It's snowing, the first snow of the sophomore year. There is not much change compared with the first year of high school, the only change is that the loudspeaker on the roof of the complex does not sound the song "The First Snow in 2002", and the person who used his body to help me block Song Mink snowballs is no longer by my side.

The message to Xie Min still hasn't been answered, but fortunately, the brain that night, overwhelmed by the hope of life, didn't make me feel like I had made the wrong decision. Now that everything has been beaten back to its original shape, the result couldn't be better for me.

Song Mink's snowball was thrown more and more accurately, and it landed firmly on my head and bloomed, and I hurriedly slapped the snow in my hair down, and then watched Song Mink smirk at me, and I smirked along.

I have to say that after the relationship with Song Mink became more and more intimate, there was no boundary between her and me, and even the class was rumored that I was a couple with her. I naturally chose to ignore such gossip, and the same is true for Song Mink.

Lao Cai looked at me meaningfully and smiled, and he asked me how far Song Mink and I have developed? I gave him a blank look, and said in my heart: It turns out that Lao Cai is just a mortal.......

This year, Song Mink is still in my house, and I am very helpless about her attitude of not treating herself as an outsider at all. In fact, it seems that I still treat her as an outsider. Because when my mother came back, she also brought gifts for Song Mink, but I didn't have anything.

I know my mother's thoughts, and if she really treats Song Mink as her goddaughter, no one will believe it, and I don't believe it myself. One night, she secretly asked me how far Song Mink and I had developed? This sentence is so familiar, but it is my mother, so I naturally can't be as perfunctory as Lao Cai.

So I patiently said to her, "Mom, we're really just classmates." ”

My mother looked at me, showed the same meaningful smile as Lao Cai, and said, "Come on, I'm your mother, what haven't I ever experienced?" What's so embarrassing about that. ”

I sighed, showing a deep sense of helplessness.

My mom said to me again, "Okay, don't say it if you don't want to." But I warn you, you can't be half-hearted, or don't blame me for cleaning you up. ”

After that, my mother walked out of the room, leaving me alone on the bed and smiling bitterly.

On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I once again became a cleaner, a dishwashing aunt, and a side dish clerk, and I couldn't bear this pain, so I made an excuse to tell my mother that I wanted to go to see my grandfather and spend the New Year with him. My mom was silent for a while, then she went inside and took out the clothes and shoes that she and my dad had bought for my grandfather and told me to bring them. She said to me and asked me to pay New Year's greetings to my grandfather for her and my dad.

Seeing my mother's calm expression, I suddenly wondered if she knew something. So I asked her, and I said, "Mom, do you know why grandpa never celebrates the New Year at home?" ”

My mom smiled, then turned around and said, "Your grandfather naturally has his reasons for doing this, and besides, they are all from the same village, so you can guess some." ”

My mom was amazed and figured it out again. My dad doesn't have so many twists and turns, his mind is natural and simple, and what he can do is to listen to my grandfather, and the other is to clean me up when I am disobedient. In comparison, my mother's mind is much more lively, and just because everyone doesn't say some things doesn't mean that she won't think about them.

I think my mother probably doesn't know the specific reason, that is, in fact, my grandfather is guilty of five disadvantages and three shortcomings, and if he is too close to his family, it will hurt them. My mother should know that our Chu family has been engaged in the profession of Mr. Yin and Yang for generations, and people who come into contact with ghosts and gods have some inexplicable taboos. My grandfather also did this because of the taboo.

So I didn't say anything, just looked at the back of my mother walking into the house, and suddenly felt that the thoughts of the older generation are indeed incomparable to our young people.

……。

I met my grandfather, and when I went, he was having lunch with the scruffy old man, and they were drinking a glass of wine. This pair of little old men who have been friends for decades seem to be doing well, harmonious and loving, and it is reasonable to be suspected that there is a relationship between them.

Lao Cai still went back to Chengdu for the New Year, and Song Mink didn't come with me, because she didn't want too many people to know about her nine-tailed Tmall identity, even if the person who knew it was my grandfather. I respected her choice, just as I didn't want her to know that I was deficient in the five elements, so I didn't really think of asking her to come along.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was eaten by me, my grandfather, and the sloppy old man, which was not particularly rich, but it was not far off, at least the two old men drank and drank very happily. It's just that I was so sad that I found that my maid's life couldn't run away anywhere, whether at home or at the sloppy old man.

The two old men had eaten and drank, and my grandfather sat on the small sofa in the shop, while the scruffy old man lay comfortably on his wooden chaise longue, which he had turned around with his own body. My grandfather was smoking a cigarette while watching the Spring Festival Gala with the sloppy old man. They seemed to be in good spirits, I washed the dishes in the back room, and occasionally I could hear the laughter of the two old men.

