Chapter 64: The Death of a Loving Mother
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At this time, Hu Ma said that it was the maid Xiaoju who she woke up, and at this point, there was a discrepancy between her and Xiaoju's explanation at the county office, and Xiaoju said that it was a man who called her. Maybe Xiao Ju lied, or maybe Xiao Ju misheard it in her sleep, but this point doesn't matter anymore.
After Mama Hu set the fire, she fled back to Xiaoyao Town, Xihua County, overnight, and hid in a relative's house.
However, from that day on, Mama Hu had nightmares every night, every time she dreamed that her daughter told her that she wanted to go home, and every time Mama Hu watched her daughter cry and wake up in her dreams.
Later, Mama Hu thought about it, turned her heart sideways, and quietly returned to Liangfu. At this time, it was already winter, and it had just snowed.
Hu's mother wanted to dig Hu Xiaohui's body out of the root of the back wall, but because the weather was too cold and it was snowing, the ground was frozen, and she dug with a hoe for half the night, only digging a small hole.
When she went to dig again the next day, she found a man's shoe print in the snow nest. Mama Hu didn't know that it was my great-grandfather's shoe print.
Hu Ma thought that someone had found out, so she was scared and hid again.
After hiding for a while, feeling that there was no movement, Mama Hu came to Liangfu again, and it took a few nights to finally dig up Hu Xiaohui's body.
Because Hu Xiaohui's body was burned by fire and did not decompose, there was no water on the body, it was shriveled and black. Mama Hu endured the grief of having her liver and intestines broken, wrapped the body with a large piece of linen, Xiaoxing stayed overnight, carried her daughter's body home, and then quietly buried it in her ancestral grave.
Hu's mother originally thought that carrying her daughter's body back would be over, but she still dreamed of her daughter every day, and her daughter still cried and told her that she wanted to go home.
Mama Hu couldn't figure it out, so she found the man who came to the Liang Mansion with her before to ask. That man is also in our business of exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts, and he is also well-known in the area of Xiaoyao Town.
The man said to Mama Hu that your daughter's body is back, but the soul has not returned, so you have to go back and bring back her daughter's soul. In this way, Mama Hu took the man to the Liang Mansion to summon spirits......
I won't talk about the rest of the story, and you all know it.
After Mama Hu finished saying the above, she couldn't cry anymore. At this time, my great-grandmother had already gotten up and listened to Xiaoyu on the side, and my great-grandmother also quietly wiped her tears, and Xiaoyu burst into tears.
After hearing this, my great-grandfather was also very sad, and sighed "alas", both sympathetic and pitiful for this hard-working mother and daughter.
At this moment, Mama Hu wiped away the tears on her face, stood up from the chair, took out the porcelain vase containing her daughter's soul in her arms, walked up to my great-grandfather, and handed the porcelain vase to my great-grandfather.
After my great-grandfather took the porcelain vase, Mama Hu knelt down for my great-grandfather with a "poof", choked up and said: "People are killed by me, fire is released by me, killing people to pay for life, debts to pay back, I will go to the yamen now to turn myself in and replace Xiaoju, before I leave, I still want to ask Mr. one thing......"
"Big sister, what are you doing, what are you doing, let's talk about something."
My great-grandfather wanted to pull Mama Hu up from the ground, but Mama Hu didn't let her, knelt on the ground and continued: "Sir, I know that you are a good person, I beg you to send my daughter's soul home, as long as my daughter comes home, it will cut me with a thousand knives, and I will also be blinded......"
After saying that, Mama Hu seemed to be dying, and kowtowed to my great-grandfather, crying while kowtowing.
Seeing Mama Hu like this, my great-grandfather's heart seemed to be grabbed by someone, and he was unspeakably uncomfortable, so he endured it, and said to Mama Hu in a trembling voice: "Zhong, I Liu Yi is here to promise you that I will definitely send your daughter home......"
On this day, Hu Ma went to the county government to surrender herself.
Mama Hu walked on the front foot, my great-grandfather went out on the hind foot, at the gate of Cai's house, blocked my great-grandmother's second brother, and briefly told my great-grandmother's second brother about Mama's affairs, my great-grandfather asked him to go to the county government to intercede for Xiaoju on the one hand, and on the other hand, begged him to intercede for Mama Hu, and left a whole corpse for Mama Hu......
A few days later, Chinese New Year's Eve'er, Xiaoju was released from the prison, and Jin Sanye took Xiaoju to my great-grandfather's house and knelt down to thank him......
At this time, on the street, in addition to the colorful lanterns and the full atmosphere of the New Year, there was also a notice from the county government: "Hu Qiuhua", the arson and murderer of Liangfu, burned Liangfu, killed eight people, the crime was unforgivable, sentenced, hanged to death......
Hanging, that is, strangulation, the county magistrate let Mama Hu hang herself in prison for the sake of my great-grandfather's second brother's intercession......
On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Hu's mother hanged herself in prison. That night, my great-grandfather went to the county government prison to collect Hu's body, and put Hu's soul in a bottle and put it with her daughter's bottle......
