Chapter 242: The Year of Great Mourning
The woman in the red dress said a few words to my grandmother, and when she turned around, it looked like she was leaving, and my grandmother hurriedly said, "Can you wait a minute?" I have a question for you. ”
The woman in the red dress glanced back at my grandmother, turned around, and said, "As long as it's not a leak, you can just ask." ”
My grandmother thought for a while and asked, "Is it providence for these things in the old Xue family?" Why is it so miserable? ”
The woman in the red dress smiled and said: "There is no providence, only justice, there will be gains and losses, there must be repayment, if the heart is not right, disasters will arise, and if the body is not right, bad things will follow." ”
My grandmother understands what the woman in the red dress means, but it doesn't seem to be close to these things of the old Xue family. My grandmother asked again: "Could it be that the old Xue family is all wrong-minded, I think the old man Xue is quite honest." ”
The woman in the red dress rolled her eyes and said: "Looking at honest people, they may not be really honest, Old Man Xue and his wife did evil things more than ten years ago, and helped the Oriental soldiers kill a family of six, in fact, they should have retribution, but the ancestors of the old Xue family have accumulated virtue and have been protecting them." Old man Xue's father and grandfather never left after they died, guarding their big family. ”
When Old Man Xue proposed marriage to his mother, his father gave him a dream, and told him very clearly that he couldn't marry the girl to enter the door, but Old Man Xue didn't believe it, thinking it was just a dream. The day after Xue Lao Er and the girl got married, the snake spirit came to the door and hid it on Xue Lao Er, the purpose of the snake spirit was not their Xue family, it was the girl, maybe there was a grudge against the mother and daughter, I don't know much about this. ”
"And then?"
"Later...... Old man Xue's father and his grandfather subdued the snake spirit, old man Xue and his father kept stepping on the snake spirit with his feet, and then later, the ghost of the mother and daughter turned into evil and looked for trouble with the old Xue family, the old man Xue and his father couldn't move because he stepped on the snake spirit under his feet, and the old man Xue's grandfather couldn't fight the mother and daughter alone, and Xue Lao Er took the mother's life; In the second year, the mother and daughter came to ask for their lives again, Old Man Xue's grandfather took Xue Lao Er, and the two of them fought with the mother and daughter again, but they failed to beat them, and took Xue Laosan's life for them, and in the third year, the mother and daughter came to ask for their lives again, and Old Man Xue's grandfather brought Xue Lao Er and Xue Lao San over, but Old Man Xue's grandfather was afraid that the three of them would still not be able to beat the mother and daughter, and the mother and daughter died miserably, and they all melted away. Old man Xue's grandfather gave Boss Xue a dream in advance, telling Boss Xue that the mother and daughter are going to take your life this year, you might as well hang yourself an hour in advance, wait for the mother and daughter to come, and join forces to catch them, if you don't subdue the ghosts of the mother and daughter, the lives of the whole family will not be saved in the future. ”
"Boss Xue hanged himself because of a dream entrusted by Old Man Xue's grandfather?" My grandmother asked again.
The woman in the red dress smiled, "Where is it so simple, Boss Xue is reluctant to die, Old Man Xue's grandfather attached himself to him and let him hang himself, Old Man Xue's grandfather said, this is called 'Losing the car and keeping the handsome', in fact, the target of the mother and daughter ghost this time is Old Man Xue, not Boss Xue...... Boss Xue hanged himself an hour in advance, and Old Man Xue's grandfather took the three of them and beat the mother and daughter away, and then, Old Man Xue's grandfather gave Old Man Xue a dream, saying that the family would be fine in the future, and live a good life. ”
"Old man Xue didn't believe it, three sons died in three years, and he was afraid that the fourth son would also die, so he went to Huanghuaguan to invite Xin Yangzi over, Xin Yangzi made a mistake, and released the snake spirit that Old Man Xue and his father stepped on, that is, the snake bone that Xin Yangzi dug up in front of Old Man Xue and his father's grave, in fact, as long as it takes a few more years, the way of the snake spirit will disappear, this may be regarded as providence......"
After the snake spirit ran out, it was attached to Xue Laosi, one was to take revenge on the Xue family, and the other was to negotiate terms with Xue Laotou and his grandfather, the snake spirit was actually most afraid of the pair of mother and daughter ghosts, it was attached to Xue Laosi, in order to blackmail the ghosts of the old Xue family, and start a war with the pair of mother and daughter ghosts, as long as the old Xue family lowered the pair of mother and daughter ghosts, it let Xue Laosi go. At this time, there was only Xue Lao Si left in the junior of the Xue family, and the ghosts of the Xue family started a war with the pair of mother and daughter ghosts in order to keep the last bit of blood. Xue Laosi lived in the health center for more than a month, and the Xue family also fought with the mother and daughter for more than a month...... Later, Xinyangzi called you there, so I followed you to see the excitement, by the way...... Helped the mother and daughter. ”
My grandmother immediately understood what the woman in the red dress meant by "helping the mother and daughter", it must have been the woman in the red dress who suppressed the ghosts of the Xue family, so that the ghosts of the mother and daughter had an opportunity to take advantage of, and the daughter's ghost attached to Xue Laosi, killing the Gong family, and finally directly led to the death of the old Xue family.
This is not a providence, this is the intervention of an external force, and this external force still has something to do with him, the mother and daughter ghosts are now gone, and the grievances are clear, but ......
My grandmother asked again, "What about the snake spirit?" ”
The woman in the red dress smiled, "I caught those ghosts of the Xue family and trampled them under my feet again." ”
When my grandmother heard this, she let out a long sigh, how could she feel that the world of these ghosts was as complicated as the world of the living. The woman in the red dress seemed to be able to see through my grandmother's thoughts, and said, "It's just a dream you're having, and you don't have to take what I'm talking about......"
