Chapter 24: Carrying His Mother to the Village
"Don't fool me down, if I'm a game-breaker, like you say, then my mother shouldn't come out alive, right? So don't tell me any deceptive tricks like destiny. β
"I can't explain this, but there is a difference between you and your mother. You tap, be careful to dig up your mother's body. Zhang Peng suddenly reminded.
I was so frightened that I quickly stopped and asked, "Shouldn't there be a coffin?" β
"Maybe those people moved over in a panic, but they might not use the coffin."
After Zhang Peng's analysis, I was in no mood to answer, I wanted to hold back all my anger and explode together after finishing this matter. Sure enough, he was right, there were red cloth corners exposed in the soil, Zhang Peng asked me to use my hands, not a hoe, so I used my hands to pick up the soil, it was a red sheet, wrapped in a corpse, the strange thing is that the cloth sheet is not rotten at all.
Zhang Peng had already drawn out the iron sword, took out a talisman and wiped it on the sword, just in case, and then asked me to take out the corpse and open it to see. I moved my muscles, rubbed my hands, and slowly lifted the body out of the pit, gently pushing the body to unfold the red sheets.
When the corpse of the red cotton jacket was revealed, I was so frightened that I took several steps back, and I looked exactly like the woman that night, and my body was not decomposed. Zhang Peng held an iron sword and picked out a red cotton jacket, the woman had needles sewn on her stomach, the stitching was rough, and the black sewing thread was very obvious. The woman also had a talisman on her head.
"You were really cut out with a kitchen knife by your father when you were born?" Zhang Peng tore off the talisman, looked at it, and then threw it on the ground. He said to himself: "Corpse Talisman, is there anyone in your village who understands this?" β
"That's what they all said, only Huang Xuan knows Taoism." I looked at the woman's appearance, my mind was blank, I had never seen my mother, I didn't know what she looked like, my grandmother said that my eyes and nose were like my mother, and my nose was a bit similar, but her eyes were closed, and I couldn't see where it looked.
Zhang Peng slapped me on the head, "What do you kid think?" Scared silly? β
"Is this really my mother?"
"If you don't remember your mother's grave wrong, then you can't be wrong, Master Ben's corpse sniffing nose hasn't been missed."
"Why doesn't she rot?" I asked.
"I don't know, anyway, I can't explain what happened to you and your mother with my current knowledge, but it's certain that she can't be reincarnated." Zhang Peng said.
"Why?" I asked.
"People have three souls, after death, the heavenly soul returns to the heavenly road, the earth soul returns to the cemetery, and the life soul returns to the underworld, your mother only has one earth soul, and the other two souls are gone. The three souls are not aligned, how to reincarnate and reincarnate again. β
"Go...... Where did it go? β
"If what the people in your village say is true, I'm afraid that they will be detained under the water, and as for the corpse not decomposing, it is also related to the Guillotine Gorge." I believe what Zhang Peng says now, because I don't understand.
"Why is the soul there?"
"The soul of the earth continues the life of the fetus in the womb! Where is so much nonsense, if you want to know if it's your mother, just walk around the village on your back, anyway, you older villagers must know each other. β
I nodded, looked at the corpse, and used a shovel to cut the red sheets, and the force of the tears told me that the sheets were not corroded at all, which was not scientific at all. But I can't think about it so much, the most important thing now is to carry my mother's body back to her grave, and also, to settle accounts with those grandchildren.
Zhang Peng assisted me in carrying my mother's back, and the cold corpse exuded a chill, but I didn't feel afraid, this is my own mother, she is still protecting my life when she is dead.
When I went down the hill and passed the house, I opened the wooden door, took the axe, and said to Zhang Peng, "The money is in the lattice under the wardrobe, this is the key, you take it yourself." β
He grabbed me, "What are you doing with an axe?" Don't do stupid things, you will go to jail if you hack people to death. β
"You don't have to worry about it, I know it in my heart." I shook off his hand.
"You have a fart, a normal person should cry at your mother's corpse at this time, but you are so calm, I think you are abnormal."
I ignored him and walked towards the village with my mother's body on my back, Zhang Peng didn't go to get the money, but locked the door and chased after me, saying good things along the way, but I was not in the mood to pay attention to him. I've lived like this in my life, they say I'm a disaster, and I can't refute it, and it's true that people who are close to me always have a good death. But they dare to treat their dead mother like this, and I can't bear it anymore.
Before I reached the entrance of the village, the people on the road fled in all directions as if they had seen a ghost, hiding far away, and when I walked to the entrance of the commissary, I turned my head to look at the boss, "Is this my mother?" I asked aloud, not stepping forward, for fear of scaring him, because two generations of his family had opened a commissary here, and he must have known my mother.
