Chapter 105 Chapter 22 Spring Birth and Autumn Death

Since then, when people in the village saw him, they threatened him with sticks or brooms and told him to go away.More than ten years later, when I went home for the Chinese New Year, I heard from my grandfather that Hong Da had just entered the newly built mental hospital in the village, and now his spirit has improved a bit, and he can recognize acquaintances in the village. After listening to the monk's instructions, my grandfather repeated the monk's words to me, and then asked me: "Based on these, can you guess where the second half of the ancient book is?" I said: "This is too simple! You said earlier that these seven characters have something to do with entering the bridal chamber, so you wouldn't wait until now to figure it out."

Grandpa frowned and asked, "Did you guess it?" If I hadn't often played house with my playmates when I was young, I wouldn't have thought of that place for the first time.In the game of playing house, several children imitate the lives of adults together, and the most imitated is marriage.Several children assign roles together, some as the groom, some as the bride, some as the guests, and some as the officiant, move a few benches to make the auditorium, and wear a piece of red cloth to make the new couple's clothes.Many people have played this game as children. Every time our playmates play the game of getting married, we always go to the backyard of my house.Because there is a real "bridal chamber" in the backyard.It was a cellar, a hole no taller than a person and no longer than two arms, dug right into the back hill.More than ten years ago, almost every household in the countryside grew sweet potatoes, because the leaves of sweet potatoes could be fed to pigs.

But sweet potato seeds are prone to mold and rot, so the farmers dug a hole in a steep place next to the mountain, which is somewhat like a cave dwelling in Shaanxi, but the scale is much smaller than the cave dwelling, only enough to hold a few baskets of sweet potatoes. After the sweet potato seeds are put into the cellar, the farmers will seal the hole with earth bricks to keep the sweet potato fresh and can be planted in the ground next year. When the sweet potatoes were first planted, the cellar was open, and it happened to be a playground for some children, a good place to hide and play.

We played house when we were young, and we used the cave as a bridal chamber for marriage. Some people also joked about the older unmarried young people in the village, saying, you have never been in a bridal chamber, and if you want to enter, you are also in a cellar.Make fun of people like this. So, when I heard my grandfather mention "bridal chamber", I immediately thought of the cave. "Are you sure?" Grandpa asked. I explained to my grandpa: "Grandpa's implied meaning must be like this, just like what Bao Gong thought of, the person who can think of this couplet must be the person who entered the bridal chamber. These seven characters are riddles, and at the same time they are the answer to the riddle." How should I put it, when you guess this riddle, you yourself are already a part of the riddle, so you yourself are the one who entered the bridal chamber." I don't know if I said it clearly.

Grandpa said: "Whether it is or not, just dig it out and have a look." Time waits for no one, so my grandpa and I immediately went to the cellar of grandpa's house to check it out.Because the cellar in my house is enough to hold the sweet potato seeds for the two families, my grandfather asks my father to leave some sweet potato seeds for him every year, and the cellar in my house is no longer used often.Grandpa got into the cellar full of spider webs and carefully dug the soil with a hoe. Suddenly there was a "click", and the hoe hit a hard object.Grandpa was overjoyed, bent down quickly, and gently scraped away the loose soil around him with his hands.A corner of a copper box was exposed.Grandpa grabbed the corners of the box and pulled the box out of the dirt.

Carefully opened the box, and there was a book lying inside.To be precise, it is half a book, which is the second half of "Bai Shu Drive". The handwriting and layout are the same as the first half of the book I own. We hurriedly opened and read a few pages, then immediately closed the box, and rushed to the Temple of Cigarettes happily.As soon as we stepped into the temple gate, we saw a man applying gold powder to the monk's face.Against the backdrop of gold powder, the monk's smile is as serene as a Buddha. The person painted with gold powder turned his head and told us: "The monk said that due to the shifting direction of Kun, ghosts and prostitutes will not come out in this half month. After this half month passes, the moon will become the roundest on the night of the seventeenth day." At that time, you must quickly deal with the ghost prostitute, and don't give her another chance to harm others."

Grandpa left without saying a word, with a sad expression on his face. Holding the copper box and walking out of the Cigarette Temple, Grandpa seemed to be talking to himself, and he seemed to be saying to me: "I dare not say a word in front of him, for fear that he will come back to life against his will." And I know, Grandpa is afraid The only thing is that the monk did not come back to life after speaking.Grandpa said that just to deceive himself and others.In my third year of college, my grandma (grandmother) passed away.I was in the far northeast, and I couldn't get to my hometown in time to see her for the last time. Thinking of playing at her house when I was young, how many times I cried in my dreams.However, when I returned home during the winter vacation and went to my grandpa’s house again, I didn’t feel any sadness in my heart. I knew that my grandma was gone, but I still felt that she was still alive. It seemed that if I called her "grandma", she would run out in a big way .However, in any case, I dare not call out the word "grandma".

Grandpa's mood should be the same as mine. When I left Xiangyan Mountain, I looked back at the couplet on the gate of the temple: "Being born is to save yourself, and entering the world is to save people." I lamented the monk's life.His life should be more legendary than his grandfather's, but with the end of his life, is there any trace of this legend left in the world? Time did not wait for me to sigh, but another strange thing came.During the half month of waiting for the reappearance of the ghost prostitute, my grandpa and I were not idle.Due to a few strange things that happened during the period, I didn't tell my grandpa what Keshui ghost told me, but during that half month, the escaped Ruoji ghost didn't come to harass us.Rose did not give me other dreams.

My grandpa and I put our hearts and souls into one other thing. The thing happened like this, a person from the neighboring county heard about my grandpa hunting ghosts, and tried his best to find us and tell us about the strange things that happened in their house.He said what county and village he lived in, I don't remember now.But I still remember the strange things he said.He said that his daughter-in-law gave birth three times, all three times were twins, and they were twins.However, the three dragon and phoenix twins all died. My grandpa and I were dumbfounded.However, the strange thing is yet to come.

He said that every time his wife gave birth, it was in the spring when everything was growing, and the child died in autumn when everything withered, as if his children were all trees. This spring, his daughter-in-law gave birth to twins, which should have been something to be thankful for, but this man was in a state of anxiety, fearing that when autumn came, the tragedy would repeat itself. He heard that the grandfather in the next county is an expert in ghost hunting, so he wanted to ask him to see if there was a ghost.It took him a lot of hard work to find out where his grandfather lived.

When Grandpa heard this, he immediately denied it without any hesitation: "It's not a ghost."