Chapter 18: Granny Zhang’s Visit
"Knock knock."
At dark, Meng Fan, who had made great progress, was rejoicing when a knock sounded at his hut.
After opening the door, he realized that his mother had come in holding a quilt, which emitted the smell of baked cotton, which drilled into his nose and let a feeling of warmth rise suddenly in his heart.
"It's cold, your body is weak, change into a thicker one earlier." Meng mother put the thick quilt on Meng Fan's bed, as if she was not assured, she used her hand to touch it again and pressed it, it looked loose and soft, "Mother is a bit confused, I should have changed it for you earlier, it's not tanned today, so let's just make do and cover it first, and then tanned it again tomorrow when the sky light is good."
"Also, your father hasn't come back yet, go pick up and see if there's anything delayed." Meng mother hugged the replacement quilt and walked toward the outhouse, "It's so late, that rabbit doesn't seem to have been caught."
"Good." Meng Fan skimmed his lips, then realized that it was already dark, and his heart was worried, but as a result, just as he walked to the door, his father came back, and indeed, he was empty-handed.
"Meng Fan." Meng Qingshan was all tired, as soon as he entered the door and saw Meng Fan who had just walked out, he froze for a moment, then he put on a relaxed look and asked, "You're going out?"
"Mother said and let me pick you up." Meng Fan saw some grass clippings hanging from his father's body and was very distressed, walking over and picking them off with his hands, knowing that his father must have gone through a lot of effort to catch the rabbits, but he didn't point it out, "Hurry up and eat, Mother's done it all."
"The rabbit wasn't caught, and people are still coming back so late." It was Meng's mother who was quick to say, "My son was just about to go look for you."
"Hey, you bitch." Meng Qingshan walked into the house with a stern face, washed his face, wrung out the towel and hung it up, and laughed, "Those rabbits are cunning and crafty, not easy to catch, but I've already put down a set, and I'm sure I'll be able to eat it tomorrow, just not today."
After the family sat down at the dinner table, Meng Qingshan seemed to be still upset about not catching the rabbits, and opened his mouth to tell Meng Fan how to catch the rabbits, for example, if you use wire to put down a set, you can't tie the wire into a dead knot, you have to tie it into a live knot so that the rabbits will get tighter and tighter after they drill into it, and the prerequisite for being able to catch the rabbits is of course, that you have to recognize the rabbit's footprints, and find out the routes that they often run on, and then put the set down well. …… or something like that.
Meng Fan is also very cooperative to ask a few questions, Meng Qingshan is put on a look of veteran, explaining to Meng Fan. It is Meng mother, occasionally inserted a sentence, said what since you are so powerful, how rarely eat the rabbit you caught, the last time to eat rabbit is a few years ago, or the roadside pick up.
Some of the meaning of the demolition.
Meng Qingshan heard the face is a bit unable to hang, and his wife on the top two sentences, Meng Fan looked at the parents fighting, can not help but laugh, let them do not quarrel, hurry to eat, but the heart is overflowing with happiness, feel that if there is no such ghostly things, this kind of day has been continued, quiet and peaceful, is also quite good.
"Is Brother Qing Shan at home?"
While he was eating, there was a guest in the house, Meng Qingshan glanced at the courtyard through the door of the house, put down his chopsticks and walked out, "It's dark, why did you come over."
Meng Fan's face instantly changed when he heard the visitor's voice: "Granny Zhang really came uninvited!"
"Qing Shan ah, I heard that you have been looking for your son last night, old woman I just happened to pass by here to ask if you have found him." Granny Zhang's voice traveled from the courtyard to the house.
"I came back by myself in the morning and let you guys worry about it too, I'm really sorry." Meng Qingshan replied, then pointed to the house, "Have you eaten yet, let's eat together."
"No, no." Zhang Ma'am's mouth said, but her face became bad looking, probing her neck to look into the house, "Xiao Xi has already done it, she's waiting for it, go back and eat."
After saying that, she turned around and headed out.
"Meng Fan ah! Come out and send Granny off."
"Okay."
Meng Fan walked out of the house, unable to see any joy or anger on his face, and walked towards Granny Zhang.
"No need." Granny Zhang turned her head and saw Meng Fan, her eyes locked together, "I'm familiar with the door, I don't need to send you."
"I think it's better to send it off." The corner of Meng Fan's mouth hooked up in a hard to understand smile, "It just so happens that I've almost eaten, so I'll walk to eliminate my food."
With that said, Meng Fan reached out and held onto Granny Zhang's arm, and the two of them walked outward with their own thoughts.
