What are they busy doing, digging soul stakes, that is, on top of the big pit where the corpses of these government soldiers are buried, and driving 36 peach wood wedges smeared with chicken blood into the ground according to the normal triangle and the inverted triangle. According to my grandmother, this is a formation, called the "Tiangang Lock Ghost Formation", because the battle spirit generated by these government troops is unconscious, and there is no way to send them away or disperse them, so they can only be kept underground and not allowed to come out. Without the leader of the headless demons, these battle spirits will slowly dissipate over time.

However, there is a drawback to this formation, and it is extremely detrimental to Yin morality, that is, the ghosts of those government troops will also be suppressed underground and cannot get out, as if a cage has been laid for these more than 400 ghosts, and if they want to come out, they can only wait until the peach wedge rots or is dug up. At this point, my grandmother and my grandfather discussed it for a long time, and finally my grandfather forcibly decided that he would lay the last peach wedge with his own hands. Whoever lays the last peachwood wedge, even if it is who sets up the array, the sin of suppressing the soul and sealing the ghost will be added to whoever is responsible. At that time, my grandfather said to my grandmother and my grandfather, "Daddy is old, and he won't live for a few years, you young children, how can you make you bear this sin, neither of you can fight with me!" ”

But who would have thought that when I hit the last peach wedge, my grandfather moved a little slower, and my grandfather actually took the lead. By the time my grandfather and my grandmother realized it, my grandfather had already quickly driven the peachwood wedge into the ground.

When my grandfather saw this, he was immediately furious, knowing that my grandfather was giving him the blame for doing this, but he raised his hand and slapped my grandfather hard!

My grandfather felt aggrieved, threw off the hammer in his hand, and went home in a huff.

My grandmother tried to pull the peachwood wedge out of the ground, but was stopped by my grandfather, who said, "Don't pull it out, this may be his life, it's too late to pull it out!" As he spoke, he sighed, stared at my grandmother with his eyes inexplicably and said, "Zhi'er, Dad has something to say to you, you have to listen and remember!" Saying that, my grandfather straightened his face and said solemnly to my grandmother: "Our family's craftsmanship has been passed on to your generation, and it is not allowed to be passed down again, and after my father closes his eyes, I will personally go underground to compensate your grandfather and Wang Zu Master ......."

"Why, Dad?" My grandmother asked, puzzled.

My grandfather waved his hand, did not answer, slowly raised his head, stared blankly at the vast night sky silently, as if thinking about something, as if complaining about something, the old figure under the shining stars, looked desolate and bleak......

When I got home, my grandfather didn't say anything, and went back to sleep with a depressed face. My grandfather sulked in the bedroom with an oil lamp lit, and my grandmother coaxed him for a while before going to bed.

Early the next morning, my grandmother came to Hu's house after breakfast, and Hu's man, Hu Lin, had regained consciousness, but he couldn't get out of bed and walk around because his body was too weak.

Hu didn't know my grandmother, but he looked familiar and knew that it was from a village, and when he saw my grandmother come to her house, he showed a look of surprise.

My grandmother didn't explain anything to her, and asked her straight to the point, "Sister, do you have any relatives at home from the southern seaside?" ”

Hu Shi was stunned by my grandmother's question, and quickly replied: "My grandmother is from the south. ”

When my grandmother heard this, this was right, and my grandmother asked, "You don't have any children at home, do you?" Do the two of them really want to have a child? ”

Hu Shi was stunned again, but his face quickly changed, obviously my grandmother said that it was a sore spot. There is a way to beat people without slapping their faces, scolding people without scolding short, pinched seven inches for my grandmother, Hu's face was a little unbearable, and he stood up from the stool, which will give my grandmother an eviction order. My grandmother also got up from the stool and said, "Don't worry, sister, I don't mean anything else, I came to your house today just to ask if you want to raise a child?" ”

When Hu heard my grandmother say this, he looked my grandmother up and down with a pair of eyes, and said, "Whose children are willing to give it to us?" ”

At this time, the time was still in 1943, we were better here, and the great famine had not yet passed in some places, and at this time children were scarcer than food, and many children had either starved to death before, or were given food to adults, and it was too late in this life, and no one was willing to give their children to others.

My grandmother listened to this Hu Shi's tone, and had the intention of raising a child, but no one was willing to give it, so my grandmother continued: "Sister, if you believe me, go to a place with me, where there are many children, and there are no children in my family, let's hold one by one." ”

"Where?"

"Huanghuadong, several people in our village were hugged there a few days ago."

When Hu Shi heard this, he immediately frowned, "Then I won't go." As he spoke, Hu Shi looked at his feet, "I won't be able to enter the temple gate for three years." ”

My grandmother looked at Hu's eyes, and saw that Hu's feet were still wearing men's shoes, and she said, is there a rule that you can't enter the temple gate by "changing shoes and asking for children"?

