Chapter 02 The Dead Give Gifts
After returning from the hospital, Wen Shuo's heart was heavy.
The sudden coma caused the cost of first aid to be sent to the hospital, which made him feel deeply guilty. Over the years, his family was financially struggling, and his mother worked as a cleaner in the farmers' market. The salary was basically free of charge except for the daily expenses of the family. In addition, Wen Shuo could not confirm whether he had really seen the late Han Kehu on the river bank in the early morning and turned into a ghost to see him. That memory had become blurred, making him suspect that it was just a dream he had after he was unconscious - as the saying goes, there was something he had thought about every day and night, he had been embarrassed to Han Kehu for the past three years. After accidentally learning about Han Kehu's death, he saw Han Kehu's body lying there in a mourning clothes and covering his face. So, it is inevitable that he would feel feelings?
Han Kehu was an elderly widowed man, so he had not been in corpse for three days, and there was no need to hold a funeral. He was reported to the village committee by the villagers early that morning, and the village committee took the lead in investing in cremation, pulled the urn back from the crematorium, and found a place to bury it on the edge of the river embankment.
There is not even a coffin!
The villagers were particular, and at least they even built a grave.
It was the next day that Wen Shuo learned that Han Kehu had been buried. He felt more and more guilty and a little scared.
He was worried that if there was a ghost, would Han Kehu come to him again?
So after school at noon, he chose the most yang energy of the day. He gritted his teeth and spent 50 cents to buy two blue papers. He borrowed a shovel from a family in Liujiaying Village. He came to the river embankment and found the small, lonely new tomb. He knelt down and kowtowed, burned the blue papers, and said a few words like "Don't come to me again". He stood up and symbolically shoveled soil to fill the grave. Then he looked at the nameless grave and suddenly felt sad. He ran to the Xianren Bridge, where there were the ruins left by the old bridge when the South Ring Road and Xianren Bridge were built more than ten years ago, which were the foundations that had been buried in the river embankment.
Wen Shuo dug out a relatively complete large blue brick from it, about ten centimeters thick, twenty centimeters wide and sixty centimeters long. He also found a hard piece of ceramic bowl with sharp pointed tips in the garbage pile next to him. After spending a lot of effort, he carved the five big words "Han Kehu's Tomb" on the blue brick and stood in front of the lonely tomb.
Logically speaking, erecting tombstones is very particular, but Wen Shuo did not know the direction of the coffin during the burial. Moreover, he judged that villagers who did not understand the burial culture and would not take Han Kehu too seriously would place them at will when they put the urns into the coffin. Therefore, Wen Shuo only followed the knowledge Han Kehu had taught and then erected this simple tombstone in the southwest of the tomb according to the direction of the river embankment and the crony river.
After erecting the small tombstone, he knelt down and kowtowed. Wen Shuo then got up and went home. He felt that his heavy heart was much more relaxed.
He believed that the matter had been revealed, and the trace of emotions between him and Han Kehu, which was not strong enough, was also considered to be considered a pity. Moreover, he decided that no matter what festival he had in the future, he would not go to Han Kehu's grave to worship.
Life has returned to its previous calm. Every day, he is not late or leave early. He listens carefully at school, reviews his homework, and counts the scrap collected by his brothers after school, sends them to the scrap station for money, and then distributes them according to his work - the scrap picking and acquisition of Dongy County No. 1 High School has been completely monopolized by him since the first day of Wen Shuo’s registration at the school three years ago. For three years, no one has any objection to this on and off campus!
Although Wen Shuo would get up early to study every morning, he never went to the river bank again... he was still scared.
One week later.
After school at noon that day, Wen Shuo rode the worn-out tricycle and took the truck of waste paper, plastic bottles and cans he collected to the scrap station for more than 40 yuan. When he returned to the community, it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon.
The cotton mill community is located at the intersection of Yuntainan Street and Qinghe Road. There are only three buildings in total, each building has three units and five floors. It was built in the mid-1980s. The red brick walls of the buildings are grouted in cement, and they are all old-fashioned wooden doors and windows. The pavement of the community paved with red bricks has passed by more than ten years, and there are potholes everywhere.
It is late spring and early summer, and the community is full of green trees, clusters of grass can be seen everywhere by the walls, and moss grows under the base of the building walls...
The old environment has a different kind of elegant and quiet beauty.
Wen Shuo’s home is in Room 1O1, Unit 3, Building 3, and there is no door at the entrance of the unit corridor. Step on two steps and enter. After walking a few steps, you will reach the doors of two houses on the first floor. The yellow walls around it are covered with various small advertisements.
Wen Shuo found that his door was open, but he was confused but didn't care. While entering the house to change his shoes, he said, "Mom, why isn't it closed?"
"Oh, Xiaoshuo, you're back!" A man's voice came from the living room.
Wen Shuo was stunned and saw a middle-aged man wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, black trousers and black leather shoes from the entrance of the living room, and a little bald. When he saw Wen Shuo, he immediately stepped forward and held Wen Shuo's right hand with both hands enthusiastically. He pulled him in a surprised expression and walked into the living room, saying, "Come on, let's sit down and talk."
"That... Village Chief Liu, this is my home." Wen Shuo said with a lot of laughter and cry.
