Chapter 2 Three coffins
Grandpa made an appointment with a few people to cut down the tree three days later, and that night grandpa told grandma what He Zhenren said, so the next day, grandma refused to let grandpa go, but grandpa was also stubborn, the statue was smashed, what is there to cut down a tree? In fact, grandpa is also a clever person, and his identity makes him unable not to go, but he decided at the time, so he will do it according to He Zhenren's words, not close to the three zhang, and don't go out for three nights after cutting back.
The words are about defeating the cow, ghost and snake god, but some ideas are really deep-rooted for thousands of years, and there are many legends of this cypress tree, so when it is really cut, there are really few people who dare to go up, especially when the grandfather is not on it, that is, at this time, there is a person in the village, named Li Daring, as his name suggests, is bold, and he laughed at the time, the god statue Lao Tzu has been smashed, and he is afraid of a tree? If you don't cut it, Lao Tzu will cut it, but first say okay, I will cut down this tree, and the tree will belong to me.
At that time, grandpa really wanted to do more than one thing less, so he said, then hand it over to you, cut down the tree, you can do whatever you want, Li Daring's wife died early, the two sons are also tigers, and the eldest son is married and has children, the father and son are all bold and unbelieving people, thinking that this is a good thing, just like that, others dare not do it, he took his two sons, went into battle father and son soldiers took two days to cut down the tree, the first day there were still people to see, the second day no one dared to go, because of the tree cut, What flowed from the trees was blood.
Not only red, but also a smell of blood, Li Daring's two sons are also a little timid, but Li Daring does not believe in evil, stunned and insisted on cutting down the tree, after cutting, everyone is actually afraid, afraid that something will happen to Li Daring's family, my grandfather also turned off the lights to sleep in those three days before it was dark and did not dare to go out.
But after a week, Li Daring's family is alive and well, and this week, Li Daring's father and son will be carpenters, and they are stunned to make three big cypress coffins, and rural people are not afraid of coffins, but they are envious of these three coffins are really porcelain, and they have exchanged more than a dozen catties of food stamps in the city, but they can envy others to death. Look, after saying that these are feudal superstitions, do you want to believe them?
But within a few days, the daughter-in-law of Li Daring's family ran out of the house naked in the morning like crazy, shouting, saying that something happened to the family, and they were all dead, and when people ran to his house, they were all scared and urinated, and on the beams of Li Daring's house, there were three ropes hanging from the father and son.
The old elders with their tongues sticking out, their eyes bulging outward, how terrifying it is to look, or how to say so many ways to die, the person who hangs is the most ugly? At that time, the villagers were so frightened that no one even dared to remove the bodies of the three people from the beams. Later, this burden must have been handed over to my grandfather, who made him the captain? At that time, my grandfather's legs were swinging, and his face was colorless, and then the old people in the village came forward, and the coffin made of cypress wood was sold for two, and there was only one left, and there was no way for everyone to make two coffins with poplar planks to bury the three father and son who died tragically.
A cypress tree made three coffins, and just three people died, this is revenge, isn't it? - Rumors spread for a while, and grandpa was criticized by the leader, and the gossip was stifled in the cradle, and if it goes on like this, he won't do it.
After burying these three people, that night, my grandmother tore my grandfather's ear and said, "Let you discipline me, let you discipline me, if you don't listen to me, it will be our family of three who will die!" Grandpa didn't have anything to say, he just felt a little afraid.
In the general environment at that time, it was very simple to gossip, and grandpa also had a way, that is, Li Daring's family was a matter of a few people, whoever said it would be arrested and treated as a cow, ghost, snake, and god, and no one would dare to say it three or two times, but would it be over?
The next thing is my father's business, as I said earlier, he is not in very good health, that is, the emperor is a beggar, he can't do work and can't go out, he was seven or eight years old at the time, and he couldn't walk well by himself. That is, when Li Daring's family was seven mouthfuls, the first seven returned to the soul at night, this time the whole village slept early, very early, everyone could keep their mouths shut about it, but everyone knew that it was the fairy on the cypress tree who killed Li Daring.
That night, my dad cried for nothing, crying like a soul, crying all the time, and then simply rolled his eyes and glared at him, which frightened my grandfather, the old Guo family is such a lone seedling, if this is gone, what if it is gone? I immediately found the barefoot doctor in the village to come over and take the pulse and prick the needle, but it was useless, the barefoot doctor in the village was an old Chinese medicine doctor, and he rolled my father's eyes and said to my grandfather: "More ministers, prepare for the baby." ”
My grandfather was so frightened that he was about to kneel, but the old Chinese medicine doctor couldn't help it, and then he said that you should just go to the hospital in the city with you, maybe there was a way, and my grandfather didn't care about anything at night, and ran directly to the city with my father on his back, dozens of miles away, at that time there was not even a bicycle, and he had to rely on walking.
