Story 66 Lighting the Sky Lantern (3)

I was so frightened by his sudden scream that I stood there in a daze, until the village chief walked in, and he also heard the scream and knew that I had met a madman, so I hurried over, afraid that he would scare me.

I saw that the village chief knew this guy, so I asked him, where did this madman come from? The village chief sighed and said, "This madman is a person from the Jin family, he is older than me, he has been crazy since he was a teenager until now, and he usually cares about him, that is, the neighbors will take care of him for one meal a day, but that's it, he is quite able to live, this is almost 80, and some of the young men in the village have run past him!" ”

I thought about it, why can't this madman keep running around? When the time comes, if tourists from other places come, they will not scare away people when they see crazy people! The village chief seemed to understand what I meant, so he thought for a while and said, "It's okay, when the farmhouse is set up, I will lock him up in his own house, and the villagers will take turns to deliver food, which will not only solve his problem of running around and scaring people, but also let him have a hot meal to eat." ”

But I still had a faint uneasiness in my heart, and I always felt that a madman would be a hidden danger, so I asked the village chief how the madman was crazy? But I didn't expect the village chief to say it clearly, because he was also very young at that time, and he didn't remember anything at all, but he only knew that he was scared crazy.

I put aside the madman's affairs first, and concentrated on finding some things of historical value from the pile of debris in the back hall, and the village chief smiled when he saw that I was interested in these rags and said, "Here are some broken tablets and some things left by the people who were expelled from the Jinjia shop, because they can't be thrown away casually, so they have been kept in the back hall." ”

As soon as I heard this, I asked the village chief, "There are still people who have been expelled from Jin's shop?" Because of what? ”

The village chief stroked his goatee and said, "Of course, our Jin family shop has a history of more than 600 years, and there are some firstborn children and grandchildren, the state has national laws, and the clan has clan rules. ”

I couldn't help but feel a little chilled when I heard it, thinking about the hundreds of years of history of this Jin family shop, there must have been many descendants of Jin Wei who were dealt with by the clan rules, listening to the meaning of the village chief, driving people away is the lightest, what is the heavy? It's hard to imagine.

I began to sort out this pile of clutter, maybe there is the history of Jinjiapu here, and in the future there will be a "Jinjiapu History Museum" or something, maybe it can be used?

Because no one has touched these debris for many years, they have long been covered with thick dust, so I took out a handkerchief from my body and tied it to my face to block the dust, and began my cultural relics sorting work.

I opened it in a box, and there were some discarded tablets, and I took them out and looked at a few, including the Jin family and the Wei family, and then I saw a very serious Jin family tree that was eaten by insects, which should have been before, because I saw a large and new one in the ancestral hall.

I opened this genealogy and saw that there was still my name on it, of course, it was already on the last page, I flipped forward, and sure enough, the name that was ticked off with a red pen was not a few.

Suddenly, a name named Jin Beichen crashed into my eyes, Beichen? Isn't that the name I heard in my dreams? I took a closer look at the annotation above, and Kim Beichen removed the genealogy in 1943.

In 1943, it was more than 60 years ago, and I still remembered the name of the woman I shouted in my dream, Qingqiu, so I searched for a long time in the family tree, and there was no one named Qingqiu.

Then I found some very old photo frames at the bottom of the box, and the photos in them don't know what year they are, they are all old black and white photos, some of the people in the photos are wearing during the Republic of China, and some are still wearing braids!

At this moment, a group photo aroused my interest, which read, "In 1940, the patriarch took a photo of the 60-year-old Jinjiapu man"

This should be a group photo of all the adult men in the Quanjin family shop back then, and I looked carefully at the faces of each of them to see if I could see my grandfather, who should have been among them at his age.

But looking at the hand that looked at me, I never expected that there would be me inside? It's incredible, maybe I'll admit the way others look wrong, but I'm 100% good.

In this world, except for twins, there are no two people who look exactly the same, and they appear in different eras, and when I see my face appear in an old photo more than 60 years ago, my heart actually feels a pain.

I didn't know how I got home that day, but I was scared of my grandmother, she said that when I came back, my face was pale, my lips were blue, and I was covered in a cold sweat.

Later, the village chief called the village health worker, but he still couldn't see what was wrong with me. It wasn't until my grandmother invited a grandmother in the village who was almost 100 years old to come over, and when she came, she touched my head and said, "It's okay...... Xuanwa let something rush! I'll call him a soul in a while, but why is this baby so familiar? ”

As soon as my grandmother heard this, she said, "What is familiar, you see me every day, he is my grandson, he must be like me!" ”

But the old lady said, "No, I saw the look of this baby many years ago, but I can't remember the specifics!" ”

My grandmother will understand and be confused for a while, after all, she is almost 100 years old, but grandma knows that she still has a set of souls, and sure enough, the grandmother took a small broom and circled around my head, and kept muttering something in her mouth.

After a while, I really woke up, but my mind was still a little unclear, and my grandmother touched me and had a fever, so she asked the hygienist to prescribe me some antipyretic medicine to take, and then I began to dream, the woman named Qingqiu in the dream kept smiling at me, and I seemed to like her smile very much.

In this way, I slept until noon the next day, and when I woke up, I cried that I was hungry, and I didn't eat two meals, can I not be hungry? So my grandmother cooked me a bowl of hot egg noodles, and after eating and drinking, I finally regained my previous vitality.

Grandma then remembered to ask me, what happened in the ancestral hall before, why was I scared out of my soul? As soon as I heard it, my face turned red, and a big man was scared and lost his soul, and he didn't get laughed out of his big teeth by the villagers! They always thought I was a kid.

But grandma didn't care so much, she had to tell me what happened in the ancestral hall yesterday? So I told my grandmother about what I saw in the old photos.

She was also stunned when she heard this, and she didn't speak for a long time, and then she said after a long time, let me take her to see the old photo...... (To be continued.) )