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Chapter 9: The Thatched House


As soon as I saw that my grandfather obviously knew the man, I asked who the man was.And my grandfather's first reaction, and nothing else, was to pull my face, glance under my left cheekbone, smack his mouth, and show a "I know" expression.The sun was already out, and my grandfather's face was visibly gray in the bright light.My grandfather glanced at the spot on my face, and I suddenly remembered what happened when I was a child.At that time, I often saw some children wearing red and green at the entrance of the village and the Yin River, and those children always waved to me, because the children in the village thought that I was unlucky and did not play with me, so as soon as they were willing to take care of me, I rushed up happily, but when I got closer, I found that the clothes worn by those children were all papier-mâché, and their faces were flushed, exactly like the paper people in our relatives' wreath shop.Sometimes, I will occasionally see the elders I know rubbing slowly on the street, so I go up to say hello, calling a sixth master, a third uncle or something, but when I shout like this, those elders don't pay attention to me, but the people on the street gasp and scold me for saying that I am blind and shouting, and the sixth master has been dead for seven days!

I'm still wondering, those elders are obviously walking on the street, why would they die?

After my grandfather found out, he led me to show Hua Niang, Hua Niang sighed, and asked my grandfather to take me to the barber shop to order the cinnabar mole, although the mole was very painful, but I really never saw anything strange after that.It's been so long since I couldn't remember it, but looking at the reflection on the glass window, I found that the long-lost cinnabar mole really appeared on my pale face.I thought to myself, why is this thing growing again?

My grandfather's script was meant to be taken towards the threshold, and he had walked this step all his life, and he would never have made a mistake, but now he seemed to have forgotten that there was a threshold underneath, and he stumbled over it.Although I was not as strong as my grandfather, I was still quite quick to react, and immediately grabbed a step to hold my grandfather, and asked him if he was okay.Like a fish washed ashore, he opened his mouth weakly and closed it again, then barely stood up against the door frame, and said a word that was not asked, and the moths were all fucking together.I couldn't explain what I heard, so I asked him what was going on.My grandfather waved his hand, didn't answer me, sat down at the kang table, and smoked a cigarette.My grandfather smoked for a while, suddenly turned around and went on the kang, took out a red cloth bag from the kang hole, opened it and showed me, there was a lot of paper and keys and other messy things, and then he said that our household registration book and agricultural cooperative passbook and other important things are in this place, don't forget.I was stunned, usually my grandfather is in charge of the big and small affairs in the family, why does this mean now, as if you want to hand over the key?

In our local dialect, the old man is not at home, and he leaves everything to the juniors, which is called "turnkey".But this kind of thing is handing over the key, either the juniors get married and stand on their own, or the juniors want to die, and I haven't heard of it for no reason!

My grandfather glared at me and told me not to ask a few questions, just take care of myself.As soon as I thought about it, could it be that my cinnabar mole is necessarily related to the person who took the three-eyed scar cigarette bag and pot?

Originally, Sister Begonia's matter made people's hearts mess up, coupled with my grandfather's abnormal behavior, my heart was even more unsteady, which felt so fucking ominous.I suddenly remembered Li Guoqing.When Tan Dong had an accident, Tan Dong's mother said to me: "He was ...... when he was eight years old" but was stopped by Li Guoqing and them, as if he was hiding something, think about it carefully, by the way, the year I gave the cinnabar mole down, wasn't it also eight years old?

And......

Sister Begonia, I didn't have it when I was eight years old!

It's all connected, could it be that when I was eight years old, something big happened?

Thinking of this, I wanted to ask Li Guoqing clearly, but as soon as I turned around, my grandfather suddenly shouted: "Where are you going, kid?"

”I was excited and said I just wanted to go out for a walk, and my grandfather looked at me and said, "Are you deaf?"

Didn't you hear the flower girl tell you to wait at home?

Be honest with me, what's the matter, I'll talk about it when you come back in three days. ”I had no choice but to stay in the house.I've grown up in this house, and I've never felt so depressed in this house.Soon, the house was filled with smoke from my grandfather's stuffy smoke, which was so spicy that I choked on me for a day.Finally, I got up and wiped the black, and the rural people went to bed early, and I was ready to go back to sleep after going to the toilet.Because there were dead people in the village, everyone was in danger, and the lights in the village were dark, and no movement could be heard, and the silent people were panicked.In the past few days, I have experienced so many strange things, and my heart is also up and down, feeling the darkness into the toilet, my heart is beating uncontrollably, I can't help but scold myself for being unproductive, and I am afraid to go to my own thatched house, and I dare to let the dog eat it.I took out my brother, and just after I finished solving it, I suddenly heard a "swish" sound, like something coming down from the wall of the thatched house.My heart was about to pop out of my throat, my brain was white, and my throat was very tight in an instant, but before I could open my mouth and call my grandfather, a soft but cold hand covered my mouth, and that low and beautiful voice sounded faintly in my ears: "Maochang, it's me." ”There was a buzz in my ears, and I smelled that familiar aroma, it was Sister Begonia!

No, I remembered Hua Niang's words, and I immediately sobered up, I should say, it was the woman who pretended to be Sister Begonia.She's really here again!

This scared me, and I almost didn't sit in the pit, and reflexively reached out to support the wall, but the wall was not supported, but the hand was pulled by one hand.That hand, cold, cold.But I'm a handler anyway, and as soon as I gritted my teeth, I pulled my hand back, and said tremblingly, who are you?

By this time my eyes had adjusted to the light, and I could barely see her delicate curves.I have to say that even in this darkness, she is so good-looking.But why did she ...... me?

I was a little afraid to think about it, but more than that, I didn't want to think about it, and I was afraid that I couldn't accept the result of it.As soon as she heard my words, she was slightly stunned, her voice was obviously a little hurt, and she said cautiously Maochang, what's wrong with you?

Her attitude doesn't seem to hurt me, and it makes people's hearts soften instantly.But her origin is here, I can't be confused, for a moment, I don't know where the courage came from, I just said eldest sister, our well water does not violate the river water, I don't know when I offended you, our Li family is my only seedling, I died and no one burned paper for our ancestors, you just let me go.I said this by myself, but word by word, it was like a knife cutting through my own heart, and it hurt to cut, and I don't know what the fuck happened to me.She didn't seem to expect me to say such a thing, the slender figure flickered slightly, and then, as if she had been greatly wronged, she said, Maochang, didn't you say that you want to protect me for the rest of your life?

There was a little crying in her voice.My heart twitched, yes, I said this, but I said this to my sister Haitang, you......

Who are you?

But looking at her helpless figure, I couldn't say this.I didn't think about it, at this time, there was a commotion outside the thatched house, and there was a noise, like the corn stalks against the wall were trampled on, my first thought was that my grandfather was here, but I listened carefully, in the silence, my grandfather's cough also sounded in the hall!

Damn, I mentioned in my heart, what is the special thing?

At first, I was a little lucky, wondering if it was a wild cat or something, but when I heard it again, my heart suddenly sank into an ice cave.I have heard this footstep, and it is very familiar, the footsteps are heavy, dragging one after the other, like ......

The sound of Tan Dong walking!