It was the middle of the night, but the weather was very hot, as if it was the same as now, it was a big summer, and the roasters couldn't stand it.

The tireless screaming of the acquaintances around him, the large cluster of crape myrtle flowers blooming like fire, and there is a strong fragrance of lilacs around, which usually smells very good, but at this time it makes people dizzy and want to vomit, strange and disgusting.

When I raised my eyes, I saw a dilapidated house, which was the kind of adobe house before liberation, and it was very noisy inside.

Although there is a woman in it who is tired of singing the lullaby of "The Wind is Light and the Moon is Bright", there is a child who is making a lot of noise and crying uncomfortably.

This woman's voice is still very young! By the way, in the present, at the age of ten years, she is a "girl", but at that time, she was already a mother.

This is everything that the young grandfather saw after he died.

It's so hot, not because it's summer, but because there is the yang energy of a living person in the house.

Yang Qi coaxed, and the newly dead ghost couldn't get close.

But this young man endured the pain caused by the yang energy of the living, and resolutely walked out of the window step by step to look inside.

Sure enough, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old, ragged girl was half-lying on a clay kang with a haggard face breastfeeding a little boy, but the milk was not abundant, and the boy seemed to be hungry to make such a fuss.

Of course, this girl is far from the current Grandma Osmanthus, but the outline of her eyebrows and eyes can still be seen to be similar.

She is not a beauty, even if she is now the most beautiful age of a girl, with the young grandfather, it is not compatible, to say that it is ugly, a bit of a colorful phoenix with the crow, but this does not affect the handsome young grandfather's admiration for her.

The young grandfather's heart hurt very much, as if it was about to crack.

"Mommy, Daddy, want Daddy." The boy's words are not good, and they are small milk voices.

The young Grandma Osmanthus was stunned for a moment, and then wiped her eyes: "Your father will come back tomorrow." ”

"Daddy, want Daddy."

The child couldn't understand it, so he stubbornly shouted these two words and cried again.

Grandma Osmanthus frowned, raised her hand and was about to hit the child's buttocks, but the hand stopped in mid-air, fell again, hugged the child, and said softly and stubbornly: "Your father will come back tomorrow, and your father will definitely come back tomorrow......"

Saying that, the tears in her eyes seemed to be broken, and they fell down one by one.

The young master and grandfather endured it and choked up.

"Okay, little brother of the Dong family," suddenly in the shadow of the crape myrtle, a dark shadow appeared: "I've seen it, you should also go, or after the first seven, there will be no chance." ”

"I'm not leaving." The boy suppressed his choked sobs and said resolutely, "I won't leave them behind......"

"But even if you don't leave, what good can you do besides delaying reincarnation?" The black shadow sighed: "Life and death, everyone has to go through, not just you." ”

"But I don't worry about my daughter-in-law," the young man said loudly: "I don't care if I am reincarnated or not, they are orphans and widows, I can't rest assured, you wait, when my daughter-in-law ...... her"

The young man's voice stood, no matter how heavy it was, he pretended to be relaxed and said: "When she remarries, and there are other men to take care of her, I will leave." ”

"What if she doesn't remarry?" The Black Shadow sighed, "You can't be a lonely ghost forever, can you?" Besides, if she remarries, will she still burn incense for you? But if the incense is broken, you will ......"

I know that my soul will be scattered, and I will never be reborn.

"Then I'm not afraid," the young man was as stubborn as Grandma Osmanthus: "You don't have to persuade me, I will never regret making a good decision." ”

The black shadow sighed, said a fool, and the figure disappeared under the crape myrtle flower.

Grandma Osmanthus herself is a widow with a young child, and it is not easy to live, and what is worse is that the brother and sister-in-law of the young grandfather often come to embarrass her: "Osmanthus, you see that you are only seventeen this year, it is not a way to keep it like this, your man is dead, we will take the incense, take your son, you find a good family to walk the aisle." ”

"Aisle" is our local dialect, which means to remarry.

The young grandfather was stunned, and he went to the base of the window step by step to listen.

There are a few more living people, and the yang energy is even more powerful, like a small knife slashing at him, but he can endure it.

It's good to go, it's good to go.

He only hoped that someone would protect her for him.

