Chapter 138: Listening to the Story of the Fireplace (1)
1. Hook the soul
There is a young man surnamed Guan in Suzhou, because the neighbor's daughter-in-law is beautiful, and he wants to see her in every possible way. One day, he peeked at the wall again, and saw the daughter-in-law wrapping silk under the eaves, her eyebrows were constricted, her eyes were full of tears, and her face was full of sorrow. Her mother-in-law nagged her in the house, and hated her because she sympathized with her daughter-in-law.
At this moment, a woman dressed in green clothes came out of the side door of the hall, with a smile on her face, and walked straight into the Buddha hall to bow to the Buddha. Guan was shocked when he saw this, knowing that she was not a living person, so he paid more attention to observation. When the woman had finished worshipping the Buddha, she turned around and went under the eaves, and gestured the circle with her hands to her daughter-in-law, and repeatedly pointed out the direction of the toilet with her hands. The daughter-in-law stopped winding the silk, as if she was thinking about something, and then tears rained down, and she quickly got up and walked to the toilet.
The low wall is only shoulder-high, and you can see it clearly when you look down from the height. When the daughter-in-law entered the toilet, she untied the footcloth and tied it to the beam. The woman in Tsing Yi appeared around her again, smug and complacent, knowing that her daughter-in-law was looking for death, she couldn't help but shout: "Save people!" When the neighbors heard the cries for help, they all rushed to inquire, and they rushed into the toilet with everyone to see that their daughter-in-law had hanged herself. Everyone scrambles to save her, and she soon recovers. Look at the woman in Tsing Yi again, she is gone.
2. Crying
In the middle of the night, the cries always make me quiet, which is why I always hate children, although it is their eagerness when they cannot express it in words, but I still can't accept it. Because I'm a writer, I need to be quiet, and that's why I chose to live in the suburbs and start writing late at night.
The child's cries came one after another, and I could even hear the coaxing voice of the neighbor's old woman: "Be good, obedient, don't make a sound." β
I really wanted to rush out the door and give advice to my neighbors. But when you think about it, that's not too good, and besides, the neighbor is still an old lady.
As a result, I didn't write anything that night, and went to bed early.
I lived on the first floor, and the next morning, I knocked on my neighbor's door: "Auntie, I'm sorry for you." β
"What's the matter?" The old lady was old, and she looked at me with her back bent, with a hostile expression.
"Can you send the child home and let his parents take care of him for a few days?" I said, "I've been rushing to write every day lately, and I need to be quiet, but when my child cries, I can't write here." β
"Kid?" The old lady looked at me suspiciously, "I don't have any children at home. β
I was taken aback, how could it be! I heard the child's cry last night!
"But I heard your child crying last night!" I said scaredly.
The old lady's face changed, and she whispered, "Did you really hear it?" β
"I do hear it, and I hear you coaxing the child." The old lady's strange look made me even more suspicious, it was not a child, but a γγγγγγ
I couldn't help but shudder, but I saw the old lady smile weirdly and said, "It's okay, it's okay." I do have children in my family, I am old and forget. I know, I'll try not to make him cry at night, but you know, this kid is too small to γγγγγγ."
Although the old lady's words overturned my momentary horror speculation, the gloom still lingered in my heart.
"Oh. Thank you so much. I said and went into the house.
At 12 p.m., I picked up my pen again. This manuscript must be written tonight. But before the pen fell on the paper, the faint cry sounded again. It's just that this time it's different, the whole body is tight, and there is an old lady's voice mixed in between: "Don't make noise, it will scare others." β
Scaring someone? My chest tightened, this cry was the most noisy to others, why should I say scared?
Suddenly, I heard the old lady's anxious voice: "Where are you going?" Don't go over! β
The old lady's voice seemed to come from her backyard. Then the crying stopped for a moment, and then suddenly it rang out in my courtyard! Is it possible for a baby to climb over the courtyard wall and come to me? The sound of a small cry kept coming from my backyard. My hand shook, and the pen fell to the ground with a "snap", and the cry was so real, as if I was about to climb up to the window. I didn't dare to stay in this bedroom separated by a wall from the backyard anymore, so I hurriedly grabbed my pillow and blanket and went to the living room, where I spent an uneasy night.
The next day, I didn't dare to go to the old lady and went straight to the property. The man who received me was a middle-aged man, and I didn't tell him my horrible speculation, but just said that the old lady's children were too noisy and affected my writing, so let them come forward to coordinate it, can you let her send her grandson back first.
But when the man heard this, he looked at me strangely and said, "There is no one living in that house." β
When I heard it, I just felt chills all over my body, and I wanted to faint.
"No one?! But I spoke to that old lady yesterday! I couldn't help but raise my voice.
The man said unhurriedly, "There used to be an old lady and a little grandson, but this man was confused when he was old, and the old lady forgot to turn off the gas after a meal, and the gas poisoned and died, and the little grandson was also smoked to death." β
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3. Hide and seek
Today's weather is gloomy, and Doudou has been beaten again, and his face is covered with bruises. He was now the only one in the house, and although he was beaten, he began to call his friends again after being depressed for a while, and he didn't even remember why he was beaten, and played a game of hide and seek at home.
