In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the lunar cleaning of this year. When we got up in the morning and had dinner, when we moved the things we needed to move out of the yard, my father lifted the pit mat of the kang where his father (my grandfather) slept before his death, and saw two stone saucers side by side on one end of the smooth kang that he could not find when he died.

"The stone dish is pressed under the kang mat, and my grandfather and father are sick at night...... "My father thought about it, and suddenly confirmed that his grandfather and his father became like that and it was related to Shi Die.

In order not to be frightened, my father quietly picked up two stone saucers and put them behind a pile of firewood and grass in the yard.

In the evening, when we had all gone to sleep, he quietly got up, took a stone dish in the yard, and went to the house where my grandfather lived before his death.

In fact, my father was not very familiar with these two stones, which had existed in the family for decades, and they were useless and worthless. So for so many years, he has never looked at it carefully.

Now that he had to look closely, he didn't know if he knew what it was, or if it made the atmosphere a little mysterious, but he felt a little nervous in his heart. However, it didn't last long, because in the bright light, the two stone butterflies were nothing more than two ordinary stones in his eyes. Although the shape is different from ordinary stones, round stones and square stones are all stones.

Having said this, my father did not dare to be careless when he read it, and he meditated on the few sentences in the book describing the appearance of the Duliba stone saucer, and identified them one by one against the stone saucer, the width of the stone butterfly, the diameter of the central hole, the tiny groove that swirled from the edge of the disc to the center of the disc, and the mysterious words on it.

After watching it for a long time, he felt like it was like it and it didn't look like it. Because the appearance is not bad, but the subtleties seem to be different. Especially the mysterious text, he didn't see a single stroke. Maybe it's worn out, maybe it's just people's imagination. In short, my father's eyes looked sour on it, and he still looked confused.

After tossing and turning for most of the night, my father was a little tired, he rubbed his eyes, moved his neck, put down the stone butterfly and prepared to go to sleep. Suddenly, something terrible happened, and the stone butterfly on the table actually flew by itself.

Seeing the stone saucer on the table flying, my father Zheng Sanjin's heart almost jumped out of his throat.

The two stone saucers did not fly away after they flew up, but floated up and down in the air, overlapping and separating at one time, like two butterflies fluttering. My father stared at them with his mouth half-open and round eyes. They flew above the table for a moment, then flew towards them with a thunderous force, or rather, crashed into themselves. My father had no time to run away because of the rapid change, so he instinctively raised his arms to cover his face and fell to the ground...... After a long while, he took his hands away from his face while lying on the ground, opened his eyes and looked at the air, and the stone saucer was gone, and he sat up and searched for it on the ground beside him.

Unable to find the stone saucer everywhere, my father remembered his body, and then there was a faint pain in the back of his head, and he touched it with his hand and felt a bag on the back of his head. Knowing that it was hit when he just fell to the ground, he was not worried at all. Quickly check the other parts of the body, there is nothing abnormal, and the arms and legs are all good.

Seeing that the stone saucer didn't hurt him, my father let out a long sigh and rolled over and climbed up. Standing up straight, he froze: the two stone saucers were placed on the table.

After a moment's pause, my father reached out and quickly stroked the top of the stone saucer, and said "hi" in his mouth. Shi Die didn't respond, he said "hi" again, but he didn't react.

"It's weird! Could it be that I was dazzled just now? ”

At this time, my father was really a monk who was at a loss, and wanted to pick up the stone dish to see, but he didn't dare, stared at it for a while, the stone dish was motionless, and he had no choice but to go back to sleep.

When I got up the next morning, the first thing my father did was to look at the two stone plates, and when he saw them still on the table as he had done last night, he was a little relieved.

"Looks like I was staring at them for too long last night, hallucinating." He thought so in his heart, and it was daytime, so he had the courage to pick up the stone dish and put it on the top of the cabinet at the end of the kang.

In the blink of an eye, everything was normal at home, and my father's heart was completely let go. At the same time, curiosity about the stone dish also came out. So, when he was free, he looked at the two stone saucers again. Looking at it, I can see that the potholes on the stone plate are all familiar to me, and I don't see any fame. Sometimes he wished he could see the saucers fly again, but they never flew again.

My father fiddled with the stone dish every day, and he didn't feel anything when he was free, but after the spring was in the spring, and the activities in the field were over, my mother had an opinion. On this day, she kicked the door into the house where her father-in-law lived before his death, crossed her waist with one hand, and pointed to Zheng Sanjin's nose drilled in the house with the other hand and said, "Are you not going to spend this day or what?" I don't care if I live at home, I don't go to the field, I hold two broken stones every day, is it your mother, or can I give birth to gold and silver to make you still famine......"