There was no moon that night, not even the stars, grandpa walked in the direction of the city with my dad on his back, the road was mature, but until dawn, grandpa just walked by memory, and then walked really tired, people in that era were used to hurrying, and they didn't feel that there was any difficulty in dozens of miles, but this time grandpa felt that this road was really difficult to walk, and then he was really tired, so he rested on the spot, touched my dad, and finally breathed.
Until the sky was bright, the rooster in the village crowed, and the grandfather turned around and saw that the village behind him was very familiar, isn't this his own village? Looking at the three souls again, they were frightened, and the location they were in turned out to be next to the three new graves of Li Daring's family, the graves were buried in the wheat field, and the wheat seedlings around the graves were stepped on in a circle.
Although grandpa was scared at the time, but carrying the child on his back was finally a little confident, scolded a few words to the grave, ran away, and ran home in one breath, grandma naturally cried at home all night, saw grandpa came back early in the morning, thought that he ran to the city and carried my father's body back, and was so frightened that he cried out all of a sudden.
"Give Lao Tzu some food, what are you crying about, the baby is not dead yet, I carried the baby to the city yesterday, and I was hit by Li Daring's ecstasy, and their family of three seemed to have a grudge against me, so I let them wander around their grave for a night!" Grandpa scolded, and then ate two nests indiscriminately, and walked away again with my father on his back, thinking that this time in broad daylight, it would always be fine.
But as soon as I walked to the door, the old yellow dog of the neighbor Guo Erwa's family rushed out, this dog knew my grandfather, but at this time it rushed over to my grandfather like crazy, my grandfather couldn't dodge, and was bitten directly on the thigh. Grandpa shouted: "Second baby! ”
There was no need to bark, the neighbors who had just heard the dog barking and the grandfather screaming rushed out, and with a wooden stick in their hands or something, they directly began to greet the big yellow dog, and directly beat the crazy beast just now with only the breath out but not the breath.
"Brother Gengchen, this matter, I am tethered to this dog, I don't know why I bit off the rope, and it usually looks at you and wags its tail, why is it crazy today?" The second baby is usually afraid of my grandfather, and with the identity of my grandfather's captain, she is about to cry.
"Brother, you can't carry the baby to the hospital on your back, I'll carry it on your back?" The second baby continued to probe the way.
"Get out! Get out!! Grandpa suddenly got angry at this time, and drove everyone out of the house like crazy, and then, with his crutches, he went to plug in the door, called my grandmother, and said, "boy, you go and call He Zhenren to me, no, please come over." ”
"What are you asking for now? Aren't you trying to distance yourself from the remnants of feudalism? Grandma said.
"Let me tell you, I feel that the baby is suddenly uncomfortable, it may be the ghost of the three brothers of Li Daring's family, yesterday I went out and let them hit the ghost wall, and today I went out and was bitten directly by a beast I am familiar with, you don't know what's going on? They are preventing me from entering the city and trying to kill our baby! ”
When grandma heard this, her face turned white, and she immediately ran to the cowshed, He Zhenren wanted to herd cattle during the day, and grandma found the back mountain to find him, and after finding it, she said about the situation, He Zhenren pinched his fingers and said: "You go back, your baby is okay for the time being." During the day, I used to be more bad to your family, and I will talk about it at night. ”
When grandma came back, she told grandpa what he really said, and taught grandpa a good lesson, saying that if the baby is gone, he will create it.
Grandpa kept smoking and sighing, but he was thinking in his heart, he didn't offend Li Daring by his mother, and he also wanted to cut down the tree himself at that time, why did he lie to himself? Why don't you get some paper money and secretly go to burn them for their grandfather?
This is also called a big thing, a small thing, isn't it?
Grandpa was injured in the leg, and he didn't go out to work, so he spent a day at home, and listened to my grandma cry for a day, and waited until it was dark, He Zhencai carried a bag over, my grandfather was naturally supplied with tobacco and alcohol, He Zhenren gave my dad a pulse, rolled his eyelids to see, shook his head, grandma knelt down with a puff, and scolded: "My family is not a thing, I have made a sin, what retribution will happen to me, don't retribution to the baby." ”
He Zhenren picked up my grandmother and said: "Your patriotic body is not tough, this time it is an evil one, don't be afraid, I'll see where it is sacred." ”
At that time, no one dared to have an incense burner at home, He Zhenren took one out of his bag, lit three incense sticks and plugged it, and bit his middle finger, in the center of my father's eyebrows, two blood points in the person, and said: "It's not a big deal, I accepted my incense, I asked what was going on, and I sent it away." ”
As soon as He Zhenren turned around, his grandmother pointed to the stove and said, "He Shenxian, the incense is extinguished!" ”
He Zhenren looked back, his face immediately changed, and he muttered: "It shouldn't be, brother and sister, don't worry, it may be my fragrance." ”
Waiting for He Zhenren to change the three sticks, just plug them in, this time, even the three sticks of incense were directly cut off from the incense burner, and my father over there immediately began to twitch all over his body, and the place where the two blood marks were lit had already begun to smoke.
He Zhenren's face turned pale this time, and he said, "Damn, the ghost doesn't accept the incense, this matter is over!" ”