Luo Buzhai said to Yu Youyang: "You put down your clothes and go to see if Miss Zhao's medicine has been boiled, I have been coughing for several days, and I haven't gotten better after taking medicine, it's really sad."

Yu Youyang put the undried clothes on the back of the chair, then got up and went to the kitchen to get the medicine.

The room is filled with the smell of volatilization of Chinese medicine, which is strange and has some fragrance, which makes people refuse from the bottom of their hearts but enjoy it inexplicably.

At this time, a person walked on the floor in front of him.

"How good the child grows!" The man exclaimed from afar.

Luo Buzhai turned his head to see that the person who came was an acquaintance in the village, and it was Ma Jinbao's daughter-in-law who lived in the last room in the back mountain. This daughter-in-law is sometimes insane. Some people say that the reason why she is crazy is that she was frightened when she was a child, and she scared the three souls and six spirits away. Her family didn't call out to her, so some of the spirits or spirits came back, while others ran away. The three souls and six spirits are relatively balanced, and people with sound souls have slightly stronger self-control. People with incomplete souls have an imbalance between good and evil souls, sometimes they are inexplicably excited, sometimes they are inexplicably sad, and their self-control is relatively weak, so they are prone to impulsiveness.

She fights with others because they squint at her, and she kneels in front of others because they give her a little favor. She's just so moody.

For this reason, the people in the village tried their best to avoid her, and they did not dare to offend her when they couldn't avoid her. I'm afraid that she will be in trouble, and I am afraid that she will retaliate.

She later gave birth to a child, which is also not normal. That child got married and had two more children. The eldest son is normal, but the younger son is still abnormal. The youngest son's name was Ma Yu.

Ma Yu: I still remember it. I played with him when I was a kid. He was a little younger than my uncle and a little older than my uncle. People his age in Thrush Village don't play with him, because he has a bit of a problem with his intelligence, and he is still at the level of five or six years old in his teens. He had to play with children much younger than him.

When I was five or six years old, Ma Yu was about sixteen or seventeen years old. Every time I went to Thrush Village, he would come to me to play when he heard the news. He likes to play "into threes", which is a lot of chess played by children in our area. The way to move that kind of chess is very simple, but you need to use your brain a little.

Draw a slightly smaller square on the ground, such as the word "mouth", then draw a slightly larger "mouth" character that wraps it but is a little far away from the outside of this character, and then draw a larger "mouth" character in the same way, and finally connect the midpoint of the three square sides with a straight line, and connect the intersection points of right angles with a straight line, so that the chessboard of "three chess" is drawn.

The chess pieces are even simpler, one person uses a small wooden stick to make a chess piece, and one person uses a small pebble to make a chess piece. A person who plays chess can choose to play a chess piece or a chess piece, as long as three chess pieces are practiced in a line, he can take one of the opponent's chess pieces until all the opponent's chess pieces are taken away or the opponent admits defeat. The gameplay is somewhat similar to backgammon, but there are differences.

Before he disappeared, I used to play this kind of chess with him.

Sixteen or seventeen-year-olds always lost to me when they were five or six.

When he was about to lose, he was often so anxious that he scratched his face and cheeks, and I was triumphant. Sometimes he thinks it's a problem with the chessboard, so he erases it and redraws it. Sometimes he thinks it's a problem with the chess pieces and asks to exchange small stones or sticks with me. He didn't think it was his intellectual problem, he didn't even notice it.

It was probably the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school, or maybe it was junior high school, and one time when I was living at my grandfather's house during the summer vacation, I saw that Ma Yu didn't come to me, so I wanted to ask him to play. But my grandfather told me that Ma Yu was missing.

I was surprised and asked, how could it be gone?

At that time, I couldn't figure out how a person could say that it was gone like something that was lost.

But my grandfather didn't explain to me why.

I haven't seen him since.

When I was growing up, I mentioned the horse feather in front of my mother by chance and asked why the horse feather suddenly disappeared.

Mom said that he got separated when he followed his brother to the city, and that he was a fool and that he couldn't find him if he got separated. But who knows if it's really separated? His brother was dragged down by him, and he talked to several people in a row. No one else dared to marry into their family, for fear of being a burden. Maybe his brother took him to the city on purpose. But it may also be that they are really separated, after all, they are brothers......

Ma Yu's brother moved out of the old house on the back mountain after getting married. He learned the bricklayer's trade and built a new house in the village himself. His daughter-in-law bore him two children, both of whom were healthy and healthy.

The child's grades were good after school, and Ma Yu's brother said that there was a problem with the old house they lived in, and he was there every night when the ghost pressed the bed≡ since he had a younger brother, he had not been pressed by the ghost. But when he woke up in the middle of the night, he often saw an old man sitting on top of his younger brother. The old man's face was covered in yellow clay, his hair was dirty and knotted, and he was dressed in a thick cotton coat full of holes leaking cotton. And the younger brother under the old man grabbed his hands indiscriminately, his face was ugly, and he looked dying and struggling.

