Chapter 1: Soul Search
My name is Lin Xuan, a native of Chongqing, born in Linjiawan Village, the village is not big or small, more than 1,000 people, hundreds of families, since I can remember, I have never seen my father, and my mother does not care about me, after I went to primary school, I married someone else, and threw me at my grandparents' house, my grandfather is called "Lin Boxu", and my grandmother is called "Su Yan". The two of them were very good to me, I ate everything delicious first, and often took me to catch birds and touch crabs, but my grandfather hated my mother very much, and I don't know the reason for this.
Strange to say, I have been able to see all kinds of ghosts since I was a child, once at home I saw a blood-red ghost standing by the window, I was scared, called my grandfather over, grandpa looked left and right outside the window, didn't look at anything, turned his head and scolded me: "You kid, talk nonsense every day, where are ghosts, you are too many horror movies, you know no."
I saw that my grandfather didn't believe it, and I was in a hurry, my head shook like a rattle, and I kept explaining to my grandfather, but my grandfather just didn't listen, and said to me angrily: "If you kid talk nonsense again, I'll throw you into the pigsty and sleep for a night, and if you don't believe it, try it."
Maybe grandpa was also made of me unreasonably at that time, and I was angry, I saw that grandpa was angry, so I closed my mouth, put my hands around my knees, sat in the corner of the bed, looked out the window, the ghost also stared at me, and suddenly laughed gloomily for a long time, and disappeared.
Since then, I am a well-known liar boy in the village, some children of the same age as me even call me the king of lies, every time they call me so, I will rush up to reason with them, of course, there is no indispensable face blue and purple, no way, I can't beat and beat, I can't say it, and in the next few years, I have been silently enduring their ridicule.
Until one day, I graduated from elementary school, and it happened to be my twelfth birthday, the village fat dun, Tie Zhu and a few friends came to my house, and shouted loudly while entering the yard: "The king of lies. The King of Lies. Come out and take you to a fun place". After saying that, a few of them were still holding their stomachs and laughing in the yard.
When Grandma heard this, she walked to the gate and said to the fat man: "You stinky boys, don't call them randomly, don't call those with names and surnames, take some crooked names, is it useless to tell your parents." I want to educate you."
Grandma and grandpa also have some majesty in the village, I heard the people in the village say that what strange things happened in the village before, I will ask grandpa to deal with it, grandpa still told me about their time in the past, and described grandma as one of the three beauties in the Republic of China period.
Fat Dun and a few of them saw their grandmother standing in front of the door, they were also startled, they thought I was home alone, but I didn't expect grandma to come out, Fat Dun and a few of them took a few steps back, and stammered to grandma and said, "That... That, Grandma Su, Lin. Is Lin Xuan at home, I just heard from my mother that Lin Xuan has a birthday today, so I want to call him out. It's okay to go out and play, Grandma Sue."
Grandma stood in front of the door, looked at me sitting on the table "writing", and shouted, I turned my head to look, and also saw a few of them, in fact, I had heard them when they just shouted so loudly, but I just didn't want to go out with them.
I walked up to my grandmother, and my grandmother touched my head and said, "Xuan'er, you have a birthday today, and grandma has nothing to give you, you go out to play, wait until you go home for dinner, today has your favorite dish, come back early, don't play too late."
After grandma finished speaking, she turned her head to look at the fat dun and a few of them and said: "You stinky boys, don't bully others all day long, the most important thing for children to play together is to have fun, not to bully others, you know no."
Grandpa and grandma also know that I have been called this nickname by them in the past few years, and they also know that I will argue with them every day because of this nickname, but there is no way, every time grandparents go to the parents of Fat Dun and a few of them to talk about it, the other party always replied with a smile, children are playful, and they are not sensible, don't care.
But the grandfather didn't agree, and his temper came up, and he scolded directly: "What do you mean that children are ignorant? Your children are not sensible, are you adults also ignorant, what age is this, are you still educating your children about the old ideas of the past, if you as parents don't care, I will take care of it, and don't say that I will beat people when the time comes."
The other party's parents just nodded awkwardly, and didn't dare to offend grandpa, no way, grandpa is such a domineering person, since the second elder of them found the fat dun and their parents reasoned, the situation seems to be a little better than before, but it is not much better.
I stood beside my grandmother, looked at Fat Dun and a few of them, looked at my grandmother again, nodded, cleaned up the pen on the table, and went out to play with Fat Dun and them.
After walking out of my yard, Fat Dun still looked uneasy, and whispered to me: "Don't think I'm really afraid of your grandfather and your grandmother, when you see us, you want to call you big brother, you know no."
