Volume 2 Dusty Memories Chapter 16 Fallen Leaves Can't Return to Their Roots

"Ahh Grandpa Tai only felt that his body was light, and his whole body was planted on the ground, as if his bones were about to fall apart. Grandpa looked around cautiously, for fear of waking up the brothers who were sleeping together, but found himself falling on the side of the bed. Grandpa obviously remembered that he was by the window just now, why did he fall on the side of the bed again at this time? Grandpa Tai took the dream as reality in a daze, but he didn't know it at all.

Loaches and monkeys with no heads! Grandpa Tai woke up from the fall, didn't care about how much pain he had, and hurriedly ran to the window. But the stool by the window was untouched and untouched, and Grandpa Tai carefully climbed on the stool and took a sneak peek. There is only a big moon outside the window, where is there no human head?

The little grandfather just patted his head at this time, and he should have had a nightmare just now, and he was kicked down by the eldest brother again. So, the little body slowly crawled back to the big bed, but the night passed and always tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.

At dawn the next day, I heard the sound of babies crying and adults in the village. The people in the village don't have any entertainment activities on weekdays, and their favorite thing is to watch the excitement. Grandpa didn't sleep well all night, thinking about the whereabouts of the monkey and the loach. At this time, the slightest wind and grass will think about the leather monkey and loach, and naturally follow the family to see what is going on.

This look, as expected, is related to loaches and skin monkeys. It turned out that early in the morning, a baby told me about going to the mountains yesterday, and the adults secretly screamed that it was not good and hurriedly found the loach and the monkey's house. When the loach and the monkey family heard this, they knew that the two babies were afraid that something had happened, so they began to blame the older ones, saying that they did not stop their children. The family members of those babies are extremely protective of calves, so of course they won't do it. So several families quarreled like this, and when the baby saw that something was wrong, she was afraid and cried.

Grandpa Tai's greatest fear was to see the headless loaches and leather monkeys, and at this time he was relieved. But soon they became worried again, and the two did not come back for one night, and a bad premonition came to their hearts.

The village was already small, and the scolding was loud, so the village chief quickly rushed over. The village chief is a sixty-year-old white-bearded old man, who looks like a fairy wind and bones, and he also does feng shui fortune-telling work on weekdays. As soon as the old village chief arrived, everyone quieted down, and it seemed that the old village chief had a lot of prestige. The old village chief didn't speak, but just found a few older babies from yesterday and asked how long the loach had been in the fog and couldn't hear his footsteps. After the baby answered in a trembling voice, the old village chief's face suddenly turned pale, and then he said a few words to the villagers beside him.

Then the old village chief waved his hand, and hurriedly summoned the strong men in the village and headed towards the deep mountains.

When the villagers saw the expression of the village chief, their hearts sank, and they hurriedly followed. It is also strange to say that the village chief did not ask the villagers to bring any tools, only asked the villagers to bring a few fishing nets for daily fishing.

It's the same group of people, but this time there are big and small, but they are all heading towards the gourd. It was dull and ruthless along the way, and no adult spoke, they all knew that they were afraid that it would be more than lucky, but no one broke it. The baby also guessed something from the expressions of her parents, and lowered her head and didn't dare to say a word. Grandpa followed closely behind his parents, and the last time he came had a great shadow on his grandfather, but fortunately nothing happened this time.

After arriving at the mouth of the gourd, the families of the loach and the leather monkey were clamoring to go in to find the baby, but naturally there were villagers who stopped them, and they almost started to do it.

"What's the fuss!" The crutches in the old village chief's hand slammed on the ground and shouted, "Aren't you afraid of provoking the mountain god and bringing disaster to the village if you do this?" ”

As soon as the old village chief drank this, a group of people were so frightened that they didn't know what to do, and for a while, everyone was panicked and didn't know what to do.

"But the village chief, aren't we looking for a baby?" The loach mother asked crying. The loach is the eldest son in the family, just at the age of labor. Now that she has lost her loach, although her mother is sad in her heart, she is more distressed that her family has lost a labor force.

"Find! The fallen leaves return to their roots, and the child must be brought back. The old village chief looked at the fog from afar with cloudy eyes, as if he had seen something, and only after a long time sighed and said.

