Chapter 8: Dead Grandpa
After I graduated from junior high school, I went to the county seat to go to high school, and there was no dormitory in high school, so I had to board with a few boys my age in a dilapidated student apartment, and I could only take time to go home on Saturday and Sunday.
My body is still so thin, not tall or short, the waist circumference at that time was one foot eight, and the back was like a little girl, but fortunately, after I went to high school, everyone grew up, and there was no boring Sun thief bullying in the class, but after I entered the city in the countryside, I was under a lot of pressure to study, and I couldn't keep up with the class at all, so I was still the last eight players in the class, and the girls in the city didn't know why they were so crazy, and none of them liked to take care of people, as if they were all superior, After class, I either gossip about some celebrities together, or listen to "Lilacs" there for the whole mp4.
And men generally play basketball, that year "Slam Dunk" was rebroadcast in our county, so that these high school students all want to be sports boys, but I can't, this little physique doesn't run two steps to breathe, and born with poor motor nerves, the only exercise is to talk about glass balls, and when I talk to girls, my face will be red, so my surname slowly became introverted at that time, except for Lu Quanyou, who slept with him, almost didn't talk to anyone.
Lu Quanyou is a Hui and a member of the tribe, but he was born with no taboos, and his favorite food is the pork and leek buns sold by the old lady in the cart at the school gate, sometimes I wonder if he is really 'Huizi' (Hui, Min), and his answer to me is very intuitive, serious and ironic.
He said: When you are trapped in a pigsty and can't get out, one huizi will die, and two huizi will starve to death.
It's as simple as that, of course, this may also be an individual case, at least I haven't seen other Hui and ethnic classmates dare to eat pork so blatantly, those classmates call Lu Quanyou 'national scum', and Lu Quanyou is informal, he didn't take this to heart at all, but always scolded those classmates for being stupid while eating steamed buns, I really don't know if he is scolding them or scolding himself.
It's such a boring high school life, without your own goals, your academic performance is always used to satisfy the sense of achievement of those students in the front row, without any sense of direction, you can't see the future clearly, you can't figure out what you're living for, and you're so ordinary that you can't be ordinary, just like the passerby A in the movie, you can't find it in the pile.
This state has been in this state until the second year of high school, fortunately our class teacher Bi Tiekun is a good person, unlike the junior high school teacher who only recognizes money and does not recognize people, he saw that I was very honest but there was no bright spot, and he knew that it was not a matter to go on like this, so he talked to me and asked me what I planned to do in the future, I shook my head and said I didn't know, and he asked me again, then do you plan to take the university exam? Is it like going on like this? I shook my head and said I don't know if I can get in, besides, isn't everyone like this? He sighed and said to himself, 'Is the current education system right or wrong?' Something like that.
Then he asked me, what are your dreams, hobbies, or specialties?
When it comes to dreams, of course I do, but this dream seems to be too far away, so that I am afraid that he will laugh at it when I say it, I thought about it, and then said to him a little resignedly: I ...... He can tell stories, play the huqin, erhu, and sing drums.
After hearing me say this, he pondered for a moment, and then said to me, "Do you know these things, they are family heirlooms...... But these can't add points, well, well, or you let your parents come on Monday, I recommend you to be an art student, you can erhu, and then learn piano or something, and you can get extra points when you apply for art schools in the future. β
yes, why didn't I think of that before? After hearing his words, the hidden dream in my heart was instantly ignited, hey, I'll go, great, I can learn to sing and dance when I apply for art schools in the future, and won't it be awesome in the future?
Too student, what a domineering name.
If you want to say that you were too young at that time, your thinking was too naΓ―ve, and you really thought that as long as you were admitted to university, you would have everything, and you really thought that society was so beautiful.
I nodded, thinking that this method was feasible, so I said to him: "My parents are working in other provinces, and there is a grandmother in the family, but she is old, I am afraid she can't afford toss, and ............ And do you think I can be that piece of material? β
Teacher Bi nodded, then patted me on the shoulder and said to me: "It's okay, as long as you agree, Yao Yuan, you have to remember that no one in this world is nothing, everyone has their own highlights, don't be measured by the values of the outside world, you have to believe in yourself, understand?" β
I nodded as if I didn't understand, and at the same time, this sentence and his person were firmly remembered by me, and I still haven't forgotten it.
I remember it was Friday, and I was really excited about the future by what he said, yes, isn't it my dream to learn to play an instrument and sing and become a singer? I didn't expect that there was really a chance to achieve it, well, everyone has his value, so I have it too?
For the first time in my life, I felt like I could choose the path I wanted to take.
