"My grandfather's corpse?!" I was taken aback, although I didn't think Grandma Seven would talk nonsense, but what she said happened a long time ago, if my grandfather had died in the river at that time, then who was the person who raised me over the years? I can't believe it's true anyway.

"Mizuya." The seventh grandmother wiped her eyes and said that she was not in tears: "Listen to me." "

"Okay." I held back the huge question in my heart and listened quietly.

Grandma Seven said that Grandpa's body floated up from the river in the middle of the night, when the river was very quiet, and there was only a splash. The moon happened to shine on this stretch of river, and Grandpa's body floated up on its back to the sky, and Grandma looked back and pounced on it as if she was crazy. The seventh grandmother was afraid that something would happen, so she quickly pulled her to death.

It's strange to say, the body of a person who dies in the river will float with the current, and it is impossible to say where it will go. But Grandpa's corpse seemed to be pulled by an invisible rope, and slowly leaned towards the riverbank. People who are often by the river have such common sense, and when they see people in the water, they know whether they are dead or alive, and the seventh grandmother is not mistaken, even the grandmother thinks that the grandfather is dead, and she cries.

Grandpa's body was slowly undulating in the shallow water on the shore, and grandma wanted to go into the water to fish, but was dragged by the seventh grandmother. As a bystander, Grandma Seven knew the bitterness in her heart. Grandma stretched out her hand vigorously and cried to the corpse floating in the river: "Six catties! Since you're back, you just can't rest assured that our mother and daughter are not! If you can't get at ease, come ashore! "

There are many things in the world that are not clear, and grandma's crying was completely because she couldn't suppress the grief in her heart, but after she cried and shouted these few words, the corpse that had been floating on the surface of the river seemed to be pushed to the shore by a churning wave.

The people on the shore were gone, and only my grandmother and the seventh grandmother were left, and the seventh grandmother was notoriously bold, and when the corpse was washed up on the shore, she ran over to take a look.

"Mizuya." When Seventh Grandma said this, she turned her head to look at me and said, "That's your grandfather." "

At that time, Grandpa had been out of breath for a long time, but he died a bit strangely. When a person dies of drowning, a large amount of water will accumulate in the abdominal cavity and lung cavity, and suddenly it will look like the stomach is filled with water. But grandpa's appearance didn't look like he was drowned, and the seventh grandmother just thought it was weird, but she didn't think much about it, and she and grandma carried the body ashore hand in hand.

The person is indeed dead, the corpse has been cold and stiff, the grandmother is crying next to the grandfather's corpse, the man is dead, and the sky has fallen, the seventh grandmother can't persuade her, and she will accompany her to wipe her tears, and after a full hour, the seventh grandmother will discuss with the grandmother and say that the person has been found, whether to ask the villagers to carry it back to the village first, and then take care of the aftermath.

"Your grandmother asked me at the time, if a person dies, should he be buried in a coffin, and whether he will never be seen again." Seventh Grandma smiled bitterly and said, "What can I say? "

The seventh grandmother answered truthfully, but the grandmother was very reluctant, and said in tears that the child was still young, and if she couldn't see the six catties in the future, she had no bottom in her heart. The seventh grandmother coaxed, and at that time I thought that the grandmother was grieving too much, so she kept persuading and said a lot of words. The Chinese pay attention to entering the soil for peace, and the seventh grandmother said, bury the person well, and wait until Ying Long (my father's name) grows up in the future, and on days such as the fifteenth day of July in Qingming and Qingming, he can also go to the grave to burn incense and kowtow. Gradually, grandma's resistance eased a little, and she said to Seventh Grandma with tears in her eyes: "Seventh sister, when people enter the coffin, I will never see them again, let me guard the six catties for a while, until dawn, let me see him again, okay?" "

The seventh grandmother was kind-hearted, and she had already sat with her until this time anyway, not missing two or three hours, so she nodded and agreed. My grandmother has stopped crying, but she is sitting next to her grandfather and constantly crying silently, and the seventh grandmother has been with her for a while, maybe she is really a little sleepy, so she rested not far away.

I fell asleep unconsciously during this break, but the bank of the river was not as good as my own kang, and the seventh grandmother did not sleep deeply, and it took up to two hours before and after. She was woken up by a gust of wind, even in the middle of summer, the wind on the riverbank in the middle of the night was a little cool, as soon as she woke up, the seventh grandmother subconsciously looked over there.

Then, she saw a scene that she will never forget in her life.

The corpse was still in its original position, but to the dumbness of the seventh grandmother, the corpse had become my grandmother, and it was my grandfather who was sitting next to the corpse. No one can accept the fact that what happened in the two hours before and after? Causing such an astonishing change? For the first time in her life, Grandma Seven felt scared, but she was afraid that she would be dazzled when she first woke up, so she quietly got up from her sleeping place and tiptoed a few steps there.

