After entering the house, the woman enthusiastically put together a stool for us to sit down.

The room was a little dirty, and the man rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly: "Sister, don't dislike the situation outside the house, and I'm not in the mood to clean it up." ”

I was confused and was pressed to the stool by the overly enthusiastic woman and then glanced at the room, although it was a little familiar, but I couldn't remember whether I had been here or not, so I could only smile dryly and say: "Big brother, sister-in-law, I'm really sorry I don't understand" As a result, before the words were finished, she was slapped on the back of the head by the woman, she laughed heartily twice and then said: "The little girl said nonsense again, I am your sister!" This is your brother-in-law! I'm not even mistaken. ”

"But I'm sorry I'm really He Mo, I only know that my uncle's family lives here, I really can't recognize it, sister and brother-in-law"

The woman found two porcelain cups and poured a glass of water for Chen Wei and Sun Miao, and said when she heard the words: "Haha, I haven't been able to figure out our relationship since I was a child, I heard my sister tell you, your uncle and your grandmother are brothers and sisters, and I am your uncle's granddaughter, do you know the relationship between the two of us?" ”

Hearing this, I hurriedly started from my position, and suddenly remembered: "Oh, look at my memory!" It really shouldn't be."

Because a few years ago, my parents were elders, so I wouldn't come to her house, and most of the time I saw her twice when I was eating at my uncle's house.

She is the eldest granddaughter of her uncle, named Yanping, although her name is earthy, it is the name that her parents hang on their lips every day, because this eldest sister is the most enthusiastic and the most proficient among all relatives and friends. [.A lot of good novels]

People praise her, take care of her considerate mother-in-law, and take care of her parents' relatives, unlike other spoiled juniors, she attaches great importance to blood and family affection.

This was evident in the enthusiasm she had when she first met me.

I should have called her eldest cousin, but our custom is that the word can't be used, even if the relationship is really cousin, cousin, you can't call cousin, cousin, or cousin, and the locals will think that the two of you don't seem to be very close, and over time it has become a custom.

So my parents used to always teach me to call her Sister Yanping.

I haven't seen her for many years, she has gained a circle of fat and a circle of black, and she is completely unrecognizable as her.

Seeing that I understood the relationship, Sister Yanping happily pulled me and began to pull about the things I had when I was a child, or some trivial matters or conflicts between relatives, such as my cousin's daughter-in-law marrying a daughter-in-law who was not filial to my uncle and grandmother, and quarreling with my uncle and grandmother, who fed the cow and ate his family's wheat seedlings, and so on

In the past, my mother loved to talk about these things when she was with them, and she could always talk for a whole day, which I didn't really want to listen to, but looking at Sister Yanping's smiling face, she was full of interest in talking, and I couldn't bear to interrupt her.

Finally, the cousin-in-law on the side couldn't stand it anymore, and stepped forward and patted Sister Yanping's shoulder: "Pingzi, what are you talking about?" What else is there to say that people are dead? ”

Hearing this, Sister Yanping's face gradually sank, as if she realized something, and said a little dejectedly: "Yes, I also said that I was killed by the Rakshasa ghost for all these things." ”

I glanced back at Sun Miao and Chen Wei, and asked my cousin-in-law a little strangely: "Brother-in-law, this Rakshasa ghost you are talking about?" Does it mean the walking dead? ”

Hearing this, the cousin-in-law rubbed his hands and squatted back on the ground, for this kind of country man who is used to farm work, it seems that squatting is more comfortable than sitting: "Yes, yes, it is often shown on TV when it has not reached this point before, saying that it is such a name, and it is interesting for cultural people to name it, and the dead man stands up and walks again, isn't it a walking corpse?" ”

"Then why did you and Sister Yanping call them Rakshasa ghosts?"

