CHAPTER 12

The entire funeral was carried out according to the original procedure. Seven days later, the old man of Bingde took up a place on the ancestral graveyard, a tomb tower made of fresh, wet loess. His graves are arranged in the left position under his father's grave according to the eldest and youngest, and the right side is self-evidently reserved for the Bai Zhao clan to live in the future when the immortals die. This sad funeral is finally over. My father was alone in the house, and the courtyard was suddenly suffocatingly empty. The mother is alone in the upper room, he is alone in the Xiawu, and the long-term worker Lu San is alone in the horse. If the mother had not coughed, there would have been no sound in the courtyard with its three-entry houses throughout the night and day. That night, his mother asked him when he planned to marry him, and he said that it would be at least after the first anniversary. Mother said don't wait, waiting is in vain, the family is too lonely; Besides, she can't support the house, sweep the yard, laundry, dismantle the quilt and cook by herself, let alone spinning and weaving and other housework. He said, "Then let's do it in 100 days." The mother said, "Don't wait for 100 days, you can do it after the '77'." The actual situation is that after two months, when the wheat harvest was finished and the ground was cleared, and after the sowing of the field, Guang Qiutian was sown, he married back the woman of the fifth house, the third girl of the carpenter Wei Lao's third family. On the wedding night, the heat is unbearable. Jiaxuan plugged in the latch of the wooden door of the house, turned around and wiped off the long-sleeved shirt and trousers. The bride, who was sitting on the kang mat, suddenly crawled and knelt on the kang, kowtowed to him, and begged him not to take off her short-sleeved shirt and shorts again. He asked her what was wrong? She said that she was born with a hard life, and the three girls in the poor family were even more bitter Wang Baochuan in the Qin drama "Wudian Slope" lined up for three, called the three girls, and the countryside regarded the women in the row as people with a hard life. He seemed to realize something, and asked her if she had heard any gossip. She said she knew that he had married four women, all of whom were dead; She also said that she had heard that not only was he hard-working, but that there was a barb of poisonous juice on the top of the thing, which smashed all the heart, lungs, and liver of a woman, and that a woman who was beaten with iron could not be beaten. She trembled and cried: "My father didn't care about my life or death because of your family's financial gifts, and I had to jump down every cliff and well." I don't want to die, I don't want to die early, I want to serve you for a few more years, I'll bring you water, hand tea, wash your feet, cook and sweep the floor, and don't even say a word of complaint about mending, making cows, and making horses, it's just that you can scare me with that thing, good official, good big brother, so big, you can let me......" Jiaxuan sat on the chair stunned for a moment, and the interest of the wedding night was gone. He had already heard this absurd rumor but couldn't defend it, and he really couldn't figure out the difference between someone else's and his own. He once pretended to poop and pee in the public toilet at the meeting, and secretly observed many strange men, all of them were the same and different, but the result became more and more confused. The pitiful begging for mercy from the third girl of the carpenter's family not only did not arouse his sympathy, but hurt his self-esteem and angered him. He got up from the chair, stepped onto the kang in one step, stripped off his clothes and pants after three strokes and five divisions, and showed her his own things, where there was any barbed poisonous juice! The three girls were ashamed, scared, crying and trembling. The more she did this, the more angry he became, and angrily ripped off her clothes and pants. When he was done, he asked her what she had hurt, but found that she was out of breath. He hurriedly choked her man. When she woke up, she hid in the corner of the kang and shrunk into a ball. He was angry and funny, affectionate with her, caressing her, and reassuring her. In any case, her heart disease could not be ruled out, and every night, she shivered and shivered like malaria in the bed. Half a year later, she was in a trance, became half-crazy and half-crazy, and the last time she went to the waterlogged pond to wash clothes, she fell ill and drowned in the waterlogged pond.

When burying the three girls of the carpenter Wei family, the degree of grass was better than that of the first four, and he cut a coffin with poplar planks and wore five pieces of clothing, and only three pieces of clothing were worn in the first four. Naturally, it is not pleasing to others, and it is not possible to make a bigger arrangement, and it is already very generous and merciful for a young woman to die at this step. Jiaxuan's desire to treat her a little more favorably is completely a psychological factor that is difficult to describe. Before the woman's body was about to die from the foul smell of the foul-smelling mud of the waterlogged pond, a feeling of guilt began to develop in his heart. On the day of the wedding, when he removed her hijab in the new house, he found that she was not only beautiful but also strong, with a red face, two smart eyes as black as black beads, and strong arms. There was a thin callus on her palm, which was a confirmation that the carpenter went out to earn money, and she and her mother were in charge of the farm work. After all, a strong physique cultivated by labor could not resist the attack of grotesque rumors...... When he was lying alone on the kang of the house every night, he couldn't get rid of the scene of her kowtowing to him on the wedding night, always thinking of her cold hands and cold legs trembling in his arms, she must have never gotten the pleasure of ** but only received fear, she couldn't get rid of fear and finally accumulated to the point of collapse. He was a little disheartened now, and when he came back from the field, he lay down on the empty and deserted earthen kang. This kang had received five women in different postures, and carried away five equally stiff corpses. The amount of grain, cotton, mules, and silver dollars spent on marrying these five women added up to half of the family's belongings, and the key was that the mood was too bad. He lay on the kang and sighed neither sighing nor sad, but was weak and lacking. He felt that his hands and feet were as light as a piece of paper, and without a trace of strength, a light wind might lift him up and throw him into a random silence, and the world was already very illusory, and it had nothing to do with him. He lay on the kang until dark, and when he heard his mother call him for dinner, he said that he was not hungry and did not want to eat. Mother called Lu San again. Lu San was embarrassed to eat alone, so he ran into the mansion to enlighten him. He advised Lu San to go to dinner quickly and not wait for himself. The sound of Lu San devouring food under the grape trellis in the courtyard was very loud, and he ate quickly and quickly. He couldn't think of any delicious food in the world that would make a man chew so sweet, so eager.

