Chapter Twenty-Three: The Female Ghost in Red
After about ten minutes, Zhou Xiaoxian hugged Zhou Xiaoliu tightly as if he was holding a pillow. The white tiger went to the underworld, otherwise, Zhou Xiaoliu must have asked him to take a look, it's not that he doesn't want to go out to practice at night, but his sister really watches it too closely.
Zhou Xiaoliu looked at the two ghosts on the beam, gently pulled out his left hand, which was not held by his sister, gathered his five fingers and waved them slightly, signaling the old man to take the talisman to make the enchantment.
It's not that the old man is stingy, it's just that there are still a few days before Qingming, and he spent all the paper money he saved during the New Year, he pinched the last enchantment talisman, hesitated for a while, and then gritted his teeth and used it.
With a wave of the rune paper, a moon-white ball of light that was invisible to ordinary people enveloped the two ghosts, and Zhou Xiaoliu was unable to move, so he had to stick his head into it. If there is water under the light ball, Zhou Xiaoliu is like lying on the water at the moment, and then stroke once with each arm and hit the water with both legs six times, which is the standard backstroke position.
"Grandma?" Zhou Xiaoliu saw the female ghost in red next to the old man, and thought in his heart that the grandmother had transformed into a young woman, standing with the old man, not like a husband and wife, but like a father and daughter.
"What nonsense? Your grandmother has been a hundred years old and has been reincarnated. "He was the son of his parents, his first five brothers were much older than him, and his wife was a child bride, and he was just a moon old when he came to his house at the age of eight. They're all reincarnated, and they're all left with their own unlucky bastards.
Zhou Xiaoliu suddenly realized: "New... Grandma!"
The old man was angry: "You dead girl, listen up, I have nothing to do with her!"
The red-clothed woman's grimace was slightly red, not as pale as other ghosts, I don't know if it was red-clothed, or because of Zhou Xiaoliu's wrong name.
She said softly: "My lord, I am the female ghost in the bamboo bush, I saw you when you were herding cattle... I also saw the White Tiger, and then I stood in the bamboo bush and saw you open a passage from a distance......"
The female ghost in red paid attention to Zhou Xiaoliu's face as she spoke, and broke through other people's secrets, after all, it was not a pleasant thing for the other party, not to mention that she heard that capable people and strangers have a great temper.
But it was important for her to find out if that passage really led to the underworld, and if so, she would no longer be trapped in that bamboo bush, and there would be hope for reincarnation.
Zhou Xiaoliu didn't feel displeased, but it was the first time he heard others call himself an "adult", and a strange feeling rose in his heart.
When the old man on the side heard the word "passage", he became excited, and even broke his voice: "It must be a passage to the underworld, that ghost cha didn't lie to me!"
In this way, this person is his own dead girl! In the past few days when he can't get close, what great adventure has the dead girl had? The old man held his right hand in his left hand, and then changed his right hand to hold his left hand, and after floating a few circles in the enchantment, he lowered his head, and shouted kindly and affectionately: "Little Liu......"
"Stop, you'd better call me a dead girl, it gave me goosebumps. Zhou Xiaoliu shook her head uncomfortably, if she wasn't afraid of waking up her third sister again, she would definitely shake her body, "This matter will have to wait for the white tiger to come back, I really don't know how to operate, if I operate indiscriminately, what if I send you two away?"
She couldn't guarantee that she would be able to reach the underworld by drawing a circle. Even if they could, what would happen to these two ghosts when they got there?
The white tiger said that it came from the underworld, and it would naturally have a place to go when it went back, and if he came nonsense, in case a circle sent the two ghosts in front of him to the eighteenth layer of hell... There is also this possibility, after all, the map of the underworld is so big, and although he has already died once, he has not had time to go in to see and see, so he directly returned to the furnace.
When the female ghost in red heard this, she felt that she was in too much of a hurry, and she couldn't see the long years of hope, and she had waited for it, so let's wait a few more days!
"Thank you, sir, but, my lord, we don't dare to come near you when the White Tiger Lord is by your side. The female ghost in red added.
"Yes, as soon as I entered the door a few days ago, I was burned by purple qi and almost wiped out!"
"When the time comes, I'll ask the White Tiger as well. Zhou Xiaoliu could only respond like this.
The female ghost in red smiled gratefully at Zhou Xiaoliu, Zhou Xiaoliu sighed lightly, what a beauty! If she wasn't a ghost, if she went to take a casual walk on the streets of Gangcheng now, it was estimated that those scouts would be scrambling to rush and frantically pursue her.
Zhou Xiaoliu looked at the female ghost's red dress, which was a big red wedding dress, but if he looked closely, he could still see some dark red dried blood stains distributed on the wedding dress.
"How did you die in the first place?" Zhou Xiaoliu was a little curious, it is said that women will only wear red wedding dresses on the day of marriage, and the wedding day must be very lively, how did she die alone in the bamboo bushes?
Hearing Zhou Xiaoliu's question, the old man glanced at her and waved his hand, it's best not to ask about this.
The old man's name is Zhou Fusheng, one day many years ago, as soon as the sky was bright, he carried his hoe to the back mountain, ready to dig some bamboo shoots to eat.
As he walked, he noticed that a few big men in the distance were pushing and shoving a thin man without any scruples, swearing and coming down from the mountain.
He weighed the hoe in his hand, counted the number of opponents, and then squatted in the tall grass by the side of the road and hid.
After the visitor passed by him and walked into the distance, he came out and continued to walk up the mountain. When I got to the bamboo bush, I found a woman lying on the ground in disarray, dead and blind, and there was a big red wedding dress that had been torn to pieces.
When the female ghost in red saw the old man waving his hand, she laughed and said to Zhou Xiaoliu: "It's all my fault for being too naïve." ”
Her name is Liu Bao'er, she is the only daughter in the family, and her parents who have little assets gave birth to her when she was nearly fifty years old, so she named her Bao'er.
When she was eighteen years old, her parents decided to recruit her a son-in-law, but she had a disagreement with her parents about this matter. The parents chose a loyal and honest offspring who is not good-looking, but the person she likes is Lin Chang, who has red lips and white teeth and can speak well, Lin Chang also intends to be involved, but her parents just don't agree.
The elderly parents ignored her wishes and directly began to prepare for the wedding. On the day of the wedding, it wasn't until she worshiped heaven and earth that everyone went to eat a banquet, and she sat alone in the cave room before she threw away her hijab and escaped by climbing through the window, and ran to the neighboring town with Lin Chang, who had been arranged in advance.
Lin Chang said that as long as he stayed with him and didn't return overnight, everyone would agree to him marrying her the next day.
Zhou Xiaoliu only heard this, and felt that the female ghost in red was really naïve, and even he had heard of himself who had never been in love, and worshipping heaven and earth at that time was equivalent to going to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a certificate now, what Lin Chang must have other plans, otherwise, he would not wait for his beloved woman to become someone else's nominal daughter-in-law, and then use her name to force her parents to comply.