Liu Lanying died, and the young Zhao Dahai knelt in front of Liu Lanying's coffin with a brazier according to the instructions of the old man in the village, and burned a piece of paper money for every relative Zhao Dahai who came to mourn. His eyes were swollen from crying, and when he saw me, he whispered: "Jiang Rong, I've been kneeling for a day, and I can't cry, they still let me cry and don't give me food." ”

At that time, in the old custom of Sanlitun, people could only be buried on the third day after death, and the descendants knelt in front of the funeral bed and held the brazier and wept for two days.

In the first two days of Liu Lanying's death, the children in Sanlitun were still in class as usual, and once on the way back from school, Xiao Wu suddenly couldn't hold back and cried, and he whispered to Jiang Sheng: "Jiang Sheng, my aunt asked me to send a letter to my father before she died, but I lost it." ”

Jiang Sheng patted Xiao Wu on the shoulder, and did not mention the letter to Xiao Wu, and no one knew the content of the letter except Liu Lanying herself.

The way she was dying with her eyes open has always lingered in my mind, and I often heard the old people in the village say that if a person has a wish that has not been fulfilled before death, he will die without a blind eye.

Jiang Sheng knew that I was afraid, and every night when I was awakened by a nightmare, he would wake up, and he wiped the sweat from my forehead silently, and let me rest on his not too broad shoulder.

On the night of the second day of Liu Lanying's death, Jiang Sheng and Xiao Wu discussed buying a cage of meat buns and putting them in their schoolbags, and after returning to the tunzi, Xiao Wu secretly gave Zhao Dahai a look, Zhao Dahai took advantage of the time to go to the toilet and came to the backyard, and he devoured the meat buns in Jiang Sheng's hand when he saw them.

Zhao Dahai's face was dirty, and he smiled while eating: "This bun is so delicious." ”

"You eat slowly, no one will rob you." Jiang Sheng said.

When Zhao Dahai heard Jiang Sheng's words, his mouth was still bulging, and suddenly tears fell from his eyes, because Jiang Sheng said exactly the same thing as Liu Lanying said on weekdays.

After Zhao Dahai swallowed the bun in his mouth, he wiped the tears on his face and said, "I miss my mother." ”

On the day of Liu Lanying's burial, our children all wore hats made of white mourning cloth and followed behind the end-off procession.

When the body was in the coffin, it was separated by yin and yang, and all the people who had something to do with Liu Lanying had to cry, Zhao Dahai was frightened with a brazier on the side, until the old man who presided over the funeral slapped Zhao Dahai on the head and yelled at him, and Zhao Dahai cried in a good way.

At that time, I walked with Jiang Sheng and Xiao Wu, listening to the cries of the adults around me, I didn't feel so sad, but I saw Xiao Wu occasionally wiping his tears and crying twice, and I felt a little in my heart.

After Liu Lanying was buried, Zhao Fugui went to the town's police station, and after he came back from the police station, he went directly to the village chief's house, and the village chief called the villagers to gather, saying that Zhang Guangshan had been sentenced to death, and the execution approval had come down, and he could be executed at noon tomorrow, and the place where the execution would be carried out was on the northern slope of Sanlitun.

The north slope of Sanlitun is behind Tunzi, and after crossing the big stone bridge, there is a not high hillside, surrounded by uncultivated ravines.

I remember that at noon that day, when Zhang Guangshan was escorted to Sanlitun, Jiang Sheng and I were having dinner, and my mother was drying clothes in the yard.

"Brother, will Zhang Guangzhu be beheaded?" I buried half of my face in the bowl, scared of what I asked.

Jiang Sheng said: "It's a shooting execution, that is, a bullet is used to pierce the head, and now you don't need to cut off your head to kill a condemned prisoner." ”

"Is that single person going to die?" I asked.

Jiang Sheng said: "Of course, if the bullet pierces the head, it will die, and no one will survive." ”

I was silent for a while, and then asked, "Why did Zhang Guangzhu treat the mother of the sea like that?" ”

Jiang Sheng frowned and said, "I don't know, maybe bad people always like to do bad things." ”

As soon as Jiang Sheng finished speaking, a group of children shouted outside, and Xiao Wu shouted: "Jiang Sheng Jiang Sheng, hurry up, watch Zhang Guang be killed!" ”

"Oh!" Jiang Sheng agreed, took a sip of corn paste and ran out of the door.

"Children can't go and can't sleep at night!" Mother hurriedly shouted.

But Xiao Wu and Jiang Sheng had already run away, and I was about to go out, but my mother stopped me and said, "What are you doing at a girl's house, you also want to see the head killing?" I'm so scared that I have to wet the bed again at night! ”

"Brother, I'll go too." I muttered, ignoring my mother's scares, and ran away.

"Murderer, rapist, Zhang Guangshan is a big badass! Murderer, rapist, Zhang Guangshan is a big badass......"

A group of children sang and followed the policeman with Zhang Guangba, and everyone laughed and laughed, thinking that it was worth rejoicing that the bad guy was being corrected.

Many adults also followed the team, not only the people from Sanlitun, but also people from several nearby villages all came to see the excitement, and some people also threw the rotten vegetable leaves at home on Zhang Guang's head, cursing Zhang Guang's single to die well.

