Southern daughter-in-law of a small boss in Northeast China

Bai Zhi followed Zhao Beiheng to buy two catties of eggs at the canteen, and walked towards the village with them.

There are three main roads in the village, which are called Gai in the northeast. My aunt's family does not live on these three streets, but is far away from the back of the village.

The mountain road was difficult to walk, and it became more slippery when it snowed. The two supported each other up the mountain.

There are more than 100 households in Houbeigou Village, most of which moved in later. There are only a dozen or so households, and the fourth aunt's family is one of them.

What is the full name of the fourth aunt? She is many years old, and her body is still in good health. She lives alone in the back mountain, and her nephew occasionally comes to look after her to buy some rice, flour, grain and oil.

Bai Zhi and Zhao Beiheng climbed up the mountain along the path and saw a small house in the open space in front of it, surrounded by a wooden fence.

The house was dark and gloomy with no lights on.Bai Zhi felt a strange feeling in her heart, and couldn't help shivering.

Zhao Beiheng took Bai Zhi's hand and squeezed it, "Don't be afraid later, Fourth Aunt is very good."

Bai Zhi was not afraid at first, but she felt a little terrified after being repeatedly told.

"Fourth aunt, are you home?" Zhao Beiheng stood outside the gate and yelled.

There was a rustling sound in the room, and then a fifteen-watt dim light bulb was lit up.

It was only after the two of them entered the room that Bai Zhi realized what Zhao Beiheng meant when he said don't be afraid.

There was an indescribable odor in the dim little room. An old lady with gray hair and thin body was sitting on the kang, and when she approached, she was so frightened that Bai Zhi almost cried out!I saw that her eye sockets were sunken without eyeballs, and half of her face was covered with bluish-black birthmarks.

"Who's here?" The old lady's voice was hoarse, and the sound was like sandpaper rubbing, which made Angelica's hairs stand on end.

"Fourth aunt, I am Zhao Beiheng, the grandson of Zhao Hairong from the old Zhao family, do you still remember me?"

The old man thought for a while, then grinned and showed a few sparse teeth, "Why don't I remember you, when I was a child, I went to my house and stole plums and fell from the tree, and lost two front teeth."

Bai Zhi looked at him in surprise, had Brother Heng ever done such a thing?

Mentioning the embarrassment in childhood, Zhao Beiheng scratched his head in embarrassment, "That would be too young and ignorant."

There is a plum tree behind the old lady’s room. When I was young, the children often came to pick plums secretly. At that time, Zhao Beiheng was changing his teeth at the age of six or seven. He climbed up the tree and couldn’t hold on firmly. He was so frightened that he cried so loudly that he didn't dare to open his mouth to eat when he returned home.

The old lady smiled kindly, "It's been almost 20 years, and you have grown into a young man."

Listening to the old man's speech, Bai Zhi was not so scared, probably because she was blind and old, so she looked a little scary.

"Fourth aunt, I want to ask you to see what's wrong with my little Huanhuan. She has been crying for the past few days." Zhao Beiheng put the eggs on the table next to him, and sat down with Bai Zhi.

The old lady raised her head and seemed to be looking at him, "Your child?"

"No, it's my second brother's child."

A strange smile appeared on the old lady's face, and she said in a positive tone, "You are destined to be with that child, he should be your child."

Zhao Beiheng was taken aback for a moment, but he really had the idea of ​​adopting Huanhuan to his side.Because the second brother is still young and it is difficult to find a wife with a child, and I am so old, it is okay to have a child, at worst, I will be a bachelor in the future.It's just that this idea has never been mentioned to anyone. How did the old lady see it?

"I'll ask the Xian family for you."

The fourth aunt had trouble with her legs and feet, so she leaned on the wall and moved down the kang little by little, then bent over and went to the kitchen to wash her hands.Bai Zhi looked at her nervously, for fear that the old man would accidentally fall down.

After washing her hands, the old lady went back to the room and ordered Zhao Beiheng to light a cigarette, muttering something she couldn't understand, and then exhaled a puff of smoke from her mouth, and the blue smoke swirled up.

"Huh!" There seemed to be a gust of cold wind blowing in from outside the door.

Bai Zhi pulled Zhao Beiheng's arm nervously, was it just a coincidence?There can't really be ghosts and gods!I was scared and curious about this old man in my heart.

What happened next almost overturned Angelica's 20 years of materialism!The old man straightened up slowly, the expression on his face changed, and he raised his head to "look" at them with empty eyes.

"How old is your son, what is his birthday?" The old lady's voice has changed!The originally hoarse and rough voice suddenly became thinner, like the cry of an animal!

Zhao Beiheng remembers Huanhuan's birthday "on the sixth day of July, at [-] o'clock in the morning."

"Fourth Aunt" squinted her eyes and pinched her fingers to count.

"Have you suffered a catastrophe a few days ago?"

Bai Zhi was stunned, almost being thrown to death by her own mother, wouldn't it be a catastrophe!

"My nephew...Huanhuan was almost thrown to death by his mother two days ago, but fortunately he was caught and was not injured." Zhao Beiheng was also very nervous, his palms were sweating as he clenched his hands into fists.In the past, I always heard people in the village say that my fourth aunt can go out on a horse (please God) but I just heard it, and this is the first time I have seen her like this in person!

