It was the first time she had spoken to me since I could remember, but in such an inopportune situation.

I listened to her words, ran out and stood next to my father and second grandfather, who were discussing what to do with the baby.

After such torture again and again, the second grandfather was also angry, and he copied the one next to him and said angrily: "I have to see what you want to do today, you don't even let go of your own baby, it's still human." ”

The second grandfather and the second grandfather are old, they were born in the most chaotic era, and they survived the most terrifying period, and these ghostly and weird things can't scare them at all.

I followed them in, but the room was empty, and the baby was lying peacefully on the bed, and when we entered, the baby turned his head and grinned at us.

The second grandfather didn't see my mother, so he turned around and asked me, "Xiao Wazi, what did you see just now?" ”

I said, "My mother breastfeeds my brother and lets me run." ”

Dad interrupted me, looked at the baby and gritted his teeth and said, "He is not your brother, he is your brother, your father." ”

If this baby is really my grandfather's son, isn't it my father's brother, my father?

The second grandfather listened to his father's words, turned around and slapped his father in the face again, and yelled: "Blind cock." ”

Among the three grandfather brothers, the second grandfather is the fiercest one. The second grandfather has been more sensible since he was a child, even in that era of extremely backward education, his grandfather also sent the second grandfather to the school for a few years, thinking that the second grandfather would be able to make a career in the future, but he didn't expect to come out of the school but returned to the village as a village chief, and he liked to teach his pedantic ideas to the young people in the village with a smoking gun.

My father may not be afraid of grandpa or grandma, but he is only afraid of my second grandfather, and there are few people in the village who are not afraid of him.

The second grandfather yelled, and the father immediately quieted down.

When they all quieted down, the second grandfather said: "This matter still has to ask Zhang Duangong what he means, whether this doll is going or staying, our opinions are useless, Zhang Duangong is an insider, it will only work if you ask him." ”

Grandpa fell, and the words of the second grandfather were the only guiding light.

Seeing that my mother is running into the house every night, she needs to solve it as soon as possible.

We didn't wait until the next day, but that night we lit torches and went to Zhang Duangong's house in a group, leaving my grandmother and grandfather to guard the house.

A team of three people quickened their pace and rushed to Zhang Duangong's house.

Rural people usually go to bed at eight o'clock to rest, but it is late at night, and there is still a dim light in the crack of the door of Zhang Duan's house.

The second grandfather stepped forward and knocked on the door and shouted: "Zhang Duangong, I am Chen Jiafu." ”

But after knocking several times, no one opened the door, and the second grandfather muttered: "Oh no, something happened." ”

After saying that, he slammed the door open, and as soon as the door opened, there was a smell of feces coming from inside, and even the people who often worked in the farmland shook their heads when their father and second grandfather often worked in the fields.

I pinched my nose directly, looked further ahead, and froze.

Zhang Duangong had a rope tied around his neck and hung from the beams of the house, and when the door was opened, a wind blew in, and Zhang Duangong's body swayed with the wind.

Zhang Duangong's body was already soaked with urine, and the smell of feces emanated from Zhang Duangong's body.

Dad and second grandfather both stared at Zhang Duangong's corpse and didn't speak, and it took a long time for Dad to say, "I've done evil." ”

The second grandfather, who had always been shocked, trembled in his voice at this time, and he said, "It's going to turn the sky upside down." ”

I stared at everything in front of me blankly, I only knew that Zhang Duangong was dead at that time, and I didn't think about anything else.

Later, I learned that Zhang Duangong was facing the sky on his back when he died, but his face was covered with a red cloth, and his feet were not hanging in the air, but on his heels.

Rural people attach great importance to death, and when they die, they must keep their eyes open, their heels on the ground, and their faces facing the sky, otherwise they will never be reborn.

The eyes are not nostalgic for the sun, the heels are grounded, they can be reincarnated, and the blue sky on the face is a wish to be able to cast a good family.

But Zhang Duangong didn't occupy any of them.

In addition, many hanged people will have incontinence after death, and the smell of feces is only discharged after Zhang Duangong's death.

The second grandfather was stunned for a while, so he put Zhang Duangong down, and notified the people in the nearby village that night.

Zhang Duangong has no descendants, and this matter can only be handled by the people in the village.

On weekdays, the weddings and funerals in the village are all handled by Zhang Duangong, but now that Zhang Duangong has an accident, all the people in the nearby villages have come, and they have sighed, saying that a good person like Zhang Duangong should not die.

In the end, they pointed the finger at my family, and said to my father and second grandfather: "The Chen family has done this thing as disgracefully as it is, how disgraceful it is, you treat your daughter-in-law so badly, sometimes we can't see it, she is dead, and you still have to torture her." Now that retribution is coming, not only retribution will come to you, but even Zhang Duangong has also been harmed. ”

The second grandfather and father couldn't help themselves, so they took me to kneel in front of Zhang Duangong and kowtow to Zhang Duangong to confess their guilt.

