I stayed behind since I was a child and grew up in the countryside with my grandfather.

Grandpa was a merry old ruffian, and his family couldn't eat enough at the time of communization, but grandpa ran to help the widow in the team earn work, and grandma grabbed the sky and the ground, and died in anger at the door of the house without mentioning it in one breath.

After the death of grandma, grandpa not only did not restrain himself, but intensified, the orphans and widows in the production team became the objects of grandpa's help, and the men, women and children in the team poked grandpa's backbone and scolded, and even more had to roll up their sleeves to clean up grandpa.

Ordinary people have done this thing that everyone shouts and beats, and if someone wants to hit the left cheek, they have to take the initiative to stretch out the right cheek as well. But grandpa is different, whenever he hears someone accusing him, he is justified and scolds: "You know a hammer, you know what is the harmony of yin and yang!" ”

Almost all the people in the village broke off contact with their grandfather, and they all said behind their backs that their grandfather was going to be thundered by the sky, but grandpa didn't care, and still went his own way, walking around with his hands behind his back and a cigarette stick in his mouth all day long.

After my father got married and gave birth to me, I went out to work, and I was fostered at my grandfather's house in desperation.

Grandpa should have said yes, but for as long as I can remember, he used to take me to the homes of the orphans and widows, and to spend the night with me at their houses for three days.

The elders in the village couldn't stand it anymore, so they found a time to block my door, pointed at the bridge of my grandfather's nose and scolded, saying that it had only been a few years since the three-year crackdown, and that if he did this, he would kill me sooner or later.

Unexpectedly, my grandfather turned his head and asked me, "Would you like to stay with them?" ”

Because of my relationship with my grandfather, there are very few people in the village who are willing to talk to me, but those orphan women and widows are like meeting relatives when they see me, they give me daily snacks, they knit the clothes on my body, and they usually give me pocket money. Naturally, I was willing to stay with them, so I hummed and said, "Yes." ”

I myself nodded in agreement, and the village elders could only scold helplessly, "Keep going, I won't care about you in the future, and when the baby's father and mother come back in the future, see how you explain." ”

In the early summer when I was nine years old, my grandfather, who had always been tough, suddenly fell ill, and within a few days he was so sick that he couldn't walk on the ground. The people in the village said that grandpa had suffered retribution, and he couldn't even get out of bed now, so he should have reined in.

But what shocked the people in the village was that my grandfather couldn't go by himself, but he took me to those orphan girls and widows' houses every day, and I couldn't break it for a day.

One day, which lasted for about half a month, I wandered to the house of an orphan girl in a neighboring village as usual.

She is only twenty years old, her parents died in her early years, her name is Chen Yingying, she is very shy, she usually doesn't talk much, she doesn't go out of the door and doesn't step out, she will blush when she says a few more words to others, and the people in the village don't want to see orphans and widows, except for her, many mothers-in-law have said that they want to help her meet a partner, but she refused.

I went to her house, and she just smiled, grabbed a snack and gave it to me, and then sat down next to me and tied the soles of my shoes, and after a while I realized that the soles of her shoes were much bigger than her own feet, so I asked her curiously, "Who did you tie the soles for?" ”

She picked up the soles of her shoes and shook them and said, "I dreamed that the old locust tree in front of your house rotted its roots in the past few days, and then it was struck by a lightning bolt, and the bark was all split off, so I thought about making a pair of shoes for your grandfather, and I will be able to walk more steadily in the future." ”

Rural people believe in this, this is called 'telling the truth', things in dreams or unintentional words, it is likely to happen, because grandpa has recently been seriously ill, she naturally thinks that old locust tree is my grandfather.

I only sighed, but didn't answer, so many people scolded my grandfather for being struck by thunder and thunder, and he hasn't been hacked until now, which means that these words are just words.

As soon as we finished speaking, a man in his forties came to her door, dressed in black and wearing a pair of black cotton shoes on his feet, and glanced into the house at the door, then stared at me and asked, "Young man, a tree with a soul without skin will surely die, but what if a person has skin and no soul?" ”

I just thought of him as a passer-by in a nearby village, so I casually replied, "Of course people can't live without a soul, what is the use of just having skin." ”

The man nodded, looked at the orphan girl behind me and asked, "Do you understand?!" ”

The orphan girl was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to suddenly remember something, and red blood flowed from her nose, and then she fell to the ground and did not move, I looked up at the man again, and there was still a trace of him at the door.

