When the wind blows, the houses and the earth float in the darkness. In a long distance, perhaps in this old tile house where the elm was sleeping, there was an invisible substance creaking. The wind outside was blowing too violently, and Yu felt inexplicably frightened. He lifte

When the wind blows, the houses and the earth float in the darkness together. In a long distance, perhaps in this old tile house where the elm was sleeping, there was an invisible substance creaking. The wind outside was blowing too violently, and Yu felt inexplicably frightened. He lifted the bed tent made of printed cloth a little and looked out the window. Outside the window was the blue and purple sky and sparse shadows of trees, everything was peaceful. Yu guessed that the sound of the sound at night might be a giant beast. He didn't know what it was called, and even if he opened his eyes wide, he couldn't see where it was hidden. Yu didn't know too many things. He was a weak and quiet child rarely seen in the countryside. Since he suffered from a headache, Yu had never left his yard. Sometimes Yu sat on the haystacks in the drying yard and watched a group of chickens peck at the remaining rice on the yard, but this was often the case after the morning. 　　In the morning, when it was getting dark, Yu hurriedly got out of bed to pee. When he passed by his grandma's room, he pushed the door open and saw his grandma sitting on a toilet bucket, reaching one hand under the bed to grab straw paper, and covering her chest with the other hand, she coughed loudly again. Grandma seems to have been coughing like this for a lifetime. Yu said to the inside, I'll pee. He ran through his mother's room and opened the door again. His mother had already gotten up. She was dressing up in front of the mirror on the wall. The long black and bright hair was tied up and tied into a figure, hanging behind her head. Yu said, I went to pee, and he quickly stepped on the threshold and urinated on the mottled mud outside. When Yu tied her pants, she saw the round outline of the village shiny little by little, slowly becoming clearer. The cattle herders had arrived at the pond and the fragrance of food came from the drying ground.

Sometimes elm sits on the haystacks in the drying field and watch a group of chickens peck at the remaining rice on the field. This is after the morning. People in the village who went to the fields would see Yu sitting motionless on the haystack: Yu was holding half of the leftover dried biscuit in his hand, and one or several fly perched on the dried biscuits. 　　Yu, have you had a headache again? No, Yu said, I'm eating dry cakes. 　Yu, is your father coming home soon? 　It's almost time, my father will go home after the New Year. 　　The figure of elm shines like a haystack in the sun. As he swallowed the last bit of dry cake, his head buzzed and swelled again. Yu climbed down the haystack, and he heard his mother shouting loudly at the door, Yu, come home to take medicine. Yu staggered across the drying yard, and then he saw someone getting off the road. A carpenter carrying a canvas tool bag. Yu stopped and looked at the man. He looked very much like Yu's father. This was because of his walking posture and the sawing and pushing the ink bucket. Yu actually didn't know him. That wasn't my dad, Yu said to himself, he spat in the direction of the carpenter, and ran back home in a flash. 　　El drinks bitter and astringent herbs, which my mother collected from the mountain according to folk remedies. The grass stems and grass leaves were picked. They were piled up by my mother in a bamboo plaque and placed in the sun. After drying, they were cut into powder and put into a basket without any shape. Yu's mother would grab a handful of herbs from the basket and make soup for Yu to drink every day. Yu was afraid of the bitterness of herbs, so he poured the medicine for the dog in the yard. The dog shook his tail and walked away. Yu thought that even the dog would not take this medicine, why should I take it? Yu always secretly poured medicine into a bucket of water. When his mother found out, she sat opposite the elm and watched him drink all the medicine before leaving. She said, Yu, you have to be obedient and take medicine if you are sick. If you don’t take medicine, you will die. Do you understand? Death is such a terrible thing. Are you not afraid of death? There was a man standing at the door of

