Chapter 3: Lies, Fires

"What?"

Uncle Li's words made me feel like I was struck by lightning, and my whole body froze in place.

My third uncle has been dead for several years?

How the is this possible!

I was raised by the third uncle since I was a child, and my feelings for the third uncle are better than my parents who gave birth to me but didn't raise me, and the memory of the third uncle is also extremely real, especially, tonight we entered my ancestral grave together!

"Zheng Yi, are you okay?" Uncle Li patted me on the back when he saw me stunned, but I grabbed Uncle Li's hand and asked eagerly: "Uncle Li, you said that my third uncle died, how did he die, and how long has he been dead?" ”

"Hey, your third uncle has been dead for almost three years, and he died on the mass grave in Dongshan, no one knows how he died!"

"Impossible!" I said excitedly, "I'm still with my third uncle tonight!" ”

"Zheng Yi, you're tired, go back and rest first, Uncle Li will help you guard here, and I'll call you when the people from the public family come!" Uncle Li shook his head and sighed, but I was angry, no longer paying attention to Uncle Li, turned his head and walked towards the crowd, and asked loudly, "Which of you saw my third uncle?" ”

These people have been gathering together to talk about each other, but at this moment, they were all stunned when they heard my words, and they all turned their heads to look at me in surprise, as if they were looking at an idiot!

"Zheng Yi, are you stupid? How many years has your third uncle been dead, where can we see him! ”

"Like, can we still live to hell?"

What the hell?

Their words shook my heart.

Could it be that the third uncle is really dead, and what has been with me for so many years is actually the ghost of the third uncle?

No way!

I asked almost everyone in the room, and they seemed to be hiding from the plague gods, and after throwing down a sentence that my third uncle had died a long time ago, they hurried away, looking at me from a distance with the eyes of a madman, and from time to time they gathered together to point at me.

I squatted on the ground with a sluggish face, and at this moment my heart was in turmoil, helplessness and panic had already occupied my heart.

What the hell is going on, the third uncle who has been with me has been dead in the mouths of the villagers for three years, is it that I really can't accept that the third uncle's death spirit has a problem, or are the villagers collectively lying and ganging up to lie to me?

But there is no reason, there are hundreds of people in our village, and there are hundreds of people gathered here at the moment, and hundreds of people have joined forces to deceive me, how much hatred does this have for my family?

Could it be that I really have a problem?

If a few people say that my third uncle is dead, it may still be a lie, but when hundreds of people all conclude in unison that my third uncle is dead, even the most determined person may have to doubt himself.

My head was a mess, and I pulled my hair hard to sober myself up, but the next moment, I suddenly felt a shock.

Because I suddenly thought of a person, a person who had a very close relationship with my third uncle.

The person in the village who knows my third uncle best is definitely not me, but my third uncle's friend, Widow Liu!

The matter between the third uncle and Widow Liu is no longer a secret, for so many years, the third uncle has often spent the night at Widow Liu's, if it weren't for my third uncle insisting on marrying me a daughter-in-law first, and then thinking about his own affairs, I'm afraid Widow Liu would have moved into our house long ago and lived with my third uncle.

It can be said that although the two do not have the name of husband and wife, they have long been husband and wife, and Widow Liu will never joke about the life and death of my third uncle!

Thinking that I couldn't take care of the ancestral grave at this time, I got up and ran to Widow Liu's house.

Widow Liu's house is not far from my house, just across the street, it is the middle of the night, Widow Liu should have fallen asleep a long time ago, but when I came to Widow Liu's house, I found that Widow Liu's house actually had a light, the light was very weak, it should be a candle lit in the house.

I took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

But when there was a knock on the door, the faint candlelight in the house was instantly extinguished, and then a vigilant voice came out: "Who? ”

"Aunt Liu, it's me, Zheng Yi, I have something I want to ask you!" I lowered my voice and said.

"Zheng Yi? It's so late, my aunt is resting, let's talk about it tomorrow! ”

It is a mystery of the life and death of the third uncle, where can I wait until tomorrow, and said in a hurry: "Aunt Liu, I just want to ask you about my third uncle, the villagers say that my third uncle has been dead for several years, I know that the person you care about the most is my third uncle, so you will never lie to me, I just want to know, is my third uncle really ......"

