1190 - The Quiet Yellow Spring Returns
Chen Yuejin's family has been playing monkey training for three generations, from the grandfather's generation is to make a living from this, and then grandfather, father died one after another, father died and mother married, Chen Yuejin inherited this craft from his father, after all, the ancestors of the family have done this, idle habits, he is not so patient to ask him to farm, let alone pay the hard work.
However, this craft is not comparable to trading, although he is free and unrestrained, but the income is meager, plus he has to run outside every once in a while, either into the mountains to catch monkeys or to the county to play monkeys to make money, so Chen Yuejin is running around all year round and rarely stays home, which also leads to him being alone in his thirties and unable to find a wife.
In fact, it's no wonder that others, who is unwilling to find a down-to-earth husband for their daughter, and marry her to a monkey trickster who is away from home all the year round and has not eaten the last meal? Poor and unrealistic, isn't this self-inflicted?
Later, it was not until Chen Yuejin was thirty-five years old that his family affairs were finally settled, his daughter-in-law's name was Xiaomei, thirteen years younger than Chen Yuejin, her maiden name was Sun, and she was a farmer in Wangmatai Village.
It was when Xiaomei was twelve years old, one day when she carried a bamboo basket with her mother to dig wild vegetables in the woods north of the village, she didn't know what she saw, and she suddenly fainted with a scream.
This high fever lasted for half a month, and when the fever finally subsided, Xiaomei had burned out her brain, and since then she has fallen into cerebral palsy.
For this matter, the Sun family washed their faces with tears all day long, but unfortunately they tried their best to find both sides and famous doctors, but they couldn't cure their daughter's illness, and they had no choice but to accept their fate.
Chen Yuejin was thirty-five years old that year, Xiaomei was twenty-two years old, one couldn't marry, the other couldn't marry, so the old aunt in the village specially ran to Sun's house to protect Chen Yuejin, the Sun family listened to the old aunt, and thought to themselves, anyway, the girl will be like this for the rest of her life, and now she can marry while she is young, it is better than eating at home and waiting for death, so she should go down to this family affair and marry her daughter Sun Xiaomei to Chen Yuejin, a monkey tricker.
Chen Yuejin was also happy in his heart, and he also knew in his heart that he was greedy, lazy and unprofessional, and he made so many melons and dates every day by playing monkey training monkeys, and it was not easy to find a daughter-in-law, so he didn't pick it, he simply bought a few belongings, and got the marriage certificate, even if he and Xiaomei officially became a couple.
At the beginning, the two of them had a good life, Chen Yuejin still went out every once in a while, or went into the mountains to catch monkeys, or went to the county to play monkeys, leaving Xiaomei alone at home, although Xiaomei has cerebral palsy, but life is not completely unable to take care of herself, do some simple housework, help Chen Yuejin feed a few monkeys raised at home, this kind of thing can still be done, and there are parents from the same village who often come to take care of them, and they send money and food, and also help Chen Yuejin share a lot of family affairs.
As soon as the days of the little couple passed like this, it was a full five years, that year Chen Yuejin was forty, as usual in the county after playing monkeys for more than ten days, he returned home with the two jujubes he earned......
Xiaomei herself is sick, and the family also guesses that she may not be as good as ordinary people, not to mention that she has been a burden to the family for so many years, and now she is relieved when she dies, so she is not too sad, and she buried Xiaomei after a simple purchase, and this matter is over.
Later, as usual, Chen Yuejin either went into the mountains to catch monkeys, or trained monkeys at home, or entrusted the monkeys at home to the people of the same village to feed for a few days, and led the two monkeys into the city to make money, and nearly a year passed in a flash.
On that day, Chen Yuejin, who had returned from playing monkeys in the county seat, went home as usual, and after taking care of the two monkeys he had brought to the city and training the other monkeys who stayed at home, he saw that it was getting late, and went to bed early after eating.
How did he know that at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, he was in a daze but heard a noise in the courtyard outside, as soon as he heard the sound, Chen Yuejin suddenly woke up from the kang, at first he thought that there was a thief at home, but then he thought that there was nothing to steal at home? Monkey? Whoever stole this thing, it was useful to steal it and didn't put it aside, but if it was useful, whether it could be stolen or not had to be said separately, sometimes even when he stretched out his hand into the monkey cage, his hand would be accidentally scratched out by the monkey A few bloody paths......
So Chen Yuejin didn't grow, moved to the top of the kang and quietly opened a crack in the curtain, and looked out, through the miserable white moonlight, he saw a figure dangling in front of his monkey cage, looking at the posture and action is not stealing the monkey in the cage, but feeding the monkey in the cage......