I heard Fat Dun say this, I ignored him, and walked forward by myself, in fact, I didn't want to come out at all, but I was too tired to write, and I wanted to come out to relax, but I didn't expect that there was a mosquito around me.
Fat dun, as the name suggests, you know that you are very fat, seeing that I ignored him, the atmosphere suddenly became embarrassed, rolled up my sleeves, and wanted to beat me, I saw Fat Dun's actions, maybe it was inherited from my grandfather's genes of their generation, and the temper also came at once, not afraid of the tonnage of Fat Dun, anyway, I was used to it before.
The iron pillar next to him hurriedly grabbed Fat Dun after seeing it, looked at the back and said: "Fat Dun, you don't want to live, if you are seen by Lin Xuan's grandparents, it will be strange if your parents don't beat you to death, and we have been bullying Lin Xuan for so many years, and we are all tired of it, why don't we play with the amiable ones."
Sanbao and the dog baby also nodded when they heard it and said, "Yes, Fat Dun, don't bully Lin Xuan."
Fat Dun heard that several of them were fighting, put down the raised fist, I was also pulled back by the dog, this stopped, we walked on the road for a while, San Bao suddenly said: "Hey, do you know that there is a house at the back of the village."
When we heard Sanbao's words, we were all confused and shook our heads, and then Sanbao said again: "You don't know, I also heard from others, they said that they saw a house at the back of the village, and there seemed to be no one living in it, and it was very terrifying at night, otherwise, let's play a game, call some people to come over at night to see, to see who is bold, and the timid people will treat you to candy tomorrow, do you dare to play."
When they heard Sanbao say this, they immediately felt that there was something interesting, and immediately nodded in agreement, but I shook my head and said, "No, I will go back to eat later, and we are a group of children, and we are not accompanied by those adults, what are we going to do in those places."
As soon as I finished speaking, Fat Dun said mockingly: "Didn't you tell you to wait, and didn't you say that you can see ghosts, if you want us to believe it, just come up with evidence to prove it, if you don't dare to go, you stay at home, don't play with us in the future."
When I heard Fat Dun say this, my self-esteem suddenly became troubled, and I responded coldly: "Okay, just go, you think I'm afraid?" Just don't look foreign when the time comes."
"Okay, okay, you two don't say a word, don't talk about friends, at least we are a village, that is, a big family, the teacher said, we want to help each other, Lin Xuan, we will go over and call you at night, don't fall asleep."
Tie Zhu said...
Then we wandered around the village for a while, because I and the fat dun atmosphere was not right, we also went home, as soon as I entered the yard, I saw my grandfather sitting in the yard smoking, seeing me with an unhappy expression and said to me: "Come back, go wash your hands, eat immediately, today your kid has a birthday, be happy, today you are big, you can do whatever you want."
I heard my grandfather say it to me like a pamper, and suddenly I laughed, nodded, and jumped towards the kitchen, I walked to the edge of the sink, and saw my grandmother with an apron stir-frying on the edge of the stove, and when she saw me, she said, "Wash your hands, it's time to eat, your grandfather, call him."
I smiled and said, "Grandpa is in the yard, don't shout, grandpa told me to come in and wash my hands."
While my grandmother was stir-frying, she looked at me and said, "You kid, why are you so happy?"
"Today is my birthday, of course I am happy to have you with me for my birthday." I said to my grandmother...
Grandma looked at me, shook her head, smiled, and after bringing all the dishes to the table, I ran to the edge of the table to see, all my favorite dishes, as well as my favorite drunken crab, I licked my lips, took the chopsticks and grabbed one and bit it big, grandma saw me gobbling up, and said with a smile: "Xuan'er, eat slowly, it's all yours, no one will rob you."
Grandpa also smiled and said: "By the way, I just bought these dishes for you, eat slowly, don't worry, you will be twelve years old today."
I had a crab leg in my mouth, looked at my grandfather and grandmother, neither of them moved their chopsticks, they were watching me eat, I suddenly felt a sour heart, in the past 12 years, except for the days when I don't remember, my birthday is basically spent with my grandparents, my mother doesn't care about me, and my father doesn't know where to go.
Thinking of this, I put two crabs into my grandparents' bowl with chopsticks, swallowed the food in my mouth and said, "Grandpa, grandma, you also eat, there are too many, I can't finish eating".
When my grandparents saw my move, they looked at each other and smiled even more happily, and my grandfather even shouted: "Well, yes, our kid is also sensible, come, eat, eat."
After saying that, I took a sip of white wine and started to eat, we ate for a while, before all the things on the table were eliminated, after grandma put the dishes and chopsticks together, I was about to bring the dishes to the kitchen to wash, but grandma stopped me and said: "Put it here, I'll wash it, it's your birthday today, watch TV."