"What!? There's something wrong with you! Why don't you dig your grandfather's grave!" I jumped down from the table.
"Don't get excited yet. This is-"
"Fart!" I threw the cigarette butt on the ground and couldn't help but curse: "I'll try digging your ancestral grave to see if you are excited or not!"
Wu Jiayi seemed to have expected this reaction from me, and she did not argue with me. She just sat on the stool and watched silently, and waited until I calmed down a little before saying: "These are my grandfather's last words before his death, and also
Your grandpa’s thoughts.”
"Where's the voucher?"
"No."
"Damn it! No, what are you talking about here! If you like digging graves, go dig your grandfather's! If nothing happens, please leave." I sat back next to the stand and signaled her that it was time to leave.
Wu Jiayi stood up and said calmly: "I really have no evidence, but your father is the one who knows about this, and he is in Yunnan now." After that, he was about to leave.
"How did you know he was in Yunnan?" I quickly stood up and followed him.
Wu Jiayi said: "You don't need to know this. I don't know why our fathers didn't do what your grandfather said, but whether you agree or not, I have to go back tomorrow to see. This terrible fate, I
I don’t want to go through this, and I don’t want it to harm future generations.” After saying that, he looked at me quietly, as if waiting for an answer.
"Okay, I'll go back with you." Although I know that the ancestral grave cannot be moved, facing the current situation of my family, I also want to place my hope on my grandfather who died decades ago.
Early the next morning, the two of them got on the bus back to Lingxian. After more than ten hours of turbulence, it was already 11 o'clock in the night when they arrived in Lingxian. Since my parents left here, they have rarely been here again. For me,
I have been back once since I was born, and that was ten years ago. So, except for the language that I can understand, it is like a foreign country. Compared with Shencheng, which is thousands of miles away, this place is completely different.
Heaven and earth. There are undulating mountains everywhere, clear and cheerful streams, and bamboos all over the mountain like a forest sea. It is truly worthy of the commonly known name of the Five Hundred Miles of Landscape.
The two of them rented two rooms in the county town that night and slept until midnight the next day. During lunch, Wu Jiayi talked about his family affairs. Not long after our family left, Wu Yue urged his son to take them with him.
All the family members went to Changsha, the provincial capital. It was not until Wu Yue was about to die that he left Ling County to join his son in Changsha.
It was at that time that Wu Yue told Wu Jiayi's father everything about my grandfather, but even he didn't know what his dead grandfather could do.
"Why didn't your grandfather open up my grandfather's grave while we were leaving?" I asked.
Wu Jiayi sighed: "Because my grandfather promised your grandfather that he would not touch his grave before he died."
"Then why didn't your father move?" I then asked.
"It's not that I didn't think about it, it's that I didn't find it." Wu Jiayi put down the chopsticks in her hand, took out a tissue and wiped her lips, then handed another one to me.
Hearing what she said, I couldn't help feeling a little angry, and sneered: "According to what you said, if you find it, will you really dig our ancestral graves behind our backs?"
Wu Jiayi rolled her eyes at me: "Isn't this all forced? Your grandfather told my grandfather when he left that year that his death could calm this disaster. But my father and your uncle still got strange
Sickness, a living person can't let a dead person torture him to death, right?"
Although I know what she said is reasonable, I am still a little concerned about her family's plan to dig up my ancestral grave. It seems that my grandfather is indeed superior. Although he and Wu Yue had an agreement back then, he still held back. There was no burial that night.
He was buried elsewhere at the place agreed with Wu Yue in advance, using it as a cover.
After leaving the small restaurant, the two went directly to the hardware store to buy a hammer, a shovel, and two hammers, and then headed towards Yangluxian, seven kilometers west of Lingxian County. Yangluxian is a very ordinary town in Lingxian County.
The hill where they discussed with Wu Yue was the western suburbs of Lingxian County, not as far as Yangluxian. Walking all the way there, Wu Jia couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
Soon, the two of them arrived at the foot of the mountain, which was already sparsely populated. They followed the hillside, passed through the thick bamboo forest, and climbed about two hundred meters before digging out a short tomb without a monument in the grass. Look.
Looking at this small mound of earth that was dilapidated due to no one taking care of it, I couldn't help but feel sour in my heart. I thought that the person buried here was my grandfather, and suddenly I felt a sense of closeness.
Wu Jiayi gave me a hammer, looked at the sun setting in the west, and then said: "On the mountain, it won't be buried very deep. There is no one now, look -"
"Leave me alone!" I shouted suppressing my voice. I threw away the shovel Wu Jiayi handed me, knelt on my knees and kowtowed three times. But just when my brows touched the ground for the third time, I suddenly heard someone coming from below.
There was a very slight noise! I quickly put my ear to the ground, and soon there was a slightly clearer "squeak" sound than before, which made my scalp feel numb!