The last Onmyoji

Chapter 3 Who is messing with my house

The countryside attaches great importance to the first seven, but the so-called importance is nothing more than burning paper money to worship the dead.

When I came back from the ancestral grave, my father said to me: "Xiaofan, go take your second uncle to the third grandpa's house. Enter the family tree."

The third grandfather is the patriarch of our village, and he is also the most respected person.

I nodded and took my second uncle to the ancestral hall. The third grandpa had no children under his knees and usually lived in the ancestral hall.

"Second Uncle, where did you live before? Who am I and which city?" On the way, I made excuses and asked him.

"I don't have a fixed place to live, I just wander around." He smiled at me.

"Then do I have a second aunt?" I asked with a smile.

"No." He replied.

"What about the second grandma, is she okay?" I asked.

The second uncle's footsteps paused briefly.After a while, he said, "She's been dead for many, many years."

I made an embarrassment and am embarrassed to speak again.I was speechless all the way, and when I arrived at the ancestral hall, I asked the third grandpa to explain my purpose.The affairs of my family are almost well-known, the third grandfather smiled and said to the second uncle: "That's right, whether it is a descendant or a concubine, they are all members of our Lin family."

I saw Second Uncle's eyes sparkle when he heard Third Grandpa's words, which was fleeting.That light scares me.

Perhaps it was the legendary killing intent.

The second uncle is a person with a story, and it was only today that I learned his name.

Lin Baqian.

It's a very strange name.

I went back and prepared lessons. Although this job is a helpless choice for me to escape temporarily, I still hope to do it well.The children here should have the same right to study. I cannot let them be unable to walk out of the mountains for the rest of their lives because of poverty.And what I can do is to teach them with all my heart.

This night, there is nothing to say. Our family has four earthen houses, one for my father and mother, one for my grandparents, and one for me alone. The remaining one, which used to store sundries, is now lived by my second uncle.

I looked at my watch. It was past ten o'clock. This is a mountain village, and it wasn't so closed that there was no electricity.But at least the people here go to bed early to save electricity bills.In fact, even the TV is only available in the village chief’s house in this mountain village. Apart from sleeping at night, there are no other activities.

I blew out the kerosene lamp and soon fell asleep.

The next morning, I was woken up by the cold. It was very hot, but the climate in the mountains is very cool at night.Estimating the time, it was very bright outside, I stretched out my hand, wanting to pull the thin towel and quilt, and have another sleep.

However, when I stretched out my hand, I touched a hand, a cold hand.

The drowsiness dissipated in that instant.

I have a mobile phone. It was a Nokia mobile phone eliminated by my roommate when I was in college. In order to facilitate contact with me, I gave it to me. It carries too many memories of me. I sent countless messages with my girlfriend, which is the bridge for our communication, so even though there is no signal here after returning to the mountain village, I still charge it all the time.When you think of someone, just look at the text messages left on it.

The information can be deleted when it is full, but what about the memories?

At this moment, I fumbled for my phone in a hurry.I turned on the light of the phone, and almost trembling, passed the light in the direction where I touched my hand just now.

Then I saw a face.

A face that was slightly swollen and iron-blue.

He is my grandfather, and he wore a shroud embroidered with turquoise flowers when he was buried.

I rolled out of bed, my brain was temporarily short-circuited by fright, and I didn't know what I was going to do next.There is only one thought in my mind, and that is to escape.

I opened the door of the room, walked out of the room, and saw the scenery in the yard. At that moment, I burst into tears, yes, I am not ashamed, I was scared to cry by my grandfather.

Old people's sleep is shallow, my crying disturbed my grandma, she came out of the room wearing a vest, holding a broken fan, and asked me: "Xiaofan, what's wrong with you?"

When she saw me crying, she came over and patted my shoulder and said, "Why are you still crying at such a big age? Have you had a nightmare?"

Nightmare?

I was awakened by a sentence from grandma.

Maybe it's not awakening, but I'm not sure if everything I saw just now is real or not. Maybe everything just now is just a dream?
I stopped crying, because I had just cried, which made it difficult for me to speak now, so I didn't immediately explain the reason for my behavior to grandma.

What's more, it is the feeling that everyone will have. When you are afraid, as long as there is someone around you, you can calm down.

I clenched my fists and opened the door of the room.No matter how extravagant I wish, everything just now was just a dream, because I was too nervous, so I had a dream.

I turned on the light and saw the figure on my bed, he was still there, I slapped myself, he was still there.

At this time, my father and my second uncle also heard the movement and came out. The three of them stood at the door of my room, as bewildered as I was.

And grandma's first reaction was to cry.The difference with me is that he didn't cry out of fright, but saw his grandfather's sadness, so he threw himself on his grandfather's body at once.

"Old man, are you reluctant to go home?" Grandma cried.

——Early in the morning, the three members of our family sat upright in the main room.

"I dreamed last night that the old man said that he didn't want to part with us. He missed his grandson and wanted to come back to have a look. It turned out to be true." Grandma was still thinking about it.

"Mom! Dad is gone, and he has to go to the ground to rest in peace." The father smoked the dry pipe left by his grandfather.