I have heard a lot of demons and monsters in the countryside, but it is the first time I have really come into contact with this kind of thing, so I was so frightened that I ran away from the door, and half of the escape went back to see the orphan girl, but I found that the orphan girl was lying on the ground with blood from her mouth and nose, and she had long been out of breath.

It was the first time I witnessed death, no one is not afraid of death, let alone a young man, I was so frightened that I ran while crying, and I went home crying and crying and told my grandfather about it.

When my grandfather, who was already out of breath, heard this, he jumped up from the bed like a spring, got out of bed and rummaged through the cabinets and found a gong, kept muttering and scolding, took the gong and said to me, "You stay in the house, no matter what you hear, don't open the door." ”

Grandpa finished speaking and went out, and then that night the whole village was the sound of grandpa banging gongs, accompanied by the sound of grandpa's roaring and shouting, knocking from the east of the village to the west of the village, and then knocking from our village to the neighboring villages, making several nearby villages chickens and dogs jump.

Before communization, several nearby villages were barren forests, and there were many jackals, tigers and leopards in the forests, and people would light torches and beat gongs and drums all over the mountains in order to get rid of them, but now the jackals, tigers and leopards have long been gone, and I don't understand what grandpa is doing.

Grandpa didn't come back until the next morning, and he, who was already seriously ill, looked even older after this night's tossing, and sat on the chair and gasped for a while before he said to me, "What the man told you, you will rot in your stomach, and you will not be able to say it until you die." ”

I hummed and asked my grandfather with trepidation, "Is that man a ghost?" ”

Grandpa replied casually, "Ghosts are also human, and I'm afraid of a hammer." Then he got up and went to the village to inform Chen Yingying of her death.

Grandpa told them about the matter, which hid the words that the man said, only saying that Chen Yingying was killed, and in the eyes of the villagers, it became that Chen Yingying was raped to death.

Even if the people in the village hate their grandfather anymore, now that they are dead, they can't ignore it, so they have gone to Chen Yingying's house to help Chen Yingying collect her body and start to set up a mourning hall.

They were pitiful for Chen Yingying's death, and they were puzzled about the cause of Chen Yingying's death, because Chen Yingying had no wounds on her body.

According to the management of the countryside, after death, people should wipe their bodies clean and change their clothes, which is called coming innocently and going cleanly.

It's just that when they changed Chen Yingying's clothes, I was stunned on the spot, because Chen Yingying was wearing exactly the same clothes and shoes as the man.

immediately pulled his grandfather, pointed to Chen Yingying's corpse and said in horror, "Grandpa, that man is wearing the same clothes as her." ”

This was heard by the villagers, and someone retorted on the spot, "Are you dazzled by the mistake, this is a shroud, which is for the dead." ”

Rural shrouds come in two colors, one is red and the other is black.

The red shroud is for people over 60 years old to wear for the dead, and when people over 60 years old die, this is called the end of life, which is called joyful mourning.

Only the dead under the age of sixty wear black shrouds.

I can't remember the previous events vividly, and I said with certainty, "He is wearing this black shroud, and his shoes are exactly the same." ”

At this time, the people in the village were dumbfounded, and some people immediately said that there was something at home and they wanted to go home. Even those who stayed in the mourning hall looked at Chen Yingying's corpse with a face full of fear, and in the following time they each found excuses to leave with their children's families, and in the end, I was left with my grandfather and some other orphans and widows in the mourning hall.

After a while, an old man in the village returned to the mourning hall, he was my grandfather's cousin, he was disgusted with his grandfather on weekdays, but he had always had hope for his grandfather, he stood at the door of the mourning hall and said, "People can't fight with the sky, can they fight with ghosts?" This thing is obviously not done by a living person, it must have been the girl who collided with him, you have a lot to do with the girl, listen to my advice, while you haven't found the two of you yet, hurry back and don't care about it, you have done a lot of sins in your life, and it is not a pity to die, but the baby is not at fault, and Mo Lian has affected the baby. ”