The granny's mountain thrill

The village grandmother nearly 100 years old, although thin, but white hair flowing light, rosy face, hearing is intact, there are still a few large teeth in the mouth to stand strong, a meal of two small bowls of rice is not a problem.

　　She usually sits under the big banyan tree at the head of the village, smiling and watching the village children jumping around, at noon, a stable biological clock, she began to doze off, when any one of the villagers passed under the tree, will help her to send her back to nap.

　　An hour later, she could be seen again smilingly holding a carved horse cane, to find someone to talk. She is going to become a perfect trans-century old woman.

　　The older generation in the village say that the reason for her long and healthy life is due to a miraculous experience she had when she was young.

　　The 14th of July that year was the "Ghost Festival" in our countryside. According to local custom, married women should prepare paper clothes, coins, livestock, flowers and fruits on this day and go back to their families to pay respect to their ancestors, while the husband's family is generally not allowed to participate in these activities because the husband's family has its own ancestors to worship, so the woman has to go out early alone and come back before the sun sets.

　　The woman had already prepared beautiful paper clothes, shoes and socks and a large amount of flowery coins for her parents who died a few years ago, and was afraid that they would be cold in the underworld.

　　When I think of the old days when my parents were still alive, whenever my uncle returned to the house, my parents, no matter how busy they were, were sure to put down their work and kill chickens and geese in the courtyard with their children in a frenzy. The mother was loving and moved the stool and nattered about family matters, while the father, though serious, was always coy and embarrassed because he had stolen the goose's palm in the kitchen and was caught in flagrante delicto by his young grandson, and then smiled with golden teeth. I can't imagine that in the blink of an eye, I have become a child without a father and mother, the mother's home without parents, they also lost the first and most valuable one of life's hometown!

　　When she thought of this, she always felt sad in front of her parents' graves for a while. When the ancestral rituals were finished, it was noon when they came out of the mountains. The whole family drank some sweet wine, asked about their recent conditions and then dispersed, and it was almost evening. The old lady was afraid of the dark, so she quickly took a pair of bamboo baskets to carry the offerings and went along the small grass path to her husband's house.

　　At this time, people have finished ancestor worship, the mountains without the ancestor worship procession of people coming and going, seems unusually cold and quiet. Occasionally, there are some coins or offerings scattered along the path, which are the "money for the road" that people scatter for fear that those wild spirits who have no one to worship will come and snatch the ancestors' offerings. The grandmother walked carefully, afraid that the soles of her shoes would stick to one or two pieces of such coins and be followed home by the wild spirits.

　　I don't know if my family's "second generation" (a country nickname for naughty children) have eaten yet. ...... The grandmother thought, and turned into the wooded depression at the junction of two mountains. The sun has not yet set, but such a mild sunset has been difficult to shine into the gap between the two mountains, which are leafy and dark and narrow.

　　When the granny was about to walk out of the depression in a hurry, a shadowy call suddenly came from behind: "Wait for me ......"

　　The grandmother's footsteps a pause, subconsciously about to turn back, and suddenly remembered a taboo in the countryside: "July 14 mountain walk, do not turn back without seeing the sun." Although this may be a superstition, but at this time, the ancestral rumors or rather believe it.

　　The woman thought, about to panic to continue to rush, but behind the voice sounded again: "Little sister, wait, brother looking for you still have things to do, I also chased you for a long time to catch up."

　　The woman listened, this is clearly the voice of big brother, so it is big brother! Must be the big brother still have things to do ...... the grandmother thought, glad to turn back to ......

　　Where is the shadow of big brother? Only to see a gnarled and dry tree nearby, standing fixed a thin old woman with a disheveled face, the whole body wrapped with rotten yellow coarse linen, eyes, neck are flowing black smelly thick slurry, so barefoot standing in the puddle of water under the tree ......

　　The old woman opened her hollow, dark mouth, and did not see a tongue, but issued a hoarse voice: "This mountain is cold, with me as a companion to walk together ......" said, waving to the old woman The company is a very good company.

　　She thought, "This must be a dream, it must be a dream. ......" She closed her eyes and felt her feet keep moving forward, she was afraid and anxious, she opened her eyes and looked around. This mountain road, this mountain scenery so real ......

　　The more forward, the more the consciousness of the grandmother also blurred, along the mountain road do not know how long and far, only feel that night the moonlight is round and low, illuminating the pale road, the old woman only rambling complaints about the children and grandchildren unfilial, has not been to the grave for many years, the old wooden coffin is waterlogged, the bones rotten, can only be a cold lonely ghost ......

　　I do not know when, the front of the pale hunched figure turned back, dirty frontier hard face strange smile, sitting on the roadside weeds, patting the position beside him, let the grandmother sit down, said: "hungry, right? This year's festival is nothing to entertain, just eat two bowls of rice noodles before rushing off."

Granny's Mountain Surprise

　　She took out two large leaves, bent and folded into a small bowl, the bowl somehow filled with white noodles, brought to the grandmother ......

　　After eating the white bowl of noodles, the two walked for a long time, will pass a long and narrow ravine, feel the moon hanging over the ravine. The old man blocked the entrance with one hand and roared: "Don't go! Go back! If you go back, you won't be able to come back!"

