Chapter 3 The Old Lady by the Pond
The soul was fruitless again, and Aunt Wang pointed out that the passerby must have some entanglement with me, and she said that she had to ask Mrs. Xiahou to save me. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć After the info aunt found out, she arranged for the second uncle to take me to visit.
On the way, I asked the second uncle, what is so powerful about this old lady Xiahou, I don't want to, I have to call her grandma according to my generation, and she used to be the only yin walker in ten miles and eight villages.
Yin walkers are very common in the countryside, but they are far less than half-truths and half-truths such as ghost hunting and soul jumping ropes, and they have a very high status, they are ordered by the underworld to send the spirits of the undead in the jurisdiction of the place to the underworld.
They are ordinary people, but they are chosen because of some kind of karma, and then they are given the power to go to the yin, when someone in the jurisdiction is about to die, they will receive the response in advance, but they can't say it or change it, otherwise karma will cause their descendants to suffer and their relatives will suffer and die violently.
It wasn't until the death of that person that they entered the bardo state, and the others looked as if they were dead, without eating, drinking, or even breathing, and then carried the soul of the deceased person to the entrance of the netherworld. Of course, some people are reluctant to go or are too obsessed, and they also need to have corresponding means, such as soul chains, soul claws, etc., but the most important thing is their own cultivation.
This is the Yin Walker that the second uncle told me, but these are all legends, because the Yin Walker is not allowed to tell his secrets to others, let alone reveal anything about the underworld to mortal people, which is called Tiantiao.
And my grandmother was selected to become a yin person when she was 14 years old, and the first time she went to yin can frighten the family, how can this good girl say that she will die when she dies, and she will have no breath when she sleeps, and the whole family will cry bitterly, but after all, people are dead, and they have to be funeral, so they began to be in full swing.
I don't want my grandmother to give his father a dream at night, saying that he was chosen as a yin walker, and he wanted to take an old man from a certain family to the underworld, telling him not to be afraid, let alone bury himself.
The next day, her father went to verify, and sure enough, the old man had just died, so he went home in disbelief and ordered the whole family to stop doing it. However, where did this big family believe that there was a dead man in front of him, but the head of the family stopped speaking for the time being.
Sure enough, Grandma Tai woke up three days later, but the whole family also knew the rules of the yin people, so they all kept silent. Since then, Grandma Tai began her own path of going to the yin, until she was 60 years old, she completely stopped going to the yin, and in the same way, she didn't say the reason, and others didn't ask why.
The first time I saw this grandmother, I fell in love with this old lady, as long as it was not winter, as long as it was not windy or rainy, she would sit in the pond next to the uncle's house, and the second uncle also took me there to find her that day.
From afar, I saw a small and delicate old lady sitting alone on a small pony, with a white cloth gown on her upper body, black pants on her lower body, a pair of small cloth shoes, two hands propped on a cane, her white hair combed meticulously, her big eyes, small nose and thick lips, and few wrinkles on her face.
The second uncle quietly told me that this grandmother has bad ears and has to shout when she speaks, but don't whisper and scold her, she knows it.
The people in the village belong to him and the slag grandfather are the oldest, so they are the most respected, but these two old people don't deal with each other, and they fight when they meet, and the slag grandfather calls the old goddess, and the grandmother scolds the old fox of the slag grandfather, but the people in the village also like to get them together to watch them fight, because this is also auspicious in the village.
When I got closer, I heard the second uncle shouting loudly to grandma, and the old lady looked back for a moment, and then smiled and pointed at me with a cane.
"This is your XJ brother's child? Alas, it is said that urban dolls are pampered, I heard the slag grandfather say, this child is solid, there is nothing wrong, today I see it, it is a good child, but the spirit is not right, sick? ā
"Grandma Tai, I'm scared by ghosts, and Aunt Wang's soul is useless, so I can only ask you to help me."
The second uncle hurried close and told the grandmother about the cause and effect of the incident.
"Then the Wang family girl can't help it? Even said that the ghost chased after him and took him away? It's strange, why, that girl came up with an idea to find me, but I'm ninety years old, and I haven't done this thing for thirty years, and I don't know what the rules are now. Child, do you have any relationship with that female ghost? ā
I shook my head, and I saw the second uncle's flattering expression.
"I said grandma, although you haven't made another move for thirty years, but this is our own child after all, isn't it? I won't force you, you go back and think about it, and I'll come back tomorrow and ask you, okay? ā
After speaking, the second uncle pulled me to kowtow to my grandmother, and I was ready to go back.
"Well, I like this kid, I think of my dead little great-grandson, and if it weren't for him, I wouldn't have stopped doing this. Come on, you hand him over to me, and then let your second girl come over to accompany you, child, I will live with your grandmother for the past two days. ā
As soon as I heard it, I was quite happy in my heart, although the things I encountered were unlucky, but it was still that sentence, curiosity had already prevailed, not to mention the old lady in front of me, as soon as I came to the name of the Yin Man, it felt magical, and when I met her, I remembered my grandmother who had just passed away, they were all the same kind and kind old women, and this sense of closeness came from the heart.
