Chapter 63: Vision
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I went with Chen Dongfang to seal the coffin of the third grandfather, and there were only a few pieces of the third grandfather's usual clothes in the coffin, and I only returned home after I was busy with this, when I got home, Han Xue was already asleep, and I didn't bother her, but walked on the sofa alone, for so long, I have never felt so afraid, the patriarch of the Chen family, alive to guard the dragon head monument, and after death, even the body was pulled away by those paper people. This is what it means not to let go even after death.
I smoked cigarettes one after another, and my head was full of Chen Dongfang's words: "As long as you are involved in this matter, no one can get out, and no one will die well, this is fate." ”
This sentence even made me feel cold to the point of suffocation even more than those paper figures.
The third grandfather was hanged, Uncle Zhuzi was burned and hung by a thread, and twenty-three years ago, my father was skinned and died, and the bodies of the ancestors of the Chen family were pulled away after the death, these people seem to confirm Chen Dongfang's statement, you can't die well, even if you die, you can't be peaceful.
I kept thinking, thinking about whether it was worth it, I even thought, if the eldest brother came back, I was still in Fudigou as a village official, although the days were boring but peaceful, but after the eldest brother came back, although the road was thrilling, but it made my life richer. At the same time, it made me involved in this whirlpool, is it worth it?
Or is there a choice for me?
I sat and sat all night, I couldn't sleep, as long as I closed my eyes, all the pictures of my recent experience appeared in front of my eyes, the fool in the shroud, the bloody chest, the little green drought, but a pair of black eyes, including those paper people sacrificed to the ancestors, could carry the coffin.
Until I heard the sound of suona outside, this is the suona team that Chen Dongfang found for the funeral procession of the third grandfather, and it began to blow early in the morning, and my mother also got up early, went to buy two bundles of burning paper and came back to me and said: "Although our surname is Ye and not Chen, but the third grandfather has been good to you since childhood, go see off the third grandfather, hey, a good person, how to say that it is gone." ”
After speaking, my mother glanced at the cigarette butts on the ground and sighed: "You kid, you haven't slept all night?" ”
"I slept for a while in the afternoon, and I couldn't sleep at night. Mom, I'm going to burn paper for the third grandfather. After that, I took the burning paper from my mother's hand, and went out with it in my hand.
The funeral of the third grandfather is an ordinary funeral for the elderly in the countryside, except that almost the entire Chen family came because of the prestige of the third grandfather. This is just like the fact that no one in the whole village except me and Chen Qingshan knows that Chen Dongfang is a very powerful person in Shanghai, from this point of view, Chen Dongfang is a very low-key person, and most of them will pay attention to a momentum if they want to change to someone else's house.
After I went, I was also given a white turban, and among the people who sent the funeral, people with foreign surnames were not unable to participate in the funeral, but they could not sacrifice on the way to the funeral, and when the time came, everyone got up together, and the funeral team was opened, and the location of the third grandfather's cemetery was in the ancestral graveyard of the Chen family, next to the father of the third grandfather.
The funeral procession will stop at the crossroads, at this time the altar will be placed, and the relatives of the third grandfather will cry for the spirit, everything is going smoothly in front, just at the last intersection of the village, when the coffin is about to be raised after the crying is over, the accident suddenly happened, the hemp rope wrapped around the coffin suddenly broke, and several young people carrying the coffin stumbled, and the coffin also fell to the ground, and the ground was dusty.
The hemp rope foot child's arm is so thick, how can an empty coffin not be able to bear it? Because of the recent events, I suddenly had an ominous premonition, and my heart said that this can't be a bad sign, right?
Whether it is a white event or a happy event in the countryside, there will be a principal, which is generally undertaken by the more prestigious people in the family, in the past, this thing was done by the third grandfather, this time there is Chen Jiuye in the village to serve, the ninth grandfather in the third grandfather's generation, and the youngest one, today is nearly seventy years old, after the coffin landed, everyone was in an uproar, the ninth master stood up and sprinkled a handful of paper money and said: "Today is suitable for burial, there are no taboos, hurry up and change a rope, the coffin is up." ”
Such a thick rope is actually not easy to find, and when everyone finds the rope to tie the coffin again, the sky that was originally clear and thousands of miles of sky becomes dark clouds in the blink of an eye, and then there is even more thunder, there is no time to react at all, and the heavy rain like a scoop falls directly.
