Chapter 39: People are good and are bullied
The light gray sky is overcast, there is no wind at all, but the coldness is much more intense. There was not even a single figure on the street, cold and quiet. Everything in heaven and earth, as if frozen in general, dead.
There are too many small temples in the village. From the entrance of our alley, along the east side of the canal all the way to the front of Chang Yunliang's house, counted three, I subconsciously counted the small temples in the village in my head, the size of a dozen or so, right? The bigger ones are just a room in size, and the smaller ones are not even a meter high …….
I suddenly had a doubt in my mind, these temples, certainly not evil forced the villagers to build, because some temples enshrined in the tablets and clay statues, can be a famous figure ah, such as Guandi Temple, Guanyin Temple, the Temple of the Great Sage …… Of course, there are also two land temple. And where did these temples come from? It can't be that all of a sudden someone from a certain family suddenly rose up and built a temple, right? And how could those tiny temples hold all those hefty and famous gods? If not, then is it true that all the small temples are mostly inhabited by evil spirits and foreign creatures, just as it is written in the Book of Foreign Lands?
Chang Yunliang did wake up, but was sick.
When the four of us entered his room, he was lying on his bed looking up at the wooden beams above him, his face a little pale and weak.
Chen Jin grinned broadly and went forward to sit on his butt on the edge of the bed, pushed Chang Yunliang a bit, sneered and laughed, "What's wrong buddy, still thinking about that clay statue last night?"
"Huh?" Chang Yunliang exclaimed, sat up violently, the body clothes are well dressed, probably just out of focus did not notice the four of us came in, Chen Jin so shouted, he was scared, gasped sharply half a day's breath, before the spirit of atrophy, said: "Alas, you come in how also do not say hello, scared me."
"Yo yo, what's the matter, still have to give you some spiritual compensation fee?" Chen Jin did not care about Chang Yunliang's current mood, from his pocket to light a cigarette and smoked.
Chang Yunliang sighed, sickly lying down, lifted the quilt to cover his body.
I went forward and pulled Chen Jin, signaling him to stop talking nonsense, then said to Chang Yunliang: ''Yunliang, is your body alright? Don't think nonsense, it's not worth it to scare yourself out of it."
"Yes yes yes ……," Guo Chao and Liu Bin both also went up and somewhat awkwardly smiled sarcastically and comforted.
Chang Yunliang twisted his head to look at us, both eyebrows wrinkled, eyes penetrating helplessness and doubt, said softly: "Last night …… last night in the end what is going on ah? Obviously a girl called Cuicui, how, how to become ……"
"What happened? You committed hysteria." Chen Jin said seemingly casually, smilingly, and then blinked at the three of us.
The three of us were stunned for a moment, and only then did it dawn on us, slightly nodding to each other. Originally thought Chen Jin this kid is simply a straight temper, think what to say, I did not expect him to start from the beginning of the grin is to alleviate the pressure on the heart of Chang Yunliang, so that Chang Yunliang try to produce for the suspicion of evil things really happen, so perhaps he will not be too afraid of, after all, last night, then he fainted, we can tell him that everything is just a dream that he had. Just …… can it really be as we wish? After all, the village is so many people are watching the real, as the saying goes, good things do not go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, this thing will quickly spread throughout the village, and even the countryside, and will be more exaggerated.
This is good, so we will be more able to persuade Chang Yunliang, this is a rumor, only rumors have such a big spreading strength. I secretly calculating in my heart, even if it is then Chang Yunliang really know, that is also better than now let him so scared and afraid of a hundred times stronger, things in the past for a long time, in the heart of the shadow will always fade away a lot.
"Hm?" Chang Yunliang heart really flooded with doubts, frowned and said softly: "I …… how I fainted? That clay statue, ah no, that girl is what happened?"
"Look, it's really just thinking about your daughter-in-law and wanting to be stupid, right?" I positively responded to Chen Jin on the side, smilingly said, "Yunliang, turn around and let your father hurry to give you a daughter-in-law, last night watching the movie well, your kid is confused, we send you back when you saw that maid statue in the people's grandmother's temple, it is not to say that it is a big girl."
Chen Jin haha laughed and cooperated with me, "That is not a big girl, or a fairy daughter, Yunliang this is to take himself as Dong Yong."
"But …… but the grandmother temple's li maid statue how not inside the temple, but in the street put it?" Chang Yunliang said words, suddenly hands holding his head shivering, trembling, "You do not coax me, last night was the grandmother temple in the Xuanmu Maiden punishment me ah! I'm sure I can't live, can't live, it's all true, it's true ……"
The four of us were shocked, this is why ah, just now was good it, now suddenly into this behavior, grandmother, is not to let the evil thing to scare into a psychosis? Chen Jin reached out to Chang Yunliang head hit, said: "Blind talk what? What dead ah living ah, see you kid this behavior, is a man not?"
