Chapter 2: Encountering Ghosts
At this time, the old gentleman arched his hand and said: "Friend, this family and I have some origins, and you are angry, so please take action to solve the disaster for others!" ”
My father looked at the sky and didn't speak, and the old gentleman asked the family with a cold face: "What other etiquette have you not done?" ”
The old lady hurriedly ran over, knelt on the ground, raised five hundred yuan above her head with both hands, and didn't even dare to speak.
My father stretched out his hand and pulled out three pieces of money, led me out, walked to the gate, raised his foot and kicked off a brick from the buttress of his house: "This is the case." ”
Before I could figure out what was going on, I let my grandfather drag him away. When I looked back, I saw that the old gentleman had been bowing to my father, and I had seen it several times in a row, as if my father was not leaving, and he would not dare to look up.
My grandfather didn't take the family seriously from beginning to end, but Lao Zhangtou was so excited that he couldn't stop talking about it all the way, talking about this for a while, saying that for a while, and about to hold my father to the sky. But my father didn't say a word with a gloomy face.
I listened to it for a long time, and finally heard it, and the old man said that my father was "Mr. Big".
The word "sir" has many meanings in the Northeast.
In the old days, people who were literate and hyphenated, or who had prestige and ability in the local area, were called sir; People who can pinch and calculate, find dragon points, and send ghosts to exorcise evil spirits are also called sir.
The one called "Mr. Big" is either a character who has a good hand and eye in black and white, or a master who stands up to be the king in the yin and yang line. Before the release, just by the three words "Mr. Big", the bandits had to clasp their fists and salute when they saw it, and no one dared to provoke them.
It wasn't until I was about to walk to the neighboring village that my father came and said, "Lao Zhang, don't you want your descendants to be rich and rich?" I'll find you a good cemetery to keep your family safe for three generations. You have to give me this car, and you can't tell anyone what I'm doing for three days! ”
"Okay, okay......" The old man was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. My grandfather drove the car to the side of the mountain and pointed him to a cemetery. Lao Zhangtou slipped back home like a thief, but my father set up the car overnight, carried the family's coffin to the car, packed up some things casually, and left the village while it was dark.
I asked him where he was going, and my father said, "This place can't be lived, we have to move our nest." If he doesn't open his mouth accurately, he will get things out, and it will be difficult to leave. ”
I don't know why my grandfather is afraid that people will know what he does, but he said so, and I don't dare to ask anything else.
Lao Zhangtou's cart board is not big, but the coffin that my father brought up is a little narrow, and I happened to be lying on the edge of the coffin. My grandfather was talking, and I was lying on the edge of the coffin and listening, but I felt that something was wrong when I listened to it.
I heard the big money in the coffin rattling, and it was like it was going back and forth in the coffin, and the coffin board was crackling. If I hadn't known that there was no one in the coffin, I would have thought that someone was lying in the coffin and pushing a half-coffin with a big buck and hit me.
"Master......" As soon as I shouted, a big money fell out of the crack of the coffin. I didn't think much of it, I reached out and grabbed the big money.
Not only was the big coin much thicker than an ordinary copper plate, but it was also twice larger, and it was shining so brightly under the moon that I couldn't even open my eyes. Before I could see what the big coin looked like, my father snatched it up.
"Master?" When I looked up at my grandfather, his face was already twisted out of shape, and it made people feel furious when I looked at it.
It took me a long time to utter a sentence: "You go to bed quickly!" ”
I made my grandfather choke enough, so I quickly lay down on the edge of the coffin, covered my head with my clothes and fell asleep.
It was still summer when we left the village, and the night was not too cold, so I fell asleep in a short time. I was in a daze when I heard the call of the horse pulling the cart.
I didn't have any livestock, but I knew it was a horse that scared me.
When I opened my eyes, I didn't know where my father had gone, and there was only a coffin left in the car, and a white cloth lantern was still on the wheel. The yellow light from the lantern illuminated the vicinity of the carriage, and beyond was the black sorghum fields.
When my father drove away just now, how could there be this white cloth lantern? Besides, this thing is something that is only used when people are dead, who can put a flashlight on it and pick it up in the car? This thing was picked out in the middle of the night, isn't that evil?
I was so frightened that a spirit sat up from the car and shouted in a trembling voice, "Master-"
My father didn't agree, but there was a sound of salad in the sorghum field in the distance. I turned my head and saw a turban with red cloth and white flowers on the edge of the sorghum field, and it looked like an old lady who had fallen there and couldn't get up, couldn't speak, and trembled and waited for someone to save her.
Wolf! That's not a man, that's a wolf! As soon as I got together, I shuddered.
I have heard the elders say that in the early years, there were three evils in the Northeast: bandits in the mountains, eagles in the sky, and man-eating wolves.
