The old cloth had some oil stains and was wrapped with three layers inside and three outside. It was a bit difficult to untie it.
Unwrapping it layer by layer, I saw that there were a few silver coins wrapped inside, a small pile of green embroidered copper coins, and an old red handkerchief.
The silver coins are all Yuan Datou. They are in average condition and have scratches. They are three and nine years old, but several of them have editions, which is good.
I said grandma, this is all passed down from your family?
She nodded and said yes. In the past, her granddaughter went to school without tuition. She looked for antique collectors and paid 80 yuan each.
"I didn't sell it. I kept it. I plan to sell it in two days. I still owe the hospital money."
I told her, grandma, don’t sell it for less. These coins are at least 380 each. The nine-year-old one is the fine-haired version, which is at least 700. The one with puncture wounds is the big-ear version. Although it is damaged, it is still intact.
It can also be worth a thousand dollars.
The old lady stopped what she was doing and said, young man, you still know this.
I don't like these things. I don't think they are interesting at all. It's better to rob tombs. A piece of bronze or ancient jade can cost tens of thousands of yuan. This is because I have followed it for a long time and my horizons have broadened. We basically don't
Robbery of Qing Dynasty tombs.
If Yapo's Yuan Datou is still here, the ordinary one can be sold for about 1,300 yuan, the fine-haired version is about 3,500, and the big-eared Yuan Datou version made in three years can be sold for at least 20,000 yuan. You can sell it casually.
I asked again: "Grandma, why are your copper coins so dirty? The green embroidery is so serious, it shouldn't be."
The key point is that her dozen copper coins are all identical Daoguang Tongbao coins, because generally speaking, these Daoguang coins handed down from ancient times are made of black ancient paste. How can green embroidery be produced like this, unless it is
Digged from the soil.
Ya Po said: "These copper coins were all used by me to fry beans."
"Fried beans?" I asked what it meant, but I had never heard of it.
She said that she just threw the copper coins and lentils into the water and boiled them together. She said that eating the lentils cooked in this way was good for people's health, but after cooking them several times, they became rusty like this.
"Can these still be sold for money, young man?"
I said it's terrible, maybe they can be sold for 50 cents each.
"It's okay. I don't expect to sell these to pay off the debt. I think you are interested. The main reason is to show you what the ghost snake looks like."
After speaking, she opened the red handkerchief in front of me.
"What is this? Is this a silk painting?"
I was stunned for a moment.
On this piece of old red cloth, she drew a calligraphy painting.
The ink passed through the red cloth and was already somewhat oxidized. A few grasses were drawn on the red cloth with a few strokes, and a very thin black snake was drawn next to the grass.
This black snake looks very strange. It has no nose, mouth and eyes. The snake's head was chopped off with a copper coin sword. From the painting, it can be seen that the head and body of this strange snake are separated in the middle.
If you look closely, you can vaguely see that the copper coin sword used to chop off the snake's head is all made of Daoguang Tongbao.
In short, this old canvas painting has no beginning or end, and I have no idea what it means.
Seeing me in a daze, Yapo's expression was extremely solemn, and she said: "Young man, this is the ghost cub snake."
"I still vaguely remember that when I was a child, I met the second-generation temple maid under the big tree at the entrance of the village. The mother-in-law told me that the ghost snakes first lived in those stone men. At night, they would come out of the stone men.
When it climbs out, there will be black air on the snake's head. If someone happens to pass by at this time, it will crawl in along the person's trouser leg."
I asked what would happen if it got in?
Ya Po said with a solemn face: "A ghost snake is a ghost snake. The Ya Po of the previous generation said that if it burrows into a human being, regardless of male or female, it will become sexually promiscuous and greedy. If it goes on for a long time... then it is not a human being.
Already."
I frowned and asked, "Grandma, where did you get this piece of cloth painting from? You painted it yourself."
I think if she drew it herself, it would be a work of fiction. This strange snake was just a figment of her own imagination and does not exist in reality.
Unexpectedly, Lao Yapo immediately shook his head and said: "I didn't draw this. It was passed on to the second generation by the first generation of Yapo, and then it was given to me when I was young. I had also guessed before that it might have been given to me by the Taoist disciple.
A generation of Yapo."
"Taoist Priest?"
I subconsciously blurted out: "Is it Chen Meiqing, a Taoist priest from the Lushan sect?"
"You...how do you know the Taoist priest's name?" Ya Po looked very surprised.
There is no need to hide this from her, I just said that Grandma Xiao Tang told me.
"Li Yushi...did she let you see the piece of Yinluo cloth?"
"Luoyin cloth, the one who watches Luoyin?"
