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Grandma lived in a mountain valley.The road was long and rugged.
After a bumpy journey,it was almost dark when we arrived at Grandma's house.
Although there were snacks and fruits that my father had bought in advance in the car,I was always thinking about the insects on my back and had no appetite at all.
As a result,my legs went weak as soon as I got out of the car.Grandma came out of the house leaning on a crutch:"Oh,Yueyue,what's the matter?"
My father helped me into the house.My mother was chattering with Grandma at the door and kept looking at me from time to time.Looking at this situation,I felt even more nervous.
After a while,Grandma came into the house.She still smiled and said:"Don't be afraid,Yueyue.Let Grandma take a look.Don't be afraid."
I turned my back and let Grandma lift up the clothes on my back.
The next second,Grandma's crutch fell to the ground.
"Xiu,hurry up,call Grandma Da here,go quickly."
As soon as my mother heard this,she didn't have time to ask questions and immediately ran out.
Grandma Da is Grandma's junior sister.Usually,when Grandma can't solve something herself,she will invite Grandma Da to help together.
If they had to call Grandma Da,was it really that difficult to deal with?Could it be that they couldn't get rid of it?Just thinking about this made me even more scared.
"Mr.Zhang,go and kill the old rooster we brought and get its blood."
My father went into the kitchen,picked up a kitchen knife,squatted at the door of the yard,and slashed at the chicken's neck.
Grandma didn't have time to comfort me.She leaned on her crutch and walked in front of the worshipped Bodhisattva.She lit three incense sticks,knelt down,held them high above her head,and bowed three times piously.Then she inserted the incense into the incense burner.
She took a small bowl,picked up a little incense ash with her fingertips,murmured something in her mouth,went to the door and filled the bowl with some chicken blood.She asked me to drink it.
Looking at the terrifying chicken blood mixed with gray incense ash,I really couldn't bring myself to drink it.
"Hurry up,Yueyue,drink it!"Grandma rarely spoke in a commanding tone.
Thinking of the living insects all over my back,I gritted my teeth and drank it!
I took a deep breath,pinched my nose,picked up the bowl and downed it.
The warm chicken blood made the smell of blood even stronger.Even though I held my breath,the disgusting smell of blood still kept drilling into my mouth and nose.
I finally managed to drink it,but the unpleasant smell and the nauseating taste made me really want to vomit.
Just when I was about to lose control,Grandma shouted sharply:"Don't vomit!Swallow it!"
I had to desperately hold back my stomach that was about to vomit and drank a large bowl of water to dilute that disgusting taste.
When Grandma saw that I was no longer so nauseous,she called my father to bring the basin that had just received the chicken blood and poured a lot of incense ash into it and stirred it.
At this time,Grandma Da came:"Sister,what's going on?"
Grandma moved aside,and Grandma Da saw my back and fell silent for a moment.
Grandma asked my father to go out and sit,asked me to turn my back,take off my clothes,and said that she was going to smear the blood-stained,drooping thing on my back.
I listened to them chatting while smearing my back.
"The eyes have grown already."I heard Grandma Da talking about the cocoons on my back.
"That's right."
"Could it be that kind of insect?"
"I'm afraid so."
"I wonder who is so vicious."
...
Listening to their conversation,I roughly figured out the function of these insects.
Someone had bewitched me with insects and used my body to feed these cocoons.As long as a week passed,they would eat up my entire back,and I would become an empty shell.The insects would then emerge from the cocoons,and eating these insects could cure all kinds of diseases,and could even bring a person who had just died back to life.
Exchanging life for life?
Who was it?Who wanted to use my life to save someone else's life?
"Sister,this kind of insect can only be used on people with blood relations.But Yueyue..."
People with blood relations?
Could it be my biological parents whom I had just recognized not long ago?
One day when I was walking on the road,suddenly an old couple rushed out and said that I was their biological daughter.
At first,I didn't believe it.How could someone just rush out and claim me as their daughter so casually?
But they told me about the flower-shaped birthmark on my left chest.
Because of its private location and the same shape,I took it for granted and recognized my biological parents.
When my mother heard this,she also thought of it:"Yueyue..."
"Mom,I know.It's okay."
