Ethereal (Part I)

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It was at the funeral of my old lady (the old lady was my grandfather's mother), and the old man saved a lifetime of frugality and saved 8,000 yuan for himself in the coffin.

At the end of her life, she was ninety-four years old, she walked very peacefully, she didn't sin too much, just complained a few times, called Xiao Er (Xiao Er is my father's nickname), "Old man, I'm going to see you" Leaving a line of tears and swallowing her breath.

The family invited the holy monk to spend his time, and the old man went for 30 years, and relatives and friends estimated that the two old men would be buried together.

At this time, it was a scorching summer, and the weather was so hot that people could faint, and the parents, aunts, sisters-in-law, and aunts and sisters-in-law who came from afar to attend the funeral discussed the matter of burying the two old people together.

Because I was still young at that time, I could not intervene in the topic of adults, and I could not break free from the haze of the old lady's death, so I walked alone by the river with some sadness.

"Who allowed you to dig me out", a voice that seemed familiar sounded in my ears, and I thought it was an auditory hallucination and ignored it and continued to walk.

"Who will allow you to dig me out?"

The voice sounded again, and I couldn't help but walk in the direction of the sound with a full stomach full of doubt.

I saw an old man wearing a white scarf and herding cattle sitting on a big rock, talking to himself very angrily.

"Who will allow you to dig me out," he said, as if to me, but without looking up at me.

I couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, thinking of my parents preparing to 'invite' the old grandfather out of the collapsed old coffin and put him in the old lady's new coffin for a joint burial.

A sense of fear crept over me, and I began to tremble; "You..... Who is it and why are you sitting here saying such things"?

The old man looked up at me, and I realized that his pupils were blue.

"Tell Xiao Er and his object, I live well in the old house, don't think about digging me out and burying me with my wife, I am a face-saving person when I live, and I don't want my bones to be made public when I die" He said indignantly.

I began to tremble all over, I had been timid since I was a child, and I was so frightened that I couldn't even walk.

My grandfather didn't raise me from my childhood like the old lady and had a relationship with me, he died early, when my father was only twelve years old.

I haven't even seen his photo, only heard my father describe it, he is the old Red Army participated in the revolution, killed hundreds of Japanese devils, has a big temper, when he was a child, his father because he couldn't eat the stick noodles and wotou went on a hunger strike for three days, and the old grandfather beat him when he lifted his buttocks, and he didn't miss his ancestors and grandchildren at all.

Thinking of this, I was stunned suddenly, and felt that the person in front of me seemed familiar.....

I staggered home, sweat dripping down the brim of my hat, shortness of breath, and my intuition seemed to be constantly reminding me who that person was, but I didn't want to face it: "I should have completed the task just by conveying the words to my parents, and the old man won't blame me!" I was a bit of a fluke talking to myself.

"Can't dig", I grabbed the door, tears moistened my eyes.

At that time, my parents and two sisters-in-law were counting the money for the funeral in the house

"You can't dig anything," the mother chimed in

"The old man's bones can't be dug up, I've already seen him, it's the old man who told me that he loved face when he was alive, and he didn't want people to see him rotten after he died, and he wouldn't let you dig it," I said in a sharp voice

"Go, what nonsense, the decisions made by adults, children don't meddle, or an age to take urine and mud, what do you know"? My father's mouth was full of disdain for what I said, and he always looked at me with the eyes of a child, and I couldn't.

"It's true, I really saw him, right on that big rock by the river, he ......" I wanted to finish my fantastic experience in one breath but was ruthlessly interrupted by my father.

I know that I can't change it in the end, but a sense of foreboding arises, maybe that's a girl's sixth sense!

It was the 16th of July, it was still very hot, the old lady's funeral was over, and it was time to go out.

In order to prevent the dead from rotting, the old lady has been lying quietly in the coffin of the freezer, "I really wronged her, my poor old lady must have frozen"! With tears in my eyes, I moved forward weakly with the sound of suona from the funeral.

Six years later.....

Time passed by a moment, and in the blink of an eye, I had become a senior in high school, and although my grades were not excellent, I had always held on to my dream.

Ever since the old lady died, I had been dreaming of her, as if no one else could break into my dreams, and every wrinkle on her face, every gaze in her dreams, pierced my heart.

On January 25th, the day of winter vacation arrived, and my classmate Xiaotong and I rode our bicycles home, and we talked and laughed like carefree teenagers.

Suddenly, the spotlight of a car stung my eyes, "Where did this spotlight come from in broad daylight, could it be that I am 'blind'"? I thought to myself with a hint of hesitation.

"What's wrong with you"? Xiaotong asked with concern, "I see something is wrong with you, is it because you are not feeling well?"

"Oh, it's nothing, it just feels like something is dangling in the eyes, and it's out of the way."

"Well, by the way, are you going to be the first day of writing these fifty sets of papers today"? Xiao Tong asked with a hint of playfulness

I knew she was asking me if I had time to go out and play tennis today, and she loved tennis so much, she had crazy love.

"Let's skip homework today! It's still the old rule, play tennis for half a day on the first day of vacation," I said stupidly

"Hahaha, yes"

Just as we were laughing happily, suddenly a brown sedan drove towards us, and I knew that my premonition had finally come true after many years......