Chapter 2: The Dead Man Goes Up to the Tree
My grandfather's name is Sun Wenjing, and his cousin's name is Sun Wensheng, so I have to call Sun Wensheng my grandfather.
My grandfather was a teacher in his early years, and he had some ink in his stomach, and my father was his student, but he didn't continue to teach when he was old. Because he had taught, he was very popular in several nearby villages, and he was asked to make decisions on big and small matters, and he would also be asked to write at weddings and funerals. However, he is not smiling, and always has a straight face, which is completely different from my grandfather's temperament.
Rural names will be according to the word genealogy, the Sun family's word genealogy is 'Wan Dai Chang as a teacher, Huaguo article Kaijin Jinrun', grandpa is the text generation, my father is the chapter generation, I am the word generation, but my name is not according to the word genealogy, my single name is 'Qing'.
Ethereal things have always been the most feared by rural people, because the man was wearing a shroud, and the villagers no longer dared to get involved in it.
Grandpa listened to his grandfather's persuasion, and was afraid that I would be really entangled, and he would not be able to explain to my father and mother at that time, so he said to me, "You go back with your grandfather, stay at your grandfather's house tonight, and pick you up when I bury her." ”
Grandpa still didn't want to go, which made the eldest grandfather very angry, and came directly into the house to pull me away, and scolded grandpa, "Let you leave it alone, you will die at the hands of these women sooner or later." ”
I walked back to the village with my grandfather at night, and on the way, my grandfather smoked and didn't talk to me, I only felt a cold back, and I was embarrassed to say that I was afraid, so I took the initiative to find a topic and said, "Grandpa, what is my grandfather's disease?" ”
The eldest grandfather replied angrily, "He is crazy, if you dare to learn from him, Lao Tzu will break your legs." ”
Everyone in the village thought that my grandfather had an affair with those orphan girls and widows, but I used to follow my grandfather every day and knew that even if my grandfather lived in their house, he lived in a side house, which I explained to the villagers, but the villagers didn't believe it.
I have always been more afraid of grandpa, so I don't dare to talk to him anymore, when I was about to enter the village, I took advantage of the moon at night to look back at the orphan girl's home, only to look at the fart and immediately frightened the urine, grabbed the grandpa and said in a panic, "Grandpa, someone is flying in the sky." ”
The grandfather didn't look back and said, "Fly a JB fly, if a person can fly, then he won't become a beast." When he finished speaking, he looked back, his face immediately froze, and he dragged me to the village, "Run, don't let it catch up." ”
I was dragged all the way to the race, during which I looked back several times, and finally realized that it was not a person flying in the sky, but a pair of pants blown up by the wind, which looked like the lower body of a person, and I breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's not a person, it's a pair of pants." ”
The grandfather didn't dare to slow down, "I know that it's a pair of pants, the pants are Chen Yingying's, she wants to wear the same pants as you, if she catches up, you have to marry her as a daughter-in-law." ”
I've heard people in the village say this before, saying that men wear the same pair of pants with each other, and that's brothers. Men and women wear the same pair of pants, that's husband and wife.
After listening to the words of the grandfather, I ran faster than him, and pushed the door in as soon as I arrived at his house, and the grandfather went back to the house and closed the door with a bang, and then the two of them sat down and gasped, and after relieving, the grandfather said, "Fortunately, I didn't ask the pants to be put on, and your grandfather's sin is retribution to you." ”
I said fearfully, "Isn't Chen Yingying dead, what did she do with me?" ”
The grandfather replied, "There are as many ghosts as people in this world, ghosts are people of the past, and people are ghosts of the future." Chen Yingying became a ghost when she died, and those orphan women and widows lacked men, it is estimated that she took a fancy to you, so she would hold on to you. ”
Grandpa has a lot of ink in his stomach, and I can't understand what he says, I just don't know how to pretend to understand, and after that, grandpa sits and smokes, and I sit and wait for grandpa. It was almost dawn before there was finally a knock on the door, and I thought it was my grandfather who had returned, so I immediately got up and opened the door.
