"It's not the jade that caused this disaster. It's your grandfather's own evil consequences.”
In the dead of the night, my father took the jade and said to me. At this moment, the blood on its surface had been washed clean, revealing its pure white and warmth.
It was about the size of a silver dollar in the Republic of China. I took it from my father with mixed feelings. At noon, I was still trying to find out the details of it through the X-ray, and now I'm actually holding it in my hand.
Under the light, one could clearly see its original appearance. There was a terrifying image of a woman carved on it. To be precise, he was a demon. Her long hair was disheveled, and two snakes hung from her eyes. They were miserable and vicious, making people not dare to look at them for long. He seemed to be a mythical figure from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
"You already knew about this thing?”I asked." No wonder you didn't find it strange at that time.”
Everyone else in the house was asleep. Father looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he told me about the origin of the jade.
In fact, I had already guessed that this wouldn't be a good thing before he spoke. After listening to him, I was even more surprised. Things were far beyond my imagination.
The story was still connected to the ancient tomb and the strange baby mentioned at the beginning. It turned out that the tomb did not collapse after his grandfather came out of it. Later on, something happened around the baby.
One night after that, my grandfather was chatting with someone in the village. This family had just had a child and was reported. The next day, the higher-ups would come and fine them. They talked about the policy. According to the policy, if the child died, it would be the same as not being reborn, but the prerequisite was to see the corpse. In the end, that person sighed and said,"
"It would be great if we could find a baby's corpse!”
The speaker was not serious, but the listener was serious.
Grandfather thought of the baby in the tomb. He said,
"I know where there is one! I don't know if the Dao is still there. I'll go and take a look tomorrow. If it's still there, I'll bring it over to you.”
The friend was overjoyed and held his grandfather's hand tightly.
"I'll leave this matter to you. The higher-ups are going to fine me 3,000 yuan, but if you succeed, I'll have to fork out 300 yuan to thank you.”
At that time, 300 yuan was not a small amount. For the sake of 300 yuan, Grandpa immediately bought a bag of milk powder and returned to the tomb the next day. The child was still there. Not only did he not starve to death, he was still smiling when he saw his grandfather again.
Grandfather fed it with milk powder first, then carried it out.
Actually, at that time, he also felt that his idea was both wicked and unlucky, but who asked him to be poor! For money! He gritted his teeth and braced himself to do it.
Then, based on his experience, he removed the child's jade pendant, and the child immediately stopped all vital signs. He handed it over to the family. On the same day, the higher-ups came down on time to pay the fine. When they saw the baby, they were scared away. In return, the friend paid 300 yuan to the grandfather along with the baby.
After the grandfather got the baby, he quickly put the jade pendant back on it, and the child immediately came back to life. Grandfather heaved a sigh of relief and quickly sent it back to the tomb.
However, there would always be a second time. After tasting the sweetness, Grandpa became addicted. At that time, there were many people who had reincarnated. Some people heard that Grandpa had an immortal baby in his hands, and many people came to him for help and promised benefits. Therefore, he was busy for the next few months. He carried the strange baby out of the tomb every two or three days and went to the scene to solve the trouble for others like a walk-on.
It was through this wicked business that our family became rich very quickly. This strange baby had practically become his money giver.
As the saying goes, a person will not be good for a hundred days, and a flower will not be red for a hundred days. The good times did not last long. The jade kept being taken out and put on, and soon, the child could not take it anymore. His vital signs became weaker and weaker.
What did people remember the most about the first and last time?
He clearly remembered that the last time he used babies to earn money was at noon in mid-June. Under the scorching sun, he carried the dying baby to the cemetery, determined not to disturb it again after putting it back.
However, the heavens did not follow one's wishes. Why was it so small? When he arrived at the tomb, he was dumbfounded. The tomb and the tunnel had already collapsed.
Looking at the collapsed pit, his grandfather immediately realized that the strange baby was going to fall into his hands, and then he was in trouble.
