Chapter 1: Visitors on Chinese New Year's Eve
In the Spring Festival of 1983, Cha Wenbin's house was relatively lively, and Comrade Lao Xia was married, so Concubine Lu "lived" in Cha's house under the arrangement of Xia Lao Liu. Early in the morning, Cha Wenbin posted couplets, and the fat man went out with a few second-rate people in the village to buy New Year's goods.
According to the rules of northwest Zhejiang, after pasting the couplet, Cha Wenbin went to the grave, burned incense and set off firecrackers, and told the deceased that it was the New Year.
Going down the mountain, the fat man bought a lot of non-staple food, plus two sets of new clothes for each person, Cha Wenbin has not asked for firewood and rice in the past two years, and it is all up to the fat man to subsidize the family, to be honest, the money earned in the past few years is basically about to be finished. said okay, Cha Wenbin is going to get married on the day of the second dragon in February next year, and it always costs some money to buy a wedding, so he decided to go out to get some money, of course, these words are left after the seventh day of the first month, where can I mention these things during the New Year.
That night, the fat man bought several big fireworks, which made the whole village children come to see the excitement, and the fat man said that this is called good luck, and it will be red to purple in the coming year. Originally, the festive atmosphere of the New Year should have been spent in such a peaceful atmosphere, the New Year's bell at twelve o'clock had just struck, and that year was also the first time CCTV broadcast the Spring Festival Gala. The fat man made an antenna on the trunk of the tree in the yard, and the yard was full of people watching TV, Ma Ji and Jiang Kun hosted just right, and Liu Xiaoqing was really red and purple at that time. The fat man said that such a girl is so fucking beautiful, and Cuicui, the best-looking girl in the village, is a cabbage compared to her. He also said that he was going to buy a set of clothes like her and give them to Concubine Yu's sister-in-law, so that she could get married in this style and look good.
Li Guyi's song "Love" completely woke people up, it turned out that there can be such pop music in the mainland, Jiang Kun and Li Wenhua's cross talk came three times in a row, and the stonemason in the village really slapped the slap into a big bubble.
For the first time, the Chinese saw a countdown on TV, so under the leadership of the fat man, the old and young masters of Wulipu shouted together in the Zhejiang dialect with an incomplete accent, and after shouting, the old ladies laughed so hard that they couldn't hold back their breath, and it is said that some people flashed their waists.
When the guests dispersed one after another, Concubine Yu cleaned up the mess in the courtyard, the melon seed shells, peanut shells and fruit candy skins all over the ground, the fat man was hospitable, and these things cost him a lot. But he said that since it is the Chinese New Year, it is a matter of popularity, and this person will only have a good harvest in the coming year. Just as he was about to go to bed, there was a knock on the door, and the concubine thought it was a fellow who pulled things down and hurried to look, and when she opened the door, it was a woman, her face was blown open, and her thick cotton jacket was stained with oil.
The woman was a little nervous, and kept rubbing the corners of her clothes with her hands, she poked into the room and looked at no one before asking: "Big sister, I'm really embarrassed to bother you for the New Year, may I ask, is Mr. Cha at home?" ”
Cha Wenbin happened to come out of the thatched house, and saw that someone was looking for him and hurried over to greet him, but the woman waved her hand again and again: "No, no, no, I can't come in, I can't bring bad luck to you." ”
Cha Wenbin saw that the woman was a little familiar, and after thinking for a long time, he finally remembered, this is not the daughter-in-law of Ma Lao Er in Hongcun! I haven't seen her for more than half a year, how did this woman become like this, I used to remember that Lao Xia and they all called her Daffodil, and she was the same generation in Hong Village.
"Auntie, if you have something, you can go into the house and say, it's cold outside, I don't care if it's bad luck or blessing, we have to be polite when someone comes."
At this time, the fat man and Ye Qiu also came over, why did this woman come here so late for the New Year?
The woman smiled reluctantly while untying her gloves and went to untie the padded jacket, and after a while, she took out a red paper bag from her arms and handed it to Cha Wenbin and said: "Mr. Cha, Happy New Year, Auntie is thinking about your help last time, I didn't care about it, no, come to give you an early year." ”
"Auntie!" Cha Wenbin hurriedly pushed the red paper bag over and said: "If you want to have something, then say it directly, if you want to be okay, you can take the red envelope, I am not a child anymore, where can I ask for this." ”
The woman wanted to speak and stopped, and several times her lips opened slightly and swallowed it back, and from her eyes, Cha Wenbin read that she had something, and it must be a big deal!
"I'm ......" The woman leaned out and shrank back, Cha Wenbin said: "If you are really fine, then please go back, we will leave for the field early tomorrow morning, and it may take a few months to come back." ”
"This ......" The woman was even more overwhelmed when she heard that he was leaving, the smile on her face was so stiff, and slowly the tears flowed out, and while the woman was flowing the woman, she wiped her face and said to herself: "What should I do......"