The brother-in-law thought for a while and then spoke: "This title was shouted by the crazy daughter of the village chief, and they all say that the eyes of a fool can see the guy we can't see, isn't this dead man standing up and walking just borrowing a corpse to resurrect his soul?" She yelled at the walking corpses that rushed into the village, we all watched the TV broadcast, and knew that those guys ate people, but she was not afraid, and rushed up with a noise, but before she was bitten to death, she suddenly stopped going crazy, and ran away yelling at her father and mother in the distance, don't you think this is a miracle? The girl has been crazy since she was hit on the head with a brick a few years ago, and she was bitten by a walking corpse, and suddenly she was okay. ”

I answered, "So in the future, you will call the walking corpse a rakshasa ghost?" ”

"Hey, what," said the cousin-in-law, probably saying that he was thirsty, got up and poured a glass of water, and then said: "Everyone was frightened, and they wanted to run away when they were noisy, and as a result, half of the village was bitten to death that day." That's what I call your sister. ”

"What about the rest?" Sun Miao asked.

"Some families don't have anything to eat, and they can't stand being hungry for a few days to find food, and some of them die one after another."

"Then there must be other people in this village, right?" I asked.

"I guess it's gone." The brother-in-law waved his hand: "Follow the road ahead and go south, near the train tracks, a particularly remote place, I heard that there is a village there that has been taken over and made into a small town, and the rest of the people are probably gone over there." ”

"The military took over?" Chen Wei, who had not spoken, asked.

The brother-in-law thought for a while, and Sister Yanping on the side seemed to have recovered from the loss just now, wiped her eyes and said: "No, a group of capable people from other places are actually what, a group of people are looking for something to block the entrance of the walking corpse into the village, and then a group of big men will guard it to ensure that the Rakshasa ghost does not go in." We also heard it from the family before, and we didn't ask much about how they knew, but it should be ** not far from ten. ”

"Why don't you go?" I asked.

Hearing this, Sister Yanping sighed: "The two children in the family are still young, Dani is only ten years old, and Danzi is only more than two years old, I don't know anything, how can we go as a family of four?" It takes dozens of kilometers to say this, how can our family have the ability to go over? ”

"He Mo, we're out looking for water, and it's too long to talk about it, let's go back." Everyone else is hungry. Sun Miao reminded loudly.

When Sister Yanping heard this, her expression was shocked, and she grabbed me and asked, "Your parents are here too?" Are they all well? ”

"Well, you've always been with me, as well as grandma and Tiantian."

Sister Yanping immediately seized the loophole in my words, and Yan sù said: "What about your brother?" ”

I was stunned, not knowing what to answer.

Sister Yanping was an anxious child, and urged: "You said it."

"My brother is gone" After these few months, I thought that I had slightly smoothed the scar left by my brother in my heart, but when Sister Yanping asked, I realized that the wound caused by the farewell of blood relatives could not be healed at all.

Sister Yanping was also stunned, and the tears that had just stopped would be wiped again, and she choked up and said: "That uncle and aunt have to cry." ”

Taking a deep breath, I shook my head: "They are still strong, they are in good spirits, they will definitely be sad in their hearts, they just don't want to tell me." ”

"Yes," Sister Yanping nodded: "Uncle He, I know, I have to fight everything on my shoulders all my life, if it weren't for the impact on my body and bones, how could I let a girl come out on an adventure?" ”

Sister Yanping is indeed a person who thinks about things very comprehensively, her father has indeed changed a lot, unlike before when everything was single, now more often he shows that kind of helplessness and hesitation, and the death of his eldest son is estimated to be a pain that he has not been able to alleviate.

A father's love is like a mountain.

Probably seeing that my relationship was not good, Sister Yanping cried for a while to wipe away her tears, dragged us to the yard, pointed to a well and said, "Oh, that's the well that our family used to drill, how much do you want, otherwise let my uncle and them all come to live here?" ”

I hurriedly waved my hand and refused: "No, no, there are a lot of people over there." ”

"Are they all relatives?" Sister Yanping asked.

"No, part of it is friends."

Hearing this, Sister Yanping pulled me aside, pointed to Chen Wei and Sun Miao, who had already started to follow her brother-in-law to fetch water, and asked, "These two young men, is this your boyfriend?" ”