Chapter 12: The Devil Gives the Dowry

I saw that my milk was crying very inexplicably, and I felt very noisy. Tilting his head and looking inside the hall, the sun outside was very bright, and through the threshold of the hall gate, it shone obliquely in, and the inside of the room was bright.

I saw the photo of my grandfather in the middle frame on the altar, as if it had moved, and the black and white photo reflected his very familiar face, with a smile on his face, and I obviously saw that my father seemed to be nodding at me again and again.

I thought everyone had seen it, so I looked at my parents and my grandmother on the side. They were all trying to tell my grandmother not to cry. And I turned back to look at my father's photo, and this time I seemed to hear a thin voice beckoning to me again: "Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang, I'm your master, come on, I'll give you candy to eat......"

It was my grandfather's voice, which floated down intermittently from the altar and came straight to my ears. I shook my head, not daring to look at my father's picture again, and the voice that called me was still endless.

I hurriedly threw away my hand holding the chopsticks, stretched out and covered my ears, but the voice that called me still came through my palm, little by little: "Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang, I am your master, come on, I'll give you candy to eat......"

I wowed, suddenly cried, this cry, but my parents were shocked, they quickly turned their heads to look at me, saw me with my hands covered ears, my mouth wow wow wow crying, they knew that something was wrong, my father quickly looked around and looked, and muttered a few words at the shrine, I didn't hear clearly.

Later, when he saw that my face was flushed, he quickly opened the dining table, knelt in the middle of the hall, and kowtowed his head to the ground against his photo frame, and cried so much that it was a mess.

After my grandmother saw my abnormality, she stopped crying, came over and hugged me, and scolded while crying in front of my father's photo frame: "You dead ghost, why don't you let us stop, you can leave when you leave, you have to let my grandson go with you......"

I cried like this for a while, and then fell asleep in my arms. When I fell asleep, I had a very strange dream, I dreamed that my father's grave was on the old ditch, and I didn't know what was going on, so a wisp of green smoke came out, and the green smoke went straight up, no matter how the wind blew, it didn't deviate at all, so it went up, and it went up until I couldn't see it.

And the fire paper ashes in front of the grave and the long insect skins that I didn't pick up also turned into countless colorful butterflies, dancing on the grave, and I stood dumbfounded, watching those butterflies fly around the grave.

And after the butterfly disappeared, the wisp of green smoke slowly turned into a big long worm, expanding and rolling in the middle of the day, sometimes lowering its head as if to approach me, sometimes soaring to break through the clouds, and I just watched blankly, without the slightest fear at all......

Later, I woke up, and when I woke up, I saw my second aunt Gui Ying, sitting next to me, looking at me very kindly, while bringing the poached egg bowl brought to my mouth in front of me, and said to me with a smile: "Xiaoliang, come and eat some poached eggs cooked by my second aunt, and after eating, I will ask your uncle to take you to catch fish." ”

As soon as I heard that I could go catch fish, I sat up from the bed with a red face, and my second aunt fed me poached eggs one by one. My second aunt, eight years younger than my father, looks very much like my father, including temperament, personality is also similar, talking and doing things, and I am as straightforward and honest as my father.

Among my two aunts, I like my second aunt more, not because her mother-in-law's family has a fish catch, but because she was born with a fate.

My sister-in-law is different, she looks very similar to my uncle, anyway, it's not that I don't like my sister-in-law, but I don't like it as much as my second aunt.

The second aunt's mother-in-law's house is in Wangying, about ten miles away from my house. When I was very young, my second aunt went out. When the second aunt went out, I still sat in a caravan with her, covered with a big red cotton quilt, and ate toffee all the way to Wangying in the festive suona sound of the drummer.

At that time, the send-off procession was all people walking. There are those who pick meat, those who pick rice and noodles, those who serve washbasins, those who take basin racks, those who pull carts to transport wardrobes, and those who drive donkey carts to drag quilts and clothes.

It is often the family sending procession that stretches for more than a mile, and I sit in the car, extremely satisfied, chewing toffee in my mouth, while being held by my second aunt, I fell asleep in a daze before I reached the edge of my father's grave on the old ditch.

I was awakened by my second aunt's cry. My second aunt was wearing a red wedding dress, and her face was also painted red, she held me in her arms, sat on the caravan, lifted the big red curtain on the side of the caravan, and cried at my father's grave.

While crying, he said, "Daddy, father, my daughter and I are married today, if you have a manifestation, come out and see me." ”

The second aunt looked at her father's grave and kept crying. But the master didn't seem to hear it, and he was indifferent.

So the caravan continued to move forward, and the second aunt lowered her head, wiped the tears on her face, and twitched her nose. And I was in the arms of my second aunt, watching my second aunt's pear blossoms cry like rain, but I didn't know what to do.

Just as the caravan was about to pass the edge of my father's grave, I looked out through the big red curtain open behind the caravan, and seemed to see a tall figure, slowly following the caravan, and the footsteps seemed to drag the ground, and it was very difficult to walk.

I didn't dare to blink my eyes, so I looked behind me, and the figure slowly became clear, clearly it was my father, wearing a black coarse cloth jacket, black old cotton pants, and old cotton shoes in my second aunt's hand, my father followed the caravan, and waved to me, no, it was to my second aunt, as if he was saying something.

There was a cheerful suona sound outside, I couldn't hear what my father said at all, and then the master saw that no one paid attention to him, as if he was a little anxious, so he picked up a dirt skulla from the side, and pinched it hard in his hand, and the frozen soil was pinched by my father, only to see my father stretch out his long arm, and threw it at the crowd blowing the horn in front of him, and the noisy sound stopped abruptly in an instant.

At this time, I heard my father's voice coming into my ears: "Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang, I am your master, come here, come here, I'll give you candy to eat......"

I screamed out with a loud voice. My second aunt sensed my abnormality, so she hurriedly asked me, "Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang, what's wrong with you?" ”

I was soft, so I pointed to the back of the caravan and said to my second aunt: "Second aunt, second aunt, look, my father, my father is following behind the car, and my father said that he would give me candy to eat......