I refuted my grandfather with these two things.

My grandfather used his father's metaphor to explain that his father used his body to block the crack in the door, blocked the wind, and suffered the backlash caused by the leakage of the heavenly machine. He wants things to be okay and you to be safe.

Grandpa added that Grandpa had learned the secret art of revealing the heavens without affecting the progress of things twenty years after Xie Xiaomi's death, but this would come at the cost of greater damage to his body.

Therefore, I still don't believe in the fortune tellers in the city who set up fortune tellers under overpasses or at the entrance of the street. He is not your flesh and blood relative, and he will not bear the burden of revenge for you. My grandfather once said that the blind man was born with a cripple and suffered a lighter backlash than ordinary people, so he could barely tell fortunes. That's also to find something to eat. The current fortune teller is not blind or lame, with good facial features and sound limbs, how can he be a real fortune teller?

The day after discussing with Luo Buzhai, his father went to the Lost Bridge with him.

Grandpa asked the Xie family up and down, and no one remembered what Miss Xie left before she died, or gave any hints.

Just as Daddy and the others were about to leave, a little girl of six or seven years old ran out and said that she had done something for Miss Xie before she died.

That little girl is the daughter of the Xie family, because she is young and ignorant, and she has lived in her hometown in the countryside for a long time, she is often ignored.

The old man of the Xie family called her to his feet, touched her head, and asked kindly, "Xiaoya, you are not allowed to lie." ”

Xiao Ya nodded and said, "I'm not lying. ”

The old man of the Xie family said: "Then tell me, what have you done for Miss Xie?" ”

Xiao Ya said: "That night I ran around and crashed into Miss Xie's room. Miss Xie lay on the bed and said to me, Xiaoya, you can do one thing for me, don't tell others. I said, "Miss, what do you want me to do?" Miss Xie said that there were a lot of cats under my bed, and they were noisy and noisy, so I couldn't sleep well. Can you help me drive these annoying cats up the hill behind? I said, "Okay, miss." ”

"Did you help her chase the cat, then?" Daddy couldn't help but interject.

Xiao Ya nodded and said, "Help her catch up." Those cats are making the young lady sleep badly, and of course I have to help her get rid of them. But I didn't expect that there were so many cats under the young lady's bed, in groups. ”

The old man of the Xie family was slightly surprised, and asked, "Have you counted, how many cats are there in total?" ”

Xiao Ya shook her head: "I didn't count, there are too many, I can't count them." ”

The old man of the Xie family glanced sideways at the housekeeper and asked, "There are so many cats in our Xie family's compound?" ”

The housekeeper hurriedly bent down and replied: "Master, children talk nonsense, there are only more than 30 cats in our compound, and a lot of them were lost later, and there are about ten left." Those cats are used to scare mice. If there are groups of cats like Xiaoya said, there will not be enough mice in our yard to eat. ”

A maid next to her, who may have been Xiao Ya's mother, came over and grabbed Xiao Ya's arm, slapped her, and scolded, "What nonsense are you talking about? It is a great grace for the master to let you play here and eat here, if you dare to lie and deceive people, I will slap your mouth crooked! After saying that, she gave Xiaoya another slap in the face. The hand she had hit Xiao Ya was trembling slightly. She felt sorry for her daughter, but she was afraid that her daughter would make the Xie family master angry.

A trace of blood flowed from the corner of Xiao Ya's mouth, but she gritted her teeth and said, "I didn't lie!" I just saw groups of cats! ”

The housekeeper said: "Then you take us to the back mountain to see if there are many wild cats there." ”

Grandpa remembered the scene when Xie Xiaomi turned the corpse into a black cat, and hurriedly persuaded: "I believe she didn't deceive people." Grandpa guessed that Xie Xiaomi had condensed a lot of overflowing corpse qi into shape, and then asked someone to drive the corpse qi to the back mountain, worried that too much uncontrollable corpse qi would hurt the people of the Xie family. That day, when my father took out the shell sachet to counteract the corpse qi, he noticed that there was not a lot of corpse qi at that time. It turned out that she had already transferred some of the corpse qi.

Xie Xiaomi's call to the strange and young little bud to drive away the corpse qi should be taken into account that others will not believe her words, so it is relatively confidential.

"When I came here that day, I did see a lot of cat hair under Miss Xie's bed." Grandpa had no choice but to use lies to make up for Xiaoya's truth. Truth and falsehood are often not believed to be true or suspected to be false, truth and falsehood are often reversed, good people are wronged, and bad people are protected. This is because everyone only believes what they want to believe. Authenticity is not important.

When everyone saw Grandpa say this, they all believed Xiao Ya's words, and even believed that there were indeed many wild cats in the Xie family's courtyard.

The housekeeper who was still commanding just now immediately lowered his head and apologized to the master of the Xie family: "I'm sorry, master, it's me who didn't do it well." It was my negligence. ”

The old man of the Xie family waved his hand and said, "I don't blame you." He glanced at his father, as if he understood his father's thoughts.

Grandpa approached Xiaoya, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and said gently: "In addition to telling you to drive away the cat, what did Miss tell you to do, or what did you say?" ”

Xiao Ya shook her head and said, "No." ”

Grandpa sighed, so he had to say goodbye to the Xie family and leave the Xie family.

