Chapter 5: Ancestral Graves

After A's story was told, everyone fell into contemplation. After a while, D spoke first, D is a person who doesn't like to talk, because she is so kind, she is afraid that she will accidentally say the wrong thing and hurt others, she almost cried and said: "That sister-in-law Song is so pitiful!" The rest nodded approvingly. At this moment, a sigh sounded in the dark corner, revealing impatience, it was C, since she couldn't do her homework, she would go to sleep, but the sound of their stories was so noisy that she couldn't even sleep.

"This story didn't disappoint you, did it?" A asked knowingly.

"Excellent." Everyone said.

"Next, I'll talk about it. If student A's story is moving, then I am terrifying. E said.

"How scary? Will you be too scared to sleep? A asked.

"Almost. I heard this story when I was a child, and I still remember it. The story is set in the feudal period. E said.

"How feudal? What period is it? B asked.

"I can't say exactly, it's a long time ago anyway. It doesn't matter. Next, I will also tell in the first person. E said.

So, E began her story -

Everyone has an unforgettable memory growing up, and some of the memories are beautiful and some are dark. This part of my past is not only dark but also terrifying, and it will always be stuck in my mind. It's buried at the bottom of my mind, but it still comes up sometimes, especially when I see the grave.

The grave is the place where people belong, it represents death, so people fear it.

When I was a child, I was very naughty, and I often went to play in the wild with my friends, and there were beautiful wildflowers and clear rivers in the wild, and we forgot to go home while playing. Once, my buddy Gou Yu said, "There is a big grave in the embankment, who dares to go there to play?" ”

"I dare to go!" I patted my chest and said.

I'm not reckless, I really dare to go, I had a nickname when I was a child - stupid and bold.

With the dog leftover showing the way, I took the lead, and the three of us set off, and the other partner was called Shishi.

We had a long way to the embankment, on which we stood and the breeze was blowing in our hair.

"Look, that's it!" The dog left to show us.

The stone and I looked in the direction he was pointing, and sure enough! In the weeds not far away, there is a large tomb with a round arch, which is particularly large, and it is definitely an old tomb. It sits there alone, with no other graves around.

"I heard that this tomb is hundreds of years old, and it is so big because there are boys and girls buried in it." Gou Yu said.

"Huh?" The stone was frightened.

Gou Yu said that in the distant era, after the death of some rich people with big families, his children would buy two children from the poor, a man and a woman, and bury them with the rich man after being poisoned, which is called a funeral, as for why such rich people do this, there is no way to know, the feudal period, has its own set of feudal theories, anyway, they must blindly think that this is beneficial to the family, but also shows their status.

"Shall we go down and have fun?" I propose.

They both objected, and the stone said, "Don't go down, think about it, the child who was buried with him was poisoned, this is a soul." ”

"After all these years, even if there are unjust souls, they have long been reincarnated. If you don't go, I'll go. With that, I ran under the embankment. Goyu and Stone stood there watching my distant back.

I came to the grave, and it was even bigger up close, and a large tombstone stood in front of the grave, with some words written on it that I didn't recognize, as if they were old characters, and there were no weeds in the mound and the two paces wide around it, and I don't know who had sorted it out. It stands to reason that for hundreds of years, the descendants have branched out more and more, and they are busy going their own way, who will remember its ancestor? There are also tributes under the tombstone, a few white steamed buns with red dots, the steamed buns are particularly white, it seems to be raw, not steamed, the red dots are on the top of the steamed buns, only a little, not red, but rose-red, I guess someone may have paid tribute recently, because there are still some paper ashes under the tombstone.

At this time, the dog remnants and stones also came down from the embankment, standing a few meters from the grave, not daring to come forward.

"Come here, there are also tributes, three big white steamed buns, exactly one for each person." After I finished speaking, I picked one up and took a bite. "Ahh I threw up right away, and it was really raw.

"Let's go, weird." Stone said.

"yes, the sun is setting." Gou Yu squinted at the sun setting in the west.