After the woman in the red dress said this, my grandmother woke up again, looked out the window, it was already dark, sat up from the bed, found a cold sweat, raised her hand to wipe the sweat on her forehead, my grandmother was in a trance and couldn't tell which was the real world.
On the same day, there was a heavy snowfall, and after the snow stopped, my grandmother deliberately went to Huanghuaguan, found Xinyangzi, and asked him to accompany her to the ancestral grave of the old Xue family to have a look. At this time, there was a vast white snow all around, except for a small piece of the mound in front of which had melted......
Two years later, the year of the horse came in 1954, the year of the horse, my grandmother was thirty-six years old, my grandfather was eighty-seven years old, my grandmother was sixty-five years old, my grandfather was forty-seven years old, my father was five years old, my mother was three years old, and my aunt Xiaomei was three years old.
This year, my grandfather began to teach my father and Wang Xiaoshun's son Wang Sihe martial arts, and taught them almost everything he had learned in his life, but they were too young to digest so many things at once. Moreover, there is a saying that if you don't practice martial arts, when you get old, no matter how many moves you know, it will be useless if you don't have basic skills.
Three years later, in 1957, my grandmother was thirty-nine years old, my father was eight years old, my mother was six years old, and my aunt Xiaomei was six years old.
Two months later, one day in early spring, my grandmother got up early to cook and brought a bowl to the head of the bed, intending to feed my grandfather, but my grandfather could no longer open his mouth to eat, and passed away at the age of 50......
The death of my grandfather was a painful blow to my grandfather's family, the loss of a father in a young age, the loss of a husband in middle age, and the loss of a son in old age appeared in our family at the same time, and the haze was shrouded.
My grandmother couldn't cry herself, and the ninety-year-old grandfather sat at my grandfather's grave all day, smoking dry tobacco and not saying a word. He may have known that this would be the result, just because of the last peach wood wedge of the "Tiangang Lock Ghost Array" in the past.
Because of my grandfather's death, my grandmother was overwhelmed with grief, and in the summer of the same year, my grandmother passed away at the age of sixty-eight......
My grandfather sat at my grandmother's grave for a whole day without saying a word. This is the tragedy of long-lived people, who need to endure the pain of life and death again and again......
In the autumn of the same year, late at night, my grandfather suddenly walked into my grandmother's room, the light was not lit, woke up my grandmother, and said to my grandmother: "Zhi'er, ten years later, there will be a catastrophe in our family, you have to live well, raise Zhenlong well, your life has been bad in the past few years, but one day it will get better, Lamei fragrance comes from the bitter cold, you know?" ”
My grandmother didn't understand why my grandfather was running to her room in the middle of the night to say these things, so she hurriedly asked my grandfather, "Dad, what's wrong with you?" ”
My grandfather smiled: "No, I just want to talk to you, in fact, my father is not a good person in this life, this body, carrying more than a dozen lives, should have been paid back a long time ago, isn't it...... It's time to pay them back, okay, you go back to sleep, remember, live well, dad is gone......"
My grandmother opened her eyes, it was so dark in front of her, she put on her clothes in the dark, came to my grandfather's room, shouted twice, no one answered, touched a candle and lit it, walked into the room and looked, my grandfather was lying on the bed with his back facing the sky, his eyes were closed, and his face was calm. My grandmother shouted twice, but there was no response, so she walked over and put her hand under my grandfather's nose.
My grandfather is gone......
My grandmother sat down in front of the bed with a pop and cried......
Within a year, three of the six members of the family left, and the whole sky seemed to have collapsed......
On the day of my grandfather's burial, it was very strange that there were many people in the family for some reason, all kinds of people, many people from other places, as if some people had left before my grandfather was out of breath, and my grandmother almost didn't know all of these people.
At that time, the family was poor, and I couldn't even afford a thin-skinned coffin for my grandfather, but among these people, a few people carried a good big coffin, and a few people sent a set of silk shrouds with gold trim.
As for my grandmother, she hardly knew how she buried my grandfather in the cemetery, she was confused, she only knew that she was wearing filial piety clothes and pulling my father and aunt to cry blindly.
After my grandfather's coffin is buried in the ground, and these mourners have gone through the funeral rites one by one, according to our custom here, after the mourning guests leave the cemetery, the children should burn the "return paper" for the deceased, that is, walk a hundred steps with their backs to the grave of the deceased, and then turn back to the grave and burn paper for the deceased. In this family, my father is a grandchild, and there is no need for my father to burn paper, Wang Xiaoshun led my father and my aunt and left, and my grandmother was left alone in the cemetery.
When my grandmother walked a hundred steps and returned to the cemetery, she suddenly found that there was still a little child standing at the head of the grave, a little taller than my father, who looked like he was about ten years old, and even turned his back to himself against my grandfather's grave, dressed in black in a long robe, with a straw hat on his head, and a black cloth sewn on the brim of the straw hat, which just covered his head and face, and looked very strange. However, among these mourners, how many of them look normal?
My grandmother walked up to the "child" and said, "Child, I'm going to burn the paper, why are you still in the graveyard?" ”
The "child" did not speak, did not move. My grandmother walked over and said, "Do you want to give way, I'm going to 'turn back'." ”
The child was still motionless, and my grandmother was strange, and raised her hand to pull the "child", and the child turned his head and took off the straw hat.
My grandmother looked at him, took a breath, and threw the burning paper in her hand on the ground. This "child", with black hair all over his head, red eyes, a nose as long as a dog, and white cheeks, is a man here, like an evil ghost!
The "child" bent down to pick up the burning paper and handed it to my grandmother, who was horrified and looked at his hand, a hairy little paw.
My grandmother couldn't help but take a step back and say, "Are you ...... You are...... Imp monkey? ”
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