Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 5 Breaking
"Dilong turned over? Grandpa, what do you mean by that?"

I chewed these four words repeatedly, but couldn't understand them, so I could only ask my grandpa for help.

Grandpa took out the tobacco pipe from his waist, put the tobacco leaves on the fire, and waited for him to take a good puff before he said to me: "Hurry up, you will know soon."

The four words "dilong turn over", just as my grandfather said, I quickly understood its meaning.

That night, everything was silent, in the dead of night.

The whole mountain village suddenly changed. First, there were screams of dog barking one after another. The female cat in the house climbed the tree with the kitten in her mouth. The big rooster that was locked in the cage by the wall and the cage broke free even more, and flew to the big tree to crow late at night, and there were groups of rats scurrying in panic on the mountain road...

Then there was a posture of heaven and earth shattering, and the huge shaking forcibly woke me up from my sleep. I opened my eyes only to feel that the window was shaking violently, the bed was almost shaken to pieces, and the surrounding walls were even more crumbling. May collapse.

I was so frightened that I burst into tears. It was the first time I saw this apocalyptic scene. My heart was beating violently, and my legs were cramped. I could only lie on the bed and couldn't get up.

boom!
At the moment of desperation, the door of my room was kicked open. My dad rushed in anxiously, picked me up from the bed and ran out.

In a short while, my dad hugged me and ran outside. At this moment, the whole mountain village became extremely chaotic, with the screams of women and the crying of children.

My mother rushed over and hugged me, crying and calling my name, her face was full of tears, dripping into my mouth, salty.

I was also frightened at the time, and my mother hugged me so hard that I couldn't breathe. I struggled in her arms for a long time before she let me go. With the joy of the rest of the life.

The shaking of the earth only lasted for a while, and soon stopped, and the world returned to calm, but the entire small mountain village exploded.

Several old people knelt on the ground and kowtowed in the direction of the Snake King Temple. Their faces were full of panic, and they kept saying words of begging Snake King to forgive them. They thought it was Snake King's punishment for demolishing the temple. , That kind of method of landslides and ground cracks in a moment can only be done by the legendary gods.

I was held in my mother's arms, looking at the chaotic scene around me, I suddenly remembered what my grandfather said in the afternoon, is this the earth dragon turning over?

"Where's the old man? Zhang Xiaowei, have you seen the old man?" My father suddenly asked my mother, his face full of anxiety.

My mother was taken aback, shook her head, and said, "I didn't see it, my grandpa will be fine, right?"

It turned out that when the earthquake happened just now, my dad asked my mom to run into the yard, and he came to carry me out, but at that moment of crisis, no one paid attention to my grandpa.Now that the shock subsided, my dad found out that grandpa was not there, and he couldn't help but feel worried.

"Grandpa is there." I stretched out my hand and pointed out of the courtyard.

I saw Grandpa standing on the village road, staring blankly at the direction of the back mountain. The surrounding chaos seemed to be unable to attract his attention.

My dad followed the direction of my finger, and he was relieved to see that grandpa was fine, and then said to my mom: "Xiaowei, hold the doll and sit in the yard first, don't go into the house."

"It was supposed to be an earthquake just now. I heard people outside saying that there might be aftershocks after the earthquake. The house is too dangerous." My dad told my mom, then he pinched my face and said to grandpa go.

I saw my dad walking to my grandpa and talking loudly, and then my grandpa said a few words to my dad, my dad's face turned pale, and by the bright moonlight, I saw my dad The hands hanging on the waist were trembling slightly.

Grandpa pushed my dad aside, then strode over, took me from my mom, and asked with a smile, "My dear grandson, were you afraid just now?"

I originally wanted to say "scared". After all, I was so scared that I couldn't get up with leg cramps just now, and I almost peed in fear.But when I saw Grandpa's straight waist, I changed my mind and said, "I'm not afraid, it's not scary at all."

I remember that my grandfather often said to me when I was a child: "We Chen family members must straighten our waists and hold our heads high all our lives. Even if the road ahead is a mountain of swords and seas of fire, we must go through it without fear!"

After hearing what I said, my grandfather laughed and said, "Okay, this is my grandson, Chen Youcai!"

At this moment, my dad came over and said loudly: "Old man, you want me to bring Xuanwazi into the city, if we stay in the village, we will all be killed by you!"

It was the first time I saw my dad talking to grandpa like this. His face was flushed, and the veins on his neck were bulging, like a volcano about to erupt.

Snapped!
Grandpa slapped my dad on the face, his face became very ugly, and he scolded angrily: "You've been playing around for too long, dare to talk to your father like this, it's not your turn to take care of me!"

