Speaking of my second uncle, I have to mention my grandfather.

I've complained before that people like me, who are good at studying and don't bother to form gangs and bully the weak, are now so mixed that they can't even afford to eat a full meal. My grandfather has practiced martial arts all his life, but when he is old, he can only nest in Zhangjiagou and wait for death, and he can't even share a piece of land in the village. As for my dead ghost father, he was a notoriously good old man, who fell into the river and drowned while fishing, and I can't even forget what he looked like.

When it comes to my grandfather, I have to mention the ancestors of the Zhang family during the Jiaqing period two hundred years ago. After the ancestors of the Zhang family were lifted, the old courtyard of the hometown was renovated and rebuilt, and an old locust tree was planted at the door.

Especially when it comes to my grandfather, he liked to listen to book reviews when he was young, and he always dreamed that he could fight like the heroes in the book reviews, so he has been practicing hard for many years, and finally one day, his skills have been put to use.

In a fight in the town, he accidentally killed someone and was imprisoned.

The family spent all the money to keep Grandpa, but after Grandpa was released from prison, due to the murderer, the village did not give him land at all, so he has been living by eating my family's one-third of an acre.

After I was born, basically my grandfather was taking me, my grandfather treated me well all day long, let me practice martial arts with him, I said before that I liked to play with knives when I was a child, and my grandfather taught me to play, but then my grandfather and my father took a boat to go fishing in the big reservoir, the boat capsized, he swam ashore, but my father did not come up.

After that, my grandfather was in a slump, and he either drank or talked nonsense all day long, and sometimes locked himself in his old house for several days and didn't come out, he has aged very quickly in recent years, and when we met, I asked my second uncle and I to quickly find a daughter-in-law to have a baby.

But when my grandfather was sober, he would still urge me to practice martial arts, and then my ability finally came into play, and when I saw the unevenness, I pulled out a knife to help, and slapped an old man who slapped other people's children on the bus into the roadside flower bed, and they called the police and arrested me at the police station, and asked me to pay 500 yuan, and I had no money to pay, so I was locked up for seven days.

My mother scolded my grandfather for this, and after that, my grandfather didn't practice martial arts in front of me.

So the decline of our family is largely due to the fact that my grandfather and grandmother died early, and when I came to my second uncle, he became a child without a father and a mother, fooling around all day long, he was lazy and lazy, so he is still a single person in his thirties.

But I'm not angry that my second uncle is lazy, but that after my father died, he didn't do anything at all, when my mother was bullied by Zhang Fugui's family, he not only pretended not to see it, but became an old man who didn't leave my house, and later stole my family's food for gambling money, and I didn't have any contact with my family after a fight.

But this time I was going to cut down a tree, and I never thought that it would be my second uncle who would be the first to stand up against me.

When my mother heard that I was going to cut down the tree, of course she also spoke out against it, and she taught me to be unscrupulous when I was a child, not to talk about ghosts and gods, especially the old well at the head of the village, which naturally includes the old locust tree.

But this time I didn't want to listen to my mother again, because her kindness and peace just led to her being bullied and almost losing her life.

The mother still thinks that Zhang Meng's death is a pity, and she said that the good family suddenly disappeared, and the child sold her a big fish cheaply a few days ago.

As for the reason why everyone objected to me cutting down the tree, of course, it was because the old locust tree was too evil, and many people were really afraid that something would happen to me, and some elderly people found me and said that I saw the red blood flowing from the place where the old locust tree was cut by the Red Guards, and I should not die in vain.

After hearing the news that I was going to cut down the old locust tree, the village chief found me and asked, "Yangyang, that old locust tree was planted by your ancestors, but what are you doing cutting it for no reason?" And at this juncture, aren't you committing a crime against the wind! ”

Zhangjiagou has not been broken since the white fox was beaten to death, first Zhang Fugui's family was wiped out, then Xu Banxian fell into the old well, and then Zhang Meng's poisonous sores, and I suddenly mentioned that I wanted to cut down the tree at this time, which naturally made people think that I was actively touching the mold and looking for death.