This time, Chen Yuejin was even more puzzled, and said in his heart, who is so kind, he doesn't sleep in the middle of the night to feed the monkeys for him? At this time, I saw the figure who was feeding the monkey slowly turned his head and looked in the direction of the window of the house, and began to stare at the window hehehe, smirk, his eyes stared directly at the curtain, as if he was looking at Chen Yuejin.
This look frightened Chen Yuejin 'chuckled' in his heart, his face turned white in an instant, his hands and feet couldn't move, and even his blood was cold......
Because he still recognized that the person who was feeding the monkeys was none other than his daughter-in-law, who had been dead for nearly a year......
May.
In the middle of the night, the yin people went home, and no one could stand it, Chen Yuejin was so frightened that he didn't know what to do, and hurriedly got back into the bed and pretended to sleep, and kept muttering: 'This is a dream, this is a ......dream, this is a dream'
But this is not a dream, after a while, I heard the door of the middle hall, a sound of footsteps along the door of the middle hall from far to near, the door curtain was lifted, Xiaomei entered the house......
Chen Yuejin was so frightened that he dared to move and didn't dare to make a sound, so he could only hide in the quilt and pretend to sleep, opened a crack in the quilt, and peeked at Xiaomei's movements with his eyes, and saw Xiaomei turning around the room straightly, and actually picked up a feather duster to start cleaning the dust on the furnishings in the house, and then sat on the chair for a while after cleaning up, and then stood up again, this time, walked towards Chen Yuejin......
Chen Yuejin was so frightened that he shivered all over, his whole body was covered in white hair and cold sweat, and his whole body was petrified with fright, but Xiaomei didn't do anything to him, just bent down and approached the crack on Chen Yuejin's quilt, and looked straight in, still with a stupid smirk on his face......
Xiaomei's move lasted for about ten minutes, and when it was almost one o'clock in the morning, Xiaomei straightened up again, swayed and smirked and went out of the door, and disappeared......
This night, Chen Yuejin was so scared that he couldn't do it, and he was still trying his best to comfort himself, when he must have been dreaming of hysteria, Xiaomei had been dead for almost a year, how could he suddenly come back? As time passed, he didn't take it too seriously.
Who knew that it had not been a week later, at twelve o'clock one night, Xiaomei came again, and just like last time, she first stood in front of the monkey cage in the middle of the night to feed the monkeys, and then entered the house and began to clean, and then, she began to stare at Chen Yuejin, who was pretending to be asleep, until she saw that it was almost a little in the morning, and then she quietly left......
As the saying goes, there are two if there is one, there are two and there are three, Xiaomei, who has passed away early in the morning, has now become a frequent visitor to Chen Yuejin's house, although the days of coming are not fixed, sometimes a few days apart, sometimes a few weeks apart, but the time is the same, they all appear around twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and then leave around one o'clock in the morning, every time I come back, I do the same thing, just those few things over and over again, feed the monkeys, clean up the house, sit and rest, and then just stare at Chen Yuejin without moving my eyes and watch endlessly......
Although Chen Yuejin is not at home most of the days, where can he stand it so repeatedly, and even thought about simply not wanting a home, and moving directly to the county to live, but then he thought about it, after all, the house at home is the ancestral house handed down from his ancestors, and he is reluctant to throw it away in vain, if it is said to be sold, now that the haunting of his house is spread to everyone, who dares to pay for it?
In desperation, Chen Yuejin thought of an idea, he should go out every day and continue to go out, go home or go home after coming back, feed the monkeys and train the monkeys during the day, but he didn't dare to live at home at night, so he bought a tent and moved to the outside of the village to spend the night alone......
When Chen Yuejin said this, the fourth interjected and asked, "Then why do you always kowtow?" ”
Chen Yuejin replied: "Hey, thinking of Xiaomei, I also know that I am ashamed of her, running outside all day long, and I can't take care of her, so I can only leave her at home alone, I think, maybe it is Xiaomei who thinks I'm sorry for her, so I will come back, I have no other way but to kowtow and apologize, hoping to get her forgiveness, and she will let me live ......."
The more Chen Yuejin spoke, the more sad he became, and when he said this, he began to wipe away his tears.
Seeing this, Bai Wei persuaded on the side: "Don't cry first, it's not a big deal, if you can trust me, take me home to see, I'll help you spend your wife's soul and it'll be fine......"
"You, do you really have the ability?"
Chen Yuejin was taken aback, and he still couldn't believe it.
Bai Wei smiled slightly, didn't say much, stood up and asked the others to stay outside the village and wait, then turned his head to me and said, "Little Liuzi, you and Xiao Fei prepare some supernatural magic weapons, and go into the village with me to transform the soul......"
I nodded, and hurriedly took Xiaofei to prepare.