However, more than ten years later, my grandfather heard the news about the bamboo slip again. That time I heard it from Xiaomi.

Grandpa takes care of the millet who has already got the flesh, and at the same time guards the spirit of the millet that has left the flesh. For more than a decade. It's not smooth, but it's safe.

In the past ten years, Xiaomi's spirit has harassed people in the neighborhood everywhere, and small things have continued, but big things have not been accomplished. She had always been the way she was when she was four or five years old. Grandpa solves problems for others and works tirelessly.

Feng Junjia's millet is getting closer and closer to his father, and he is not a relative in terms of blood, but he looks better than a relative. Gradually, her face changed, she became mature, she became slim.

When Millet turned twelve, the old man in the Spirit House died. Grandpa went to organize his funeral, and saw that his house was full of hand-copied scriptures, and there were many broken wooden fish sticks, and he was very emotional.

The old man has no children and no daughters, no one is a filial son, no one sits in a sedan chair and cries. Grandpa called Millet to cry and mourn, pretending to be his daughter.

Seven days later, Millet told her father that on the seventh night after the old man's death, she woke up in the middle of the night and found the old man standing by her bedside, looking down at her, his eyes dark and hollow like a deep well, which was particularly terrifying. She wanted to speak, but couldn't. She wanted to move, but she couldn't.

Just when she was overwhelmed. Tears welled up in the old man's empty eyes. That's not tears, that's tears. His eyes were like two fountains, and tears welled up from him.

Then the old man knelt down by the bedside.

Xiaomi thought to herself, could it be that this old man is here to thank me? I cried for her, took the place of his daughter and sat in a sedan chair, kowtowed to him and burned paper, so I moved him?

But the old man kept bursting into tears. There is no intention of leaving.

After a long time, Xiaomi felt the quilt under her get wet. Then my finger touched the water. Xiaomi struggled to look to the side and couldn't see anything.

The water slowly overflowed Xiaomi's hand. Millet finally knew that the house was already full of water, and the water was about to swallow her up. Xiaomi was anxious and struggled hard, but still couldn't move a bit.

The water continued to rise, and Millet's ears gurgled, and then her eyes were not covered by the water, and then her mouth and nose were sealed by the water.

Just when Xiaomi felt that she was about to be drowned, she suddenly remembered who the old man was.

Xiaomi's tears gushed out. But she didn't hate the old man anymore.

Later, my grandfather told Xiaomi that Xiaomi was able to forgive her father in her previous life so quickly, one is that maybe Xiaomi's soul at this time is far stronger than her soul. The second is that the old man has been chanting for Xiaomi for more than ten years, resolving the injustice between the two in their previous lives.

Xiaomi said silently to the old man kneeling beside the bed in his heart, I don't blame you, you can go......

As soon as this voice was spoken, the water in the room quickly receded, and the surface of the water dropped from the top of Millet to the tip of her nose. It came down to her ears again, and the water in her ears flowed out, and at last she couldn't feel it anymore.

After a while, Millet was finally able to sit up, feeling sore and tired. She sat up and looked underground, and the old man had disappeared without a trace.

Later, my father said to Xiaomi, fortunately, you forgave him, the soul of the person after death is easy to disperse, and the zombie is formed by leaving only the soul in the body. Of course, the spirit can also leave the body. That night, it was probably the old man's spirit who came to find him. In fact, if you forgive him, you forgive yourself. Resentment, which can never be shaken away, will persecute others, and eventually kill yourself.

Xiaomi listened to her grandfather's words and smiled: "I know that even if I don't forgive him, I'll be fine." ”

"Why?" Daddy was surprised.

"Because of you. With you, I'll save the day. Millet said.

Grandpa felt guilty. Every time Xiaomi's reincarnation suffered setbacks, he couldn't reverse the situation, but Xiaomi now believes in him so much.

Xiaomi's Alayya consciousness has fully awakened and remembered everything.

Grandpa took her to places near Thrush Village where she had been before, and talked about what they had been through before.

Shang Ruoran was very unhappy, and often said in her father's ear: "Look at how old you are, how old is that girl?" You two often sit here and there, not afraid of gossip? ”

But in fact, no one gossiped about grandpa. After all, my grandfather is over seventy years old, and Xiaomi is only in his cardamom years, which is beyond people's imagination.

Once, my grandfather contracted a cold and couldn't go out.

Xiaomi didn't dare to come directly to her grandfather's house, she didn't want to see Shang Ruoran's jealous gaze. Either they met at Lao He's place, or their grandfather went to Feng Junjia's house.

Seeing that her grandfather didn't come, Millet went outside alone to see the mountains and the water she had seen.

She walked up a hill and felt a little tired, so she sat down on the floor and rested for a while. As soon as she sat down, she heard the voice of Suosuo.

Xiaomi was startled and hurriedly stood up. She was about to leave when a snake crawled out in front of her and blocked her path.

The snake was covered with stars marked on the scale rod, and if the snake body was not much thicker than the scale rod, the whole thing would look like a scale. The head of the snake was five or six feet above the ground, and there was only a small circle of snake tails on the ground to support the whole body. The snake hyacinth spitted and exuded a strong fishy smell. Mi soon realizes that she has run into a snake that is higher than the high. This serpent is also called the weighing serpent.

