Chapter 25 Salvage the Coffin
08070404040404 the night I received the news of my father's death, I had an unbelievable nightmare.
I dreamed that I was in a farmhouse, as if I were living in the home of a rural couple. My husband and I squatted on the ridge and smoked. The husband said something that I don't remember exactly, to the effect that the two of them were going to show me a woman. I have forgotten what this woman's last name is. I only remember that the husband called her Holy Aunt. After the husband said this, his wife happened to hear the food for us, and she was so happy that she took off her little red cotton jacket outside, and ran wildly on the desolate field in the sweater inside, shouting like crazy: We are going to see the Holy Aunt, we are going to see the Holy Aunt.
This woman is a big mouth, and when she goes to the village and sees people, she says. We want to see the Holy Aunt, we want to see the Holy Aunt. When she got home, her husband scolded her. It is a very secret matter to say that meeting the Holy Aunt must not be known. What if you are yelling everywhere and getting into trouble. I'm on the side.
As he was talking, there was a call for the door, and someone came, who seemed to be from the village, and he was quite familiar with these two people. The man did not enter the door, but stood in the shadow of the backlight outside, and said, "If you want to see the Holy Aunt, I will also go, take me with you." I can't remember what happened, but the only thing I can remember is that my husband killed the man with a knife.
In this way, four or five people came in a row to find us to meet the holy aunt together, but they all made my husband stab. In the next scene, there is a huge copper pillar erected in the courtyard, which is full of charcoal fires, whining and burning, and the flames are spewing out. The slain people were all tied to copper pillars with ropes, and in the extreme heat, their skin was burned open, and one by one they came to life, screaming in pain.
The peasant wife sat on the side and sharpened her knife, and there was a large iron basin on the ground, which contained boiling hot water, and the posture was like shedding the hair of an animal.
My husband said to me gloomily that none of these people could live, and that they could not let know the existence of the Holy Aunt.
I said something unintentionally, and your wife knows it.
As soon as he said this, his wife raised her head and said yes, I know it. Then he threw the knife, walked into the firewood room, turned out a thick hemp rope, went straight to the eaves, tied the rope to the window frame, stretched his neck into the rope sleeve, and committed suicide immediately.
The only thing I can remember is that the sky was dark, the cool breeze was blowing, and the girl was wearing a red cotton jacket, her feet off the ground, and she was walking in the rope noose. This scene is deeply engraved in my memory, and when I was sighing, my husband's eerie voice suddenly sounded behind me: I remembered, I know that the holy aunt is still you.
I was so shocked that I was in a cold sweat, and my legs trembled and I woke up from the bed immediately, only then did I know that it was a dream.
Leaning against the head of the bed, I sat for a long time, my head ached and dizzy, this dream was too real, and the scenes were as clear as photos. My heart beat for a while, before I eased down, and I was about to rejoice that it was just a dream, when I suddenly remembered the bad news of my father's death, and I felt that the dream was real, it was really like a dream, I was stupid for a while, and for a moment I didn't know what was real, and everything was so absurd.
For a long time, I sighed, my father is dead, this is a fact of iron, no matter how much you sleep, you can't avoid it. I had a splitting headache, a hundred claws scratching my heart, and my appetite felt like a block. The little sister doesn't know about this yet, and so does the boss, but let me inform you that Xiaomi's body has just recovered and suffered such a blow, and I don't know if I can afford it.
I took out a pack of cigarettes, took out one and lit it, I didn't eat last night, it rained heavily when I came out of KFC, I was hit double hard in one day, my girlfriend broke up, my father died, and I was so depressed that I wanted to commit suicide.
I walked forward in the heavy rain against the wind, and soon my whole body was soaked, and there was a moment when I longed for my girlfriend Huihui to see my bereaved dog, and felt pitiful, and for a moment my sympathy overflowed, and ran over with an umbrella and said with tears, Luo Dao, let's elope. But when I walked out of the mile, my girlfriend didn't even show up in person, except for the passers-by who hurried by looking at me like a fool, there was no one else.
Later, I caught the bus, came home in despair, and fell asleep with a simple rush. At night, I felt uncomfortable, it was hot, and I finally fell asleep, and I had such a nightmare.
I lifted the quilt and got dressed, and inadvertently touched my neck, and I was stunned for a moment, I relied on the fuck, and the necklace that untied the bell to ward off evil spirits for me was gone!
I panicked, sweating all over my head. If you want to say that this thing is more evil spirits, I still don't believe it, mainly because I really want to lose it and explain it because I solemnly handed over such a valuable thing to me.
I was wearing big pants, slippers, and flashlight, and I was lying under the bed looking for it, but there was no shadow at all. That feeling of uneasiness and anxiety hit me again, and I was almost suffocated.