Hide and seek is a game that children love, and Doudou has a sense of detective solving a crime every time he catches someone. Doudou's family is very rich, the family is also huge, and there is a small tied building, which is very suitable for playing this game with friends.
Doudou's friends slipped in one after another, and usually Doudou's father wouldn't let him play with these people casually.
This time, it was Doudou who came to arrest people.
Everyone scattered when Doudou turned his back and counted, some hid under the bed, some hid in the cabinet upstairs, and some secretly climbed up to the attic.
The attic of Doudou's house was dark, only some faint light came in from the outside, the attic window didn't know when it was sealed, and my friends couldn't help but be scared after hiding it, it was full of debris, and there was a smelly smell, and there seemed to be the sound of rats squirming. He leaned back and leaned back, leaning against something, and with a bang, the thing scattered, and a round thing rolled down at his feet, and he was startled, and with the help of the faint light, he saw that it was not the head of Doudou's mother. He screamed.
Doudou heard the voice, ran up to the attic with a "knock", and shouted, "Caught!" β
My friend shook like a sieve, retching, and pointed at the head. Doudou turned on the light, and everything became brighter, and the mother's head on the ground was particularly glaring. Doudou didn't have any fear, went over and picked up his mother's head, pointed to a cardboard box and said lightly, "Mine is in there." β
4. Posthumous lawsuits
Emperor Wu of Liang wanted to build a temple next to his father's mausoleum, but there was no good wood, so Emperor Wu of Liang ordered the officials in charge to go out and look for it.
At that time, there was a Qu'a man surnamed Hong, whose family was very wealthy, and he and his relatives carried many goods to Xiangzhou to do business. A year later, they built a wooden raft, about a thousand steps long, and the wood was thick and beautiful, which is rare in the world.
When they drove home to Nanjin Port, Meng Shaoqing, the captain of Nanjin, in order to curry favor with the imperial court, used law enforcement as an excuse to make things difficult for the Hong family. Some of Hong's clothes, silk and other goods had not yet been sold, so Meng Shaoqing framed him and said that he had stolen them on the road, and said that the production of these clothes exceeded the regulations and was not what a businessman should have, so he sentenced Hong's to death, confiscated his wood, and used it to build the temple. After Meng Shaoqing reported this verdict to the imperial court, he immediately executed the Hong.
On the day he was killed, Hiroshi said to his wife, "If you put yellow paper and pen and ink in the coffin, if the soul is immortal after death, I must want to sue Yin Si." He wrote Meng Shaoqing's name dozens of times on the paper, and then swallowed the paper into his stomach.
A month later, Meng Shaoqing was sitting at home when he suddenly saw the Hong family rushing towards him. At first, Meng Shaoqing could resist while dodging, but later he had to bow down and confess. All he knew was that he kept shouting "help", but blood spurted out of his mouth, and he died soon after. All the officials who undertook the case, and those who signed the recital on the case, died one by one, and within a year, they were all dead.
As soon as Emperor Wu Liang's father's temple was repaired, it was burned down by a fire for no reason, and even the lower ends of the wooden pillars buried in the ground were turned to ashes.
5. Floating scales
When my eldest uncle was young, his family was very poor, and because he was the eldest in the family, he did not go to school, so he took on the burden of raising his younger siblings very early. Almost all the work at home and outside the house is handled by the eldest uncle to help his parents. The eldest uncle had a good brain, and first planted a peach tree in the village. But because at that time, only one family grew peaches, the scale was small, so there were no wholesalers to buy, and every time the peaches were ripe, the eldest uncle could only ride his bicycle every day and bring two large baskets full of peaches to sell in the streets and alleys of each village and village.
I remember one year, the weather was a little strange, the peaches were ripe, but the weather was still surprisingly hot. That day, the eldest uncle still rode his own 28-load cart and carried two large baskets of peaches out to sell, but he was lucky, and caught up with a village not far away that happened to have a market, and only a dozen peaches were sold in one morning. The eldest uncle wiped the sweat on his face, looked at the fire-like weather, and thought to himself that it was selling well anyway, and the weather was so hot, so it was better to go home early today. So the eldest uncle rode on the car and hummed a little song to rush home.
There was a river behind my uncle's village, and I don't know which branch of the big river, but now it has dried up. But back then, the water level was very high and wide, and there were many fish, shrimp, and river crabs.
Because the weather was so hot, my uncle felt like his throat was about to smoke while riding his bicycle. Seeing the river, the eldest uncle wanted to get out of the car and wash his face, so he propped the car on the river, squatted down and washed his face, but before his hand touched the water, he heard a plop, as if something had fallen into the water. The eldest uncle had a bad heart, so he hurriedly touched his waist, and sure enough, the scales tied to his waist were gone.
At that time, everyone was poor, and the society was not peaceful, and this scale was tied to the waist, and he was a self-defense guy in times of crisis, and it was also to prevent some naughty children from stealing and selling for money.
