Doomed Destiny - C66
The San Geda said, “Ninth Grandmother, the child that has been missing for 18 years has returned from Brother Donghai’s house!”
Blind Old Lady frowned and said, “Is that the eldest son of the Donghai family that went missing? Why did he come back? He’s already dead! ”
San Geda was stunned for a moment before asking, “Ninth Grandmother, how did you know he died?”
The Blind Old Lady said, “Eastsea has asked me to make some divination. Let me help him find out where his eldest son is. However, every time I received a divination, it turned out that his eldest son was already dead. That is, the year he went missing, he died when he was four! ”
Lying on the bed, the old woman with a head full of silver hair coughed heavily. She panted and said, “Ninth Aunt, what if you miscalculated!”
“How could I be wrong!”
“You are not an immortal, so you can’t always be right! I think this kid looks like the East Sea! It must be his eldest son! ” After saying that, the silver-haired old woman on the bed coughed again and stared at me with her cloudy eyes.
“Grandmother!” I shouted.
“Sigh!” My good grandson! I’ve finally seen you! I was the one who brought you to the age of four, and let that damn dad of yours accidentally disappear you! ” The silver-haired old lady who was lying on the bed coughed as she cried.
It was noon. Da Laozhu’s wife, Chao Xixi, cooked a pot of rice and gave everyone a bowl. It was a thick mush of corn. Drink it with pickled vegetables. No buns. Fortunately, the corn was thick, and a bowl of it was good for a hungry stomach. I can’t help sighing. Six years have passed since the twenty-first century, and there is still such a poor place.
In the afternoon, San Geda said to me, “Eldest nephew, it will be the new year soon. Let’s go to the ancestral grave to take a look!”
I had no objections and felt that recognizing the ancestral grave was good as well, so I followed San Geda down.
Reaching the grave, San Geda pointed to one of the newer tombs and said: “Eldest nephew, this is the grave of your father and mother! The two of them were at the same grave. The couple have been blaming themselves ever since they lost you. Not even a few years after giving birth to your Second Brother, you fell sick and died! First of all, your father is dead, and then your mother is also dead! ”
The more I heard, the more confused I became. “Third Uncle, my father and mother are living well! I saw them yesterday! ”
San Geda said, “You’re talking about foster parents, right? What do they do? ”
“One is a university teacher and the other is a doctor from the hospital! Eh, that’s not right! My real parents. Father is called Jin Donghai, Mother is called Yao Shuqin! ” “No,” I said.
San Geda looked at me strangely. “Eldest nephew, is your brain alright?”
“My mind is fine!”
“There must be something wrong with your head, but it’s not serious. After all, you can still remember your father and mother’s names!” The San Geda said.
At that moment, the village loudspeaker rang. “Fellow villagers, today is the twenty-sixth day of the first month of 1984. In four days, it will be the thirtieth day of the new year. Congratulations in advance for a year of peace. Everyone should actively do home and village hygiene, dry weather, to do fire protection! Next, there’s a song: Oriental Red. ”
The melody began.
Chorus: “Oriental red, the sun rises, China has a hair. Ye Xiao was shocked. “East, he seeks happiness for the people, hahaha, he is the great savior of the people …”
I was stunned. His brain went blank.
What was going on? How could it be 1984?
Did I transcend over history?
But after thinking for a while, he understood. I didn’t fall to my death when I jumped off the sixteenth floor, and I even fell into an unfathomably deep hole. Out of the hole. Another “flying man” with wings. This was already a series of abnormal things, even if he transmigrated, it wasn’t strange at all. There were also invisible people!
I also understood that I had come to do something for the “invisible man” at his request. Find a ten-year old child with a red cannon ball in his hand.
With that in mind, I reached into my pocket and touched the book. This book is also rare. I fell into the river and got soaked, but it didn’t get wet. But it looked no different from ordinary paper.
Since San Geda recognized the wrong person. Then I might as well make the mistake. At least I can eat and drink with him.
After all, this was an era that I was unfamiliar with.
Therefore, I pretended to ask San Geda: “Third Uncle, where is my Second Brother?”
“That Second Brother of yours is so promising!” San Geda glared as he grinned.
“How did he become so promising?”
“He learned to drive. Be a chauffeur for the county magistrate! Your Second Brother is as old as my Da Laozhu, and two years younger! But he’s even better than you and Da Laozhu combined! ” The San Geda said.
I couldn’t help but laugh. “It’s just a driver,” I said. Besides, how do you know I’m useless! ”
“What future do you have?” The San Geda asked with his eyes wide open.
I can’t answer that.
“If you were that smart, how could you have fallen into the river? Such a wide bridge, how could he fall into the river while walking? I can walk past it with my eyes closed! ” The San Geda said.
I didn’t say anything because I didn’t know what to say.
The San Geda said, “You are not short, you are able to become a Jujube. When the dates ripen next year, you help me get enough dates. I planted two jujube trees behind my house! Oh right, eldest nephew, are you still leaving? ”
I said, “No, there’s nowhere to go!”
“Alright, let’s leave it here for now. Anyway, your father’s house is empty. Your Second Brother lives in the city! ”
I knelt down, kowtowed three times to the newer grave, and sprinkled a handful of dirt over it. He had worshipped his’ parents’.
