Chapter 3: Mr. Liu
So my grandfather originally told her the cause of the matter, she was also very surprised after hearing. After all, and the drunkard Liu lived for a long time, on this kind of thing more or less understand some.
My grandfather sighed and said, "This time is really evil, and big brother is still awake. I am afraid that tonight ------, sister in law you say, alas, sinning ah." After saying this, he put his head down and rubbed his two hands vigorously.
Liu wife knows the seriousness of the matter, she thought about it and said "There is a trick!" Then she got up and said to my grandfather, "Don't be afraid, I have my sister-in-law. I don't know how long that ghost will stay drunk. Aren't you the one who drove the car here? Take him to Zhujiakan. Isn't that all right?"
When my grandfather heard this, he quickly waved his hand and said, "I can't do that, it's freezing cold out here, my big brother won't freeze to death."
Mr. Liu's wife laughed when she heard this. She turned out Mr. Liu's cotton jacket and said: "It's okay, listen to me, I still don't know him? Which time has he not slept outside after drinking too much? He won't freeze." Although he said this, my grandfather saw her turn out a few more cotton coats and then took out a quilt, and knew that this was his sister-in-law's good heart. She couldn't bear to see me and my daughter-in-law suffer. I was so grateful that I couldn't express my gratitude. Immediately kneeled down to Liu's wife. Seeing my grandfather like this, Liu's wife hurriedly brought him up and said, "Xiao Cui, what are you doing? Don't be like this, if you do this again, my sister-in-law will be angry."
My grandfather got up, wiped away his tears and said to Liu's wife, "Sister-in-law, thank you. I won't say anything else I 、、、、、、"
The two of them went to the back room and saw Mr. Liu still asleep on the bed, snoring like thunder. Seeing this scene, Liu's wife turned back to my grandfather and said, "Look at your big brother. You can still count, this time his brother is in trouble still sleep here like a dead pig, deserve to be frozen! After that, he and my grandfather helped Mr. Liu to get dressed. Packed up properly after letting my grandfather first in the donkey car puff good quilt, and then still sleeping Mr. Liu three layers outside the three layers of the package and settled in the car, he went into the house to clean up the next things to a box and put it on the car, that is, Mr. Liu want to use the household goods. Then told my grandfather to be careful after seeing my grandfather left. My grandfather later learned that, in addition to the box put Mr. Liu ghost hunting tools, but also put a bag of rice and a jar of wine grandfather gave her family today. It turned out to be Mr. Liu's daughter-in-law knew that my grandfather's family is not generous, and secretly put back. Until how many years later when my grandfather told me about this incident is still grateful, told me that people must be like Mr. Liu and her daughter-in-law as kind-hearted.
As I said last time, my grandmother was waiting anxiously at home for my grandfather's return, and as it was getting dark, there was still no sign of my grandfather. Thinking about whether those things would come again at night, my grandmother was scared to death. But she didn't dare to go out of the yard. Old people used to say that the best thing to do if you meet something unclean is to stay at home, because your luck is low, and if you go out it's easy for something to stick to you again.
Waiting and waiting, sitting on the bed, she fell asleep. In her dream, she saw the old woman in the mourning clothes and white hat again, sitting on the top of the bed and looking at her with a sneer, my grandmother wanted to scream but could not. The old woman said to my grandmother in a gloomy voice, "Don't look for someone, I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of you, but I must avenge my grandson's death. After that, she got off the bed and ran out of the window.
My grandmother woke up with a fright and realized that she was covered with cold sweat. While she was still in a state of shock, the donkey cart and my grandfather's shouts came from outside the door, "Daughter-in-law, come out and help!" Hearing that my grandfather had returned, my grandmother immediately had a backbone. She immediately put on her cotton jacket and went out of the house, and saw my grandfather and Mr. Liu, who was still drunk.
My grandmother rushed forward to help my grandfather carry the drunken Mr. Liu into the house and settled him on the bed. Then she went out to pack up the things on the donkey cart and sent it back to Old Bao Tou's place. On the way back she always felt that someone was following her, but when she looked back there was no one. I'd like to say that we all have the same experience of going out and feeling that someone is following us, but when we look back, we realize that there's nothing unusual, and frankly, this feeling is really annoying. My grandma ran all the way back to the house, already out of breath.
My grandmother sat down on the bed and looked at my grandfather is giving Mr. Liu cover, and then look at this Mr. Liu is really quite God, ice and snow can still be in the donkey cart sleep so peacefully, full of red face. My grandma asked my grandpa what happened to Mr. Liu, and my grandpa told her that he had drunk too much and was still unconscious, and that my sister-in-law was afraid that something might happen to us, so she let me pull him back.
My grandmother suddenly thought of something, just did the dream originally told my grandfather. After hearing this, my grandfather said, "Her grandson, it's not that blind man, right? What can we do!" Both of them lost their opinions. The good thing is that now we have invited the person who understands back. The heart is more or less not so afraid. My grandpa told my grandma to take out the two pounds of white flour for New Year's Eve and steam some rolls for Mr. Liu to eat when he got up, and then he went to the barn and took out some sauerkraut and frozen meat, and the two of them started to work. The two of them started to work. The meal was ready, but Mr. Liu still didn't look like he was going to get up. My grandfather from the morning after not eating, my grandmother had to heat up some sorghum rice, two people ate some after. The sky is also dark.
