The woman
hiding in the old house, my second uncle from the countryside, came to my house the night before New Year’s Eve and went crazy.
My second uncle from the countryside came to my house the night before New Year’s Eve and went crazy. He
asked my father to transfer the ownership of the new house he bought in Tianjin to his son.
The reason is that I am a girl, and I will get married sooner or later. I am not a member of Lao Li’s family at all.
And my cousin is going to get married soon. It’s just right to take my family’s big city duplex as a wedding room. It’s comfortable and dignified to live in. It’s not crowded to have two or three children in the future.
My father laughed angrily and said euphemistically that the house still owed more than one million yuan in loans, and now I am paying it back every month.
The second uncle nodded his head as a matter of course: “Then Wenwen will continue to live.”
Quickly asked:
“Do not hinder the transfer of ownership?”? Will Wenwen rob this house in the future?
I rob the house?
My father paid the down payment, I also have a loan, only wrote my name on the house, I have to rob with who?
My father patiently explained that the house was for me, and I would live in it after the decoration, which had nothing to do with his son. That’s all
, but the second uncle’s wishful thinking is that my father is joking. What
are you talking about? You have so much property that you have to give it to my son sooner or later? My son is the only male in Lao Li’s family! Can’t decorate! I want my son to install it himself, in case my daughter-in-law doesn’t like what you’re installing.
He patted my father on the shoulder and said,
“All right, brother, don’t make any more jokes.”. This house will be transferred in the next two days. My son’s marriage is a big event, and you are the elder, so don’t make trouble for him.
My father is a businessman. He often brags at home that he has read countless people. The woods outside are so big that he has never seen any birds.
But when the bird was his own strange brother, there was nothing he could do.
I can only declare again and again that all he has saved for decades is for me.
I am the legal heir, and it is not my cousin’s turn. After
listening for a long time, the second uncle finally believed that he was not joking.
Pointing at me, he asked incredulously.
To Wenwen? Wenwen is a girl, and she will give birth to someone else in the future! Even if she were dead, her name wouldn’t be on the family tree!
Speaking of excitement, he even cursed me to death during the Spring Festival.
My mother, a gentle and intellectual university professor who had never blushed for most of her life, was finally so angry that she cursed a dirty word with a thick neck.
After scolding her, she collapsed on the sofa and couldn’t breathe. She told me to take the antihypertensive medicine quickly.
Seeing that I was going to enter ICU, my cousin arrived in time to defuse the farce. When the second uncle was taken
away, he was still swearing,
“Third brother, without my son, I’ll give you half a son. Your wife has gone through menopause, and you’ve lost your children long ago!”.
Everyone went downstairs, and the second uncle did not forget to shout at my house, as if to shout until the whole building heard his “grievance.”.
“Don’t forget my kindness, don’t forget what I did for you …”
What is it? Hide a woman? My mother gasped and teased my father.
My dad shook his head helplessly: “It’s just those things when I was a kid. What else can there be?”
With such a strange relative, our family did not have a good year.
So some time ago, during the May Day holiday, when my father asked our whole family to go back to the countryside to attend my cousin’s wedding, my mother and I raised our hands and feet against it.
“After all, we’re a family. Thirty years ago I couldn’t afford to go to college, so it was your uncle who planted rice for me to go to school.”
My father brought up this old family affair and mentioned the recent Chinese New Year incident:
“That time there was too much trouble. Your second uncle knew he was wrong and said he would make amends for us this time.”
I turned my head and rolled my eyes. “How can I make amends?”? When I die, let me go on the family tree?
My attitude is firm, but my mother is always gentle and good-tempered.
My father began to break it from the root of his ears, and finally coaxed us to get on the bus back to the countryside.
But I don’t know why, all the way on the highway, I always feel that my eyelids are jumping badly.
I also took a look at my horoscope between emails and said that I might have something strange happen to me this week.
As luck would have it, I turned over my father’s again, and it said that he should be careful that the old secret was uncovered.
What the hell?
I didn’t take it seriously. Soon, I got off the highway and arrived at the village entrance.
Queuing for nucleic acid, there was a middle-aged man in his fifties not far away, who had been staring at us with a smile. First
he looked down at my dad’s license plate, like he was confirming something. He looked up at me
again, swept me from top to bottom several times, and smiled at me with yellow teeth, which made me tremble all over.
“Dad, who is that?” I walked around behind my dad and winked in the man’s direction. “Always staring at me.”
“People from the village, maybe they’re relatives of your second aunt’s.”
I turned my back and began to reply to the messages from my colleagues on my mobile phone, ignoring them.
Because we arrived late, we entered the village and went straight to the second uncle’s wedding banquet.
The second uncle had a good face. The big fish and meat were set up early in the morning, and there were thirty or forty tables, almost half of the village.
I sat next to my mother at the table next to the main table.
My mother’s blood pressure has not been well controlled since she was angry during the Spring Festival.
I was just about to take out the medicine she was going to take before dinner when I was caught off guard and put my hands heavily on my shoulders.
“Wenwen is here. Wenwen is beautiful again.”
When I turned around, it was the second uncle.
He smiled gently, even a little obsequiously, as if he had forgotten all about how he had made my family jump and how he had cursed my father to lose his children and grandchildren not long ago.
“This table is full of elders. It’s not appropriate for Wenwen to sit at this table. Go over there. I specially reserved a seat for you.”
