Chapter 3: Nightmares

In the blink of an eye, it was already cold and windy in Beijing, and the matter about Lao Guo was gradually forgotten, perhaps just as Zhang Meng said: "That grandson must be a liar, I don't know where to touch the object, cheat a few dollars and slip away, but I didn't think that this thing is so valuable, and I gave money to this grandson?" If you know that someone wants to collect 300,000 yuan, won't your intestines be ruined? ”

Originally, I was still a little hesitant about opening an antique shop, but I couldn't stand Zhang Meng's troubles: "I think it's okay, there are moles that don't grow anywhere, Dongzi, I have seen you since I was a child, you are not an ordinary person, the heavenly court is full and wide, compared to Liu Bang Xiang Yu in ancient times, and now comparable to Obama**, no matter what you do, buddy supports you to the end, you are definitely not fighting alone......." Pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info just like that, the ducks are also on the shelves, the antique shop is really booming preparations, rented a façade in Panjiayuan, entrusted someone to do a photo, the decoration is almost over, but the supply is not easy to find, this year, the real things are almost collected, the kind of holding two big front doors can be exchanged for two Ming and Qing Huanghuali circle chairs in the simple blind date's house is gone, even if there are things, the blind dates are no longer simple, don't kill you to let you out of the village is strange. There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, so let's find a way.

Zhang Meng is also an idler, from graduation to the present, in addition to helping people run business, selling insurance, door-to-door sales of Amway and the like, there is no fixed job, just pull to help me, one is that he can be trusted, and the other is that although he has no other skills, but he has a good mouth, can say, paper clips can be straight, not to mention antiques, urns can be bought back as works of art to collect, and you have to say "thank you".

After more than a month of preparation, the antique shop finally has some eyebrows, almost pick a good day to open on an auspicious day, these days I am also tired enough, although there are a lot of friends to help, many things still have to run before and after their own, now I can finally have a free rest.

Today is very windy, the sun is full at noon, my one-bedroom house living room faces south, the sun shines all the way to half of the living room, I lie on the sofa, ready to take a comfortable nap. The wind blew the door with a clang.

Just when it seemed to be sleeping, "bump, bump, bump", someone knocked on the door. "Who is so annoying", I said in my heart, "I can't sleep well", I struggled to get up from the sofa, sleepy eyes hazy touched the door, asked "who", no one answered, I opened the security door, there was no one outside the door, only the sound of the wind. Strange, I heard someone knocking on the door, could it be that I misheard. Thinking of this, I locked the door and went back to the sofa to continue sleeping, and just as I was about to fall asleep, I suddenly heard a sound, as if it was the sound of several glass balls falling to the ground upstairs, clear and coherent, and I suddenly felt a chill.

I've read some articles on the Internet before, saying that many people have encountered this situation when they are alone at home, upstairs inexplicably there will be the sound of glass balls falling to the ground, if you search for "the sound of glass balls" in Baidu, you will find a lot of related articles, some people think that it is a problem with the building structure, but more claims are related to supernatural events, thinking that when this sound appears, there are some unclean things in the house, I have always thought that the second statement is nonsense, But when I actually heard it today, I couldn't help but get nervous, because I live on the top floor!

In a daze, I struggled to open my eyes, but I couldn't open them completely, and I suddenly felt a person standing next to the sofa! The figure was vague, but it seemed familiar. "Who?" I shouted with all my might, but the man did not answer, and I suddenly felt a powerful force lifting me up, no, my soul, for I saw myself still lying on the couch!

I felt that man was pulling me, and his strength was so strong that I had no room for resistance but to follow him. No, to be exact, to follow him through the air, because my feet didn't stick to the ground! I involuntarily followed this person straight to the window, my window was closed, and we passed through, without feeling any obstacles, strangely, the wind outside the window seemed to stop, the surroundings were so silent, gradually, I no longer felt scared and cold, but felt a kind of warmth, this feeling is difficult to describe, the sun is bright but not dazzling, there is a faint, fresh aroma in the air, in short, everything is so peaceful, beautiful, may only be described in one word, that is, "comfortable".

I followed the man in the air, not floating, although in the air, but under my feet were real, as if I was walking on a glass plate, with buildings and roads below, but I could not see a single figure, nor could I hear a single sound, as if this person and I were the only ones left in the world, carrying me through the sky above the city.

We didn't walk long, but it seemed that we had gone a long way, and came to a place, which was so familiar, but I couldn't remember when we had been there, and below us was a meadow, and in front of us was a big mountain, and there was a small river under the mountain, and this man suddenly turned his face, and I finally saw his face clearly.

