madman and kidnapper

Chapter 22
On the day of Qingming, the kidnapper and the woman got up early, and went out with a shovel, wreaths and paper money before the sun was shining. At this time, there was no one on the street outside, but the lights were on in every house. They were all having breakfast, and they just waited for the day to dawn again before going to the mountains to visit their ancestors' tombs.

The woman's complexion is not very good-looking. One is that she hasn't woken up. The other is that the spring morning is too wet and cold, not to mention the low temperature, and there is still moisture seeping into her clothes. After walking for a while, her teeth are so cold. Fight straight.

"It's still dark, and the mountain will only get darker. What are you doing so early? Your parents are lying on the mountain, and they can't run away."

The woman just carried the bundle of paper money and reluctantly followed the kidnapper, muttering and full of resentment along the way.

"Go early, come back early," the kidnapper struggled to carry the hoe, paving the way ahead, "If you go late, there will be more people. I haven't seen them for many years. When the time comes Those people will definitely treat me like a monkey, but I don't have that habit."

The woman understood that it was because of this, she frowned slightly, obviously dissatisfied with the kidnapper's words:
"You said you are too. Anyway, they are my parents. After so many years, I don't want to visit them. Is there any son like you? You are so unfilial, no wonder they don't bless you in the bottom, you deserve it You live your life like this."

After hearing this, the kidnapper paused for a moment, then turned to look at the woman.

The woman didn't think there was anything wrong with what she said, she looked up at the kidnapper and said, "Why, did I say anything wrong?"

"No."

The kidnapper shook his head and continued to walk up, panting heavily while walking, and spoke intermittently:

"I, I'm a person who has studied, and I don't believe in ghosts and ghosts. Huh... Those who are filial and not filial can't see what happens after death. When people are alive, they can serve them well in front of them." That's it. After people die, no matter how well the graves are repaired and how loudly they cry, what's the use? Those who are gone, can they still jump out of the ground..."

The kidnapper read this a lot, and didn't hear the woman behind him say anything. He turned his head and looked strangely, and found that the woman was still following behind, just looking at him with a smile in her eyes.

Wait, with a smile in your eyes?
Kidnap blinked vigorously, thinking that maybe it was because it was too dark that he had misread it.

The woman finally couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing with a "puchi": "Then what are you going to do today? You are so open-minded, if you have the ability, don't go this year."

Kidnap froze for a moment, then grinned embarrassingly:

"Well, that's not going to work. This year I'm not, isn't there someone in the family? I, I have to lead you to show them, so that they can rest assured, don't keep hanging on me, and go to the underground to reincarnate earlier. "

The woman continued to sneer, shook her head and didn't entertain him anymore, she just raised her chin to let the kidnapper go away quickly.

Seeing the kidnapper walking hard in the dark morning, the woman sighed quietly.

The kidnapper just said something that he didn't even recognize. He must have other words in his heart that he didn't want to say. A small tomb is the last connection between life and death. The living can take a look, and the old person can be revived briefly in the heart of the living. With the cancellation of the account, it disappears.

Kidnapper didn't come here on a sudden whim to show off this year. He really wanted to come, and obviously he didn't do it for others to see. Maybe he also wanted to come to see them every year, but for some reason, he didn't come. As for What was the reason? The kidnapper didn't want to tell, and the woman didn't want to ask. She was never very interested in other people's affairs.

The two walked for a while, and finally arrived at the cemetery in the village. Stone tablets were erected in front of the small graves. On the stone tablets, a pair of couples who lived together and died in the same cave were clearly engraved side by side. On it are the names of the children. Parents bring their children to this world, and the children send their parents to another world.

There are also those graves where only one person is buried, and the stone tablet has not been erected, so they can only wait for the other half to arrive under the tree alone.

Women have never been to the cemetery. In her hometown, women are not allowed to go to the grave. It is said that it is cloudy and unlucky. However, the men in the family worry about everything about the tomb, so this is the first time for a woman to visit. this kind of place.

The strange thing is that the woman stood here, looking at the still desolate graves, she didn't have any gloomy and scary feeling in her heart. On the contrary, she felt that her heart was extremely peaceful at this time. Lively, and then come to such a quiet place, there is only a feeling of "no matter how hard you are in life, you must be quiet after death".

