"Which hooked it?" the villagers asked Meng Changqing.
Meng Changqing shook his head and said he didn't know, then he changed the subject and said: "Yingling is the child that Zhang Shike and Hu Haiyan fell into. The first thing he did after birth must be to seek revenge from Zhang Shike. In my opinion, Zhang Shike's death is related to the baby. The spirit cannot get rid of the relationship."
"Which wicked person is raising that baby spirit? Let me know and I'll beat him to death." The villagers cursed angrily after hearing this.
"I want to ask, who is in charge of that big yellow cow?"
After Meng Changqing asked, the villagers all said that my grandfather was in charge. Meng Changqing was taken aback for a while, and then immediately pushed aside the crowd and almost shouted to me: "Go back quickly."
After he finished speaking, he ran to the top of the village first. It was related to grandpa, and my feet quickened. When I was about to arrive, I yelled at Meng Changqing.
Meng Changqing stopped and looked back at me. I took out the note with Li Dahai's birthday on it and said, "Master, what is this?"
After Meng Changqing took it, he glanced at it and asked me where it came from. I thought about it and said, "The night you went to find Li Dahai, I saw Grandpa chanting a mantra and ringing the three clear bells in the cemetery. It was thrown into the coffin by Grandpa."
After I finished speaking, Meng Changqing crumpled the note into a ball and said, "Soul collection, this is a soul collection. Li Dahai's soul was collected by your grandfather. Fortunately, he didn't burn this note, otherwise Li Dahai There is absolutely no chance of survival."
"Why did Grandpa do this?" I don't know what I'm thinking now, and I don't know how to think about it, so I can only take one step at a time.
Meng Changqing shook his head and said, "It took me two hours to call Li Dahai's soul back, and he told me that leopard bone powder can cure rheumatism. This folk prescription was passed down from your grandfather. Your grandfather passed it on to Li Dahai. The sea was passed on to Zhang Shike, what Zhang Shike gave your grandma was real leopard bone powder, but it turned into ashes here, can you think of who transferred it?"
"grandfather?"
Meng Changqing didn't express his opinion, but walked into the room quickly. I followed after, and Meng Changqing had already carried Xiaoxiao out on the bed, and he was relieved to see that Xiaoxiao was fine.
After that, we searched in the room, but there was no trace of grandpa at all.
Because of the movement, Xiaoxiao was startled awake. After waking up, seeing Meng Changqing holding her, she froze for a moment, and then said in a crying voice, "Uncle, my head hurts."
Meng Changqing put her down, pressed several places on her head, and Xiaoxiao squinted her eyes and fell asleep.
After that, Meng Changqing and I sat in the main room with Xiaoxiao in our arms and waited for Grandpa, and I also sat next to him in a daze.
He glanced at me and asked, "If your grandfather did everything, how would you deal with yourself?"
I couldn't answer this question, so I asked back: "Why did he do this?"
Meng Changqing saw that I was unwilling to answer this question, so he stopped asking. He just told me to be pure and righteous, and calm down.
After I hummed, Meng Changqing said again: "Starting tomorrow, I will teach you Taoism, and Mu Xiaoxiao, she will also learn together. Otherwise, the two of you will not be able to survive at all."
If I heard him say that before, I would be so happy that my asshole would burst into laughter, but after what happened to grandpa, I couldn't be happy at all, I just oh casually.
We waited until it was almost dawn and grandpa came back. Meng Changqing didn't plan to wait any longer, so he got up and said to find him, and he should leave after finishing this matter.
Afterwards, we went around the village, but there was still no sign of grandpa. We went to the next village to ask someone. A villager in the next village said that two people passed by last night. A while after the man left, I saw my grandfather passing by their village. It looked as if he was chasing the man in the coir raincoat in front of him.
I naturally knew that the man in the coir raincoat was Uncle Zhang, but what I didn't know was why was Grandpa chasing him?
We inquired all the way in this village, and the two of them were seen along the way, but there was no trace of the two of them. It seemed that the two of them were going to follow this road to the end.
After inquiring for a while, we returned to the village. There was still an infant spirit wandering in the village. With Meng Changqing's personality, he would not just sit idly by.
Besides, it is difficult to find a place to live outside the village. The mud house in Snaketou Village is now the only place to live.
Meng Changqing can do everything, except washing and cooking, but I can't do it, Xiaoxiao needless to say, she is not as tall as a stove.
When I got home, I stared blankly for a while, Xiaoxiao finally couldn't hold it anymore, and sneaked up to me and whispered in my ear that she was hungry, for fear that Meng Changqing would make fun of her again.
Although I was in a bad mood, I wouldn't just sit idly by when she was hungry. When I was about to get up to cook, an old man from the same village came up and called us down to eat.
