Chapter 31: The Past of the Old Village
There is only time that can't be kept, and those true feelings seem to have never changed.
When my grandfather helped Lao Yuantou up from the ground, Lao Yuantou told my grandfather what happened.
It turned out that not long ago, Lao Yuan Tou received a letter from afar, this letter was a friend for many years, and it should be regarded as a fellow person, and this person is the old Shi Tou, in the letter the old Shi Tou said: Now that he is being persecuted, seeing that his life is in an instant, he wants Lao Yuan Tou to save himself, and Lao Yuan Tou knows that the matter is very serious after reading the letter, so he packed up and got up and left.
When I inquired at the place, I found out that the old Shitou was persecuted by the same brothers, to put it bluntly, it was the same brother who fought in the nest, and the old Shitou and his junior brother were divided into two factions, it is obvious that the old Shitou's faction has not done his junior brother, to say that his junior brother is also very cunning, at the time of the Cultural Revolution, the situation was turbulent, and the old Shitou's junior brother was very scheming and gave the old Shitou a counter-revolutionary charge, and the evidence was conclusive, which made the old Shitou speechless. In this way, the Red Guards at that time were equivalent to cleaning up the old Shi Tou for the old Shi Tou's junior brothers, you must know that the counter-revolution will be killed, after the old Shi Tou and his party were taken away, it goes without saying that they were tortured, and in the final public trial meeting, the old Shi Tou was counted as seventeen people, ten people were shot, and the remaining seven people were left to wait for a few days to continue the criticism, Lao Yuan Tou used the empty time to escort the prisoner to save the old Shi Tou, no one knows what method was used, and after saving the old Shi Tou, As soon as the two discussed, Lao Shitou knew that if he swaggered out, he would not only affect others but also his own life, and after the two discussed for a while, Lao Yuan Tou took Lao Shitou back to the village, but Lao Yuan Tou was not stupid, and someone hiding in his house would be found sooner or later, so it was better to go directly to my grandfather.
In this way, the old Yuan Tou told the story again, my grandfather was also shocked after hearing it, harboring the counter-revolution that would also lose his head, and this matter is very important, my grandfather can not be the master alone, so let the old Yuan Tou wait for a while, my grandfather went out to find several old people in the village, these old people are the village committee members, but also my grandfather's sworn friends, when these old people came, my grandfather told the story in front of everyone, of course, my grandfather received the favor of the old Yuan Tou and spoke naturally to the old Yuan TouIn short, my grandfather's purpose is one, that is, to keep this friend of Lao Yuantou.
Several old people frowned after listening, this matter is very important, how can this be good, a few people pondered in the house for a long time, and at this time, the old Shi Tou who was standing next to him saw my grandfather and their faces were embarrassed, and he stepped forward to my grandfather and several old people in the village and hugged his fist and said: You don't have to be embarrassed, the disaster is what I broke through, let me face it alone, I will not burden you After speaking, I raised my legs and was about to leave, Lao Yuan Tou hurriedly walked over and grabbed the old Shi Tou and said: Brother Shi, what are you talking about.
At this time, one of the old men said: There is a Dixian Temple in the back mountain, where no one usually goes, if you don't dislike it, you can go there to avoid the limelight temporarily.
After hearing the news, Lao Yuantou was about to kowtow to a few old people, and everyone was busy pulling Lao Yuan's head to stop, and the old man said: Xiao Yuanzi, you don't have to thank us first, we still have a request.
You say, you say, Uncle Seven, as long as you say I'll definitely agree.
Well! Uncle Qi nodded and said: This friend of yours must not be a thing in the pool at first glance, but we have a request, that is, once you go up the back mountain, you are not allowed to go down, let alone go down the mountain, unless there is something important, if we find that he has gone down the mountain, then you should know the consequences, Xiao Yuanzi, you don't have to answer me so quickly, you think about it yourself.
Old Yuan Tou agreed without thinking about it and said: Uncles, don't worry, I promised on behalf of Brother Shi that I would never go down the mountain after coming down, and then glanced back at the old Shi Tou. The old Shi Tou also came over at this time and saluted several old people and said: Thank you for saving your lives, I promise never to go down the mountain in the future.
In this way, the old historian lived in the Dixian Temple in the back mountain. After my grandfather finished talking about this process, I asked my grandfather which sect the old historian belonged to.
Grandpa shook his head and said: I don't know about this, he didn't say it at the time, and we didn't ask, at that time, more things were better than less.
I nodded, it seems that there are still a lot of mysteries in this old man's body. By the way, grandpa, how did this old Yuan Tou die, I asked.
Grandpa obviously twitched the corners of his mouth after hearing this question, and then glanced at Yuan Shouyi's grave and said: Your Grandpa Yuan is good, he sacrificed to save everyone in the village, in fact, this is just a well-dressed mound, and your Grandpa Yuan's body is actually in the ancient well that was filled at the end of the village.
