Chapter 128: Resentment
The last time the old village chief appeared in front of the whole village was on that afternoon of the first snow, and it was also the day of the seventy-seventy-ninth day after his son's death.
Ge Youmei stood outside the courtyard and watched the old village chief walking slowly in the village alone, and many people in the village saw it. Everyone greeted the old village chief, but he didn't seem to want to deal with anyone, so he walked slowly along the dirt road in the village. It seems that he is nostalgic for something, and it is as if he wants to take one last look at the village that gave birth to him and raised him, and for whom he has served all his life.
Ge Youmei watched the old village chief walk towards her door from a distance, she wanted to say a few words to the old village chief, however, the old village chief seemed to have a very heavy mind, and he kept his head down and walked by himself. Ge Youmei stood at the door of her house, just like this, watching the old village chief, who used to work tirelessly for the village, and now the old village chief, who has become a lonely old man, walked past her house.
I really wanted to say something to him, even if it wasn't comforting, even if it was just a soft greeting, it would drag him out of his grief. However, the old village chief exuded an aura that no one could approach all over his body, which was enough to refuse anyone's approach.
Ge Youmei silently watched him walk past in front of him, and then the bleak back disappeared on the path. I also felt very uncomfortable in my heart, and I vaguely felt that everyone in the village was sorry for the old village chief. This incident hit him very hard, maybe everyone really shouldn't be so indifferent to Ge Chengyou's death.
Unexpectedly, this was the last time everyone saw the old village chief. On this night, the old village chief hanged himself under the big banyan tree in the open space of Gejia Village. When the early morning of the next day, when the earliest people in the village saw the old village chief hanging himself under the big banyan tree, the village seemed to explode, and people could no longer be calm.
The villagers all know that the old village chief is dead like this, and this is because the old village chief no longer wants to live alone in this world. He went to find his daughter-in-law and children. His death seemed to come as if it had come as if it had come as if it had come as a surprise. The villagers exploded for a while, and they all walked out of their homes, looking at the corpse of the village chief in silence.
It was they who first apologized to the old village chief, and it was they who let the old village chief go to the end. It's just that everything is irreparable, and the old village chief refuses to forgive everyone in the end, and he uses his death to show his resentment towards the villagers. Although many made amends, perhaps they escaped at the time, most have regretted it. However, what's the use, Ge Chengyou died, the village chief's mother-in-law died, and in the end, even the village chief himself died, and everything was developing towards malignancy.
With guilt for the old village chief's family, the villagers collected the body of the old village chief and set up a mourning hall in his home. The old village chief's family also has a daughter, that is, Ge Ruozhu mentioned earlier, who married into a neighboring village a few years ago. When Ge Chengyou and the village chief's mother-in-law went, the villagers also wanted to report to his daughter, but they were stopped by the old village chief. He said that he didn't want his daughter to come back, and he didn't want his daughter to know about the tragedy at home.
Now that he has gone himself, the people in the village naturally want to send someone to the neighboring village to invite his daughter. Strangely enough, however, the people who were sent out all came back very quickly. The people who went out said that they had encountered heavy fog, lost their way in the mountains, and could not get out of the valley. But I was able to come back safely. After several efforts, it was like this, and the people who went out had to come back, and they had to give up the act of reporting to the village chief's daughter.
The people in the village began to talk about it, and many people said that the village chief died unjustly, and the three members of their family died unjustly, which was because the old village chief did not let the villagers get better.
These words were quickly suppressed, and the people in the village knew about the affairs of the old village chief's family, but they were secretive. In order to dispel the resentment of the old village chief, the villagers decided to hold a rich funeral for the village chief. On this day, people came to the village chief's house and began to busy with the village chief's funeral.
At this time, everyone was doing their best, and they were all sincere to send the old village chief on his last journey. Almost the whole village came, including the children, and even some of the idle people in the village, and the people showed ten percent sincerity at this time.
Only, something stranger happened.
The lid of the village chief's coffin never closed, and every time it was closed, it would be pushed open invisibly. People thought that the village chief was unwilling to be buried, and finally it was Brother Xiaoyi who knelt down and kowtowed more than ten times in front of the mourning hall before the coffin lid was closed, and people were relieved.
The three days of the suspension passed quickly, and when the village chief was about to be funeral, several young men worked together to lift the village chief's coffin, but they could not lift it to the courtyard of the village chief's house. When he left the courtyard and stepped on the door, the coffin was so heavy that several boys could not carry it.
"Add some more!" Someone shouted.
So, four more people were added to the coffin, but it didn't work, and the coffin became so heavy that even the eight big men bent down.
"The old village chief is reluctant to leave the village!" At this time, someone whispered.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Someone immediately stopped it.
But the truth really can't be lifted!
People couldn't, so they had to carry the coffin back. And when everyone carried it back, the coffin was normal, and it was carried back to the mourning hall very easily.
It seems that the village chief is unwilling to be buried, and the villagers can't and have to start keeping a wake for the village chief, only hoping to eliminate the village chief's grievances as soon as possible and put them into the ground as soon as possible.
It's just who will keep the spirit, which seems to pose another problem for the villagers. The village chief no longer has relatives in the village, and his only daughter can't be notified, so everyone decides to draw lots to take turns. Of course, they all think that Brother Xiao Yi is right, Brother Xiao Yi is powerless to refute, who makes him feel that he owes the village chief's family a life.
As I watched the situation unfold, I thought to myself that the death of the village chief was just the beginning, and that there must be more to come. I don't know what the dead village chief will do with the villagers.
When I think of the mysterious piper, and the way the villagers kill each other, is this the revenge of the village chief against the villagers? Now that I think about it, when I entered the village, I saw that the funeral held by the village chief's family was really done by the villagers for the village chief, and Ge Youmei tried her best to prevent me from entering the village on the mountain road.
It's just that I didn't know her kindness at the time, and she now asks me to see her memory, so I guess she also wants to tell me the whole story. It's just that how Ge Youmei died, in Xiao Yige's story, it seems that Ge Youmei was not mentioned. And who is the mysterious Piper, and what role does he play in this?
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