Chapter 19 The Rumor-mongers

"Xiao Yuan, you baby, it's too worry-free. Where have you been all day?" "When my father was about to tell me why I was looking for him to go up the mountain, my father's voice came from the direction of my shack at the other end of the ridge.

My grandfather walked closer, took the cigarette pouch from his father's hand, took out the cigarette pot from his waist, looked at me distressedly while filling the cigarette, and said, "You don't enter the door for a day, you don't go to school, where are you eating?

I smiled and said, "I ate baked potatoes and boiled beans in the afternoon, and I just ate oil tea and steamed buns boiled by my father, and my stomach is very full." ”

My grandfather laughed and shook his head and said, "Your father was so angry that he dropped the bowl today and said he was going to break your legs." Just now the sailor went to his house and said that you were on the mountain, and he picked up a stick and was about to go up the mountain, but I stopped him. I'll see how you go back tomorrow. ”

"It's a big deal not to go back, I will also go to Yan'an like my father and the sixth master. I said indifferently.

The two old men looked at each other, and then let out a hearty laugh. My grandfather laughed and said, "You baby, listen to your father's story and listen to the devil." Your father and your sixth master didn't find Yan'an at all, and I see that you can't find the southeast and northwest when you go out of the east gate of the county. ”

I have always been relaxed and happy in front of my father, his reproach is full of love, and his teasing also makes me feel pampered.

After talking about my affairs, my father's expression suddenly became serious, and he turned his head to his father and said, "I heard that the county is coming to inspect Shiwa's mother's grave." ”

"When?"

The village chief said that he had received a notice saying that it would be tomorrow morning. ”

"What is there to investigate in the grave?"

"It is said to be an investigation of geological structures and soil composition. ”

"Geological structure and soil composition, why do you have to investigate it in the grave?"

The village chief didn't say why. I guess it has something to do with the last grave collapse. In that earthquake, only Shi Wa's mother's grave was not affected, and it is estimated that the county will depend on the geology and soil conditions around the grave. ”

Daddy didn't speak, and took two hard puffs of the smoke pot that had long been extinguished.

"Shiwa and his family haven't experienced anything, I'm afraid they don't have any opinions, you can think of a countermeasure for them. Grave digging is a big deal. My grandfather said and knocked the ashes of the pot on the rim of the brazier, and then said to me, "It's not too early, let your father rest early, and go back to bed with me." ”

I got up and followed my father to my shack, and looked back to see my father sitting motionless like a sculpture, and the light of the kerosene lamp and the charcoal fire overlapped on his face, like two flames at war.

Usually when I wake up in the morning, I go down the mountain alone to go home, wash up, have breakfast, and then go to school. My grandfather would stay on the mountain, and after inspecting the fields of his family and the people in the village, he would make a brazier and make tea for breakfast. It wasn't until noon that I went down the mountain for lunch.

That morning, I deliberately dragged my grandfather down the mountain with me.

When I stepped through the door tremblingly, I was met by my dad.

He only said, "Do you know how to come back?" and ignored me and went about his own business. The stone of my heart fell to the ground.

But my mother came over and counted me down for a long time before saying, "Go and brush your teeth and wash your face, the food is ready." ”

After breakfast, I didn't see the sailors come and call me to school. I took my bag and went to his house.

When I got to his door, I saw a jeep parked on the side of the road.

I was about to go in when the sailors came out.

I asked curiously, "What kind of guest did you come to your house early in the morning?" ”

"I came from the city, saying that I was investigating the dead people, and I had to see the pictures of my grandmother. ”

I really don't understand the affairs of the people in the city, what kind of investigation, investigation, why they all choose our village.

But looking at the ignorant sailor, I didn't ask any further, because I knew that he might not know.

After two classes in the morning, on the way to the toilet, I saw the big fat man in the next class who spread rumors last time, sitting on the flower bed on the side of the teaching building, talking about something, surrounded by a large circle of classmates.

I crept over and hid in the corner. I only heard him say, "There really are ghosts in this world." I remember the last time I told you about my father's visit to the graves in the countryside, when they dug up a lot of graves and found that the coffins inside were all broken, and the bodies were gone, leaving only a pile of lime-like powder. ”

"Last time, it was obviously an earthquake, and the Education Bureau notified you, and you still spread rumors. If you say that again, we're going to tell the teacher. Several rational classmates condemned.

"Okay, okay, I'm not going to talk about that. The big fat man continued, "I'll tell you another real thing. After the last incident, the county set up an investigation team, and let my father take the lead. After a few days of visiting, my dad found an important situation. ”

"What's the important situation?" asked everyone in unison, including the rational classmates.

"At that time, all the new graves in the whole county collapsed, and only one new grave in the village did not collapse. My dad and the others thought that this matter was not simple, and planned to inspect the tomb to see if the coffin inside was all broken, whether the body was gone, and whether there was also lime-like powder. Yesterday I sent a notice to the village, saying that I was going to inspect this morning. But this morning I passed by my parents' room, and my father said to my mother, 'Oh, I had a very strange dream, an old lady came up to my bed and asked me if I was going to dig her grave. I asked her who she was, and she said she was the owner of the grave we were going to dig today. I broke out in a cold sweat. She also said that if anyone dared to touch her grave, she would be punished, and as she spoke, she crushed the vase on the bedside table. Then my mother said, 'That vase must have been broken when you stretched.' My dad said he wouldn't tell my mom and said he was going out to do something. When he got out of the room, he hung up the phone with the county, said that today's mission was temporarily canceled, and then went out. Tell me if there is a ghost?"

When everyone heard this, they were angry and coaxed.

"Your father's dream means that there is a ghost? Then I still dream that I am Sun Wukong, and I really followed Tang Seng to learn scriptures." ”

"Can you stop talking like this, what era is it, and making up such nonsense to deceive people. ”

"Your father wants to dig other people's graves, and his heart is weak. It's all about scaring yourself. ”

Seeing that everyone didn't believe him, the big fat man shouted, "Don't believe it, someone from our house really came last night." My dad and my mom didn't notice, only I noticed, the door was locked at night, and when I woke up in the morning, it was ajar, and there were a few strange footprints on the ground. ”

The big fat man thought that he could convince everyone to believe him, but he didn't think it would be self-defeating, and everyone said: "Look, you said that you lied and lied to people, and you still didn't admit it." If it's a ghost, how can there be footprints? Besides, the ghost has to enter through the door. ”

As the class bell rang, everyone dispersed in all directions while scolding the big fat man for being a liar.

When I went back from school that day, the people in the village did not discuss what happened today. It shows that the people who inspected the grave of the sailor's grandmother did not come.

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