Chapter 1: Destroying the Gate
There are a pile of lonely graves in the mountain behind my house, which are well repaired, and my grandfather said that it presses the fierce veins in the mountain, and the people in the village can be safe and secure with it.
Every first day of the new year, my grandfather would take me to incense, and after burning the paper, he would touch my head and say, in a few years, grandpa will not be able to keep you.
When I heard him say this, I would cry and say that I would not go there, but would stay with my grandfather.
Grandpa laughed very happily, touched my head and said, "You are a little colt, and when you are fifteen years old, your daughter-in-law will come and call you." ”
Little colt is my nickname.,When I don't know what, my friends shout and feel very angry.,When you're older, it's very twisted to listen to.,I asked them not to shout.,Then no one really called anymore.,As if you're afraid of something.。
Seeing that I was about to turn fifteen, my grandfather asked me to drop out of school and go home, I don't know why, for half a year, the people in the village were afraid of me, whether it was an elder or a junior, they were only willing to see me.
Grandpa also became strange and prepared for me a groom's official dress, red on the outside and white on the inside.
Seven days before my birthday, he asked me to try on clothes as if I was really going to get married. But the groom has an official, what about the new daughter-in-law?
Although I think my grandfather is old and confused, I still look forward to it, if she really has a daughter-in-law, what will she be like?
When I was studying, I had a girlfriend at the same table, holding hands every day, and I saw them hiding and kissing their mouths, and I envied them when I thought about it, if I had a daughter-in-law, I could kiss her little mouth.
I just don't know if my daughter-in-law looks good or not, and when I think of this, I worry again.
On the last day, my grandfather began to explain some things, and asked me to be obedient, not to be mischievous, and to live a good life. He also gave me a silver bracelet, saying that there was nothing valuable at home, and the bracelet was left by my grandmother and would be given to my daughter-in-law in the future.
I took it well, and sat on the threshold all day looking at the village, looking forward to the arrival of my new daughter-in-law.
But I didn't wait for a new daughter-in-law, but something happened in the village.
That night, there was a sudden rainstorm, thunder continued, and the next day the village chief was outside and screaming, and the grandfather got up to open the door with his clothes on, and he shouted when he entered the door: "Third master, the grave has collapsed." ”
I still remember my grandfather's face being frighteningly white. Later, everyone in the village ran up the mountain, and I followed my grandfather to see it.
The lonely grave collapsed, the bluestone tombstone cracked in the middle, the rubble fell to the ground, and a big hole was exposed in the collapsed place, and nothing could be seen in the black.
Grandpa's face was cloudy, and he called me over after a while and told me to go down and see what was inside.
I was so frightened that I turned blue and refused to go, saying that there were so many adults, why should I let a child go. The people in the village were silent, and my grandfather said that only I could go down to the grave.
I still don't go.
His face suddenly fell, and he asked me if I wanted my daughter-in-law, and if I didn't go, there would be no new daughter-in-law.
These days, all I have in my head are my daughter-in-law, and I was scared by him, and I was really afraid that my daughter-in-law would be gone, so I flinched in with a flashlight.
It rained heavily last night, and it was full of muddy water, and when I went in, I found that the hole was a little deep, so I bit the flashlight with my mouth and crawled forward, it was cold and dirty, and I didn't care about being afraid.
Suddenly, I hit my head against something, and I looked up and screamed in fright.
When the flashlight shone through, I saw a pale dead face, with wide eyes, standing upright.
Grandpa heard the voice and asked outside, I was too scared to answer, turned around and crawled out. When he reached the entrance of the cave, he cried out and said that he had seen a dead man.
There was a dead silence all around, and my grandfather asked me if I could see who it was, and I wiped my tears and said that I couldn't see clearly. In that case, it's strange to be able to see clearly.
But Grandpa quickly brought a rope and told me to go in and tie up the body, and they pulled it out from the outside.
I won't go to death, even if I don't have a daughter-in-law. Grandpa was so angry that he only slapped his thigh, and in the end he had to go by himself, and dragged a corpse out with a few more.
"Erraizi!" Someone recognized it and shouted.
I shuddered and looked at it, sure enough, it was Er Laizi, he was not from our village, he came from outside for a few years, he was idle on weekdays, the east touched the west house, the people in the village hated it to death, and now that he is dead, I don't know how many people want to applaud.
Grandpa didn't come up, he turned his head and climbed in again, and after a while, he came out with a small coffin, and when it was opened, there was a little red man inside, with a wooden nail nailed to his eyebrows.
"Third Master!" When the village chief saw the villain, he sat on the ground with his buttocks, and his whole body trembled. Everyone's faces turned pale.
Grandpa's hands trembled, and his voice trembled, "It's been so many years, and you still don't want to let us go!" ”
When I was still thinking about what was so terrible about the small coffin, my grandfather stood up and said, "A few people will carry Erlaizi to the grinding plate at the head of the village, and the dogs in the family will be pulled to the grinding plate, it is a blessing or a curse, and it is useless to be afraid." ”
Sujia Village is not big, there are only more than 30 households, but they are all surnamed Su, and they are very united when something happens. Before evening, a shed was erected on the grinding plate, and the body of Er Laizi was placed in it, and a dozen big dogs were tied around it.
