I obviously didn't understand what Chen Weiguo meant, he, like everyone back then, still didn't want me to go back to Xiwang Village, even if I came back to attend my grandmother's funeral, I couldn't get their approval and approval.

I was about to ask, but Chen Mo had already pulled me away, and he smiled at Chen Weiguo and said, "Dad, I'll send Xiaoyuan." ”

Chen Weiguo glanced at Chen Mo with slanted eyes, and said coldly: "Go, come back early." ”

After hearing this, Chen Mo pulled me out of the Chen family's courtyard quickly, and after leaving the Chen family's courtyard, I asked his father why he used the hunting knife as a firewood knife. The explanation given by Chen Mo was that his father had a problem with his brain. How can such an explanation dispel my doubts? I just sneered and didn't agree.

Seeing that I didn't agree, Chen Mo explained: "Really, my father really has a problem in his head, which hunter doesn't hunt but chops wood with a hunting knife?" ”

"Brother, how can you say that about Dad?" Chen Lin looked at Chen Mo with dissatisfaction.

Lin Hai also said: "Yes, your father is your father after all, and you, as a son, really shouldn't talk about your father's rights and wrongs behind your back." Besides, your father doesn't hunt, and he also has his own troubles. Lin Hai seems to know something.

"What's the problem?" Chen Mo sneered, "I think it's cowardice!" I don't hunt the wild meat all over the mountain, but chop firewood and farm the land at home, isn't it cowardly to do anything? Chen Mo seemed to be very dissatisfied with his father Chen Weiguo's approach.

"Your father doesn't hunt because of Xiaoyuan and his grandmother!" Lin Haidao, "After Xiaoyuan left, Chen Tianding's grandfather's son, Uncle Chen Guodong, the village chief at the time, ordered that the villagers were not allowed to go up the mountain to hunt, and violators would be severely punished. Your father is a small peasant, how dare he disobey the orders of the village chief? ”

"Humph! What is the village chief? The village chief is a fart! Chen Mo was still dissatisfied, and his tone was extremely angry, "I didn't find anything at all back then, it's just that Chen Tianding and Chen Guodong, the two fathers and sons, were suspicious and suspicious, relying on three points of power to show off their might." ”

Through their conversation, I remembered Chen Guodong, I don't know if fifteen years have passed, he is still not the village chief of Xiwang Village?

While I was thinking, the four of us happened to pass by Chen Tianding's house. The house has not changed at all, and the wooden house is still built, and a long one-meter-high brick fence has been built on the outside of the wooden house, and the broken glass on the wall glistens in the sun.

The door was locked, and the lock on the door had grown a thick layer of rust, and it was clear that no one had lived here in years. But since there is no one to live in, how can there be no weeds in front of and behind the door? I was baffled by the unusually clean and tidy way.

"Uncle Guodong later went to the county town as an official in the Cultural Bureau, and he never came back after retiring." Chen Lin seemed to see my mind clearly, and wanted me to explain, "Originally, their family still had Grandpa Tianding lived. Three years ago, after Tianding's grandfather died unexpectedly, the family moved away, leaving only an empty house in the village. Chen Lin let out a long sigh here, "If it weren't for this house, I'm afraid few people would remember that Chen Tianding and Chen Guodong once lived here." ”

"But since there is no one living in the house, why is there no weeds in front of and behind the house, and the house is clean?" I asked suddenly.

Chen Lin said: "Their family also has a family that lives in the village, and his family is called Lao Chentou, who makes wine in Xitou Village, Xiwang Village. ”

Old Chen, I know that he is indeed a merchant who brews wine in the west of the village. When I was a child, because my grandfather liked to drink, I had a lot of dealings with Lao Chentou. In my impression, Lao Chen Tou is a very humorous person, often teasing me, and will tell me a lot of humorous stories, I have a very high evaluation of Lao Chen Tou.

It is said that Lao Chen Tou is Chen Tianding's family because Lao Chen Tou is Chen Tianding's half-brother. It's just that Chen Tianding is a concubine, and Lao Chen Tou is a concubine. In Chen Tianding's father's generation, it had not yet been emancipated, and the status of women in the family was very low, let alone second-room concubines. What's more, Lao Chentou's mother is not the concubine that his father is marrying, and her status is even lower.

Lao Chentou's mother was originally a widow, and when she first got married, her husband was called to join the army, and she didn't have time to do it. For this reason, Lao Chentou's mother was widowed for almost ten years, and it was not until the news of his husband's death came from the front that Lao Chentou's mother began to accept the pursuit of other men.

And Chen Tianding's father is one of the suitors. Chen Tianding's father had just been widowed at the time. After the two of them met, it was a dry firewood and a fire, and soon the water melted and they made a private decision for life, so they secretly had Lao Chen.

The "amorous" affair between Chen Tianding's father and Lao Chen's mother was finally revealed. In the end, Lao Chentou's mother was caught by the villagers and died in a pig cage. And Chen Tianding's father, although he had the support of the Chen family, survived. But since then, he has been depressed and often says nonsense that outsiders can't understand.