He wanted to scream, but he couldn't get a sound in his throat. It wasn't until the morning light came into the house that he was able to shake off his stiffness. And the old man slipped out of bed like a startled rat and went down the foot of the bed against the wall into the ground.

He didn't know who the old man really was. Later, he found out that his old house was a cemetery before it was built. He thought that the old man should be the owner of the cemetery.

He suspected that his father's insane disorders had something to do with it, and that his grandmother's insane disorders had something to do with it. His grandfather was a gambler and basically didn't stay in the house at night, so it was normal. His mother was half crazy and half stupid before she got married, and if it weren't for that, his mother wouldn't have married his father.

When he was a child, he often stayed in other people's homes and was reluctant to live in his own home. But he didn't dare to talk to others about it, because the whole family was crazy, and he was afraid that others would think that he was also crazy, so he kept it in his heart.

Because his old house is in the most remote place in the back mountain, few people usually go there. In addition, his grandmother made people avoid it intentionally or unintentionally, and no one took the initiative to enter his door. As a result, no one in the village knew what was going on in his old house.

Because his family was too poor, he knew that he could not use the money to build a new house, so he learned to be a bricklayer when he was a teenager. He thought that it was impossible to have money to build a house in his life, so he planned to build a house with his own hands and skills.

After he told the story, a few brave people in the village went to dig up his old house. Since Ma Yu's brother said that the old man had gone down the ground along the foot of the bed, they started digging at the foot of the bed in Ma Yu's bedroom. Sure enough, after digging less than a meter, the hoe hit the hard object, and the hand holding the hoe was numb.

The hoe touched the thing and rolled the blade. It didn't even have a trace of friction. You can see how hard that thing is.

A few people dug around from that place, and halfway through the digging, they could see that it was a coffin made of unknown materials. The general coffin is composed of a coffin lid and a coffin box, which can be distinguished from the top and bottom. But the top and bottom of this coffin are integrated, or there is no birth, not even a seam.

Those people thought that the coffin must have an opening mechanism, and that there must be antiques for burial inside, and maybe they could make a fortune. So, they simply dismantled the wall and continued to dig. After digging to the bottom, a dozen pieces of wood were used against the bottom of the coffin, trying to dig up the soil at the bottom of the coffin and let it hang in the air.

They believed that since there were no gaps in the front, back, left, right, and top, then its opening must be under the coffin. They had never seen a coffin with a body under it.

For every part of the earth, they added a piece of wood to top the excavated part, and put bricks under the wood to prevent the coffin from crushing the wood into the soil.

When the earth at the bottom of the coffin was about to be dug up, several of them did not dare to move.

Under the coffin, there are four large protruding characters: "Death when the museum opens!" ”

Although there was only a little dirt left in the middle, no one dared to take any chances.

Then they remembered to ask the old man in the village and my grandfather.

None of the older people in the village, including my grandfather, knew the origin of this mysterious coffin, let alone who it contained. So someone sighed to my grandfather, "If only your father were still alive, maybe he knew." ”

Eventually, the men gave up and filled back the excavated soil.

As one wall was destroyed, wind and rain easily poured in, and the old house quickly collapsed.

Later, my grandmother died and was buried in the back mountain. At that time, I was in college, and when I went to Houshan to pay respects to my grandmother during the Chinese New Year in the first year, my grandfather led me, my mother and uncle to pass by the side of the road where Ma Yu's house collapsed. But since the coffin was dug up, no one in Thrush Village has taken that road.

Before we went up the mountain, my mother expressed concern and said that we should not go up the steep slope from the main road in front of us.

Grandpa knew what his mother meant, and said indifferently, what are you afraid of? He just owns the land, and he can't get out of it. If he had managed to escape, his grandfather and I would have found out. It's because he's been hiding and cowering that we don't know he's here.

I thought to myself, my grandfather might know what was going on with that coffin.

When my grandfather and I walked to the top of the steep slope, we looked down at Ma Yu's house, which was already in ruins, and suddenly felt that the layout of the house was a little familiar, and it seemed to be very similar to the shape of something.

At that time, my mother was afraid that I would take a second look at the unlucky place, so she urged me to keep walking. So I glanced at it and left.

On the evening after paying homage to my grandmother, I scribbled with a wooden stick on the floor in front of my grandfather's house where I had played with Ma Yu, unconsciously or subtly and subtly and subtly drawing a figure. It was a chessboard of "three chess".

I suddenly had a numb scalp. Isn't this also the layout of Ma Yu's house?