Chapter 1 The History of the Old Wang Family
When we left Macau, the fat man was still in a drunken state and could not wake up. Like a corpse, I dragged him onto the train to Hubei. It wasn't until half an hour after the train was moving forward that the fat man woke up faintly...... Spit up and the whole chair was dirty from his hangover.
"Where are we here, and where are we going?" The fat man rubbed his forehead and asked in a daze
I patted him on the shoulder and whispered: "We are on the train, going to Hubei, have you forgotten, Uncle Qingsong asked me to go to Hong'an, Hubei first, to solve some things for my uncle surnamed Liu, and then take the car to Yichang?" ”
The fat man was delirious, grinning in a daze: "Hong'an, Hong'an is good, my prince is such a big person, and I haven't seen a public security officer in a red uniform, so it's an eye-opener at this time!" ”
Me: "............"
The train moved slowly, time passed slowly in bits and pieces, and after all, I couldn't bear the exhaustion in my body, and I fell groggily next to the fat man full of alcohol, and fell asleep.
The trip to Macau is finally over. In just two months, it has left an indelible impression on our lives. We have met so many unforgettable people along the way.
The loyal Fan Wuchang, the infatuated Chen Zheng and his wife, the perseverance of Grandma Zhao who raised her granddaughter, and the cute little Changsheng, the mysterious Chen Daochang, and Chen Mo, who had a marriage with the fat man in his previous life!
Again and again, the thrilling events made us almost fall into a big whirlpool, and we almost couldn't get out.
Grandma Zhao was left in Macau by me, and she is now the master of Xiao Shishi. She finally found her apprentice. And I, too, unintentionally fulfilled my promise.
I have kept the little key that Chen Zheng gave me. I didn't go to the bank's safe to take out Wu Mu's suicide note.
As Chen Zheng said, if the cruel order spreads, it will definitely cause a battle for the spread of blood and bones in the earthly world.
On this trip to Hubei, Yuan Qiu did not travel with us, and Uncle Qingsong also went to Hong Kong temporarily. The reason why we went to Hubei was because when Uncle Qingsong was leaving, he received a call from an elder who was not an elder, but was indeed an elder.
This elder is the old head of an opera troupe, surnamed Liu. I took a mission and went to Hong'an in Hubei to perform a play. Unexpectedly, the people of the troupe encountered some strange things in the process of acting, and several of the actors are still in a coma, and even the doctors in the town are helpless.
The first thing that came to mind was Uncle Qingsong. Speaking of this Liu class master, he has a lot of connections with Uncle Qingsong's family, to be precise, he has a deep relationship with Uncle Qingsong's sister, the fat man's aunt, and even, he also saved the fat man's aunt's life and almost became the fat man's uncle.
It seems that it was something that happened in the old society, if you want to tell this story in detail. I also have to talk about the history of the rise and fall of the old Wang family from prosperity to decline, and at the same time, it is necessary to mention that turbulent era.
Yanhuang has gone through many twists and turns in the long river of years, and finally ushered in a new era, but suffered from the turbulent decade of the Cultural Revolution.
The Wang family was one of the families that was criticized in that era. Although the Wang family is a family of Dharma. But don't forget that during the Cultural Revolution, there was a mighty movement called Breaking the Four Olds to defeat all bulls, ghosts and evil gods.
At that time, the Wang family, which was famous on the one side, naturally became the target of criticism by many Red Guards. There is an old saying in Guangdong, called "running birthday", these three words originate from the Cultural Revolution during the four old and fighting landlords.
Don't think that running for a birthday is about running a lap on your birthday. The meaning of this is completely different, the so-called running birthday refers to the fact that only by running, you will have the day to survive. Only by escaping criticism will you have a glimmer of life.
To tell the truth, the folk Taoist families, especially the Dharma lineage families that have been passed down from generation to generation, even if they are not very rich, they will not be poor. Whether it is a funeral in the countryside or a feng shui in the city, they need to be invited.
Even if the environment of the old society is sluggish, the life of the old Wang family is not very bad, in addition to having their own land, they can often eat white rice, and occasionally see meat on the table.
Therefore, the old Wang family back then could be regarded as both rich peasants and ghosts and evil gods among the Red Guards. So, in the mighty criticism of the Cultural Revolution, the fat man's grandfather also began his fugitive career.
Don't think that abandoning your wife is a ruthless move, people who have not rolled in that turbulent era will never know the sorrow of that era. No man wants to leave home, no one wants to leave his wife and children, but he is forced by the current situation to leave his hometown and fly away.
Staying and accepting criticism is definitely not a responsibility. On the contrary, it will also burden his wife and children, and make his life in vain. As a result, many people do not want to go, but have to.
