Chapter 3 Missing
Running to the house, Xiaoxiao looked around first, but fortunately, neither grandpa nor father were at home.
Xiaoxiao motioned for me to stand in the courtyard, and she turned and ran into the hall with a wooden coffin.
Soon Xiaoxiao ran out of it again, mysteriously pulled me to her room, and stretched out her little hand to show me.
"Blood!" I couldn't help but gasp, and was surprised to see Xiaoxiao's palms stained with bright red blood!
"This..."I pointed to Xiaoxiao's hand, and then pointed in the direction of the hall, my eyes widened and I didn't know where the blood on Xiaoxiao's hand came from?
"Shh Xiaoxiao whispered: "Actually, I didn't dare to tell you all along, and my grandfather also warned me that I absolutely can't say it, even you can't tell it." ”
"It's that every time someone dies in the neighborhood, there will be a lot of blood in the yin wooden coffin in our house."
"And it's a lot of blood, slowly flowing in the coffin, and it won't be until three days before it suddenly disappears."
"I've been like this for so many years, and I've seen it a lot, so I'm used to it and I'm not afraid!"
I couldn't believe Xiaoxiao's words, looking at Xiaoxiao's serious eyes, I knew that Xiaoxiao wouldn't lie to me.
"Blood!" I remembered that when I saw the dead Ermaozi just now, the miserable white bloodless face, could it be that the blood in the yin wooden coffin was Ermaozi?
Thinking of grandpa's weird expression, and then thinking about the complicated expression on grandpa's face after seeing the corpse of Ermaozi and being taken away by the police.
I am even more sure that the death of this Ermaozi must have something to do with our family, and it must also have something to do with the blood in the yin wooden coffin!
"Xiaoxiao, are you saying that once blood is found in this yin wooden coffin, then people nearby will definitely come to buy the coffin, right?" I couldn't believe what I was saying.
Xiaoxiao nodded affirmatively, a trace of confusion appeared in her eyes...
At this moment, a man's voice came from the courtyard, "Xiaoxiao, go and have a look!" Something big is going on in the village. ”
"It's Uncle Yan." Xiaoxiao pulled me out of the house and warmly beckoned Uncle Yan to sit down.
"Hello Uncle Yan!" I stepped forward to say hello warmly, and hurriedly poured tea for Uncle Yan.
"Chengzu is back? What, is it a school holiday? Why didn't my bear kid see anyone? Uncle Yan's eyes flickered, and he kept looking me up and down and asked.
"No, Uncle Yan, it's my father..."
Xiaoxiao on the side said: "That's Uncle Yan, grandpa said that Chengzu hasn't come back for a long time, and he misses him, so he will ask him to come back for two days." ”
"Oh, that's right, when you say that, I think of my bear child." Uncle Yan's little eyes kept looking at me and drank tea.
"This is not simple, just send him a letter to come back this weekend to see you, won't you!" Xiao Xiaole said hehehe.
I suddenly remembered what Uncle Yan said just now, and asked curiously, "Uncle Yan, I heard you say just now that something big happened in the village, what is going on?" ”
"Oh!" Uncle Yan put down the teacup in his hand, stood up and said, "Look at this person!" When you get older, your head will not shine. ”
"I talked to you about it, and I forgot what I was here for." Saying that, he turned his head and hurriedly walked out, greeting us as he walked: "Come and see, something really happened." ”
The dogs were biting and noisy, and the village road was full of people, rushing towards Ermaozi's house in twos and threes.
followed the crowd and ran to the courtyard of Ermaozi's house to see that the body of Ermaozi, who had just been pulled away by the police car, was lying in the funeral shed!
"No, Xiaoxiao, I was pulled away just now, how could I send it back so quickly?" I squeezed into the crowd to get another good look at the color of Ermaozi's corpse.
Sure enough, it was terrible white, and the corpse should be bloodless!
A burst of mourning music sounded, and Ermao's family put Ermaozi into the big coffin in a panic, pulled it to the tomb outside the village, and buried it hastily.
When the police car drove to the village for the second time, explosive news came that Ermaozi's body was completely missing!
It turned out that when Ermaozi was buried, someone called the police again, so the police rushed to the tomb and dug up the coffin that had just been buried.
But when I opened the lid of the coffin, I found that the coffin was empty, and Ermaozi's body was missing and missing!
I moved a chair and sat at the door of the hall, quietly looking at the wooden coffin placed in the hall...
When I was a child, I once heard the old people in the village tell me that it was during the Cultural Revolution, when the four evils were eliminated and all cows, ghosts, snakes and gods were defeated.
