Chapter 14: new shoots from dead wood
He turned around and prepared to go to sleep, who knew that this turn of the air, unexpectedly saw the window outside the moonlight, stood a person, a shadow, cloaked looks like a woman, is standing outside his window.
Grandpa smoothly touched up a firewood stick and yelled, "Who the fuck is out there!"
In fact, in his own home, grandpa has always been very bold, Chairman Mao is the red sun in the heart, the home hangs Chairman Mao statue it, and He Zhenren have said that the great man's portrait has the astral energy can ward off evil spirits, he so yelled a sentence, the window came from the outside of a woman's voice said: "More Chen brother, it's me!"
Grandpa heard that this is not the voice of that Zhiqing He Xiaoyu? Heart also put down, carrying a wooden stick went out, see He Xiaoyu hair hanging there is at a loss for words, a big girl standing outside their windows at night, their wives and children are still in the house to sleep it, make the grandfather is also very embarrassed, drank: "You a little girl, the middle of the night does not sleep for what, hurry up to go to bed! "
Said, closed the door of the woodshed, the window He Xiaoyu stood in the window sill to look at a glance, went back to the room, this night, grandpa will inevitably think about things, men, a yellow flower girl standing outside the window to see you, can not think about it? But the people in those days were always decent, some thoughts just flashed in the head without doing more stay.
The next day, grandpa early in the morning to find the real He, explained to others to help feed the cows, the village is haunted this time also really frequent point, grandpa is too lazy to avoid not too close to the real He, the two went to the cypress tree, would have thought to go from door to door to take a look, who knows that the real He to the cypress tree before the time to sneak to the back of the cypress tree, took out a yellow talisman pasted on the cypress tree, and then the two went to the cypress tree. He took out a yellow talisman and pasted it on the cypress tree.
"Isn't it true that there are no more goblins after heavenly thunder strikes the tree? Why do you still stick the talisman on it?" Grandpa asked.
"I'll try." He real people laughed, grandpa did not dare to intervene choke, after a while, the talisman paper or nothing, He real people is to make a surprising move, in the grandpa's dumbfounded under the three under the five climbed the cypress tree, but also stepped on a branch climbed to the year that branch was struck by lightning on the branch to look at a few, and finally the whole person stood on the top of the tree, as monkeys like looking around, this is the tree, He real people clapped his hands, pointing to a family to the north said: "I don't have any demonic spirits. Pointing to a family in the north, he said, "If I'm not wrong, that high person, is in this family."
He said, even if the grandfather of the real He worshiped very much, also had to refute: "The old gods, this time I have to say that you really are out of sight, this family I know, is the Song family, Song Xiaoguang also child is a rare honest child, the family old man died early, on the mother pulled him up not easy, before the days can be difficult, is that only recently to eat a good meal, if he is a high man, he is a good man, he is a good man, he is a good man. Good meal, if he is a high man, I Guo word backwards."
He real face a little change, grandfather also know that said the wrong words immediately shut up, turn mouth: "But your old man since said, then we will go to see, not delay is not?"
Grandpa that sentence said wrong where it? –He is now very down and out in the cowshed, not because of the recent events in the village he helped a lot, that is three days to be pulled out of the main criticism, but in the old days before the breakthrough it? He real people sitting in the town of supreme view, full of fairy people faction, to put it vulgarly, that day is quite good. And this Song Xiaoguang if a high person, will live so poor? It was a bit of an ironic reference to He Zhenran.
Grandpa knocked on the door, Song Xiaoguang's mother at home, the old lady sixty or seventy years old, but good spirits, see my grandfather said: "more Chen, you little brat why come? Come on, let me see, I heard you've become an official recently, are you powerful?"
"Old auntie, the revolution is a heavy task, more Chen did not come to see you, how are you recently?" Grandpa laughed.
"Good, good na." Song Xiaoguang his old lady laughed, the countryside, the relationship between neighbors is so cordial, finished, the aunt is going to let my grandfather into the house, He Zhenzhen since into the yard since he did not say a word, this time grandpa looked at him, He Zhenzhen to grandpa fried wink, signaling that you can go into the house, everything is as usual.
