Chapter 1: A Godsend
Are there any gods, demons and monsters in this world? It's a topic that goes on and on without an answer. Some people say that if you believe, you will have, and if you do not believe, you will not. So I'm going to tell you, believe it or not, he has it.
Many atheists say, "This is the age of science, and if you insist that you can't see or touch something, it's superstition!" "I always smile and don't answer, I respect science, I believe in science, but I still want to say, science, it's still too young.
The story begins with my birth.
My mother had congenital heart disease, a rare condition called tetralogy of Faro, and the hospital determined that she would never be able to conceive a child because the blood supply to her heart was insufficient. According to her mother, when she heard the news, it was like a bolt from the blue. Since my father had been married once before marrying my mother, I had a pair of half-brothers and sisters before that. My sister and her mother, and my brother gave the award to my father, but my grandparents were reluctant to give up their grandchildren, so in fact, my brother followed my grandparents all the time. My mother always treated my brother as if he were her own, and she would always go to my grandmother's house to see my brother during the New Year's holidays, whether it was a big festival or a small festival, but nevertheless, she still felt sorry for my father and could not add a son and a half daughter to him. The days were spent in my mother's melancholy until my grandmother arrived.
If you want to talk about my grandma, it is a woman who has experienced wind and rain, and the family, including my uncle and aunt, say that my grandma is a little chattering, and the people in the family are not completely serious about what she says. When my grandmother heard about the diagnosis from the hospital, she said to my mother, "Don't listen to those doctors, I'll think of a way for you." After saying that, my grandmother began to pack her little baggage in the stunned eyes of the family, and bought a ticket to return to her hometown despite everyone's dissuasion, no one knew what she was doing.
After about a month, my grandmother came back, because my uncle and two aunts lived not far from my house, and they also rushed to hear the inquiry. When the grandmother returned, she held a statue in her hand, the statue was covered with a red cloth, and the whole body was carved from a piece of wood, which was a female statue. The carving is really not how exquisite, and even the facial features are simple lines, not to mention the lack of beauty, but also revealing a little weirdness, although it is a human statue, but always feel that there is some resemblance to animals. The base of the statue has some traces of black smoke and fire, witnessing her years and traces of worship.
My mother was a knowledgeable and poetic woman, and my father was a non-believer in ghosts and gods. The mother herself didn't believe this, and she was afraid of arousing her father's disgust, so she secretly pulled her grandmother aside and asked in a low voice, "Mom, where did you come from, and what are you doing at home?" Who knows, grandma seemed to hear the concerns in her mother's words, glanced at her mother with a little disdain, and reproached: "What do you mean by the whole thing?" If you don't have a door in your mouth, won't you say it? Read so many books in vain! The mother who was reprimanded for being split and covered with a face was full of helplessness, and she knew it in her heart. Grandma has always disliked this son-in-law, because of the scholarly family of her own family, although the family fell into the middle after liberation, but grandpa was also a division staff officer when he was alive. My father, on the other hand, was a relatively wooden man and a cook, and my grandmother looked down on my father in her heart and felt that my mother was committed to him because of physical reasons. So I always thought that my father was taking advantage of others. Even when my parents got married, my grandmother didn't show up, and it was because of the hospital's diagnosis that my grandmother came to visit for the first time.
Ignoring her mother's obstruction, her grandmother respectfully held the wooden statue and said to her father with a mocking expression: "What are you looking at? Clean up the tables in the room, raise them! The father also knew that this mother-in-law didn't want to see him, and he didn't dare to say more, so he immediately went into the house to clean up the table, and put two bricks on each corner of the table.
Grandma seemed to be angry when she saw his stupid appearance, and said loudly: "Kneel! ”
Hearing this, my father was stunned, but he still knelt down honestly. Who knew that he knelt down to his grandmother and rolled his eyes angrily, and said angrily: "Stupid, why are you kneeling to me?" Dosing Wang Niangniang kneel! ”
Although I was reluctant, I had to do it. In desperation, the father drooped his head and blushed, twisted his body over, and knelt straight towards the wooden statue without speaking.
Grandma glared at her father and shouted, "Say! ”
The father looked confused and asked his grandmother, "What are you talking about?" ”
Grandma asked, "Do you want to have children?" ”
Father nodded, "Yes." ”
"Just say it if you want to" Grandma didn't seem to want to look at her father, so she didn't hesitate to say a word.
The father seemed to think for a while, and then whispered to the wooden statue: "Niangniang, I want a child." ”
Hearing this, Grandma's face twitched, her lips trembled for a long time and she didn't say anything, and her uncle and two aunts turned around one after another. The mother laughed out loud next to her, and this laugh successfully attracted the attention of the grandmother, and she glanced at the mother fiercely, and the subtext was probably to blame the mother for finding such a stupid old man.
The air froze for a long time, grandma sighed, looked at her father as if she had compromised, and was about to speak, but her eyes froze for a moment, and asked her father: "Tell me your birthday." "How dare my father say more, he said it 1510. Grandma pinched her fingers and muttered for a long time, then looked at her father's eyebrows, and said in a heavy tone: "There is a vertical stripe in the middle of your eyebrows, which is called a chopping sword in physiognomy." If you close your birthday again, you don't have a son's life. ”
The father didn't dare to have other expressions when he heard this, but he didn't believe it in his heart if he didn't say it, you know, I still have a half-brother, what's the matter if I don't have a son? I didn't say what I thought in my heart, I just thought about it as cooperating with my grandmother, and sent her old man away when she was satisfied.