"The elderly, women and children go home to avoid the rain, the men continue to walk, hurry up and fall into the coffin, don't miss the time to delay the third brother on the road and get up the coffin!" The Ninth Master said after consulting Chen Dongfang's meaning.
First the rope broke, and then there was this sudden change of face weather, my sense of foreboding became more and more intense, originally I was at the back of the funeral procession, at this time when the coffin was raised, I walked to Chen Dongfang and whispered: "Uncle Dongfang, something is wrong, what's going on?" ”
Chen Dongfang's face was also not good-looking, he shook his head and looked up at the sky, but the heavy rain instantly wet his glasses, he shook his head and said, "I don't know, I haven't heard of any situation, let's go." When a person dies, as long as the grave is raised, nothing is left. ”
I asked, "Do you need me to call and ask the fat man?" He's an expert in the field, so he might have some insights. ”
"It's too late." Chen Dongfang said.
How to say that this is someone's family affair after all, I am embarrassed to say anything after Chen Dongfang said this, but the weather at this time makes me a little apprehensive. After I returned to the funeral procession, I suddenly remembered that although the fat man was guarding Uncle Zhuzi in Luoyang at this time, how could I forget that my eldest brother was close, and Sanlitun was only a few minutes away from here.
I quietly called my eldest brother, and my eldest brother answered quickly, and I said into the phone: "Eldest brother, I saw what happened last night, I am now on the way to the funeral, but the rope that tied the coffin just now suddenly broke, and now it is pouring like a heavy rain, I always feel that this is a bad sign." Nothing will happen, right? ”
The eldest brother paused on the other side of the phone, and he said, "You don't care about the Chen family's affairs." ”
After saying that, the eldest brother hung up the phone.
Hung up the phone, I was a little embarrassed, although the eldest brother said this coldly, but it is not unreasonable, people like Chen Dongfang must be much smarter than me, he feels fine, what am I doing here? For example, last night's incident, Chen Dongfang didn't plan to let me watch it at first, if it wasn't for the eldest brother's words, maybe I would never know about it. This shows that people must have their own ideas, that is, I'm stupid and don't have any eyes. What's more, it's normal for the weather to change abruptly in the summer, and I can't think about everything in feudal superstition.
After convincing myself, I didn't care so much about following the funeral procession, until I arrived in the ancestral graveyard of the Chen family, and when I got here, the rain stopped, and the weather in summer was like this. When we got there, although the ground was muddy, everyone fell to their knees, and in fact, after the heavy rain just now, everyone's clothes were now soaked.
The grave pit was dug early in the morning by a few descendants in the village, and now the entire grave is full of water gathered by the rainstorm just now, so the coffin can't fall to the ground for a while, the ninth master looked at the time and said to Chen Dongfang: "Dongfang, the hour is coming soon, it's too late for the water to seep down, why don't we go down and pick out the water?" ”
Chen Dongfang nodded, and several young juniors didn't care about it, they went down to the grave with a shovel, and used the shovel to pick up the water in the grave.
But after a few strokes, suddenly a shovel picked out a snake, and the latter was startled, and squatted in the grave, and it didn't matter if he squatted, he immediately screamed again, and when he stood up, he grabbed two more snakes in his hands.
At this time, everyone retreated one after another, and the few descendants who were digging water in the grave had already run out in a panic. I hurried over to see it.
When I got there, I looked out, and saw that the grave was full of snakes.
Among them is a snake, which is arched in the middle by a group of snakes like the stars and the moon, and this snake is very thick, we have never seen such a big snake here, like a python on TV.
The serpent is not afraid of man.
It held its head high and spat out letters, as if it were looking at us.
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