A few days later, Gu Taiyan’s family came back and found out about this. They were very grateful to my mother. My mom said, you’re welcome! He just said in a reproachful tone, Uncle Taiyan, the cow is a beast with dark eyes and it also has a life. If your family is gone, just tie it to a willow tree and leave it alone for a few days. If it doesn't starve to death, it will die of thirst. Please be careful in the future. ! Gu Taiyan said yes repeatedly. He also said, Yulan, you are such a good person.
She has done countless good things like this, and I thought to myself: My mother is really a good person. There is another thing that impressed me deeply. When I was in the third grade of elementary school, I was so eager to go to school that I basically ate a big bowl of rice, leaving a few grains of rice at the bottom of the bowl. I walked out of the door with my schoolbag on my back, and my mother immediately chased me out and told me to go back. Go to the house. I felt confused and asked: What else is going on? Mom said, "Weixing, you have to eat all the grains of rice in your bowl before you leave. There won't be a grain of rice left."
I knew my family was not rich, but I could still afford a few scraps of rice, so I said dissatisfiedly, Mom, if I don’t eat these scraps of rice, will someone die?
Guess what my mother told me? She said, Wei Xing, you won't die if you don't eat these few grains of rice, but your virtue will die. Once your virtue is dead, there is no need to read the book. Fast food.
Under my mother's persuasion, I ate the few leftovers in the bowl as cleanly as if the rice bowl had been washed. My mother praised me. My child, correct your mistakes when you know they are wrong. People should develop a frugal character. Wasn't there a poet in the Tang Dynasty who wrote a poem urging people to cherish food?
I happily snatched the first one, Mom, I know how to recite it, and I just learned it! Is it the poem "Compassion for the Farmers" written by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shen? When my mother nodded, I began to recite: It is noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat is dripping from the soil. Who knows dishes on the menu, A Journey.
My mother clapped her hands and said, yes! You must learn to be frugal. If you waste food, you are disrespecting the farmers who work hard to grow food. Waste a little today and a little tomorrow. If you waste too much over time, you will become a sinner.
Mom, I understand. I will listen to you! During the wake, the more I recalled my mother's behavior when she was still alive, the more I felt that my mother was a good person. In this way, I also felt that what the Earth God said in my dream might be true. If nothing else, he said, I Mom has always practiced the ten good deeds during her lifetime, so that should be right. As for the earth god's theory that the Jade Emperor in heaven will send gods to carry her in a sedan chair to become a fairy in heaven, it is hard to say whether it is true or not.
On the third night, at about twelve o'clock, I was keeping watch, and suddenly I heard my mother screaming in the coffin: Ouch! The scream was horrifying.
Suddenly, someone called out that a ghost was coming. My father was so frightened that he took the three brothers and us and ran quickly into the dark fields, a hundred meters away from the mourning hall, his heart still pounding.
It was severe winter at that time, the biting cold wind was howling, drizzle was falling in the sky, and everyone was shivering with cold. The four of us, father and son, looked at me and I looked at you, not knowing what to do.
Suddenly, my father said: What are you afraid of? Your mother has turned into a ghost and can't pinch her own husband and son even if she pinches others. Let's go back! After saying that, the four of us, father and son, bravely returned to the mourning hall, mustered up the courage to approach my mother's coffin, and lifted the lid off. I saw my mother lying in the coffin and moaning one after another: Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch... …
I asked my mother: Mom, what’s wrong with you? My mother said: I don’t have the strength to speak now. Please make some rice soup for me to drink.
The father picked up the mother from the coffin, returned to the room and lay down on the bed. After my mother drank the hot rice soup and regained some strength, she told us the thrilling and wonderful story of how she came back to life after death.
My mother said: When I just died, I suddenly felt that all the pain that had tortured me for three years was gone, and my body felt relaxed. I got up and walked around, and saw many people at home, including uncles, aunts, almost all relatives and friends. The production team leader and other villagers came, and I wondered: What big things happened at home today? I am the head of the family, how come I don’t know?
I went to ask my husband, but he ignored me at all. He was busy inside and outside the house. I was surprised and asked my son again, but he ignored me. How did I know that I was dead? It was my soul talking to them. I could see everyone clearly, but I couldn't see my body lying in the coffin.
It really echoes the old saying: You can’t see the soul in life, and you can’t see the body in death. So I went to ask other relatives and the production team leader, but all of them ignored me. I'm so angry. I thought to myself: Let you just work around! I went out to relax.
So he left everyone and walked towards the end of the village. After walking about seventy or eighty steps, I looked up and suddenly saw eight people in the sky carrying a big sedan and descending towards me, stopping in front of me and blocking my way.
A leader with a whip in his hand, maybe the person in charge, walked up to me without carrying the sedan and said with his fists in his hands: "Does He Yulan (mother's name) live here?"
Isn’t this asking me? I immediately replied: I am. Before I could say more, he said: That's right. After that, he opened the sedan curtain door and said, "Please get on the sedan!" I asked: Why do you want to get on the sedan? He said: The Jade Emperor and the Prince of Hell arranged for us to carry you.
I said: Am I dead? he said yes.
I'm so happy! Get on the sedan immediately. I thought to myself: If I had known that eight people would come to carry the sedan when someone died, wouldn't it be better if I died earlier? To prevent me from lying in bed for three years unjustly and suffering all kinds of torture. The joy in my heart is beyond words.
I only heard a shout from above: Get up the sedan. Turn the car around and hit the road.
I felt like the sedan slowly left the ground and took off towards the sky like an airplane. I opened the curtains of the sedan and looked out, and it was really flying.
Suddenly, I saw a Pegasus horse in the sky, and a man was riding it. The horse was swooping down in the direction of our sedan. Our sedan had no choice but to move backwards and fall back to its original position, and the Pegasus also landed and stopped in front of the sedan.
The man was gorgeously dressed, jumped down from his horse and shouted: The imperial edict has arrived!
The leader and eight bearers knelt down together. I didn't understand their rules, so I still sat in the sedan chair. I only heard the man read out the imperial edict: He Yulan, the Jade Emperor and the Prince of Hell are merciful and hope that you will do good deeds and accumulate virtue in the world. Your child has not grown up yet and still needs care... Now you will be brought back to the earth, and your life will be extended by forty years to eighty years. I'll pick you up when you're three years old...I appreciate this!
After a short conversation and the edict was read out, the man mounted the Pegasus and flew away.
Everyone stood up, and the leader came over and lifted the sedan curtain and said to me: Did you hear it?
I replied: I heard it.
The leader said: If you hear this, get off the sedan immediately, return to the coffin and fall asleep.
I said: No! I finally died and sat on a sedan chair to see the Jade Emperor. He asked me to go back and suffer as a human being, and I would never go.
The leader said: The upper world is no better than your human world, so you can bargain. The Lord of Hell said it is true, go quickly.
I tilted my head and sat still. He stretched out his hand to pull me out of the sedan chair, and I held on to the railings of the sedan chair with both hands. He said: If you don't eat the toast, you will be fined. Then he used the whip in his hand to hit my right wrist hard, and I let go of my hands.
He grabbed me by the collar, picked me up and threw me to the mourning hall dozens of meters away. I shouted in horror: Ouch - but I also heard someone shouting: The ghost is coming! This is the case.
