Fortunately I was awake at the time, fortunately I was not asleep at the time, fortunately I was not carried away by the flock of more than 200 sheep at that time, otherwise, I might not have been simply brushed away by the "old ghost", maybe I would have seen him again...... Watch him crawl towards me step by step from the fire...... Listen to him crawl and say to me, "I'm coming...... I'm leaving"......

Even, it is possible, it is very likely, that you will see the true face of the old ghost who has been dead for a long time!

Thankfully not!

That's a blessing!

However, when I think about it again, I am still a little scared, and I still have a chill down my spine!

That's what I really felt when I was sober!

Okay, okay, let's not mention that, it's over after all.

I made full use of the "enduring "uh-huh, uh-oh, uh-huh" and many other onomatopoeia in some of the film's plots, and finally fooled my mother's questioning. said it was a fool, but in fact, it was just that the mother was unwilling to delve into it.

Later, grandma, grandpa and mother lost the interest in sleeping and talked for a long, long time.

And I, at last, fell asleep during their boring conversation.

The next morning.

The big rooster began to crow early, it is said that it has been crowing for a long, long time, but it did not affect my mental state completely relaxed, until I heard the chat between Dr. Liao Tan and my grandmother in the yard in a daze that I slowly opened my eyes.

"Auntie, you are in good spirits!" Dr. Liao Tan said.

"Your uncle told me, but this time it's thanks to you!" Grandma thanked excitedly, "Let's eat at home at noon today, Auntie will cook you a few good dishes, and you and your uncle will have some wine together." ”

"Thank you Auntie for your kindness. Forget it this time!" Dr. Liao Tan habitually lifted his glasses and said: "The ancients had a saying: 'The father does not keep a beard, the mother does not celebrate the birthday, the son does not train before eating, and the wife does not train before going to bed, the master and apprentice do not sit, and the uncle and nephew do not drink. 'We can't break the rules, and since you're okay, I'm relieved. ”

Grandma saw that Dr. Liao Tan said a lot of truths, although she only understood the words "Uncle and nephew are not drinking", but due to the limitation of cultural level, she didn't know which four or six sentences to use to catch Dr. Liao Tan's "ancient poems", so she said with some embarrassment: "Since you are so insistent, Auntie will not keep you, this is not to prepare some eggs for you, don't be too little." ”

This time, Dr. Liao Tan did not shirk again, and happily took the egg, "Thank you, Auntie, then I'm welcome!"

"Yes, yes, you're welcome, what's polite with Auntie!" Grandma replied with a smile.

"Then I'll go! I'll see you another day!" After saying that, Dr. Liao Tan left his grandmother's house.

At that time, eggs were the "hard currency" of the village, which could be exchanged for any daily necessities you wanted in the village, such as cigarettes, alcohol, soy sauce, vinegar, salt, rice, noodles, oil, ...... Only unexpected, not unchanging.

When there is no vinegar at home, adults will say to the children in the family: "Sanwa, take an egg to the supply and marketing cooperatives for a pound of vinegar!"

"Hey!" Sanwa was very happy when she heard it, and went to the rice bowl to get two eggs, and of course the adults couldn't find out if there were one or two eggs missing......

Why did the eggs come from the rice jar? First, it could prevent them from breaking if they were placed elsewhere, and second, there was no refrigerator at that time, so it was easier to keep them fresh in the rice bowl.

This is one of the most traditional ways to preserve eggs among older generations, and young people nowadays know very little. Moreover, most people now live in buildings, and of course there are no more furniture for storing grain, such as rice jars and flour jars.

Therefore, the eggs that Grandma gave to Dr. Liao Tan naturally became the consultation fee for this "treatment".

I even suspected that Dr. Liao Tam had come to visit him but was actually asking for payment. However, "spending money on medical treatment" is always a matter of course, and there is little point in delving into it here.

When everyone thought that this matter was over, but that same night, an uninvited guest arrived.

That night, my grandmother's neighbor, a grandmother next door, suddenly came to my grandmother's house.

