Chapter 7 "I" Didn't Lie

Grandma said: "We are called Yiping here, and the house where our five families live is called Wujianfang, and Zhang Zhang is the youngest son of Uncle Zhang Xi, who has played well since childhood, like brothers." I won't be angry if he lends his shoes to anyone, but I can't lend them to Zhang Li."

Zhang Ying said: "Why, don't they have such a good relationship, why can't they lend Xiao Zhangli? Could it be that the elders have a grudge?"

Grandma said: "No, the elders have no hatred, and the relationship is very good." Midori's mother died more than eight months after Midori was born, and his father ran away when Midori was less than a year old, and he hasn't returned home since, and he doesn't know where he went, whether he is dead or alive. Uncle Zhang saw him as pitiful, an orphan, and bought him a pair of red shoes on July 5 last year. His uncle also bought an identical pair for Zhang Li. ”

Xiao Lu has been listening to her grandmother silently, with an expressionless face. And Zhang Lei, including Zhang Ying, were even more confused at this time.

Zhang Ying said: "That grandma, this is your fault, you see that your family and Uncle Zhang's family have no grievances, and the relationship is so good, then it is not wrong for your grandson Xiaolu to borrow shoes for Zhang Zhang to wear,"

Grandma said, "However, Zhang Zhang died last year, and you don't think this kid is telling a lie, who knows where he lost his shoes." ”

Gu Tao couldn't help but feel creepy when he thought of the men's shoes, the red men's shoes, and the men's shoes on his left foot, in fact, other teammates also felt this way. can look at Xiao Lu's expression again, as if nothing happened, very calm.

Liu Qing likes to think nonsense the most, she suddenly thinks that this place is really a person, is this grandma really a person? Could it be a ghost, but this kind of thought is just a flash, she suddenly feels that she is very ridiculous, how can she think like this.

Someone outside the door asked Xiao Lu to open the door, and as soon as he heard the voice, Xiao Lu knew that it was Uncle Li Dong's voice. The door opened, and there were a lot of people coming in, these five families were like a family, which family had a little big and small things and couldn't hide it, knowing that the little green family was coming, so all the men, women and children came to take a look, and everyone knew that the People's Liberation Army was coming when they saw the clothes of Zhang Lei and his party. The big guy left a PLA comrade, and another PLA comrade called Zhang Lei and they went to the house as guests, Zhang Lei and these people were embarrassed, but there was a sense of pride. Although they live on the top of a big mountain, they still know that the PLA is a good person and a son of the people.

Gu Tao couldn't help but ask Grandma Xiaolu: "How did Zhang Li die?"

The people in all five rooms shook their heads in regret.

Li Dong said: "Xiao Zhangli's wisdom is better than my family's smart baby, of course, Xiaolu is not bad, their grades have always been comparable, but it's a pity that the second brother Zhang's two children, now mentioned, we all feel sorry." ”

Grandma sighed and said, "It's not that I went to the floating pond with my little green to take a bath and drowned." That day, Xiaolu went home and slept at dusk, and his Uncle Zhang Xi thought that Zhang Zhang lived with Xiaolu, but when he came to look for Zhang Li the next day, he found that Zhang Li was not there at all. Then asked Xiao Lu, Xiao Lu was stumbling, and under everyone's questioning, Xiao Lu said the situation of tension drowning. It turned out that Xiao Lu and Zhang Zhang went to the floating pond to take a bath as soon as they got out of school that day. They dived into the water and jumped to the last time, and both Zhang Zhang and Xiao Lu were almost swimming to the shore and ready to go home. Suddenly Zhang Li said: "Xiao Lu, quickly pull me ashore, someone is pulling my feet underwater, I can't get up!" Xiao Lu hurriedly reached out to pull Zhang Li, but he saw a scene that he will never forget for the rest of his life, he was so frightened that his face turned pale, no one can describe the scene at that time. Midori began to regret that they shouldn't have come to this pond to bathe, because he found that Zhang Li's body was getting heavier and heavier, and he couldn't pull it at all.

Water is buoyant, anything, including people in the water will become lighter, the body of tension is getting heavier and heavier because, there are really people in the water, in addition to tension, he also saw many people, a person holding a person's foot, so no matter how hard Xiao Green can not pull the tension up, at this time, Zhang Li's other hand reached over, ready to grab Xiao Green's foot, Xiao Green was so frightened that he let go of Zhang Li's hand, and then he saw that Zhang Li suddenly disappeared into the water, and then he turned around and ran, in a panic his hand grabbed something, picked it up and looked, it was a shoe of Zhang Li, he was so frightened that he hurriedly threw it away, and ran back home screaming。 When he came back, he lay down on the bed with no strength, and he had no strength to get up, for fear had frightened him to the point of weakness.