He went over and put his arm around my father’s shoulder and said
affectionately, “I’m sure I’ll have a good drink with my brother tonight.”. We are brothers whose blood is thicker than water. My Chaochao is your son, and when your son gets married, you won’t go home without getting drunk.
“But don’t worry.” As soon as he changed the subject, he vowed, “Everything in your house is for Wenwen, and no one will rob you.”
Do you really want to understand?
We were still confused, so I was pushed by my second uncle to another table far away from my parents and sat down next to a simple and honest young man.
This is Liu Peng, you must remember. When you were a child, every time you came back, you would go with Liu Peng to play in the cotton fields.
To tell you the truth, I really can’t remember it clearly, but I was surprised by the second uncle’s gallantry.
“After Liu Peng graduated from primary school, he worked with his father on a project and built a lot of houses for the village. Now he is one of the richest families in the country, and many little girls want to marry him.” As he spoke, the
second uncle winked fiercely at Liu Peng.
“Wenwen, my niece.”. You go back and have a good chat with Wenwen. I haven’t seen you for years, so don’t break up.
Liu Peng scratched his head and laughed awkwardly.
The second uncle continued to praise him, saying that there was nothing in heaven and earth.
But in his words, I have become an “old woman” who can’t get married in her twenties because of her high education and career ambition.
After the banquet, Liu Peng and I were very embarrassed and cramped. The two of
us had a few words to say, which was not congenial. While playing with his mobile phone,
he enthusiastically introduced that as long as he finished the task tonight, he could send his favorite anchorwoman to the list.
When he showed it to me, the anchorwoman was twisting her waist and calling him “Brother,” reciting Liu Peng’s nickname, “Brother Little Peng, an affectionate prodigal son.”. It
made me shiver all over and made his eyes smile into a line.
I really have nothing to say.
I ate two bites casually and looked at the direction of my parents.
The second uncle was pulling my father to drink a lot of wine, and they seemed to have a good relationship to wear the same pants.
I had no appetite. Suddenly, a middle-aged man came over. The one who stared at me
at the entrance of the village.
“This is the old Li family’s Wenwen.” He put one hand on Liu Peng’s shoulder, and they were very familiar with each other.
“I’m your Uncle Liu. I used to hug you when I was a child.” He held up a glass of wine in his hand and, without saying a word, poured me half a glass and filled it up for Liu Peng. “How can you serve Wenwen? You don’t even pour wine for anyone.”
With these words, he flicked Liu Peng’s forehead heavily and immediately popped up a red mark.
“Come on, Wenwen. To you, uncle. It’s really not easy to graduate with a master’s degree.”
I couldn’t resist, so I took a few sips. After three rounds of
drinking, it was dark. I
was tired after a long journey and had an uncomfortable meal, so I went into the back room of my second uncle’s house and went to the guest room that had been prepared early in the morning to rest.
Perhaps too tired, I lay on the table, and soon fell asleep.
I do not know how long, I opened my eyes in a daze, and the bed behind me was snoring like thunder.
Following the sound, I was shocked! Liu Peng, who
had just fallen in love with the anchorwoman, was sleeping soundly with his upper body naked and in a big font. My
brain was so hot that I got up and wanted to go out. The
door is locked!
No matter how I clapped and shouted, there was no movement outside!
This bungalow was built in the corner of the courtyard, usually no one came, and it was far away from the place to eat.
My cry woke up Liu Peng, who looked at me, then at himself, and sat up, blushing to the root of his neck.
“How did this happen?” His sleepy eyes widened.
“And I asked you why you came into my room!” I put my back against the wall and looked at him warily.
“Don’t get me wrong!” He waved his hand again and again. “I don’t want to do anything to you. I just drank too much and somehow I got here.”
He looked for his clothes in a panic, but he couldn’t find them. Finally, he picked up the quilt and wrapped it around himself in a funny way:
“I haven’t read any books, and I’m almost 30 and don’t have a wife, but I’m not the kind of person you think!”
I didn’t say a word and kept a safe distance warily.
Liu Peng sighed for a long time and finally stamped his foot:
“Hey!”! Forget it. I’ll tell you what’s going on.
It turned out that Liu Peng’s family boasted that they were rich in the village, and they didn’t like the girls in the village at all. They wanted to find a beautiful and educated girl in the city to be their daughter-in-law.
The second uncle found this opportunity and rushed to find Liu Peng’s father to make a match for me and Liu Peng.
Took a look at the photo, Liu Peng’s father was very satisfied, and asked about the education and family situation, but also smiled from ear to ear.
He promised that as long as it was done, he would ask me to be Liu Peng’s wife and give my second uncle 100,000 yuan as a reward.
Uncle Li said at the time that 100,000 yuan was nothing, but.. Can Liu Peng’s voice is low.
“Can eat no household.” He couldn’t even look up at me.
Eat no household!
Liu Peng told me that the second uncle said that my father had no son, and he was so stingy that he refused to give his son the family property.
Why don’t you just take my only daughter and take my family’s property openly.
“I didn’t go to college any more than you did, but I also know that this kind of thing should never be done.”
Liu Peng was honest. “I didn’t agree. Who would have thought..” I guess there’s something wrong with the wine..
Is it the bottle of wine brought by Liu Peng’s father? The strangeness of the
whole thing is completely beyond my understanding.
I never thought that in a civilized society, there would be such an operation as drugging a girl and dragging her into a room. I
was so angry that I wanted to find my cell phone to call for help, only to find that my cell phone had disappeared early in the morning. When I
was sure that Liu Peng meant no harm, I sighed helplessly:
“Forget it. The banquet is almost over. I guess my parents will come to see me soon.”
