Chapter 10: Sleeping in the Coffin During the Day "Ye'er, don't you even believe in your mother?" "Cousin, she is a witch. She was born a witch and deserves to die." "Kill." A bone-chilling male voice came along with a woman's sharp and shrill cry... I just felt sore all over and my ears were particularly noisy. "One hundred days, one hundred days?" I heard my mother's voice in my ears. "Let the baby sleep." Grandpa's voice came with a strong smell of tobacco. I slowly opened my eyes and yawned, only to see the whole family staring at me beside the coffin. "Bai Tian, Bai Tian, do you know? Aunt Zhao is dead. Guess how she died? Haha, she was hanged. Her tongue fell, fell, fell here..." I don't know when, my brother stood beside the coffin and looked at me, poking my forehead with his hand while talking. Before I could say a word, I laughed so hard at my own words. "Oh, I saw it yesterday." I responded with a yawn. "You kid, it's someone else's funeral, it's fine if you don't feel sad about it, but why do you make a joke of it?" Dad reached out and slapped my brother on the head. "Oh, grandpa, who told you to only take Bai Tian with you every time you go out? Humph, I have never seen a dead person." Zi Yu pouted.
Grandpa's face darkened and he said, "You are younger than your sister. You are almost taller than me, but you still want me to carry you in a small backpack? Besides, don't talk about death easily. It will happen to everyone sooner or later. Don't talk nonsense." My brother pouted in displeasure. I knew my brother was timid, so I half-closed my eyes, rolled my eyes, turned my head and looked at him and said, "You live in Shijiawan, where there are piles of dead people, and your sister is a monster. How dare you say you have never seen a ghost?" "Ah," my brother screamed and disappeared in a flash. "Silly child, how can you say you are a monster? I haven't asked you yet, how can you fall asleep next to Aunt Zhao's coffin." My mother scolded me and carried me out of the coffin. "Mom, I'm not talking nonsense. They all say I'm a monster." I told my mother confidently. Mother continued to help me button my clothes, and then said very seriously: "No matter what others say, you must always remember that mean words and dirty words are loved by villains. We must not get angry for a hundred days." I nodded: "Mom, I'm not angry. I know that the one who says bad things about others is actually the one who is angry." "Tianwa, you fell asleep last night before grandpa came to find you. Are you scared?" Grandpa hadn't finished speaking when his brother rushed in like a gust of wind, panting and shouting, "Grandpa, Mom, she's alive, she's alive, go and see." No one bothered to ask what was going on, and they walked out in two steps. It took a long time for everyone to react to the scene before their eyes... I only saw the birthday boy and Aunt Zhao standing in my yard, with Ah Huang and Ah Wang barking at them. "Old Shou, what's wrong with your old woman..." Dad just came out from another room, his mouth opened in shock. The birthday boy's dark face was full of smiles, hehe, Old Seven, sister-in-law, bold uncle, Bai Tian girl, no, life-saver during the day, I, the birthday boy and the old woman kowtow to you. "Wait, Laoshou, what do you mean, old woman? What does this have to do with my family?" My father scratched his head in confusion. "Hehe, stop pretending, Lao Qi. After uncle Bold took Bai Tian away, I entered the Tao room and found the coffin lid was open. Then I realized the old woman's body was warm. People used to say all kinds of ominous things about Bai Tian, but I never believed them. But now I believe them. I believe that this girl is the incarnation of Bodhisattva. She is the life-saving Guanyin Bodhisattva." If any bastard farts again in the future, I will curse her ancestors to death. Lao Shou smiled foolishly at his father. What? Dad swallowed his saliva and was speechless for a moment. He didn't even know how heavy his own child was. What kind of wind was the birthday boy saying? Today he was determined to be his own child. It is my fate to meet a living Bodhisattva like Bai Tian. If it were not for her, the coffin lid weighing hundreds of pounds would have been sealed tightly, and no one would have noticed that I still had a voice so subtle that it was almost inaudible. Aunt Zhao said weakly, her face was completely bloodless, and the mark on her neck was still scarlet and dazzling. "No, Lao Shou, you are also an educated person, my child..." Before the old man could finish his words, he was frightened by the look in his grandfather's eyes and dared not say anything. He dared to resist the old man in other matters, but when it came to his own daughter, he was in trouble, just like his grandson... This was the second time I had seen Aunt Zhao. The first time I saw her dead body on the night of the funeral, the body was lifeless under the white cloth, and I had no idea what it looked like. But today, the dead body turned into a human being again, and appeared vividly in front of me. She spoke softly, but I always felt that something was a little different in the spring breeze, but I couldn't explain it. I knew nothing about what happened after I fell asleep last night, and I never recalled that such a shocking thing as opening the coffin to save people could be done by my little body. So how did a woman who was hanged and had a severed tongue survive? Such questions kept popping up in my little brain, and I couldn't help but shudder for no reason, and hugged my mother's hand tighter. The birthday uncle came over and took out a handful of candies from his pocket and handed them to me. His honest face was full of smiles: "Bai Tian, uncle can't thank you enough. Uncle heard that you like to eat rice cakes. From now on, I will make sure you have rice cakes every day. But today you have to eat candies first, because we don't have much rice at home.
This... So everyone knows that I love to eat rice cakes. I wonder if anyone knows that I never eat rice cakes given by others? I wonder if anyone knows that I love to eat the sacrificial cakes on the shrine? I looked at the birthday boy nervously. "Okay, birthday boy, I'll hold it for the kid. Your wife just escaped death, which is also the good deeds of your family in the previous life. It's fate. Don't be so polite. What can a little girl like Bai Tian understand? Not to mention that she is young and can't save your wife. Even if she can save her, it's by accident and coincidence. So don't always talk about repaying your gratitude. Take your wife back home to rest as soon as possible." Grandpa smoked his dry pipe and said a few puffs. There was no ripple on his wrinkled face. When we returned to the inner room, everyone in the family was silent. My father suddenly took me from my mother's arms and kept staring at me. I couldn't help but look at my father with wide eyes. His eyes were bright, but his skin was almost as bronze as grandpa's. He had thick hair, but unfortunately there was a large burn on his forehead and his nose was a little collapsed, as if it was broken. I remembered that grandpa said that the seventh child was too naughty when he was a child and broke his bones when he fell from an ancient tree several feet high. Fortunately, he was still strong and did not die. The wound healed on its own, but his nose was slightly crooked... As I watched, the corners of my mouth couldn't help but curve, and I couldn't help but laugh out loud. "Pearl, what do you think of me, this silly girl, as a human or a ghost? No, is it a human or a god? Why do I always feel uneasy about this matter?" My father, Lao Qi, frowned and said helplessly. Mother glanced at Father and scolded him, "Whether it is a human or a ghost, a ghost or a god, you gave birth to the child yourself, so who knows? I just know that if outsiders hear it, they will gossip about it. "You're almost forty years old, how can you blindly criticize your own child?" Grandpa took over the conversation and glared at Dad. "Hmph, but I'm not an ordinary person, how can others understand me. But this old man insisted that it was Bai Tian who saved the person, and my kid must take the blame. I'm afraid that in the future..." Grandpa stood at the gate thoughtfully. (End of this chapter)
