Yin Changsheng

Chapter 3
Zhang Duangong stared at the words on the coffin board and cried. He touched the baby's forehead and said, "I have read sage books and raised offspring, but in the end I did such a thing that is worse than pigs and dogs. The cycle of cause and effect, and the retribution is not good. If you start, you will die. A baby can’t be without a mother. I can’t do too badly. I’ll leave this baby to you, and don’t come to me in the future. I won’t do this thing again no matter what. meddling."

Zhang Duangong handed the baby to my father, and he was unwilling to stay in front of the empty coffin for a second, so he turned and left.

Dad held the baby in a daze, and grandma stared at the baby for a long time, and then she was about to reach out to snatch the baby, cursing and saying: "The dead and the dead can give birth to a living person? This doll is a transformed child, quickly put it in a coffin and bury it." gone."

Dad used to obey grandma's words, but this time he pushed grandma away, and his brows were furrowed together: "Don't do anything that hurts nature and reason, the baby has nothing to do with it."

Grandma stomped her feet angrily: "What did that crazy woman do to our family? This doll was not born between you and her. If you want to be this green bastard, I don't bother to care about you."

Grandma finished speaking and left with a hoe.

Dad held and stroked the baby for a while before letting me go home with the tools they had brought.

Everyone in the village knew that my father and the others were going to dig my mother's grave. Although they didn't want to do such an outrageous thing, they liked to watch such strange things. Many villagers were waiting in front of the house for us to come back.

But when they saw their father coming back with a baby in their arms, they were all stunned.

Immediately, a villager came up and asked, "Which family does this doll belong to?"

Father told them the truth: "Xiao Wazi was born by his mother, and he was lying in a coffin, so we brought it back."

This statement frightened the villagers for a moment. Most of the villagers didn't say anything. They drove their children home and didn't even want to look at my family's affairs, because they felt it was bad luck.

People who are usually close to my family also shook their heads and sighed: "What kind of evil did you do to suffer this kind of retribution."

Father ignored their remarks and carried the child into the house.

Grandma watched grandpa in the house, and dad went into the stove to give the baby sugar water to drink.

Grandma didn't want to take care of the baby, because she was angry with Dad, so she didn't cook any meals that day.

But babies will cry when they are hungry, and sugar water alone is useless. In the evening, the baby cries a lot, and the father carries the baby into the house to beg grandma.

But as soon as I entered the house, my grandma kicked me out. Seeing that the baby was getting more and more restless, my father had no choice but to call me, "Xiao Wazi, go get thirty eggs and come with me."

I immediately went into the house and picked up thirty eggs I had saved before, put them in a basket and went out with my father.

Dad took me to another family in the village.

There is a young woman named Zhang Cui in this family. Her own child has just been weaned, and her father carries the baby into the house. Zhang Cui's man immediately knows what his father is going to do when he sees this situation. Said: "There is no extra milk, you go quickly."

I handed him the egg, and said according to what my father said to me before: "Please save my brother."

The people in the village are simple and honest, he looked at me for a while and then said earnestly: "Big brothers, they are all from the village, it's not that we are stingy, if it is Xiao Wazi who wants milk, I will not say no, but this doll comes from the same place. I don’t know, God knows if it’s a human being or not, and I am old and young, so don’t embarrass me.”

I was still young at that time, and I could understand his embarrassment, but my father still didn't give up, and knelt down in front of him, crying, "I have kneeled before my parents and Chen Xiao's mother in my life, I really can't help it, the baby has nothing to do with it, he will starve to death if he doesn't take milk."

In the end, the man asked Zhang Cui to take the baby in, and returned the baby to his father after he was full.

I put the eggs down too, and my father was grateful to Zhang Cui and the others. When he left, the man said: "Don't come here again, you guys find a way to solve it yourself. If you really can't think of a way, send him to the temple."

Father Nuonuo should be, thanked Zhang Cui and the others, and went back to the house with the child in his arms.

From his house to my house, you will pass a chestnut tree three times thick, but this chestnut tree has been infested with insects, and it has not grown chestnuts for many years. When passing by here with a baby in his arms, a man walked towards him.

I flicked around with a flashlight, and the man smiled at us, I had never seen him before.

But the man walked up to us, stopped beside Dad, looked at the baby in his arms, reached out and touched the baby's face, and said with a smile, "Mother Chen Xiao gave birth again?"