Looking at his embarrassed appearance, I took off my coat and threw it to Liu Peng, who was naked and clean on the bed. “You can wear it. Don’t catch cold.”
“Wenwen, don’t take it for granted. You’ve got to find a way out of here!” Liu Peng quit first. With a very serious frown,
he told me,
“a lonely man and a widowed woman have been in the same room for so long at night, and when they turn around and are seen by the villagers, the gossip can drown us both.”. Not only will your innocence be tainted, but when you’re gone, I’ll never be able to hold my head up!
He woke me up with a word.
Originally, this is the second uncle and Liu Peng’s father’s plan!
In their eyes, the saliva of the villagers is a nuclear bomb, more useful than anything else.
When everyone saw Liu Peng walk out of my room with his bare upper body, if I didn’t marry him, I would completely ruin my reputation and become the “dirty woman” of the whole village who would never get married again!
I broke out in a cold sweat and began to pull the door handle again.
Just then, the doorknob moved from the outside. As soon as
I pulled, the door lock opened!
I quickly pushed the door and looked out. A dark shadow had run away.
I looked at Liu Peng and ran away quickly.
Back in the courtyard, the banquet was not over yet.
My father’s face was already red, and he was sitting shoulder to shoulder with his second uncle.
Far away, I heard him say in a loud voice, “I can’t forget that you are my good brother.” “When Chaochao gives birth to a child, I will wrap a big red envelope.”.
He raised his wobbly finger and said a hundred thousand, and then he said two hundred thousand. When I
heard this, I was so angry that I rushed up and grabbed half of my father’s white wine.
“What are you doing, Wenwen?”
“Dad, you should ask your good brother what he did.” I turned around and stared at my second uncle.
He felt so guilty that he held his mouth and glanced at me, but he didn’t dare to look at me.
“What did you do, Dick?” Nothing..
I love Wenwen dearly, and I treat Wenwen like my own daughter, and I want to say a good marriage to Wenwen. He almost moved himself with his lies. Do you know how nice
that boy is? A lot of little girls are rushing up, and I just want to leave it to my own Wenwen.
“Don’t be at home!” I stopped his nonsense. “I don’t even deserve your family tree!”! Dad, mom, what happened just now, I have to think about whether I should call the police.
I pulled my parents, regardless of the second uncle’s gags, and told the whole story just now.
Hearing Liu Peng lying naked behind me, my mother was so angry that her shoulders trembled and she gave the second uncle a hard look.
The second uncle wanted to come forward to smooth things over, but every time he heard the word “call the police,” he felt as if he were touching a nerve. His eyes kept blinking, and he looked very frightened. Although
my father is drunk and his ears are hot, his brain is still a little clear.
“Second brother, you’re really good. You really can do it!” My father was so angry that he pounded the table and pulled me and my mother to leave.
The second uncle quickly stopped him.
My cousin heard the noise and came over. He smiled politely and said that the room had been arranged for a long time. If he had something to rest for a night, he would talk about it tomorrow. Besides, it was too inconvenient for us to go back to the city so late. What
my cousin said is also true, really drive back, at least to drive until dawn.
But after such an unpleasant thing happened, our family refused to stay.
My father thought for a moment,
“Our old house is not far away. Let’s go back and live there.”. Wenwen had said before that she hadn’t slept on a Kang for many years, and this time she was given a chance to experience the Kang in her hometown. Unexpectedly, as soon as
my father said this, my second uncle and cousin suddenly turned pale with fright.
They looked at each other and blocked our way more firmly.
My cousin sometimes said that the old house was in disrepair, and sometimes said that there were weasels running around at night.
The second uncle was even more incoherent, stammering about the old house being haunted or something, and kept saying that the Kang was really sleepless and would be infected with unclean things. My parents
and I don’t believe this. We just think he’s talking nonsense.
Just as I was about to leave, my second uncle suddenly grabbed my hand. He was caught off guard and began to admit his mistake
: “Wenwen, it’s all my second uncle’s fault. My second uncle is wrong. You shouldn’t mess up the Mandarin ducks. You can stay and live in that old house.” Alas, there’s really no one to live..
Really strange, obviously two years ago, the second uncle just decorated the house, but also asked my father for a sum of money, how can not live now?
My father just thought he had swallowed the money. He waved his hand indifferently and said,
“That house is all right. It’s all right to make a transition for one night.”
My parents insisted on leaving, and my second uncle and cousin struggled.
I was suspicious at first. “Is there anything shameful hidden in that house?” As soon as
the voice fell, I watched a big bead of sweat roll down the second uncle’s forehead.
I suddenly remembered that during the Spring Festival, my mother was so angry that she said that the second uncle would not help my father hide a woman’s joke, and suddenly felt that the whole body was cold and terrible.
“How come? It’s just an old house.” The second uncle’s voice weakened, and his eyes dodged, not daring to look at anyone. Then you can go, and I’ll pick you up early tomorrow morning. All the way
to get the car, the second uncle and cousin followed closely.
The more I thought about it, the more strange it became. I jokingly asked my cousin if the old house was hiding the gold and silver treasures handed down by Lao Li’s family. Maybe it was under the Kang. I would dig a brick out tonight to have a look.
No way! You can’t dig! The second uncle screamed, obviously nervous to the extreme.
