Chapter 7: The White Shadow in the Grave
The fat man and I sat under the eaves of the adobe house, cigarette butts at our feet, staring at the weeds in front of us, and no one spoke. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After a long time, the fat man hesitated: "Maybe ......"
"Not probably." I interrupted him, "Cai Ji shouted and shouted to kill as soon as she came up, it must not be untargeted, there should be a real problem with the uncle!" ”
"What can I do if I have a problem?" The fat man muttered.
I was stunned, yes! What can I do if I have a problem? After all, it's my own uncle, can I really make all this public?
I can't do it, because I know very well the power of rural gossip in the family, especially with such a strange ritual as the Yin Raising God to testify, once the matter is revealed, the Simon family will definitely have no place to stand in their hometown.
I had a headache, my eyes fell on the shovel brought by the fat man, and suddenly a thought came to my mind, "Fat man, let's talk so much, it's actually all conjecture, right?" ”
The fat man was stunned and said, "Probably, after all, no one has seen your uncle crawl out of the grave." ”
"Then why don't we go and have a look?"
The fat man didn't understand what I meant at first, but when he figured it out, his face couldn't help but change, and he shouted directly: "! What do you think about watermelon? Digging a grave and opening a coffin? That's your own uncle. ”
I pulled him by the hand and said, "What are you shouting!" I still don't know it's my uncle? You listen to my analysis first. ”
I told the fat man to calm down and said, "First of all, it's the pressure from Cai Ji's side. If the uncle is really lying in the coffin, it proves that we have thought too much, at least it proves that this yin god has nothing to do with him, and we can be regarded as having a clear conscience, and we can directly fight Cai Ji, whether we are dead or alive, we can't stand this anger! ”
"But then again, if the uncle's grave is really empty, then where did he go? is so hollowed out and deliberately playing with Li Dai Taozhuang, what is his purpose? Is it related to the trip to Tibet back then? Did he kill in the first place, and where is he now? Uncle has been lonely all his life, as his only nephew, if there are really so many mysteries, I naturally can't sit idly by, then it will become logical to retrace the path that Uncle walked back then. ”
After I finished analyzing, I saw that the fat man blinked, and he said: "As long as you think about it yourself, our relationship, not to mention digging your uncle's grave, is to dig your father's grave, buddy has no objection." ”
This fat man, I had the heart to fight back against him, but then I thought about it, he didn't say anything wrong, I really wanted to dig my own uncle's grave......
Long story short, now that we have made up our minds, the fat man and I are no longer inking. First of all, I went back to the house and dismantled the altar of the Yin God on the beams of the house, packed the dried corpses of the animals with woven bags, burned them together with the seven layers of corpse boards, and then dug a pit in the courtyard and buried them on the spot. This is a rather bad sign, and it may indicate that the uncle's grave is really empty.
After cleaning up the adobe house, the fat man and I went separately to prepare the corresponding things for opening the coffin at night, such as hammers, gloves, flashlights, shovels, and yellow table paper, candles, and wine for memorial services, and then simply got some food to fill our stomachs, and when the sky gradually darkened, we dried the bottle and two pots together, and then walked to the back mountain.
The so-called back mountain is just a bare and barren mountain less than 100 meters high, and the uncle's tomb is under a few pine trees halfway up the mountain.
On a cool summer night, the mountain breeze was blowing, and the fat man and I carried shovels and walked briskly under the bright moonlight.
The fat man's amount of wine is a little shallow, and half a bottle of two pots is already red-faced and red-eared, and there are more words.
"Watermelon, guess what you want at this moment."
I said in my heart that I would guess where to go, so I shook my head to show that I didn't know.
The fat man smiled, suddenly walked two steps, turned around with a shovel, made a sword with two fingers, and sang a white way: "General, don't read it, don't read it, don't miss you, I see it at first sight!" ”
I was stunned for a moment, and then I realized that he was reading the lyrics, so I scolded: "...... Play with eggs to go! ”
I'm going to dig the grave of my elder now, although there is a reason for it, it is also a big rebellion, how can I have the heart to mess around with him.
