Chapter 25: Peanuts and the Old Lady
Lu Youcai said that Huzi was found in the big pit last night.
At first, no one thought he would be in the pit, because the water in the pit had formed a thick layer of ice last winter, and now it was early spring, and it would not melt until at least April.
Because the big pit has been abandoned for a long time, and no one has dealt with it when the water is full, the ice and the ground are almost flat, and there are still several children skating on it during the day.
The person who helped to find the child also shone a few times on the ice with a flashlight when he walked to the big pit, but he didn't see anyone on the ice and gave up.
The village head, Liu Sangui and his wife, also took the strong labor of the entire village to find inch by inch in the larger village.
The search was fruitless, everyone hung their heads and returned, and a villager walked to the big pit and wanted to come to the edge of the pit to pee.
"Second brother, did you see it over there in the Longmiao Reservoir?" Fuzi and his father asked the peeing villagers, and before he could answer, a terrible laughter poured into everyone's ears, and many people were frightened, Uncle Lu's goosebumps rose, and the three ghost daughters-in-law were timid, and they couldn't help but scream.
In the blink of an eye, something came out of the ice behind him, and a large hole appeared in the flat ice surface in an instant, and sewage and broken ice splashed everywhere.
Liu Sangui subconsciously shook his flashlight in front of him, and there was a figure standing in a puddle of water stains, dripping wet from top to bottom.
But I saw that the man's face was pale, his tongue was exposed, his eye sockets were deep, and only the white eyeballs were slightly cloudy in both eyes, and two yellow fangs were exposed on the side of his mouth, which looked particularly hideous and terrifying.
The man was dressed in a brown silk cotton shroud, barely making out the yellow pattern on it, and the man's exposed skin was also covered with white fluff, which was wet with water and divided into several locks.
Liu Sangui scolded, damn, what the is this.
Through the light of the flashlight, Sister Fuzi saw the situation clearly, if she hadn't seen the clothes and appearance of the person in front of her, Sister Fuzi would not have recognized her as the hanged woman next door.
Because it is the same hospital, Fuzi and his sister have seen her remains after changing into a shroud.
And Fu Zi's father saw the face of the hanged ghost, and his face turned pale.
The sudden appearance of the hanged ghost completely frightened everyone, and everyone didn't dare to breathe, and their legs and stomachs were weak when they wanted to run, and Aunt Lu was even more frightened.
Ding Lao Er, who was peeing just now, had myopia and couldn't see the female ghost standing in the distance clearly, so he took a flashlight and shone it over there, frowned, and said something that made people cry and laugh: "What is that monkey in front?" The original atmosphere of cold hair standing on end was easily broken by Ding Lao Er's words, Aunt Lu couldn't help laughing, and the three ghost daughters-in-law were not as scared as just now.
Everyone laughed, but the girl didn't laugh, because she saw a small head emerge from the big mouth that the female ghost jumped out of just now, which was her younger brother Fuzi.
The girl screamed and ran there to get Fukuko, but the ice at the edge of the hole was torn apart by the strong footsteps.
She rushed over desperately, only to hear the sound of falling water, and before everyone could react, they heard the girl crying, and when everyone understood the taste, Fuzi's father had already hugged Fuzi's cold corpse from his daughter's hands.
The female ghost's voice was still so sharp and terrifying, Fu Zi's father's blood-red eyes were full of hatred, and he pulled up his eldest daughter with dull eyes, and turned around and pounced on the female ghost.
The girl shouted, "Daddy, you're back!" and burst into tears.
Liu Sangui shouted at the top of his voice: "The old ladies are all on the side, the old men give it to me!"
At this time, Fuzi's father has been choked by the neck by the female ghost and held it in his hand.
The female ghost didn't seem to understand why she was choking the living, and before everyone rushed to her, she stopped moving, threw the lifeless man over, and then disappeared into the night with a jump.
Ding Lao Er asked Liu Sangui: "Third uncle, was that a ghost just now?"
Liu Sangui also broke out in a cold sweat at this time, and said with a straight face, there are no ghosts in our village, and no one is allowed to mention this matter in the future!
Two corpses, one large and one small, were placed on the ice, and Aunt Lu led the girl with dull eyes to her father and younger brother, she hugged the cold Fuzi, tears dripped big and big, and reached out to caress her father's painful pale face, gently closed his dead eyes, and said calmly: "Dad, Fuzi, I will definitely avenge you." ”
After the girl finished speaking, she picked up Fuzi and walked in the direction of home, and her father's body was pushed back by the flatbed truck called by Liu Sangui.
On the way back, no one spoke, several women who followed to find someone were silently crying, Aunt Lu was the most touched, she also suffered misfortune more than ten years ago, but fortunately she also had a son, and the poor girl in front of her suddenly became a loner tonight.
Looking at the door of the house that was still full of laughter yesterday, it has only been less than two months since she moved in, and she is the only one left in the warm home.
Thinking of this, the girl couldn't help but cry, and the dogs in the village also became sad when they heard it.