“Li Ching-wen, don’t mess around and don’t make our ancestral home restless!” Angrily, he even called me by my name and put on the airs of an elder. “You girl, you are really too uneducated and undisciplined!”! I shouldn’t have to worry about your big life and get all coquettish!
I was scolded and confused. When
my dad saw that he was really angry, he explained that I was joking, scolded me casually, and finally ran away with me and my mother. During the
night, I lay on the Kang of the old house and couldn’t sleep.
Originally, the matter of Liu Peng had made me angry and dry, and the obstruction of the second uncle’s family in the evening made me even more angry and puzzled.
I tossed and turned and knocked on the Kang under my body. I don’t know if it was a psychological effect, but I really felt that it was very different from the ordinary Kang.
Is there really a secret hidden in it?
Forget it, whatever, even if it’s gold and silver, I’m not interested.
The next morning, after a sleepless night, I woke up and saw my second uncle and cousin together in the old house.
When I went to wash, they quickly slipped into my room and looked and touched around the Kang, saying that they were afraid that I would get into trouble with unclean things. They
also prepared breakfast and pulled my parents to make amends and talk about their old love.
My father always forgives his family, especially his second brother, without a bottom line.
Sleep, although still very angry, but his attitude also softened down. After
saying a few words to the other side, he sat down next to the second uncle and began to push a cup on his shoulder.
Sitting at a table, I felt very awkward.
My mother also ignored the brothers, and we could only chat with my cousin. As
she spoke, my mother somehow mentioned,
“Fate is really wonderful. I remember the last time I went back to my hometown, Chaochao had just graduated from college, and we were with another girl.”. No, a few years have passed, and Chaochao is already married.
Yes, it was the first love. I remember at that time, two people were as good as death. As a result, it seems that the last time we went back to our hometown to see each other, we suddenly broke up not long after, and never heard from her again. I leaned over to my cousin to gossip, “Brother, how is that girl now?”? Still in touch? Although
my voice was small, my father and uncle, who were busy on the opposite side, were almost stunned at the same time and stared at me at the same time.
My cousin scratched his head and said that he had not contacted her for a long time and did not know where she had gone.
The second uncle snatched the words stiffly and said
, “Go abroad!”! The little girl was so vain that she insisted on going out and leaving early in the morning!
The second uncle was in a panic, while my father was holding the bowl high in front of his face, drinking the hot porridge that had just come out, and the heat was a pool of sweat on his forehead. If I
remember correctly, the girl’s name was Lv Jiajia. She dropped out of school early, and her family conditions were not good. It was said that she grew up with only one grandmother. When
my cousin was in college, she worked outside early. She was independent. She was a young, simple and patient girl. It was really not in line with what the second uncle said about vanity.
In our confused silence, the second uncle hastened to add,
“I went to a country in Southeast Asia and said it was easy to make money there, so I left us Chaochao.”. Hey, if you ask me, that kind of girl just runs away. She’s not as good as this wife.
Now, of course, this is to his liking, I heard that the bride price did not take a penny, but also brought a six-figure dowry and a car.
But in my eyes, the best thing about her is that she is sincere to her cousin and mixes oil in their honey.
I nodded doubtfully and did not delve any further.
Unlike last night, at the dinner table this morning, the second uncle obviously lost his arrogance and talked a lot less.
Occasionally, I took the initiative to say a few words, but they were all talking about the poor conditions in the countryside, and our family was not used to sleeping on the hard Kang, so it was better to go back to the city earlier.
Liu Peng is a “rich husband,” and he never mentions him again. Full of
wine and food, the second uncle couldn’t wait to ask,
“Third brother, when will you return?”? If we leave now, we’ll probably be there in the afternoon.
I deliberately answered,
“What’s your hurry?”? I haven’t been back to my hometown for a long time, and I can sleep soundly on the Kang in the old house. I want to stay a few more days.
According to the plan, we were supposed to stay in our hometown for three or four days and go back at the end of the holiday.
But in fact, after what happened last night, our family had no idea for a long time. In the middle of the night last night, we planned to go home quickly, so as not to let the second uncle make any more mistakes.
How can you sleep soundly?
Concealer can’t stop the dark circles under my eyes, which has already betrayed my sleepless nights. When I
say this, I am just teasing and testing.
Sure enough, the second uncle was tempted by me:
“What is there to sleep on the Kang?”! In your big house in Tientsin, the Simmons sleeps soundly. Go and sleep there! “Second uncle,”
I said with a cold laugh, “you finally know that it’s my house, not yours.” His eyes
widened, he kept his mouth shut, and he swallowed a dumb loss. After a long
breakfast, we packed our bags and got ready to leave.
My father stretched himself in front of the singing birds and fragrant flowers outside the house and said with reluctance,
“This country environment is good, and the air is very clear. It suits me to be an old smoker.”
My mother looked at him with a smile and said reproachfully, “What are you talking about? I always tell you to quit smoking, but you don’t listen.”
My father laughed and put his arm around her shoulder. The old couple looked very affectionate.
At the other end, the second uncle and cousin offered to help us carry our luggage into the trunk.
Before getting on the bus, my father handed the second uncle a pack of expensive cigarettes, which he usually only used to entertain his business partners.
“I said yesterday that I would work for a few more years and let Wenwen feel at ease to develop in Tianjin, and we would go back to this house to retire.” He pouted in my mother’s direction. “She agreed, too. Then we can eat and drink together as a family every day.”
The second uncle held a cigarette tightly in his hand, as if waiting for my father’s last sentence.
