Later, I asked my grandfather how he could shake his hands and kick his legs since he had trapped the weak king.

Grandpa said that when Silky was entanglement with the weak king, he was not obediently tied up, but constantly struggled. Although Silky was wrapped around him, his arms and legs were not close together, and there was still some space for his hands and feet. Therefore, Silkier can only make him inflexible, but he can't be completely tied to death. This is also the reason why the weak king can't touch the top of Xiaomi, so he has to choose to die with Xiaomi.

Grandpa also said that on the one hand, the weak king was pressing the millet into the water, and on the other hand, the weak king seemed to be a stone tied to the millet, dragging her down.

At that time, the water in that pond was very deep, unlike now, when it was getting shallower and shallower due to the silt accumulation. At that time, the silt could not accumulate, because when the pond was about to dry up, the farmers would dig up the silt from the bottom of the pond and carry it to their paddy fields. This sludge acts as fertilizer and boosts the yield of paddy fields.

Now I can't make a lot of money from farming, so I might as well go out to work, so no one bothered to dig up the silt in the pond.

By the time Helian Tian also jumped into the pond, Millet and King Weak Lang had disappeared, and not even a single bubble appeared on the water.

Grandpa dived and dived, but he didn't find any trace of King Weak Lang and Xiaomi.

The water guest and the water monkey also dived into the water after a little relief, although their water nature is far better than ordinary people, but after a stick of incense, they have not been able to find the weak Lang King and millet.

Daddy's lips were blue with water, his fingers wrinkled, his eyes red, and his face pale like a ghost, but he had to dive down to find millet.

Helian Tian and several people in the village forcibly pulled him ashore from the water.

Helian Tian said: "It's been so long, there is no hope...... I've heard that water ghosts can sneak into the mud like loaches and yellow eels, and the weak king must have gotten into the mud. You can't find it in the water. Otherwise, the water guests and water monkeys would have found her a long time ago. ”

This kind of thing happened later. In a village near Thrush Village, a child was dragged away by a water ghost while swimming in a reservoir. Some passers-by saw him being dragged deep by a black-haired object. The man who was passing by hurriedly called a number of people to come to his rescue. However, more than a dozen people went into the water and failed to find him. In desperation, it was proposed that the reservoir be drained. Although water resources were very limited at that time, in order to save people, the villagers agreed. But everyone didn't expect that even if the reservoir was drained, they couldn't find the water ghost and the child. Later, the reservoir was full again, and the child floated.

So an old man said that the water ghost can dive into the mud, so it can't be caught if the water is drained, otherwise, the water in the place where there is a water ghost will be drained, so why let the water ghost keep trouble?

Millet's body only floated the next day, and there was no silt elsewhere, probably diluted by water, but there was indeed black silt between her fingernails.

Daddy had been sitting by the pond waiting for millet to surface.

He sat there silently, unable to persuade anyone to leave. He waited for her to appear as if he was waiting to see her again.

The people in the village helped carry Luo Buzhai and Miss Tie to the Ma family's old house, and called a doctor to help treat them.

Zifei also carried Li Xiaocheng back to the Ma family's old house.

Although they were very heartbroken, they never came to disturb Grandpa. They heal the wounded and take care of the care. When Zhao Xianyun heard the news, he cried on the hospital bed. Helian Tian hurriedly comforted her, telling her not to be too sad and to pay attention to her body.

Zhao Xianyun cried: "I thought that when I left, there would be Xiaomi to stay with him, but I didn't expect Xiaomi to leave first." ”

Luo Buzhai hadn't woken up at that time, but when he heard this, tears flowed from his eyes.

The first to wake up was Li Xiaocheng. Li Xiaocheng's first words after waking up were: "He's gone." ”

At that time, no one knew who the "he" Li Xiaocheng was talking about, but soon after everyone understood that the "he" Li Xiaocheng said was the moon worship cat demon.

No one dared to ask him if "he was gone" meant that the moon worship cat demon was gone or dead. But since then, Li Xiaocheng has never scratched his face like a cat or smiled like a cat again.

Later, Li Xiaocheng raised a lot of cats at home. When asked why he had so many cats, he said that a cat had traded his life for his life.

Miss Tie didn't wake up until five days later. Her handmaid was not so lucky, she never woke up.

The next day, Grandpa screamed when he saw the millet slowly rising from the water, which was the only time he lost his temper in front of the villagers.

He slapped his hands and shouted, "Look! Xiaomi is back! She's back! He thought that Millet had just dived into the water, and that this time he had surfaced to take a breath of fresh air. His consciousness was confused. He even danced with joy on his face.

After others helped salvage the millet, my grandfather found that Xiaomi was not wearing a blood-silk jade bracelet on his hand, and he actually asked Xiaomi: "Xiaomi, where is your jade bracelet?" Why don't you wear it? He looked at Millet very seriously, as if waiting for her answer.

When Grandpa was unconscious, it was Helian Tian who helped imprison the weak king in the pond. He buried a copper coin in each of the four directions of the pond and sprinkled a lot of glutinous rice and bamboo leaves in the pond. The glutinous rice sinks, and the bamboo leaves float on the water.

Even when Helian Tian and them helped to organize Xiaomi's funeral, Grandpa was still delirious.

