Chapter 40: Coincidence
"Aunt Liu!" When Lao Du turned around, his eyes were already red.
The old lady in the house beckoned: "Xiao Du, come into the house, come into the house." ”
I could see that the old lady should be Lao Du's old neighbor, and I happened to have something to ask, so I went into the house with him.
The person who opened the door was probably a relative of Aunt Liu's family, and after pouring water for a few of us, he went to the kitchen to work. Aunt Liu held Lao Du's hand: "Xiao Du, how have you been all these years?" ”
"It's okay......" Lao Du choked up before saying, "Why was the door of my house sealed?" ”
Aunt Liu shook her head and said, "Xiao Du, you don't know, after Wanqiao and her mother left, they came back again." In the days you were out, the upstairs and downstairs neighbors could hear them crying in the house every night. ”
Wan Qiao was there shouting to the child again and again, and Tong Tong was crying to find his mother, which was worrying to hear! I know that Wan Qiao's child is kind-hearted and will not come out to harm others, but others are afraid! ”
The old lady said: "Later, several neighbors pooled money and found a big monk to come over and give Wanqiao their excess. At that time, your house was sealed off by the police, and the monk couldn't get in, so he sat in the corridor and recited the scriptures for a day and a night. ”
"When the great monk was leaving, he said that the two ghosts were not angry, although they were sent away, maybe they would come back one day, so that we would find him again if we had something."
The old lady spoke to herself, and she didn't look at Lao Du's face: "A few of our neighbors lived in fear for several days, and we didn't hear the two of them crying in the house, so we could live with peace of mind." However, two days ago, Wanqiao and the others came back. ”
"This time, instead of crying, they were laughing. But that laughter is more terrifying than crying! It sounds like a night owl, 'haha, haha', there's no time to be idle. At first, it sounded like it was in the house, but it sounded like it was at the door. ”
The old lady trembled and pointed to the door: "That night, I heard Wanhua squatting at the door of my house crying, and the sound drilled through the crack in the door, and my old man was so frightened that he had a heart attack." ”
"After I called 120, I was afraid that Wanhua wouldn't let us out, so I knelt at the door and said to her: Wanhua, you can do well, raise your noble hand! We didn't have a place to be sorry for you! If you want to find a substitute for the dead, you can find me, and don't try to pull my old man. ”
Later, Wanhua's movement began to retreat little by little, and it sounded like she was crying and walking home, and after a while, there was no movement, and the ambulance came.
The old lady turned the conversation around when she said this: "After that night, we went to find the great monk again, who knows, the great monk has long passed away, and his nephew came over with us to take a look......"
"The little monk said that there are things lost by ghosts in your house, and she won't leave if she can't find them. If you don't want the ghost to come out, you have to let him nail the door shut. ”
The old lady looked at our faces before saying, "At that time, we thought, you haven't been back for so many years, maybe...... Maybe you've already started a family outside...... Won't be coming back here. We'll just let the monk nail your door shut. ”
Although Lao Du's face was no longer as gloomy as before, it was extremely complicated.
It was much the same as I thought, when I first saw the wooden plank in the doorway, I thought it was something left by my peers. It's just that before I could figure out what technique the other party used, the plank was kicked and broken by Lao Du.
I opened my mouth and asked, "Auntie, what else did that monk say?" ”
Seeing that Lao Du was silent, the old lady said: "The monk said that as long as the door is sealed for seven hundred and forty-nine days, the ghosts inside will know that they can't get out, so they will leave, let us live in peace." ”
I asked, "When did the monk come over?" ”
The old lady took out the desk calendar and flipped it over a few times: "Wanqiao, they came over on the fifth, and the monk came over on the eighth and nailed the door." ”
After I roughly calculated the time, I turned my head to look at Xie Wanhua, and the other party's face turned white.
On the fifth, I had already returned to my hometown, and if I was not mistaken, Xie Wanhua should have flipped through the diary that day.
I said in a deep voice: "Auntie, look, is it convenient for us to stay in your house for a few days?" ”
I didn't wait for the old lady to speak, so I said, "I guess that Wanqiao's sister-in-law came back, maybe to find Brother Du." Now that the door has been kicked by Brother Du, we will definitely not be able to close Wanqiao's sister-in-law, so we have to talk to my sister-in-law. You see......"
Before I could finish my sentence, the old lady shook her head and said, "I'm not going anywhere." The people upstairs and downstairs have moved away, and they let me go, but I can't bear this nest, and I won't go anywhere. ”
I tentatively said, "Why don't we stay at your house for a while and ...... in the evening?"
