My uncle's family has always had an ancestral custom, that is, to go to the back mountain in the middle of the night to sweep the tomb!

At that time, I thought it was strange that I had never seen a family that had the custom of sweeping graves in the middle of the night.

I grew up in my uncle's house, my mother died in childbirth as soon as I was born, and my father pointed at me all day and scolded me for being a nemesis, and I went crazy a few days after throwing me to the shady slope, and hanged myself on the locust tree at the entrance of the village.

Fortunately, my uncle came to pick me up in time, and asked me to call his two sons brothers, otherwise it would be too raw.

My uncle said that no matter how we played, we couldn't go to the back mountains to play, they would eat people, and the children would not come back.

The eldest brother likes to read the most on weekdays, and he is not curious about these feudal superstitions at all. The second brother is the opposite of the eldest brother, he is not afraid of heaven and earth, he is full of gangsterism, and he likes to work against his uncle every day.

It is said that when the second brother was born, the uncle invited the most famous midwife in the nearby ten miles and eight towns, and it is said that he went to that station, stomped his feet, patted the mother's buttocks, and shouted: If you don't get out quickly, the child will be scared out.

But when it came to my second brother, the midwife was completely broken, her voice was broken, and her legs were about to be broken, but my second brother just couldn't pull the meat out, so she found an embroidery needle, grabbed the tip of the needle, and poked the second brother with her mouth, and my second brother hurriedly got out.

My uncle picked it up and looked at it, frowned, and sighed, saying that my second brother Fang An, wolf Gu Xiang, I am afraid that it will be a disaster in the future, so I hurriedly changed the name I had thought of to Wang Runzhi, saying that if I use the name Wang Yan, it will add fuel to the fire, and it will be a big accident, and then I gave the name Wang Yan to me.

Sure enough, when the second brother was seven or eight years old, the nature of the mischief was revealed, and he began to huo people everywhere in the village, and when he was a teenager, he began to do some things like stealing chickens and dogs, and he was not afraid to be caught, and he said confidently that it was your grandfather Runzhi who stole it, so he was not bold.

The second brother was young and vigorous at that time, and he didn't believe in these cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, and when he heard that his uncle said that he was not allowed to go to the back mountain, he pulled me and yelled that he was going to break the four olds, and asked me if I wanted to go? At that time, I was timid and very timid, and when I heard that the back mountain would eat people, I shook my head again and again and said that I would not go.

The second brother didn't say anything, one day when my uncle was not at home, he took half of the water pipe and slipped up, the sun went down before it set, he was dirty, and his body was full of injuries, I asked him what happened, and he rarely kept silent.

Since then, the second brother has never approached the vicinity of the back mountain, and I am not allowed to go to the back mountain to play.

Since then, I have been very curious, what is there on the back mountain that can make the second brother who is not afraid of the sky and the earth so jealous?

It didn't take long for my uncle to pull the three of us and say that my aunt was about to leave and told us to get ready.

At that time, the eldest brother and the second brother didn't believe it, and even I didn't believe it, because my aunt was only in her early thirties, and her health was fine.

But a few days later, my aunt really left, I cried half to death, the eldest brother knelt in front of the coffin and sobbed, and the second brother angrily asked my uncle why my aunt died suddenly, my uncle didn't say anything, sat on the side of the threshold, and smoked vigorously.

The second brother asked for a long time without a satisfactory answer, and almost smashed everything that could be smashed at home.

And my aunt died that day, and she had to be carried to the back mountain for burial that night.

The second brother was anxious at the time, saying that whose family was funeral in the middle of the night, my uncle asked us not to ask so much, and asked me and my eldest brother to be optimistic about the second brother, he understood the second brother's temperament.

Saying that, my uncle hired a few good hands to carry the coffin and leave, but before leaving, he strictly forbade the three of us not to go out for a single step, and said that if we went out tonight, we wouldn't be able to come back, and specially named me, saying that I was in conflict with my aunt, not to mention the funeral, and I couldn't go to the tomb in the future.

Before I could speak, my uncle walked ahead, muttering words in his mouth, and set out after scattering the coin into the sky.

As soon as the uncle left, the eldest brother went back to the hall and cried with the picture of his aunt, and the second brother clenched his fists, the anger on his face was self-evident, and he turned around and went to the chicken pen to catch a rooster and went to the kitchen.

I hurriedly followed him and asked him what he was doing.

I saw him holding a kitchen knife, pinching the neck of the chicken, and then lifting it above his head, letting the rooster's blood drip on him, and the fishy smell instantly filled his nose.