. Yu found that he was the carpenter who got off the road. Yu also found that his mother knew the carpenter. They stood by the door and talked for a while. The carpenter stepped in and sat on a stool to ask for water. Yu saw his tool kit as worn as his father's, with a sharp blade showing inside. 　This is your cousin.My mother took a puff of water from the water tank, and looked up and said to Yu, "He is your father's good friend. He has worked in my house before, do you still remember him?" 　No, Yu shook his head and said, I don’t remember anything. 　　Your father went to work in the Northeast and couldn't come back during the Chinese New Year. My mother handed a can of water to the carpenter, and a rare smile appeared on her face. She said, "Yu, your father brought the money home, and he made a lot of money this year." 　Yu frowned and drank the herbs and put the medicine bowl upside down on the table. He said, after I finished drinking, Yu raised his head and looked at the carpenter and his mother with a puzzled look. They were also looking at Yu with the same eyes. The carpenter's face was covered with pimples and a big black mole. The carpenter suddenly smiled at the elm, revealing a bite of the yellow teeth of the sauce. He said, come here, I'll give you candy. Yu said, I won’t eat, I’m going out. Yu walked towards the door and heard his mother say in an apology tone that this child is ignorant and has a weird temper. It is all a damn headache that has caused him. 　Yu leaned against the wall and eavesdropped on the conversation between her mother and the carpenter, but they didn't say anything. Later, her mother led the carpenter into her grandmother's house. They were obviously discussing something, but Yu still couldn't hear what they were saying. He vaguely felt that this matter was related to him. What exactly did they want to do? 　　The carpenter named Wang later lived in Yu's house. The next day, the carpenter took off the door of the elm and spread it on two benches to make a table. Yu shouted at the carpenter with a sharp voice, "What are you going to do?" What do you want to do when you run to my house? The carpenter said, "If you ask your mother to go, Yu ran to his mother." He said, "He unloaded my room, what exactly is he going to do?" My mother said that he was going to start working, and it would be impossible to do woodworking without a door panel. Yu said, my father is also a carpenter, why didn’t he come to his house to do carpentry work? Why let that person come? My mother became a little impatient. She rubbed Yu, where are your ears? I have told you how many times that my dad went to work far away and would not go home this year. Yu stopped talking. After a while, he said, "Do he want to make a cabinet for my house?" My mother said, what's the use of making a cabinet? It’s not about hitting a cabinet, it’s about hitting a coffin. Yu's face suddenly turned pale. He turned around and looked at the tool in the hall. Yu grabbed her mother's arm. Why did he hit the coffin? Who did you give the coffin? My mother was washing rice, and she seemed to be in a bad mood on this day. Yu saw her mother throwing the bamboo basket to the ground, and she said, "I can't stand you, you annoying child, who can I give me the coffin?" I will give you a sleep, I will give you a sleep!

elm looked at the rice in the bamboo basket splashing beside the water tank in horror. The mother was angry. She was wearing a floral shirt and blue khaki trousers, with her sleeves and legs rolled up. Her face turned red because of irritability and anger. Yu saw that her forehead was covered with sweat, and some light blue blood vessels could be seen vaguely squirming like earthworms. Yu felt that everything was caught off guard, and he stuttered, "What did I do wrong?" I did nothing wrong, I just don't like that carpenter. 　　The mother later bent down and picked up the rice on the ground and continued to rinse it with water. My mother said, Yu, I didn’t mean to get angry at you, I was too tired, I don’t know if the rice was enough for him to eat. The rice jar at home was almost empty, but your father was not coming back. 　　The carpenter's pushing planks creaking from morning to night, and the ground was filled with wood chips and rolls of shavings. The fragrance of the wood changed the moldy composition of the air. Elm was always awakened by the smell and sound of wood in his sleep. His door was gone. Now he could see the movement of the main hall when he was lying on the bed. The carpenter bent over and flattened a piece of wood again and again, with a red and blue pen clamped on his ears. On the table next to it was a bottle of white wine. The carpenter often stopped what he had done and walked over to have a sip of wine. During the period of drinking, the house returned to peace. Yu heard grandma's ancient cough and spitting sounds, and her mother was feeding the chickens in the yard. 　Yu picked up a shaved flower from the ground, and he dug two holes on it with a knife and put them on his eyes. Then Yu sat by the fire, looking at the carpenter named Wang through the two holes. The carpenter was pushing a wooden board hard, his movements were mechanical and full of force.　　Hey, why do you come to my house to work? Yu said, why can’t you go to another family? 　The carpenter doesn't speak. He rarely speaks except for working. 　My house doesn’t want a coffin, why do you want to come to my house to get a coffin? 　The carpenter looked at Yu with a side face, without any expression on his face. Yu saw his two fingers pulling up an iron nail from the wooden board, and threw it on the ground with his hands raised. It’s useless if you type it. Yu told the carpenter, no one in our family wants to sleep in the coffin unless you go to bed by yourself. 　Yu heard the carpenter laughing loudly, and he straightened up and walked around the board, lifted his feet and kicked the wood chips all over the floor towards the corner of the wall. The carpenter touched the rectangular and gradually smooth wooden board. He said that when the coffin is well-made, there will always be people sleeping. The coffin is the best wooden tool in the world, and you will understand it when you grow up. Then the carpenter suddenly sat on the wooden board and lay down slowly. The carpenter's body was lying horizontally and looked extremely huge. He still smiled and said to Yu, "Lying on the coffin board is so comfortable, you will understand when you grow up." 　　When the carpenter jumped to the ground, Yu couldn't help but take a few steps back. The carpenter's bright eyes made Yu feel scared. Yu saw the carpenter spread his arms at him, and he said, "Child, I'll carry you up and taste the taste of sleeping in the coffin. This is the best bed in the world, much more comfortable than your small bed." Yu leaned against the wall, and he almost cried, "No, I don't want it." But the carpenter's powerful arms still held the elm. Yu felt that he fell lightly on the coffin board like a grass seed. The coffin board was cold and cold, the fragrance of pine wood was thick and radiant, followed by a fatal dizziness. Yu fainted on the coffin board.

