Chapter 46: Cooking for the Living
That old woman's name was Jia, and she had already died last year due to illness.
As she was good at doing women's work, she had once measured Meng Fan's body and tailored his clothes, so it was only right that she looked familiar.
Liu Xiaoxi came to find Meng Fan early this morning, is for this matter, that Jia's back from the dead, returned home last night, without saying a word lying in the body of his partner, so sleep until dawn, after the dawn, as if not dead before, got up to give his partner to do breakfast, put on the dining table.
Jia's old partner called Yu Fengqing, as soon as he opened his eyes to see this bizarre scene, scared to the hairs of the sweat, screamed and ran out of the house, all the way knocking and running to the house of the Zhang Brazi, shivering and shivering and said that he saw ghosts, to Zhang Brazi to help exorcise the ghosts.
Zhang was also surprised to hear that the dead came back to life and cooked for the living, it is indeed a little weird, look at Yu Qingfeng's panic and fear does not seem to be a fake, asked about the situation, learned that Jia is still at home, then let Yu Fengqing go to find the village chief, she went over there later, and let the creek to find Meng Fan, and go there together.
The current Meng Fan was no longer a clueless rookie in her eyes, the purity of that cultivation had shocked her as well, and if she couldn't solve this matter, Meng Fan might not be without a solution.
"This is already the second case of the dead coming back to life." Meng Fan told Xiao Xi about his encounter with Carpenter Zhang on the rainy night, "At this rate, I'm afraid there will be a third and a fourth ……"
"If it doesn't harm anyone ……," Liu Xiaoxi's face flashed with an imperceptible look, "it may not be a bad thing, being able to meet up with loved ones again, crossing over the parting of life and death… …"
"Hey!" Meng Fan knocked on Xiao Xi's head, "Compassionate!"
Just as the two were about to go to Yu Fengqing's home to take a look, it so happened that Mr. and Mrs. Meng Qingshan also walked out, and were pleasantly surprised to see that Liu Xiaoxi was already able to walk well without the use of crutches, and even more so when they heard Xiaoxi say in person that it was Meng Fan's doing, the two of them were all smiles, looking at Xiaoxi as if she were already a daughter-in-law, tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk up and down, with a joyful grin on their faces.
But when they learned about the matter of the dead man coming back to life and returning home, the two were uneasy again, and given the current situation of Meng's family in the village, advised Meng Fan that it would be better not to go, so as not to make things even more chaotic, and let the villagers misunderstand him even more deeply.
"This might be a chance to clear up misunderstandings ……," Xiao Xi pulled Meng Fan's coat corner and said to Mr. and Mrs. Meng Qingshan as if pleading, "If it gets any worse, how much worse can it get?"
"Qingshan ah ……" Meng mother glanced at Meng Qingshan, "Why don't we let our son be, Xiaoxi is right."
"That ……" Meng Qingshan thought for a moment, seems to have figured out something, "go is also possible, but can not be so proactive ah, the last time the collection of corn made our family dusty, and was almost driven out of the Mengjiazhuang, this time! This time, we have to calm down ah, wait for people to beg us is not too late, anyway, already attracted people's dislike, how bad can it be bad."
"Uh ……" Meng Fan rolled his eyes, looked at his father and said, "Ginger is still old and hot!"
Although it was unkind to do so, it could only be so.
With that in mind, Meng Fan decided not to make a move for the time being, in fact, he didn't know how to make a move, so he just hid at home in a muffled voice, as if this hadn't happened.
Liu Xiaoxi is smart, naturally understood the key at once, the proverb has a cloud, nothing to offer is not adultery is theft, if Meng Fan is so active in the past to help, maybe the villagers of his stereotypes deeper, and even thought that this matter is Meng Fan out, if Meng Fan closed the door, on the contrary, is not necessarily a bad thing.
After Liu Xiaoxi left alone, she went home to pick up her grandmother and headed to Yu Fengqing's house, and before she arrived at the place, she saw a group of people surrounding the entrance of Yu Fengqing's house, craning their necks and pointing their fingers and talking about it, with a look of horror on their faces.
"Granny Zhang is here!"
I don't know who shouted, and the villagers on the sidelines took the initiative to make a path so that Granny Zhang could pass by.
