Chapter 447 Chapter 26 The Neem Tree

Grandpa looked around and said, "In other words, she just disappeared." Grandpa never wore anything on his hands, so he asked Mrs. Ma, "You have a watch on your hand, let's see what time it is." separated." Madam Ma looked down at her watch and told her grandpa what time it was. Grandpa raised his hand, his withered thumb jumping on the other four fingers.After a while, Grandpa put away his hand, pointed in the direction of the mountain between Huamei Village and Wentian Village, and said slowly: "Don't worry, Xiaojuan is not in danger for the time being. Let's look for her from this direction."

The old lady Ma immediately followed her grandfather to the mountain, but she was puzzled and asked, "Brother Yue Yun, what danger can my Xiaojuan have? She never designed to harm others, and she never had any ill relations with anyone, so how could she be in danger? " Grandpa didn't answer Mrs. Ma's words, but stepped up and walked towards the mountain road, and there were lazily shouts from other relatives in his ears.Yes, they didn't know about Yao Xiaojuan's dream and Li's dream just now, and they didn't even know that an ugly ghost came to grandpa's house last night, so they all thought that grandpa was making a fuss out of a molehill.

The sun at that time was also lazy, more drowsy than their one-on-one cries.This was the scene in the countryside many years ago. In the morning and evening, I was drowsy, as if I was going to sleep, or I just woke up but I haven’t slept enough, so many years later I recall it as a feeling I felt a bout of drowsiness. I don't know if grandpa is feeling sleepy like me when he recalls the past years? Grandpa and Mrs. Ma walked to the foot of the mountain, and a narrow path winds down from the top of the mountain, like a watery snake winding its way into the water.Grandpa and Mrs. Ma are like stepping on the head of a snake.

Grandpa said that he really felt a coolness at that time, as if leaking from the snake's skin, and he also felt a dangerous atmosphere under his feet. It seemed that there was a snake whistling, and it might be on the ankle at any time. Leave the marks of fangs. "Look, Xiaojuan is under that neem tree." Mrs. Ma was the first to discover Yao Xiaojuan. The neem tree used to be a common tree in my hometown, but now it is getting less and less.Neem is a deciduous tree that can be ten meters high or higher.Pinnate compound leaves, leaflets ovate or lanceolate, entire or serrated.Small lavender flowers bloom in March and April, and the flowers are arranged in panicles, which are more fragrant.

Its fruit is called "neem", and the pulp is poisonous.People of the previous generation mostly used fruit pulp to paste shoe soles, which can save food and prevent insects and moths.The fruit is the most poisonous.If swallowed by mistake, it will cause headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, drowsiness, convulsions, blood pressure drop, respiratory paralysis and death.In the past, a child almost died after eating it by mistake. Later, a barefoot doctor stretched straw whiskers down the child's throat to induce vomiting, which saved the life of the gluttonous child.

Maybe it's because life is getting better and people seldom clean their shoe soles at home, so the neem tree doesn't have the meaning of planting as before.As a result, the neem tree gradually decreased.It used to be that neem trees were planted in front of almost every house, but now it is difficult to find a few in a village. Grandpa looked in the direction Mrs. Ma said, and Yao Xiaojuan was indeed standing under a big neem tree.But she wasn't standing there alone.There is another person beside her.Yao Xiaojuan turned her back to her grandfather and Mrs. Ma. If Mrs. Ma hadn't been familiar with Yao Xiaojuan's back, her grandfather would not have noticed her standing under the tree.Yao Xiaojuan's back just blocked her grandfather's sight, so he couldn't see who was beside Yao Xiaojuan.

She seemed to be chatting with the man, waving her hands and nodding. The old lady Ma shouted: "Xiaojuan, who are you talking to? We are all looking for you everywhere, why did you come here without saying hello?" Trot towards Yao Xiaojuan. But Yao Xiaojuan didn't seem to hear Madam Ma's call, she still waved her hands and nodded, and didn't look back at Madam Ma and grandpa. Grandpa hurriedly yelled at Madam Ma: "Stop!" Old Madam Ma knew that Grandpa was calling her, she turned her head to look at Grandpa in confusion, and asked, "Brother Yue Yun, what's wrong?" Just now Grandpa told her to come out to look for Yao Xiaojuan, but now that he found her, he told her to stop, Madam Ma naturally did not understand Grandpa's actions.The look in her eyes showed what she wanted to say to grandpa-why are you not normal today?

Grandpa waved at Madam Ma and said, "Stop quickly, Xiaojuan is sleepwalking. You will scare her if you wake her up suddenly!" The old lady Ma was taken aback, and she looked scared, and said: "Isn't it? My Xiaojuan has never had the habit of sleepwalking! Besides, sleepwalking is also a night thing, right? How could she sleepwalk during the day? Brother Yue Yun, can you Don't scare me. Also, since it's sleepwalking, how can she talk to others?" Grandpa said: "I almost thought she was talking to another person. But..." Before grandpa finished speaking, Mrs. Ma couldn't help shouting in Yao Xiaojuan's direction: "Xiaojuan, Xiaojuan, who are you talking to?" She not only continued to call Yao Xiaojuan's name, but also made three steps in parallel He rushed to Yao Xiaojuan's side in two steps, and put his hand on Yao Xiaojuan's shoulder.

Yao Xiaojuan turned her head dumbly, and looked at Mrs. Ma with blank eyes. Seeing that Yao Xiaojuan's face was pale and her lips were bloodless, the old lady Ma was in a panic. She grabbed Yao Xiaojuan's shoulders and shook them desperately: "Xiaojuan, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so ugly?" Yao Xiaojuan is like a scarecrow, and her facial expression is even more like the brush strokes painted on the scarecrow's face, stiff and difficult. The old lady Ma immediately lost her mind, and turned her eyes to grandpa asking for help. Grandpa quickly walked up to Yao Xiaojuan, opened Yao Xiaojuan's eyelids with his hands, and blew into her eyes.

Soon, Yao Xiaojuan's eyes turned slowly as if being blown by her grandfather.At the end, Yao Xiaojuan asked a stupid question: "Grandma, why are you here?" The old lady Ma was surprised and happy, and almost shed tears. She was surprised that her granddaughter suddenly became like this, and happy that her grandfather made her better.Old Madam Ma's hands slipped from Yao Xiaojuan's shoulders to the back of her hands: "Why did I come? I want to ask you, what are you doing here?" Yao Xiaojuan's answer surprised both Grandpa and Mrs. Ma: "I'm here to chat with someone."