Seeing the dark, two people's heart and raised, I do not know whether those things will come tonight, I hope not to come. But some things are often not what you want. You want to not let it come, it will not let you go. At one or two o'clock in the second half of the night, the pattering cries in the yard came out again.
After hearing this cry, my grandpa and my grandma's heart seemed to have an energy, this is what they said. That is to say, the brain becomes very chaotic, very disturbing, very depressing, just want to take a knife to stab their own head out of anger. Just as my grandmother confused from the resistance slightly pick up the scissors, sleepy Mr. Liu turned over under the covers. As if he was drunk, he shouted, "What are you doing? Do not see that I am sleeping it? Get out!!!"
My grandpa and grandma cold sobered up, you do not say, this voice is really good, outside the cries immediately stopped. Grandma immediately threw the scissors, heart full of fear. At this time Mr. Liu lying in the quilt or with that kind of dreaming tone talking to himself, said: "Damn, called me this disturbing, put this thing upside down on the north side of the window. I'll let it scream and clean it up tomorrow." After saying this, he took a crumpled piece of paper out of the quilt and went back to sleep.
My grandfather took it from him and saw that it was a Chinese New Year's blessing, and my grandfather immediately did as he was told, and pasted the blessing on the north window. My grandfather immediately did as he was told, and put it on the north window. After putting it on the window, he was really fine for the night.
Here the word of fortune, why Mr. Liu to the north window on the word of fortune, when I was a child I do not understand, until I grew up after the accidentally remembered this grandfather told the details of this story after checking the information, it turned out that according to the "Dream Sorghum Records" records: "the common people regardless of size, are cleaning the doorway, to dust, clean the home, change the door god, hanging Zhong Kui, nail peach symbols, sticking the spring cards, sacrifices to the ancestors! The Chinese text "Posting Spring Plaques". The text of the "sticker" that is written on red paper "Fu" character.
The word "Fu" is now interpreted as "happiness", while in the past it meant "good fortune" and "good luck". The word "Fortune" is also synonymous with the word "Foo", which encapsulates the meaning of subduing impurities. Of course, this is only my own guess, because there are many previous folk stunts have long been lost, there is no place to seek its explanation.
The next day at dawn, Mr. Liu finally woke up.
My grandmother rushed to fetch him water to wash his face and warmed up some food. Mr. Liu put on good clothes down the bed mounted cotton shoes after my grandfather an arch, smilingly said: "old brother, let you see brother my drunkenness is really ashamed, have to thank brother care." My grandfather hurriedly said, "Mr. Liu can never say that ah, this I am embarrassed enough, you see not waiting for you to wake up to you whole my house."
Mr. Liu sat down on the bed again and laughed, "It doesn't matter, in fact, I've heard it all, Fanlian (Liu's wife), this bitch made it. The reason why I married her is because this old bitch has a good heart, alas. Don't blame brother, because at that time I really didn't have the effort to wake up."
By this time the meal was ready, and my grandmother had set a small table on the kang with a plate of rolls and a pot of pork stewed with sauerkraut. The bottle holding the sorghum wine sat warm in a large sea bowl filled with hot water. By the time she had put all these things away the two had already eaten and drunk, and my grandmother had crossed her legs on the bed. I heard Mr. Liu tell me why he was so drunk.
It turned out that Mr. Liu had helped someone to choose a grave site that day, and after it was done properly, the family invited Mr. Liu to drink. Mr. Liu drank half a catty of wine and saw that it was getting late, so he said goodbye, and on the way home, he ran into a former acquaintance, Old Wang Tou. But this old Wangtou had died the year before, well Mr. Liu is in this business, he was curious. He was curious as to why the old Wangtou, who was supposed to have been reincarnated, appeared, so he went up and asked. It turned out that this old Wang Tou had done a lot of good things in life, and after death, he went to the netherworld as a ghost messenger. Specializing in assisting the ox-head, horse face, black and white invincible hook people's souls. Because of today's funeral in the village, they followed to take advantage of the impermanent hook souls to Ma Mian asked for half a day's leave, want to come back to see his son and small grandson. Originally, it is very difficult to meet the ghost messenger hooking souls, and today I met an old acquaintance.
According to the rules of the trade, those who eat in the netherworld are destined to commit the five evils and three defects because they divulge too many heavenly secrets. The so-called "five evils" are "widowers, widows, orphans, singletons, and the disabled." And the three shortcomings, to put it bluntly, are "money, life, power" three shortcomings. Mr. Liu knows that he is guilty of the fate of the lack of, but Mr. Liu does not know when he returned to the position, because the world is only really proficient in the "Book of the Three Qing Dynasty," which of the Qi Men and divining and arithmetic people can be through some kind of formation to know the fate of the heavens. Mr. Liu only learned the family's "Three Qing Divination" and some accidentally obtained the art of charms. He was afraid that he and his family would be unprepared if the incident happened suddenly, so he moved to know his own life expectancy from the mouth of a shadowy man.