Both my mother and I were taken aback. Grandpa's furious appearance made me feel very scared. My mother hugged me tightly in her arms. She has a gentle personality and dared not intervene in the face of this kind of thing.

My dad covered his face, his eyes were red, he stared at grandpa, then put his fingers against my forehead, and shouted at grandpa: "Look clearly, this is your grandson, your own grandson!"

Grandpa also became emotional. He first pointed at my dad and then at me, and said, "Don't forget, your surname is Chen, and his surname is also Chen! This is fate, the fate of the Chen family!"

"Your Master Hammer (probably equivalent to the modal particle)'s life! You killed your mother and Long Wazi, what else do you want? You have to let Xuan Wazi die to be willing?" My father His eyes were about to split open, and his eyes staring at Grandpa were full of anger and sadness.

My dad may have said something that had been buried in his heart for more than ten years today, and his expression was very excited and sad.The mother who was killed in his words was my grandma, but as long as I can remember, it seems that I have never seen her, and the dragon child seems to be my elder brother Chen Zilong, the first child of my father and my mother, but I I have never seen him before, and I heard from others that he fell into the Qingyi River and drowned when he was about three or four years old, and even his bones have not been found so far.

My mother burst into tears, and her tears kept streaming down, wet most of my clothes.I was also frightened, it was the first time I saw grandpa and my dad arguing to such an extent, their appearance was too scary.

After listening to my father's words, grandpa put down his raised hand feebly, as if all his strength was taken away in an instant.His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but nothing came out in the end.

My father's expression gradually calmed down. He glanced at my mother and me, knelt down on the ground with a plop, and begged his grandfather: "Old man, I don't know what the ancestors left behind, and I don't know what you are going to do, but Xuan Wazi is my baby, your grandson, I beg you to let him go! Let him go!"

My dad knelt on the ground and kowtowed to my grandpa. My mother hugged me tightly and buried her head in tears. I was so scared that I couldn't help crying.

Grandpa's face seemed to be much older at this moment, he stared at me who was crying loudly, and finally sighed: "Xuan Wazi is my grandson, I will not harm him, nor will the ancestors harm him !"

After the grandfather finished speaking, he stepped out of the yard. His back looked lonely and desolate under the moonlight, and his waist, which was originally straight, seemed to be bent at this moment.

This night was restless and chaotic, because we were afraid of the aftershocks, we dared not go into the house to sleep. My dad rushed into the house and took out the bedding and mats from the inside, and our family made a floor bed in the yard.My mother put cotton wool on the mat, put me on it, and covered my body with a quilt.

I was frightened before, coupled with the sudden drowsiness, I soon fell into a deep sleep.I don't know how long I slept, but I was awakened by a burst of crying while I was in a daze.I opened my eyes and saw that my mother was crying softly, tears pouring down like rain, and my father was sitting next to her, with his arms around my mother's shoulders, talking in a low voice.

Immediately, I lost all sleepiness, pretended to close my eyes, quietly stretched my ears, and eavesdropped on the conversation between my father and my mother.

"Han Tao, are you really leaving? There was an earthquake just now, and I'm so scared." My mother whispered, her voice was indescribably weak.Chen Hantao is my father's name. It is said that when he was born, a man who counted the year counted for him, saying that he was short of water in his life, so his grandfather changed his name next to the two characters of water.

My dad said in a low voice, "There hasn't been any disasters in Tsingyi Village for hundreds of years. As a result, when the Snake Temple was demolished, people died and there was an earthquake. Look at the dead faces of Li Daobao and his group. , Can this be done by humans? In the past few days, people in the village have been saying that the monster under the temple has escaped and wants to kill people for revenge!"

"And you see my old man like that, the death of Li Daoba and others and this earthquake, he didn't show any surprise, it seems that everything was within his expectation, I dare say, these things , He must have known about it in advance." My dad said with a serious face.

"What secrets does your Chen family have? I haven't had a peaceful life since I married into your family." My mother said with some resentment.

My dad said: "I don't know the secret of the Chen family. Anyway, it has something to do with the Snake Temple. I heard old people say that as long as the Snake Temple is destroyed, there will be big troubles in this village! My old man is sure." He is planning something related to Xuan Wazi, and he is absolutely inseparable from the deaths of my mother and Long Wazi."

When my mother heard my father mention the dead grandma and my brother, she felt a little sad again, and leaned against my father weakly.

"When I was a helper in Chengdu, I met a Taoist priest who was very capable. I am going to find him this time, and beg him to help my son Xuan get through this catastrophe! And I also want Find out what this is!" My dad took out an object from his arms while talking.

This is a turquoise copper mask with a human face, wide mouth and big ears, protruding cylindrical eyeballs, and a phoenix bird ornament in the small hole in the middle of the forehead.

(End of this chapter)