Late at night on July 9, 1982, there was no trace of wind. If it weren’t for the thunderous screams of his mother, I’m afraid this sultry night would pass silently.
Just listening to the mother’s “ah”, the tone was prolonged, and the grandmother who was sleeping beside was awakened. She touched her mother’s belly and asked: “What’s wrong, do you want to give birth? Is it?” Mother said “Ah” again, this time not only prolonged the tone, but also made a few turns.
Grandma got out of bed to turn on the light. After turning on a few times, the light didn’t turn on, but the power went out. So I lit a candle. In that era, power outages were common in the countryside. On the mouth of the drunk liquor bottle, a half white candle was inserted, lighting up a quiet flame.
In the faint candlelight, I saw my mother lying on the bamboo mat on his back, her belly bulging high, and with the rapid breathing, her belly fell together, like an active volcano. , May break out at any time. Grandma opened her mother’s skirt and looked at it and said, “Oh, it’s bleeding.”
The mother’s voice became louder and more flowery. Mung bean beads of sweat ooze out on his forehead, which are actually golden yellow under the candlelight. Grandma grabbed the fan on the side and wanted to heat it up for her mother, but she didn’t want to fan the candle out all at once. In the darkness, I only heard my grandma say: “Wait, I will invite A-Lian.”
A-Lian, many people on the brigade also call her Granny A-Lian, she is here A well-known old woman who knows fortune-telling and can cure diseases, the key is to deliver babies. That night, grandma knocked on A-Lian’s door and told her that her mother was about to give birth and that there was a pool of blood on the mat. Alian pretentiously pinched and said, forget it, took a pair of scissors and followed. Grandma said that A-Lian looked very godly, and she was waiting for her to call in her clothes.
Grandma lit the candle again and laid hands on A-Lian. At this moment, my mother yelled suddenly and then passed out. A-Lian took her mother’s pulse and lifted her skirt to take a look. Her face was displeased. She said to her grandmother, “I’m afraid this child won’t survive, and he bleeds too much.” The grandmother couldn’t stand it, she trembled. He held out a wooden box and took out a few food stamps from it, begging A-Lian to find a way.
A-Lian repeatedly declined, when her mother woke up. She said softly: “Head, head, Granny Alian, it seems like her head is coming out.” Grandma took a closer look, and tears straightened out of joy. She took Alian’s hand and said, “Look, look, the Bodhisattva manifests That’s it!”
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I was completely out of the mother’s body. A-Lian cut the umbilical cord for me, dried my body, and stared at me forever. After watching for a while, she said something very unpleasant: “This child has a too pointed head, unlike ordinary people. He has evil spirits on his body and shouldn’t be born.”
Second God, my father knew this when he was rushed to see me. He was furious, slapped the table and yelled “X is A-Lian’s mother”. Originally, my father was agitated for such a scolding. Who knew that after a few days, something really happened to A-Lian’s house.
A few days later, The people in the brigade were all running to tell each other, telling the story, the grave to the north of the brigade was planed! Everyone ran over and saw that there was only one grave to be planed, the ancestral grave of Alian’s family. Father also ran. When he went to see it, he said, “I didn’t plan it. “
The squad leader in the brigade is not young. He said, this grave-planing thief is also strange. With so many unplaning, he will plan your Alian family alone. It’s a sin that was made, and it’s shown to people. You see, there is nothing to dig out, even the ashes are stripped. A-Lian was standing on the side at the time, but didn’t say a word.
Father has always been a rectal son. He is not afraid of suspicion, so he couldn’t help but interject: “The captain said something reasonable, A-Lian, you said a few days ago that our son is evil, I think it is. Your family has evil spirits, or how to dig out the grave for others! “When my father said so, A-Lian remained silent. When her father was gone, A-Lian followed all the way from behind. She pulled her father’s shirt with her shriveled hands and said to him, “Take me to see you again.” Home child. “
When my mother held me in her arms, I cried desperately as soon as I saw A-Lian. When A-Lian saw it, she turned around and said to her mother: “There was a power outage that day. It’s also dark, maybe I miscalculated, you kid is pretty good. “After speaking, she kept her head down. Mother sighed and said that it was not easy for Granny Alian, and her ancestral grave was being planed, and her heart must be uncomfortable. Father said badly: “It’s not that we asked people to plan. . “
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Anyway, my birth did not bring any misfortune to my family, nor did it cause any trouble in the brigade. Then I got older, mother She often took me back to my grandmother’s house, and always met A-Lian on the road. She looked at me every time, and then smiled and said to her mother: “Good-looking and good-looking! “As for the evil things that happened to me back then, she always seemed guilty. Every time she met, she said that she was not. Of course, her mother was also very reasonable and advised her not to take it seriously. Mother asked her why she was going, Alian always Say, I’m going to deliver the baby.
In 1986, A-Lian was sixty. That evening, I was catching ants on my cement field. I saw my father riding his car back from work, The first sentence he arrived home was—I heard that A-Lian was dead.
A-Lian was dead. He died beside the bed of the family who delivered the baby. The man in that family said, At that time, A-Lian saw the child’s head. Just when she was about to pull it out, she saw the child’s face and collapsed on the spot. She murmured: “You are the one who is the one who is the one ! “
The family was stunned, thinking that A-Lian was ill and they all went to help her, but the hostess suddenly shouted: “Oh, he went back, went back.Up! “Everyone saw that the baby retracted his head and got into the woman’s belly again. Then, the woman’s belly became more and more deflated, but A-Lian’s belly became bigger and bigger. I saw that there was more foam in A-Lian’s mouth. , Her eyes almost popped out, her belly bulging high, just like when my mother was pregnant with me.
Alian exhausted the last bit of strength in her life and said, “It’s you …” Then she kicked her legs, her head tilted, and she couldn’t move anymore. The man from that family said that she had never seen anything like this before. After A-Lian died, her stomach was always so big and kept there. I saw blood gurgling out from below.
A-Lian’s death was a sensation at the time. Some old people who knew how to calculate said that A-Lian was killed by a kid. Others said What the hell is there in this world. A few militiamen came from the brigade that night and they carried A-Lian away. It is said that the county sent someone to investigate this matter, but nothing was found.
About A-Lian, no one mentioned it again. One of my heart finally landed. During the four years from 1982 to 1986, I tried my best to pretend to be a normal person. Growing up like a child, I thought that the day she came to see me, I would be fooled by crying and crying. I didn’t expect that everything about this ghost hunter was pretended, and she would never let me go. In these four years, She tried to collect the righteousness of eighteen normal babies to subdue my strength, but ultimately failed. When my brother was about to be born in another family, I knew that the opportunity was finally here.