Chapter 108 Chapter 25 The House Collapses

Grandpa nodded frequently with a cigarette in his mouth: "I said it's not a ghost, it's the fault of the sycamore tree." "What's wrong with the sycamore tree?" Hao Jianfang and I asked in surprise at the same time. "These two sycamore trees have grown for more than a hundred years, and they already have a certain aura. If you cut them down to build a house, they will definitely not accept it, and naturally they will try to get back at you." Grandpa said. "The aura of the sycamore tree?" Hao Jianfang asked in surprise. "Yes. All creatures in nature have aura. If you destroy it, you may be punished." Grandpa touched the growth rings of the tree stump and said calmly, "People often call their aura spirits. It can also be said that the sycamore tree spirit is taking revenge on you."

"Then what should we do?" Hao Jianfang asked, staring at the stump of the sycamore tree in horror, as if he was not asking about his grandfather but the stump of the sycamore tree. Grandpa smiled slightly, lowered his head and asked the sycamore tree stump below: "What do you want?" The expression seemed to be joking with Hao Jianfang, but also seemed to be really talking to the sycamore tree stump.Seeing this, Hao Jianfang stared at his grandfather with wide eyes, as if he was waiting for his grandfather to convey the request of the sycamore stump. Grandpa leaned over like a professional actor and put his ear close to the sycamore stump.After listening for a while, Grandpa silently nodded and said, "Well, I understand. Okay, your request is not too much, so let's do as you request. I believe Hao Jianfang can do it."

As soon as Hao Jianfang heard his grandfather talking about himself with Wutongshu, he nodded vigorously and said: "Yes, yes. As long as I can do it, I will do it." After finishing speaking, he grunted and emphasized again: "Really , I will definitely do it, please rest assured the two sycamore tree spirits. Don't harm my children again." Grandpa stood up and patted the dust off his clothes.Hao Jianfang hurried forward and asked, "What does the sycamore tree spirit have to say? It won't need a lot of money, right?" Grandpa frowned and said: "How can you still be stingy at this time, is the child more important or the money?"

Hao Jianfang nodded again and again: "Yes, children are important, children are important. It doesn't matter how much you spend." Grandpa stretched out two fingers and waved them in front of Hao Jianfang's eyes. "Two hundred?" Hao Jianfang asked with his head tilted, "Does it cost two hundred yuan?" I could easily see that Hao Jianfang was covering up, his tone of voice seemed to have been in the ice cellar for a long time, and his teeth had already started to clink. Grandpa shook his head, still waving his two fingers in front of his eyes. "Two thousand?" Hao Jianfang's face was a bit ugly, his hands were trembling slightly, and his lips trembled slightly, as if he was suffering from blood dizziness.

Grandpa said impatiently: "I want you to give me a cigarette, what two hundred and two thousand?" That was the most humorous time I saw my grandpa. That time was really wonderful. Hao Jianfang coughed dryly, twisted his body slightly, and relaxed his tense nerves a little.He put his fingers into his pocket in a panic, took a lot of effort to take out the cigarette case, shook the case, took out a cigarette and handed it to Grandpa.Grandpa sighed, took the cigarette in Hao Jianfang's hand, lit it and smoked it himself. "How much does it cost?" Hao Jianfang asked his grandfather like a slave, bowing his waist.

Grandpa said: "You don't need money, the key depends on whether you have the heart. What do you want money for? Can you buy back the branches and leaves of these two sycamore trees if you want money?" Grandpa was a little unhappy.Hao Jianfang bowed his waist and was obsequious. "Actually, the sycamore tree spirit didn't say anything to me, but I know what you should do." Grandpa said, "You dig up the roots of these two sycamore trees, and don't break one of their roots during the digging process. Then move it to a place with fertile soil, preferably black soil, where no one passes by, and where there is plenty of sunlight. Can you do this?”

Hao Jianfang hurriedly said, "Yes, yes." Grandpa said: "These are not enough. You have to water them once a day. The water can't be river water or pond water, but clean well water. Take care of its new shoots in spring and don't be trampled on." It is eaten by birds and infested by insects. Wrap its branches with straw in winter, so that the snow will not freeze and the wind will break it." "I will try my best to do what I can," Hao Jianfang replied. "It's not trying to do it, but it must be done. If its new shoots and new branches have problems again, your children will also have problems. If their new shoots and new branches die, then your children will suffer bad luck again, as before. Several of them are the same."

"Eh, eh." "Also, as long as you see a sycamore tree in the future, you must respect it and don't hurt it. Do you understand?" "I know, I know. From now on, I will walk around all plane trees, isn't that okay?" Grandpa said: "That's good. You remember. If you fail to do one of these things, something bad will happen to your child, and it will be too late to regret it." Hao Jianfang nodded repeatedly. Seeing that his grandfather had run out of cigarettes, he offered to hand one over and said, "I promise you, I will do it. As a parent, you can't do this for your children."

Grandpa took the cigarette and put it on his ear, and said, "I'm not the one you want to promise." Grandpa pointed to the two sycamore stumps that had been silent all the time: "It's them you have to promise. If you can do it, I'll go back I don’t know after that. But they all know. When they grow taller than your child, you can stop.” Grandpa reiterated: “Remember, if you want them to grow taller than your child, you to stop." "Hey." He replied, "If there is anything, can I still find you?" Grandpa said: "As long as you do it, basically nothing will happen." But after we left Hao Jianfang's house, he still kept in touch with Grandpa from time to time through a person who sold rice between the two places.

After the autumn harvest, the rice seller came to Huamei Village to harvest the rice.He found his grandfather and said that Hao Jianfang specially asked him to bring a few packs of cigarettes for his grandfather.Grandpa asked Hao Jianfang about the situation.The person said that Hao Jianfang's child was healthy and healthy, and nothing like before happened.Hao Jianfang now goes to water two sycamore trees every day, and he doesn't dare to neglect for a day.When he saw others want to cut down a tree, whether it was a sycamore tree or not, he asked others not to hurt the roots of the tree, and moved it home to plant by himself.

Grandpa laughed and said, that's good. When the man got into the car with the sack and was about to leave, he told his grandfather that after you left, he would dig the roots of the sycamore tree as ordered.The roots of the tree are more than a hundred years old, and the root system is very developed. It is very difficult to dig without damaging the roots, and the area to be dug is very large.The roots of one of the sycamore trees reached below Hao Jianfang's house.Hao Jianfang had no choice but to dig tree roots like a tunnel.By the time he had dug out the entire tree root, his house had collapsed due to ground failure.