I let out an 'um' and looked at the man named Wu Shengze a few more times. When the man saw me looking at him, he grinned and smiled. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a scheming person. However, Li Nuoyi's words are also reasonable, the so-called knowing people and knowing faces do not know their hearts. I still put him on the radar.

There was a faint premonition in my heart, it seemed that this trip to visit relatives was not so smooth. Perhaps the critical illness of Grandpa Li Nuoyi will bring a new round of power alternation whirlpool. And that's what everyone but Li Nuoyi likes to see.

Li Nuoyi and I walked into the old peach house, turned right, and came to the bedroom. There were more than a dozen young people in this small place. There were eight people playing cards around two tables, and when they saw us coming in, they didn't bother to say hello.

"These are my brothers and sisters, I don't want to introduce them, and I don't need to introduce them." Li Nuoyi whispered. I saw an old man lying on the bed in the corner of the room. The blackened quilt covered his ragged body, and his ditched face occasionally showed a look of pain. His dirty eyes were wide open, and the pair of eyes stared at the ceiling in a daze, without blinking. I don't know why, I can read an extreme state of mind, fear, in the eyes of an old man? Yes, it must be fear!

What was he, at the end of his life, fearing? I have no way of knowing.

Li Nuoyi looked at the old man, and tears immediately flowed, "Grandpa, I'm back." ”

She threw herself over, sobbing, and hugged the old man's withered arm.

There were several nurses next to the old man who were taking care of him, and one of them said, "We just gave the old man two shots, and he can't hold it anymore." If you have something to say, hurry up. ”

I frowned, how did this nurse speak?

Perhaps hearing Li Nuoyi's call, her grandfather finally reacted a little. The old man grabbed her hand tremblingly, and turned his head slowly, as if trying to see his granddaughter's appearance clearly with cloudy eyes.

"You, come back, come back." The old man's tone was indistinct, and it seemed that every word was consuming life energy.

"Grandpa, I'm sorry, I knew I would come back to accompany you sooner." Li Nuoyi shed tears while stroking the old man's shriveled arm, "You will definitely get better." ”

"Silly, kid. I, know, my own, the situation. The old man rolled his eyes hard and looked at me on the side, "He, yes?" ”

I glanced at Li Nuoyi, and then grabbed the old man's right hand very cooperatively, and said sincerely, "I am your grandson-in-law, grandfather." ”

Hearing what I said, the old man's body suddenly produced a great strength, he seemed to be burning the remaining vitality, he grabbed my arm with all his strength, "I, in this life, I can't rest assured, my granddaughter." You, want, protect, well, her. ”

"I will." I was about to break out in a cold sweat from his might.

"Protect her, the Li family, only she has it, a glimmer of hope." The old man was confused, and he couldn't even speak. He let go of his hand and looked at me with pale eyes without blinking. Breathing gradually became low and depressed, and finally stopped completely.

Li Nuoyi felt the old man's hand hanging weakly, and shouted heartbreakingly, "Nurse, first aid, save my grandfather." ”

The nurse at the bedside hurriedly came over to investigate the situation, and after first aid for a while, she finally shook her head, "Let's mourn and change, Old Man Li has left." ”

"How could it be! How could it be! Li Nuoyi sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, so sad that she lost the strength to cry.

Hearing the news of the death, the Li family all poured into the bedroom. Only a few women cried a few times, and not a single drop of tears fell. The men laughed and began to prepare the funeral items, and one by one the items were carried in from outside the old mansion and placed in the peach house.

No one noticed, even if it was death, Old Man Li's right hand was still holding me tightly. I pulled my hand out with great difficulty, and my mind was very confused.

Before he died, he said that only Li Nuoyi had a glimmer of hope in the Li family. What does this mean exactly? As the old saying goes, when a person is about to die, his words are also good. There is also a legend that a person who is about to die will see through many things that he could not see clearly in his life in a moment before he died.

Could it be that Old Man Li foresaw that the Li family would have some kind of subversive catastrophe?

In recent days, Li Nuoyi has been frequently pulled into a terrifying space, and she vaguely feels that she is cursed. And the source of the curse is her hometown, Liluo Village. The last words, do they have anything to do with that so-called curse?

With so few clues, I really don't have a clue.

Li Nuoyi was sad and still sat still, not crying, and his face was expressionless. I gently put my arms around her and helped her into the yard. As soon as the cold wind blew outside, she woke up. She hugged me, rested her chin on my shoulder, and cried.

Somehow, the sound of mourning music came from the house. Someone came and went from the two of us, busy.

"Crying, feel better, right?" I tried to lower my voice an octave as much as possible, the loss of a loved one is indeed painful, but it still needs to be faced in the end. Li Nuoyi is smart and rational, and naturally knows what he should do most now.

She grieved for a while, and finally wiped away her tears, and raised her red and swollen eyes to look at me, "Go in, some are busy." ”

This sentence is full of deep meaning and helplessness.

I nodded slightly, and she and I went back to the peach house again. A large number of villagers had already come to the house, and they changed the body of the old man of the Li family into a life jacket, and carried a coffin that looked very old and unknown to the center of the house.

Old Man Li, who was dressed in a white shroud, was carried into the coffin with a white sackcloth covering his face, and the coffin lid was placed not far away. Soon after, an elderly man walked in from outside the courtyard, and he walked around the courtyard with the widows and children of the Li family, pinching his fingers and not knowing what it was.

"He is the only yin and yang in Liluo Village, and all the weddings and funerals in the village must invite him." Seeing that I was looking at the man, Li Nuoyi immediately explained.

The so-called yin and yang is a special occupational name that is very common in the western countryside. Those who do this should be very familiar with the I Ching gossip, and people in superstitious areas consider dates to be very important. On the right day, whether it is marriage or burial, it will bring auspiciousness to future generations. However, it is taboo to get married at the wrong time, or to have a funeral, which can lead to family discord and disaster. So yin and yang are needed. Yin and yang will tell you what day of the month you should get married. It will also tell you that the dead should be kept at home for a few days, and on what day they should be burned to bless future generations.

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