As the night wore on, the villagers returned home one after another, leaving only their relatives to keep vigil at home.

Kaiming was so flustered in the house that he was fed up with the white eyes of his relatives, so he got up and went out of the house, intending to go to the yard to help.

An Yi was tidying up the tables and chairs in the yard, and the other women were far away from her, like she had some terrible infectious disease.

Seeing this situation, Kai Ming knew that An Yi had listened to their cold words, so he silently walked over and helped her clean up the table.

The third aunt and six women next to him did not restrain themselves, "Look at these two people, they are only coming back now, why did they go earlier." ”

"Yes. ”

An Yi saw her husband's straight face and looked like he was about to have a seizure, so she pulled his hand and calmed him down.

Kai Ming also knew that today's occasion was not suitable for trouble, gritted his teeth, and swallowed his anger back into his stomach.

"When his mother married into our village, I was not optimistic, how could a woman in the city stay, and sure enough, she ran away with her son within a few years. ”

He could endure anything else, but when it came to his mother's bad words, he couldn't calm down, so he turned around and pointed at them and said, "Poisonous tongue woman, what qualifications do you have to discuss other people's family affairs, let me get out." ”

An Yi had never seen her husband so angry, and no matter how much she tried to dissuade her, she couldn't stop him from pushing these people out of the door.

"Why are you like this? We're here to mourn, do you treat guests like this?"

"Yes, it's so uncultured. ”

The noise drew the people in the house out, and the uncle and aunt hurried to find out the situation.

"What are you yelling about, my brother is still lying inside, can't you let him go quietly?" was shouted by his uncle, and the scene finally quieted down again.

After listening to the babbling of the women, the uncle turned to face Kaiming, "I said nephew, do you do something like this?"

Faced with questioning, Kaiming said coldly: "Everyone disappeared from my house immediately. ”

"You ......" the uncle was so angry that he couldn't speak, and the relatives at the scene exploded their tongues.

An Yi couldn't control the scene anymore, but fortunately, her aunt came forward to finish the fight, "I'm sorry, everyone goes home first." ”

She and An Yi sent all their relatives out of the yard and came back to take away their indignant husband.

The house suddenly became silent, and An Yi turned around to find Kaiming returning to the house alone, squatting in front of the brazier and silently burning paper money.

She came to his side, "It's good now, everyone is going to break up." ”

Kai Ming stared at the firelight for a while, and after his emotions calmed down, he said, "I don't want to make it like this, they provoked me first." ”

She patted her husband on the shoulder, "I know, the mouth grows on other people, don't take their words to heart." ”

"I can't swallow this breath, my mother is a kind woman, why should she endure an unhappy marriage, can't she choose her own life?"

"Okay, let's not talk about that. An Yi saw that her husband's emotions began to get excited again, so she changed the topic, "Let's think about tonight's wake." ”

After she mentioned it, Kaiming remembered this problem, the relatives were gone, and only the couple were keeping a vigil.

"There are a lot of wild cats in the mountain villages, so we have to make sure that there is always one person at home, and even when we go to the toilet, we have to say hello before going. An Yi said.

Chemin nodded.

But the long night can't be consumed by both of them, and there are still a lot of things to deal with tomorrow. So the two of them had a division of labor, Kaiming was on duty in the first half of the night, and An Yi was on duty in the second half of the night.

Before falling asleep, An Yi set an alarm clock on her mobile phone to prevent her husband from waking her up.

There is only one bench and a few low stools in the living room, and there are no other electrical appliances except electric lights.

This can't be blamed on anyone, it's all caused by him, a big man doesn't work well, idleness all day long, and some unemployed young people gather under the banyan tree at the entrance of the village to gamble, and the family of three relies on their ancestors to leave one acre and three points of land to live.

In Kaiming's childhood memories, he was hungry and hungry, and he didn't have new clothes to wear during the New Year's holidays, and his mother helped others do needlework, but the old clothes on his body were worn for five years.

His father was withdrawn and had a bad temper, but he never dared to sprinkle it on his mother, and the young Kaiming became the object of abuse, and now he can still find the scars left by the stick when he lifts his clothes.

Every time the mother finds a scar on her son's body, she rushes to her husband like crazy, and she will bite the man like a shrew. When he escaped from the house, his mother would always hold her son and cry bitterly.

Even at that young age, Kaiming could still hear his mother's sadness and despair, so he secretly resolved that he would never let his wife suffer this in the future.

So after graduating from college, Kaiming worked hard, and others went to have fun after work, so he hid in the rental house to read financial information, and retreated in order to become the best trader and become a peerless husband.

After marrying An Yi, he followed her in everything, even though he seemed timid in front of her.

Although An Yi also has a good job, and it is not like his mother's situation back then, Kai Ming is still trembling and frightened by those dark years, always tense his nerves, and his mind only thinks about letting his wife live in a big house, drive the best car, and live the most nourishing life.