"Well," I said, "there's no point in it either." ”

As we walked back, we walked side by side, the stone was between me and the dog, and he said he was scared, so he was more sure. On a whim, I tried to play tricks on him, so I looked back, and I knew he must have seen my movements, and then, pretending to be scared, I approached him and whispered, "Stone, don't look back." His face turned white all of a sudden, and he also asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" "The boys and girls are behind us, watching us." I say. He took it seriously, instinctively turned his head, and to his surprise, he actually "snorted" and ran away. I was startled and hurriedly looked back, but there was nothing. "What's wrong with him?" Gou Yu said in surprise. I was dazed and said, "Is there anyone behind?" What does he seem to see?" Gou Yu's face also changed, and he said, "You have forgotten, the stone has yin and yang eyes, he must have seen something unclean, could it be that the boy and the girl crawled out of the grave?" I also panicked and said, "Then 、、、、、、 then 、、、、、、 then let's go?" So the dog and I ran to the embankment, and the stone was long gone.

My dog and I ran into the village and said goodbye and went home. We also discussed going to Shi's house tomorrow and asking him what he saw.

In the evening, after dinner, I didn't go out, lying on the kang to read the villain's book. It was already dark outside, and I looked up from my book, stared at the dark window, and somehow became stunned, and the huge tomb began to hover in my head. The door suddenly opened on its own, and slowly opened, as if it had been gently pushed open, however, no one came in, and a cold wind blew into the room, as if it had brought something rolling on the ground, and I glared at it, it was paper ashes.

"Mother!" I screamed in fright.

My mother, who was doing laundry in the yard, heard my shouts and immediately ran into the house and asked me what was wrong. I pointed to the door and shouted, "Paper ashes! Paper ashes to burn paper for the dead! ”

My mother looked at the door and angrily reprimanded me: "What kind of paper ashes! What nonsense on the big night! Don't look at it, go to sleep! After that, he went to do the laundry.

I put away my books, laid out the quilt and went to sleep, but I didn't dare to turn off the lights because I was afraid, so I slept with the lights on. Lying under the covers, feeling safe, I closed my eyes and waited for sleepiness to come. After a while, somehow, my face became hot, like a fever, my eyes began to water, I opened them, and closed them weakly, I believed that at this moment my eyes must be red, I opened them again with great difficulty, and called my mother into the house. My mother came to me and I said I had a fever, she touched my forehead and was startled and said why it was so hot, and then called me to go sir.

Sir is the name given to doctors in the early years by rural people.

After my mother left, I lay there with my eyes closed, hoping that she would come back soon. After only a short while, there was a noise in the room, and I wondered how my mother had come back so quickly, so I opened my eyes, but I saw two children, one in a red jacket and the other in a green jacket, dragging a long rope, silently climbing up the kang. I had a hunch that they weren't human, and I wanted to escape, but I couldn't move, and I couldn't even speak.

They tied me with ropes, and when I looked at them, their faces were as white as flour, with red cheeks, red rouge, and even their lips were red, and the boys wore little yarella and red jackets, and the girls wore pigtails and green jackets.

They led me with ropes, and I followed them in a daze. Out of the house, out of the yard, out into the vast darkness. They never looked back, didn't speak, I didn't know where they were taking me, I just felt that it was getting darker and colder、、、、、、

"Xue Xueβ€”β€”, come backβ€”"

Suddenly someone was calling me, again and again.

I looked back and saw nothing but darkness, and then a golden light shot out of nowhere, separating me from the two children, and after that, I knew nothing.

When I opened my eyes, I found myself still lying on the kang.

My mother told me that she went to call my husband, and when she came back, she found that I was not breathing, and my body was half cold, and she thought that I had always been healthy and could not die suddenly, and thought of the paper ashes I had just said, and thought that I might have fallen into an evil spirit, so she ran to Ma Dao's house again and asked her to come and see what was going on.

Ma Daopo said that my soul was locked away by something unclean, and I have to call it a soul. So, she first burned a piece of paper in the yard, and then climbed onto the roof to call for her soul. The call I heard came from Ma Daopo, and she succeeded in bringing my soul back.

After I recovered, I went to the stone house with the dog, and we asked him what he saw that day, and he became scared again, and first asked me, "Didn't you see it first?" Why are you still asking me? "I was ashamed to say that I lied to him. He nodded and said, "I really saw those two boys and girls. The boy wore a red jacket, and the virgin wore a green jacket, both with white faces, painted red cheeks, lit with red rouge, and red mouths, and stood at the grave and nibbled on the white steamed buns with red spots. ”

I smacked my lips and didn't say anything more.

Since then, I have changed from "stupid and bold" to "coward".