First line of life

Chapter 1 Wearing the Shroud

My name is Li Yiliang. I have never had a mother since I was a child. I heard that when my mother gave birth to me, she passed away due to dystocia, and the grave is buried behind our house.

After I became sensible, I would go to offer incense to my mother every year and festival, but I found that there was a small grave beside my mother’s grave. I asked, and my grandfather said it was an unknown small grave. When it is fragrant, add a stick by the way.

I didn't care about it either. I didn't know until I was 18 years old when something happened in my family...

It was June, and I had just passed the college entrance examination, and the results had not yet come out. I remember the night before the accident, my grandparents and I were watching TV at home.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and grandma asked instinctively, who is outside?
There was no sound from outside, so grandma stood up and was about to open the door, but at this moment I saw grandpa pulling grandma's hand and asking in a calm voice.

"Which one is it? We're going to sleep, and we have something to come tomorrow morning."

I'm very surprised, it should be a neighbor who came to the door, why didn't grandpa open the door?Just after Grandpa finished asking, a woman's voice suddenly came from outside, and the voice was a bit weird, cold and quiet.

"I'm here to find my baby..."

But before the outside could finish speaking, Grandpa jumped up, and with an angry expression on his face, he yelled at the door: "Your baby is not here, get out of here."

After finishing speaking, I saw my grandpa get up straight away, turn off the TV, and then rush into my room. The grandma beside me also looked nervous. At this moment, grandpa came out of the room. shroud?
Without saying a word, Grandpa directly put the shroud in his hand on me.This is something that a dead person would wear. Grandpa wants to wear it with me now?

And I found that the shroud of Grandpa is a bit strange, a bit like a one-piece suit. I have never seen this kind of shroud. I know that shrouds are very particular and must be singular.

The older the person died, the more shrouds they wore, which meant good fortune and longevity. On the contrary, the younger the dead, the less shrouds they wore.

But I remember, isn't it three pieces of primer?Just a shroud?It's the first time I've seen it, and I've never even heard of it.Besides, I am a living person, wearing a shroud?

I also found some strange patterns on the shroud. In short, the shroud is full of weirdness.

At this moment, I was anxious, and quickly asked Grandpa what's going on?Grandpa looked at me with a look of disappointment, and said: "You dog Rile, you can wear it if you are told, where is there so much nonsense?"

Being scolded by my grandpa, I froze in place. Grandpa doted on me very much, and this was the first time he got angry at me for no reason.

I just asked grandpa to put on this strange shroud for me in such a daze. After putting it on, I saw grandpa walk into the kitchen, and after a while, he brought a bowl of pot bottom ash.

Grandpa grabbed the ash from the bottom of the pot and wiped it on my face. I instinctively avoided it, and finally couldn't help it. I asked Grandpa again what the hell was going on?
At this time, grandpa seemed to be anxious, and he slapped me directly to greet me.It hurt my face.I, who had never been beaten by my grandfather, was full of grievances at this moment.

"If you want to live, you dog Rile, don't ask."

Grandpa's roar fell, and the grandma beside him began to cry, and scolded at grandpa: "You are so old, just say something like that, why beat the baby?"

I was a little flustered by the actions of my grandpa and grandma. What happened?
Grandpa had a gloomy face, and started to smear the bottom of the pot on my body again, covering all the places that were not covered by the shroud.

Suddenly, there was another knock on the door, and Grandpa's head suddenly turned around, and there was a kind of fierceness in those eyes.

Afterwards, grandpa pushed me directly into the room and told me that no matter what I hear tonight, I can't leave the room, let alone look out of the window.

After finishing speaking, I saw grandpa close the door of my room and walk out, and there was the sound of locking the door from outside, followed by grandpa's low voice.

"I want to see today, what big waves you can make."

Grandpa's voice became weaker and weaker, as if he had gone out. Not long after Grandpa went out, I heard the dogs in the whole village seem to start barking.