Concubine Yu hurriedly pulled her in, and when she arrived at the house, the woman took a sip of hot tea and finally cried and told the purpose of the trip:
After the death of his son Ma Wenjun, because the murderer has not been found, the Ma family did not bury the child, Ma Lao Er scraped together a lot of money to buy a freezer in the county seat, and Ma Wenjun has been frozen, and the freezer is placed in the room where the child used to live.
In October, in time for the overhaul of the village's electricity, one of the substations caught fire in an accident during the overhaul, so the electricity in Hongcun was stopped for more than half a month.
As soon as the power goes out, the corpses in the freezer will not be broken, Ma Lao and his wife are worried at home every day that their hair is going to be gray, and some people propose that there is an ice cellar in the village, that is, in the past, it was frozen in winter and stored deep underground, and it can be taken out and used when it comes to the next summer, anyway, it is left by the predecessors.
Ma Lao Er thought about putting people in the ice cellar for a few days, and Murakami agreed at that time. After a night's work, when Ma Lao Er went to see his son again the next day, it was okay except that his skin was a little dark, and when the call came, all the ice in the ice cellar had melted away. At that time, Ma Lao Er found that his son's nails and hair had grown a lot in this period of time, and when he went home, he told his mother-in-law about the situation, and the woman saw that it was true, so she took the man on her back and went to the county seat to ask a gentleman.
This mother-in-law has not read for a few days, and her son has been dead for more than half a year, and she thinks about it day and night, dreaming that one day he will come back to life. No, seeing that her nails and hair were growing, she wondered if she could come back to life. After inquiry, someone introduced him to a great immortal, it is said that it is very good, it is said that he can enter and exit freely in the underworld, all the gods are his brothers who worship the son, and some people have seen him save a chicken with a broken head.
Hearing this, Cha Wenbin guessed that it must be a liar, making it just the easiest trick.
This mother-in-law is also sick and rushed to the doctor, after finding the gentleman, it is a red envelope and a cloth to buy rice and sesame oil, and the other party's score is enough, pinching her fingers and saying: "Big sister, your son is not dead at all, but now his soul is hanging outside and can't come back." He was a gambler in his last life, he owed people money, and the soul of this life just happened to be caught, as long as the money was returned to that person's descendants, plus my unique secret method must be able to save him. ”
As soon as the mother-in-law heard that this was saved, she was simply able to keep the clouds open and see the moon, and the gentleman said that she owed a total of 10,000 yuan, and there was a month at most, and if she didn't pay back the money, the other party would have to pay his son with his life.
What was the concept of 10,000 dollars in 1983? It was almost the savings of ordinary people for 15 to 20 years, and at that time, 10,000 yuan households had to be in the newspapers. Even if such an astronomical amount could be sold at that time, the second family of the horse would not be able to take it, and the gentleman later said that he communicated repeatedly, anyway, it was seven bargains and eight bargains, and finally asked them for 2,000 yuan. At this price, Ma Lao Er has already sold everything that can be sold at home, and he can borrow everything he can to afford it.
Later, when Ma Lao Er went to deliver the money, the gentleman also deliberately blocked them from coming to a spell of resurrection of a severed chicken, which was convinced by the two of them.
About a week later, the gentleman came to Ma's house, and said that their family's feng shui was not good, and then said that there was a problem with their ancestral grave, and in short, he found a bunch of reasons and asked for money again, until Ma Lao Er sold the last grain of rice that had just been harvested in the field, and he finally agreed to start the practice of opening the altar.
He asked Ma Lao Er to find a lot of black eagles, and Ma Lao Er was catching old eagles all over the mountains every day, and he could only live and not die. Every three days, Ma Lao Er had to catch an old eagle and use the blood of the old eagle to pour it into Ma Wenjun's frozen mouth, saying that when the blood of 7749 old eagles was poured out, he would be able to save Ma Wenjun.
No, the time is almost up, Ma Lao Er didn't do anything in the second half of the year, he was catching the old eagle all day, and the surrounding towns just let him dig it out, and I don't know how many times he fell from the tree. The couple calculated that it would be time for a few more old eagles to pour their blood.
On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Ma Lao Er said that it was going to be the New Year, so he would wipe his son's body, and then he would go out to the tailor shop to make clothes for the child on credit.
There was an accident just when he took Ma Wenjun out to wipe his body!
Ma Wenjun's nails were already as sharp and long as eagle claws, Ma Lao Er thought about repairing him, and then picked up the scissors and didn't cut them, suddenly Ma Wenjun's eyes opened suddenly, and then his hands were ...... forward, reading the house! Unique URL:
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