the last priest

The old man Chen Fang's situation at that time did not allow him to say a lot, but he still told the secret that had been in his heart for a long time.

This is a very vulgar but touching story:

When he was 16 years old, he went to the home of the landlord in our village to work as a long-term worker. When Chen Fang was young, he was handsome and down-to-earth, and he was very happy with his employer.

This landlord has a daughter named Xiaodie in his family, who is only two years younger than Chen Fang.

At that time, the long worker and the young lady were completely different roles, not to mention that Xiaodie was not only the jewel in the palm of the master, but also a beautiful embryo.Xiaodie has been reading poetry and books since she was a child, and within a hundred miles of the countryside, she is also a leading lady.

In short, these two young people who are far apart but live in the same yard fall in love.

From the very beginning, this was also a tragedy. In that age of being well-matched, Chen Fang didn't have any qualifications to be able to climb this golden branch.

Therefore, the most tragic word in Chinese love also appeared in them: elope!

Elopement is a matter with a very low success rate, especially in our place with inconvenient transportation, there are mountains everywhere, and there is only one way to get out. With a spoiled young lady, how can Chen Fang run fast.

A large number of servants grabbed the crying Xiaodie and the trembling Chen Fang back to the village. For the sake of face, the master ordered Chen Fang to be executed on a certain day.

After all, this young lady is really a lover. She used her jewelry to bribe the guard's servant. Before leaving, Chen Fang, who was covered in bruises, promised this young lady who was in tears that he would definitely marry her in the future!

Later, Chen Fang took advantage of the night to escape to the big world outside, and became a strong man by accident.After this interval, he returned to the village after many years. What he saw was the landlord class overthrown by the vigorous revolutionary movement. People told him that the lady had passed away a few years ago, and Chen Fang had been disheartened ever since. He returned to live alone in the half adobe house left to him by his parents.

It's just that he never knew why the lady died.

Not long after Chen Fang left, Xiaodie found out that she was pregnant, which was unimaginable at that time.Sickness can be carried, but pregnancy cannot be concealed, and the belly will become bigger and bigger day by day.

After this incident, the landlord master once wanted to marry Xiaodie to a wealthy family in the village, but Xiaodie refused to do so, and the master could only be soft and stubborn, but finally he knew the truth about his daughter's belly. There is already the old flesh and blood in it.

This is definitely a shame and humiliation for the old man, and Xiaodie refused to take away the child. In order to cover up others, the old man found a bachelor in the village and planned to betroth Xiaodie to him to cover up the ugliness of the family.

Xiaodie was not willing to marry, the master was going to give her away forcibly, but unexpectedly, Xiaodie was impatient and stubborn, so she simply hanged herself with a rope in the west wing, and ended up with one dead body and two lives.

In order not to let this scandal leak out, the master put his daughter into the white coffin prepared for him overnight, planning to find a time to bury it secretly, and then find a reason for the outside world in a few days, saying that her daughter is far away. marry someone else.

Unfortunately, the next day, guerrillas came and our village was successfully liberated.After all the servants at home were beaten by the guerrillas, the landlord and the remaining family members did not know where they ended up. In that war-torn era, survival was the most fundamental thing.

Later, this old house, which had been baptized by the flames of war, became the common property of the people.At the beginning, the village also assigned several families to live in, and all the doors were open, except for a large copper lock on the west wing.

Someone with good intentions smashed the lock, only to find a large white coffin and an unpleasant smell of corpses inside, but the coffin boards have been firmly nailed.

Everyone didn't know who was lying here, so they wondered if they should find a time to bury it.

If this person is determined and doesn't want to leave, even if he dies, you can't move him.

The first time the coffin was lifted, the rope broke, and the coffin fell down and seriously injured the instep of one person in the village.

When the coffin was about to be lifted for the second time, a large group of butterflies suddenly rushed into the room. The powder on the cattail fan on the wings fascinated everyone for a while, and several of them were almost blinded forever.

In addition, the families living in it could hear the cries of women and the wow of children from the west wing every night, so no one dared to live here any longer.

