Chapter 3: The Evil Spirit
I remembered, indeed, listening to the people in the village, this old lame man suddenly appeared in our small village, it was winter, when he came, with a body full of wind and dust, it was simply a rice called Huazi, the weather was frozen, his torn cotton jacket was full of mouths, the cotton turned out, and his hair was twisted into a lump like a broken hat on his head.
And on the first day he came, the whole village saw him, not that he made the whole village come out to greet him, just because there was some accident that day, plus the winter is the farming, the village people will choose to cat winter at home, so everyone will come out to see the excitement.
And the reason why they watched the excitement even sounds strange now, that is, there is a young man in the village who is rolling around in the entrance of the village without clothes.
And this person rolling on the ground with a bare ass happens to be my grandfather Yao Laosi.
As I just said, it happened in a cold winter, how cold can the winter in the Northeast be, let's talk about it first, as long as it enters November, ice cream or something, it will be put on the side of the street, without any refrigeration measures at all, just like selling groceries, and this is a global warming city, the rural conservative estimate of a few decades ago was more than twice as cold as it is now.
In such a cold day, even if you wear a big cotton jacket with two cotton pants, and the inside is a sheepskin wrapped in cloth, you can freeze through it for half an hour when you stand outside, let alone a bare butt.
After all, there is an instinct in people, it stands to reason that even people who lack heart and eyes will not do this, but my grandfather did it, that day, he rolled in the snow at the entrance of the village with his bare butt for more than an hour, crying while rolling, while dripping tears and singing with a smile, the inside of his mouth was still smiling and singing, his mouth was still smiling and blue, and the villagers were all stunned, they didn't know what kind of disease my grandfather was guilty of.
At that time, it was 1970, the People's Commune was dissolved, the village had begun to see the scale, my grandfather also married my grandmother, my grandfather did not die, they never even dreamed that this kind of thing would happen, what is even more strange is that my grandfather's strength after going crazy was amazing, four or five young men in the village couldn't pull him, and they were all relatives, and they were also ruthless, not to mention that everyone saw him crazy, and there was a bit of taboo in their hearts, for fear of being too close to being implicated, After 163 tricks, we couldn't subdue my grandfather, and in the end, everyone was at a loss, so we had to surround my grandfather and watch him roll all over the ground and cry wolf, while my grandmother wiped her tears on the side.
It was at this time that the old cripple came to the village, but no one noticed him at the time, and he said that he had been away from his hometown for many years, and had been wandering until now, and wanted to enter the village to eat, and he wanted to encounter such a spectacle as soon as he entered the village.
When the old lame man saw that there were so many people around the entrance of the village, he was a little puzzled, and he went forward, and then asked a villager what had happened, but fortunately at that time although people were poor, they were quite poor, so that even if he was a begging for food, others would not discriminate against him much, so the man told him the reason for what he had heard.
My grandfather, that is, Yao Si'er, at the end of the Great Leap Forward, when the educated youth returned to their hometowns, he was stunned to leave a big girl like a flower, and followed him with all his heart, I have to say that this is really a little chicken who doesn't pee and has different ways, it just so happens that this woman, that is, my grandmother, is the one in Qiao's squinted eyes before, in the end, let my grandfather give it, the whole village is wondering, why such a speculative stinky hooligan can have such a great personality charm, actually hooked up with a big beautiful girl from the city with a porcelain solid, and the straight Qiao squinted his eyes in a hurry, and the other eye was also slanted, and since then the villagers have changed his title to 'Qiao Fighting'.
But then again, although my grandfather Yao Laosi took his daughter-in-law, but still can't change the dog to eat shit, there is land in the house, but he doesn't want to do farm work, one is that he is used to not suffering this crime, and the other is that he doesn't want to suffer this crime at all, fortunately, my grandmother is obedient to him, and my grandfather is not very embarrassed to care when he sees him getting married, so my grandfather usually left my grandmother to work in the fields at home, and he still carries a broken gun up the mountain to hunt, and I don't know if his marksmanship has improved or shit luck, There is a rich harvest every day, even in the winter when the snow covers the mountains and all the beasts are hidden, in my grandfather's own words, that is, these wild animals are almost all hit by themselves, and even he himself doesn't know why, the straight Na Qiao fighting turned white with a pair of cross-eyed eyes, and in a fit of anger he stopped hunting.
But Yao Laosi, who was so lucky, suddenly went crazy today, no one knew what it was, the man looked back at the old lame, and saw that he was not from this village, so he said to him: "You are from another village to escape the famine, this bare-chested master is the hunter Yao Si of our village, and I don't know what's wrong, listen to his old man, since he came back from the mountain last night, he has fallen asleep on the kang, and he is not honest when he sleeps, humming and talking in his dreams, As a result, when he got up the next day, he suddenly took off his clothes and began to be a demon, smashing all the bowls and jars in his house, and he ran out again just now, and he didn't feel like he was shivering. ”
After the old cripple heard what he said, he frowned, and then squeezed into the crowd without saying anything, he only saw a very strong man rolling in the snow with his bare buttocks, scratching his upper body, crying, the most weird thing is that although he was crying, but he seemed to be laughing very happily, although his lips were frozen purple, but it was still a strange smile, his body was already scarred, and an old man screamed loudly to pull him, but he kicked away, And everyone supported the old man, and did not dare to step forward any longer, except for a woman with a beautiful appearance kneeling beside him, wiping her tears, and persuading him to get up quickly.
