Yin Changsheng

Chapter 4 Something Happened to Mr. Zhang Duan
This is the first time she has spoken to me since I can remember, but it is on such an inappropriate occasion.

After hearing her words, I ran out and stood next to the father and the second grandfather who were discussing what to do with the baby. The second grandfather saw me running out in a panic and immediately guessed that my mother had returned.

After such repeated tortures, the second grandpa and the others also became angry. They picked up the shoulder pole next to them and said angrily: "I have to see what you want to do today. You don't even let your own baby go!" However, they are still human.”

Second Grandpa and Grandpa Yao are old. They were born in the most chaotic era and have survived the scariest period. These ghosts and strange things can't scare them at all.

I followed them in, but the room was empty, and the baby was lying safely on the bed. When we entered the room, the baby turned and grinned at us.

The second grandpa and the others didn't see my mother, so they turned around and asked me, "Xiao Wazi, what did you see just now?"

I said, "Mother nursed my younger brother and let me run away."

Daddy interrupted me, looked at the baby and said through gritted teeth, "He's not your brother, he's your father's brother, he's your youngest dad."

If this baby is really my grandfather's son, isn't it my father's brother, my youngest father?
After hearing what Dad said, Second Grandpa turned his head and slapped Dad on the face again, and shouted: "Nonsense."

Among the three grandpa brothers, the second grandpa is the fiercest one.The second grandfather was quite sensible since he was a child. Even in that era when education was extremely backward, the grandfather sent the second grandfather to school for a few years. He thought that the second grandfather would be promising in the future, but he did not expect to return to the village to become a teacher after leaving the school. The village head, nothing likes to pass on his pedantic ideas to the young people in the village with a pipe in his mouth.

My father may not be afraid of grandpa or grandma, but he is only afraid of my second grandpa. There are not many people in the village who are not afraid of him.

Second Grandpa yelled, and Dad immediately quieted down.

After everything quieted down, the second grandfather said: "We still need to ask Mr. Zhang Duan about this matter. Whether the doll stays or leaves, our opinions don't matter. Mr. Zhang is an insider, so it will be useful to ask him."

Grandpa fell down, and the words of Second Grandpa were the only guiding light.

Seeing my mother running into the house every night, it needs to be resolved as soon as possible.

We didn't wait until the next day, so we lit torches that night, and several people went to Zhang Duangong's house in a group, leaving grandma and grandpa Ye Yao in the house to guard.

A team of three hurried to Zhang Duangong's house.

Rural people usually go to bed after eight o'clock, but it is already midnight, and there is still a dim light in the crack of the gate of Mr. Zhang Duan's house.

The second grandfather knocked on the door and shouted: "Mr. Zhang Duan, I am Chen Jiafu."

However, after several knocks, no one opened the door, and the second grandfather muttered, "Oops, something happened."

After speaking, he slammed open the door, and when the door opened, there was a smell of excrement from inside. Even the father and second grandfather who often worked in the farmland shook their heads when they smelled the smell.

I pinched my nose directly, looked forward again, and was stunned.

A rope was tied around Zhang Duangong's neck, hanging from the beam of the house. When he opened the door, a gust of wind blew in, and Zhang Duangong's body swayed in the wind.

The bottom of Zhang Duangong's body was already soaked in urine, and the smell of feces came from Zhang Duangong's body.

Both father and second grandfather stared at Zhang Duangong's body without saying a word, and it took a long time for father to say: "You have committed a crime."

The second grandfather, who was always shocked, trembled now, and he said, "The world is going to be turned upside down."

I stared blankly at everything in front of me. At that time, I only knew that Zhang Duangong was dead, and I didn't think about anything else.

It was later learned that when Zhang Duangong died, he was facing up to the sky, but his face was covered with a red cloth, and his feet were not suspended in the air, but on tiptoe.

Rural people attach great importance to death. When you die, you have to rest your eyes, put your heels on the ground, and face up to the sky, otherwise you will never be reborn.

Closing the eyes means not being attached to the world of heaven, grounding your heels on the ground means being able to reincarnate, and having a blue face means praying for a good life.

But Zhang Duangong didn't occupy any of them.

In addition, many hanged people will suffer from incontinence after death, and the smell of feces was released after Zhang Duangong died.

The second grandpa and the others were stunned for a while, then God put Zhang Duangong down, and notified the people in the nearby village that night.

Zhang Duangong has no descendants, so the villagers can only help with this matter.

Usually the weddings and funerals in the village were arranged by Mr. Zhang Duan with his help. Now that something happened to Mr. Zhang, all the people from the nearby villages came.

In the end, they pointed their finger at my family and said to my father and my second grandfather: "The Chen family is as disgraceful as it is. You treat your daughter-in-law very badly. Sometimes We can't see it anymore, she is dead, and you still have to torture her. Now the retribution is coming, not only on you, but also on Zhang Duangong."

The second grandpa and father felt sorry for themselves, and pulled me to kneel in front of Zhang Duangong, and kowtowed to Zhang Duangong to confess.