Naturally, this coffin shop in our house is the first to be eradicated.
Especially this yin wooden coffin, it has become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of those rebels.
So they flocked to break into this hall and wanted to destroy this wooden coffin.
However, what they didn't expect was that they didn't even enter this hall, and they were inexplicably overturned in the courtyard one by one.
So the Red Guards, who were so angry, lit a fire and tried to burn down our house.
After tossing and turning all day, the result was that the house was not burned down at all.
The reason is that no matter how much they toss, he just can't light our house.
The weary Red Guards dispersed, but bad luck began to begin!
In the night, all the people who participated in the order of our house died tragically, without exception, by a nameless fire.
Since then, no rebel has dared to step into our door.
On the contrary, those villagers came to our house during the New Year's festival and worshiped the gloomy coffin.
It's also a miracle, whose child is scared! Or who made a mistake and recruited a faceless one!
Find Dad, worship this yin wooden coffin, and soon everything will be fine.
What's the mystery behind this? Why can't I just go into the hall and have a look?
As I was thinking, I heard heavy footsteps in my ears, and I knew it was my father who had returned.
I stood up, turned my head to my dad and said angrily, "Dad, you didn't pull me back from school to let me attend some Ermaozi's funeral, right?" ”
"What is it about you that you need to take me on a long vacation? If you don't explain it, I'll go back to school tomorrow. ”
Dad frowned slightly and said, "I'm tired, if I have anything to say, I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”
"You're not going to steal that Ermaozi's corpse, are you?" I was startled by my own words and knew I was in trouble.
Sure enough, a big mouth that followed made me look like a star, and my face hurt hotly!
Covering his face in a depressed mood, he came to his mother's room, looked at the closed door, and turned back to his room.
Lying on the bed, I felt a burst of grievances in my heart, I really had enough of this cold home.
A grandfather who rolls her eyes, a mother who doesn't care about me all day long.
A dad who only knows, commands, and uses violence, a home full of coffin boards
If it weren't for the company of my sister Xiaoxiao, who was bought with money, I really don't know what nostalgia I still have for this family!
Just as she was thinking, Xiaoxiao pushed the door and walked in, holding a hot towel and two eggs in her hand.
Without speaking, Xiaoxiao wiped my face with a hot towel, picked up the egg, and kept rolling it on my swollen cheeks.
Looking at Xiaoxiao, who was close at hand, an inexplicable impulse surged out of his heart!
Xiaoxiao under the light, her face was slightly red, and a few strands of hair were scattered on her forehead, gently touching my face, itchy, very comfortable!
Because I lowered my body, the two trembling big steamed buns on Xiaoxiao's chest shook my eyes bloodshot and my head was confused!
Xiaoxiao grew up, and people outside said that Xiaoxiao was my child daughter-in-law, and if I could marry Xiaoxiao as a wife in this life, it would be a beautiful thing.
Just when my mind was full of thoughts, my grandfather's displeased voice came from outside, "Xiaoxiao, what are you doing in your brother's room so late?" Don't hurry up and cook on the fire. ”
Xiaoxiao hurriedly agreed, threw two eggs to me and said, "Eat it, it's cooked." He turned around and ran out.
The next day I was still asleep when shouting came from the yard.
"Coffin master! It's noon, why don't you get up? Hurry up, it's me back! ”
As soon as I heard it, I knew that it was my admirer Yan Wenbao who had returned.
I jumped out of bed in surprise, opened the door and scolded with a smile: "You turtle son, you wake up early in the morning and call the soul, and Lao Tzu hasn't woken up yet!" ”
The two of us hugged and hugged each other so much that we held hands and went outside to the grocery store to drink.
I stretched out my fist and slammed it on Wenbao's chest, hammered it and said, "You kid is not good at studying, why are you coming back?" ”
Wenbao is the only son of Uncle Yan next door, and he is one year younger than me.
looks okay, like Uncle Yan, just the kind of thin eyebrows and thin eyes that are a little weak.
He is half a head smaller than me, and his body is a little thin and timid.
Wenbao, I still have Xiaoxiao, the three of us have played together since childhood.
It wasn't until he was admitted to high school that he was admitted to the city's key high school, while I only fell into the town's general high school.
I haven't been together for a long time, and when I got to the grocery store, I wanted some cooked food, and I came to sit on the grass outside the village, and the two brothers ate and drank.
"Dad sent me a letter saying that you are back, let me come back and have a look, and that's how I came back." Wenbao said.
"Ermaozi is dead, you know?" I asked.
"When I came back, I heard from my father that the body was mysteriously missing."