I sat by the kang and watched.

The old cloth had some oil stains, and the inner and outer three layers were wrapped several layers, which was a bit difficult to untie.

Unlocked layer by layer, I saw that there were a few silver dollars in the bottom, a small pile of green embroidered copper coins, and a red old handkerchief.

The silver dollar is all Yuan Datou, with average quality and pokes. It is both three and nine years, but there are several pieces, which is good.

I said, grandma, this is all passed down from your family?

She nodded and said yes, her granddaughter had no tuition fees to go to school before, so she had looked for antiques and gave her 80 yuan each.

"I didn't sell it, I stayed it. I planned to sell it in two days and still owed the hospital money."

I told her, grandma, don't sell less. These are at least 380 yuan per piece. This one has a nine-year-old version, at least 700 yuan. This one has a big ear version. Although it is injured,

It can also be worth a thousand dollars.

The old woman stopped her movements and said, "Young man, you still understand these things."

I don't like these things. I think it's meaningless. It's better to rob the tomb. Any bronze ware and ancient jade are only tens of thousands of yuan. This is why I followed me and my eyes are higher after a long time. We basically don't

Stealing the tomb of the Qing Dynasty.

If the Yuan Datou of the Tardy Woman is still available, the ordinary one can be sold for about 1,300 yuan, and the fine-haired version is about 3,500 yuan. The Yuan Datou, which has made the big ear version in three years, can be sold for at least 20,000 yuan, and you can sell it casually.

I asked again: "Grandma, why are your copper coins so colorful? Green embroidery is so serious, it shouldn't be."

The key is that her dozen copper coins are all similar to Daoguang Tongbao small flat coins, because generally speaking, this kind of Daoguang small coins that have been passed down from generation to generation are black lacquer and ancient patina. How can there be such a green embroidery form? Unless it is

Digged out of the soil.

The dentist said: "These copper coins were all used to fry beans."

"Fried beans?" I asked what it meant, I haven't heard of it.

She said that she threw the copper coins and lentils into water and cooked them. She said that eating the beans cooked in this way is good for people's health, and after cooking them a few times, they will become rusted like this.

"Can these be sold for money?"

I said it was a big deal, maybe one could be sold for 50 cents.

"It's okay, I don't expect to sell these to pay off the debt. I think you are interested, mainly to let you see what the ghost snake looks like."

After saying that, she opened the red handkerchief in front of me.

"What is this? This is a silk painting?"

I was stunned for a moment.

She drew a brush stroke on the old red cloth.

The ink was already a little oxidized through the red cloth. A few strokes were drawn on the red cloth, and a very thin black snake was drawn next to the grass.

The black snake looked very strange, without a nose, mouth, eyes, and a copper coin sword chopped off the snake's head. Judging from the painting, the head and body of the strange snake were separated from the middle.

After a closer look, you can vaguely see that the copper coin sword that cut off the snake's head was all woven with Daoguang Tongbao.

In short, the old cloth paintings are just a beginning and end, and I have no idea what it means to draw.

Seeing me stunned, the toothy expression was extremely solemn, she said, "Young man, this is a ghost snake."

"I still vaguely remember that when I was a child, I saw a second-generation temple girl under a big tree at the entrance of the village. The mother-in-law told me that the ghost snake first lived in those stone people, and at night, they would get from the stone people.

When you crawl out, there is black gas on the snake's head. If someone happens to pass by, you will crawl into the legs of the people."

I asked what would happen if I got in?

The tooth woman said with a serious expression: "The ghost snake is a ghost snake. The previous generation of the tooth woman said that if it penetrates into a person, regardless of gender, it will become sexually lustful and greedy. If it takes a long time... it will not be a human.

Now.”

I frowned and asked, "Where did you come from this cloth painting, grandma? I drew it myself."

If what I thought was she drew it herself, it would be a fabricated product. This strange snake was imagined out of thin air and did not exist in reality.

Unexpectedly, the old dentist immediately shook his head and said, "This is not what I drew. It was the first generation of dentist who passed it to the second generation. Then I gave it to me when I was a child. I have guessed before that it might be given to the Taoist apprentice.

A generation of dentist.”

"Master of Taoism?"

I subconsciously blurted out: "Is it Chen Meiqing, a Taoist priest in Lushan School?"

"You...how did you know the Taoist priest's name?" He was very surprised to see the dentist's expression.

There is no need to hide this from her, I just said that it was told by Grandma Xiao Tang.

"Li Yuyi...she asked you to see the dark cloth?"

"The one who looks at the shade?"

She frowned and said yes, and then told: "After the completion of the Ghost Baby Temple, as the temple-watching girl chosen by Master Chen, we each have a piece of this kind of cloth, which is kept by ourselves. Only that yellow talisman will be circulated."