He was looking for money, but the iron coin in his hand fell to the ground, his face was pale and at a loss, and the watermelon held by the old man who bought things also fell to the ground and broke, and the red juice flowed out of the green melon skin.
"Isn't it? I couldn't see it clearly, so I came in. I yelled.
"Yes...... Be... Your motherβ" he said, nodding.
I turned around and walked towards my former home, and after a few steps, I heard Jiang Chumei calling out to me at the door of the village branch: "Shui Sheng, what are you doing?" β
After she finished speaking, she chased after her, and the second aunt followed behind and wanted to hold her, but Jiang Chumei ran too fast, and I stopped when I saw the second aunt coming. On the second floor of the mobile board room, there were three people watching, Charles, Mr. Sun, and a man with a cane, who looked to be in his sixties, with a green wrench finger in his left hand, looking at the momentum, it should be that Ouyang Xiong.
"Aquatic, who is this?" Jiang Chumei looked at my mother, and she was also frightened.
"My mother!" I say.
"No way, how many years has your mother been dead, how can it be ......" she wanted to say how the body was still intact.
"That's right, that's my mom. You can ask your mom if she knows. I looked at the second aunt who came up.
Jiang Chumei turned to look at the second aunt and asked, "This is the aquatic mother?" β
The second aunt kicked in anger, didn't dare to look at it, and pulled Jiang Chumei to the village branch. "Why do you care so much, it's unlucky, come with me."
"Zhang Yuehua, you stop!" I shouted.
The second aunt turned her head to look at me, a little frightened, and then became fierce, "Xiao Wang Bazhong, what do you want to do?" Even your mother has to call me sister, you're going to heaven? β
Jiang Chumei couldn't understand why I targeted her mother.
"I ask you, 13 years ago, did you participate in stealing my mother's body?" I walked up to her and asked, and she took two steps back.
"You... Don't fucking spew blood, old lady, go steal your mother's corpse. Zhang Yuehua yelled at me, squirting a smell of melon seeds from her mouth.
"Shui Sheng, what do you say, how could my mother do such a thing?" Jiang Chumei asked.
"Chu Mei, you are the village chief, you can ask your mother, did she participate in stealing my mother's body and burying it in a mass grave, if she doesn't admit it, I will go to Jiang Weiguo to question, if he doesn't say, I will cut off his legs." I said coldly.
"Shuisheng, don't mess around, you'll go to jail." Jiang Chumei pulled me in a hurry, and he couldn't care about being afraid.
The second aunt hurriedly dragged Jiang Chumei and wanted to pull her away, but I waved the axe in my hand and put it on the second aunt's neck, "Zhang Yuehua, you remember, if you have participated in this matter, this axe will cut off your head and bury it in a mass grave." β
"Aquatic, you're crazy, take the axe." Jiang Chumei still wanted to pull my hand.
I shook her off and yelled at her, "Shut up, it's none of your business. β
The second aunt sneered and said to Jiang Chumei: "See, the nature of the ghost species has been revealed, and you don't blink an eye when you kill people, I think you will dare to be with him in the future?" β
Jiang Chumei shook off the second aunt's hand and suddenly asked, "Mom, you told him that you didn't participate in this matter back then." β
"The old lady can explain to him? The hair didn't grow together, and he dared to compete with me and kill him in minutes. After the second aunt finished speaking, she pushed away the axe I put on her neck without fear, pulled Jiang Chumei away, and she also took out her mobile phone to make a call, I don't know whether to call the police or notify my cousin and them.
I carried my mother to the grave, slowly put her into the coffin, and then covered the coffin, the coffin nails in the soil had corroded.
"It's okay, just cover it like this, the corpse will rot after all, dust to dust, dust to dust, and dust to earth, which is the final end of mankind." Zhang Peng leaned against the tree behind him and said.
I took out a towel and cleaned my mother's face and hands, looked at her face carefully, and remembered in my heart, although I couldn't see a smile or cry, but I knew at least the basics of what she looked like.
I missed my mom day and night, but I never thought that the first time I met her, it would be like this.
After covering the coffin, Zhang Peng also came over to help fill in the soil. Seeing that I didn't speak, he couldn't help it, "I said, boy, you have to calm down, even if you want to teach them a lesson, don't take an axe, just take a stick, this axe is so sharp, it can chop people into serious injuries or even death." β
I didn't speak, and if I didn't give the grandchildren some color this time, they would kick their noses in the face, and maybe I would die and the corpses would have to be thrown away by the dogs.