A day after He Laosan died, when the He family heard that the new graves in the whole village had collapsed, but the grave of the sailor's grandmother was intact, the resentment they had suppressed in their hearts completely exploded.

The He family is a well-known big family in the village. It is said to be a big family, but it is not a big family with money, power and land as it was said before. - Such a big family has long been defeated.

It is said that the He family is a big family because their family is prosperous and the family is huge.

He Laosan had eight brothers, and he gave birth to five sons by himself. Each son bore him four or five grandchildren. The other seven brothers are also full of children and grandchildren. Eight old brothers are counted together, and there are more than 200 men, women, and children. Such families were rare even in rural areas before the implementation of the family planning policy.

Although the He family is also a proper farmer in the village, and they usually do not rely on the family to bully their neighbors, but because they have the backing of the huge family power, their waist pole is naturally harder than that of other small families.

Yesterday morning, He Laosan was taken to the brigade courtyard and locked up just because he said that the mountain was haunted, which was a very difficult thing to accept in the eyes of the He family, but it was the words of the village chief, just like the people who have lived on this land for thousands of years.

But who would have expected that before the afternoon, a living person would die in vain.

The He family felt an unprecedented humiliation. In their opinion, the eight achievements of the collapse of the tomb in the village are the work of demons, and the only person they know about demons is the fairy grandmother who often deals with ghosts and gods.

And her daughter mysteriously disappeared in the fire not so long ago. This further shows that this family is abnormal and is a disaster in the village.

But they still endured it, they didn't want to start making trouble when He Laosan's bones were still cold, and disturb him so that he couldn't go on the road with peace of mind.

It wasn't until this afternoon that the families finished repairing the tomb and went down the mountain to talk about Shi Waniang's tomb being intact, and the He family couldn't help it anymore, they felt that this incident was directed by the banshee behind the mountain, otherwise only his daughter's tomb was good.

When the people of Zhuangli had just finished dinner, more than 100 men from the He family gathered on the threshing floor.

The eldest of the He family died early, and the leader was He Laoer.

He held a torch and shouted to his brothers and nephews: "Our He family has never been so cowardly. My third brother, your third uncle and third father, that is a person who will not cause trouble in his life, a good person who will climb over the wall if the door is blocked. Yesterday he was still alive and vigorous, almost seventy years old, and he was more neat than you young people when he went up the mountain, and he was not sick or sick. But just yesterday, I was driven crazy by life, and that's not all, and a day later, I was killed again. All of this was caused by the banshee man on the back mountain. Not only the death of your third uncle, but also the ominous and calamity in the village for so many years were also brought by this demon. ”

The more He Lao Er spoke, the more excited he became: "Tonight, we want to eliminate harm for the village." Babies, cheer up, go and move the two boxes of Tuopai Daqu, drink a bowl of each person, and after drinking, first go to eradicate the descendants of the demon, and then go back to the mountain to burn the demon to death. ”

As soon as I heard that I was going to eradicate the descendants of the demons, I immediately thought of the sailors, and at the same time thought of my father. I ran to my father's house.

When I arrived at the trot with my father, the He family was marching in the opposite direction to the sailor's house.

"Second brother, what are you doing here?" asked the old man sternly.

"Buddha generation, you and the third child of our family have been neck-cutting friends all their lives. The wheel of love is closer than one of our mother's brothers. Tell me, he died for no reason and for no reason, is that all there is to it? Today, we risk the lives of our family to get rid of the scourge in this village. ”

"Second brother, you are so confused! You yourself have not been alive for a few days, and the babies are still alive, so you lead them down the wrong path? People's life and death, that is the destiny of heaven, and the third brother is the same, it is his calamity that has arrived, and it has nothing to do with anyone. Besides, if you want to eradicate the scourge, is the honest Shiwa a scourge? Is the virtuous and easy-going Suzhen a scourge? The sailor Nawa is only ten years old, is it also a scourge? Who in their family in this village does not say a good word? Go in this day and put them all together as a scourge. Daddy said, and in a flash he made way of the passage through the gate of the sailor's house.

He Lao Er was overwhelmed by his father's question for a while. The people who were watching the excitement around also shouted.

"How can Shiwa and Suzhen be scourges?"

"Your He family can't bully people, this family has only helped people all their lives, and has never harmed anyone. If your He family can't get along with them, we won't agree to it. ”

"You have the ability to carry the mountain, don't bully the poor people who have no support. ”

A sentence reminded He Lao Er, and he said to his father: "Buddha Dai, for your sake, I won't embarrass Shiwa and them." Do not hinder our affairs. ”

After speaking, he raised the torch and shouted: "Let's go, let's go back to the mountain!" Take the He family team and walk in the direction of the back mountain.

