"Don't go out during this period." This was a man's voice.
"Who is it?"
"Once you go out, you will die."
"Who are you?"
"Bang bang bang!"
There was a knock on the door, which woke me up. I looked up at the clock on the wall, it read seven o'clock in the morning.
Yawning, he opened the door and the person who came was the village chief.
My name is Xiao Chen, I am 22 years old this year. My family has been engaged in the corpse removal industry for generations.
Corpse pullers were what people called corpse pullers in the early years.
Growing up, the girls in the village were unwilling to talk to me. I think it was because people said it was bad luck to come into contact with people who deal with the dead.
Early in the morning, the village chief came to the door and said that he would go to the county tomorrow and had business.
I nodded habitually, said nothing, and yawned again.
"Um?"
My heart trembled suddenly, as if I remembered something.
"It can't be such a coincidence, right?"
Thinking of those two sentences said by an inexplicable person in the dream, I suddenly felt that this was too much of a coincidence.
Usually, when the village chief leaves, he will tell me to pay attention to safety when driving on the road.
I was waiting for this "nagging", but the village chief walked into the house, looked around, and said: "You are 22 this year, right?"
"Um."
"I watched you grow up."
The village chief is in his sixties, with gray hair on his temples, but his expression is expressionless all day long. Sometimes I even wonder if he will scare the little baby girl at the end of the village crying if he goes out at night.
"You are already an adult. When you encounter certain things, you must know how to deal with them yourself."
"oh."
My thoughts were still stuck on the two sentences in the dream. I didn't listen very carefully. I nodded habitually to his instructions. Anyway, there were only a few words in my mouth.
"Your father asked me to tell you that you must know how to say no to certain things."
"Um."
After the village chief left, I lay on the Taishi chair and thought about whether the two sentences in my dream were true or false.
They say dreams are the opposite.
But when you come here, why do you act like a prophet?
We really have to go out tomorrow. Could something really happen?
Car accident?
I thought about it, if something really happened, it would be caused by a car accident.
Thinking of this, he quickly stood up and walked towards the hearse at the door.
I looked around, tried the brakes and checked the oil pipe, but found nothing abnormal.
I breathed a sigh of relief. It was so weird, a prophet’s dream?
"You are already an adult. When you encounter certain things, you must know how to deal with them yourself."
Thinking back to what the village chief said just now, I didn't take it to heart at the time, but now that I think about it, something is wrong.
The village chief only repeats this sentence every time: drive carefully on the road. What happened today?
"Your dad asked me to tell you something,
You have to know how to say no.”
When I thought of this sentence again, I was even more confused.
Could it be that my dad is also a prophet?
Do you know that something will happen to me when I go out this time?
Not such a coincidence, right?
"Brother Xiao, morning!" Wei Ziqing laughed loudly, holding two bags of buns in his hand and shaking them towards me.
He suddenly spoke, interrupting his thoughts. I shook my head and rolled my eyes at him: "Okay, okay, why, are you going to the ground again?"
He laughed dryly, chirped, and couldn't get off the ground. He had finished his work the past two days, and now he was waiting for the winter. He chuckled, and said that he caught a snake yesterday, which scared those girls, and finally "revenge"
".
"Okay, you!" I made a guess, imagining how those young and old girls were so frightened that they screamed.
After sharing the bun with me, he took a bite of the bun in his hand and asked me in a unclear voice if I wanted to go out.
"Oh?" I stared at him: "How do you know?"
He pointed to the way he came: "Look, the village chief has just returned."
Wei Wa is what I have called him since I was a child. His real name is Wei Ziqing. He is a little two years older than me. This boy is weak in nature and has no ability to make decisions on his own. Therefore, the girls in the village can't help but bully him.
But the only thing that makes me feel empty is that since childhood, except for Wei Wa, all the girls turned around and ran away when they saw me, as if they had seen a ghost.
"Brother Xiao, what do you think people our age are doing in the city?"
He interrupted my thinking loudly. After hearing this, I couldn't help but think about it. At the same time, I was also very curious. Logically speaking, the industry left by three generations has already been prosperous, but why is this kid still acting like a native?
"How do I know?"
I rolled my eyes at him, but I really didn't know.
Don't say that this kid has never been to the city. Even he was lonely when he entered the city. Occasionally he would stop to talk to someone, and each one of them would run faster than the village chief's son.
"You want to live in the city?"
Seeing the thoughtful look on his face, I couldn't help but ask.
"In no mood."
However, he shook his head and said that life in the city was not lively.
"That's the reason?"
"I don't know either......"
He chuckled and said that his family told him so.
Glancing at him, I shook my head. To be honest, as far back as I can remember, I have heard my grandfather say that this village is cursed.
Logically speaking, this is a well-known secret that cannot be revealed in words.
But it happened that the village leader was holding a funeral that day, so he drank a few more drinks and talked a lot in private with me.
Thinking about it now, I'm afraid my grandfather thought that I was just a child at the time and it was okay to speak my mind.
Facts have proved that the so-called "still a child" was despising to me when I remember.
It has been fifteen years now, but I still remember the words my grandfather said that night.
The only regret is that more than ten years have passed and I still can’t understand the meaning of those words.
The only thing I can understand is the word "curse".
Throughout the whole day, I kept thinking, should I go out tomorrow? What if what I dreamed about was true?
He only lived for twenty-two years. If he died like this, wouldn't it be too unfair?
In the dead of night, when everyone was quiet, I opened the door, moved the Taishi chair outside the house, and found a comfortable place to lie down.
Can't sleep.
Bored.
Inexplicably upset.
However, when he touched his pocket, he had to shake his head.
"People die for wealth and birds die for food!"
I sighed, even if something happens if I go out tomorrow, there is nothing I can do about it. Since the village chief has made arrangements, no matter whether it is money on hand or responsibilities, I really have to go out like this.
Since there is nothing wrong with the car, driving slower can always avoid a car accident, right?
Besides, once my car gets on the road, which car won’t stay far away?
Having made up his mind, he lay down on the Taishi chair and fell asleep.
At about 5:30 in the morning, I woke up to the crow of cocks in the village.
It was still dark, and the whole village was silent.
"Ta." Light a cigarette and puff out the mist.
Looking at the shining stars in the night sky, for a while, I couldn't help but wonder if something would happen today.
I still hope that dreams are just dreams and have nothing to do with reality.
After putting out the cigarette, he stood up, stepped on the cigarette butt, moved the imperial chair back into the house, washed himself, and prepared to go out.
"Brother Xiao, are you ready to leave?"
After closing the door, Wei Ziqing trotted forward, carrying two pieces of cake.
"Why are you here?"
He chuckled and said that his family had given him a scolding and he just went out to avoid the limelight.
I thought about it, I'm afraid he caught snakes to scare the girls in the village, so he was sued.
"Uncle Wei and the others know?"
He went with me. From the bottom of my heart, I was not very willing. I didn’t know if something would happen today. But if he went with me, there would be a real conflict, but what should I do?
"They know and let me go with you to see the world."
"This is weird..." I muttered to myself.
In my opinion, the reason why the village chief said those two inexplicable words must be because he knew something.
If we go out this time, something will really happen. Considering the relationship between the village chief and Uncle Wei, will Uncle Wei know about this? He will let Wei Ziqing follow him to "send death".