Chapter 39 Chapter 5 Land father-in-law

I didn't think so much at the time, and when I ran in front of the dwarf, I jumped hard and jumped over his head.Just as my feet hit the ground, my body suddenly lost my balance.I tripped over the bottom of my trousers, and my whole body fell across the field ridge. Fortunately, I didn't roll into the paddy field. I thought bad!The dog must have opened its teeth and gnawed at my calf in no time. But the dog didn't come over again.I turned around strangely, only to see the half-length dog crashed to death on a big rock.That stone is where the dwarf I saw was. Am I wrong?What just came across was not a dwarf but a rock?I rubbed my eyes, and it was true that the stone, the long beard, the wooden staff, and the cloak were all gone.It may have been the half-length dog that bumped into the rock just now and dragged me down.

Grandpa chased after him, and looked at me and the half-length dog that hit the stone in surprise. Later, I heard the fourth grandma gossip about the land father-in-law.The reason was that a child asked the fourth grandma why the Earth Temple was as small as a chicken coop.Every village in our area has a land temple, which is usually built in a place facing water and mountains.The Earth Temple is not as tall and powerful as the Monk Temple. Its top is only waist high, and its width and length are no more than three feet. It is really like a chicken coop.The fourth grandma, who is in charge of taking care of the Tudi Temple, explained that the father-in-law and the mother-in-law are both dwarves less than one meter tall. The father-in-law holds a wooden stick in his hand, and the mother-in-law crosses her arms.

It happened that there was a reservoir in the col of the back mountain, and there was a flat land near the corner of the reservoir, where the earth temple of Huamei Village was built.Maybe it was the land father's apparition that saved me.But it doesn't rule out that my eyes are dazzled in shock. Grandpa pulled me up from the ground, patted my clothes and said, "I forgot to tell you. Actually, you don't have to run. The more you run, the more it will bite you. If you squat down and pretend to touch the ground with your hand, It doesn’t dare to approach you, thinking that you are picking up stones and hitting it.”

I thought to myself that if you didn't tell me or gave me the ancient book earlier, I wouldn't have to run so embarrassingly. Grandpa washed the scale beams in the paddy field, and took me back to the short mother-in-law's house. As soon as the horsemen entered the door, they excitedly said to us: "My mother is breathing. Although it is very weak, it is already there." I turned to look at the short granny, the hair next to the nose rose and fell with my breath.But I found that her body seemed to be getting smaller and smaller, like a sweater shrinking.It was a very subtle change, and no one noticed it at the time, but I noticed it.I hadn't calmed down because of the fright just now, thinking that my eyes had an illusion, so I didn't tell them what I found.

That night, my grandfather and I both fell asleep very quickly. In my dream, I dreamed that the short mother-in-law was as soft as a puddle of mud, her body lay flat, as if she was about to flow away like water, and her nose was so limp that it was about to fall.I wanted to call out to the short mother-in-law, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make a sound.The short granny looked at me, but obviously ignored me like a transparent person. I tried to move towards her, but my feet lifted up.At this time, the half-length dog slowly approached the short granny and sniffed her with its nose.I smelled the stench again.

The half-length dog stretched out the stone and touched the short mother-in-law's face, but the half-length dog drank half of the short mother-in-law's head like porridge!I was so scared that I yelled grandpa.The half-length dog seemed to have heard my shout, and turned to look at me, with the short grandmother's eyeballs between its huge teeth! Suddenly there was a snoring sound in my ear, and I woke up from my dream.When I touched my face, it was full of sweat. I dare not close my eyes again, for fear of returning to the nightmare.The walls of the house disappeared into the night like deep water.I suddenly felt that dealing with ghosts was so scary.I just kept my eyes open and waited until dawn, accompanied by the sound of grandpa's snoring.

I fell asleep again when I saw the sunlight streaming in through the window.I slept very lightly that day, and my ears could hear all the sounds outside the house, and I could even hear sounds that I couldn't hear normally, such as the rustling of other people's hands and feet, such as the croaking sound of my stomach moving.It felt amazing.I had that feeling two or three times in the days when I was hunting ghosts with my grandpa, but it never happened again after I went to college. My dream foretells the death of the short mother-in-law.