(Although my father didn't believe it, an event happened when I was eight years old that proved how effective my grandmother's words were, and that's a story for later······ )
Grandma didn't know what her father was thinking, so she only thought about it for a while, and then said to her father: "I'll talk about it later, and then I will say how you learn." The father nodded honestly, and the grandmother didn't see it, so she said to herself: "The medicine king Niangniang will go again, the disciple Gao Moumou, worship with incense, and return to the heart and be pious." In the past, it did not damage the Yin and Virtue ······" Speaking of this, the grandmother seemed to choke, looked at her father, Xu is more and more unpleasant, simply looked up at the sky, and continued: "Today, the disciple prays to the mother for a son, may the mother bless, and in the future, the disciple's family is willing to accumulate virtue and do good deeds to worship the statue of the mother every day." ”
It was not a long paragraph, but it was completed in the middle of grandma saying a sentence and learning a sentence from my father, and under the guidance of my grandmother, my father respectfully lit the three pillars of incense, and then slowly stood up.
Grandma walked up to her mother and said to her: "I'll go back, I'll stay here like my mother's image, you put incense every day, and when the child is born, I'll come again." Without waiting for her mother to answer, Grandma turned around and was about to go out.
The mother hurriedly twisted his father's waist in the back, and gave him a look. The father understood, and hurriedly ran out to chase grandma, but he didn't know how to open his mouth when grandma stopped, after all, since he knew his mother, he had seen grandma twice. The first time I met, my grandmother heard that my mother had a partner to see, but my father couldn't speak, and he was really not very good-looking, although he was only three years older than his mother, he looked like he was more than ten years older, and his grandmother was so angry that he turned around and left.
After stumbling for a long time, my father blushed and choked out: "That······ Auntie, I'm here, I'll leave after eating. ”
"." Grandma dropped such a sentence, leaving her father messy in the wind, and his figure was getting farther and farther away.
Back in the house, the mother hurriedly asked the father why he didn't keep the grandmother, the father recounted the story 1510, and the mother angrily fell to the father: "When you tell me, a mother calls it well, why do you come out with an aunt when you meet?" The uncles and aunts were also speechless at this.
"What the hell is this, there's a weird oozing thing there." The father changed the subject, pointing to the wooden statue and asking the mother. Before the mother could answer, the uncle on the side hurriedly interjected: "You don't know our mother's temper, her old people say that she will come back after the child is born, and if you throw this image away, you will be unlucky." ”
"The doctor said that he couldn't conceive, but he still gave birth······ Father said helplessly.
"Dead horses should be live horse doctors, brother-in-law." The second aunt also helped, although she didn't believe these things in her heart, but thinking of her grandmother's strange temper, no one wanted her father, who was already unwelcome, to make her grandma angry again.
After the people were gone, the days passed. My father had never looked at the statue again, but although my mother was an atheist, she was incense every day when she was eager to ask for her son.
Unbeknownst to him, two months later, my mother began to feel nauseous, and when she went to the hospital for a check-up, she was pregnant, and her mother went home happily and told her father the news. The father hurriedly pulled the mother out to buy pork head meat. His mother asked him what he was doing with the pig's head, and his father replied that he wanted to make an offering to his mother. The mother asked the father, "Do you know if the statue of the mother can serve meat?" My father couldn't get his idea, and he didn't dare to call his grandmother, so the two bought a lot of melons, fruits, pears and peaches, and they were fragrant every day since then.
As I got older, my mother and father became a little worried, so they went to the hospital to hang up in the cardiology department. The doctor looked at the mother's case and then at the mother's belly. Full of reproach: "It's rare for you to live so old with such a disease, and you still have to have children?" When the time comes, adults and children will not be able to keep it! ”
The father was immediately frightened and lost his mind, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, doctor, why don't you beat the child now?" ”
The doctor glanced at his father with disdain: "Your husband is irresponsible, how can you get her pregnant because of her illness?" Now that my belly is so big, I can't have an abortion. ”
As soon as my father pondered the words in the doctor's mouth, he couldn't give birth to life, and he didn't let him beat, and he was sentenced to death for us. As soon as his father was in a hurry, he rolled up his arms and sleeves to hit the doctor, but fortunately he was stopped by his mother.
When I returned home, my father called my grandmother in a hurry, and as soon as the phone was connected, he quickly opened his mouth and said: "Mom, what's the matter, Jing'er is pregnant, the doctor said that she can't give birth to this disease at all, and she can't play this month now" While speaking, my father's head was already a layer of fine sweat, and his tone was a little trembling. Maybe he didn't pay attention to it, this was the first time he called his grandmother Mom.
There was silence on the other side of the phone for a long time, and grandma's voice came: "Look at your little bit of interest, have you been incense?" ”
"Forehead······ That, Jing'er is on the sky. Father muttered.
"From today onwards, you will kowtow every day, and whether your wife and children can keep it depends on whether you are sincere or not!" After saying that, he hung up the phone hatefully, in fact, grandma was a joke, because her father didn't believe her, so she counted down her father.
My father took it seriously, and every morning when I got up, my mother asked my father to eat, and my father first went to the statue of my mother to put three incense sticks, and kowtowed three times before I dared to eat. Mother was always secretly laughing beside her.
It was winter, and on a snowy night, with a cry in the delivery room, I came into this world. As if she had the ability to predict the future, my grandmother came to my house in a car early that morning, saying that she was here to hug her grandson, and my father did not believe that he would be born that day.
When my uncle and aunts asked my father to choose a name, my father took me to my grandmother and asked my grandmother to take it.
"You should not have a son in this life, but since this child is begged, let it be named a godsend." Grandma didn't think much about it, and opened her mouth to say my name.
Obviously, my father still can't understand my grandmother's words, after all, I still have a half-brother, why shouldn't I have a son? I admire my grandmother, but I still feel that my grandmother is old, sometimes I understand and sometimes I am confused. Nevertheless, my name was so decided, and it was called Gao Tianci.