092: Ghosts
The whole village took torches and flashlights and turned the village up and down, inside and out, but they didn't find the figure of the three fats.
The three fat cried to death, holding Cao Ming's hand and choking constantly:
"My son was fine before, how can I say that it will be gone, Cao Ming, think about it again."
Touched by something, Cao Ming had a flash of inspiration, turned around and took a torch, and ran towards the birch forest behind the village.
He didn't know why he was doing it, but his instincts told him he should go back and take a look.
The woods at night were silent, the first snow on the ground had not melted, and due to the trampling during the day, it showed a chaotic appearance, and a thin mist floated between the trees, making Cao Ming unable to see anything in the distance.
Cao Ming is an outright atheist, even if he was inexplicably reborn, he failed to break his inherent socialist values, took a deep breath at the moment, and walked towards the place where the woman was buried today.
When he was about to arrive, Cao Ming's eyes jumped, and he saw a huge black mass on the tomb of the new pile today, and the black mass had the outline of a child curled up together, but he couldn't determine whether it was three fat.
Cao Ming tried to shout a few times, but the black ball flicked, and then fell to the ground in a daze.
There was a noisy sound behind him, and the other villagers arrived one after another, and when they saw Cao Ming's strange appearance, they all looked over in unison, and they were all stunned for a while, and no one made any other moves.
Sanfat's mother couldn't wait, she didn't care about it, she ran to the black group crying.
Others have no choice but to keep up.
When everyone arrived at the grave, the three fat people had been held in their arms by their mothers, and the woman rubbed and kissed them, her expression was better than the rest of her life after the disaster, and the three fat people were like they had just woken up, with hazy eyes and a strange look, looking at the surrounding onlookers, with an unknown face, like a big dream.
When Cao Ming turned his head, he inadvertently caught a trace of panic in the eyes of the three fats, as well as the inexplicable dodge, he who had experienced rebirth knew better than anyone how familiar the eyes of the three fats were at this moment.
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After the incident of Sanfat, the villagers, who had a lot of enthusiasm for the hanging of the daughter-in-law of the bad gambling king, suddenly seemed to have agreed, and never mentioned the woman's death again, as if yesterday's incident had never happened at all, especially the Sanfat family.
Cao Ming heard from his grandfather that the next night, the three fat families specially invited the old woman Chen, who lived alone at the end of the village, to take the willow branch and cry wolf in the yard and pretend to be ghostly for most of the night.
It is said to be a conjuring spirit.
Cao Ming shook his head, is there really a ghost in this world?
But life didn't give him much time to think about it, and early in the morning, the grass house ushered in the first batch of "relatives" of the New Year:
His father's ex-wife brought his titular sister Li Qingyi as promised.
Cao Ming led the mother and daughter into the village, and many people knew Li Qingyi and them on the road, and they all greeted them warmly.
To Cao Ming's surprise, Li Qingyi at this time was not so unearthly as he seemed on the surface, and responded sincerely to every greeting.
When Cao Ming's family had not yet bought a house in the county, Li Qingyi had also lived in the village for a while, so Ding Xiang also knew Li Qingyi.
However, this time Lilac didn't show much enthusiasm for Li Qingyi's arrival, just to say hello at the door.
Cao Ming also wanted to promote the relationship between the two of her, and pretended to scold Lilac:
"Cao Dingxiang, it's a little polite, call sister."
Lilac rarely didn't buy Cao Ming's account, and snorted:
"If you want to call yourself, I'm not like you, when you meet a beautiful girl, you arch your ass and move forward."
Cao Ming was annoyed and ashamed, and wanted to teach a lesson, but was pulled by Li Qingyi, and smiled and relieved: "Lilac is still young." ”
Lilac didn't appreciate it, glanced at Li Qingyi, who was more beautiful and temperamental than herself, and felt a little unwilling and a little discouraged, and said unforgivingly: "What does it matter to you?" ”
Cao Ming felt that today's cloves were like a barrel of explosives, whoever ordered the frieze didn't ask for trouble anymore, and pulled Li Qingyi into the house.
