Chapter 12 The Showery Mountain Village

Liping County is not far from Da Dunzi Town, and from Da Dunzi Town bypassing Aqipo, into the mountain to Dunzhai, now there is a machine farming road, the van can barely get in, so there is no need to walk, I let the little demon take my parents directly from Liping County to Da Dunzi Town, and then go to Dunzhai there.

When I go to the grave to worship, I always need to bring something, incense, candles, money, firecrackers, fruits, and braised red and shiny pig's head and large pieces of fat, as well as my grandmother's favorite chicken cake when she was alive, my father also let me buy a roll of firecrackers with 400 rings, as well as sickles and shovels or something, which are generally done, and in the morning I went to the middle school near the middle school to find my Fa Xiao Lao Jiang to borrow the van he just bought, and then took my parents, the little demon and Duoduo to Dunzhai together.

It takes more than three hours to walk, but it only takes more than 40 minutes to drive, and soon we arrived at Dunzhai, where my grandmother lived for more than 80 years, the village is the same as when I left, basically there is not much change, but there are a few Indian houses on the side of the road, that is, brick and wood houses, which represent the symbol of rich people in the countryside, I heard my mother tell me that when it comes to this house, it is all money earned by young people who go out to work.

With the deepening of social change, more and more young people have received education, and their horizons have become broader, and they are more nostalgic for the outside world, and the traditions and customs of this poor and remote Miao village have gradually been forgotten by people, and finally disappeared into the wind.

The pace of the times is constantly advancing, for example, the mysterious and ancient profession of Gu cultivator has also slowly disappeared over time.

My mother has lived in Dunzhai for more than 20 years, and she is naturally very familiar with the people in the village, and because my grandmother's status here is very high, the villagers are also very enthusiastic about my mother, and they constantly come forward to say hello and say a few words, and when they see me, they always smile and say: "Feng, this is your family, is it so big now?" Hey, your daughter-in-law is so beautiful, like a star in a movie, and her granddaughter is so old......"

Whenever the villagers talked about it so enthusiastically, my mother smiled happily and did not correct it, even my father, who was silent and silent, showed a sincere smile and looked at me meaningfully, and the little demon pulling the flowers next to me.

The scene was a little embarrassing, I subconsciously glanced at the little demon, but this little fox girl was dignified at the moment, as if she was a student girl who had just graduated from high school, respectfully and politely under the introduction of my mother, she shouted one by one: "Uncle Long, second uncle, Aunt Ban......"

Well, it's a weird feeling, and I feel uncomfortable, so I'm urging everyone to hurry up and get out of here.

My grandmother's grave is on the mountain behind Dunzhai, where the ravine is deep and secluded, the thick shade covers the sun, there are five majestic mountain bags evenly distributed in the southeast and northwest, all of them are like dragon heads, forming a pentagonal shape, facing the green mountain boundary, like five dragons holding the saint, magnificent, the mountains are winding, and the mountains lock the mouth. There is no such categorical feng shui technique in the Miao Jiang Witch Gu as in the Central Plains, but it also has its own simple set of methods on how to use the mountain and water flow to change the luck, and this place is designated by my grandmother before her death.

A road up the mountain, winding, the little demon and Duoduo are light and fast, and unconsciously walked to the front, taking advantage of this opportunity, my mother quietly pulled my arm, pointed to the little demon in front and said: "Ah Zuo, this sister is good, you have to hurry, if you miss it again, look at your mother I won't scold you to death?" ”

The young people in our family generally get married early, my sons are already in elementary school, and their peers have become parents, and then look at me, I don't even have a formal girlfriend, and I am not married at the age of twenty-seven or eighteen, which is really a very humiliating thing in our small place, and I can be said to be an old bachelor before.

If the conditions in the family are really bad, then I will endure it, but my mother always feels that her son's conditions are also ten miles and eight villages, not only can he make money doing business outside, but now he has become a public family, several friends who come and go are big caps, and they can eat on the scene, and many people can't compare with it, my mother has enjoyed all the blessings for most of her life, and she is counting on a grandson to tease and enjoy the joy of that day.

I can understand her desire to beg for a child, but this rush to the doctor, it really makes me a little overwhelmed, not to mention that I have nothing to do with the little demon, even if there is that...... Shemales have different paths, and we can't have any results, right?

