After a while, my father walked to the big barn in front of the village.

At that time, almost every village had a threshing floor. The small grain field is two or three acres, and the large is more than ten acres. If it is the harvest season in summer and autumn, the ground must be brushed with a thin layer of cow dung, like putty scraped on the wall. The cow dung is crusted without cracking, which prevents stones from getting into the sun-dried rice, and thus prevents small stones from knocking your teeth when eating.

The barn is a common place for everyone≡ the floor space in front of the house is not large, and many times it is not enough, so many people will go to the barn to dry the grain. What's more, the cow dung brush will have a strange smell in front of the house. In addition, the grain that has just been recovered from the threshing machine will be mixed with many broken rice stalks and leaves, and if it is mixed into a grain bag, the millet will easily heat up and suffocate. The rice stalks and leaves can only be removed by windmills or grain rakes, and this process is called grain raising. Yanggu is a very dirty job, and rice stalk and leaf chips are everywhere. So people don't do it on the floor in front of their homes when they can do this work in the barnyard.

At this time, it was already late autumn, and there were random piles of straw clippings around the floor, which were thrown by the farmers after raising the grain, like small graves one after another.

When I was five or six years old, the children of Thrush Village loved to play in the threshing floor, but they seldom went to play on the edge of the floor, and the piles of straw clippings looked very high, but when you stepped on them, they would sink in, lose their balance, and they would easily tilt to the side, making people fall into the mud.

It seems that after the age of five or six, the peasants each set up a concrete floor in front of the door, which is much more convenient than in the barnyard, with less sand and gravel. The barn gradually became empty.

Grandpa stopped as he walked to the middle of the barn.

The black shadow followed to the edge of the barn. The threshing floor was flat, uncovered, and it was afraid that his grandfather would see it, so he stood motionless on the edge of the threshing floor, like the shadow of a stone.

Daddy continued to walk on, to the other side of the barn.

The black shadow seemed to be afraid of losing his father, so he walked to the middle of the barn.

It had only moved a few steps before Daddy suddenly tugged at his hand.

A barely visible net flew out of the pile of straw clippings and landed impartially on the black shadow. It's as if the web was woven by an extremely fast spider in the air, and then scattered towards the target like a fisherman.

The black shadow realized that he had fallen into the trap and hurried back to run. But as soon as it ran to the pile of straw clippings, it fell and rolled off the pile. The barely visible net wrapped it tighter. It "chirped" and called in a panic.

It turned out that Grandpa had brought a silk net with him before going out, which was originally used to deal with the weak king, and after Grandpa knew that the perpetrator was a monkey trickster and a monkey, he decided to use this silk net to test it on them. He first searched in front of the village as usual, deliberately letting the monkeys follow him.

Daddy already knew that the monkey was letting off wind on its owner, and he had to follow him and report his master before he intended to go to the village.

Grandpa did what he planned, and when he walked to the barreshing floor, he secretly threw the silk net on the pile of straw clippings. Since the silk itself is so thin that it is almost invisible, and the monkey is at a distance from him, it is even more difficult to spot.

In fact, Grandpa still holds a silk in his hand that is connected to the silk net, just like catching sparrows in the snow in winter, setting a trap, as long as the line in his hand is pulled, he can catch the sparrow caught off guard.

Daddy has to lure it to the front of the silk net before he can pull the line and close the net. The monkey stopped on the edge of the barn for fear of being discovered. Fortunately, its vigilance didn't last long. Grandpa saw that it had reached the gap between himself and the silk net, so he quickly pulled the thread and caught it.

Because this method of catching is not reliable, the monkey can still run after being caught in the net, and even use the power of running to break free from the net that is not tight enough.

Grandpa had long thought that a catch would not succeed, so he chose to come to this barn with a wide view. If it is between the alleys of the houses in the village, the monkeys can hide in a corner in an instant after escaping. Here, if Daddy fails once, he can also launch a second attack.

There is another reason why Grandpa chose the barnyard. He had heard from others that when the monkey performers were begging in the village, they had a strange show in addition to making the monkeys roll. That is, the monkey sometimes rolls on the spot and disappears, and then rolls over from another place.

As a result, Daddy thought that the monkey would have a long-lost art of retreat. The art of retreating from the earth is a miraculous skill of the five elements of Taoism, which can only be learned by people who belong to the earth of the five elements, as long as the practitioner's feet are grounded. But there is one way to stop the practitioner from doing it, and that is to drench a layer of blood on the ground, or splash a layer of dung. This bloody and filthy gas is more effective than an iron wall.

Daddy was worried that the monkeys would disappear when the net was cast, so he chose to go to the ground and brush layer after layer of cow dung in the barnyard. This prevents the monkey from escaping.

Fortunately, the pile of straw crumbs on the edge of the barn helped, and it rolled a few times, wrapping the silk around its body. If the silk is thick and white enough, the monkey will look like a prey entangled by a spider.

When Grandpa saw that it was entangled in the silk, he hurried to it in three steps and two steps, and tied it up a few more times with the new silk.