But Grandma Osmanthus sneered: "This bit of real estate and land is not worth much, and it is also worth staring at by my brother and sister-in-law?" ”

"Do you speak human language?" The uncle was very fierce, and when he came up, he threw a tea bowl to make a noise: "Be kind as a donkey's liver and lungs, and you dog bite Lu Dongbin!" ”

"I really haven't seen such an encroachment on Brother Industry Avenue Lu Dongbin." Although Grandma Osmanthus is young, she is light and light, and she is not alarmed, and that momentum has actually suppressed the uncle.

"It's not worth much, it's also our ancestral property, we can't cheapen you as an outsider for nothing!" Her sister-in-law tore her face and said sharply: "Don't say that you can still keep the festival, you have to leave sooner or later, why waste this time, your youth is limited." ”

"My brother and sister-in-law's youth is also limited, why waste it on me?" Grandma Osmanthus sneered: "I tell you the truth, except for my dead man, I can't look down on anyone!" ”

The young grandfather was stunned, his face was miserable, but the corners of his mouth were raised.

She has me in her heart, and I am the only one.

But this can't work, the corners of the young grandfather's mouth are drooping again, if she is like this, how much hardship will she have to endure in this life? He was reluctant.

The brother and sister-in-law left in a huff, and Grandma Osmanthus continued to coax the child: "You are good, your father will come back tomorrow." ”

And when my brother and sister-in-law left, their faces were very wrong.

The young grandfather knew very well what kind of person his brother and sister-in-law were, so he hurriedly followed, and sure enough, he heard his sister-in-law say: "Osmanthus is really shameless, otherwise it will be tied up and sent to Erlaizi." ”

Erlaizi is an old bachelor in the village, his family is surrounded by walls, he loves to drink, and he can't marry a daughter-in-law at all, how can Osmanthus follow him? Wouldn't it be even more painful?

"Then we have to see how much Er Laizi will be hired?" The elder brother said, "It's not worth it if it's less." ”

"Erlaizi has an uncle, a lot of it," the sister-in-law chuckled: "Don't worry." ”

"That's not good," the elder brother frowned: "Osmanthus is so strong, you can't look for death and life, right?" ”

"I passed out, the sedan chair arrived at Erlaizi's house, what does it have to do with us whether we live or die." The sister-in-law twisted her brother: "You are just a dead brain." ”

The elder brother smiled: "You still have a way." ”

"Your life is better than your short-lived ghost brother," the sister-in-law smiled, "My life is also better than that unlucky brother and daughter-in-law." ”

"That's that, that's." The elder brother smirked: "The second child is stupid to study, if he can get a name in the exam, it's okay, let's get it together, but unfortunately, he doesn't have this life." ”

The young grandfather stood in place, his fists clenched, and he wanted to fight him, but he was newly dead, his anger was not condensed, and his hand swept over the faces of his brother and sister-in-law, and they were not even conscious, and they were already happily discussing how to spend the dowry money.

The young grandfather returned to the window of his cottage in despair, his thin figure shaking as if he were sifting chaff.

He is a dead man, but he thinks that the living are more terrible than the dead.

What about the daughter-in-law? He can't protect his daughter-in-law who doesn't know about it at all.

Now she was so tired that she fell asleep, and her hands were still on the child. The child still has tears on his eyelashes.

He put his hands on the window and looked in, the yang qi was uncomfortable, but it was not as uncomfortable as his heart.

Grandma Osmanthus came out to feed the chickens, he followed behind, shielding her from dust, Grandma Osmanthus dried the grain, he watched the birds, came out and went in, and the tail seemed to follow.

Sometimes Grandma Osmanthus will cry in the mirror, sometimes Grandma Osmanthus is stunned when she burns the fire, and the young grandfather has been wandering outside the eaves, leaning on the doorpost, panicked and thoughtful.

He wanted to do something, but he couldn't.

Not long after, the sedan chair really came, and Grandma Osmanthus had already been unconscious, and was moved onto the sedan chair, the child was crying, but no one cared about him, and some people laughed, so that the child and Erlaizi called Dad.

There are also drummers around, and everyone is holding candles, and it is very lively.

