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"Daddy......"

My grandfather opened his eyes, "What's wrong?" ”

My grandma licked her lips, "That...... The ...... "Seeing my grandfather's sharp eyes, my grandmother suddenly remembered the slap my grandfather gave her just now, if she asks this, will she be slapped again?" didn't dare to ask, swallowed the words back, "That...... That one...... What should we do with the soul of osmanthus? ”

My grandfather glanced at my grandmother, my grandmother was raised by my grandfather as his own daughter, my grandmother's every move, his heart was like a mirror, unhurriedly took out the cigarette pouch pole from his waist, lit the tobacco on the nest, smoked a few puffs and asked: "You don't want to ask this, do you, what do you see again?" ”

My grandmother swallowed and spoke a little tremblingly, "Also...... It's nothing, it's just ...... I saw the old locust tree on top ......"

My grandfather "snapped" and knocked the cigarette bag pot on the car gang, which frightened my grandmother and swallowed it back.

"Just see it yourself, what you should know will naturally know in the future, what you shouldn't know, if you have to know, then you won't live long." After speaking, my grandfather put new tobacco in the smoking pot, lit it with a foreign fire, and smoked it.

"Then, what about the soul of osmanthus?" After a long pause, my grandmother asked again.

My grandfather glanced at my grandmother, "Didn't my father hand over the paper figure to you, let's do it yourself, or you can ask her now, what wish does she have, do you think you can do it, help her." ”

Listening to what my grandfather said, my grandmother took out the yellow paper wrapped in the paper man from her arms, opened the yellow paper, and the soul of the osmanthus was still on the paper man, which was slightly different from before, the blood stains on the osmanthus white clothes were gone, and it was clean and white like rice paper, which made my grandmother feel very strange.

Holding the paper figure in her hand through the yellow paper, my grandmother thought about it and asked the osmanthus on it, "Osmanthus, my aunt asks you, do you still have any wishes that you don't have now?" ”

Osmanthus looked at my grandmother stunned, as if she was thinking about something, stopped for a while, and said in a low voice: "I want to go home to see my father, since I married my man, I often call him, I don't dare to go home, I haven't been home to see my father for many years......"

Osmanthus said this, my grandmother sighed a few times, men are afraid of entering the wrong industry, women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, osmanthus is marrying the wrong person!

After a pause, my grandmother asked, "Do you have any other wishes?" Don't want to go home and see your kids? ”

"Don't look at it......" Osmanthus shook her head, "After reading my father, I will leave and never come back." The tone sounded sad.

My grandmother was sad for a while, "After you finished reading your father, where are you going?" ”

Hearing this, Osmanthus smiled dismally, "Go where I should go......"

Hearing Osmanthus say this, my grandmother's originally sour heart inexplicably surged with curiosity. This curiosity is something that all living people want to understand.

My grandmother secretly glanced at my grandfather, and when she saw that my grandfather didn't pay attention to her, she lowered her voice and asked Osmanthus, "Where are you supposed to go, and where do you go after you die?" ”

Osmanthus nodded.

My grandmother's curiosity came up completely, and she peeked at her grandfather again, and when she saw that she hadn't paid attention to her, she hurriedly asked, "Where is that place?" Can you tell me? ”

Osmanthus looked at my grandmother and hesitated, and didn't seem to want to say. My grandmother was anxious, "Tell me, I don't tell anyone." ”

Osmanthus hesitated for a long time, and hesitated to speak, "That place is ......"

My grandmother was engrossed in looking at the osmanthus and listening to her say that place, and at this moment, it suddenly went dark in front of her, as if someone had suddenly turned off all the lights, and she was caught off guard, startled and didn't say anything, and let out an exclamation of "ah" from her mouth.

Where is the place that Osmanthus is talking about? My grandma really didn't hear it......

When I looked up, it was pitch black, except for a faint dark glow from the red cloth lantern in front of the carriage.

My grandmother turned her head, glanced at my grandfather, and unconsciously blurted out a question to my grandfather, "Brother, why is it dark?" ”

When my grandfather heard this, he glanced at my grandmother fiercely, "It's not dark in the middle of the night, wait for the day to get darker again." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the paper figure in my hand, there was nothing on it, and my grandmother was annoyed.

My grandfather spoke at this time, "It's been an hour, and the mana on your body has been dispersed. ”

My grandmother couldn't help but whisper when she heard this, "How can this be so coincidental......"

When I returned home, it had been three and a half days, and a few people cleaned up, ate something, and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, my grandfather put on a carriage to send Xinyangzi and the two boys and girls back to Huanghuaguan.

My grandmother discussed with my grandfather at home whether to tie a paper figure and let the soul of the osmanthus be attached to it and sent back and buried in the ancestral grave of the Liu family.

My grandfather disagreed, and it wasn't that my grandfather disagreed, but that the Liu family didn't have this rule, and the daughters who went out of the house went back to bury them in their ancestral graves.