"Hehe, Xiao Xi's leg is healed?"
At this time, someone else discovered that Liu Xiaoxi could actually walk without the use of crutches, on the contrary, it was Granny Zhang who used her crutches and was assisted by Liu Xiaoxi, and for a while, her expression changed from horrified to amazed.
"You guys see, granny Zhang herself is limping instead, could this be transferring Xiao Xi's illness to herself?"
"I'm afraid that's it, Granny Zhang still has some Taoist skills, it's kind of like Immortal Magic!"
"Unlike that Meng Fan, engaging in some crooked ways to pit everyone's money, so young, it's a pity!"
Hearing these words, Liu Xiaoxi furrowed her eyebrows, and in her heart, she felt for Meng Fan, and was about to open her mouth to say a few words to open up for Meng Fan, but then she violently realized that an old woman came out of Yu Qingfeng's house, scaring everyone into shutting up.
The person who came out was clearly Jia!
Jia's staggering steps came out of the doorway, looking at the crowd gathered at the door of the house in disbelief, and opened her mouth to speak: ''Have you guys seen my family Feng Qing? He hasn't even eaten breakfast yet and has disappeared, where did he go!"
"……"
The crowd was silenced, backing away, afraid that this Jia was looking for them.
They all knew that although this Jia looked alive, she had actually been dead for over a year!
It was an uncompromisingly dead person!
If Meng Fan had seen this scene, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to accept it either, because Jia's situation was very different from Carpenter Zhang's, who looked like a scary walking corpse, while Jia was really a living human being, able to cook, speak, and look just like a living person.
It was bizarre, magical, and unbelievable!
"Granny Zhang, Granny Zhang!"
Right at this moment, a voice softly called out to Granny Zhang, as if she was afraid to be heard by Jia.
Granny Zhang followed the voice, and at a corner not far from her, she saw the pale-faced Village Chief Sun, and signaled Xiao Xi to assist her over.
Only when she walked to the corner did she realize that with the village chief there was also Yu Fengqing, who was squatting against the wall, shivering, with a complex expression, muttering words and not knowing what he was thinking.
"Zhang granny ah ……" Sun village chief also did not care to ask Zhang granny s leg is how it is, Xiaoxi s leg and how to suddenly get better, eagerly said, "The broad daylight ah, a dead man just so alive in the village, this thing …… this matter can not be ah!"
"It is not to be allowed." Zhang granny frowned, mumbled her lips, and spoke slowly, "Just now old me also carefully checked, that Jia is indeed a dead person."
"Are you really sure?" Village Chief Sun peeked his head around the corner to steal a glance, seeing Jia looking around for Yu Fengqing, he hastily retracted his head.
"Nonsense." Granny Zhang rolled her bleary eyes and said in an affirmative tone, "I won't be wrong, even you can see that Jia's chest is sunken and she's not breathing, she's nothing more than a walking, talking piece of skin."
"What can be done about this!" Sun village head was anxious like an ant on a hot pan, "You old god is great, give think of a way, this let a dead person appear in the village, and let the living people can not do ah!"
"This is not simple, directly tied up and burned not on the line." Zhang granny's words are simple and concise.
"No …… no …… can not burn!"
At this time Yu Qingfeng suddenly stood up, his eyes blood red, his complexion is a bit bewitched, and he looks very scary.
"That is my old companion ah, the wife was particularly good to me in life …… died but also knew to climb out of the grave to cook for me to eat, surely know that I am an old man alone and lonely is not good …… "
At this time that Jia passed over again, "Fengqing ah, Fengqing ah, where are you ah, quickly come home to eat ah!"
"Coming, coming …… " Yu Qingfeng heard the call, his hands clenched tightly, the knot in his throat trembled up and down, suddenly old tears, suddenly lost heart like madness, ran out, shouting, "Old companion ah, old companion ah, I'm in the I'm here!"
In life, you accompanied me to sleep;
After death, you have not forgotten to cook for me;
The most heart-wrenching call came from you when you were separated from the sun and the ghost;
Life and death, how can I retreat, why not renew the previous relationship!
He ran to Jia, held his hand tightly, looked around the crowd, and closed the door ……
This scene made all the people freeze, as if the softest place in their hearts had been touched, and for a while they became extraordinarily quiet.