C53 (2/2)

”What's wrong, Grandma?” I couldn't help but ask.

”Didn't your Second Uncle die!”

”Yeah, what's wrong?”

”He's alive again!”

”Alive? You saw it? ”

”That night, I was asleep in my bed,” said my grandmother. Feeling a hand on my face, I opened my eyes and saw a guy with a big round black head. Startled, I sat up in bed. Under the moonlight, it turned out to be a man wearing a jar on his head. I asked who. He said you'd take the jar off my head and look at it yourself.

Seeing him stretch out his neck towards me, I reached out my hands to grab the jar and pulled it out from his head. Because I didn't turn on the light and only used the moonlight, my eyes were not too good. But upon thinking about it, I thought your Second Uncle was already dead, and thought it couldn't possibly be him. Maybe your Eldest Uncle is just trying to scare me, because your Eldest Uncle looks a little similar to your Second Uncle.

So I got out of bed and turned on the light. With the light shining down on him, I could see his face. God! He is your Second Uncle! ” At this point, ”Pa!” His grandma slapped her thigh, her eyes wide and excited.

I saw that their legs were as thin as sticks, they were at least a handful of years old, and their bones were about as bad as usual, so I hurriedly advised, ”Grandmother, don't get too excited yet. Why are you slapping your legs so hard? What do you want to do with your legs?”

Grandma continued, ”I thought I was seeing things for a while, or maybe I was suffering from hysteria. ”He rubbed his eyes and slapped his head twice.” He raised his hand and pointed at his head, ”My head was swollen from the two slaps, but it still hurts! But from what I see, that person is your Second Uncle! At that time, I was so scared that I almost died, so I shouted loudly for someone to come!

”No one came even after shouting for half a day. And the man just looked at me and laughed and didn't talk to me. I asked him who the hell you were. He said, Mom, can't you see. The moment I heard him call me mother, I was 100% sure that he was your Second Uncle. It scared me to the point of peeing my pants, and it scared me to the point of peeing my pants.

I say, Er Xiao, Ye'er did not mistreat you when you were still alive. I was obviously biased towards you two, causing your brother and your sister-in-law to constantly criticize me, quarreling with me for so many times, I have never changed. If there's anything good left for you to do, I will leave it all to you. Since you're dead, let's not talk about losing a backer. But don't scare me like this again! Let me show you what I can do!

That person said, 'Mother, I have died unjustly. I died without knowing why!'

I say, Er Xiao, what do you want?

That person said, Mother, go and call Jin Shi over. Then, you can use this jar to cover his head and I will die in peace.

I looked at the jar that I threw on the bed. I couldn't figure it out, so I asked Jin Shi what was the use of wearing a jar over his head.

That person said, Mother, don't ask so much, I won't harm Jin Shi anyway. That child Jin Shi has a bitter life, I want to change his fate.

I thought it was even rarer, saying that wearing a jar on my head can change my fate, why don't you let me try covering my head first!

The man just smiled again and opened the door and went out without another word.

I carried the jar on the bed and looked at it. It was very heavy, and it was completely empty. It looked no different from the jar we usually use to pickle vegetables. I wanted to try it on myself, but then I thought, what if this dead man brought me something that I can't turn around in? ”So, I didn't dare to wear it, so I put it on the table, climbed onto the bed, and went to sleep!”

At this point, Grandma paused, picked up the teacup from the table, looked at it, and put it back on the table. She looked at me with a worried face and sighed. I got up, found the thermos, poured water into my glass, and said I wasn't thirsty. Grandma raised her water glass and blew on it. After taking two sips, she continued, ”The next morning, I went to the shed and told everyone present what happened to me last night.

Everyone was shocked. He quickly surrounded the coffin to inspect it. At that time, the coffin had not been nailed to the ground. Only the lid had been placed on it. Everyone lifted the lid of the coffin and saw that your Second Uncle's body was still lying there. There was also the yellow paper covering the corpse's face. The torn sorghum stalks had been stuck in place.

The person just said, how does this corpse look like it has been moved? Old granny, are you having nightmares or playing around?

There were also some who said that the Old Granny really did not want Er Xiao to die.

I said I was all right, there was nothing wrong with me, I really didn't lie to you.

And ask about the few people who were guarding your Second Uncle at night. They said they sat up all night playing poker. Just stay close to the coffin. If anything happens inside, how can you not know, not to mention the body inside that opened the heavy lid of the coffin and came out. Everything was fine, nothing strange had happened.

I see no one believes me. In a hurry, he returned home with the jar. That the jar was evidence. The others all laughed and said that I was becoming more and more adept at tormenting others. A fool said, ”Auntie, then let me change my mind and wear this crock of yours. Let's see if I can get a wife next year.” and snatched the jar from my hands and covered his head! ”