The second brother was angry, saying that his mother had passed away, how could he not personally send her into the earth when he was a son, and he felt that there must be a reason for my aunt's sudden death, so he wanted to secretly follow to see what my uncle was hiding from us?

I saw that the second brother had made himself covered in chicken blood, and I couldn't help but ask what was on the mountain?

At that time, I saw the second brother tremble, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes, and then he turned to look at me and said, "It's a dead man's cemetery, it's just a little unclean, there's nothing, you remember not to go up, if I can't come back, don't come to me!" ”

As soon as I heard that I might not be able to come back, I was stupid, tears rushed out, crying and not letting my second brother go up.

The second brother's eyes were very sharp, even if I couldn't stop it, I had to offer to go with him, but his attitude was the same as that of my uncle, and he resolutely refused to let me go, saying that he would let me comfort my eldest brother at home, if there was no problem, he should be back early tomorrow morning, after saying that, he strode up with a kitchen knife, and soon disappeared from my sight.

Unexpectedly, the second brother disappeared for five years.

When my uncle came back, he was so angry that he couldn't speak, and within a few days he fell ill and asked us to keep the second brother's disappearance a secret. My eldest brother and I have experienced two cases of relatives leaving in a row, how can we still be disobedient to my uncle after falling ill, and I agreed after being busy.

But how can there be an impermeable wall in the world, it didn't take long for the rumors in the village to spread hotly, and a few people who carried the coffin up the mountain died not long after they came back, and some people said that it was because they made money from the dead and lost their lives, and some family members also made trouble at home, but when the uncle woke up, he was confused, and drove them out with a stick.

After several years, although my uncle's health was much better, he was not as tough as before, and he could be swept away by a strong wind, and he also had hysteria, and the whole person became nervous, and often talked nonsense alone.

But every year during the Qingming Festival, March 3 and the Ghost Festival, his body will be inexplicably better, and he will carry incense, candles, and paper money in the middle of the night to sweep the tomb of his aunt, and when he comes back the next day, he is sick.

My eldest brother and I wondered why my uncle's health was so bad on weekdays, but he always got better in those days. And every time I brought it up with my uncle, he yelled and screamed like crazy, so I couldn't ask any more questions.

Soon after my uncle fell ill, the burden of the family fell on the eldest brother, he resolutely dropped out of school to go out to work, for me to study in junior high school in the town, after school spent half an hour to go home to take care of my uncle, within half a year the eldest brother told me that he was appreciated by the boss, began to make a lot of money, hired two aunts in the village to help take care of my uncle, so that I can finish high school with peace of mind.

It wasn't until I graduated from high school in 18 that no matter how much my eldest brother persuaded me, I gave up the opportunity to go to college and returned to the town to find a factory near the village as an accountant and take care of my uncle.

Because I think I hurt my uncle like this.,If I had stopped the second brother back then.,The second brother wouldn't have disappeared.,Uncle wouldn't have been treated as a psychopath by the people in the village.。。

Until one day I realized that my uncle was wrong, as if he was pretending to be sick!

On that day, I was preparing incense, candles, paper money, and offerings, because it would be the third day of March in a few days, and my uncle would wake up according to the practice of previous years, and then, as in previous years, he would carry things alone in the middle of the night to sweep the grave in the back mountain.

It was late at night after I got ready, so I wiped my uncle and pulled him to bed and waited for him to sleep, but he looked at the roof with his eyes hooked, and he was very distracted, and his mouth began to babble again.

I sat down next to me and pulled down the quilt and told him to stop chattering and go to bed.

He suddenly got up and sat up straight, with a solemnity on his face that he hadn't seen for a long time, and turned to me and said, "Third brother, your second brother is coming back." ”

My mind went blank with a bang, and I stood up in fright and shouted, "Uncle, you're not sick!?" ”

My uncle got out of bed suddenly, ran over and pulled the latch without even wearing shoes, opened the wardrobe and looked at the bottom of the bed, as if to make sure there was no one, and then grabbed my wrist and whispered: "Third brother, you must not believe your second brother, remember!" ”

Before I could react, my uncle suddenly laughed again, pointed to the ceiling and said, "There are so many people up there, you are also there, I will go up too." I stood by and watched my uncle climb up with the beams of the house, and goosebumps all over my body suddenly rose.

What happened to my uncle just now?

That look, that tone, is exactly the same as before he fell!

If what he said is true, does it mean that he has always known where his second brother is all these years!?

But why didn't he say it before?

I suddenly remembered the scene when he closed the door just now, as if... It seems that someone is spying on him, could it be that his uncle is pretending to be sick because someone is spying on him?

The hairs on my body exploded instantly, and I turned my head sharply to look out the dark window, and the silence around me was eerily quiet.

