Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Shadow of the Peaceful Lake
The old lady has a total of three children, the eldest and the youngest are all sons, and the middle is a daughter, and each of these three families has the absolute ability to support their mothers, the eldest is an intellectual family, and the eldest daughter-in-law is still a teacher, but it is such a family, and the old man has never been there once. The old man didn't even know where www.biquge.info his son's home was. The second child married a businessman after graduating from college, and the family has money, in fact, it is rich and surplus to hire a nanny to serve the old lady, but she always says that her brother and brother don't care if they are the roots, what am I? The third child embarked on a career after graduating from college, so this time he came to get the envelope and let her daughter-in-law come, probably because she was afraid that it would affect him.
These three people, you look at me, I look at you, and in the end they all said that they were the most filial, the eldest said that he gave the old lady money every month, the second said that he had bought food for the old lady, and the third daughter-in-law said that this hospitalization was still their family's taxi, and these trivial things became the reason why they said they were filial. It's ridiculous.
Seeing that they could not tell a decent example, I took out the envelope in front of the nurses and the family members who were watching the excitement, and said, "Which of you is the most filial to yourself, and you know best in your heart, this thing is given to you, and I am afraid that after you read it, you will not be able to sleep well in this life." ”
The envelope was given to them, but they refused to let them open it and see what it was. Under the pressure of everyone, the two girls opened the envelope, and when the lists of blood sellers fell from the envelopes, the eyes of the two daughters had tears. The eldest took a look at it, and he was stunned, and the third daughter-in-law saw that the expressions of the eldest brother and the second sister were wrong, so she also took it and looked at it, and after reading it, her face turned red, what a loud slap this was, it was these unfilial people who were beaten.
When everyone saw this bloody list, they also accused these three people of unfilial piety. After a long silence, the eldest brother spoke: "Little classmate, can you borrow a place to speak?" ”
I saw that there were indeed too many people next to me, so I let them into the fat mother's ward, we people looked at the old lady and these three unfilial children, and really didn't know what to say, or the fat father can speak, or say that it is a person in society, he said: "It is said, the three of you have nothing to do with us, but in this world, there are people like us, the road is uneven, we have to talk about reason, how do you become children, you will also be old in the future, how do you set an example?" ”
Now these three people have been disturbed by the bloody list, and they all say that it is their fault, but this cannot be repeated, and the main thing now is that they have something to make up for it, so that the old lady can go more peacefully.
When I saw that they also knew that they were wrong, I said, "It's not a peaceful and uneasy thing to walk now, but the ghost of the old lady is in this hospital, and someone saw it yesterday, so if you don't hurry up, I'm afraid this hospital will become a haunted place." ”
As soon as the three men heard that their mother's ghost was still in the hospital, their faces changed color. I saw that these three really had ghosts in their hearts, so I took another dose of fierce medicine, and I said, "It is very likely that your mother's ghost is behind you now, and she misses you too." ”
After saying this, the little daughter-in-law was so frightened that she almost collapsed on the ground, seeing that her legs were weak, and looked around, for fear that a pair of invisible eyes were watching her.
I said, "Because the old lady left with her obsession when she died, only by unraveling her obsession and letting her have no resentment and concern in this world can she be saved." ”
I asked them what happened to the old lady when she died, and they said that after cremation, she would be put in the funeral home.
I asked them again, "Is there anything that the old lady has not done during her lifetime, or has she been worried?" ”
They all shook their heads, too, these people didn't even go to the old lady's place, how could they know what their mother was concerned about.
I asked, "Where is your father's grave?" ”
We said that after the cremation, the old lady was afraid that she would put her wife's ashes in the funeral home and make him lonely, so she insisted on putting the urn at home, because she didn't live with her, so people didn't care about it.
"So, where is the old man's urn still at home?"
"yes, I'm too busy these days to put them together." The Boss said.
I probably knew the reason for this, and said to them, "Now, if you want to make up for your emotional mistakes as children, you must sincerely fulfill your mother's wish, and at the very least, put the ashes of the two old people together, do you know why she put the ashes at home?" She is afraid that her wife will be lonely, and she is also afraid that she will be lonely. ”
When I said this, the boss's tears flowed down at once, and he slapped himself hard in the two big mouths.
I gave them a plan, also for the early peace of the hospital, I asked them to go home and prepare separately, the next morning let the eldest go to the old lady's residence to take the old man's urn to the funeral home first, let the second child gather the whole family and relatives to go to the funeral home to wait, and tonight let the third daughter-in-law and the third child come to the hospital, and bring their own hand-rolled burning paper and incense.
After arranging these, I said to everyone: "They're going to prepare theirs, let's not be idle, let's assign everyone's tasks now." "I asked Yu Qun and Glasses to go to the nearby temple to get more incense ashes, and asked Vanilla and Xiaomeng to get some candles, and asked Luo Haiwei and the fat man to go back to school to get my compass and red rope.
The fat man's parents had already known from the fat man that I would do this, so it was not surprising that the fat man's father also asked: "Liangzi, what can I do?" ”
I said to him, "Uncle, go to the ward and tell everyone to stay away from it tonight, including the nurses at the nurse's station, and it is best not to come out of the inpatient department at that time." ”
As soon as the fat father heard that he was asked to do this, he immediately agreed, because this is his strong point, and it is a public relations or something, and it is a hand-to-hand catch.
After arranging all the tasks, we waited for the evening to come.
The wait is usually long, but this time also flies, and soon, this winter night will come, and there are still a few hours before the hour, and the fat father came back from outside the hospital to buy a lot of lamb skewers, and we will take this for dinner in the evening.
