A group of Tongshugou has a surnamed Zhao, named Jingwa, and his mother-in-law is called Huan'e. Jingwa has three babies, the eldest is called Xiaoli, the second is called Xiaoying, and the third is called Yongkang.
In the early years, when I was in elementary school, I remember that Xiaoli also read at Nanwan Elementary School. She was a few years older than me, and she was either in fifth or sixth grade. At that time, Xiaoli had hair and a ponytail, which was very long. Xiaoli is not tall, with a wide forehead and a narrow jaw. The eyes are thin and long, and the corners of the eyes are slightly curved downwards, like an inverted bracket. The bridge of the nose is high and straight, and the nose is pointed, whether viewed from the front or the side, it is so stiff. Her mouth was large and her lips were slightly thinner.
Such a face, even if the most beautiful clothes are worn on her, people will say that she looks like a man. They also said that God is not kind, and Xiao li's appearance follows Jingwa.
Xiaoli is very good at reading, but unfortunately, after finishing primary school, she did not read again.
In those years, I often heard people in the village say that Huan'e was a demon woman. Xiaoli studied so well, if she continues to read, the future is absolutely bright. It was Huan'e who gave Jingwa the idea to terminate her studies. Jingwa is grumpy, but he is afraid of Huan'e, he can't hold things, and the family's big and small things are decided by Huan'e.
Perhaps, Huan'e feels that sooner or later the girl will have to marry, and it does not matter how much she reads.
Xiaoli is very diligent, and after returning home, she learned to do needlework with her stepmother Huan'e all day. She also did the work in the field with Jingwa, and Huan'e never went to the field.
Xiaoying and Yongkang were born to Huan'e, and she treated her own birth better than Xiaoli. Xiaoying and Yongkang are both double eyelids, almond eyes, and round faces. Huan'e actually passed on her good looks to the sisters and brothers.
The sisters and brothers were not contentious, Jingwa and Huan'e gave them good food and good clothes, but they couldn't even learn the simplest arithmetic.
After I went to junior high school, I rarely saw Xiaoli again.
I don't know if it was that year, I went back from school and dried bud valley in the backyard with my mother. After sitting on the grinding table to rest, she casually talked about the village. I just learned that Xiaoli was married. My in-laws' family is in Kuanpinggou, and I don't know her in-laws very well.
Due to poor learning, Xiaoying only finished primary school.
The male baby wants to inherit the incense and support the door for the family, so Yongkang has become the key cultivation object of Jingwa and Huan'e. Huan'e has a rough side of a man, she hit Xiaoli countless times, but never poked Yongkang a finger. Jingwa hoped that Yongkang could honor his ancestors, but this baby was born stupid, and the teacher could not teach him well.
Xiaoli has been married to Kuanpinggou for more than two years and has not been pregnant (pregnant). The mother-in-law was anxious and privately asked Xiaoli what was going on. Xiao Li was really difficult to open her mouth, and she didn't want to say it. The mother-in-law had to ask her son, and the son said that Xiaoli had a physical problem and could not get pregnant.
Hens lay eggs, how can a woman do without giving birth to a baby? In the countryside, the mother-in-law always treats the daughter-in-law as a hen who lays eggs. What did the hen do not lay eggs and let her do anything, put it in the pot and stew on the high heat and still bite it. Xiao Li was diligent and fast, and her mother-in-law never waited to see her.
After getting divorced, Xiaoli returned to Tongshugou. Huan'e heard that she couldn't have a baby and was anxious. Afraid that Xiao Li had been staying at her mother's house and the villagers had poked her in the spine, he warned her and asked her not to tell her that she could not have children.
At that time, Yongkang was in the third grade. Classmates are talking about it, saying that his grades are so poor, it must be that his family took money to buy the class teacher exam to release water, and he passed the exam. Yongkang also scolded others, saying that so many people in the class who were worse than him were also admitted, and it was difficult for everyone to buy the class teacher. At the juncture, Yongkang reacted quickly. Jingwa triumphantly praised him in front of Huan'e.
Not long after staying at home, the matchmaker found the door and came up. Jingwa and Huan'e were very happy, and without saying a word, they married her to the third eldest of the Wang family. The following year, the first baby girl was born. The people of Kuanpinggou were very surprised, and the old woman carefully interrogated him, and the son said that there was something wrong with his body.
Yongkang is in the fourth grade, and in the first semester of the mock exam, he scored a thirty points in the answer sheet. The teacher called Jingwa to talk, and Jingwa felt particularly humiliated. Back home, one couldn't help but scold Yongkang.
Don't look at Yongkang people are small, but their self-esteem is very strong. When Dad didn't give him face, he sought death. A packet of rat poison went down, afraid that it was not enough, and drank another packet.
That year, I was in my third year of junior high school, and I couldn't go back once a week. Studying is busy, you can go to morning exercises as usual.
The student dormitories run north-south and sit east-facing west. A row of "human" glyph-shaped tile rooms, a total of more than two dozen.