Millet had never seen this kind of snake before, she had heard from her grandfather. In fact, she had heard about this kind of snake in her previous life, but she had never seen it in her previous life.

The inhabitants of the area often talk about this snake, but it seems that no one has ever seen it with their own eyes.

It is said that all those who saw it with their own eyes died.

Xiaomi didn't expect to see the scale snake here.

My grandfather once told me about this snake, and he also learned about it from his father. Grandpa said that this snake is very scary, and it has a hobby that other snakes do not have, that is, it is higher than people. If a person touches it, it will suddenly stand up, taller than a person, and stand upright. Ordinary snakes can't stand up so high. If the person who encounters the snake does not know the snake's habits, and runs away or hits it with a hoe or other thing, it is self-defeating. The snake is extremely fast, and as long as a person moves forward or backward, it can bite a person to death in an instant. It is even rumored that if you are scared away when you see the snake lifting, although the snake is not chased, the person who sees the snake will definitely die violently after returning home.

The only way to do that is to follow its rules - to be higher than it.

Naturally, when it stands up, it will basically be much taller than people, and if people directly compare their height with it, it is knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer tigers to go to the tiger mountains. This is the time to test people's wisdom. The only way to defeat it is to pick up something and throw it over its head. As long as the thrown thing is higher than its head, it will let the person go. But you can't bend over or bow your head when picking up things. As soon as you bend down or bow your head, the snake will think that you are admitting defeat to it, and it will quickly bite someone, and the person will be poisoned to death instantly.

When Daddy talked to Xiaomi about this, Xiaomi asked, what should I do if I happen to have nothing in my hand when I encounter this snake, and I can't bend down and look down to pick up something?

Daddy said, you don't have to bend down and bow your head, you lift your feet from behind you, reach for your shoes with your hands, stand up straight and take off your shoes, and then throw your shoes over its head, be sure to throw it higher than its head, so that you can win it. It won't hurt you and bite itself to death. But remember, when throwing shoes, always throw them higher than their heads!

After listening to her father, Xiaomi asked, can you take off your shoes even if you stand up straight? Immediately after she finished speaking, she demonstrated to herself the action of standing up straight and taking off her shoes.

Daddy laughed and said, That's it!

When I listened to my grandfather's words, I didn't believe that I could take off my shoes without bending over, so I immediately demonstrated it myself.

There are a lot of simple things that we don't believe without trying them, but those simple things do exist.

Later, when I was in college, I happened to tell a few classmates about the legend of this snake, and I actually got a lot of responses. Originally, many places have this kind of saying, but the name of the scale snake is different, the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang call this kind of snake "plow head flutter", and the people of Guangdong call this kind of snake "rice shovel head", also called "than snake".

After that discussion, I went to the library to look up related books, and accidentally found a poem describing this snake in the poem of Zheng Banqiao, a famous painter of the Qing Dynasty and one of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou". This poem is included in the "Zheng Banqiao Collection" and is called "Comparing Snakes". The full poem is as follows: "It is good to be short and long in the world, and it is necessary to cut off the road out of the forest≥ and then die in a straight line, not from behind." This poem also has a preface: There are snakes in Guangdong, so that they can compare the length with people, if they win, they will bite people, and if they don't win, they will die by themselves. Those who see the mountain walk, rush up with an umbrella, and the snake will die if he is invincible.

In the preface to Zheng Banqiao's poem, he mentions a way to compare the height of the snake with the scales - raise the umbrella in his hand, and the whole height will exceed the height of the snake.

Of course, this is just a way to get higher. What should I do if I don't have an umbrella in my hand, Mr. Zheng Banqiao didn't say. Zhenzong medical skills.

Xiaomi remembered the method taught by her grandfather, so she lifted the snake in front of the scales and slowly lifted her feet from behind her. She didn't dare to lift too fast, for fear of bending down, so that the scale snake would mistakenly think that she had thrown in defeat.

When she lifted her foot high enough, she reached behind her back and carefully removed the shoes from her feet.

The scale snake stood in front of Millet like a pillar, staring straight at Millet with her eyes, waiting for her to be taller than it.

Grandpa also told Xiaomi and Grandpa that this scale snake is actually very similar to those jealous and stingy people. As the saying goes, "people are more angry than people". Many stingy people have to compare their quality with others, and when they see that others are not as good as him, they have a sense of superiority and live happily; When he saw that others were living better than him and higher than him, he was so angry that his heart and lungs were going to explode.

Xiaomi feels that the eyes of this scale snake reveal the fierce light that only that kind of person has, which is chilling, but helpless.

Xiaomi holds the shoe in her hand. Since one foot was without shoes, she stood on one foot.

"Hey!" Xiaomi shook his hand vigorously and wanted to throw the shoe over the head of the scale snake, but he didn't expect that his one-footed foundation was unstable. She pushed so hard that the soles of her feet slipped. She knew that if she fell to the ground, she would lose. She quickly shifted her attention to her feet.

So, the moment the shoe took off, it lost its momentum, lost its strength, and flew softly and lightly towards the snake's body, and it was impossible to fly over the weight and lift the snake's head.