My name is Chen Chaoyi, nicknamed Superman, I grew up in my grandfather's house when I was a child, and according to the customs there, people in my hometown call me Ah Lang. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

I am 20 years old and a sophomore at the provincial medical university. Studying medicine is because he was influenced by his grandfather, and when he was a child, he didn't think that his grandfather was a Taoist priest, but every time he saw a doctor in the village, he had a kind smile on his face, which always made people feel very warm. And the patient is very respectful to his grandfather, feeling that he is like an old fairy in his story.

In this way, when I applied for the volunteer, I did not hesitate to choose to study medicine, and when I entered the school, I realized that what I studied was Western medicine and not Chinese medicine, which was really helpless.

After entering the third year of high school, I was nervous about my studies, and I hadn't returned to the village to see my grandfather for almost two years.

This summer, I went back to my hometown alone to accompany my grandfather.

A hundred years after the ancestor Chen Rong, he listened to his grandfather, and later moved again because he was evading some things. After running around for a while, he finally settled in the western part of Qiannan, Guizhou. This is the boundary between Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, and the only common denominator is that it is poor, backward and far from the city.

The mountains are dense and the roads are blocked, and natural disasters such as mudslides and flash floods often occur.

There are many local minority ethnic groups, including more than 10 famous ethnic groups such as Miao, Buyi, and Gelao, who live in this area. As a result, the culture is complex and the turnover of people is relatively large.

In the 90s, it was no different from the beginning of liberation, the only thing was that the nation was equal and the people were the masters of the country.

It wasn't until this visit that I realized that there was a section of the road that had been opened to traffic. The only fly in the ointment is that on this muddy road, the car moves staggeringly, and the cliffs outside the road make people dizzy at a glance. Sitting in the car on this road, my heart has been hanging, and I really have half a foot in the ghost gate.

The people on the bus were all people who went out to the mountains to catch the market, and most of them went to the city to sell agricultural products. As a result, the basket on the back of the car was full of cars. The smell of smoke,, sweat... It makes people particularly refreshing, and can hear the authentic Guizhou Qianxi Miao dialect, which feels kind!

"Little brother, where did you come from? Look at you, you're a city header! "The woman sitting next to me was in her thirties, like a peasant woman, with her trousers rolled up and wearing a pair of sandals. Since getting in the car, he has been smiling and talking to me, and he is very enthusiastic. Seeing that I was carrying a big bag and a small bag, I asked in surprise: "Ouch, I can't say anything, ask for more things, you come on a blind date?" ”

Fortunately, I have long been accustomed to the enthusiasm of the Miao people, or I really thought that I would have run into robbers.

The long-lost enthusiasm embarrassed me.

"Haha... The little brother is shy, what does it have to do with it, how good is our Miao family's sister! This time, I came to grab one and go back to be a daughter-in-law. ”

After some conversation, I learned that this woman was a Miao woman, but she no longer lived in the village, moved to the county seat, and opened a small restaurant. Everyone called her the third sister, and I called the third sister.

She often goes into the mountains to buy some agricultural products and medicinal herbs, and sells them to make a profit. Qianxi is everywhere to buy, there are many places to go, she is very familiar with the area of Qianxi, and the surrounding seven villages and eight villages are clear.

"Little brother, which family! Swing with the third sister. Speaking of this, Hou Sanmei looked out the car window, pointed to a temple not far away, and said, "Little brother, do you see it?" ”

I looked in the direction of her hand and saw a small house not far from the road. It is said that it is a house, but it is simply built by a few bluestone slabs, the roof is carved with stone patterns, and the retro wood on the eaves has long decayed, fallen into disrepair, and has long been dilapidated! It seems to collapse at any moment.

I know that this house can be seen everywhere in Qianxi, and there are temples, such as the Land Temple, the Mountain Temple, etc.! Left over from earlier years. Now there are so few people who go to worship that they lose the incense and are defeated. Inside, there are stone carved mountain gods, mud-burned earth gods, and gods from all walks of life.

The only thing they have in common is that these gods are hideous, strange-shaped, and fierce.

"Little brother, you don't know at a glance, you don't want to be astringent in these places, oh, the yin qi is very heavy." Hou Sanmei whispered beside me and said with a serious expression: "Sister is afraid that you don't understand anything, come to the village to play, and go back to cause dirty things." ”

I wanted to laugh a little, thinking that the people in the village were still very backward and superstitious! I knew she had good intentions, so I nodded my head and thanked her sincerely.

