Yin Changsheng

Chapter 9

Grandpa turned his back to us, didn't notice that Jiang Li and I had followed him here secretly, he said to mother eagerly: "Don't go to see Xiao Wazi tonight, that Taoist priest has set up some things around, Specially to catch you."

My mother was in a bad state, and she didn't respond to what Grandpa said.

But because she was facing us, she saw us as soon as we came, and after Grandpa said that to her, she raised her finger and pointed at us.

Grandpa suddenly turned his head, and the moment he saw Jiang Li and me, he felt as if he had lost his temper, trembling and unable to even stand upright.

Seeing that Grandpa had seen us, Jiang Li and I walked over and approached Grandpa. Grandpa's face was ashen, his chest heaved and heaved, and he looked very nervous.

Before Grandpa could speak, Jiang Li asked, "Old man, why are you pretending to be unconscious?"

When Jiang Li saw Grandpa, he told my father and grandma that Grandpa is very good, better than others. At that time, I thought Jiang Li was talking nonsense, but now I understand.

Jiang Li saw early in the morning that Grandpa was pretending to be unconscious, but he never exposed it.

Grandpa is a sensible person. Now that we caught him on the spot, he didn't even have an excuse. He suddenly knelt down in front of Jiang Li and said with a trembling corner of his mouth, "I know I did something worse than a beast. My daughter-in-law has given birth to a baby, but I am buried to the age of my eyebrows, and I take lust and other things lightly, and I really have no way to do this kind of thing."

Grandpa's words have already indicated that the baby was born with his mother.

Although I was young at the time, I could understand the seriousness of this matter. Anyone with a little sense of revenge in the countryside would know that this is something that is not justified by nature.My grandfather was always very wise in the village, but he never thought he would actually do such a thing.

I stared blankly at my grandpa, and suddenly felt that this old man was not the kind and amiable grandpa I knew. He had too many things to hide from us.

Jiang Li asked again: "There is always a reason for doing things. If you tell me the reason, I can minimize the impact of this matter."

Grandpa shook his head unwillingly: "If this kind of embarrassing thing gets out, my old Chen family will lose all face. Xiao Wazi is still young, so I can't let him be scolded by people pointing at his spine. You are his master, you must I also don't want to see Xiao Wazi unable to straighten his waist in the future, I beg you, let me take this matter to the ground, don't ask me."

After the grandfather finished speaking, he kowtowed to Jiang Li.Although this matter about grandpa had a great impact on Jiang Li, but people of my grandpa's generation were always his elders, he couldn't bear grandpa's kowtow, so he immediately pulled grandpa up.

As soon as I pulled it up, my mother squeezed out the word she said to me before: "Run."

Jiang Li immediately turned to my mother: "You know what, don't you?"

But my mother didn't answer Jiang Li, she turned around and got into the nearby woods, and disappeared after a while.

Only my grandfather, me, and Jiang Li were left at the scene. After my mother had left, my grandfather said, "Master Jiang, I beg you for one thing. You can take Xiao Wazi to the Taoist temple. Don't bring Xiao Wazi to mess with you anymore, it's the last thing I beg you from this old bone, they want to kill my old Chen family, you are still young, maybe even you will fall into their trap .”

After my grandfather finished speaking, before Jiang Li and I could react, he rushed forward and bumped into the old locust tree in front of my mother's grave with a bang.

Jiang Li immediately ran over, but it was too late, Grandpa used too much force, even his own skull was cracked, and he died with his eyes wide open.

Jiang Li frowned, and immediately took a talisman and pasted it on my grandfather's head.

I stood there blankly, tears streaming down my face, no matter what my grandfather did wrong, he was always the old man who loved me, and when he died suddenly, I couldn't bear such a big blow.

Jiang Li glanced at his grandfather, then looked at me and said, "Your grandfather declared his will by death, and the purpose of preventing me from pursuing this matter is to protect you. I respect your grandfather's opinion, but I also respect yours." , if you don’t want to know the truth of the matter, you tell me, and I won’t investigate any further.”

I hesitated for a long time, finally nodded and said I want to know.

Jiang Li just gave a light acknowledgment, and then went home with his grandfather on his back.

Father found out that Grandpa was missing at home, and also found that Jiang Li and I were not at home. He panicked and immediately found Second Grandpa. He and Second Grandpa stopped by to look for us, and finally met us at the edge of Yantang.

Father and Second Grandpa lost their voice when they saw Jiang Li's grandfather with a split head on his back. Second Grandpa pointed to Grandpa after a while and asked, "What's wrong with my brother? Why did this happen?"

Jiang Li only said: "Go home and talk."

There is a custom in the countryside that when the old man reaches the age of 60, he will prepare a coffin and shroud for himself in advance, so as not to be troublesome if he dies suddenly and does not even have a coffin.

