I was touched by what my mother said, but I felt that I couldn't continue to believe whatever adults said like a child.

I said, "Isn't it just a piece of wood?" It's all psychological. ”

Mom said, "This piece of wood is not that simple! ”

"Isn't it easy?"

"That's a guy who doesn't know how many years he's lived to tell your dad to do this."

"Human spirits?" I was amazed. My grandfather first told me about the past of Renjing, but my grandfather didn't say anything about Renjing teaching my grandfather to make peach wood talismans.

I want my mother to tell me about how Renjing taught my grandfather to make peach wood talismans.

After my mother finished telling the story, I noticed that the story she told was a little different from what my grandfather told. In the past that my grandfather told me, my grandfather left the town after seeing the pig demon killed by the butcher and went straight to Fushun. But in the past that my mother told me, my grandfather had just left the town and was called back by the innkeeper, and stayed in that town for a few more days.

I asked my mother if this past was told by my grandfather himself. After all, Grandpa is an eyewitness, and if there is a difference between what the witness and the narrator said, perhaps the narrator omitted it, which is reasonable.

But her mother said that this was also what her grandfather told her.

The same person tells the same story, but there is a slight difference. This struck me as odd.

I asked my grandfather about this. Grandpa was surprised: "Is that what I told your mother?" ”

I was very puzzled by my grandfather's performance. But after many more years, I finally learned that this was not surprising. Many people's memories are not stable and will change over time. When the same event is recalled years later by different people who have experienced it together, you will find that their memories are different.

A friend once told me that she remembered that when she was three years old, she had a little white bear toy, slightly bigger than a keypendant, with sapphire-like eyes, which she always played with in her hand and then lost it. When she grew up, she talked about it, but her parents denied that she had ever had it, saying that they had never seen it.

I've also heard from other friends who remember things that they remember clearly, but those who went through it with him denied.

Similarly, the same person's memories of themselves at different times will have different expressions, some are not very different, and some are very different!

There was an old woman in our village who once said that she had five children, but they all starved to death during the famine. When she was about to die, because she wanted to engrave the name of her filial son on the tombstone, someone asked her what the names of her five children were. The old woman said she had never given birth.

When I was in junior high school, there was a physics teacher at our school who insisted that he had invented the mortar for war. This kind of obviously impossible thing, the physics teacher insisted that his memory was not wrong, and he had to write a report and let him be rewarded from above.

Of course, these are more extreme examples, but in everyday life, there are actually many people who have similar situations to a greater or lesser extent.

Fortunately, there is only this difference in the past told by my mother and grandfather.

In Mom's story, as soon as Grandpa left the town, the innkeeper caught up from behind.

When Grandpa saw the innkeeper chasing after him, he immediately stopped and asked the boss what was wrong.

The boss panted and said, "Zhu is not dead!" ”

Grandpa didn't believe it and asked, "Didn't you and I see the pork cut by the butcher one by one?" How could he not be dead? Even if you put that meat together, you can't bring him back to life! Don't tease me, I'm still on my way. ”

The boss grabbed his father and said, "Zhu is really not dead!" That butcher came looking for me! ”

"What is he looking for you for?"

"He said he didn't kill the pig, he said he lied to us. He hid the pig in his own pigsty, and when he saw that the pig had several times more meat than the average pig, he wanted to keep him as a breeding pig. ”

"As a breeding pig?" Daddy asked.

"yes. He said he wouldn't want to return the pig to us even if we paid double the price. With this kind of pig mating with sows, many pigs of this type will be born in the future, and the money can be more than two or three times as much! He was afraid that the seller would get back the money, so he killed a pig that looked similar to Zhu and had a black mane on his back. ”

Grandpa listened to what the boss said, and he believed him a little.

"But how do you know all these things that the butcher does? He came to your hotel and told you this for no reason? Grandpa was still skeptical.

The boss replied, "He came to me because several sows in his pigsty were killed by that pig!" The wooden fence of the pigsty was also bitten and he escaped. The butcher came to see if he had come to me. ”

"Bit the sow to death and ran away?" Daddy was stunned. This pig demon is too fierce, although he was treated as a breeding pig by the butcher, but he shouldn't be so revenged, right?

"yes. So I'm chasing you, hoping that you can help get the pig demon back. You helped me discover the pig demon's scheme, and my daughter sold him again, maybe he'll come back and trouble us! The butcher just treated him like a breeding pig, and he bit all the sows to death and broke the pigsty. If he came back to my house, what do you think he would do to me and my daughter? "The boss was terrified just thinking about it.