And so let the grandfather and He Zhengen into the house, the woman also recognized He Zhengen is the old gods on the mountain, almost to kneel down, He Zhengen hurried to help up, so far the grandfather personally did not find any abnormalities, are decades of the old neighborhood, who do not understand who?
He really drank some water, stood up in the house turned around, stopped at the door of the inner room, turned back to the old aunt and said: "This sister ah, there are other people at home?"
"This ……" the old aunt immediately stammered up, grandpa was drinking water, hung up and did not spit it out, could it really give He Zhenran a serious look, Song Xiaoguang home is really hiding someone?
"That's right, auntie, Xiaoguang, he is not down to work, but there are still people in the house?" Grandpa also stood up at this situation.
Auntie panicked and stood up in front of the house, saying, "Gechen, there's no one, there's nothing inside."
The old aunt's reaction grandfather no matter how stupid can see that things are not right, but at the moment it is not good to go to force open the door, and is not harboring criminals, grandpa is not a police officer, the face of the neighbors also have to care about it, grandpa said: "no one is good no one is good."
After saying that grandpa pulled the real He continued to sit down, the two of them are ready to dry consumption to a wait for a rabbit, the two kept drinking tea, the old lady is a shrewd person, but after all, it is a country woman, my grandpa and the real He did not go, she was sitting on pins and needles looks very uncomfortable, and has been touching down here and scratching down there, these two people have been sitting to noon, until the Song Xiaoguang from the ground work back, Song Xiaoguang saw the grandpa! The two of them sat there until noon, when Song Xiaoguang came back from working in the field, Song Xiaoguang saw his grandfather, was also stunned, but still greeted: "The captain is also in ah, mother, what are you doing, hurry up to cook ah."
Said, rummage through the cupboard to find a bottle of elephant pack small elephant (in those days we are very popular on this side of a kind of wine) to drink with He Zhenzhen my grandfather to drink a few cups, He Zhenzhen has been signaling my grandfather do not say anything, all the normal development of the three people walked a, Song Xiaoguang pouring the second cup, He Zhenzhen held down Song Xiaoguang's hand, said: "The withered wood is spring is like a reissue, is it a blessing or a curse? Is it a blessing or a curse?"
"What does that mean?" Song Xiaoguang froze for a moment.
Mr. He laughed and said, "You know it and I know it, Genchen, let's go." After saying that, pulled on my grandfather who was still dumbfounded and walked out, and when he was leaving, he leaned over in front of the old aunt's ear and said, "If you believe me, listen to me, the one hidden in the inner room, she is not a person. When Xiaoguang goes to the field in the afternoon, you come to me, if you don't believe me, in less than three years, prepare to collect Xiaoguang's corpse."
Finished this sentence, He real head also did not return to go, grandpa looked at the old aunt, looked at the house froze small light, very helpless to hurry to follow the real He, and so the two fast walked to the cowshed, He real person to open his mouth: "Is not know what the meaning?"
"You just say it quickly, I'm suffocating." Grandpa said.
"It seems to be that I counted wrong, that tree, although it is not true that the tree was struck by lightning, but the tree of that essence did not die, it gave attached to the trunk of that tree, today I went up the tree to see, found that the dead trunk even sent out new buds, although small, but is not dead through ah, it is not a withered tree long green buds, spring breeze blowing and then born? And then look, directly opposite the tree Song Xiaoguang home, curtains drawn in broad daylight, but also feel the yin qi lingering, there must be an article, went in after you know what I saw first not?" He real people said.
"Your old man said." Grandpa was now left with nothing but admiration.
"I saw a child rafter, scorched black rafter (rafter is the wood used for support in rural tiled houses), but the top of the small green shoots emerged." Mr. He said.
"What does that mean?" Grandpa asked.
"When the tree was struck by lightning, the trunk was split down, was it picked up by Song Xiaoguang's family as a rafter?!" Mr. He asked.
Grandpa slapped his thighs and said, "You are really god, do not say I can not think of, when the tree was split by lightning after, everyone said evil, just small light family repair house, it is the fall of the branches and trunks to carry back, I began to think that it is a burner with it, who knows when the rafters!"