It seemed that the onlookers were laughing, but he squatted on the ground and cried.

Men rarely shed tears, let alone cry loudly, they all say that men don't flick when they have tears, but they don't get to the sad place, this kind of heart-wrenching crying makes my nose sour.

When the sedan chair left, he suddenly stood up as if he had made a decision, and chased after him.

The wedding is very popular, according to the rules, the bride still holds a mirror in her hand, just to ward off evil spirits, to prevent lonely souls and wild ghosts, the young grandfather doesn't care about anything, so he desperately chases forward.

Other dead people passing by persuaded him not to be so stupid, life and death, no one can cross it, but he turned a deaf ear, risked his soul to follow all the way, and saw that he had arrived at Erlaizi's house, but he stopped.

There is a door god at the door of Erlaizi's house, and he can't get in.

Seeing the sedan chair enter the door, the obscene Er Laizi hugged the osmanthus and smiled lewdly, but he couldn't do anything - because he couldn't cross the threshold.

There were zealous dead people who wanted to pull him away, but not only did he not go, but he also knelt in front of the door god and kowtowed one by one.

The two door gods didn't look at him at first, but his head kept snorting, and no one could count how many knocks he had.

The door gods naturally knew what was going on in the house, and one of the door gods couldn't stand it anymore and half-closed his eyes.

As if he had been pardoned, he turned sideways and squeezed in through the door, at this time, it was the time for the candles in the cave room, he saw the silhouette of Er Laizi blowing out the candles in front of the window paper, and rushed in against the window paper.

Someone sighed, and I could hear the sound of the dark shadow under the crape myrtle flower.

"Snort......" A whirlwind rolled up in the flat ground, the window edge was smashed, the thunderstorm in the sky was loud, and there was a loud bang, and suddenly there was a scream from Grandma Osmanthus in the room: "Erlaizi, you bastard, you dare to take advantage of the old lady, see if the old lady doesn't suck your mouth!" ”

The young grandfather knew that it was the black shadow who helped the young grandfather, and he turned around to thank him, but he never saw the black shadow again.

Osmanthus didn't wrap her feet, so she had a lot of strength, and kicked open the door of Erlaizi, and the wedding dress was torn off by her crookedly, and she ran all the way back to the house.

The young grandfather hurriedly followed, behind his ears was the painful moaning of Erlaizi, he didn't know what he was suffering, he was worried about osmanthus and didn't look back.

Grandma Osmanthus begged a neighbor who had a little friendship with the young grandfather to write her a complaint, she wanted to sue layer by layer, sue her brother and sister-in-law for selling widowed brothers and sisters, and sue Erlaizi for buying people, she wanted justice.

The people in the village knew about the situation and helped her.

Soon, the matter subsided, and no one dared to marry her by force—knowing that she was not easy to mess with.

The young grandfather was both happy and unhappy.

So how much hardship does she have to endure if she lives alone for a lifetime? She gave birth to children for herself, guarded herself all her life, what did she do for her?

It wasn't what he wanted, he just wanted her to be well.

Just when everyone praised her, she suddenly became happy, and she understood why her son couldn't eat milk - a pregnant woman has no milk.

She knew that she had the posthumous child of her young grandfather in her belly.

The young grandfather also knew, but the other folks didn't know.

They talked a lot, saying that the osmanthus is strong on the surface, who knows who to fool around, and the child is pregnant again! What does it look like, it's a slap in the face, smack!

Gossip, spitting stars, melon seed shells, can drown people alive.

There are even second-rate people who want to take advantage of the squatting roots for osmanthus in the middle of the night, and obscenely say that they are willing to help her do farm work and help her raise children, in exchange, I also hope that she will leave a quilt.

Those words were unbearable, the young man couldn't listen to it, and he felt that Grandma Osmanthus had been wronged, but Grandma Osmanthus was fighting with open fire, and when she opened the window, she was scolded, and she scolded those second-rate people.

Grandma Osmanthus said loudly: "One bed bug, not even a single hair of my dead man's hair can be topped, now your paralyzed eyes!" ”

The widow's life is not easy, everyone knows.

Grandma Osmanthus repaired the roof of the house by herself, and the house was drilled with a snake, and Grandma Osmanthus personally pinched it out.

