Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Missing Details

Grandpa put down the mountain ax and walked around the grave twice to check the position of the bamboo nails.I stood aside and watched my grandpa's meticulous appearance in the thick fog, and a strange idea flashed in my heart. Grandpa is like a fairy walking in a fairyland now, and the thick fog sets off the atmosphere even more.At this time, I saw that he was less gentle and more sacred.The grandpa at this time was not the sleeping and snoring farmer grandpa that I usually doted on, but a fairy grandpa with supernatural powers. He was somewhat similar to the crooked Taoist priest in the small temple next to our junior high school.Of course I said similarity in spirit, not similarity in form.The crooked Taoist lives in Xiangshan Temple, his eyes are crooked, his nose is crooked, his face is crooked, and when he walks, he is even more crooked, which makes people worry about him falling.The crooked Taoist priest saw our students going to the temple and looked around curiously, so he stretched out his dirty hand to touch our heads, and lied to us that any student he touched his head could be admitted to the university.Later, I did get my wish and was admitted to university. Several other partners who were touched too much have lost contact now. I don’t know if they also went to university.

The teacher at the school told us not to go to the temple of crooked Taoists, saying that the reason why crooked Taoists look crooked is because they are too ghostly.He also said that there are many ghosts hidden in the crooked Taoist temple, all of which he took back from the outside. We couldn't see them during the day, and those ghosts only came out at night to ask the crooked Taoist for this or that. In the eyes of the students, what the teacher said was more credible than ordinary people, so none of us dared to go to that Xiangshan Temple to play.Thinking about it now, I don’t know if the teacher told the truth or deliberately scared us, so that we can study with peace of mind and not play crazy.

In short, it felt like a crooked Taoist attached to grandpa at the time.It was a weird feeling, and I swear, I never felt that Grandpa was someone else before. But even after careful inspection twice, Grandpa still missed a detail. This detail did not cause any serious problems at the time, but it left a terrible future trouble.Of course, these are all later things, and the later things will be discussed later.Just like when my grandfather talked about these ghosts to me, he seemed very indifferent. He said: "Why don't these ghosts come sooner or later, but they come in the past few decades when I'm alive? Why did these ghosts happen to come across and read ancient books?" Me? These are all arranged in the dark, and it will come naturally when the time comes." He later remembered that he had checked twice today and still missed the details, so he explained it this way, saying: "This detail is destined to be forgotten. , is out of my control."

I was confused in my dream, but I had to agree with my grandfather, after all, there is no better explanation. When grandpa said he was leaving, I worriedly asked him if he wanted to see where it was not nailed.When I ask this question, I don't mean that I expected problems in the future, I just think that I participated in this matter, and the Ruoji ghost remembers me. I am very afraid that it will find me again sooner or later.Grandpa said that I was brave and would take me to catch ghosts in the future, but in fact, how could I not be afraid?I just pretended not to be afraid.It's a pity that grandpa can figure out Ruoji ghost's mind and persuade the ghost fire to go back, but he doesn't understand my mind.

When I got home, I took the trouble to ask my grandpa if I should go there again to make sure that the bamboo nails are safe.It can be seen that I was really scared at the time, but my grandfather thought I was as careful as a girl, so I was embarrassed to mention it again. The fog outside was so thick that my grandfather and I didn't feel it when we were in the fog. When we came back and took off our coats, we found that the coats were wet, as if we had been drenched in a heavy rain.Just one twist and the water from the washbasin is connected. The fog cleared, and the horse butcher came to grandpa's house together with the warm sunshine.Grandpa mocked him and said, "You don't have any patience, you just run back and forth when you have nothing to do."

Butcher Ma held his grandfather's hand and said gratefully, "Brother Yue Yun, I have to thank you for the rest of my life." Grandpa said, "Just because of that little thing last night?" Then he waved his hand and said, "It's not worth being so thankful." The horse butcher took his grandfather's hand and shook it vigorously, and said, "You don't believe me when I tell you. As soon as I came back last night, my wife told me that shortly after I left home, the child had short-term suffocation, and his face was paler than paper. , hands and feet were as soft as bones. My useless daughter-in-law thought her son was dead again, so she lay on her son and cried like hell. When I came back from killing the ghost, my daughter-in-law hugged me and cried. My legs immediately I was so weak that I almost fainted on the ground. When my wife and I supported him to see my son, my lovely son’s face turned rosy, and his breathing became more obvious. I thought to myself that the Ruoji ghost must have been subdued. My son Only narrowly escaped death." The horse butcher said with tears all over his face, choked up with sobs.

Grandpa stroked the horse butcher's back to comfort him: "As long as there is no danger, it's fine and the child is still alive." I am also very proud to be beside me, for my grandfather's timely rescue. Grandpa said to the horse butcher: "On the seventh night, you have to do as I tell you, and everything will be at ease!"