Crooked dad was right. Almost no one remembers the woman in the rice mill.

My grandfather asked a few old people in Thrush Village, and most of them said that there might be such a thing, but when they were old, they only had a little impression, and even if they had heard of it, they only had a vague impression now. For them, the things they had when they were a child were as hard to remember as they were in their previous lives.

My grandfather asked several times to no avail, and suddenly he had an idea and went to Hongxuling.

Hongxuling is different from other villages here, other villages have one surname per village, and this Hongxuling has two surnames, half of which is red and half is Xu.

Among the men surnamed Xu was a stonemason. This stonemason is famous.

He is famous not because of his work as a stonemason, but because he is particularly good at eating fatty meat. On the general table, the lean meat is eaten quickly, and the fatty meat is rarely used by chopsticks. But he only picks up fat and eats it. Some people wanted to know how much he could eat, so they competed with him after the banquet to see who could eat the most fatty meat. As a result, this Xu stonemason ate the fat of Sanhai bowls in a row, and he didn't even burp. The person who played with him began to vomit when he ate the second sea bowl.

After this battle became famous, no matter whether it was a happy event or a white event, whenever there was a banquet, someone would challenge him. He can win easily.

Others are afraid of gaining weight by eating fatty meat, but this Xu Mason is lean and lean, but his muscles are obvious. Perhaps this is due to his usual hard work. Stonemasonry is a very physical work, not comparable to carpenters and craftsmen.

My grandfather went to Hongxuling to find a stonemason.

Before going to Xu's stonemason's house, my grandfather first chopped two catties of white flesh from the butcher.

When I arrived at the Xu stonemason's house, my grandfather put the fat on the table, and then said, Master Xu, I came to you because I want to ask, there was a rice mill on your cousin's side, and the milling disc in the rice mill was made by your family?

The cousin of the Xu stonemasons is from my village. The villages within a radius of dozens of miles are all related to each other, and some are related.

Xu Mason said that my grandfather made it, and then the texture was smoothed, and my father went to repair it twice. Later, there was an electric rice threshing machine in Menshan, and I never went there.

Grandpa nodded and asked, "Do you know about the haunting of that rice mill?"

Xu Stonemason said, of course he knows. There was a young woman who hanged herself. My father said that for a while he wanted to move the mill back there. My mother wouldn't let him move.

What are you doing when you bring the grinding disc back? Grandpa asked.

Xu Stonemason said that my father thought that this matter had something to do with him, and he wanted to see if there was a problem with the grinding disc, and wanted to send it over with a new pair.

People hanged themselves, why does your father think it's a problem with the grinding disc? Grandpa asked.

Xu stonemason said, my father likes to think a lot, whenever something happens to others, he has to think about whether he has made things such as stone piers and stone tablets and mortars for others, and whether it is related to these things. Later, he didn't dare to use a hammer or a chisel, because he was very afraid.

Grandpa sighed and said, "Your father has become like that, and it has a lot to do with the stone mortar made for our village."

The stone mortar that my grandfather said was the one that he made into a stone bridge and was originally used to make glutinous rice cakes.

Because the stone mortar is too large and time-consuming, it basically belongs to the village and belongs to everyone. If you want to use it, you will have several people carry it to your house together. When the stone mortar was broken, it was useless, so my grandfather moved to the back of the house to make a stone bridge.

Grandpa changed the topic back and asked Mason Xu, do you know the name of the woman who hanged herself?