Liu Shitou was still a little unhappy: "I told you why I invited you.
Mrs.
Wang's death had nothing to do with me."
Li Huaishan sighed and said to him: "The hospital's autopsy report has come out, and no one will say that the old lady's death has something to do with you.
You invited a mourner to help with the mourning, and everyone in the village regarded you as a good deed." .
If you are not willing to give you a chance to be a good person, what are you thinking about?"
Even though Li Huaishan said so, Liu Shitou still seemed a little unsure.
He turned his head and cast a questioning look at the fat man.
The fat man nodded at him: "It's okay, just pretend they were invited by you."
After the fat man said this, Liu Shitou calmed down and nodded to me and Li Huaishan respectively.
I originally planned to go directly to the old lady's house, but Li Huaishan said that he still needed to prepare some things, and jumped into the house like a smoke.
When I saw Li Huaishan take out the key and open the door, I remembered that I didn't know where the key was when I closed the door.
If Li Huaishan didn't have the key on him, we wouldn't be able to enter the house.
I don’t know what’s going on with me these days, I’m always so careless.
Li Huaishan didn't know what he was doing in the house.
He didn't come out for a long time.
Seeing that there was still some time before noon, I wasn't in a hurry to leave, so I asked the fat man about Lao Hu.
The fat man also heard from people in the village that Lao Hu seemed to be a very rich man in the past, and his wife was also famous for her beauty from all over the country.
When the two got married, many people said that they were lucky, and the man was talented and the woman was beautiful.
With their looks, they are a match made in heaven.
As for why Lao Hu and his wife became like this later, Fatty couldn't tell.
He only heard from the villagers that in 1969, Lao Hu seemed to have gone bankrupt, and something happened to their family later.
Well, when the millennium old Hu came back with his woman, it would be like this.
Since Lao Hu had been wandering around outside with women before the millennium, the people in the village actually didn't know what happened to him outside, and many things were just based on rumors.
Speaking of Lao Hu's story, Fatty's tone was also a bit sad.
What he said is that fate is like this.
When you are good, you wish you could go to heaven.
When you are down, you wish you could live a life worse than death.
The key is that you don't know yourself at all.
I don't know when I will be at the top of my life, and I don't know when I will fall from heaven to hell.
I felt that when the fat man said these words, he was not talking about Lao Hu, but about himself.
It seems that this family also has a story.
At almost eleven o'clock, Li Huaishan walked out of the house carrying a small black leather bag.
The leather bag looked very flat, and it probably didn't contain much inside, but when Li Huaishan was walking, it barely swayed, so it was clear that the contents inside were very important.
I raised my chin towards Li Huaishan: "What did you bring?"
Li Huaishan's answer was brief: "It's a good thing given by Granny Dui."
When he said this, I understood that the thing in the bag should be the flying claw I brought back from Shiling Street.
When Granny Dui handed the flying claw to me, she said that this thing originally belonged to Li Huaishan.
Liu Shitou said that several fellow villagers came to see him for dinner at noon and asked when we would leave.
I waved to him and asked him to lead the way.
In order to make the villagers think that Li Huaishan and I were indeed the guardians from outside, Liu Shitou first took us out of the village through a small road on the east side of the village, and then took us through the remaining village entrance facing the main road.
Mrs.
Wang's home is not too far from the village entrance.
After entering the village, turn left and walk straight for three to four hundred meters.
You will see two iron gates facing the village road.
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Liu Shitou said that the door to the east was his home, and seven or eight villagers gathered near the iron gate to the west.
These villagers were talking loudly, and it sounded like they were quarreling.
I listened briefly and judged from the content of their words that these people should be relatives of Mrs.
Wang.
At this time, they were debating who should keep watch at the funeral.
Quarreling.
The fat man came closer to me, raised his chin towards the person standing at the door, and whispered to me: "These boys all grew up under the watch of Mrs.
Wang.
When the old lady's body was just brought back, They hurried back to their homes and hid, but the villagers probably couldn’t stand it and forced them back.”
I couldn't help but frown: "Old Mrs.
Wang grew up watching her."
The fat man smiled: "You can't blame these boys for being unfilial.
That old lady Wang is a weirdo.
I heard from the villagers that the juniors in their family are afraid of her.
Even when they walk on the village road, they have to avoid her.
Doorstep."
Liu Shitou muttered: "I don't think Mrs.
Wang is weird.
She is a very nice old lady."
While we were talking, we had already arrived at the door of Mrs.
Wang’s house.
The few people who were arguing just now fell silent when they saw someone approaching.
The door was open.
When I stood at the door, I saw a lot of people gathered in the yard.
Most of them were elderly people, and only a small number were middle-aged people in their forties or fifties.