The old lame man saw that the snow on the ground stuck to my grandfather's body, and it didn't melt away, he understood that if it was a little while, this person would really freeze to death, the old lame man looked up at the sky, it should have been more than four o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was going to be dark, the old lame man couldn't take care of much, he took two quick steps to my grandfather's back, and then took off his torn cotton hat, turned the hat leather inward, and put it directly on my grandfather's head.
Strange to say, the whole village tossed all afternoon without getting my crazy grandfather, to let this old begging for food hat to be honest, as soon as the hat was put on, only to hear my grandfather suddenly stiffen his limbs, roll his eyes and scream, then fainted.
Everyone watched it, this is even more amazing than juggling!
And just when everyone was stunned, the old lame man didn't say a word, and directly took off the torn cotton jacket on his body, and after turning it over to the outside and in, he wrapped it around my grandfather's body, and at the same time, he looked up and said to the people who were still stunned: "What are you waiting for, hurry up and go home, if there is ginger, if there is no ginger, cook a bowl of mugwort water for him to drink!" ”
When he said this, the people were relieved, and my grandfather and my grandmother, and a few strong laborers, hurriedly told me that my grandfather had carried him home, and of course they invited the old lame man, who was not good-looking, to come in.
This is really unseemly, just when my grandmother settled my grandfather, my grandfather had already made tea with a porcelain jar, he let the old lame man sit on the kang, and then took out the cigarette roll at home, and saluted the old lame man very respectfully, and then said: "Thank you so much for saving my son, if I hadn't met you just now, it wouldn't be ...... Alas, thank you, by the way, I haven't asked the eldest brother your surname, where did this come from? ”
The old lame man was not polite, he lit a match in his mouth, and after taking a sip, he said to my grandfather: "The surname is Shao, come to the pass." ”
Guanli, refers to Shanhaiguan Li, according to the current speaking, it is Shijiazhuang and Yanjing, in the former Northeast, collectively referred to the people there as "Guanli people".
My grandfather nodded, and then also lit a dry tobacco, he turned his head to see his son lying on the kang with an iron face at this time, his eyes were closed, his lips were tugging, and he was covered in iron and iron, it was estimated that he was frozen, but the terrible thing was that he kept sweating, and before waiting for a while, the kang mat under him was wet, and my grandmother wiped it for him, but the sweat couldn't stop flowing down.
As soon as my grandfather saw this meeting, he immediately didn't know what to do, you must know that although my grandfather is usually frivolous, but after all, it is his own flesh and blood, a single root, if there is really a three long and two short, what should it be?!
However, I want to say that my grandfather's head is quite useful, and he seems to have seen it this time, and the man in front of him who seems to be called Hanako seems to be a really capable person, otherwise, how could he have calmed my grandfather down just now?
Thinking of this, my grandfather sighed, then hugged his fist at the old lame, and then lowered his voice but said very respectfully: "It turned out to be 'sir' from Guanli, Mr. just saved my son's life, think you must know what happened to my son." ”
Here is an explanation, in the past, even including the current Northeast, the word "sir" is mostly used to describe those who have real skills or great ability, including what Mr. Teaching, Mr. Bookkeeper, etc., however, on this specific occasion, the weight of the word "Mr." is not light, because this mostly refers to those who have the ability to exorcise ghosts and subdue demons, or know how to point to the wind and water.
If you want to say that Mr. Yin and Yang in the past, it is a very legendary profession, because life in the world, can not be separated from birth, old age, sickness and death, life and old are the same, Mr. Yin and Yang can't care, but the two things behind the illness and death have a great relationship with them, how to say it, take Chinese medicine to explain, since ancient times, Chinese medicine has been divided into "thirteen subjects", and among the thirteen departments, there are two departments are a little said, these two departments are "Zhu Youke" and "forbidden department".
In ancient times, we divided people into two categories, one is internal, one is external, of course, there are now internal medicine and surgery, but at that time, the outside, called the external disease, is the category that can not be cured by manpower, this kind of "external disease" is also called "hysteria", because of the lonely soul or the evil of the devil and evil caused, the medicine can not be cured, only the person who understands the exorcism and subjugation of demons can be solved, and the person who understands the thirteen secret arts, according to the customs of various places, is often called "big hand" or "Yuan Ming".
