Chapter 2: The Lonely Grave
It is said that when I returned home from the hospital, my grandmother brought up the topic of the so-called "chopping sword" between my father's eyebrows, and said that after I was weaned, my grandmother would take me away, saying that my parents could not bring me alive. Think about it, which parent is willing to send their newborn child away? So the answer, of course, was no, and the mother was the first to stand up and disagree. Although his father said "I listen to Jing'er", in fact, he was afraid that he was more opposed than his mother.
After saying it a few times, it didn't work, so after my mother was out of confinement, my grandmother still packed up her things and decided to go back to her hometown by herself.
When grandma left, the father Xu was at a loss, chasing after grandma and asking if there was any way to break this fate, although the father who already had a son did not believe in his own gram, but he saw the magic of grandma, and grandma was not pregnant when he was not pregnant, and grandma was still a little weak in his heart.
Grandma glanced back at her father, and said with some worry in her eyes: "This child is not what you should have in your life, and he is not deep in the world at all." You are the rabbit of the mountains and forests, the golden life of gold leaf, the gift of heaven is the beautiful monkey, and the golden life of the sword. It stands to reason that gold and gold are not compatible. But you are wearing a chopping sword, this gold is hard to overcome hard, not to mention that the relationship between the two of you will not be harmonious in the future, this is a real fierce fight, the lord lives and dies! This child's life grid happens to be three stars at the same time in the life palace of the three sides and four positive will shine, it is a big murder life, either troubled times or early death. ”
Speaking of this, although my father didn't understand much, his eyes were red in a hurry, this was a big murder, either life and death or early death, sweat in his head.
Grandma looked at her father like this, paused for a while, and then said slowly: "But Xiao Jing is a horse on the road, and Tianhe is lifed." How much can be resolved by the water leakage, but her body is weak. If she is going to get sick, you have to look at God's gifts. The heaven-given destiny is not at home, and it is still young, so you can just incense it. ”
Although the father heard some comfort from his grandmother's words, he still didn't fall in his heart, and wanted to ask something again, grandma waved his hand and said: "I want to take you away and I can't bear to, the child is still so young, don't be in a hurry at this time, I will come back every three or five days in the future, you are also mentally prepared, when Xiao Jing often gets sick, when the time comes, I have to take Tianci away, or the mother and son can't keep it." After speaking, it didn't matter if my father had anything to say, my grandmother left with her bag on her back, and my father didn't have to send her off, but said that she was not old enough to take a car.
As I grew up day by day, the worries in my father's heart were more or less put down, but he didn't dare to fall for a day with the fragrance of the medicine king Niangniang, and the first thing he did when he got up in the morning was to kowtow to the incense, so that grandma didn't need to scare him anymore, and the head was banging.
When I was less than two years old, my parents carried me back to my hometown, where my grandparents lived.
Grandma's place of residence is under the jurisdiction of Erjing Town, called Sanpufang, it is said that there were only three families here, and they all came from the east of the Guandong, before this, this is a completely wasteland, from here are all beards, beards are bandits and horse bandits, here is located in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province and Songyuan City, Jilin Province Songyuan City, where the beard was robbed by the provincial caravan, this road is really a lot of people died.
It was also the first time my mother returned to her hometown with my father, and according to my mother's recollections, her impression of it was only two words: poverty and concreteness. Poverty is easy to understand, why be specific? Because this place contains the names of all administrative units, provinces, cities, counties, towns, villages, tuns, and teams. So much so that when I grew up, when I saw the hukou book, I was amazed at how long the one where my hukou was located·····
On the day I arrived in Erjing Town, it was just a small year, and it was evening. Everyone knows that the winter in the Northeast is not considered a cold day when it is more than 30 degrees below zero, and the temperature is close to minus 40 degrees Celsius. There is no car to reach Sanfeng House from Erjing Town, so you can only take a carriage to and fro. However, it was late in the cold days, and it was just in time for the festival, and after getting off the long-distance bus, there were few pedestrians on the street, where did the carriage come from?
At that time, there were no mobile phones, and as for Big Brother, no one could afford it. In desperation, my father wrapped me in his coat and dragged my mother step by step on the dirt road.
My mother said that when she got off the dirt road on the road, she began to feel cold all over her body, definitely not the kind of cold weather, like someone blowing cool air on the back of the back. My father didn't feel much because he had lived here since he was a child.
The mother told her father about her fears, and the father half comforted and half blamed the mother to stop thinking about it, saying that the weather was already cold, and if the cold wind blew again, it was estimated that it would be frozen, so don't scare yourself. As he spoke, he ignored his mother's obstruction, took off his military coat and wrapped it in his mother, and at the same time stuffed me into my mother's arms with a small quilt in my arms. I only wore a leather jacket, supported my waist with one hand through my coat, and comforted my mother as I walked: "You are just weak, you see smoke coming out of my head, and I am sweating." ”
Although he was comforted by his father, his mother, who was wrapped in a military coat, still felt a chill down her spine from time to time.
As she walked, her mother couldn't help it because of the cold, and told her father that she wanted to find a convenient place. Although it was night, there was no one there, but it was also on the road here, there was no way, my father had to take my mother to walk into the cornfield, because it was winter, there was only a little straw left in the cornfield, and the sharp pestle was on the ridge, and the two of them walked in with a deep foot and a shallow foot, as far away from the road as possible. I don't know how deep I walked, and seeing the road disappear from sight, my mother hurriedly made it easier.
As he got up, he seemed to hear a sigh, and his mother asked his father, "What are you sighing about?" ”
"I didn't sigh." The father replied in confusion.
