Chapter 5: Purpose
In the form of scratching an itch, a mysterious totem on the back could be made to appear, and Grandpa had given me a dream at that time saying that he wanted me to scratch an itch for him. Could it be to show me this mysterious totem?
I asked my old man to see it, he was also very curious, he stared dead at the black lotus pattern pondering something, after a while he said to me, "San Liang, come give me your cell phone."
I don't know, he took my cell phone, the tattoo on my grandfather's back to shoot down, next, he gave my grandfather to put on the tunic after pulling me to the courtyard, was going to set off to bury my grandfather when he suddenly did not go to the courtyard, he handed me a cigarette and said: "Your grandfather's body. It's not suitable for earth burial, cremate it."
"Eh?" I was surprised for a moment, in those years when the wind was tight, the state implemented funeral reform, the deceased are to be cremated, just the countryside, some of the old people think that the body burned off there is no way to reincarnation, the body will be destroyed in the soul will fly away, so in the death of family members or the old man himself, are reluctant to cremation, even if the night secretly buried people it. In the past two days, the policy in this regard has been loosened, why would Pop choose to cremate Grandpa at this time? Grandma's this hurdle, is very difficult this hurdle.
"I feel that things are not right, the relationship between your grandfather's death and that email, don't forget, I am the real disciple of He Zhenzhen, your grandfather can only be considered my disciple." My old man said.
"What exactly did you think of?" I asked.
"At first glance of this mail, your first impression including ours is that your grandfather will have unexpected changes if he is not buried in the way he was, and the corpse will have a change, which is a fraudulent corpse. But don't forget that I am studying this, your grandfather's peaceful nature died without the slightest resentment, and the place of Locked Village er does not have a feng shui bureau that can defraud a corpse, so the saying of defrauding a corpse is by no means possible, which means that in fact, that mail is just scaring us, yes, it's just scaring us." My old man said contemplatively.
"Scare us? Why would you want to scare us, do you have a grudge against us? Even if there's a grudge, it's not enough to scare us with that." I asked.
"It's to scare, when you can't see a person's purpose, you have to look at what effect he has achieved by what he has done, the effect is his purpose, that's a sentence your grandfather has always taught me, then let's go look at this mail again, he made your grandfather, who was supposed to be buried in three days, stay in our house for seven days, that's his purpose, as for not using a coffin, not wearing a life jacket. That's just additional conditions to make us feel credible." Pop said.
I listened with a half-understanding, and just looked at my pops like that, hoping that he would give me a clear answer.
"What he wants is your grandfather's body, and this person needs seven days to get to Locked Village er, so he came so an email, let us not bury your grandfather in less than seven days, at first I had this guess, but I do not understand what the purpose of this person is, in the time when I saw this tattoo on your grandfather's back I understand, what he wants is this. " Pops said.
"If you put it this way, it seems to be really quite like this, but I can't figure it out, that person just wanted to see the lotus tattoo on my grandfather's back? What is the thing that this tattoo represents?" I asked.
"It could be a map, San Liang, we have to hurry, we may not have time, if someone from the Lin family manor comes tomorrow, it will prove my guess. But we can't wait, let's go now." My old man said. He spoke with eagerness.
"But Grandma is having a hard time with this, how could she let us burn Grandpa." I was also very nervous by what my old dad said.
"It's okay, tell her we'll go bury someone, you squat in the ground for a few hours and come back, I'll go to the crematorium." Pops said, after saying that the two of us carried my grandfather's body, wrapped in a quilt and carried it onto the tricycle.
My grandmother and my old mother kneeled in the yard burning paper money to send off my grandfather, looking at my heart is very uncomfortable, I'm very difficult to understand, that simple grandfather, why he died in the death will involve so many secrets.
We went together outside the village, I went into the crop field, while Pop drove a tricycle to the countryside, I squatted by the roadside for two hours before I went home, by this time the sky was almost bright, my grandmother saw me and asked me, "Where's your dad?"
"He went to the countryside for something, so he stopped by with his tricycle and said he was buying some flower seeds or something." I said. Grandma didn't say anything while I went into my room, the first time I lied to my grandma, or on something so big, my heart was beating fast.
My old lady made breakfast and called me, asked me if I was sleepy, where was I sleepy? I got up to eat, the meal is not yet finished, Tiger came to my home, he saw me asked the first sentence is: "patriotic uncle's tricycle why in the Maliandian intersection over there parked it?"
I immediately stood up, swallowed the thin rice and asked, "What?!"
"Someone else passed by and said they ran into it. I just came to see if Uncle Aiguo is at home." Tiger said.
I dropped the chopsticks, immediately followed the tiger out of the door, he rode a motorcycle to carry me has been I scolded to drive slow, he still does not know how it is, but how do I explain to him? My father was worried that the mysterious man would come at dawn and drag my grandfather to the cremation, but his tricycle was found on the road, what can I think about this? I can only assume that he met an untimely end halfway.
When I arrived at the place, I found a few cars, it was Zhao Bajie, who is now like the middle of the day in Locked Head Village, he saw me and greeted me, "San Liang, your dad went out in the morning?"
"Yes, he said he went to buy some flower seeds." I said.
"I passed by and saw this three-wheeler on the side of the road, it looks like his. It's hard not to run into a hijacker?" Zhao Bajie said.
"You have a car, drive to find my father ah!" I said, finished on the tiger's tricycle, urging him to drive to the countryside, my old man must have had an accident, otherwise why is the car in the people are not there?
To the countryside to find a circle also did not find his silhouette, and ultimately I even in the case of no choice chose to call the police, and disappeared less than twenty-four hours of the police are not filed, anxious me round and round, his cell phone I have long been playing countless times, have been prompted by the state of the shutdown!
In my anxious tears are going to come out when, suddenly the phone rang, to the number of callers, it is my old man, I trembled and then asked the phone, "Dad?"
"En, it's me, come back, your mom made dinner." He said calmly.
"Where have you been all day?!" I asked, I've been looking for you all day and now you're telling me to come home for dinner.
"Did a little errand, just got back, you hurry back too." He finished and hung up the phone in a very high-strung manner.
–I was Tiger scolded all the way stupid, he said Uncle Aiguo so big a living person, can be lost? Look at me anxious, I said you know what the hell, I am afraid of my old man to someone else kidnapped. Tiger laughed and said, "Kidnap Uncle Aiguo? Who else in your family is worth money besides your aunt?"
I slapped him on the back and cursed, "Fuck you! Laozi like your sister for a long time, you have to give me good look, innocence of the body for me to keep."
And so back home, they are waiting for me to eat, I want to ask but was pops with a look to stop, after eating a meal I caught a chance to pull him out and asked: "In the end what is going on?"
"Do you think Zhao Laobai really passed by and found my tricycle?" Pops asked me rhetorically.
"You mean?" I said.
"Yes, I just realized that he was following me, so I jumped out of the car and took a shortcut through the ground to run away… It seems that this 'second uncle' of yours who stepped on your grandfather's point of return really isn't that simple. This brother of mine, is no longer that brother from back then." My old man said.
"Could it be that he's also after Grandpa's remains? He also knows that grandpa isn't buried, this!" I said in amazement.
"Yes, if I'm not wrong, our every move is under the watchful eye of this Bastard Zhao, he even knows that we went to bury your grandfather last night, you can think about it, if at that time we buried your grandfather, then after we left, he would most likely go and dig up your grandfather's grave and steal the body, his purpose, is also the Lotus Tattoo on your grandfather's body map." My old man said.