The little boy, who was eight or nine years old, with a big bag of toiletries in his hand, came over and said, "I'll look at these shoes." ”

We showed it to him.

He took the shoe and flipped it to the right side.

Seeing him like this, I intuitively felt that he had seen this shoe.

Sure enough, after he saw it, he said, "This is my grandfather's." ”

Hearing this, Zhong Ling and I immediately ignited hope in our hearts, and said in unison: "How is your grandfather now?" Take us to your grandfather. ”

"My grandfather is dead!"

Hearing the little boy say that his grandfather was dead, the hope in my heart was shattered in an instant, and I glanced at Zhong Ling, and said in unison: "Take us to your house." ”

The little boy looked at us puzzled: "Why are my grandfather's shoes here with you?" ”

"I'll talk about this later, you take us to your house first." Zhong Ling pulled the little boy forward.

The little boy pointed to the fork in the road next to him and said, "Where is my house going?" ”

Following the little boy to his house, I saw that a wreath had been placed in front of his house, and several people were busy building a shed at the door.

Next to the door stood a man dressed in linen and filial piety, who was specially designed to greet the mourners, and should be the eldest son of the old man.

Generally, when the elderly die, it is the eldest son in the family who receives filial piety.

Because he didn't know us, when he saw me and Zhong Ling, he only looked at us in a daze, and didn't come to greet us.

When we got closer, he realized that we had come to his house, and then asked, "Are you ......?"

"Uncle, they have grandpa's shoes in their hands." The little boy looked up and said.

The old man's eldest son looked down at the little boy and said in surprise, "Your grandfather's shoes?" ”

Zhong Ling handed the shoes up, "Let's go to the house and say." ”

"These are indeed the old man's shoes." The old man's eldest son recognized the shoe at once, and looked at us in even more surprise: "How can you have the old man's shoes?" ”

Said in the house. Zhong Ling was going to go inside.

The old man's eldest son did not stop us, and led us in, but only to the courtyard, and said, "What is the matter?" ”

"Where's the old man? Let's go to him and say. Zhong Ling looked in the direction of the hall.

There were many people in the hall, and they should all be relatives and friends of the elderly.

Seeing Zhong Ling looking at the hall, the old man's eldest son stood in the direction of the hall intentionally or unintentionally, blocking Zhong Ling's sight: "The old man is dead." Tell me who you really are. ”

"Don't worry, we're not here to collect debts, we're here to compensate." Zhong Ling withdrew her gaze.

"Reparations?" The old man's eldest son glared, "What did you do to the old man?" I didn't hear the old man say it. ”

"What do you mean by that? I'll just say it, we hit your old man last night......"

As soon as Zhong Ling said this, the old man's eldest son interrupted in shock: "What? You guys hit the old man last night? ”

After speaking, he shook his head again and said, "How is it possible? The old man left yesterday afternoon. ”

"What?" This time it was my turn and Zhong Ling was shocked.

We looked at each other in shock, then at him again, and asked together, "The old man left yesterday afternoon?" Are you sure? ”

"How can't I be sure? I was his eldest son, and I was next to him when he left. The old man's eldest son said as if you were joking with me.

Zhong Ling and I looked at each other.

I thought to myself that the person we bumped into last night was not this old man, but I had a feeling that it was this old man, so I said to the old man's eldest son, "Can you take us to see the old man?" ”

"The old man is dead, what do you think he does?" The old man's eldest son disagreed, glanced at the shoes in Zhong Ling's hand and said, "You haven't said yet, why are the old man's shoes in your hands?" ”

Zhong Ling said: "I suspect that we hit your old man last night, and he fell this shoe." ”

"Impossible!" The old man's eldest son denied it, "The old man left yesterday afternoon......

"I also think it's incredible, so I'll have to go see your old man first."

"The old men are dead, what can you be sure of?" The old man's eldest son looked suspicious.

Zhong Ling said solemnly: "You'd better take us to see it." If we hit your old man last night, it means that your old man has been transformed into a ......"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" The old man's eldest son was instantly unhappy.

Zhong Ling said coldly: "It's not me talking nonsense, the old man's corpse has changed, and you are very dangerous." ”

The old man's eldest son was very upset.

I saw that he was unhappy, so I hurriedly said, "Big brother, don't be angry, we are just guessing." You see that we are all here, so let's go and have a look, and take it as a condolence to the old man. ”

The old man's eldest son was very hesitant, and after hesitating for a while, he said, "It's okay to take you there, but it's just ......"

Speaking of this, he looked at me and Zhong Ling and said, "It's summer, and the old man has corpse spots on his body, I'm afraid that you two little girls will be scared." ”

"It's okay, we're guts." Zhong Ling said.

"Alright, come on." The old man's eldest son said goodbye and went to the hall.

Zhong Ling and I followed.

Someone in the hall noticed us, and when they saw us going to the hall, they all looked at us, mainly at me and Zhong Ling, because they didn't know us, and they probably wondered whose relatives this was.

When I entered the hall, I saw that the west wall of the hall was covered with straw, and an old man was lying on the straw, his face covered with a piece of yellow paper, and the black patches on his neck and hands were all corpse spots.

There were several women kneeling beside the old man, they should have just cried a lot, but at the moment they were just crying in a low voice, and the tears were not stopping, and the people next to them advised them to cry less.

"This is the old man, you see." The old man's eldest son took us to the old man's side and pointed to the old man.

I looked at the old man carefully, but he had a face covered with yellow paper, and he was wearing a shroud, and only his neck and hands were exposed, so I couldn't see anything.

I touched Zhong Ling and asked her if she saw anything.

Zhong Ling shook her head, walked to the old man's side, bent down and stretched out her hand to do something.

A woman closest to Zhong Ling saw it and hurriedly stopped Zhong Ling's hand: "Can't touch it!" ”

After speaking, she looked up at Zhong Ling, saw that it was someone she didn't know, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Then he turned his head and asked the old man's eldest son, "Brother, who is she?" Whose relatives are they? ”

"She's not a relative of our family, she said they hit the old man last night and came to see the old man." The old man's eldest son told us about our coming.

All the people in the room didn't believe it.

"How is this possible? My dad left yesterday afternoon, how could they have bumped into my dad at night. The woman who stopped Zhong Ling, who was also the old man's daughter, said.

Zhong Ling showed the shoes in her hand to the old man's daughter, "We bumped into someone last night, this is the shoe he dropped, it's your old man's, right?" ”

"These are my dad's shoes!" The old man's daughter snatched the shoe away.