"How are you...how have you been lately?" It was probably because we hadn't seen each other for a long time, and now that we had almost no common language when we reunited, the atmosphere was a little awkward. In order to break the ice, I opened my mouth to say greetings.
Lin Yue also seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and quickly replied: "I'm fine. After I come back from graduation, I will help my parents take care of the autumn chores, and then I'm going to find a job in a nearby county. How are you doing recently?"
At this point, she paused and stopped. I knew that she probably remembered the things that happened at my house before. Asking me if I was okay at this juncture was just trying to poke fun at me. She was probably too nervous to speak at all.
I smiled and said it was fine, and suddenly I felt that the two of us were speechless again, because Lin Yue said that she might also go out to work hard in the future, so I had to talk to her about the situation in the city.
But in fact, I don’t have any legitimate occupation in the city. I can’t tell her that I am a Feng Shui master who catches ghosts and eliminates demons. By the end, I almost didn’t realize what I was talking about. I thought
She probably felt the same way.
After a while, both of them felt that they were at a loss for words, so they silently put some food into their bowls and ate the rice with big mouthfuls, pretending that they were very hungry.
"Xiao Fan, this is your favorite steam pot chicken. The kid knew you were coming back today, so he got up early in the morning to braise it until it was crispy and thoroughly cooked."
The village chief put a large casserole of fragrant chicken on the table and warmly invited me to taste it. The steam pot chicken finally eased the awkward atmosphere. Smelling the familiar aroma of hometown food, I couldn't help but feel a little greedy.
At this time, a delicate hand picked up a chicken leg with chopsticks and put it into my bowl. I looked up and saw that it was Lin Yue. She smiled and said:
"I remember that you loved to eat chicken legs when you were a child, but our village is poor and we can't kill chickens a few times a year, so sometimes you can only chew cucumbers and imagine they are chicken legs. Now that life is better than before, you should eat more.
"
I couldn't help but be a little touched. I didn't expect that she could remember the old things about Chen Zhizhi and rotten millet when she was a child. But at the same time, the picture of Wan Lin quickly flashed in my mind. Every expression of Lin Yue reminded me of Wan Lin.
Lin's frown and smile made the chicken legs seem to have no taste in her mouth.
The village chief did not notice the subtle changes in my mood, and kept mentioning that Lin Yue and I had been childhood sweethearts since childhood. Lin Yue was chatting and laughing with her, and I echoed my words, but in my heart I couldn't help but keep thinking of Wan Lin.
Finally, I finished the bowl, and I quickly urged the village chief to take me to see my father's body, hoping to end this embarrassing blind date or a meal at home.
The village chief felt that I was probably not in the mood to talk about the love between children, so he did not object and took me out of the house. He also comforted me along the way and asked me to be mentally prepared.
I thought about something even weirder. I don’t know how many I’ve seen in the past few days, let alone a rotting corpse with an unknown face.
Only when I saw the corpse did I understand what the village chief meant. It turned out that it had long been rotten to the point where it could even be said that the outline of the person was not very obvious.
Moreover, there were disgusting maggots crawling everywhere on the corpse. It was moving slowly among the carrion or mud. The strong rotten smell rolled up in waves, which made me feel sick and wanted to vomit all the steam pot chicken I had just eaten.
come out.
I suppressed my nausea, pretended to cry a few times, and wanted to get some firewood to cremate the body. Out of sight, out of mind, this was not my father in the first place, so I didn't have any unnecessary feelings to speak of.
Unexpectedly, a familiar figure jumped out at this time. It was the troubled Liu Banxian. He shouted that the corpse was unclean and that something must be done to exorcise evil spirits.
I thought that the corpse had nothing to do with me anyway, so I let him go. I saw him chanting incantations and dancing around the corpse, and sprinkled some talisman water from time to time. It was like dancing with a god, which was better than some
The Nuo opera of ethnic minorities is even more exaggerated.
After mumbling for about half an hour, he finally finished the ritual. Together, we brought in a lot of firewood and burned the carrion that couldn't even be called a corpse.
Probably because it was highly decomposed, it burned very efficiently, and it was completely reduced to ashes in a short time. Apart from the unpleasant smell, nothing happened or happened.
When we all thought the matter was over and were about to go back to our homes, among the extinguished debris, there was a bright black bead lying there. Having seen the same thing countless times, I knew that it was a ghost relic.
!
Not only me, but also the surrounding villagers who came to see "father" off all saw this black bead with a strange color under the sunlight, because it was previously purchased by Zhao Gongquan and then resold for a huge price.
, has long been known to everyone. In addition, the villagers have also witnessed with their own eyes the dead dog that swallowed the ghost relics and was resurrected on the spot. Therefore, everyone knew that this object was extremely precious, and they all cast greedy eyes.
.
I felt a shiver in my heart, I was secretly thinking something was wrong, and I was about to step forward to block it, but when I saw the uproar among the people, they already swarmed up and tried their best to grab it. Regardless of how hot the charcoal fire that had just burned the body was, they all resorted to sucking.
Use all your strength to snatch this little bead.
Some people even started to fight in order to grab the beads that had already been obtained. The person who was beaten couldn't bear the pain, so the beads came out of their hands, and then there was another round of chasing after each other, like a piece of rotten meat flying in the sky and being stared at by flies.
, leading the buzzing swarm of insects to run around.
The cremation scene, which was solemn and dignified before, suddenly became extremely chaotic. The word "desire" was written big on almost everyone's face. Whether it was for money, wealth, or immortality, those desires that were usually hidden deep in their hearts,
They were all intensified at this moment and looked extremely ugly.
The village chief beside him sighed, but did not step forward to stop him. He just watched on the sidelines to avoid too serious pushing. He must also know that those people would not listen to any words at this moment.
I glanced at Liu Banxian and found that he actually let out a faint sneer from the side. His brows seemed to have expected it, and there was a feeling of pride.
His expression couldn't help but ignite a burst of anger in me. If my attitude towards him was still a little wavering before, now I firmly believe that all this was premeditated and arranged by him, and he is very good at acting.
, not only deceived all the villagers, but even treated me with a smiling face that looked out for me.
I rushed over angrily, grabbed Liu Banxian by the collar, and asked, "Did you do this? What did you just do to this body?"