"Ah, yes." Liu Maohe, the village chief of Liujiaying Village, did not realize that there was anything wrong with his attitude. He pulled Wen Shuo and sat on the sand, and couldn't wait to say, "Well, your master left a will during his lifetime to give you his old house. I'm busy these days, so I forgot about this matter. When I remembered it today, I hurried to find you..."
"My master?" Wen Shuo looked at his mother standing in front of the windowsill with confusion.
Li Qin curled her lips and said unhappily: "It's the old and sage Han Kehu, the charlatan in Liujiaying!"
Li Qin really has no good impression of Han Kehu, and she even holds a little resentment - this old guy bullied my son when he was young and ignorant, and even coaxed and deceived me, and taught me a lot of bad tricks of charlatans. Fortunately, I saw that I stopped him in time, and my son was also sensible and obedient, and broke off contact with Han Kehu early. Unexpectedly, three years later, the day after the old guy died, I was shocked. Moreover, he left a will to call my son's master without the consent of our mother and son. It was extremely hateful!
However, that old house is worth a little money.
Because the value of the old house may solve some practical difficulties in the future, Li Qin did not blow out Liu Maohe who was rashly visiting the door before, but she has always been conservative and feudal. Although Xu Mi and a cleaner at the farmers' market, Li Qin, who has been doing rough work for so many years, has been a bit of a bad idea by some big men over the years. Therefore, since Liu Maohe entered the door, Li Qin has been open to the door, so she can avoid being talked about by some people who saw Liu Mao and the family. Her son is already an adult. When she came back, she saw something that would happen...
People's words are terrifying!
Liu Maohe seemed not to want to consider Wen Shuo's attitude at all. He continued: "The rural homestead involves all aspects of complexity. Those like you who have no blood relationship with the old Han and lack actual support relationships will be difficult to legally inherit. What's more, your household registration is not in our village, so I have thought of a way for you to transfer the household registration to our village, and then you can transfer the homestead to your name smoothly."
"How can this work?" Li Qin said immediately: "Children have to use a city household registration to go to school. Besides, they have to use it to find a job in the future."
"Oh, Wen Shuo is about to graduate from high school, and the rural household registration in college is treated the same as the urban household registration." Liu Maohe seemed to have made sufficient preparations before coming and said, "Shuo Damn, I will reveal you the news that Liujiaying Village will be merged into the county town in only two years at most, and all villagers will transfer the household registration in County C."
"real?"
"Of course it's true!" Liu Maohe swore and said: "Actually, you don't have to worry about this at all. First, let's not talk about whether Wen Shuo can get into college. If he gets into college, will college students still worry about finding a good job in the future? When he graduates, the county, city, and provincial government agencies will not rush to get it?"
Li Qin nodded immediately with joy, as if her son had really been admitted to university and had a bright future.
As the two of them were talking, they left Wen Shuo aside.
He interrupted with laughter and crying, "Captain Liu, let's talk about it. I am not Han Kehu's apprentice..."
"Hey, who else can you be?" Liu Maohe immediately showed displeasure and said seriously: "Yes, I know the skills of the old Han and the business he does, which are illegal and feudal superstitions. But what era is this? Besides, what kind of thing do you like in the future? Who can force you to be a charlatan like the old Han? Children, you have to be conscientious, no matter how bad you are, you are poor. When you teach you carefully in Xianren Bridge, what can you do if you recognize this master? Don't be stubborn with me. If you really don't take Old Han to heart, why do you go to fill the grave and erect a monument for him?"
"I……"
"Okay, this matter is settled!" Liu Maohe looked at Li Qin with a smile and said, "I said Shuo, although our Liujiaying is a rural area, it is guarding the edge of the county town. The New Year is the land in the city. Lao Hantou's homestead is worth at least 18,000 now, and it may be worth a lot in the future, right?"
Li Qin nodded without hesitation and said, "Zhong!"
Wen Shuo looked helpless and confused.
He always felt that this matter was strange. Not only the content of the will left by Lao Han, but also the words and deeds of Liu Maohe, which was too abnormal. This guy's reputation of greed and domineering is not to mention Liu Jiaying Village, but even the adjacent farmers' market and cotton mill community knew about it. Therefore, since Lao Han's will was in Liu Maohe's hands, he must have thought about taking the old house for himself. How could he keep his promise to a dead old family, and be so serious and careful, and have made plans for Wen Shuo in all aspects?
"Okay, I'll go back and do the settlement for my child." Liu Maohe stood up and said happily: "You two are waiting at home. I'll go to the Yuntai Police Station, the Township Police Station, and the Earth Management Station..."
Seeing Liu Maohe doing this, Wen Shuo became more confused and frowned and stared at his eyes carefully, hoping to see something from it.
really……
Wen Shuo really saw that something was wrong.
But it was not a sinister and scheming expression, but he saw Liu Mao and Yin Tangqing, four layers of green marks - the kind of green marks that ordinary people cannot see, which were once said by Lao Han, who was stained with the evil spirit.
The fourth floor is four times and four days.
After seven days, it will turn from blue to black; in half a month, it will turn purple and black; when will it turn dark red...
The whole person is about to fall, and his life is over.
Chapter completed!