He stared blankly at Xiaomi's new coffin, which still exuded the smell of new paint, and sang lamentations with the Taoist priest who was doing the water and land dojo.

What made Grandpa wake up was Xiaomi's blood-silk jade bracelet and the note she left, which was already the seventh day of Xiaomi's funeral. The seventh day is the day of the burial.

That was discovered by Yu Youyang while rummaging through Xiaomi's relics. Yu Youyang found Xiaomi's blood-silk jade bracelet. When Xiaomi was carried into the Ma family's old house, Yu Youyang found that Xiaomi was not wearing a bloodshot jade bracelet on his hand. She also thought that the jade bracelet had fallen off after the millet fell into the water.

Yu Youyang not only found the jade bracelet, but also found a note left by Xiaomi before his death.

Yu Youyang didn't even look at the note, so he ran to his father with a jade bracelet and a note, waving the jade bracelet and a note in front of his father's daze, and shouted: "Ma Xiucai!" Ma Xiucai! Xiaomi left you something! ”

Grandpa's eyes suddenly became bright, and he snatched the jade bracelet and the note from Yu Youyang's hand, touched the jade bracelet, and hurriedly unfolded the note.

There weren't many words on the note, but Daddy read it for a long, long time.

It turned out that Xiaomi had already planned to deal with the weak king by herself after hearing what her father and Zifei said that night, and she also expected that she would encounter misfortune, so she wrote that note in advance, asking her father to forgive her for not acting according to the plan.

In the note, she begged her grandfather again to marry Shang Ruoran and save Sister Zhao's life.

At the end of the note was written: "Since I can't accompany you, and Sister Zhao can't accompany you, then let my blood-silk jade bracelet accompany you, so I left it." You can let Shang Ruoran wear it, and let Ma Yueyun's future daughter-in-law wear it, then I will always be by your side. If I take it off after I'm dead, I'm afraid they won't wear it. ”

Daddy's tears dripped on the last sentence. The dried ink became wet again, and it spread on the paper, like black flowers.

Later, grandpa didn't let Shang Ruoran wear this blood-silk jade bracelet, but directly handed it over to grandma.

After reading Xiaomi's last words, his father finally came to his senses, threw himself on Xiaomi's coffin, slapped the heavy coffin with his hand, and cried.

The crowd pulled and pulled, and the persuasion did not stop. For a time, the funeral was chaotic.

I don't know who suddenly shouted: "Mr. Bai is here!" ”

The people in the mourning hall immediately fell silent. Including his father, he suddenly calmed down, and turned his head to look at Mr. Bai, who was walking slowly and looking slightly demented.

In those days, Mr. Bai did not appear≥ so that Helian Tian was still here, and he could not summon Mr. Bai out. Helian Tian guessed that it was either too sad or its head was broken.

So when Mr. Bai appeared on the seventh day of Xiaomi's funeral, Helian Tian couldn't help but speak: "Mr. Bai has sent a spirit to Xiaomi." ”

At that time, my father and they were all wearing plain white filial piety clothes, with plain white couplets pasted at the door, and round white paper scattered on the ground. The hair on Mr. Bai's body is white, only a little gray, so it looks like he is wearing filial piety clothes.

It stood a short distance outside the doorway, looking at the charcoal-black coffin in the mourning hall. Its white fur grew a little longer, and it was blown up and down by the wind.

When Yu Youyang saw Mr. Bai, he immediately burst into tears and said: "It's become stupid, it doesn't enter this house anymore, it doesn't know us anymore, but it still knows how to send a spirit to Xiaomi." It still remembers Xiaomi! ”

When Grandpa heard this, he couldn't help but shed tears.

Seeing that the cat was so spiritual, the helpers in the village naturally moved out of the way and let it in.

Mr. Bai stood for a while, then took another step and walked towards the mourning hall. Its body was so weak that it seemed to be about to fall to the ground at any moment. It was actually skinny, and its long white fur concealed this, but when the wind blew the white fur, the skinny posture could be seen clearly. It must not have eaten or drunk outside these days.

Yu Youyang held back his tears and went to the kitchen to get some things that cats love to eat, but Mr. Bai didn't sniff or eat them from beginning to end.

When Mr. Bai walked to the threshold, he did not jump in as before, but lay on the threshold with his front legs first, and stepped back and kicked the ground hard. It didn't have the strength to jump, or it forgot how to jump. And the threshold of Grandpa's house is much higher than that of other people's, so Mr. Bai has a very hard time getting up, and he has completely lost his majestic appearance.

After climbing on the threshold, it actually fell in from the threshold. It didn't even have the strength to land.

When everyone saw it enter the mourning hall, they all looked sideways.

Is it to worship millet?

Is it going to weep here? Like Xiaomi's loved ones?

No one knew what the cat was going to do, and they couldn't bear to disturb what it was going to do. Grandpa and Helian Tian didn't know what it was going to do, they just watched in a daze as it got up from the ground and continued to walk towards Xiaomi's coffin.

Grandpa suddenly remembered the legend of the cat ghost sucking gas.

But Daddy was skeptical of this speculation. Because Xiaomi has passed away for many days, it is estimated that the disaster has long since dissipated.