Before I finished my sentence, Widow Liu pushed open the door, pulled me into the house, and turned her head to look around when she closed the door, then turned her head to look at me and said, "Zheng Yi, what did you just say?" ”

I told the matter as it was, and after finishing speaking, I looked at Widow Liu with an anxious face and asked, "Aunt Liu, are they lying to me?" My third uncle ......"

"Your third uncle did die three years ago!" Before I finished my sentence, I was interrupted by Widow Liu, and I saw Widow Liu's gloomy face and said to me: "They didn't lie to you, Zheng Yi, go back, there are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door, you are still young, and you still want to ask for a daughter-in-law, it's not good to be seen!" ”

When I heard her words, I froze on the spot, my mouth wide open, and I didn't say anything for a while.

Is my third uncle really dead?

"Impossible, impossible!" I covered my head and kept muttering to myself, Widow Liu sighed when she saw this, and said, "Zheng Yi, go back first, Aunt Liu is going to rest!" ”

As he spoke, he pushed me out of the room.

However, just as I had just left the door of Widow Liu's house, and Widow Liu had not had time to close the door, by the moonlight, I suddenly saw a pair of shoes placed at the door of Widow Liu's house.

When I saw those shoes, my heart trembled, because I am very familiar with those shoes, they are my third uncle's!

However, the shoes were wet and covered in blood, and I even saw a few bloody footprints on the ground.

"Aunt Liu, those shoes are ......" I hurriedly spoke, but Widow Liu didn't give me a chance to speak again, and closed the door with a 'bang', no matter how I knocked at the door, I didn't respond to me again, and in desperation, I had to go home in despair.

When I got home, I went limp and collapsed on the bed.

What happened tonight was so strange that it was beyond my realization.

First I entered the ancestral grave with my third uncle, and the mysterious female corpse woke up, and then I fell into a coma, and when I woke up, I found that the ancestral grave had been dug up, and the locust forest was on fire, and then my third uncle was 'killed'

It all happened in one night, and it was almost enough for my head to mess around.

Widow Liu and my third uncle are the closest people, just now she even admitted that my third uncle is dead, could it be that my third uncle is really dead a long time ago, and the third uncle in my memory is very likely just my hallucination?

Since the third uncle is an illusion, then the previous incident of me and the third uncle entering the ancestral grave was also fake?

To be honest, at this moment I can't tell whether what I've experienced is true or false, because the person who went through these things with me is a person who has been dead for several years, which can't help but make me suspect that everything I have experienced before may have been imagined by me.

It's just that if the third uncle is really dead, then what's the matter with the shoes at the door of Widow Liu's house, it's obviously my third uncle's!

I suddenly remembered that when I first arrived at Widow Liu's house, Widow Liu looked guarded, and even looked around, as if I would be followed.

Widow Liu's series of actions are too suspicious, could it be that she knows something, but for some reason, she can't tell the truth of the truth?

The more I thought about it, the more messy my head became, and even my heart was sullen, and I wanted to smoke a cigarette to calm my thoughts, but when I took out the cigarette case, I was stunned.

Because it was not only the cigarette case that I took out of my pocket, but also a small note.

I opened the little note, and I saw four small words written crookedly on it: Don't believe anyone

When I saw these words, I was instantly stunned.

Don't believe anyone, what does this mean, is it a reminder to me, don't believe the villagers?

Only, who put this note in my pocket?

Could it be ...... Widow Liu?

It had to be her!

She must know the truth of the matter, and my third uncle may be hiding in her house, but for some reason my third uncle can't show up, so she reminds me not to believe other people's words!

If my guess is correct, then why do the villagers say that my third uncle has died a long time ago?

Could it be that they wanted to harm him, so they fabricated a false impression that my third uncle had died a long time ago, the purpose of which was to kill my third uncle and insist that my third uncle had died a long time ago, so as to confuse the family?

But why did they harm my third uncle, and how did my third uncle offend them?

Also, why didn't my third uncle dare to show up, was he hiding from something?

Just as I was sitting on the bed and thinking wildly, I suddenly heard a 'boom', and then a fire burst into the sky, and the fire was so fast that the whole village was illuminated.

"Widow Liu's house is on fire, everyone go and help put out the fire!"

Someone on the street shouted, and my heart trembled when I heard it.

Widow Liu's house is on fire?