She frowned and said yes, and then told: "After the Guizai Temple was built, as the temple maid chosen by Taoist Master Chen, each of us temple maids had a piece of this cloth, which is kept for ourselves. Only the yellow talisman will be circulated."
"What kind of yellow charm?" I asked.
When I asked about this, her eyes were a little dodgey, and she said that she had accidentally damaged the talisman and it was no longer there.
I know that the talisman was sewn into her granddaughter's clothes. It is said that if you wear this talisman, you can become a dragon or a phoenix among men. I am bold enough to guess that maybe it is sewn into Xiao Tang's pants now.
"So...each generation of you see temple girls have a canvas, what are they?"
Yapo shook his head and said: "The previous generations were not very clear. They should have been taken to the grave after death. Li Yuji's is Guanluoyin, mine is Ghost Cub Snake, and there are also a few doors that should be painted. Going forward
....I don’t know.”
"Young man, I can see that you are kind in your heart and you are a good person."
"You should go quickly and leave our village as far away as possible."
"I was injured, causing the big sacrifice to not be completed, and the statue of the Gui Zai Temple fell into the water. From that moment on, I knew that the Gui Zai Snake must have come out..."
"Let's go..."
"Let's go...run farther..."
When she said this, she could see a hint of tenacity in Lao Ya's eyes, but more importantly, fear.
The area in western Hunan, Hunan, has been full of insects and snakes since ancient times. Some experts have asserted that there are still many undiscovered snakes, insects, rats, and ants in the vast mountains. Is Yapo talking nonsense because of the death of her granddaughter? I don’t know.
Dare to jump to conclusions easily.
I gently closed the door and left my grandmother's house with my bag.
Just a few steps away from the village, I suddenly thought of something and secretly returned.
I have a very good memory, so I did not take the main road in the village. Relying on my memory, I took my bag and found the female doctor's house from the small road behind other people's houses.
The clinic was open at her home in broad daylight. When I got there, I found the door closed.
This is a bit abnormal. If anyone buys medicine and injections, shouldn't they keep the door open?
I stole through the gate and looked in. No one was in the courtyard, and the door was locked.
I looked up and saw that this wall should be able to be climbed over. Brother Yu taught me. She said that when jumping over the wall, you should jump sideways and land on your toes first, then on your heels, so that there will be no sound.
.
I put my bag on my back and climbed over the wall into the yard.
I walked forward lightly, but before I got close to the door, I suddenly heard a faint sound of crying in the room, a woman's cry.
The crying sound was very strange, intermittent, high and low, like something... It was a bit like the crying sound in TV dramas where a woman clutches the quilt with both hands when she gives birth to a baby.
In addition to crying, there was also the sound of a music box.
My heart skipped a beat and I wondered what was going on... Could it be that a person was giving birth to a baby in hiding?
Although it was daytime, her house was a brick house built against a mountain and did not receive sunlight, so it was even a little cool in the courtyard.
Stand still and listen carefully, you will find that the crying is still intermittent.
I'm 30% scared and 20% curious. I want to see what I'm doing.
Close to the window.
I turned sideways and tried to look into the room through the crack in the window, but it was blocked by the drawn curtains and I couldn't see anything.
I picked up a thin branch, stretched it through the crack of the window, and slowly used the branch to open a corner of the curtain.
There were no lights on in the room, so it was a little dark.
The female doctor has disheveled hair and is half leaning on the bed in pajamas. There is a music notebook on her bedside table. I used to play with this kind of music notebook when I was a child. When you open the notebook, small lights will light up inside, and you can write some blessing words on the card.
, and can also sing. When I was in junior high school, I saw someone buying it. Like celebrity stationery, it was used to chase female classmates.
Open the curtains and peek inside secretly.
I saw the female doctor leaning on the bed, there was no light in the room, and her head was bowed very low.
The music notebook placed on the bedside table was opened, the music was singing, and the little red light was flashing.
The female doctor's quilt was bulging high. She must have spread her legs and pushed up the quilt.
I looked at the quilt, which was moving up and down. She lowered her head and kept crying in a low voice.
soon.
She screamed, her hands stopped moving, her feet slowly flattened, and her whole body seemed to be limp.
I was full of doubts, wondering what was going on?
After waiting for a few minutes, I saw her. She opened the bedside table, took out a roll of toilet paper, tore a long strip, and wiped it for a long time with her back to me.
Afterwards, the female doctor got up with her bare feet, took a glass of water, unscrewed the medicine bottle, and took a lot of medicine.
After taking the medicine, she sat cross-legged on the bed in her pajamas, holding her mobile phone in her hand and started dialing.
The call was connected, but I couldn't hear what the other party said.
I just saw that her face was very red, very red.
At the same time, the voice said urgently: "Come quickly... hurry up."