Chapter 28 Section 27

Since then, he has called me every night to tell me what happened and what he did that day.Later, more and more bizarre things did not occur to him, nor did I.I know he needs someone to talk to. He said that when he went to worship at the cat grave, he found a wooden wedge nailed to the tombstone of the cat grave.The material of the tombstone is the same as his grandma's, they are bluestone slabs, but the shape is much smaller.In this case, the wooden wedge will appear redundant and ugly. "Who put that wedge in?" he asked his mother.His mother burned paper in front of grandma's tombstone, and while burning it, she muttered about the blessings of the ancestors and the like.

Mom looked in the direction he was pointing at, froze for a moment, and said, "I don't know either." "Could it be the children in the village who made trouble?" He held on to the tombstone of Maofen with one hand, and tried to pull out the wooden wedge with the other. "Don't move!" Mom yelled.A gust of mountain wind blew by, rolling up the burning paper money into the air, and then scattered it down again. Pieces of flying paper ash were like withered leaves in autumn. Tong Shoucheng was startled, his hand was already on the wooden wedge, but he didn't dare to move more.

"What's wrong?" He looked at his mother and found that her expression was serious. "I heard a cat meowing." Mom whispered mysteriously. He listened attentively, only the rustling sound of the mountain wind blowing through the leaves, and the rushing sound of a stream not far away, where is there any meowing sound? "Listen, it's barking again, it seems to be a cat in heat." Mom's head slowly turned to an angle, as if she knew which direction the cat was following the sound source. "I still didn't hear anything." He let go of his hand, put it on his ear, and listened carefully.

"It stopped barking." Mom turned her head back to the original angle, and threw a piece of paper money into the fire. "Grandma bless, grandma bless! Cheng'er is ignorant, don't blame him, he is your own grandson, much closer than your cat. If it comes out to make trouble, please ask grandma to take it back." Tong Shoucheng looked down at his hand, then at the wooden wedge. Back home, Tong Shoucheng's mother asked the rest of the family if they knew the origin of the wooden wedge.Unexpectedly, Tong Shoucheng's uncle agreed immediately, saying: "It was the stonemason I called the tombstone who cut a hole and then inserted the wooden wedge. I knew a long time ago that Cheng'er accidentally killed the cat, and he would be punished later." .”

As soon as this remark came out, the whole family suddenly changed their colors.Tong Shoucheng felt cold all over, and his ears were buzzing. The aunt hurriedly said: "Don't talk nonsense, you will scare Cheng'er. Isn't it just a cat, how can it be so evil! You can't eat without meat dishes, so you also have to suffer retribution?" The uncle said sadly: "This cat is not ordinary. I once heard my mother say that it has a lot of background." Tong Shoucheng's mother wiped the sweat from her forehead, and asked fearfully, "What is it? What's its origin? Why haven't I heard from my mother?"

The uncle said: "I heard from my mother when I was ten years old. At that time, you hadn't come here yet, and Cheng'er hadn't yet. Cheng'er's father didn't even know about it." In fact, Tong Shoucheng's father knew something, otherwise he wouldn't have built a grave for the innocent dead cat, but he didn't know much. The aunt interrupted him and said loudly: "Aren't you talking nonsense with your eyes open? I still remember that the blind cat came to the house on my mother's fifty-first birthday. At that time, Cheng'er and his mother had already passed away. Here you are, and you are in your thirties, why did you hear about it when you were in your teens?"

The uncle said: "You only know one thing but not the other. When I was ten years old, my mother told me that a blind cat would definitely come to my house when she was in her fifties." Tong Shoucheng asked tremblingly: "How can grandma know the foresight? I have never discovered that grandma has such spirituality!"