Hearing my grandfather ask the young man's name, my grandfather didn't even think about it, and replied directly: "The son of Chen Bald in the neighboring village, Chen Xiaobald." ”

My grandfather nodded slightly, and asked again: "Chen Bald, is the one who fooled around with other people's daughters-in-law a few years ago, and later let the people in the village catch him in bed and burn his head into a scar?" ”

"It's his son, I heard from the people in their village that since Chen Bald's wife died in childbirth more than ten years ago, Chen Bald has not married again, and has been fooling around with a girl in their village for more than ten years. My grandfather replied in one breath.

"Oh" My grandfather groaned after listening to this, and then asked, "The woman who fooled around with Chen Bald...... What happened? ”

My grandfather thought about it for a while, and said uncertainly: "Maybe it's dead, anyway, I haven't heard anyone mention her in the past two years...... Oh yes, I heard people in our village say that after the woman caught her man for rape, she was stripped naked by her man and hung on a tree for half a night, and then she was tied up like an animal and not allowed to go out, and after the beating, no one in the village saw her again, as if I heard someone say a while ago that when the spring was in the spring last year, they had nothing to eat at home, and her man was hungry, so he killed her and ate meat......"

Hearing my grandfather say this, my grandma couldn't help but sigh.

My grandfather glanced at my grandmother, "What are you sighing for, like this kind of girl, he deserves to eat her." ”

My grandmother glared at my grandfather and raised her hand to squeeze my grandfather's arm again.

My grandfather ignored the small movements of my grandmother and my grandfather at this time, pondered for a while and said: "If you want to say that, the woman's face in the water bowl is ten out of ten women's, if you really debone and stew meat, this grievance is not small." ”

My grandmother said, "I don't think so...... If it was really that woman's, how could she be looking for Chen Bald's son, if she was looking for her man and Chen Bald, and how could she know your name? ”

My grandfather took a deep breath and frowned, "It's strange here, how can she know my name, isn't it...... Have I ever met with her in the past? As he spoke, my grandfather turned his head to look at my grandfather, "Do you know the names of the woman and her man?" ”

"Yes." My grandfather nodded hurriedly, "The woman's name is Osmanthus, her maiden name is Liu, her man's surname is Ru, her nickname is Father-in-law Ru, and her big name is Ru Siqing." ”

"Liu Guihua, Ru Siqing ......" My grandfather repeated the two names and thought about them for a long time.

My grandmother asked my grandfather in a whisper at this time, "What is that man's nickname called Grandpa Ru, is he a eunuch?" ”

My grandfather smiled and whispered back to my grandmother, "It's not a eunuch, it's all because his father didn't give him a good name, the Qing Dynasty has long been over, but his name is 'Siqing', the people in the village first called him the dogleg next to the emperor, and then directly called him Gonggong Ru." ”

When my grandfather finished speaking, my grandmother laughed too.

At this moment, my grandfather shook his head and said, "I don't know, I don't know these two people." ”

When my grandmother heard this, she didn't even think about it, and said casually, "Dad, what if that girl knew you?" Isn't she also surnamed Liu, if you are a member of our Liu family, it would not be strange for her to know your name. ”

"What?" My grandfather obviously didn't think about this, he was stunned for a moment, followed by a few inexplicable twitches of the muscles on his face, and he didn't speak again, he smoked the cigarette pouch pole from his waist, put the tobacco on it, and smoked it in one gulp, and the whole person looked thoughtful.

My grandmother saw that my grandfather's face was wrong, she licked her lips, and regretted that her mouth was too fast, if Liu Guihua was really a person from Liu's family, where would I put my grandfather's face?

After a few puffs of cigarettes, my grandfather asked my grandfather coldly with a residual cigarette, "Do you know where Liu Guihua's house is?" ”

My grandfather also saw that something was wrong at this time, "I, I ......"

"Don't spit it out, do you know!"

"I—I heard that her mother's house is a ...... on the Yellow River."

Let's go!

The cigarette pouch in my grandfather's hand fell to the ground, and green smoke was still coming out of the cigarette pouch pot......

In the room, there was an instant silence, and my grandmother and my grandfather looked at each other as if they had done something wrong.

