Chapter 13: The Flower of the Other Side
After the third grandmother told me, she left the yard with Qian Lao's seventh daughter-in-law, and my father came out and asked, "What did Qian's seventh daughter-in-law tell you?" ”
"Oh, I said the house was haunted at night, let me go to town!"
"Hmph, this woman is really, what's the use of letting you go?"
"Alas! It's not easy for people! A woman's house, now even the body of a man can't be found. ”
"Then it shouldn't be a nosy!"
I understand what my father means, the Qian family is the same as our Liu family, and they are all figures with a face in the village, but their Qian family is thriving, and our Liu family is scarce in men.
"The third grandmother asked me, can I not go?" I moved out of the third grandmother, and my father stopped talking, but he was still unhappy in his heart, and he went out of the yard in a huff.
When I got back to the house, I heard someone sobbing, and I saw that it was my mother.
When my mother saw me enter the house, she quickly hid something behind her.
I was a little puzzled by my mother's actions, "Mother, what are you doing?" ”
"No, nothing!" The mother was a little flustered.
"What's behind you?"
"No, no, what?"
I always felt that my mother was deliberately hiding something, so I rushed behind her, and sure enough, she was holding the belly pocket I found at my uncle's house.
"Is there something wrong with this thing?" Mother's movements are secretive, and I always feel that she wants to cover up something.
"No problem!" My mother's lips trembled so much when she said this, and I knew she was lying.
"Mother, are you and Dad hiding something from me?"
"Nope!"
"In the past two days, you and my father have been talking mysteriously and strangely, and as soon as I entered the house, you stopped talking, you must have something to hide from me."
"No, really not, I don't believe you to ask your father!" The mother gritted her teeth there and did not let go.
"Okay, then I'll ask Dad!"
My words really worked, my mother dragged me, in fact, my words are completely agitated, my father's mouth is very hard, and he admits death, if his mother doesn't say it, he must be dead or alive.
"And what do you say? What do you want to know? ”
Seeing that my mother's defense line was broken open by me, I quickly asked.
"Is there really a problem with our graveyard? Why did the shaman say this, and the third grandmother still said this. ”
"What can be the problem, if there is a problem, then Mr. Wu, who does white things, won't have told us a long time ago?"
"Then Mr. Wu can't even handle a soul chicken, so naturally he doesn't have much ability, if he has enough ability, he can still ask the shaman to come out of the mountain?" After going through so many things, I know that there are people outside the world, and there is a truth outside the sky, Mr. Wu can't figure it out, so let's ask the shaman, the shaman is robbed and wants us to invite Mrs. Qi, who knows what living immortals there are above Mrs. Qi.
"Did you hear something?" My mother asked me.
"I didn't hear anything, it's just that the poplars in the whole village are good, why are the poplar leaves of our family and my uncle's family turned yellow."
"Alas!" The mother sighed, "It's all my mother who hurt you!" ”
"Mother, why do you say that?"
"Do you want to know whose belly pocket it is?"
"Well, of course I want to know—" I nodded, "Uncle has never married in his life, how can he have a child's belly pocket!" ”
"Actually, this belly pocket is-" My mother was just about to let go, and my father entered the house.
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In the evening, I had dinner at Qian Laoqi's house, and her daughter-in-law treated me warmly, which made me very embarrassed.
"Auntie, don't be like this, Uncle Qian's matter, my family is also responsible, if I don't find you to dig a pit and bury the grave, there will be no such thing."
"Auntie doesn't blame you, as the old saying goes, 'Heaven is evil, it is still against you; You shall not live' if you have done your own iniquity! ”
"Actually, I don't really understand, although the men in our village have a short lifespan, but they can't give up on themselves, you look at this one by one, drunk and dreaming of death, as if they have lived today and there is no tomorrow, why bother?"
"If you don't say you've read books and see everything thoroughly, you can't be like them! I've seen the world out there. ”
"Well, I know, auntie, don't worry too much, there's a sentence I don't know whether to say or not!"
"You say, it's all like this, don't sell it to your aunt."
"My words may not be good, I always think that the female ghost is aimed at Uncle Qian, not necessarily at you, now that Uncle Qian is gone, maybe the female ghost will not haunt you."
My words seemed to reassure Qian Laoqi's daughter-in-law, "If that's the case, it's really-" Before he finished speaking, he wiped his tears again, "My dead ghost, why did you just leave?" ”
"Auntie, don't worry, I will definitely be here with you tonight, let's see the situation and then talk about it, it's really not good, the third grandmother can still find someone to break it for you, don't worry!"