Just opened the door and looked, but was so frightened that he sat back, the man standing at the door was not grandpa, but the man in the shroud, the grandfather saw him and instantly understood that the person who killed Chen Yingying was him, and immediately stood up and took out a cigarette gun and pointed it at him and scolded, "Get out, get out of Laozi." ”
The man in the shroud squinted and smiled, then looked at me and asked, "Little brother, do you think the dead will go up the tree?" ”
Of course, dead people can't go up trees, but I don't dare to answer his questions anymore, it was because I answered his questions that Chen Yingying would die, and she closed her mouth tightly and didn't speak.
He laughed again and asked himself, "Of course the dead can't go up the tree, but if you really wait until the day when the dead go up the tree, the living marry the corpse, and the old dog asks for directions, your grandfather should also die, and you have to prepare a shroud coffin for your grandfather in advance." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the grandfather was going to knock him with a cigarette gun, but in a trance, there was no trace of him at the door, and the grandfather went out to take a look, and there was no shadow of him left and right, so he went back to the house, and I asked the grandfather what the person just said meant.
The grandfather said, "Say your grandfather's severed head." He said very firmly, "The dead can't go up the tree, the living won't marry the corpse, and the old dog can't find his way home, don't worry, your grandfather can't die." ”
While we were talking, the pants that were chasing us just now didn't know where they fell, and they just landed on the branch of an old Tsubaki tree in front of my grandfather's house, and it looked like a person sitting on the old Tsubaki tree looking at me and my grandfather.
Naturally, the grandfather saw it, and pushed me into the house, and then picked up a bamboo pole next to me to dry clothes, walked under the old tsubaki tree, poked the pants off, and burned the pants to ashes with a lighter.
I went back to the house after I was done, and before I could speak, my grandfather persuaded me, "Don't worry, even if you ask her to get her, you won't marry her." ”
Grandpa said this very loudly, obviously not just listening to me alone, and there was no one else here except me and Grandpa, and the atmosphere was very weird.
My grandfather and I sat in the house for a whole night, and when it was dawn, I didn't see my grandfather come back, but a few people in the village ran to the door of my grandfather's house in a panic, and when they saw that my grandfather and I were there, they didn't even breathe and said, "Sun Wensheng, you have to hurry up and persuade your brother, he is doing foolish things." ”
Grandpa has done too many foolish things, and grandpa has already seen it, and asked lightly, "What foolish things?" ”
The villagers said, "In the morning, we went to work in the fields while it was cool, and when we passed by the tomb, we saw your brother and those widows carrying Chen Yingying's coffin up the mountain, and your brother wanted to hang Chen Yingying's coffin on a tree. ”
Grandpa was stunned after hearing this, the countryside pays attention to the soil for peace, in order to make people's souls grounded and reincarnated, hanging on the tree is not so that people will never be born, grandpa immediately got up, and the people in the village went up the mountain together, and I also followed.
There is a fixed burial ground in the village, and on the hill behind the village, it is said that the feng shui there is good, and the dead are buried there. There were quite a few pine trees on the hills, and when we went, my grandfather had finished it.
Grandpa, they tied Chen Yingying's coffin with iron chains, and then tied the chains to the four surrounding pine trees, and the coffins were hung in the air by iron chains.
The grandfather was furious when he saw this scene, strode in front of his grandfather, raised his hand and was about to hit his grandfather, but before he left his grandfather, he said, "You have to beat me to death with this slap." ”
Grandpa was already seriously ill, and he was busy in the past two days, and it looked like he was about to lose his breath, grandpa said this, and grandpa immediately didn't dare to fight, and went over to knock on Chen Yingying's coffin and asked grandpa, "What are you doing here?" Do you hang dead people on trees when people are cats? ”
This is also a rural specialty, called 'cats on trees', because cats are clean, so they can't go into the ground, and they have to be tied with straw and hung on trees after death. If other animals are not clean, they will be buried in the earth, and the same is true for people.
The unclean thing in their mouth is the heart, and the heart refers to the soul, and the unclean thing of the soul hangs on the tree, and if it can't connect with the earth, then it can't be reborn.
I watched this scene and remembered what the man asked me before, people have skin but no soul, and they will definitely die, and Chen Yingying also died after hearing this sentence. If Chen Yingying has skin and no soul, it must be clean, and of course it has to be hung on a tree.
And the man who came to me and my grandfather at night to say that the dead man went up the tree, isn't that the scene in front of him? Chen Yingying's body has already climbed the tree.