Chapter 2: Two Floating Corpses
The next morning, I told my grandfather what I had seen the previous night.
At first, my grandfather didn't believe what I said.
However, when my grandfather went to my father's room and saw the chicken feathers and blood all over the place, my grandfather immediately believed what I said.
"Ergouzi, Ergouzi, where's your dad? Where's your dad......"
I didn't sleep all night, I lay drowsy in bed. Just as I was about to fall asleep, my grandfather's cry suddenly came from the hut in front of me.
There was a hint of panic in my grandfather's voice, and when I heard my grandfather's voice, I shivered all over my body and hurriedly put on my slippers and ran towards my grandfather.
"Where's your dad......"
When my grandfather asked me again, his tone unconsciously aggravated, and it was obvious how important my father was in his mind.
"Grandpa, I'...... I don't know......" I looked at my grandfather and shook my head.
I was so frightened last night that I didn't dare to go out after lying next to my grandfather.
However, last night I vaguely heard my dad closing the door.
"Think about it, did you hear anything else in the house last night?" Grandpa looked at me and asked.
I told my grandfather about the sound I heard my dad close the door last night, and he reacted immediately: "Oh no, your dad went out last night." ”
Grandpa sighed and said to me, "Nineteen years ago, your father also disappeared on a dark and windy night. ”
"Ergouzi, what was the number yesterday?" Grandpa seemed to remember something, and suddenly screamed.
"Grandpa, yesterday was the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month." I looked at the old yellow calendar on the wall and told my grandfather.
"Not good!" Grandpa's face changed in shock when he heard this, as if he had lost something all of a sudden.
"Grandpa, what's wrong with the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month?" I looked at my grandfather with a puzzled look on his face.
"The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the day when the ghost door is wide open, your father...... Woowoo...... Your dad might be dead......" Grandpa suddenly choked up after he finished speaking.
"What? My dad died? When I heard this, my face turned pale, and I couldn't believe this fact.
"Uh-huh." Grandpa nodded: "Your dad must have come back to see you and me yesterday when the ghost door was opened." ”
"Dad......" I looked up to the sky and let out a long howl, hugging my grandfather and crying.
After a long time, my grandfather and I slowly recovered from our strength.
"Grandpa, how did my dad die?" I wiped tears from the corners of my eyes, looked at my grandfather and asked.
"I don't know, grandpa only knows that your dad was born to gamble and owes a lot of debt. Especially in Wang Daren's family in Hetian Village, nineteen years ago, your father suddenly disappeared in our Niujia Village just to avoid Wang Daren's pursuit. ”
"Is there such a thing?" I was even more surprised when I heard it, and I didn't know about my dad's gambling habits.
However, I have never heard my grandfather talk about the matter between my father and this Wang Daren.
"Wait, Wang Daren?" When the name Wang Daren was mentioned, a hint of wisdom suddenly flashed in his grandfather's eyes.
Seeing my grandfather's eyes looking at me, I seemed to understand something in a trance: "Grandpa, will my father's death be related to Wang Daren?" ”
"It must have been this rabbit cub who did it, he killed your dad!" Grandpa's emotions were extremely excited, and his old face flushed and said, "I'll go to Kawada Village to settle accounts with that rabbit cub now." ”
"Grandpa...... I think my dad's death was someone else? "When I saw my grandfather pick up the flat pole and leave, I stopped him.
"Ergouzi, quick, go to the kitchen and get a kitchen knife, let's go and kill that beast now and avenge your father."
Grandpa is angry right now, and he can't listen to me at all.
"Grandpa, my dad was still at home on the night he disappeared, how did Wang Daren kill my dad?" I asked, blushing.
"You don't need to ask, it must have been that brute who tricked your dad out, and then gave your dad to him at night when no one was around...... Woowoo woo ......"
Grandpa couldn't cry when he said this, and then, Grandpa said angrily to me: "If you don't go, if you don't go, I'll go by myself, if I don't kill that little beast today, I won't be surnamed Niu." ”
I think grandpa is a bit careless about human life, after all, we don't have evidence if my dad was killed by Wang Daren.
However, under the pressure of my grandfather, I still blushed and picked up my hoe and ran out with my grandfather.
Just as we ran to the entrance of Niujia Village, the onlookers at the entrance of Niujia Village attracted our attention.
"Grandpa, what are they doing there?" I looked at the onlookers and asked curiously.
"I don't know." Grandpa stopped and looked at the bridge at the entrance of the village: "Let's go, let's go over and have a look." ”
"Uh-huh." I nodded and ran out with my grandfather.
The villagers gathered around the bridge at the entrance of the village and discussed, only my grandfather and I were confused and didn't know why.
However, when my grandfather and I ran to the bridge and saw the two corpses in the river, my grandfather and I were so frightened by the two corpses that our faces turned blue.
Because, those two corpses were none other than my biological mother who remarried someone else nineteen years ago, as well as Wang Daren.
Even though the two bodies were swollen from the river, my grandfather and I recognized them.
Especially my biological mother, even if she turned to ashes, I knew it.
After seeing this, my grandfather quickly put down the flat burden in his hand and salvaged the bodies of my mother and Wang Daren together with a few well-meaning villagers nearby.
"Woooooooooo......oo Daren, why did you leave? Why can't you think about it...... Woowoo woo ......"
Among the onlookers, an old woman ran over crying.
"Woo woo woo ......" The old woman pounced, knelt in front of Wang Daren and cried silently.
I don't know why, for so many years, since my mother followed Wang Daren, Wang Daren and her have never had children.
After Wang Daren's death, Wang Daren's mother was the only one in his family.
The old man was alone, and I stood behind Wang Daren's mother and began to sympathize with her.
"Auntie, the matter has come to this, let's hurry up and let this melon baby be in the ground." The village chief of our Niujia Village came over and helped Wang Daren's mother up.
Hetian Village is upstream, Niujia Village is downstream, Wang Daren's body appeared at the entrance of our Niujia Village, and the village chief naturally felt a little guilty about this matter.
"Woo woo woo ......" Wang Daren's mother still cried, but her crying was obviously much quieter than before.
Eventually, with the help of our Niujia villagers, the bodies of Wang Daren and my mother were returned to Hetian Village.
Originally, my grandfather and I wanted to send my mother's body home for burial, but 18 years ago, my mother had changed her surname to the Wang family, and the villagers in Niujia Village did not allow me and my grandfather to hold a funeral ceremony for my mother in Niujia Village.