Chapter 8 1. Fairy Boy Walking Against the Water

My real name is Liu Tianliang. My mother said that I was born near dawn, so my father named me Tianliang.When I first entered the hall, everyone called me "Shaliang". Later, my grandfather said: "After entering the hall, I am my brother. Don't call me Shaliang anymore." Erbatou asked: "What is that called?" ?” Grandpa looked at me with a smile and said, “The head is so big, let’s call it Datou.” From then on, everyone called me Datou.Erbatou often said to me: "The head is quite big, but the head is a paste." Grandpa would sometimes ask me: "Big head, do you regret following me?"

In fact, over the years, I have been thinking about this question over and over again, regret or not?Grandfather knew that I was not suitable for being Ah Bao, but let me join the hall... I was originally a waiter in a teahouse. If my grandfather didn't often drink tea there, I wouldn't know my grandfather.Every time I reserve the table for my grandfather, I will wipe the table and chairs clean before he comes.He dropped his fan, I will pick it up for him.He drops the coin, I'll pick it up and run after him and give it back.After a long time, my grandfather no longer treats me as an outsider, and every time he comes, he will shout: "Silly, make a pot of Longjing for my grandfather!"

I happily responded: "Come on!" I was fat and stupid, and people in the teahouse called me "Siliang".In fact, stupid or not, I know in my heart that we, ordinary people, in that era of war and chaos, are not at a disadvantage. Once my grandfather was drinking tea and asked me, "Who is in Shaliang's family?" I said: "If you come back to the master, there is only one old woman who is young. She just died of illness a year ago, and a sister married far away. I am the only one left in the family." The grandfather asked again: "Then how much money can you earn here a year?"

I smiled and said: "Master, I don't have any skills, I just run errands. Our shopkeeper is kind, just give me food, how dare I ask for money." The grandfather was silent for a while, and said: "After closing, you come to this place to find me, I have something to tell you." Then he left me a note with his address on it.I'm glad I went to a private school for a few days, otherwise I wouldn't even know the words. After the teahouse closed, I took this note and went to my grandfather's place.On the way, my heart was pounding, and I didn't know what this master wanted me to do, but my intuition told me that it shouldn't be a bad thing.

After turning a few turns, I finally arrived at my grandfather's residence, which was a big house.The gate faces south, and there is a big jujube tree after entering the gate. There is a large water tank in the middle of the aisle. Splashed ink fairy picture, on both sides are couplets, the first couplet: the benevolent person is benevolent and benevolent; the second couplet: Baohe, goodness and peace.I found out later that this couplet was written by my grandfather himself. When I arrived at my grandfather's place, my grandfather was holding a meeting for a group of people. There were about six or seven people. I had just arrived, and the meeting was just over. After the housekeeper led me in, my grandfather waved his hand, and those people all left.

Grandpa let me into the study and said: "Silly, sit down, I will talk to you." Then he ordered the servants to serve tea. I'm just a waiter, and on weekdays, I stand while others sit, watch while others drink, and let me sit. I don't know where to put my butt. Grandpa saw that I was nervous and said with a smile, "Don't be restrained, don't be restrained, sit down, sit down." I sat down tremblingly, and after a while, a maid in her fifties brought a pot of tea, filled two cups, brought a cup to my grandfather, and said, "Master, please." Then she brought me another cup. After drinking a cup, I quickly stood up and took the cup nervously. Grandpa smiled: "Sit down, sit down, you are my guest today."

I felt the muscles on my face tense, and said with a smile, "Thank you, thank you."It caused the grandfather and the old woman to laugh. The grandfather said to the maid: "Go down." The old woman took a look at me and left. Only my grandfather and I were left in the room, and I was spinning the teacup in my hand, not knowing what to say. Grandpa took a sip of tea and said, "Silly, are you going to be a waiter all your life?" I said: "Grandpa, I have no other skills, just running errands and eating a bite of food." Grandfather said: "You always call me Grandpa, Grandpa, but you never thought of becoming Grandpa yourself?"

