Chapter 63: Dumplings
I had never looked forward to the sunrise so much, and with the crow of a rooster I saw a trace of gold on the side of the mountain, and then the ten thousand rays of light looked down on the earth, and the cold feeling receded like a tide, and the body slowly warmed, and this night was like a long nightmare, at this time I curled up beside the bed, what footprints, what shadows, and the scars on my feet were all gone.
I wasn't sure if that night had actually happened, but the feeling of dizziness made me feel so uncomfortable that my mother woke me up and went to school.
But I'm really uncomfortable, so I asked you for leave on the first day, today I was lying in bed all day, and in the evening my mother was not in good health and I had to cook, and when I got up and got out of bed, I still felt top-heavy, and I saw that there was still some meat filling in the refrigerator, and I made dumplings.
It was fine, but it gradually got dark, and the dumplings were almost wrapped, I used to walk in from the kitchen to block the curtains, and then turned around and walked towards the kitchen, but when I turned around, I was stunned, I obviously didn't turn off the lights when I entered the house, but at this moment the lights went out.
My scalp was a little numb instantly, an inexplicable sense of fear rose from my heart, some chills in my back, my mother was usually not in good health, always in bed, his room was also turned off the light, the room was dark, I felt a pair of eyes peeking at me.
As I walked out of the field, I heard whispers, but when I pricked up my ears to hear clearly, I heard nothing. How could there be other people in the family with my mother, I was even more scared, and I had the courage to go to the field and turned on the light with a "pop", the field was the same as just now, there was nothing, and the sound disappeared, I had some suspicions that I might have heard it wrong, maybe it was a cat meow, and I comforted myself in my heart.
But when I walked to the dumpling table, I was stunned, I had made a whole table of dumplings, but there was no one, and the table was empty, only a few children's handprints.
I was frightened, for the first time in my life, and I remembered a real thing my grandmother told me when she was alive.
One year, when I was young, and it was about to be the Chinese New Year, my grandmother made dumplings for us, and I rolled my grandmother's buns on the side. I pestered my grandmother to tell me a story, and she smiled mysteriously and told me about her childhood.
There is a Chinese New Year's Eve one year, and Grandpa Sun's house next door to my grandmother's house is particularly lively, and rural people like to return to the old people's homes to celebrate the New Year together, so it is also very atmospheric. After everyone finished wrapping dumplings and playing cards at night, the women got together and chatted, and suddenly Grandpa Sun's eldest son shouted: "Damn, why is there a card missing." After saying that, the rest of the few looked for it together, but they didn't find it for a long time, and a few people scolded and changed a new pair and started to play again, and everyone didn't care, and began to talk and laugh again.
But after a few games, someone scolded again, "Damn, why is there one less card, is someone cheating." ”
"Don't talk nonsense, it's all your own family, what's not to rely on, look for it, look for it." After saying that, a few people began to look for it again, but they still didn't find it, and a few people didn't have the heart to play, so they separated the cards to see which one was missing, and the results were all "Xiao Wang".
At this time, it was also the middle of the night, the woman cooked the dumplings, everyone happily ate the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, it was a small thing, although strange, but no one cared about it, just when the family was happy to drink, the result Grandpa Sun's eldest son took chopsticks to the dumplings on the table, and somehow, the clip dropped one, the clip dropped one, the eldest son's temper also came up, threw the chopsticks and scolded while lowering down to pick up the dumplings on the ground, everyone persuaded not to, but the eldest son was angry and had to pick it up.
Just when he was under the table, he screamed and took a few steps back and sat on the ground, it turned out that he just stretched his head under the table, just about to take the dumpling, but he saw a person squatting next to the dumpling, he drank some wine and instinctively looked carefully, it didn't matter, it turned out to be a small child without clothes, but the child's head was particularly big, the child slowly raised his hand after seeing him, as if to let Uncle Sun hug him, but Uncle Sun was scared and sat on the ground and screamed that there was a ghost, Everyone in the room also looked under the table, but they saw nothing, only the dumplings that fell to the ground, but there was a row of tiny tooth marks on the dumplings.
Later, my grandmother heard from the old man that it was because of the early death of an adult child, no one was overborn, and she was so resentful that she couldn't hit the fetus. And they would come out on the thirtieth night, because there was no one to sacrifice, and they would go to every house and take food from men.
Of course, this was just a rumor, but I was still scared when my grandmother told me about it. As I grew up, I forgot about it, but when I saw the small handprints on the table, I somehow remembered the story my grandmother said.
I can't care so much, I want to wake up my mom to be with me, I'm really scared to death.
As I walked to the door of my mother's room, I felt a strange feeling in my heart, an indescribable cold, a cold that penetrated through the bones, like the feeling of standing on the ice without clothes in winter.
I don't know what I'm afraid of, I carefully pushed open the door, the room was dark, by the faint light of the field, I saw my mother lying quietly on the bed, as if she was asleep, I gently walked to the side of the bed and called twice, but my mother did not respond. I was about to wake my mother up with my hand, but I felt like someone was behind me.
I stopped halfway up my hand and turned around slowly, and the moment my head turned, oh my! Not far behind me, my grandmother was standing, her dead clothes and her head up and her numb eyes staring at me, and I took a step backwards in fright and crashed into the bed.
At this time, there were a few more black shadows behind my grandmother, I couldn't see clearly, and the house instantly became a room of ghosts, they slowly walked towards me, and there was a terrible voice in my ears, "I want to eat dumplings". I let out a frightened "ah" and screamed with my head in my hands.
Just as I was struggling, suddenly I heard my mother's voice: "What's wrong with you?" ”
The light turned on, I opened my eyes carefully, only my mother's concerned eyes were nothing, I was a little incoherent in fright, pointed to the field and said: "dumplings, dumplings".
"What's wrong with the dumplings?" Mom said as she put her hand on the bed and got off the floor.
When my mother and I went out of town, the dumplings were just on the table, and no one had touched them. I stood there stupidly, my face pale, cold sweat running down my face.
"What's the matter, are you sick, go ahead, I'll do it, go and rest first." After speaking, my mother slowly made boiled dumplings. But I stupidly went back to the house and sat here, everything was like a dream, and I couldn't wake up.
Just when I couldn't help it, I looked up, and the curtain was inexplicably opened. But I must have been in the way. I remembered the last words of the female ghost yesterday, "I'll come back tomorrow".
Teacher, I was really wrong, please help me, I really don't want to die.
After saying that, the child whimpered and cried.