Chapter 4: The Death of Lin Goudan
After grandpa finished explaining, when he was about to leave, Lin Goudan took me and Lin Xiaowei out of the two children, and he called my grandfather to the house alone, and the two of them chatted for a while, and there was even a quarrel between the two.
Ten minutes later, the two of them came out, my grandfather's expression was a little strange, but Uncle Godan's face was a strange calmness.
Adults, although curious, but I am a child, naturally I dare not ask, even if I ask grandpa, I will definitely not say, otherwise Lin Goudan would not need to spend me and Lin Xiaowei separately.
In addition, I was still quite curious about what the yellow paper bag that my grandfather gave to Lin Goudan was, and I asked my grandfather on the way home, and my grandfather told me that it was for life-saving.
Actually, I didn't know until later that the thing was called Huang Fu.
There was no moon that night, and it was terrible to be quiet outside, and I felt scared when I thought about the events of the day, and I barely fell asleep with my head covered in the bed.
But not long after falling asleep, there was a knocking sound outside, and there was a knock on the door.
Suddenly, I came to my senses.
Thinking of Grandpa's words to Lin Goudan, what would be outside? I was so frightened that I was in a cold sweat, curled up in the bed, and I didn't dare to breathe.
But at this time, in addition to the knock on the door, I heard a voice shouting: "Grandpa Yang, Brother Fan, my father and him...... He...... Deliver him......"
It was Lin Xiaowei's voice, and her voice became choked.
Although he was afraid, Lin Xiaowei's voice was outside the door, what if he was in any danger? No, I have to go out and take a look, listen to her voice, Uncle Dog can't really have an accident, right?
It was still summer, and it wasn't cold, so I put on my big pants and ran outside.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I saw a dark shadow in the center of the courtyard, he was standing there, I couldn't see his face at all, and I immediately felt a chill in my back.
However, I was familiar with that shadow, and I immediately recognized that he was actually my grandfather.
"Grandpa!" I shouted, also to give myself courage.
"Fanwazi, why are you up?" Grandpa didn't look back, but stared at the gate and asked in a low voice.
"Xiaowei, Xiaowei, she's outside." Since it's Lin Xiaowei outside, it's obvious that something has happened, why is grandpa standing here stunned, why don't you go out to save people?
I was a little anxious, and I was about to open the door after speaking, but my grandfather stopped me, and he said, "Fanwazi, don't go over, grandpa go open the door!" ”
With that, Grandpa walked towards the gate, and the wooden door creaked open.
Outside, stood a little girl, cloaked, pale with a panicked expression.
She is indeed Xiaowei.
"Xiaowei, what's wrong?" Grandpa asked, looking down.
As soon as Grandpa asked, Lin Xiaowei cried, and she choked up and said, "Grandpa Yang...... I...... My father hung on the beams of my house......"
Grandpa's face changed immediately, and he pulled me and Lin Xiaowei and ran towards Lin Xiaowei's house.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I was stunned by the situation in his house, and Lin Goudan hanged himself.
He didn't wear anything, he hung on the beam of his house, his neck was covered by a black hemp rope, his tongue was sticking out to the old elder, his eyes burst out, and the whites of his eyes were full of blood vessels, as if crawling with red bugs, very scary.
My back was covered with cold sweat, and Lin Xiaowei stood next to me, holding my hand tightly.
Boys always have a desire to protect girls, and I held her hand tightly, hoping to give her some security, and she stuck to me, obviously frightened by the death of his daddy Lin Godan.
The first time I had contact with her at such a distance, I don't know why, my heart was pounding so much, and my face was a little hot.
Grandpa walked briskly towards the room, and when he walked next to Lin Goudan's corpse, he stopped, sighed, and shook his head.
I know, grandpa means that Lin Goudan is hopeless.
However, Grandpa kept staring at the dog egg, and after a while, he said to himself, "No, what about Huang Fu?" ”
Grandpa seemed to think of something, and looked back at Lin Xiaowei and said, "Xiaowei, can you tell Grandpa Yang what happened?" ”
Lin Xiaowei kept shaking her head, and her grandfather comforted her for a while, and her spirit improved slightly, and she told her the story again.
That's right, when it was almost midnight, Lin Xiaowei woke up when she heard someone calling her name outside, and the voice sounded a little familiar, but she didn't know whose voice it was.
Lin Xiaowei heard his father say at that time: "Baby, are you back?" ”
Although she is young, she also knows some theories, others say that his mother has died a long time ago, and it is definitely not a person who is coming back now. Immediately afterwards, Lin Xiaowei saw a woman wearing a purple shroud walk into the house, the woman's face was miserable and white, the woman was getting closer and closer to her, she saw the woman reach out and touch her forehead, and at this moment, Lin Xiaowei fainted as soon as it was dark in front of her.
When she woke up, she found her father hanging from the beams of the house, with nothing on him.
As soon as grandpa heard this, he seemed to think of something, and immediately ran towards the back room, Lin Xiaowei and I were scared, and followed my grandfather to the back room.
Grandpa found the yellow paper bag on the floor in the back room, and half of the yellow paper bag was burned.
It seems that Lin Goudan didn't listen to the things that grandpa explained, what's going on, the things that grandpa explained were all to save his life, but why did he even destroy the yellow talisman?
Grandpa looked at the half-burned yellow talisman, and a lot of strange things flashed in his eyes, and then he sighed and shook his head again.
Except for the strange eyes of my grandfather, I can understand the rest, but what is the reason for Uncle Godan's death, is it because he was retaliated against for cutting down trees, or was he really taken away by his deceased mother as Lin Xiaowei said?
