"The earth dragon turned over? Grandpa, what do you mean by that? ”

I chewed on these four words repeatedly, but I couldn't understand them, so I had to ask my grandfather for help.

Grandpa took out a dry tobacco stick from his waist, put tobacco leaves on it to light the fire, and waited for him to take a beautiful puff before he said to me, "Come on, you'll know soon." ”

The four words of the earth dragon turned over, as my grandfather said, I quickly understood its meaning.

That night, in the dead of night, everything was silent.

The whole mountain village suddenly changed, first the terrible dog barking sounded one after another, the mother cat of the family carried the cat cub up the tree, the cows, sheep and pigs in the pen kept kicking their legs and digging the ground, howling and trying to climb out of the fence wall, the big rooster in the cage was forced to break free, flew to the big tree and crowed late at night, and there were groups of rats on the mountain road running in terror......

Then came the collapse of the sky, the huge shaking that forcibly woke me from my sleep, I opened my eyes only to see that the windows were shaking violently, the bed was almost shaken apart, and the walls around me were crumbling, threatening to collapse at any moment.

I was so frightened that I cried, the first time I saw this scene like the end of the world, my heart was beating violently, my legs were cramping, and I could only lie on the bed and couldn't get up.

Bang!

In the moment of desperation, my door was kicked open, and my dad rushed in with an anxious face, picked me up from the bed and ran out.

In a few moments, my dad ran outside with me in his arms, and the whole village became extremely chaotic, with the screams of women and the cries of children.

My mom rushed over and hugged me, crying and calling my name, her face was full of tears, dripping into my mouth, salty.

I was also frightened, and my mother was holding me so hard that I couldn't breathe, and I struggled in her arms for a while before she let me go, and her face still had the joy of the rest of her life.

The shaking of the earth lasted only a moment, and soon stopped, and the heavens and the earth returned to peace, but the whole small mountain village exploded.

Several old people knelt on the ground, kowtowing in the direction of the Snake King's Temple, their faces were full of fear, and their mouths kept saying words begging for forgiveness from the Snake King, it turned out that they thought that this was the Snake King's punishment for their demolition of the temple, and the kind of means of landslide and earth cracking in a moment can only be done by the legendary immortals.

I was held in my mother's arms, looking at the chaotic scene around me, and suddenly remembered what my grandfather said in the afternoon, is this the earth dragon turning over?

"Where's the old man? Zhang Xiaowei, have you seen the old man? My dad suddenly asked my mom, his face full of anxiety.

My mother was stunned, shook her head, and said, "I didn't see it, the baby and his grandfather will be fine, right?" ”

It turned out that when the earth shook just now, my dad asked my mom to run out to the yard, and he came to carry me out, but in that moment of crisis, no one paid attention to my grandpa. Now that the tremors have subsided, my dad realizes that my grandfather is not there, and he can't help but worry.

"Grandpa is there." I reached out and pointed out the courtyard.

I saw my grandfather standing on the village road, staring in the direction of the mountain behind him, and the chaos around him didn't seem to attract his attention in the slightest.

My dad followed the direction of my finger and saw that my grandfather was fine, he was also relieved, and then said to my mother: "Xiaowei, you hold the doll in the yard and sit for a while, don't go into the house." ”

"It was supposed to be an earthquake, and I've heard outside that there might be aftershocks after the earthquake, and it's too dangerous inside." My dad told my mom a bit, and he pinched my face and walked over to my grandfather.

I saw my dad walk up to my grandfather and say something loudly, and then my grandfather said a few words to my dad, and my dad's face turned pale, and by the bright moonlight, I saw that my dad's hands hanging down from his waist were trembling slightly.

Grandpa pushed my dad aside, then strode over, took me from my mom's hand, and asked with a smile, "Good grandson, were you afraid just now?" ”

I was going to say "scared", after all, I was so scared in bed that I couldn't get up with leg cramps, and I almost peeed scared. But when I saw my grandfather's straight waist, I changed my tone and said, "Don't be afraid, it's not scary at all." ”

I remember that when I was a child, my grandfather often said to me: "We people of the Chen family must straighten our waists and raise our heads all our lives, even if the road ahead is a sea of swords and fires, we must be fearless to break through!" ”

Grandpa listened to my words and laughed: "Okay, this is my Chen Youcai's grandson!" ”

At this moment, my father came over and said loudly: "Old man, you let me bring Xuan Wazi into the city, and if we live in the village any longer, we will all be killed by you!" ”

The first time I saw my dad talking to my grandfather like that, his face was red and the tendons on his neck bulged, like a volcano about to erupt.

Syllable!

