This time I came to deliver the news is Mr. Liu's most proud disciple, his name is Liu Qiang, and the people on the river call him Qiangzi.

As soon as I heard the news of my mother, I immediately rushed out.

"Where's my mother?"

As a result, I saw Liu Qiang carrying a piece of clothing in his hand, which was in tatters, which was the one my mother often wore.

Liu Qiang handed me the clothes and said, "We searched for several days, and we searched everywhere in the water, but we didn't find the body, only this clothes." ”

directly said "corpse", that is, to conclude that my mother is dead.

I couldn't control the tears in my eyes and immediately started crying.

The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but he hasn't reached the sad place.

Even if she is crazy, she is also my mother, I have never experienced that kind of pain, and I will never understand, it is like suffocation, and I can't breathe in pain.

My hands were shaking, and I couldn't even take the dress.

Grandma grabbed in front of me, snatched the clothes directly in her hand, and said coldly to Liu Qiang: "Okay, we know, go back and tell the old guy surnamed Liu, I won't thank the old woman." ”

When Liu Qiang heard this, he was also very angry.

They are also a kind of business, and they have to pay for going into the water, and they spent several days looking for my mother, not only did they not get paid, but they couldn't get a good deal.

Whoever is put on this will not be happy.

"It's your family who died, and it has nothing to do with us, if it weren't for the master to let us go into the water to find someone, we wouldn't have to get this bad luck, hum!"

With that, he turned away and didn't want to stay at my house a little longer.

Grandma then threw the clothes in her hand into the corner and shouted at me, "What are you crying about? Hurry up! ”

"Woo, my mother is gone..."

"She can't survive if you cry, let's die, let's die, the person who should have died back then."

Grandma left such a merciless word and returned to the house.

I was sad for my mother's death, sad for my grandmother's ruthlessness, and unspeakably uncomfortable in my heart.

"Ahhh

…

Crying and shouting, he was tired after a while, and sat on the ground crying silently.

Grandma, probably hearing that there was no movement outside, was worried that something had happened to me, so she came out of the house, regained her original love, and walked up to me.

"Ping'an, get up quickly, your mother is gone, this is her life, and none of us can force it."

I raised my eyes and looked at her, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Milk, my mother is also half your daughter, and you have stopped protecting her all these years, so you don't feel distressed at all." ”

Hearing my words, my grandmother's body suddenly stiffened.

After a while, she muttered: "Distressed? With that, he shook his head again.

I couldn't understand the meaning of the two words full of deep meaning, and I didn't know what she meant by shaking her head.

I'm not a child anymore, so I can naturally think that there is a special secret in this, but I don't know where to start.

"Alright, don't cry. Since the body has not been found, let's bury the garment. ”

Grandma pulled me up, took my mother's dress by the way, and folded it briefly.

There are only me and my grandmother in our family, old and young, and there are no other relatives, and my mother is an abandoned person in the village, and no one will be sad when she dies, and we can't hold any big funerals.

What's more, there is no corpse, and finding a pit to bury a piece of clothing can be regarded as a thought.

Grandma and I took our tools and went to the front of my house, where there was already a mound of dirt, which was my father's mound.

My father and mother are gone, and the bodies of the two people have not been found, and they are all missing in the Wenshui River. As a son of man, when I think of this, I feel guilty and even more sad.

I kowtowed three times in front of my father's grave and began to dig a hole next to it.

There is no need for a deep pit to bury a piece of clothing, but my grandmother told me to dig hard, saying that we have this custom here, and when a man and a woman are buried, the man must be on top of the woman.

This is the old feudal thinking, that is, men are inferior to women, and men oppress women, so it is true when they are alive and when they die.

Grandma didn't do anything, I was alone, and I was crying and digging, so I dug this pit all afternoon, and when I buried my clothes, it was already dark.

"Peace, go back, we have solved the matter of sacrificing the corpse, and we have to prepare for the wedding of you and your daughter-in-law, although your situation is special, but we can't neglect others, after all, this time it was someone who saved you."

I shook my head: "I want to stay here for a while." ”

"Okay, then you go home early, I'll cook and wait for you."

Grandma didn't force me and left on crutches.

I sat on the ground, crying silently in the night, unable to bear the pain in my heart, and at the same time regretting why I was so ignorant before! Even if my mother is a madman, it is also my mother, why am I not filial, and even dislike her!

Thinking about it, some bits and pieces of Zhonghe and my mother came to my mind, although she was crazy, she was never crazy about me, and seemed to have always protected me, but I never cared.

I don't know how long it took, but I faintly heard my mother's voice in my ears.

"I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat..."

That's the only thing I've ever heard my mother say.

"Mother..."I called out in a daze.

Suddenly, I was tapped on the back, and I woke up in a trance, and found a person standing next to me, and subconsciously turned my head to look.

When I saw the man, I was instantly confused.

"Mother!"

Standing next to me was my mother.

She was undressed, her body was wet, as if she had just come out of the water, her hair was still dripping, and her face was still that silly.

At first, I was delighted, but I was afraid that it was fake, so I immediately reached out and grabbed her.

But!

It turned out to be true.

I grabbed her hand, a real existence, not an illusion, not a ghost, just my mother, a real person.

Suddenly, joy turned to fear!

A person who has been in the water for several days, and the corpse collector also concluded that she is dead, and now she is here again, still covered in water, and it is not normal to think about it.

I was so frightened that I wanted to let go of her, but she grabbed her backhand.

"Hey, hey!"

She smiled at me, her eyes glinting, and I panicked.

"Mother?" I called again.

Then something else came out of her mouth, and it was the first time I had ever heard my mother say anything else.

With a very strange singing tone, pinching the tune, as if singing, he said: "The river god points the soldiers, points to the fifth watch, the five watches, and my soldiers arrive." ”

I didn't study opera and didn't know what it was singing, but it sounded weird.

"Mother, how did you come back? How are you feeling? ”

I'm sure it's my mother, not some ghost, she can still speak, and it's not a deformed corpse, I thought that maybe she was a stupid person and had a stupid luck, and she survived, and the fear in my heart disappeared again.

I got up, took off my clothes, and put them on my mother.

But she threw it away at once, as if she didn't want to get dressed, and put something in my hand as she sang.

It was very dark, and I couldn't see clearly, but it looked like a turtle shell, cold in my hand, and quite strong, and I don't know where my mother picked it up.

"Mother, let's go, I'll take you home." I said, holding her up.

My mother didn't speak, she kept singing that sentence in her mouth, but she still let me pull her away and didn't resist.

This is the first time I have been so close to her since I was a child, and being by my mother's side makes me indescribably happy, and I thank God for giving me another chance to do my filial piety.

It's just that she doesn't wear clothes, and I really have no other way. Fortunately, people in the countryside go to bed early and get up early, and the lights in the village have been extinguished at this point, and no one is hanging out outside.

dragged my mother home, and before I got to the gate, I shouted loudly: "Grandma, grandma, come out quickly, my mother is back!" ”

My grandmother was always worried about me, and as soon as she heard my movements, she didn't know what she was hearing, and immediately ran out.

"Peace, you're back, come in and eat..."

When she saw me supporting my mother, her voice stopped abruptly, and the whole person was stunned at the gate, staring at my mother, and she couldn't believe it.

I was happy in my heart and said with a smile: "Grandma, my mother is not dead, she is back, it's really good." ”

"She's not your mother!"

Grandma's face suddenly turned hideous, and she rushed over with a cane.