Chapter 19: Distant Uncle
Liu Cheng was not surprised by my answer, but said to me, "To be a man, you have to be grateful to repay you, she can risk her life to protect you, and you must also risk your life to protect her, although you are still young, but you are also a man, and a man must be responsible." ”
Chen Yingying watched Liu Cheng talk to me in such a didactic manner, her face was full of surprise and puzzlement, I listened to Liu Cheng's words and nodded and said, "I know." ”
Liu Cheng was not ready to make trouble, and walked towards Chen Yingying, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, Chen Yingying saw him passing, and was so frightened that her body kept moving backwards, but because there was a bed eaves blocking it, she couldn't retreat, her body leaned back directly, fell on the bed, and then hugged her chest with her hands to protect herself, her face was aggrieved, and she said with a crying voice, "Please." ”
I don't know if she begged Liu Cheng not to harm me, or begged Liu Cheng not to get close to her, it's very funny.
Liu Cheng didn't follow, walked to her and stood next to her, looked at her with a smile on his face, and finally reached out and grabbed Chen Yingying's wrist, like carrying a kitten and puppy, lifted Chen Yingying from the bed and stood up, and then said to Chen Yingying, "I teased you just now, my name is Liu Cheng, and I am Sun Qing's master." ”
"Huh?" Chen Yingying was panicked and didn't understand for a while.
Liu Cheng suddenly put on a weird smile, looked Chen Yingying up and down, and then said with a smile, "The little girl looks quite handsome, but she is too weak, if you could have seen me a few years ago, maybe you wouldn't have become this stinky boy's daughter-in-law." ”
Chen Yingying had just stabilized, but she was frightened by Liu Cheng's smile and words, so I hurriedly walked over and told Chen Yingying what happened.
Chen Yingying couldn't hold back anymore after hearing this, she sat on the bed and sobbed, but she was full of fear of Liu Cheng, and she didn't even dare to cry too loudly, Liu Cheng saw that Chen Yingying didn't even dare to sobble too loudly, and said, "Don't cry, I didn't do anything to you, after all, you are not a living person, I have to find out what you have for Sun Qing." ”
Chen Yingying lived alone at a very young age, although she was shy, she was not delicate, and rarely cried. People who don't like to cry can't stop crying at all once they start crying, Liu Cheng finished explaining, but Chen Yingying couldn't stop at all.
thought that Liu Cheng would continue to comfort Chen Yingying, but he didn't, but glared at Chen Yingying and said, "If you cry again, believe it or not, I'll throw you out." ”
I said in my heart that this is too unsympathetic, but this trick does work, as soon as Liu Cheng finished speaking, Chen Yingying immediately pursed her lips and looked at Liu Cheng pitifully, not daring to make any more sound.
After Chen Yingying's grievances were completely vented, Liu Chengcai stood by the bed and asked Chen Yingying, "I have a few questions for you, if you really want Sun Qing's good, answer me truthfully." ”
Chen Yingying nodded weakly and said, "En." ”
Liu Cheng asked, "Where did your soul stay until the Lord of the Land didn't find you?" ”
Chen Yingying blinked, her grandfather should have explained to her, so that she didn't say it casually, she hesitated, and after a while, she chose to answer Liu Cheng truthfully, "Three feet underground, there is a mountain temple there, there are not only me, but also other people." ”
The other people she said should be Zhang Wen and other orphan widows, I understand this, Liu Cheng also understands, and didn't ask much about this, Liu Cheng said, "The land temple is under six feet of loess, and your grandfather is a smart man, and he moved the mountain temple to three feet underground, so that the mountain temple cannot be found either above or below." Then he asked Chen Yingying, "Do you know why he put you in the mountain temple?" ”
Chen Yingying thought for a while and said, "He said that we are all dead, and as long as the soul has not been captured below, we can live for a while in secret, so we stayed in the mountain temple." ”
Liu Cheng also began to think about it after hearing this, and finally shook his head, "This is definitely not the real reason, he didn't tell you the truth, and it seems that you don't know either." Liu Cheng then said, "It's almost dawn, you can go, what I told you today, you don't want to tell anyone, especially Sun Qing's grandfather." ”
Since the death of Chen Yingying's parents, her grandfather has become her most trusted person, and she will tell her grandfather about everything, but she nodded and said, "Okay, I won't say it." ”
After that, Chen Yingying left my room, and after a whole night, I was really sleepy and unbearable, so I didn't continue the next topic with Liu Cheng, and fell asleep directly on the bed.