Sure enough, my dad patted him on the shoulder and said
, “This house is still too old to live comfortably in. When I’m free in the second half of the year, I’ll find someone to redecorate it.”. When the time comes, you can also move here.
The second half of the year.. When exactly? The second uncle lowered his voice.
“I haven’t decided yet. Let’s wait for the weather to cool down.”
With these words, my father got into the car.
Seeing that he was about to roll up the window, the second uncle suddenly called out across the car, “Third brother!”
Our family followed the sound.
“Go back and drive safely.” “Don’t let anything happen again,” he said with a cold face.
The second uncle’s understatement made us feel nervous and uncomfortable all the way back to the city.
Call it a curse, it’s more like a warning, call it a warning, it’s like a hint. As soon as
the car started, my mother broke down and said
, “Why come back to retire? I don’t think I’ll go back to the countryside next time!”! Last night’s incident was enough to hurt our family, Wenwen. How could you curse someone else for having an accident on the road?
“Second Brother didn’t mean that. He was just being kind enough to remind me.” My father’s inertia is to smooth things over.
My mother turned her head angrily and stared out of the window without saying a word.
The car drove to the entrance of the village, and our family got off to prepare nucleic acid.
Not far away, a man came running towards us, waving a white coat.
I fixed my eyes on it, and it was Liu Peng.
“Wenwen, your clothes.” He handed me his coat, scratched his head and laughed. “I wanted to take it to Uncle Li’s house for you, but when I heard you had already left, I ran after you and returned it.”
As he spoke, he took out his cell phone and flashed the QR Code he had prepared early in the morning: “Can we exchange contact information?”
“Yes, no problem.” I took out my cell phone, scanned it, and clicked Add. I remember your family used to be a Mason, and they were especially good at building houses. My father just said that the old house was going to be redecorated in the second half of the year, and that he might want to trouble you then.
“An old house?” Liu Peng frowned and asked the specific location. After
confirming that it was that house, he said
in puzzlement, “Didn’t that house just get installed a few years ago?”? It was my father and I who did it, tearing down the old Kang.
“How come? You remember wrong. I slept on the Kang last night.”
“Then I don’t know.” Liu Peng shook his head and said, “We just took it apart, but how exactly we put it together was because Uncle Li had found another stranger.”. Perhaps he built a new Kang?
With doubts, I went back to the car.
My father took a cigarette in his mouth and said, “Liu Peng is not a bad boy. He is an honest boy.”
“It’s a pity not to be your son-in-law.” I followed up his remarks with a tease.
“Wenwen, Mom and Dad just want you to find someone you like and treat you well.” My father narrowed his eyes and suddenly revealed his true feelings. Your mother and I will leave sooner or later. Finding someone you want to be with for the rest of your life is more important than anything else. In fact, I don’t want to interfere with your feelings. Next time I’ll talk to my relatives at home and tell them not to worry about it.
Hearing what he said, I felt a little sad without a trace of warmth in my heart.
If I can, I really hope my parents will never leave me.
On the way, I took another look at the horoscope.
This time, my horoscope says that I may lose something very important the day the secret is revealed.
Back to the familiar home, I am still a little out of my mind.
During the May Day holiday, I was restless in the second half of the holiday. So is
my mother. On the evening of
May 3, near the end of the holiday, my father went to meet clients, and my mother and I ate dumplings at home.
“Wenwen, the next time your father wants to go back to his hometown, we’ll all stop him.” At the
dinner table, she suddenly said anxiously,
“The more I think about it these days, the more I feel wrong. Every time I go back, I always encounter some strange things.”
“All right, I’ll stop you next time, but don’t be too soft.” I took a piece of blood pressure medicine from the tea table, took it out and handed it to her, and watched her take it on time. But although my second uncle came frequently, my father didn’t go back many times. Except this time, the last time I went to the countryside was five years ago.
“Actually, that time, something was very wrong.” My mother frowned tightly.
At that time, I was still in college, and I was not impressed.
She seemed to have been thinking hard for a long time before she suddenly raised her head and took my hand
. “Wenwen, I really feel very strange.”. I remember that time, on the last night, your father said he would drive to buy cigarettes with your second uncle, but he went there for several hours and came back in the early morning. When he came back, your second uncle was missing, and your father was alone, panicked and dirty, saying that he had fallen down. Then suddenly he said he wanted to leave and go back to the city. At that time, I was driving with our family. When
she said that, I also had an impression. It was
also when we went to the countryside that we met my cousin’s first love, Lv Jiajia. Not long after I
came back, my father’s business on the right track suddenly suffered a setback and lost hundreds of thousands of yuan.
A few months later, the second uncle wanted to decorate the old house, and asked my father for more than 100,000 yuan, that is, the one by Liu Peng’s family. There seems to be an invisible line between
these things, which connects everything reasonably into a clear and complete truth.
But now we are all at a loss.
I simply persuaded my mother a few words of relief and accompanied her to eat the dumplings tastelessly.
When I finally coaxed her to rest, I sat alone on the sofa in the living room and reorganized the whole thing.
Soon, a very bold and scary idea appeared in my mind, which made me so frightened that my whole body was cold from beginning to end.
Lv Jiajia’s disappearance, my father’s panic that night, as well as the sudden demolition of the old earth Kang, the second uncle’s secrecy.
Could it be that there was a man hiding under the Kang where I slept that night? As soon as
this thought came out, I was so frightened that I jumped up from the sofa. What about
my dad? What’s his role?