She carries water when the ground is dry, she digs a ditch when the ground is waterlogged, and she can do everything a man can do.

Such an osmanthus grandmother raised two children, and arranged their respective marriages, and made a lifetime of merit.

Only the young grandfather knew that Grandma Osmanthus prayed to the shrine at home, saying that I am worthy of you in this life.

The young grandfather was in tears—yes, the dead would cry too.

That shrine was built when the young grandfather was alive, and no one remembered what kind of god it was, but because of that shrine, the young grandfather has never been able to return to his own house - the shrine is a house god, not only him, but also other evil things can't enter, but he is also relieved.

Grandma Osmanthus is like a flower blooming in a mountain stream, only for the young grandfather and grandfather to bloom alone, withered, and only for the young grandfather to wither alone, she patronized the child all her life, and did not treat herself how to live - the woman is the one who pleases herself, and her one who pleases herself is dead.

Seeing that she is also old, with wrinkles and spots, gray hair, and the young grandfather will always be seventeen years old, and his heart for Grandma Osmanthus has never changed as it was when he was seventeen years old.

That coincidence, for the first time, he took the hand of his grandson who was lost in the City God Temple, and the grandson wanted to eat snacks, he was not reluctant to buy them, and even he wanted to be like an ordinary grandfather, to get snacks and pamper his grandson, but that thing couldn't be eaten - if he ate it, he had to stay here.

In fact, he is also very willing to have a child to accompany him, but this is not good, his grandson stays, what should Osmanthus do?

Lonely, he's used to it, so he doesn't want osmanthus to get used to it.

After the grandson went back, he told Osmanthus about this adventure, and Osmanthus smiled: "If it is really like that, it is a bit similar to your dead ghost grandfather...... But the one who has no conscience may have been reincarnated early, right? Now I guess I have another son, hahaha. ”

No, the young grandfather smiled proudly, you are wrong, I am waiting for you!

Over the years, even the grandchildren were much older than when he died, and like the dandelion seeds, they matured and flew away, and there was only one osmanthus left in the old house.

He waited for her all his life, and she waited for him all his life.

Originally, he wanted to keep it like this, but that day, as happened to be the shrine that he had moved many times and had been following them, suddenly fell off the wall in a good way.

Grandma Osmanthus wanted to put it back on, but she no longer had the strength to drive nails, so she had to put the shrine away—and wait for the eldest grandson to come.

The young grandfather had a chance - he entered the door.

And when Grandma Osmanthus turned around, she saw him.

They don't know why, perhaps, it was the house god in the old shrine who was moved by their lifelong waiting, and gave them this chance to reunite?

Grandma Osmanthus's first words were: "Dead ghost, you picked me up?" ”

She hasn't forgotten herself, all these years, she hasn't forgotten.

The young grandfather wiped his eyes: "No, I'm here to accompany you, I didn't leave, don't leave yet." ”

Grandma Osmanthus blinked, rubbed her hands nervously, staring at her image of the old dragon clock, very embarrassed: "I...... Old. ”

"You're still the same as before," the young grandfather smiled, "It's good-looking, I like it." ”

"It's not serious, it's still so numb." Grandma Osmanthus blushed with folds.

"You...... What do you want me to do with you? The young grandfather was also a little cramped, even if he got along day and night, he was a little nervous: "A few days ago, you danced with the old man downstairs, didn't you?" ”

"That's right." Grandma Osmanthus said seriously: "That old man danced well. ”

"I'll dance with you, what's so difficult, don't look for him."

"You old thing, how old are you, and you're still jealous!"

Grandma Osmanthus made a lot of hooves and braised pork, she is the best at these two, why? The old man loved to eat when he was alive.

Later, Aunt Xiao appeared, and the young grandfather immediately understood why the house god let him in, it was to give him a chance to protect the osmanthus in person.

The young grandfather didn't say anything on the surface, but he had already made a decision in his heart.

Osmanthus, you have done so much for me, this time, I protect you, I personally protect you.

"Young man?" Suddenly, at this time, the young grandfather's voice sounded again: "You send my daughter-in-law home, okay?" ”

I just came out of my memory, blinked, and hurriedly nodded: "Okay!" ”