The old lady used tongs to open the wood, leaving the middle of the wood empty, so that the flame was more vigorous.

There was half a jug of water left in the kettle. The water was originally boiling, but it cooled down again when Shang Ruoran was serving her grandfather. At this time, the remaining water was boiled by the fierce fire, and the lid of the kettle jumped, colliding with the spout of the kettle, making a slight clattering sound, and the water vapor came out of the gap between the lid and the spout of the kettle, making a whining sound.

"The water is boiling, the water is boiling." The old lady hurriedly stood up. Hands reached up to their waists and fumbled, as if to pull something out.

Soon, the old lady pulled out a few round things from her waist. Then, with one hand, she lifted the lid of the kettle with tongs, and threw the round objects into the kettle with the other.

Shang Ruoran hurriedly stopped: "Hey, what are you throwing?" I burned this water for washing! You threw something into it. How else can I use it! ”

The round objects fell into the water and made a clattering sound.

After the old lady had lost something, she left the fire pit and said, "Wait until I find a pair of chopsticks!" "Finished. She passed by Shang Ruoran.

Shang Ruoran smelled a smell that only old earth could emit.

Seeing that the old lady was looking for chopsticks, Shang Ruoran hurriedly picked up the kettle and went to the back door. She was going to dump the water and everything the old lady had thrown in.

When he arrived at the stone steps at the back door, Shang Ruoran hurriedly poured the water in the pot into the drainage ditch. After pouring the water in the kettle, Shang Ruoran opened the lid of the kettle and almost vomited out of dinner!

Inside the kettle are more than a dozen turtles soaked in boiling water!

Turtle is a thumb-sized, oblate round insect, this insect often moves in the soil at the root of the wall of old-fashioned earthen houses, especially in the firewood pile next to the fire pit. Therefore, people often call the ground turtle "ground lice", which means that people are easy to get lice when they are dirty, and they are easy to get lice when they are dirty. And the shape of the turtle is very similar to that of lice, but it is much larger than lice.

When lice are born, they often use a grate to grate the lice down. Because the soft-shelled turtle has the name of "ground lice". People are also very disgusted with turtles.

Shang Ruoran usually loves to be clean, how can she not be frightened and gaged when she sees the ground lice entering the kettle in which she wants to wash her face and feet, and even drink? What's more, the lice were soaked to death by boiling water, which looked even more terrifying.

Shang Ruoran was so frightened that she threw away the kettle, and hurriedly ran into the house to find the old lady she had just seen, and wanted to question her why she was deliberately so disgusting.

But after looking around the front and back of the house, she found that the old lady was gone.

Shang Ruoran was frightened, found his grandfather and asked, "Yue Yun, did you see an old lady at home just now?" She wanted to find her father, but her father's leg bones were not good, so he definitely didn't get up and walk around the house.

Grandpa shook his head blankly and said, "No." Which old lady? What is your name? ”

"I don't know." Shang Ruoran said.

"Why did you come to my house if you didn't know? Are you mistaken? ”

Shang Ruoran told his grandfather about the situation he had just encountered, and then dragged him to the back door to see the thrown kettle.

When he arrived at the back door, Shang Ruoran still didn't dare to touch the kettle.

Grandpa stepped forward to pick up the kettle, checked it, and said, "There are no lice in it." ”

Still not believing it, he cowered and stepped forward to look inside from the mouth of the kettle. The inside is clean, and there are indeed no soft-shelled turtles soaked in boiling water.

"Ran away?" Shang Ruoran grabbed the kettle and looked at it carefully.

"Didn't you say that the boiling water bubble died?"

"Yes! The old lady threw it in when it boiled! ”

"If the boiling water is dead, how can they run away?" Grandpa asked.

Shang Ruoran said indignantly: "You don't believe me? Blame me for lying? What do I have to lie to you? Anyway, I don't dare to use this kettle, you go buy me a new one tomorrow. ”

Grandpa had no choice but to say, "Okay, okay, I'll buy you a new one tomorrow." But what do you use to boil water tonight? ”

"I'll wash it in cool water tonight!" She grunted.

Grandpa said, "It's going to be cold." ”

"But this kettle is soaked in ground lice, how can I use it! Take it, take it! Don't let it be in front of my eyes! Shang Ruoran pouted.

Grandpa took the kettle away.

Shang Ruoran stood at the back door, anxious and angry, but there was nothing he could do.

Seeing that her grandfather was gone, she went back to the fire pit in the kitchen to think about what she had just encountered, and how she thought about it and how strange she felt. The old lady was obviously a little weird, but the unclean things outside should not dare to come in casually. If something unclean outside came here to deliberately harm her, she felt it was reasonable. Her thoughts were so chaotic that she couldn't figure it out.

After thinking for a while, she suddenly heard the sound of rustling behind her, as if a multi-legged insect was crawling on the ground.

She looked back, but she saw the old lady who had just disappeared!

The old lady with sparse hair was walking towards her with a pair of chopsticks in her hand.