Zhang Guangzhu's eyes were blank, and his mouth kept humming that he had been wronged, his hands were tied upside down behind his back, and he walked like a walking corpse to the northern slope of Sanlitun.

When Zhang Guangzhu was escorted across the big stone bridge, the village chief was standing on the stone bridge, he was a thin-looking old man, holding a copper-tipped pipe in his hand all the year round, and sometimes the village children were naughty, he would use the copper-tipped pipe to scare people. The village chief stopped behind the police and said: "Everyone is optimistic about their own sons when they arrive here, and they can't go over if they are not adults. ”

As soon as the village chief said this, a group of children could only stay at the end of the big stone bridge and did not dare to go any further, watching the adults follow the team across the bridge.

"Xiao Wu, you don't know how to be a good monkey cub, where are you going to be reincarnated when you fish in troubled waters?" The village chief saw Xiao Wu hiding in the crowd at a glance and dragged him down from the crowd.

"Jiang Sheng is also over, I have to go and chase him back!" Xiao Wu said, jumping in a hurry.

"Don't talk nonsense, why didn't I see it?" The village chief said.

"You didn't see that it was your old eyes that were dizzy, no wonder I am, you always saw Zhao Dahai go with his father!" Xiao Wu shouted.

"People are watching the enemy who kills his mother eat guns, what kind of soup do you follow, I wish your mother would follow the braids?" The village chief said.

"How do you talk old thing?" A sharp voice came from the crowd, and Niu Aihua walked up to the village chief with an angry face, pointed at the village chief's nose and scolded. "Old deflated three, I think you have fewer lungs and no heart and eyes, you dare to curse, old lady, why don't you die?!"

Niu Aihua scolded so much that the village chief didn't dare to reply a word, so the village chief had to smile awkwardly and walk aside with a pipe.

Xiao Wu's chubby arm was held in Niu Aihua's hand, and he struggled and said, "Mom, let me go, Jiang Sheng is over." ”

"You go and see what the dead are doing, how bad it is, just look here, it's not invisible." Niu Aihua said.

Xiao Wu couldn't resist Niu Aihua, so he could only stand next to Niu Aihua with a humming and chirping, looking at the hillside in the distance with an angry look.

On the hillside, a group of people gathered behind the police, and several executing policemen lined up with guns and stood ten meters away from Zhang Guangping.

"Yo, whose girl is so bold that she dares to kill her head."

I squeezed from the noisy crowd to the front, looked at Zhang Guangshan who was being watched by everyone, and suddenly remembered the scene when he gave me a handful of candy when he returned to Tunzi from the town as a cook, and he said Jiang Rong, you have to study hard when you grow up, don't be full of dirty words like these shrews in Tunzi.

I gasped cautiously, my heart pounding, and the sounds of rebuke around me filled my eardrums. The police captain held the execution book in his hand and asked loudly: "Zhang Gangqiang, what else do you have to say before you die?" ”

Zhang Guangshan's face twitched, his hands and feet trembled, and he had to be supported by two policemen beside him, he cried and said: "I am sorry for my grandmother, I am really wronged, you killed the wrong person, I will definitely sue your ancestors for eighteen generations when I go to Lord Yama!" ”

"Which wicked person said that he was wronged before he died, and the human and material evidence are all in you and you still don't admit it, what kind of man is it!" Zhao Fugui said fiercely.

Zhao Fugui held Zhao Dahai's hand and stood in front of the crowd, Zhao Dahai was still wearing linen and filial piety, and he wanted to see the enemy killed with his own eyes to sacrifice his biological mother.

Zhang Guangzhu raised his head and looked at Zhao Fugui, and said: "Zhao Fugui, I admit that I have a leg with your wife, I am a brute and can't stand you, but I don't need to kill people, you and I grew up together, you should understand that I am afraid of killing a chicken, don't think that I don't know that you have bought the relationship, and you will behead me in three days, I am planted in the hands of you and which little king and eight lambs, you cut off my life, and you will inevitably be unjustly killed in the future, karma, you can't run!" ”

The police captain frowned and motioned to the two policemen who were escorting Zhang Guangzhu to let Zhang Guangzhu kneel.

The two policemen let go and collapsed to the ground, staggering to his knees in front of the crowd, his pants wet in front of him.

Onlookers ridiculed Zhang Guang for not being planted, and he was afraid of feces and urine incontinence before he died.

Zhang Guangzhu suddenly raised his head and saw me, he glared and shouted: "Jiang Rong, when you grow up in the future, you have to study hard!" ”

After Zhang Guangzhu finished speaking, he cried to the crowd of onlookers: "Everyone go first, go first!" I'm wronged! Grandma's, what a grievance! ”

The gesture of the police captain fell, and the shots rang out.

Many of the onlookers at the scene closed their eyes and didn't dare to look, and my eyes were suddenly blindfolded the moment Zhang Guang's head bloomed.

"Don't look." Jiang Sheng turned me around and pulled me through the crowd. "Whoever told you to come here should be scared again at night."

I turned my head, and in the midst of the chaos of figures, I saw Zhang Guangzhu lying on the grass with his back to the sky, and I saw his tied hands and black cloth shoes.

I don't know why, but suddenly my heart was sour and I couldn't help myself.