Chapter 1 Giving birth on a rainy night
In the early years, many people left their hometowns in order to survive.
Our family is an outsider from the village, and I moved to this village from my grandfather's generation.
My grandfather was a man who did not believe in ghosts and gods, and when he arrived in the village. I knew that in order to settle down here, I needed to build a house first.
In order to save money to buy land, my grandfather chose the place to build the house in an old cemetery near the edge of the village.
The graves in this cemetery are very old, and I don't know whose family they belong to. At that time, the village chief suggested that the grandfather find someone to raise the grave and rebury it, and then build the house.
Grandpa calculated the account and felt that there was no need to spend this money, so he said, "I'm not afraid of the five living people, but I am still afraid of the dead." ”
Soon the house was built, and the cemetery was very large, and no one in the village fought with my grandfather, and our yard was very large.
Grandpa married grandma, and they gave birth to five sons and one daughter here, but they were all right.
When my uncles grew up and became married, they all moved out of here, and only my grandparents and my father were left here.
Later, my father also got married and married my mother.
When my mother was pregnant with me, a wandering fortune teller came to the village.
Since my uncle's family gave birth to girls, my grandmother wanted the fortune teller to calculate whether my mother's belly was male or female.
When the fortune teller saw my mother, his face changed greatly, and he told his grandmother, "Your daughter-in-law's belly is a male baby, but she is just a disaster." Your daughter-in-law will be implicated by him, and she will be flooded. ”
Grandma's face changed at that time, and she was about to ask how to crack it, but grandpa happened to come back and drove the fortune teller out.
Grandpa told grandma that there were ghosts and gods in this world, and there was not even a small waterhole or river in the village, so where did the flood come from?
In the blink of an eye, in the summer, my mother's belly is getting bigger and bigger, and she is about to give birth.
Just as the day was approaching, there was thunder and lightning that night, and heavy rain poured down. The people in the village said that it was as if a hole had been leaked that day.
It was also that night, on the fifth watch, when my father woke up, he found that my mother was gone. At that time, the rain had stopped, and he thought that my mother had gone out to the toilet, and he was not in a hurry.
After waiting for a while, my mother still didn't come back, my mother had a big belly, and he was also worried that something would happen to my mother, so he opened the door and prepared to go to the yard to have a look.
At this moment, there was a hurried knock outside the door, "Chen Lao Wu, Chen Lao Wu ......"
It was only three o'clock on the fifth watch, and my father wondered who would knock on the door on this big night. Although he wondered in his heart, he went over and opened the door anyway.
Standing outside was the midwife Wang Pozi, a midwife in the village who specialized in delivering babies to women. Mrs. Wang's face was dark, very ugly, and she was still holding a burden in her hand.
When Mrs. Wang saw my father open the door, she said directly to my father, "Chen Shu, you have a son." ”
Hearing Mrs. Wang's words, my father was stunned.
My grandparents also happened to come out of it when they heard the movement, and my grandfather said to Mrs. Wang with a cold face, "Mrs. Wang, don't talk nonsense, my daughter-in-law has not yet given birth, where is the son." ”
"Chen Lao Wu, your grandson is a ghost, unlucky, unlucky,......" Mrs. Wang said and spit on the ground a few times.
Grandpa's brows furrowed, he never believed in ghosts and gods, so he naturally didn't believe in Mrs. Wang's words, so he directly asked Mrs. Wang to hurry up and get out, don't talk nonsense.
Seeing that my grandfather didn't believe me, Mrs. Wang said directly, "Chen Shu, is your daughter-in-law at home?" ”
Hearing Mrs. Wang's question, my father was also stunned for a moment, just now my mother was indeed not in the house, he also came to the yard to find my mother, just was stirred up by Mrs. Wang, he just remembered.
Seeing that my father was stunned, my grandfather went over and kicked him, "What about your daughter-in-law?" ”
"I didn't know, when I woke up, she wasn't in the house, I thought she was in the yard ......," my father said incoherently.
My grandmother called my mother's name a few times, but there was no response, she quickly went to the toilet to see, there was no one, and looked from room to room, and there was still no one, now our whole family panicked, even the grandfather, who has always been calm when encountering things, was also a little panicked.
My grandmother asked Mrs. Wang what was going on, and Mrs. Wang told them what was going on.
It was raining heavily last night, and she went to bed early, and in the middle of the night, she heard a knock on the door.
Thinking that she was dreaming, Mrs. Wang turned over and wanted to go back to sleep, but the knock on the door did not stop.
Mrs. Wang sat up at once, and she shouted outside, but no one spoke outside.
In the middle of the night, it was raining so heavily, and he was a little scared.
The people outside also seemed to be a little anxious, and they knocked even more urgently. Mrs. Wang is a well-known midwife in the neighborhood, and she is bolder than ordinary women.
Mrs. Wang went over and opened the door, and she saw my mother. My mother was pale and wet, standing in the rain with a big belly.
When Mrs. Wang saw that it was my mother, she said anxiously, "Daughter-in-law Chen Shu, it's raining so late and it's raining heavily, and your body is heavy, why did you come out alone." ”
After saying that, she reached out and took my mother's hand, trying to pull her into the house and ask if something was wrong.
How do you know that when Mrs. Wang touched my mother's hand, she couldn't help but tremble, my mother's hand was cold and cold, like winter ice, cold and biting, and hard.
As a midwife, Mrs. Wang has also seen the world, and she immediately felt that something was wrong. How could it be so with the hands of a living man.
"Save my child." My mother squeezed a few words out between her teeth.
Mrs. Wang also panicked, she had already discovered that my mother was not a living person at all, but a dead person. Originally, she didn't want to care about it, but when she saw my mother's hideous and painful face, she was both scared and a little unbearable. I had to answer and let my mother into the house and let him lie on the bed.
Mrs. Wang touched my mother's stomach and found that his stomach was moving. He was pleasantly surprised and quickly helped my mother deliver the baby.
"Your daughter-in-law will leave after giving birth, and the child will be given to you." Mrs. Wang shoved the child into my grandmother's arms, and then walked away without looking back.
The family was dumbfounded, and my grandfather was the first to react and beckoned my father to hurry up and find someone to find my mother. He still didn't believe what Mrs. Wang said, how could a ghost have a child.
My grandfather and my dad, both of whom called up the people who lived around our house to help find someone.
The sky was already shining slightly, and soon everyone found my mother in a low-lying place outside the village, and my mother was lying there face down.