The monkey "chirps" constantly, and its call is sharp and piercing.

Daddy looked at the monkey by moonlight and found that the monkey didn't look like a monkey anymore. The body size is two or three times smaller than that of a normal monkey. Its fur is as long as a woman's hair, and the teeth in its mouth are thin, and the whole thing looks like a saw's serrations, which is very scary. And the color of the teeth is blackened, like the teeth of very old smokers. It has webs like duck feet between its fingers and toes, presumably to swim well in the water.

Daddy was shocked, it turned out that this monkey had been underwater for too long and had become a water monkey.

This was the first time Daddy had seen a real water monkey with his own eyes, and he had only seen it in ancient books of strange things before. The book says that the water monkey is a man-eating water monster, half human and half monkey, with a long tail and a hand, which is used to grab people near the water, especially the eyes, teeth and nails of people. Sometimes they use their own cries to lead people to the water's edge and catch them.

But this monkey has no extra hands on its tail, and it is not half human and half monkey, and Daddy doesn't know if it is a mistake in the writing of Zhi Wei Zhi, or if the water monkey in front of him is extraordinary.

As for whether it likes to eat people's eyes, teeth and nails, and whether it attracts people with its crying, Grandpa has no way to verify.

Grandpa originally wanted to verify it, and he tied up the water monkeys and hung them from an old tree next to the barnyard. Unexpectedly, the water monkey died at the hands of Xiaomi before it was verified.

After Daddy hoisted the water monkey, he quickly rushed to the back of the village. When he was in the cowshed, he discussed with Huai Niu and asked Huai Niu to pick him up at the back of the village. He first caught the monkey, and then caught the monkey with the ox.

After all, the locust cow is no longer the body of the stone it used to be, but the body of flesh and blood, and the flesh and blood against the monkey trickster may not be able to gain the upper hand as in the pond.

When Grandpa arrived in the village and found Huainiu, Huainiu was fighting with another cow. Two pairs of horns collided together in a fight to the death.

Those who have not seen the bull fight do not know that the intensity of the fight between the two bulls is not inferior to that of the fight between the two tigers, or even more so.

The monkey trickster stood behind the other cow and commanded the cow to fight against the locust cow with a strange gesture. The monkey puppeteer seemed to have countless filaments in his hands, and controlled the ferocious cow like a puppet. This added a lot of fighting skills to that cow.

Rao is like this, the cow on the side of the monkey trickster was removed by Huai and broke a horn.

These days, Huai Niu has carried countless black pots for the opposite cow, and at this time, he is naturally very red when he meets, and he does his best.

Since there was no monkey to report to the monkey puppeteer, the monkey puppeteer did not know that his grandfather had come behind him. He was preoccupied with dealing with the Huai Niu. In addition, when he and the monkey came out of the water, they saw that there was nothing abnormal about the bamboo slipper, so they thought that his grandfather was still in the dark.

Grandpa took out a cocoon-like silk from his arms, pulled out the thread, pulled out a long section, and then put it around the neck of the monkey player.

The monkey actor didn't expect that there was someone behind him, and he was flustered for a while, and his hands and feet trembled.

As soon as his hand trembled, the cow lost its combat effectiveness and was easily overturned by the locust cow.

The cow jumped over the cow with its legs raised its legs and went straight to the monkey player. As soon as he lowered his head, he aimed the horns at him, and as soon as he raised his head, the horns plunged into his stomach.

Suddenly, a puff of black smoke came out of the stomach of the monkey puppeteer.

The ox pulled out the horns, and he collapsed to the ground weakly.

When Grandpa saw him fall to the ground, he wanted to put away the silk.

At this moment, a small hand suddenly appeared from behind her father and snatched away the silk.

Grandpa looked back and saw that it was none other than millet who snatched the silk.

Xiaomi didn't even look at her father, she grabbed the thread with one hand, grabbed the "silkworm cocoon" with the other, and pulled it hard!

"Don't!" When Daddy opened his mouth to shout, he knew it was too late.

The monkey man's head rolled down from his neck like a ripe fruit falling from a branch. A puff of black smoke erupted from his neck, like a newfound mountain spring.

The headless corpse moved its limbs, struggling and slowly crawling towards the head, which was rolling away.

Grandpa and Huai Niu were stunned!

It took a long time for the headless corpse to crawl in front of the head, and after groping around the head with both hands for a long time, finally caught the head.

The headless corpse was about to lift its head when Millet walked over and kicked it at the head.

The head flew up, landed on the ground, and rolled farther away.

The headless corpse's hand stiffened for a moment, as if he didn't understand why it had run away again. A moment later, the headless corpse crawled more effortlessly and more slowly towards the head......

Grandpa was so stunned that he forgot to stop Xiaomi.

Millet took out a black, round object from behind his back and threw it in front of the headless corpse.

The headless corpse's hand touched the object, thinking it was the head it was looking for, and hurriedly grabbed it with both hands and pressed it to its neck.

A smile appeared on Xiaomi's face.

Daddy really wanted to see Xiaomi's smile, but that night, Xiaomi's smile made Daddy shudder.