It's rare to see my grandfather so relaxed, so I listened to their laughter and laughed with it, laughing from the bottom of my heart.

I took local materials, washed a plate of apples from the sloppy old man, and took them out, and then watched Lao Zhao's sketches with them.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the earth-shattering fireworks began to sound, and the numbers on the big screen of the Spring Festival Gala stage also jumped to 0. Another year has passed, yes! It's been another year, and I still haven't done anything that makes me feel memorable. In retrospect, I only had one year left, and from the experience of these two years, 365 days a year is a blink of an eye.

Time flies......

I suddenly remembered the red-robed female ghost, and I wondered where she came from. Why do you have so much hatred for me, for my grandfather? The sloppy old man seemed to know something, but he didn't tell me in detail. I've only got a year to go, so I don't think it's too much to know that now, right? And after the New Year, my grandfather will have to run around for my affairs, and I'm afraid I won't have a chance to ask him except for the past few days.

So I sorted out the wording and asked my grandfather in an unintentional tone: "Grandpa, do you remember that red-robed female ghost?" ……”

My grandfather was stunned and asked me, "What?" Did you meet her again? ”

I quickly shook my head and said to him, "No, it's just that the last time she appeared, she seemed to be very hostile to you, can you tell me why?" ”

My grandfather pondered for a while, as if he thought it was okay for me to know about it, so he said to me, "Actually, this matter has to start from 1952, which ...... that year. ”

Next, my grandfather told me the origin of the red-robed female ghost, according to him, the red-robed female ghost's real name is Liu Xiaorong, who married to our village from the next village, and the object she married was the third son of a landlord in our village.

In the spring of 1952, on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, it was advisable to travel and get married, and everything was fine. That afternoon, Liu Xiaorong, who was wearing a big red robe, married into our village, or married the only landlord's family, and married Wang Gui, the third son of the landlord's family.

At that time, food and clothing for ordinary people was still a big problem, so Liu Xiaorong, who was fortunate enough to marry into a landlord's family, was undoubtedly the envy of many in the village. It's a pity that everyone only sees the superficial food and clothing, but they ignore that Wang Gui is a complete bastard, indulging in fun and doing all kinds of evil, disrespecting his father and mother, and even punching and kicking his parents when his temper comes up. It can also be seen from this that Liu Xiaorong, who married into his royal family in a daze, must have a very low status.

And the reason why this Wang Gui developed such a temperament is actually related to the pampering of the landlord surnamed Wang. Because the eldest son and the second son died one after another, the landlord of the old man naturally doted on his hard-won third son very much, but he never thought that Wang Gui would become like this under his pampering.

Putting aside the issue of education for the time being, let's just talk about Liu Xiaorong.

Although Liu Xiaorong, who often endures Wang Gui's fists and feet, is very aggrieved, the concept of rural people marrying chickens and dogs is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This Liu Xiaorong has no other thoughts, she just wants to live a good life with Wang Gui, and it is best to be accompanied by her, this Wang Gui can change. It's a pity that Wang Gui's temperament has been cultivated since childhood, so how easy is it to change? So after a period of time, Liu Xiaorong completely broke off his mind to change him, just begging him not to get worse.

But things gradually took a turn for the worse, and reached a peak a year later.

In the spring of 1953, the spring breeze of land reform finally came belatedly, and the landlords naturally did not end well. In the midst of that reform, the landlord and his wife could not bear the blow and both committed suicide. Wang Gui, whose family has suffered great changes, is drunk all day long, and Liu Xiaorong, who has been pregnant for half a year, has to go to the ground to earn centimeters to support her family.

A frail woman who was half a year pregnant went to work in the fields, not to mention the hardships. But Liu Xiaorong has been holding on, only hoping that her husband can wake up after being depressed.

But she still underestimated how bad Wang Gui was, which also caused her tragedy.

After listening to what happened to her, I was thinking that if she chose to leave Wang Gui decisively, even if she lived alone, such a thing would never happen.

It is said that one day after Wang Gui was drunk, he actually punched and kicked Liu Xiaorong, who was pregnant, saying that it was because she married into their family that their family would suffer this kind of drastic change, and Liu Xiaorong was a broom star of Kefu.

This encounter directly led to Liu Xiaorong's miscarriage, and half a year's caution came to naught.

I don't know if God has mercy, Liu Xiaorong didn't die. But her heart was already dead, looking at the figure of Wang Gui slamming the door, she struggled to get up from the ground, and then turned out the big red robe she wore when she got married in the box, and hanged herself.

My grandfather said he was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time. On the day Liu Xiaorong hanged herself, he took a look at the scene, and something happened that made him feel very strange at that time. When Liu Xiaorong died, she had an almost formed dead baby tied in her arms, and when the villagers put her body down and untied the straps, they found that the baby and Liu Xiaorong's body had grown together, and they couldn't be separated.