Chapter 376 Chapter Thirteen Foresight Scars

Attracted by the sound of firecrackers, grandpa involuntarily looked out the door.It just so happened that a strange figure walked by not far ahead. "Why is he here?" Grandpa was stunned and said to himself. At this time, Ma Juhe had already returned to the main room with the bowl, with a dejected expression on his face.Hearing grandpa talking to himself, he pulled himself together and asked, "Father Yue, who do you think is here?" He poked his head out from the door and looked around, there were only children in twos and threes setting off firecrackers outside.He scolded the group of children again.

"I used to know a friend who specially chanted curses to drive away ghosts." Grandpa said. Ma Juhe pursed his lips and said, "Have you not seen each other for a long time? Maybe it's because the Chinese New Year is coming soon. He came here to contact relatives and talk about the Chinese New Year." In such a palm-sized place, the way to celebrate the New Year is not the same.Some people start the Chinese New Year on the morning of New Year's Eve, some people start it at noon that day, and some people start it at night.Therefore, relatives move around frequently on this day. They often spend the early years at a relative’s house first, and then go to another relative’s house for the noon year. .

For example, my family celebrates the early years, while the Huamei Village, which is a hill away, celebrates the noon years. What Ma Juhe meant was that Grandpa's friend might have come to Huamei to contact relatives and make an appointment to go to whose house to celebrate the New Year first and then to whose house to celebrate the New Year. Grandpa thought for a while and said, "I haven't heard him say that there are any relatives here." Ma Juhe shook the bowl in his hand and said, "Maybe he didn't mention it to you." Grandpa said: "Maybe it's because I'm getting old and my memory is not good. Hehe, I haven't seen him for more than 30 years. Even if I said it, I forgot everything." Grandpa scratched the back of his head , Then he took out a cigarette and asked Ma Juhe for fire.

Ma Juhe took out a lighter.Grandpa waved his hand and asked, "Do you have matches at home?" "Matches? People talk about matches now. I used matches when my father was alive, who still uses them now?" Ma Juhe glanced at the wall where his father's portrait hung.From a distance, he couldn't see the faint shadow of that piece, but he knew in his heart that his father was still there.Maybe his father is secretly listening to every sound in this old house with his ears, maybe his father is secretly watching every thing in this old house with his eyes. The daughter-in-law of Ma Juhe in the back room heard their conversation and said abruptly: "Juhe, I remember we still have a pack of matches at home, which was not used up when your father was alive. I put it on the sewing machine." Ma Juhe's family The sewing machine has not been used for many years. His wife turned the upper machine to the bottom, and the sewing machine is not much different from an ordinary table.My family also has an identical "Phoenix" brand sewing machine.When I was not in school, my mother often sat next to the sewing machine to sew and mend. Later, I didn't want to wear the mended pants, and my mother's sewing machine gradually rusted.But my mother often wiped it with engine oil, and often mentioned the three big and three small pieces that were necessary for marriage in their era.

Ma Juhe hurriedly put the bowl back into the kitchen, and then found the remaining matches for his grandfather. The match was found, but it was no longer usable.The matchstick scratched the phosphor surface of the matchbox, but none of them ignited. "Damp matches need to be dried before they can be used." Grandpa handed the matches back to Ma Juhe, "You've kept them for too long, so they can't be used anymore." Ma Juhe frowned and said: "This thing is almost out of the stage of history, who would bother to dry it? Throw it away when it can't be used." After finishing speaking, he raised his hand, and the match was thrown into the corner in the dustpan.

The smile on Grandpa's face became unnatural, and he sighed and said, "I'm going back." Ma Juhe hastily grabbed his grandfather and said, "Then leave that baby-phobic ghost in my family alone?" Grandpa said: "You can just feed it milk and water every day." Ma Juhe still held his grandfather, and asked: "Am I going to keep feeding like this? When will this be the end?" His tone was full of anger, but he tried his best to suppress the tone. Grandpa said: "This is very simple. You can see when your child is weaned and when you can stop breastfeeding infantphobia."

Ma Juhe let go of his hand. Grandpa came to the ground, and Ma Juhe yelled at him again: "Father Yue, when the milk debt from the previous life is paid off, what will happen to that piggy?" Grandpa didn't turn his head back, and didn't stop walking. He raised his hand holding the cigarette and said, "Send it to a nearby temple, let it be a pig." Later, I heard from my grandma that Ma Juhe sent the piglet to the temple in Dayun Mountain after the child was weaned.His wife and children are safe and sound.His wife has no more nightmares.What surprised them was that Ma Juhe's daughter-in-law felt more and more familiar with the growing child.She can even imagine what her son will look like when he grows up.In her vague impression, her son will have a scar on his face in the future.

By the time her son was three, I was already in college.When I talked to my mother by chance, my mother told me that Ma Juhe’s child’s face was accidentally scratched by broken glass. Although it was not serious, it left an ugly scar. It doesn't disappear completely when you get older. Grandpa didn't tell Ma Juhe one thing.That is, he had long noticed that there was a scar under the eye of that piggy.At that time, grandpa foresaw that Ma Juhe's child would be disfigured in the future, but grandpa didn't say anything.Because even if you tell them, the scar is unavoidable no matter what, and it will only increase the worries of Ma Juhe and his wife.

Obviously Ma Juhe's father did not foresee this.After Ma Juhe sent the piglet to Dayun Mountain, the faint shadow on the wall disappeared and never appeared again. After Grandpa told Ma Juhe what to do in the future, he took a leisurely walk around Huamei Village, found nothing, and then walked slowly towards home. He walked around like this in order to touch the person he saw just now.Maybe, as Ma Juhe said, that person has relatives in Huamei Village?