My mother slapped my head and covered my face, and my father rolled his eyes and couldn't speak. During this time, he was in this room, thinking that she didn't know what she was busy with, so it turned out that she was covering her ears and stealing the bell.

"What are you flipping, I'm not right?" My mother walked forward as she spoke, reaching out to grab the stone saucer from his hand, "Let you hold it for a day, and see that I don't throw you into the pit." ”

"Are you crazy!? I didn't say I wouldn't work...... "My father hid to the side with the stone butterfly in both hands.

"Sanjin's family, the climbing plow was sent to you." At this time, there was a shout from the courtyard.

My mother glanced at him and went out. My father put the stone butterfly on top of the cabinet, thought about it and took it down and put it in the desk drawer, found a lock and locked it.

"Auntie, just go over and take the three golds, Shen Shen, you can send them over."

"I'm afraid that you will send it here as soon as you finish your mission."

"The ground has been made out?"

"It's out."

“……”

Listening to the conversation in the courtyard, my father was going to come out, but he was afraid that my mother would not save face for him, so he waited for her to leave.

With this trouble, my father didn't dare to do any more research. The days quickly returned to their former years. It's been a busy month in July. The walnuts are ripe, and I have two trees at home. He plucked one tree one day, and the next day he fell from another tree. Fortunately, the tree is not too tall, and the rotting leaves and weeds under the tree also play a certain cushioning role, and there is no injury when it falls, but the waist is on a branch, and it hurts a little.

My father got up, walked to the root of the tree with his hands on his waist and sat down, rested for a while with his back against the trunk, felt that there was no pain in his waist, and prepared to pick walnuts again. Who would have thought that as soon as he stood up, his trousers and pants fell numbly from his waist to his feet and neck, like fruit detached from the branches.

Feeling that his pants had fallen, he thought that the belt of the armed belt was broken, so he bent down to lift his pants, and when he looked down and saw his two legs, he was stunned.

Seeing that his legs had turned into two slender long bone-in jerky that had lost their luster, their plumpness, their elasticity, their vitality, and their toning, my father couldn't believe it was true. But he understands that whether he dares to believe it or not, what happened to his grandfather and then to his father has happened to him.

Despite the cruel reality, my father gritted his teeth and accepted it. He tried his best to calm himself down, and after looking around to make sure that there was no one around, he took off his clothes and checked his body, and found that he was not dry all over his body like his grandfather and father, but only dry from the waist down, and felt a little relieved.

After checking his body, he felt that the pants didn't seem to need to be worn anymore, so he withdrew them from his pants and threw them aside. Lifting his trousers, adjusting the length of the belt to his existing waistline, and fastening it, he seemed to have completed a great mission, patted the loose butt of the pants with both hands, and sat down again at the base of the walnut tree.

"If only there was a cigarette to smoke." He habitually fumbled his jacket pocket. It was where he loaded his cigarettes, but when his son was admitted to college, it was empty.

There was no cigarette, he reached out and dragged a piece of grass beside him and put it in his mouth, leaned back against the trunk of the tree, and looked at the blue sky: "What the hell is going on?" He wanted to think about it, but his mind was blank and he couldn't think about anything.

After sitting for a while, he stood up, took two steps under the tree, tried his legs, and felt that there was nothing uncomfortable except for the lightness, so he strode towards the house. Along the way, an acquaintance greeted him, and he walked forward as if he didn't see it.

In the yard, my mother was carrying a bucket of swill to feed the pigs. She was surprised to see my father come back with his bare hands and stride, and stooped down to pour all the food from the bucket of swill into the pig's trough, and put down the bucket to ask him what the walnuts he had picked, when she turned back to find that the man was gone.

"Dad-" She shouted and walked from the door of the house next to the pigsty, and when she saw that the door of the house in front of my grandfather was open again, she was angry, "Zheng Sanjin, are you following the ghost in the middle of the day?" ”

As soon as she stepped into the room, she saw my father lying upright on the kang sleeping in front of my grandfather, holding the two broken stones in his hands, holding them in the air to look at them, and she became even more angry: "Zheng Sanjin, you tell me clearly today, are you living this day or not?" ”

My father stared at the stone saucer with his eyes, motionless like a sculpture. When my mother saw that my father had turned a deaf ear to her words, she threw herself up and tried her best, and when she reached the kang, her two hands dancing in the air froze.

"Dad, what's wrong with your leg?" She looked in amazement at my father's collapsed trouser legs.

"It's the same as Daddy......"

When my father said this, my mother burst into tears......