Chapter 113 Chapter 30 Untwisting Braids

Someone said: "I'll take you to Ai Liu Slope." Grandpa nodded: "Let the others stay here. Too many people have followed, afraid that she won't show up." Immediately someone said: "The fake monk said the same thing last time, and he did something like that. How can we trust you." An elder next to him immediately gave him a mouth: "You fool! The fake monk came here You don't doubt it, but you doubt it, Master Ma, the thrush. He is still a relative of ours here, can he lie to us? What a fool! Master Ma, don't worry about it." Grandpa smiled and said to the person who offered to lead us the way, "Let's go."

The three of us soon came to the dwarf willow slope.Ai Liupo is actually next to the road where my grandfather and I met the ghost officer, of course there is still a distance from the fork.When I passed by here last time, I also saw this dwarf willow slope, but I definitely didn't see that all the willow trees were planted here.There are more than ten acres of square land with a low slope, full of willow trees.The willows are about as tall as I am, which is why I took them for bushes the last time I passed by. The one who led the way stopped in front of the low willow slope. Grandpa threw down the burnt cigarette and said, "Go in."

The man shook his head and said, "I can't go in." "Can't you go in?" I asked in surprise, "Why can't such a short willow tree go in?" The man said: "It's okay if you grow tall, but you can't walk in because you are short." "Why?" I asked.I looked at the dwarf willows on the opposite side, and the moon showed a round arc above the willow bushes, as if a beautiful woman was looking at us behind a gauze mask. The man said: "The willow trees here are not only short, but also have strange wicker branches. The willow branches between two close trees are easily entangled, like girls' braids. They are like hands. Holding hands around this area, ordinary people can't get in at all. Last year, the electric poles planted in the village were all walking around, and they couldn't get in even after trying their best."

I saw that the electric poles that lined up from the village had indeed turned around when they came to Ailiupo, as if to avoid this dangerous place. "Go and have a look." Grandpa said, stepping on the cigarette butt on the ground and grinding it vigorously.Grandpa walked to the dwarf willow first. Walking to the outskirts of the dwarf willow forest, the first two trees you encounter cannot be walked through.The branches of the two trees are entangled wherever they touch, like a natural seamstress stitching the edges of the two trees together. I disdainfully said: "You can't pass by standing up, can't you just climb over?" I was very naughty when I was a child, and I used to catch sparrows, chase rabbits, play war games, climb trees, drill holes and jump ridges on the back hill of my house with a few other playmates. All are proficient.

The dwarf willows in front of me can block Grandpa's footsteps, but they can't stop me from crawling.I immediately bent down and wanted to pass through the gap under the dwarf willow.As soon as I got down on my stomach, my head immediately felt dizzy, my chest was tight and short of breath, as if someone stepped on my back.I simply can't crawl as flexibly as I usually do. Fortunately, grandpa was by my side, he quickly pulled me up: "Silly boy! Why are you in such a hurry?" As soon as I stood up, I was instantly awake again. "Why did you forget? I said that you have to avoid willow trees when you walk at night. How can you get down?" Grandpa lost his temper.It is true that someone said to avoid willow trees when walking at night, but it was not grandpa. If grandpa said it, I would not get down recklessly.Grandpa is like this. He knows many things himself, but he thinks that others know or should know.If others didn't do it, he would say: "I said I wanted you to..., why did you...." It never mattered whether he really said it or not.

However, I did hear several elders warn children not to walk in the shadow of willow trees at night, and finally go around.But they didn't say why they did it. "I was just breathing heavily," I said. Grandpa squinted at me dissatisfied, and said, "That's why the shadow of the willow tree is stepping on your back. The female ghost in her prime has an unclear relationship with the willow tree, so be careful with the willow tree at night." I nod. "Then how do we get in?" the person who led us asked softly. Grandpa said: "You must go in. At first I was not sure that the ghost prostitute was inside, but now I am sure. Not all willows are attached to women's souls, but Liangzi's reaction just now proves that the willows here are unusual. .I'm sure she's waiting for us among the willows."

"Then I'll lead the way here, and I won't go in." The man said tremblingly, "I don't know any ghost-hunting skills, and if I go in, I will only be killed." Grandpa said: "Okay. You go first." Hearing Grandpa's words, the man turned around and ran away as if the person who was about to be executed had received the emperor's pardon.The sound of footsteps broke the tranquility of the night. Grandpa and I looked at each other and smiled.The wind whimpered. "How to get in?" I asked my grandpa, "I can't get in if I walk or climb. What should I do?"

Grandpa said: "There is a way." Grandpa put down the iron threshold and touched the dwarf willow.Because the iron threshold is only covered with a layer of iron sheet, the inside is all wood, so grandpa didn't think it was too heavy, and he didn't take a breath.The iron threshold is placed on the ground. Due to the darkness, it looks like a pit sunken into the ground, but it does not look like a protruding object, giving people a three-dimensional illusion. "To her, this dwarf willow is just a trick. Then I can untie it with a little trick." Grandpa nodded after seeing the dwarf willow, feeling confident.

Grandpa sat down and asked me to put two yellow paper talismans on his flat palm.Grandpa Ning's voice calmed down, his eyes were slightly closed, and he opened his mouth to breathe.At this time, although the wind in the ear was still humming, the dwarf willow no longer swayed with the wind.I know, grandpa started to cast a spell. When I was waiting for Grandpa to untie the knot of the ghost prostitute, Grandpa coughed suddenly.The dwarf willows swayed in the wind again.I looked at Grandpa puzzled.Grandpa coughed twice more.I suddenly felt that my grandpa in the wind was swaying in the wind like a weak willow, without concentration. "What's wrong?" I asked worriedly.At that time, I doubted for the first time whether Grandpa's body could hold on.

Grandpa stretched his muscles and bones on the spot, and then got into the posture of casting spells, and said, "Liangzi, put me in a formation. This wind makes me uneasy." "What do you want?" I asked.Before my grandfather gave me the ancient book, he taught me a few simple formation methods. They all use stones to form formations, and there are different formations in different directions. "Do you remember the array that shielded the sound of the wind?" Grandpa asked.