When I heard this, I was stunned at first, what do you mean, could it be that something happened in the village? At this time, I only heard my grandfather continue: It has been many years since I talked about this matter, and now I carefully calculate that it should be more than 20 years, Xiaoxie, do you remember that there are two places in our village that are abandoned and no one lives.
I nodded and said I know, I heard my grandmother say when I was a child, one is the old Liu family at the head of the village, and the other seems to be a hall.
Grandpa nodded and said: Yes, that is the ancestral ancestral hall, speaking of which is actually caused by the old Liu family at the head of the village, then Liu Aiguo is the third generation of his old Liu family to give birth to a son after marriage to be Liu Zi, in fact, it is the homonym of Liuzi, which means to keep the roots of the old Liu family. At that time, there was an unwritten rule in the village that you were not allowed to go to the ancestral ancestral hall under the age of eighteen, because no one knew what it was, and the ancestral ancestral hall did not mean that you could enter at the age of eighteen, but a few old people in the village were only qualified to enter, and they would burn incense every New Year's holiday. But the disaster came at this time, and I don't know who spread it, saying that there is a famous painting hanging in the ancestral hall, and a beautiful woman is painted on it, how beautiful and beautiful it is, as long as the person who has seen it will never forget it for a lifetime.
The news was spread all of a sudden, and many people wanted to enter the ancestral hall to see if there was this famous painting, but several old people in the village were stunned in the ancestral hall and did not let people in, and said that there were no paintings in it at all, just the spiritual positions of some ancestors. But where can everyone believe that, one night, it happened that it was my turn to be on duty, when I and a few people just came back from the field, because of the rainy season, afraid of flooding the dealer, every day to go to the field to see, but this day when we came back, just passing by the ancestral ancestral hall, and this late in the middle of the night in the ancestral hall but there are lights, at that time I was afraid of being robbed, so I took two people to break in, but just entered, only to see a person masked from the inside rushed out, because the person was too sudden for a while a few of us did not react, So let the man run away, then I asked people to invite the old people in the village, after all, I am not qualified to enter this ancestral hall, and when the old people arrived, I told what happened, and the old people hurriedly ran into the ancestral hall after listening, and they didn't know what they were doing in it It took a long time to come out, and their faces were not very good, and I immediately sent a few people home without saying anything.
I thought that this matter would be over, but who would have thought that not long after, that Liu Zi came back with a big girl, the girl told the truth, it was really beautiful, I don't know how many young men I was fascinated at that time, and your unobtrusive father was fascinated, but you can imagine how charming this girl is, Liu Zi brought this girl back and said that he was going to get married, Liu Aiguo and his wife saw that their daughter-in-law was so beautiful, not to mention how beautiful they were, so the family prepared for marriage.
But just a month before the two were going to get married, there was an accident in the village, first the chickens, ducks, geese and dogs in the village all died bizarrely, and then the old people in the village also died one after another, as for how they died, no one can say, in short, the death was extremely terrible, when I took a few people to the scene, the old Yuan Tou also followed me, and when I arrived at the scene, the old Yuan Tou said to me: This matter is not simple, the village is eighty percent of the summoned something.
If others said this, I would have already slammed my mouth, but I still believe what your grandfather Yuan said, and I didn't have a clue after checking it for several days, but at this moment something happened again, and the village broke out shocking news, that is, Liu Aiguo and his daughter-in-law were caught and raped by Liu Aiguo's wife in bed, and afterwards Liu Aiguo said to his wife that his daughter-in-law seduced him, and that night Liu Zi knew about it and hacked his biological parents to death with a kitchen knife in the middle of the night, and then the whole person seemed to be crazy. And the object of that Liu Zi disappeared for a while, and everyone didn't know where she went.
This matter has just been dealt with, there was an accident in the village again, and I don't know who passed it on, Liu Zi's object and several men in the village have improper relationships, and for a while the whole village was in chaos, and I had no choice but to beg you Grandpa Yuan, your Grandpa Yuan left with me without saying a word, after the two of us went around the village, your Grandpa Yuan took me to the ancestral ancestral hall, and said to me after watching it for a long time: Brother Bu must go in if he wants to know what happened.
At that time, the old people in the village were almost dead, and I didn't think about it so much, so I wanted to follow your Grandpa Yuan in after finding someone to pry open the door of the ancestral hall, but your Grandpa Yuan stopped me and walked in alone.
After a while, your Grandpa Yuan had an extra thing in his hand, which was wrapped in a red cloth, and it looked like a painting scroll, and your Grandpa Yuan called me aside at this time and said to me: I can cure this matter in Brother Bu's village, but you must agree to me with a request, otherwise you have to ask for another master.
I was stunned and said to Lao Yuan: If there is anything you say, I will do what I can do.
After hearing this, Lao Yuan nodded and said: Okay, my request is.