Thinking of this, Bangzi began to feel strongly uneasy, he remembered that after going ashore, he couldn't help the guilt in his heart, looked back, and happened to see the scene of the old village chief screaming in the water, and saw the resentful eyes of the old village chief before he was drowned by the waves. (You can find this site)

As soon as he thought of it, he unconsciously trembled, and goosebumps appeared on his body.

But before Bangzi could think about it, the door of his room was pushed open with a 'bang', and then a voice roared: "Bangzi, something happened, hurry, let's go and see." ”

Bangzi was originally trapped in terrifying memories, and this startling startled Bangzi, and finally calmed down, and couldn't help roaring angrily; "Mom, what are you doing here? Don't you know that a surprise can scare people to death? ”

In fact, Bangzi usually doesn't dare to talk to his mother like this, but I don't know why, the anger is so big these days, and it has risen all of a sudden.

After finishing speaking, Bangzi also regretted it a little, but at this time, Bangzi's mother didn't bother to worry about Bangzi, so she came over and said, "Bangzi, the old priest in the village is dead!" ”

"Dead? What do you say? He's dead? Did those people hit too hard yesterday and beat them to death? Bangzi's heart sank, in this extraordinary period, it is undoubtedly a heavy thing to die a person, not to mention, there was such a trouble yesterday!

Now the hearts of the people in the village are fragile, for fear of creating evil again, if they die like this, they can't say it

In fact, during these days, there were suddenly a lot of people in the village who were silently doing good deeds, taking the initiative to maintain the public facilities in the village, helping the elderly to do this, and doing that before, these were all things that the old village chief was worried about.

What's the use of regretting it afterwards? Bangzi suddenly remembered the words of the old priest.

Faced with Bangzi's question, Bangzi's mother said: "It wasn't the people in the village who killed him, it was he who hanged himself in front of the door beam of his yard. Hey"

When Bangzi's mother said this, her tone was still a little relaxed, and it is estimated that her mood is the same as Bangzi's, as long as she is not beaten to death.

Bangzi also breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed: "Yes, I looked at him last night and was a little crazy, hey, this person is crazy, I'm afraid he can do anything, I'll go and see." ”

"Well, go and see, the people in the village are discussing to give him a thick burial, and it's not easy for a lonely old man." Bangzi's mother said with a soft heart.

Not only Bangzi's mother is so soft-hearted, but the people in the village are like this, these days have become extraordinarily soft-hearted, and extraordinarily sensitive, fragile and irritable, the madness of the old priest touched their sensitive nerves, and the death of the old priest touched the softness of their hearts.

The old priest was buried smoothly, because he left a letter, that is, his last words, which said that he had gone first, and he only hoped to be buried in the earth, so he had to go first.

The people in the village unanimously contributed money and efforts to hold a beautiful funeral for him, for fear that there would be a little mistake, the old priest just hoped to be buried in the ground, but the people in the village worked hard to hold a funeral, for fear that the funeral would not be beautiful.

In addition, the people in the village who attended the funeral were crying like the biological children of the old priest, especially the few people who participated in the beating of the old priest that night, and they knelt down in front of the grave for a long time, and their heads shook the earth.

This funeral seems so ridiculous to outsiders, is it useful to do such a thing after death? But the people of the village did not think so, as if this was the only way to vent the compassion in their hearts.

The old priest is gone, and in the whole story, he may be the only wise person, who has seen a lot of things, and has sadly seen through the despicable side of human nature, but he shouted that it was a ghost who came back to kill the whole village, but was that a ghost?

Obviously, the old priest may know some metaphysics, but he is not proficient in it, so he can't count what the one who came back is, but I don't think he wants to count, let alone know if the one who came back is a ghost.

After the funeral, the days in the village became calm again, and the shoes that were found ten days ago slowly became less sensitive to the people in the village.

More and more people are talking about it, and it's no longer the 'wound of confinement'.

Of course, no matter how much the discussion is, people will eventually laugh, end with a coincidence that a pair of shoes is rolled up by the river, and finally say a warm and polite goodbye, and if there is any change in this period, it is undoubtedly that the whole village has begun to become warm.

At dinnertime, Bangzi and Bangzi's mother were eating, and the meal was sumptuous, after all, in addition to two vegetarian dishes and a fish head soup, there was also a bowl of braised fish.

During these days, Bangzi's mother changed her previous thrifty habits, and always cooked very rich meals, and their family depended on each other for two mothers and sons, and it was not easy for Bangzi's mother to get rid of this thrifty habit.

Bangzi ate very fragrantly, ate a lot of fish, and ate a lot of food, and the table was full of fish bones that he vomited.

"Mom, you've been cooking a lot better lately." Satisfaction with food, of course, is indispensable for praise.

"Isn't it delicious? There are meat dishes every meal. Bangzi's mother said while putting vegetables on Bangzi.

"Mom, why did you become so reluctant?"

"I just thought, this person, maybe he'll leave at some point, it's better to eat." Bangzi's mother suddenly felt very emotional.

"Mom" Bangzi suddenly raised his head and shouted, he actually didn't want to think about these things.

"Hey, really, Mom has feelings, you said that if we had saved the old village chief at that time, our hearts would not have been so tormented," Speaking of this, Bangzi's mother paused for a moment, and then said: "Although the shoes were rolled up by the river, I was always uneasy when I thought about it, but now I regret it."

Bangzi was silent, and after a long time, Bangzi said: "Mom, I'm actually very guilty, I don't know why it happened at that time, you think, I don't know what monsters are under the waves, I'm afraid, everyone is rowing desperately, I'm afraid I can't catch up!" And isn't there someone who didn't save in the first place? I thought someone would save me, and I was right then."

"Forget it, son, don't explain, Mom was watching from the shore at the time! Mom also thought at the time, don't delay because of something, hurry back to the shore, I didn't think about letting you save people, I want others to save it. But hey, "Bangzi's mother is silent, isn't everyone thinking the same thing in everyone's heart?

It's like a bad thing, but it's related to one's own life and death, the first person has the courage to do it, and there are always people who will follow to do it, and then everyone will do it.

This is just like Pandora's box in Western legends, once a crack is opened, the disaster has flown out and can no longer be closed.

Night, tranquility.

With this in mind, Bangzi and Bangzi's mother fell asleep separately.

Li Yuan from the same village also fell asleep at this time, I don't know what, Li Yuan had a lot on his mind that night, and he always thought of many things, all about the old village chief.

During this night, Li Yuan had a dream.

Dreaming was originally a normal thing, but this dream, but

In the dream, Li Yuan first dreamed of all kinds of things before the old village chief's death, all black and white, like a movie, showing in front of Li Yuan one by one, the time in the dream seemed to be very long, covering the life of the old village chief, and the time in the dream seemed to be very short, and the scenes passed like lightning.

In this dream, Li Yuan saw the old village chief greeting him, and also saw the scene when the old village chief helped his family through difficulties, several times in the dream, Li Yuan's eyes were moist, he was the first person who refused to save the old village chief, he felt uncomfortable, guilty, he wanted to go up and say sorry to the old village chief.

But the dream was so strange that he was like a complete bystander, unable to do anything at all, not even to come forward and apologize.

Li Yuan was very anxious, very anxious, but the dream finally came to the last scene of the old village chief's life, the river, the sunshine of that day, and a group of them rowed a small boat to inspect the fishing grounds

At this moment, the dream changed from black and white to color!