Chapter 6 Blind Fishing
Before Zhongshan suit came, I only thought that the old blind man in my grandfather's mouth was an ordinary Yin-Yang gentleman. As I understood the technique of Yin-Yang geometry, I felt more and more that the old blind man was definitely not an ordinary person. It was even possible that the old blind man who left a copper smoke gun for my grandfather was the half-crazy, half-demon, half-demon, half-demon, half-demon, half-demon, half-demon, blind Liu, Jiangnan, was the half-crazy, half-demon, half-demon, half-demon, half-demon.
One day, when my grandfather wiped the copper smoker he regarded as a treasure again, I asked my grandfather about this question.
Grandpa did not admit it or deny it. He lit the gun and told me in detail the story of him and the old blind man for the first time.
According to our local name, grandfather's parents should be the grandfather and grandma. The names are different from each place. There is no need to go into it. When grandfather was eight years old, grandfather had a cough disease. Grandfather was arrested when he went to the county town to get medicine for grandma. The whereabouts of the man were unknown. The pillar of the family collapsed. Grandfather was already plagued by illness. Grandfather's departure made her feel heartbroken. The condition turned sharply. Before her death, she adopted my grandfather to a brother from her family. Grandfather called that person Master Qi uncle. Grandfather was an old bachelor and wanted to raise grandfather to inherit the incense.
At first, he treated his grandfather as his own child, but two years later, the seventh uncle picked up a foolish wife from another place. Although he was over 100 years old, he was still strong. Two years later, the fool actually gave birth to a fat boy for the seventh uncle. With his own son, the son he picked up was naturally a mess. Grandpa was young at that time and had no energy to work. He was just a money-losing person who opened his mouth to ask for food. Uncle Seven drove his grandfather out of the house in anger. Grandpa was also tough and survived as a beggar in a few villages in Fangyuan.
Ten years have passed in a flash. Ten years later, a three-year drought occurred in Shilipu. The dealer had no grains. In addition, there were wars outside at that time. Most of the people in the village starved to death. The young and strong went out to escape. The old and young were waiting to die in the village. Grandpa had been begging for a living since he was a child, and he had no strength to escape, so he could only stay in Shilipu to die. On this day, an old blind man came to the village. The old blind man looked like a beggar. He was carrying something wrapped in black cloth behind the old blind man. The thing looked quite big, almost the same length as the old blind man. At that time, grandpa finally put some bark and was biting it. It was also very pitiful to see the old blind man. He handed it half of the old blind man out of kindness. The old blind man put it under his nose and sniffed it as if he was very disgusted and returned the bark to his grandfather.
"You old man really doesn't know at least. Shilipu has been drought for three years. I snatched this bark from a group of people. You don't want me to give it to me. When you enter the village, you may not even have half a piece of bark." Grandpa said, grabbing the bark.
"Is there any manager in your village?" asked the old blind man.
"It's gone, I've already gone to run for my life. Now all those who stay here can't escape." Grandpa said.
The old blind man calculated in the direction of the village and said, "Is there an ancient well at the east end of the village?"
"It really is. The well was left by our ancestors. The villagers said that the well had never been done before. It had been a severe drought for three years. In the past two years, it was all driven by that well. As a result, the drought in the third year was too harsh. The well had dried up. When everyone saw it, they lost their hopes and ran away." Grandpa said.
"Take me to that well to take a look." said the old blind man.
"I won't go. I'll chew on this bark. If I don't move, I can hold on for a long time. If I walk to the east end of the village, I will be so hungry that I'll be dizzy." Grandpa lies to the ground and said.
The old blind man took out a piece of steamed bun from his pocket and handed it to his grandfather and said, "If you take me there, this steamed bun will be yours. Isn't it hungry than the half of the bark you eat?"
When my grandfather saw this bunch of steamed buns, his eyes were straightened, and he immediately took the old blind man to the ancient well at the east end of the village. After he arrived there, the old blind man kept his promise and gave the bunch of steamed buns to his grandfather. His grandfather grew up eating a hundred families and his observing expressions were naturally no problem. He suddenly felt the extraordinaryness of this bunch of old blind man. Although this bunch of clothes was worn like an old beggar, he could do it one by one.
Grandpa asked the old blind man and said, "Are you a gentleman? In the early years, the villagers invited many mages who prayed for rain to come back. Those mages looked much better than you, but they suffered a lot of money. The rain just didn't come down. The mages said that the people in the village offended the Dragon Prince and would suffer from eight years of drought. I advise you not to work hard."
"I'm not a mage, so there's no blindness. Young man, I'm just staying here for one night tonight. Go and find a place to lie down. Try to speak as little as possible, and it takes too much effort to speak." The old blind man said.
Grandpa agreed to leave on the surface, but hid in the distance and looked at the old blind man. He intuition told him that this old blind man was definitely not simple. The old blind man put the thing behind his back on the ground, touched and broke a dead tree. After returning, he tied a red silk rope to the tip of the branch, and a large fish hook tied to the other end of the red silk rope.
When my grandfather was so hungry that he could not catch fish in the river. When he saw that the old blind man was fishing, he wondered if there was something wrong with the old blind man’s head?
There was no drop of water in the village. Where can I fish for the whole fishing guy? He simply closed his eyes and calmed down. When his grandfather woke up in the middle of the night, he wanted to get up and find dew to drink. He subconsciously looked at the direction of the old blind man.