When we went to the village in the morning to look for Grandpa's whereabouts, the people in the village already knew about Grandpa's departure, but they didn't know why Grandpa left.
What Meng Changqing and I thought was that he felt that he was about to be exposed before leaving. After all, in the face of so much evidence, it was difficult for him to explain himself.
The villagers invited us to dinner, and we naturally would not refuse. The discussion between the toasts was all about the strange things that happened in the village in the past few days and the matter of grandpa running away.
During the discussion, Uncle Zhang was discussed. The villagers still kept Uncle Zhang's body in a tarpaulin shed. Seeing that the corpse was unreliable, Meng Changqing explained that the corpse should have been burned long ago.
They didn't dare to guess who made it. The village is so small, if it is revealed who made it, it would be easy to offend people.
Afterwards, they discussed the matter of grandpa running away. The villagers had many guesses, and their most convincing guess so far was that they were fascinated by ghosts and got lost for a while. From their words, it can be seen that although Grandpa is not a good person in their minds, at least he is not a bad person.
After drinking and eating, Meng Changqing asked the villagers to ask about his grandfather, such as his previous family members, experiences, origins, and so on.
What surprised us was that none of them knew about Grandpa's experience before coming to this village. Grandpa moved to this village with Grandpa Ye and the others. After coming to the village, he married grandma and gave birth to my dad.
Afterwards, I went to Grandpa Ye. Grandpa Ye and I moved here together, and he is also his cousin. Naturally, he knows more.
Grandpa Ye told us that they used to be from another township and moved here during the commune movement.
We asked Grandpa if he had any unusual experiences before. Grandpa Ye thought for a while before slowly saying: "If you want to say something unusual, when he was studying, he went out for many years and didn't come back."
We hurriedly asked Grandpa Ye what was going on.
Grandpa Ye said: "Ye Jiafu was taught by your great-grandfather to study when he was six years old, and when he was ten years old, his mother took him to study in the county town. At that time, people's life was worse than that of livestock, and he could still study with peace of mind. It's a good story in our village. We all hope that there will be a high-ranking official in the village, and then our relatives and friends surnamed Ye will be able to enjoy some glory. In the first two years, he and his mother will come back every six months. When he was twelve years old, his mother came back alone and said that he was lost in a war outside. At that time, the rice jars at home were all empty, and they were all looking for food in the mountains and plains, so there was no time to look for him. He was taken as a cub by wolves, so he was ignored. In the year of the commune, he came back suddenly. He was 22 years old when he came back. We didn't believe it at first. We thought that ten years had passed, and he had He died of starvation outside, and the one who came back must be cheating on food and drink. But only after checking his birth date did he know it was really him."
"Where has grandpa been all these years?"
"He said he was studying outside. We don't know the specifics. At that time, the big steel smelter was busy, and everyone had to earn work points to support their families. When he came back, he had an extra labor. Who cares what he does outside. After two months, the brigade assigned us here, and then we settled here, and then everyone in the village knew about it."
After hearing this, we were very puzzled. He hadn't learned Taoism since he came here, and no one taught him when he was a child. The problem must be the ten years when he disappeared.
After thinking about this, Meng Changqing asked: "Did the old man bring some roulettes, yellow flags and other things when he came back?"
Grandpa Ye shook his head and said: "He came back with a clean sleeve, where is there any roulette..." Then he remembered something, and immediately said in other words: "Speaking of things, he seems to have brought back a black leather box, and he brought this box with him when he moved. Come here, it is estimated that it is still in his room, you may find it if you look for it."
After hearing this, Meng Changqing looked up at the sky, and now half of the sun is still outside, and the infant guardian spirit is not in a hurry. Taking advantage of the time, Meng Changqing asked me to go back to the house with him, and put Xiaoxiao He stayed below the village, and put the bracelet on Xiaoxiao's hand by the way, so that he could protect her in case something happened.
After arriving at the house, Meng Changqing asked me if I had seen such a box before. I didn't remember it, so he asked me if it would be put in some big box.
Meng Changqing also thought it was possible, so next, we rummaged through the large and small boxes and cabinets in the house, and even searched in the cellar, but there was no sign of the box.
"Could it be thrown away?" I said.
Meng Changqing didn't think so. Grandpa always took that box with him when he moved across the country. There must be very important things in it and he wouldn't throw it away easily.
I think so, and then I searched the house again, but there was still no trace. When he was about to give up, Meng Changqing set his sights on the coffin that his grandfather and the others had prepared for him in advance.
After spotting it, I asked me to lift the lid of the coffin with my hands. When I opened it, I saw a black suitcase inside.