Everyone stared at Xiao Lu, hoping that he could tell the matter of tension drowning again, clearly, Xiao Lu told the truth, but no one present believed that he was telling the truth.

Zhang Lei said: "Xiaolu, you must be honest and can't lie, you know?

Who knew that Xiaolu said impatiently: "I didn't lie, you love to believe it or not." He said a few more words next, and these few words surprised the big guy who had already thought that he was lying, and Grandma and Li Dong seemed to be thoughtful, and a cloud of sadness passed over their faces.

Xiaolu said: "Actually, the tension is not dead, he is still playing with me today'Pick up', you know, except for tension, I won't play with other people for so long, they are not my opponents at all, it's not interesting, today I drew with him for the seventh time, and I saw that the last game was about to be divided, grandma called me, and I came back." ”

Zhang Xi couldn't help but ask Xiao Lu: "Xiao Lu, you said that my son Zhang Zhang didn't die, so why didn't he come back?" Although everyone thought that Uncle Zhang Xi was a beloved son, he would ask such a question, but everyone felt that this question was a good question, and everyone stared at Xiao Lu in unison, to see how he answered, how to round the lie he said.

Xiao Lu replied: "Zhang Li said, you definitely don't know what he is like now, so he has lived in the back mountain for a long time, and he will come to play with me every week at dusk." ”

Uncle Zhang Xi shook his head in disappointment and did not speak again. But everyone can see how much sadness and desolation are hidden in his deep eyes, Zhang Zhang is his youngest son, as the saying goes: "The emperor loves the eldest son, and the people love the younger son", not to mention that Zhang Zhang is still such a smart child, a living life, if you say no, it will be gone, for which parent, it is enough to make people feel broken, everyone is silent at the moment, and they express their sympathy for Uncle Zhang in this way.

Grandma opened her mouth: "Teacher Li, is my grandson evil, can you please 'clean up'?"

She originally wanted to say whether her grandson had hit a ghost, but she was afraid of being disrespectful to Zhang Xi, but in fact, everyone understood what she meant. Uncle Li Dong is a teaching teacher, he actually has another identity at the same time, he is a Taoist teacher with "profound mana", and the Taoist teacher's housekeeping skill is to exorcise demons and eliminate ghosts, and surpass the soul. So Grandma Green asked him to 'clean' Little Green, which meant asking him to exorcise ghosts. Teacher Li nodded, did not speak, said agreed, without further ado, set up the table that night, lit the incense wax on the table, burned the money paper on the ground, Teacher Li changed into a robe, shook the ghost exorcism bell in his left hand, and beat on the table with his right hand from time to time, and everyone didn't hear much of what he said in his mouth, but he could vaguely hear a few words: "There is a yang road in front of the mountain, and a Yin Si bridge behind the mountain...... After reading it, he took out two exorcism charms from his body and swept them around Xiao Lu's body, sweeping them from head to foot, and then took a sip of the wine on the table, sprayed them heavily on the exorcism charm, and then put a little on the wax, and the exorcism charm quickly turned into ashes. Then he asked Xiao Lu's grandmother to catch a big rooster, pinched off a cockscomb on the rooster's head with his hand, and used the chicken comb blood to drip a drop of blood on Xiao Lu's forehead, chest, palms and feet. Then he told Midori's grandmother to tie up the chickens and kill them tomorrow.

People in the mountains are superstitious, Zhang Ying and Liu Qing are from Sichuan, they have seen these since they were children, and they are not surprised, and Zhang Lei and Li Xiaoyu are from the Northeast, and it is the first time to see this way of exorcising ghosts, Gu Tao is from Shandong, Huang Guijun and Zhao Liang are from Zhejiang, and they are also curious.

Teacher Li finally finished the Fa and looked a little tired. He said to Grandma Green, "I have a few charms here, one on the bedroom door, one on the door, and if you can find a willow branch, find a few to put under the pillow of Little Green to ward off evil spirits." Little Green's grandmother said yes again and again.

The night was also late, it was windy outside, and Xiao Lu dozed off a little, so his grandmother told him to go to sleep. Midori snorted and went to sleep in her room. Xiaolu's house is the largest of the five families, but there are few quilts, so Zhang Lei and his party can't live there, so several other families warmly invite them to their homes to sleep.

Grandma closed the doors and windows, turned off the lights, and slept. In the poor mountains and remote areas, the lights illuminated at home are two horse lanterns. When the lights of the five rooms are all extinguished, it is really dark and you can't see your fingers, the mountains are surprisingly quiet, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, but there is less prosperity and liveliness of the city, there is no perfect thing in this world. Thinking about something means losing something, and maybe that's why you can't have both.