Everyone's actions were going well, the fat father's public relations level was not said, and the people around him knew that they were going to give the old lady too much tonight, so they all agreed that they would not come out at night or so. Yu Qun and Glasses brought back a small bucket of incense ash, while Xiaomeng and Vanilla also got a lot of candles, and Fat Man and Luo Haiwei also brought me a compass and red rope from school, and the preparations on our side were done in an orderly manner.
We have been waiting for the arrival of the third family, at half past ten in the evening, the third and the two came, from a distance, not to mention that it is really a career, from the posture of walking, you can see that the officialdom of the third child has been brought out. But tonight, no matter how old he is, he must do what he must do as a son.
After half past eleven o'clock in the evening, I asked everyone to prepare separately, let Yu Qun and the glasses first scatter the incense ash along the door of room 5 on the seventh floor all the way to the entrance of the hospital on the first floor, and let Xiaomeng, Vanilla and Luo Haiwei put the candle on the windowsill of room 5, and put a candle on the windowsill of the staircase respectively, and lit it, I tied a red rope to the doorknob of each room on the seventh floor, and took out the compass and started telemetry, and soon, the compass rotated quickly in room 5, yes, As I guessed, the old lady never left the hospital, and was always in the house, waiting for her children to come and see her.
After arranging these, it was almost twelve o'clock, and I asked the third child and her daughter-in-law to bring the burning paper that they were sitting on, and first lit three sticks of incense on the bedside table in room No. 5 where the old lady lived, and then asked them to kowtow four times in front of the bed, and shouted: "Mom, go, mom is gone." ”
Then they turned the mattress up on the bed and shouted three more times, and began to light the burning paper, and walked down the floor along the path of the incense ash, shouting all the way: "Mother, go, mother, go." ”
In this way, I burned the paper until the entrance of the hospital, and then to the intersection in front of the hospital, and I asked them to burn all the burning paper here, and repent of their unfilial piety here.
As they cried and burned the paper, we saw that the paper swirled and dissipated little by little in the air. It seems that the old lady has finally come out of this hospital. Next, we packed up the things we used in the hospital and waited for dawn.
The third couple told us about his childhood at night, saying that when he was young, the family was poor, and then after his father left, he had no money, and his mother gave people a short job for them to go to school, and the relationship between brothers and sisters was also very good at that time, but now that there is money, there is little contact between everyone, and it is really unfilial to his mother.
We don't persuade him, we know that only in this way can he make himself more comfortable.
Early the next morning, the third child prepared two cars, and we went to the funeral home with them to continue to make an excess for the old lady, and when we got there, the eldest family was already waiting there with the old man's urn, and the second child had also gathered relatives and friends.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the sun rose outside, and the whole family lined up in several rows in the open space, the eldest family, the second child, and the third family at the front, and then put the urns of their parents into a double urn again, and placed them on a table in front of them.
A piece of wax was lit on each side of the urn, and three sticks of incense were lit in front of it, and the three families knelt on the ground, and then said to the two old men to go with peace of mind, and then kowtowed together. The ceremony was simple and serious, and the relatives and friends who came also witnessed the process of bringing the family together again.
When the ceremony was almost carried out, the sun on the horizon happened to shine on the portrait of the old couple, and from a distance, they seemed to smile, so serene and calm, as if the world was calmly welcoming their arrival and calmly sending them away, and only this process is the unusual road that people have to take in their lives.
Later, when I returned to the hospital, my fat father asked me, "Ryoko, why do you think this person always has to regret it before he knows that he was wrong?" Why can't we just be ourselves in our ordinary days? ”
I pondered for a moment and said, "This may be life, there are always some touches that make us find a way to be human, and there are always some inexplicables that make us choose between good and evil every day." "Actually, I don't know what I want to say, but I think being a human being is really a lifelong effort.
The fat man's mother was discharged from the hospital soon, and the fat man's studies have also made some progress under the supervision of his mother, so he also has time to come out and play with us. This winter is relatively cold, and a small lake behind the school has long been frozen, and it is very solid, because this ice surface is very flat, so some people come here to skate, and a few of us also meet to come here to skate.
At that time, young people were very fond of roller skating, that is, rollerblading, but there were very few people who could draw skates on the ice. I don't either, but the fat man skates very well, and the big fat body is like a fat penguin on the ice, and it is very interesting.
Because Vanilla had to do more work for the family before the Chinese New Year, she didn't have time to come here to play, and the rest of the people came to this small lake on this sunny day to bask in the sun and practice skating.
But just after the fat man skated twice, as if he was being chased by something, he ran to me, and shouted vigorously: "Run, everyone run!" ”
I looked at his panicked appearance, thinking that there was some danger on the ice, and quickly shouted to everyone to come ashore, and we all went ashore, and I asked the fat man: "Fat man, what's wrong, is there a crack in some piece of ice, why is it scared like this?" ”
The fat man was out of breath at this time, and after a pause, he said, "There are ghosts, there are ghosts in this lake!" Boss, I saw it, face to face. ”
His words made me a little confused, and the rest of the people were completely because the fat man shouted too fiercely, so they all ran desperately to the shore, and as soon as they heard that they had seen a ghost, everyone looked at each other, and some people actually laughed.
I asked him, "Really?" It's like it's really like that, isn't it a daytime dream? ”
But looking at the fat man, it didn't look like he was lying to us, so I asked him what he saw, and he was so excited.
The words of the fat man after he had caught his breath made me look at the lake again.
(To be continued)