He also knows that he is a little sick, so what?

The brazier burned very strongly, and the faces of the people were red, and suddenly a cool breeze blew, and the paper money in the house flew wildly.

Kaiming had to get up to pick it up, and following the fluttering paper money, he entered his father's room.

Seeing his father sit up from the bed, Kaiming's eyes widened. The father lifted the white cloth and yelled at him with a stiff face, "Get out." ”

Cumming let out a short exclamation and woke up from his dream. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked into the room, where his father was still lying motionless on the bed.

He breathed a sigh of relief, recalling the dream situation, his tense face, and his short tone, which was the old man's usual style.

At this time, there was a strange noise in the yard, and he didn't pay much attention to it, the wild cats in the mountain village like to move at this time.

When he moved to the door, he saw a man outside.

The man stood in the courtyard, the moonlight shining on the outline of his face.

"Is it silly?" said Kemin, trying to ask.

The man in the courtyard did not answer, but turned and ran out.

"Hey, wait. Kaiming chased out of the courtyard and found the figure running towards the hill.

Brother Silly is not stupid, he is an autistic person, because the previous people did not realize this, they regarded him as a fool, and missed the treatment period, resulting in irreversible deterioration of the condition, causing him to behave like a three- or four-year-old child.

He is three years older than Kaiming, and the two have been playing together since childhood, and Kaiming treats him as a big brother. There is no amusement equipment in the mountain village, they regard the back mountain as a paradise, often catch birds and eggs, and set a trap to catch a 100-pound wild boar, that year, they were eating cured pork all winter, which became the proudest thing in their childhood.

When they almost reached the top of the mountain, Kaiming caught up with Brother Silly, and the two gasped in front of an old granary, "Brother Silly, why are you running so fast?"

The stupid brother shook his head and replied, "Play with Kaiming." ”

Kaiming was surprised, "Have you been going to my house to look for me all these years?"

"Go play with Kaiming. The silly brother laughed happily.

Kaiming found that the stupid brother was taller than before, his face was covered with pockmarks, and his hair was long and messy.

"Why are you running up the hill in the middle of the night?"

The silly brother pointed to the warehouse and said, "Sleep, sleep at night." ”

Pushing open the thick wooden door, there was a bed made of wooden planks in the granary, on which lay a clump of old and moldy quilts, surrounded by piles of dried straw, and from time to time there would be the sound of rats and cockroaches.

Kai Ming followed him into the grain depot, "How can people live in this kind of place, why don't you go home?"

"My brother is married, the baby is not going home. "The silly brother repeats the woman's pregnant bulging belly.

Although after many years, Kaiming can still quickly understand what he meant, the stupid brother has a younger brother, and there are only two rooms in the family, one is the parents' bedroom, and the other is the brothers', because the younger brother is of marriage age, the family will row the stupid brother to live in the abandoned granary on the top of the mountain to make room for the younger brother.

Seeing his childhood friend fall into this situation, Kai Ming's heart was sour.

The silly brother took out a month-long tin box from under the bed, which was filled with large and small pebbles, "Kaiming, play with the castle." ”

"Huh?" Kemin scratched his scalp, "Silly brother, we've grown up and don't play this game anymore." ”

As soon as people grow up, the games they play become more complicated, wealth, status, and repeat themselves every day, but no matter how complicated they are, in the end they are just a game.

"Go hunting. ”

"Well, you can't play this at night. ”

Oh no, I forgot about the wake of the spirit!

When the stupid brother saw him, he didn't turn his head back out of the granary, and ran down the hill in the night.

I'm afraid that the world will find such an unreliable person again, and he will run outside during the wake process, it is best not to have any situation, otherwise the old man will definitely jump up and make trouble for his son.

Kai Ming walked straight through the courtyard to the house, and when he saw An Yi sitting in the hall, he breathed a deep sigh of relief, fortunately he had a reliable wife.

It's been three days since he dealt with his father's death, and Kaiming plans to drive away from this ghost place and never want to see anyone here again.

But An Yi said that he would repair the ancestral house before leaving, so the two of them would have to stay here for two more days.

Early in the morning, Kaiming drove more than 30 kilometers to the town, sold some new tiles, and came back, stacking them one by one on the broken eaves.

"Hey, it's not bad, I have the potential to be a cement maker, should I consider changing careers?"

Kai Ming heard his wife teasing on the ladder, so he replied flattened, "The cement maker can't afford the big house now." ”

"It's worth it to make a little sacrifice for the sake of your ideals. She said.

Kaiming shrugged, "My greatest ideal is to keep you fed and clothed. ”

There was a sudden no response under the ladder, and a normal woman would always say a little when she heard this, maybe she was overjoyed and couldn't speak?

Kaiming looked down, and it was in vain, and no one knew where to go.