scenes know a lot about our actions, including your grandfather and your mother's private meeting, and we went to Duhai and their village. The scope of our activities is limited, limited to this village, and only people who are familiar with us to a certain extent will know so much about our affairs, and such people, except for your grandfather and your second grandfather, I can't think of anyone else. ”

This speculation is too bold, although the second grandfather and the second grandfather are the most doubtful people, but they are really our closest people, so many years, these two brothers of the grandfather have helped our family a lot.

I intended to refute, but on the other hand, I trusted Jiang Li, so I couldn't say anything, so I could only ask again: "Is that bracelet any use?" ”

"The people behind the scenes will definitely have some spells, the identity is either a ghost or a monk, no matter which of the two, the yin and yang qi will deviate from ordinary people, and when the time comes, you just need to look at the color change on the bracelet." Jiang Li said indifferently, and then looked at the ditch at the edge of the village, "However, your grandfather's stone is a little weird. ”

I also saw that stone just now, the stone is about the size of a fist, the difference from other stones is that my grandfather's stone is red all over, although there are many mountains and rocks in the countryside, but I have never seen a red stone.

Hearing Jiang Li say this, I became a little more curious and asked him, "What's wrong with that stone?" ”

"The stone is called cinnabar stone, in the eyes of ordinary people is a red stone, but in the eyes of the monks, cinnabar stone is a rare treasure, usually we draw talismans, tools are indispensable to the figure of cinnabar stone, in the end, your mountain village is rich in yin, it is impossible to produce such a pure cinnabar stone, can only flow out from somewhere else, listen to what your grandfather said, the cinnabar stone is walking against the current......"

Before Jiang Li could finish speaking, I interrupted him and said, "Where are the stones that are against the current, grandpa they must be talking nonsense, Master, you even believe this." ”

Jiang Li said: "Unless, the cinnabar stone has an owner, everything in this world has spirituality, human spirituality is extremely high, it only takes one or two years to open wisdom, animal spirituality is slightly worse, and it takes several years to open wisdom." Everything else in this world will also open its own wisdom, if your grandfather's cinnabar stone opens up the spiritual wisdom, it is a different matter. ”

"Stones, too?"

Jiang Li'en sighed: "It is very rare for stones to open their minds, because the time period is too long, most of the stones will be eroded in the wind and rain, and it is difficult to stick to that stone." If your grandfather's stone opens up your wisdom and recognizes the master, you may be able to do the ability to swim against the current. ”

Jiang Li and I walked and chatted as if we were chatting until we returned to the house.

Because of the major changes in the family, the house was lifeless, my father sat in the room and smoked a cigarette, and my grandmother sat in the door with a chair, looking up at the sky and humming some strange songs.

A series of things have made this originally harmonious family become like this, as a member of this family, how can I not feel this change.

Looking at the decadent father and grandmother, my heart was like a knife, Jiang Li patted me on the shoulder, and did not say anything else, but walked up to my father and asked my father: "Can you tell me about the ditch next to your village?" ”

Dad pulled down the cigarette gun, took a puff of white smoke after taking a puff, and then told Jiang Li about the ditch.

Although Dad is decadent now, he still has questions to answer Jiang Li, after all, Jiang Li is now the last hope for our family.

The two of them sat in the room and talked about topics that I was not interested in, so I took a chair to the door to accompany my grandmother, and when I saw my grandmother singing on her back, I couldn't help but ask, "Grandma, what are you singing?" ”

Grandma lowered her head when she heard my voice, blinked her eyes for a long time and said to me, "Xiao Wazi, can grandma find you a daughter-in-law?" ”

At an ignorant age, I didn't know what love was at all, I was just curious about marriage, so I asked my grandmother: "Who is it?" ”

Grandma really shivered and took out a crumpled photo from her pocket, and there were two people in the black and white photo, one was my father, and the other was my mother.

Daddy had a mule, and the lady in her wedding dress rode on the mule.

I also saw this picture in my father's closet, and he wrapped it in a handkerchief and put it in a box with his mother's bracelet and their marriage certificate.

It's just that I don't understand what grandma is going to do when he wants to find me a daughter-in-law and give me a picture of my father.

When my grandmother saw me looking at it for a few seconds, she grinned and asked me, "What's going on?" Is it good-looking? That girl looks good. ”

I looked at the mother in the photo and nodded, they said that the mother had a problem with intelligence, but I never thought so, born from the heart, the mother gave birth to a face that everyone envied, her IQ must be no problem, so she said: "Good-looking." ”

Grandma stared at me with a frown: "It's not your mother, look at the girl behind the mule." ”

That's when I noticed the scenery behind the photo.

The photo was taken next to my house, where there was a tarpaulin in front of the house to cover the rain, and there were many people busy there, and many people were sitting at the dinner table waiting for the meal.

This is a symbolic photo taken of my father's and mother's wedding day, with the neighbors coming to the banquet in the back.

In the corner behind the photo, a little girl is playing with her whip and is staring blankly at her father and mother.

Because it's too small, I can't see it clearly, but at that time, I didn't know what it was to be pretty and beautiful, I only knew whether it looked good or not, and roughly speaking, that little girl was really good-looking, who didn't want to marry a good-looking girl, so he nodded immediately: "Okay." ”

I didn't think about it at all, that photo has been taken for many years, and the little girl in the photo is no longer the same age as me.

When I was talking to my grandmother, Jiang Li and my father had already finished speaking, and when I went out to look for me, my grandmother caught a glimpse of Jiang Li coming out, and immediately reached out and grabbed the photo and put it in her pocket.

Jiang Li was a little surprised, but he didn't ask much, and said to me, "If you have time, take me to the ditch near your village." ”

I didn't have much to do, so I nodded in agreement.

Before Jiang Li appeared, I had no interest in anything, but now I like to stay with him, not only because of the novelty, but also because of the peace of mind.

The ditch next to the village is not far from our house, and there is no water in the ditch on weekdays, but every time it rains heavily, the ditch is like a small river, and even adults do not dare to wade across the ditch easily, and sometimes we have to go to school, so we have to put a ladder on both sides of the ditch, and we step on the ladder to go over.

There are many legends about this ditch in the village, and the legend of the red-haired ghost showing a pair of feet was also in this ditch.

The stone that my grandfather picked up that could swim against the current was also in this ditch.

As for before, there were even people in the village who dug a well here to dig out a dragon, when they dug out a stone with a diameter of about one meter, they said that there was a snake-shaped pattern on the stone, and the second grandfather said that the stone could not be blown up, but the villagers did not listen, and the stone was blown up, and a wisp of green smoke was seen floating into the sky.

As a result, when the rice harvest was approaching, hail fell for two days in a row, and people and livestock were afraid to go out, and some hailstones could be as big as fists.

After the hailstorm, the grain grains in the village were not harvested, and the carcasses of pheasants and hares could be seen in many places on the mountain.

They said that there was a dragon living in the stone, and the villagers blew up the dragon inside, and the dragon was angry, and this was to take revenge on the villagers.

I told Jiang Li about this, and Jiang Li smiled after hearing it: "It's not so mysterious, but under this ditch, there are things more terrifying than dragons." ”