Chapter 141: Confession
I shook my head and said that since I was the first person to break the rules after my grandfather gave up continuing to be a local burial master, I didn't know exactly how it would happen. But according to my own guess, this possibility should be included.
Moreover, it is also possible to encounter misfortune and bad luck after the birth of the child - in short, this curse is absolute and should not be underestimated. As I talked about the family curse, I felt a little heavy.
After all, now there is only one male left in the Zhang family, and I am not from the Dink family, of course, I also want to leave offspring for myself, but this is not easy. At least for now, I don't even know how to lift the curse.
"Anyway...... Because of this, I can't marry Lang Jin, which will only hurt her. Chief...... I also know very well that Lang Jin is a good child, and whoever marries her as a wife is blessed, but that blessing ...... I don't think I have one. ”
I smiled bitterly, and the village chief showed an apologetic look, saying that he didn't know that I had such a secret secret, and I said that it didn't matter, anyway, my idea was not to consider this aspect of the matter until the curse was lifted, because if I had a child by luck, once the curse happened, the consequences would be unimaginable.
I can't imagine that a child would be cursed after birth. After all, all the mistakes are in the adults, and the children themselves are not wrong. After saying that, I felt like I was almost time to go back, after all, the atmosphere was very bad.
It's all because of me, and if I hadn't told them about the family curse, I wouldn't have turned out like this. Just when I thought it was almost time to go back, the village chief stopped me as if he remembered something.
He asked me, "Zhang Jun, you said you were born in the family of the underground burial master, right?" I said so, is there any problem? The village chief frowned, stroked his pale beard, and said that he seemed to have heard about the curse of the Underground Burial Master before.
I couldn't help but be stunned, Wang Chong's eyes were also instantly cast on the village chief, I hurriedly sat down and asked him, asking him the specific content. After all, information about the curse is precious to me.
So far, I don't have any clues about breaking the curse, I just know that as long as I become a burial master, I will bear this vicious curse, and I have always wanted to break it, but this is not easy to say. Grandpa's skills are much stronger than mine.
But he didn't do it either, and the most my grandfather said to me about this was that I was sorry, and I could feel the apology from my grandfather. But I also know that it is never grandpa's fault.
As the saying goes, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and this may be the case in our family. It's almost as bad as a blood curse, and that's what I need to carry.
However, after I finished asking, Lang Jin immediately urged, and she quickly asked the village chief to tell all the things she knew, saying that maybe there would be a clue hidden in this little thing he remembered. I couldn't help but look at Lang Jin, who noticed my gaze and looked over.
Her pretty face flushed, but this time she didn't look away, but grabbed my hand tightly with her slightly trembling, somewhat chilly hand. I felt an indescribable strength and emotion.
After more than 20 years of life, it seems that it is the first time that I have felt such powerful energy from anyone's hands. Lang Jin didn't say a word, but she seemed to be telling me that as long as there was a glimmer of hope, she would not give up and would always be by my side.
I felt that my nose was a little sour, and suddenly an unprecedented idea came to my heart, maybe Lang Jin is really a girl who will become a good wife after getting married. I was taken aback when the idea came to me.
"That's it...... Alas, it's no wonder that too many years have passed, if I'm not mistaken, it's close to forty years ago, it was something that happened when I was working outside, and I really can't remember the details...... Zhang Jun, I'll tell you about the general content, okay? ”
Looking at the village chief's apologetic look, I smiled and said I don't need to apologize, you don't owe me anything, and I don't have any clues about the curse myself, and I didn't expect to go to Nanhe Village to find clues about the curse when I came.
The village chief shook his head, his expression looked very solemn, and said that this is not the case, this time it is not only him, but the entire villagers of Nanhe Village owe me an adult invitation, after all, if it were not for my arrival, it would be difficult for Nanhe Village to survive the crisis like this.
After that, the village chief slowly recounted the past events while slowly telling it. Lang Jin and I snuggled together, fingers interlocked, and Wang Chong Orion sat beside us. The four of them were in the middle of the night, and the yellow light illuminated the cabin.
The village chief said it was a memory of when he was in his early thirties. At that time, he was still an aspiring young man - the young people who came out of the mountains were roughly like this, they all had a lot of enthusiasm, and each one could endure hardships more than the other. But the reality is brutal.
