Chapter 10: Graveyard Suona
Later, one time, my sister-in-law came back, I specially asked my sister-in-law, was it when my father died, you didn't cry, my sister-in-law was stuck in the same place without saying a word, and it took a long time to speak, how can there be, how can there be......
My grandfather is buried in the old ditch, every time my sister-in-law comes back from Yangguan Temple, she will go around the north of the village and return home, and the grave of the old ditch master, my sister-in-law has never been there, let alone burn a piece of fire paper......
As a grandchild, I naturally can't judge the elders, but things have changed, and my grandfather underground doesn't know if he understands this, if he knows, will he be chilled!
School is on vacation, and I have nothing to do at home, so I run to the old ditch to catch crickets and play alone. The Jiahe River on the edge of the old ditch had not yet been reclaimed as a field at that time, and due to the perennial water accumulation, the river slope was washed smooth by the water, and it was very high and very steep.
As soon as the weather was cold, the river gradually dried up, and then when the northeast wind blew, the riverbed slowly dried up, and finally cracked very wide.
And the barberry on the river slope also slowly turned from dark green to withered yellow, and in the middle of each group of slender and serrated wide leaves, a few slender and straight branches will grow, the barberry stands upright, and the top is a bunch of white cherry blossoms, and when the wind passes, the cherry blossoms are like the tail of a running horse.
When these stiff seeds are eroded by frost and dew, when it comes to the New Year, they often grow a little under the cherry blossoms, and grow a hair as thick as a rolling pin, the hair is yellow-brown outside, and it feels fluffy and a little hard, and if you pinch it down a little hard, the hair will be gently staggered, and then it will swell to fill the palm of a hand, and these swelled hairs will blow on the mouth, like catkins flying in the air......
At that time, the weather was not cold, and the northeast wind blew from the river behind the wolf's chest, and the sound of suona could be heard from a distance, floating over in bursts. I guessed that there must have been another death in the village.
It's just too far away, I can't run past the cannon to watch the suona, I regret it in my heart. Later, I saw a few rags-like things floating in the wind on my ancestral grave, so I ran over and lay down in the middle of the grave to see the rags.
Where are the rag strips, which are clearly a few intermittent long insect skins, which hang on the grass as soon as the wind blows, and look like rag strips floating in the wind from a distance. Little by little, I picked up the skins, blew off the dust, folded them one by one, rolled them up, and put them in the cloth bag of my clothes.
I picked up a dozen long insect skins, which were bulging in cloth bags. Suddenly I didn't think it was interesting, so I gave up the interest of continuing to look for the long worm skin.
After a while, I saw the grave of the lord, the shadow north had long been eroded by the wind and rain, and the incense offering platform in front of it also fell, and the bricks of the incense offering platform were also lost, I saw that on the ground in front of the incense offering platform, there were traces of fire paper burning, and there were several firecrackers with seedlings in the place where the ashes and soil were hidden.
I came to the interest, knelt on the ground, picked up one by one, and then when I picked it up, I smiled and kowtowed to the grave of the master, and just like that, until the seventeenth head, I suddenly felt as if someone was passing by behind me.
I quickly sat down on the ground, turned my face to see that there was no one, only the wind blowing gently by the grave. Something was wrong, I just heard footsteps, I muttered to myself, and just twisted my head to look to the side.
Across my grave, in the flickering weeds that were blown by the wind, I saw a man pushing a cart slowly on the road at the other end of the field.
My eyes are sharp, and I recognize it as my sister-in-law at a glance. The direction she came from was from the northeast, which was the direction of her mother-in-law's Yangguan Temple. I heard the clatter of the chain box in her car.
And I also vaguely saw that on the frame behind my sister-in-law's car, there seemed to be two bundles of untouched fire paper, and on top of the fire paper was a wicker basket containing a large round white bun and a large piece of meat.
I quickly got up from the ground and looked carefully in the direction of my sister-in-law, it was really my sister-in-law. But after a gust of wind, I heard the sound of suona in the distance suddenly sounded, like a cannon battle exploding on the edge of the clouds, and my sister-in-law seemed to not see me standing in the middle of the grave at all, and still pushed the cart so lightly, walking along the road to this side.
I waved to my sister-in-law and called out to my sister-in-law, maybe it was a headwind, but my sister-in-law didn't hear or see it at all, so she just walked this way without squinting. I was in a hurry, so I quickly ran out of the grave and stood on the side of the road, waiting for my sister-in-law to come.
However, except for the sound of the chain box of my sister-in-law's car, and the sound of locks in the distance, my sister-in-law still didn't see me. I was standing on the side of the road, in a hurry.
I saw my sister-in-law getting closer, and I could clearly see the yellow color of the fire paper on the car, and even smell the special smell of the fire paper, and I could clearly see the big white bun in the wicker basket.
The sister-in-law pushed the car, and actually crossed the master's grave and pushed it straight south, and the speed at which she pushed the car became faster and faster!
I was stunned, my sister-in-law didn't come to burn paper for my lord, so I quickly threw off my arms and chased in the direction that my sister-in-law walked. The sister-in-law never looked back, just pushed the car forward vigorously.
I was a little child, and I tried my best to catch up, but I didn't catch up with the sister-in-law who was pushing the cart away! I panted and chased to the stele bridge, I couldn't run, I gasped for breath, and the northeast wind desperately drilled into my mouth.
I'm less than half a mile away from my sister-in-law. I was so hot that I felt sweating everywhere. Just when I stretched out my hand to wipe the sweat on my head, the sister-in-law who was still pushing the car forward in front suddenly turned around, held the car with one hand, and gently beckoned to me with the other, still calling me in her mouth: "Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang, come on, I'm your master, come here, I'll give you candy to eat, come here......"
My brain buzzed as if I had been shocked, and I clearly saw that where was my sister-in-law beckoning to me, it was clearly my father, like that, that look, it was simply my father.
I was dazzled, and something was churning in my heart. And sister-in-law, no, my grandfather is still holding the car with one hand and constantly greeting me with the other......
Suddenly, there was a sudden sound of suona, the sound was like a crack, and I fell to the ground with a spirit......
When I woke up, it was already dark, and I couldn't distinguish the crops in the field from the crops in the distance from the crops in the distance, except for a few graves in the distance.