Chapter 3: Killing the Snake
This incident made the surrounding villagers explode again.
Originally, it was just idle talk, but I didn't expect someone to plant it, which made the villagers unexpected.
The tree beckons immortals, and the locust tree beckons ghosts. Could it be that if the old locust tree was cut down so quickly and retaliated, if the immortal family on the tree was to blame, would the person who smashed the village temple just now also be implicated? Many of the onlookers also participated in the smashing of the temple, and they all began to beat drums in their hearts.
I recognize the person who fell, he is Lin Xiaowei's father, and my grandfather saved his life before.
Also because of the grace of saving lives, Lin Goudan's family has a good relationship with my family, and this time grandpa also privately persuaded Uncle Goudan in private, but he didn't listen, so he still went, for the hundreds of yuan.
However, this person is so good, why did he fall to the ground, it can't really have something to do with the old locust tree, right?
I glanced back at my grandfather, the expression on his face didn't change, wouldn't grandpa be touched by such a thing?
At this time, I saw a girl with pigtails rushing out of the crowd, crying and running towards the stump, and several aunts next to her tried to pull her, but the girl ran so fast that she couldn't pull it at all.
She is Lin Xiaowei, two years younger than me, her mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to her, leaving the father and daughter to depend on each other, her father is her god, and when Uncle Dog Egg falls, her sky will fall.
When I was a child, when someone bullied Lin Xiaowei, I would stand in front of her, those who bullied her were not afraid of me, but they were afraid of my grandfather, so I saved her many times.
And this time it was the same, I watched Lin Xiaowei rush towards the stump, I remembered my grandfather's words just now, I sighed in my heart, jumped off my grandfather's body, and was about to chase after him, but was pulled by my grandfather.
"Grandpa, you can't let Xiaowei pass!" I said, trying to break free from my grandfather's hands, but I couldn't do anything.
"Fanwazi, don't go over!" Grandpa said slowly, and instead he smoked a dry tobacco pouch.
That Li Aiguo was also frightened by the scene of Uncle Goudan suddenly falling, he squatted down, slowly approached Uncle Goudan with trembling hands, touched his nose, and then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "No...... It's nothing, he's bleeding. ”
In fact, everyone in the village knows that Lin Goudan is honest and duty-bound, and he didn't dare to look at it when he killed pigs in the village during the Chinese New Year, and he fainted when he saw it.
However, this time the old tree shed so much blood, it is really not easy for Uncle Goudan to be able to hold on until now.
In fact, I can guess that Uncle Goudan did this, not for anything else, it must be for his daughter Lin Xiaowei, he wants to make some money, add clothes to Lin Xiaowei, he wants to make his daughter live better.
While speaking, Lin Xiaowei had already run to his father's side, shaking his father and crying.
The villagers looked at Lin Xiaowei's father and daughter strangely pitiful, but none of them dared to move, Li Aiguo called Li Erwa and carried Uncle Goudan out.
Grandpa said that Uncle Dog Dan was fine, so I didn't worry about it.
It's just that Lin Xiaowei also went to within the nine zhang that her grandfather said, and I don't know if there will be anything, which makes me feel a little uneasy. I kept staring at Lin Xiaowei, but fortunately, nothing happened to her.
At this time, some of the onlookers shouted again: "Snake, there is a snake in the tree!" ”
Grandpa was also shocked when he heard this, and he also stood up.
I looked back, and in the distance, I could see something wriggling on the stump over there, and a snake could be seen in the blur of flesh.
There was a very large hole in the middle of the stump, and a snake, as thick as a small bowl, was poking its head out of the hole and hissing and spitting out letters, looking very fierce.
In addition, what is even more strange is that there are two small forked horns on the head of the snake.
The horns were very small, about the thickness of a child's fingers, and they were covered with blood, and it was impossible to tell what color they were originally.
Although the small fork was small, it was obvious, and the villagers could see it clearly, and many of the onlookers had begun to flee.
Because everyone has heard the legend of the old willow village in the past, if the temple is smashed and the tree is cut down and the dragon king is collided, the people of Yangjiazhuang will not be able to eat and walk around.
Things were starting to get weirder, and they were too weird to bear.
"Village Chief, Dragon! Dragon! Wang Xiu'e, a widow in the west of the village, shouted at the top of her voice.
Li Aiguo was also stunned for a while, the bleeding of the locust tree can still be explained clearly, but what is the matter with this snake with forked horns, could it be that it is really like the legend, a dragon is suppressed under Qingyan Mountain?
"Shut up! What nonsense? Li Aiguo shouted at Wang Xiu'e.
"Village Chief Li, it's not Xiu'e sister I said you, you look at it with wide eyes, is this not clear, have you ever seen a snake with small forked horns on its head? Folks, who has seen it, who has seen it? Wang Xiu'e was aggressive, and many people echoed him after he finished speaking, in fact, this is indeed an obvious thing, and Li Aiguo has no way to deny it.
But Li Aiguo didn't answer Wang Xiu'e's words this time, he originally had a black face, but at this time, a strange smile suddenly appeared on his face.
