Chapter 85: Dead End
Seeing her grandfather walking in that direction, Xiao Moyan couldn't help but start to get nervous in her heart, because the direction her grandfather went to was not towards the village, nor towards the outer village, but towards a dead end.
Xiao Moyan was very taboo about this dead end, because when she first came to her grandfather's house, she didn't know where this road led, so she played along this road with the children in the village.
Originally, it was normal for children to play together, but when Xiao Moyan had enough fun and returned to his grandfather's house, he was ruthlessly reprimanded by his grandfather. The reason for reprimanding her was not because she played with other children, but because she had taken that dead end.
This was the first time that the grandfather had lost his temper with her, and while severely reprimanding her, he also sent her back and did not pick her up for a long time.
After being reprimanded for a long time, when Xiao Moyan went to his grandfather's house again, he learned from the other children why it was a dead end.
That road is called a dead end for two reasons.
One is that the road itself is a dead end, the path is the back hill leading to the village, and the back mountain is a half-sided mountain, half mountain, half cliff, so this road is a well-deserved dead end, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a dead end.
The second reason is that the road leads to the back mountain, which is the local cemetery, where many villagers' ancestors have been buried for generations, if someone had not passed away to be buried, or went to the grave, this road would not have been walked at all, so many villagers called it a dead road.
Although Xiao Moyan knew the reason for the dead end at that time, she still couldn't understand why other people's children could go there to play, but she couldn't. She felt inexplicable about her grandfather's harsh reprimand, and felt that she had been greatly wronged.
Before he was reprimanded, grandpa was an amiable old man in Xiao Moyan's heart, he had never lost his temper with her, and he still loved her very much, he was always afraid that she would be cold or hungry, which can be said to be meticulous care, so after his grandfather lost his temper that day, Xiao Moyan couldn't accept it for a long time, and since then he has begun to taboo this dead end in his heart, and he has never walked this dead end in the future.
At that time, Xiao Moyan was standing at the door and saw her grandfather walking towards that dead end, and her heart began to go up and down a little, and for a while, she was a little uncertain.
After all, he was severely reprimanded by his grandfather for taking this dead end, and he was already warned by his grandfather at that time, and he would not be allowed to go to that dead end to play in the future, and Xiao Moyan also promised his grandfather that he would never go again, so Xiao Moyan was very conflicted at that time, and he didn't know whether he should go out with him.
Xiao Moyan looked at her grandfather's distant back, and was very puzzled, and it was precisely because she had been severely reprimanded, so she wondered even more, why did her grandfather go in this direction, didn't she let herself go this dead end? Why did Grandpa still walk towards the back mountain?
Xiao Moyan thought to himself, what is grandpa doing in Houshan so late? It can't be a tomb robbery. As early as when she was very young, Xiao Moyan had heard her uncles talk about her grandfather's ability to rob tombs, but since she could remember, she had never heard about her grandfather's tomb robbing.
Hearing this, I understand Xiao Moyan's mood very well at that time, I have also experienced this kind of thing, although it is different from Xiao Moyan's incident, but at least the inner struggle at that time is the same.
It's not a personal experience, you don't experience that feeling at all, it's like you know you're making a mistake and you're going to be severely criticized or even punished, but you're still going to do it. It's not stubbornness, it's not a reflection of how good your idea is, it's the impulse in your heart to know the truth, or perhaps curiosity.
After a short period of fierce struggle in his heart, Xiao Moyan finally made up his mind. The heart said, follow along, it's a big deal to be reprimanded by grandpa again, at most send me away tomorrow.
After making up his mind, Xiao Moyan looked at the moon hanging high in the sky and began to follow his grandfather. In order not to let her grandfather find out, she decided to wait for her grandfather to go farther away before following up, anyway, the moon in the sky was still very bright, and besides, in this direction that grandpa walked, there was only this dead end, so she was very sure that she would not lose it.
In this way, Xiao Moyan cautiously followed his grandfather far away, and while walking, he felt so strange in his heart, and said in his heart, grandpa, today is really abnormal, usually grandpa doesn't walk so fast at all, tonight it is like a fire at home, walking so fast.
Xiao Moyan was only a 9-year-old child at the time, so he could catch up with his grandfather even if he was in hot pursuit. Although there was only one road there, she was still afraid of losing it, and she didn't dare to relax for a moment. Chasing fast, and afraid of being discovered by grandpa, chasing slow, and afraid of losing it, this way down, but tired. Fortunately, this road to the back mountain is not too long, otherwise Xiao Moyan may not be able to keep up.
I followed my grandfather all the way, and it wasn't until I entered the back mountain that my grandfather's pace began to slow down, and my grandfather would often look back a few times. Fortunately, Xiao Moyan was not tall at that time, and the back mountain was full of shrubs and weeds, which was conducive to hiding.
Seeing her grandfather turn back from time to time, Xiao Moyan didn't dare to follow too closely, she didn't know if her grandfather had discovered her, or she was afraid that someone would follow her, so she squatted in the grass on the side of the road, waiting for her grandfather to completely walk away before daring to come out.
This time, it was really until Xiao Moyan dared to come out when her grandfather was completely far away, so that after she came out, she couldn't see her grandfather.
Xiao Moyan kept walking along the dead end towards the mountain, paying attention to the movements around her while walking, for fear that her grandfather would jump out of the grass and catch her, so her steps involuntarily began to slow down.
Fortunately, this dead end is about to come to an end, otherwise with her current way of walking, she doesn't know how many miles she will be thrown out of by her grandfather.
Xiao Moyan walked along the dead end road to the cemetery in the back mountain, and as soon as she glanced at the cemetery, she saw her grandfather standing in front of a grave bag, and she immediately squatted behind a big tree outside the cemetery.
Xiao Moyan's eyes stared straight at his grandfather, who stood next to a small grave, looking down at the grave for a while, looking around for a while, and looking around, grandpa stood there and watched for a while, but he didn't move. When she saw her grandfather standing there, she began to mumble in her heart, thinking, what is Grandpa doing here? Why are you still motionless, it can't be that you really want to rob the tomb.
But Xiao Moyan looked at it for a while and felt that grandpa was so stupid, if grandpa really wanted to steal the things in the grave bag, then grandpa was really stupid. There are so many large graves here that don't steal, but they want to steal the smallest grave bag, and this grave bag is so pitiful that it is hardly higher than the flat ground.
After Xiao Moyan felt that his grandfather was so stupid, he looked around the entire cemetery again, and also counted it with his hands, some relatively large grave bags, there were more than a dozen, and he said in his heart, grandpa is really abnormal today, and he doesn't even understand the reason for stealing things and picking up big ones.
Still wondering what grandpa thought, Xiao Moyan turned her gaze back to the small tomb, it was okay not to look at it, this look frightened her and immediately stood up involuntarily.