When I heard this, I almost threw my teacup on the ground, and hurriedly said: "Master, what kind of words are you talking about! I was born to serve someone like you, my life is so cheap, how could I be so stupid?" What a blessing!" Grandpa's face darkened: "Spineless thing!" I was taken aback, this is not a matter of spinelessness, who doesn't want to be a master and let others serve him, he must have that ability.I bowed my head and fell silent. The grandfather sighed and said, "Silly, do you know? I was not as good as you before." "Huh?" I looked up, not understanding what he meant.

Grandpa said, "Come with me." Grandfather got up, and I followed him, followed him out of the main hall and into the west wing.As soon as I entered the door, I was shocked. Inside were all the memorial tablets for the dead. I looked carefully, and there were "Master Xian Kao Loving Father", "Master Xian Concubine Loving Mother", as well as elder brother, younger sister, and beloved brother. Confused, he stared blankly at his grandfather. Grandpa lit a stick of incense, put it in the incense burner, and told me about those old things. Grandfather's ancestors were members of the Tiandihui, and joined the Taiping Army in the late Qing Dynasty. Grandfather's father's generation lived a good life.After the Revolution of 1911, his father held important positions in the National Government, and later participated in the "Protection of the Law Movement". As a result, he was assassinated by the warlords of the Guangxi Clique because he firmly supported Sun Yat-sen's idea of ​​protecting the law by force. Jumped into the grandfather's house and killed the whole family.

Grandpa's grandpa and grandma were stabbed to death before they could snort. Mother and elder brother fought desperately with those killers. Mother was stabbed several times in the stomach, her intestines flowed out, and she lay on the ground, hugging tightly Holding the killer's legs, he yelled to his grandfather: "Take your brother and sister and run!" The grandfather escaped with his brother and sister in a panic. He ran for tens of miles all night before stopping. The younger brother and younger sister held each other in their arms, and the three wept bitterly. That year, the grandfather was 15 years old, the younger brother was 10 years old, the younger sister was 8 years old, and the dead brother was 18 years old.From then on, the three brothers and sisters who survived the disaster lived on the streets, begging for a living.

