The one-eyed monk nodded and said, "Yes, it will definitely be cultivated!" ”

"How so?" When my grandfather saw that he was so sure, he thought he was confident, so he asked.

The one-eyed monk smiled: "Haven't you heard of an idiom? ”

"What idiom?" Grandpa asked.

"Unique, hahaha......" The one-eyed monk laughed.

Grandpa realized that he was joking, and laughed with him.

Mr. Bai probably didn't think it was funny at all, so he turned around and walked away slowly.

Grandpa kept staring at Mr. Bai's departure until his back disappeared before he withdrew his gaze.

The one-eyed monk stopped laughing, then stood up, made a gesture to his grandfather, and said, "Ma Xiucai, what I should have said has been finished." Xiaomi's spirit, I can only stop here, and you will need to ask for more blessings in the future. Thank you for the meat! ”

"Leaving so early? Don't sit down a little longer? Daddy asked.

"Sooner or later, how can it be sooner or later? Sit and don't send. With that, he turned around and left.

Grandpa looked at his back, and suddenly a familiar feeling came to his face. Still, he didn't remember much. But he estimated that this one-eyed monk had crossed paths with himself in his previous life.

After the one-eyed monk left, my father searched everywhere for the recently born child, hoping to find the whereabouts of Xiaomi.

Through village-to-village inquiries, Daddy collected dozens of families with children who had recently been born. At that time, there was no family planning, and a couple often gave birth to seven or eight, and as long as the body could bear it, they would give birth. So the general birth rate at that time was very high, but the survival rate was low. This also brought some difficulties for Daddy to find Xiaomi.

Once, my grandfather went to a nearby village to look for traces of millet, and happened to encounter heavy rain. So, my father found a nearby family to shelter from the rain.

The owner of the family was surnamed Feng and named Junjia, and he admired his grandfather very much. He also asked his grandfather for help.

About eight years ago, Feng Junjia married a beautiful daughter-in-law named Yan Yulan. When they got married, their grandfather wrote them couplets and the big "囍" characters. But after several years, they never had children. Feng Junjia's parents were not in a hurry, afraid that they would not be able to hold their grandson, so they embarrassed Yan Yulan everywhere and wanted to force her to go, so that Feng Junjia could marry another one. Feng Junjia's parents naturally don't think that something is wrong with their son, they only think that their daughter-in-law is not angry.

They have never had children, not because they can't conceive, but because they lose one when they conceive one.

Yan Yulan said that it was not her problem, but that there was a problem with the feng shui of the Feng family's house, because she could hear a bird cry every night when she went to sleep, which made her unable to sleep steadily. Maybe it was because the birdsong disturbed her sleep and made her unwell, so she became pregnant and dropped the other.

Feng Junjia's parents didn't believe it, thinking that Yan Yulan was afraid of being divorced by their son so they found this unreliable excuse to put the blame on the Feng family's feng shui.

Feng Junjia was afraid that Yan Yulan would leave him, so he told his parents that he could actually hear birds chirping.

Feng Junjia's parents were a little hesitant at this time.

So, Feng Junjia's parents searched for bird's nests everywhere in the house, looking for holes where the birds could be hidden, but they couldn't find them. They were still unwilling, so they moved the whole house to the floor, and then searched all the corners, but they still didn't find the bird Yan Yulan said.

Yan Yulan still lost a child when she was pregnant.

Feng Junjia's parents thought that Yan Yulan was deceiving them by saying that she heard the birds, and her son also said that he was reluctant to abandon such a good-looking daughter-in-law when he heard the birds. They can't keep a beautiful daughter-in-law without leaving a queen. They tried every means to embarrass Yan Yulan, and constantly did ideological work for their son, hoping to put him on their side.

Feng Junjia has sought many famous doctors and prescribed many home remedies for this purpose, but none of them have any effect.

He asked Yan Yulan if she really heard the birds chirping at night.

Yan Yulan swore that she really heard it, and she didn't blame the Feng family for shirking responsibility.

In desperation, he thought of Ma Xiucai from Thrush Village. He went to Thrush Village to find Ma Xiucai, told Ma Xiucai about his daughter-in-law, and asked for his opinion.

After hearing this, Grandpa also felt that something was wrong, and thought, could it be that Feng Junjia's daughter-in-law met a ghost?

It was a very common type of ghost at that time, and it was often formed by babies who died within a few months of birth or babies who were about to be born in the womb. At that time, medical skills were backward, and women had many children, and their lives were relatively poor, so it was difficult for newborn children to receive comprehensive and meticulous care, and it was often difficult to feed. When a woman has more children, her health deteriorates, which can also cause miscarriages and the like. In this way, babies who die within a few months or who have fallen before birth cannot be buried directly in the ancestral cemetery, nor can they be used in coffins, but with a common earth-picking tool called a dustpan to pick out the babies and bury them in the barren mountains and mountains that are inaccessible to people. The dustpan that was picked out was contaminated with bad luck, and naturally it could not be brought back for use, so it was buckled upside down on the small grave, so the ghost formed in this way was called a dustpan ghost.

The ghost is very jealous, and although he has left, he still can't see that his former parents are kind to the children born later, so he makes trouble and drags away the soul of his younger brother or sister who is loved by his parents, so that he also becomes a ghost of the dustpan.