Then, San Geda brought me to the house left behind by “Father and Mother.”
“Your Second Brother gave me his key, so I helped him look after the house. Now that you’re back, I’ll give you the key! “You clean up your own house, I have to go back. I still have things to do in my house!” When we arrived at the entrance of a dilapidated old house, San Geda handed me a bunch of keys before turning around and walking away.
Although the house was in ruins, it was still considered good in this village, because at least it had walls and gates. Not far away, there were a few villagers observing me. I gave them a polite smile. He wanted to leave them a good impression so that they could get along in the village.
One of the girls blushed shyly and lowered her head, but she couldn’t help looking up at me. I looked at her and thought, “Look at you, a short wintermelon with a big cake face and a face like a roasted sweet potato. How could you match me?” Stop thinking too much! This is enough to offend me! ”
There was a rather pretty woman. Beside her stood a child of about ten years of age. The child held a small red cannon in one hand and a burning incense in the other. Using a red incense stick, I ignited the twigs on the cannon. Suddenly, with a flick of my hand, I threw the cannon at my feet. I quickly raised my foot to stomp on it, but it collapsed before I could step on it.
I smiled on the surface, but my brain was rapidly spinning. “Isn’t this a ten-year old child with a red cannon!? It was truly like stepping on broken iron shoes and finding no place! I need to find a place to read the book and see what I can do next! ”
The pretty woman gave me an apologetic smile and said, “You are mischievous, big brother! We are the neighbours of your house! ”
I said it was okay, how could a child not be naughty? Your child is already so old.
The woman said she was ten years old.
I used my key to unlock the door and pushed it open. I turned around, smiled at the people outside, and closed the door. There was a piss on his body and he was feeling quite anxious. But instead of taking a quick piss, I took out the book I had been carrying. Flipping through the second page, he couldn’t help but be stunned.
It read: “You must kill that ten-year old boy with the red cannon!” After completing the task, he would flip to the third page. If you take the liberty of flipping to the third page in advance before completing the task, the transaction between us will be null and void!
This is asking me to kill someone!
After staring blankly for a long time, I closed the book with trembling hands. He couldn’t hold it in any longer and peed all over his pants.
Dragging my wet crotch, I went over and unlocked the hall door with my key. Pushing open the door, the first thing he saw was that the room was very shallow. There was a table set up against the wall opposite the door. There were two black and white images on the table. When I saw the two pictures, I was stunned.
The person in the portrait was a man and a woman. His face looked so familiar. However, they were dressed and dressed in unkempt hair and did not wear glasses on their faces. These two faces look exactly like my parents. Just a lot younger than my parents. I doubt if they were my parents’ young photos.
I could not help but sigh that there were two couples in the world who looked so much like each other, but their fates were very different. A pair of them died early from poverty, and a pair of them became university professors and doctors in the hospital. They lived a prosperous life. What did those godly men who met face to face say about this?
It was evening. In the eighties, there were no lights in the countryside, but there was no electricity. I found the candle and the fire and lit a candle and stuck it to the table. He was hungry, it was time to make dinner. When I went to the kitchen, I saw a sooty black stove with no pot on it.
The pot might have been stolen.
I dug out a few sweet potatoes and lit a pile of corn buns. Peels and corncob, cooked sweet potatoes. He peeled off the blackened sweet potato skin and ate the sweet potato meat until it burned his mouth. He used his mouth to blow on them while eating a few with his bare hands. “I’ve finally filled my stomach, and now I’m looking for some cold water to drink.
Although it was bright and clear, the moonlight shone so brightly that the sky and the earth seemed to be as bright as day. But the weather was unbearably cold. The northwest wind was still blowing. I went back into the hall. There was a bed in the corner of the hall. One of the quilts on the bed was patched up with old coarse cloth. I lifted the quilt and touched the quilt. Without taking off his clothes, he kicked off his shoes and went to bed.
Lying on a bed, how could he fall asleep so quickly? I was thinking about how to kill my neighbor’s ten-year-old. Hearing ‘bang bang…’ Someone had knocked on the door outside.
Maybe the San Geda is looking for me. I got out of bed and ran to open the door. However, it was not San Geda, but the ten-year old boy that lived next door. He held an incense stick in one hand and a small cannon in the other. His face was full of bravado. I asked you what you were doing. He said I was coming to your house to get eggs.
I said, “Where are the eggs? I ate them long ago.”
“You don’t know where it is, I know!” The child went out into the yard.
I stuck my head out, saw no one was around, and closed the door. I remember there was a broken kitchen knife. I went into the kitchen, grabbed a kitchen knife, and went back to the ten-year-old.
The child had entered the roof and leaked a large amount of East Room. In this room, there was a pile of random things within the East Room. Seeing that the child was standing in front of a Urn Jar, he walked over and also looked inside the Urn Jar. An old hen was lying inside. The child used his red incense stick to ignite the cannonball, and with a shake of his hand, he threw it into the Urn Jar.
“Pah!” The gun went off. The old hen jumped out of the Urn Jar and cackled. The child clapped his hands and laughed, then walked over, holding onto the edge of the Urn Jar, he lowered his head and looked inside.
Gritting my teeth, I aimed at the boy, raised the kitchen knife in my hand, and hacked him hard in the neck.