Chapter 4: The Coffin

Zhang Hao's hometown is in a county town, and it takes several hours to get off the train, although Zhang Hao got off the train at eight o'clock in the morning, but when he got home, it was already noon time to eat. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhang Hao's mother was cooking, and when she saw her son coming back, she hurriedly rushed out of the kitchen and took Zhang Hao's hand and said, "Xiao Hao is really you?" Mom thought it was a dream, why are you back now? Do you see you're skinny? Did you suffer something wronged outside? Zhang Hao's mother saw Zhang Hao's face full of happy smiles, but when it came to her son may have been wronged, before Zhang Hao could speak, she immediately became worried, maybe this is the portrayal of all mothers in the world, in their hearts they really don't care how much money their son earns outside, they only care about whether their children are suffering and being bullied outside, this is the mother's love, selfless and great.....

Zhang Hao looked at his mother with a concerned face, and Zhang Hao's heart was very warm. But looking at his mother's gray hair and deep wrinkles on her face, and seeing the ruthless traces left by the butcher's knife over the years on her mother, Zhang Hao felt more distressed and guilty, how could his mother inadvertently have so many wrinkles on her face, she felt sorry that she could take care of the family when she grew up, but her parents were old, why didn't she go home often, and was it too selfish to stay away from home because she was afraid of blind dates? Thinking of this, Zhang Hao said with red eyes: "Mom, your son is so powerful, how can he be bullied!" I'm homesick and want to come back to see, isn't it about to harvest wheat? Come back and help by the way, so that my dad won't be tired, huh! Where's my dad? Zhang Hao didn't dare to say the real purpose of his return this time, he knew that with his mother's character and how much he cared about him, his mother would definitely find a rope to tie Zhang Hao to his side after he knew.

"Your father went to the grave (people here in Henan are put into coffins after death, although cremation is now practiced, but according to customs, the ashes will be put into the urn and then placed in the coffin and buried on the ground, and the coffin pit is the grave) went, if you don't come back at noon today, you go back to the house to rest for a while! I'll make you your favorite cold noodles.... Zhang Hao's mother said with a smile.

At this time, Zhang Hao is living with his parents, his two brothers are married and have children have lived separately from their parents, which is the so-called separation, and now Zhang Hao's house is a two-story building built by the family last year, which is the marriage room built by his parents for Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao put his backpack into his bedroom, came to the kitchen and asked his mother: "Mom, I said that my father is resting at home and not working, how can I go to the grave of others again, this weather is so hot, where can I stand being exposed to the sun in the ground...."

Zhang Hao's mother said while holding the noodles: "Where can rural people be idle!" Besides, you're not married yet, and you don't know how much it will cost you when you get married, and your dad doesn't want to make more money! You see that now that you have separated from your eldest brother and second brother, and now you eat and drink all by yourself, how can you stand it! How many days are you staying at home this time? If it's been a long time, I'll find a matchmaker to help you ask, you're twenty-three, and you'll be twenty-four in a few days, your marriage is uncertain, and your dad and I can't live a solid day! ”

As soon as he heard his mother say this, Zhang Hao quickly changed the topic and asked, "Mom, I haven't been at home for half a year, has there been anything in our village?" ”

"Yes! There is a road to be built in the north of our village, saying that it is a provincial road, and there are many graves in the field that are rushing to the road, and Zhang Wu of our village is crazy..."

"Zhang Shuai's brother Zhang Wu is crazy? How crazy is it? Zhang Hao asked in surprise. He can know this Zhang Wu, because he and Zhang Wu's younger brother Zhang Shuai are small, the two have been digging out the bird's nest together since they were children, stealing watermelons and touching the girl's buttocks, and doing all the bad things together, it can be said that they grew up wearing an open crotch pants, but Zhang Shuai should call himself uncle in the village, otherwise Zhang Hao would have learned from Zhang Shuai on TV and became brothers, this Zhang Wu is seven or eight years older than Zhang Hao, and his eldest brother is about the same age, the two are not the same age, so they have never played together, I only know that this person has a very smart head, after a few years of wandering outside, he has been doing a dead man's business in the past few years, and has opened a coffin shop at home, everyone knows that this kind of business is the same as opening a hospital, and the money comes quickly, because those who come to buy things do not bargain, that is, for this reason, Zhang Wu has made a lot of money in recent years, and he seems to have a tendency to become the richest man in the village. Although Zhang Wuren is not good-looking, the daughter-in-law he married is also famous and beautiful in the village....

