21. Treats

As we talked, another young security guard returned. smiled at the old security guard and said, "Uncle Ma, let's go and rest, I can't sleep when I lie there." ”

"Hehe, I'm not sleepy, or you can sit here too, let's spray (dialect, meaning chat) for a while."

"Medium! (In tongues, 'Good!') The little security guard also sat down. I quickly dispersed the cigarette again.

"Uncle Ma, this building is really evil! You just said that the girl was ghostly, and I saw it from the monitor. The old security guard nodded, "But uncle, you don't know, the last time Xiao Si'er met that thing Caiyang (dialect, rare meaning)!" ”

"What's the matter? What's wrong? ”

The little security guard took two puffs of his cigarette and began to tell the story. His dialect is heavier, and if I were to write it all out, and you would have to look too hard to look at it, I would change it all to Mandarin.

"Little Si'er, that kid is a very slippery person. Uncle Ma, you also know that he is lazy on duty and doesn't work hard, I don't like him anyway. However, he also has advantages, he is willing to spend money, and it is refreshing to invite guests to eat and pay for it. Didn't you soak the logistical sprigs in the last month. Good guys, it's all money, and they give people flowers and gifts, heh! That's called a courtesy. That's what this kid said about him. ”

"He hadn't come to work with us yet. One night he went to the field on his own. I didn't eat at night, so I brought a baked cake with some meat, and I also got some two pots. At night, when he was hungry, he took out the bread and meat (we call it Bai Ji Bao here), and ate and drank it in two pots. As soon as he took a bite, the cake in his hand suddenly fell to the ground with a click. He thought he didn't hold it steady, so he cursed, picked it up and wiped off the soil and was ready to eat it again, but as soon as he put it to his mouth, the cake fell again. He did not believe evil, but he picked up the bread and ate it. How did he know that as soon as he reached his mouth, the cake fell again, and this time he felt very obvious, the cake did not fall, but was snatched out by a strong force. This time, he muttered in his heart, what's going on? Suddenly he laughed and said, 'Okay, I see, which good brother is hungry?' Okay, I'll treat you to dinner today! In addition, I have some wine here, so I'll invite you too. So saying, he poured the wine on the ground. Then he went to sleep. ”

About a month later, one day, he came home late and was walking home along the path at the edge of the village. A person walked over to him, and he didn't care if he didn't know him. But the man was very happy to see him, and took him by the hand: 'Brother, it's you! What a coincidence! He looked at each other carefully, and he really didn't know each other, so he said, 'Dude, did you recognize the wrong person?' I don't know you! The man laughed and said, "Brother, you forgot, you were in your field last month, didn't you invite me to eat white buns and drink?" Speaking of this, Xiao Si'er suddenly remembered the events of that night, but he was frightened. He thought the other party was a ghost. He was so frightened that he was about to run. The man looked at him and grabbed him tightly: 'Don't be afraid, brother, listen to me.' I am a human, not a ghost. ’”

"It turns out that this person is a bad guy." Here I will explain that the so-called Yin Errand is to capture the souls of the living for the ghosts of the underworld. Of course, what I heard was also legend. There are some places in the world, such as the army station, which is a place where yang energy is extremely strong, and ordinary ghosts can't go there, so they have to ask living people to catch them. As a result, there are some people, some of whom faint briefly during the day, and some of whom are out of their bodies when they are sleeping at night, and go to capture people who have reached the end of their lifespan for the ghosts. This is called taking away the shadows.

This person is a bad guy, that night, he came back from a business trip, he felt tired and hungry, almost unable to walk, happened to see Xiao Si'er eating bread and meat, he was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, so he went to grab Xiao Si'er's cake. Unexpectedly, Xiao Si'er was a cheerful person, not only gave him the cake, but also poured him wine, so he was very grateful. I happened to meet today, so I pulled Xiao Si'er to thank you.

At the end, the little security guard took a puff of cigarette and summed it up: "It seems that there are still ghosts and gods in this underworld. Therefore, people should still do good deeds and do more good deeds. Don't do things that hurt nature. There are gods in the head! ”

22. Eat some grapes

The old security guard nodded: "Yes!" When you say that, I also think of something. It's strange to say, our country says every day that there are no gods and no ghosts, and I don't go to school much, and my elementary school teacher has been talking about superstition every day, but you see, these gods and ghosts we just said are all seen by people, how can this be explained? ”

For the sake of writing convenience, I will not write his original words, but will write them in Mandarin.

That was when I was eighteen years old. I've come to Zhengzhou to work. My family is from Nanyang. One time I came home from vacation. It was already evening when we arrived at the entrance of the village. I saw Mrs. Zhou in the village standing at the entrance of the village, looking into the distance expectantly. Mrs. Zhou is a well-known good person in the village! The elder couple had two sons, and the eldest son had an orchard in the village. The second son was not biological, but was picked up by Mrs. Zhou.