Grandpa was worried that he would harm people if he didn't succeed, so he immediately agreed to go with him to find the pig demon back.

Daddy decided to let Zhu Yuzi follow Zhu's scent to find him. When I was in the vegetable market and the butcher shop, the smell was mixed, and it was difficult to tell whether there was a smell of Zhu in it, even if it was a bamboo slipper.

Now that Zhu has run away, it will be easier for Zhu Chuzi to find his scent.

So, Daddy and the boss went back to the butcher shop and started looking around the butcher shop.

The boss saw the scene of his father catching the pig demon and knew that his father was not an ordinary person, so he was not particularly surprised when he drove a mouse to do things.

The butcher didn't know that the pig was a pig demon, and Grandpa and the boss didn't plan to tell him, so they didn't call him when they passed by the butcher's shop.

Because Zhu bit other sows to death before escaping, he must have the smell of pig blood on his body, which is more conducive to the search for bamboo slippers.

Zhu Yuzi took his grandfather and the boss farther and farther, and finally walked to a barren mountain. There were many large rocks on that hill, and there were only a few trees.

When he was almost on the mountainside, Zhu Yuzi suddenly turned around and climbed onto his father's shoulder.

The boss asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Grandpa said, "Someone is coming in front." ”

Before Grandpa's words fell, a man and a pig walked out of the mountain road in front of him. The man was blind, old, with rolled eyes and a peach branch in his hand. That pig is the pig demon that Daddy is looking for!

When the boss saw the pig, he wanted to go forward. Grandpa hurriedly stopped the boss and signaled him not to worry.

The sound of the pig demon's hooves knocking on the gravel road drowned out the footsteps of the blind man. Although the man's eyes were rolled, he seemed to walk without hesitation at all, and although he looked old, his steps were so easy that people thought that he was not blind. And, from time to time, he raised the peach branch in his hand and slapped the pig demon's buttocks with unmistakable accuracy, forcing him to run forward. The peach branch cut through the air and made a whining sound, which showed how much pain the pig demon would have when it landed on the pig demon's buttocks.

Looking at the whole barren mountain, there is not a shadow of a peach tree.

Grandpa felt that this blind man was not simple.

When the blind man and the pig approached Daddy, Daddy coughed dryly.

When the pig saw his father, he screamed.

Grandpa stopped him and the pig and asked, "This old gentleman, where did you get this pig from?" ”

The blind man replied, "I met it on the top of the mountain." Could it be that this is your pig? "His voice was hoarse.

Daddy winked at the boss. The boss hurriedly stood up and said, "Old man, this is my pig." ”

The blind man said, "Why don't your pigs be kept in the pigsty?" If something breaks down, who do you say is responsible? ”

Grandpa knew that the blind man had "seen" something unusual about this pig, and deliberately asked, "It's just a pig, what can it do?" ”

The blind man smiled and said, "Let's say I hit someone I can't see." ”

"But you don't get the slightest obstacle to your steps when you walk." Daddy said.

"Young people, the road is walked out by the feet, there is a road and there is no road in your discerning people, for me, an invisible person, it doesn't matter if there is a road, the road under the feet is the road, how can there be obstacles." The blind man replied.

The boss argued: "But you stepped on the mountain road with every foot, and you didn't trip over the rocks, and you didn't step out of the road." ”

The blind man said: "I just happened to be on the road." ”

Grandpa praised: "What the old gentleman said is very reasonable. I don't know where the old gentleman came from? ”

The blind man said: "From Baoding." ”

Grandpa was overjoyed and said, "I also stayed in Baoding for a while before I came over." He suddenly had an inexplicable affection for the blind man.

"I just happened to be passing by there."

"Have you ever been to the Liujia Dog Meat Restaurant in the north of Baoding?" Daddy wants to hear a little bit about Xiaomi.

The blind man shook his head and said, "No." ”

"Have you ever heard the name Millet there?" Grandpa is still unwilling.

"I never ask for people's names, and I don't remember people's names."

The boss didn't know what Daddy was asking for, his attention was on the pig demon. He said to the blind man, "Sir, this pig belongs to me, can you return it to me?" ”

The blind man nodded and said, "It's useless for me to ask for this pig, since it's yours, you can rush back." But you'll have to beat it with my peach branch, or it won't listen to you." With that, he handed the peach branch in his hand to the innkeeper.

The boss was hesitant to take it.

Daddy motioned for him to take it.

So the boss took the peach branch from the blind man's hand.

"The peach branch can smoke a ghost, and it is more than enough to smoke a pig." The blind man said.

Grandpa heard that he was asking the boss to use peach branches to suppress the pig demon.