As long as the woman stood there, the kidnapper ran around in the cemetery until the woman stopped him:
"What are you doing? Saying hello from grave to grave? Don't be so busy, go find your ancestors quickly, why are you wandering around?"

The abductee walked up to the woman sweating profusely, and what he said made the woman want to vomit blood:

"I forgot where they were buried, and I haven't looked for their names for a long time. Don't they have been wiped out by wind and rain for so many years?"

"You," the woman couldn't hold back her anger, and kicked the kidnapper's ass, "What do you want me to say about you? Oh! It's hard to come and see them, and you can't even find them there, right? What are you doing sweeping, you can go back!"

The kidnapper was unprepared, and was kicked by the woman for several steps. He finally stopped, and when he heard the woman was about to leave, he hurriedly shouted: "Don't, don't! It’s because I didn’t find it, I’ll look for it again, you find a place to sit first, don’t worry.”

As he said that, the kidnapper shook his head in a daze, looking around at the stele.

The woman almost laughed at him angrily, dragged the kidnapper back, pointed to the cemetery and said:

"It's just that big of a place, and you can look it over by standing here. The ones with old things on the grave are definitely not what you're looking for. If you don't look at them, how many are left? Think about it without thinking about it, no one has repaired the tomb for more than 20 years, the soil on it must have been cut in half, and it is possible for the monument to fall down, you just look for the kind of tomb without a monument that is almost leveled. "

After the woman analyzed the situation, the kidnapper was skeptical, but he didn't dare to raise any objections to the woman, so he had to follow the woman's advice to find it. Sure enough, before he had walked around, the kidnapper found a short and tall girl beside him. The "clean" "little soil bag", if you don't look carefully, you really can't tell that it is a grave.

The kidnapper turned his head and found a stone tablet not far from the grave that had been broken into two pieces. The kidnapper squatted down and brushed off the dirt on the stone tablet. It was indeed his parents' names engraved on it.

Li Shi, Zhang Linghua.

The kidnapper didn't dare to say anything, he quietly wanted to lift the stele up to see if he could put it together, but who knew that the half of the stele split in two in his hands just as he started.

The woman naturally saw it. She walked up to the kidnapper and sighed softly:
"I know there must be a reason why you haven't seen them for so many years. I don't want to ask the reason, but what I know is that no matter what the reason is, you haven't seen them for so many years. It's too much."

The kidnapper's eyeballs moved, and he wanted to look at the woman, but he held back forcefully. He didn't explain anything to the woman, but picked up the fragments of the stele in a panic, and kept chanting:

"What to do, what to do, what to do..."

The woman's forehead was throbbing, but she didn't know what to do for the first time. She had never encountered such an outrageous thing, although she felt that her life had been outrageous all these years.

In the end, the woman opened her mouth to make up her mind. She reached out and slapped the stone off the kidnapper's hand, and took the shovel and handed it to the kidnapper:

"If it is broken, it will be broken. When the time comes, just find someone to make another piece. You first repair the tomb, and then let the wind blow for a few years, and it will really become a small dirt bag. Although it is not necessary to build a luxurious tomb, But do you have the heart to let them be trampled around?"

The woman's words awakened the man in the dream, the kidnapper, and the kidnapper suddenly came to his senses, and quickly ran to the side with the shovel to dig the soil, shovel by shovel, and covered his parents' graves with soil.

"Ugh."

The woman felt that she had been sighing all the time today. She saw the kidnapper busy running around, so she took out paper money and added them to the grave one by one.

The kidnapper saw it, stared, and shouted: "Hey! Don't put it like this, the wreath can be placed directly, and the paper money has to be dug a hole and burned, otherwise they won't be able to receive it at the bottom..."

"My God," the woman was really surprised, "You should believe it or not, and you should believe it. You said something about the wildfire a while ago, and you forgot it so quickly? You think It doesn't matter if you eat in prison, but don't implicate me!"

"No, no!"

The kidnapper shook his head disapprovingly, and as he spoke, he dug a hole with a shovel on the spot, pointed to the hole and said to the woman, "Just burn it here. There is fire in my cloth pocket. Don't worry, it's so easy to burn." ? When we go back down the mountain, we will check it carefully, and it will be fine."

