Ten Years Ago 4: Bad News

The rain became heavier and heavier, and my cousin returned to his house, and I climbed down the roof with my father and entered the house. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

I lay down for nearly an hour, as if I was sleeping, and I was so hot that I was sweating. The rooster crowed outside the window, sleepy and difficult to sleep, I simply got up and walked to the yard, it was already dawn, the rain had stopped at some point, there was smoke in the kitchen, it was my mother cooking soup.

"Loach, you two hairy children sleep like pigs, and the rain doesn't wake you up?" My father was wearing big pants and shaved while laughing, his face covered in foam.

"How do I know!" I never shrugged off ridicule.

"I heard the rain in the house, if I hadn't called you, you would both be in the soup now, and you would be sleepy!" My father was laughing so hard that the soap foam almost reached my mouth, and my mother was snickering in the kitchen.

I don't understand how I slept so hard last night, I usually wake up at the slightest disturbance. I didn't know what to say, so I ran out of the door to find my cousin.

"Later, you can call your grandmother to come to our house for breakfast!" My father shouted to me.

"Why?"

"If you are told to go, you will go, and your grandmother will have to ask why when she comes to our house for dinner!"

My father told my grandmother last night that we would go to the field to see the pit today, thinking that I would go early after breakfast while it was cold.

When I came to my cousin's house, I came into the house and saw that he was still sleeping, sleeping soundly, and he didn't take off his wet clothes last night, and they were already warm and dry.

"Hurry up, the sun is on your buttocks!" I woke my cousin up with a slap in the air.

"What are you doing, loach! What time is it? The cousin's eyes were half-closed and he sat up reluctantly.

"It's almost seven o'clock, get up, my dad told us to call grandma for dinner."

"Okay......" My cousin stretched out deeply, got up and went out with me without washing his face.

Along the way, my cousin yawned again and again, his eyes were foggy, no matter how he looked, it looked like he hadn't slept all night, and he was much more energetic after walking for a while.

"Brother, last night I dreamed that the two of us went to dig the treasure in that pit, and our grandmother also went." On the way, I told my cousin about last night's dream.

"Huh? I dreamed it too! My cousin looked surprised.

"The two of us have the same heart, and we even do the same thing in our dreams!" I couldn't talk about the nightmares, so I didn't mention them.

"Haha, that's a must!" My cousin said with a smile, but he didn't seem so happy.

We chatted and chatted and arrived at the door of my grandmother's house, and when I pushed my hand, the door was open, and it seemed that my grandmother had already gotten up.

Walking into the yard, quietly, I suddenly felt a little cold, maybe it was cold in the rain last night. In the morning, the main hall of the back room was lit up, and we walked in.

"Grandma?" My cousin called out when he entered the door, but no one answered.

"Grandma is still sleeping!" I pointed to the bed and ran.

"Grandma, Grandma! Get up! "I shook my grandmother's arm, thinking that my grandmother had gone to bed again after breakfast.

I shook a lot and didn't wake up, and inadvertently touched my grandmother's hand, and at that moment I was numb like an electric shock, and my hand instinctively retracted, and when I touched it, my grandmother's hand was cold and cold, and a chill spread along my hand to the whole body.

I sat down on the ground with an "ahhh

"What's wrong? What's wrong? My cousin hurried up.

"Grandma, she...... She ...... "Tears rolled in the corners of my eyes, and I somehow had a strong premonition that I couldn't be sure.

The noisy grandmother was still lying quietly on the bed, and my cousin also saw something, stepped forward and put his hand on my grandmother's mouth, paused, and slowly turned his head to look at me: "Wai ...... Grandma is out of gas! ”

We ran back home.

For a while, the news spread throughout the village, and relatives and friends came from all over the world and gathered at my grandmother's old courtyard. My cousin and I squeezed into the crowd and saw my grandmother lying quietly in the lobby from a distance, and my mother and aunt were already crying and collapsed on the floor.

"Loach, look at the bronze mirror in our grandmother's hand, is it the one you picked up in the field?" My cousin leaned into my ear and whispered.

"It seems to be!"

I stood on tiptoe and looked at my grandmother from afar, her face serene, her hands on her chest and her hands tightly gripping the bronze mirror.

There were more and more people in the courtyard, and several distant relatives I had never seen before had also come from the city, and the scene was noisy and crowded, and I felt a little whirling in the crowd.

Grandma has lived alone in the old courtyard for most of her life, and she must have liked to be quiet, but now these people are crowded in the usually empty old courtyard, making wanton noise. There were two village children laughing and pushing and making trouble, the cousin stepped forward and pushed them to the ground, rolling and fighting, the uncle on the side came over and pulled up the cousin and reprimanded, the two children stood up and cried "wow", the cousin looked at them and looked very satisfied.

I looked around, but I didn't see my father and uncle, and several uncles were talking next to my grandmother:

"Our mother is usually in such good health, she is not sick or anything, why did she suddenly fall asleep?"

"Alas......"

"Who gave our mother the shroud?"

"It should be Da Fei and Jianguo, they came first."

"When I came, my mother was already lying here in her birthday clothes."

"What's in our mother's hand?"

"Who put such a broken bronze mirror on my mother?"

"I can't take it off, my mother is holding it too tightly, and my mother will sleep with it, right?"

"Is this thing killing our mother, don't touch it again."

"I think this is our mother's last wish, don't move anymore, take it into the coffin."

I looked at my cousin, and my cousin looked at me, and they all wanted to say something. I suddenly remembered that when I saw my grandmother in the morning, she seemed to be wearing the same dress as she is now, and it turned out that this was a shroud, and I didn't know this at a young age.

"Brother, our grandmother wears this dress when she sleeps, why do uncles say that someone else put it on?" I whispered to my cousin.

"You're stupid, shrouds are worn by the dead!" My cousin was suddenly stunned as he spoke, his eyes as big as eggs, "Our grandmother won't commit suicide, right?" ”

"Huh?!" What my cousin said was also a puzzle in my heart, how could my grandmother put on a shroud by herself before going to bed, and I suddenly felt a chill down my spine.

At this time, an old lady walked in outside the door, looking about the same age as my grandmother, followed by my father and uncle, and the two of them slowly walked into the lobby with the old man in their arms.

My cousin asked curiously, "Who is the person our dad's holding?" ”

I stared at it for a long time, shaking my head, I didn't remember seeing this person.