The son of the third uncle in his hometown wants to get married and wants to demolish the ancestral home and build a new house on the original site. For this reason, the third uncle specifically called Wang Yu’s father to go back to discuss. However, Wang Yu’s father suffered a stroke and was unable to move, so Wang Yu returned to his hometown instead of him.
The lonely old house was built on the slope next to the bamboo garden of Wang’s family. The third uncle took Wang Yu and a few nephews into the old house. The house has been abandoned for more than 20 years. If it weren’t for this homestead, I’m afraid no one would have stepped further.
“Xiaoyu, it stands to reason that this house belongs to your family, but your family has already settled in the city, and you don’t care about the property in the country. Just your brother. I want to build a new house, so please come back and go through the formalities.” The third uncle said apologetically, and pushed open the half-collapsed rotten wooden door. As a beam of sunlight shone into the dark old house, Wang Yu smelled a choking dust. taste. A row of wooden picture frames hung on the soil walls of the old house, and the thick dust made it difficult to see who was in the picture frame. The third uncle glanced at the room, his eyes fell on the picture frame on the wall, “there are only the portraits of these ancestors left in the room. So, let’s go to the ancestral grave some day and burn the portraits.”
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This night, Wang Yu rested at San Shu’s house. Sanshu’s house is not far from the old house. Turning downhill through the bamboo garden is a two-story building. Wang Yu was lying on an unfamiliar bed, tossing about and couldn’t sleep.
In the wee hours of the morning, he got up to the window and lit a cigarette. Outside the window, darkness enveloped everything. Suddenly, a red bright spot flashed, like a small fireball, and then again. Wang Yu felt a bit like the direction of an old house.
Is it haunted? Wang Yu thought of those gloomy portraits, sleepless all night.
Early the next morning, walking in the early morning mist in the countryside, Wang Yu turned uphill alone to the old house. He wanted to find out.
Wang Yu walked to the door of the old house. The footprints on the ground in the dust were messy and messy. They were left when Sanshu brought him and several cousins to the old house yesterday. Wang Yu stared at the footprints and suddenly cold sweat broke out on his back. Yesterday, all the men who came here were tall and magnificent. Why is there an extra line of petite women’s footprints today?
Wang Yu stretched out his hand and measured the line of footprints. Only half of his slap is the size of his palm. The footprints do not look like modern women’s high heels. The high heels of these shoes are in the shoes. In the center, step on the ground, press and warp, with a groove in the middle. The footprints walked to the root of the wall in the faint light of the morning light, and then stepped up the wall step by step, until they disappeared in front of a picture frame on the wall.
Wang Yu wiped away the accumulated dust over the years and saw a full-length portrait of a woman in the frame. She was wearing an embroidered double-breasted robe from the late Qing Dynasty when Wang Yu looked at her. Down, his eyes widened when he saw her feet. These weird footprints are the flag shoes of the woman in this portraitStepped out.
Wang Yu didn’t dare to stay in the old house anymore, and hurried back to find his third uncle. After listening to Wang Yu’s account, the uncle, who had always been calm and prudent, couldn’t help but shudder, muttering: “Injustice, this is all an injustice!” With that, the third uncle took out a shabby thread-bound book from the old wooden box. To Wang Yu: “Xiaoyu, this is the genealogy of our Wang family. That woman is a person in your grandpa grandfather’s genealogy, named Yao Yaohong. She was originally a brothel girl and was a concubine bought by your grandfather.” br>
Wang Yu’s grandfather, Wang Xiling, was born in the Qing Dynasty. He was once a magistrate of Quang Binh. It didn’t take long for Yaoyaohong to redeem him. Wang Xiling was impeached and lost because of offending her boss. Zhu Yaoyao Hong returned to his hometown.
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The original wife, who had always lived in the country, naturally couldn’t tolerate this concubine from a brothel, saying that she was a born broom star, and that if it weren’t for her , Maybe Wang Xiling would not lose the official.
I just said that no one believed it, but after a long time, even Wang Xiling himself was a little suspicious. One day, in a rage, Yaoyaohong was locked in the wood house. Two leftover meals are eaten away. Yaoyao was so red that she couldn’t argue, one winter night, she was so wronged that she lit the straw pylon in the wood house, burned the old house, and burned herself to death.
It is said that Yaoyaohong cast a poisonous curse before his death, asking the king to never exceed his life for generations. It’s strange to say that since then, the Wang family has really declined, and the eldest wife of the Wang family has also become nagging. She always says that ghosts haunt her all day, pinch her and beat her and kick her, half a year later. Died from shock. In the winter of this year, the only son born to Mrs. Wang suddenly disappeared and was never found.
Wang Xiling regretted being too harsh on Yaoyaohong. In order to redeem her sins, he repaired a burial mound for Yaoyaohong, and asked someone to draw a full-length portrait of her to hang at home. But this did not prevent the decline of the Wang family.
“Then what happened to this footprint now?” Wang Yu asked suspiciously.
“I heard from the older generation that this Yaoyao Hong had set himself on fire, and the ghosts were too grieving, and the ghosts persisted. Every once in a while, she would come out to make trouble. There is no good result.”
