In the two or three days after Li Aiguo left my house, several village elders came to my house one after another to act as lobbyists.

At that time, the villagers had food to eat, but they were not rich, and Li Aiguo did buy the hearts of many villagers with money.

However, three days later, when Li Aiguo led a group of people to demolish the temple, there were still some elderly people who stopped him, and of course, my grandfather was among them.

The old people want to die or live, and Li Aiguo can't do it at all.

Unexpectedly, Li Aiguo was also prepared, and he even spent money to invite a Taoist priest from other places.

In the eyes of the villagers, my grandfather used to be able to call people a soul and see a cemetery, and he was a living immortal. And now the Taoist priest from the village can subdue demons and catch ghosts, which is simply a real immortal-like existence.

Li Aiguo invited the old Taoist priest who looked oily, and walked around the village temple a few times, then pinched his fingertips and pondered.

After a while, he stroked his sparse beard, and said to the villagers with a dignified look: "I have seen this broken temple and poor road, there is no problem, it is a broken temple, wait for the poor road to draw a few talismans, paste them, go to the evil one, and the village temple will be demolished casually!" ”

At that time, my grandfather took me and watched from afar.

After the talisman was pasted, the few people who usually liked to revolve around Li Aiguo were a little hesitant, and they didn't dare to make a move. Everyone knows the strange things in the past of the village temple, and they are not afraid of 10,000, but they are afraid of accidents.

Li Aiguo saw that everyone didn't move, he was not angry, but just snatched the sledgehammer from one person's hand, and then he picked up the sledgehammer and smashed it on the wall of the village temple.

The village temple, which had not collapsed for hundreds of years, collapsed under Li Aiguo's hammer.

The sound was rumbling, like thunder, and the villagers present were startled, and a few of them were scared away.

At this time, I also felt a little uneasy in my heart, and I looked up and asked, "Grandpa, will something happen?" ”

Grandpa glared at me.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Actually, my grandfather was holding my hand, and I could feel that his palms were sweaty.

Grandpa looked at it at the time, and I knew how important the villagers of Yangjiazhuang were in his heart.

I once saw my grandfather almost poisoned himself in order to save Xiaowei's father who was poisoned by snake venom, and in order to give Xiaowei's father Lin Goudan, he almost died of poisoning. If it weren't for the pills that grandma took to understand the snake venom in time, grandpa might have died.

Afterwards, grandpa ate several soles of grandma's shoes, and knelt on the washboard, grandma scolded grandpa for not knowing life or death, and it was more troublesome to hit his head on the south wall if he wanted to die!

After the wall of the village temple was smashed down by Li Aiguo, everyone stood in place and waited for half an hour.

Say not afraid, that's a lie, the villagers also prepared realgar powder specially to deal with snakes.

But after half an hour, there was nothing going on, and there were no snakes besieging them, and no one was evil.

When Li Aiguo saw this, his face was full of joy, and he shouted at the villagers: "Folks, look, this is nothing!" Now that it's a new society, where are the ghosts, snakes, and gods? Everyone is moving, tear down the village temple, build a school, and the babies can go to school, how good is it! ”

After Li Aiguo said this, he also took a special look at my grandfather, and his eyes were full of pride and provocation.

Grandpa was still standing like that, and I secretly looked at his expression, and he didn't become relaxed because nothing had happened just now, on the contrary, Grandpa's expression became more solemn.

However, the villagers will not pay attention to this.

In the past, when there were bandits, those bandits had an accident before they could get close to the village temple, but now, the walls have been torn down, but nothing happened. Some people are even muttering, is it just a coincidence that happened at that time, or is it simply the old people in the village who made it up to bluff the children?

Some villagers also said that after all, decades have passed, besides, isn't there still a Taoist priest, either the evil in the village temple was suppressed by the old Taoist priest, or the evil spirit disliked that the village temple was too broken, the village was too poor, and he had already left, and he didn't have to worry about living after the village temple was eradicated.

With these ideas as their backing, the villagers began to become emboldened, and many villagers even responded to the call and joined the team to demolish the village temple.

In an instant, the dust was everywhere, the rumbling sound continued, and the wall of the village temple was not strong, and it didn't take long for a circle of walls and three broken houses to be razed to the ground.

Grandpa couldn't even bear to look at it when he stood on the side, and because of his nervous hands, he even took out a long time to fill the cigarette bag and pot, and smoked hard.

I know what Grandpa is worried about, but what can he do now?

After demolishing the village temple, the villagers worked hard to tear down the village temple, as if they had overthrown the fear that had been pressed in their hearts for many years, and they were all relieved.

At this time, Li Aiguo said: "Folks, our village builds a school, and there are many places to use wood, this old locust tree is a good material, a tree can top more than a dozen, and it can save our village a lot of money!" A lot of money has been allocated above, and the money we have saved will be divided equally according to the account when the time comes, how about it? ”

I have to say that Li Aiguo is really good at inciting the masses.

As soon as the villagers heard this, they were all full of energy.

Even so, when it came time to cut down the tree, no one moved, and everyone thought, who cut down the tree is not cutting, why should I cut it, in case something happens?

