At the same time, my grandfather also saw Xi Que singing a lamentation without words, and also saw my father-in-law on stilts.

"Thank you." Grandpa said to Xi Que. He knew that Xi Que sang this strange lamentation in order to call Mr. Bai back.

"Thank you too." Grandpa bowed to the father-in-law of the land. He didn't know that the other party was the father-in-law of the land at that time, but when he saw that person and Xi Que together, he knew that that person had also paid a lot. Although at Zhao Xianyun's funeral last time, the man stepped forward and knocked on the coffin very impolitely, but his father did not hold a grudge against him.

The father-in-law nodded, and then pulled Xi Que away.

Daddy walked up to Mr. Bai and carried him into the house.

After entering the house, Shang Ruoran saw his father coming in with a cat, and knew that it was Mr. Bai who had been lost for many days, so he hurriedly went to the closet to get a quilt and blanket and spread it for Mr. Bai.

Shang Ruoran, who had just passed the door, rushed to do everything, washing and drying clothes, washing rice and cooking, boiling water and washing dishes, and none of them fell. She even did more than Yu Youyang. Outsiders seem to be the owner of this house, and she has become a servant.

But Yu Youyang was not happy. She said in front of the unconscious Luo Buzhai: "Look at this Sister Hua, as soon as she passes the door, she treats herself as a family member, and she is not angry at all." I thought she was going to have to get used to it for a while. ”

This happened to be heard by Grandpa Monk Ruoran.

Shang Ruoran's face changed, but he immediately smiled again. Pit double liver blood.

Grandpa had no choice but to whisper to Shang Ruoran: "She has a good relationship with your Sister Zhao, and she can't slow down for a while, don't take it to heart." ”

Shang Ruoran shook his head and said, "I won't go to my heart." Before I came to this house, you told me that I was not just 'married', but also 'grafted'. Since it's 'grafted', it will definitely take some time for this log to hold me. What's more, I am Sister Hua's life, if you hadn't given me this opportunity, I wouldn't have thought about marriage in my life. ”

Daddy nodded.

"Is Sister Zhao okay now? You asked Zifei to secretly take her away before her funeral was over, and you haven't seen Zifei bring a letter back until now. Shang Ruoran asked.

Grandpa waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about this at home in the future." I told you not to mention this before, did you forget? ”

Shang Ruoran stopped talking.

Grandpa felt that Shang Ruoran was afraid that Zhao Xianyun would come back here again.

Grandpa also felt that Shang Ruoran was also worried that Xiaomi would come back here.

When Xi Que sang a wordless lament around the village, his grandfather woke up in the middle of the night, sat up and said, "It seems that he wants to help me get Xiaomi's soul back." I don't know who told him to do it, though. ”

Shang Ruoran on the side also woke up, and said, "Xiaomi is going to run away by itself, will it come back?" This lamentation is so loud that I can't hear a word, can Xiaomi hear it clearly? ”

Grandpa sighed, lay down, and stopped talking.

Despite this, when Grandpa came back with Mr. Bai in his arms, Shang Ruoran still made a very happy appearance.

Grandpa handed Mr. Bai to Shang Ruoran and said, "You take good care of it, I'm going to go out for a while." Mr. Bai was sent by Xi Que, and I was so happy for a while that I only thanked him and forgot to ask him to come in for a cup of tea. ”

Grandpa actually went out that night for two purposes, the first was indeed that he felt that he had neglected Xi Que and that person just now, and the second was to see if Shang Ruoran would still treat Mr. Bai well when he was away.

Grandpa put down Mr. Bai and went out and went straight to the house where Xi Que was staying.

Fortunately, the moonlight is acceptable, and the road looks like a white stripe, so that it is not completely unclear.

Before he reached the house, his father ran into Xi Que and that person.

Grandpa hurriedly shouted: "Xi Que, thank you!" ”

Xi Que turned his head, saw that it was his father, and hurriedly said, "It's so late, what are you chasing out for?" ”

Grandpa said: "You sang a lamentation for me for a few nights, but I didn't invite you into the house to drink a sip of tea to moisten your throat, and I couldn't help it." ”

Xi Que smiled and said: "It's my voice that sings lamentations at your wedding banquet!" You didn't blame me at the time, and I didn't want to go. ”

The man on stilts said, "Okay, now we cancel each other out!" No one has to worry about not going! ”

Grandpa hurriedly arched his hand and said, "May I ask this gentleman's name?" ”

"Zhao Wenjia." The man replied cheerfully.

"Zhao Wenjia?" Grandpa chewed on the name carefully, as if he had heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Xi Que saw his father's expression and asked, "Could it be that Ma Xiucai has seen it before?" ”

Grandpa took a breath and said, "My father seems to have mentioned this name when he was alive, but it's been a long time and I can't be sure. ”

The man smiled but said nothing.

"Where do you live?" Daddy then asked.