So I pedaled my broken bike home after school, and I was going to tell my grandmother and the old lame man about it.
Back in the village, my grandmother knew that I was coming back today, so she had already made my favorite dishes, after listening to my words, the old lady was also very happy, he fully supported me, but it seemed that she understood a little wrong, she said to me, okay, if you can be admitted to university, study hard, you can have a future career.
I nodded my head and thought as I ate my head, how happy the old man would be if he had taught me something that would have allowed me to go to college.
In my heart, this old lame man is like my grandfather.
So, after eating, I told my grandmother that I had gone out for a walk to digest the food, and then I went out of the house and trotted to the entrance of the village.
But when I first ran to the entrance of the village, I suddenly noticed a very strange thing, there was a black Santana sedan parked in front of the old lame man's house.
At that time, I was quite puzzled, thinking to myself what this old lame man is like being poor, and I have never seen him have relatives since I was a child, where did this car come from? I don't know why, but I suddenly remembered the scene when the old cripple used to watch "Volleyball Girl".
Oh no, I chuckled in my heart, wondering if it could be that this old lame man had been holding back for decades, so that he had stepped into the abyss of some crime in a thought!
Damn, don't you always play this kind of plot on TV, what kind of old man molested underage girls, how many cases were involved, and he was finally arrested today.
But when I think something is wrong, I still believe that other singles in the village molested girls, but with this old guy's legs and feet, who can he molest? Before he could touch them, they ran 500 meters.
Just when I was thinking nonsense, suddenly three people came out of the thatched house, two middle-aged people and an old man, the old man was wearing a gray gown, just like Shan Tianfang's dress in TV, and the other two were gray suits, looking at their dress, I knew that they were rich masters, I saw the old man with a comb and a plate inch walked out of the thatched house, and then turned back to the door and smiled, and then said: "Then this matter is so decided, I will come tomorrow, remember that you just promised me don't forget." β
After speaking, they walked out of the yard, just face to face with me, I only then looked at them carefully, the two middle-aged people had nothing to say, they were tall and public-faced, and the old man was kind and kind, with a little goatee and white hair of steamed buns.
They weren't surprised to see me standing there looking at them stupidly, because it was a rare thing for a car to come in this small broken village, and they only regarded me as a turtle child who had never seen the world, so they didn't say anything, and after getting into the car, the car drove away, and the tires ran over the yellow earth, rolling up a puff of smoke and dust.
Seeing them gone, I also walked into the yard, the broken grass houses were still open, I walked in, only to see the old lame man sitting on the kang with his head down as if in a daze, his broken wooden crutch was thrown on the ground, I saw him like this, my heart was a little strange, so I stepped forward to pick up the crutch, and said to him with a smile: "Hey~ I'm back." β
He found me in the room, only to see him slowly raise his head, I don't know why, his old face looked very haggard, and his eyes were red, as if he had just cried, he saw that it was me, so he forced out a smile, and then said to me as if he was weak: "You are back, are you tired this week?" β
I saw that something was wrong with him, so I asked him, "You're not tired, what's wrong with you?" β
The old lame man touched his eyes with his boring palm, then shook his head and said to me with a smile: "It's okay, I miss you a little ga bean a little." β
I smiled, and didn't take it to heart at the time, so I helped him out of the door as usual, and sat on the specific 'VIP seat' under the gourd stand, and I told him about my school affairs, and he was very relieved to hear that I was a special student, although he may not know what a special student is like my grandmother.
He seemed to be in a state of despair that day, and after I finished speaking, he still just looked at me and smiled, and when I saw his virtue, I asked him, "I see that something is wrong with you today, what is wrong?" Who were those guys just now? β
Only then did he come back to his senses, only to see him sigh, and then said to me with a smile: "There's nothing wrong, I guess I slept on the pillow, you said the guy just now?" β¦β¦ You asked me to do the white work, ah, by the way, didn't you say that you were a special student? Why didn't you go home and tell your grandma first, and you came to me? β
I was relieved to hear him say this, I didn't think that this old guy really had the ability to get such a rich bitter master, so I smiled at him and said, "Hey, I told him, no, I will tell you to make you happy, and I miss you a little bit, tell me another one." β
After hearing me say this, the old lame man sighed again, and thought for a while before saying to me: "You stinky boy, you have listened to your grandfather's stories for many years, and you have to empty all the stories in my stomach and haven't heard enough?" Okay, then I'll tell you another one, and after that, there won't be any, you have to listen carefully. β
I smiled and thought to myself that this old bastard would say that every time, but every time he told me, so I said to him, "Got it, you can hurry." β
The old lame man thought for a while, and then asked me, "Do you remember your family?" β
"You said my grandfather Yao Si'er?" I said to him, "Of course I remember, isn't it the fox fairy who repays the favor of the yellow immortal for revenge?" I said you're going to tell me about this again, I'm going to burn your crutches and make you hop on one leg in the future. β
The old cripple smiled, and then said to me, "Of course not, but little Ga Bean, this thing is true. β
"Don't fool me." I laughed and laughed, and then said to him, "Can't you talk about anything else?" Hurry up and stop the ink. β
The old cripple shook his head slightly, then lit a dry cigarette, looked at me, and said to me, "Okay, then I'll tell you another story about our witchcraft, you remember what the witchcraft is all about." β
I nodded, of course I remember, I'm tired of hearing it, to put it bluntly, isn't it the master who danced the great god for the emperor back then?
