Rural areas attach great importance to the first seven, but the so-called importance is just to burn paper money to worship the deceased.
When I came back from the ancestral grave, my father said to me: Xiaofan, go take your second uncle to the third grandpa’s house to enter the family tree.
Third Grandpa is the patriarch of our village and the most virtuous and respected person.
I nodded and took my second uncle to the ancestral hall. My third grandfather had no children and usually lived in the ancestral hall.
Second uncle, where did you live before? Who am I? Which city? I was on the road, I made an excuse to tell him.
He has no fixed abode and is wandering around. He smiled at me.
Then I asked with a smile if I have a second aunt.
No, he replied.
What about the second grandma? I asked if she was okay.
The second uncle's steps paused briefly. After a while, he said: She has been dead for many, many years.
I felt embarrassed and was too embarrassed to speak. I was speechless all the way. After arriving at the ancestral hall, I asked Third Grandpa to explain my purpose of coming. My family's affairs are almost a household name. Third Grandpa smiled and said to Second Uncle: That's right, no matter what.
Whether he is a direct descendant or a concubine, they are all members of our Lin family.
I saw that when my second uncle heard what my third grandpa said, a light flashed in his eyes, and it flashed away. That light frightened me.
Perhaps that was the legendary murderous intent.
My second uncle is a man with a lot of stories. It was only today that I learned his name.
Lin Baqian.
This is a very strange name.
I went back to prepare lessons. Although this job is a helpless choice for me to escape temporarily, I still hope to do it well. The children here deserve the same right to study. I can't let them spend their whole lives just because of poverty.
There is no way to get out of the mountains. But all I can do is teach them with all my heart.
There were no words to say that night. Our family has four mud houses, one for my father and mother, one for my grandparents, and one for me alone. The remaining one was used to store sundries and is now occupied by my second uncle.
I looked at my watch and saw that it was already past ten o'clock. This is a mountain village and it is not so blocked that there is no electricity. But at least the people here go to bed early to save on electricity bills. In fact, even the TV is only owned by the village chief's family in this mountain village.
, there are no other activities except sleeping at night.
I blew out the kerosene lamp and soon fell asleep.
The next morning, I woke up with a cold. It was a scorching hot day, but the climate in the mountains was particularly cool at night. I guessed the time and it was dark outside. I stretched out my hand to pull the thin towel and quilt.
A sleepless night.
However, when I stretched out my hand, I touched a hand, a cold hand.
The sleepiness disappeared in that moment.
I have a mobile phone. It was a Nokia mobile phone that was discarded by my roommate when I was in college. In order to make it easier to contact me, he gave it to me. It carries so many memories for me. It was this mobile phone that, during the four years of college, I
I have sent countless messages to my girlfriend, and it is our bridge of communication. Therefore, even though there is no signal here after returning to the mountain village, I still keep charging it. When I think of someone, I just look at the remaining text messages on it.
.
When the information is full, you can delete it, but what about the memories?
At this moment, I hurriedly took out my mobile phone. I turned on the phone's light, almost trembling all over, and handed it to the direction where I just touched my hand with the light.
As a result, I saw a face.
A slightly swollen and livid face.
He was my grandfather. He was wearing a shroud with green flowers embroidered on it when he was buried.
I rolled out of bed, and my brain was temporarily short-circuited by fear. I didn't know what I was going to do next. There was only one thought in my mind, which was to escape.
I opened the door to the room, walked out of the room, and saw the scenery in the yard. At that moment, I burst into tears. Yes, it was not embarrassing. I was scared to tears by my own grandfather.
The old people's sleep is light. My crying alarmed my grandma. She walked out of the room wearing a vest, holding a broken fan, and asked me: Xiaofan, what's wrong with you?
When she saw me crying, she came over and patted me on the shoulder and said: Why is such a big child still crying and having nightmares?
nightmare
I was awakened by my grandma's words.
Maybe it's not that I woke up, but that for a moment, I wasn't sure whether everything I just saw was real or not. Maybe everything just now was just a dream.
I stopped crying because I had just cried and it was a little difficult for me to speak now, so I didn't immediately explain to my grandma why I was like this.
Furthermore, it is a feeling that everyone will have. When you are afraid, as long as there is someone by your side, you can calm down.
I clenched my fists and opened the door to the room. No matter how much I wished, everything that happened just now was just a dream, a dream that I had because I was too nervous.
I turned on the light and saw the figure on my bed. He was still there. I slapped myself, but he was still there.
At this time, my father and second uncle also heard the noise and came out. The three of them stood at the door of my room, as at a loss as I was.
Grandma's first reaction was to cry. Unlike me, she was not scared to cry, but saw grandpa's sadness and immediately fell on his body.
Damn old man, are you reluctant to leave home? Grandma cried
Early in the morning, the three members of our family were sitting in the main room.
I dreamed last night that the old man said he was reluctant to leave us and that he missed his grandson and wanted to come back to see him. It turned out that it was true. Grandma was still thinking about it.
My father is gone and wants to be laid to rest. My father smoked the dry pipe left by his grandfather and said.
And I just want to understand what is going on. How did my grandfather's body end up on my bed last night.