I said: "Yunliang, you can not scare yourself ah."
Guo Chao and Liu Bin looked at each other, do not know what to say, looks like they let Chang Yunliang abnormal performance to stunned.
Now psychology experts had said that certain psychological states of human beings could produce phenomena that were contagious to each other, such as joy, fear, worry, and so on. And this is exactly in line with the performance of Liu Bin and Guo Chao at that time, because the two of them themselves are also weak and afraid of it, let Chang Yunliang such a form of language an infection, get, all the fucking grass chicken. Especially Liu Bin, legs are beginning to soften shivering, the expression on the face is clearly the real embodiment of panic. The room was quiet for a while, only Chang Yunliang's rapid breathing sound huffing and puffing. Chen Jin and I glanced at each other, both of us somewhat helpless.
This kind of silence makes people's hearts very uncomfortable, I think Chen Jin and the others should be like me hoping for someone's appearance, or someone in the room to say something to break this kind of dullness.
Just at this time, the people and voices that broke the silence appeared.
Only, they were not the ones who made us feel relaxed and slightly happy. Because it was those old ladies who came to our door. Obviously, both Chen Jin and I had underestimated the pugnacity of those old ladies, or rather, we had overestimated the power of a rural branch secretary, and it wasn't as strong as we had imagined.
"Branch Secretary Chang is at home, right?" Old Mrs. Xu's voice came in clearly.
Several of us immediately stood up and looked out through the window.
Obviously, Old Mrs. Xu still occupied the position of leader, taking the brunt of the trembling walk into the branch secretary's home, followed by those of her sisters and teachers.
Chang Yunliang's father, our village's branch secretary, Comrade Chang Zhong, walked to the door of the house with a smile on his face and said politely, "Yo, aunts, why do you have time to come to my house to visit me? Quickly, go inside, it's cold outside."
Seemingly taking this for granted, each of those old ladies majestically stepped past Chang Zhong and walked into the house. Chang Zhong smiled bitterly and shook his head, glancing at our house before walking into the house.
I don't know where these old ladies get their confidence and brazenness, don't they really know that in the village, basically every household holds extreme distaste and hatred for their visits? It wasn't an exaggeration to say that even if they were to go to any of their homes together, their families would definitely not welcome a bunch of old monsters gathering at their homes to hold a meeting to cause trouble.
When he heard Old Mrs. Xu's voice, Chen Jin had already pressed on to go out, but luckily he was stopped by Guo Chao and I, and only after Chang Yunliang had advised him by lying on the bed. Now see Chang Zhong will let these old ladies into the house, fools also understand that this is to find fault. Chen Jin huffed, "Grandma, it's starting to go door-to-door again, I don't know if Yunliang's house is the first one."
Guo Chao wrinkled his brow and said bitterly, "Then I have to hurry home to see to go, perhaps they got up early in the morning and went to my home."
"I …… will go back first." Liu Bin's tone is a little frustrated, sighed, seems to have made a great determination like, ang up his face and said through clenched teeth, "My mother's body is not good, today no matter what, I can not let them go to my home again to make trouble."
"Good, have the guts! It's long overdue." I appreciatively patted Liu Bin's shoulder, to be able to hear Liu Bin say such words was indeed rare, regardless of whether he could really manage to block these old ladies from going to their house by then, to be able to have such thoughts was already enough. This makes my heart originally because of the worry and always existed the stock of timidity disappeared, people Liu Bin have dared to face these old monsters with a strong posture, then I still have what to be afraid of?
Chen Jin obviously also for Liu Bin showed such an attitude and surprised, walked to Liu Bin face carefully look at the front, before some incredulous said: "line ah Binzi, punch you this sentence, fucking buddies out of the way, you say it, how to do?"
Liu Bin was stunned for a moment, did not answer, just a bitter smile and shook his head, seems to be a time also can not get the idea of determination can not resolve how to block the disaster at the door.
"Don't, don't go on, when it's time to be soft, be soft." Guo Chao at the side of the face of embarrassment said, usually belongs to the Liu Bing the smallest courage, now people Liu Bing have dared to say such words, he Guo Chao heart is more afraid, worried about the development of things to a more unmanageable point, "As the saying goes, ah, only soft is not hard is a worm, only hard is not soft is a stick, can be soft can be hard that is the dragon, let's not fight for a moment of high and low, and then again, fight for that we are The only thing that can be done is to make sure that you have a good time."