A few years later, the Cultural Revolution passed, and the motherland ushered in the spring of reform and opening up.
But the fat man's grandmother has not seen her husband return for a long time. In the years since her husband left, the fat man's grandmother has insisted on it completely by virtue of a belief, and she has long been tired and exhausted. As soon as I heard that the Cultural Revolution was over, I was overjoyed and waited for my husband, who was running for his birthday, to return home.
But after a long time, the spring of the times came, but the husband was gone. This couldn't help but make the fat man's grandmother even more worried, worried about whether her husband had gone wrong in the process of running for his birthday, or was eaten by jackals and beasts, caught by the Red Guards, and killed in a fight.
The old sorrows are not gone, and the new worries are coming again. Coupled with years of hard work, the fat man's grandmother was finally exhausted. Before her husband returned, she passed away, leaving behind the fat man's aunt and the fat man's father, Uncle Qingsong.
The fat man's aunt has a very old-fashioned name, called Wang Daiyi. Don't make fun of this name, even in this rural area today, there are still many parents who give their daughters this name.
Because, in the Cantonese language, 悌 and brother are homophones. In the old society, most people were more traditional and superstitious, and they all hoped that they would have a son who could carry on the lineage. Therefore, if they give birth to a daughter for the first time, they will give their daughter a name with a rather meaning and superstitious color.
Either that, it is a belt, which means the birth of a daughter, and the next one must come with a son. Or, it is the tenth brother, many sons and many blessings, endless. No matter how old-fashioned it is, in short, use it if it can be used, and it is better to believe it than to believe that it is not.
From this point, we can know how feudal and ignorant the people were at that time.
The name "Dai" was chosen by Uncle Qingsong's grandmother, and Uncle Qingsong's parents couldn't resist this stubborn elder, so they had to give their daughter this name.
Until Uncle Qingsong's father's "running birthday" and after his mother died, this name has always been on Aunt Wang's body. Perhaps, it's not that I don't want to change, but I haven't had time to change it yet.
Of course, don't think that Aunt Wang has such an old-fashioned name, people must be old-fashioned, and the image given to everyone is that of a peasant shrew covered in yellow mud.
In fact, Aunt Wang is beautiful, and she has been a well-known beauty in ten miles and eight towns since she was a child.
In the year after her mother's death, Aunt Wang was only 17 years old, and Uncle Qingsong was only 12 years old. Since being criticized, their family has become a poor peasant, and after Aunt Wang's mother died, their life has become even more difficult. Sometimes, I still pick up wild vegetables on the roadside to satisfy my hunger.
If the adults still say that in the past, the two children are still in the period of development, and if they continue like this all year round, how can they survive?
At this time, coinciding with the reform and opening up, the state set up a production team to open up wasteland. The strong men and women in the village had to join the production team to clear the land and earn centimeters, otherwise, they would not receive food and oil stamps, buy anything, and have no food to eat.
Although Aunt Wang still has the shadow of being criticized, it has already been reformed and opened up at that time, and everything is already in the past. Therefore, Aunt Wang had the opportunity to enter the production team and go to the fields to open up wasteland and work.
Fortunately, this is the case, so as not to let Uncle Qingsong starve to death.
It was in this year that Aunt Wang met an important man in her life.
This man's surname is Liu, his name is Liu Zhongguo, and his father is a vaudeville who walks the rivers and lakes.
However, Liu Zhongguo has another identity.
In the thirteen fists of Nanquan, the descendants of Liu Jiaquan.
According to rumors, Liu Zhongguo's father is also a well-known No. 1 person in his hometown, and his ancestors are the last head of Liu Jiaquan in the last years of the Republic of China.
Liu Jiaquan, and Hong, Liu, Cai, Li, and Mo are known as the five famous boxers in Guangdong, ranking second. Although it is an external boxing, it is practiced to the extreme, and it is also the same as the inner boxing. In his hometown, or in the rivers and lakes of the last generation, the legend of Liu Guozhong's father often circulated.
Liu Guozhong's father was also forced to run away from home by the Cultural Revolution movement, and took the young Liu Guozhong to sleep in the open and wander the rivers and lakes.
I don't know what's wrong, Liu Guozhong's father, when he wandered to the hometown of the old Wang family, actually settled down here, and married a widow as a daughter-in-law in the local area.
Since the establishment of the production team, Liu Guozhong, a man with five big and three rough skills, has inevitably become a conscripted strong man and a member of the wasteland.
Aunt Wang and Liu Guozhong entered the production team in this way, and their acquaintance began on a dark and windy night.
On a night when the moon was missing and her fingers could not be touched, Aunt Wang encountered a thousand ghouls, one of the most terrifying ghosts among the evil spirits.