I didn't ask what you heard last night.
No, it was calm, said the father.
Then what do you think about the return of grandpa’s body? I asked him.
Tsk tsk. My father opened his mouth but said nothing.
Xiaofan, don't be afraid, it's your grandfather who misses you, so he came back to see you, your own grandfather, he will still make you unworthy of a grandma.
I didn't argue with grandma. This was her feeling and longing for grandpa. I couldn't destroy this beauty.
However, after all, I am a college student and an educated person. I am not a firm atheist. But if my grandfather gave me a dream, I can understand it. But when I didn’t know it, the corpse was
He ran to my bed, I don't believe it.
Xiaofan, you know the first seven soul nights, everyone said that the deceased would go home to visit their relatives during the first seven nights. Your grandfather, his father said with a frown.
He didn't finish his words, but I understood what he meant.
Grandpa not only returned to his soul, but also his body.
No matter what, this matter cannot be spread out. It is time for Xiaofan to get a wife. If such evil things are spread out, who would dare to marry into our house? My father smoked the flue.
Grandma didn't object, but the second uncle didn't say a word from beginning to end.
I have been paying attention to him, and his expression has not changed since the moment he saw grandpa. It has always been calm.
This is not the expression of a normal person, I thought to myself.
I didn't object to my father's proposal. It wasn't to get a wife, I just didn't want this matter to spread and my family to become the focus of discussion in the village again.
So the plan we discussed is that tonight, my second uncle, my father and I will secretly bury grandpa again.
The plan is good, but we have overlooked one important point, the most important point.
Just when I was settling down at home, carefully collecting my grandfather's body and getting ready to go to school, I opened the door and found that there were people standing outside my door.
The leader is the third grandfather, and the other one is the village chief Lin Sanshui.
Xiaofan, where are your father and grandma? Lin Sanshui asked me.
At home. I don't know why, there are so many people around my door.
Let me tell you something. Don’t let your family know. Your grandfather’s grave was dug up. Lin Sanshui said to me.
At that moment, I was a little dizzy. I wanted to hide the truth, but I ignored that since my grandfather could get from the ancestral grave to my bed, he had to break the grave first.
People in the mountains are very diligent. Some villagers got up early and wanted to take advantage of the coolness to go weeding in the fields. When passing by the cemetery, they discovered the situation in my grandfather's cemetery and ran back so scared that they pissed themselves.
Xiaofan, students can skip class for now. If you delay for two days, you will delay for two days. I really can’t imagine how a person who has suffered a thousand cuts would give birth to a child without a butthole. By the way, your grandfather’s old house called the coffin
Lin Sanshui asked me again what is valuable here.
My mouth was dry and I replied: No.
It is true that it is extremely difficult for people from the mountains to support a college student. The most valuable thing in my grandfather's body may be his copper pipe. It was not buried with him, but was left to my father.
It's weird to say, I heard that there are many tomb robbers outside the mountains, and some come into our mountains to dig graves, but in our poor place, there are still people coming. Xiaofan, your grandfather's body is gone. Lin Sanshui said
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The villagers behind me have already started talking. This makes me very uncomfortable. Grandpa is a deceased person, and I don’t want him to become someone else’s topic of conversation again.
I invited the village chief Lin Sanshui and Third Grandpa into the courtyard. Others did not invite me. There are many simple people in the mountains. When they left, they told me that if anything happened, I could ask my uncles to help.
I'm not rejecting them. There are some things that the fewer people know about, the better.
I took the village chief Lin Sanshui and my third grandfather to the main room of my house and showed them my grandfather’s body lying on the bed. My father had just heard our conversation in the yard and knew that everything could no longer be hidden. He was so worried that he kept twitching.
Smoking.
Lin Sanshui's face looked a little unnatural. He was just scared.
When I woke up, grandpa was lying next to me. I said.
Lin Sanshui and I were at the back of the funeral procession. He handed me a filtered cigarette. When I saw it, it turned out to be a cigarette from Greater China.
He smiled at me and said: The last time I went to the township head to report on my work, he gave it to me and I couldn’t bear to suck it.
Only then did I see that what he was smoking was the kind of tobacco that cost 50 cents a pack, without a filter, and the tobacco leaves were a bit sweet. When my grandfather was alive, he often used this cut tobacco to fill his cigarette pouch.
I lit a cigarette and looked at my grandfather's body, still feeling incredible.
Xiaofan, what do you think about this? Village Chief Lin Sanshui asked me.
I don’t know, our teacher has never taught this. I said.
You are a cultural person, so I would like to ask you, do you believe in ghosts and gods? He asked me mysteriously.
I didn’t quite believe it. I shook my head.
Hey, I don’t believe it either. I think someone is trying to destroy your family. He said.
As soon as I heard this, I became interested.
If it is true what the third uncle said, and your grandfather comes back to see you, then the souls of the dead must go back before dawn, otherwise they will not be able to go back. This is also a superstitious saying, but why didn't he come back?
There's something wrong. Bah, what did I say? I'm a probationary member of the party. He said with a smile.
Uncle, it’s just the two of us, don’t avoid anything, just say whatever comes to your mind.