The woman did not expect the kidnapper to be so stubborn. Since she came here, she has heard about the mountain fire no less than twice, and everyone in the village knows what the punishment is for the person who caused the fire. Learning from the past, there are still people secretly burning paper money on the mountain during the Qingming Festival every year, which is also the direct reason for the occurrence of mountain fires every year.

Such a severe punishment can't scare people like Kidnap who take chances like Kidnap, how deep-rooted the traditional concept is in the minds of these people, as if paper money is useless if it is not burned, and paper money is useful if it is burned same.

A woman is too lazy to explain to an ignorant person like a kidnapper. Even if you explain it, the kidnapper can understand it enough, so there is no need to waste your words, but paper money must not be burned. It is very easy to stop the kidnapper, no matter how much you say It's not as good as simple and rude words.

"Let me tell you, Li Guaizi, you can only scatter paper money here today. You don't even have to think about burning paper. If you have to burn it, you can do it. I'll go down the mountain first. You are on this mountain by yourself. Burn it however you want, and when you go back to the prison, don’t expect anyone to see you, just sit through the prison honestly and die in it!”

The woman almost pointed at the kidnapper's nose and cursed, and her words were vicious, scaring the kidnapper enough. Although the kidnapper still felt that it was okay to burn paper money, seeing the woman's resistance to this matter, he didn't want to confront her Come on, I had no choice but to nod, as if I accepted what the woman said.

The two were speechless for a while, the woman threw out two pieces of paper money, and the kidnapper covered the soil with a layer of soil. The two of them, like making sandwich biscuits, finally rebuilt the grave of the kidnapper's parents to be as high as the other graves.

Kidnap placed the wreath again, finally straightened up and exhaled heavily.

"Okay, let's go, the sky is bright, and someone will come in a while, don't you don't want to see people, go quickly."

The woman looked at the sun, and felt that it was almost the same, and she was exhausted enough. At this moment, she just wanted to go home and sleep again.

"Wait, wait a little longer," the kidnapper called the woman, thought for a while, and then said, "Why don't you go back first, and I'll talk to them here."

The woman shook her head, looked around, and found a place to sit casually. She raised her chin at the kidnapper, signaling the kidnapper to be free.

Kidnap didn't expect the woman to be sitting next to him, he felt embarrassed for a while, and then knelt awkwardly in front of his parents' graves after a long time, and kowtowed three times.

After kowtowing, the kidnapper didn't get up, but just knelt there, and began to mutter words.At first, it may be that the kidnapper was reluctant to let go because the woman was still there, but he was just muttering, and the woman couldn't hear what he was saying. After a while, the kidnapper spoke smoothly, and his voice gradually became louder. Woke up, the woman finally heard what he said.

"You two have seen it too. I have a daughter-in-law, and I have a son at home. The baby is too young to bring it here for you two to see. You two are relieved, so let's go with peace of mind. I know you two left suddenly. , I definitely can’t let me go, I also want to come and see you, but I’ve lived my life like that, I’m really ashamed... I’m also afraid that you will look at me like that, and you will be uneasy if you stay here..."

The kidnapper was babbling on and on, saying whatever came to mind. The woman was a little impatient at first, but after listening for a while, she was fascinated by it. She probably knew why the kidnapper hadn’t gone up the mountain to see his parents for so many years. It's not that I don't want to see it, but I don't dare to see it.

The woman suddenly felt that the kidnapper was a sensible person. He knew that for parents, their children were their thoughts for the rest of their lives. After thinking about it, whether in the world or in the world, they couldn't let go of their children who had not settled down.

But the woman feels that the kidnapper is still a foolish person. No matter what kind of mess their children are, their parents actually hope that they can go home and have a look. But he couldn't see through it. If his parents knew about it underground, he would definitely blame this confused "child" for not being able to come up to see them for so many years.

The woman was lost in thought, but the kidnapper over there had finished talking. He stood up with some difficulty, and turned to greet the woman:

"Okay, let's go."

The woman nodded and got up to follow behind the kidnapper. At this time, a human voice could be heard faintly from the foot of the mountain.

It's the grave-sweeping troops coming up.

(End of this chapter)