When they got home, they put grandpa in the coffin, and the second grandpa asked what happened.

Jiang Li dealt with the second grandfather a few words, and called my father and grandma into the side room.

Dad's eyes were red and swollen, he wanted to cry, but he didn't dare to cry.

As for grandma, she couldn't restrain her emotions at all, and asked Jiang Li while crying, "What's wrong, why did she just sleep for a few hours and become like this?"

Jiang Li told his father and grandma the truth.

Said that grandpa had been pretending to be in a coma before, and that baby was also born to grandpa and my mother. After grandpa and my mother were found at a private meeting at night, they crashed to death on the old locust tree.

After hearing Jiang Li's words, grandma and father were dumbfounded on the spot.

One is my wife, and the other is my woman. They each have their own knots in their hearts. Father's fists turned blue, he turned around and walked out the door: "I'll chop up that bastard."

Jiang Li immediately grabbed my father: "Chen Xiao will bear all the evils you have done. Have you seen Chen Xiao's stomach? The cause and effect is caused by you being too righteous and acting on your own. You should think of a way now." Let me explain Chen Xiao's grandfather's death, if this matter gets out, your Chen family will really have no reason."

Only then did father and grandma realize what the most important thing is now.

The two of them wiped away their tears and discussed with Jiang Li for a while before going out. The second grandfather had been waiting at the door. He knew that he could not listen to some words. Joss stick paper money, when you are ready, fire a three-eyed cannon and let the villagers know."

The three-eyed cannon is an object here. Divide an iron blunderbuss into three pieces, fill it with gunpowder and connect the lead wire, and it will make three cannon sounds. Once the three-eyed cannon is fired, the nearby villagers will be able to tell the direction of the cannon sound. Determine who is dead.

The second grandpa left my house, and Jiang Li asked me to kneel in front of grandpa's coffin. They helped grandpa change his shroud, washed his body, and then closed the coffin lid halfway. When people from the village come to see grandpa for the last time tomorrow, we can get together coffin.

But before the three-eyed cannon was fired the next morning, people from the village rushed to my house one after another.

As more and more people came, they started pointing at grandpa's coffin to discuss. Someone took Jiang Li to the side and asked, "I heard that the old man of the Chen family raped his own daughter-in-law. That doll is the old man of the Chen family and his coffin." The daughter-in-law gave birth, is that the case?"

Jiang Li immediately asked, "Who told you?"

The villagers said: "I listened to what they said."

Jiang Li's expression began to change. He was planning to hide this matter, but he didn't expect that they already knew about it after only one night.

We thought it was the second grandpa who said it, but later we asked the second grandpa specifically, and the second grandpa said that he started preparing incense candles when he returned, without saying hello to the villagers.

No matter how they went out, now, our Chen family has been completely reduced to the laughing stock of the village.

The father-in-law married his daughter-in-law and gave birth to a baby with his daughter-in-law, which is rare in a hundred years!

This funeral has become the most torturous ceremony, without the remembrance and grief that should be there, they are all discussing about my grandfather and my mother.

During this period, grandma cried and passed out several times, while my father hid in the side house and dared not come out. He did not dare to face grandpa, nor did he dare to face these villagers.

Therefore, Jiang Li was helping to organize the entire funeral. He told me that someone was behind the scenes, otherwise it would be impossible for others to know the news so quickly.

When night fell, the villagers played cards and chatted outside the mourning hall, and kept watch for my grandfather by the way. They said that the dead might come back at night. They were afraid of offending my dead grandfather, so they stopped talking nonsense at night and talked about other things.

Sitting next to the coffin with Jiang Li, I saw grandma crying, and I cried too. Jiang Li patted my head and said, "You are a man, and now you are the pillar of your family. If you want to straighten your back, you can't solve it, and Master."

I thanked Jiang Li and looked at Jiang Li with tears in my eyes. He is the best person to me besides my family members.

As time went by, the people who kept watch outside left one by one and went back to sleep. Before two o'clock in the morning, there were not many people left in the mourning hall.

But at this time, an unexpected visitor came to the mourning hall.

Wearing a big red robe, the mother staggered into the main room, went to the front of the grandfather's coffin, took out a stick of incense, lit it, and put it in the incense altar.

The people who were still here were all stunned. When grandma saw my mother, she immediately went crazy: "Crazy bitch, if you dare to come back, I'll kill you."

After finishing speaking, he ran into the house and took out a kitchen knife to kill my mother, but was stopped by Jiang Li.

My mother turned around and went into the room, hugged the baby, sat on the bed and fed the baby.

After stopping grandma, Jiang Li also entered the house, stood at the door and said to my mother: "Your body is full of yin, this child has yin in itself, if you feed him again, the remaining yang in him will be dispelled .”

(End of this chapter)