Grandpa walked slowly into the room with his hands behind his back and asked Officer Sun what we were talking about.
I tried to use my eyes to signal Officer Sun not to say, and the result was that the uncle was very nervous. He not only told me the cause and effect again, but also praised me to the sky.
"Lao Song, you are such a great grandson! This case went back and forth for about half a month, we were digging through the ground, we didn't find the murder weapon, and all he had to do was look at the picture and figure it out. This child will be a great future, I think after high school, don't go to college, now a large number of college students, graduation is unemployed, why don't I write a letter of introduction to let him directly into the police academy! Gold should shine, don't you think?"
Grandpa waved his hand and said coldly, "You flatter him too much, but you just turned over a few old books left by our ancestors and taught them how to use axes." Moreover, our Song family has the eight-character ancestral motto "not official not official, wise and safe", you still put away that little thought! I will not give you the child."
Then he glanced at me with a cold eye and scared me to bury my head quickly.
Officer Sun sighed and said, "Old Song, aren't you too stubborn? Aren't you the one who slept in a stable for three years? Wasn't that cleared up a long time ago? Now is the 21st century, what is not ancestral training, you are really an old stubborn!" After saying that, he patted me on the shoulder and wanted to win me over: "Kid, when you grow up, do you want to be a policeman and catch bad guys with your uncle?"
In front of Grandpa I dare not make a scene, shake my head hard.
Grandpa said: "Sun Tiger, you don't understand the Song family, I have nothing else in my life, I only hope that future generations can live in peace, do not engage in these dangerous industries."
Police Officer Sun still wanted to speak, Grandpa had raised a hand, under the order to leave: "If you are okay, please go back first!" Otherwise don't come in my door anymore."
Officer Sun swallowed back what he was going to say, picked up his briefcase and said, "OK, Lao Song, I'll go first, and I'll visit you next time I have a case!"
After Officer Sun's car drove away, the air in the living room suddenly became heavy. Grandpa was sitting in the master's chair, holding a cup of tea. I stood in front of him, very nervous.
"Yang 'er, how many of those two books have you read?" 'he asked.
I hemmed and hawed, and read it all. In fact, more than read, there is no extra-curricular reading at home, the two books I as long as I have time to turn to see, has been almost by me to fall apart.
Grandpa drank tea and suddenly read: "Prison is not more important than the revolution, the revolution is not more important than the first love, the first love is not more important than the test."
I froze for a moment, recited: "Cover the power of life and death access, Youxin Qu extension of the machine, so it is decided."
Then he read, "A month in pregnancy is like white dew; February is like peach blossoms..."
I added, "March is divided into men and women; April figure; May tendons into, June hair; July move right hand, is male left mother; When August moves the left hand, the woman is on the right."
These two paragraphs are the "Wash the injustice collection of the true" words, grandpa is intentionally in the test me, after listening to his hands of the teacup "snapped" fell to the ground, surprised to ask: "Yang Er, this book you memorized all?"
"Pretty much..." I'm a little embarrassed to admit it.
"Worthy of my son of the Song family." With that, Grandpa shook his head again.
This strange reaction startled me, expecting my grandfather to lash out at me, but he didn't. Later, when I looked back, I realized that my grandfather's heart was very complicated at that time. He was both happy that there was a successor to the Song family's extinction, and he was afraid that I would go on the same road as him and be doomed.
Grandpa sighed: "God will make people ah!"
Then he got up and, without looking at me, went back to his study with his hands behind his back. I stood there, shocked and lucky, and Grandpa wasn't going to spank me?
Late that night, grandpa suddenly woke me up, told me to put on clothes with him to go somewhere, I was confused to put on clothes, came to the yard, grandpa threw a pick to me, and then wordlessly went out, I followed closely behind.
The town where we lived was not large, and to the south there was a wilderness. There was no moon and stars were few and far between. Grandpa walked in the silence of the chestnut forest, only the rustle of our feet on the piles of leaves along the way, and the whine of some unknown animal deep in the woods, which made my heart tremble.
Soon we passed through the woods and came to a wasteland. In my confusion, I kicked something, which was clearly a dead man's bone! Years of exposure to the sun and rain had turned them black.
I suddenly remembered that there is a mass grave near here, it is said that when the world was in chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a group of rovers who occupied the mountain as king here, killing like a horse, the bodies were all thrown here, and over time it became an ominous place, and some strange things often happened. Even when the villagers nearby built their houses, the front door would never open in this direction, and anyone who had an unknown body or was morally corrupt enough to be buried in the ancestral grave would be thrown here with a straw mat roll.
I saw a faint green glow around me, circling me like a ghost.
At first I thought it was fireflies, but then I thought, this mass grave is very dark, almost no grass, where the fireflies come from? It is clear that the light is the "fire from the skeleton" recorded in the "True", that is, the "ghost fire" in the world's population, which is the spontaneous combustion phenomenon caused by the phosphorus in the bones after the decomposition of the body into the air.
Although I understand this truth, I still got goose bumps when I saw this flickering ghost fire with my own eyes.
Just as my heart was racing, a dark figure suddenly jumped from the mass grave hill and stopped ten meters away, staring at me with a green and faint light, which scared me into a scream.
Grandpa picked up a stone and threw it at the dark figure. The dark figure was frightened and went to the trees with a sound.
"Don't be afraid, it's a dog." Grandpa soothed.
I swallowed and asked, "Grandpa, what are we doing here?"
"You'll see later..."
Grandpa took me to a pile of stones and pointed with his hand: "Dig!"
"Dig?" I was shocked. "Grandpa, is this a grave?"
"What else could be buried here than a grave?" The grandfather replied.
"But, Grandpa, isn't it illegal to rob graves?" I was hesitant.
"What grave robbery, this is called open coffin autopsy, stop talking, quickly dig." Grandpa said sternly.
I was helpless, had to swing the pick began to dig, this is a stone grave, dig up very difficult, don't look at me is the county grew up, but from small to large almost did not take more than the pen heavier things, soon the palm of the ground a blood blister.
Grandpa stood by and lit his smoke, watching me dig. The smoke came in waves, although it was very choking, but it made my heart calm down, and even the grim cold air in the mass grave was reduced a bit!
I didn't know how long I had been digging, and my head was sweating, and suddenly I heard a creak, which was obviously because I had touched a dead man below. So I abandoned the pick and moved the stones away one by one with my hands, and soon a heap of blackened bones lay beneath.
I looked at Grandpa, who was smoking and not talking, and continued to dig out the bones in the pile of rocks, and found an empty space to spell out the human figure in order.
Although I had never worked with a dead body before, the chapter "Bone Examination" in the Real Book of the Vindicated Collection gives a detailed description of the shape of each bone, so it did not take much time to put the skeleton together.
Just spell spell, I suddenly feel something is not quite right!