When we were almost at the door of the house, someone came up and stopped us.
The man spoke with a strong local accent and asked us what we were doing.
Liu Shitou said on the spot what Li Huaishan had taught him.
I heard that Li Huaishan and I were the guardians specially invited by Liu Shitou.
The man just looked at us curiously, opened the door and let us in without saying another word.
But only Li Huaishan and I could go in, while Liu Shitou and Fatty were blocked out.
After entering the house, there was a bed in the center of the living room.
The bed was covered with a white cloth.
Under the white cloth, an outline of a thin body emerged.
That should be the body of Mrs.
Wang.
Apart from us, there were two old people in the room.
One was thin and holding a cigarette in his hand, smoking silently at the body of Mrs.
Wang.
The other was slightly fatter and was looking at the old man smoking.
Trance.
These two old people may have some hearing problems.
When Li Huaishan and I entered the house, the wooden door made a lot of noise as it opened and closed, but they still maintained their posture and seemed not to notice anyone coming in.
It wasn't until I walked into the corpse that the fat old man saw me.
He turned around and asked: "What do you do?"
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As soon as I heard his accent, I knew that he, like Liu Shitou and Hei Fatty, was not a local.
Probably because he had lived here for too long.
His articulation was very similar to that of the locals, but his pronunciation was easier.
Understand.
Without me having to say anything, Li Huaishan responded from the side: "We are the pallbearers invited by Liu Shitou to watch over the old lady's grave."
At this time, the old man who had been smoking silently turned around and said in a breathy Mandarin: "I've heard of people making a living by crying for people, but this is the first time I've heard of people who keep vigil for people. of."
His accent had a hint of Beijing movies, but also mixed with some pronunciation of Yunnan dialect.
I couldn't tell where he was from for a while.
But so far, I can be sure of one thing, that is, there are a lot of immigrants in the village.
Lao Hu, Huan Fatty, Liu Shitou, and the group of idiots in the warehouse.
After arriving in the village, I have basically come into contact with these people, all of whom are from other places.
While the old man was talking, he looked me up and down.
Afterwards, he shook off the ashes from the smoke pot, stood up and asked me, "Are you a gentleman?"
The "sir" in his mouth should have the meaning of "magic stick" or "magic man".
I smiled at him and didn't say yes or no.
He stared at me for a while, then smiled and said to the old man next to him: "This boy Shitou, despite the fact that he usually doesn't do good fortune-telling, he really hired the right person this time."
The old man standing next to him did not have very good ears.
He pointed to his ears and shook his head, indicating that he did not hear clearly.
The old man carrying the dry cigarette seemed a little helpless, but he didn't talk to him anymore.
He turned to me and said, "Now that Mr. is here, we won't show up here.
Hey, I thought there is no real Mr. anymore these days."
Well, looking at your momentum, it really doesn’t look like it’s fake.”
It seems that he is usually talkative.
When he speaks a long sentence, his voice is loud and his breathing is very steady.
After saying these words, he hooked his hand towards his companion and prepared to leave.
I asked: "What do you call me?"
The old man pointed to himself and then to his companion: "My surname is Zheng, and his surname is Li.
When we were soldiers, everyone in the class called him Li Dabaihuo."
As he spoke, he led his companions to the door.
Before opening the door, he turned to me and said: "This old Mrs.
Wang was a person who did not like to calm down when she was alive.
Now that she is dead, I am afraid that she will not be willing to calm down.
Well, you are a gentleman, you can't do this kind of thing If there is a way, I won’t yell.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he left the house without looking back, and then he was heard chasing people away from the yard.
It wasn't until the yard became quiet that Li Huaishan smacked his lips and said, "That old man just now didn't feel right."
I looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Huaishan thought for a while and then said to me: "He left in such a hurry, do you think he had a guilty conscience?"
I smiled: "He no longer wants to stay here.
He keeps saying that I am sir, but in fact he just wants to find an excuse to leave quickly."
Li Huaishan frowned: "You said that people outside are afraid to come in, and people inside are eager to get out.
Could it be that there is really something wrong with Mrs.
Wang's body."
I can't make a direct conclusion about this either.
After a short while, Li Huaishan said again: "Actually, I just don't understand.
First it was the fat man, and now it's these two old men.
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Why does everyone feel that you are not an ordinary person when they see you?
I am also a decent person.
People, why do they do that, right?"
I frowned and looked at him: "What is it?
What do you want to say?"
Li Huaishan clicked his tongue and said, "You know what I mean."
I do know what he means.
Isn't it just that he is unbalanced and can't figure out why others can value me but not him.
After pondering for a moment, I licked my lips and said to Li Huaishan: "This kind of thing mainly depends on temperament
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