Grandpa specially explained to the two of us that the cause of Uncle Godan's death must be kept secret, and he must not tell anyone.
After that, grandpa found a wooden ladder to take the body of Lin Goudan off the beam, I was there to help grandpa hold the ladder, saying that I was not afraid that it would be a lie, grandpa carried the corpse past me at the moment, I happened to be with the eyes of the forest dog egg almost burst out of the eye, a cold air came to my face, I was almost scared to pee my pants.
Really, in that case, I can still stand on the ladder is the limit.
Early the next morning, Lin Goudan's door was crowded with people, all of them talking. I don't know how the news got out, anyway, the villagers all knew that Lin Goudan was hanged on the beam of the house in the middle of the night, and his death was extremely terrifying.
Cut down the old locust tree, retribution is really coming!
The villagers think so.
Of course, after hearing the news, the most frightened person must be the other five people who cut down the tree, Lin Goudan is dead, and the next one to die must be one of them.
Several elders in the village came to help, and set up a mourning hall in Lin Xiaowei's house, our rules here, people die to keep the spirit for three days. But everyone knew that Lin Goudan died strangely, and several elders couldn't make up their minds after discussing it for a while, so grandpa told them that there was a problem with the time of Lin Goudan's death and he had to be buried immediately.
The cemetery was chosen by the grandfather, and the coffin was given by one of the elders, anyway, Lin Goudan was buried before twelve o'clock at noon.
Everything was in a hurry, and Grandpa seemed to be worried about something.
And I remembered the situation when Lin Goudan and Grandpa were alone, what did they say?
On the way out of the funeral, Lin Xiaowei kept crying and shouting to prevent the villagers from burying her father, but people have to die in the ground, how can she be stopped by a little girl?
My grandmother also came over, hugging Xiaowei tightly, and her old man looked at Lin Xiaowei with tears in her eyes. Grandma said: "Xiaowei, don't be afraid, your father is gone, and you will be my granddaughter in the future!" "Grandma can only be so comforted, but in the future, Xiaowei will become an orphan without her father, and someone really has to take her in.
After the funeral, the villagers all left Lin Goudan's house early, and everyone knew that the person who died was not easy to mess with, so he could only avoid it.
Because of Lin Goudan's death, the work on the side of the broken temple is considered to be stranded, and no matter how much money there is, no one dares to touch the old locust tree that has been put down.
According to a neighbor, the old carpenter in the village was worried that the village chief would let him go to untie the wood, and for fear of retribution, so he left the village early in the morning with his luggage to join his relatives.
For a while, the people of the entire Yangjiazhuang were panicked, and some of the timid people who took refuge had even escaped from the old carpenter.
At this time, in my yard, Lin Xiaowei was still crying a lot, and in the end, the little girl actually fainted from crying, grandpa took the pulse and said that it was okay, and grandma took care of her in the back room.
Grandpa smoked a dry tobacco pouch in the yard, bag after bag.
In the afternoon of the same day, Li Erwa rescued a few people and went to my house, I originally thought that a few of them came to ask my grandfather for help, but I didn't expect them to come to find trouble.
Grandpa was smoking a dry tobacco pouch at the time, and Li Erwa stepped forward to knock out my grandfather's tobacco pouch pot. Grandpa didn't pay attention to him, just lifted the cigarette pouch pot slightly, took a deep puff of cigarette, and dodged Li Erwa's palm.
Li Erwa threw his palm into the air, stumbled, and almost fell to the ground, his face couldn't hold back, and he immediately said angrily: "Yang Changsheng, you old immortal thing, don't think that I don't know that you did this behind your back." What kind of revenge killing, I think you were the one who killed the dog last night! ”
Actually, when he said this, some villagers gathered outside our house, and he said it very loudly, so that the villagers could hear it.
Grandpa was not angry, glanced at Li Erwa and asked, "What do you say?" ”
Li Erwa sneered and said, "Okay, don't pretend to be garlic, don't think that the big guy doesn't know, you were the only one who went to Lin Goudan's house last night, who else would you kill if you didn't kill it?" ”
"I'm too lazy to explain to you ignorant descendants, I advise you, go back early to explain your future, there will be dead people tonight, don't believe it, let's see!" Grandpa said slowly.
These words definitely hit the weakness of Li Erwa's gang, Li Erwa barely supported her arrogant expression, and the few behind her were about to kneel on the ground and beg my grandfather.
"Yang Changsheng, don't fucking try to bluff people, Lao Tzu is not frightened, the village chief will not give you a chance!" After Li Erwa finished speaking, she threw up her sleeves and left, and the people who followed him looked back at my grandfather from time to time, the purpose can be imagined, they don't want to die, I hope my grandfather can save them.
But these people must also have some handle in Li Erwa's hands, so they don't dare to say it clearly.
Li Erwa left, and grandma came out to drive away the onlookers, and turned around and asked, "Changsheng, what is Li Erwa doing here?" ”
Obviously, grandma saw something, and grandpa said: "As you think, Li Aiguo asked them to come, I guess Li Aiguo will definitely come at night!" ”
Grandpa is simply divine, he is right, just after dinner, Li Aiguo really came.
As soon as Li Aiguo entered the house, he greeted him very politely, he was very proud, and whenever he was very proud, he would become very kind and polite.
"Uncle Changsheng, have you eaten?"
"What's the matter, just say it!" Grandpa didn't want to talk to him.
"Uncle Changsheng, I came here this time to invite you to the wheat field, you and I don't want anything to happen to the villagers, do we?" Li Aiguo said.
"What if I don't go?" Grandpa asked rhetorically.