Uncle Deng said, the thing is like this, the female family member you just mentioned is actually my grandma. She is the third wife. After my uncle married her, he actually loved her very much and took care of her in everything. As a result, my third grandfather
I went up the mountain to have fun with Brother Pao, and came home very rarely. Every time I came back, I only wanted to ask my uncle for money. Then for some reason, my third grandfather wrapped up my grandma. "Wrapped up", Chuan
The meaning probably meant hooking up. Uncle Deng went on to say, not only that, when the third grandpa came back for the last time, he also said that he would elope with my grandma, but halfway through, he asked my grandpa to invite the county.
After the officers and soldiers in the government office captured him, Third Grandpa ran away and never came back. The next time there was any news about him was when they learned that Second Grandpa had beaten him to death during the suppression of bandits.
Uncle Deng said, "My grandma was going to live or die when she was captured. I begged my uncle to forgive me. People at that time, even landlords and wealthy people, were very traditional in their hearts. This kind of poaching by one's own brothers was dirty to say."
Team. "Dirty team" means to be embarrassed. Uncle Deng said that just when the uncle was planning to take action in the family, my aunt said that she was already pregnant with a child.
Although everyone was very suspicious of the origin of this child at that time, and the grandfather could not figure out whether the child was his own or the third child. But no matter what, it was the flesh and blood of the Deng family. After enduring his anger, he took me as his direct descendant.
My grandma stayed behind. My grandma gave birth to a son, who was my father. Not long after giving birth, my grandma secretly took my father and planned to escape, but was caught again. This time she did not continue to beg for mercy.
, but she yelled at my eldest grandpa. She also said that my father was actually the third grandpa’s flesh and blood and had nothing to do with him. But when the eldest grandpa heard what she said, he felt very ashamed and angry in front of the whole family, so he took action this time.
They picked out the tendons of the hands and legs, cut out the tongue, and gouged out an eye. Together with the two long-term workers that my aunt brought with her when she married into the Deng family, they were placed on the Yinpo four miles away from home.
, dug three vertical pits and buried him alive.
Speaking of this, Uncle Deng pointed to Master Deng and said that the shady slope is behind the mountain behind Yang Moumou's house.
The so-called shady slope actually refers to a sunny slope that does not get sunlight and is generally cold and humid. Likewise, this approach is undoubtedly a curse, expressing the eldest uncle of the Deng family’s unforgivability to his third aunt. After all, in that country
In this era, human life is worthless, especially for women and poor people. In fact, after listening to this, I think it is enough. In my heart, it is enough to prove that the three good men who are pestering the girl are the third aunt of the Deng family. The rest
The next thing is to find the place where the three of them were buried alive, and then guide or disperse them. When I was about to ask Uncle Deng where he was buried alive, Hu Zongren suddenly reached out to stop me, and then asked Deng
The uncle said, uncle, go on.
Uncle Deng said that later on, the eldest grandfather couldn't tell whether my father was his own child or the third grandfather's child, because the three brothers looked very similar when looking at the photos, and my father looked very much like his father, so he thought
I lost it but I was afraid that I lost it in the wrong way. My grandma is already dead and I can’t get a real answer. But my grandma probably doesn’t even know whose child it is. She said that just to make me angry.
It's just a grandpa. Hu Zongren said that there are actually photos, which is really foreign. You know, in those days, those who had the conditions to take photos were not ordinary people. Uncle Deng stood up and said, you wait, I will get the photos for you.
Before we could agree, he turned around and entered the room, and then there was the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets. Soon he came out with a crumpled book, probably about the same size as the composition books we used in elementary school, with a brush on the cover.
There were four big characters written on it: "Deng's Family Tree". When Uncle Deng opened the family tree, I saw a dense collection of small regular script. After turning a few pages, there was a yellowed old photo. The photo was black and white and looked wrinkled.
The wrinkled parts were already a little discolored. Uncle Deng handed the photo to us and said, look, this is a group photo of our ancestors of the Deng family when the family business was at its peak.
I don’t know if I have a unique sense of age, because I always feel that people of that era all look the same. In the photo, the background looks like an ancestral hall, because there are densely packed ancestral tablets and incense candle holders.
, there are a total of eight people in the photo, six adults and two children. Sitting in the middle is a man wearing a typical landlord's attire. That is naturally the eldest man of the Deng family. He has his legs spread and his hands on his knees.
, there is a cylindrical ring on the thumb of his left hand. Although it is a black and white photo, it is not difficult to see that it is made of jade, and it should be worth a lot of money if it were kept until now. He has his hair loose, and from the look of the ends
From the looks of it, he must have had his braids cut not long ago. Sitting next to him was a woman dressed in luxurious clothes, and next to the woman stood a little boy who looked six or seven years old. Presumably, that was his first wife and his eldest son, Deng.
The uncle's uncle. There were two men standing side by side behind the elder. One was wearing a military uniform and had a heroic appearance. It was the same outfit worn by warlord officers and soldiers in the past. He had many medals pinned to his left chest. It seemed that the second man had already worn it when the photo was taken.
He joined the army and had achieved military exploits. The other man also stood up straight, but he looked like a playboy between his eyebrows. That was naturally the third master. On the right side of the second master stood another slightly fat woman.
There is a baby in her arms, who looks about two years old, and there is another younger woman in the photo, who looks like a teenager, to say the least. She is standing on the left hand of the third master.