"Hmmm! It's him, a person who used to be so beautiful, now people are not only crazy, their homes are also scattered, his daughter-in-law has divorced him, and now he talks to himself all day long, which makes people feel pitiful when they look at it, as for how crazy they don't know, it's not a good thing, who has nothing to inquire? The village is so big, people know that they think they will see other people's jokes, and everyone will not know this kind of thing. Zhang Hao's mother sighed and said.

After lunch, Zhang Hao saw that his mother was preparing to give him Zhang Luo a blind date, and hurriedly found a reason to run out of the house.....

Idle, Zhang Hao wandered around the village aimlessly, and unconsciously came to Zhang Wukai's coffin shop, but at this time, the iron railing door of the coffin shop was locked with a lock, Zhang Hao could see a large pile of pine trees and rows of coffins inside along the gap in the iron railing, it was noon, and the surroundings were quiet, thinking that these coffins would be dead people's houses in the future, Zhang Hao felt a cold back, and quickly left the coffin shop.

"How can a good person go crazy?" Although he left the coffin shop, this question has been lingering in Zhang Hao's heart.

"Ask Zhang Shuai, he must know the reason." Zhang Hao's heart suddenly came up with this idea, as soon as this thought appeared, he couldn't suppress it anymore, Zhang Hao, who was sent by the ghost, walked towards Zhang Shuai's house, and came to Zhang Shuai's house, Zhang Shuai was eating at home, because of the hot weather, this guy took off his shirt, sat in the living room shirtless and drank, after seeing Zhang Hao, because the two had not seen each other for more than half a year, Zhang Shuai hurriedly asked his daughter-in-law to fry two dishes, and he had to drink with Zhang Hao.

After a few bottles of beer, the two of them talked more, and began to talk nonsense, somehow talking about ghosts and supernatural events, Zhang Shuai squinted his drunken eyes and asked: "Do you believe that there are ghosts in the world?" ”

When Zhang Hao heard Zhang Shuai say this, his body was shocked, and he thought of his scene on the train and the dream he had during this time, and said vaguely: "There should be!" I don't know...."

"No, it should be, it must be, my eldest brother is crazy by ghosts....." Zhang Shuai patted Zhang Hao on the shoulder and said.

"Handsome, don't drink a few bottles of cat urine and talk nonsense! Uncle, Shuai Zi drank too much, don't listen to his nonsense....." Zhang Shuai's wife Lingzi quickly interrupted him and said.

"You know what a fart, go back to the house to nurse the child, don't intervene when I talk to the mouse...."Zhang Shuai shook his daughter-in-law's arm and said. This guy has a bad temper in the first place, and he is even more irritable after drinking some wine.

Zhang Haoke knew Zhang Shuai's temper, and knew that if his daughter-in-law and son fought back, the two of them would have to make a fight, so he quickly pulled Zhang Shuai out of the house and said to Zhang Shuai's wife: "Lingzi, I'll go out with Shuai Zi for a while..."

Walking out of the yard and being blown by the wind, Zhang Shuai's alcohol disappeared a lot, and he said to Zhang Hao: "Mouse, it's really no good to get married early, my daughter-in-law cares about you all day long, and I can't drink a drink, I really envy you!" How nice it is to be free...."

"Handsome, don't talk nonsense, there is a person who shush the cold and ask the warm and know the cold and the hot You are not satisfied, what is good about me as a special single, don't be in the blessing and don't know the blessing. Zhang Hao was also a little dizzy at this time, and when he heard Zhang Shuai's sudden roll of his eyes, he thought to himself, don't be full of men, don't know that hungry men are hungry, why do you have a daughter-in-law to cook for you and warm the bed, what about Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu still relies on the five girls now, and he still says that he envy me, who should I talk to.....

"Shuaizi, what's the matter with what you just said, what is your brother's madness related to ghosts, you shouldn't really drink too much nonsense!" Zhang Hao handed Zhang Shuai a cigarette and asked.

"Don't you know how much I drink? I'm known as a pound and a half of wine, and the master of beer can drink me with five or six bottles of beer? Zhang Shuai listened to Zhang Hao's words, flicked his arms and glared at the bull's eye and said. It's just that this throw doesn't matter, and I almost fell down because of the instability of my feet.

"Shuaizi, I know you can drink, tell me what the hell is going on?" Looking at Zhang Shuai's posture of running the train with cat steps and mouth, Zhang Hao was speechless in his heart, thinking: I haven't seen you for half a year, how can you get drunk and return this virtue, you can die if you don't brag about it!

"Hey, it's not the coffin that's to blame...."Zhang Shuai said with a wine burp.