I didn't know what intersex was at that time, so I hid outside the door and continued to eavesdrop.
Grandpa asked grandma what intersex means, and grandma continued, "In the future, you will take over my profession. If you can succeed in the future, you will not just sit here and become a great gentleman!"
Grandpa sneered a little and opened his mouth and said, "Okay, what are you doing first? Who of their generation still believes this? If Huijuan hears what you said, she will be angry. Let Jiaolong take the college entrance examination honestly."
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Grandma snorted, "I'll let you go and watch. We can't stop this!"
I didn't quite understand what grandma said. Just when I was about to listen carefully, grandma came out and glanced at me, "Jiaolong, what are you doing here?"
"Grandma, what is intersex?" I looked at my grandma and asked.
Grandma reached out and touched my head. "You will know when you grow up. Now grandma is telling you that you don't know either. Come, go inside and kowtow to Baojiaxian so that you can eat."
I hummed, walked directly to the house where my grandma worshiped Baojiaxian, lit incense as a familiar person, and then kowtowed.
The "Baojiaxian" in my grandma's house is a sign with a yellow paper on it. At that time, I didn't know the characters and didn't know what was written on it. I just knew that I had to go in and burn some incense before eating. My grandma told me that "Baojiaxian" is to bless us.
Our fairy also said that our fairy is very powerful and no one can hurt us, so although I am young and naughty, I dare not disrespect the yellow sign.
My best playmate at that time was Xu Meijin from next door. Her father seemed to be quite knowledgeable and said that the U.S. dollar was the most valuable in the world, so he named her Xu Meijin. Her nickname was Daya because of her lower body.
There is also a younger brother named Xiaohu.
I seemed to be six or seven years old at that time, and I went to her house to play as usual that day. Her grandma died at that time, and she had just passed her first seven years. She had a bad relationship with her grandma, just like me and my grandma, because she
Grandma also favored sons over daughters, so she didn’t cry when her grandma died.
We were squatting and playing in the yard of her house as before, while her mother, Fengxia, and several other women were sitting on the bench at the door of the back room of their house, chatting.
While the two of us were playing, Xu Meijin looked at us and whispered, "Jiaolong, have you seen a ghost?"
I smiled stupidly and looked at her, "What does a ghost look like?"
"Don't laugh, I'm telling you the truth. Yesterday was my first baby. At night, our house suddenly heard someone tapping on the window. My mother thought someone was coming to scare us. As soon as she opened the curtains, my brother pointed
Looking at the window and saying that grandma is back, and saying that it was grandma who took the picture of the window, it’s really scary." Xu Meijin said with a serious look on her face.
I raised my eyes and looked at her, "Then what are you afraid of? People say that you just come back and have a look in the first seven days. It'll be fine."
"Then the lights in my house kept flashing, and my dad said, Mom, you are coming back, please don't scare us. Your grandson is so scared. Then the lights in my house turned on. Do you think it's scary?"
I raised my eyes and looked at her. Before I could say anything, Fengxia's loud voice drew my attention away. In our words, Fengxia is quite tricky and very powerful.
Meijin's grandma has never been very good because she gave birth to a girl with her first child and was fined for her second child, so the old lady was angry. They were always fighting at that time, but Xu Meijin's father turned against his wife, so in the end it was Meijin.
Xia won.
In the last two years, Xu Meijin's grandma was so big at home that she didn't dare to breathe, so Fengxia's voice became louder and louder.
"Oh my God, I'm so kind to our old lady. I'll stick to her whenever there's something delicious to eat. You said she came back last night to act like a monster. This scares me. Didn't she have a pretty funeral?
Why are you coming back to torture us? You are really unreasonable when you are alive, and you will be unreasonable even when you are dead!"
I was still thinking after listening to Fengxia's words. I don't know who is being unreasonable. It's not like we haven't seen what she said to Grandma Xu Meijin. Why did she say it so nicely?
"Oh, it's okay. She might just miss Xiaohu. Just look at her and leave."
"Yeah, yeah, don't make too many calculations."
The neighbors who were chatting with Fengxia also advised her that she might not be able to say anything else, as that would make her very incapable of chatting.
"Humph, I'm afraid of her. I'm not afraid of her even if she's alive, and I'm even less afraid of her if she's dead. Anyway, I don't owe her anything!" Fengxia became more and more enthusiastic as she spoke, and her voice became louder and louder.
I raised my eyes and looked at the spittle spraying from Fengxia's mouth. I was about to turn around and continue talking to Xu Meijin when I suddenly realized something was wrong.
It was still late in the afternoon, and the sun was shining brightly. I noticed at a glance that there was one more person in Fengxia's group. When I took a closer look, all the hairs on my body suddenly stood up. Xu Meijin's
Grandma, who had just finished her seventh birthday, was sitting on a wicker chair behind Fengxia, looking straight at her with a sullen face.