Yu woke up half an hour later. He saw his mother, rural doctor, and seriously ill grandmother surrounded by the bed. My mother's eyes were so red that she seemed to be crying. The grandmother's feet were repeatedly stroked on the elm's forehead like an old hand. The rural doctor breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's okay now, he's just frightened." 　　I don’t sleep. Don't let me sleep in the coffin. Yu told his grandmother that he felt very weak and seemed to have died. Poor child, how could you sleep in the coffin? Grandma said, that's my longevity material. I'm old and I'm about to go into the coffin. 　Yu sat up from the bed and saw that the carpenter named Wang was still working in the main hall. The carpenter turned his back to them, and no one could see his expression. Yu's mother said, "What did Carpenter Wang do? I scared the child like this, and I don't know what to say." 　　Don’t let me sleep in the coffin. Yu pulled his mother and said, "I'm scared, you promise me not to let me sleep in the coffin." 　　Look, you scared the child like this. Yu's mother choked and said, Yu, don't be afraid, you didn't hear grandma say that this is grandma's birthday material. Your father respects grandma and specially invites Uncle Wang to come to his house to make this birthday material. But I think I'm almost dead. My head is about to explode. Yu said painfully, holding his head. 　This autumn, Yu no longer lives alone, and he sleeps with his grandmother at night. The old and bitter smell of grandma was accompanied by Yum falling asleep. Her annoying cough continued from midnight to early morning. Yu was often awakened suddenly. He saw his grandmother's mouth slightly open, like a black hole, and her turbid eyes flickered under the light moonlight. In the main hall outside, the carpenter named Wang was snoring loudly, and Yu really wanted to use a piece of rag to block his mouth. He complained about why they were unwilling to sleep quietly for a while. It was almost dawn and they were about to get up when dawn was dawn.

What’s strange is this autumn night. Late at night, Yu saw her grandmother standing by the door holding the wall, and her old and weak body was shaking. Yu jumped out of bed and helped her, Yu said, Grandma, what are you going to do? Grandma said, I'll do it, don't worry about me. Yu returned to the bed in a daze, and he heard grandma gritting her teeth in the dark, saying, "Slut, shameless slut." Yu didn't understand who grandma was scolding. He said in his heart, who is the slut? Whoever doesn't sleep well is a slut.　　The white wood coffin soon took shape, half of it lying on the door panel and the other half leaning on the wall. Grandma often came out to supervise the carpenter. She knocked on the wall of the coffin with a stick and said, "It's so thin, but I didn't have a blessing in my previous life, so I was satisfied with sleeping in this coffin." The carpenter never explained anything. He just glanced at the old grandmother with a mocking look. There was an unconcealed coldness in his eyes, and these eyes also made Yu feel deeply fear and sorrow. Yu's later amazing move was targeting the carpenter named Wang. Yu accidentally found half a bottle of pesticide in the warehouse. The red letters on the bottle sign and the skeleton head symbolize death. I imagine that people in the village swallow this pesticide and die every year. Yu Fu was full of thoughts, and later he poured half a bottle of pesticide into a water cup and placed it quietly on the table. He knew that the carpenter named Wang was used to taking water from the table. It was noon, and the carpenter was sweating profusely and then slapped the appearance of the two coffin boards. Yu peeked through the window outside as he saw the carpenter wiping sweat, then he reached onto the table and grabbed the water cup. Yu's heart was beating wildly, and he squatted down and covered his eyes. 　　The carpenter named Wang screamed wildly in the house, and the water cup flew out of the door and fell to the ground. Yu ran away, he didn't dare to look back and ran to the playground of the rural primary school. There was no one on the playground, only a few piles of haystacks rustled in the breeze. Yu found a hole in the haystack, so he got in and grabbed a few bundles of hay to block the hole. Everything became dark and boundless. You could vaguely hear the sound of reading in the elementary school classroom. They were children who were free from illness and disasters. They were studying this morning, and no one knew what Yu did. 　Yu heard the bell of primary school class, and the children ran out of the classroom with noise. After passing the playground and the haystack where Yu lived, a child opened the hole. He shouted in surprise, "What are you doing hiding here?" Are you shitting? Yu covered her face with her hands, and he whimpered, "I have a headache, I have a headache." 　　Yu climbed out of the haystack in the evening, and he walked home with a pale face. From a distance, you can see smoke from cooking fires in the chimney at home. My mother was cooking in the vegetable field in front of her, as if nothing had happened. Yu walked to the door of his house and his mother said, Yu, where have you been going this day? Yu stopped and stretched out his fingers to pick the putty on the door frame. My mother said again, judging from your infatuation, who bullied you? Yu shook his head and said, I have a headache, I have a severe headache.