The man replied, "It's right next to the old river." ”

Grandpa suddenly knew in his heart! He had already heard from his father about a colleague named Zhao Wenjia, and now he heard this person say that his family lived next to the old river, and he thought that he must be the father-in-law of the land in the land temple next to the old river. After his father's death, he became a city god in Zhejiang, and it was reasonable for his father's colleague to be a land father-in-law after his death. Grandpa even thought that the last time he came to the mourning hall to knock on the coffin, it was also out of concern; Xi Que's sending Mr. Bai tonight should also be out of his idea. Moreover, Xi Que sang a lamentation for three nights before finding Mr. Bai, which is also in line with the style of the father-in-law of the land.

If a child is frightened and comes to his father, the father will generally give two suggestions if he is sure that the child has lost his soul. The first one, of course, is to shout souls. This is the most common and common method. But there is a premise that you must know where your child goes to play during the day. Only by knowing this, the adult can walk again at night along the place where the child walked during the day, and call the child's soul home. Because the child's soul is likely to still wander the same path and forget to go home. If the person who comes to Daddy doesn't know where the child has been during the day, Daddy will give him a second piece of advice.

The second suggestion is to go to the Land Temple for help.

If you go to the Land Temple for help, you must first prepare a cup of rice, a red cloth, and three incense sticks. After arriving at the Land Temple, he covered a cup of rice with a red cloth, held three incense sticks and prayed to the land father, asking the land father to help find the child's soul. After praying, the red cloth is picked up and folded, and three sticks of incense are inserted into the rice. The red cloth needs to be brought back, and the rice and incense are left in the Land Temple.

If you run into someone on the way back, don't say what you're doing. If he did, the father-in-law of the land would probably not be able to find the child's soul. The reason for this is simple, the person you meet may be the embodiment of other ghosts and spirits, and if this matter is revealed, the ghost will find the child's soul before the land father-in-law finds it, and deceive the child's soul away.

After the red cloth is brought back, it should be placed under the child's head and placed on a pillow. After three days, the child will basically get better. That is the father-in-law of the land who helped find the child's soul.

Grandpa thought to himself, this time the father-in-law of the land did not go out in person, maybe he had never found the soul hidden in the body of the cat ghost, so he had to use the power of Xi Que to find it.

"You're from the next village?" Xi Que has not yet guessed Zhao Wenjia's identity.

Zhao Wenjia smiled, did not nod, and did not shake his head.

Grandpa first sent Xi Que back to the borrowed person's house, and then sent Zhao Wenjia to the other side of the old river.

When they arrived at the edge of the old river, Zhao Wenjia invited: "Since you have come here, why don't you sit at my house?" ”

Grandpa hesitated: "The Land Temple is so much shorter than the house we live in, I'm afraid I won't be able to go in." ”

Zhao Wenjia said: "No. Both big and small are relative. ”

Daddy didn't understand what he meant, but decided to follow him to the Land Temple first.

The two walked to the side of the Land Temple, and the Land Father-in-law walked down from the stilts, opened the door of the Land Temple, and invited Grandpa to enter.

Seeing that he had no malicious intent, Grandpa simply lowered his head and drilled in.

This drill actually really got in.

Daddy looked around and saw that it was very wide, not at all the cramped feeling when he looked in from the outside. The things in the temple are also readily available, similar to the houses of ordinary people in Thrush Village, not very luxurious, nor very shabby.

"I didn't expect it to be so spacious!" Grandpa exclaimed.

The father-in-law walked up to his grandfather and said, "Look outside." ”

Grandpa turned his head to look out the door and was taken aback.

The trees outside are so high that you can barely see the tops. The moon was several times larger and covered almost half the sky. And that old river was not inferior to the Yellow River or the Yangtze River he had ever seen! It's unbelievably wide!

"The tree has gotten taller! The moon is getting bigger! The old river has widened! Dad was surprised.

The father-in-law laughed and said, "It's not that they've gotten bigger, it's that we've gotten smaller." ”

Grandpa looked at his hands and feet, touched his face again, and then said, "It's not getting smaller." He also looked at Zhao Wenjia, who was still only half a person tall. He didn't get bigger or smaller.

But after the words were spoken, my father immediately understood what Zhao Wenjia meant. They got into the Land Temple, which would not have fitted if they hadn't gotten smaller. Because I've gotten smaller, I feel like I'm getting bigger and taller and wider when I look at other things. Grandpa also suddenly understood the meaning of what he said earlier.

"It turns out that the inside of the Land Temple is like this!" Daddy was surprised. Grandpa thought to himself, if someone passed by outside at this time, and happened to take a look at the Land Temple, I don't know if he would see a shrunken Ma Xiucai.

Knowing that his grandfather understood what he meant, the father-in-law nodded and smiled. He lifted a teapot on the table and poured a cup of tea for his father.

Grandpa took the teacup, found a chair to sit down, and asked, "I take the liberty of asking, did you use to be my father's colleague?" ”

The father-in-law of the land smiled: "Yes." Before I came here to be a land, I passed through Zhejiang, where your father was a city god. He asked me to pay attention to you when I came here. But your father also knew that as a land, he protected the people on the land without favoritism, and there was no distinction between relatives and distances. So I went to knock on your wife's coffin and recall Xiaomi's soul, all to do my duty. ”

"Where is my father in Zhejiang? I've been looking for years and haven't found him. Daddy asked eagerly.

"When I left there, he told me not to leak out where he was. I'm so sorry! ”

Grandpa knew it would be the answer.