And I just want to understand what's going on.Why did my grandfather's body come to my bed last night?

"Did you hear anything last night?" I asked.

"No, it's calm," said the father.

"Then what do you think of the return of Grandpa's body?" I asked him.

"Tsk tsk." Father opened his mouth, but did not speak.

"Xiaofan, don't be afraid, it's your grandpa who misses you, so come back to see you, my own grandpa, will he still harm you?" Grandma said.

I didn't argue with grandma.This is her feeling and longing for grandpa, I can't destroy this beauty.

However, I am a college student and an educated person. I am not a staunch atheist, but if my grandfather entrusted me with a dream, I can understand it, but when the corpse was unconscious, On my bed, I don't believe it.

"Xiaofan, you know that the first seven will return to the night of the soul. Everyone says that the deceased will go home to visit their relatives during the first seven. Your grandfather." Father said with a frown.

He didn't finish his sentence, but I understood what he meant.

Grandpa is not only a returning soul, but his body is back.

"Anyway, this matter can't be spread. It's time for Xiaofan to marry a wife. If such a wicked thing is spread, who would dare to marry into our family?" the father said while smoking a cigarette.

Grandma didn't object, and the second uncle didn't say a word from the beginning to the end.

I have been paying attention to him, his expression has not changed since the moment he saw Grandpa, it has always been calm.

This is not the expression of a normal person. ——I said silently in my heart.

I didn't object to my father's proposal, it wasn't for the purpose of marrying a wife, but I just didn't want the news to spread, and my family became the focus of discussion in the village again.

So the plan we discussed was that tonight, my second uncle, my father and I will secretly bury Grandpa again.

The plan is good, but we have overlooked one important point, the most important one.

Just when I settled down at home and carefully collected my grandfather's body and prepared to go to school, I opened the door and found that there were many people standing outside the door of my house.

The leader is the third grandfather, and the other is the village chief Lin Sanshui.

"Xiaofan, where are your father and grandma?" Lin Sanshui asked me.

"At home." I don't know why, there are so many people around my door.

"Let me tell you something, don't let your family know, your grandfather's grave has been dug up." Lin Sanshui said to me.

At that moment, I was a little dizzy. I wanted to hide the truth, but I forgot that since grandpa could get from the ancestral grave to my bed, he had to break the grave first.

The people in the mountains are very hardworking. Some villagers got up early and wanted to weed the fields while it was cool. When they passed by the cemetery, they found the situation of my grandfather’s cemetery and ran back in fright.

"Xiaofan, the students can skip class for now, and two days of delay will be two days of delay. I really can't figure out who would pay a thousand dollars to make a child without an ass hole. By the way, your grandpa's old house (to the coffin) What's valuable in the title)?" Lin Sanshui asked me again.

I replied dryly, "No."

It's true that it's extremely difficult for a mountain person to provide for a college student.The most valuable thing in my grandfather's body may be his copper pipe, which was not buried with him, but left to my father.

"It's weird to say it. I heard that there are a lot of tomb robbers outside the mountain, and some of them came into our mountain to dig graves, but in our poor place, are there still people coming? And Xiaofan, your grandfather's body is gone." Lin Sanshui Road.

The villagers behind have already started discussing.This makes me very uncomfortable. Grandpa is a dead person. I don't want him to be a talking point again.

I invited the village chief Lin Sanshui and the third grandpa to enter the yard. The others did not invite them. There are so many simple people in the mountains.

I'm not against them.Some things, the fewer people know, the better.

I took the village chief Lin Sanshui and the third grandfather to the main room of my house, and showed them the remains of my grandfather on the bed.My father also heard our conversation in the yard just now, knowing that everything can't be hidden, he has been smoking a cigarette in depression.

"What's the situation?" Lin Sanshui's face was a little unnatural, purely frightened.

"When I woke up, Grandpa was lying next to me," I said.

Lin Sanshui and I were at the end of the funeral procession.He handed me a cigarette with a filter tip, and I saw that it was Dazhonghua.

He smiled at me and said, "The last time I went to report to the head of the village, he gave it to me, and I was not willing to smoke it."

Only then did I realize that what he smoked was the [-] cents a pack eggplant, without filters, and the tobacco leaves were a bit sweet. When grandpa was alive, he often used this shredded tobacco to put in his pouches.

I lit a cigarette and looked at Grandpa's body, still feeling unbelievable.

"Xiaofan, what do you think about this?" Village head Lin Sanshui asked me.

"I don't know, our teacher didn't teach this." I said.

"You are a cultural person, so let me ask you, do you believe in ghosts and gods?" He asked me mysteriously.

"I don't believe it." I shook my head.

"Hey, I don't believe it either, what do I think, this matter, someone is going to punish your family." He said.

"How do you say that?" As soon as I heard it, I became interested.

"If it's what the third uncle said, when your grandfather came back to see you, the dead man's seven-returned soul must go back before dawn, otherwise he won't be able to go back. This is also a superstition, but why didn't he come back? What? This is not right, bah, what am I talking about, I am a probationary member." He laughed.

"Uncle, it's just the two of us, don't shy away from anything, just say what you think of."

(End of this chapter)