"What kind of yellow talisman looks like?" I asked.

When she heard me ask about this, she looked a little dodged and said that she had accidentally damaged the talisman paper and was gone.

I knew that the talisman was sewn in her granddaughter's clothes. It is said that wearing this talisman can become a dragon and a phoenix among people. I would be more bold and guessed that maybe I would be sewn in Xiao Tang's shorts now.

"So...every generation of temple girls have a canvas, what is it?"

The dentist shook his head and said, "I didn't know very well about the past few generations. They should have been brought to the grave after they died. Li Yuzhi's one is Guan Luoyin, mine is a ghost snake, and there is also a few doors that should be painted. Go forward.

…I don’t know.”

"Young man, I can see that you are kind in your heart and are a good person."

"You go quickly and leave our village, the farther you want."

"I was beaten and the high sacrifice was not completed. The statue of the god in the Ghost Temple fell into the water. From then on, I knew that the Ghost Snake must have come out..."

"Let's go..."

"Go away quickly... run farther..."

When I said this, I could see that there was a hint of tenacity in the old woman's eyes, and more so it was fear.

In the Xiangxi area of ​​Hunan, there have been many insects and snakes since ancient times. Some experts have asserted that there are still many snakes, insects, rats and ants that have not been found in the vast 100,000 mountains. Is the tooth woman talking nonsense because of her granddaughter's death? Isn't this?

Dare to draw conclusions easily.

After gently bringing it to the door, I left the dentist's house with my bag.

A few steps away from the village, I suddenly thought of something and went back secretly.

I have a good memory and haven't walked the main road in the village. With my memory, I carried my bag and found the female doctor's house from the small road behind someone else's house.

The clinic was open at her house, in broad daylight, and when I got there, I found that the door was closed.

This is a bit abnormal. If anyone buys medicine and gets injections, they must not open the door.

I stole the door and looked inside. There was no one in the yard, locked the door.

I looked up and saw that the wall should be able to be over. Brother Yu taught me that when I jumped over the wall, I should jump sideways, and land on my toes first, and then land on my heels so that there will be no sound.

.

I carried the bag behind me, pulled the wall and turned it into the yard.

I walked forward with my hands and feet. Before I could get close to the door, I suddenly heard a vague crying in the room and a woman's crying.

The cry sounds strange, intermittent, sometimes high and sometimes low, just like something... It's a bit like the one played in a TV series. When a woman gives birth, she holds the quilt with her hands, and it hurts.

In addition to crying, there is also the sound of the music box.

My heart skipped a beat and I thought to myself what's wrong... Could it be that I was hiding from a house alone to give birth to a baby?

Although it was daytime, her house was built with a brick house on her back, without shining on the sun, and the yard was even a little cold.

Standing still, listening carefully, the crying was still intermittent.

Three points of fear, two points of curiosity, I want to see what I am doing.

Near the window.

I leaned sideways and wanted to look into the room through the crack of the window, but I was blocked by the curtains that were pulled up and I could not see anything.

After picking up a thin branch, I reached into the crack in the window and slowly used the branches to open a corner of the curtain.

The lights were not turned on in the room, and it was a little dark.

The female doctor was scattering her hair, wearing pajamas and leaning half on the bed. There was a music notebook on her bedside table. I played with this kind of music notebook when I was a child. After opening the notebook, there would be a small light inside. Some blessing words could be written on the card.

, and can sing. I bought it when I was in junior high school. Like celebrity letter paper, I used it to pursue female classmates.

Open the curtains and look inside secretly.

I saw the female doctor leaning on the bed, there was no light in the room, and her head was very low.

The music notebook placed on the bedside table was opened, singing music drippingly, and the little red light flashed.

The female doctor's bedding was raised high, and her legs were spread apart, and she pushed the bedding up.

I saw the bedding, moving back and forth, and she lowered her head and cried intermittently.

soon.

She screamed, her hands stopped moving, her feet slowly flattened, as if she was limp all over.

I was full of doubts and thought to myself what I was doing?

After waiting for a few minutes, I saw her pulling the bedside table, taking out a roll of toilet paper and tearing it a long one, and wiped it with her back to me for a long time.

Then, the female doctor got out of bed barefoot and took a glass of water, unscrewed the bottle, and took a lot of medicine.

After taking the medicine, she sat cross-legged on the bed in her pajamas, holding her cell phone in her hand and started dialing.

The phone was connected, and I couldn't hear what the other party said.

It just looks like her face is very red, very red.

At the same time, the voice was urgent: "Come quickly... hurry up."
Chapter completed!