Chapter 6: The Truth
After taking the three sticks of incense, lighting them and inserting them in the incense burner, I looked back at my grandmother, and I didn't know where to ask for a while.
"The people in the village are right, our Gu family ancestors have indeed done too many sins." Grandma spoke first.
"The ancestors of the Gu family are upside down, and by your grandfather's generation, relying on the money obtained from the upside down, the Gu family is already a famous big landowner in the neighborhood."
"People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, this kind of business without capital, the most important consideration is people's hearts, your grandfather didn't hold back, and he had a big vote with someone, and when he came back, he only had half a life left."
"Your grandfather will be sixteen, the second grandfather will be fourteen, in that era, they can be used as adults, and in the end, the two of them also went, but they didn't suffer any injuries, and they came back, but they were scared enough."
"Your grandfather said that it was pitted, it was a tomb within a tomb, and it was a corpse raising place, and it was buried a female corpse wearing a wedding dress."
Speaking of this, a touch of sadness appeared on Grandma's old face, "Half a year later, she came, and your grandfather died against the blood." Since then, the men of our Gu family have not lived past the age of thirty. ”
"She's coming?" I asked.
"Yes, that was her first appearance, and she was standing outside the gate, wearing a bright red wedding dress and a crown of xia on her head."
Grandma Tai's expression was a little dazed, and her brown-yellow pupils were covered with a layer of white film.
"What about the eldest grandfather and the second grandfather?" I asked.
"Huh!"
Grandma smiled gloomily, "Don't look at your eldest grandfather and second grandfather, who are so small, they have a lot of eyes!" Your grandfather has his own way, he became a corpse sewer and sewed himself into a corpse, which can be regarded as an escape. ”
"Your second grandfather is not simple, he worshiped the mountain god, became a yin boy for others, gave up that skin, and broke away from the Gu family."
The mountain god is also called the mountain ghost, and the elves and ghosts can be called the mountain god.
To be a yin boy to the mountain god is actually to sacrifice himself as a sacrifice, after the sacrifice, there is no freedom, and fate is no longer controlled by himself, just like Sun Wukong put on a tight spell.
"If your eldest grandfather and second grandfather were a little bit of a master and went up by themselves, our Gu family would not have fallen to the point where they are now, they fled, and it was you who suffered."
Grandma Tai's face welled up with hatred, and she continued: "Since then, the Gu family has not stopped, as short as a year, as long as three years, there will be men who will die against the blood. ”
The so-called death against the blood is to burst blood vessels, and my father was like this back then, and I still remember how he died in front of me.
"Grandma has thought of many ways, but it's useless, this is a curse attached to the blood of our Gu family, and it can't be removed."
Grandma sighed and continued: "In order for the Gu family to continue to take root, you can only have more lives, and in the end, the more you live, the more you die, and only you are the only seedling left." ”
"Ma'am!"
I squirmed my lips, and the memories of my childhood resurfaced, I couldn't forget the coffin, and I couldn't forget the corpse of the man who cared for the family.
"Don't worry, grandma hasn't lived in vain all these years, and the yin virtue of our Gu family over the years has not been accumulated in vain, and that glimmer of life is in you."
Grandma stretched out her thin palm, patted me on the shoulder, and said, "You don't have to worry about the two obstacles of your eldest grandfather and second grandfather, before grandma leaves, I will definitely help you solve them." ”
"Ma'am?"
I suddenly noticed that the white film in my grandmother's eyes was deeper.
"Come on, Blackie, come here!" Grandma suddenly beckoned behind me.
"Meow!"
A cat meow sounded behind me, and I turned around to see a black cat approaching with disdain in its eyes.
"Blackie!"
A smile appeared at the corner of Grandma's shriveled mouth and she opened her thin palm.
A hint of helplessness flashed in the black cat's eyes, and it still jumped into the arms of the grandmother.
"Xiao Hei, if you hadn't lent me all these years, I would have died a long time ago!" Grandma's thin palm stroked the black cat's back, "I won't live long, you will follow Gu Bei in the future!" ”
"Meow!"
The black cat raised its head, stared at Grandma for a while, and finally squinted its eyes, rubbed its head against Grandma's palm, and then jumped out of Grandma's arms and stood beside me.