Yu shivered when she stepped into the house. The carpenter named Wang sat alone at the table and sipped wine. The carpenter's eyes pierced the elm's heart as sharply as a blade. Yu lowered her head and kicked the shavings on the ground. He heard the carpenter laugh. The carpenter said, are you back? Your mother has been looking for you for a long time. Yu said, what are you looking for me? The carpenter said, what are you doing. My work is done and I'm leaving tomorrow. Yu looked up and saw the white coffin standing beside the wall. He had never faced a coffin so close. The newly-made coffin has a smooth and smooth surface, exuding the fragrance of trees. 　　Is this coffin good to be beaten? The carpenter said. 　　I don't know. Yu said. Anyway, I don’t want to sleep in the coffin, no matter how good it is. You are a smart child. The carpenter came over, put one hand on Yu's shoulder and twisted Yu's face with the other. He said, "This is the best coffin I have ever beaten. There will always be someone in your family who sleeps in this good coffin." 　The next morning, the carpenter named Wang left the village. He did not reveal the pesticides, which surprised Yu. A deep confusion enveloped Yu's future life. Yu could not ignore the traces and shadows left by the carpenter named Wang at home. 　　Autumn and fallen leaves gradually fade away with the wind. 　The huge coffin was parked on one side of the main hall, and the sunlight shone through the window couch to illuminate a corner of the coffin, and the other half was an irregular shadow part. This was during the day, and at night, Yu never dared to look at the coffin. He was afraid that it would suddenly open the cover and lock him inside.Late at night, Yu still heard a substance creaking in the house. He suspected that the sound came from the inside of the coffin, the most secret and darkest place. 　　Mother said that grandma's illness was getting worse day by day, and I'm afraid she would not survive this autumn. Grandma herself said so. Autumn has passed, but grandma is still fine. She put on a cotton sock and sat on the bed with a small warm stove in her arms, coughing loudly. Grandma's temper has become strange and unpredictable. She often sits on the bed and curses Yu's mother loudly. Yu doesn't know why. He sees his mother's eyes often with tears in his eyes. Yu doesn't know whether grandma will die. He doesn't want grandma to die, but once grandma dies, she will sleep in the coffin, and the coffin will be carried out of the main hall and buried in the cemetery by the river. This is what Yu hopes. 　Yu didn't dare to sleep with her grandmother at night, so he started moving to her mother's room to spend the night. This made Yu's sleep sweet and steady. Yu once saw his mother putting plaster on her stomach and putting a lot of plasters on her stomach. Yu said, why did she put so many plasters on her? My mother replied, "My stomach hurts, and it doesn't hurt if she puts plasters on it." This is a detail that Yu recalled a long time later, and it helped Yu finally figure out the cause of his mother's death. 　On a cold morning, Yu found her mother lying on her back in the warehouse, and the bottle of pesticide bottle used by Yu was poured beside her. Yu smelled a strong and choking smell, which was made up of the smell of pesticides and wound plasters. Yu almost suffocated. He struggled to pull his mother's hand, which was cold and stiff. 　Yu's mother was in her home for three days. The villagers who came to the guards whispered to each other. They asked Yu many inexplicable things, including the carpenter named Wang many times. Yu just cried and said, "I don't know, I don't know, I think my grandma is about to die, and I don't know why my mother dies." The villagers said that the child is still ignorant, but if his grandmother doesn’t say it, who can explain it clearly? 　Yu's father did not go home to attend the funeral. Everyone knows that he is also a carpenter who travels to the village and streets, and no one knows where he is. 　　On the fourth day, Yu's mother was put into a coffin. The coffin is in its original color and has no paint yet because everything is caught off guard. Death is unexpected. Yu followed four men carrying coffins to the river. It was the morning when frost fell. The snow-white frost fell silently on the coffin and on the heads of the mourners. The fields and trees were filled with frost. The scenery of the countryside was solemn and calm as ever, suitable for any form of funeral. 　　On the road a few steps away from the cemetery, Yu suddenly stopped. Yu's eyes fell in front of the road, where a carpenter with tools appeared, and the funeral people also stood and looked at it. Some people say, could it be Yu’s father? They soon discovered that it was not Yu's father. There were many craftsmen walking on the streets in the village on the highway. That morning, another strange carpenter appeared. 　　I am afraid. 　　Yu screamed shrillly at this moment. He pushed the crowd away and ran wildly on the road. Elm was wearing a white mourning cloth on her head, and looked like a white-maned horse from a distance.