Father looked at this man puzzled, and never remembered who he was, but when others asked him, father still answered him: "Karma retribution, Chen Xiao's mother's child born in a yin marriage, I'm afraid it's a child of transformation."

But the man turned his face upside down: "Nonsense! It's not a child born by transformation. The white and fat one is obviously a baby. Are you afraid that I will take him away? This baby looks like you, so it is clearly your own, yes Isn't there another woman outside?"

Dad glared at the man angrily, abducted me, and was unwilling to talk to the man anymore, so he walked into the house with a flashlight.

When I was about to enter the house, I said to my father: "Dad, the shoes that man was wearing just now are exactly the same as those that mother wore."

When Dad heard my words, his face froze on the spot, and he shouted: "Run."

Pulling me with one hand and holding the baby in the other, he rushed into the room as if flying, then closed the door with a bang, and hurriedly let me insert the latch.

I found out later that the shoes I saw that man was wearing were called toad shoes.

In our place, only the dead wear those shoes.

After closing the doors and windows, Dad told me not to open the door no matter who calls at night.

I kindly agree.

Afterwards, my father took me into Grandpa's room to see him, worried that I was alone in the main room, and brought me in too. Grandma was so angry when she saw him, she turned her face away and didn't talk to him.

But when the baby in father's arms saw grandpa, he suddenly grinned innocently, and stretched out his white and tender arms, looking like he was going to crawl into grandpa's arms.

Dad and grandma didn't quite understand. Dad said, "This doll seems to be very close to his grandpa Chen Xiao."

As he said, he carried the baby to his grandfather's side. As soon as he got to his grandfather's side, the baby suddenly faltered and said, "Father."

The baby, who looked only a few months old, could talk.

Although I was young at the time, I could understand the weirdness of it.

But what I didn't understand at that time was that the baby actually called my grandpa as daddy.

My father trembled when he heard the baby's words. He bent down holding the baby, and compared the baby's face with the grandpa's.

After the comparison, Dad acted like he was going crazy, he threw the baby on the bed roughly, then turned around and took the broom next to the room to whip Grandpa Wang.

Grandma stopped Dad desperately, shouting: "You are crazy, that's your old man."

Father also yelled: "I don't have such a father who messed with my own daughter-in-law and gave birth to such a vile child!"

Grandma said: "This doll is a transformed child, you must be fascinated by him, put down the broom for me quickly."

My father refused to listen, and my grandma immediately asked me to call other elders in the village.

That night I was very courageous. I ran all over the houses in the village alone in the dark, and called Second Grandpa, Yao Grandpa and others. Second Grandpa and the others asked me what was wrong. Save grandpa."

The second grandpa and the others didn't light any torches, so they ran straight to my house. As soon as the second grandpa entered the house, he picked up the crying father who was squatting by the bed. , Are you awake? If you are not awake, your feet will jump."

Father didn't resist, wiped away his snot and tears, pointed to the bed and said: "That baby calls him Daddy, and he looks like him too. His family is unfortunate. It doesn't matter if I lose all my face. How can you let Xiao Wazi behave in the future. "

The second grandpa and the others went to the bedside to watch and muttered after watching it, but the second grandpa said: "You also look like your father, and your baby also looks like your father, is your head full of shit?"

With a pipe in his mouth, Grandpa Yao said, "It's a disaster to keep this baby. How can someone so young be able to talk. Go and send him to the monastery tomorrow. There is absolutely no way to keep this baby."

Dad said: "It's not my baby, who else can give birth to such a baby except him."

This matter could not be explained clearly in a few words. It is not safe to put the baby in anyone's place now. They discussed for a long time and decided to let the baby sleep with me temporarily.

Because they believe that my mother will not harm me, and it will be safe only if she is placed here.

So that night they put the baby on the inside of my bed and I lay next to it.

Father was talking with some elders of the Chen family in the main room.

Naturally, I couldn't sleep, and I looked at the baby sideways, and the baby grinned at me when he saw me.

I didn't understand anything at the time, I just thought the baby was cuter and more playful than the village puppies and cats, so I went up and sucked him on the face.

But in the middle of the night, my nightmare started again.

I was only confused for a while, and when I opened my eyes, I saw my mother again.

She was standing by the bed with the baby in her arms, feeding it.

I stared at my mother, and my mother stared at me. After a long time, my mother squeezed out a word: "Run!"

Running on the side of Sichuan and Chongqing means escaping.

(End of this chapter)