"What can happen in the village! It can't be that the cat-faced old lady is alive again, right? ”

The senior brother shook his head and said, "It's even more serious than this, everything is a catastrophe!" The secret of heaven must not be leaked, and you will naturally know what is going on when you go back. ”

When I heard him say this, I was puzzled and asked, "Why?" Brother, I don't remember those mantras very strongly! Can't stay two more days? ”

In fact, I already remember the mantra that the melon is ripe, probably because of eating dragon eggs! My memory is now almost unforgettable, and I only read it twice with my senior brother, and I remember it firmly. The main reason why I was reluctant to go back to the village was that I was reluctant to spend time alone with Yanli.

Yanli has also become refreshed now, and after listening to her brother's persuasion in the past few days, she has come out of the grief of her father's tragic death, and now she is also in a hurry to go back to deal with her father's funeral.

Senior Brother shook his head.

Seeing that Yanli was so eager to go back, and seeing that the senior brother's face was very resolute, I also guessed that the matter was probably very serious, so I was no longer reluctant.

Before leaving, my brother handed me three things: a Bank of China card, a key, and a small bottle, and he instructed me that what was in this bottle was a red centipede that crawled out of Aunt Li's mouth, and now it has been fixed, maybe this little insect is still useful.

Finally, my brother reminded me that if there is nothing very important, I remember to come back every year on the first or fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year in March, June and September, and I have to come back to offer incense to the master.

I still laughed at my brother in my heart, why don't I go back to the village, it's the same as parting with life and death.

I told my senior brother: Laomiao Village is only a few dozen miles away from here, I will come back after finishing my errands, I have food and drink here, and I don't have to look at the cold eyes of others, for me Chen Xiaozhen, it is simply a paradise on earth. With such a good place, why can't I be willing to come back!

The senior brother smiled bitterly twice, and wanted to say something, but finally stopped talking.

Who would have thought that this farewell to my senior brother would also be goodbye, and I would never see him again.

Back in the village, Yanli and I first went to the house of Wang Jiliang, the village party secretary, and when we saw the two of us entering the door together, Wang Jiliang slapped the table and was about to rush up and beat me, but fortunately I was stopped by Aunt Wang.

"Little bunny, if you don't come back, I'm going to call the police! Who asked you to take Yanli out of the hospital, I thought you were ...... Kidnap him! ”

I promised my brother that I had to hide something about him, so I lied, saying that I happened to meet a folk doctor whose family had an ancestral method for treating the disease of Yanli.

Wang Jiliang saw that Yanli had indeed recovered, and asked her a few more words, and Yanli naturally cooperated with me very tacitly.

He half-convinced, "Come on!" There is no hair on the mouth, and the work is not firm. You don't know how to talk to me first! I've been so anxious these days that I can't sleep well with your aunt. ”

Yanli asked Wang Jiliang: "Uncle Wang, my father ...... Where is my father's body? I have to trouble our village to help take care of his old man's funeral! He couldn't help crying.

Wang Jiliang and Aunt Wang hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her, saying that they were still in the funeral home, and they heard that it would be dealt with in a few days, and the village would pay for the burial at that time.

"You're here at the right time! Today is the first seven days of Li Gui and Sister-in-law Li, and according to the custom of the village, they will go to the Yellow River to recite their souls at night.

Remembering the soul is a rural custom in our area, simply put, on the night of the seventh day after the death of the deceased, the relatives and friends of the deceased should walk along the river and call the name of the deceased every few minutes, which means to let the deceased feel at ease on the road and ask the river god to take care of him along the way.

We all know that this is a feudal custom, but it has been popular for hundreds of years, and no one is willing to give up first, otherwise it will be gossiped by the villagers.

Although Li Gui still has a daughter, according to the concept of the villagers, these two families are "desperate", and when they miss their souls, they are naturally inseparable from the help of their neighbors.

In the afternoon, I accompanied Yanli to buy some paper money and memorial items, and by the way, I went to check the bank card that my brother gave me. We only have one rural credit union in town, thankfully with an ATM.

I, Chen Xiaozhen, have never touched a bank card before! Because there is no spare money at all, this is the first time. Standing in front of the ATM, groping and inserting it a few times, the card was returned.

"Hello, how can you help?"

A beautiful employee of the Rural Credit Cooperatives walked over with a smile on her face.

"Oh - I won't use this card!" I replied embarrassedly.

As soon as I finished speaking, the beautiful employee smiled lightly, and I was not stupid, and I could see that this laugh was ridicule.

"You plug the magnetic stripe in with the magnetic stripe down so that the ATM can recognize it."

The beautiful woman couldn't hold back her laughter and helped me insert the card in, and the ATM came with the instruction "Please enter the password".

……

The beauty asked, "Do you want to check the balance, or withdraw money?" ”

I said in my heart: The 10,000 yuan given by my senior brother, after completing the discharge procedures, I bought some clothes and other daily necessities for Yanli, and today I bought it for the dead ghost's father-in-law...... At most, there are less than 3,000 left, so I should take some points, but I'm worried that there are only a few hundred dollars in it, or there is no money at all, wouldn't it make the beauty see the joke?

With that in mind, I said check the balance first.

The beautiful staff prompted me to click on "Check Balance" step by step.

