Fortunately, as soon as I entered the house, I felt warm inside, Erniang was cooking under the big stove in the kitchen, and when I saw that we were coming, she stood up happily and said: "It's not cold on the train, come into the house and warm up in the kang." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

With that, she led us into the east room where my grandmother slept. At this time, the eldest mother and the third mother were sitting on the kang in the east house, and they were saying to their grandmother that the fourth and fifth horses were here! Reassure her or something.

My sister and I were the first to walk into my grandmother's house, and when I saw my grandmother lying on the kang, my heart was sad. Think about the appearance of my grandmother before, she is not tall, a little hunchbacked, and the old lady is considered to be on the fat side.

But now, like today, she was lying on her side on the kang, squinting her eyes and sleeping, her face looked very gray, without the ruddy she used to be.

I heard my father say that my grandmother had advanced stomach cancer, and when I found it, there was no value for treatment, but it only increased the pain, so it was better to go home and wait......

Uncle and Dad proposed to send Grandma to the county hospital, but Grandma refused to go. She only told her uncle that she wanted to eat some grapes.

Uncle went out to buy without saying a word, but more than ten years ago, it was a cold winter, where could I buy grapes? Later, my father and uncle went to many places in the county town to buy a bunch of grapes.

But when I got it back, my grandmother didn't eat a few and couldn't eat it. By the day we returned, she hadn't eaten anything in three days. Now that all nine of her children have arrived, Grandma is almost running out of gas.

Grandma left that night, and several of us juniors were sent to live at the second uncle's house early. Erniang was afraid that we wouldn't be able to sleep on the kang, so she specially laid a thick quilt for us.

When I slept until midnight, I suddenly felt a person standing under the kang, I looked up in a daze, it was my grandmother, I hurriedly got up and said, "Milk, why are you here?" ”

Grandma just smiled at me, but never spoke. Just when I was at a loss, I suddenly heard my mother calling me, "Weiwei, hurry up, your grandma is not good!" ”

My sister and I got up from the kang and began to get dressed in a daze. At that time, it was not yet dawn outside, and this time was the coldest time of the day, and after a few of us juniors climbed out of the hot bed, we all shivered and walked to the house where my grandmother lived.

It was a scary time of day, except for our group walking on the road, and when our shoes stepped on the snow, there would be a rustling sound...... When I passed a big tree in the west of the village, I looked back and found a woman standing under the tree.

When we walked to the door of grandma's house, Erniang and Sanniang were already waiting for us at the door. The filial piety clothes on their bodies have been worn, and what they are holding in their hands now must have been prepared for us. After our grandchildren put on their filial piety clothes, they will take a few of us into the mourning shed to kowtow.

As soon as I entered the funeral shed, I found that my grandmother was still parked on the ground, not in the coffin. My sister said to me quickly, "Why is the milk lying on the ground, isn't she cold?" ”

At that time, she was facing death for the first time, just like me, so she was a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, at this time, Erniang came over and said, "Your grandmother has just changed her clothes, and she will be in the coffin for a while." Go back to the house, it's too cold outside. ”

A few of us ran into the house as if we had been granted amnesty. To be honest, we didn't really understand the word death at the time, so we didn't feel much sadness at the time. After all, they were all children, and it didn't take long for them to start fighting.

Due to the age difference between my father and his siblings, and my parents, uncles and aunts were late in having children, the children of those aunts and uncles were older than us, and the children of several older brothers and sisters were about the same age as us.

So since I returned to my hometown, my sister and I are the oldest among the children of the same age, and those children either call us sister-in-law or aunt.

It was soon dawn, and after the family had breakfast, they began to decorate the funeral booth. According to the rural funeral story, the grandmother has to stop at home for a day. My sister and I are so old that we don't have to do some errands.

But after all, we are not familiar with each other, and in my opinion, the houses of this family are all built in the same way, and it is easy to get lost in the tunzi. So the second aunt pointed out his eldest grandson Wu Hai to us as a little guide and ran errands with us.

Although Wu Hai wants to call me and my sister aunt, he is only one year younger than me and one year older than my sister. So even though it was the first time we met, we quickly got to talk together.

Wu Hai told us some things about the countryside, and we told him about some things in the city, and he also told me about some taboos in this tun.

For example, under the big tree at the west end of the village, the children of the families are not allowed to play under it at night, because a woman was hanged from the tree many years ago.

When he said this, my heart chuckled, and I finally remembered that there was something wrong with the woman I saw in the morning! In this cold winter, why is that woman still standing under the tree in a single dress!

So I hurriedly asked Wu Hai, "What does that woman look like?" ”

When Wu Hai heard this, he said with a shocked face: "Mom! It's been decades since she's been dead, and how can I know what she looks like! But we grew up listening to her stories. ”

So Wu Hai told us the legend of this "Widow Liu......

That should have been twenty or thirty years ago, and no one knows what the real name of this widow Liu is, only her husband's surname is Liu. It is said that this widow Liu was a well-known pretty widow at that time, and many singles in the village have been beating her attention.

But this widow Liu has an extremely fierce and evil mother-in-law, since her son Liu Jinbao died, she has been treating this daughter-in-law badly, scolding her all day long for being a broom star, killing her son, and beating her at every turn.

Widow Liu is an honest woman, and after a man dies, she can only serve her mother-in-law at her mother-in-law's house. Later, I heard that she had been raped by a second-rate son in the village while she was working in the fields, and her mother-in-law used this to sweep her away.

In those years, if this kind of thing happened to a woman, it would be absolutely doomed. So Widow Liu hanged herself on a big tree west of Tunzi on a dark and windy night.

I heard that when Widow Liu's mother-in-law passed by the big tree one night, she saw the ghost of her daughter-in-law, and she was scared to death on the spot! (To be continued.) )