"Sun, if there is anything else you want to ask, while grandma still has the strength, hurry up and ask!" Grandma looked at me, and her eyes became even more cloudy.
Only then did I realize that Grandma was going to die, or rather, Grandma had died a long time ago, and she was able to live until now, borrowing the anger of this black cat.
No wonder grandma's voice suddenly became shrill, no wonder grandma's popularity has become less and less in the past two years.
I opened my mouth and couldn't say a word.
"If you don't say it, grandma will say a few more words."
Grandma Tai leaned on the coffin with her little feet, and said after a sigh: "Xiaoxi is a good girl, you can use it with confidence, she will not harm you." And Xiao Hei, it's by your side, grandma rest assured. ”
"The woman behind you, she won't hurt you for the time being, she won't let you die, then you will understand, go back, go back, grandma can't die for the time being, the day is up, don't forget to bring Xiaoxi back.!"
Grandma said as she slid down, her body sinking into the coffin, the lid of which slid through with a piercing creak and closed again.
"Ma'am!"
I knelt down and kowtowed to my grandmother three times, I don't know why, I think the next time I come back, I may not see my grandmother.
"Meow!"
Xiao Hei yelled at me, jumped into my arms, stretched out his cat's paw and pointed outward, the meaning was obvious, let me hurry up.
I let out a slow breath, glanced at the coffin again, and stepped out.
When I walked to the gate, I looked back, I don't know if it was an illusion, I felt that there seemed to be people in the other rooms.
"Meow!"
Xiao Hei waved his claws and screamed again.
I turned around, closed the gate and got into the car.
When I came back this time, although I solved some of the doubts in my heart and knew the origin of the curse on the Gu family, I had more doubts.
Why did the eldest grandfather and second grandfather come back?
Back then, in order to avoid the curse, they would rather give up their human bodies and become neither human nor ghostly, but now they are not afraid?
If the corpse that came to buy incense last night was controlled by the eldest grandfather, then what about the second grandfather, he also came to buy incense?
What secrets is hidden in the so-called three corpse incense?
There is also this black cat called Xiao Hei, I haven't seen it at all when I come back these times, but looking at the appearance of my grandmother, this cat has obviously been in my house for many years.
At one o'clock in the morning, I was back in the store.
Chen Xi didn't sleep, she had been waiting for me, and when she saw the black cat getting out of the car, she was stunned for a moment, with a trace of fear in her eyes.
"Meow!"
Xiao Hei screamed, as if he said hello, walked past her, took two steps, stopped, and looked back at me fixedly.
"Husband, Xiao Hei asked you to lay a quilt for it, it's sleepy." Chen Xi came over and pulled me.
"Meow!"
Xiao Hei showed a teachable expression, gave me another look, and motioned for me to hurry up.
I can't laugh or cry, this is to get an ancestor back.
After laying out the quilt, Xiao Hei found a comfortable position on the kang, lay down on his stomach and closed his eyes.
I also climbed on the kang, and Chen Xi slept next to me as she did yesterday, and this time, she was quiet and didn't say anything.
The night passed, and when he got up in the morning, Chen Xi was already busy, and Xiao Hei was still sleeping.
I shook my head and opened the shop normally.
The fat man came in the morning, and when he saw that I was safe, he didn't say anything, and stayed for a while and left.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, I tried to make a phone call to my grandmother, and the phone went through, and my grandmother's voice was hoarse, telling me that everything was okay, and she hung up the phone.
For the next two days, everything returned to calm.
The eldest grandfather didn't show up, the second grandfather didn't come to buy incense, the grandmother was safe, if it weren't for Chen Xi dangling in front of my eyes every day, I even felt that the experience a few days ago was a dream.
In the blink of an eye, another seven days have passed, and there are still three days left before taking Chen Xi back to the countryside.
A phone call broke the peace, and it was still a fat call.
"Brother, come here, something is wrong."
On the phone, the fat man's voice was a little dull.
"Where are you?" I asked.
"Hongqi Village, the hometown of the crematorium old Li Tou, he died yesterday." The fat man said.
"Dead?" I asked.
"Hmm!"
The fat man's voice carried a hint of surprise, "Brother, Lao Litou's death seems to be related to the last incident." ”