People have to wear shrouds when they die. When they were helping Zhang Duangong change his shrouds, they found a note on Zhang Duangong. The people in the village were farmers who could not read a single word. Handed it to the second grandfather.

It was written on that piece of paper: People are doing it, and the sky is watching. I did this kind of thing and the retribution will come sooner or later. I can't help with Chen Xiao's affairs. You should go and invite regular Taoist priests.

This is the final guidance Zhang Duangong gave us, and this is also the purpose of our visit.

However, because it was too late, we did not invite regular Taoist priests at night, but first helped Zhang Duangong set up a mourning hall. That night, my father, second grandfather and some people in the village were watching the night for Zhang Duangong.

The children on the night watch cannot be present, and my father asked me to go back to the house first with another old man in the village.

When I got to the side of the house, the old man stopped seeing me off and said, "Xiao Wazi, I'm here to watch you, go back."

I said yes, and went back to the house under the watchful eyes of the old man, but before I got there, the old man suddenly yelled, turned off the flashlight, turned around and ran away.

I looked to the side, and it turned out that there was a person in a big red robe standing behind the stone pile directly in front of the house, and that person was of course my mother.

In her arms was the baby, which she was also nursing.

I stared at her and she stared at me.

After more than a minute, she took a step, walked up to me staggeringly, and handed the baby to me.

I don't know if it was because I was scared or something else, but after I took the baby, I cried and murmured: "Mom."

The mother's eyes were empty, her teeth clicked a few times, and then she opened her lips and said the word again; "Run."

After she finished speaking, she left. I carried the baby into the room. Grandma and Grandpa Yao were looking at Grandpa in the side room at the moment.

I didn't know what to think at that time, I didn't want grandma and grandpa Yao to know that my mother had come back again.

Thinking about it now, I probably don't want grandma and them to continue to hate my mother, because my mother never harmed me, and I don't really believe that she is such a terrible person.

After guarding all night, my father went back to the house early the next morning. He took the baby to find a regular Taoist priest. He didn't plan to take me with him. Grandpa Yao said: "His mother will see Xiao Wazi every time she comes back. You take Xiao Wazi Also go and see if there is something on your body that attracts dirty things."

Dad thought about it and made sense, so he let me go with him.

There used to be many Taoist temples in the village, but most of them were demolished at that time, and now only one remains.At that time, a dozen people tried to demolish the Taoist temple, disregarding the advice of the old Taoist priest, and smashed the statue in the temple. As a result, these ten people were killed or injured in a short time. Later, a discerning person saw the clue and repaired it again. The matter of the statue was suppressed.

I heard my grandfather talk about that Taoist temple before. He said that there was a big stone trough at the entrance of the temple. Just make up a bowl in the future.But now it is not a problem for each household to eat and wear, so the stone trough is useless.

Zhang Duangong's ability to watch the day and find the tomb was also learned from an old Taoist priest in this Taoist temple for a few days.

I look forward to the Taoist temple that the villagers say can solve everything, and I have even outlined the image of a regular Taoist priest in my mind, but when I actually come to the Taoist temple, it is not the case at all.

There is indeed a stone trough next to the main entrance of the Taoist temple, but it has been completely covered by weeds.

After entering the Taoist temple, I found that there were no Taoist priests with immortal spirits in the Taoist temple. It was dilapidated and no one lived in it for a long time.

It was a cloudy day today, and with such an environment, this place looked even more desolate.

Dad yelled a few times and no one responded, so I said, "There's no one here."

After trying several times, Dad sighed helplessly: "It's fate, if there is no one left, it's a waste of time."

But at this moment, a young man in his twenties came in from the outside. The young man was dressed a little differently from us, and his hair was much longer than ours. Maybe he hadn't cut his hair for several years. He saw us He froze for a moment, then asked, "Who are you looking for?"

My father immediately went to state the truth and said that we came to find the old man of the Taoist temple.

But after hearing this, the young man laughed and said, "The old man is dead, but I can help you to see." Then he turned to me and said, "Little friend, how many times do you jump, as high as you can jump. "

My father and I didn't know what he was going to do, I was stunned and didn't move, my father probably just wanted to give it a try, so he pawed me: "Quickly listen to what this brother says, and dance a few times."

I just twitched and jumped a few times.

But he was dissatisfied and said, "Jump higher."

I tried my best to take off, but I couldn't do it at all. My father watched anxiously from the side: "Didn't you jump very high before, don't be perfunctory."

I said aggrievedly: "I can't jump up."

The young man put his hand on my shoulder and said, "You can't jump because you have something on your back. Let me help you."

After the young man finished speaking, he suddenly lifted me up with one hand, and then punched me hard on the ground.

I didn't feel much, but felt soft under my feet, as if I stepped on something.

Suddenly, someone yelled a few times behind me, and when I looked back, I was stunned. There were three more people behind me, sticking close to me.

The young man said: "You must have passed the cemetery when you came here. As long as you stand on tiptoe, they will find the right opportunity to put their toes under your feet, and then let the living people walk on their backs."

(End of this chapter)