Chapter 25: Prophecy
I clearly remember what happened in my childhood, and I also remember the stories that Grandma Yu often recited in the mouth of the village.
When Grandma Yu was alive, she often said: The big and small things in the world have their own fixed numbers, and they can't be forced, although what Grandma says and does are often treated as monsters by the people in the village, but the children like her very much, because there was no entertainment in the countryside at that time, and listening to stories is the best way to spend time.
I remember once meeting Grandma Yu at the entrance of the village, at that time, the countryside was basically smoking a big drought tobacco, the smoke rings fluttered up from the top of Grandma Yu's head, the smell was panicked, Grandma turned her head to see me squatting next to me, she waved her hand and called me over, and by the way, she put away the remaining half of the cigarette in her hand.
In 1940, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Jingwei took office as the chairman of the puppet Nationalist Government in Nanjing, and formally signed the "Japan-China Basic Relations Treaty" with Japan.
At that time, there was a big family in the town, called Feng Yipour, as his name suggests, he was a veritable wall grass and a dogleg of the Japanese and the government, relying on his family's great fortune and power, and he bullied and looted the nearby people everywhere with a fake tiger and pretend, and the story began with this Feng Yipour.
At that time, Grandma Yu was handsome, and although she stayed at home every day and never went out, she still did not escape Feng Yi's clutches. I don't know where Feng Yi heard it, saying that Grandma Yu was as beautiful as a flower and as beautiful as a fairy, so he took a group of little Hello to Lao Yu's house to rob his relatives.
In this way, it is not surprising that Grandma Yu was robbed of the Feng family and became Feng Yi's aunt's wife, although the Feng family is rich and noble, Feng Yipour, this person also has a conscience for Grandma Yu, and she has good food and drink, but the intrigue between this aunt and wife is not something that the simple Grandma Yu can deal with at that time.
At that time, there was an old Tao in the family, saying that Lao Feng's house had bad feng shui, and he needed to rebuild it and finally get a Bodhisattva town house, this old Tao said that the head was the Tao in front of Lao Feng, so Lao Feng was stunned for a moment, but if you want to say why this Feng Yi believes, the key is that this old Tao has grasped the key point of Lao Feng, and it is also the biggest heart disease of everyone up and down the Feng family, that is, there is no queen in the family, don't look at Feng Yi who married more than a dozen aunts, but now his father still hasn't done it. The illness is also seen, the money is spent, and more than a dozen aunts and wives are all unable to give birth to children, not to mention the big fat boy, not even the shadow of a girl.
So at that time, when Lao Dao said that his house needed to be renovated and then asked to respect the Bodhisattva Town Mansion to give birth to a son, this Feng Yi didn't mention how happy he was, and the next day he hired a large group of people to repair according to the drawings brought by Lao Dao, repaired it, and repeatedly grinded for half a year before the new house was renovated, Lao Dao saw that Feng's house had been repaired, so he went to say goodbye to Feng Yi, saying that it was time to leave, and promised that Lao Feng would have a big fat son within three months, and if he broke his promise, he would come back and take the blame.
Feng Yi felt that this house itself should be repaired when it was old, but it was just what it looked like, anyway, it was his own house, if it was really like the old Tao said that if he repaired a house, he could pick up a big fat son, and he didn't suffer if he couldn't give birth, but the furnishings of the house were all arranged with the help of Lao Dao, and he saved a lot of money, so he didn't think much about it and left.
But this thing is strange and strange in as the old Tao said, after three months, Grandma Yu was pregnant, and surprisingly this belly is very big, and I want to eat sour things every day, which can make this Feng happy, since Lao Feng knew that Grandma Yu was pregnant, he began to eat and drink every day, after the doctor said that Grandma Yu may be pregnant with triplets, he even treated Grandma Yu as a god, a large number of servants are on standby at the bedside at any time, and seven or eight doctors are kept at home to eat idle meals, I'm afraid that something will happen to my eldest son in my grandmother's belly.