Because she is my grandmother's peer and my mother's third aunt, I call her grandma, but my grandmother habitually calls her "third aunt".

Many of their old sisters are often together, and they rely on playing cards to pass the time except for farming, so they are naturally very familiar, so the third aunt is not seen, and after entering the door, she walked directly to the inner room, took off her shoes naturally, and sat cross-legged on the kang.

At this time, the grandfather was sitting in the middle of the kang, chatting with the mother without a word, and when he saw the third aunt coming to the house, he looked up at the time of the wall clock - 8:45 in the evening (it is very common for people in the village to go to bed at 9 o'clock), although he was a little puzzled in his heart, thinking: "It's so late, it's almost sleeping, why is the third aunt still coming to the house?"

But because of the face of the villagers, he never said it, so he had to say hello according to the custom: "Yo, her third aunt is here!"

At this time, my grandmother also walked in from outside the door, and when she saw her old sister coming so late, she thought that something must be wrong, so she asked straight to the point: "It's so late, what's the matter with her third aunt?"

I don't know if it's intentional or coincidental, this question, broken, completely broke the peace of the home!

"Ahem, cough, cough, ......"

The third aunt suddenly began to cough non-stop, unstoppable coughing, just like the kind of breathless cough of an asthma patient, grandma hurriedly brought a bowl of water, handed it to the third aunt, and said, "Her third aunt, hurry, drink some water!"

Maybe it was because the cough was too severe just now and her throat was hoarse, the third aunt took the water and tasted it, and suddenly said in an extremely hoarse voice and tone like a "man": "No sugar?"

"Oh, yes, yes, just no sugar. Grandma was stunned for a moment, very puzzled, and said in her heart: "Isn't her third aunt diabetic and can't eat sugar? Why do you want to drink sugar water this time?" But the person who came was a guest, and the relationship between the old sisters was also very harmonious on weekdays, so what if she drank some sugar water? So Grandma hurriedly found the white sugar and put some in the bowl of the third aunt.

The third aunt was not polite, she raised her head and drank a few sips of "goo, goo, goo", wiped her mouth with her sleeve with satisfaction, and said very boldly in her broken gong voice: "Another bowl!"

I said to myself: "Are the people in the village so invisible? I didn't say anything when I came to the house at night, and sat down cross-legged to drink water first, and I didn't like to put sugar? What kind of rule is this?" I thought so in my heart, but I couldn't question it, after all, she was an elder, and as a junior, I just obediently watched from the sidelines, and more things were better than less things.

The third aunt drank three bowls of sugar water in a row before patting her stomach with satisfaction, and said, "I haven't drunk sugar water for a long time, it's so delicious!"

"Drink more!" Grandpa didn't know much about the third aunt, but said that she was a good sister of grandma, and then said.

After drinking the hot water, it can be clearly seen that the third aunt is sweating a lot, plus she is sitting on the kang, so it must be very hot.

Thinking that the third aunt had a more obvious feeling than us, I saw the third aunt keep pulling down the collar, and at the same time muttered: "It's so hot! Why do you feel so hot?"

A few pulls didn't seem to have any effect, so the third aunt didn't care whether it was her own home or not, and no matter where she was, she didn't care about it, and began to take off her shirt one by one without hesitation.

At first, my grandmother didn't think anything, and thought: "Take it off, but it's winter, and I'm wearing a lot of clothes inside!"

I never thought that the third aunt really didn't treat herself as an outsider!

It wasn't until I took off my upper body that I was left with only a large, "dirty" vest that I hadn't washed in months.

At this time, the image of the third aunt is really unbearable, except for the big broken vest that can slightly cover some secrets, it is a little similar to the dress of the pot-bellied Maitreya Buddha, the trace of "spring light" on the chest, the forehead is ...... In fact, it is the "spring light" that is about to wither after 40 years, looming.