After returning to Thrush Village, my grandfather sat in the study and didn't speak for a long time.

Bamboo slipper lay on his father's bookshelf, half awake and half asleep.

Luo Buzhai walked around and kept muttering: "It seems that Xie Xiaomi didn't leave any hints, what can I do?" What can I do? ”

Zhu Yuzi opened his eyes, jumped off the bookshelf, and landed on his grandfather's desk.

Luo Buzhai was taken aback, and hurriedly took away the inkstone on the table that had been ground with ink, for fear that the bamboo slip would stain the white paper on the table after dipping it in ink.

Grandpa saw that the bamboo slip was behaving abnormally, and stared at the bamboo slipper.

The bamboo slipper ran over a piece of rolling paper, and the roll rolled along it, only to spread out.

"It's really going to be fine, does it want to learn how to write?" Luo Buzhai said. Luo Buzhai told his father that Zhu Liuzi seemed to be observing his father, imitating his father, and learning all of his father's skills. However, due to its own limitations, it can't learn from its grandfather.

Grandpa looked at the piece of paper, and saw that there was already a line of words on it, the handwriting was beautiful and beautiful, but it was restrained and subtle, just like the appearance and character of the writer at the beginning. There are seven words in that line -- the mountains have trees, and the trees have branches.

Grandpa suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said in surprise: "That's right! That's right! If she didn't have a final prophetic hint when she returned to Xie's house, this sentence would most likely be a prophetic hint she left behind! The mountains have trees, and the trees have branches! The mountains have trees, and the trees have branches! The mountains have trees, and the trees have branches! The mountains have trees, and the trees have branches! Grandpa's lips trembled with excitement, and he repeated that sentence many times.

Luo Buzhai hurriedly picked up the piece of paper, but he was far less surprised and excited than his father. He said, "Can there be any mystery in this sentence? ”

Grandpa couldn't hear Luo Buzhai anymore, he kept reciting the sentence: "The mountains have trees and trees have branches!" The mountains have trees, and the trees have branches! The mountains have trees, and the trees have branches! ”

In the days that followed, Grandpa kept saying this sentence in his mouth, as if he was in a daze.

In those days, Zesheng slept during the day and went out at night, seemingly busy with a very important matter.

Luo Buzhai was entangled in complicated accounts, and pulled the abacus crackling at home every day.

Luo Buzhai thought that his grandfather would get better in a few days, but after a few days, he saw that his grandfather was still losing his soul, so he went to Xie's house for help.

The old man of the Xie family handed Luo Buzhai a blood-silk jade bracelet and asked him to give it to his father.

Luo Buzhai knew that it was a treasure that Xie Xiaomi wore on his wrist before his death, and was surprised by the generosity of the Xie family, and said hundreds of thanks to the Xie family.

Sure enough, after seeing Xie Xiaomi's bracelet, Grandpa immediately stopped chattering like a demon, and held the bracelet and looked at it for a long time.

But soon, my father was stunned again, holding the bracelet every day. Not only did he look with his eyes, but he also looked at it under the lamp, on top of paper, on water, on a table from a distance, or when he got closer, he almost touched his nose.

At first, Luo Buzhai thought that his father really wanted to see something from it, or there were some hidden small characters in it, or there was the soul of millet in it, or there was some mystery in the blood. So, he also followed his grandfather to look left and right, near and far. But when I saw that my eyes were sore, I didn't see any words in it, nor did I see anything like a soul fluttering in it, and I didn't see any mystery.

One morning, Dad stood in the soft sunlight with Xie Xiaomi's bracelet in his hand. After looking at it for a long time, he held the bracelet in his hand again and lifted it to look at the sun.

At this time, a filtered green light fell on Grandpa's face, and part of it just landed on the corner of Grandpa's mouth.

Grandpa felt a hint of sweetness at the corner of his mouth, like honey, but not as strong as honey; Like sugar, it is sweeter than sugar; Like water flowing through the corners of the mouth, it is lighter than water; Like the wind blowing through the corners of the mouth, it is heavier than the wind. Daddy couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick the corner of his mouth, and that mysterious and refreshing sweetness entered his mouth.

Grandpa immediately felt the coating on his tongue being blown by the wind like a tree in the woods. The sweetness blew into the tongue like the wind, there was no thickness, no shape, only a faint sweetness.

In an instant, Grandpa's world was immersed in the depths of the sea. The air has turned into water, the wind is the torrent in the water, and the surrounding houses are underwater palaces. His mouth was immediately filled with seawater, making him unable to breathe and choking on his breath. The sunlight suddenly became softer, with a lot of astigmatism, such as the refraction and scattering of sunlight under the water, with halos.

There was a buzzing sound in my ears, like some behemoth moving under the water, and like an undercurrent.

Daddy held his breath and waited for the feeling to fade.

But the feeling didn't go away.

Grandpa finally couldn't bear it anymore, sucked lightly, and immediately choked on tears in his eyes and swallowed several mouthfuls.

But with a single swallow, the illusion vanished.

Daddy felt like he hadn't drunk anything, but there was still sweetness in his mouth and throat.