But the big guys who run around the village on weekdays are very quiet today, lying on the ground with their tails between their legs and whining.
Grandpa took me home and asked me to change into the clothes of the groom, and the village chief and a few young men burned the small coffin in the courtyard, and the little bloody people inside were also smashed.
In the evening, Grandpa changed his clothes and ordered him to hide in the house, and no matter who shouted, he would not make a sound. I looked at the clothes on my body uneasily, and asked if my daughter-in-law didn't open the door when she came.
Grandpa smiled, very reluctantly, and repeated what he had just said, and I said that I remembered him before locking the door from the outside.
At night, I hid alone in the bed, and the groom's clothes were uncomfortably rested, but I still fell asleep in a daze.
In the middle of the night, the dogs in the village began to bark, and soon the chickens, ducks and cows all barked, and the sound was terrible.
I wondered what was going on outside, but I didn't dare to go out when I remembered my grandfather's words.
The house barked for more than an hour before the village became dead silent, and at that moment I heard a sound in the yard, and secretly opened the curtains to look, and several dark figures went out of my gate.
In the middle of the night, it was raining heavily outside again, and thunder was rolling. I shrunk at the head of my bed, shivering, and crawled out of the window at dawn.
Outside, the rain had stopped, but the whole village was silent. I was afraid of getting my clothes dirty, so I opened the door from the outside to change the clothes of the groom's officer, and ran to the millstone.
When I turned the corner, I saw the village chief lying on the ground, and the rain next to me was bloody, so I walked over in fear, and after seeing it clearly, I screamed in fright and fell into the muddy water.
The village chief's eyes were stunned, his face was pale, and there was a wooden nail stuck in the center of his eyebrows, and he was already out of breath.
Grandfather!
I couldn't care about being afraid of my grandfather, so I ran forward with a rolling belt, and the road to the millstone was full of corpses, all of them were from the village, and there were wooden nails nailed to the center of my eyebrows.
The millstone was full of corpses, and more than a dozen big dogs were not spared, and there was blood everywhere on the ground.
"Grandpa!" I cried and screamed, and kept digging through the pile of corpses.
When I got to the front of the shed, I saw Er Laizi's body hanging on the beam, tilting his head, and swaying from side to side in the cold wind.
I forgot to be afraid, my body was full of blood-red muddy water, and I kept looking, but there was no one alive, and I didn't see my grandfather.
In the end, I was tired of crying, and I sat in the blood and kept calling grandpa. At this moment, someone in the dead grass under the shed shouted: "Brother Stone! ”
I hurriedly looked over, Su Dong crawled out from under the green shed, his face was covered with blood, and when he came out, he cried and cried: "All dead, all dead!" ”
When he cried, I cried too. After a while, he choked up and asked him if he had seen my grandfather, Su Dong nodded and pointed to the mountain, "The third grandfather chased the person who killed us to the back mountain." ”
I climbed up and ran back to the mountain, and Dongzi followed behind.
There was a mess in front of the deserted grave, and there were many corpses of the villagers, I threw myself in front of the collapsed grave and saw my grandfather lying in the muddy water, his body was full of scratches, and the rolled skin and flesh were black.
I rushed over and took him in my arms, crying heartbreakingly. But at this time, my grandfather suddenly moved, opened his eyes with difficulty and asked me, "What about the people in the village!" ”
Dongzi cried again, "It's all dead, third grandfather, my father and my aunt are dead!" ”
"Good boy, don't cry!" Grandpa struggled to sit up, took out a plastic bag from his arms and stuffed it into my arms, "Take it and go find your daughter-in-law." Don't let anyone see you on the road, and remember, don't report ......"
When Grandpa said this, his throat gurgled and he couldn't speak, his eyes were round, his face turned blue, he suddenly pushed me away, took out a wooden nail from his arms, and slammed it into his eyebrows.
My God, at that moment, collapsed, my eyes blood-red on my grandfather and cried.
I don't know how long it took, Dongzi stopped crying, clenched his fists and said, "Brother Shi, what should we do?" ”
I came to my senses and tried to drag my grandfather's body down the mountain, but it was too heavy. And at this moment, a few men in black came on the mountain road in the distance.
Dongzi's eyes widened, and he was about to shout when he pointed at them, but I quickly rushed over and covered his mouth, but I didn't dare to stand up, and crawled all the way back to the village, hiding under the dead grass in the green shed.
After a while, a few people really came, all with masks on their faces, and they couldn't see clearly, but they only heard someone say: The leylines have been healed, and with the blood sacrifice of the Su family, it should be about the same.
Several people nodded, cut the rope that tied Er Laizi, and hurriedly left with the corpse.
Dongzi and I didn't dare to come out, so we waited for half an hour before crawling out and looking for it from house to house, but whether it was a person or a livestock, they all died.
The necks of the livestock were broken, the children who remained at home were hung from the beams of the houses, and the adults were all with wooden nails stuck in their eyebrows.
It rained again, Dongzi and I stood in the rain shivering, and there were only two of us left in the entire Sujia Village.
Dongzi cried and said, "Brother Shi, we want revenge!" ”
I nodded fiercely, wanting revenge.