However, no matter how difficult it was, his thoughts were firm and clear. Everything he did was for his family, so he would never bring this strange child home and bring trouble to his family.
After thinking about it, it finally dug a hole in the wild beside the ancient tomb as its temporary home.
"It shouldn't live long either!"
He thought to himself. Then, he placed the strange baby inside.
In order to prevent the sun from burning it to death, he cut a lot of wormwood and put it on the pit to shade it. Although he had done all this for the baby, he knew that this was not a solution. He hoped that the baby would die quickly. Once it died, the world fell silent.
In order to verify his expectations, he had been guarding the edge of the pit, and every once in a while, he would open the wormwood to take a look.
In half a day, he lifted the wormwood four times to see the baby. The result was just as he hoped. The baby became weaker and weaker. Finally, as the wormwood that sheltered him from the sun collapsed into the pit and covered him, the baby finally died.
He clearly remembered that it was sunset at that time. The sky in the west was full of sunset, but he felt cold when he looked at the red sun.
"You shouldn't have come to this world at all!”
With that, he buried the body and left.
The story ended here. His father smoked absent-mindedly. He used a stubborn expression to hide the guilt in his heart, as if he was the one who did it.
I don't feel good about it either. I feel that Grandpa's actions are annoying. However, his corpse in the room next door is not cold yet, so I don't want to say anything.
Finally, he asked,
"My grandfather told you all this!”
"He told me about it in the hospital last week. I didn't know before. He probably knew that what he did was not right, so he had always felt guilty and said it before he died.”
"What do you mean it's not very right? This is simply not something a human can do."
I couldn't help but complain, but my father was immediately unwilling.
"What are you talking about? No matter how wrong he was, he was still your grandfather. He did this for our family. If he hadn't gone against his conscience and done these things back then, you wouldn't be here gossiping!”
I wanted to say a few more words, but there was no point in saying anything, so I didn't say anything.
My gaze fell on the jade again and I was so scared that I quickly threw it on the table.
"This jade can't be from that baby, right?”
"I'm not sure, but it should be about the same.”
His father said disdainfully and then explained further. She said that her grandfather might have left it as a souvenir. Because the baby was a girl, he planned to wear this jade around his daughter's neck when he gave birth to a daughter in the future. However, he didn't have a daughter, so he didn't use it. He wanted to wait until he had a granddaughter to take care of him. However, my first child gave birth to me. When I finally gave birth to Duoduo, this thing couldn't be found. Now, it had actually run into his brain. It might have been accidentally swallowed and then circulated to his brain along with the blood!
I didn't think much of it and said,
"Even you might not believe what he said. Such a big thing, let alone accidentally, even if you deliberately swallowed it, you might not be able to swallow it. It's not that I look down on my grandfather, but based on his actions and conduct at that time, I guess he must have been greedy for money, so he kept this jade. Later, he became muddle-headed and thought that this jade could make people immortal, so he swallowed it forcefully. In the end, he suffered retribution.”
My father might agree with my thoughts, but he refused to admit it. He said,
"Look at what you think of your grandfather. Is he that useless?”
I didn't care about this anymore. I suddenly thought of an important question. The strangest thing about the whole incident was that baby. Everything was caused by him, and I had never doubted his authenticity. Thus, I asked tactfully,
"What do you think happened to that baby? Is he a human or a ghost?"
"It's hard to say!" His father scratched his head in worry.
"If you say it's a ghost, I definitely don't believe it. According to my guess, the child might have had a heart problem back then and was in a dormant state. As for why she had survived in the ancient tomb for so long, it was indeed strange. But according to your grandfather's description, it might have something to do with the environment there and those apples. Those apples seemed to be a kind of antiseptic, which was why the baby was not dead and had been in the tomb for so long.
I always felt that there was something wrong with my father's explanation, and I had a vague feeling that he was hiding something from me, but I didn't know where to start.
The room fell silent again.
I yawned and wanted to go to bed when I saw that it was getting late. But just as she got up, her father called out to her.
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