People want to wear longevity clothes when they die, when they helped Zhang Duangong change his longevity clothes, they found a note on Zhang Duangong's body, and the people in the village were farmers who couldn't read a single big character, and they couldn't understand what was written on it, so they handed the note to the second grandfather.

The piece of paper reads: People are doing it, the sky is watching, I did this kind of thing, retribution will come sooner or later, I can't help Chen Xiao's affairs, you better go and invite a regular Taoist priest to come.

This is Zhang Duangong's final guidance to us, and this is the purpose of our visit.

However, because it was too late, we did not go to invite a regular Taoist priest at night, but first helped Zhang Duangong to set up a mourning hall, and that night my father, second grandfather and some people in the village were keeping vigil for Zhang Duangong.

The children were not allowed to be present at the vigil, so my father asked me to go back to the house with another old man in the village.

When I got to the side of the house, the old man stopped sending me and said, "Xiao Wazi, I'm watching you here, go back." ”

I said yes and went back to the house under the old man's gaze, but before I could get to the house, the old man suddenly shouted, turned off the flashlight, turned around and ran.

I looked to the side, and it turned out that behind the stone pile in front of the house stood a man in a big red robe, and that person was naturally my mother.

She was holding the baby in her arms, and she was breastfeeding.

I stared at her, and she stared at me.

It was a little more than a minute before she took a step, staggered over to me, and reached out to hand me the baby.

I don't know if I was scared or because of something else, but I cried and muttered after I took the baby, "Mother." ”

The mother's eyes were hollow, her teeth chattered a few times, and then she opened her lips and said the word again; "Run."

After she finished speaking, she left, I carried the baby into the house, grandma and grandpa looked at grandpa in the side room at this time, I carried the baby back to my room before I went to greet grandma.

At that time, I didn't know what to think, I didn't want my grandmother and grandfather to know that my mother had come back again.

Now that I think about it, I probably don't want my grandmother and them to continue to hate my mother, because my mother didn't hurt me, and I don't really believe that she is such a terrible person.

After a night of vigil, the next morning my father went back to the house early, holding the baby to find a regular Taoist priest, I didn't plan to take me, but my grandfather said: "His mother will see Xiao Wazi every time she comes back, you take Xiao Wazi to see if there is something dirty on your body." ”

Dad thought about it and made sense, so he asked me to go with him.

There used to be many Taoist temples in the township, but most of them were demolished when they were broken, and now only one remains. At that time, there were more than a dozen Red Guards who tried to demolish this Taoist temple, and smashed the statue in the temple despite the advice of the old Taoist priest.

I used to hear my grandfather talk about the temple, and said that there was a big stone trough at the entrance of the temple, which used to contain white rice, and they were all poor at that time, and those who ran out of food could go there to scoop a bowl of emergency, as long as they made up a bowl in the future. But now that every family has no problem with food and clothing, the stone trough is useless.

Zhang Duangong's ability to look at the days and find the tomb was also learned from an old Taoist priest for a few days in this Taoist temple.

I longed for the Taoist temple that the villagers said could solve anything, and even sketched the image of a regular Taoist immortal wind Taoist bone in my mind, but when I actually arrived at the Taoist temple, it was not like that at all.

There is indeed a stone trough next to the main entrance of the Taoist temple, but it has been tightly covered by weeds.

When I entered the Taoist temple, I found that there were no Taoist priests with fairy wind bones in the Taoist temple, and it was in tatters and no one lived in it for a long time.

It's already cloudy, and with this environment, the place looks even more desolate.

Dad shouted a few times and no one answered, so I said, "There's no one here." ”

Dad sighed helplessly after trying a few times: "It's all fate, there is no one to watch, so I ran for nothing." ”

But at this moment, a young man in his twenties walked in from outside, the young man was dressed a little differently from us, and his hair was much longer than ours, and he was afraid that he hadn't cut his hair for several years, and he was stunned when he saw us, and then asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

My father immediately went to state the truth, and said that we had come to find the old gentleman of the Taoist temple.

But when the young man heard this, he laughed and said, "The old gentleman is dead, but I can help you take a look." Then he said to me, "Little friend, how many jumps can you take, how high you can jump." ”

My dad and I didn't know what he was going to do, I was stunned and didn't move, and my dad probably just wanted to try, and pulled me: "Listen to this brother, jump a few times." ”

I just squirmed and jumped a few times.

However, he was not satisfied, and said, "Jump high." ”

I tried my best to jump, but I couldn't jump at all, and my father was watching anxiously: "Didn't you jump high before, don't be perfunctory." ”

I said aggrievedly, "I can't jump." ”

The young man put his hand on my shoulder and said, "You can't jump because you have something on your back, and I'll help you." ”

After the young man finished speaking, he suddenly lifted me up with one hand, and then slammed it on the ground.

I didn't feel much of it, but I felt soft under my feet, as if I had stepped on something.

Suddenly, someone shouted a few times behind me, and when I looked back, I was immediately frightened, there were three more people behind me, clinging to me.

The young man said, "You must have passed through the cemetery when you came, and as soon as you tiptoed on your heels, they would find the opportunity to put their toes under your feet and let the living carry them on their backs." ”