I felt a chill down my spine when I heard this, and my hands trembled, and it took me a while to say, "How can your grandmother be like this?" Could it be that there is something strange about her? ”

"Later, I was found by the nanny aunt, it turned out that she went to the toilet, and then I was afraid of my grandma, until I became sensible, my grandmother told me that this is the method of practicing soft kung fu by the women of the Huo family, and she must hang the sleeping bones to achieve the maximum flexibility, she has been sleeping like this since she was a girl at the age of nineteen, and now she can't sleep in bed at all, and there are bone spurs in many places, and it doesn't hurt if she hangs it."

"Damn, then your grandfather must have practiced in front of the cave for a while." The fat man said.

Huo Xiuxiu ignored him and continued: "Because this makes me remember it too deeply, I care very much about her last sentence. ”

Judging from Huo Xiuxiu's own narrative and my observation of her, she is a girl who has her own world view very early, and is independent and good at thinking, so she is obsessed with her grandmother's sleeping posture at that time and those few dreams, of course, this kind of lingering is not achieved overnight, the reason why she feels that this dream has some unusual meaning is that she heard the same dream words many times after that.

As she grew older, she began to believe that there was a huge knot in the heart of her grandmother, who seemed to be as strong as a rock.

This heart knot is very secret, and her grandmother may not say it until she dies, but Huo Xiuxiu can be sure that the heart knot must have something to do with that sentence.

"There's no time."

What is it that there is no time?

It's hard to say whether it's curiosity, or the same fateful Tai Chi as I have in mind, or maybe she herself wants to untie the knot for her beloved grandmother, and she begins to spy on it, consciously or unconsciously, and to my surprise, the little girl shows amazing action in spying on the job. Her clarity of thinking and grasp of things are not proportional to her age.

"The girls of our Huo family are often beautiful and shrewd, and the boys are also handsome but often stupid." She explained, "I don't know why, maybe it's because girls are brought up by their grandmothers since they were young." My brother only knows how to engage in objects all day long, which is very unserious. ”

"I don't think it's okay to check my grandmother and aunt, and it's not a serious person." The fat man poked.

She thought about it, probably felt right, and sighed: "Anyway, check and check, my grandmother's heart knot will become my heart knot." ”

She really started to investigate this matter probably four years ago when she was fifteen years old, and there was no clue to everything, only the sentence "there is no time", if it was me, it might not be possible to start at all, but for her, there was a point I couldn't imagine.

At first, she wanted to find her grandmother's diary, but unfortunately not everyone will have the habit of keeping a diary, her grandmother's previous written materials were very few, unlike my family, my grandmother is everyone's best (note that it is my grandmother), the sons and grandchildren who have been educated are more or less bookish, and even the third uncle can pretend to be a 30% white-faced scholar when he doesn't speak. The style of the Huo family is more utilitarian and Jianghu, women have to fight, fight and teach each other, and they will not have time to practice calligraphy and write articles, so Mrs. Huo's temperament back then will definitely not be Lin Daiyu's. So, there must not be too many words left.

However, Huo Xiuxiu didn't find it at all, she found a lot of letters, and the correspondence was kept on file, and she read a few boxes of old letters with the kind of little ghost idea that she might be able to find her grandmother's love letters. Unfortunately, all the correspondence was basically business correspondence, and there was absolutely nothing she wanted to know.

However, she also discovered a strange place.

She found that since 1995, there has been a special mail every year, that is a package, which is basically sent in the second half of March. Most of the packages will be opened and inspected, and the contents will be filled in on a form, and whoever the thing is sent to will be written on the back, and Xiuxiu found something strange on this form.

On the 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 forms, the contents of the package were: videotapes. And the people who took the things were her grandmother.

That is, in March of those years, someone would send a video to her grandmother.

Her grandmother was a very old-fashioned person, who only watched theaters, and it was impossible to imagine that such a thing as a video tape would have anything to do with her grandmother.

There is no doubt that she has developed a keen interest in the whereabouts of these tapes. So she began to pay attention, and took every possible opportunity to find the tapes.

(I remembered that I had the same experience before, but it was looking for a tertiary film that my dad got from a friend in Hong Kong, and later I realized that what I loved was not the ** picture, but the excitement of finding those tapes themselves.) ）

To this end, she even made a very detailed plan, such as when her grandmother would go out and what she would do with the strap after seeing it. For this reason, she saved up two months to buy a video recorder and set up a ripping connection with the video recorder at home.

Finally she found the tapes, which were under the floor under her grandmother's closet, and she picked one and quickly went to the living room to rip it and put it back in. The whole process was as tense as being an agent.

After that, she chose a time to go to her friend's house and look at the tape.

The content of the belt is as she said, it seems to be a picture of surveillance, it is a very dim cabin, a few people in white clothes, crawling on the ground, the whole belt has a picture for more than thirty minutes, she recognized it inside, her aunt, Huo Ling.

Her aunt was crawling on the ground as if she had no soul inside, and it was terrifying.

She knew about her aunt's disappearance since she was a child, so, after seeing this belt, she was terrified, she didn't know what the situation was, she didn't know what's wrong, she just instinctively knew that it was a very bad thing, her grandmother seemed to be hiding some secret, and her grandmother really had a very terrible knot.

However, she did not dare to ask her grandmother what was going on, because she knew that it would not end well, and she did not dare to tell anyone else, and she remained in trepidation for the rest of the month.

However, perhaps it was really because she and I had similar personalities, and after she slowly calmed down, the thirst for the truth began to torment her, and the curiosity of the so-called person who committed Tai Chi was so heavy that it was difficult for others to believe.

After that, she continued her investigation, which was inconclusive at first, until she resorted to a very clever but risky approach.

It took her months to imitate her grandmother's handwriting and write a reply to all the addresses on those old letters.

The letter went something like this:

Everybody:

I recently dreamed of that thing again, how many years, this nightmare lingered, I don't know if my generation is okay, people in the twilight of life, half a foot into the coffin, I hope to see you again, there is still one thing I did not say back then, now I think about it, maybe it is the key, I hope to recount it in person, only as an old friend to reminisce.

The age of these letters spans nearly half a century, and the latest one is also far away from the current age, these addresses, in general, should not be sent, but Huo Xiuxiu said that she feels that those places of business transactions are rural areas or small counties, and rural areas and small counties are the places with the least changes, especially in rural areas, even if the address changes, because the geographical scope is not large, people are familiar with each other, as long as the letter reaches the village, someone will send the letter to the recipient.

After the letter was sent, she took the initiative to take charge of the mailbox at home, so that others thought she was in love, waiting for her boyfriend's letter, in fact, it was just to filter the letters, there was no response in the first two months, and at the beginning of the third month, there were sporadic replies one after another, basically expressing incomprehension.

The little girl has always insisted on looking at the mailbox at five o'clock every morning, never stopping.

In the fifth month, the letter finally came.

Only one line of words:

Don't talk about the old things.

She immediately knew that there was a door, this person must know the situation, look at the address, the letter came from Beijing, a small shop in Liulichang. So I immediately packed my bags and came to the shop.

It was a heavy rainy day, the whole city of Sijiu City was covered with rain hats, the glass factory was sparse, there were few people, many doors were closed early, she knocked on the door and went in, and saw an old man in the inner room, the old man looked at her and smiled, revealing the gold teeth in his mouth.

Huo Xiuxiu said: "That old man, his name is Jin Wantang, do you think of anything?" ”