I swallowed, lowered my eyes in panic, and then whispered, "Da Ya, Da Ya."
Xu Meijin looked at me with a confused look on her face, "What's wrong, Jiaolong?"
"Look behind your mother." I didn't dare to raise my head and looked down at the tree stick we were playing with on the ground.
Xu Meijin turned around with a puzzled look on her face and looked at me again, "What's wrong with you? There is nothing behind my mother."
"Look who is sitting on that wicker chair." I lowered my head and continued to remind, my whole body felt cold.
Xu Meijin turned back and looked directly at me, "No one is there. That's the chair my grandma used to sit on. What's wrong with you? Are you trying to scare me there?"
Before I even looked up, I heard Xu Meijin's younger brother say in a sweet voice behind me, "Grandma is back."
I turned around and saw Xiaohu standing behind me, pointing to the wicker chair.
"Who? Xiaohu, don't scare your mother!!!" Fengxia said directly, ran over in two steps and picked up Xiaohu, "Little ancestor, are you hoping that your mother will do something wrong by scaring you?
Where is the milk, where is it?!"
Xiaohu's little arm was still raised, pointing to the old wicker chair, "Grandma, Grandma!"
When some neighbors saw this, they glanced at the wicker chair with some taboo, and then walked to Fengxia, "Fengxia, why don't you ask Jiaolong's grandma to take a look? They say children can see those things."
, your mother-in-law hasn’t left yet."
"Don't talk nonsense, I don't believe that! You can still live like a ghost in broad daylight!" Fengxia's voice was still raised high.
But these neighbors were no longer as flattering to her as they were before. One by one, they were making excuses to leave, saying that it was time to feed the chickens and pigs. Within a minute or two, they were all gone.
I was squatting there and saw them leaving. I had the courage to take another look at the wicker chair. When I saw that Xu Meijin's grandma was no longer there, I felt relieved. Then I stood up and looked at
Xu Meijin said, "Da Ya, I've gone back too. My grandma told me to go home early today." Then she looked at Feng Xia, "Auntie, I'm leaving."
Xu Meijin stood up and looked at me, "Jiaolong, please, I'm just playing for a while."
How could I still be in the mood to play, so I quickly walked towards the door of their yard. When I was almost at the door, I looked back and my legs felt weak. Her grandma was actually standing behind the window of their house.
Look at me grinning with a dry mouth.
I was so scared that I screamed and ran away. When I ran into our yard, I tripped because I was too anxious. I fell to the ground and couldn't get up at that time.
Grandma heard the noise and walked out of the house quickly. She saw me lying on the ground and ran over to help me. "Jiaolong, why did you fall?"
My face was pale at that time, and I was sweating coldly. I watched my grandma stuttering and opening her mouth, "Grandma, I saw, I saw Da Ya's breasts!"
"What the hell? Jiaolong, what did you see?" Hearing my voice, grandpa also walked out of the house, walked up to me and continued to open his mouth and said, "Da Ya, her breasts have been dead for how many days, why are you still here?"
I can see it."
I didn’t know whether it was because I was scared or because I was in pain from the fall, but tears were streaming down my face. “I saw it, and he looked at me and smiled. It scared me to death...”
When my grandfather saw this, he quickly picked me up. My grandma followed beside me. After putting me on the kang, she hugged me directly. "Jiaolong, we are not afraid. Did we see it wrong?"
My body was shaking uncontrollably. "That's right, I saw it twice. The first time, Da Ya's grandma was sitting on that wicker chair. Xiao Hu also saw it. The second time I came out of her house,
When I walked to the door, I looked back and saw that Da Ya was standing in her house, looking at me from behind the window and smiling, with no teeth in her mouth..." As I spoke, I cried uncontrollably.
stand up.
Grandpa took the washbasin and washed away the sand and dirt from the wound on my knee, then applied red potion on it and muttered, "Isn't this evil? Old lady, take a look to see if it's true that you haven't left yet."
Grandma directly glared at Grandpa, "They didn't tell me what was going on. Did anyone come to the door on their own? With Fengxia's temper, she still had to say that I was looking for trouble. Let me see, if Da Ya really didn't leave,
, then Kendong has a grievance, just wait."
Then grandma patted my back and said, "Jiaolong, it's okay. It'll be okay when you get home. I'll go and offer some incense to Lao Xian'er later. Nothing can come in from our house, and no one can be scared."
You, don't be afraid, grandma is still here."
It took me a long time to recover, and then I went to burn incense for Lao Xian'er with my grandma. At night, I was hugged by my grandma to sleep. It was quite hot in summer, but I would rather be sweating than
I lay there by myself, and finally felt sleepy and fell asleep.
Who knew that at dawn, I heard someone knocking on the door outside, and then the voice of Xu Meijin and her father Xu Gang sounded outside: "Auntie Ma! Auntie Ma! Get up quickly! My house