Grandpa slapped my dad in the face, his face became very ugly, and he scolded angrily: "You have been playing for a long time, dare to talk to you like this, I do things, and it is not your turn to care!" ”

My mother and I were shocked, my grandfather's angry appearance made me feel very frightened, my mother held me tightly in her arms, her personality was more gentle, and she didn't dare to intervene in the face of this kind of thing.

My dad covered his face, his eyes were red, he stared at my grandfather, then stretched out his finger against my forehead, and yelled at my grandfather: "You can see clearly, this is your grandson, it's your own grandson!" ”

Grandpa's emotions also came up, he first pointed at my dad and then at me, and said, "Don't forget, your surname is Chen, and he is also surnamed Chen!" This is fate, it is the fate of the Chen family! ”

"Your Uncle Hammer (probably equivalent to a modal word)'s life! You killed your mother and killed your dragon baby, what else do you want? Do you have to let Xuan Wazi die? My dad's eyes were split, and his eyes were full of anger and sadness.

My dad may have said the words that he had buried in his heart for more than ten years today, and his expression was very excited and sad. The mother who was killed in his words was my grandmother, but since I can remember, I don't seem to have seen her, and the dragon baby seems to be my brother Chen Zilong, the first child of my father and my mother, but I have never seen him, I heard others say that he fell into the Tsing Yi River and drowned when he was about three or four years old, and he has not even found his bones.

My mom burst into tears, and her tears flowed down her cheeks, wetting most of my clothes. I was also frightened, it was the first time I saw my grandfather and my dad arguing to such an extent, they looked so scary.

Grandpa listened to my father's words, and his raised hand was put down weakly, as if all his strength had been drained in an instant. His lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end nothing came out.

My father's expression gradually calmed down, he glanced at me and my mother, knelt on the ground with a plop, and pleaded with grandpa: "Old man, I don't know what the ancestors left behind, and I don't know what you want to do, but Xuan Wazi is my doll, your grandson, I beg you to let him go!" Let him go! ”

My dad knelt on the ground and kowtowed to my grandfather, and my mom hugged me tightly and cried, and I was so scared that I couldn't help crying.

Grandpa's face seemed to be much older at this moment, he looked at me who was crying in a daze, and finally sighed: "Xuan Wazi is my grandson, I won't harm him, and the ancestors won't hurt him!" ”

After Grandpa finished speaking, he stepped out of the courtyard, his back looked lonely and lonely in the moonlight, and his waist, which had been straight, seemed to be rickety at this moment.

The night was unquiet and chaotic, because we didn't dare to go into the house to sleep for fear of aftershocks, but my father rushed into the house and took out the covers and mats from inside, and our family made a bunk in the yard. My mom put a bed on top of the mat and put me on top of it with a quilt.

I had been frightened, and with the sudden drowsiness, I soon fell into a deep sleep. I don't know how long I slept, but in a daze, I was awakened by a cry. I opened my eyes to see my mom crying in a low voice, tears pouring down tears, and my dad sitting next to her, putting his arm around my mom's shoulders and whispering something.

I immediately fell asleep, pretended to close my eyes, quietly straightened my ears, and eavesdropped on my dad and my mom's conversation.

"Han Tao, do you really want to leave? It just happened and I was so scared. My mom whispered, her voice indescribably weak. Chen Hantao is my father's name, it is said that when he was born, a year teller counted for him, saying that he was short of water in his life, so his grandfather changed his name next to the word water.

My father's voice was a little low, and he said: "There has been no disaster in this Tsing Yi Village for hundreds of years, but as a result, as soon as the Snake Jun Temple was demolished, it was a dead person and an earthquake. In the past few days, people in the village have been saying that the monsters under the temple have escaped and want to kill and take revenge! ”

"And you see my old man like that, the death of Li Daoscar and others and this earthquake, he didn't have a surprised expression, it seemed that everything was within his expectations, I dare to say, he must have known these things in advance." My dad said with a solemn face.

"What secrets do you have in the Chen family? I haven't had a day of peace since I married into your family. My mom said with some resentment.

My dad said: "I don't know the secret of the Chen family, anyway, it definitely has something to do with the Snake Temple, I used to hear the old people say that as long as the Snake Temple is destroyed, something big will happen to this village!" My old man must be planning something related to Xuan Wazi, and he will definitely not be able to get rid of the death of my mother and Long Wazi. ”

When my mom heard my dad talk about my dead grandmother and my brother, she was a little sad and leaned on my dad weakly.

"When I used to work as a helper in Chengdu, I met a Taoist chief, who was a very capable person. I'm going to go to him this time and beg him to help my family survive this catastrophe! And I'm going to have to figure out what the hell this thing is! My dad said as he pulled an object out of his arms.

It is a turquoise bronze mask with a human face, a wide beak and large ears, bulging cylindrical eyeballs, and an ornament inlaid with a phoenix bird in the small hole in the middle of the forehead.