My grandmother didn't dwell on this, and then said, "Let's not go to the temple, I'll go up the mountain and call the children down, and we'll pick them up at the bottom of the mountain." ”

Hu Shi was moved by my grandmother's words, smiled and nodded at my grandmother, and then, Hu Shi placed Hu Lin in the back room and followed my grandmother out of the door.

My grandmother took Hu Shi back to the house first, poured a bowl of water for Hu Shi, and told her to wait in the living room for a while. Leaving the Hu family, my grandmother went to my grandfather to discuss the matter of holding the child.

Surprisingly, my grandfather actually did not agree with my grandmother to raise a child, my grandfather explained, "We do this, one is to do good, the other is to create evil, our children are born, they will carry the karma of their fathers, if you adopt a child, the karma will be given to the child, why do we have to pay off the debts of other people's families." My grandfather said, "It's not that you two can't have children, I don't think it's time, when your grandmother gave birth to me, your grandfather was forty, and when your mother gave birth to Guangyu, I was just forty, I estimated, when Guangyu is forty, you will have children, if not, it is not too late to adopt." ”

My grandfather's words are also reasonable, but my grandmother can't help but feel disappointed, but if it is really like what my grandfather said, the karma of the father's generation will add to the child, so the matter of raising a child, let's wait first, take other people's children to the top of the tank, our family can't do it.

At this time, the Hu family was still waiting in the living room with hope, and my grandmother couldn't change her words, so she had to endure the loss and let my grandfather put on the carriage, and the three of them rushed to Huanghuadong.

When I came to Huanghua Cave again, Xinyangzi was still enthusiastic, but this time, my grandmother left my grandfather and Hu Shi at the bottom of the mountain and went up the mountain alone.

After explaining his intention to Xin Yangzi, Xin Yangzi really couldn't ask for it, and wished that my grandmother would bring a few more people to adopt the child.

Later, Xinyangzi led all the children on the mountain down with my grandmother. At this time, there were only a dozen children left in Huanghuadong, and the others had already been taken away.

Among these dozen children, the eldest is in his teens, the younger is five or six years old, and all of them are very cute. I had no idea which one to adopt.

According to Hu's later, the situation of the two of them is not the same as that of my grandmother's two, Hu's health problems, the doctor said, Hu can't have children in this life, she heard from her grandmother "change shoes for children" method, although according to the method, in fact, I didn't have much hope in my heart. In the eyes of the couple, raising a child is more practical than "changing shoes and begging for a child".

Seeing that Hu was picking and turning among the children, and had no ideas, my grandmother gave her an idea.

Subsequently, my grandmother first asked Xinyangzi to lead the children aside to play for a while, and asked Hu to find some stones at the bottom of the mountain, press the stones one by one, and stack them up more than a foot high.

When Xinyangzi brought the children to my grandmother again, a little girl of six or seven years old ran directly to the pile of rocks and kicked the pile of stones over.

My grandma immediately laughed, and it was her!

What is the specific name of this girl, my grandmother can't remember, but I remember that this girl is very filial, and after the Hu couple raised her, she married an officer, and I heard that it was at the division level. When the girl had a chance, she took Hu Lin and his family into the city to enjoy the blessings.

In fact, since Hu Shi brought the girl home, the family has been full of life, Hu Lin not only returned with a full load every time he went into the mountains to hunt, but once he also bumped into an old ginseng that had grown for hundreds of years, and after the old ginseng was "invited" out of the mountain, it was sold for a lot of money.

After hitting somewhere, Hu Shi said that this girl was the lucky star she begged for in the Huanghua Cave, and it was good to go to the Huanghua Cave to ask for a child. Later, the girl married a division commander, and for us in the village, it was definitely a golden phoenix flying out of the mountains. Hu's words have been further confirmed, and for a while, couples who went to Huanghuadong to ask for children flocked to them.

Until now, if you have the opportunity, you can come to our Huanghua Cave here to see, there are many piles of stones under the mountain, one by one, like small towers, but you don't lack virtue to kick other people's stone piles, you will be retributed.

If my grandmother hadn't talked about it herself, I'm afraid no one would have known that she would have started the idea. Later, I don't know who improved it, saying that the higher the stone barrier, the more effective, and the smarter the child born.

I'm not afraid of your jokes, I heard my mother say that I was also the one who carried my grandmother and my father to Huanghuadong to build a stone, and she didn't know that the method of building the stone was actually created by my grandmother......

Okay, writing here, I think, we can come to an end, the biggest strange thing in our village, written here, basically finished, however, there are still some small details that have not been explained clearly, and, the dead man's pit that buried more than 400 people, left a big sequelae, say it Don't be afraid, until a few days ago, that is, the twenty-eighth night of the lunar month a few days ago, so to speak, you may not understand, that is, this sequelae, until now, February 16, 2015 solar calendar, On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, it completely disappeared!

It was like a butterfly effect, or maybe it was a coincidence, that I had to rewrite the end of my grandmother's experience, which I'll talk about in the next chapter. Now my memory is getting worse and worse, and if I don't talk about it, I'm afraid it won't be long before I forget