Chapter 37: Grandma Qi (II)

Grandma Qi's family has taken in a lot of stray animals, there are more than a dozen kittens and dogs, but they are rarely seen in the yard, it seems that they retain the habit of wandering, and only return to the yard when they sleep, which is the biggest difference from other pets. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Another difference is that when they return to the courtyard, they will look for Grandma Qi, and they will not eat, squatting on the ground, screaming one after another, and there is a tone of frustration, and Grandma Qi will pat it as if it can understand, and it will run away happily. Moreover, they are not like ordinary pets, when they see their owners, they will line up and squat in front of Grandma Qi one by one. So, Grandma Qi's kitten and puppy in Sweetwater Garden are more famous than Grandma Qi, but no one ever thinks about why all this is?

When Grandma Qi was young, she worked in the train depot. When he was 28 years old, he suffered a work injury and was hit on the head by a steel pipe, and was diagnosed with deafness in his left ear at that time, which was a grade 9 disability. But Grandma Qi told me that she was not deaf, but that her left and right ears were out of sync. I was also confused about this asynchronicity, whether it was an echo or a unilateral tinnitus, and I couldn't imagine what the concept was. Grandma Qi explained that in fact, it is the yin and yang ears that the two ears hear differently, the right ear is a normal sound, and the left ear is what others can't hear. When she first became a yin and yang ear, Grandma Qi was very uncomfortable, because at night, her left ear would become very noisy, and the voice was mostly miserable and desolate, which made her unable to sleep all night. After eating a lot of Valium, it didn't get better, so that Grandma Qi thought about committing suicide, and it was a hundred times.

After a while, she became familiar with these voices, and Grandma Qi was slowly able to distinguish who these voices belonged to, which could not be called human souls, their ages, their personalities, their occupations, and things they couldn't let go. After a long time, Grandma Qi will help them put on incense, burn some paper, and clean the old yard, so that there will be fewer sounds. But she had never seen the owner of these voices, even if the voice was in her ears, real, she still didn't see it. People's adaptability is far stronger than we think, especially in Grandma Qi, fear and curiosity are just a wall, and people with great wisdom turn curiosity into action, and then overcome fear.

Later, Grandma Qi also found that these voices were often mixed with things that did not look like human souls, the voices were sharp and thin, and the content they expressed was simple and almost childish, I thought it was a child or a baby, but it didn't take long for Grandma Qi to find that her guess was wrong.

One day, Grandma Qi saw a stray kitten at the mouth of the alley that was about to starve to death, so she took it home, fed it food, bathed it, applied potions, put it in the yard, basking in the sun, Grandma Qi sat on a wicker chair, watching the kitten stretch its waist, take a bath, and lick its paws. The kitten raised its head, its eyes were already bright, and at that moment, a thin and soft voice sounded in Grandma Qi's left ear, "Thank you". It suddenly realized that the childish voice it had heard in its left ear before was not a child, but a kitten or a puppy. Old people often say that cats and dogs have spiritual power and can see things that people can't see, which seems to be right.

In the following 30 years, Grandma Qi adopted dozens of kittens and puppies one after another. Grandma Qi's wife passed away at the end of the seventies, and they are the ones who usually accompany Grandma Qi. And the usual job of these kittens and puppies is to walk around here for Grandma Qi, and when they find something abnormal, they come back and tell Grandma Qi. With these dozens of eyeliners, what is going on in Sweetwater Garden, the first person to know must be Grandma Qi. The spies in the sixties, the snitches in the eighties, and even the murder fugitives in the previous two years, as long as they hide in the Sweetwater Garden, let Grandma Qi come out, and she, the director of the neighborhood committee, deserves her name.

But in this area, there are two places for cats and dogs not to go, one is Jingzi Lane, and the other is the yard where we live. Jingzi Lane Qi Grandma said, in fact, it is a yin house, as early as when this piece is still a wasteland, this yin house has been standing there, it is estimated that it was repaired in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and the house is under the tomb. Later, the yard next door was repaired, the wall was expanded, and the passage in and out was gone, and it really became a well. Why build a yin house, who is buried underneath, and whether there is an owner in this house, Grandma Qi doesn't know. But every few years, the government allocates some money to arrange for someone to make special repairs, and even the most turbulent years have not stopped. But there are still many people who are worried about this old house, but at the end of the sixties, some people climbed over the wall to break the four old, six went in, and only five came out, but the lost people were not found. Grandma Qi told me that the man had been in the courtyard all the time, but no one could see him. In the early 90s, a Hong Kong businessman fell in love with this house and wanted to buy it as an office, so he reopened the small door and went in to have a look, but he had a heart attack in the hotel that night and almost didn't come back, so he arranged for someone to rebuild the small door the next day. Just half a year ago, four more people went in once, and this time only one came out.

The yard where we lived, Grandma Qi said, there was a big weasel hidden inside, in the early eighties, the yard was barren for a while, the guy moved in, very fierce, hit the hole and deep, kittens and dogs into the yard are often bitten, a few go together, it will drill holes, but nothing can be done. Every time, the kitten and puppy couldn't catch it, but let it be smoked half to death, and they didn't dare to provoke it again. But at the end of August, after a thunderstorm, the weasel was hacked to death in the tank. A kitten went to the yard to take a look, and soon ran back, saying that there was something in the yard that was more powerful than in the well alley, with three heads, and was squatting in the east house. Grandma Qi didn't believe it, but since then, she has been paying attention to this courtyard, and she has entered the courtyard several times under the pretext of taking a look, but her left ear has not heard anything, but Grandma Qi has always had a feeling that there is something in the courtyard that looks at her coldly, without saying a word, without saying a word.

Around the end of October, the kittens came to tell Grandma Qi that the thing in the yard had disappeared, and it was estimated that it was gone, and Grandma Qi's heart could be put down. On the night of winter at the end of the year, the kitten found Wu Lan who was drunk, and Grandma Qi found us in time to save Wu Lan's life. And just a few days ago, Shijie also moved out of the small courtyard of Sweetwater Garden, and the kittens went in to play, heard some strange noises, followed the sound, and found a pager in the yard.

When Grandma Qi told me this story, there was a kitten lying on Grandma Qi's lap, Grandma Qi said a few words, it seemed to understand, wagged its tail, nodded, its eyes were shining, and when it came to Jingzi Lane, it quickly got into Grandma Qi's arms, and never moved again.

These things that Grandma Qi told me made me realize that there has always been something in the courtyard of Sweetwater Garden, and there was a contest between the tomb beast brought by Shijie from Shanxi, and we became the ultimate victims, Shijie was riddled with lawsuits, Wu Lan left school gloomily, Lao Hao fled to Shanxi, Ah Chao had nightmares from time to time, and even his laptop was poisoned, what about me? What will be waiting for me?