At night, I was lying alone in the west house of the Qian family, and my heart was also timid, the female ghost I had seen in my dreams, gentle and affectionate to me, I really couldn't imagine why when I arrived at Qian Laoqi's house, it became a ghost crying wolf.
I still blush and my heart beat when I think about the scene that happened in my uncle's dream last night, and somehow I am so eager for it that I even wonder if she will come back to me tonight.
If she really came to linger with me, maybe she wouldn't have a chance to scare Qian Lao's seventh daughter-in-law again.
I just thought about it, thought about it, and fell asleep.
I dreamed again, but I didn't see the woman in red, to be precise, I didn't see the ghost in red.
The creek at the entrance of the village flooded again, and I saw that the color of the river had changed to dark red, and the river was full of things, no, it should be full of corpses.
Hundreds of corpses were floating in the river, let the waves lap against me, and I was familiar with them.
I ran frantically to the river, "Yishui" and "Dad! "Mother!" "Third grandma!" Everyone is there, except me.
That is, all the people are dead, only I am alive!
I jumped into the river and tried to get them out, but every time I dragged a body ashore, he was immediately slapped back by the waves.
After repeating this dozens of times, I was desperate, kneeling by the river and roaring, God! Why is this happening.
A few words vaguely appeared in the river, "Liu's untrustworthy family, harming the Suoyin family, where are all the staff going, flowers on the other side of the village!" ”
After seeing these words, I suddenly woke up, my head was sweating, the dream just now was real, as if I was there, and I always felt a sense of prophecy.
"Wake up!" My aunt brought a bowl of hot porridge and put it in front of me, and said with a smile, "Thanks to you, I really didn't hear the ghost crying wolf last night." ”
"Huh." I sneered in my heart, you didn't hear it, but my dream was a hundred times more terrifying than the ghost crying wolf.
The words that appeared in the river kept lingering in my mind, and I quickly put on my clothes, "Auntie, I have to go!" ”
"Why are you in such a hurry?"
"I need to go to the village!" turned around and instructed his aunt, "Don't worry about this piece of blood jade, I will definitely return it to its original owner, maybe bury this thing back, and there will be no problem!" ”
The old locust tree at the head of the village stood there, rustling with the breeze, and the delicate colors I saw on it.
The silky petals were like slender claws, beckoning to me, and I knew that this was Manju Sahua, the flower of the other side, which symbolized death.
A woman's smiling face appeared in the middle of the stamen, and I knew her, "Really won't let our village go?" I muttered silently in my mind.
She smiled and disappeared with the flowers.
I frantically ran home and rushed into my father and mother's house, unable to suppress the waves in my heart anymore, "Dad, I dreamed that our village would suffer, and in the dream it said, 'Liu harms the whole village', what is going on?" ”
Even if my language is not good, I know that the one I saw in my dream is a hidden-head poem.
Dad filled the cigarette pouch and pot with cigarettes, took a few puffs, and did not speak.
The mother pounced and knelt down for her father, "Dad, don't hide it, you can't hide it!" After saying this, tears flowed again.
I saw my father squeeze out a few words from between his teeth, "Ask your third grandmother!" ”
So, I invited the third grandmother to the house, and this time my father and mother didn't stop me!
I learned last night's dream with the third grandmother, "Third grandmother, what the hell is going on, what is the problem with our Liu family's tomb, how can it kill the whole village?" ”
The third grandmother was very calm there, as if she had known it for a long time, and she asked me, "What do you know about your family's tomb?" ”
"What do you know?" Why did the third grandmother ask me like this, "It's not that the family conditions were not good at that time, grandpa set up a condition, no matter who took the daughter-in-law, the children born were the children of two people, in addition, those who did not marry a daughter-in-law could enter the right position of the family's tomb, and those who married a daughter-in-law could only enter the side position!" ”
"A man, then you tell me, who told you what you said just now."
"Oh my father! Of course it's my dad! But when I said this, I saw beads of sweat oozing from my father's face!
"That's just your dad's words!"
A one-sided statement? I've heard my dad mention this more than once, and the third grandmother actually said that what I had ingrained in my mind since I was a child was a one-sided statement.
"What's going on?" I hurriedly asked the third grandmother.
"The real situation is like this, your Liu family's tomb is a feng shui treasure, at that time your family's tomb was seen by an old Taoist priest, he left a message, the Liu family can only be a queen, that is to say, only one room can marry a daughter-in-law, the other room can only be single, this has nothing to do with being poor or not, whether you can marry or not, the tomb of the Liu family is pressing the life gate of the 'half-life village', if you don't follow this, the whole village will suffer!"