Chapter 15: Disappearance
By the time I got home, it was already dark. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info I finished eating and went to sit at Mrs. Chen's place as usual. Chen Po seems to be in a good mood today, fried a plate of vegetables and stewed potatoes, and when she saw me coming, she kept beckoning me to eat. The potatoes are boiled whole, without even peeling off the skin, and they are eaten with sauce or salt, which is very delicious.
To be honest, since the last time I dreamed that Chen Po Xi put the brine radish back in the pot, I have a shadow in my heart, so that I don't dare to taste what she has here now.
But this peeled potato should be no problem, although I have eaten dinner enough, I still took one, sat in front of the lamp while peeling and chatting with Chen Po.
Chen Po lives alone, if Lu Hua doesn't come, she is really lonely.
"Qiaowa, where have you been today?" She asked suddenly
"I didn't go anywhere, I just went to the mountains to chop bundles of firewood."
Chen Po pursed the potatoes with her toothless mouth, and asked again: "Then tell me what you have encountered?" The more detailed, the better. ”
I'm a little strange, today is just a few usual friends, but I still honestly explain the places I went to today, including who I met, what I ate in the mountains, etc.
"Wait, you said you met Chunwazi?" Chen Po was suddenly a little excited, and suddenly stood up, and the half of the potato she was holding was slapped on the table by her palm, and she didn't notice it.
I nodded, is there a problem with this?
She touched my hair a little nervously, and pinched the back of my ear carefully, before she suddenly breathed, wiped her hands with a rag casually, and sat down again: "It's okay." Hey, Chun Wazi is also a poor person. ”
I was a little puzzled and hurriedly asked her what was going on.
Unexpectedly, Chen Po sighed heavily again before she spoke: "The spring baby is gone, and I can't say anything about it, it's really a sin." ”
No, in our case, it generally means that the person is dead. But I only saw Ye Chun in the afternoon, and he carried firewood for me.
"Impossible."
Po Chen raised her hand and put it in front of me, and under the light, on the back of the wrinkled and blackened hand, the patches of old age spots were still eye-catching. I suddenly remembered that I seemed to have seen a similar patch on Ye Chun's arm today.
"What you see on Chun Wazi is different from mine, it's a corpse spot." Chen Po said lightly, and began to peel the potatoes again.
My scalp was numb and I was sweating coldly. Over the years, I have believed in Chen Po's words, there are many things in this world that cannot be explained by science.
Chen Po said that she smelled a strange smell from the moment I entered the door, and then when she heard me talk about Ye Chun, she knew that it was not good. Yesterday, she went to the puddle at the east end to fetch water, and heard from the people in the village that the Ye family boy didn't go home after dark. She knew that Ye Chun was gone.
But she can't tell the people in the village, this kind of feudal superstition can't be said casually, and when the time comes, people will still suspect that her lonely old woman has done something bad. Besides, such a mysterious thing, she can't explain it clearly with her mouth.
Anyway, the person is already dead, so what difference does it make if you find out sooner or later.
Chen Po picked up the bowl of white rice that she had offered in front of the incense for many years, washed it with water, fished it again, brought the basin of rice washing water to me, and asked me to wash my face, hands and feet, etc., and then took it and splashed it outside the corridor in front of the door.
When I went home, I heard Aunt Wu crying next door, and when I asked, I realized that Ye Chun had not been found. Aunt Wu is Ye Chun's mother.
My heart trembled, hesitating, or told Aunt Wu about the fact that I had seen Ye Chun in the afternoon, she was very excited, and hurriedly asked me where I saw it, I said that it was in Huangli Ridge, and I was about to go to the intersection of Shangwu Ridge.
He also carried me firewood for a while, but I didn't say that.
It was about the evening of the next day, and I heard from the villagers that Ye Chun had found it, in a col in the direction of Huangliling towards Fengwu, about two miles away from Huangliling.
I was cold all over my body, and yesterday afternoon, the person who walked with me for half a day was not a person. At the same time, I feel sad that the little brother who grew up together will never see him again.
Since being reborn, the first death in life is actually the little brother who grew up together.
On this day, I was at a loss about the future.
At night, I lay in bed and thought about everything that day. That day, when I saw Ye Chun, he was in the col outside Fengwu, and later he accompanied me to Huangli Ridge. However, during the day, the villagers said that his body was found in a col in the direction of Fengwu in Huangliling, about two miles away from Huangliling.
In other words, he walked back after walking a long way with me.
So why did he accompany me this way? That small col is very shallow, as long as anyone passing by can see it, so didn't anyone who came and go before notice it? If he hadn't followed me physically, would it have been like me, a soul breaker? But in broad daylight, how can you leave your soul?
I threw my doubts to Po Chen, who thought for a moment and said, "It's a walking corpse." ”
There is a tradition of chasing corpses in Xiangxi, and some people specialize in this work, which is a craft that has been inherited. The corpse was pasted with talisman paper, and the corpse chaser shook dumbbells, chanting all the way back to his hometown.
But Ye Chun's performance that day was not much abnormal as usual, except that he was silent. I didn't see any strange people.
"Mother-in-law, how do you think Ye Chun died? I always felt that he wasn't as simple as falling to death. That day, I saw that he didn't have much of a problem except that his clothes were badly torn. ”
Chen Po glanced at me: "You are still young in this matter, don't worry about it for now." ”
Actually, I don't like it when adults always prevaricate about anything on the grounds that you're still young.
"But Ye Chun is my friend, he went so unexplained, if I didn't notice anything wrong, I would still talk about it, but now, I obviously feel that this matter is abnormal, so I can't ignore it."
Chen Po looked at me deeply: "What do you want to do?" The spirits in this mountain are something you can easily manage? ”
I choked, deeply depressed.
Yes, I studied the Tao for five years in vain, but I didn't even see the life and death of Ye Chun, who walked with me for half a day that day.
She sighed, and finally comforted me and said, "Forget it, I'll go on a trip to this matter." Tomorrow at ten o'clock in the evening, you come to me, and we will go to the accident site together. ”
I was overjoyed and quickly nodded.
The next night, I arrived on time. There were a few twists and turns, because my mother didn't allow us to walk around at night, so I had to tell her that I was sleepy and went to bed early.
After all these years of practice, I don't dare to say anything else, but I am very proficient in soul separation. Of course, I usually don't go too far, and most of the time I come to Chen Po for advice on my cultivation.
After all, it is a spirit body, and God knows what ghosts are hidden in this hundred-mile mountain, so safety is the best. Now I can use Shui Tianya relatively well, but only for the spirit body. In reality, there is still a match and no match, similar to Duan Yu's six-vein divine sword, sometimes ineffective.
It's really sad.