But I saw the old blind man holding the dead branch in his forehand, and the hook connected to the red silk rope placed in the ancient well. It looked like he was fishing in the ancient well.
"I have a problem. The well is dry and I'm still fishing inside!" Grandpa got up and said to himself. After saying that, he went to look for dew. After walking around, the old blind man was still fishing in the same position.
Grandpa couldn't sleep either side or side, so he stared at the direction of the old blind man with the moonlight, all thinking that he was doing stupid things. Just when Grandpa was confused, suddenly a big bent bow came from the branch that the old blind man was holding, as if something really was biting the hook in the well!
This scared my grandfather to wake up. My grandfather stared at the old blind man holding the branch and swung it. With this swing, my grandfather saw that there was a big snake hooking on the hook! The big snake was seven or eight feet long, and the fish hook just hooked the big snake's mouth. Such a big snake was thrown to the ground by the old blind man.
The big snake was extremely huge. It circled and pulled the red silk off on the ground. The fish hook was hooked on the snake's mouth. The big snake raised its head and was much taller than the old blind man. It spitted out its long core and stared at the old blind man. Grandpa couldn't help but sweat for the old blind man, but the old blind man was not afraid at all. After staring at the old blind man for a while, the big snake did not attack the old blind man, but turned its head and crawled into the weeds and disappeared.
As the saying goes, "I don't get a 70% offense when I see a snake. When my grandfather saw the big snake running away, he felt wronged for the old blind man. He subconsciously shouted: "It ran away, go chase me!"
The old blind man heard his grandfather's voice and waved to his grandfather, "It's you, young man. Since you see it, come over."
Grandpa saw the old blind man's method and quickly walked to the old blind man and said, "You are so amazing, you have lived in this village for ten years, and I have never heard of such a big snake in this well!"
The old blind man smiled and said to his grandfather, "You go to the well to take a look."
Grandpa walked to the well and saw the scene in the well, he could hardly believe his eyes. In this dry well, there was a clear spring! Grandpa lay in the well and drank it. After drinking it, he turned around and said to the old blind man: "Old god, I offended so much today, so I shouldn't have taken your steamed buns! But I really had nothing to return to you!"
"No, you can give me half of the life-saving bark. What's the bun that I gave you? And the young man, this is not a snake, this is called the moon-watching eel. Every time the full moon is full, it will poke its head out to look at the moon, hence the name, an ordinary eel has a round head. The head of this eel is triangular, and there are two bulges on its forehead, which are like snakes and eels. Ordinary eels can eat it, but the moon-watching eels cannot be eaten. It is also called the bone-transforming dragon. If a person eats it, it will turn into a pool of pus, blocking the springs of the well water, which will cause the ancient well to dry up. Now that the moon-watching eel has been fished out by me, this ancient well will return to its former vitality, and the local people will not die of thirst." The old blind man said.
"But even if there is water in the well, the rain has not fallen in the past three years. Although there is water in the well, it cannot be planted in the field. Relying on the well water to irrigate the crops is a drop in the bucket. Since the old man is a god descending to the earth, why not pray for rain to the local people?" Grandpa said.
"I have my own plans for this. I am blind now. Although I can catch this moon-watching eel, although it dares not attack me, I can't do anything about it. After I leave, the moon-watching eel will definitely return to the ancient well. At that time, life will still be in trouble. In this way, boy, come here, tomorrow, you will follow my words." The old blind man called his grandfather to his side and whispered.
The next day, the people in the village found water in the ancient well, and they knelt down and called for their ancestors to appear. Grandpa wanted to tell them that this matter had nothing to do with their ancestors. He should thank the old blind man. However, the old blind man had told him that this matter had not been known to outsiders, so he gave up. The day passed quickly. At midnight, Grandpa found a bowl as the old blind man ordered, and filled it with half a bowl of water from the ancient well. Then he held the bowl in his hand and walked towards the direction of the moon-looking eel that looked at last night. Walk steadily, and the water in the bowl must not be sprinkled out.
Grandpa whispered softly as he walked: Sunrise is a little red in the east, and half a bowl of water turns into a dragon.
Grandpa was walking like this, and I don’t know how long it took to walk, but suddenly he saw two big yellow lanterns hanging on the tree in front of him. The big lantern seemed to feel the arrival of his grandfather. He rushed towards his grandfather in the air, and a fishy smell came over. The next moment, a big snake was already standing in front of his grandfather with his head held high. The two big yellow lanterns were the two eye beads of the big snake. The big snake still had the fish hook of last night in the mouth of the big snake. There was still half a red tassel rope tied to the hook handle. The big snake stood in front of his grandfather, and the two huge eye beads staring at Grandpa.
The old blind man told me that my grandfather was walking along with half a bowl of water and he would not be afraid of a big snake when he met it. Even if a big snake stood in front of my grandfather, the scarlet snake core was only one step away from my grandfather, and my grandfather was still scared and trembling all over.
According to the old blind man, if the big snake blocks the road, if the grandfather turns around and runs, he will definitely die. However, if the grandfather does not run away, he will look at the big snake, and the big snake will not hurt the grandfather. So although the grandfather is afraid at this time, he can only grit his teeth and persevere. He raised his head and endured his fear to look at the big snake.
After a while, the big snake looked at her grandfather and suddenly spoke and asked, "Do you think I look like a human or a god?"
Chapter completed!