Chapter 49: The Puzzle
He didn't know what they said, he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't want to investigate the cause of this incident, so all he thought about now was just to get away from this place of right and wrong, and go as far as possible. He endured the burning pain on his face and ran down the python mountain quickly.
Half a month later, Grandpa Mazi's face began to lesion, black spots spread from the left side of the face to the right side of the face, and finally the entire scalp was black spots, like a black ball growing on the neck.
During this period, he visited a famous doctor and tried a variety of home remedies, but to no avail, and the last barefoot Langzhong handed him an ancestral home remedy, which was to fight poison with poison. Since the cause of pockmarks is the saliva of the python, it is necessary to use its saliva as a medicine, and then combine it with several medicinal materials to cure the disease.
This method made Mazi's grandfather surprised and delighted, and he was surprised that he was going to Python Mountain again, not to mention whether he could find the python again, but to say that he would meet those devils stationed again, and whether he could get out of the whole body was also a problem, and the joy was that there was finally a way to restore his own appearance, and it should be credible to see Lang Zhong's sworn appearance.
The multiple-choice question was handed to him again, and after two days of hesitation, he decided to go back to Python Mountain.
This time his purpose was clear, and he was more cautious, and he specially chose a night, he was more afraid of guns than pythons.
Unfortunately, a night of hard work did not pay for the python's whereabouts, and the whole mountain was silent as if it were dead, but on the way down the mountain, a beam of fire was found. He saw a man who seemed to be frightened, shoved in front of a cave, and then crawled down the hill with a roll.
Grandpa Mazi was curious, so he approached the cave, and what surprised him was that the roar inside the cave and the fishy wind outside the cave were so terrible, and he immediately thought of the python, but it was far more ferocious than before.
He was also so frightened that he hurried down the mountain, and never set foot in the python mountain again. For him, Python Mountain was full of unbelievable strange things, the spiritual white python, the monsters in the cave, the devils who wore the clothes of the common people, the people who fled down the mountain that night, and the devil who could speak Chinese, what he meant when he said that he should not come to the place, and so on. He knew that he was not able to sort out these things, so he simply closed himself off, and later moved to live alone in the back mountains of Mizusawa Village.
After listening to Grandpa Mazi's experience, we were all stunned, and we sympathized with him, and gradually found that he was not as terrible as he imagined, in the end, he was also a poor person.
He told us that he was going to clean up the house after the rainstorm today, but he didn't expect the big python to come out of nowhere, and he wanted to swallow it alive without saying a word, but fortunately we happened to visit and save him, thanks to Junko.
I poured him a glass of water, and he took a few sips and regained his body, when I noticed that his eyes were looking at Junko, who was sitting across from us.
Junko looked straight at the ground, the blood on her body and face had dried. I called him a few times before he reacted, looked at us and scratched his head, and smiled.
Seeing that he was fine, I turned back to Grandpa Mazi and said, "Is this white snake the one you encountered back then?" ”
Grandpa Mazi hesitated for a moment and said, "It happened too suddenly, and I didn't look closely, but from its phosphorus veins and those blood-red eyes, I think it should be." Time flies, at that time this snake was the thickness of an arm, and now it is so big, I didn't expect it to be able to come to the door on its own, it didn't take any effort to get there, no matter what, I will use him to test the medicine today. ”
"Wait," I wasn't interested in how he tried the medicine, but remembered the purpose of my visit, "we want to get some snake droppings, do you have any more?" ”
Grandpa Mazi was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously, "What do you want this for?" ”
I thought there was nothing to hide anyway, so I briefly explained the reason why we came, and he didn't show surprise when he heard it, but thought of something, and asked me, "Do you know that person?" ”
Xiaobao replied, "He is my father!" ”
"Then it's no wonder, I thought you were a little familiar from the moment you first entered the door, it turned out that he was your father."
Indeed, Xiaobao looks very similar to his father, no matter in terms of size, face, or behavior, it is a replica, but it lacks a little guts.
I asked, "Do you know his father?" ”
Grandpa Mazi said to himself: "He is a weirdo, and from the day I saw him, I had an indescribable feeling. ”
He shook his head and answered my question. "Oh...... We didn't know each other, but the first time I met him was one night last year, when he begged for a bowl of water from me and looked very happy. I thought he had found some treasures, but as you know, this is basically a grave, a cemetery for poor families, so how can there be any burial goods to dig up, let alone treasures. He seemed to have walked for a long time, drank several bowls, and I learned that he had really found a good place, as for what place he never said, he just promised me that in the future, not only will there be endless osmanthus flowers, but also teach me how to live forever, you say this person is stupid, but look at him does not look like it. Later, basically a few times a month, I would meet him a few nights, and he was also very thirsty, and the last time he actually held some loess, saying that it was of great use. After that, I haven't seen him again, and if you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it a long time ago. ”
I learned from Grandpa Mazi that this matter was far more complicated than we originally thought, so I still wanted to find information from Xiaobao's mouth, so I asked: "Xiaobao, think about it carefully, is there anything strange about your father recently?" ”
Xiaobao thought for a while and said, "It doesn't seem like so, when you say this, he does go out a lot more often than before, and it takes a long time, this is not a strange place." ”
"And what about your father?" As soon as I said it, I felt that this question was very stupid, and it had only been a few years, and how much had changed since then.
But Xiaobao's words aroused our curiosity, he said: "It's similar to what this grandfather said, my father and I are becoming more and more similar." ”
I was speechless, laughed unconsciously, I couldn't tell the difference between a wry smile and a smirk, as if things were becoming more and more uncontrollable, and there were more and more puzzles, I thought I could pick more osmanthus flowers, but it led to deeper questions, it seems that I want to find those loess as much as possible, and find out the secret of Xiaobao's father.
Again, I said, "We are going to get some snake droppings as much as we can, and this matter cannot be delayed any longer." ”
Grandpa Mazi stroked his chin with two fingers, pursed his lips, and then dug out a few black particles under a dead bonsai, and said to us: "This is what you want, I use it as fertilizer, but it works, hehe......"
"Okay, let's go down the mountain......" I took it and sniffed it, except for a little muddy smell and no peculiar smell, and then put it in my pocket and said goodbye to Grandpa Mako.