In the middle of summer in July, the sun is like fire, Songzhu Village, under a big pine tree in front of the village entrance, three or four women sit together to enjoy the shade, on the right side of the pine tree is a small ditch built, the water flow is not large, but it is very clear, and on the left is a gravel road paved with gravel together with the road opposite the village and the village, because at the entrance of the village, there is another ditch, plus this huge pine tree shades the sun, every summer, this is the place to enjoy the shade in the village.

"I saw Yue'e and Renguang come back this morning, what's the matter, is his father's illness cured?" The four women sat together, and one of the slightly chubby women whispered, "Didn't you say that I might not be able to survive this time..."

"Who knows, but I just saw Yue'e and his father in the morning, and he is in good spirits, and he looks really good. Another woman next to her answered.

"Hey, speaking of Yue'e and his father, I just heard some words, but don't talk nonsense" Another woman spoke, relatively short, but she lowered her voice, as soon as she spoke, the other three women were attracted over, looking at this woman with some curiosity, seeing that the other three were looking at herself, the woman spoke again, with a bit of mystery: "I heard that Yue'e and Yi Yun also quarreled with his father in the morning, and his father asked Yue'e to prepare incense paper and shrouds, and let Yi Yun clean the coffin...."

"Isn't this preparing for the afterlife?" said the shorter woman, and the three women next to her were all startled.

"But it's not, shrouds, incense paper, coffins, aren't these all for the dead?" "What is Yue'e and his father going to do, does he still know that he is going to die" "This is really hard to say, haven't you heard of it, the old people say that Yue'e and his father are impermanent, working for the king of Hades, specializing in seducing people's souls, and now that he is old, maybe he really knows that he is going to die..."

Under the pine tree, the four women lowered their voices and discussed together, the person they were talking about was Yang Tai, an old man in his seventies in the village, Yang Tai has a son and a daughter, the son is called Yang Yiyun, more than forty years old, but now he is still a bachelor, he has not started a family, he has worked outside for many years, and he has no savings, so he gave Yang Yiyun a nickname in the village behind his back, Renguang, which means nothing, with a bit of mockery, her daughter's name is Yang Yue, she has been married, but she has also remarried once or twice, in the countryside, such a thing is not glorious。

So in the village, Yang Tai's two children will be chewed by some village women behind their backs, but in comparison, in the village, the most talked about is Yang Tai, this seventy-year-old man, whether it is the adults in the village or some old people, has a respectful attitude towards this old man, because there has always been a legend in the village that Yang Tai is impermanent, the soul of the underworld is impermanent, and the souls of the dead are all taken away by Yang Tai.

No one knows where this statement came from, but it is widely spread in the village, and basically some of the governor's children know that it is rumored that Yang Tai lives like a normal person like them during the day, but at night, Yang Tai's soul will leave his body and enter the underworld, go to work in the underworld, and some people die, it is Yang Tai's incarnation of impermanence that hooks the souls of these people.

No one can be the truth of this statement, but many people are convinced, perhaps this is related to the general closeness of rural people, especially the older generation of the elderly, even if the reform and opening up to 2018, but in the village, many people have a strange view of the old man Yang Tai.

Especially this time, Yang Tai has just come back from the hospital, and the whole person looks even more energetic, but in this case, Yang Yue'e and Yang Yiyun prepared things such as shrouds, incense paper, and coffins for him, which is obviously preparing for the future, which can't help but make people think more.

"Buzz.. Airplanes.. Buzz...."

At this moment, the throttle of a whole motorcycle sounded, interrupting the discussion of the four women, following the prestige, I saw a young man riding a motorcycle all the way to this side, the young man looked seventeen or eighteen years old, a white short-sleeved upper body, a white seven-point shorts on the lower body, about one meter seven or eight, slender figure, long and extremely handsome, delicate facial features, fair skin, a black broken hair, especially a pair of dark and bright Danfeng eyes, giving people a feeling of being more beautiful than a woman.

"Isn't this Shao Jin?" "It's really Shao Jin, I heard that I went to play with my classmates a few days ago, and I'm back today." "Jianguo and the third sister gave birth to a good son, this time I went to Beijing University in the college entrance examination, and I will be happy when Shaojin comes out in the future." ”

The four women saw the young man riding over and recognized the person, Zhou Shaojin, the son of Zhou Jianguo and Yin Jinlian in the village, who also just finished the college entrance examination this year, and the exam results were quite gratifying, with a score of nearly 700 points in science, and they were directly admitted to Beijing's top universities such as Beijing Jingda, which made the four women a little envious, envious that Zhou Jianguo and Yin Jinlian had a good son.