The eldest uncle saw that the scales fell into the water, and hurried to fish, the water on the bank of the river was not deep, but he couldn't touch it, the eldest uncle was very annoyed at that time, the family was already poor, and it cost money to buy a scale, and the good mood of selling peaches was gone, so he could only push the cart and walk home depressed.
The eldest uncle walked a short distance along the river to a flooded bridge, and after crossing the bridge, he was in his own village. When the eldest uncle arrived at the bridge, he was still thinking about the weighing stones, not to mention how uncomfortable he was. But just as he reached the middle of the bridge, he suddenly saw a black thing in the river slowly drifting in his direction. The eldest uncle looked at it, wasn't that his own scale! At the moment, I was ecstatic, put on my bicycle, and leaned over to pick up the scales. The bridge deck of the Manshui Bridge is not high from the river level, and the eldest uncle lies on the bridge and stretches out his hand to reach the scale, but he can't reach it after adjusting the angle of lying on his stomach several times, and the scale floats up and sinks for a while, which is dangling in front of his eyes. The eldest uncle was in a hurry and planned to take off his clothes and go down to the river to fish. But right here, a large stone fell into the river in front of his uncle's face, and the splash splashed his face. The eldest uncle felt a coolness and suddenly swam all over his body, and then looked at the river water, where was the shadow of the scales. The eldest uncle immediately felt a cold sweat on his back, this is called a big iron lump, how can it be floating on the water? There are ghosts in this water! If it weren't for that big stone, I'm afraid I would have died in the water, who threw this stone? The eldest uncle looked up and saw the son of the village party secretary standing by the river, smiling gloatingly. The son of the village party secretary relied on his father, and he was idle all day long, either stealing the family's chickens or blocking the family's chimney, which was annoying to everyone in the village. Now, he is playing tricks on my eldest uncle, but he doesn't know that he actually saved my eldest uncle's life by mistake.
My eldest uncle was not only not angry, but shouted at him: "Thank you! You get out of here, too. After saying that, he got on the car and ran away.
The son of the village party secretary was confused and stunned, but suddenly he understood something, and the rabbit also fled.
6. Lost
Zhao Datou came out of the hotel with a full burp, a straight road, he walked crookedly, and the shadows on the wall were also trembling.
Just now he went to the class reunion, since graduation, this is his first party, we haven't seen each other for more than ten years, a little strange to each other, after three rounds of drinking, the topic gradually increased.
Zhao Datou is very big, but it seems to be full of emotional intelligence but no IQ, and his academic performance has always been the first. After graduation, Zhao Datou went to the sea to do business, he is a specialty in this area, and he became a well-known big boss in a few years.
Zhao Datou walked to the parking lot with a spring breeze on his face. At this moment, he saw a dark figure not far away, wandering around his car, as if looking for something.
"What did you lose γγγγγγ? I'll give it to you. "Zhao Datou's tongue can't be straightened.
"Can you really give it to me?"
"What are γγγγγ kidding? Don't you recognize me? People γγγγγγ called Zhao Datou, you don't γγγγγγ inquire! β
"My soul is lost~" the man said quietly.
"Whatγγγγγγ what!" Zhao Datou was so frightened that he woke up halfway.
"I said, my soul is lost~"
There was a quiet silence all around.
Zhao Datou screamed in fright, got into the car and ran away. But there was a mistake in the busyness, and the car didn't go far before it crashed.
Zhao Datou is fine, but his spirit is not very good, dementia, people say that his soul is lost.
7. Starving ghosts
This is a bizarre thing my dad told me about what he experienced.
At that time, my father was only in his 20s, and his family still lived in the countryside in the mountains, and he had to walk two or three hours to the town to buy daily necessities. Once my dad went to the town to buy laundry detergent and soap horns, and when he came back, he found that he still had 3 cents on him (at that time, prices were low), so he bought a pound of oranges, and my grandmother loved oranges.
Anyone who has walked through the mountain road knows that it is easy to go down the mountain and difficult to go up, so Dad is tired and hot when walking. After walking for about an hour, he came to a mountain pass, and at this time, my father found that he was so hungry, his eyes were dizzy, as if he had not eaten for several days, and his legs were weak, and he sat on the ground. Dad wondered in his heart, no, he had just eaten a bowl of wontons in the town, how could he be hungry so quickly? At a glance, I saw the oranges in my hand, just like seeing the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, peeled them and ate them, one after another, two and three, and soon the bag of oranges was eaten. However, after eating, I still felt very hungry, and my dad suddenly realized something, it must have encountered something unclean. So, I lay on the ground, supported my body with my hands, moved forward, and moved a distance, my dad was not hungry, but felt uncomfortable in his stomach, and spit out all the oranges he had just eaten with a "wow" sound, and then quickly got up and staggered home.
When she came home, my grandmother was very worried, and when she inquired, someone said that a beggar had starved to death in that place a few months ago.
Later, my dad didn't go from that place, preferring to take a long detour.