I sat at the window, looking at the wall, and I couldn't see the kid two years older than me peeking around.
Aunt Lu helped with the neighbor's funeral.
At the end of the funeral, she was dressed in plain clothes, smiling and thanking the people who came to mourn, although her face was haggard, but she could not see that she had just lost her relatives.
The girl said she was leaving, and her mother didn't ask her where she was going.
Shortly after the woman died, she said, her father and she had the same dream for days on end: a hanged man in a brown shroud with a vague mouth warning them to leave.
It's just that her father didn't take it seriously, until the last day when the stall was closed, the girl also talked about these dreams, and the two felt that there must be nothing good about having the same dream, and they couldn't help but beat the drum in their hearts, and they were looking for a place to live in a few days, but something happened that day.
Lu Youcai said that this hanged ghost was quite reasonable, and he knew that he would salute first and then soldier.
The girl is gone and is picked up by the mother of her dead mother.
Before leaving, he gave the small pot of croquettes to Aunt Lu, and also took half a pocket of gross tickets and stuffed them to us.
Where she went no one knows.
Lu Youcai said that the house next door was not good, and several people died in less than a month, and whoever lived in it suffered.
Dad is back, and so is the bald tiger.
After Uncle Tiger entered the door, he first hugged me around, and when he saw that I didn't express any excitement, he scratched his bald head in embarrassment, and said: "Little Fulu has grown up, and he has forgotten Uncle Tiger." ”
He smiled at me as he spoke, but I was shocked.
Because I saw that Uncle Hu's Yintang was as black as a briquette burning in a stove, Master seemed to have told me that the heavier the black qi of Yintang, the more urgent he would die.
He told me that if I saw someone in the dark, I should stay away, lest I get angry.
I asked him, the second sister has dark circles all day long, does it also belong to the black of Yintang, and the master said, what your second sister's face is just bad luck, not dead air.
Sure enough, not long after Uncle Tiger came, before he ate dinner, he vomited blood in his mouth, and he lost his breath in an instant.
Uncle Tiger's body lay quietly in the center of the hall, covered with a white cloth.
Yesterday, when my father changed his clothes, I saw Uncle Tiger the most handsome, a gray Mao suit neatly worn on his body, and the new black leather shoes and a new clothes complemented each other.
Although there is not a single hair on the top of his bare head, he is smeared with ink and is particularly stylish.
These are all requested by Uncle Tiger himself before his death, he said that he didn't like the traditional shroud, it was too tacky, and he said that the Zhongshan suit was more spiritual, so he specified that he would wear the Zhongshan suit to be buried. And he specially asked to paint his hair with ink, and he didn't have hair when he was alive, and he couldn't care about his appearance when he died.
"Cuihua, Fulu, your Uncle Tiger has no children, you two and your rich brother will wear linen and filial piety to Huzi. Dad said heavily.
"Dad, why?" the second sister was puzzled.
Dad looked at the carved stone tablet sent by the craftsmen, on which the name of the deceased was Li Feihu.
"Your Uncle Tiger died because of our Ye family, and we owe him. ”
On the day of the funeral, I wore linen and filial piety like Lu Youcai and the second sister, Aunt Lu said, don't let Fulu follow, he is still young, and his Uncle Tiger will not blame him.
Dad left me alone in the house and they came back in a moment and he locked the door outside. I watched silently from the window at what was happening outside.
I saw Lu Youcai walking at the front of the crowd with a white flag crying bitterly, I saw Uncle Tiger's coffin being carried onto a car, I saw people carrying wreaths slowly following behind, and I saw the person in charge of setting off the cannon lighting a string of red cannons in his hand...... I didn't know why I was afraid of firecrackers, but when I saw that the man was going to set off firecrackers, I was so scared that I wanted to cover my ears.
"Fulu, don't be afraid, I'll help you cover your ears, you eat peanuts. ”
I looked up and saw a kind old woman holding a peanut seedling full of peanut fruit in front of me, I was defenseless for some reason, and without looking at it, I took it and peeled it one by one, and I really didn't hear the sound of firecrackers in my ears again.
My hands were covered with dirt from the peanut shells, my two little hands looked dirty, and the pink peanuts were raw and sweet to chew. I just looked down and ate peanuts, and when I was almost done, I looked up and saw that my grandmother was gone.
At this time, the door opened, my father and Aunt Lu walked in, I saw that they were wearing black veils on their arms, Aunt Lu's eyes were very red, and they picked me up, when I looked down and wanted to take peanuts again, I found that there was nothing on the ground, and my hands were clean.
Many years later, everyone talked about it at night, and the second sister was so frightened that she didn't dare to turn off the lights when she slept for several days.
I still remember that when talking about this incident, the second sister said to me in fear: "You are not sick, it was spring when Uncle Tiger died, and the crops have not yet thawed, where are the peanuts from! Also, don't scare me, where was there an old lady in our family at that time?"
I don't know where the peanuts came from, where the old lady came from, but in the house on the day of Uncle Tiger's funeral, an old grandmother gave me a peanut seedling, and the peanuts on it were very sweet.