Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 42 The Dumb Girl
After experiencing the perilous night in the locust forest, I suddenly understood what it means to live a short life. I don’t know when a person dies unexpectedly. At that time, there will be no time to do many things.For me right now, isn't the most important thing to find my sister and reunite?So I decided to get my sister back first, that's the top priority.It has been almost a year since I left home last year. The purpose of leaving home was to find my sister, but what I did this year has nothing to do with finding my sister.

After walking down the mountain and returning to Guigang for more than three hours, I asked someone to find the hospital. The little brother Qinshou is still in the hospital, but his feet have improved a lot after so many days, and he has changed from a wheelchair to a cane.After seeing me, the little brother Qinshou kept asking me where I have been doing bad things these days. I will definitely not really tell him what happened in the past few days, but just jokingly asked him to give me 100 yuan and tell him. Listen, little brother Qinshou picked up his crutches and was about to hit someone.

My money was taken away by that woman on the mountain, so when I went to the hospital, I borrowed money from my little brother Qinshou for the trip home. After all, I only knew him in Guigang.Although we haven't known each other for a long time, we have experienced life and death together anyway. Little brother Qinshou took out ten yuan from the sole of his shoe and gave it to me. I took the car back home that day.

After experiencing the danger of that night in the locust forest, I went to visit the graves of my grandparents and my mother after returning home. Although it was not Qingming, it was almost there, so it would be fine a few days earlier.If you survive a catastrophe, you have to burn incense to your ancestors, but the one who should be most grateful is Tongtong. Without her, I don't know how many times I have died.

The grave of my grandparents is at the foot of a mountain, two or three kilometers away from the village. Early in the morning, I borrowed a chicken from my aunt and some firecrackers and candles and set off. After I came to the grave, lit incense and candles, I burned paper money Lighting firecrackers, I finally told my mother's grave that I was going to Hunan to find my sister, hoping to find her and bring her home for reunion, and hope that my mother would not worry about us down here.

After returning from tomb sweeping, I started to plan to go to Hunan. I knew that Hunan is a province, as big as Guangxi, and Yongzhou is a city, as big as Guigang.To find a person in such a big place, you must need money, what if you can't move an inch without money?
steal!
I used to hear from my uncle that Chen Jiutong, the head of the village next door, and his brother was an official in Nanning, so Chen Jiutong’s family was the only one in the nearby villages to build a small western-style building, and they would steal from others.To be honest, only his family can steal it. In those days, which one in the countryside was not poor, and you could not steal anything valuable, let alone cash.

Before stealing something, you must find out the situation, such as whether there is a dog, whether the owner is at home, and when you are used to leaving home and returning, these are very important.

When I went to the next village to find out the way in the evening, it was a bad start!On the way, I encountered a funeral procession.The funeral procession was very strange. There were no gongs, drums and firecrackers, and no crying relatives. There were only four people carrying a black coffin and hurried to the mountain. At this time, they were only 50 meters away from me.

I know that there are only three kinds of funeral processions like this. One is the old man who has no offspring. This kind of old man does not need to hold a funeral after his death. He only needs to be put into a coffin by his family members to carry him to bury him.The second is that young people who committed suicide, as well as children who died young, were buried hastily. The difference is that children are usually wrapped in a mat or nailed into a wooden box, and they are not eligible to enter the coffin.

When I saw the black coffin, I thought of Chen Dapao. After all, he is also from this village. The police should have brought his body out. I wonder if there is Chen Dapao in the coffin?
I moved to the vegetable field on the side of the road to make way for the funeral procession. There happened to be a village woman picking vegetables in the vegetable field not far from me. I saw her beckoning to me.My aunt has a cousin who married into the next village, and she often comes to my aunt's house, so she recognizes me, but I've changed so much this year that she can't recognize me right away.I asked her why she called me here!She said it was nothing, just told me not to watch this (the funeral procession), it was very unlucky.

She asked me whose son I was from the next village, and I said I jumped into the river!Don't you recognize the son of your cousin-in-law's cousin?Then she was very surprised and said that she had grown so tall, she couldn't recognize it at once, no wonder it looked so similar, and then asked me to help her pull out the carrots.There were two boxes in the field, and one box had already contained several radishes. I asked her why she used them for pulling so many radishes!

My aunt and her cousin said that when Qingming sweeps public graves, they are used for eating. (Public graves are ancestral graves.) There are more than ten public graves that the whole village has to sweep during Qingming. It takes two or three days to finish sweeping. .After returning from tomb sweeping, you have to eat in the ancestral hall. In three days, you have to kill a pig, and you have to prepare several baskets of radishes and vegetables.

My aunt and her cousin asked me where I had been since I hadn’t seen each other for so long. I said I was working part-time. I was building roads in Wuzhou with a cousin!My aunt and her cousin laughed and said that when they grow up, they will start to make money, and they will be able to marry a wife in a few years.

Talking while pulling out carrots, I brought up the topic to the funeral procession just now, and asked my aunt and her cousin who died in your village!Why is there not even a mourner?