After moving away from this old house, the village also had the idea of ​​transforming it into an office location. Firstly, the house was really well-built back then, and secondly, the location is first-class. .

But people of that generation have more or less heard that this house is haunted, especially the big white coffin, so people in the village also invited people who can do rituals to come here.

The person who practiced things, the old man Chen Fang really surprised Cha Wenbin when he said his name, his name was Ma Sufeng, that is, Cha Wenbin's master.

This Qingfeng Taoist was not drunk all day long back then. It is said that he is somewhat similar to the current Cha Wenbin, and he looks like a fairy.

After the Taoist came, he lit incense and checked, and then told the people in the village that it is best not to live in this house for a few years, and there are still guests in it. It will not be peaceful.So the best way is to re-lock the west wing, and when the door lock falls off automatically, the house will be completely clean.

When Zha Wenbin heard this, he understood a little bit. The master did this not because he didn't clean up cleanly, but because being a Taoist priest sometimes has to be humane.People have feelings, so why not ghosts? How could he deal with such an infatuated person?

Later, the house was abandoned again and again, most of which were piles of useless things like straw. As time passed, fewer and fewer people knew the story of this house.

That's all Chen Fang knew. He had also heard about the ghost in the former boss's house from the rumors in the village, but had he ever thought that the ghost was Xiaodie who had been waiting for him?

It's not that he forgot the original agreement, it's just that when he came back, the house was empty.The news he got was that the owner had already taken his family away from home. He knew that Xiaodie was the one who loved the master the most, and he thought that he would take Xiaodie away with him, so he went out to look for it, but all the news disappeared. .

So, Chen Fang, who returned to the village, guarded the dilapidated house wholeheartedly. He wondered if Xiaodie would find it again, so in order to prevent her from making mistakes, he never dared to leave the village for half a step in his life.

Where's Fluttershy?Why is she not like this, she didn't mean to obstruct it, but she was afraid that someone else would occupy the house, and Chen Fang would never be able to find it again.So she guarded this wing room for decades, waiting for that man together with her unborn daughter.Decades have been like a day, how has her ghost ever stepped out of this mansion, if it wasn't for Yu'er, she might not have even walked out of that wing.

It's a pity that two people who have been waiting for each other for a lifetime are so close, but they can't meet each other.The shortest distance is sometimes the furthest distance. That’s God’s will. Chen Fang has passed by the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village countless times, but he stopped stepping in. How many nights does Xiaodie lean against the door frame? cry alone.

A river of forgetfulness, where yin and yang are separated, and the first class is most of my life.

When Cha Wenbin revealed that it was Xiaodie lying in the white coffin, Chen Fang couldn't help crying, his crying was so heartbreaking.

She named their daughter Yu'er because the night Chen Fang escaped, it rained heavily. This is Xiaodie's longing for Chen Fang.

Chen Fang held Cha Wenbin's hand until he died, begging this young man to take him into that gate again.

When Dad asked the people in the village to carry the dying old man to the gate of the ancestral hall, he finally let go of his hand. After all, he did not survive to go back to find Xiaodie before he died. .

According to the customs in the countryside, no matter where the person died, the funeral must be held in the main house of the family, but this time, Chen Fang's funeral was held in this old house that had been abandoned for decades.

A simple tent has been set up in the old house, and the workers in front of a white leather coffin are busy painting it with vermilion lacquer, and next to it is a new coffin bought by villagers with donations.

Because Chen Fang is a five-guarantee household and his family is destitute, but the elderly people in the village have vaguely heard the story between him and the lady here.

Although Chen Fang had no children, his funeral was extraordinarily grand. Firstly, Cha Wenbin was very well-known in our area at that time, and secondly, this relationship between people and ghosts made all the women in the countryside feel ashamed. I ran out of tears.

All the things in the village are handled with effort and money. We all hope that this pair of Yin and Yang who have been separated for decades can go through the last mileage of their lives with dignity. This may also be the most united time in our village.

Cha Wenbin had promised Xiaodie that they would meet again tonight, not only to meet each other, but also to make up for a dark marriage for this pair of fateful mandarin ducks!