Daddy knew about the ghost, but he had never dealt with such a thing. Later, my grandfather dealt with the ghost for others, and the way to deal with it was told by my grandfather - dig up the grave of the ghost, break its head, and bury it in the earth with its head down and feet to the sky, so that it can no longer be troubled.

Therefore, after listening to Feng Junjia's story, his father thought that he was going to find his daughter-in-law's first child. And the sound of birds, my father thought it was the sound of a ghost in a dustpan.

Grandpa told Feng Junjia his thoughts, and Feng Junjia also felt that Grandpa made sense.

But Grandpa was not in a hurry to dig up the grave of the ghost, he decided to go to Feng Junjia's house first, and listen to the bird's call at night.

Feng Junjia then led his grandfather to look at his house before and after.

After reading it, my father said: "I don't see that feng shui is bad, I think feng shui is very good, very prosperous!" "Actually, my grandfather has been to his house before, and I roughly know the feng shui of this location, but my father is afraid that the feng shui here has changed over the years.

Feng Junjia believed in the statement of the ghost even more. The feng shui at home is not bad but good, how can there be any explanation? It must be a dustpan ghost. He thought so to himself.

Feng Junjia picked up the hoe and was about to go out to dig the grave of the ghost.

Grandpa hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't worry, don't worry, I'll listen to the birds here tonight!" ”

Feng Junjia said: "Don't listen. I used to say that I could also hear birds, and that was to protect my daughter-in-law. Actually, I didn't hear any bird calls at night at all. If you just wait all night, you won't hear anything. ”

Daddy snatched the hoe off his shoulder and said, "Not necessarily. Besides, even if it's a ghost, we have to listen to it tonight. What if something new is discovered? Even if there are no new discoveries, you have been delayed for so many years, and this night is still missing? ”

Feng Junjia felt that his grandfather was reasonable, so he put down the hoe for the time being.

Grandpa asked Feng Junjia to take him to ask Yan Yulan.

"Did you really hear the birds chirping at night?" Grandpa asked Yan Yulan.

Yan Yulan has become sallow and sunken in her eyes due to the continuous loss of children over the years, but she still has charm.

Yan Yulan said: "When I was pregnant with a child, I often heard screams at night. The child falls to the point where she becomes pregnant again, and the sound is not heard at night. ”

Feng Junjia on the side immediately said: "Look, it must be a ghost who is doing it!" It's going to harm the baby in my daughter-in-law's womb! I don't think I have to wait tonight! ”

Grandpa waved his hand at him, telling him not to speak, and then continued to ask Yan Yulan, "What is the name of that bird?" ”

Yan Yulan learned from the bird calls she heard twice.

When my father heard this, he said, "It seems to be the call of a cuckoo." ”

Feng Junjia said: "What's so strange about this voice? You can learn whatever bird you want, sparrows, magpies, crows, eagles, etc. ”

Grandpa thought for a while and said, "Don't jump to conclusions so early, let's listen to it tonight." ”

That night, Feng Junjia and his grandfather hid in the corner of the house and waited for the birds to call. Array Zhuang to row.

Yan Yulan knew that her husband had found someone to come to the house to listen to the birds, but she couldn't sleep anymore and tossed and turned on the bed.

After waiting for an hour, Feng Junjia may have felt that it was too troublesome for his father, or maybe he himself was not very impatient, so he kept persuading his father, telling him not to wait any longer and go directly to dig the grave of the ghost tomorrow.

Daddy was unmoved, still waiting for the birds.

Feng Junjia saw that his grandfather insisted, so he stopped his mouth and waited with his father in silence.

After Yan Yulan tossed and turned for a long time, she finally became sleepy, fell asleep, and no longer flipped over.

That night, the sky and the earth were quiet, and the air seemed to be much thicker and the time was much slower due to the boredom of waiting.

Feng Junjia on the side couldn't help but yawn. Grandpa held his eyelids and didn't dare to slack off.

I don't know how long it took, but in his drowsiness, my father suddenly heard the faint call of a cuckoo.

"Cuckoo-cuckoo-"

The sound came from far and near, as if a bird was flying from afar.

When Grandpa heard this voice, he immediately perked up. He hurriedly pushed Feng Junjia, who was also drowsy next to him, and whispered: "Listen, listen, the sound of birds is sounding!" ”

Feng Junjia hurriedly rubbed his eyes, smacked his lips, and then listened.

"Did you hear that?" Daddy asked.

Feng Junjia shook his head in confusion and said, "Where is the sound of birds?" ”

He couldn't hear what his father heard. Although Grandpa was a little surprised, he had expected such a situation for a long time. After all, he couldn't hear the bird call that Yan Yulan said before.

"Cuckoo-cuckoo-"

The bird's call is getting closer and closer, and the call echoes endlessly, as if a lonely cuckoo is chirping in the empty mountains. This time the bird's call was much clearer, like the cuckoo perched on an invisible branch above their heads.

"Do you hear it now?" Daddy asked.

This time Feng Junjia looked surprised, he put his hand next to his ear to listen, and whispered: "I heard it this time, it seems to be the call of a cuckoo......

Daddy looked up left and right, and the roof was pitch black, and there was no sign of birds.