　　The muddled granny then a shock, hot sweat, suddenly half awake, look up and around, the full moon is in the middle of the sky, the mountains are pale, since they are standing in front of a large mountain pass, no one in the field, the sound of insects occasionally, where there is the old woman and the shadow of the white-haired old man ......

　　The woman was terrified, confused, only along the pale mountain road, back to the legs will run. Only a short distance away, I felt dizzy, stomach bulging, stomach upside down, such as the cone of pain.

　　The woman covered her stomach squatting down, the mouth of the black smelly saliva like thick lines hanging down the mouth, she had to lie in the grass to take a nap, still gasping for breath, not long, the woman will faint to sleep ......

　　The husband's family saw that it was getting late, the grandmother was late to return, several children cried to mother, the family was anxious like ants on a hot pot. The husband stopped waiting and called some of the family's men to go along the mountain road with flashlights and torches to inquire at his great-uncle's house.

　　A few big men walked to the shady depression outside the village, and the husband in the front shone the light of the fire and saw the pair of small bamboo baskets scattered in the middle of the mountain road. The sturdy man picked up the basket to see, is the wife out with things, heart can not help but a shock: "Is the wife back here will be an accident?"

　　The crowd with firelight around the sweeping light, the four fields in addition to the dense forest and a dry tree, but saw nothing. The people hurriedly searched along the mountain road while deliberately making a loud noise, but they did not dare to call out the name of the grandmother in the darkness of the mountains at this time, for fear that the evil spirits in the mountains and fields remembered the name of the grandmother. Until the crowd rushed to the great-uncle's house, along the way, there is no sign of the grandmother.

　　When the family got up from sleep, they were shocked to hear that their sister was missing, so they hastily put on their clothes and called the village men to go to the mountains to look for her. The husband's side also sent a few people back to call the door of the whole village, and dozens of men from both villages, holding large torches and leading family dogs, went up the mountain in great numbers.

　　At once, the two villages between the big mountain wilderness on the sound of people boiling, the sound of dogs barking one after another. The people phi grass over the rocks, the mountains and fields, busy most of the night but also failed to find a trace of the grandmother.

　　The crowd had no choice but to expand the search, torchlight teams along the road straight into the mountains, walking through several mountains outside the mountains to find people. The next morning, the torch has long been burned out, the sun shines, the people open bloodshot eyes, mouth dry bitter, ready to call a few big man back to play some food and water up the mountain, continue to find people.

　　At this time, the sound of barking, walking in the direction of the northwest mountain pass a few big men suddenly shouted: "shoes! Here a shoe!"

　　The voice just fell, followed by a shout: "Ah! People are here!" The crowd was surprised and rushed to the mountain pass.

　　Only to see not far from the mountain pass, the grandmother huddled body, lying in the lush grass, covered with some leafy twigs, clothes covered with black and yellow mud, black saliva slowly flowing out of the mouth, bare one foot, the whole body sweat stains sticky, has been unconscious unconscious.

　　The husband's eyes were bloodshot, and without saying a word, he picked up the granny and rushed down the hill, some helped pick up the granny's shoes, some helped hold her head, some opened the road in front of her, and the group went over the hill and hurried to the village at the foot of the hill. The barefoot doctor in the village did not dare to accept such a patient, so the people had to borrow a bicycle, carrying the granny to the town health center.

　　After the health center tested the black saliva in the granny's mouth, they simply said, "Wash your stomach immediately!"

　　The doctor just put the liquid into the belly of the granny, the granny will convulsively vomit up, starting with sticky black water, and then "wow" shouted out a pile of red and white mixed worms to! The crowd was shocked, covering their noses to look closer, the tender red is constantly touching the crawling earthworms, pink and white is the maggots holding each other disturbed! The ward was suddenly a bad smell, a few small nurses wearing masks out of the door vomited up ......

　　The uncle-mother lay in the health center for a whole week before she barely recovered her spirit. As for why the uncle vomited up a bunch of earthworms and maggots, the doctor's explanation was that the uncle was suffering from nocturnal and mild delusional disorder, and it was possible to eat into some fantasy food during the attack ......

　　After recuperating at home for more than a month, the grandmother's face finally changed from yellowish white to the usual moist red. She always remembered the old woman with the unkempt hair and the old man with white hair who was yelling and blocking the road ......

　　The two couples called the village magician and picked out a day to find the watery depression under the dead tree in the small depression where the incident occurred. Digging a few feet, they dug out a decaying coffin soaked in water, and gently uncovered the lid, the body inside has long been decaying, leaving some yellowing pieces of coarse linen in the messy bones, and black mold growing on the skull ......

　　Under the guidance of the magician, the two couples found a piece of feng shui treasure, pick up all the old woman's bones re-buried, buy beautiful paper clothes, paper pants, shoes and socks, and then called the township paper folding maker to build a gray paper heater, set up numerous offerings, devoutly worship some ......

　　Strangely enough, that night, the grandmother dreamed of the old woman dressed in beautiful medieval clothes and shoes and socks, standing on a distant mountain smiling at her ...... and the serious old man with white hair standing not far away, like the old father he misses day and night ......

　　Uncle Granny woke up and was already in tears, not knowing if it was a dream or a vision from another world ......

　　After that incident, uncle grandmother sickness rarely, so that today at such an advanced age, but also white hair flowing, rosy face ......

　　Some people say that perhaps this is the yin virtue accumulated by complaining with virtue.