The Ruins of the Immortal Mountain Chapter 13 The Pond
I rolled up my trouser legs and walked down the pond, and when I reached the ball, the water was up to my knees. When I picked up the ball, they saw it on the edge of the pond, and it was a leather ball, but it was wrapped in some black thread. But when they saw me picking up the ball, they kept talking to it, as if it were ...... It's like two people talking. The three of them were frightened, and called for me to go ashore and go home, but as if I didn't hear, instead of turning around, I went to the depths of the pond with the ball. It stands to reason that the pond is not too deep, even in the middle of the pond is only about one meter. But on that day, I was still a long way from the middle of the pond, but the water was already above my head. As soon as the three of them saw this, they immediately went to call out to the adults. It is said that when I was rescued, I was no longer breathing. My mom fainted when she knew I couldn't do it. My dad was very calm, and after asking me what was going on, he picked me up and ran home. As soon as I got home, I found a piece of jade and hung it on my chest. Don't say it, it's really strange, I was already out of breath and suddenly let out a sharp cough, and then passed out again. Although he was not awake, at least this fate was picked up.
That's what I told the three little ones, but I really don't remember it at all. All I remember was when I was seven years old, I had a serious illness and I lay in bed for three months, and all the memories I had left were left blank in my mind, and even my parents were recognized from scratch. After I recovered from my illness, my father told me that the piece of jade on my chest was handed down by my grandfather, and asked me not to leave my body for a moment and take good care of it. After that, my body grew stronger and stronger, and my family never saw me talking to myself again.
The jade was the size of an egg, and the reverse side was carved with four clouds side by side, in different styles; On the obverse is a traditional character for "雲", and the bottom of the word "cloud" is also replaced by a cloud. This piece of jade is worn on the chest in winter and cool in summer, and at a glance I know that it is not an extraordinary product, plus it is a relic left by my grandfather, so it is natural to keep it properly. However, everything that my grandfather left behind was always in charge of my father, and he never showed it to me, except for this piece of jade and a book.
The book is called "Qingyi Miscellaneous Records", which was compiled by my grandfather, and because my grandfather's road name is the word "Qingyi", this book is named after my grandfather's road name. My father told me that when my grandfather was a young cultivator, he had traveled all over the country and seen and experienced many things, and in this book, in addition to writing about the feng shui techniques that my grandfather learned in his life, it is some of the things he saw and heard. Although I was not interested in what he had learned, the stories written in the book were quite story-like, and I always loved reading them over and over again. For this, I was beaten a lot by my father because I didn't care for the books left by my grandfather. In fact, aren't all children reading the same book? Who would look through it carefully and slowly, as if taking care of a newborn baby? Besides, after so many years, the paper has long been brittle and yellow, and if you are not careful, it will be torn, how can it all be blamed on my head?
According to my grandfather's book, I must have bumped into a ghost that day, and it was a water ghost, and it appeared to find me as its stand-in. It attaches itself to the ball, waiting for someone to come, and once someone takes the bait, it will do everything possible to lure you into the water, and then entangle or trip the person with water plants and stones, causing them to drown, so that they can escape and ascend to heaven and be reincarnated as a human being. And the person who is the stand-in has to stay in the water instead of the water ghost, looking for the next stand-in...... According to the book, the soul of a person who commits suicide or accidentally dies in the water will linger in the place where he drowned, and thus become a water ghost, and cannot be reincarnated. It is very painful to become a water ghost, in addition to having to experience the torture of drowning once a day, it also has to stay in the water and cannot leave, even in the middle of summer, the water is cold to the bone, and when it rains, it has to endure the pain of ten thousand arrows piercing the heart. But all of this, it must endure until it can find a substitute for the dead, and it will not be liberated...... Of course, I didn't believe it after reading this book for the first time, I am a complete materialist, and my education from childhood to adulthood has taught me that there are no ghosts and gods in this world. No one has ever really seen the appearance of ghosts in the incident I experienced when I was a child, and as the first person and the only one who has experienced it all, I have lost my memory and can't remember, so the theory of ghosts and gods is illusory, and my awakening should be attributed to a miracle in the history of medicine. It's just that it's written in the book, and I just see it as "Liao Zhai", and I should be happy. That's what I thought at the time.
After I recovered from that serious illness, it was September, and I was old enough to start elementary school. However, I was not a seedling of learning when I was a child, I fished for three days and dried nets for two days, skipped class and ran out to play when I had nothing to do, played arcade in elementary school, played computer billiards in middle school, in short, I was very serious about playing. The teacher often invites my parents to go to tea every once in a while, I really don't know if I am going to receive education or them, so my parents are really a headache for my study, and Zhao'er also thinks a lot, but to no avail, maybe I am not born to study.
Originally, a student like me could graduate from high school, even if it was a high incense, but who would have thought that it would be just in time for the expansion of national colleges and universities, and I was "the prodigal son" and "making up for the dead", after the college entrance examination, I was admitted to a third-rate junior college, where I was mixed for three years before I went into society. Thanks to the good policies of the state, I really experienced the free life of the university - it was really a fairy-like day when I went to school and ignored my parents. Otherwise, if I didn't get into college, my "socialization process" would have started three years earlier.
After I graduated, I went to Beijing, and because of my good physical fitness, I applied for a job as a security officer in a security company in Beijing, and my performance was good, my salary increased every year, and my life was comfortable. If it hadn't happened and changed everything, I would still be living a 9-to-5 life there......