Chapter 370 Chapter Eight Dreaming of Loach

Grandpa smiled and said: "The third dream is that the dreams of two people communicate with each other. During the Zhenyuan period, Dou Zhi from Fufeng and Wei Xun, the governor of the capital, entered Qin from Bozhou and stayed at the hotel in Tongguan at night. Dou Zhi dreamed of himself at night. In Huayan Temple, I met a tall, dark-skinned witch. This witch was wearing a white dress and a black skirt. She bowed down on the road and asked to pray to the gods. Dou had no choice but to let her go, and then asked her name. The witch claimed to be surnamed Zhao. After waking up, Dou Zhi told Wei Xun the situation. The next day, they came to Huayan Temple, and a witch came out to welcome them. The appearance, posture, dress and clothes were the same as in the dream. Dou Zhi She looked at Wei Xun and said, "The dream has come true!" and asked the servants to take two coins to reward the witch. The witch clapped her hands and laughed, and said to the disciples beside her, "Look, it's the same as my dream!" Wei Xun asked her what was going on in surprise. The witch replied, "Yesterday I dreamed that the two of you came from the east. A man with a beard and a short stature gave me two pennies after toasting. After dawn, I told my apprentice what I dreamed about, and I didn’t expect it to come true now.” Dou Zhi asked the witch’s surname. The witch replied, “My surname is Zhao.” From beginning to end, the two dreams were the same!”

Ma Juhe and his uncle were also very surprised.At this time, grandma said: "When I was a child, I often had some strange dreams. Now, many scenes seem to have been experienced in dreams when I was a child. Do you think it is strange? It seems that I have lived two lives. It is a pity that I did not grasp the dream at that time. Write down all the dreams one by one, otherwise I can prove many things." Grandpa nodded and said: "Bai Xingjian doesn't understand why there is such a strange dream. How do you know? There are many things about dreams, but these three kinds of dreams that he knows are not recorded. There are also many folklore about dreams, and there are no these three kinds of dreams. He can't guess whether it is accidental or there is a definite number in the previous life. So he Record these things and look forward to later verification!"

Ma Juhe sighed: "It seems that my daughter-in-law's dream is not a coincidence, but a definite destiny in the previous life. I really don't know that there are so many strange things in the dream if my father-in-law doesn't tell me." Uncle said: "Actually, it's not just ancient times. A few days ago, I heard a migrant worker tell his personal experience." Ma Juhe was quite interested and said: "Oh? Is it also related to the dream?" It's not that he is not worried about his wife, but he knows that if he wants to take his father-in-law away, he must first not offend his grandma and uncle on the ground.In order to cater to them, Ma Juhe had no choice but to accommodate them temporarily.Besides, it's unlucky to ask father-in-law to deal with ghosts before the new year, and everyone avoids it. It's a good thing grandma and uncle didn't drive him away on the spot.

My uncle said: "Among the people who work with me is a fellow from Yueyang, who lives on the other side of the Xinqiang River. He told me his personal experience. He and his wife both like to eat loach very much, and often buy it from the market. One day he had a dream, dreaming that he turned into a loach, swimming around in the cold paddy field. After a while, he saw a child carrying a torch and a wooden stick Here it comes, with a toothbrush attached to the end of the stick. The toothbrush has been stripped of its bristles, and a row of needles has been embedded in the side of the toothbrush."

I also used this method to catch loach eels when I was a child.He was holding a kerosene torch in one hand, and something as described by his uncle in the other.Shine the torch into the clarified paddy fields to look for loaches or eels that sleep at night.The torch cannot be replaced by a flashlight. Although the flashlight is much more convenient, the light from the flashlight will reflect back when it hits the water surface, making it difficult to see things at the bottom of the water.But the torch will not. When it hits a still loach or eel at the bottom of the water, aim the wooden stick embedded with steel needles, and quickly plunge towards the target.The loach or eel had no time to dodge, and was easily stuck on the steel needle, with its head and tail struggling desperately.

This method of catching loach and eel is very cruel, but because loach and eel are very slippery in the water, they are almost impossible to catch with hands, so this cruel and effective way of catching is widely used. The uncle said: "The man said that he knew that the child carrying the torch was here to catch him. When he thought of a row of steel needles piercing himself, he trembled with fright. The child shone the torch on the water surface of the paddy field for a while. He was blinded by the light from the torch. He lay on the bottom of the water, not daring to move." "The loach that doesn't move is the easiest to get stuck in." Ma Juhe interjected.He must have also looked for loaches and eels on the ridges of the fields on a cool summer night.Many country kids in that era did this kind of thing.

"He said that he once caught a loach with his own hands, and knew that it would be dangerous to be so still. But at that time he was so scared that he lost his mind." The uncle said, "He saw the child staring at him. He also saw the child's There was a red scar on his forehead, as if he had hit a stone when he was naughty. The child raised the wooden stick in his hand without hesitation, and the shiny steel needle shone under the light of the torch. He suddenly remembered Seeing the scene of the loach piercing, he turned around and ran away in fright. But it was too late, and soon he felt a sharp pain in his back, and then he was pulled out of the water by a force. He turned his head and saw that The child was looking at him with a smile on his face. Four or five steel needles were pierced into his back, and bright red blood was flowing out from the holes made by the needles."

The corner of Ma Juhe's mouth twitched, as if he was the one who was stabbed. "The dream didn't end here. Then, he was thrown into a small bucket by that child. The small bucket was filled with the same loaches and eels as he had encountered. The blood that choked his nose and the same kind that was full of holes He was shuddering. They were all struggling and wailing in a small space. He was pressed by other loach eels and had difficulty breathing, so he hurried to the top. After a while, he suddenly heard his wife's voice. He was overjoyed , endured the severe pain and desperately called his wife's name, hoping that his wife would come to save him. But his wife didn't hear his call. He said that he thought at the time that he was a loach, and no matter how he called his wife, he couldn't understand What he said, he was immediately discouraged. When he calmed down, it turned out that his wife was bargaining with the child, and seemed to want to buy the bucket of loach. He immediately turned from sadness to joy."