After a long time, my grandfather picked up the cigarette pouch pole on the ground, sighed long, and said as if recalling: "My third uncle...... That is, your third master, there is a great-granddaughter, and now she is in her forties, according to the generation, she should call me 'grandpa', many years ago, I heard people from Liu Zhuang say that she was married to this piece, from the perspective of age, this Liu Guihua is likely to be her...... Is there such a coincidence in this world? ”

At this time, my grandmother spoke carefully, the daughter of the same clan died so miserably, my grandfather must have felt uncomfortable, my grandmother said: "Dad, maybe it's not her, and the surname Liu by the Yellow River is not our family." ”

At this time, my grandfather seemed to have decided that this "Liu Guihua" was the great-granddaughter of his third uncle, and he was very depressed, and waved his hand, "Don't say it, you will accompany Guangyu to the place where they trained tomorrow, show the son of the bald man, and figure out what is going on." Saying that, my grandfather's eyes shone coldly, looked at my grandmother, and said in a low voice: "You can only watch this matter, don't care, if there is a vengeance, you ask her to take revenge, if there is a wrong, you ask her to avenge the wrong, if she can't take revenge, you ask her to come to me." ”

My grandma nodded hurriedly when she heard this, of course my grandma knew the truth of "it is a pro-three-way direction", just now my grandfather said that the man deserved to eat her, but now my grandfather wants to defend her for revenge, if she can't take revenge, it seems that her father will do it himself. This is human nature, innate.

In the afternoon of the next day, my grandmother accompanied my grandfather to the training place of the mountain protection group, which was actually not far away, just three or four miles from the neighboring village to the west of our village. This neighboring village is where my mother grew up, that is, the village where my grandmother's house is located, and I will talk about this later, because my parents' marriage can be regarded as a product of a similar tragedy derived from that environment at that time, and it is enough for all friends to sigh and sigh for a while.

In the past, the north side of the village was a large dirt slope overgrown with thorns, like a city wall, like a natural barrier. The village is on the east, west and south sides, like a tunzi, with wood and stones in a circle, east and west, south, there are three gates on three sides, this is the only three ways out of their village to the outside world. Nowadays, the elderly over the age of 70 in the village still use to say the east gate, the west gate and the south gate when talking about the east, west and south directions of their village. When I was a child, my grandmother often said this, what is the south gate, outside the south gate, outside the west gate, east gate, etc.

Grandma, that is, grandmother, mother's biological mother; Grandma, that is, grandmother, father's biological mother, interrupted the text to explain this basic common sense that even three-year-old children understand, not to make up the number of words, but really someone does not know, I am really afraid that someone will confuse "my grandma" and "my grandma". In the past, there were so many female friends in that large group, saying that their lives were not good, Kefu, so I asked her, did your mother have any Kefu phenomenon? Has your grandmother ever appeared? They just don't know what kind of relative "grandma" is, which makes me want to cry and laugh.

Straight to the point. The training place of the mountain protection group was a little west outside the south gate of the neighboring village, and at that time, that area was the place where their village was drying wheat, and the terrain was flat and open.

At the edge of the wheat field, by the south-west position, there is an old locust tree, no one knows how many years this one has grown, until this time, this old locust tree is still alive, the body of the tree is extremely thick, four adults hand in hand can not hold it, the center of the tree has long been empty, two adults jump into it have a surplus. According to my mother, the tree was already like this when her grandfather was young.

The old locust tree is less than the height of two rooms, which is not tall compared to the surrounding trees, but it is luxuriant, and the shade of the tree covers the ground, and the diameter can reach at least ten meters.

The troupe members were training in groups of three or five in the wheat field, and my grandfather took a few women to boil water and make tea for them under the old locust tree.

Since my grandmother had come with my grandfather today, of course she did not want to be idle there, and after she had turned the whole threshing field around, she walked straight towards the old locust tree.

At this time, my grandfather was the only one under the old locust tree, and the women carried their burdens to the well in the distance to fetch water. Under the shade of the trees, a makeshift pot with a large iron pot is placed on top of the earth and stones. On the ground next to the pot table, there are dozens of porcelain bowls and a large iron teapot.

My grandfather was squatting in front of the pot at this time to make a fire, looking like that, the fire didn't seem to be very easy to make, and my grandfather couldn't light the firewood in the pot after several fires.

When my grandmother saw this, she wanted to go over and help, but when she walked out of the sun into the shade of the tree, she suddenly felt a chill on her body, and it was unusually cold, as if she had gone from dog days to nine days at once.

My grandmother was startled, and couldn't help but look up at the leaves overhead, and saw that the dense foliage covered the top of her head, and there was an eerie feeling in those leaves, as if there were many unknown things hidden in them.

My grandmother immediately had a bad premonition in her heart, and she wanted to go out of the shade and look at the whole tree, but at this moment, a small clump of leaves the size of a palm on her head suddenly parted in all directions, and hit behind the separated leaves, slowly, slowly, slowly......

My grandmother's breathing suddenly sped up countless times, and I saw a green child's head slowly poking out from behind the leaves, this head was green throughout, with a green nose, green eyebrows, and green lips, especially those green eyes, which glowed like snake eyes......