This laugh puzzled everyone present, and I couldn't understand it, only the grandfather next to me, who didn't seem to have any doubts on his face.
I whispered, "Grandpa, what's that?" "To be honest, I was already scared out of a cold sweat, and I always felt like the snake was staring at me.
Grandpa didn't answer me directly, but he said something that didn't match my question.
"It's late, it's too late."
On the other hand, Li Aiguo also did something that surprised everyone.
He snatched the axe from Li Erwa's hand next to him and rushed towards the stump. Swinging the board axe, Li Aiguo was very fast, and directly slashed at the snake head with long forked horns.
The snake in the stump was very large, but it was coiled in the hollow of the tree and did not move, and it did not hide from the axe.
The head of the snake is separated from the body of the snake, and the axe is deeply embedded in the stump. And where the snake's head was cut off, a stream of black blood burst out, and the snake body in the tree hole struggled a few times before it moved.
The snake head that fell on the ground rolled down at Li Aiguo's feet, and even grinned at him and bit it, but Li Aiguo stepped on it, and the snake head was stepped on by him until he stepped into the soil before letting go.
He looked back at the villagers and said, "The villagers have all seen it, even if you look like a bear, you can call a dragon, it's just bullshit!" Dig a hole under the tree and live in it and you will become a dragon, then if I, the head of the village, Li Aiguo, dig a hole in this locust tree and live in it, I will not become a fairy! ”
The villagers were speechless, and Li Aiguo looked back at my grandfather this time.
"Second baby, go to the brigade yard to get a bucket of gasoline, and burn the snake and the tree stump for me!" Li Aiguo said that Li Erwa naturally acted immediately, and brought a barrel of gasoline after ten minutes.
The head of the snake was also thrown into the hollow of the tree, and the body of the snake and the stump of the tree were all poured with gasoline, and Li Aiguo threw a match over, and the flames more than a foot high immediately burst out.
I don't know if it's my delusion, but I saw that the snake body with the flamed severed head seemed to be still struggling and wriggling.
The air began to fill the air with a burning smell, mixed with the previous smell of blood, extremely unpleasant, and a few people squatted on the side and vomited.
The fire continued for half an hour, until the stump and the snake were burned to ashes, and the fire was gradually dispersed.
At this time, the time was not early, Li Aiguo asked the villagers to go back, and also instructed Li Erwa to bring the old carpenter in the village over tomorrow, and find a way to solve the old locust tree and make it into wood, which can be used to build a primary school at that time.
Li Erwa nodded and left, while Li Aiguo walked towards me and my grandfather.
When he came to the front, Li Aiguo put a smile on his face and said, "Uncle Changsheng, didn't you say that there will be an accident if you smash the temple and cut down the tree, look at it, what's wrong, isn't everyone okay?" ”
He sneered again, stared at my grandfather and said, "Uncle Changsheng, your way of bluffing the common people is outdated, what age is this, do you think this feudal superstition can still be useful?" ”
Grandpa didn't reply immediately, he just stared at Li Aiguo, and grandpa didn't have any special expression on his face, it seemed to have a special momentum.
Li Aiguo was stunned for a moment and took two steps back.
At this time, the grandfather said, "If you are not afraid, what are you going to do when you burn that snake?" ”
These words should have hit the key point of Li Aiguo, he stared at my grandfather and his face suddenly changed, he gritted his teeth and said: "It's burning when you look at it, Uncle Changsheng, I advise you to be your old Chinese medicine doctor honestly, be careful that your old bones are scattered!" ”
After Li Aiguo finished speaking, he left, and I followed my grandfather home.
After dinner, my grandfather said to me, "Fanwazi, go to Xiaowei's house with grandpa." ”
At this time, my father came over, and he said, "Dad, can you not take Fan Wazi with you?" ”
"What's wrong?" Grandpa asked back.
"There is such a thing in the village today, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that something will happen tonight, and you still take your grandson out in the middle of the night, so you are not afraid of breaking the single bloodline of our Yang family?"
"Fart, you calf, if the baby is taken by me, can something happen?" Grandpa looked back at my dad and said.
Dad didn't dare to speak anymore, and Grandpa took me out the door.
Actually, I don't understand, my grandfather always likes to take me with him no matter what he does.
After going out, my grandfather pulled me and walked briskly towards Lin Xiaowei's house, in fact, I was also worried that Lin Xiaowei would have an accident. After all, during the day, he entered the nine zhang that his grandfather said, and he was fine during the day, but what about at night?
At night, the countryside is dark, I can't see my fingers, even the lights in the distance look like ghost fires, grandpa held my hand, I still feel the wind gusting, I always feel that something is following behind, very scared.
My grandfather and I didn't stay long at Lin Xiaowei's house, and Lin Xiaowei's eyes were red from crying, but fortunately, Lin Goudan had woken up.
Grandpa left a yellow paper bag for Lin Goudan in the past, and explained: "This thing must be kept close to you tonight, no matter what sound you hear at night, don't go out, remember, never go out!" ”