My heart was in a mess, I kept thinking about Grandpa's strange behavior, and all this was because of the woman who knocked on the door outside, who was that woman?
I don't know when, I thought about it, and fell asleep in a daze.In my sleep, I heard a woman sobbing softly from outside.

This sound was a bit strange, as if it was right next to my ear, and it seemed to be far away. As I cried, I heard this sound constantly talking.

"Baby, where are you?"

"Boy, mother is here to look for you, go with mother."

I found that this voice penetrated into my ears, which actually made my mind a little uneasy. In the dream, a woman whose face could not be clearly seen was beside me, touching my face constantly, asking me Not her son?Her voice turned out to be the same as the one knocking on the door.

I feel that my body will be very cold next to this woman. I want to ask her, who is her son?Who is she?But I found that there is no sound at all.

At this moment, I found that woman's face slowly approaching me, and I was able to see it a little bit clearly.

Suddenly, I saw a face covered with blood, her two eyeballs almost didn't fall out, and she was still smiling at me, her mouth was covered with blood, which looked extremely pervasive.

There was a sudden shock in my body, and I was awakened by this scene in an instant.

Sitting up from the bed, I suddenly felt a cold sweat all over my body. I wiped the sweat with my hands, and I saw that the sky outside was gray and bright.

Looking back at the scene in my dream, I couldn't fall asleep anyway, I turned over and got out of bed to open the door, but the door was locked from the outside, I glanced at the window beside the bed, and turned out of the window directly.

Turning out the window, I walked straight towards the gate. Before I walked in, I saw a figure standing at the gate. I was shocked. It was Grandpa. I shouted and ran over.

But when I approached, my body froze in place, and my eyes widened suddenly, staring at the grandpa in front of me.

The current grandfather's face is livid, without any blood color of a normal person, and his face is extremely ferocious. What is even more pervasive is that his eyes are covered with thick bloodshot eyes, as if the eyeballs are about to bulge out.

The two fists held tightly, and I even saw two lines of blood and tears streaming down from the corner of Grandpa's eyes. I didn't care about being afraid, so I stepped forward and pushed Grandpa, and yelled.

But I found that grandpa's body was very stiff. Grandpa is dead?With indescribable horror in my heart, my hands trembled, and I couldn't help crying.

The door behind grandpa opened suddenly, and grandma stood at the door, maybe she heard my movement, at this moment grandma looked at grandpa's stiff body, speechless for a long time.

But I still saw tears in grandma's eye sockets.

"Ban Jin, carry your grandfather inside, it's cold outside."

Grandma's trembling voice came, and I couldn't help but shed tears. Grandma dragged Grandpa's head, and I lifted Grandpa's feet up, and directly carried Grandpa into the room.

At this moment, my heart skipped a beat, and I didn't pay attention just now. At this time, I found that there were two bright red handprints on Grandpa's neck. The handprints were as bright as blood, but they were not blood. They seemed to be pinched out alive. ?
These two fingerprints killed Grandpa?I suddenly had this thought in my heart, what happened last night?Why did the good grandpa pass away in such a weird way this morning?

When I looked at grandma, I always felt that grandma knew something was going to happen to grandpa. I couldn't help asking grandma, what happened?
Grandma shook her head with red eyes, and said in a low voice, "Half a catty! Your grandpa said this is fate, and after 18 years of delay, it finally came."

My brain exploded suddenly with a word from grandma.What does grandma mean by that?But before I asked grandma to speak out again, she asked me to go to Mr. Liang at the head of the village. Grandpa explained that he had to deal with this matter.

I'm even more puzzled. Isn't Mr. Liang an old tailor?Can he handle funerals?
But looking at grandma's heavy expression, I said to go out and change clothes, and then go after washing. I was still wearing that weird shroud, wiping the bottom of the pot with ashes.

The moment I turned around, I was horrified to see Grandpa's hand stretched out in an instant, grabbing my wrist tightly.

And the expression on Grandpa's face has also changed!

(End of this chapter)