When the balance of this card was displayed on the screen, I and the beautiful woman around me said "ah" at the same time! Oh, my God! I don't believe my eyes, the number is an 8 at the beginning and a string of 0s at the end.

I counted, there were eight zeros, but the penultimate zero was preceded by a decimal point.

"Big sister! This is...... How much is that? I asked twice in a row, and the beautiful staff member came back to her senses, her face was flushed, and her eyes shone and she replied, "Eight hundred...... Eight million".

"Then get me 10,000!"

I suppressed the excitement in my heart and replied with a pretended composure.

As I was leaving, I glanced at the clerk of the rural credit cooperative, and saw that her eyes were shining, and I must have had the heart to marry me at that time.

At this time, I completely regarded my senior brother as my own relative, thinking that he was over seventy years old, had no children and no daughters, and naturally needed someone to take care of him in a few years.

Thinking about it like this, I feel that it is natural to spend his money!

When I walked out of the bank, I had secretly decided in my heart that after dealing with the affairs of the village, I would go back with Yanli to accompany him. I stopped a tricycle on the road and hired him to haul the things I bought back to Laomiao Village and unload them into the courtyard of the village branch.

Yanli and I went to the farmers' market to buy more than a dozen catties of pork, a dozen catties of beef, various vegetables and a few boxes of liquor in the Yellow River Special Zone (a popular local liquor), and gave an extra 100 yuan to the vegetable vendor, so that he could send these things to the village.

Yanli was not polite, and I could feel that she had treated me as a relative, which made me very excited without reason.

Back in the village, Li Xiaobai and Secretary Wang Jiliang helped Zhang Luo, and gathered more than 20 villagers in the village branch before dark, and everyone discussed the first seven soul shouting ceremonies of Li Gui and Aunt Li together.

The night came as scheduled, and according to local customs, all the people involved in the soul crying had to wear the white clothes and white hats that had been purchased in the village, and hold a willow stick in their hands, which means that they are reluctant to leave their relatives.

At a quarter past eight, Wang Jiliang shouted, "There is a good road on the West Tianda Road, and there are no old and young people on the Huangquan Road", and the group set off with willow sticks.

Wang Jiliang walked in the front, regarded as the leader, Yanli followed behind him, belonging to the "filial son", and I followed behind Yanli, and consciously participated in the soul shouting activity as a quasi-son-in-law.

We lined up and set off from Yanli's house, then walked along the road west of the village, bypassing the ruined temple of unknown age, and then walked to the Yellow River.

It was a little cloudy that day, without the slightest moonlight, and a few enthusiastic young people took the initiative to take the flashlight to light the road, even so, the visibility for them was only a dozen meters.

What excites me is that I can see things hundreds of meters away, and although it looks as clear as it can see in the daytime at such a distance, it is still no problem to be able to recognize the outline of a person's facial features.

If this weren't a sad occasion, I think I might be tempted to laugh. I pretended to be crying and sad on my face, but I sighed happily in my heart: Senior brother is Niu Cha, it's only been a few days, and I've been trained to be a night vision eye, am I a fiery eye......

In my shameless obscenity, I unconsciously heard the sound of the Yellow River flowing water, and when I looked up, I was less than 500 meters away from the Yellow River.

What is that? While I saw the pale yellow river, I also saw a group of people dressed like us, who seemed to be shouting along the Yellow River.

When I first saw it, I was startled, and my scalp was instantly numb, but I also instantly thought of a possibility: it should be Old Man Sun's relatives and friends who shouted his soul! Sun Banxian'er, who can pinch and calculate, also died on the same day.

Thinking about it this way, I am not afraid.

Out of curiosity, I still stared at the group of people from afar, and I was puzzled that they seemed to be standing in the water, surrounded by the water of the Yellow River, but the whole person seemed to be floating on the water.

What's going on? After thinking about it, he really couldn't figure it out, so he couldn't help but quietly asked Wang Jiliang: "Uncle Wang, the way this Grandpa Sun's relatives shout souls is very special!" What methods do they use? How can you float on the water? ”

Wang Jiliang turned his head and glared at me, and scolded me in a low voice: "What nonsense are you kid talking about!" Which grandpa sun? Didn't you shout the soul of Li Gui and Sister-in-law Li today? ”

I whispered back: "It's Sun Banxian from the alley next door to Aunt Li!" I hadn't heard anything about their funeral before......"

"You kid is talking nonsense, didn't Uncle Sun go to his son's house, what are you doing to curse others!"

As soon as I heard it, my head was big, the death of this Sun Banxian'er was seen with my own eyes, at that time, in order to make sure that he was dead, I also had the courage to lean over and touch his breathing, how did Wang Jiliang say that he went to his son's house?

"Who said he went to his son's house?" I was a little anxious, and my voice unconsciously got a little higher.

At this time, Li Xiaobai behind me patted me on the shoulder and said, "Xiaozhen, what's wrong?" On the evening of the day we came back from the District Public Security Bureau, I met Grandpa Sun at the entrance of the alley, and he asked me to tell Secretary Wang that I was going to my son's house tomorrow, which can't be wrong! ”

Hearing him say this, my head buzzed again, and I said: You can't be wrong, then it's a big mistake! Then hurriedly raised his eyes and looked into the distance.

Damn, I was at least a few dozen meters closer to the Yellow River while talking, but when I looked again, I only saw the pale yellow river, and where was there a soul shouter in white!