The fat aunt is in her fifties this year. She is a big fat man as her name suggests. She is definitely synonymous with ****. Especially the fat ***, if he is sat down, he must be suffocated.
Living with the fat aunt, apart from a pretty daughter-in-law, there is also a five or six-year-old grandson. After Huang Hai left, after chatting with the fat aunt, she learned that the fat aunt's man and son were doing small business outside, and usually only went home during the holidays.
The fat aunt is not only warm and hospitable, but also very talkative. Through her mouth, we learned that the five petitioners, headed by Huang Cripple, were all injured by *** during the demolition of Sanchawan. They must be on major festivals every year. Going to the province to petition is a veritable professional petitioner.
Dayan and I were not interested in petitioning matters, so we switched the topic to the marriage of the two big families of Huang and Zhao. The fat aunt's words are similar to those of Huang Cripple, and they are basically the same. But because the fat aunt is an authentic local, she is more familiar with the ancestral hall dedicated to Zhao Hongyu.
The fat aunt said that in Huangjiazhuang people used to call the Huang's ancestral hall the East Ancestral Hall, and the ancestral hall dedicated to Zhao Hongyu was called the West Ancestral Hall. West Ancestral Hall was closed twenty years ago.
I asked the fat aunt why it turned off.
The fat aunt said with some regret: "Because of the enforcement of family law, that is, lynching. The family lynched people to death, and then the police were brought in, so they had to be closed."
"It must be a big mistake to die."
"Well. It was a heinous crime. At that time, there was a daughter-in-law named Li in Huangjiazhuang who took advantage of her man's no longer to steal a wild man. As a result, his man came back in the middle of the night and was hit. The wild man was beaten to death on the spot. He was a man. Still feeling uneasy, I found the patriarch and the man who called Quanzhuang with a gong. Her man was in front of the people in the village, pumping her face with the soles of his shoes, kicking her body with his feet, and finally uneasy. So she dragged her to the West Ancestral Hall to enforce the family law. I remember the scene very clearly. She was dragged all the way and called all the way, and that all the way was blood..."
I swallowed and spit, and asked, "What family law was implemented?"
"Just tied her up like a pig, and then stripped her face off with a knife."
Big Eye and I exclaimed at the same time: "Huh?"
"Yes, just scratch the skin. Starting from the chin, I cut it open with a knife, and then went all the way up..." The fat aunt said as she gestured. She used her fingers instead of the knife, starting from her chin, and gestured around the back of her neck. Circled, "Just scratch her face, her scalp, and her hair. She was still alive at the time. Only two eyeballs on the entire face were black. The rest of the face was red. His muscles were still twitching, and people were so alive that it hurts to death. Don’t mention too scared.
People. In the end, his man buried her face in the open space under the threshold of the west ancestral hall, so that anyone who entered the ancestral hall stepped on her face, and stepped on her face forever, so that she could never stand up as a ghost. Later, I didn't know who called the police, and his man was sentenced to death. "
I felt cold all over and said, "The execution of the clan law shouldn't be enforced in the Huang's Ancestral Hall? Why should it be in the West Ancestral Hall?"
“Because Zhao Hongyu’s inability to enter the ancestral ancestral hall is a life disorder, so the west ancestral hall is also synonymous with broken shoes. Before the west ancestral hall was closed, as long as the women of the clan who stole a man, they would be dragged to the west ancestral hall to shave their faces. There are not one hundred and eighty people who died in it who did not obey women's way."
The fat aunt’s daughter-in-law interrupted and said, “This is not fair at all. Men raise women with impunity, but women are subject to this cruel and inhuman clan law.”
The fat aunt sank and said, "What do you know? Since ancient times, men have three wives and four concubines, and women have to obey the four virtues. This is the old saying."
"In what age are we now advocating equality between men and women."
"Regardless of the age, since it is the rules left by the ancestors, you must abide by it. I warn you, if you don't obey women's way, I will ask the patriarch to open the door of the West Ancestral Hall and take your face off, and then I will pay for your life at the police station. ."
The fat aunt and daughter-in-law listened, stared, fell and beaten into the room.