I don't know how long I slept this night, and when I woke up, it was already three poles old, and there was no one in the hall, so I looked around the house and saw the mother who was cooking in the stove house.
Since childhood, they have been separated from their parents since they were young, and they were still a little rusty when they first came back, but now they are much better, and when they see their mother, they ask, "Where is my master?" ”
The mother said, "He went to your grandfather's house with your grandfather, and he is probably coming back soon." ”
I said, "I'll go find them." ”
But just as I was about to go out, something suddenly fell from the door, hit me right on the head, and then fell directly down my back into the hall, I hurriedly took a few steps back, and then calmed down, but saw that it was an embroidered shoe that hit me.
These shoes are exactly the same as the pair of my family, my grandmother was killed by this shoe, and she was shocked and hurriedly called out her mother, and when she heard the voice, she picked up the embroidered shoes on the ground and looked at them, and said to me, "You go and see if the one at home is still there." ”
I said yes, went to my grandfather's room to get the box of shoes, opened it and saw that the shoe that killed my grandmother was still inside, which means that it was another one that hit me, and the other shoe was in Old Man Li's house, how could it suddenly come to my door?
My mother knew that these shoes were not a good thing, so she immediately threw them out of the door and said to me, "Go and ask your master to come back and have a look." ”
I knew that the situation was serious, so I didn't delay in the house, so I hurriedly went out and ran to my grandfather's house.
There is some distance from my house to my grandfather's house, you need to pass through a loquat tree, in the past, when the loquat was ripe, I often came here to pick loquats, because the loquat tree is not my family, so many people in the village came to me for trouble, and finally my grandfather sent away.
When I first walked to the loquat tree, I saw two people walking in front of me, one of whom was about thirty or forty years old, and the other was the grandfather, the two of them walked side by side in front of me, and the grandfather looked at me and smiled and said, "Why are you in such a hurry?" ”
Before, Liu Cheng speculated that the grandfather wanted to harm me, so I also had a more heart for the grandfather, and didn't dare to say that my family had lost shoes again, but said, "I'm looking for my master." Then ask the grandfather, "Where are you going?" ”
The eldest grandfather glanced at the person next to him, and then said to me with a smile, "I came to a distant relative, and took me to live at his house for two days. ”
Because my mother went out to work when I was a child, I didn't know my mother's relatives, so I just wanted to find Liu Cheng to see the shoes at home, and I wasn't going to say more to him, so I was about to leave, but before I walked a few steps, the man next to my grandfather said, "Are you Sun Qing?" ”
I sighed, "Which one are you?" ”
He smiled and said, "You haven't seen me, but according to your seniority, you still have to call me uncle, just right, you go to my house with your grandfather." ”
I glanced up and down at the man, who looked like he was nothing, but when I looked at his waist, I saw an umbrella pinned to his waist, and next to the umbrella hung a black bag, which contained a handful of incense.
He came to pick up his grandfather as a guest, and he can understand it with an umbrella, but it is too unlucky to bring incense, and this is the most taboo for rural people, if you go to someone else's house, you can't even bring medicine in.
But I didn't think much about it at that time, I just thought that this person didn't understand etiquette, so I refused with a smile, and then ran away, and the man also left with the grandfather.
When I walked next to my grandfather's house, I felt that something was wrong, grandpa and Liu Cheng were looking for grandpa, and grandpa was gone, who were they looking for? Thinking about walking to the door of the grandfather's house, he saw that Liu Cheng and his grandfather were still there, but when he went to the door, he saw the grandfather leaning back on his chair and staring at the roof.
I was stunned, my grandfather was in the house, who was the person I saw under the loquat tree just now? So he pulled the grandfather next to him and asked, "What's wrong with grandpa?" ”
Grandpa said, "Dead." ”
I was stunned and said, "I saw my grandfather under the loquat tree just now, and he talked to me." ”