To say that this other aunt and wife saw that Lao Feng loved Grandma Yu in every way, of course she couldn't be angry, and she secretly didn't kill her, but just like that, it still didn't hurt the child in Grandma Yu's belly, but this Grandma Yu's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and the time soon came to give birth.
On the day of production, things were not going well, Grandma Yu was really pregnant with triplets as the doctor said, but when the eldest was born, the child's head was stuck and couldn't get out, Lao Feng was sweating outside the door, and wanted to rush in several times to see the situation, but in the end the doctor blocked the door. Fortunately, there was no danger, with a few "wow, wow, wow, wow" baby cries, Feng Yi's three sons were born, and Lao Feng heard that it was three sons, so he rushed in directly, either there was no one, and three sons came, so Lao Feng promoted Grandma Yu to the position of the eldest lady who had been vacant on the spot.
Lao Feng has nothing to say to these three sons, and he goes to heaven with a lot of bags and small bags from outside to go home to make his son happy, and the Feng family has been safe in those years. But this thing is precisely in the three sons of the old Feng, on the day of the birth of the three sons, placed in the center of the Feng house used to town the Bodhisattva "bang" of the Bodhisattva "bang" smashed, some people say that this indicates the final fate of the Feng family, but the old Feng is immersed in the joy of winning the baby son and does not care at all, so then no one mentions this matter, maybe just like Grandma Yu said, people, there are some things in life that cannot be forced, it is yours and will always be yours, either you are destined to not get it.
The three children were safe before they were five years old, but at the birthday banquet of the three brothers' fifth birthday, strange things happened one after another, first the boss said that he didn't sing a birthday song, but kept talking about a bald disease, two bald people were busy, three bald people rode horses to the pharmacy, four bald people looked for Allegro, five bald people drilled an eye, six bald men nailed a small coffin, seven bald people carried, eight bald men buried, nine bald men went to the room and cried, ten bald men asked: Why are you crying, my family is dead and bald.
And the second son has been talking about whether he is guilty or not, no stealing, no killing, no **, no slander, no lying, no separation, no abuse, no corruption, no disrespect for his parents, no suicide, the third son didn't say anything, just sat on the chair and kept grinning.
In the end, the birthday banquet ended hastily, and my aunts fell ill one after another, when I listened to Grandma Yu tell this story, of course, it was just used as a pastime to relieve boredom, but now I have reflected the ballad sung by the eldest son of the Feng family in his childhood, and at this moment, we found similar written records on the walls of the tombs of the ancient tombs of Zhuohra and Cheshi, and the ten deadly sins in the mouth of the second son of the Feng family are very similar to the murals of the eighteen-story hell we saw on the iron gate of the tomb of the king of Xihai County, but why did the third child of the Feng family laugh, We don't know what is hidden behind the smile.
It's just that why the three five-year-old children suddenly began to become strange, where did they hear these things, and who was the old Taoist back then, and what the ending of the Feng family was in the end, these are all things that Grandma Yu is unwilling to say, but looking at Grandma Yu's later situation in the village and her downtrodden appearance, I boldly speculate that the Feng family may be broken up or the family may be broken up in the end.
It's just that Feng Yi may not have known it at the time, from the moment he renovated the house, it was doomed to the end of the Feng family. Just these two sentences, it cost the life of the entire Feng family, at that time, Lao Dao took not actually any renovation drawings, but a typical Yin Mansion construction drawings, to put it bluntly, it is a drawing of the tomb repair, so the ending is of course conceivable, the living people live in the Yin House, and the three sons of the Feng family are all children born in the Yin House, how can the ending of this family be good, but as for the fate of the last three brothers, Grandma Yu did not say.
Grandma Yu looked calm and serene before she died, as if she was finally relieved, she had no children and no daughters by her side, so she called me to the bedside when I was still young, and left only a headless sentence in my ear, "Life sometimes must be there, life is always not forced", and then swallowed the last breath.