The aunt and her cousin lowered their voices and said Chen Baogui, you know?I said I didn't know, she threw the radish into the box and asked me Chen Dapao, you should know!
I said I know!The one who gambles a lot, the one who wears the same pair of pants as my uncle.

The aunt and her cousin lowered their voices again, saying that Chen Dapao was dead and had been missing for several months. A few days ago, the public security police found him from the cave and brought out a bone, saying that this bone was Chen Dapao.

I said I knew about it, and I thought in my heart that Chen Dapao turned into bones or I did it!However, he still had to put on a surprised and curious look on his face and asked, could it be that the person in the black coffin was Chen Dapao, and who was Chen Baogui?

The aunt and her cousin said that the coffin contained Chen Baogui, who was Chen Dapao's father. In the months after Chen Dapao disappeared, Chen Baogui's health became worse and worse. When he found out that his son had been found, he became a pile of bones. Fainted out, couldn't get out of bed and couldn't speak after waking up, and died this morning within a few days.

The aunt and her cousin bent down and pulled out a radish with the thickness of a thigh out of the ground, and then said: "But the most pitiful thing is the little girl adopted by his family. She is still dumb and can't speak. Everyone calls her little dumb girl." .No one knows where the little dumb girl was picked up, let alone where her biological parents are from. They only know that Chen Dapao picked it up on the roadside.

I have long heard that Dapao Chen has a four-year-old daughter. I always thought it was his own. When his body was destroyed last time, I planned to help him raise that poor daughter. Now I know that she was just carried back.In this way, the little girl is even more pitiful. She was raised by someone before, but now she is only four years old and she is the only one left in the family.If this little girl was a normal person, maybe some villagers would adopt her. Unfortunately, she is a mute, and in the age of patriarchy, who would adopt a mute little girl?Even if someone is willing to raise her, it is to serve as a family labor force for a few years, just like my uncle has been used as a family labor force since I was seven years old, growing vegetables, weeding, washing, washing, cooking and herding cattle. The pain will be unforgettable for a lifetime.I remember that I was woken up by my uncle before dawn, and I went to the field to weed while carrying the hoe while crying, while the children of the same age in the same village were playing with mud slingshots!

A four-year-old mute girl was abandoned by her parents, and all the people who raised her died. It was so miserable at the age of four. I decided to go to the village to see her.I asked my aunt and her cousin what the name of this little dumb girl was. My aunt and her cousin said it was Chen Jianqi, which was the name given by the village chief Chen Jiutong.

It was already dark after pulling out the radishes. I helped my aunt and her cousin pick up two boxes of radishes back to their village, and then I asked someone to come to Chen Dapao's house.

This is the most dilapidated house in the whole village. I really don't understand why Chen Dapao won a lot of money before, so why didn't he build a house?The room was pitch black, and it looked like a haunted house. There were a lot of candles and paper money on the ground at the door, which should have been burned when Chen Guigui died this morning.

Although I knew what was going on in this house, I still symbolically knocked on the door and asked if anyone was home?But certainly no one.I walked in and saw a little girl sitting on the edge of the door wiping her tears, but there was no sound of crying. This must be the little dumb girl!She was probably frightened when she saw me, and got up and ran into the dark room.

I didn't chase after her, but called her at the door, the little mute girl came out, and my brother took you to buy candy, but she didn't come out after calling a few times, so I changed my name and called Xiao Jianzaki a few times, but still ignored me.

Xiao Mizaki didn’t come out, and I didn’t enter the house. Although someone died in this house, I am no longer a person who is afraid of ghosts. I didn’t go in because it was too dark and I didn’t have a flashlight. I was afraid that people would misunderstand me as a trafficker.

Isn't a little girl afraid of such a dark room and no one there?This made me a little worried, so I hurried to my aunt's and her cousin's house to borrow a flashlight and came back, opened the door that was concealed in the hall and entered the room.

Chen Dapao's house has two rooms and one hall, but I searched all over but couldn't find Xiaomizaki, and I went to the attic and couldn't find it.There was nothing to eat on the table in the lobby. Chen Baogui had been ill for so long, who usually cooks for this family?What does this little girl usually eat? Did she eat today?

I pulled the rope switch in the lobby and the light didn't turn on. Maybe there was a power outage at home after Chen Dapao disappeared, so I had no choice but to find a candle to light it.Sitting in the living room, there was a musty smell. I suddenly heard a coughing sound in the room. I rushed in and found that the coughing sound came from under the bed.I walked to the bed and squatted down with the flashlight to take a picture, and found that the dumb girl Xiao Mizaki was hiding in it holding a snakeskin bag to cover herself, and she kept coughing. Seeing my flashlight shining in, she looked very scared.

I asked her in a low voice if she was hungry, brother took you to buy candy, but she ignored me.I reached in with one hand and grabbed her leg and pulled it out. She struggled non-stop, and finally pulled her out of the bed and picked her up. When I turned around, an old man suddenly stood in front of me, which shocked me a lot.

(End of this chapter)