"What makes you hit me? You are a stubborn old old bones. Why don't you die early! "
"You his niang of Lao tze a shit a urine feed you to such a big, still beat you? I killed the ball long ago, you bastard still don't know how to go! "
Neighbors pricked up their ears and listened to the excitement. Squinting their eyes, they saw Laogen beating Shi Gen outside with a broom. Shi Gen had no strength to fight back, and vicious curses kept coming out. People who watch the excitement have long been accustomed to it and never dissuade them. Yaoshui Village-This is an ancient village, just like being enclosed in a huge urn. People inside can't get out, and people outside can't get in. In that big place, there are more than a dozen families, that is, the couple who are chatting under the bed, and they will become the talk of neighbors the next day. It is no secret that something happened to Laogen's family.
02
The old root is half buried. Shi Gen is nominally eleven years old. He is the grandson of Lao Gen, saying that he is the grandson of his father and son, but he looks like an enemy. This goes back to the strange things that happened eleven years ago. Lao Gen had a son at that time. Laogen's son has always been unfilial, and there are few Laogen who have been disobedient since childhood. But one day at the age of twenty, he went up the mountain to break corn as usual, and suddenly brought back a woman, clamoring to marry her. Besides, he won't say anything. Who is that woman? From where? How did they meet? I don't know anything. Lao Gen watched his obedient son being possessed by a woman of unknown origin. Naturally, he refused to agree, but he was crazy and threatened Laogen with a kitchen knife around his neck. Laogen had a son, and his wife died young due to dystocia. She has always cherished this son, so she has no choice but to accept it.
Soon, a banquet was held to entertain the neighbors, and everyone was puzzled by the sudden wedding reception. Soon, rumors spread in Shuishui Village. Some people say that this woman is Shan Yao's soul catcher, some people say that this woman must have ulterior motives, and some gossipy women say jealously, "Look, that woman looks like an apple polisher, maybe she was dumped by a wild man there.
Sure enough, Lao Gen's daughter-in-law soon heard the good news, and the child was born in less than nine months. Everyone who has seen children is spreading it. The child's eyes are like his mother's eyebrows, nose and mouth, but not like his father. Lao Gen knew all about these chewy people, but they didn't respond and life went on as usual.
03
In a blink of an eye, on the day of the child's full moon, Lao Gen's family gave a banquet as usual, inviting everyone to eat full moon wine. It is said that the child was not as lively as an ordinary baby, seldom cried and was too quiet. But Lao Gen's son likes this child very much. He is very happy when he is free. After only three drinks, he was so happy that he passed out on the mat.
The old root family, which finally became lively, suddenly only had two sons and grandchildren, and both sons and daughters-in-law were gone. Lao Gen searched the whole village without any clues, so the two living people disappeared for no reason. Rumors in the village have started again. Some people began to remember that the mother of the child never appeared from beginning to end on the night of the full moon wine. The eagle-eyed man said that he saw her go up the mountain alone that night-in the direction of the cornfield. As for the old son, maybe he was hooked by his soul and left with him. Strange to say, no one mentioned it gradually. It seems that he is afraid of being retaliated by monsters and has hooked his soul. Laogen seems to accept this fact slowly, no longer looking for the whereabouts of his son, but only focusing on the cubs left by his son.
Lao Gen didn't name the child, and I don't know who was the first to say "Shi Gen, Shi Gen" with what kind of thoughts. As soon as he heard this, everyone began to cry, but Lao Gen didn't call him and kept cursing "Bunny" and "Bastard".
04
Watching Shi Gen grow up day by day, the old roots are getting older and older, and the discipline is not enough. When he grows up, Shi Gen really matches his name. I am a child, but I am not a willful child. I have a big temper, like a stone in the toilet-smelly and hard.
The quiet water village is restless again. Every day, either the master's garden was crushed, or the fence in Jia Xi was stabbed with a big hole, or whose fence was opened, and chickens and ducks were everywhere, causing the master's family to run after the village. No matter who has something bad on his mind, it must be the boy with Shi Gen. Piansheng that boy, although only nine or ten years old, is born with brute force, and he will launch malicious attacks, regardless of age. Everyone respects Lao Gen, who is also a respected old man in the village, and most of them endure not to have an attack. Tiemu, the neighbor's child next door to Laogen, is the same age as Shigen, and is also the famous "king of the children" in Shuicun Village. However, he only dared to lead Xiong Haizi in the same village to spit behind Shi Gen's tail and scold "little bastard", but Shi Gen also ignored him easily.
The relationship between Lao Genye and his grandson is notoriously incompatible in the eyes of villagers. Curses at home, the banging of pots and pans, and the beating often make up a symphony. Fortunately, Shi Gen never had the strength to fight back, otherwise he would have crushed the old old bones into powder with brute force. After all, Lao Gen is over seventy years old, and his body can no longer be banned. That day, after being thrown out in a huff and puff, Shi Gen fell ill when he returned to the house. This disease is threatening. When Shi Gen came home the next morning, there was really only one old bones left, as if she had changed her body overnight.
For the first time in a long time, the neighbors didn't hear anything about Lao Gen's house all day, and everyone seemed a little unaccustomed. The curious young man climbed the wall of Lao Gen's house at night and looked into the room. He only saw the dark room. Two shadows are lying, and the other one is kneeling on the bed, perhaps talking, and from time to time there are two thin coughs and long sighs.
The next morning, before dawn, the neighbors were awakened by the harsh "creaking" sound of Laogen's old door. When the genius is bright, people who can't stand temper will directly push open the half-open wooden door to find out. When they entered the room, they only saw Lao Gen lying on the bed and reaching out to find out-it was a cool body. In less than a quarter of an hour, the news of Lao Gen's death spread all over the village. Seeing that it was getting dark and Shi Gen hadn't come back, the villagers had to wrap the body of Laogen with a broken mat and send it hastily into the loess.
Laogen is dead, and many people say that Laogen is angry with wild children. Now, the villagers are not afraid to hinder the old man's face, and there is no reason to treat the boy. Just after the discussion here, people are waiting at the entrance of the village for Shi Gen to come back and tell the news.
For two weeks in a row, Shi Gen never appeared in the village again, just as his parents disappeared without warning eleven years ago. Later, someone dug up a bone in Lao Gen's cornfield. Since then, Yaoshui Village has been calm for many years, but no one dares to mention the Laogen family again, as if nothing strange had happened. A cornfield in the east has also been abandoned, and passers-by can't help shivering from a distance.
05
A few years later, Yaoshui Village continued to operate. Only one day, the boy Tiemu fainted in his yard. The next day, his family woke up only to find that after waking up, some incomprehensible nonsense came out of his mouth. Only one sentence was clear: "Shi Gen is back ..."
"Shi Gen came back ..." Temujin murmured.