Wolves, this thing is already fierce, and the old wolf that has become the climate is even more powerful. The old wolf will wear clothes and hats, and hook people to eat. Some people say that after the wolf eats the old lady, he puts the old lady's flower turban on his head, squats in the bud rice field, sorghum field and waits for people, if someone does not pay attention in the middle of the night, he feels that it is an old lady who fell into the ground, walks over and looks down, the old wolf jumps up and can take out the person's throat.
It can't be a "wolf's hat" on the edge of the ground, right?
I was so frightened that I reached out and pulled the white cloth lantern off, and picked it up to look that way. But before the lantern could be picked, I withdrew my hand - the wolf must not be frightened, startled, and must not pounce and eat people!
I didn't dare to run, and I didn't dare to call my father, so I could only squat on the car with a lantern, hoping that my father would come back quickly.
But where has my grandfather gone?
I didn't move, and the old wolf didn't move either, and it should have been afraid of someone nearby. But it's not a way for us to be so stiff. When the old wolf sees that there is no one nearby, he will not come up and eat me?
I thought about it for a long time, and I thought that it was better to hurry up and drive the car out for a while, maybe I could get rid of the old wolf. I have a lantern in my hand, and the avenue is a straight line, so I'm not afraid that my father won't be able to find me.
I had the courage to follow the example of my grandfather in driving the cart, and grabbed the reins and shook them twice, but the horse pulling the cart did not move.
In a hurry, I got up from the car and looked sideways ahead, but I almost scared my soul away.
I saw a pair of hands stretching out from the dark world in front of me, covering the horse's eyes left and right, but I couldn't see anyone in front of the carriage, only a pair of snow-white hands.
I was so scared that I almost cried: it was a blindfold!
Lao Zhangtou drives cars all year round, and that mouth still loves to blow, and he has told me a lot of handlebar-style things before. He said that the most fearful thing about encountering a ghost blindfolded in the middle of the night is that a ghost is in front of the carriage and stretches out his hand to blindfold the horse.
The horse can't see the road, either standing still, or walking in circles to the dead end, maybe even people and carts will take you to the river. Therefore, if you are driving at night, you have to be extra careful, and you must not sleep, if a ghost takes advantage of your sleep to cover the animal, the handlebar style does not know how he died.
I also asked him what to do if he was blindfolded. He told me, "You have to whip it, and the whipped you get as hard as you can get in the car." The ghost is afraid of the whip, and as soon as the whip sounds, the ghost is scared away.
I didn't know if what he said was true or not, but now that the demons have covered the animals, can I still not believe it?
I was so frightened that I didn't know what to do, but the animals pulling the cart moved at this moment, pulling the cart forward with all their might.
I didn't drive the car, but the cattle went forward, wasn't that led by a ghost?
There are ghosts in front and wolves in the back, and there is a coffin in the car except for me.
At that time, I didn't know if I was in a hurry, so I reached out and stuck the lantern in the back of the car, and lay on the car to find the whip.
At that time, I had one thought: Aren't wolves afraid of fire? I'll shine a lantern behind me so that the wolf won't dare to come, and I'll wait until I've thrown out two whips and scared the ghost away.
I tossed around in the car for a while before I could feel where the whip was.
The big whip in the northeast, the pole is more than a meter long, and the front is a cowhide whip. Such a long whip is not only for driving livestock, but also for emergencies, so you can't pick it up at all if you don't have some strength.
At this point, how can I care if I can pick up the whip, I have something in my hand first, and I can be regarded as having a bottom in my heart!
But as soon as I touched the whip, I felt that the whip was pinned by the coffin, and I took it out. I quickly lowered my head and went to get the whip. Who knows, as soon as I lowered my body, I felt a sinking on my shoulders.
When I turned my head sideways, I saw a fluffy wolf paw on my shoulder, and a fishy hot breath sprayed down my neck.
Finished! Let the wolf put on his shoulders! My head buzzed.
The elders say that when you walk at night, if someone taps you on the shoulder behind your back, you must not turn back, it is not a person, it is an old wolf who wants to eat people.
The old wolf is old, and he may not be able to beat the big living people, but the old wolf can cheat. It patted the person on the shoulder in the back, and as soon as the person turned around and handed his neck under the wolf's mouth, the old wolf cut the person's throat in one bite!
If you let the wolf take the shoulder, you have to quickly grab the wolf's paw and drag it forward, drag the wolf to your body, put your head on the wolf's chin shell to prevent it from opening its mouth, run to the village with all your strength, run back and be saved, and if you can't stand it in the middle, you have to feed the wolf.
At that time, I didn't know where the strength came from, so I grabbed the two wolf paws and pulled them forward, and my head was desperately pushed up, and the top of my brain finally touched the wolf's chin, so I stood up and tiptoed up.
I can't do that! How tall was I then? The wolf is more than a man tall when he stands up! If I let the wolf's hind paws grip the ground, can I get past it?