When the old lame man saw me nodding, he said, "Then do you know what will happen to the witch cult in the end?" β
I don't know.
I saw the old lame man raise his head and spit out a puff of cigarette, and then said to me with some emotion: "I said that I am actually the last descendant of the royal shaman, do you believe me?" β
Cut, you think this is a TV series. When I heard the words of the old lame man, my eyes were suddenly full of contempt, and I wondered if you, an old bastard, were hallucinating after listening to the storytelling? Also the royal shaman, I phew! Where do you have a shaman!
I don't know what a shaman looks like, but I don't think he looks like it.
The old cripple was not annoyed by my contempt for him, and when he was telling the story, his expression was a little sentimental, as if he was not telling a story, but telling a long-forgotten story............
He asked me, "Xiaoga Douzi, do you remember what I told you before, how many 'dragon veins' are there in China?" β
I nodded, and then said to him, "Didn't you say before that there are fourteen 'dragon veins' in the country, and an old guy surnamed Lai once woke up nine?" β
The old cripple nodded, and then said to me: "It's good that you remember your surname, that's right, in our country, there are indeed fourteen dragon veins, so the previous emperors all called themselves 'Ninety-Five Supreme'"
The old lame man once told me that since ancient times, there have been fourteen 'true dragons' distributed throughout the land of China, and these 'true dragons' are not the kind that can fly, but are composed of qi.
According to this feng shui, the very precious 'qi' and 'terrain environment' together are called dragon veins, and the dragon veins are also divided into large and small, small dragon veins are divided into water dragons, earth dragons and many names, if the yin and yang houses are built at the small dragon veins, they can make their lords or their descendants safe and happy, rich and rich, and those legendary earth masters and gentlemen are doing the work of finding dragon points.
And the big dragon vein is even more magical, they are generally composed of mountains and rivers to form a gathering array, its role is simply too big, enough to enrich the country and the country, form a thousand years of rivers and mountains, and this kind of big dragon vein, it is called 'real dragon'.
Of course, it is not unreasonable to use scientific explanations, to know that geographical location is the key to Chinese civilization, such as the Yellow River civilization and the Yangtze River, since ancient times, people are looking for a comfortable geographical environment to live, each different geographical environment is pregnant with different cultures and civilizations, this is the role of the dragon vein, as large as the rich real estate climate changes, small to people's behavior dialect accent, each dragon vein, will more or less affect the life of the people living there.
And the whole of China is composed of a total of fourteen true dragons, the old lame man said, the reason why Nurhachi was powerful back then, it was because the original should be Tianfu (now Nanjing) a vein of the Jin surname of the true dragon temporarily weakened, as the so-called ancient 'rise and fall of ordinary things, how can there be treasure restless sleep', each dragon vein has its time to rest and recover, this is a cycle.
And the dormancy of the golden dragon made the national movement at that time swing, plus the great shaman 'Qing Baturu' sensing the way of heaven at that time, helped Nurhachi to wake up a true dragon in the north, and it just so happened that this dragon vein in the northeast belonged to fire, so the people who lived here were born with strong fire, brave and good at fighting, and the five elements talked about fire and gold, so the Qing Dynasty was like a god, like destroying the withering and decaying half of the Han people in the south.
Of course, this is just the story that the old lame man told me, but it sounds really mysterious, and he can make a movie, in fact, now that I think about it, it seems that the dragon vein of the Qing Dynasty is also mentioned in the future TV novels, and it can be seen that it is not necessarily completely groundless, the old lame man said to me, since he occupied this splendid country, the emperor understood the important surname of this dragon vein, so he reused the shaman faction, using the power of witchcraft, hoping that they would protect these dragon veins, and have protected the foundation of the Qing Dynasty for thousands of years.
But where in this world does it come from?