On the mountain beam on the north side of the west slope, a team of bright torches moved one after another to the col behind the mountain, followed by the whole village to watch the lively people.

I followed my father and walked around He Er. Daddy tried to persuade the second child to go back all the way, but it didn't work.

Halfway through, my father went to the shack and asked me to go with me, but I didn't agree, I didn't finish tonight's excitement, how could I be willing to go back.

When the He family's team came to the small house in the col, the door was closed, but there was no lock, and there seemed to be no lock on it, indicating that the door had never been locked.

He Lao Er held a torch and looked around, the wall around the house, the lower part was more than a meter high, made of pebbles and lime, and the top was an earthen wall wrapped in wheat straw mud.

The overhanging gable roof is placed on the earthen walls of the mountain on the left and right. Locally produced green tiles on top.

The gate was open to the north, facing the southern slope of the mountain in the village. However, there are no windows on all sides, only two gables with a copper coin-shaped ventilation hole made of tiles.

He Lao Er stepped forward and pushed the door open, and an eerie wind suddenly blew from inside. Then came the sound of a long void, like an echo in a deep valley.

He Lao Er stepped into the threshold one step at a time, and before the second leg could step forward, he retreated as if he had been shot.

He said, "The sound inside is so strange, it's like burrowing into a conch, and both ears are buzzing." ”

Someone in the team asked, "Is there anyone in there?"

He Lao Er said: "There is a black hole inside, and there is no light, so I can't see clearly." Which of you comes with me to go in and take a closer look. ”

At this moment, a figure suddenly flashed on a rock in the southern middle of the mountain. Although I don't know her, I can tell from her speech that she is the fairy grandmother, that is, the grandmother of the sailor: "He Laoer, you are a handful of years old, and you still mess around like this, like an elder." He Laosan's death can't be blamed on anyone, let alone on my head. His death today was doomed forty years ago. No one can change that. ”

"Don't quibble," He Lao Er said angrily, "so many graves were damaged yesterday, and it must have been your ghost that scared my third child to run down the mountain in the middle of the night and was locked up as a suspect in digging graves." And then you killed him as soon as you went. Killing people to pay for your life is justified, and we must pay you back your blood debt and blood today, and take your life. ”

"You can't take my life today, so let's go back quickly. ”

"If you can't take your life, I'll burn your nest first!"

He Lao Er was holding a torch and was about to burn down the house. At this time, I heard someone shouting on the mountain beam: "Stop, we are police, don't make a big mistake by making a mistake." Hurry back to the village. ”

As soon as the old and young people of the He family heard that the police were coming, they all turned around one by one and walked up the mountain beam. He Lao Er had no choice but to stop and walk back hesitantly.

It was the first time I had seen Grandma Fairy, and as the crowd was walking back, I stopped to take a closer look at what Grandma Fairy looked like, but in the dark he stood upright on the rock, like a statue of Freehand, and I didn't capture any details except for the thick outline.

Following the flow of people over the ridges on the western slope, I went straight to my father's tent.

"It's a coincidence that the police came today, and if it was too late, the house would have been reduced to ashes. - Well, how did the police know what was going on in the village?"

"Before you came to call me, I asked your brother to ride to the public security bureau to report the case. ”

"What did he do with you?"

"He's in your sixth master's house, isn't there a wall across the wall from me. ”

"Partition wall?" I never dreamed that from my father's house to the sixth master's house, I needed to go through a winding alley, then go around to Zhuangli Avenue, and then enter another alley, and turn seven or eight bays to get there, it turned out to be just a wall. This small mountain village, like the people who live in it, will never be fathomable.

"There is a saying that far away in the sky, close in front of you. A lot of things are like this, beating around the bush, looking for it, you can't reach it, maybe it's right in front of you in the blink of an eye. Daddy said as he poured kerosene into the lamp.

When he had filled the kerosene and lit the kerosene lamp again, the charcoal fire in the brazier dimmed and brightened all around.

"Since," Daddy habitually picked up the pot, did not fill it, knocked twice on the brazier, and began tonight's story, "Since I returned to the village, my heart has been gloomy. I didn't dare to face the families of the six dead companions, or to reflect on that experience alone in the dead of night.

"Although I knew that everything was not my fault, subconsciously, I had already judged myself to be a culprit.

"At that time, the only thing I could do was to make up for everything I had for the six people I owed. I treat him as my best brother, his parents as filial as my own parents, and my children as my own children. In order to achieve peace of mind. ”

As he was talking about this, he heard someone in the west shouting, "Oh no, no good!"