Soon after, Chen Tianding's father died. Just like Chen Tianding, Chen Tianding's father died very suddenly and strangely. However, due to the fact that the Chen family has been trying their best to cover it up and is unwilling to make the truth public, it has also led to the emergence of many versions among the people. But in my opinion, these versions are all absurd. What kind of devil is asking for his life? What is suicide with hatred? It can't be the real reason for Chen Tianding's father's death!

And Lao Chen Tou has never been recognized by the Chen family as his ancestors, because of this, Lao Chen Tou has always been angry with Chen Tianding's family. Anyway, before I left Xiwang Village, the relationship between the two families had never been reconciled.

As for now, why Lao Chen Tou wants to take care of Chen Tianding's family, I don't know. Perhaps, after Chen Tianding's death, all grievances and grievances have disappeared, right? I didn't see Lao Chen, and I heard Lao Chentou say why, so I could only explain it like this.

"How could Old Chen take care of their family?" I asked as I walked.

Chen Lin said: "We don't know. When Chen Tianding died three years ago, the old Chen Tou, who had always been unable to get along with the Chen family, took the initiative to come over to help, and both parties showed extraordinary enthusiasm. Old Chen Tou made a lot of decisions at Chen Tianding's funeral as Chen Tianding's younger brother. ”

"It seems to be really strange." I looked back at Chen Tianding's house, and vaguely noticed that a thin old man in the house was waving to me slowly. It was too far away for me to see his true face. When I looked closer, he suddenly disappeared.

"Hell in the day?" I have been practicing metaphysical feng shui for many years, but I am not panicked at all, even if I see a ghost in the daytime, they dare not provoke me.

Chen Mo, Chen Lin, and Lin Hai didn't send me home, they only delivered them to the door and left. And I returned home with a head full of doubts, kneeling silently in front of the mourning hall staring at my grandmother's portrait, thinking about what Chen Mo, Lin Hai, and Chen Lin told me.

Is it really necessary to open the coffin for an autopsy? Can I get my grandmother's forgiveness for doing this?

Looking at the kind smile of my grandmother on the portrait, I slowly changed from hesitation to resolute and decisive! I must not let my grandmother die in vain, I must find the truth! Give grandma a clean slate!

I got up slowly, and after offering incense to my grandmother, my uncle asked me to go to my grandmother's room to clean up my grandmother's belongings.

I was sorting through my grandmother's belongings on the side, and I felt uneasy. Looking at the unknowing faces of my uncle and aunt, as well as the relics left by my grandmother, I thought of what I was going to disrespect my grandmother that night, and I struggled deeply in my heart. I don't know, what would be their reaction if my grandfather, uncle and aunt found out about it? Will I be angry with my unfilial grandson (nephew)? I really can't imagine.

I sorted my grandmother's clothes and jewelry before her death. From a person's relics, you can know everything about this person's life, personality, tastes, hobbies, etc., can be seen in the clothes she wore in the past and the jewelry she used.

My grandmother was a clean, beauty-loving and frugal old lady, her jewelry was shiny, and the traces of old age shone with the unique luster of rare metals, neatly arranged in a red box of rosewood.

Even though she was no longer young, she still kept her clothes neat and tidy, although she didn't have many clothes, and the styles were the usual old rural ladies' plac-aunt dresses, most of which I remember she had worn in my childhood. But now it seems that it has not aged with the passage of time at all.

I saw a black tin jar at the bottom of the cabinet, and when I opened it, I found a book, a very old, weather-beaten thread-bound book. I picked up the book and flipped through it slowly, and found that it was full of my grandmother's notes. My grandmother has the impression that she is a well-read person, she is not only literate but also can write well. The fact that I can write this beautiful face now is mostly due to my grandmother's constant attention when I was a child.

As I read chapter by chapter, I found that the notebook was full of anecdotes about my grandmother's walks in various villages in China when she was young, and there were many interesting things about Xiwang Village. Of course, these things seem funny to me, but they must be scary to outsiders. Because, what my grandmother recorded was related to ghosts.

What helped the hanged ghost to be reincarnated, what helped the lonely soul and wild ghost on the road, and helped the villagers who died unjustly in the village to overkill, etc., the record is very true. I tried to scroll further, hoping to find my grandmother's account of the incident fifteen years ago, but the notebook had obviously been torn up three pages, just to cover up all the events that had happened fifteen years ago on the Qingming Festival.

What the hell is going on? Could it be that grandma is deliberately hiding something? This notebook is hidden so deeply, I'm afraid only my grandmother knows about the existence of this notebook. In this regard, only my grandmother was the one who tore off these three pages.

I saw some ashes in the depths of the black tin can, and I guessed right, it must have been that my grandmother had encountered a very tricky and terrible thing back then, and she did not want to look back on it, nor did she want to be mentioned by posterity, so she burned these three pages to ashes. As everyone knows, it was because of my grandmother's abnormal behavior that aroused my curiosity even more. Although curiosity will kill the cat, I decided, completely decided, I decided to cooperate with Chen Mo and Lin Hai to conduct an open coffin autopsy on my grandmother!