When the old village chief said this, the loach and the monkey's family had already guessed seven or eight points, and they could only lower their heads sullenly for fear of disturbing the mountain god. The women of the two families leaned against the stones beside them and cried, but they did not dare to make a sound, they could only whimper. The pillar of the family, frowning and his eyes red, knelt down in front of the village chief.

"What do you mean?" The old village chief was also taken aback by the two eight-foot men, and asked while helping the two of them up.

"Let's go find the baby, we didn't take care of the baby, but we want to bring the baby back."

"Good. Come, give them the nets. The old village chief waved his hand and motioned for the villagers to bring two fishing nets, and shook his head weakly.

"This? We are looking for a baby, what do we want fishing nets for? The two men were also stunned, their faces turned into the color of pig liver, and they felt that the village chief was playing tricks on themselves.

"When I got here, I had people change the nets. A few of you throw the nets in and pull the nets out. Remember, don't step into this fog. After the old village chief said this, he shook his head and slowly sat up on the ground. The old village chief had already learned from the baby's mouth that the loach had stopped moving when it entered the thick fog. This move undoubtedly sentenced the two babies to death, and at this time it was just to retrieve the baby's body.

The thickness of the mist is only five steps, and if you go inside, it will be a thick fog. But because of this, the nets can be easily thrown. The man with the fishing net nodded, and did not speak again, but cast the net into the fog again and again. It stands to reason that if the net is thrown out, even if the net is not covered by the corpse, at least something will be stained. But the net was cast again and again, and after it was pulled back, it was clean and empty.

The father of the loach and the leather monkey is like crazy, desperately casting a net into it, and the end is predictable. After half an hour like a machine, the two sturdy men finally lost their strength and fell to their knees with weak legs. Maybe it was because they had been silent for too long, but finally it broke out at this moment, and the two men pulled their hair desperately and cried like children.

The old village chief shook his head and slowly stood up from the ground. When the villagers saw the old village chief standing up, they all stood up, leaving only the two men kneeling on the ground.

"Get down on your knees, everybody!" After the old village chief finished speaking, he took the lead and knelt down. When the villagers heard this, they hurriedly followed the old village chief and bowed down.

"Ask the mountain god to return our baby." The old village chief shouted while kowtowing. The villagers also shouted along with the old village chief, and for a while, the gourd mouth echoed this sentence for a long time.

"Keep fishing." After the old village chief knelt down three times and knocked nine times, he spit out this sentence.

A net was cast out, and when it was pulled back, the net rope clearly caught something. Daddy Loach looked desperately hard, only to feel his hand loosen, and then a broken net was pulled out of the thick fog.

"It's... This..."The two fathers thought they could fish out their children, but who expected this ending, the two had come to the brink of collapse.

"Haha... Baby, Daddy is looking for you..."Daddy Loach's face sank, then he laughed wildly and rushed towards the thick fog.

"Stop him!" The old village chief hurriedly shouted, and the villagers on the side quickly grabbed the loach father. But Daddy Loach is already crazy, and he can only grin and laugh.

"The child's father..."When the loach mother saw this, the whites of her eyes rolled and she fainted.

"Let's go! Walk! Go back, the mountain god won't let anyone go, give me all back! The old village chief hurriedly asked people to go back with the loach father and the loach mother, sighed and turned to leave.

"Nope! I'm not going! Mountain God, you return my baby, I am willing to pay any price. Daddy Monkey, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly spoke, and after shouting these words, he cast the net out.

"No!" When the old village chief heard Daddy Monkey's words, he hurriedly turned around to stop him.

But it was too late, and the net in the hands of the monkey father had already dragged out the bodies of two children from the thick fog. When the old village chief saw the net come out, he screamed, clutched his chest and fell to the ground and passed out.

The fishing net was getting closer and closer, and when the whole fishing net was pulled out of the thick fog, the skin monkey father suddenly moved his throat and spit out a mouthful of black blood. A villager hurriedly went over to help the monkey father, but found that he had lost his breath.

"Look in the nets!" Someone said in a trembling voice.

Everyone's eyes were on the nets, and the scene in front of them was suffocating, and they saw...