I didn't say anything, but my mother's hatred suddenly rose, and she pinched me ruthlessly, and walked ahead angrily.

Soon we arrived at my grandmother's grave, although my parents had come once this year, but now the grave was overgrown with weeds, and those green and yellow grass mangs covered the grave, and I walked to the grave and looked at a cold black and white photo on the tombstone. The grandmother in the photo is not smiling, her eyes are sharp, although she was famous when she was young, but nearly half a century of Gu raising experience has exhausted all her youth, and finally left a hooked nose, thin old woman.

I don't know what happened to Lu Dao, but when I came back after many years, looking at the picture of my grandmother on the tombstone, and looking at her cold eyes, I seemed to be able to feel that she seemed to be faintly alive, or rather, there was a consciousness circulating in this world.

Long Laolan, such a name is really not good, many people will feel incredible when they hear it, and think how can they take such a name, but in the era when my grandmother and they lived, disease, plague, hunger and rampant war made it possible to live to old age, which was too much to look forward to, so it was not surprising to put it in the past, but it was such a mysterious woman, even if her soul returned to the secluded mansion, there was a rope in her hand to lead me and manipulate my fate.

Lying under the grave is not only my grandmother, but also the creator of the natal golden silkworm Gu in my body.

I didn't wait long before my mother woke me up and handed me the sickle to help clean up the weeds and ferns around the grave, while my parents tidied up the bluestone platform in front of the tombstone and placed the offerings they had brought this time.

Busy, with the help of the little demon and Duoduo, I quickly cleaned up the grave quickly, leaving only a few weak and stubborn little white flowers, my father took out the firecrackers, and after lighting the incense candles and paper, let me light the firecrackers, in a crackling sound, we all knelt in front of the grave, the little demon and Duoduo also knelt down next to me, my mother added the paper to the fire, while clasping her hands and praying: "Mom, you have to bless our family, bless Azuo can be smooth and safe, Then marry a virtuous and kind daughter-in-law, and give birth to a big fat boy......"

My mother was babbling while I pressed my forehead to the ground, thinking of the Long Lao Lan that I had talked about from others all these years, and my heart was full of respect.

Many times, we don't know how to pay attention to the people around us, thinking that they are ordinary, but in the hearts of others, they are a legend.

We stayed at my grandmother's grave for about an hour before we started to descend the mountain, and the sacrifices used to be taken away, but I stopped them, saying that it is good to stay on the grave for wild food in the mountains, and there is something special about it, although it is vain, but it still needs to be maintained in the end. My parents didn't insist and left the place after all the incense and combustibles were completely extinguished.

When going down the mountain, it was not smooth, the weather changed abnormally, it was still sunny before, but then it began to be cloudy, the black clouds on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau fell low, it seemed to be able to press on our heads, and there was a faint thunder roar in the distance, and the air became humid, which made people a little worried.

Although Duoduo has been able to walk freely in the sun at this moment, but after all, there is still some yin spirit energy, this breath is the most provoked between heaven and earth to the yang thunder, if you walk in the mountains, it is easy to cause lightning strikes, this is a kind of rule between heaven and earth, it is difficult to resist, although you can hide in my locust card, but in the eyes of my parents Duoduo has always been a normal child, whether it is me, or Duoduo, I don't want my parents to know her true identity.

So we quickened our pace and began to walk towards Dunzhai on the other side of the mountain.

When I was about to get outside the stockade, the raindrops the size of beans began to fall, hurting on my head. Because my brother-in-law has moved to the city, so we don't have any relatives in Dunzhai, but fortunately, the old house is still there, before my brother-in-law was going to sell it, the subsidy was short, but no one came to buy, so I stayed, my mother often came to take care of it, sweeping the ashes and dusting the soil, but it was also quite strong, so I hurried into the village, and ran all the way to the old house.

Although it was noon, the heavy rain smashed the dust in all directions, and the village was full of mud, and the sky became very dark and depressing.

My parents were old, and they were exposed to this rain again, and my body was afraid that I couldn't stand it, so we hurried to the old house, and suddenly I stopped and stopped more than ten meters away from the old house. My parents had already run into the house, and when they looked back, they saw that I didn't enter the house with the little demon and Duoduo, and they couldn't help but feel strange and shouted at me, "Ah Zuo, why are you still standing outside?" ”