I told Hou Sanmei that I was going back to my grandfather's house, and I grew up here when I was a child. As soon as I said my grandfather's name, not only Hou Sanmei, but also everyone looked at me!

What's going on? Could it be that grandpa is angry and hateful? But their eyes did not look like hatred, but they were surprised.

"Oh, I've been begging for a long time, it's Ah Lang of the big grandfather's family! Speaking of astringency, you really want to call me sister. Of course I know, but you ask Ha which one doesn't know about this car? ”

It turns out that grandpa is really so famous?

Listening to the hippie play of the villagers in the car, setting up the dragon gate array, what they said and talked about were some interesting things about the farm, or little ghosts and fairies. I looked out the car window with some boredom, the lush mountains, one after the other, under the dim sky, as if falling into an endless abyss, slowly disappearing into the darkness.

Suddenly, the car jolted and stopped. The villagers all looked out the window curiously and asked the driver nonsense.

By the time I reacted, the driver was no longer in the car, and he had gone to check the condition of the car. When the driver came back, he was full of sadness, and he didn't drive, but discussed something with a few people next to him in a low voice.

"Did something happen?" I asked the third sister next to me softly, she jumped up and down, and the car stopped and seemed to be in a hurry more than anyone else.

Hou Sanmei's face was ugly, and she hesitated for a long time before telling me.

It turned out that there was nothing wrong with the car at all, but a pile of ash appeared on the mountain road. According to Hou Sanmei, this is a person who has just passed away, and after the burial, the wreaths sent by relatives and friends, the paper figures, garages and clothes of the deceased before his death must be burned and sent to his relatives in the underworld.

And it just so happened that this tomb was chosen next to the mountain road, surrounded by high mountains and dense forests, for fear of causing a fire, so it chose to burn on the mountain road.

Hearing the origin clearly, I felt a little funny in my heart, a pile of ashes that had been burned long ago, but blocking the progress of a large car of living people.

"Wouldn't it be okay to drive just over, why didn't you stop and dare not move forward?"

"Oh, my little brother, do you really not know or do you not know? The owner has not yet come to collect the dead people's things, and the car and people cannot pass from above, or the owner will come to you for trouble. Hou Sanmei pulled my sleeve and said in a low voice.

"So when can you go? It's getting dark. "I don't have that much patience, so I want to go up and urge the driver. But she was held tightly by Hou Sanmei, and waved her hand again and again: "No, no, no, you... Wait a minute, it's very... It's almost over, and the host's family will finish collecting things immediately. ”

Hou Sanmei didn't match the preface and afterword when she spoke, as if she was taboo about something. I just got out of the car myself and went to see for myself.

Soon arrived in front of the car, and casually glanced at the ashes that Hou Sanmei said, which was indeed placed in the middle of the mountain road. What made me even more curious was a newly grounded tomb beside the mountain road, the tomb was made of some ordinary stones, and through the cracks in the stone, you could still see the coffin inside. The tomb has no tombstone, Xu has just been buried. The ground was littered with confetti from firecrackers, like a light snow falling at the beginning of winter, and it was particularly eye-catching under the dim sky.

When I looked at the already burned ash again, I couldn't help but be startled.

In the middle of the ashes, a cauliflower snake more than half a meter long lay there curled up, motionless, like a rope of grass if it didn't look carefully. Next to the snake, there was a bowl upside down, and a pair of burning candles next to the bowl were inserted on the ground, and a stick of incense was still quietly emitting white smoke.

The villagers all stood aside in awe, deliberately avoiding it.

"This snake is the owner's house, it has come to collect its belongings, and it will leave soon." Hou Sanmei didn't know when to get out of the car and stood behind me.

I have myopia, out of curiosity, I want to go forward again to take a clear look, as soon as I raised my foot, I was pulled by Hou Sanmei. She let out an exclamation, and when I turned around, Hou Sanmei stared at my feet with a frightened face, and pointed with a slightly trembling hand.

I was also frightened by Hou Sanmei, and I hurriedly looked down, and it turned out that my feet were accidentally stepping on those ashes. The third sister of the secret road is really making a fuss, she almost didn't scare me, she really thought something was happening.

However, not only Hou Sanmei, but also the faces of the surrounding villagers changed, all of them bowed their heads and discussed, their eyes were full of worry, as if they were all panicking.

Did something really happen?