After this man left, I couldn't sleep, a stranger who had died suddenly came to me and said these words, how could I not be afraid, I stayed up for a long time, I was expecting Chen Yingying to come, but I stayed up until it was gray and bright outside, and I didn't see her coming, I was afraid that the man would come to me again, and I didn't dare to stay in the house anymore, so I went out of the door by the light outside, ran to my grandfather's house with a smoke, and woke up my grandfather by slamming the door.

Grandpa opened the door and saw that I was so anxious, thinking that the person who killed my grandfather and Chen Yingying had found me again, so he pulled me into the house and hurriedly closed the door, and then said, "Did something unclean find you?" ”

I shook my head, and then told my grandfather all the strange things that the man had said to me at night, and he couldn't understand it, and said, "Your grandfather is already dead, and even if he is not dead, the lightning will have to be killed, and people cannot be resurrected, don't believe this." ”

I didn't believe it at first, but I went to Grandpa's house to hide because I was so scared.

After that, I had been sitting at my grandfather's house, and at five o'clock in the morning, the more I thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he stood up with a cigarette gun in his mouth and said, "No, I have to go to your grandfather's grave to see if it's true, if you're afraid, go with me, if you're not afraid, stay in the house, and I'll come back after reading it." ”

"I'll go too." Staying alone in the house, maybe something dirty will find me, and I will go with my grandfather, so I can take care of it.

After that, I went to the tomb with my grandfather, and the chickens began to crow, and the people in the village hadn't gotten up yet, so no one noticed me and my grandfather.

At first, we decided to go to Grandpa's grave for peace of mind, but when we actually arrived at Grandpa's grave, we were shocked by the scene in front of us.

Grandpa's grave was really dug up, the coffin inside the grave was open, the coffin lid was lying aside, and where was there still a trace of grandpa in the coffin, I stared at the empty coffin in a daze, pulled the corner of grandpa's clothes and said, "Did grandpa really crawl out of the grave?" ”

The grandfather gritted his teeth and said, "The dead can still crawl out of the coffin, it can't be turned upside down, it must be some dog who can't get used to your grandfather, so he did this thing of cutting off children and grandchildren." He himself was not sure of this, and after saying this, he hesitated again, and then asked me, "Where is the grave of the man who told you that your grandfather climbed out?" ”

I pointed to a small mound at the very edge of the burial ground, and my grandfather and I walked to it.

This mound has not been taken care of for many years, it is overgrown with weeds, and because there is no one to help open a ditch to divert water, this mound has long been washed away by the rain and is in tatters, and it is impossible to tell that this is a mound if you don't look carefully.

I asked my grandfather, "Who is buried in this?" ”

The grandfather stood in front of the grave for a while, went over to help him pull up the weeds, and then dug a small ravine beside the grave with his hands, and diverted the water around it, and then said, "This mound is older than me, and it doesn't even have a tombstone, so I don't know which one is buried." ”

Older than the grandfather, doesn't it mean that it was here before the commune? At that time, it was still a barren mountain, and there were jackals, tigers and leopards on the mountain, who dared to live here?

I thought to myself, but the grandfather made a move for this mound, and said, "If you thank this doll for burning paper money for you, you must bless this doll with peace and security, the old grandson's family is such a single seedling, as long as he is safe and sound, I will come to burn paper for you every New Year's holiday in the future." ”

After the grandfather finished speaking, he waited for a while, but he didn't see any movement in the grave, and finally he could only sigh and take me back to my grandfather's grave.

Grandpa's body is gone, this kind of thing is more serious than the ancestral grave being dug up, my family has been ostracized, to let the people in the village know about this, I am afraid that in the future, I will really become a lonely family in this vicinity. Again, a dead man suddenly disappeared, and the people of this village must be in a panic, and there may be some kind of chaos.

Grandpa asked me to carry the lid of the coffin with him and close the coffin, and then built a small mound for my grandfather, pretending that my grandfather was still in the coffin.

My grandfather told me that I couldn't tell anyone about my grandfather's missing body, otherwise, the villagers would probably kick me out of the village for their own safety.