I remembered that I had always thought that he had no bottom line for his relatives, and I thought that the second uncle was taking money from his pocket like a gold-swallowing monster.
Could it be that he knew about this and shielded the second uncle, and even paid for the second uncle to settle it?
But no, if he really knew, why did he take the initiative to mention going back to the old house, why did he let me sleep on a corpse, as if he knew nothing about the secret of the old house?
I dare not delve into it any more. All this is going out of my mind. At
twelve o’clock in the evening, my father came home drunk again.
As soon as he turned on the living room light, he was startled by me sitting in the dark.
“It’s Wenwen.” After seeing me clearly, he patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief. He jumped and began to change his shoes. “Why are you sitting there with the light off?”? It’s too scary!
“What are you afraid of?” “Is it Lu Chia-chia?” I asked tentatively, word by word.
My father’s movements stopped at once.
After a while, he looked up at me and said, “What are you talking about, little girl? Who is Lu Chia-chia?”? Don’t be paranoid all the time. Your father and I are loyal to your mother!
“My cousin used to have a girlfriend, but after seeing her once in the countryside, I haven’t heard from her since.” I drawled, “Dad, you don’t think she’s dead.”
“What’s dead!” My father’s eyes widened, and he really looked like he didn’t know anything about it. “We just broke up at night. What are you talking about?” It
‘s nothing. I just read a novel recently in which people were killed and then built into the wall. I wondered if anyone in the countryside had killed someone and buried them in the Kang with cement.
“The inside of the Kang is empty. You don’t have any common sense to make a fire.”
My father shook his head in silence. “It’s so annoying to say this at night.”. You mustn’t speak in front of your mother when you come back. She’s so timid. Don’t frighten her.
“I see. You two are so bored.” I agreed with a relaxed smile. Seeing that
my father was about to go into the bathroom, I asked again, “Dad, why on earth is the second uncle so nervous when he mentions that old house?”
“I don’t know.” He shrugged his shoulders, looking very innocent indeed.
I dare not call the police.
On the one hand, the matter of hiding a corpse at the bottom of the Kang sounds really too psychedelic, and it is very difficult for the police to dig up the Kang in other people’s homes without any evidence, but to frighten the snake.
Second, I’m really not sure what my dad has to do with this. To be honest, selfishly, I’m afraid of losing my family.
I can only find more clues to explain the truth of all this.
So the next morning, I contacted Liu Peng.
With his beloved anchorwoman last night on the list of things, and he quickly close the distance, let him open the conversation box. After
chatting for a while, I got down to business: “Liu Peng, there is something I think only you can help me with.”
Just me? No problem! He was somewhat pleasantly surprised, and the word “just” made it easy for him to be satisfied. “You can say anything, and leave it to my brother Xiao Peng.”
“Well, didn’t I go back to my old house last time and leave a very valuable ruby earring on the Kang?”
I pretended to be embarrassed. “You know, my second uncle and I are a little unhappy. If I ask him to help me find it, I guess it will be his.”. See if you can. I’ll send you the key, and you can sneak me in and look for it.
Liu Peng agreed to come down.
A few nights later, he got the key and entered my old house.
I kept in touch with him and directed Liu Peng to keep looking for possible places.
It’s not gonna happen anywhere. I didn’t lose any ruby earrings.
Sure enough, he looked for a big circle and turned around the Kang ten times, but there was no result.
I suddenly changed the subject and said, “Brother Peng, there’s one more thing I want to ask you.” “I heard that there are valuable things hidden in my old house,”
I called him affectionately. “Why don’t you help me look for them?”
Liu Peng tossed and turned at the other end. Suddenly, he remembered something: “Wen Wen!”! There might be something wrong with your Kang!
My heart jumped. There is a solid piece inside
this Kang, which is built with cement. In winter, the Kang may not be able to burn at all.
“Really?” I asked in a low voice, my heart beating fast.
He said with certainty, “I’ve been building houses for so many years, and I can’t be wrong.”
My guess has been confirmed again. At the end of
Liu Peng’s stay, I turned around and looked for the security elder brother of the company’s fellow countryman, and made a phone call to the second uncle. The second uncle at the other
end was playing mahjong and was very happy. He was caught off guard when he received the phone call. Ben was still very impatient.
It was not until the security guard spoke in his native dialect that he said,
“Lao Li, the old house in XX belongs to your family.”. I just saw a group of people go in, and now they just come out. Listen to them, it seems that they are in plain clothes or something, I don’t understand, are you in trouble? Who am I I am Lao Wang who lives in XX. I went there when your son got married a few days ago.
Hearing this, the second uncle, who had been shouting “five tubes,” suddenly became nervous.
I could clearly hear him get up and leave, toppling his chair.
I believe that soon, he will rush back to the old house and see that I deliberately let Liu Peng make a mess.
Then
Sure enough, the next morning, when my father was about to go out, the second uncle called him to ask for money. Uncharacteristically
, he didn’t open his mouth, and he only asked for fifteen thousand yuan. It
was euphemistically said that the old house was leaking and he wanted to repair it.
My dad looked puzzled.
“Where is the leak? Why didn’t I find it when I stayed last time?”? You’re not looking for an excuse to ask me for money, are you?