When the third aunt was about to take off the last vest, the grandmother hurriedly grabbed her, forcibly held back the anger that was about to erupt, and after glaring at the grandfather who was staring at him fiercely, she coughed vigorously a few times and said, "Her third aunt, it's almost enough, even if it's hot, you have to keep a piece of clothing on your body, right?"

"Oh, yes, now I'm a woman......" The third aunt muttered, but the voice was not loud, and grandpa really didn't hear what she said.

I heard it, but I didn't understand what it meant!

There are even some evil thoughts in my heart: "I'm a woman, I haven't counted yet!"

Although she persuaded the third aunt, the doubts in her heart were getting deeper and deeper, and she thought to herself: "Doesn't the third aunt hate those people who chat and talk dirty on weekdays, why did she say it herself this time?"

"Moreover, it is too ...... to come to my house and undress without any scruples It's a bit incredible! It's completely different from the third aunt's style!"

"Strange, weird!"

So Grandma then asked, "Her third aunt, are you feeling a little uncomfortable?" Do you need me to call your second boy over and take you back to Xiao Liao to have a look?"

"How old is Xiao Liao, it's all his bad idea, and it hurts me to ......" The third aunt replied without a beginning and an end, obviously not finished, and then continued to cough for a long time, grandma was afraid that something would happen to the third aunt, so she poured a bowl of sugar water for the third aunt and put it on the side.

After coughing for about five or six minutes, the cough was finally over, the third aunt picked up the bowl next to her, took a big sip of sugar water, and asked grandpa, "Is there any smoke?"

"Huh, smoke?" This time it was grandpa's turn to wonder, he already had the habit of smoking, and there were many old ladies around him who smoked, and they would smoke each other occasionally when they met, but in his impression, this third aunt had never smoked!

The third aunt looked at her grandfather strangely, and after waiting for a long time to see that her grandfather didn't make any movement, she made a scissor hand movement with her right hand, and pretended to wash it on the side of her mouth, and continued to emphasize: "Yes, smoke!"

"Her third aunt, you're talking about the one you usually suck...... Smoke?" Grandpa's brain still couldn't react, took out the cigarette case from his pocket, shook it in the air, and drank it again The third aunt confirmed: "That's what you said, smoke?"

"That's it!" The third aunt couldn't wait to snatch the cigarette case from her grandfather's hand, and skillfully took out one and put it in her mouth, "Is there a fire?"

"Yes, yes!" Grandpa hurriedly touched his pocket, quickly found out where the lighter was, and took it out to light it for the third aunt.

The third aunt took a few sharp puffs, closed her eyes and tilted her head, as if enjoying the sensation of nicotine wandering in her lungs.

Seeing the third aunt's skillful movements, the corners of the grandfather's mouth involuntarily rose, smiled, and said in his heart: "Don't look at the third aunt's appearance, how decent she looks, in fact, behind the scenes...... Hey, that's it!"

The third aunt smoked one cigarette after another, one cigarette after another, and after seven or eight cigarettes in a row, it was not until the ninth cigarette that she slowed down the speed of smoking, grandma, grandfather, plus mother and me, the four of them just looked at her quietly, occasionally frowning and glancing at each other, not understanding what was going on.

Later, she didn't say anything, didn't ask anything, because no matter what she said or asked, she didn't answer, ignored it, and enjoyed it by herself.

From the time she entered the door to the present, it has been more than an hour of tossing back and forth!

Grandpa looked at the time, it was already ten o'clock, opened his mouth and said to grandma: "I'll go next door and call her third uncle over, her third aunt is not a matter in our house." ”

"Okay, okay, then you can go quickly!" Grandma nodded and urged.

Just as Grandpa put on his shoes and was about to go out, he suddenly saw something familiar to him: on the sole of the third aunt's shoe, there was a small piece of unburned red paper the size of an egg, the red paper was slightly curved, and there were traces of splicing!

Grandpa slowly squatted down, and a terrifying emotion arose in his heart: "This, is this the red paper that I didn't burn out in the early hours of this morning?"

Grandpa suddenly stood up and yelled with a hint of fear: "You, not her third aunt!"