One day, three people were begging in the street, and a few people came across. One of them, wearing black glasses, handed them a few sesame seed cakes, and said, "Boy, I have some odd jobs here. You can help me with them. I'll give them to you when I'm done." money." The grandfather looked at them, then at the hungry siblings, and said, "What work?" The man said, "It's just cleaning the dishes and cleaning the table, I'm not tired." Grandpa thought for a while and said, "Okay. Where is it?" The man said, "It's very close, come with me." Speaking of this, grandpa's eyes were red, he sighed a long time, and said to me: "If... let me live again, I would rather brother and younger sister starve to death than take them to that place." Those people turned left and right, and brought the grandfather, brother and sister to an empty dilapidated house. As soon as they entered the door, the grandfather and the three were covered with handkerchiefs on their noses, and then they didn't know anything. It turned out that those people were all local Ah Bao, and they did not hesitate to create an inhumane murder case in order to set up a bureau.That year, there was a severe drought in the area, and the crops were almost dry.Abaos spread rumors that this is the evil result of the local people not doing good deeds. Recently, there will be "fairies entrusting their dreams". Everyone should pay attention when sleeping, and the "hehe two fairy children" will show their bodies in the river on a certain day, "walking against the water" Corpse" to tell the world. After the Ah Baos spread these rumors, they began to look for a scapegoat.The children of normal people dare not move easily, but they happened to meet three little beggars who were begging. No one would find such wild children even if they were killed, so they used ecstasy to fascinate the three brothers and sisters.Because the grandfather's younger brother and younger sister were not very different in age and about the same height, they were strangled to death, dressed in red and green matching clothes, dressed as "Hehe Erxiantong", tied the back of the corpse to a bamboo raft, soaked In the water, a long grass rope was drawn from the bottom of the bamboo raft and led to the upper reaches. At noon the next day, two Abaos slowly pulled the ropes upstream, while other Abaos created momentum by the river, attracting many people. Onlookers. Because the river is relatively wide and far away, no one can clearly see the doorway inside, so the corpses of the two boys and girls went upstream, and the treasures shouted: "Corpse walking against the water! There were too many people on the bank, so they sent a few people down the river, secretly cut the rope with scissors, and carried the two small corpses to the bank. Abaos said that these two "fairies" are the incarnations of "Hehe Erxian". They have repeatedly entrusted dreams to many people, and now they are speaking from their own experiences. Everyone must do more good deeds! At this time, people believed in the words of Abaos. Abaos poured diesel oil on the two corpses and set them on fire. in a temple.Since then, the local people have burned incense and donated money to the "Hehe Erxiantong", and this Abao gang has also made a fortune. Because the grandfather was too big to be useful, after he was fascinated, he strangled him with a rope for a while. Abao thought he was strangled to death, so they threw him in the back mountain to feed the wolves. As a result, it rained heavily that night, and the wolves did not Appeared, Grandfather actually came back to life, he did not die. When the grandfather woke up, he saw that his younger siblings were gone, and he didn't know where he was. He yelled frantically in the heavy rain: "Brother, younger sister!" His voice was broken, and the sound of rain and thunder covered everything. Standing in the heavy rain, Grandpa cried in despair. After daybreak, the grandfather went back to the city. Afraid he would meet those people again, he stole some clothes from the people on the edge of the city and dressed himself up as a child of a decent family. Talking about the matter of Xiantong walking against the water, there was an ominous premonition at that time.He came to the river with the crowd, and at this time several abaos had already fished up the corpses. The grandfather saw that it was his younger brother and younger sister. His heart felt as if he had been stabbed by a knife, and he almost fainted from the pain. He wished he could run over and kill those Abaos, and even more wanted to cry on the bodies of his younger brothers and sisters, but he held back, his heart was broken, but his consciousness was not broken. Revenge must be held back, otherwise, it will be a dead end.This is not something ordinary people can do. The 15-year-old grandfather did it, so he is a grandfather. Grandfather watched his younger brother and sister's bodies burn, he bit his lips, he smelled the smell of burnt meat of his younger brother and sister, he watched everything in front of him silently, his eyes were blood red. Suddenly, one of the Abaos spotted the grandfather in the crowd, and he winked at the other Abaos. The two Abaos ran towards the grandfather. The grandfather turned around and ran away when he saw that something was wrong. A Bao chased after him for a while, but disappeared. The grandfather found a corner and hid. After sunset, when the grandfather returned to the river again, the crowd had dispersed, and the grandfather cried heartily. In less than a month, his family was ruined, which he never dreamed of.For the first time, he thought of committing suicide, dead, dead, dead, but when he thought of his mother's heart-piercing cry and the helpless eyes of his younger brothers and sisters, he kept