When Ergou was hit by the "birth stone" on the day of their child's full moon drink, the Zhang family didn't take it to heart. Everyone thought that Ergou had drunk too much, and they went over and knocked over the offering table. The "birth stone" fell and hit him.
Fortunately, the table was not too high, otherwise the two dogs would have to be directly crushed to death, the two dogs were not in serious trouble, and this matter would be over.
When Wang Jialiang's father talked about this, I couldn't help but interjected and asked, "Why didn't Zhang Ergou tell the Zhang family about the strange thing he heard crying when he was drunk?"
Wang Jialiang's father shook his head and said, "I don't know about this. That's the story my father told me. The reason is to ask Zhang Ergou himself."
Indeed, Wang Jialiang's father is just thinking of me to retell a story. Whether or not this story actually exists in the end remains to be seen. Moreover, the story is all about the "son-born stone". Not much direct relationship.
This should be the reason why Wang Jialiang's father is not sure if this is helpful to us.
The story continues. The incident of Ergou being smashed and injured did not cause much repercussions in Houtai Village. Most of the people listened to it as a joke. Everyone thought it was a simple drunk accident.
Only Ergou knew in his heart that this matter was not easy, because he really felt the strange things that night.
So on the third day after the incident, Ergou's head was a little better, so he chose the platform village before the meeting to see his parents. When he got home, Ergou also brought two chickens and some copper plates. .
When Ergou harmed his parents at the full moon banquet, many people in the former platform village had heard about it, so Ergou would inevitably be scolded by some people in the village when he came back this time, which made me feel very embarrassed. panic.
Ergou arrived in front of his house and saw the broken wooden row door and the dilapidated old house. He couldn't help but feel a little sad. As his father said, his family was poor, but his parents The best conditions the family could give him.
Looking at his home, Ergou was a little emotional, and tears began to fall from his eyes.
Speaking of which, I couldn't help but interjected and asked Wang Jialiang's father: "Are these two dogs repenting a little too soon, is this the epiphany in the legend?"
You Xiaoqing pushed me next to him and said, "Xiaoyong, this is a story passed down from above. Only the people in the story know the truth of it. Isn't that the case with many stories? Have you become a good person, don't take the logic of a story seriously!"
Also, I have heard so many stories, not all of them are very logical, not like this, small folk stories, generally speaking, it is enough, there is no need to go too deep. dissect.
So I said sorry to Wang Jialiang's father and asked him to continue. Maybe he was interrupted by me one after another, and his thoughts were not smooth, so he was silent for a while, organized the language for a while, and then continued to talk. The story below.
Zhang Ergou shed a few tears in front of his house, then pushed the door and went in. He took a deep breath before shouting, "Father, mother, I'm back."
But everyone in the yard answered, did the family work in the fields? No, now is the slack season, and there is no life in the fields
Could it be that something happened to your parents? Thinking like this, Ergou quickly pushed open the broken door and looked inside, but as soon as he pushed the door, the whole person was so frightened that he went to the door.
Because both of his parents were hanged/hanged, and when the two died, their eyes were fixed on the door. As soon as the two dogs pushed the door, they happened to see the two parents hanging from the beams. stared at him.
Ergou's legs were frightened, and then he shouted loudly. Neighbors also rushed over after hearing the news. Seeing everything in the house, a group of people began to blame Ergou for being unfilial. Ergou was not too frightened. Others scolded him What, he didn't listen at all.
Everyone first put Ergou's parents down from the beam, and then retreated Ergou to his parents, asking him to apologize to his parents.
At this time, there were more people, and Ergou's fear was lessened. When there was no fear, he remembered the goodness of his parents, and began to cry really sadly, but Ergou crawled on his father. While crying, his father's hand suddenly moved and grabbed Ergou's wrist tightly.
This caused Ergou's frightened whole body to jump up, because his father was holding his hand very tightly, so his father's body was also pulled up diagonally by him, and his body shook a few times irregularly. , as if his father was pulling his arm on a swing.
Ergou yelled in fright, and some neighbors around were frightened too. Many people retreated to the door. Only a few brave ones stayed in the house, and one of them slowly crouched down and started Talking to Ergou's father: "Old Zhang, Ergou knows it's wrong, you can go in peace, the child is not coming back with chickens and money to see you, your whole life is for the child, never I will kill him after death, let's go, let's go..."
The old man talked a lot, and Ergou's father finally let go of his hand and fell to the ground again.
At the same time, the old man also said to Zhang Ergou, "Bury your father and mother thickly. After the season, remember to give Er Lao and little paper money."
The two dogs naturally nodded in agreement.
Next, Ergou really arranged for his parents' funeral. On the day of the funeral, he even cried a lot in front of his parents' coffin. He didn't know if he was scared or really sad.
On the first seven days after Ergou's parents died, something strange happened to the Zhang family again.
That night, Ergou had just returned from burning the first seven pieces of paper outside, and when he walked into the yard, he heard the cries from the room dedicated to the "birth stone". Today, he didn't drink, but his brain was sober. very.
So the moment he heard the cry, he felt a shiver all over his body. There was moonlight that night, so the yard was not very dark, but his father-in-law and mother-in-law had already slept with his wife and children. The lights are all black.
The two dogs crept two steps in the yard, and then listened carefully to the cry.
He was not familiar with the cry this time, and it was the cry of a child. It sounded like it had just been born.
This is definitely not his family's, because his children only laugh and don't cry recently, and their laughter still thinks of an older child.
At this moment, Ergou suddenly had such a thought in his heart: "Is it the son of a child, and it has become the child he just picked up."
And at this time, Ergou suddenly found that the door of the room enshrined with the birth stone suddenly "creaked" and opened on its own...