The old lady hooked the corners of her mouth, "It's not a big deal, your family is offering sacrifices to the ancestors, and the child's grandpa was also there that day, and he reached out to help pick up the child. The child is too young to touch the yin and feels uncomfortable. I will write to you." Go back and burn it to ashes and drink it with milk."

As he said that, he jumped off the kang, walked to the chest of drawers, took a piece of yellow paper from the drawer, drew a symbol like a well with cinnabar, folded it and handed it to Zhao Beiheng.

Zhao Beiheng took the talisman paper tremblingly, looking at the old lady's nimble legs and feet, her heart was trembling, she was able to dance now even though she was struggling to walk just now!Who is not afraid!

The fourth aunt gave him the talisman and returned to the kang. After a while, the old lady shuddered all over and took a big breath, and her voice returned to her original appearance, "Go back, and do as he said."

"Hey...then we're leaving first, and I'll see you when I'm free!" Zhao Beiheng dragged Bai Zhi's feet to oil and ran out.

The old lady sat on the kang and "watched" the two people leave through the blurred window.

"They're gone." A clear male voice sounded out of thin air.

The old man grinned and showed his uneven teeth, "Grandpa Hu, I just saw you."

"That's because you are dying." The soul of a dying person who is about to leave the body can perceive the yin and yang worlds.

"Hey~ If I die, no one will enshrine you."

The male voice hesitated, hmm... let out a sound.

"My nephew doesn't believe in ghosts and gods. I told him once to let him pick up immortals, but he didn't agree." The old lady was a little helpless.

"It's okay, let him send my spirit seat down the mountain, and put it in any charity village, and I will find someone who is destined."

The old lady was silent for a while, "Grandpa Hu, it seems that we don't have a Yizhuang now, and cremation has been popular in recent years."

"..."

***

Bai Zhi asked as she walked, "Brother Heng...what happened just now?"

"I don't know, hurry home and I'm almost scared to pee!"

It was pitch black outside, and with the help of a little light from the flashlight of the mobile phone, the two trotted all the way.When going downhill, Bai Zhi's foot slipped, and she fell to the ground, "Alas."

Zhao Beiheng was taken aback, and hurriedly pulled him to stand up, "Is there something wrong?"

"My foot seems to be sprained..." Bai Zhi pinched her ankle and took a deep breath.

Zhao Beiheng squatted in front of him, "Come up quickly and I'll carry you back!"

Bai Zhi didn't care about being shy, she wrapped her hands around his neck and lay down on his back. Zhao Beiheng dragged his thighs with both hands to stand up, and ran down the mountain whizzingly.

There is a whistling north wind in my ears, and the dead branches and leaves on both sides of the road are blowing and ghostly.

Bai Zhi closed her eyes and lay on Zhao Beiheng's strong back, but she was not afraid in her heart, as if as long as he was in this world, ghosts and gods were not worth mentioning.

When he entered the village and saw the lights, Zhao Beiheng stopped panicking and slowed down panting heavily.

"Are you tired? Put me down." Bai Zhi reached out and touched his head.

Zhao Beiheng held his buttocks up and down twice, "Why are you tired if you don't have any flesh all over your body?"

"Hmm..." Bai Zhi hugged his neck tightly, for fear that he would throw herself off.

"Brother Heng, did that old lady get caught just now?" Although Bai Zhi was scared, she was even more curious.

"I didn't know! It's the first time I saw her like this. I heard that the fourth aunt's house enshrined a fox fairy. Maybe it was the fox fairy's upper body just now."

Bai Zhi has heard anecdotes like this before, but most of them are fake, and she has seen a deciphered issue of Approaching Science.

The person on TV also said that he could invite God to his body, and even performed for everyone.Later, he was sent to the hospital for examination and the result was schizophrenia.

But the fourth aunt really scared Bai Zhi just now, it really can't be a show or schizophrenia!After the old man got out of the horse, his whole body has changed, no matter in terms of demeanor, movement or voice, the changes are too great, which cannot be explained by science at all!

When the two reached the door of the house, Bai Zhi struggled to get down.Knowing that he was thin-skinned, Zhao Beiheng had no choice but to put him down and help him into the house.

Zhao Beiheng gave his mother the talisman written by his fourth aunt, and by the way told the reason why Huanhuan was crying. Mother Zhao sighed, burned the talisman paper to ashes, squeezed it into milk powder, and gave it to Zhao Huanhuan to drink at night.

As a result, the child started to fart after lying on the kang for a while, and then pooped a lump of black shit and never cried again.

Bai Zhi was shocked!What does this make him say?It can only be said that it is better to believe what is there than to believe what is not.

At night, Bai Zhi lay on the kang and tossed and turned, unable to sleep. The appearance of the fourth aunt was always imprinted in her mind, and she was afraid when she closed her eyes.

"Brother Heng..."

"Huh?" Zhao Beiheng was about to fall asleep, his voice was a little nasal.

"I can't sleep anymore." Bai Zhi sat up around the quilt, always feeling chilly on her back.

Zhao Beiheng yawned, "What's wrong, are you scared?"

Although Bai Zhi didn't want to admit it, she still nodded, "Hmm..."

"Come on, sleep with my brother." Zhao Beiheng lifted the quilt, scooped up the person and the quilt together with his big hands.

"Brother Heng~" Someone started to waver again.

"Don't make strange noises, go to sleep!"