Chapter 9: Couplets
Since I had just recovered, my mother insisted that I rest at home and go to work on the farm alone. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info I can't resist my mother, I have to wander around the village, tomorrow night Huang Mingcan will hold a yin marriage, although I am very curious about this mysterious ritual that began before the Han Dynasty, but I faintly feel a trace of unease.
Because of this uneasiness, I resisted my curiosity and decided not to look at the Bloodstone, which was too close to Huang Mingcan's home, and I guess I couldn't see anything from it, just wandering around the village.
As for Ambergris Mountain, my mother heard from the villagers that nothing could be found except for a stone gate, and that the strange stone statue was missing, as if nothing had happened that night. But I can't forget the scene of the bloody corpse tearing apart the villager in front of me that night, and the villager was only able to find a few pieces of minced flesh and a few incomplete bones, and finally was hastily buried by his family.
Before I knew it, I had come to the dilapidated ancestral hall again, and it was here a few days ago that I found something hidden by the leper Li, so there would be the next thing, and now, when I came here again, I suddenly had some mixed tastes.
Leper Li has long disappeared, the already dilapidated ancestral hall looks more and more depressed, after looking around for a week, I was stunned, although the ancestral hall is dilapidated, but it is unusually neat, and the last time I came, it is completely different, obviously, after Lai Zili left, someone came to clean it, as for who, I don't know.
"Can't die, how did you get here?" In my stunned moment, a low and vicissitudes of voice came suddenly, my first reaction was to laugh, I thought it was the leper Li came back, but when I looked back, it turned out to be the village chief's death, and the smile I just waved disappeared in an instant.
The village chief's face was as usual, and I couldn't see anything special, but I still felt that something was different from before, maybe I met a village chief who was very different from the usual one that night!
"It's okay, it's just boring to come here to hang out" I snorted by the way, trying to relieve the awkward atmosphere, but the village chief blocked the door at this time, staring straight at me.
"Oh...... That, when did you wake up, I heard from the people in the village a few days ago that you may never wake up again, your mother is so anxious" The village chief looked very concerned about me, and he stretched out his wrinkled old hand and patted me on the shoulder, as if to prove that I was not hallucinating in front of me.
In my impression, the village chief was a kind person, when I was a child, every time I went to his house to play, he would always bring out some candy to entertain me, and then gradually grew up, and went to his house less, but he has not changed much in my impression.
So after he asked, I told him the reason why I was able to wake up, after all, even if I didn't say, it would be easier for him to want to know, and my mother was not a good liar.
"It seems that Daochang Li is really a living Buddha," the village chief smiled and touched my head after hearing this.
Seeing that the village chief seemed to be in a good mood, I expressed the doubts in my heart: "Village chief, what is the matter with that bloody corpse, and who is the third party who appeared that night?"
"How do you know what happened that night?" The atmosphere froze in an instant, and the village chief stared at me as if he had just had the same expression. "Did you sneak over that night? Who told you to see it! ”
I gradually lowered my head, then raised my head suddenly, and asked, "According to the rules of the village, I have reached the age of now, why can't I go and see it?"
Seeing that I did not show weakness, the anger that gradually gathered on his face disappeared, he stared at me for a long time, and stopped talking several times, and finally had to sigh: "Child, it's not that I won't let you go, it's just that you are different from most of us."
"Village Chief, what's the difference?" I asked, confused.
“…..” The village chief was still silent, as if thinking about something, and after a while, he stared at me again with that kind of eye, and said word by word: "When the fake is true, the truth is also false, and there is no place for inaction."
I was stunned, how did the village chief say the words in the Dream of Red Mansions, I thought there was an explanation for the next sentence, but I didn't expect him to turn around and leave after he finished speaking. Looking at his back, I opened my mouth, full of disappointment, and after a long time, I got nothing.
"Fake is true when it's true? Is there nowhere or no? I muttered a few words, but I still couldn't think of what the village chief meant, so I had to give up, and stood in front of the big stone for a while, but I still couldn't see any clues. Finally, I got bored and prepared to go home, but just as I was turning, I suddenly caught one of the scattered threads.
The thread is the leper Lee, a man full of mystery, who, according to the time, speculates how he appeared in two different places at the same time.
And his role in this matter is not as good as it seems, a living Buddha who saves people. At the very least, I can be sure that he was the fuse of the whole incident, and he deliberately showed me the gold and jade that day, otherwise with his skills, how could I find the so-called stolen goods! And I'm just a pawn in all his actions.
Why did he do it? Is this good or bad for me and the whole village? I have no way of knowing. Although this matter has come to an end, and now it is calm, I feel that things will not be so simple, and I have a vague premonition that I have fallen into the center of a conspiracy.
The next afternoon, I got up early in the morning, yesterday I had enough sleep to make me vigorous, my mother got up earlier than me, rushed to the morning to go out to do farm work, at this time the sun had come out, there was still some time before my mother came back, I came to the kitchen, lit a fire, ready to cook, I guess, when my mother came back, the meal was ready, the simple meal was still not difficult for me.
Soon after, the smell of rice came from the iron pot, and I knew that the rice was almost cooked and ready to be steamed.
When I lifted the lid of the pot, a hot smell came from the surface, and the thick aroma of rice suddenly made me appetite, I was about to get the boiled rice, and then only a little water was left in it, and when I poured the filtered rice back into it and steamed, a figure rushed in and pulled me out.
I was a little annoyed by this sudden action, and when I saw who it was, I felt unusually nervous, for no other reason, this person was Huang Mingcan's father, Huang Han.
Although Huang Han's name sounds domineering, he looks very short, about the same height as my mother, just over my shoulders. But even so, I didn't think to resist, I didn't even have time to close the door, and the cooked rice hadn't been served yet, and it was estimated that my mother would be cooking porridge when she returned.
In the village, I rarely heard about Huang Han, and I didn't have much feelings for him, but there was one thing that made me completely change my opinion of him, and that was my childhood playmate, Huang Mingcan. At that time, we were the best friends, but because of the short man in front of me, I never saw Huang Mingcan again for more than ten years.
I thought that I didn't have anything to do with Huang Han, just like me and her daughter, I just took a look at tonight's yin marriage from a distance, but I didn't expect him to come to the door now.
Along the way, except for telling the neighbor standing in front of the door that I went to Huang's house, and asked him to wait for my mother to come back and tell him, I didn't have any other words, I knew that the reason why Huang Han came must be because of Huang Mingcan, and to be more specific, I didn't want to ask in detail, and when I got to the place, I would naturally know.
The only thing I thought about was how to face the man in front of me, as well as Huang Mingcan, who was already dead, and the memories that had been sealed for a long time suddenly poured out, and I had mixed feelings for a while.
When passing by the Bloodstone, I glanced at it and found that the color seemed to be a little redder than before, but I didn't have time to take a closer look, so I hurriedly followed Huang Han.
After the bloodstone, you will arrive at Xiaoshi Village, as soon as you enter the village, it is Huang Mingcan's home, a three-story small western-style building, standing out from the crowd in several nearby villages, showing an extraordinary magnanimity. At this time, the whole courtyard was red, and a pair of bright red couplets were posted on the door.
The nine secluded springs are connected, and life and death are beautiful
Singing in front of the ten halls, the west chamber is sung, and the ghosts and gods are drunk and lying
The horizontal batch is: go to reincarnation together