Big Eye and I looked at each other and didn't know what to say for a while. Unexpectedly, the people of Huangjiazhuang think so much about the old concept of superiority to women. It is really a tragedy for a woman to marry in Huangjiazhuang.
Big eyes licked his lips, and asked, "Fat aunt, I feel gloomy when I look at the West Ancestral Hall from a distance. It must be uneasy for so many people to die in the West Ancestral Hall."
"Are you talking about haunted?"
"En." I nodded at the same time as Big Eye.
The fat aunt said proudly: "We are protected by our ancestors in Huangjiazhuang. It's okay. But outsiders and people who don’t respect their ancestors will always encounter dirty things when they go there at night. Two years ago, I didn’t know where the village came from. Fortune-telling, did not say hello to the clan, stayed in the village privately for one night, but found out the next day when he was stuck in a haystack, he was crazy. Does a fool in the village know?"
Dayan and I asked if he was a fool who was shirtless in a red suit and always stretched his fingers.
The fat aunt said: "He is the fortune-telling lunatic. After he is mad, he won't be driven away. When the patriarch saw that he was pitiful, he let him stay and live by eating a hundred food every day. He was just caught by those shameless people in the Xi Ancestral Hall. The female ghost was entangled. I was frightened."
I can’t see the West Ancestral Hall in Fat Aunt’s house, but I still can’t help turning my head to look towards the West Ancestral Hall. I don’t know if it is a psychological effect. I always feel like the sky above the West Ancestral Hall.
It's darker than other places, like a black grievance entrenched in the sky.
After having dinner at the fat aunt's house, it was already past seven o'clock. I first gave the fat aunt a hundred yuan for room and board, and then went out of the fat aunt's house under the banner of visiting petitioners.
Before leaving the house, the fat aunt also told Dayan and I to come back at ten o'clock, because her house would be locked after ten o'clock.
There were many people on Huangjiazhuang Street in the evening. The children chased each other noisily, the older ones gathered together to chat, and the young left-behind women were another group.
Walking on the street with Big Eye, I once again felt the strange gazes of people, especially those middle-aged women and young daughter-in-laws. They all wished to eat me and make me feel like a man on their backs.
I asked Big Eyes in a low voice, "Why do they look at me like ghosts? I feel panicked."
With big eyes showing big golden teeth, he smiled and said, "They are greedy."
"Gluttonous?" I asked in surprise.
Big Eyes continued to smirk and said: "If you are not allowed to eat meat for a year, will you be greedy when you see meat?"
"what do you mean?"
With big eyes pressed to my ears, he said, "Those people are all people and wives in those days. They can't see the men in the family several times a year. When they see you, they don't treat you as a small piece of meat, and they want to eat you. They are lonely."
I took a breath, and suddenly I felt like the sheep had entered the wolf's den, and I couldn't help but move faster.
When I arrived in the new district of Huangjiazhuang, I clearly felt deserted. Although the lights were on in every household, there were no people on the street. Compared with the lively village, it was like two worlds.
The West Ancestral Hall looked more gloomy under the bleak moonlight, turning around an alley, under the lights of a crossroad, five men gathered together, and a closer look at the Huang Cripple among them.
Dayan and I hurriedly walked over to say hello and chatted for a few moments, and discovered that the five people were petitioners headed by Huang Cripple, and they got together to plan their next petition.
As soon as Huang Cripple stated our identity, he could obviously feel the unkindness of the other four people towards us. But we can only continue to act as the staff of the Civil Affairs Bureau, accepting their accusations of inaction, lazy administration, shirking each other, and guarding officials at all levels of government departments. At the same time, we have to endure some personal attacks with guns and sticks.
Dayan and I had mentally handicapped smiles on our faces and conscientiously listened to opinions and criticisms.
This kind of torment lasted until more than nine o'clock before it ended. After watching them all go home, I took a sigh of relief, sincerely feeling that it was not easy to intercept petitions.
Big eyes wiped the sweat on his forehead and said, "But it's fucking gone." Seeing that there was no one around, he checked the time and said, "While there is still some time, let's go to the West Ancestral Hall."
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