Often these young people who come out of the mountains will soon realize that the moment they come from the mountains to the city, the reality will be turned upside down, because from this moment on, their dream of leaving the mountains has been completed, and from here it is a new journey.
Not everything will automatically become complete when they arrive in the city, whether it is the trivial things in life, the most important thing that must be solved after arriving in the city - finding a job, everything is a grind for them.
The village chief said with emotion that he and most rural youths made the same choice at that time, that is, to work at the construction site. There is no way, because he has no education, and he has not even graduated from elementary school.
He came to the city with enthusiasm and the idea that he didn't want his descendants to farm in his hometown and live in the mountains all his life, but he found that all he could do was manual labor, and other jobs had no place for him at all.
However, this is not a desperate status quo for the village chief, even if it starts as a brick movers, as long as you can persevere a little bit, there will always be a day to emerge. The village chief has been working for several years with this simple and firm idea.
At that time, in terms of income, it was indeed much more than farming in his hometown, but the village chief realized a cruel problem. Even if he can work in good health until he is 60 years old, this will not bring about a "real" change.
Even if his wife and children follow him to the city, they are still just the wife and children of a construction site worker. At this time, the village chief said that he had a rudimentary understanding of the social classes in the city.
Perhaps most of the young people from the mountains and rural areas are like this, for them, the developed cities along the coast are just a vague concept, just like asking a schoolboy what his dream is, they will say that he is an astronaut, a scientist, an artist, and so on.
So before they set off, they felt that going to a big developed city was a success, because getting out of their hometown would be a huge challenge for them.
They are helpless in a strange big city, they have left their familiar hometown, and they do not have the corresponding knowledge, and everything is a test. However, after getting used to the life in the city, the village chief faintly understood his identity from the attitude of the people around him and the attitude of his superiors towards him.
He's just a figure at the bottom of society. The village chief said he had struggled many times before acknowledging it outright. Eventually, however, he understood this by constantly comparing himself with the locals of the city.
And a person like him, who has no background, no skills, and only a stupid body, has no future at all. What's really scary isn't that you have to work on a construction site until you're sixty, it's nothing.
At that time, what really made the village chief feel hopeless was the fact that he still couldn't bring about change even if he had to work until he was sixty years old. There is no possibility in him, because he has no ability, and only those who have the ability can climb up, this is the truth that he recognizes.
As a result, after that, the motivation of the village chief began to disappear little by little, and finally he "went along" with those who he once despised and gave up early. The village chief said that he gave up relatively late, and he was almost the group of people who persevered until the last moment.
There were many young people who came to the city at the same time as the village chief to work on construction sites, and before the first year had passed, they began to degenerate - they earned their hard-earned money, but they began to squander it instead of storing it and sending it back.
At that time, the money for one day working on the construction site could be enough for an adult to live comfortably for three days, as long as you save a little, you can live for five or six days. And those young people who were the first to fall took this money and "spend" it.
At that time, the village chief went to Jinhai City, the largest developed city on the coast. Since more than 40 years ago, the economy has been at the top of the charts, so the consumption patterns are diverse, perhaps not as diverse as in today's era.
However, for the hillbillies who have never seen a woman in a cheongsam and dancing with their buttocks twisted in their lives, it is already a place that is almost heavenly. Most young people spend their money on that kind of place.
And there are a small number of people whose nature is in a sense even worse. They are exhausted at the beginning of the day, and always prefer to work alone, like a sick fox, lazy while looking at the eyes of the workers and the contractor.
And in the evening, when they finished their work and went back to their lodgings together, they began to play in pairs and disappeared. Hardly anyone knows when they left the team, but no one cares.
Everyone's mind is their own business, and the burden of life is firmly on their shoulders, where is the mood to care about other people's affairs. At that time, the village chief was very trusted by the contractor because of his excellent performance and honesty, and he was appointed as the team leader.
But even the village chief, who was appointed as the squad leader, barely found out when these guys left the team. And after a long time, he knows that most of the young people go to Fengyue to be happy, and he doesn't have to worry about it.
There's nothing else in that kind of place, and the men and women are stripped naked. What really worries the village chief is the group of guys who sneak around like rats and start their activities at night.
And in the spirit of being responsible for them, the village chief once decided to follow one of the guys. But by the time the evening was over, he himself was too exhausted to notice them.