5. One-eyed Lee
Xue Meiniang's attack on me made me feel palpitations, everyone has a love for beauty, Rao is Xue Meiniang is beautiful, it is not worth mentioning compared to my own life.
Some people may say that I don't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, but this pity and cherishing the jade is based on mutual respect, on the bright side, I am already very good to Xue Meiniang, and I regard her as my own family, to a large extent, I take care of her because of my guilt for my grandfather.
I couldn't sleep that night, my mind was all about Xue Meiniang, I don't know where she came from, since she doesn't know her true identity, then it's better for me to help him find it, thinking about it, I have remembered a person, this person is my grandfather's former friend, called Li Guosheng, my grandfather is a paper man, and Mr. Li is a coffin seller.
Old man Li is a legend in our place, he once went into the mountain alone to hunt a bear, as a consequence he was blind in one eye, so he has a nickname called one-eyed Li, he has a very deep affection for the mountain, the coffin, the wood is cut down by him himself, at that time I worked with my grandfather, others jokingly called them the funeral duo, that is to say, the dead man's business was done by the two of them, and others couldn't even lick the bottom of the bowl.
With this thought, I took my grandfather's notes to the suburbs of Erlang Mountain, Erlang Mountain is not a mountain, the altitude is only more than 200 meters, can only be regarded as a dirt slope, later the government changed Nanshan into a cemetery, the trees are cut down, looking at it from a distance, it looks like a head with half of its hair shaved, very funny.
I went over on a bicycle, because I didn't have much money on my body, of course, Xue Meiniang was left at home by me, first, my bicycle did not have a back seat, and second, because I was worried that One-Eyed Li was the same as my grandfather, if they were all people who knew magic, maybe they would see Xue Meiniang would accept her, which was also to protect Xue Meiniang.
Before I came to the foot of Erlang Mountain, the sky began to fall a little snow, the snow gradually became bigger, a moment of effort to make the surrounding white expanse, very spectacular, the cold wind with snowflakes, blowing on people's faces painful, as if being cut by a knife, I rode a bicycle, while turning the collar high, covering my mouth, but the cold wind was very exciting, simply slipped down from my collar, and suddenly stabbed into my clothes, so that I shivered twice in a row, and had to slow down the speed of the bicycle.
By the time I arrived at Erlang Mountain, it was already more than nine o'clock in the morning, and I rode my bicycle for an hour, but I saw that there was a thatched hut at the bottom of the mountain, next to it was a railing made of canvas, and a small plot of land was circled, which was full of coffins, and now the dead are cremated, so the sales of this coffin are not good, no wonder the one-eyed Li has moved here since my grandfather died, and they all lived in the city.
I got out of the car and parked my bike on the side of the road, and I saw that the thatched hut was very dilapidated, wrapped in burlap bags, and straw mats and other boards, but the effect of the cold did not seem to be very good, and the roof of the thatched hut was piled with firewood and grass, and some of the firewood and grass on it were already moldy, and there was a lot of snow.
I went up and knocked on the door, and in a short time came out of the house a thin old man, his skin was dry, as if it were dried pigskin, and there was no life at all, one eye was hollow, as if it were a black hole, to suck a person into it, and the other eye was bloodshot, and his teeth were gone, so that his lips were sunken inward, and the skin of his mouth was wrinkled, and there were some white beard slags.
"Coffin?" The old man's voice seemed to be the sound of cardboard tearing, very dry, and it looked lifeless, which made people feel nervous when they heard it, but I still said: "Is it Old Man Li, I am Lao Feng's grandson, Feng Haoran." ”
One-eyed Li was stunned for a moment, one hand resting on his chin, as if thinking about his memory, and suddenly he said: "I remember, twenty years ago, I went to Lao Feng's house to drink his grandson's full moon wine, I didn't expect it to be so old, alas...... Since your grandfather died, I rarely went to the city. ”
I bought some New Year's goods on the side of the road by the way, after all, it's going to be the New Year, this celebration is still going to be, and the one-eyed Li is lonely, and the New Year's words are also lonely, I said: "I'm sorry, I've never come to see your old man." ”
I said so, but when I saw that Old Man Li saw the things in my hand, he was very excited, and he said: "It's okay, it's okay, it's the first time in the past few years that someone is worried about me, I used to go south and north with your grandfather, but now that your grandfather is gone, the world seems to be isolated from me, an old man......"