Three days later, on the twentieth day of the first lunar month, my great-grandfather drove a carriage, and on the carriage, a coffin was packed with the body of Hu Ma, accompanied by several Cai Fu family members, and rushed to Xiaoyao Town, Xihua County......
In Xiaoyao Town, after inquiring about the location of Hu Mazu's grave, Hu Ma's coffin was buried next to Hu Xiaohui's grave......
In front of the grave, my great-grandfather pulled the caps off two bottles, and two streams of fresh air drifted out of the bottles......
My great-grandfather threw away the bottle and shouted mournfully at the two mounds, "Come home......"
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Postscript: One day, my great-grandmother's second brother asked my great-grandfather, the housekeeper and housekeeper in the Liang Mansion, why he was inexplicably burned to death by fire? Is it the ghost of Hu Xiaohui's daughter?
My great-grandfather replied, "Perhaps."
My great-grandfather's second brother asked again, if it was Hu Xiaohui's ghost, it would not be an exaggeration for her to burn the housekeeper of Liangfu, after all, it was the housekeeper who led someone to burn her body, but the family who followed Liang Tongsheng to Yuanyang County to get rice did not participate in the burning of the body, why was he also burned to death? If Hu Xiaohui wants to kill everything and doesn't want to leave a living mouth for the Liang Mansion, then why did Liang Tongsheng survive?
Faced with a series of questions from my great-grandmother and second brother, my great-grandfather thought for a long time, and finally he replied, perhaps, that family member has also done something unseemly, the wicked will eventually have evil retribution, if people do not know, unless they do nothing, deceive others, deceive the world, and do not deceive the sky......
Also, the man who helped Hu Ma's daughter summon the soul in Liang Mansion that day once left a big burden, when Hu Ma went to the county government to surrender herself, she stayed at my great-grandfather's house together with Hu's own money bag, and my great-grandfather took it to Xiaoyao Town when he sent the souls of Hu's mother and daughter home. However, he couldn't find the man in Xiaoyao Town, and I heard from the people in their town that the man was still in Weishi County, and my great-grandfather had to leave the money bag to Hu's relatives and bring the big burden home.
After returning home, my great-grandfather opened the baggage and looked at it, and there were several yellow talismans, a three-fire token, a five-thunder token, and an old short sword.
My great-grandfather put these things together with the items left by his master Wang Shoudao, thinking that when the man came to look for them, he would return them to others. However, these items were never found, and the man was never seen again.
Later, these items were taken by my grandfather, and a few yellow talismans were used by my grandfather one after another, and the two tokens were all destroyed in the hands of the Japanese.
The texture of the two tokens is unknown, the age is unknown, like ancient jade and petrified wood, there are wood grains like annual rings on them, and the front side is engraved with "Three Fires" and "Five Thunders", and the reverse side is engraved with "Honorable Order".
Three Fire Orders, when my grandfather and a few Japanese ronins were fighting, he was kicked and broken by Japanese ronins. At that time, my grandfather boasted that he went to Haikou and killed a Japanese ronin by eating a steamed bun, and he ate a total of four steamed buns.
During the Japanese invasion of China, he was hit by shrapnel from a bomb dropped by a Japanese plane, and although it was shattered, it saved my grandfather's life.
The last short sword, together with the hilt of the sword is one foot five inches long, the end of the sword body, one side is engraved with "Liangyi", the other side is engraved with "Yin and Yang", my great-grandmother later named it "Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword", it is a real guy, the style is old, I don't know the age, although it can not be sharpened like clay, but it is also a sharp blade, it is my grandfather's favorite. However, once when my grandfather helped his fox friends steal a strange ancient tomb, he died nine times and lost the "Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword" in the ancient tomb. The whereabouts of the "Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword" are unknown so far.
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A year later, that is, in the autumn of 1883, the ninth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the year of Guiwei, the autumn. My grandfather was sixteen years old, my great-grandfather was fifty-six, and my great-grandmother was thirty-eight.
One day, my great-grandmother mysteriously called my great-grandfather into the room and whispered to my great-grandfather that something was wrong with this girl recently, it was just autumn, and she didn't wear much clothes, but her body looked bloated and clumsy, and she often retched secretly.
When my great-grandfather heard this, his eyes widened.
The couple called Xiaoyu into the room, and my great-grandfather put his two fingers on Xiaoyu's pulse, and his face changed, just as the two of them guessed, Xiaoyu was pregnant!
The couple looked at each other and looked at each other, so they asked Xiaoyu what was going on, whose child was in the womb. Xiao Yu couldn't dodge, and finally lowered his head and said shyly, it was the young master's.
When my great-grandfather heard this, he immediately became angry!
In the evening, after my grandfather came home, my great-grandfather couldn't help but say, and directly drank and ordered my grandfather to kneel in the yard, and then found a thorn stick, picked it up, and beat it without a head.
My grandfather is really tough enough, although he is usually a little rebellious, but in the face of my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother's beating and scolding, he never dodges or runs, and he doesn't ask what's going on.
In ancient times, the thinking was outdated, the concept of men and women was extremely heavy, a girl who had not been out of the cabinet was actually pregnant, and she would not be able to go out to meet people in the future.