Chapter 172: The General's Grave
After putting my suitcase in the compartment and getting into the cold cab, my dad drove me to the house.
I don't feel it when I drive slowly in the city, but as I go out of the city, the speed increases, and the wind leaking in through the gap in the cab suddenly becomes cold, and I can't feel any temperature even if the windows are closed.
I'm so young, I don't know how my dad survived.
Seeing that I was frowning and my hands were in my trouser pockets, my dad smiled and asked, "Is it really that cold?" Tell you to wear so little, and when the engine heats up, it's warm. ”
I don't want to talk too much about this impermeable old bean, I am more and more determined, this time I must give him the idea of eliminating this broken car, anyway, there is time.
"Don't you want to hold your grandson? To tell you the truth, my son I already have a partner, and I will come to visit the New Year this year, but I am a serious big city person, and then you plan to drive this tractor that leaks everywhere and runs as loudly as a cannon? Even if people don't dislike it, they can't sit down. ”
As soon as he heard that there was an object, my father's eyes suddenly lit up: "Are you serious? ”
I said, "Of course, can this be fake?"
After thinking about it, Dad said meaningfully: "It can't be Xiao Yun, right?" She said a long time ago that she was going to come to recognize the New Year this year, although she hasn't seen it yet, but your mother and I can also feel that this girl is very good, and she has nothing to say as a daughter-in-law. But you are now godparents, even if you haven't married yet, after all, there is this relationship, if you come together...... It seems a little weird. ”
Xiao Yun, naturally, is Sister Yun.
I said, "What's so strange, we are already strange, even if there are other things, how can we blame it." ”
"That's ...... too" My dad nodded, then looked at me, "It can't really be Xiao Yun, right?" ”
I asked him, "What?" Don't like it? ”
My dad said that he liked it, but it felt like a little ............ Forget it, anyway, your situation is known to the family, as long as you like it and can live a good life, just do it according to your wishes, it's no big deal.
Seeing that he convinced himself so quickly, I couldn't help laughing: "Don't worry, it's not her, but we're good friends with each other, don't ask who it is, when they come together, you'll know." ”
My dad was stunned, reacted, and realized that I was playing tricks on him, and immediately reprimanded him with a calm face.
As he spoke, the 27-kilometer road opened for a small half, and gradually came to a riverside called "Xinyang River", passing through the riverside town, and after driving forward for two or three kilometers, there were gradually no people's homes, and on both sides were steep mountains like knives and axes, and the emerald green river and the highway ran in parallel.
On the opposite side of the mountain, a clear river three or four meters wide drilled out of the opposite canyon and slowly flowed into the Xinyang River.
The river is called "Shidong River", because from the upstream to the downstream, it will pass through ten mountains, forming a total of five kilometers long dark river and get its name, and the middle reaches are my hometown "Lijiazhai".
Although the road leads to the opposite side, the bridge that crosses the river is built a few hundred meters downstream of the confluence of the river, forming an angle of nearly 90 degrees with the highway at both ends, as if the bridge existed before the road, and the road on both sides is deliberately extended to connect with the bridge, which is very unreasonable.
After crossing the bridge and going to the other side of the river, we found that there was an unusually huge tomb on the side of the river where we came.
The huge tomb has no monument, it is made up of large and small pebbles, it is filled with dense incense sticks after it is burned out, and the grave bag is also hung with red cloth, not counting the area of laying bluestone slabs and stone railings around it, the grave bag alone covers an area of more than 100 square meters.
This giant tomb is called the "General's Tomb", because it is too old, there are different opinions, and the history can no longer be traced. In the memory of our locals, for generations, the general's tomb is a place where people pray for good weather and good weather, and if a child loves to cry at night, as long as he holds the child to worship, he often goes back.
The most impressive thing is when the road was built ten years ago.
At that time, the bridge was originally planned at the confluence of rivers, and traces of its construction can still be seen today.
The reason for the relocation of the bridge was a series of strange events that happened around the general's tomb at that time.
First of all, on the day of the construction of the bridge, all the engineering equipment and vehicles were dumb one after another, and there was no fault with it, resulting in no work at all.
That night, many of the people of the construction company also had the same dream, in which they were told that the bridge must go around the general's grave and not pass in front of the general, otherwise they will be punished.
Of course, the management would not believe this feudal superstition, so after changing the date, the bridge was still under construction.
However, it was soon discovered that as time went by, the project was not going well, the managers fell ill one after another, but the cause could not be found, and the workers were often injured.
The most important thing is that when the construction party faced all kinds of unsmooth construction, and saw that the bridge was about to close, it collapsed on a calm night and sank to the bottom of the river.
When the nearby villagers heard the news, they soon rushed to the scene. Previously, people had opposed Qiao Xiu here, on the grounds that it had destroyed the feng shui of the general's tomb, but his arms couldn't twist his thighs, and he finally compromised.
This incident made people even more convinced that if the bridge was continued to be built in this place, it would bring ominous information to the people, and several clashes broke out with the construction party, resulting in the county having to send armed police to quell the incident.
After several repressions, people were forced to abandon and the bridge was able to be rebuilt.
In order to avoid another collapse and break people's superstitious thoughts, the county invited several experts and technical backbones from the province to settle in, re-investigate the site, determine the construction plan, and supervise the construction throughout the process.
However, when the bridge was about to close again, it sank to the bottom of the river on a calm night......
When the bridge sank to the bottom of the river for the third time, the expert group, who was also sick but could not find the cause, had to give up and submitted a report that the water was turbulent and the geology was unstable, so it was not suitable to build a bridge, and it was recommended to choose another site.
The county finally agreed, so the bridge went around the general's grave and moved forward a few hundred meters, forming an angle of nearly 90 degrees with the road that extended several hundred meters at both ends.
The construction went smoothly, no more accidents occurred, and all the people who contracted the disease were quickly cured......
Looking at the general's grave on the other side through the glass of the cab, which was covered with a layer of moisture, I couldn't help but start to fall into memories, and my dad had already fallen silent, just concentrating on driving, and the atmosphere was a little dull.
Unlike others, my family didn't talk much every time we passed by.
The reason why our family is very complicated about the general's grave is precisely because of what happened after I was twelve years old and was taken away by the "Yan puppet".