After walking out of the house, and walking for a while, seeing no one in the four directions, Meng Fan let go of Granny Zhang's arm, "Are you here to see if I'm dead?"
"Hmph!" Granny Zhang stopped in her tracks, one eye flickering with essence in the darkness, "You want to die that badly?"
"Of course not." Meng Fan smiled and shook his head, this granny had a gloomy mind, it was very hard to deal with, so he put on a bland look and continued to walk forward, "I used to have an idea that when I had money, I wanted to install streetlights in the village, or else in this pitch blackness, one carelessness, is going to kill someone by falling."
Although he looks very calm, his fists are secretly clenched tighter and tighter, last night, if not his life is big, today is certainly not come back, this granny great credit ah!
If it wasn't for some concerns, I would really like to have a showdown with Mrs. Zhang.
"I've fallen to my death before." Granny Zhang's eyes opened and closed, one eye blackened, the other white, staring at Meng Fan's back, his heart immediately set off huge waves.
The current Meng Fan, he couldn't even see through!
A faint purple aura, enveloping Meng Fan, blocked her gaze, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't penetrate it.
"You …… saw the Immortal Master?" Granny Zhang remained where she stood, looking as if her complexion had remained unchanged, but inside she was shaken in her heart and soul, and then her body rose with an appalling fury that pushed straight at Meng Fan.
"More than just seeing." Meng Fan was forced to stop by that sudden baleful intent, sensing a crisis, a crisis that was like an outlaw, playing with knives in front of him, who would kill at the drop of a hat.
He turned around and looked straight at Granny Zhang's gaze, his eyes were firm without the slightest bit of panic, and just looked at him for a moment, but he suddenly laughed, "That immortal master of yours even accepted me as a disciple, do you think I should call you a senior sister, Granny Zhang?"
"Eh …… "Granny Zhang paused, and actually followed the smile, the smile was a little dry, the tone became a little strange, "That …… old body said Right, you kid really got the creation, that two hundred dollars did not spend it in vain!"
"Didn't spend it in vain." Meng Fan shrugged his shoulders, spared a glance at the Zhang granny, and walked to the Zhang granny, holding the Zhang granny's arm, originally the atmosphere of swords and crossbows, on the surface seems to have become cordial again, "You that tie the paper man's craft should also teach me right?"
"Of course …… no problem."
Zhang granny so by Meng Fan support, feel an extraordinary force came, slightly frowned, but also did not put this in the eyes, running their own cultivation, want to Meng Fan shock away, and let him some color, let his body pain a seven or eight days is certain, but did not expect that this shock, not only did not let Meng Fan shock away, their own bones on the body fell "cluck boom! "The heart was appalled, and the fury slowly receded, so he took a few steps forward and thought for a moment before he fished out a pamphlet from his clothes and threw it to Meng Fan.
"The legacy of this craft cannot be broken, you kid must learn it well, you can't dishonor this craft."
"Then thanks a lot." Meng Fan didn't even look at it and put the pamphlet away, "Well, we're almost there, so I won't see you off."
After saying that, he turned around and walked straight away.
The night wind blew gently, and a gust of coolness traveled down Meng Fan's spine, this contact was considered an encounter even though he didn't make a move. He has realized that this granny is definitely not easy to deal with, the body looks old and weak, but it is actually very brutal, and there will also be some inexplicable arts …… but the result is not bad, actually pitched a pamphlet for tying up paper people, which is also considered to be a gain.
His interest in those strange paper people is still very strong.
Of course, he could also guess that this granny must have also left her hand, and did not tell herself the art of manipulating paper people.
But that wasn't a problem, there were more subtle ones in the Heavenly Dipper Destroying God Taoist Scriptures, and let this granny Zhang miscalculate this time.
"Something's not right, there's a ghost!"
Seeing Meng Fan leave, Granny Zhang, who had been hunched over, suddenly stood up straight, and then ran towards her home at a staggering speed, not at all like an old and decrepit granny!
This scene, in the night of this mountain village, looks a little weird and appalling.
To the home, Zhang granny did not alarm Liu Xiaoxi, straight to the backyard, as soon as he entered the house, busy, not a moment's effort, all the paper people in the house are pointing the brow blood, painted eyes, casting spells ……
Following that, under a single finger from Granny Zhang, those paper figures stood up straight in unison, with a look as if they were on the verge of an enemy.
"It's time to go out."
Having done so, Granny Zhang once again left the door and swept towards the Falling Star Gully in the back of the mountain.
However, she did not expect that this trip was a bit of a loss ……