Chapter 570: Back to the Sun
A few days later, Gu Taiyan's family came back to find out about it, and they were very grateful to my mother. My mom said, no thanks! Just said in a blaming tone, Uncle Taiyan, the cow is a yin-eyed animal, and it is also a life, your family is gone, tie it to the willow tree for a few days, it will not starve to death, it will die of thirst, pay attention in the future! Gu Taiyan said yes repeatedly. He also said, Yulan, you are really a good person.
She has done countless similar good deeds, and I thought to myself: My mother is really a good person. There is another incident that impressed me deeply. When I was in the third grade of elementary school, I was in a hurry to go to school, and I basically ate a large bowl of rice, and there were still a few grains of rice left at the bottom of the bowl. I felt inexplicable and asked: What else is going on? Mom said, Weixing, eat a few grains of rice in your bowl before leaving, and you can't have a single grain of rice left.
I knew that my family was not rich, but I could still afford a few grains of rice, so I said very dissatisfiedly, Mom, if I don't eat these leftovers, will I die?
Guess what my mom told me? She said, Weixing, if you don't eat these grains of rice, you won't die, but your virtue will die, your virtue will die, and you don't need to read books. Eat quickly.
Under my mother's persuasion, I ate the few leftovers in the bowl, and the bowl was as if it had been washed. My mother praised me, child, change when you know your mistakes, and people should develop a thrifty character. Didn't a poet in the Tang Dynasty write a poem urging people to cherish food?
I happily grabbed the white, Mom, I can memorize, just learned it! Is it the poem "Compassion for Nong" written by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shen? When my mother nodded, I began to recite: On the afternoon of hoeing day, sweat drops fall into the soil. Who knows that Chinese food is hard work.
Mom slapped her face and said, yes! You have to learn to be thrifty, if you waste food, you don't respect the peasants who work hard to grow food. Waste a little today, waste a little tomorrow, and waste a lot over time, and you will become a sinner.
Mom, I see. Will listen to you! The more I recalled my mother's actions when she was alive, the more I felt that my mother was a good person, and in this way, I felt that what the land god I said in my dream might be true, and if I didn't talk about anything else, he said, "My mother has been cultivating ten good karma when she was alive, and that should be right." As for the land god saying that the Jade Emperor in the sky will send the heavenly god to carry her to the sky in a sedan chair to be a fairy, it is difficult to say whether it is true or not.
On the third night, at about twelve o'clock, I was at the wake when I suddenly heard my mother screaming in the coffin: "Oops! The screams were horrifying.
Suddenly, I don't know who called a ghost. Frightened, my father and our three brothers ran quickly into the dark fields, and ran out of the place 100 meters away from the mourning hall, and his heart was still pounding.
It was a harsh winter, the cold wind was howling, the sky was still drizzling, and everyone was shivering with cold. We father and son, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do.
Suddenly, my father said, "What are you afraid of?" Your mother becomes a ghost and pinched others, and she won't pinch her husband and son, let's go back! After speaking, the four of us, father and son, bravely returned to the mourning hall, mustered up the courage to approach the mother's coffin, lifted the coffin lid, and saw the mother lying in the coffin and groaning one after another: Oops, hey, hey......
I asked my mother, "Mom, what's wrong with you?" My mother said, "I don't have the strength to speak now, so make some rice soup for me to drink."
The father picked up the mother from the coffin and went back to the room to lie on the bed. After my mother drank the hot rice soup and regained some strength, she told us about the thrilling and wonderful story of her resurrection after death.
Mother said: When I just died, I suddenly felt that the pain that had tormented me for three years was all gone, and my body was relaxed for a while, I got up and walked down, only to see a lot of people coming to the house, uncles and aunts, almost all relatives and production team leaders and other villagers came, I wondered: What is the big thing at home today? I'm the head of the family, how don't I know?
I went to ask my husband, but my husband didn't pay attention to me at all, he was busy inside and outside the house. I wondered, and asked my son, who ignored me, how did I know that I was dead? It was my soul that spoke to them, and I could see it clearly, but I couldn't see my own body lying in the coffin.
It really fulfills the old saying: you can't see the soul in life, and you can't see the corpse in death. So, I went to ask other relatives and the production team leader, and everyone ignored me. I'm so angry. I thought to myself: Leave it to you! I went out for a walk.
So he left everyone and walked towards the head of the village. After walking about seventy or eighty paces, when I looked up, I suddenly saw eight people in the sky carrying a large sedan chair and landing towards me, stopping in front of me and blocking my way.
A leader with a whip in his hand, maybe he is in charge, he didn't lift the sedan chair, walked up to me and hugged his fist and said: Does He Yulan (mother's name) live here?
Isn't that asking me? I immediately replied: I am. Without waiting for me to say more, he said, "That's right." Say goodbye to the car curtain door open: please get on the car! I asked: Why do you want to get on the sedan car? He said, "The Jade Emperor and Lord Yama arranged for us to carry you there."
I said, "Am I dead?" He said, "Yes."
I'm so happy! Immediately sit in the sedan chair. I thought to myself: If I had known that there were eight people to carry the sedan chair when people died, wouldn't it be better for me to die early? lest I lie in bed three years and be tormented. I can't tell how happy I am.
I only heard a shout overhead: get up the sedan chair. Turn the sedan head and hit the road.
I felt like the sedan chair slowly left the ground like an airplane and took off into the sky. I lifted the sedan curtains and looked out, and it really flew.
Suddenly, I saw a heavenly horse in the sky, riding alone, and the heavenly horse was swooping down in the direction of our sedan chair. Our sedan chair had to fall backwards and fall back to its original place, and the Pegasus also landed in front of the sedan chair.
The man was dressed in great clothes, jumped down from his horse and shouted: "The decree has arrived!"
The leader knelt down with the eight palanquins. I didn't understand their rules and still sat in a palanquin. I only heard the man read the holy decree: He Yulan, the Jade Emperor and the Lord of Yama are merciful, remember that you have done good deeds and accumulated virtues in the world, and the child has not grown up and still needs to be taken care of...... Now I will send you back to the yang world, increase your life for forty years, and come back to pick you up at the age of eighty-three...... Chin this!
After a few words were spoken, the decree was read, and the man rode away on a heavenly horse.
Everyone stood up, and the leader came over and lifted the sedan curtain and said to me: Do you hear that?
I replied: I heard.
The leader said, "When you hear it, get out of the sedan chair quickly, go back to the coffin and fall asleep."
I said, "No! I finally died, and I got on a sedan chair to see the Jade Emperor, and asked me to go back to be a human being and suffer, and I would never go.
The leader said: The upper realm is no better than your world, you can bargain, Lord Yama said yes, go quickly.
I tilted my head and sat still, he reached out and pulled me off the sedan chair, and I grabbed the railing of the sedan chair with both hands. He said, "You toast and don't eat and drink." Then he struck my right wrist with the whip stick in his hand, and I let go of both hands.
As soon as he grabbed me by the collar, he lifted me and threw me to the mourning hall dozens of meters away, and I shouted in horror: "Oops—but I also heard someone shouting: The ghost is coming!" That's the case.