It's him, big cousin! And he died when I was in my third year of junior high school!

"Big cousin", I called him desperately, but he didn't answer, just pointed to the foot of the mountain, where there seemed to be a coffin, and I was lying in the coffin!

When I saw me lying in the coffin, I couldn't help but scream "ah", only to feel that my feet sank and fell straight from the air to the body of "me" lying in the coffin!

I sat up and found that I was still on the couch in the living room, and the wind was still there, and it turned out to be a dream, no, it should be said to be a "nightmare", because it was so real, I couldn't tell if what had just happened was real or not.

I once read in an encyclopedia that a "nightmare" is a disturbance of electrical currents in the cerebral cortex caused by extreme fatigue or because the temperature around you are too high during sleep, resulting in a half-asleep hallucination, knowing that you are sleeping, but it seems that you are doing something else, and after waking up, you feel that what you have done has actually happened. Some people who claim to have been abducted by aliens while sleeping, and people who are on the verge of dying are also experiencing nightmares.

At this time, I suddenly found that I was holding something in my hand, which turned out to be the little jade Buddha, and I really couldn't remember whether I was holding it before going to bed. But when I saw it, I suddenly remembered something, suddenly remembered the "big cousin" in the nightmare and what I had experienced, and suddenly remembered the place I had been to in the nightmare......

I came to Beijing with my parents when I was less than three years old. According to my mother, my father's family was a big family in the northwest, but for some unknown reason, my father never mentioned anything about their family, nor did he take me to meet my relatives in the family. From my mother, I probably knew that my father had some conflicts with my grandfather and the rest of the family, and when he was young, he left the house and went out on his own, but my mother didn't tell me exactly what happened.

My mother's surname is Qian, and I have an uncle who teaches in a small village about two hours' drive from Shizuishan City, Ningxia, and his eldest cousin is his son.

When I was a child, my parents often took me to my uncle's house to play, one is because my uncle is the only relative in our family who can visit, and the other is because it is at the foot of Helan Mountain, with beautiful scenery and good air.

My uncle's family was very special in that village, they were not locals, but later moved from Nanjing, their family was very educated, and my eldest cousin was the only college student in that village.

During the summer vacation of my second year of junior high school, my parents took me to my uncle's house, when my eldest cousin was in his third year of college and majored in archaeology, and he also returned home during the vacation.

At that time, my favorite thing was with my eldest cousin, because he knew a lot, always told me things I hadn't heard of, and was adventurous, and often took me to some interesting places. Although it was already the 21st century, in the countryside of the northwest, most people still lived in caves, and my uncle's family also lived in caves.

One day, when I was sleeping on the roof of the cave, my eldest cousin said to me mysteriously: "Dongzi, have you ever seen a wild leopard?" How about we go and see the leopards? "I've also heard of leopards in Helan Mountain, but I've never seen them, I used to see them in the zoo, those leopards were kept in cages and in Lion Tiger Mountain, where are they still like leopards, they sleep when they are full all day, listless, not as good as sick cats.

"Of course I want to see it," I said, "I haven't seen a leopard in the wild, it's definitely exciting."

"Okay, then let's prepare tomorrow, go into the mountains in the afternoon, camp in the mountains at night, if you're lucky, you will definitely see leopards coming out to eat, maybe you can even get some pheasants and hares or something." Said cousin.

"Yes, yes," I said happily, excited until late in the evening.

When I got up the next day, my eldest cousin, my uncle and my parents told me that they wanted to take me into the mountains to see hares and leopards, and they all agreed. My parents are very open parents, they have always encouraged me to be independent and adventurous, and there will be no danger with my eldest cousin, but I am afraid that we are not familiar with the mountain roads and will be easy to get lost, so I called the grandson and granddaughter of Uncle Zhao's family in the village to go with us, one of the brothers and sisters is called Fengyun, the other is called Fenglian, they are about the same age as me, they are the students taught by my uncle, they are very familiar with my eldest cousin, and I know me, I used to play together when I came, they are children who grew up in the mountains, I am very familiar with the scenery and roads in Helan Mountain. My eldest cousin also borrowed a shotgun from Uncle Zhao, who was a well-known hunter in the neighborhood a long time ago, and now although hunting is prohibited, the shotgun is still kept, and it is mainly borrowed for self-defense. In addition, we also prepared tents, mosquito repellent, flashlights, water and dry food, etc., and strangely, the eldest cousin also brought a plastic bag of Yellow River carp scales.