That was many years ago, when Mrs. Zhou went into the city and found an abandoned baby in a residential building. On a cold day, I wrapped a thin quilt with a piece of paper stuffed in the quilt, writing the child's birthday and 50 yuan. The child was so cold and hungry that he didn't even have the strength to cry. Mrs. Zhou was kind-hearted, and when she saw the child dying, tears immediately flowed out. In her words: 'It's a life, and since I was asked to pick it up, I couldn't ignore it.' We can't do anything else, it's still no problem to get a hot meal for the child. She took the child home, only to find out later that the child was sick, and the old lady didn't say what it was, and I don't know. Mrs. Zhou's family is not rich, and the hospital cannot afford to go, but God bless the good people. A year later, when the old lady was carrying her second son to visit relatives, she accidentally met an old Chinese medicine doctor from a foreign country, who prescribed medicine and needles to the child, and was cured. However, the old Chinese medicine doctor said something meaningful to Mrs. Zhou, which made Mrs. Zhou "chuckle" in her heart.

Most of the masters of Chinese medicine are easy to learn. Yi is the source of Chinese culture! The theories of Chinese medicine are almost always derived from Yi. The author himself was born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine. I still remember that an elder once said very seriously that if you don't read the Yi, you don't understand the Yi, and if you can't use the dialectics in the I Ching freely, you won't understand the essence of Chinese medicine at all. If you want to rejuvenate your hands, you must study the Book of Changes. Therefore, many Chinese medicine practitioners, especially famous doctors, are proficient in the five elements of yin and yang and the art of divination. The same goes for this old Chinese medicine doctor. After several consultations, he saw that the child had gradually recovered. I talked with Mrs. Zhou for a while one morning, and he said to the effect that this child is hard-lived, a debt collector, and you raising this child will affect your family. Of course, I don't mean to say that it's wrong for you to save this child, and you can't watch this child freeze and starve to death. I'm just saying, you can't raise this child, and you can't stop him. I mean it's better to send this child to a rich family, and find someone who can support him.

Hearing this, Mrs. Zhou really hesitated for several days. The old Chinese medicine doctor is clever, and he has seen it with his own eyes, so what he said will probably not be wrong. Mrs. Zhou is convinced of this old Chinese medicine doctor, but where to send the child? There are no rich and noble people in her relatives, and she is not at ease when she gives them to others. After hesitating for a few days, Mrs. Zhou gave up this idea, according to her words, "If you want to say that I can't be ruthless with this child." No matter what he does, he is also a person, people's hearts change people's hearts, I will raise him well, can he still harm me. Mrs. Zhou didn't go to school and her education level was not high. She didn't really understand what the old Chinese medicine doctor meant. She is just using her simplest concept of life to interpret the advice of others. The result, of course, was bleak.

A few years later, the child grew up. Mrs. Zhou pities the child's fatherless and motherless since he was a child, and treats this child as her own. Feed and drink and raise the child. This kid is not bad, but he is very mischievous, but he is very filial to Mrs. Zhou, as long as Mrs. Zhou loses her temper, he kneels in front of him and does not dare to move, but what mistake should be made next time, Mrs. Zhou is helpless. Of course, there are no major vices in children. This family is also considered to be harmonious, and gradually Mrs. Zhou even forgot what the old Chinese medicine doctor told her.

However, there is always no way to avoid what should come. The words of the old Chinese medicine doctor really came true. Mrs. Zhou's family really had an accident. The first to have an accident was her eldest son. Speaking of her eldest son, he is also a good person. When I was a child, I used to steal his fruit with a group of children. He was caught by his eldest son several times. As a result, one of them slapped us on the head, and then led us to his hut, and brought out the ripe fruit for us to eat. Watching us fight for the fruit, he smiled innocently on the side. Ay! Who knew that such a kind man died suddenly at a young age.

"This matter is still an open case. His eldest son has always been a farmer, hardworking and hardworking, and able to endure hardships. Taking care of his orchard, he is busy day and night. The orchard did not fail him, and the annual harvest was good. But then something strange happened.

The eldest son devoted all his heart and soul to his orchard, and one day at noon he took a nap in the garden, and as if he were asleep, he saw a woman hurrying out of his orchard. He was shocked, there was no one in the orchard but himself, where did the woman come from? He woke up and thought about it for a while, not wanting to be a dream, but he didn't take it to heart.

The next afternoon, he took his dog to the orchard. After working for a while, he sat under the fruit tree and smoked a cigarette to rest, while the dog lay beside him. Suddenly, the dog, which was usually very tame, got up and began to bark at the air in front of him. Later, he even put on an offensive posture. The eldest son is very strange, look around, there is no one else but himself! He thought it was a dog messing around, so he yelled at his dog. But the dog did not listen to him at all, but stood up, and then "whew" out of the orchard. The eldest son got angry and chased him out in a few steps. His dog was digging on a mound outside the orchard. The eldest son pulled the dog away, then looked closely at the mound and saw that a little cloth was exposed where the dog had been gouged open. He was curious, went back to the orchard and got a shovel, dug the mound a few times, and dug out a piece of clothing, he was even more curious, and continued to dig down. The mound had obviously been freshly dug up, and the soil was relatively soft. The eldest son dug a few more times, and a human leg was exposed. scared the eldest son so much that he turned around and ran.

