Chapter 327 Chapter 92: The Abacus of Relics

But this house with blue tiles and mud walls was unknowingly surrounded by several small buildings with red tiles and red bricks, creating a scene of trapped animals.My uncle said that after two years, when I have saved enough money, I will demolish this house and build a building in a paddy field not far from the old river. When my uncle said this, I couldn't see any joyful expression on Grandpa's face.When I thought that in a few years, this old house would be a pile of broken tiles and broken beams, I couldn't help feeling desolate. But for my uncle, building a building is already a big event that can't wait.Because Grandpa Pan's daughter has agreed to the marriage, but asked her uncle to build a building.Grandpa Pan's daughter is still very reasonable. She doesn't ask her uncle to finish the building before getting married, but only hopes that he can finish it within three to five years.

When my uncle went to see the foundation by the old river with great interest, I felt panic and frustration for no reason, and the cigarette in my grandfather's hand was smoking much faster than usual. Grandpa smiled and said, "Isn't it because of the Cultural Revolution! To get rid of the four olds, old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits must be abolished, or they will be arrested and criticized. The few books I want to keep belong to the old culture. So it must be burned. "Hundred Skills Drive" was saved by my life." When Grandpa said this, he looked at his house with a pair of melancholy eyes.

Those books have been reduced to ashes, and it is impossible to return them to the hands.But these houses have to watch it disappear.This house not only retains many memories of my grandfather when he was young, but also retains many memories of my childhood.When this house disappeared, it was also the time when my memory never came back. I knew that what I said made grandpa feel unhappy, so I quickly changed the subject and said, "Grandpa, we come back in such a hurry, do we need to use something to subdue those gutter ghosts?" In my guess, grandpa is going to come back and draw some Spells, bring useful things, and then go to the place where the gutter ghosts gather, and subdue all the gutter ghosts.

Grandpa shook his head and said, "We don't know where the gutter ghosts are yet, how can we subdue them?" I said, "Can't we ask Ichimogo-san to take us there?" Grandpa said: "Mr. Yimuwu may not tell us the truth. Although they are afraid of me, they are also afraid of retaliation after betraying their companions. And they know that the backlash effect on me is still very strong, and they may connect with other partners. It hurt me. They have so many joiners, if we go without preparation, we may not be their opponents." At the end, Grandpa said to himself: "Although it is not difficult to catch them."

"So what are you going to do?" I asked.Grandpa's house is tens of meters away.The light in one window was still on, and grandma must still be waiting for grandpa to come home.In this silent night, that lamp is like a beacon in the boundless sea. Grandpa pointed at the lamp and said with a smile: "My plan is to let you sleep well. We will wait until dawn tomorrow to discuss other things." Grandpa and I just walked to the ground, and grandma's voice sounded from the window immediately: "You two are back! I have such a premonition that you will come back tonight!"

Grandma's voice moved from the window to the main room, and then heard a "squeak", and the door opened.The tired-looking grandma appeared at the door, smiling.I always hear what people say about "husband and wife", and I find that grandma and grandpa are indeed more and more like one person.Although grandma is fatter than grandpa, the lines at the corners of her eyes and the smile on her face gradually merged with each other. Grandpa bickered: "You always say that you have a good hunch, and if you guess right, you will praise it with great fanfare. If you guess wrong, you won't say a word."

Grandma waved her hand at me intentionally, and said sarcastically, "I don't have a premonition that this old man will come back, I have a premonition that my darling grandson will come back. Liangzi, hurry up, I've made all your beds, Hurry up and wash your face, wash your feet, and go to bed. After being out with your grandpa for so long, it's time to rest." As soon as he stepped through the gate, grandpa asked grandma in a deep voice, "Is the abacus my father used still on the top of the closet?" Grandma said: "It is here. I wrapped it in oil paper, so there should be no mouse bites. But it has been stored for many years, and I am afraid it will need to be washed before it can be used. Hey, why do you suddenly ask the abacus? Who still uses the abacus to settle accounts now? Besides, after your father is gone, the accounts in our hands are not too big to be counted with pens."

Grandpa said: "I have other uses, not to settle accounts." He didn't say what is the use of abacus, but grandma stopped asking. Grandpa brought me a washbasin, and grandma poured some warm water from the water bottle for me.Grandma wiped my feet with a towel and said, "You have to see for yourself. It's on the top of the closet. There are also a few sickles. Be careful when holding the abacus, so you don't cut your hands." Grandma is used to wiping my feet after pouring water. She often forgets that I am an adult.While taking the towel from grandma's hand, I asked, "Grandma, why do you put the abacus together with the sickle?"

In ordinary farmers' homes, the sickle for harvesting rice is either placed in an idle thresher, or placed together with a hatchet or a straw hat.It is also easy to find when you need it. Grandma said: "Your grandpa told you before he died, this abacus is quite evil, and putting a sickle beside it can scare it." "Scare it? Abacus is afraid that the sickle will fail?" I was surprised.I have only seen such examples in fairy tales, but I never thought grandma would say such things. Grandma thumped her waist, stood up from the washbasin, and said, "Sickles are sharp things that can easily cut people, so I use them to suppress the evil spirit of the abacus. You can also put scissors, but I often use them When I use scissors to make shoe soles or cut ginger when cooking, I am too lazy to climb up and down the top of the closet to get it, so I just put the sickle there.”

Grandma's answer was not the explanation I wanted to hear. Grandma said again: "Originally, when a person dies, all the things he used during his lifetime should be burned, lest he come back to pick up something he likes after death. But your grandpa said that there are a few things that you don't want to burn. , one is your grandfather's favorite book, and the other is the abacus he often uses."