The seventeenth night seems real and illusory
It is difficult to distinguish the truth from the gods and ghosts, and it seems to be true and reminiscent of childhood.
It's been so long since I remember that time a little blurred, but I'm still 100% sure that I did see those two men that day.
At that time, I was very young and had not yet gone to school, and I had a lot of fun playing with cats at home all day, and I didn't know what a friend was, even if it was a very ordinary gadget, I could play happily all day, and my grandfather was still alive at that time.
Grandpa is a craftsman, he weaves baskets, baskets and other tools are particularly good, grandpa is weaving these farm tools on weekdays, because not only our family to use, there are many neighbors to ask grandpa, grandpa is a warm-hearted, I like to share what he makes with everyone, because to catch up with these tools so every day is very busy.
Early this morning, my father went to work, and my mother went to work in the fields early, and my grandfather was basking in the sun while facing the west wall, and weaving a basket, my grandfather's hearing was not very good, and I had to speak to him very loudly every time I could hear it, and it may be because of this reason, my grandfather started to do things very seriously, and I used no distractions to describe him, which is really appropriate.
At that time, the family lived in a large fire, connected to the window sill, the windows were facing south, that is, the direction of the gate design, I was lying on the window sill, I could clearly see what was happening outside through the glass window, when I was teasing the family kitten, I heard the big black dog bolted to the door barking loudly, the barking was very intense, the chain tied to the neck were pulled straight.
Then I saw two men walking in through the gate, a man and a woman in their fifties, the man was dressed in a blue tunic and wore an old-fashioned black hat on his head, and he was carrying a bag like the one that had been carried by a staff member who used to collect electricity bills, and it seemed to be stuffed with something.
The woman next to her had short hair, except that she remembered that she had a round face and was a little fat, she had no other impression, and her grandfather ignored it, and was still knitting, and she didn't turn around to take a look, and I was a little sensible at that time, knowing that there were guests at home, and I wanted to go out to pick it up, the key was that in my impression, the bag must be filled with delicious things.
Of course, when I went out to see, I didn't find anything, and I didn't know where those two people went, and when my parents came back, I told them about it.
The same thing didn't happen again, but in the next four or five years, I had many "auditory hallucinations", all of which were simple words or two, sometimes calling my name, sometimes saying something else, and I knew all the people who were talking, and by the sound of their voices, I could immediately guess who these people were.
Especially when I miss someone so much, such as when my dad goes out and says that when he comes back, he will bring me something delicious, and I will hear my father's voice several times during the day, and this auditory hallucination will not disappear until my father actually comes back.
I often hear the old people say that because children have just come to this world and have not yet been tainted by these messy things in the world, they can see many things that ordinary people can't see, but it turns out that this is not the case.
I clearly remember that when I was seven years old, my grandmother who loved me the most died, and I didn't know what death was all about at that time, until my mother cried very sadly, and then I asked my mother innocently why she was crying, and she said that grandma was her mother, and she never saw her mother again.
I thought about what I would do if I didn't see my mother one day?
My grandmother's coffin was laid out in a makeshift mourning shed overnight, and the funeral was held the next day.
That is, on the kang in the room where grandma once lived, a table of eight immortals was placed, and then a mirror was placed on the table, and a lot of things were placed behind the mirror, such as snacks, tea, lit cigarettes, and a glass of wine poured over, and many other things, and in front of the mirror, a big broom used to clean the yard was used, and the big head was back, and a piece of clothing worn by grandma was covered at one end of the handle.
After that, my little cousin and I, who had only been playing for three months before me, knelt down in front of the Eight Immortals Table in front of the mirror at the request of the adults, and the adults asked the two of us to look carefully at the mirror and let us see what the people inside were doing, whether they were eating snacks or drinking .......
Anyone with a little common sense knows that this is not scientific at all, and no matter how magical a child's eyes are, it is impossible to see these things out of nothing, but in the face of adults' inquiries, I don't know how to answer.
Fortunately, my little cousin was on the side, she said that she saw someone smoking inside, and then the adults asked me if the people inside were smoking, and I didn't see anything at all, so I didn't know if they were smoking, so I nodded and said "yes", and this link was considered to be over.
After nearly 20 years, my cousin once came to my house and talked about it again while chatting, and I asked her if she really saw someone smoking inside.
At the mention of this, my cousin suddenly became a little serious, and told me that she was the same as me at the time, and she didn't see anything in the mirror, but the adults kept asking, so she casually said that the person inside was smoking.
The cousin said that because it was grandma's funeral that day, the uncle and aunt were busy until late, and the cousin was a little tired after playing all day, so he found a place to fall asleep.
She said that when she was sleeping in a daze, she heard someone calling her name, and when she opened her eyes, she found that her grandmother was like when she was alive, sitting on the kang and looking at her with a kind face, saying that she wanted to hug her in the past, so the little cousin went over and threw herself into her grandmother's arms.
After that, the little cousin had a high fever for several days, always talking nonsense in a daze, and her uncle and aunt took her to see many doctors, all of whom said that the little cousin was very healthy and had nothing to do.
At that time, I was also sick and rushed to the doctor, so I asked someone to paste a paper figure, put on a piece of my little cousin's clothes, and set the paper figure on fire in front of my grandmother's grave.