telling himself: I can't die, I'm dead It's over, if you want revenge, you must revenge! In the following period of time, the grandfather was begging secretly while searching for the traces of those abbots. He even dressed up as a child of a decent family and quietly followed behind some old ladies, just like a grandson accompanying his grandma to burn incense. Enter that temple to offer incense.Looking at the clay dolls made of the ashes of his younger brothers and sisters on the incense table, the grandfather suppressed his grief, and while offering incense, he said silently in his heart: "Brother, younger sister, don't worry, I will avenge you! " The grandfather knew that the abbot of this temple was in collusion with those A Baos, so he didn't dare to stay for a long time, and ran away after offering incense.He had to find those Ah Baos first, and then find a way to kill them.He stared outside the temple for a few days without any clues. After thinking about it, he suddenly remembered the broken house. It was from there that he and his younger siblings were fascinated, but before the fascination, he was sober, and his grandfather had a super memory , remembering the way, he was going to go back to that house and stay there to see if he could find any clues.So, in the middle of the night, after he was full, he went back to the house again. It was a courtyard house in an old house in the suburbs. The top of the wall was a bit collapsed. Grandpa lay on the outside of the wall and listened for a while, but there was no movement. It was pitch black inside. Grandpa felt around and found nothing except some broken furniture.He planned to stay here for a while at night, and go to watch the haystack not far from the house at dawn. Just as he was thinking, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps from behind the house, and the grandfather's heart skipped a beat. As it got closer, Grandpa ran out in a hurry, but he tripped over something, staggered, and almost fell down. By the moonlight, my grandfather saw that it was a long cleaning rod.The cleaning rod is an iron rod that people used to pass through the stove at that time. It is about as thick as a finger. It has a wooden handle on one end and can be held in the hand.Grandpa grabbed the cleaning rod, jumped over the wall and jumped outside. At this time, the gate of the house had been knocked open by several people. Grandpa hid behind the wall and peeked, and saw several people carrying two boxes in. It seemed that someone was humming. Those people carried the box into the house, and one of them took out a flint and lit the oil lamp with a fire.It became clear now, grandfather saw the faces of those people, two of them were exactly Ah Bao who tricked his three brothers and sisters into this house that day.At this time, one of the leaders said to the two Ah Baos: "You two are guarding here tonight, don't just f*cking drink, be careful to run away from these two old things, Fourth Master wants your life!" The two Abaos hurriedly said: "Second brother, don't worry! Second brother, don't worry!" Then, the leader took the other Abaos away.The two guys who stayed behind took out a large jug of wine, sat on the ground, took out a bag of meat from their arms, and chatted while eating. The grandfather fixed his eyes on the two Ah Baos, and thought: "I must kill you!" But the grandfather knew in his heart that if he jumped out rashly at this time, he would definitely not be able to beat these two strong A'Bao, he had to wait for the opportunity, when these two guys were almost drunk and dazed, he would be ready to attack. Grandpa stared at them for more than an hour without moving, seeing that their wine was about to run dry and their tongues were no longer bent, so he held the long cleaning rod, slowly turned over from the wall, and walked quietly towards the house.As soon as he walked to the middle of the yard, a Po suddenly stood up. Grandpa was startled, and quickly squatted behind the pomegranate tree beside the yard.That Ah Bao walked over staggeringly, muttering in his mouth: "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..." Then Ah Bao went to the pomegranate tree, took out his penis, stretched out his lower abdomen, and began to pee loudly, singing while urinating: "Little widow is going to the grave, it's raining..." Grandpa squatted behind the tree, and the urine sprinkled his face through the branches and leaves.Grandfather wanted to wait for him to go back after urinating, and then start from behind, but this kid has been peeing for a long time, and the urine kept splashing on Grandpa's face. Grandpa was angry and couldn't help it. He picked up the cleaning stick and stabbed at the boy's lower abdomen.The grandfather used all his strength to stab the kid's bladder, and the penis immediately ran out of urine, leaving a big hole in his stomach, and urine and blood sprayed out from the hole. The boy let out a scream of "Ah", covered his lower abdomen with his hands and fell to the ground and rolled.The grandfather stood up, and immediately stabbed the cleaning stick into his throat. His throat was pierced, and blood gushed out. The boy wanted to shout, but he couldn't, and he stopped moving after a while. The other Ah Bao heard movement outside, and hurriedly shouted in the room: "What...what's going on? Don't...don't scare me!" The grandfather rushed in quickly, knocked the opponent down with one knee, before the opponent realized what was going on, the grandfather held up the cleaning rod and stabbed him in the throat, this time with more force, the cleaning rod pierced him from the back of the neck When he came out, the boy kicked his legs and soon stopped moving. After grandfather killed the two, the humming sound in the box became louder.