At this moment, footsteps sounded behind him, Xiaomi's voice: "Ah, brother, why don't you wear clothes?" "
I crawled out from under the bed, choking on my face, and saw Millet and a girl I didn't know standing in the bedroom doorway. I hurriedly put on my pants: "Well, what, I can't find something." "
"Brother, this is my good friend and teacher Chen in our school, come over with me to play today." Xiaomi introduced.
I took a closer look, this girl is quite young, in her twenties, and she is actually a university teacher. People are more angry than people. But this girl looks quite delicate, she looked at me with a smile, I was red for a while, and I didn't know which string was wrong, maybe I wanted to sell it in front of the beautiful girl, and said directly: "Xiaomi, tell you something, our father passed away last night, it just so happens that your teacher is here, you can ask for leave directly, we have to go back to our hometown today." "
Luo Mi looked at me dumbfounded, completely unable to accept this fact. There is a preamble.
Luo Xiaomi's lips trembled: "Brother, you're not kidding?" "
"Damn, that's our dad, I'm so adult, just kidding my dad? Especially for something like this. "
Luo Xiaomi cried as soon as she said "wow". I suddenly regretted a little, what happened to me, in order to show off in front of the girl, so stimulating my sister. Besides, my father is dead, what is there to show for this, why am I so naïve.
That teacher Chen reacted quickly, patted Luo Xiaomi, and Xiaomi threw herself directly into her arms, crying non-stop. I'm crying so sadly, my sister is so depressed, let her vent well.
After crying for a while, Teacher Chen said, "Xiaomi, I'll give you leave, you and your brother should hurry home." What do you need the school and me, and my classmates to do, you say, don't feel embarrassed. "
Luo Xiaomi's eyes were red from crying, and she sobbed and said, "It's okay, I can hold on, thank you Teacher Chen, I'm going back with my brother when I pack up my things." "
Teacher Chen came over and shook my hand: "Condolences change." If you need help with the funeral at home, just tell me. She took out a handful of money from her pocket, seven or eight hundred, all piled up on the table: "I didn't know it would happen when I came, so much so on my body, talk about my heart." "
I hurriedly said, "This is not possible. "
"It's fine. This money is not for you, I give it to the old man who passed away, take it. "Teacher Chen, this little girl, is not very old, but she is quite old-fashioned in talking and doing things.
I suddenly remembered something, just now she said mourning, how do I seem to have heard this word somewhere, I frowned, it seems that someone said this a long time ago. In a trance, I felt as if I had experienced this scene before, and it was very familiar. Teacher Chen thought I was overly sad, sighed, and went over to comfort Xiaomi.
My mind flashed and I remembered. That day, I went to the blind man's house at night, and he once asked me to put on a few pillars of incense, but the length of the incense burned unevenly, and he said at the time, this is called three long and two short incense, and there must be mourning in the family. Let me mourn again. Damn, it's really a crow's mouth.
I didn't care about entertaining Mr. Chen, so I took my mobile phone and walked to a secluded corner to call Jieling. It's lucky, this time the phone call was connected, and I was just about to open my mouth, when suddenly sadness came from it, and I felt a cramping pain in my heart, and I suddenly choked up when I spoke.
Xie Ling was very keen, and immediately noticed the change in my feelings, he was very smart, and said slowly: "Is there something wrong at home?" "
"My dad," I choked up, remembering the old man's voice and smile, "gone." "
Xie Ling didn't make a sound for a long time, sighed and said: "Jiewai, you wait at home, I'll go over immediately." "
I took a deep breath, cleared my mind a little, and suddenly realized a terrifying possibility. Could my father's death have been done against my family as well?
This hatred is great, killing the father and taking the wife. There was a wave in my heart, and my hands gradually clenched, thinking about my former bag, and I wanted to slap myself in the mouth. I felt like I was particularly useless.
Luo Xiaomi, accompanied by Teacher Chen, packed up her things, and I had nothing to pack, like the walking dead, I took out my backpack and stuffed two clothes casually, and by the way, I put my bank card and cash in it. I have a bad premonition that something big will happen on this trip to my hometown.
Teacher Chen asked us when we were leaving, and I said I would have to wait for a friend. It is not too far to return to my hometown from the city, and it is more than two hours away by bus, and I calculated that I would be able to get home in the afternoon.
As he was talking, there was a knock on the door, and it must have been the bell. I hurriedly went over to open the door, it was really him, Xie Ling was dressed in army green, carrying a big bag, dusty, as if he was not from home, as if he had just finished a business trip from other places.
Xie Ling said: "You are going back to your hometown." "
I nodded.
"I'll go with you to mourn the old man." He said.
With such friends here, I feel a lot more at ease.
As we talked, we went inside and saw my sister and Teacher Chen coming out of the back room. Teacher Chen and Xie Ling looked at each other, she was stunned for a moment, and asked softly, "Xie Ling?" "
Xie Ling's expression was a little embarrassed, and my first reaction when I saw his eyes was to want to escape. In my impression, if you are not afraid of heaven and earth, how can you escape.
He smiled faintly: "Bamboo." I haven't seen you in a few days. "