Women in the countryside they don't know much, but Beijing University is a thunderous institution, China's top university, in the current situation of China's national attention to the college entrance examination, children to take a good exam is almost the wish of all parents, especially in the countryside, the college entrance examination has almost become a way out, and even being admitted to the undergraduate is a happy event, not to mention that Zhou Shaojin is admitted to Beijing University this time, how not to make people envious, in their opinion, Zhou Shaojin has one foot into the bright road with a bright future.

"Shaojin is back!" "How are you playing at the same school...."

Seeing Zhou Shaojin riding in, the four women took the lead in greeting Zhou Shaojin in a cordial tone.

"The eldest aunt, the second aunt, the third aunt, the sixth aunt. Zhou Shaojin also stopped the car, looked at the four people smiled and said hello, the four women are all from the village, they are his aunts and aunts, the slightly chubby women and the shorter women are the daughters of his third grandfather, one is called Zhou Aihua, the third in line, the other is called Zhou Ailian, the sixth in line, he is called the third aunt and the sixth aunt, and the other two are the wives of his eldest cousin and second cousin, he is called the eldest aunt and the second aunt, the eldest aunt's surname is Tian, her name is Tian Lotus, and the second aunt's surname is Li, but the specific name Zhou Shaojin does not know.

"How about going to the same school?" "It's okay, it's just that it's too hot...""By the way, Xiao Chen, what about them!" "Xiao Chen, they went to bathe in the river." "That's right, I'm going to take a bath in the river and play with them." "Then you hurry up, they just went to the river not long ago, you can catch up if you go faster." "Okay, then I'll go first...", "Ride slowly...", "Uh-huh..."

Zhou Shaojin waved his hand, chatted briefly with Zhou Aihua and the four of them, and rode directly to his home.

"Shaojin is back" "Why didn't you play for a few more days" "Grandpa" "Uncle Cousin" "The weather is too hot, and I basically watch TV and surf the Internet in the same class, and I am a little bored, so I came back"

Along the way, I met many acquaintances in the village, and they all greeted them one by one, but most of these people are Zhou Shaojin's uncles and grandparents, and now in the village, there are basically just some old adults, old people and children, and young people are basically going out to work, which is also a common rural phenomenon in China.

Songzhu Village is surrounded by mountains, surrounding the village on a small flat land, a small river flows out of the mountains behind the village and runs through the entire village, and Zhou Shaojin's home is located right on the mouth of the river flowing into the village from the mountain, that is, the outlet of the river from the mountain.

All the way through the village, Zhou Shaojin rode to his house, the house is an old wooden house, the middle hall will be divided into the left and right two ends of the wooden house, the left end is Zhou Shaojin's family lived, the other end is his grandfather and fourth uncle lived, it is considered a separation, because the economic conditions of the family are not very good, plus Zhou Shaojin and his younger brother Zhou Shaoxuan have been going to school for many years, so there has been no money to build a new house.

In fact, most of the seventy or eighty families in the village live in old wooden houses, and only two or three families have built new brick houses, but it is not that only these three families in the village have the money to build new houses, but most of the money-making families in the village have chosen to buy houses in the city, even if they are not enough to buy a house in the big city, they will buy a house in the county seat or town, as if they want to leave this backward village.

This is also the idea of most rural people, if you have money, you have to buy a house in the city, in their minds, only by getting out of the countryside, can you get rid of poverty, for this kind of idea, Zhou Shaojin doesn't agree with it, but although he doesn't agree with it, he didn't say it, people have their own aspirations, everyone's ideas are different, and he has no right to interfere with others.

Riding a motorcycle along the gravel paved road all the way through the village, bypassing almost everyone's house, his own door can already be seen, but when he is about fifty meters away from his home, Zhou Shaojin can't help but look at a wooden house on the left side of the road, that is the direction where the Yang family is located, from the conversation between his third aunt, sixth aunt and eldest aunt and second aunt just now under the pine tree Yang Tai came back from the hospital discharged from the town, looked over, sure enough, the door of the Yang family's hall house was open, obviously someone was at home.

Zhou Shaojin just glanced at it, and then rode home, the car didn't stop, there are many rumors in the village about Yang Tai's back, he has heard it since he was a child, and even his third aunt, sixth aunt, eldest aunt, He also heard the second aunt's discussion, but he didn't care too much, in his opinion, the so-called Yang Tai is impermanence The rumors are a bit nonsense, he is not a pure atheist, and even has a trace of awe of ghosts and gods, holding an attitude of rather believing in them than believing in them, but he still feels that the rumors in the village are a little exaggerated and not enough to believe.