Chapter 411 Chapter 19 Please Midwife

"Yes, midwife. There should be one in your village, right? If so, call one nearby." Grandpa asked. The old farmer's son opened his mouth wide and stuttered for a long time before he could speak: "Could it be... is she going to give birth?" He pointed to his daughter's room. The old farmer was also taken aback for a moment, but he immediately regained his senses, nudged his son, and told him, "If you are told to go, just go, why ask so many questions!" A few formulas. The old farmer's son muttered a few words, got up reluctantly and left around the back door.

Not long after the old farmer's son left, the jujube tea placed on the threshold suddenly made an abnormal movement.The water surface in the tea cup was originally flat, but at this moment the tea near the handle gradually swelled up, and then "flowed" upward along the inner wall of the tea cup.Although the tea in the teacup has not been lost, the water level has gradually dropped.Apparently, an invisible "person" is crouching on the threshold drinking jujube tea from the teacup! I wasn't the only one who discovered this unexpected situation.Both the grandfather and the old farmer found out.The formula in the old farmer's mouth suddenly stopped, and his eyes stared like lanterns at the strange phenomenon in front of him.

Seeing this, Grandpa hurriedly picked up the whip that had been prepared, and flicked it vigorously in the air. The sound of "pop" alarmed me and the old farmer, and naturally also alarmed the invisible "person". The water flow attached to the inner wall of the tea cup immediately Falling back, ripples rippled in the teacup.I guessed that the "person" had raised his head to look for the sudden sound of whipping. When it comes to whipping, there is no one in a hundred li who can compare to grandpa.Every season of plowing is the hardest time for cattle.A lazy cow likes to grunt and chirp in the field without exerting any effort, walking slowly and exerting no effort.In this way, the speed of plowing is slowed down.At this time, other peasants swung their whips to beat the lazy cows.

However, farmers and cattle generally have some feelings and some spiritual connections.Therefore, the vast majority of farmers do not use all their strength when whipping, which is quite pretentious. And grandpa is even worse, he never draws the whip on the cow, but raises his hand and draws a circle in the air, and then retracts his hand fiercely, the whip is tangled together, and there is a loud bang without hitting anything "Snap".Hearing the sound of his grandfather whipping the whip, the cow knew it was a warning, so he obediently worked hard. Ordinary people can't get rid of the whip, and shouting has no practical effect, so even if they feel sorry for the cow, they still have to whip.

The invisible "person" was obviously not frightened by the sound of the whip, because two shallow footprints appeared on the grass ash in the main room.If a real person stepped on that place, the grass ash would not sink so shallowly. I am afraid that the grass ash would still stick to the feet, leaving a blank space on the ground.But that footprint didn't touch the ground, it just seemed to be gently blown away by someone.It seems that the "person" is going to come in to see where the sound is coming from. I understand why grandpa wants grass ash.When burning paper for the deceased on Qingming Festival, it is easy to see shallow footprints on the ashes of the paper the next morning, which are left by the ancestors who came to collect money.Grandpa wants to imitate this situation so as to know where the borrowed ghost is standing, so as not to be unaware of where it is.

Of course it is impossible to get paper ashes at this time, so grandpa thought of grass ash with similar effect. Grandpa pointed to the place where the footprints appeared with the whip in his hand, and shouted: "Although this family cut your trunk and dug your roots, you also suck water and dew on the ground of his house. Since you are a tree, Then follow the tree's life, give fruit when alive, and use firewood when dead. What do you object to?" Grandpa is aggressive, but I can see from his eyes that what he said to himself is not true. Not so confident.Because in his own words, he would never cut down and split the jujube tree in front of the door, and then ask for a fire to keep warm.Even if he goes up the mountain to cut firewood, he will never carry the whole tree back like some people do. He only finds some dry branches and breaks off, as long as there are still blue ones, he will not touch them.

Every time my uncle scolded him, he said that when the green and wet firewood was burned, his eyes were smoky.But everyone else knew that after they came back, they spread the green and wet branches and leaves on the ground to expose them to the sun. "What objection do I have? I gave them fruit and shelter, but they put me to death? I don't want to die like this, I want to survive!" Seeing his voice", of course, I also "did not see his person" in the end. Grandpa pointed at the roof and said angrily, "Isn't that beam on the roof the same as yours? What's so special about you? If you know your mistakes, correct them, and I won't pursue them; if you repent and don't correct them, then I'll be sorry." .”

Just as Grandpa finished speaking, a sudden gust of wind blew up the ashes in the main room.The air in the main room was immediately cloudy and choking. "Don't run!" Grandpa yelled, raised his whip and whipped it towards the place where there were footprints just now.Unexpectedly, a whip took the time.At this time, the wind disturbed the grass ash on the ground, and it was no longer clear where the borrowing ghost was standing. But Grandpa's eyes are still searching in the flying grass ash.The old farmer hastily stretched out his hands to block the door, preventing the ghost from escaping from the door.

At this time, the old farmer's son arrived panting with the wrinkled midwife.When the old farmer's son ran to the door, he put his hands on his knees and breathed hard.The midwife was sweating a little on her forehead, but she didn't seem very tired. Seeing the old farmer blocking the door with both hands, she said angrily, "You old man! Why don't you let me in after calling me?" The midwife held a red cloth bag on her shoulder, and held a pair of scissors tied with a red cloth strip in her hand.The scissors are new, with shiny edges.The feet are typical "three-inch golden lotus", and it seems that they have also suffered from the feudal foot binding.His thin, silvery hair was shoulder-length, and his face was unhealthily pale with a pink like bad-quality lacquer.

The old farmer hurriedly argued: "Grandma Yue, I'm not stopping you, I'm blocking the ghost in the house!" After finishing speaking, the old farmer looked around, hoping to help grandpa. It turned out that the midwife was called Mother Moon. Ordinary people will immediately run away in fright when they hear ghosts in other people's houses, so they don't care about delivering babies!But this month, the mother-in-law stood on tiptoe and looked behind the old farmer. Seeing that the house was filled with grass ash, she asked very expertly: "The Taoist inside is using the grass ash to find the location of the ghost? It's not easy to catch ghosts with the grass ash alone." no!"