Chapter 6 Returning to Hometown
Wu Laosi said that he was afraid that I would meet those black suits again, and he would find someone to follow me back to my hometown, but in fact, he didn't want people to stare at me?
I told the man to find a place to stay, so that my family wouldn't see me and think I was doing some kind of underworld business.
"Grandma! I am back! "When I got back, I saw my grandmother in the room, looking at something with a magnifying glass.
Seeing me come back suddenly, my grandmother was also very surprised, speaking of which, I haven't been home for half a year.
"Lingyi, why did you come back suddenly?" Immediately put down the magnifying glass, grabbed my hand, looked at this and that, wanted to see if there was any change in me, "Well, it's still used to living outside alone, right?" ”
I nodded my head again and again, and took the painting out of my bag.
"Grandma, have you ever seen this painting?"
Grandma took the painting, put on reading glasses and looked at it for a while, her face suddenly froze, and she shook the painting: "Where did you get this painting?" ”
"A friend, he saw that I liked it a lot, so he gave it to me." I hurriedly asked, "Grandma, do you know?" ”
Grandma sighed and took away her glasses: "You better return the painting to your friend, it's not a good thing, and sooner or later you'll get into trouble if you keep it." Don't ask, grandma doesn't know. ”
I hurriedly took my grandmother's hand and simmered it softly: "Grandma, just sue me, you can say as much as you know, if you don't say anything, make it so mysterious, I will definitely find the answer myself." ”
"Lingyi, grandma really doesn't know, it's the first time I've seen this painting."
I thought to myself, the first time I saw this painting, I was sure that this painting would cause disaster? It's too mysterious, and grandma is not a fortune teller.
"Then grandma knows as much as she wants, just say as much as she wants, I just have this curiosity, maybe after you finish speaking, I won't be interested."
Grandma sat on the rocking chair and shook it a few times before saying: "Actually, it's nothing, it's just a cave, you know, what kind of hole is there in Yixing, and there are many of them." ”
"You mean, this place is in Yixing?"
Grandma didn't answer this time, and continued her previous words: "This place has been there before, but the people who have been there have all died. ”
I was immediately interested, sat next to my grandmother, and listened carefully to what she had to say.
"It's gone." Grandma looked up at me.
I thought to myself, gone? That's it?
Grandma closed her eyes instead, as if she was asleep, and I looked at her quietly: "Grandma, is this a story?" At most, it's just an outline, right? ”
It's a cave, and somebody went in, and then they all died. What a concise and clear "story".
Suddenly, the phone rang, it was the subordinate sent by Wu Laosi, named Abang.
"Hello?" I avoided my grandmother and went out to answer the phone, "What's the matter?" ”
"The fourth brother received news that the previous group also came to Yixing."
The fourth brother in his mouth is Wu Laosi, so that group of people must be the group of black suits that injured me and Gu Fei. Damn, I'm really being targeted, and the ghost is not gone.
"The fourth brother has already sent someone to pick us up, let us be careful."
I answered and hung up, it seemed that I couldn't stay here, and if they were to attack me and hold my family hostage, I might actually hand over the paintings.
When I went in again, there was a brazier at my grandmother's feet, and I was still wondering, do I still have to rely on the brazier for heating in this weather? When I looked closely, I realized that this is heating, it is simply burning paintings!
I was startled, and immediately rushed forward, and in the exclamation of my grandmother, I rescued the painting from the fire with my bare hands, but it was too late, the painting was already unrecognizable, and even the frame was burned.
"Grandma, what are you doing?!" I wanted to have a seizure, and I held on.
Grandma didn't speak, and turned away: "Grandma, this is for your good." ”
I didn't stay any longer, I was afraid that I would say something unpleasant on the spur of the moment.
Nestled in the room, I looked at the painting distressedly, thinking about what to do. If a few groups of people knew that the painting was destroyed in my hands, they would definitely want to bite me to death.