I nodded, and then returned to the village with my grandfather.

Before I entered the house, I saw an orphan girl who brought me breakfast on weekdays and ran over in a panic, and saw me and my grandfather standing at the door, but when I arrived, I was out of breath, and I was stunned for a long time without saying a word.

Grandpa doesn't like these orphan girls and widows very much on weekdays, so he said casually, "What are you doing in a panic, have you been chased by ghosts?" ”

The orphan girl gasped for a while before relieving herself, and then pointed to a small forest that she had to pass through to come to my house, "I saw Sun Qing and his grandfather." ”

The grandfather's face immediately turned pale, and he immediately asked me to open the door and enter the house, and asked the orphan girl, "What the hell is going on?" ”

The orphan girl said with a frightened face, "I delivered food to Sun Qing in the morning, and when I passed by the forest, I saw Sun Qing and his grandfather wearing a shroud in a circle in the forest, and when he met me and asked, where is his house, I was so scared that I showed him the way." He was already dead, and I was afraid that he would do something bad to Sun Qing when he went back to the house, so I hurriedly took a small road and came over to inform Sun Qing. ”

I listened to this and asked my grandfather again, "Is this an old dog asking for directions?" ”

The man said three things, the dead man went up to the tree, the living man married the corpse, and the old dog asked for directions.

Before, we thought that it was really the old dog who couldn't find his way home, so we asked others to ask the old dog for directions.

But now that I think about it, that's not the case at all. At that time, many people starved to death in the vicinity, and at that time, the families were so poor that they had no spare money to prepare coffins and shrouds, and the dead people just found a pit and buried them, just like burying dogs, so at that time the dead people were called 'hairy dogs'. I heard the people in the village say that most of the dead people at that time had grievances, and they could often be seen wandering around, but their limbs were stiff, and they could not walk like the living, so they could only jump and walk.

The old dog who was really going to talk about the man in the shroud asked for directions, and this should be the case.

After listening to what the orphan girl said, coupled with my sentence, his face was full of sadness, rubbing his temples and saying, "I'm all this old bone, I can't bear to toss like this, if I continue like this, I will have to return to the West sooner or later." However, although the grandfather complained, he still made a decisive decision, "You all come to me first, the dead are inhumane, I am afraid that he will do something that should not be done." ”

The orphan girl and I immediately nodded in agreement, did not delay in the house for any longer, and immediately got up and prepared to go to the grandfather's house.

It's just that the three of them just walked to the door, and they saw their grandfather staggering from the side of the house, his shroud was full of mud, and he looked very scary.

When my grandfather saw my grandfather coming straight over, he immediately pulled me behind me, and then pointed at my grandfather and said, "What are you going to do?" Sun Qing is your grandson, if he dies, he should go back to the coffin and stay there, run out to make trouble, believe it or not, I burned you. ”

Grandpa's threat was obviously useless, but Grandpa still staggered over, and finally stood in front of the three of us, stared at me and asked, "Am I alive or dead?" ”

"What?" The orphan girl was stunned.

Grandpa stared at me again and asked, "Am I alive or dead?" ”

The orphan girl was about to answer, when I remembered what the man had told me in the evening, that if my grandfather came to me and asked me if he was dead or alive, I would have to answer, 'You are alive,' and I trembled, and said, "You are alive." ”

But after listening to this, Grandpa continued to ask, "Am I alive or dead?" ”

I replied, "Of course you are a living person." ”

Grandpa's eyes suddenly changed, stared at me for a long time, squeezed out an 'oh' word in his mouth, and then fell to the ground with his head up, and then there was a gurgling sound in his throat, and the grandfather immediately squatted down when he heard this sound, and reached out to press it on the position of grandpa's chest.

With the pressure of the grandfather, the grandfather's voice became louder and louder, and finally he coughed, and soon a mouthful of thick phlegm came out of the grandfather's mouth, and then looked at the grandfather, and began to breathe steadily, and the grandfather turned his head and said to me, "Your grandfather is not dead yet, quickly take a handle and carry your grandfather into the house." ”