"Huh? What about the kettle? Where's my flatbread? The old lady looked around Shang Ruoran with her waist in her arms. Her wrinkled mouth like a walnut was still smacking, and a line of crystal clear saliva flowed out of hunger. Her hands trembled, and the chopsticks in her hands seemed to shake off at any moment. Her thinning hair shook with it.

Shang Ruoran was shocked when he saw this scene. She didn't expect the old lady to come back.

"Where's my flatbread? Where did you hide it? The old lady looked up at Shang Ruoran suddenly, and saw that Shang Ruoran was frightened and her soul was not possessed.

Shang Ruoran forgot to shout for a moment, she pointed to the back door in a trembling voice, and said in a trembling voice: "They...... They...... At...... ...... in the back"

The old lady squinted at her, as if not believing her words.

Shang Ruoran changed his words and said, "They...... They...... Ran ......"

"Ran away?" The old lady asked.

Shang Ruoran nodded vigorously and said, "Run, really run!" You have to trust me! At this time, she was very worried that the old lady would be suspicious of her words as if she were not her own son, and that she would do something out of the ordinary. The old lady did look very excited.

"How did you run away?" The old lady asked.

Shang Ruoran hurriedly replied: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I opened the lid of the kettle and let them run away." ”

The old lady looked at the back door sadly and said, "If they run away, Ma Xiucai's legs won't be able to heal so fast." Hey......" the old lady let out a long sigh.

"What does this pie have to do with his leg injury?" Shang Ruoran couldn't understand the old lady's words. While asking this, Shang Ruoran actually wondered if this old lady was nervous, looking at her inexplicable appearance, she should not be sober. At that moment, she even guessed that the old lady had come to Thrush Village from somewhere else, and that the madwoman had made this place her home, and she was not polite at all.

At that time, there would occasionally be half-crazy and half-normal people on the main road in the village, and some even carried pots and pans themselves, picked up a few small bundles of dry firewood on the side of the road, and set up pots and fires. Some people treat each other as their own family members when they see them, and they scold them indiscriminately, saying that the other party is not filial or something.

The old lady glared at Shang Ruoran and scolded, "Do you have a little conscience as Sister Hua?" How does it not matter? Do you hope that his leg is good, or that his leg is bad? ”

Shang Ruoran was even more surprised and frightened. This old lady actually said such a thing, and she knew that she was "Sister Hua"! It seems that this old lady is not just a crazy woman.

Shang Ruoran said anxiously: "Of course I hope he is good!" He's my husband! ”

The old lady snorted, pointed at Shang Ruoran's nose with the chopsticks and said, "Others don't know your mind, how else can I know?" As for you, on the one hand, you hope that he is good, and on the other hand, you hope that he is not good! If you hope that he is good, you care about him, and if you hope that he is not good, you are afraid that he will go to someone else's house again, right? "Island Demon Remnants.

Shang Ruoran was choked by the old lady's words all of a sudden.

"You, you, since you agreed to Ma Xiucai's words, you should be safe and divided, and you should do your duty. I want to get it again, and I get it but I am not satisfied. The old lady's chopsticks were shaking in front of Shang Ruoran's eyes.

Shang Ruoran was angry, anxious and scared, and still couldn't say a word.

"You, you ......" The old lady finally put down her chopsticks, and then she turned around and walked to the firewood pile next to the fire pit, and threw herself into the ground, and with a pop, it was extinguished.

The two chopsticks fell to the ground and turned into two dead branches that could be used as firewood.

Shang Ruoran couldn't believe what was in front of him, and hurriedly rubbed his eyes. The old lady was indeed gone, not lying in the pyre. The two dead branches, as straight as chopsticks, were still on the ground. Shang Ruoran timidly walked to the firewood pile, picked up the dead branch to look at it, and sniffed it again, there was a little rotten smell.

Firewood piles often contain not only firewood, but more often straw that has been harvested and dried from paddy fields. The peasant family uses straw to cook tea and rice all year round, and only uses firewood for New Year's festivals or ceremonies. Straw piles are prone to dampness and heat, so firewood piles are more humid and dusty than other parts of the house. It is normal for firewood to smell a little rotten.

Shang Ruoran used the dead branch to remove the straw in the firewood pile, and saw a large group of ground lice fleeing in all directions, like tadpoles gathered in a pond in spring. Shang Ruoran hurriedly dropped the dead branches and ran to his father's room.

Daddy was rubbing his broken leg and inhaling with a hiss.

"Hell yes! Hell yes! Shang Ruoran said to her father in horror.

Grandpa stopped rubbing his legs, looked at Shang Ruoran, who was out of breath, and said, "Don't panic, why are you going to see the hell?" Can I still get into the ghost in my house? ”

Shang Ruoran poured a sip of herbal tea and drank it, and then told her father about the situation she had just encountered.

Grandpa laughed when he heard this.

Shang Ruoran was puzzled: "What are you laughing at?" ”