It wasn't far away, and although the sky wasn't quite bright yet, the light was enough for her to see everything in front of her. That's right, my grandmother lay quietly on the ground as if she was dead, and my grandfather sat silently next to the corpse, stunned. This is completely inexplicable and incomprehensible, and Grandma Seven began to hesitate, and began to think about whether to turn around and run away now.

At this time, the grandfather, who had been sitting like a stone statue, seemed to know that the seventh grandmother was peeping in secret, he slowly stood up, turned around, and said to the seventh grandmother: "Seventh sister, thank you." "

At that time, there was no change between the grandfather and before entering the water, but in the eyes of the seventh grandmother, he seemed to be no longer the Chen Liujin he used to be. Grandma Seven felt that her legs were a little weak, and looking at the grandfather in front of her, she felt the panic and fear that she had never experienced in her life. She said that she didn't know why she was afraid of my grandfather, but she felt that she was afraid, and felt that there seemed to be a "thing" that was not a human and occupied my grandfather's body.

The damned person didn't die, but the unworthy one became a corpse, which made the seventh grandmother unacceptable, she couldn't care about anything, and panicked and found an excuse and ran towards the village. Grandpa didn't chase after him, and after running for a long time, Grandma Seven looked back and saw that Grandpa was still standing in place, guarding Grandma's body.

The seventh grandmother came home, covered her head and slept for a while, and when she woke up, the grandfather had already returned to the village with the grandmother's body, and the people in the village who knew about it at the time were very surprised, and the people who had good things asked the grandfather, and the grandfather said that he was washed downstream by a dark vortex under the river, and the grandmother was flustered because of her panic, and she fell into the water while looking for it along the river, and unfortunately died.

"Some of the people in the village believed, and some did not." Seventh Grandma said, "Do you know what's going on with the madmen in the village? "

The madman mentioned by the seventh grandmother is a villager in the village, about sixty years old, who has been crazy for many years, and has no children and no daughters. When my grandfather had an accident, the madman wasn't actually crazy, but he had a broken mouth and liked to inquire about right and wrong. After the incident, the madman specifically asked the seventh grandmother, but the seventh grandmother knew it in her heart, and kept silent about everything that happened on the riverbank that night, and deduced that she didn't know. The madman asked several times but did not get an answer, and then he guessed wildly, and he told people that my grandmother definitely did not drown, and when my grandfather carried the corpse back to the village, the madman saw it with his own eyes, and the corpse had absolutely no traces of drowning.

These rumors spread in the village for a few days, and a few days later, in the middle of the night, the madman's house suddenly began to catch fire for no reason, and the madman himself went crazy for no reason, and watched his house being engulfed by fire little by little outside the yard with bare feet, not only did not save it, but clapped his hands and laughed.

It's hard to say how the madman's house caught fire, and how the madman himself went crazy, but the seventh grandmother always felt in her heart that it must have something to do with grandpa. After the madman went crazy, once the seventh grandmother and the grandfather met on the way back to the village, the seventh grandmother panicked, and said like a begging at that time, saying that she had not leaked anything, and what the madman said was all nonsense by himself.

"I know it wasn't you who said it." Grandpa smiled faintly, turned around and left.

Looking at his back, the seventh grandmother was shocked, that is, from that moment on, she suddenly had a feeling that this "Chen Liujin" would cause something big sooner or later.

After decades, her feelings back then have finally been confirmed. An entire village of people was pulled to fill the river.

"Seventh Grandma." I then asked, "What did you see when the villagers jumped into the river?" "

"Chen Liujin, and there is an old ghost in red clothes" The seventh grandmother trembled when she said this, couldn't help but close her eyes, shook her head and said: "They are sitting in the coffin, and the coffin is floating on the river"

When I heard this, I thought that Grandma Seven was not like making things up, she wasn't lying. The whole village ran from their sleep to the river beach inexplicably, and threw themselves into the river like a walking corpse, but the seventh grandmother survived unharmed. Why is that? Could it be that my grandfather wanted to repay the kindness of the seventh grandmother who took care of my grandmother? I can't think of any other reason than this explanation.

"Shui Yan, don't look for him again, don't look for him again, don't go back to the village, you are still young, you can settle anywhere, let's go, go far." Grandma Seven stood up, feeling a sense of relief, maybe that incident had been held in her heart for too long, and it was not until today that she told it completely, and her heart was a little more relaxed.

I don't think if Grandpa was still here, she wouldn't dare say this to me. Grandma Seven was kind, she was reminding me to mention the grandfather who had lived with me for many years, no matter what I thought, but Grandma Seven always thought that it was not my grandfather, but something that ran out of the river and was not human, possessing Grandpa's body.

The seventh grandmother left, did not return to the village, and walked directly to her daughter. I sat on the edge of the melon field and thought about it for a long time, I will not give up looking for it because of Grandma Seven's words, her kindness, I remember it in my heart, but people must continue to look for it. The stone coffin has been haunting the vicinity of Xiaopanhe Village for the past two days, and I hope it has not gone far.