In ancient times, we paid attention to the theory of feng shui, as the so-called: "Tianzhun is in front of the right view of the soul, ask to the monsoon soil tablet tomb, the ancient fertile soil born dragon lair, who is buried in the treasure land today?" "The use of the yin house is wonderful, a blessed land can bless future generations, and a fierce land can harm several families, so this search for wind and water is also a big skill, in the past, people who knew the secret art of feng shui yin house were called 'earth masters'.
And the profession of "Mr. Yin and Yang" is a bit miscellaneous, because this profession is more like a hodgepodge, because whether it is the Yuan Ming of the Thirteen Branches, or the earth master who can look at the wind and break the qi, they have their own factions, but Mr. Yin and Yang does not, because most of them are ordinary people, and most of the skills they will do are not like the four, they have no fixed factions, nor fixed rules, just a coincidence or a family inheritance.
I have to say that this is exactly what is taken from the people to the people, in the past, the relationship between the spread of information and the underdevelopment of transportation, so the profession of "Mr. Yin and Yang" was once brilliant in the villages around the country, but after all, it was before, and the so-called: 'The rise and fall is the way of heaven, which dynasty does not change its name?' ’
Even if it is a good thing, it finally decays one day, and the decline of Mr. Yin and Yang happened more than ten years ago, that period when there were no lonely souls and wild ghosts in the whole of China, and the profession of Mr. Yin and Yang seems to be smashed clean with those demons and monsters, and it is returned to the torrent of history, and there are occasional remnants, but they no longer dare to be blatant, after all, the era that belongs to them is over, and the next is the era of the mainstream of science.
Therefore, my grandfather didn't dare to speak loudly, he lived for such a long time, in fact, he could see that his son looked like a foreign disease, but although the commune was disbanded now, there was still a production brigade in the village, and there were many people, so it was really hard to say anything, so he whispered to test the old lame, in his heart, as if he had already decided that the old lame man was a 'sir', outside of the first time, my grandfather really didn't dare to think about it anymore.
After all, his son is already like that.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, the old lame man waved his hand at him, and then said to him: "I am not Mr. Yin and Yang, not 'Lao Dao' or 'Ma Family', don't call me wrong." ”
He's not Mr. Yin and Yang? So he just ...... When my grandfather heard this, the sweat came down, what can I do? Seeing that my grandfather Yao Si's body was now twitching slightly, and it seemed that he was struggling to even gasp, so he hurriedly got off the kang and pulled his daughter-in-law and knelt down towards the old lame man, my grandmother was crying and speechless, and my grandfather said to the old cripple with tears in his eyes: "Mr. Shao, even if the old brother begs you, you will be merciful to save my son's life, as long as he can save him, even if I am a cow and a horse, I am happy!" ”
After that, the two of them kowtowed to the old lame man together, and the old lame man had bad legs and feet and was inconvenient to get off the kang, so he waved his hand at them, and then said: "I said that I am not a gentleman, let me tell you, he will wake up by himself immediately, is the mugwort water you prepared just now ready?" ”
Just when the old lame man finished saying this, my grandfather Yao Si'er, who was lying on the kang head, suddenly shook a few times, and then opened his eyes suddenly, but no matter how big his mouth was, he couldn't say a word, just looked at his father and daughter-in-law who pounced on him with a painful expression, and let out a cry of "ah, ah".
"What are you waiting for, hurry up and bring in mugwort water!" The old lame man saw that these two people had no opinions, so he reminded them, and they came back to their senses, my grandmother hurriedly ran to the field (Northeast dialect refers to the kitchen), the pot was boiling the dried mugwort left over from the Dragon Boat Festival, she trembled and ran into the house after a sea bowl.
It's really a strange thing, just after she waited for my grandfather to drink the bowl of mugwort water, my grandfather suddenly stared at him and sat up, but when he just wanted to speak, his Adam's apple moved, and he suddenly subconsciously lay on the edge of the kang, wow, and spit it out.
What was frightening was that what he vomited out of his stomach was not food scraps or gastric juices, but a mass of black charcoal............
The stuff had no moisture at all, and it spat on the ground, but it emitted a disgusting stench.
My grandfather kept throwing up like this, as if he was going to vomit out his intestines, it was so weird, what did he vomit? Not long after, the whole room was full of that smell, this smell was really disgusting, as if it was burnt stinky meat, so scared that my grandfather and grandmother couldn't say a word, fortunately, probably after another bag of cigarettes, he finally vomited, my grandmother hurriedly helped him again against the wall, and my grandfather was already weak at this time, trembling all over his body, not to speak, even the cheeks were sunken together, the blue on the body gradually receded, but the two ears were red and swollen, and there were several frostbites all over the body, It looks very pitiful.
Just when my grandfather and my grandmother stepped forward to comfort my grandfather, the old lame man struggled to get off the kang, and after dipping his fingers in the black things that my grandfather had just spit out, he put his fingers next to his nose and sniffed them, and then turned around and said to my grandfather lightly: "Okay, what's wrong, you can say it." ”
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