After the mother finished cleaning up the stove, she threw the dust on her body in the yard and called him. Jiaxuan walked into the upper room, and his mother sat on the simplified Taishi chair that his father used to sit on when he was alive, and his posture was quite similar to his father's sitting posture. He sat down in the chair on the other side of the table, trying to act as if he didn't care or care. The mother said that she was going to go back to her parents' house early tomorrow morning and ask his uncles to touch his daughter-in-law again. He advised his mother to take a break. His mother asked him why he was slowing down. I dare to slow down when I am in my twenties! Mother said and became energetic: "Sensei put on that yin and yang frustrating posture!" The woman is nothing more than the paper that pastes the window, which is torn and torn, peeled off, and pasted with a new layer. Five are dead, and I'm going to marry you another five. It's worth it when the family property is spent, and it's better than having no children and no daughters to cut off the incense and give it to others. Jiaxuan didn't say anything more. On the fifth day, my mother returned from my uncle's house, and the matter was settled. The gamblers rushed to their homes, went upstairs to fill the hoard of grain, pulled away the bullocks and mules, and used the bullocks and mules to pull away the bullocks and mules, and used the bullocks and mules to pull the oxen cart full of grain and walked away. The woman was half angry and the gambler was ashamed, so he untied his trouser belt and hung himself on the walnut tree in the backyard. In this way, it is agreed that the daughter will promise people, and the high dowry will make normal people stunned, and twenty stones of wheat and twenty bundles of cotton may be converted into silver at the market price, but they must be paid off at one time. This figure sent chills down Jiaxuan's spine, but her mother quietly said that she had promised the family, and the second uncle, who acted as a matchmaker, should go through the formalities according to the usual procedures of engagement. Jiaxuan was surprised to find that his mother's ability and decisiveness had actually surpassed that of his father, and he had less worries about looking ahead and backward, showing his concentration and decisiveness in determining that he would only look forward and not look left and right. In this way, a month before the arrival of the father's first anniversary sacrifice, in the pleasant season of the third month of the peach blossoms, the sixth daughter-in-law entered the gatehouse to the joyful festive tune of the suona horn.

When the sixth woman, Hu Shi, was unveiled of her hijab and red handkerchief, Jiaxuan couldn't help but be shocked, and the men and women who rushed into the new house to see the excitement were also dumb and giggling. This woman is immediately associated with a legendary beauty, or a lady on the stage. When Jiaxuan squeezed out of the new house to the courtyard full of chairs and dining tables, someone began to call Hu Fenglian, who was a beautiful fisherwoman in the Qin opera "Turtle Mountain", almost everyone knew it. In the evening, when he and her sat on a kang and looked at each other, her brilliance and beauty swept away the dark psychology left to him by the five women in front of him, and made him no longer regret the super dowry of twenty stones of wheat and twenty bundles of cotton. Then sleep with you. He soon realized that things were not rosy. He caressed her, hugged her, kissed her face, kissed her mouth, and she meekly accepted it, and when his hand tried to untie her shorts, she jumped up and quickly reached out from under the pillow and held a pair of scissors in her hand. The scissors had obviously been carefully polished, and the sharp blades flashed blood in the red light of the candle. She knelt on the kang, naked with two warped snow-white **, pointed the tip of the scissors at him and said, "If you dare to tear open my trouser belt, I will cut off that thing of yours." ”

