Chapter 5: The Boy Ghost and the Ghost Bride
Everyone is an accidental existence in this world, coming from nothing and returning to nothing, and no one or anything can change our fate.
Death is more real than any dream, and death is the end of all dreams.
In Guan Yalian's consciousness, death is never seen, and as for where they went, they didn't think much about it.
Guan Yalian has known about death since she was sensible, although she is ignorant and cannot understand the true meaning of death.
Since he was born, his grandfather has been full of disappointment with Guan Yalian - how can she be a granddaughter again.
Lao Guan's eldest son, Guan Dafu, already has five daughters, and the younger daughter-in-law originally had great hopes for Lao Guantou.
And Guan Yalian, the naughtiness of her granddaughter, made Lao Guan completely refresh her perception of girls.
Guan Yalian began to run all over the ground when she was less than a year old, and what was even more excessive was that when a circus actress rode a jujube red horse in a heroic manner, Guan Yalian, who had just turned one, rushed to the bottom of the horse's belly by herself, and was shocked not to mention that she was kicked open by a horse's hooves on her head, and went to the village health center to get a lot of stitches, but fortunately she was young and did not leave a scar.
Guan Yalian rarely cries, her character is as tenacious as any boy, climbing up and down, there is often her small figure in the treetops on the roof, and her perfect face often has bleeding wounds.
It's a pity at the old juncture.,This should obviously be a kid!
As she grew older, Guan Yalian learned from family conversations that she should have a cousin who died before she lived past the full moon.
This is the first thing I heard about death.
When Guan Yalian was five years old, her grandfather, who had a legendary life, died. Guan Yalian can clearly remember the appearance of her grandfather lying on the recliner, returning to the light.
Lao Guantou has four daughters and two sons, and the daughter's family has a total of twelve grandchildren, and only two granddaughters.
According to the words of the old man Guan: "The boy gave birth to a thief girl." ”
The village doctor had already told the family that the old man was no longer good, and that many relatives would come to the family and wanted to see the old man for the last time.
Guan Yalian saw her grandfather's return to the light, and Lao Guan suddenly struggled to sit up, calling her youngest granddaughter, Guan Yalian's sister Guan Yaping, "Come, come to grandpa." ”
Guan Yaping was only one year old, and she stumbled over, with an excited smile on her little face, as if she was happy to be noticed in front of so many people, and shouted: "Master...... Master!"
Lao Guan smiled heartily, without a trace of weakness, "Look, Pingping has called me grandpa, if you don't die, if you don't die, your relatives will go!"
The villagers are superstitious about people who are dying, and children will not come to them.
However, after the old man said this, he tilted his head back, his arm drooped, and he went suddenly without pain.
Grandma fainted immediately, everyone in the family cried, and Guan Yalian also felt a sour nose in grief and anger, and tears fell involuntarily.
Soon, Grandpa's body was carried to a nearby wooden bed, and his abdomen was placed with wet tiles soaked in cold well water.
Five-year-old Guan Yalian didn't know why she did this, and it took a long time to understand that it was to delay the decomposition of the body.
Then until he was in the third grade of elementary school, an eleven-year-old child dropped out of school to work on a construction site because his family was poor, and as a result, the floor slab on the crane fell and the person was smashed into a pulp.
Ten-year-old Guan Yalian can't imagine what kind of form of meat paste it is, the boy Guan Yalian is impressed, tall and white, with small eyes and ordinary appearance, and his clothes are always old and can't distinguish the color, and the patches are stacked with patches.
Xin Village is a larger village than the surrounding villages, and there have always been endless searches for death and life, and women's bodies have been fished out of wells.
During that time, many people would be afraid to pass by there, especially at night.
When Guan Yalian and Guan Yaping followed their mother to catch insects in the cotton field, a woman's bitter cry came from the field.
Mother Li Juan said: "That's the daughter-in-law of our distant relative, you want to call your aunt, her daughter is gone when she was six years old, it's been three years, every time she goes to work in the field, she will cry bitterly, and her eyes are not very good." ”
Guan Yalian was sad when she heard this, so she asked her mother: "Don't you need to go over to persuade her?"
She understands all the truths she should understand, she lives in pain every day, and she doesn't dare to cry at home, she can only vent it when she goes to the field, and only she can bear this kind of suffering, and no one can help her.
That daughter must be the reincarnation of a child ghost, who came to torture her parents. ”
"What is a child ghost?"
"It's the kind of child who doesn't grow up to be reincarnated, and the result is that he will die if he doesn't grow up, which is deliberately sad. Then, it will go to another family and become a human being, and a few years later it will die again......"
In the first year of junior high school, Guan Yalian had a very good girl with high Wei Hong, a girl of medium height, natural yellow-brown hair, fair skin, and the best at picking her ears.
During self-study, the children's shoes like to sit outside the classroom and recite Chinese or English, and after a while, Guan Yalian will lie comfortably on Gao Weihong's knees, enjoying Gao Weihong picking her ears with a hairpin.
Suddenly, one day, Gao Weihong did not come to school, and soon a terrible news came that Gao Weihong committed suicide by drinking pesticides......
Later, the reason for suicide came, and it was unbearable for my parents to quarrel and even fight all day long.
Gao Weihong is from another village, and Guan Yalian knows little about the situation in their family.
I just don't understand how desperate a thirteen-year-old girl is to drink pesticides.
Can a parent's conflict really make a child think about it to such a point?
In Guan Yalian's cognition, her parents are absolutely not allowed to do it, if Guan Yalian sees it, she will participate in the battle without hesitation, and her position has always been very firm - to help her mother beat her father.
If Dad made a move, Guan Yalian would not only join the war, but would ignore him for many days.
This has only happened once in my memory.
No matter how Guan Yalian couldn't figure it out, Gao Weihong was still gone, not only was it gone, but her body was sold by her parents for 500 yuan.
In a village not far away, the ghost of a young man who had been dead for many years would always come home to make trouble, and the family wondered if it was because he was not married when he died.
The young man's family had the idea of marrying him with a yin marriage, and when he heard the news of Gao Weihong's suicide, he found Gao Weihong's family to discuss the matter of marrying him.
The two families didn't have much to say, but they just went back and forth on the price, and finally closed the deal for 500 yuan.
The man's family held a grand funeral for Wang Weihong, and the two were buried together.
It is said that since then, the family has really lived in peace.
After this incident reached the school, the little girls around the age of thirteen all talked about it, and they all said that Gao Weihong became a ghost bride and got married in a big red sedan chair.
At that time, when the people in the village got married, they all sat on a tractor, and the big red sedan chair had really not been seen.
The children's shoes also gave full play to their imagination one by one, thinking that the thirteen-year-old Gao Weihong was dressed up beautifully to be a ghost bride and live a happy life, just like Cinderella in a fairy tale who found her own prince.