Chapter 14 Chapter 5 Guarding the Children

The fourth grandma was furious, and threw the porcelain bowl in her hand at the black hair that was holding her grandson's feet.The porcelain bowl missed, but the chicken blood inside splashed out, dyeing the surrounding area bright red.The place where the chicken blood splashed onto the black feathers "squeaked" and smoked, like red iron thrown into the water.The thing seemed to be scalded by chicken blood, and it was spinning in pain, but it didn't let go of the child's feet. It turned out that the fourth grandma saw that the two grandsons had not come back for a long time, so she searched everywhere. Later, she saw the two of them salvage beside the lotus pond, and heard their conversation, and knew that the water ghost was luring her grandson.The clever fourth grandma remembered that she had just killed a chicken to welcome her grandson from the city, so she immediately went back to the house quietly and brought out a bowl of chicken blood, and poured it on the water ghost when it showed up.It is not easy to say that these four grandmas, why?More on that later.

The fourth grandma saw the water ghost dragging her grandson's feet despite the severe pain, so she jumped into the water in desperation, grabbed the black hair and pulled it out vigorously. Other people’s children, right? When your own child dies, you feel distressed, and you are happy when someone else’s child dies! You bastard, you have been killed by God!” Her wrinkled lips kept moving, dirty Curse the water ghost continuously. If you want to say that the fourth grandma is really good at cursing people.There was a time when her chicken was stolen by someone, and she couldn't find out who stole it, so she used the most direct and simple method-sitting with a chair at the head of the village where people come and go and using the most vicious words continuously. The language scolded for a whole morning.The spittle star drenched her front skirt.Later, the person who stole the chicken blushed and took the initiative to find her to pay at the market price.Fourth grandma's mouth was swollen like a pig's bubble, and it took three days for it to disappear.

Another time, in the middle of the night, people who had already fallen asleep near the fourth grandma heard her swearing for two hours outside the house, full of energy, rhythmic, and various tricks.The next day, someone went to her house to ask why she kept yelling and cursing last night.She said that when she got up last night, she encountered evil spirits.Because the toilets in rural areas are generally built separately, she has to go out of the bedroom door and walk under the eaves to the toilet.But there was a ghostly shadow at the door of the toilet, motionless.So the fourth grandma used the power of a lion's roar to curse at the ghost.She said that ghosts are most afraid of evil people, and the more you scold them fiercely, they will not dare to provoke you.She was afraid that when she turned around, the ghost would take the opportunity to play tricks from behind, so she faced the ghost shadow who kept cursing.

At first, the ghost was indifferent, and had a stalemate with the fourth grandma.The fourth grandma made up her mind, if you don't leave, I will scold you until dawn.After insisting on viciously cursing for two hours, the ghost finally flinched and slowly moved the toilet door away. After listening to the experience of the fourth grandma, I feel that some aspect of my grandfather's way of dealing with ghosts is similar to this.For example, breaking the head of the Ruoji ghost and then burying it upside down in the soil is the most brutal way to scare it from messing around. There is another point that I almost missed, the fourth grandma is the guardian of the Earth Temple in Changshan Village.

In this way, the fourth grandma used the hand that often held the land father-in-law's row to pluck the water ghost's long hair.When the water ghost was pulled out by the fourth grandma, it screamed in pain, like a mouse caught in a mousetrap.The water ghost finally couldn't wrestle the fourth grandma, let go of the child's feet, and fled back to the bottom of the water to shrink back into the dense lotus leaves. The fourth grandma didn't care about chasing the water ghost, and hurriedly pushed the child by the buttocks and sent him to the embankment.Looking at the child's feet again, they were bruised and swollen, as if they had been injured by heavy objects.The child's aching teeth collided, but he was too frightened to cry.

The fourth grandma climbed ashore by herself, hugged her grandson and comforted her: "Okay, okay, the water ghost was chased away by grandma, don't be afraid, don't be afraid anymore." Then the child cried out with a "wow", trembling all over. The younger brother asked: "Grandma, why didn't the water ghost drag you into the water?" The fourth grandma stroked the child's hair and said: "Grandma's hand often touches the tablet of the land father-in-law, which can ward off evil spirits. It dare not touch a single hair of grandma." After speaking, she looked at the lotus leaf bushes, where the waves had calmed down. That thing disappeared without a trace.

Without saying a word, the fourth grandma went to look for Shan Dae with the child with swollen feet on her back.Shan Dae immediately bowed and apologized.The fourth grandma refused to let go, and said: "My grandson was snatched here, but what if other people's children in the village are caught by water ghosts again?" So, Shan Dae came to find Grandpa to catch ghosts.Grandpa happened to have all the crops in the field received in the house, so he agreed to Shan Dad.Shan Dae bought a pair of good cigarettes for his grandpa, but grandpa refused and said: "My grandson is also in your village, and I did this for his safety. How can I collect your things? Besides, it's not easy for you of……"

Saying this, Shan Dae's tears crawled out from the corners of his eyes, holding Grandpa's hand and weeping uncontrollably. Grandpa came to live in our house, and Shan Dae asked Grandpa to start hunting ghosts immediately.Grandpa counted with his fingers and said, "It will rain these two days, so I'm afraid it won't be good for catching water ghosts. Let's wait for the weather to clear." Shan Dae asked: "When will it rain? How long will it take?" Grandpa said: "If it starts to rain tomorrow morning, it will stop at night. If it doesn't start until noon tomorrow, I'm afraid the rain will last for four or five days."

I don't know if Grandpa's old book without a cover also tells you how to predict the weather in addition to how to catch ghosts.Anyway, Grandpa said it so clearly that Shan Dae couldn't help but be convinced. It didn't rain the next morning, and it started to rain lightly at noon.Grandpa reached out to catch some rainwater, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, and said, "It smells bad."