"Cruel?" Hearing Yang Xiaohui say this, I couldn't help but ask: "What is it, a tiger stool, a sky lantern?"
Yang Xiaohui gave me a blank look and said, "I'm talking about bad habits, not the top ten tortures."
I said "oh" and didn't speak again. Although I drank a lot, my consciousness was still clear. Seeing that I didn't speak, Yang Xiaohui told us such a story.
The story takes place in Yang Xiaohui's hometown before liberation. Her hometown is called Huamu Village. In the deep mountains of the Taihang Mountains, the traffic is blocked and it is almost isolated from the world, and there are no elderly people over 60 years old in the village. .
When Yang Xiaohui said this, Li Jiahao asked, "Do the people in your village suffer from a strange disease, and then generally have a short life?"
Yang Xiaohui sneered at Li Jiahao: "Isn't your town stronger than that?"
Li Jiahao was embarrassed by Yang Xiaohui's smile and did not say anything, and Qu Xiaoyou also blamed Li Jiahao: "Don't interrupt, listen to Xiaohui tell the story."
You Xiaoqing also asked Yang Xiaohui from the side: "Yes, Xiaohui, are there any elderly people over 60 years old in your village?"
Obviously, Yang Xiaohui's story started very well, and all of us were attracted.
Yang Xiaohui continued to tell the story.
Around 1942, two people, one old and one young, came to Huamu Village. The old one was fifty-eight years old named Yang Zuji, and the youngest was only eight or nine years old named Yang Ji'an. These two were grandparents and grandsons. So coming back to Huamu Village is completely escaping.
After the grandparents and grandchildren entered the village, someone at the entrance of the village came up to ask them about their situation. After asking the age of the two people, one of these people in Huamu Village, a young man from Chen Wen, said: "You can live in our village, But you have to abide by our customs here, or we will blow you away."
Yang Zuji and Yang Ji'an escaped all the way to this deep mountain. They were already exhausted. They were naturally happy when they heard that there was a place willing to take them in. They quickly agreed to Chen Wen's words, and they didn't even have any customs. to ask.
Chen Wen told Yang Zuji and Yang Ji'an that most of the land in their village belonged to his family and could be distributed to the grandparents and grandchildren for planting, but the grandparents and grandchildren needed to hand over half of the annual grain production. Obviously, Chen Wen is a landlord.
Since Yang Zuji and Yang Ji'an's grandparents had escaped and had no place to live, Chen Wen took them in to live in his own home. Chen Wen is the landlord of the village, and his family is naturally very good. , but there are many rooms in this yard that are empty and not occupied.
Therefore, Yang Zuji and Yang Ji'an were arranged to live in Chen Wen's house.
When the two first arrived in Huamu Village, even if Chen Wen gave them land, they still had no seeds to sow, so Chen Wen suggested to let Yang Zuji work as a long-term worker in the Chen family to help the Chen family cook, clean the yard, and use him work in exchange for some seeds to be sown from the Chen family.
At this time, Chen Wen had become the image of a living Buddha in Yang Zuji and Yang Ji'an.
At first, the grandparents and grandchildren obeyed Chen Wen's orders every day. They did whatever they wanted, never asked more questions, and never walked around the streets. They were very honest in the Chen family, but they waited a long time. The two gradually became familiar with the Chen family, and found that there are many things in the Chen family that are very strange.
The first place is that Chen Wen's house has three courtyards, and there are more than a dozen rooms, but there are only three real occupants, including Yang Zuji and Yang Ji'an's grandparents.
When Yang Xiaohui mentioned this doubt, I couldn't help but say: "There shouldn't be many people here. They belong to the landlord's family, so the people must have been prosperous. Maybe it happened that Chen Wen's generation was not prosperous. Maybe it's the family that's in trouble."
Li Jiahao also echoed me and said, "Yes, Xiaoyong is right."
Yang Xiaohui didn't bother us, but continued to tell her story. Li Jiahao and I were like hitting a soft nail.
Yang Zuji and Yang Ji'an thought the second strange thing was that there were no elderly people in this family. Chen Wen was in his thirties, he had a daughter-in-law, and a son who was about the same age as Yang Ji'an. In addition, Chen Wen had a younger sister named Chen Jing. This year She is only in her early twenties, but this Chen Jing is not a beauty, but a fat girl who is delicious and lazy.
The third strange thing is that there are only six people in this family even with Yang Zuji and Yang Jian’s grandparents, but Chen Wen asks Yang Zuji to cook meals for eight people every time, and the extra meals are also for Chen Wen’s delicious and lazy cook Chen Wen's sister-in-law eats it, but Chen Wen's daughter-in-law takes a bamboo basket to deliver it every day. As for who to give it to, Yang Zuji, who has just arrived, doesn't dare to ask too much.