"No way!" Before the old lady could speak, the man in the outhouse had already run over, "Where do you like to go!" Living in someone else's house, and still attracting ghosts, how bad luck is it. Auntie, let me tell you, this is absolutely not possible. ”
The old lady scolded: "You go aside! Xiao Du and we have been old neighbors for more than ten years, and we knew each other when we didn't have his children, and he could still hurt us? Stay on the side. ”
The old lady looked like she was scolding his nephew, but she was actually talking to us.
Although distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, they also have a lot of things. No one wants to do anything bad luck at home.
I was about to speak, but Lao Du waved his hand and said, "Xiao Wu, don't be reckless." Let's go, come back in the evening. ”
After I returned to the car with Lao Du, he spoke: "You say, is Wanqiao really back?" ”
"More than ninety percent is impossible!" I shook my head and said, "Even the ghosts of the high monks who have not gone beyond the limit must be deeply resentful, even more than the level of the ghosts." A ghost who has reached this level, even if you are a police officer, she will not be afraid of you. Besides, it's impossible for you to wear a police uniform twenty-four hours a day, why hasn't your sister-in-law come back to look for you? ”
Lao Du said: "Wanqiao should come back to me?" ”
"The person she should be looking for most is you, followed by Dr. Xie." I explained, "After a person becomes a ghost, he often has some kind of connection with his loved ones, because the thoughts of his loved ones make it easier for ghosts to enter each other's dreams, which is what ordinary people often call dreams. Have you never dreamed of your sister-in-law? ”
Lao Du nodded gloomily and said, "I thought she was complaining that I didn't fulfill my responsibilities, so she didn't want to see me......"
"Impossible!" I waved my hand and said, "No matter how much she complains about you, she won't see you." ”
Xie Wanhua couldn't help but interject: "Then how do you know that it was a high monk who came over eight years ago?" ”
I said, "The liar won't let you go to him again, and besides, the ghost in the house hasn't made waves for eight years." ”
"But ......," Xie Wanhua bit her lip and said, "what do you want to do?" ”
"I'll go get some yellow paper and offerings, and I'll set up offerings at night and see how many people are on the other side." After I finished speaking, I got out of the car and found three meats, two vegetables and five kinds of sacrifices, and kept them in the car with Lao Du until the time of the child before going upstairs again, and asked Lao Du to put the sacrifices in the corridor against the door of his house, and burned yellow paper in the corridor.
Not long after Lao Du sent the yellow paper to the fire one by one, a sharp laugh of a woman suddenly came from the door of his house. Lao Du suddenly raised his head: "Wan Qiao, is it you?" ”
I said coldly, "Don't talk, keep burning paper." I won't let you move, no one will move. ”
Although Lao Du's hands were still putting paper into the fire, his eyes were always fixed on the door. Soon after, the laughter of "hehehehehe" was posted to the side of the door. The sound was like someone crouching in the doorway, smirking at the door.
I said that the other person was facing the door, simply because I heard the sound of fingernails scratching the door frame along the crack of the door. It was obvious that someone was moving his hand up and down on the door frame, as if desperately trying to see the scene outside through the crack in the door.
Lao Du couldn't help but turn his head to look at my face, and a sneer came from behind the door: "Giggles...... Mom, is Dad back? Giggle ......"
"Who knows!" The woman's voice was unusually sharp, "Your dad doesn't know when he'll be back." What do you want him to do? ”
The child's cold voice came faintly: "I want him to come back and eat meat!" I haven't eaten meat in a long time......"
Lao Du's hand couldn't help but tremble, and just wanted to say something, but I quickly covered Lao Du's mouth from behind: "Don't speak!" ”
My words are not for Lao Du, but for Xie Wanhua, who was standing on the stairs, and chose to stand on the stairs instead of standing with us because she was afraid. The distance between her and me is not far away, and it is not close to her, and I can't take care of each other in case something happens.
When Xie Wanhua covered her mouth and looked over to me, I heard someone on the stairs above say quietly: "Tong Tong, come up, Auntie has meat and meat at home......
When I suddenly looked upstairs, Xie Wanhua also looked sideways upstairs.
Across the stairs, I saw someone pull out a hand from the handrail of the staircase and gently wave it downstairs. My first reaction was, "The man's hand is broken...... In her position, unless she broke her hand and lowered it down through the gap, it was impossible to expose her entire palm.
"Ahh......h Upstairs is a ghost...... She doesn't have a foot ......."
"Hehe...... "The woman upstairs sneered, "how do you know I don't have feet, aren't my feet here?" ”
As the woman spoke, a pair of human feet appeared under the handrail of the staircase, and then a pair of dust-stained calves hung down from the crack in the staircase.
The woman upstairs seemed to have been forced out of the crack, hanging little by little between the two flights of stairs. The woman's legs swaying back and forth were also sticking to Xie Wanhua little by little.
The ghost is targeting her?