Everything seemed to be under Li Aiguo's control, he was very accurate, and came out and said: "If you cut down trees, add a subsidy of 100 yuan per person!" ”

Hearing this number, someone immediately signed up, and Li Aiguo picked out six people from the people who signed up. A hundred dollars were put into the hands of the tree cutters, and they were excited to take the money.

A big axe, a hacksaw as long as a foot, and a child's wrist-thick hemp rope were soon ready.

At this time, my grandfather could no longer stand.

Seeing that those people were about to make a move, my grandfather rushed over quickly, stopped them, and scolded loudly: "You calves, the temple has been demolished, and now you have to cut down trees, don't you think you have lived too long?" ”

Li Erwa, who took the lead in cutting down trees, said: "Uncle Changsheng, you yourself are so old that you can't cut down trees, don't stop us juniors from getting rich!" ”

Grandpa was almost stunned by Li Erwa's words, his face changed, he took off his shoes and smashed at Li Erwa.

Li Erwa is also a two-pole temper, and she was angry when she was smashed by her grandfather's broken shoes, and she even threatened to chop my grandfather with an axe. Fortunately, at this time, the villagers came to stop me, and my grandfather was so angry that he almost turned his back on it.

Grandpa was supported by a few people, and he walked far away until he found a bluestone to sit down.

A few old ladies watched my grandfather here, probably because they were afraid that he would go over and make trouble again, while others continued to cut down trees.

After sitting down, the grandfather shouted loudly: "If you want to cut down the tree, I don't care, but if you don't want to die, retreat to nine zhang away!" ”

As soon as Grandpa's words came out, the villagers were stunned for a moment, Grandpa was a living immortal in the village before, and his words still had weight.

After a while, all the onlookers who watched the excitement retreated more than ten zhang away, and grandpa whispered to me at this time: "Fanwazi, come to grandpa's side!" ”

I ran to my grandfather, who picked me up and held me in his arms.

The old ladies also immediately hid behind my grandfather, looking at their envious, jealous and hateful eyes towards me, as if they also wanted to get into my grandfather's arms.

Seeing this, Li Aiguo directly took out a few hundred yuan from his waist bag and stuffed them into their pockets, but they still didn't dare to move.

Li Aiguo called the Taoist priest who had done the law before, and immediately drew a charm and pasted it on the old locust tree, and then burned incense and recited a mantra, and everything was done in a good way.

After doing it, the old Taoist priest said: "The immortal family on this old locust tree has been invited away by the poor Dao, everyone can cut down the tree with confidence, nothing is wrong!" ”

This reassured the villagers, and the six of them began to cut down the trees.

Among the six tree cutters, Li Erwa was the most daring, and was nicknamed Li Daring, claiming to dare to sleep in the old grave circle in the middle of the night. He sprayed two mouthfuls of spit on the palm of his hand, rubbed it, picked up the big axe and slashed at the big locust tree.

The axe was cut down, and a palm-sized gap was cut in the big locust tree hugged by three or four people.

While everyone was waiting for him to continue, Li Erwa was stunned, only to hear the few people near him shouting: "Flow...... Bleeding, bleeding......"

This thing is evil, cutting down trees and bleeding, a great omen, the villagers all understand, some of the timid ones are directly scared away, but more people are curious, how can a tree bleed?

At this time, the old Taoist priest came forward again, he took out a charm from his pocket, pasted it on the gap that was cut by Li Erwa, and said, "It's okay, keep cutting!" ”

However, after the old Taoist priest finished pasting the talisman, he left in a hurry under the pretext that he was in a hurry.

Li Aiguo shouted at the few tree cutters: "Zhang Shenxian has something urgent, go first, he has explained everything to me here, it's nothing, the tree is old, the sap is thick, it's definitely not blood!" ”

Everyone is not stupid, everyone can see that the old Taoist priest is fleeing for his life, but everyone is suspicious of the statement that there are immortals on this tree, and there will be an accident when they are cut down, Li Erwa is also worthy of being called Li Daring, and his hands are trembling, but he still takes a few people to shout slogans while cutting down trees.

Cut until the afternoon, the onlookers were timid and ran away, the scene was too scary, cutting down the tree and bleeding, was the fairy family on the tree injured?

Finally, the old tree was still cut down, but the stump and the surrounding ground were stained blood-red, and even the water in the pond next to it was discolored.

What's even stranger is that something seems to have moved in the stump.

I don't know if anyone else noticed this detail, but I did see it, but when I looked closer, I only noticed a hole in the middle of the stump.

The villagers are all talking, everyone has everything, but most of them are some feudal superstitions, such as cutting down trees and bleeding, which is a great omen, and the people who cut down the trees are afraid that they will not escape the revenge of the immortals on the old trees.

Li Aiguo shouted at the villagers: "Everyone listen, this old locust tree is old, and it is normal to cut down the tree to flow thick juice, don't spread it!" When the four old ones were broken, it was okay for other villages to cut down so many big trees, what could happen to our village? That's all feudal superstition, it's all residual poison! Now that it's a new century, don't engage in feudal superstition, don't scare yourself! ”

As soon as Li Aiguo's words fell, there was a plopping sound on the side of the tree stump, and next to the tree stump, a person fell to the ground.