But after a long time, one day Yang Zuji couldn't help but curiously asked Chen Wen's daughter-in-law who the extra meals were given, and Chen Wen's daughter-in-law said, "For my in-laws."
Hearing what Chen Wen's wife said, Yang Zuji felt that Chen Wen's parents might have separated, and Chen Wen's parents lived in another house in the village.
Thinking of this, Yang Zuji felt that Chen Wen was the savior of his and Yang Jian's grandparents, and the parents of the benefactor were also his benefactors, so he thought about visiting the old couple, so he asked Chen Wen's daughter-in-law The old couple's residence.
Chen Wen's daughter-in-law said casually, "In the grave..."
Yang Zuji was a little puzzled and said "what", Chen Wen's wife still said casually: "It's a grave, a tomb for people, okay, I'm going to deliver food, it's late, they should be hungry again. It's 'howling'."
Hearing this, Yang Zuji was startled, and he dared to continue to ask. He felt that Chen Wen's wife was just going to the grave with food every day, and he was surprised at the same time. It's different when you have money, and she takes so much every day. Eat food for the dead. You must know that in the outside world, many people starve to death every day...
When we heard the story, the people who were there were also talking about it. I asked Yang Xiaohui directly: "Did Chen Wen's parents become ghosts?"
Yang Xiaohui didn't speak, as if he was immersed in some grief. In fact, I knew from the beginning that Yang Zuji and Yang Ji'an in the story should be the ancestors of Yang Xiaohui, especially that Yang Ji'an, if calculated according to his age, maybe it should be Grandpa Yang Xiaohui. Generations of people.
Could it be that something happened to these two people in the story? No, I heard Yang Xiaohui say that his grandfather is still alive, and he seems to be a Mr. Yin Yang.
Yang Xiaohui didn't answer my question, and the atmosphere suddenly became awkward. At this moment, You Xiaoqing asked, "Xiaohui, next, are Chen Wen's parents ghosts?"
Yang Xiaohui said silently: "If they are really ghosts, that's fine."
Worse than ghosts! ? What would that be, a corpse? Could it be that the Chen Wen family is raising corpses
At this point, my mind was no longer as dizzy as before, and I was completely fascinated by this story.
Yang Xiaohui continued to tell the story, and the truth was slowly coming to light.
In the story, after Yang Zuji was frightened by Chen Wen's wife's words, he couldn't sleep for several days, so he decided to go to the street and ask the villagers what was going on, but when the young people in the village saw Yang Zuji, they followed him. Like a monster, Yang Zuji asked those people about Chen Wen's parents, but the young people avoided talking about it. Instead, they asked Yang Zuji's age. Yang Zuji honestly said that he was fifty-eight, and he was fifty-nine after the new year.
Yang Zuji went to the street several times to inquire about this result, and he also found that there are no people in this village who are 60 years old and above, and even people in their 50s are rare.
When he noticed this situation, Yang Zuji was a little panicked, which meant that at his age, it was very likely that something would happen to him when he stayed in the village, so he decided to find out the reason.
So when Chen Wenni's daughter-in-law went out to deliver meals early one morning, Yang Zuji also followed.
Chen Wen's daughter-in-law walked all the way to the east, and soon left the village, and came to a mountain cove. There were dozens of graves scattered here and there, and the graves of these graves were very large.
Needless to say, this tomb should be Chen Wen's ancestral tomb.
After arriving here, Yang Zuji was even more frightened. He didn't expect that Chen Wen's daughter-in-law really brought this meal to the cemetery. In his heart, he actually hoped that Chen Wen's wife was lying to him and teasing him, but The opposite is true.
After Yang Zuji followed him there, he didn't dare to approach those graves anymore, because "ghosts" are such things that everyone would be a little afraid of, even if it was me, even if I already have supernatural powers, I still have the kind of "reverence for ghosts" in my heart. "That still won't go away.
Yang Zuji watched from a distance that Chen Wen's wife stopped at a relatively new grave, then took out the food in the bamboo basket and handed it to the grave, and while delivering it, she could hear Chen Wen's wife say: "You Let's eat quickly, don't blame Chen Wen, because many of you have already died in our village, we can only apologise to you."
The more Yang Zuji listened, the more confused he became. He originally thought that Chen Wen's wife was alone talking to herself, but he didn't expect that someone suddenly started chatting up at the grave: "Xiao Min, we don't blame Xiao Wen, he is Our son, we don’t know his heart for us yet. I have lived in this cemetery for more than two years. It rained to dig rain for us, snow came to bring us quilts, and every meal did not fall for us. , Compared with the fate of other old people in our village, we are already content, even if we die now, we are still willing."
Hearing these words, Yang Zuji was frightened, and at the same time, his curiosity suddenly increased. Could it be that the grave was empty, and Chen Wen's parents lived in the grave
Speaking of this, Yang Xiaohui paused again, and we all asked her at the same time: "Afterwards, is the person in the tomb bag a human or a ghost?"