The village quickly called the police, and after investigation, it was found that under the mound was the body of an unknown woman, who had been raped and killed and buried in the soil. At that time, the detection technology was also backward, and the identity of the female corpse could not be identified, and the case is said to have not been solved to this day.

After this incident, for a long time, the whole village was panicked. People are afraid to go out at night. The eldest son was even more scared, and he went to the orchard every day carefully. Then the whole person began to become a god, at first telling others that the orchard was haunted. He said that he was always peeking at him in the orchard. One day, two months later, he drove a tractor into the city to sell fruit, but was in a car accident and died on the road.

The blow of this incident to Mrs. Zhou can be imagined, the white-haired person sent the black-haired person, and the old couple of the Zhou family cried to death. From then on, Mrs. Zhou put all her love on her adopted second son. really sees him as his own son. But some people remembered the words of the old Chinese medicine doctor who warned Mrs. Zhou. As a result, many people rumored that the second son killed the eldest son. This message spread more and more, and in the end, the rest of the village regarded the second son as a monster and spoke ill of him. Only Mrs. Zhou resolutely did not believe it, and loved her second son as always. At this time, the second son was also an adult, and for this kind of message, at first he refuted and justified, but later, he was silent and gave up. One summer, he made an amazing decision. Ignoring Mrs. Zhou's opposition, he resolutely picked up his things, and he said very clearly: "Mom and Dad, I'm a bane." Others said that I killed my brother. I can't be at home anymore, you have worked hard to raise me, and I can't harm you. I will repay you for your kindness to me. After saying that, after kowtowing to the old couple three times, he went out without hesitation. Mrs. Zhou chased to the door and watched her son walk farther and farther away in the sunset. For the first time, she realized that, whether she wanted it or not, the son she had raised for sixteen years was finally gone, and might never come back. She couldn't pull it and couldn't stop it. The eldest son died, the second son left, and in the days to come, only the old couple depended on each other, lonely, desolate, sad, disappointed, all kinds of feelings like overturning the five-flavor bottle, she sat down in front of the door, looking at the empty village entrance, old tears......

The second son followed a few friends to Guangdong to work. He never returned home since, but wrote home every month. Half a year later, he said in the letter that he was doing a good job, and began to send money to the old couple every month, and this sending was ten years, without interruption. Looking at the monthly letters, Mrs. Zhou felt a little comforted in her heart. She was an idle person, so she set up a grape trellis in the yard and began to plant grapes, and she didn't grow much, basically eating them herself. We're going to steal grapes. Children are not sensible! It's not easy to have too many old ladies, if you want to steal it now, I'm embarrassed to eat it if you give it to me. But at that time, I didn't want to do so much, and stole her several times. The old lady found out and scolded in the back. But never really chased us. Once we climbed out along the wall, and the old lady was so frightened that she shouted from behind: "Don't chase, don't chase." Climb slowly, don't fall. "At that time, the people were simple, how could it be like now, and they didn't recognize it for the sake of money.

I have a lot of respect for Mrs. Zhou, and when I saw the old man, I hurriedly stepped forward to say hello. Mrs. Zhou also saw me and hurriedly accosted me: "Qiangzi (the old security guard's milk name) is back!" Come and eat some grapes! As he spoke, he handed over a pot of grapes in his hand. I'm too embarrassed to eat. I pushed it for a long time, and I didn't eat it at all. Mrs. Zhou was a little disappointed. I said goodbye to her and went into the village.

Who knows, when I passed by Mrs. Zhou's house, I found that their house was set up with a spiritual shed! My heart moved, who is gone? I leaned over to take a look, and the photo was Mrs. Zhou. I was so frightened that I broke out in a cold sweat, and when I pulled the person who held the spirit guard to inquire, Mrs. Zhou was gone two days ago. Oh my God, who did I just see at the entrance of the village?

I stammered and told a few folks about it. The person in charge (that is, a person who understands yin and yang, this kind of person will generally participate in the funeral and guide the relatives to handle the funeral. Unlike Zhibin) sighed and said, "I already knew, but I didn't dare to tell you." Didn't you notice? The old lady's eyes couldn't be closed all the time, she was waiting for her second son. The old lady has been standing at the entrance of the village for two days, and she has been crying for two days. I don't dare tell you about it. "Uncle Zhou cried out with a 'hmm'.

Three days later, the second son, who had received the letter, rushed back for the first time in ten years since he left, and now he is a thirty-year-old adult. He was well-dressed and seemed to be doing well. When he entered the door, he did not say a word, but knelt before the spirit and wept. The people around were surprised to find that a small whirlwind rolled up in front of the spirit, and the paper ashes in the blowing basin swirled and flew everywhere. The whirlwind stopped in front of the spiritual table for a moment, and then turned to the second son, and the flying paper ashes blew all over the second son's body, as if the mother and son were hugging affectionately......

Bless the kind Mrs. Zhou, may she be happy and happy in heaven!