Grandma stood up, I helped collect the little maza, and then went to her house with my help.
It was an old courtyard, and like the uncle's house, it was an old house before liberation. Her family's Xiahou vein originally moved to HB when she was SD's grandfather and settled in Bazhou, after all, she is also a clan member, so she is also quite particular about food, clothing, housing and transportation. Although it was greatly affected after the liberation, the main house was preserved.
Now my grandmother and her fifty-year-old granddaughter's family live here, although she is my second mother's grandmother, but my second mother died early, I have not seen it, so I am even stranger to her family, but she is in charge of her little granddaughter and her cousin husband according to generation.
As soon as I finished saying hello, I heard my grandmother call my cousin-in-law.
"You go out now, go to Pang Village, call Zhang Shan to me, and say that I invite him, there are some things I want to ask, go quickly!"
My cousin-in-law was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly rode his bicycle to the neighboring village.
My grandmother saw that I was groggy, so she arranged for me to sleep on the kang in the main house, and she sat next to me, looking at me with a smile, and I fell asleep after a while.
I don't know how long I slept, but I heard someone talking next to me in a daze.
"Well, this kid is sleeping, just say it."
"Replying to your words, I was startled when I heard that you called me just now, and I knew that it was a big deal, otherwise you wouldn't have taken action personally. There is no major change in this rule, but two yin walkers are not allowed in the same place, this is a trivial matter, you told me, I just know it, but you haven't left for thirty years, do you still grant you this ability? Or if you leave the child to me, I'll take a trip. ā
"No need, I feel that this child's affairs are not simple, although you are responsible for walking after me, but I don't think your ability to control this matter is still in charge, don't involve you again. Although I have stopped for so many years, I have also exchanged with the following, and the ability is still there, but if I finally decide to go to the yin, please take more care for me. ā
"Okay, I know, it's just, is your old man's body still allowed?"
"It's okay, I know for myself, there's no place for me down there, and I won't be able to leave for a while."
After dinner in the evening, my grandmother called my cousin and her two sisters, explained it, and then said to me.
"What if you are drowsy, child? Just go to sleep, grandma will accompany you, I will look for you in my dreams, no matter what happens in the dream and what I see, with me, you don't have to be afraid, understand? ā
I nodded, and saw my cousin bring in two oil lamps, put them on the bottom of the kang, and my cousin-in-law took a long rope, fixed it along the edge of the kang, tied a copper coin every slap distance, and finally put a grimace on the window, and closed the door and went out.
"Don't be afraid, this oil lamp is a signal to tell them if we are okay. If the flame of the oil lamp is suddenly extinguished, Zhang Shan, who came over today, will go and pull us back, and the remaining circle of rope window flowers is to prevent other wandering spirits and wild ghosts from making up their minds and attaching themselves to the two of us. ā
"Grandma, isn't it true that people have to go to the underworld when they die? Why are there still these ghosts? ā
"When people die, they should go there, but some people can't let go, they don't want to leave, or if there are obstacles, they stay in the yang world, and people who walk in the yin are also people, and they don't force it at this time, and they can't force it, unless black and white impermanence comes to the door in person, but those are all great traitors."
"Is the underworld terrible?"
"Hehehe, don't think about this question, the underworld is terrible or not, in fact, it's all in people's thoughts, go to sleep."
Soon, I fell asleep after a long time, and in my dream, I heard someone calling me.
"It's time to go, get up quickly, sleeping at a young age is sinking, old lady, I'm really envious."
When I opened my eyes, I felt in good spirits, but my body was lilt, and I sat up as soon as I exerted. It's just that there are two people lying in front of me, one is me and the other is Grandma, and I am sitting on myself now, and the grandma in front of me has also changed.
The figure is still small, but it is obviously only a teenager, with a pair of big eyes, fair skin, and a plain dress, just like the dress of a woman, especially a pair of lips that are playful. At that time, I was small, but I just thought it was so beautiful, so I quickly stood up and followed my grandmother out of the kang and went out.
As soon as I went out, I shuddered at the sight of this courtyard, the same as I saw in that nightmare, as if the whole world was dark except for this courtyard, and there was only a hollow feeling that time had stopped.
"Kid, it's another world to get out of here, and you're here for the first time, so you're definitely scared, but I want you to do one thing, think of yourself, the doll you saw that day, and I have to find out where he is, understand?"
After that, my grandmother pulled me and walked towards the courtyard gate, and as soon as I pushed the door open, where is the real world I live in, it is simply a bizarre space, and the courtyard is really like an island, suspended in the air.