My steps were very slow, and I felt more nostalgic and timid.
However, no matter how slow you pace, the road will eventually come to an end.
I stood at the door of my grandparents' bedroom, finally raised my hand, and pushed open the half-open door.
A familiar smell came to the room.
It was the smell of the talcum powder that grandma always used to apply herself.
That kind of talcum powder contains mint ingredients, so it is deeply loved by grandma.
It seems that from the time I can remember, my grandma has always had this smell on her body. It is a faint icy and cool smell.
Now that things have changed and people have changed, I suddenly felt that my chest, which had just been relieved, was suddenly blocked again.
I stood at the door and looked around my grandparents' bedroom. The big mahogany bed, the nine big boxes at the end of the bed, and the dressing table in the corner were all in place, but everything looked a little awkward.
But I can't tell what's wrong.
After hesitating for a moment, I stepped into my grandparents' bedroom.
It was very strange. I don’t know why, but as if it was an instinctive reaction, I didn’t walk in the direction of the dressing table, but walked to the nine overlapping cabinets.
Before going to Poyang Lake, I also entered this bedroom and opened these cabinets in order to find my grandma's dowry box.
Now, I walked in again, but grandma was no longer there.
I opened the door of the cupboard where grandma stored her clothes, but to my surprise, it was empty, with nothing in it.
My body's conditioned reflex made me open all the cabinet doors at once.
Just like my intuition, all the cabinets were empty, including the winter bedding that had been placed in the cabinets.
Did grandpa actually take away all grandma’s belongings?
Or burned?
Because there has always been a custom in my hometown that if a person dies, his family will dispose of all the things he used during his lifetime.
The reason for doing this is that they are afraid that these things will contain the breath of the deceased, which will make the soul of the deceased linger at home and refuse to be buried in the ground.
However, at this moment, I really hope that my grandma can care about me and that her soul is still lingering in the Zhou family's old house, or even appear and let me take a few more glances.
I stayed in front of the cabinet for a while, groping inside each cabinet with both hands, but found nothing.
Then, I turned around and wanted to walk to grandma's dressing table.
Just when I turned around, I glanced at the rather large mahogany bed from the corner of my eye, and I instantly knew where the uncomfortable feeling I had just been feeling came from.
It's the curtain above the mahogany bed.
My grandparents are not at home, but the curtains on the bed are down.
Logically speaking, the curtain should be folded up and hung on the hooks on both sides.
The situation in front of me made a picture fly through my mind in an instant.
It was a scene I saw in the enclosed building at the bottom of Poyang Lake, in a room where a woman hung herself on the bed frame of a large mahogany bed. It was quite similar.
At this moment, a gust of wind happened to blow up in the yard, blowing out the two candles I had just lit to honor my ancestors in the back hall.
The surrounding environment suddenly fell into the darkness of dusk. Reflexively, I stretched out my hand to turn on the light in the room, but I turned it on and off, but the tungsten filament bulb would not light up.
Goosebumps suddenly appeared on my skin, and I felt chills running down my back.
Is there anything behind this curtain?
Could it be that entering the room in the enclosed building at that time was actually another time travel for me?
If this is the case, then there is a corpse hanging in mid-air behind the curtain in front of you.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but regret not being soft-hearted and calling Xiangyu just now, so that I wouldn't have to face such a terrifying scene at this moment.
At least, I can still have a companion.
Do you want me to call Xiang Yu? She is sitting in the front hall now. As long as I shout loudly, she will rush over.
But if this were the case, wouldn't it be the same as telling her that I was scared and asking her to encourage me? This would be too shameless.
Thinking of this, I swallowed the word "Xiangyu" that I almost blurted out just now.
After all, this is still the Zhou family. Even if there are corpses, I can run to the front hall in a few steps.
And after traveling to so many places, now that I think about it, dead people are not that scary anymore.
I kept cheering myself up in my heart, and then forced myself to slowly move towards the big mahogany bed.
Finally, I stood in front of the mahogany bed.
My grandparents have always used old-fashioned curtains. This kind of curtain is a bit thick and not very light-transmissive. In addition, there are no lights in the house, so even if you stand in front of the bed, you can't see the white curtain covering it.
Is there anything on the bed?
After taking a deep breath, I stretched out my right hand and quickly opened the curtain without allowing myself any time or space to think.
Phew, the bed is empty.
It turned out to be a false alarm, and all the fear came from my imagination.
My heart, which had been hanging in my throat, was instantly relieved.
Grandpa was really surprised. Since he knew that he would not return to the Zhou family's old house in the near future, why did he put down the white curtain before leaving? Is it to prevent dust from falling on the bed?
I complained in my mind and turned around to walk towards the dressing table.
However, if you don’t seek death, you won’t die.
As if there was a force guiding me, I actually raised my head and looked at the bed frame on the mahogany bed.
I thought to myself that if someone really hung himself from the bed, there would be some traces left on the bed frame.
Thinking of this, I actually took off my shoes and climbed onto the big bed of my grandparents by accident.
Because when I left the Zhou family and went to Shentang Bay, my grandma was still fine and didn't have any pain at all. So when she suddenly told me that she had passed away, I really couldn't accept it.
Although grandpa did not mention the cause of grandma's death in the message he left me, my subconscious mind always felt that grandma's death must not be simple.
That's why we have this set of actions.
These are the analyzes I made on my own behavior when I recalled the past as time passed.
I reached out my hand and groped carefully on the bed frame.
Suddenly, my index finger was pricked by a small thorn.
The pain from the thorn in my flesh made me pull my hand back instantly.
My heart couldn't help but be shaken.
In fact, I personally don’t want to touch anything on the bed frame.
I had an idea, took out the mobile phone from my pocket, turned on the phone's camera, and changed the camera's shooting angle to selfie mode.
Then, I put my phone on the bed frame where I had just pricked my finger and took a photo.
There was no surprise. On the screen of my mobile phone, I saw a place on the bed frame that was a little different in color from other places. That place was about as wide as three fingers.
Exactly the width of a white silk ribbon.
My heart suddenly went cold.
I seemed to have forgotten my fear. I sat on my grandparents' bed, my mind going blank.
It turns out that the female corpse I saw in the Poyang Lake enclosure was grandma?
It turns out that this was how grandma met me for the last time?
I can't imagine how hard she was forced to go to make such a cheerful old lady go to such a dead end.
"Grandma," I murmured softly, but no tears fell from my eyes.
Grandpa loved grandma so much. What kind of pain did it feel when he opened the curtain and saw grandma's body that had no warmth?
What I don’t understand is, even if grandma wanted to take this path, why would she choose to do it on her wedding bed with grandpa? Did she want to scare grandpa?
Obviously not, so why?
Could it be?
Is this how grandma used to tell me where the albums of cultural relics she drew back then are hidden?