Seeing that my grandfather disagreed, my grandmother's eyes were red. In the end, my grandfather couldn't help it, and after thinking about it, he wrote a letter. My grandfather estimated, at this time his own cousin, that is, Osmanthus's grandfather, may not be alive, if Osmanthus's parents did not starve to death when there was a famine, the age should be about seventy years old, Bao Qi can still live one, this letter is written to Osmanthus parents, the letter briefly said the situation of Osmanthus, did not dare to say so detailed, and finally asked his parents to take this letter to find the old man in the clan, hoping that the clan can see his face, to find a place for Osmanthus in the ancestral grave.

My grandfather has actually destroyed the traditional concept of our Chinese, and few daughters who go out are buried in their ancestral graves, especially in the past, which is a big taboo. However, osmanthus is really pitiful, she beat a man before she died, and she gave it to a man to eat after she died, and her bones are gone, so she can no longer be asked to stay in this sad place.

Seeing that my grandfather agreed, my grandmother was very happy, first went to the coffin in the neighboring village to lay a ready-made coffin, and when she went home, she used sorghum stalks and white paper to tie up the paper figure.

At this time, my grandfather came back from playing Huanghuaguan, and when he saw my grandmother making paper, he asked my grandmother what she was doing, and my grandmother told him.

My grandfather looked at the paper figure that my grandmother tied and said, "We are going to send the osmanthus back to my mother's house, just the paper man you pierced, so cold, the people in the clan will not laugh at us when we send it back." ”

My grandmother stopped and asked, "What then?" ”

My grandfather raised his hand and pointed, "A few days ago, the West Village came to the field to call the young couple, saying that it was the ancestral craft of the paper man, and the paper man was tied, just like a real person, and it was decent to take it out." ”

West Village, that is, Chen Baldzi's village, my grandmother used to call it that.

When my grandfather said that, my grandmother asked my grandfather, "How do you know?" ”

"The blind brother told me, yesterday the blind brother heard that water was boiling at my old locust tree, so he went to me. The blind brother said that the surname of the pair of young men was Chang, and the people in the village called them Xiaochang and his wife. ”

"Brother, you are not allowed to associate with that blind man in the future, I don't think he is a good person." My grandmother said, throwing aside the half-pierced paper figure in her hand, "Let's go, let's go to the Nishimura Xiaochang and his family to have a look......"

"I don't know where those two families live, we have to find a blind brother to lead the way......"

"You—you want to me off......"

Chen was blind, still sitting on the side of the road at the south gate, drooping his head boredly, and he didn't know what was going on in his head.

When my grandfather walked to him, he heard the sound of crutches on the ground, he was very happy, rolled his eyes, and said that in the second half of the morning, he would go to the old locust tree to chat with my grandfather. ”

My grandmother looked at him and pouted fiercely.

While leading the way, the blind man Chen talked endlessly, and the topic mainly revolved around the "Xiaochang couple".

Chen Blind said, this little couple eloped from other places, the man is nothing, just a craftsman who ties paper, the woman is amazing, that is a rich daughter, not only beautiful, but also can write and paint, can speak, many men in the village look at her greedily, but I don't know how to hook up with this honest little Chang'er.

Between the words, Chen Blind was full of envy. My grandmother was disdainful, a dead blind man, who could know what was beautiful and not beautiful.

The book is brief, Chen Blind took my grandfather and my grandmother to the door of Xiaochang's house, shouted twice at the door, and a young couple came out of the house.

My grandmother looked at it, and the man had a square face, looking honest and honest, in his early twenties. The woman's figure is not high, she is dressed very expensively, she looks really beautiful, and she has the demeanor of a young lady in her gestures, and she is about seventeen or eighteen years old.

The little couple was very enthusiastic, and invited my grandmother into the house to serve tea and pour water. My grandmother explained to them the intention, the male Xiaochang walked into the room, took out a female paper figure, my grandmother looked, it was really the same as my grandfather said, the craftsmanship is very good, the same as the real person, vivid.

My grandmother liked it very much, paid a little more, took the paper figure, said goodbye to my grandfather and my wife, and went home happily......

Friends, please take a look, why do I want to insert such a seemingly unrelated paragraph? Because this Xiaochang couple is my grandmother and my grandfather, my mother's biological parents, and the ancestral paper-making skills. I don't know where my grandfather is, and my mother doesn't know, but I only know that they eloped to us. As for my grandmother, my home is in Weihui, I won't say where it is, at that time, my grandmother's mother's house, and my great-grandmother's mother's family had a fight, my grandmother wore gold and silver every day, until now, my mother still has my grandmother and my grandfather eloped to bring out the gold bracelets, gold rings, my mother took is just the tip of the iceberg, the real good things, are in my uncle's house. By the way, there is also a string of agate necklaces, but the rope of the agate was broken, and I stole it out as a glass ball when I was a child, and finally lost a lot of it, and beat my mother hard.

But at this time, my father and my mother were not yet born.

My grandmother and my grandfather have two children, the eldest is a boy, my uncle, and the younger is my mother, at this time, even my uncle has not yet been born.

This was the first time my grandma and my grandparents met, and neither of them could have imagined that decades later, the two families would become in-laws.

I hope that all friends can continue to look down, the marriage of the two families was a unique and inevitable result under the environment at that time!

Looking back, I can only describe it with a sigh......