As he was talking, his father seemed to have heard something, and the two of them hurriedly turned their heads to look, and by the faint moonlight, they saw a stone tablet half-lying where the mother was squatting just now. Next to the stele is a small earthen bag that is not very obvious, apparently a tomb. Maybe there is no one in the family, the grave bag has been covered with withered yellow weeds, and the stone tablet that fell to the ground has been broken into two pieces, and the handwriting on it is no longer very clear, and my father only saw that there seemed to be a yellow character on it in a panic.
My father was about to take a closer look, when he felt a "swish" in front of him, and a black shadow crossed the corner of his eye, but he didn't see what it was. My mother's heart twitched when she was frightened, and she was about to fall ill. My father hurriedly half-hugged my mother, and ran out with one hand holding me in my mother's arms. It's good that I didn't believe in ghosts and gods before, but since my grandmother instilled those gods and monsters in my father, my father also felt furious when he saw this scene.
Fortunately, it was not too far from the dirt road, and it took five or six minutes for the two of them to go in, and it was estimated that it would take less than two minutes when they ran out. When he arrived at the side of the road, his father's mind gradually stabilized, but his mother was still frightened and worried. After all, I just went to the toilet on someone's grave, and anyone can't help but be scared under this black light.
"I guess it's a rat." The father saw that his mother's face was pale, and he wanted to comfort him, but as soon as he said it, he felt that there was something wrong with it. The spit in the middle of the night is frozen into a nail, and even if the rat is looking for food, it must be warmed up during the day, and what can be eaten in this wasteland.
The mother did not answer, and the two did not speak again, and the pace of the mother's feet became faster and faster, and even trotted at the end. The father had the heart to comfort him, but he was afraid that his mother would be even more afraid if he mentioned it again, so he had no choice but to follow his mother to speed up his steps.
After a long time of trotting, my mother's heart was not good, and after being so scared, I ran well, and I was about to lose my breath, and my father was worried about my mother's body on the one hand, and on the other hand, I was worried that I would wake up bumping up if I ran like this, and it would be troublesome to freeze this day. So I was about to hold my mother, but I saw a light in the distance, followed by a simple voice
"Is it the fourth brother and fourth sister-in-law?"
When the father heard the voice, he hurriedly shouted to the man with an excited face, "Here and that." ”
When I got into the carriage, my father and the man, one of my cousins, got into a fight, completely oblivious to what had just happened. After all, this kind of thing is the first time for my mother, my father grew up in such a small tunzi since he was a child, and he has long been accustomed to it.
"Just now, my eldest brother came to me and said that you came back today, and you haven't arrived home yet, so it is estimated that there is no car in the town. If I don't come to greet you, fourth brother, if you don't say that you have a physique when you go home, your sister-in-law will definitely freeze to death. "Uncle Cousin is a farmer who does his duty, and he speaks in a loud voice, and he smiles honestly as he speaks.
After my mother got into the car and said hello, she didn't say a word, still thinking about what happened just now. My cousin didn't care very much, he just thought that his mother was frozen.
The cousin who sent us to the uncle's house also stayed, and as soon as I entered the house, I followed the fairyland, and I couldn't see anything, and my mother held me in her arms, and I didn't know how I entered the house with my father's support. The kitchen in the countryside is in the outhouse, and the cold room outside is hot inside. As soon as I opened the door while I was cooking, I couldn't see anything in the steam that filled the room.
After entering the house, my mother forced a smile and greeted them one by one under my father's introduction. My father was about to take my mother to say hello to my grandparents, and I really wanted my brother to hug me in a hurry. The uncle dissuaded him and said that the old lady and the old man were old and had gone to bed early, so it was better to go again tomorrow morning, and the father had to sit down again with his mother.
After sitting on the kang, the heating was so steamed, and my mother came back to her senses somewhat, but she was still a little absent-minded. My father probably hadn't seen these relatives and brothers for so many years, so he couldn't help but drink more.
In such a village, although my father was only a cook outside, he was also a small figure when he came back here. It is conceivable that they have a good life after saving 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year, and their father's salary of several thousand a month is simply astronomical for them. Seeing his father wearing a leather jacket and carrying a Hanxian BP machine that had just come out at that time, he couldn't help but be envious. After a few times, my father couldn't help but drink more.
Mother would also talk to the aunts in the back room. It's midnight when you're full. The bedrooms in the rural areas of the Northeast are all brick-built ondols, and the life of the uncle's family in Tunli is also good, and there are two ondols at home, so the father and mother are arranged in the middle one. Since my mother still had to take care of me, she came into the house early and lay down with her arms around me.
My father really drank a lot, and when he entered the house, he didn't say anything and fell asleep. In the dead of night, my mother couldn't sleep, and her heart was full of the grave bag just now. It wasn't until the second half of the night that I fell asleep in a daze.
As soon as I fell asleep, I dreamed of a human-like and non-human-like shadow standing in front of me, babbling something in my mouth, "Life is hard, my house is leaking, and you are convenient on my roof·······" The voice is getting quieter and quieter, but the mouth is non-stop. It wasn't until his voice was inaudible that a similar shadow appeared, repeating the words just now. There were more and more shadows, and they chattered like a madman reading a magic barrier, buzzing straight into his mother's head. Just when my mother had a splitting headache, she was awakened by a cry.
"Hit ····· Hit ····· Wow... "Although I was two years old at the time, due to my young birthday, I was actually just over a year old at that time, and I just knew how to talk. At this time, he stared out the window in a daze, crying and wailing, and shouting words like beating and beating in his mouth.
When my mother woke up from me, she was sweating profusely, and her face was flushed, apparently with a high fever.