The old lame man said that the great shaman Qing Baturu had used the combination of witchcraft and feng shui to bury fourteen treasures of the country in 14 dragon vein points across the country, but people are not as good as the sky, and the shaman only wanted to make the Qing Dynasty prosperous through these fourteen dragon vein treasures, but unexpectedly, this act was wrong, and the fortune of the whole China was connected with the fourteen feng shui bureaus.
After many years, the shamanic witch cult suddenly had a civil strife, and the rebellious shaman members colluded with outsiders to destroy the thirteen dragon veins, so it led to the Chinese national movement, fortunately, only the Jurchen origin remained, and the fire dragon vein struggled to support, although the northeast finally fell, but fortunately, the thirteen dragon veins slowly woke up, and it was too late, the emperor was gone, and the shaman faction declined.
Listening to the old lame man talk about this, I was completely one head or two years old, and I hurriedly said to him: "Hurry up and stop me, where is this, it's too outrageous, is this a ghost story, it's completely a myth, okay?" β
The old lame man sighed, and then showed me a helpless smile, and saw that he said softly to me: "Little child, don't interrupt me yet, let me finish, in fact, I don't know if this story is true, I also listened to my father." β
After hearing him say this, I casually asked, "What did your dad say?" Do you still have a dad? β
The old lame man was helpless, and he said to me a little crying and laughing: "This kid, stupid, isn't it, who can not have a father." β
"No, no, no." I realized that I had said the wrong thing, so I said to him, "What about your father, I haven't heard you say it, what does he do?" β
The old lame man sighed, and then said to me, "He may be the last orthodox shaman, I remember that year............"
"What year?" I asked casually.
The old lame man rubbed his chin with a solemn expression, as if he was thinking about something very important, and after a while, he said to me: "Ah, no, I forgot, by the way, Xiaoga Douzi, what do you think of me?" β
"What else can I do, that's it." I looked at him, wondering why he was asking me that all of a sudden.
When he saw me reply, he laughed and said, "I'm asking you if I'm okay." β
I scratched the back of my head and said to him, "Okay, the whole village is just for you to see me and tell me stories all day long." β
The old lame man smiled with satisfaction, and then said to me, "Since I am so good, how about you call me grandpa." β
Speaking of which, since I was a child, I have always called him the old lame, although he is my grandfather in my heart, but this word has never come out of my mouth, probably because I was born with a temper 'across the road' (Manchu pronunciation, meaning weird), originally he asked me to call nothing, but at that time I felt a little embarrassed, so I took a sip on the ground, and said to him with a hippie smile: "Don't be ashamed, I don't have the surname Shao, I don't call it." β
Thinking that I lived to that age, and only with him could I be so relaxed, I could laugh if I wanted to talk, and the old lame man was not angry when he saw that I didn't scream, but smiled at me in a tone that seemed to be a little pleading: "Little white-eyed wolf, how can you scream, just listen to me at that time for the reward of so many years of stories." β
When I heard him say this, my face immediately turned a little red, and in a hurry, I stood up and said to him: "Okay, okay, okay, call again tomorrow, it's dark, and if I don't go back, my grandmother should be worried." β
When the old lame man saw that I still didn't scream, he smiled bitterly, and then smiled at me: "Okay, okay, get out, go to bed early, ah, by the way, you still remember the agreement between the two of us when I taught you the mantra of dancing gods." β
"Of course I do." I smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm leaving." β
When the old lame man called me to dance the words of the great god, that is, the words called "Helping Soldiers", he once said to me, whenever a stranger asks you, you must not tell him that you have heard of this thing, if possible, when you are old, find a good child who you look at and teach him.
But I thought at the time, damn, how old am I, I'm still waiting for me to get old, and those soldiers' mantras don't say anything, it's just stinky and long, and what are the 'nine tones and eighteen tones', I learned it completely because I wanted to listen to the story, otherwise I wouldn't have learned, so I readily agreed, and I don't know why the old lame man suddenly asked me that day.
When he saw that I agreed, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled at me and said, "You really don't call me grandpa?" β
I immediately turned my head and trotted, and when I was discharged from the hospital, I turned back to him and smiled and said, "Don't call, wait for tomorrow, I'll go, you go to bed early, and I'll come to listen to the story tomorrow." β
The old lame man smiled at me, and said, "Slow down, stinky boy." β
Years later, I still remember that scene vividly, I don't know what I thought at the time, I actually really wanted to call him grandpa, but I was embarrassed to speak, and now I think about it, how I wish that 'tomorrow', I would naturally push away his shabby grass house, and then smile very naturally and say, "Dead grandpa, tell me the story." β
But at that time, how could I have imagined that tomorrow's grandfather would really die.
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