Grandpa was silent for a long time and said, "You all have to leave me." ”

Luo Buzhai did not speak.

Grandpa sighed and said, "But I can't blame you for this. Well, sooner or later, you'll have to leave the familiar people and the familiar world, but it's just ahead of me here. ”

Before Luo Buzhai left Thrush Village, Yu Youyang asked Luo Buzhai to go to the Land Temple to burn incense and make a vow.

Luo Buzhai asked why.

Yu Youyang said that she went to the Land Temple when Luo Buzhai was in a coma, and begged the father-in-law of the land to let Luo Buzhai wake up. That night, she had a dream in which her father-in-law came to her bedside and told her that he could grant her request, but told her not to say anything. Yu Youyang lay motionless on the bed, and couldn't nod even if he wanted to. It's like a ghost press. The father-in-law of the land said that he was a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and he often had to eat and be unable to protect himself, and if she said it, there must be many people who came to beg him, and he couldn't deal with them one by one, so he never just sneaked around and helped others when it was difficult for others to find out. He said that he was afraid that others would ask for him, and that he would hate him when others asked for it but could not get it.

Therefore, when his father asked who the dwarf who sat on a bench with Xi Que was, Yu Youyang knew it in his heart but didn't dare to answer in public.

Luo Buzhai didn't believe Yu Youyang's words very much, and said: "Since he is the father-in-law of the land, he is still afraid that others will beg others to hate?" I'm afraid that you have been thinking about it day and night, and you happened to have such a dream, right? ”

Yu Youyang had to take him to the Land Temple to kowtow and thank him.

Luo Buzhai saw that she insisted, so he obeyed.

In other words, the father-in-law of this land is really self-aware, and of course he also knows people. However, neither Yu Youyang nor Luo Buzhai could see this. But both Grandpa and Grandpa saw it.

The father-in-law of this land really didn't end well in the end.

It's a long story.

It was probably almost 20 years after Luo Buzhai and Yu Youyang left Thrush Village, and the people in the village lined up to go to the Land Temple to bow down and pray for prayers as never before. At that time, my grandfather told my grandfather that my father-in-law was afraid that something would happen to him, and he had said before that he was afraid that many people would believe him and beg him.

Grandpa didn't believe his grandfather's words, and retorted, that temple doesn't want to believe in many incense sticks? How can you be afraid of this? Although the land temple is small, it is also a temple.

So many people ask for the land temple because of an incident that happened during that time.

It was in late autumn, when the wood was prone to cracking. A blacksmith from another village sent an iron hat to Thrush Village and asked a man surnamed Zhao that he had asked him to send it to Thrush Village.

The blacksmith asked many people, but no one admitted that he had ordered the iron hat from the blacksmith.

Someone laughed at the blacksmith: "You're afraid you've been tricked, right?" If there is an iron hoe, an iron sickle, and an iron scissors, who will want an iron hat? Besides, the men in our Thrush Village are all surnamed Ma, and it turns out that Ma Xiucai's family has a surname Luo, but he left thirty years ago. But he is not surnamed Zhao either! There is another one, we have a blacksmith in our own village, even if we ask for an iron hat, we will find a blacksmith in our own village to fight, how can they run to you? ”

The villagers do pay attention to this. If there are carpenters in your own village, then those who make chairs and tables must give priority to the people in your own village; If there is a carpenter in his village, he will not buy sieves and baskets from other places. In the same village, if you look down and don't look up, you always have to talk about some favors, unless the family has a conflict with the craftsman's family.

But the blacksmith didn't believe it, and he said, "No way." I asked everything, and the surnamed Zhao insisted that he was a person from Thrush Village, and he wanted an iron hat, and said that my craftsmanship was good, so he wanted to fight here. ”

Someone else said, "But there is really no such person in our village." If it really doesn't work, you go to Ma Xiucai's house and ask, there are many people who associate with him, maybe it is someone he knows. ”

So they led the blacksmith to his grandfather's house.

As soon as Grandpa heard that the man's surname was Zhao, he understood seven or eight points in his heart. But he didn't want the father-in-law of the land to reveal his identity, so he said, "Then you can leave this iron hat with me, and I will pay for the work." If it's really my friend, then I'll pass it on to my friend when he comes. ”

But the blacksmith was too honest. He refused to give the iron hat to his grandfather, saying that he had to hand it over to the man surnamed Zhao himself.

At this time, someone said: "Didn't that person say where his family lives in Thrush Village?" ”

This sentence called the blacksmith. The blacksmith slapped his head and said, "Oh, yes! He said his family lived right next to the old river! ”

So the blacksmith turned around and left. The crowd followed him.

Some people advised him not to go to the old river, saying that there were no people living next to the old river in Thrush Village.

The blacksmith didn't listen, so he had to go to the old river to have a look.

The blacksmith walked along the old river for a while, saw the short and small land temple, and said in surprise: "It can't be the iron hat that the land father-in-law asked me to order, right?" ”

He put the iron hat on the wooden idol of the father-in-law of the land, and it was actually the right size! Just right!

When everyone saw this, they were all amazed.