In the room, the aunt and the grandfather had already sat down, but they were speechless to each other, and the atmosphere was very depressing.
Cao Ming took out the water cup and poured him two glasses of water to break the deadlock:
"That, you guys talk first, it's stuffy here, I'll take my sister to the village for a walk."
Grandpa nodded: "It's okay." ”
The aunt advised: "Don't play for too long, come back early for dinner." ”
Cao Ming responded one by one, and pulled Li Qingyi out of the door.
On the way, Li Qingyi stared at Cao Ming, as if sighing:
"Cao Ming, I found that you have really changed a lot, at least you are more observant than before."
Cao Ming didn't want to get involved in the content related to rebirth, so he diverted the topic:
"It's just that the children of poor families are in charge of the house early, don't talk about this.
Sister, do you think there are really ghosts in this world? ”
Li Qingyi frowned: "Why are you asking this?" ”
"Leave it alone, do you think?"
Li Qingyi said slowly:
"Human beings always explain unknown things and phenomena as the actions of ghosts and gods, and in ancient times there were many things that were difficult to explain, and there were many theories of ghosts and gods, but now, more and more things can be explained scientifically, so the theory of ghosts and gods is rare????"
The meaning of this is very clear.
"Why are you so tactful?
Afraid of hurting my superstitious self-esteem?
I didn't believe it before, but I've been a little skeptical lately. ”
As he spoke, he told me about the three fats last night. Of course, the personal experience that really shook him back to life was not touched.
"Do you mean to suspect that the three fats are possessed by something, and this thing is likely to be the ghost of the person who died yesterday?"
Although Li Qingyi was already holding back very seriously, Cao Ming could still see from her demeanor that there was a kind of smile in the face of nonsense.
"I really shouldn't have told you this, I was laughed at by you in vain."
"I didn't mean to laugh at you, I just suddenly felt a sense of disparity, so....I couldn't help it." :
"What's the disparity?"
"How can I say it, you've been giving me a very different feeling lately than before, steady, smart, and even a little... Wisdom, this makes me often forget that you are a junior high school little brother when I get along with you.
But the hell thing you just talked about ruined that feeling all at once. ”
Cao Ming was very face-saving and added: "It's like the famous Newton who fell into the whirlpool of God in ten thousand years. He touched his nose and had a playful expression: "Thank you for making me understand that I have done a stupid thing to destroy my image." ”
Li Qingyi laughed and trembled.
The two passed by the three fat houses, and came out of the gate thinking that the old woman was thin.
Cao Ming greeted with a smile: "Hello Mrs. Chen." ”
It seems that the matter of the three fat families inviting Granny Chen to come over to summon spirits is not over yet.
Granny Chen nodded casually, and was about to answer, when she raised her eyes and saw Cao Ming's face, but she stopped talking.
Cao Ming saw doubts in her vicissitudes and cloudy pupils.
"Which baby are you ..... you?"
Cao Ming was stunned for a moment, and patiently explained: "I am Cao Ming, the grandson of Cao Mingwei in the back village." ”
The old woman subconsciously denied it: "You are not Ming Wazi!" ”
Cao Ming chuckled in his heart, maybe he was weak-hearted, because in a strict sense, he was indeed not the current Cao Ming, Cao Ming was dead, he was just occupying a young body.
Cao Ming's mouth was dry, and he didn't know how to deal with it, and the eyes in front of him seemed to have understood everything about himself, which overwhelmed him.
Li Qingyi thought that Cao Ming was frightened by the terrible old mother-in-law in front of him, and interrupted loudly:
"Why isn't it Cao Ming? Mother-in-law, take a closer look. ”
The old woman seemed to care about what others thought of her eyesight, and said angrily: "I don't have dazzled eyes! ”