"I'm short of money, my mother's illness needs money, I also need money to contract a fish pond to buy fish fry, and now I need money for everything, and the old locust tree is too much of an eyesore in the village, since it is my family's tree, it has been passed on to my generation, and I naturally have the right to cut it down."

When the village chief heard me say this, he didn't say anything more, just shook his head and sighed.

Grandpa is now old and confused, and after I went to tell him about the tree to be cut down, Grandpa lay on the bed and nodded his head and said, "It's good, it's good." ”

Grandpa pointed to the broken box in the old house, which contained the title deed of our old house.

And the second uncle's reason for opposing me is very simple, he said that our old locust tree cannot be cut down, because the old locust tree belongs to him, at least half of his share.

I looked at my second uncle at that time and said, "Zhang Ercheng, I haven't settled the matter with you about eating and drinking in my house for nothing before, and now I want to cut down a broken tree and you will jump out, I advise you not to be embarrassed." ”

"Did you talk to your second uncle like that?" When the second uncle heard this, he jumped to his feet in a hurry. "I told you not to cut down the tree, you don't cut it, besides, what is the benefit of cutting the tree for you, the old locust tree is alive and well, can you cut it, your mother is still sick now, you have an accident, what should she do?"

"I really thank you for your concern, don't you know what virtues you have?"

After I finished speaking coldly, I turned around and left, but several old people in the village stopped me, saying that the old locust tree belonged to the public and had applied for cultural heritage before, and could not be cut without the consent of the village chief and the village party secretary.

I had long expected that some people would say this, so I showed everyone the title deed I got from my grandfather, and now although my ancestor's yard is gone, it is clearly written that a century-old locust tree at the door is also owned by Zhang's house.

One of the old men read the title deed, pointed to the payment of the title deed and said: "The date above is the eighth year of the Republic of China, and Lao Jiang has been beaten to Taiwan, and you don't count the title deeds." ”

I snorted and said: "The land deed marriage contract, originally relied on the moral constraints, talking about the spirit of the contract, this land deed is not counted, everyone understands it in their hearts, don't play scoundrels with me here, the tree planted by the ancestor of my Zhang Yang family, I naturally have the right to cut it, and you don't need to be responsible for what happens, if you don't like it, take the money to buy my tree." ”

"You kid is digging into the eyes of money, this old locust tree has lived for more than 200 years and no one dares to cut it, what kind of nerves do you have to cut it!" A very old man questioned.

"Now that the village party secretary is dead, the village chief who can speak can speak, and the village chief has not objected to me cutting down trees, why do you object?" I argued.

"The village chief's son was killed by hanging from this tree back then, of course he wanted to cut down this tree!" The old man was in a hurry by me and shouted in public.

After the old man said this, the villagers looked at the village chief standing aside, and a trace of strangeness flashed in the village chief's eyes at that time, which was fleeting.

I was amazed, for I had never heard of the village chief's son being hanged from an old locust tree.

"Uncle, don't talk nonsense." Someone whispered a reminder to the old man.

"What did I say?" The old man raised his voice and said. "Not only his son Zhang Youde, but even the old bachelor's family were hanged on this tree! Before, when the old boy heard a little wind and grass, he jumped out and said who was going to die and who was going to be unlucky, why didn't he say it now? Seeing that Zhang Yang's baby is dying, why don't you say it, back then, this tree horse Taoist priest personally said that it could not be cut, and if the things inside were released, it would not be killed? ”

The old man's words made the people present in an uproar, the events of the Cultural Revolution period have been fifty years ago, and Ma Daoist left Zhangjiagou before the Cultural Revolution, more than fifty years ago, not many people remember it at all, even if they do, who can know whether it is true or false, how can this be more and more evil?

In the previous rumors about the old locust tree, no one said that there was something in the tree.