One of the carpenters suddenly realized: "I know, the climate is dry in autumn, and the wood is easy to lose water and dry up, and the father-in-law of the land looks like it is made of camphor wood, could it be that the head of the father-in-law of the land is about to crack, so he went to the blacksmith to ask for an iron hat to fix it?" ”

Camphor wood is insect-proof, fragrant, durable, in the past, some people regarded the camphor wood box as a family heirloom from generation to generation, so it was a very precious material in the past. It is used to make various idols of gods and goddesses as a way to pay homage to the gods and Buddhas.

But camphor wood will inevitably not crack after a long time.

Someone else said: "No wonder he doesn't ask the blacksmith in our village to make an iron hat, he is afraid that the blacksmith will see at a glance that he is not from our village." ”

Curiously, everyone moved the statue of the land from the land temple, and sure enough, they found that there was a crack on the back of the head of the statue of the land father.

Everyone immediately understood that the father-in-law of the land had appeared, so they knelt down and worshipped. They pooled the money to pay the blacksmith, but the blacksmith refused to take it anyway.

Since then, the people in the village have gone to the Land Temple to kneel down and ask the Land Father-in-law to show their spirits for help, and sometimes it is something that they can handle, but they are not willing to contribute money or effort, and they also go to the Land Temple to kneel and pray.

During that period of time, Grandpa was much more relaxed, but Grandpa became worried.

Sure enough, after a period of time, some people who went to the Land Temple to bow down got their wishes, and some people who went to the Land Temple to bow down had their wishes disappointed. So, some people went to the land temple to set off firecrackers to thank them, and some people went to the land temple to scold, blaming the land father-in-law for only helping the rich and not the poor, and scolding the land father-in-law for only helping the evil and not the good.

When Luo Buzhai left Thrush Village for more than 30 years, that is, about ten years after the father-in-law of the land wore an iron hat, a vigorous movement spread across the country, and everywhere was "breaking the four olds".

For rural areas, the land temple is the first to be destroyed. Because almost every village has its own land temple.

When the people of Thrush Village faced the land temple by the old river, some hesitated, some impulsively instigated ≡, the hesitant people were the people who thought they had received the favor of the land father-in-law, and the people who impulsively instigated were the people who had scolded them.

Before that, those who had the intention to destroy the Land Temple did not dare to really do it, after all, there were still many people who opposed it. But with the saying "breaking the four olds", it is different, and those who want to oppose it dare not oppose it.

So, a group of people rushed to the Land Temple and smashed it to pieces.

After smashing it, it didn't feel enough, so a group of people carried the statue of the land father-in-law made of camphor wood to the barn field, and wanted to burn the statue of the land father-in-law in public.

A few people felt that this was too much, so they secretly went to their grandfather, hoping that their grandfather would come forward to stop them. But my grandfather has been locked up in the cowshed at this time, and he is in prison, how can he come forward?

Later, my grandfather was quite surprised and emotional when he heard that people outside said that the situation occurred when he burned the statue of his father-in-law.

After the statue was carried to the threshing floor, the men erected the statue with firewood and poured kerosene. At that time, kerosene was a scarce material, and ordinary people did not dare to twist too many wicks out when they used kerosene lamps at home, for fear that the kerosene would burn one or two more drops. But those people did not hesitate when they burned the statue of the father-in-law.

Matches are struck and firewood is lit. The raging fire immediately rose up, illuminating some people's faces red and some people's faces hot.

The men shouted strange slogans and watched excitedly as the flames engulfed the statue of the land father-in-law made of camphor wood.

The raging fire burned for almost an hour.

After the flames were extinguished, those present were taken aback!

All the firewood was burned to ashes, and all the kerosene was consumed, but the statue of the father-in-law of the land did not seem to have any traces of burning except for being blackened by smoke!

The person who took the lead stepped forward and touched it with his fingers and found that Zhangmu was "sweating" like a human! The whole body of the statue of the Father of the Land was covered with water. Array of liver buba.

Due to the protection of "sweat", the flames failed to burn the statue of the land father.

The people who advocated smashing the land temple and burning the statue of the land father-in-law all panicked, looking at each other, not knowing what to do.

When the leader saw that everything had been done and that there was no turning back, he called for knives and axes from the house to be cut.

While continuing to agitate others, the person who took the lead actually slipped his mouth. He kicked the statue of the Father-in-law of the land and shouted, "If you hit a snake, you will hit seven inches!" If you fight, you will die! If you don't kill it, the snake will come back and get revenge! After shouting, he took the lead and raised his axe to chop at the "sweaty" camphor wood.

The axe was slashed at the back of the head of the father-in-law, and the person who took the lead remembered it clearly.

After he cut it, the others rushed up tremblingly and chopped it up one after another, cutting down the statue of the father-in-law of the land.

The leader remembered where his axe had been cut on the father-in-law's body because after that movement he had fallen into the valley while going up the hill to cut wood, and the same place in the back of his head had been cut by the hard stone. When he returned home covered in blood, he said that the father-in-law of the land had come to him. At that time, medical care was not developed, and he only did a simple bandage, not an injection. He died of tetanus soon after, with a wry grin as he died.