At that time, I lived with a few girls from the sixth and seventh classes in the third-to-last dormitory from south to north.
At dawn, it was pitch black outside the door. I opened the door and prepared to go to the toilet. Looking up, I saw that there was a blood-red ball at the door of the first dormitory in the far north. Honeycomb coal the size, floating in the air, half a meter above the ground. The lights in the dormitory were on, a few girls were still sleeping, and a few others were washing their faces.
Although Dajing Middle School was built on the ancestral graves of the villagers, behind the school, and outside the north and south walls, at that moment, I did not associate the red ball with the ghost.
I looked more closely and saw that the blood-red ball was slowly swimming like a balloon. In less than a minute, it went into the dormitory.
Terrified, I walked north with a few girls, and as I passed the first dormitory, I subconsciously glanced in through the glass window. It turned out that it was dark inside, and the boys didn't seem to have gotten up yet.
After walking more than ten meters to the left of that dormitory, there was the girls' toilet, and after going to the toilet, we went directly to the playground.
That week, at 2:30 on Friday, school was over. I sorted out the books and put them in my desk pocket, then rushed out of the classroom with a cigarette, walked down the stairs quickly, ran to the dormitory, and rode back on my bicycle.
When I got home for dinner, my mother and I collected our clothes in the backyard. She inadvertently mentioned Yongkang and said, dead. But it was a baby, no funeral. On the day of the burial, the aunt in the courtyard went. After returning, he said that Yongkang slept in the coffin, and Huan'e knelt next to him and cried. Yongkang suddenly grabbed her hand, and she began to speak. The mouth was her mouth, but the voice was Yongkang's voice.
When my mother said this, my scalp tingled instantly. But out of curiosity, I didn't interrupt my mother's conversation. She didn't realize I was pale, so she continued. Yongkang said that his father scolded him for not doing well in the test. He was sad and drank the medicine. He just wanted to scare and frighten him, he didn't want to really die, who knew that if he drank too much medicine, he would die. After he finished speaking, it seemed that the soul drifted out of Huan'e's body again, and Huan'e suddenly became herself, and her voice was also her own. Huan'e asked him where he was now, and after she asked, she became Yongkang again. The mouth is his own, and the voice has become Yongkang's again. Yongkang said that he was in the town of Dajing. Then, Huan'e became Huan'e again. Huan'e asked him what he had done in the town and told him to come back. Yongkang said that he, he could not come back. He was going to go, to a great, far away.
I covered my violently beating heart and listened to my mother finish, and then I seemed to feel that a stone was stuffed in my heart, hard and hard, and very uncomfortable. Frightened, I subconsciously glanced at the woods behind the house. At that time, the woods were pitch black, and there seemed to be a sound of creeping and crackling.
When I got back inside, I quickly closed the door. My mother slept next to me, and the sound of her breathing was faintly in her ears. Even so, the rats made a noise that scared me out of my breath.
If you think about it, yongkang died at exactly the time I saw that thing. I didn't believe there were ghosts in the world, but I was really scared that night.
Early the next morning, I rode my bike to school. On both sides of the road leading to the outside of the village, there are houses in pairs. On the other hand, the two sides are sandwiched by hillsides, and the slopes are densely packed with thick trees. The lower slope of the hill is covered with woods, and there are several graves inside, both new and old. The not-so-fertile crop field is on the edge of the grave, and on the edge of the ground is a small river, the river is clear and shallow, and the fog steaming on the surface of the water is very strange.
Yongkang's home is in angu, about a hundred meters away from the road for people to enter and leave the village. As I passed there, I subconsciously turned my head and glanced through the bald branches of the walnut tree at the eaves of Yongkang's house, suddenly feeling a little short of breath. Although the road to the outside of the village was downhill, I was still worried about being watched by ghosts, so I stomped on the pedals a few times.
I heard that Yongkang was buried in the cucumber building ditch on the right hand side, and there were two families at the mouth of the ditch. Even so, it didn't let my tense nerves relax.
Fortunately, when I returned to school, after that time, even if I got up early in the morning, even if I went to the toilet in the middle of the night, I didn't see the "red ball" again.
Everything was normal, and about three years later, I graduated from high school. Since then, I have left the mysterious Dajing Middle School. Go to Xi'an and go to university.
Before that, the year I was in high school, Xiaoli gave birth to another boy. Xiao Ying married into the Guanzhong Plain, although it was a rural area that could be under the jurisdiction of Xi'an, and her family was well off. I heard that when she was engaged, Jingwa and Huan'e asked for a dowry of nearly 200,000 people. The "L" two-story building at the mouth of the Tongshugou was built by him with a bride price, and they barely spent a few dollars.
When I returned to my hometown, no one mentioned the matter of Yongkang. Strangely, when I saw Yongkang's eldest sister Xiaoli, I would always involuntarily think about the strange things I saw in the winter of the first three years. When I think of that strange thing, I think of Yongkang. It turned out that the miracle of Huan'e being possessed by the ghost of Yongkang was commonly known as "General Theory".
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