After playing with myself for a while, my uncle ran into the yard and twisted Yangge, which seemed very strange to me.

At night, when I went to bed, I was tossing and turning in bed, still thinking about what my uncle had just said to me, which made me feel strange, but for a moment I couldn't tell what was wrong.

Suddenly there was a squeak, so frightened that I suddenly got up and looked, and found that the door was opened at some point, but there was an extra eye behind the door, looking at me with hooked eyes, I was so frightened that I cried out, and I found out that it was my uncle.

I quickly got up and opened the door, my uncle was still in a cat's posture of peeking at the waist, I said uncle, what are you doing?

It took a long time for my uncle to get up and muttered, "Strange, I obviously saw it running in, where is it?" As he spoke, he suddenly took my hand and said, "Third child, if you see my cat running in and help me catch it back in its cage." With that, he sighed and turned back to the house.

I clenched my fists and froze in place.

My uncle just shoved a piece of paper into it when he held my hand!

Uncle is really pretending to be sick!

And he secretly stuffed me with a note, which represented ......

Someone is peeking at us!

At this moment, cold sweat instantly wet my back, and my legs began to tremble a little, and after a long time, I turned my head like a machine and peeked around, but I didn't find anything.

This not only did not make me breathe a sigh of relief, but made my heart instantly mention the eyes of courage.

I scanned the places where I could hide and didn't find it.,The only possibility is that.。。 Spy on ours. Maybe not human, I was taken aback by the idea that I had suddenly appeared.

I was so scared that I couldn't sleep all night, I didn't even dare to open the note immediately, pretended to tickle and stuffed it into the edge of my underwear, I thought about it for a long time all night, and felt that this matter could not be done by myself, so I sent a text message to my eldest brother overnight, telling everything that had happened, and my eldest brother was also frightened after receiving it, and replied to me not to act rashly first, he flew back immediately.

The next morning, when I opened the door of my uncle's room, a pair of straight legs fell from my head, and when I looked up, I saw a purple-blue face with hideous features, looking at me gloomily, and I was almost stunned for a few seconds before I reacted.

My uncle's sudden death frightened many people in the village, standing outside the door and pointing and talking about why my uncle suddenly hanged himself on the beam of his house, and said that my uncle was crazy because of ghosts, and some also said that my aunt's death was because he offended ghosts and gods, and all kinds of remarks filled the entire hall for a while.

However, I had not yet recovered from the news of my uncle's sudden death, and I sat on the ground and watched the villagers do everything for me.

I stood numbly in front of the coffin in my filial piety clothes, looking at my uncle lying lifeless inside, my eyes were closed, I still couldn't believe that he was just leaving, I always felt that all this was not true.

Because my uncle is the only Taoist priest in the village, the village chief came to comfort me after the cadres mourned, so that I should not be too sad, before leaving, the village chief told my uncle that there were some old things in his place, so that I could go and pick them up when I was free.

I nodded blankly, unable to speak with my mouth open.

I sat in front of the coffin all day to refill the incense and burn paper money, I wanted to cry but couldn't cry, it was like a heavy blow to the heart, but I couldn't vent it, looking at the empty lobby around me, my heart was even more uncomfortable.

I calculated that according to the eldest brother's journey, I would not arrive home until the next day, but I didn't expect that he had already arrived in the afternoon, but when I came back, I saw my father lying in the coffin, and the whole person was stupid, and his eyes turned red, and he rushed to the coffin, stretched out his trembling hands and gently stroked his uncle's face, and cried like a child.

As soon as my eldest brother cried, my tears poured out like a broken embankment, and the two of them cried for a long time, and their voices were hoarse before they stopped. Big brother sat next to me in a dead breath and asked what the hell was going on with me.

I shook my head.

The eldest brother sighed and shed tears while burning the paper money, so that he was not sad.

In the middle of the night, my eldest brother asked me to go and rest first, and he just came to watch here.

I still shook my head, how could I sleep when this sudden change happened. The eldest brother was not reluctant, handed me a pack of cigarettes, and asked me to go eat something first and smoke a cigarette to refresh myself.

"Okay."

I went back to the lobby after a brief meal, and saw my eldest brother half-kneeling in front of my uncle's coffin, as if looking at my uncle's remains, and I couldn't bear to disturb him and went out of the door to smoke.

As soon as I went out, I met a long-haired man of more than one meter and eight meters and walked towards him, his clothes were ragged, his body exuded a foul smell, and he was carrying a missing kitchen knife in his hand, his face was dirty, my heart trembled, and the facial features of this person in front of me were very similar to my second brother!