Really, Laosan, you help me once. It’s too late. I have to start work tonight! He even made up a reason, “My daughter-in-law’s family is coming over next month, and there are more than a dozen of them, but they didn’t get married last time because of the epidemic.”. If they don’t repair the old house, they won’t have a place to live. I
deliberately dug up the almanac I had prepared early in the morning and shouted through the phone,
“Second uncle, let’s break ground tomorrow. I think tomorrow is a good day to start work. Today is a big taboo.”
At the other end, he was silent for a few seconds. Then he clapped his thigh and said, “OK, listen to Wenwen. We’ll start tomorrow.”
My father used to give one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand yuan, and he gave it all. This time, he didn’t hesitate too long.
Soon, my dad sighed, “I’m going to transfer the money to you tomorrow morning.”
In the evening, he came home from work.
I pestered him behind my mother’s back and said, “Dad, I’ve already asked for leave for the next few days. Let’s go back to the countryside again.” He was confused by
my unusual request.
I even made up the same reason, saying that the ruby earrings my grandmother left me were lost in the old house, and I was afraid that my uncle would swallow them, so I had to go back and look for them myself.
My father really can not stand my grinding, and see me a worried look can not help but heartache, the next afternoon in the end to drive me back.
We deliberately did not communicate with the second uncle, and even to my mother, we only said that we were on a business trip for a few days.
On the way, I looked out of the window at the familiar highway scenery and sighed,
“Actually, I don’t think it’s very interesting for my second uncle to calculate this and that.”. Don’t calculate to the end and lose all your loved ones.
“You don’t understand. He’s afraid, too.” In the
car, there were only two of us, father and daughter, and my father rarely cut his heart and lungs to tell some of his deeply buried experiences.
When he was a child, his family was poor and could not afford to eat. His second brother secretly hid the only egg under his rice without telling his sisters.
He also said that when he first married my mother, the conditions were not good. The second uncle was afraid that my mother would not marry him because he was poor, so he secretly went to the mine to dig coal for several months, intending to buy a suit for my father to wear at the wedding.
As a result, there was a mine accident, and almost no one came out. The more
my dad talks, the more sour my heart is.
When it comes to family affection and cherishing, there must be something between two people.
But the more so, the more the second uncle thought that it was natural to give, and it was equally natural to take. Halfway through the
drive, I finally checked with my dad: “Dad, have you ever done anything guilty in your life?”
No.. “”. ”
In the mirror, I saw him facing forward, calm.
I hope, and so it is. Come on. When we
arrived in the village, it was already evening, and my father and I ran to the old house.
Obviously, the two visits were only half a month apart, but I had an illusion that it was like a lifetime ago.
Second uncle superstition, today is the auspicious day, and yesterday and tomorrow are taboo days, so he will start today.
If he had buried the body, which was a shameful thing, he would have waited until night, and no outsiders would have been present.
I was nervous and scared, hoping that the truth would be revealed, hoping that I was just thinking too much, and praying that it would never have anything to do with my father.
Unfortunately, when we were still at the gate of the old house, we heard the sound of digging holes inside.
Everything, as if finally confirmed. My father and
I appeared at the door of the room, where the cement bricks had been pried open and scattered on the ground, and the dust was misty, hiding the fact of dirt. In the
darkness, we vaguely saw a shriveled corpse facing us with deep eyes, shaking with the splashing of cement, as if helplessly revealing grievances..
For the first time in my life, I saw a dead person in reality, and it was such a ferocious mummy.
Can not help but cover his mouth, but simply can not hide their fear of screaming.
The second uncle and cousin turned around.
Perhaps it is difficult to sleep and eat for many days, perhaps it is the stimulation of cement ash, at the moment the second uncle’s eyes are bloodshot and red, like a mad beast, like the dead in hell.
The third brother? Wen Wen? The second uncle looked at my father and then looked at me again and again, until he raised the electric drill in his hand and said, “Why are you here?”
My father’s eyes widened, too. Doubt, fear, regret, disbelief, all filled his stagnant look at the moment.
This.. This It’s not going to be.. He ignored the second uncle, only staring at the bones, but how can not say the name.
Lv Chia-chia! This is Lu Chia-chia, isn’t it? I took his words. How did
she die? How could she die? Didn’t she go abroad! Didn’t she take the money and leave? My father rushed forward and grabbed the collar of the second uncle, not afraid of the electric drill working in the other hand.
My father’s veins burst, and he couldn’t tell whether it was anger or fear.
“What have you done?”! That night five years ago, you told me..
My heart was beating so hard that I could hear it.
Sure enough, my dad was involved in the whole thing, and he knew and was involved.
The second uncle held up a tool that could hurt my father at any time, and he gnashed his teeth as if he were ready to rush up desperately.
Only two people confronted each other for a long time, and the second uncle finally dropped his hand.
“Third brother..” His eyes were red, and he actually shed two lines of tears. “Five years ago, when you hit her with your car, she didn’t die, but then..”
My father’s hands began to shake violently. As the two
brothers talked to each other, I slowly restored the whole thing. That night
five years ago, my father drove his second uncle’s car and they went to buy cigarettes and alcohol together.
My father drank wine, originally could not drive, the second uncle coaxed him to say that the country road was empty at this point, and there would be no drunk driving check, it was all right.
My dad was so drunk that he sat in the driver’s seat in a daze. As a
result, a girl suddenly appeared on a dark path. When he stepped on the brake, the girl still fell to the ground limply, with blood on her legs and waist.
Turn over to look, unexpectedly is cousin’s girlfriend Lv Jiajia.