He smiled, but I felt a bit of helplessness and longing for relatives hidden in his laughter, and I took the initiative to say, "Grandpa Li, can I go in and sit?" ”
"Ha, good." He immediately opened the door, and it was snowing outside, and I went inside, but I felt that the temperature inside was not a few degrees different from the outside, and the thatched hut did not seem to be very well insulated.
I exchanged a few words of greeting, and when Mr. Li relaxed his vigilance against me, I took out my handwriting, and I said, "Grandpa Li, how did my grandfather die......"
As soon as this sentence came out, Old Man Li's expression froze, maybe he was already frozen, but now he just froze his expression, he was stunned for a few minutes, looked at me, and then looked at the notes in my hand, as if he understood something, he took a long breath and said, "You know? ”
I understood that Old Man Li was talking about my grandfather's true identity, so I nodded and said, "Got it." ”
Old Man Li made me a cup of hot tea, the teacup is made of hollow bamboo tubes, and there is a fragrance when I smell it, which is in obvious contrast with the messy and foul-smelling environment in the thatched house, Old Man Li put his hands together, his expression looked very solemn, and suddenly he smiled bitterly: "I originally thought that I could enter the coffin with this secret, but I was still very unwilling...... I know Lao Feng's personality, and he doesn't want his family to be implicated, so he also asked me to hide it, but the paper can't hold the fire, and I still have to come, I thought it was your father who found out about your grandfather, but I didn't expect it to be you, this is also creation. ”
Mr. Li spoke in a very heavy tone, which made me think that this way of speaking was the same as that of Mr. Teaching, how could a person with such education be reduced to buying a coffin to make ends meet, but I didn't disturb him, and I was still quietly an observer.
Old Man Li said, "Hmm...... The matter of the Dao League is a matter of the early days, when we were still young, with a lot of blood, at that time the organization let us pretend to be ghosts, to confuse our enemies, but at that time the Japanese had just left, they were all Chinese people fighting the countrymen, I remember that at that time we received a task, to go to Daxinganling to find a treasure in the Ming and Qing dynasties, at that time the military budget was stretched, and we needed to use extraordinary means to get military funds, so that we could continue the war, but we didn't expect that the place where the treasure was hidden turned out to be a huge underground palace, Dozens of our brothers went in, only me and your grandfather escaped, your grandfather said, we are deserters like this, and when we return to the organization, we will be arrested and shot, rather than being killed by our own people, it is better to be incognito and rely on our own skills to make money. ”
"I also agreed at the time, after all, life is the most precious, was shot by his own people, that death is meaningless, so we came to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but relying on a skill, we do some dead business on the surface, but secretly show people Feng Shui, watch the dragon vein, and then there was a vicious woman who claimed to be from Mount Emei, at that time this woman was very skillful, robbed us of business, and your grandfather found that this woman turned out to be a very hateful corpse keeper, specializing in captive some zombies who kill people without blinking......"
Hearing this, I couldn't help but take a breath, could it be that the predecessor of Xue Meiniang was the zombie raised by this woman?
I continued to listen, and Mr. Li's voice became more and more bitter: "That woman killed innocents indiscriminately, so that our brothers were indignant, so in the dead of night, the two of us quietly stole a few demon shrines in the woman's house, but the disaster is not alone, your grandfather was injured by a woman, and he was poisoned by the corpse, and there is no antidote to the corpse poison, and at that time your grandfather was also old, and he couldn't afford to toss, before he died, let me keep it secret for him, and never tell my descendants about it, but I am unwilling, Your grandfather fought with that woman to protect the innocent people, otherwise he wouldn't have fallen to this point! ”