He compromised, conceded, and agreed to Hu. He felt that it should be satisfying to have such a woman sleeping by his side, but he couldn't stop regretting it every night. He even began to really wonder if the goods that flowed out of his thing were poisonous, and secretly shook the goods into the pig food to observe the movement of the pig after eating, a total of three times, and the pig's activity was not abnormal. He told Mr. Leng what was on his mind. Mr. Leng laughed when he heard this, saying that he had heard this gossip from idlers a long time ago, which was pure nonsense. In the more than 20 years he has been practicing medicine, he has seen men with sperm without sperm, dead sperm and water essence, and has never seen a precedent for having barbed poisonous sperm. Mr. Leng smiled and said, "Brother! Let's just make a mistake and make a mistake!" After that, he spread the paper, grabbed the pen and dipped it in ink, prescribed a prescription for nourishing yin and aphrodisiac and warming the yang, took seven doses at a time, and ordered to take it for 100 days. Jiaxuan carried a bundle of medicine bags home and handed it to Hu, saying that the medicine was detoxified. Hu Shi was overjoyed, and he suffered every morning and evening, watching the man drink. This night, she snuggled in the man's arms and said emotionally: "You can endure the bitterness and drink for a hundred days, as long as the poison is removed, you can do whatever you want, I don't have any bad intentions to embarrass you." Jiaxuan was overjoyed, and drank the bitter potion as if he were drinking honey. At the end of the hundred days, Jiaxuan was remedied with medicine, his face was radiant, Hu Shi lifted the prohibition in his heart and ripped off his trouser belt, the two of them were as enthusiastic as they were greedy, and they were not satisfied or sleepy, until the adobe of the two pages of kang noodles collapsed, and the two of them giggled and moved a nest.

The frenzy after Hu Shi released his waist confinement lasted for three whole nights, and both of them were exhausted. On the fourth night, I couldn't toss anymore, so I fell asleep next to each other. A scream in his sleep frightened Jiaxuan to the point that he didn't know what to do, and when he woke up, he found that Hu Shi was tightly wrapped around him, shaking like chaff, and he didn't dare to come out. He hurriedly lit the oil lamp, and saw that Hu's eyes were full of suspicion and horror, and his eyes were wandering in a trance. When I asked her what was wrong, she was stumbling and squeezed out a sentence for a long time: "There are ghosts!" After that, he buried his head in the quilt and hugged Jiaxuan harder. After hearing this, Jiaxuan suddenly felt that his scalp was numb and his spine was cold, and a layer of cold goosebumps erupted all over his body. He asked, "Where is the ghost?" Hu Shi said in a trembling voice: "I don't dare to say it, the more I say it, the more scared I become." Jiaxuan broke free of Hu's hand, hooked his pants and ran barefoot out of the mansion and climbed upstairs to dig up half a liter of peas, one after another, from the ceiling to the corner, from the kang to the ground, a handful of peas were as dense as rain, the sound of brushing was terrifying, and the ground on the kang was sprinkled with green pea grains. When he was a child, his father exorcised demons like this to frighten him. After this toss, Hu Shi really relieved himself, his eyes were alive, he hugged him and cried, and his body no longer trembled. He sat with her in his arms until dawn, and she dared to speak about the ghost she had dreamed of last night. She said she saw the five women in his front room. The five women pinched her, twisted her, picked at her, grabbed her, tore her, beat her, spit on her, and all fought to drag him to sleep. What puzzled Jiaxuan was that Hu had never seen any of the dead women, and the appearance characteristics of the five deceased people she said matched the real people one by one! Jiaxuan said to his mother, and his mother immediately said, "I'm going to ask the judge tonight and arrest all the dogs." ”

The judge kept his name and surname secret, known as a pinch of hair, and a mysterious black mole under his left cheek was adorned with a pinch of black hair that was a ruler long. Jiaxuan told the story of the haunting. The judge only asked him for his address and urged him to go back, saying that he would arrive later. Jiaxuan knew that the judge was walking in a sedan chair as fast as the wind, so he hurriedly trotted home. Sure enough, the judge arrived, and as soon as he reached the door, he threw a net onto the gatehouse. The judge came into the house, wrapped his head in a red handkerchief, tied a red belt around his waist, and put on his red shoes, and threw himself upstairs to get to his feet. Hu was so frightened that he was covered with a quilt. The judge finally caught the ghost from the corner of the second door, and presented to the lamp a porcelain jar with a red cloth that had been tightly tied around his neck, and the red cloth kept bouncing like a rat rushing out. The judge instructed: "Fill the pot with enough water, boil the dog to death and dry it!" Lu San and Jiaxuan took turns pulling the bellows, after the pot boiled water, a stench overflowed and was disgusting, Jiaxuan vomited first, Lu San then vomited, and then burned after spitting, until the half pot of water was boiled to the point that there was not a drop left, the judge took the reward money, took the porcelain jar, collected the net, and then took the ghost sedan chair back to the ridge. The consequences are no longer haunted. Hu's spirit never recovered, day by day he saw depression, day by day, Mr. Leng's dozens of doses of traditional Chinese medicine did not improve, until a pile of flesh and blood was miscarried, and he was unable to afford to lie on the kang, and soon he was exhausted.

Jiaxuan was completely desperate. Mr. Leng enlightened him and said: "Brother, please ask Mr. Yin and Yang to come and see what is wrong with the homestead and ancestral tomb, and let Mr. Yin and Yang treat you and ......."