The fat man saw that I was not cooperating and was bored, so he waved his shovel and rushed forward in the posture of riding a horse and raising a whip on the stage, and muttered in his mouth: "Wow, a certain family is here, who is ahead?" Don't get off the horse and suffer - it! ”
I was shaking my head and smiling bitterly, when I was startled by the fat man's sudden scream, and I heard him shout softly in front of me: "Watermelon watermelon, keep up, there is a situation!" ”
I heard that the fat man's voice didn't seem to be fake, so I quickly caught up with him and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
The fat man narrowed his eyes, looked at the grass on the side of the mountain road in the night ahead, made a silent gesture at me, and said in a suppressed voice, "There is a white shadow, hiding in the grass." ”
White Shadow? I knew that there were rats, snakes, and weasels in the back mountains, and I never knew what white shadows there were, so I said to him, you drunk, don't mistake some white plastic bag.
The fat man was anxious, and said watermelon, you can look down on me, but you can't look down on the amount of alcohol your buddy, am I the one who poured the three glasses, you watch. As he spoke, the fat man took out a lighter from his pocket, looked at it, and slammed it into the bushes!
At this moment, a body that seemed to be white light under the moonlit night suddenly burst out of the grass, turned into a cloud of light and shadow and slipped forward, the good fellow, two circles larger than the biggest weasel I had ever seen.
Seeing this, the fat man wanted to yell at me, but I pulled him up: "Don't be stunned! Catch it alive! "We followed the white shadow all the way down.
The white shadow is very fast, between the fluffy tail swinging high and low, the whole body is like walking on the ground on the rugged mountain road, the fat man and I use the strength to eat milk so as not to be thrown off, the angry fat man gasped and screamed, saying that he would simmer slowly on a low heat to relieve his hatred.
After chasing for three or four minutes, just as the fat man and I were about to try to smash the stall with a shovel to try to try our luck, the white shadow suddenly bypassed a tree, and the whole body sank into a dirt bag.
The fat man who saw it at this time was overjoyed, and said that this is called heaven has a way, you don't go, hell has no door, you come to throw, rushed over to pick up the shovel and was about to dig, I hurriedly caught up and stopped him, "Don't be impulsive." ”
The fat man was puzzled and asked, "What's wrong again?" ”
"Here we are."
The fat man looked confused and said, "What's coming?" ”
I pointed to the looming tombstone behind the dirt bag and said to the fat man, "The destination has arrived, this is the grave of my uncle." ”
The fat man let out an "ah", and then realized that he had come under a few pine trees, and then glared and said that the white shadow has gone to your uncle's grave? Seeing me nodding, he sighed twice, and whispered again,, the white shadow can't be changed by your uncle, right?
I didn't have the courage to spit him, saying that you have only a white shadow, Uncle has been in this grave for almost ten years, and what is so strange about being punched by a weasel.
The fat man knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly said: "It's not unusual, it's not unusual, that, what should I do now?" But aren't we here to dig graves, just right, by the way, we can also clean up the tenants for your uncle. ”
I said, "Clean-up is to be cleaned-up, but you have to pray for sins first." ”
I and the fat man came to the tombstone, this monument is still after I retired from the army, and there is a sign "nephew Ximen Hanlin Jingli" under the book "Uncle Ximen Chang's Tomb", alas...... To say that when the monument was erected, I didn't dare to think that one day I would dig up the grave with my own hands, which shows that the world is indeed unpredictable.
I first lit the candle, and the flame danced in the breeze, but it would not be extinguished, and then I dug a pit, put the yellow table paper in it and lit it, and finally I knelt down with the fat man, holding the wine glass in my hand, and said: "Uncle is above, and the unfilial nephew Hanlin is below, what the nephew wants to do today is really a great rebellion, but for the reputation of the family, and for the innocence of the uncle, the nephew has to do this, if you disturb the uncle, please understand in the spirit of heaven." ”
After saying this uncivilized eulogy, I poured the wine in the cup and respectfully kowtowed with the fat man. But at the moment when our heads touched the ground, we suddenly heard a "kara", and when we looked up again, we found that the tombstone had collapsed in half. The fat man exclaimed: "Watermelon, your uncle has appeared!" ”
At first, I was amazed, but then I noticed a white shaking through the cracked crack in the ground under the base of the tombstone.
I immediately beckoned the fat man to start digging the grave, but the fat man didn't see the white shadow under the tombstone, and he didn't understand why I was so excited, and he didn't bother to ask, so he picked up the shovel and dug up the mud.