According to him, going back now is the best choice. |.|
But, I don't even know where my home is.
Meng Changqing didn't care whether I knew it or not, and went straight to the station to hail a black car. After I got in the car, he took out a half-burnt white paper and handed it to the driver, telling him to drive to the place on the paper.
He picked up this paper in front of Xiaoxiao's grave. I didn't notice it at the time, and I didn't expect my home address to be written on it.
The long-distance driver was naturally willing, and started the vehicle without saying a word.
We spent the next two days in the car, only getting out of the car to eat and go to the bathroom.
Two days later, the car entered a muddy mountain road, and it was only here that I became familiar with it. Just over a month ago, I had walked on this road.
After walking on this mountain road for more than an hour, the driver finally stopped at the entrance of Snakehead Village.
It happened to be noon when the car was parked. After the driver honked the horn a few times at the entrance of the village, many villagers in the village heard the car horn and came out to watch.
Meng Changqing got out of the car first. When they saw Meng Changqing, they didn't know who it was, but they just smiled, thinking it was someone who came here to do business.
After I got out of the car, they recognized me, and they all surrounded me in amazement and said, "Yejia Haiwazi is back, where is your second grandma?"
They spoke our native dialect here, Meng Changqing couldn't understand and just stood aside, while I greeted them one by one.
In the countryside, people in the same village are generally related. Even if they have different surnames, they still have to be called Seventh Aunt or Eighth Aunt. Anyway, my grandparents taught me from an early age to call when I see someone, which is the most basic courtesy in rural areas.
After I greeted them, they began to turn their attention to Meng Changqing.
They couldn't speak Mandarin, so they communicated directly with Meng Changqing in their native dialect. Meng Changqing was taken aback for a while, and finally had no choice but to ask me for help.
Seeing that he had trouble communicating with the villagers, I said, "This is my master, a Taoist priest. He is not from our place, so he can't understand what we say."
People in Snakehead Village are very superstitious and believe in ghosts and gods. My mother was persuaded to come back when she was about to kill me.
Since they believe in ghosts and gods, they must also believe in these witches and Taoists. They respect priests like Duangong, a priestess and Taoist priest, and think that if they can climb up to such a relative, it will be more useful than being an official. They will have a child and invite them At first glance, the children will naturally become rich and powerful, and if someone dies, let them choose a place, and the future generations will be blessed.
Taoist priests are more formal than Goddesses and Duangongs. Goddesses and Duangongs are passed down from generation to generation in the village. Duan Gong called Li Dahai. As for Taoist priests, we are in a poor village here, and there are no Taoist temples at all. It is basically impossible to have a Taoist priest.
Although there are no Taoist priests, people in the village used to talk about ghosts and ghosts when they got together. They would talk about where there was a very powerful Taoist priest, and then he did something, and the Taoist priest passed it on. . In their eyes, Taoist priests are much more powerful than Goddess Duangong.
After the villagers heard me say that Meng Changqing was a Taoist priest, they didn't dislike me for being prone to attracting ghosts in Huoyandi, and invited us to their homes one after another.
Although Meng Changqing couldn't understand what they said, he could see that they were very enthusiastic and treated them with a smile.
I am thinking about my grandparents now, and I want to go back soon, so I rejected their kindness and took Meng Changqing to the top of the village.
When I arrived at my grandparents' house, the door was locked. I generally know the habits of my grandparents. When they go to work in the fields, they usually don't bring the keys. They are afraid that they will lose the keys when they bend over to hoe the ground. So they usually put the keys in a pair of worn shoes next to them after locking the door.
Sure enough, I took out the key and opened the door, inviting Meng Changqing to enter.
This place is much more remote than the Taoist temple. The Taoist temple is all made of wooden buildings. There are indeed mud houses here. After he went in, he looked at the potholes on the ground of the main room, and then said with a smile: "Your house is quite distinctive. ."
I smiled and brought him a cup of hot tea. After he took it, he said, "Let's take a rest for a while and let's go around the village. If someone sets up an altar to do the method, there should be some traces. Get that man out before you come back."
Just as I was finishing speaking, the sound of knocking hoes and the conversation of grandparents came from outside.
When I heard the sound, I ran out to greet me. My grandparents were surprised when they saw me, and then they narrowed their eyes with a smile and said, "Just now I heard the sound of a car in the field, and I thought it was the corn harvesters from the city. It's you who came back, where is your second grandma and Xiaoxiao, why don't you ask them to come up for dinner?"
"They won't be back until a few days later."
"You came back alone?" Grandpa wriggled his mouth and said, he stood the hoe by the wall, then took off the straw hat that shaded the sun and pinched it in his hand to fan the wind.
Before I answered, Meng Changqing walked up behind me, saw my grandparents smiling and said hello.
My grandparents could only listen to our local dialect, not even Mandarin. When they saw Meng Changqing greeting them, they froze for a moment and asked me who this was.
I said, "This is the master who healed me, a Taoist priest, and he sent me back."
After revealing their identities, the grandparents immediately went in and grabbed Meng Changqing, and their kindness was almost ten times that of seeing me.
After grabbing Meng Changqing, I started to inquire about my health and asked several questions in a row, but Meng Changqing didn't understand any of them, so I had no choice but to do the translation.