I thought in my heart, no, I didn't ask anything when I came back this time, and I lost this painting in vain, it's not cost-effective, let's go and ask grandma in the evening.
In the evening, my grandmother sat in the courtyard with a pot of tea at hand.
The courtyard is very open, planted with a large locust tree, the moonlight is bright, and there is a kind of illusory beauty. It's just that I don't have time to taste these now.
"Grandma."
Grandma waved her hand and asked me to sit down too.
"Still want to ask?"
I nodded, my eyes firm: "Even if grandma doesn't say it today, I will keep asking, keep checking, and know the result." ”
Grandma sighed: "Sure enough, I still can't escape......"
I wanted to ask what that meant, and my grandmother started talking.
"In fact, it was your grandfather who found someone to go into that hole together, and the green waterhole in the painting is called Guyuetan ......"
I've never heard my grandmother tell me about my grandfather, it turned out that my grandfather went to that place when my grandmother was a big girl, and kept saying that it was to find something and do something, but when I went in, there were a few good people, but only one came back a few days later, and he was crazy. Grandma said she had heard that the left half of the man's clothes were brand new, and the other half was in tatters, like a beggar's dress. And one eye is blind, and half of his face is covered with bloody flesh. It's like a demon that came out of hell.
Later, a group of people came to him and asked him something, but he laughed like crazy, and then hid in the corner and shivered like a ghost. My grandmother also went to see him privately and wanted to ask me about my grandfather, or what was going on. As soon as he got there, he grabbed him and pushed it into the cabinet, muttering "It's too late, it's too late, it's too late, it's ...... Hide. Later, thanks to a nearby neighbor who heard her screaming, he came in and rescued her.
About another month later, the man died, I heard that it was under the old tree at the entrance of the village, walking well, suddenly like a ghost, while shouting for help, while staggering forward, and from time to time kneeling down to beg for mercy, the people around him were also made furious by him, but he didn't run far, he hit the tree and died.
Since then, no one has known what happened there, and looking at his appearance, he didn't dare to mention it again, and Grandpa never appeared again, and I now know that Grandpa's tomb was a well-dressed mound.
After Grandma finished speaking, she was silent for a long time. I got up and went straight back to my room, leaving me alone to think.
It turns out that more than 60 years ago, Grandpa Tai brought people in, but what happened to make people either die or go crazy?
It can't be a whim, what will be what Grandpa is looking for? It's hiding in that weird place. Also, what will it be that grandma said that she can't escape the fate, and what will grandpa do when he wants to end up risking his life?
After staying for another week or two, I received a call from Gu Fei.
"Lingyi, when are you coming back?" As he spoke, he cleared his throat and lowered his voice, "TNND, as soon as you leave, this group of people will take turns staring at me, and I will watch everything I do, even going to the toilet." You say I'm a wounded, where can I run?! ”
I sneered out loud, knowing that Xiao Xiao was not so kind, so I simply sent someone to help me: "Don't worry, I'll go back in a few days." ”
Actually, I didn't get much better, and a few people sent by Wu Laosi also walked around me all day long.
"It's a few days!" Listening to this pitch-changing voice, it should have exploded, and it seemed to be too excited, pulling the wound, and gasping, "No, you can come back to me today, tomorrow at the latest!" ”
I can imagine what he looks like, yes, a person like him is stared at 24 hours a day, and in a few days, it is estimated that he should be suffocated, if he was not injured and hospitalized, he would have run away long ago.
"Okay, okay, I'll go back tomorrow." I said yes, and suddenly I saw something hidden in the burned frame of the painting on the table.
"No, you have to bring me something to eat, the food in this hospital is too bad."
I hurriedly answered and hung up the phone. Stinky boy, he was injured, and he really regarded himself as a little emperor.
I took a small hammer and tapped it open. In some places, it burned to a crisp point, and it shattered at once. For a long time, a lot of bamboo strips were taken out from it one after another.
Lined up together, hey, it's actually a pair of bamboo slips that have been disassembled!