Wang Yu felt cold in his heart: “Is it staring at me?” The third uncle took a puff of smoke and said slowly, “I’m afraid it is.”< br>
Sleeping on the bed at night, Wang Yu was about to fall asleep. Suddenly he felt his shoulder sink. He looked down, and a pale green hand stretched out from under the bed to his shoulder, still Touch the heart position on the chest. Wang Yu couldn’t bear it anymore and fainted with a shout.
When he woke up, it was dawn. He was lying on the bed with people standing beside it. The third uncle asked with concern: “Xiaoyu, are you okay?”
Wang Yu shook his head. Third Uncle asked about what happened last night. Wang Yu recalled the frightening scene and couldn’t help but feel palpitations. When he told his bizarre experience to his third uncle, the third uncle was silent for a long time before he said: “It seems that Yaoyaohong’s ghost knows that you are the eldest grandson of the prince’s family, so he has found you.”
“What can I do?” Wang Yu asked worriedly.
“For the current plan, the only way to do this is to change the owner of the old house to your brother. Originally, he also wanted to demolish the old house and build a new house. He took the opportunity to rejoice. Maybe it can be avoided. The catastrophe of our king’s family.”
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Wang Yu remembered the previous question: “Uncle San, don’t you mean that Grandpa Gao’s only son has suddenly disappeared, never Did you find it? Then how did our descendants come from?”
“After the grandfather’s only son disappeared, he adopted a child among the relatives. We brothers are all It is the offspring of that child. Only your family is not. Soon after Xi Ling’s grandfather died, your grandfather came back here and said that he was the missing child and showed evidence. It was a long-lived one hundred years old The silver lock, with a piece of emerald inlaid on the lock surface. It was a treasure obtained by the ancestor of Xiling when he was in office. Because of the precious gold, it was passed to the only son and was set on his collar. Later, the old man of the Jing clan Confirmed that he was the missing child. Finally, he recognized his ancestors and changed the title deed of the old house to your grandfather’s name.”
Upon hearing this, Wang Yu was relieved. “Unfortunately, when your father was thirteen years old, your grandfather encountered Yaoyaohong’s ghost and killed him violently. Even your father was frightened by Yaoyaohong’s ghost when he came back to sweep the ancestor’s grave the year before the first year ago… He had a stroke.”
Wang Yu didn’t expect his father to have such an experience, and he couldn’t help being stunned. Think about it, my father did go back to his hometown before he had a stroke, and there was something wrong with his whole person after he went back, but he never talked about it to Wang Yu. No wonder he always refused to let himself come back on weekdays. This time, if he had a stroke and the personnel didn’t know what happened, and the third uncle was in a hurry, Wang Yu would not come back without telling his father. Unexpectedly, it was shocking to encounter such a thing when I came back.
Wang Yu, following the idea of his uncle, handled the agreement for the renaming of the old house site for free transfer, and then took the agreement to bring it back to the city for his father to stamp his handprint. Sitting in the car back to the city, he was still anxious, wondering if he would be able to get rid of the hundred-year doom curse in the family.
He leaned on the seat, his ears were filled with strange and familiar local accents, and he heard a little fascinated unconsciously.
When he arrived at the provincial capital, Wang Yu’s first thing was to call his old classmate Li Qiang. He worked at the Provincial Survey Institute, Wang Yu used him to confirm a certain gossip he had just heard in the car, and returned home.
He read the agreement to his father who was lying on the bed, and then told all his experiences and some thoughts. There were turbid tears in his father’s old eyes. Obviously, he had also thought of something. Although he could not move, his thoughts were still there. He looked at the agreement and insisted that Wang Yu press his fingerprints for him.
Wang Yu went back to his hometown again. When he put the agreement with his father’s fingerprints in front of his third uncle, the whole family of the third uncle was happy.
Wang Yu said coldly: “Uncle San, to be honest, why do you want this homestead?” Uncle San smiled awkwardly: “Of course it is to give Your brother builds a new house to get married, and then saves your life.”
“Don’t fool me, when I went back, I heard that the provincial capital was going to open up Longshan and build a high-speed rail, just passing the old house. , You are for that expensive compensation and a placement job.” Sanshu froze suddenly.
“Actually, if you told your father or I honestly, we would give it to you. After all, our family’s life is pretty good now, and it’s not guilty to make red eyes with old relatives for this money. It’s like an enemy. But, I didn’t expect you to use your brains and pretend to deceive and harm others.”
The third uncle’s face blushed and white, and the whole family could not tell. Words come. Wang Yu pushed the door and left.
On the car returning to the city, he heard the villagers’ comments. After he asked Li Qiang about several rumors about building a high-speed rail, Wang Yu concluded that there was a ghost in it. But when he thought that the haunted person was his third uncle, he didn’t want to bother anymore. Just as my father struggled to spit out a few words from his throat: “It’s a brother after all… forget it.” In the face of money, family affection is so vulnerable. He couldn’t help sighing. The phone rang, it was Li Qiang.
“Wang Yu, the plan for the construction of the high-speed rail has been finalized. In order to open up the Beijing-Nine major passages, the section of your old house has been relocated. What a pity. A lot of compensation Ah!”
It’s really not as good as the sky. Wang Yu glanced at the old house one last time, turned and left, never looking back.