My father was scared out of his wits and half sober. He started to carry Lu Chia-chia to the car and said, “Hurry up, take her to the hospital.”
No, you can’t send! You have to go! I’ll fight this. It was the second uncle who stood up and said, “You’re drunk driving. If you take her to the hospital, you’re sure to go to prison!”! You go back to the city overnight, and when you leave, I will send Jiajia to the hospital, saying that I drive the car. She’s Chaochao’s girlfriend, and I’m sure she’ll forgive me. When the time comes, I’ll just pay some money and be done with it.
So, that night, in my mother’s memory, our family hurried back to the city.
Soon after, the second uncle claimed that Lv Jiajia agreed to understand, but he had to lose money, so he asked my father for hundreds of thousands of yuan again and again. A
few months later, my father asked about Lv Jiajia’s recent situation. The second uncle said that he felt that the girl did not really like her cousin and asked for so much money. He did not agree with them to continue their love and forced her cousin to break up with her. The girl left. I don’t know where she went later.
Now it seems that in the face of this skeleton, we know that Lv Jiajia has never gone far, nor can she go far.
As for the money, she was never blessed with it.
So, whose pocket did it go into?
“Yes, I lied to you.” The second uncle was able to tell the truth five years ago.
It’s all my fault that Chia-chia is not sensible. That night, I carried her home and put her on the Kang. I took care of her for several days. Later, when I said I wanted to settle, she insisted on calling the police. I quarreled with her, and she rolled from the bed to the ground. As a result, she pulled and pulled. She accidentally hit her head on the Kang and bled a lot.
Lv Jiajia’s family only had an old grandmother in the mountains, and then his cousin casually found a reason to fool the past.
My dad grabbed him by the collar and refused to let go
. “Just die?”? She died like this? You’re just gonna bury her! She’s a human being! She’s Chaochao’s girlfriend!
I looked at everything in front of me, my father, my second uncle, my cousin Chaochao, and even myself. I just felt that everyone was familiar and strange.
My father hit and ran, my second uncle killed and hid the body, and my cousin buried the evidence.
At this moment, I am equally selfish and foolish filial, but I am also entangled and afraid to call the police.
Remembering my mother’s joke, it turned out that the second uncle had really helped my father “hide” a woman.
I thought of the horoscope again, and the day the secret was revealed, I would lose something important.
I collapsed against the wall, crying and laughing helplessly and painfully.
At the same time, a siren sounded outside the house.
Who! Who called the police? The second uncle, who had been crying bitterly, suddenly stood up, and the electric drill in his hand roared like a fighter.
Pointing at me, he was about to pounce on me: Li Ching-wen! It’s you, it’s you, isn’t it! You just want me to die, and if I die, your father can leave all his property to you, not to my Chaochao, right?
He’s closing in, and my dad’s got me behind him. In the
confusion, my cousin, who was always silent, opened his mouth.
“Dad, it’s me. I called the police.” He knelt on the ground, as if he were guilty, as if he were pleading.
The second uncle looked back in disbelief. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in
five years. Don’t make any more mistakes, will you? Touching the body in the concrete,
he smiled:
“Dad, look, Jiajia is looking at me. She is asking me why I didn’t save her at that time and why I buried her here.”
Things seem to have come to an end, but for our family, everything has just begun.
I went back to the city alone and didn’t know how to explain to my mother that my father had been taken away.
I recalled the harmony of my cousin and his wife at the wedding feast, and I felt that the red thorns made my eyes ache.
I never thought that a relative’s wedding feast would lead to so many changes in the future. Many of
them were planned and uncovered by me. In the days that
followed, I ran between the law firm and the police station, hoping that Lv Jiajia’s grievances would be redressed, and that my father would be sentenced a few years less, so that he could spend his old age in peace.
Later, when I visited my father, he smiled bitterly and lamented the impermanence of life. That night five years ago, he just wanted to buy some cigarettes and bottles of wine for his cousin’s girlfriend as a gift.
I never thought that this trip would destroy several families.
The exact verdict may be a matter of months.
Our family had no choice but to wait quietly.
And just a few days ago, at the beginning of this month, I met Liu Peng.
He came to Tianjin to play, saying that the anchorwoman he liked was also from Tianjin, and maybe he would have a chance to pass by in the crowd.
I took him to Zhongshan Food Street for dinner, and unconsciously, we talked about the old house again.
“Lu Chia-chia, I’ve seen it several times.” He rolled his eyes and complained, “She said she hit herself on the Kang and died. I guess maybe it was Uncle Li who killed her.” As soon as
he said this, my heart was pulled up again.
Uncle Li doesn’t seem to have liked her all the time, and I once heard them quarrel. Uncle Li said that she was not obedient and asked her to leave with half of the money as agreed. She also said that she didn’t act like her, and she was almost seen to be flawed. Ah, I don’t know what she was supposed to play, but in the end she played people to death.
I stopped and opened my eyes wide. “When?”? When did you quarrel?
“Just a few days after you came back from the countryside five years ago..”
“Wasn’t she already in a car accident and bedridden?”
“No, I’m standing there arguing with Uncle Li.”
Divide the money?
Acting?
Standing perfectly fine?
A new look of the story reconnected in my mind.
Surprise?
Or fear?
I can’t tell you how I feel at this moment. I only know that the truth may be reversed again.
I also know that human nature may be far more terrible than I imagined. What is
family love? What is
blood thicker than water?
For a moment, I stood in the crowd of Zhongshan Food Street, feeling as if I had never known the answer..
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