On the side, Uncle Deng pointed to the woman next to the third master and said, this young woman is my direct grandmother.
After looking at the photo, Hu Zongren said to me, how come people at that time didn’t smile when taking pictures, but kept a straight face and lost in mahjong? I smiled and didn’t answer him. I could feel this family from the photo.
There is a strict hierarchy between elders and younger ones, and judging from their positions, it seems that the third master and the third aunt are standing together, which seems to have been expected. Uncle Deng said that this photo has been preserved after so many years of turmoil. My uncle said
Yes, this is truly a home.
At this point, he suddenly felt sad. After all, we can't go back to the past. Even if we are not outsiders, Hu Zongren and I can't comment on the various problems caused by the times. After listening to this story about Uncle Deng's family that is full of the atmosphere of the old times.
Finally, Hu Zongren said to Uncle Deng, Uncle, please take us to the place where your legitimate grandmother was buried. This guy stole my lines.
Since they were buried alive by digging a vertical pit, that means that the third aunt and the two long-term workers were not dead when filling the soil, and dying while standing is very ominous, and it is intended to curse them to have to be cows and horses in the next life, because cows
After standing with a horse all his life, he will still lie down when he dies. This is indeed wicked enough. In this way, I can better understand why these three people became great guys. Uncle Deng said that he only knew one
The approximate location was that family rules had strictly prohibited worshiping the third concubine for so many years. It was not until later people thought about it that they tried to find the tomb but could not find it. Hu Zongren said to Uncle Deng, it doesn’t matter, as long as there is an approximate location.
, this brother of mine can be found.
So Uncle Deng also rode on his own motorcycle, and the four of us took two motorcycles. Finally, I didn’t have to endure Hu Zongren’s little tricks. I had better give this kind of treatment to Uncle Deng. When passing by Aunt Deng’s house, I told Aunt Deng to watch her daughter, and if she regained consciousness later, she would call Hu Zongren as soon as possible. Then it was a bumpy ride, and when we stopped at a dead end, Uncle Deng was in front. He wielded a machete to cut off the branches and thorns on the road, and led us around to the shady slope. After walking for a while, Uncle Deng looked at the hilltop on the opposite side from a distance, and then said, it is probably in this area, and I can't find the specific location. .
Hu Zongren asked Uncle Deng to borrow a machete and chopped the thorns in front of me. I followed behind and checked with a compass. It took me nearly two hours to find it. If I used a compass, I wouldn't even know where this place is. The grave is completely invisible. The ground has become flat due to years of rain erosion. Hu Zongren asked me if I was sure it was here? I said yes, unless the Deng family had buried other people alive. Actually, I was joking. On the compass The reaction was exactly the same as the one he found in front of the girl’s father’s grave. Hu Zongren said, okay, let’s get started. Hu Zongren cut off all the messy dead branches around because we didn’t want to cause a wildfire, and then he spread out his sacks. Open it on the ground and cover it with three stacks of money paper of the same amount. Because we don’t know who is who in these three pits, we deal with them together.
Hu Zongren lit incense and candles. He held the money paper that had just been lit in his hand and drew three circles in the air on the three points I told him before. This probably meant that this was the first time in decades that someone had given money to When you burn paper, you no longer have to compete with others. Just go wherever you should go. Drawing a circle actually means "drawing the ground as a prison", which is to give them a range to let them in. Then Hu Zongren chanted a mantra to send the soul and burned it. After collecting three piles of money and paper, Hu Zongren put all the burned paper ashes into the Bagua bag, and then tied the rope around the bag.
At this time, Aunt Deng called, her tone full of surprise, saying that her daughter had woken up. Hu Zongren said, okay, please prepare the reward, we took the money and left.
In front of Aunt Deng's house, they insisted on asking us to stay for dinner before leaving, otherwise they would not pay us, which made Hu Zongren almost lose his temper, but because of their enthusiasm, we still stayed for a meal. Dinner. After saying goodbye to Master and Uncle Deng at Aunt Deng’s house, we drove down the mountain and prepared to go down the mountain. Before leaving, Uncle Deng took down the car window and said to Hu Zongren, “Come here to play often in the future.” His tone was ambiguous. I don’t know if it was Hu Zongren. What did Zongren do to him when he was riding in his car? Hu Zongren said to Uncle Deng, don’t forget the songs I taught you to sing. You must spread your Deng family’s songs throughout the village.
Afterwards, I asked Hu Zongren what song it was? He said it was the song on TV. I asked him how to sing it? He said Deng! Deng Deng Deng Deng! Then he burst out laughing.
On the way back to Chongqing overnight, I asked Hu Zongren, have you ever counted how many dead souls your bag has collected? He said that he didn't count carefully. How many dead people were destined to be with him, and this bag has their place in it. I asked Hu Zongren again, where will you go after their evil spirit is eliminated? Hu Zongren smiled and said to me, you know that Taoism emphasizes Feng Shui. These dead souls turn into wind and water, and they cycle like this, staying around. Isn’t that the most comfortable place?
When the car drove to Hechuan and was about to get on the highway, I found that I was out of gas. So I took a few hundred yuan from Hu Zongren's reward and refueled at the first service station on the road. Not long after leaving the gas station,
Hu Zongren suddenly turned off the music I was playing. When I was about to ask him what's wrong with you, don't you know if I doze off if I burn the midnight oil and don't listen to music, Hu Zongren suddenly patted my arm and said: