Chapter 142: Listening to the Story of the Fireplace (5)

1. Fight ghosts to save people

When we were children, the happiest thing was to listen to adults tell stories, but my father didn't know how to read, and he didn't know any of the stories in the books, he only told what he experienced, and this story of killing ghosts and saving people was his own experience. When he was nineteen years old, he worked for the rich man's house, and the rich man always suspected that his family's firewood was stolen, and the yard and kitchen of the rich man's house were separated by a small alley.

It was a summer night, and my father moved a bamboo bed to sleep in a small alley, which was very shady and shaded during the day, and my father fell asleep quickly.

When the father heard someone talking, he opened his eyes and saw two black shadows silently passing by in front of the alley, one holding a pole and the other holding a rope. Father suddenly came to his senses, isn't this the person who stole firewood and grass here? He quickly got up from the bamboo bed and followed the two shadows lightly, intending to take the thieves and catch them after stealing the firewood. The father followed not far away, and the father could hear them whispering, vaguely asking them to go to Liujiawan Kexiang's house to do something important. Liu Kexiang, his father knows, he has tuberculosis, he is bedridden, married a crippled wife, he is very virtuous, but he did not give birth to a son and a half daughter, this is a hard-working couple. These two guys want to steal his family's firewood and grass, isn't it too immoral. My father was determined to do chivalrous deeds and help Liu Kexiang's family catch these two thieves.

At that time, if he knew that these two black shadows were ghosts, he would not dare to borrow a hundred dares from his father.

When he arrived at the door of Liu's house, the two black shadows disappeared in a flash, and the father walked over hesitantly, and looked in through the crack in the door: the lame woman in the hall was sitting in front of the spinning wheel spinning thread, and the two black shadows that entered were missing. The father could see clearly through the crack in the door, and saw that the two shadows walked to the shrine, and immediately knelt down, and kept kowtowing to the god of the Liu family, and then one shadow floated towards the kitchen, and the other shadow floated lightly to the shrine, knocked down the incense burner in the shrine, and put the pole on the ground, and the pole became a stool, and stood still next to the lame woman with a rope. The lame woman didn't notice it. Father saw what was going on outside the door, wasn't this the hanged ghost looking for a stand-in?

When my father saw the dark shadow in the kitchen drifting to the back room again, Liu Kexiang's coughing sound came from inside the back room, and then he heard Liu Kexiang shouting to the lame woman: "Lan Xiang, is the chicken soup simmering?" "Alright, I'll bring it to you." The lame woman replied as she put down the thread in her hand and got up and walked towards the kitchen.

From the kitchen came the angry voice of a lame woman: "Ah! Why is the soup gone? It must have been a cat stealing the drink. Liu Kexiang's voice came from the back room, and he was also angry: "Isn't the cat sleeping on the kang!" You must have stolen it! It's also blamed on the cat! You gluttonous! If I could move, I would have killed you! “

The lame woman stumbled from the kitchen to the spinning wheel and sat down to spin the thread, and the ghost standing next to her kept tearing the thread on the spinning wheel, upsetting the lame woman.

The ghost in the back room didn't know what weirdness was used, so that Liu Kexiang couldn't stop scolding the lame woman. The lame woman finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to talk back: "The more you scold, the more energetic you become, you yourself are a tuberculosis shell, you can't do anything, you still have to eat and drink well, and you need others to take care of you, what does it mean for you to live!" "I'm bored with my life, it's not that you're bothering me! I worked hard to fall into this disease, you dislike me now, I hope I will die soon, you don't want to think about it, who do you rely on when I die, not even a child, lonely, the people in the village don't bully you to death! ”

The lame woman bowed her head sadly and stopped making a sound.

My father saw through the crack in the door that the ghosts in the inner room were floating between the hall and the inner room, and every time, Liu Kexiang in the inner room would scold more viciously and meanly, poking at the heart of the lame woman every word. The lame woman was so angry that she couldn't say a word, she was so sad that her idea of survival completely collapsed. At this time, the ghost standing next to him immediately became active, and kept handing the hanging rope to the lame woman, and the ghost in the inner room also floated in and rushed to help, and took the stool that had been turned into a pole and put it at the lame woman's feet, and the ghost figure with the rope immediately floated to the beam of the house and hung down the rope made into a loop. The lame woman's eyes lit up, and when she saw the rope hanging down from it and the stool at her feet, she stepped on the stool as soon as she thought about it.

My father saw it in the crack of the door, and if he wanted to see it, he would die, and in a hurry, he shouted loudly, kicked open the door of Liu Kexiang's house, and said loudly: "What a vicious ghost! It's so harmful! ”

When my father suddenly appeared, the two ghosts disappeared in an instant, along with the rope on the beam and the stool on the ground. The lame woman stood in place in despair, and Liu Kexiang in the inner room got up when he heard the sound, staggered to the hall, saw my father, and hurriedly asked what was going on, and my father told him what he had just seen.

When the couple heard this, they were skeptical, and the father pointed to the shrine and said, "If you don't believe it, go and see the censer on the shrine, because the demons worship the god of your house and overturn the censer so that they can take your lives." ”

Liu Kexiang and his wife finally believed it. The next day, the lame woman went to the Taoist temple to ask for a peace charm in case the ghost visited again.

2. Ghost lanterns

Each part of the countryside has different customs. There is a place, every night on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the villagers will go to the ancestral grave to light lanterns and set off fireworks, the most interesting of which is to light the sky lanterns, which are also called ghost lanterns as the saying goes.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of one year, before it was dark, Lao Cao in the village couldn't wait to take his pasted ghost lantern and go to the open space in the east of the village to light the ghost lantern. At that time, Lao Cao was a famous paster in the village, and his ghost lanterns were the best among more than a dozen villages in our area, so on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, Lao Cao went to the field to light ghost lanterns, and many villagers went to watch.

When Lao Cao came to the open space in the east of the village, he saw that many villagers were waiting for him to light ghost lanterns, so he first said hello to the villagers and then lit the lanterns. At this time, the villagers saw that Lao Cao's lantern was a red lantern shade and a green lantern, so they were very worried and said: "Lao Cao, as the old saying goes, the red lantern shade, the green lantern, lead the wheat, and go to the God's City." If you can't get this lantern you paste, you're going to attract ghosts. ”

Lao Cao was a little scared when he heard this, but he still had the courage to say: "That's the old saying, deceitful, how can there be ghosts in this world?" So saying, he lit the lantern.

It's strange to say that after the ghost lantern ascended to heaven, it flew directly towards Lao Cao's house, and the villagers chased it to Lao Cao's house and couldn't find it again.

Lao Cao saw that he couldn't find the green light dragon, and thought of what the neighbor said just now, and became even more frightened. At night, he was so frightened that he couldn't fall asleep, and he fell asleep easily, and he had a nightmare, in which the mad green lantern shook in front of his eyes, and then, from behind the lantern, two Bai Sensen's hands stretched out and grabbed him constantly, and he was so frightened that he ran away, but no matter how fast he ran, he couldn't shake off the green light dragon behind him、、、、、、

From then on, at night, the green lantern would take over his dreams, making him restless even when he was asleep.

Finally one day, he fell ill, took a lot of medicine, but he was not cured, and half a month later, he died.

On the night of his death, a green light dragon was seen flying away from his house、、、、、、

3. Retribution

One day, I found a sick man in a chair in the health center, with a faint breath, but there was no one beside him. The doctor who saw it first asked, "Whose patient is this?" No one responded for a long time, and then raised his voice: "Whose patient is this!" Still no response. Another doctor heard the voice and said, "I know this person, he is from the Black Wind Camp, it is estimated that he was sent by a well-wisher because of an injury, and he left for fear of being affected, this kid has a bad human nature." ”

In the crowd, a man who seemed to be an official said, "In that case, let's save people first." Everyone went their separate ways, and the one who gave the order added, "You save first, I'll call the police station, and it's easier to talk about the accident." ”

The person who acted first pushed the cart, put the person in the X-ray room of the radiology department, and after entering the house, the doctor who said he knew told his story.

Once, an acquaintance asked me to see an old man, just entered the village, I saw an old woman who was not young asking for food from house to house, just to the door of his house, just knocked on the door and said he came out, like a black killing god, came to the old lady, took the bowl of rice and fell on a stone on the side of the road, immediately broken, and said uncleanly: "Lao Tzu has not eaten yet, how can there be anything for you, get out!" "I slammed the door hard and went back to the house.

I asked, "Why are you such a donkey?" ”

"The upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, follow his father, his father was a bastard back then." The acquaintance spoke of him in detail.

The results of the perspective came out: the rupture of the liver caused by trauma was more than lucky. ”

When preparing for the operation, the people from the police station also came, and after a brief understanding of the situation, the soldiers were divided into two ways, leaving one person to watch in the health center, and the others went to the Black Wind Camp to investigate.

Before the operation could be done at the health center, the person would not be able to do it, and when it was confirmed that he was dead, he was sent to the morgue and sent someone to wait.

The police car soon arrived at the Black Wind Camp, and as soon as the police got out of the car to inquire, many people surrounded them and rushed to explain the situation: "At noon today, he led the horses in the team to carry a bag of potatoes to his house, and when he returned, a dog on the side of the road saw him coming, and he was very frightened and jumped up, and the horse was startled, and kicked him in a hurry." I don't know where I kicked it, and I fell down on the spot. ”

"That's all retribution." It was said.

"What's going on? Don't rush to say, you say first, whose dog is the dog, how can it be said to be retribution? ”

The police called someone, and the conversation began again.

"Last year, a dog came out of nowhere, let him see it when he passed by his house, he was also idle, he chased with a hoe, and then all of a sudden, a very good dog just let him break a leg, the dog crawled on the ground and ran away, the speed was very slow, the kind Grandma Liu saw it, saw the dog strange and pitiful, so she pleaded for the dog, and he carried the hoe and scolded and went back. Since then, Grandma Liu adopted the dog and has been feeding it ever since. Today, when he led the horse out, the dog was lying in front of the door basking in the sun, and when he saw him again, he was naturally very frightened, and suddenly tried to flee back to the yard, but the horse was frightened, blew up, and got up. ”

"Is the horse afraid of the dog?"

"That's the case, last year he drove out of the house, I don't know what evil he committed, he blinded the horse's left eye, today the place where the dog lies is on the left side of the horse, the horse naturally can't see it, the horse can't see only the movement and is frightened, the result is 、、、、、、"

The police learned about the specific situation and then asked, "You sent it to the health center?" ”

"Yes!"

"Then why don't you leave anyone to contact the health center?"

"I'm afraid that he will rely on it, this bastard boy, follow his father, and he is more mixed than his father."

"Yes, it's really retribution, it's a coincidence, who can tell what is in the dark." A villager said.

Everyone nodded.

4. The undead

There was a man in his hometown, walking alone in the mountains, and it was dark and it was raining again, and this person hid in an abandoned ruined temple in order to avoid the rain.

As soon as I entered the temple, I found that there was already a person sheltering from the rain under the eaves, and then I took a closer look, my mother~ It was actually this person's dead uncle.

This man wanted to run, but his uncle hurriedly dissuaded him: "Don't run, don't run, I have something to tell you, so wait for you here, I won't harm you, don't be afraid, don't be afraid." ”

The man froze there and said, "Uncle, you have appeared so suddenly, who can not be afraid, you can tell me anything, I can't hold on for a while, your appearance is too ugly." ”

His uncle said, "Okay, I'll be brief."

"After I'm dead, your aunt, I won't be waiting to see your grandmother, I always have something to do to beat her. Your grandmother didn't react aggressively on the surface, and she looked submissive, but she couldn't swallow this breath in her heart, and always cried secretly where no one was. As for your uncle and me, I have seen too many women who disrespect their mothers-in-law in the underworld, either going to hell or being beasts in the next life. Today you will convey my words to me, and warn your aunt to repent quickly. ”

After saying that, the person disappeared.

When the man came home, he told his aunt about it, and she said, "What? I didn't beat your grandmother, your uncle, who hasn't grown up yet, is speaking for his mother and scaring me. ”

His uncle is a mother's treasure man in today's words, and he defends his mother everywhere, and when his aunt was alive, he was angry with his mother, and now that his uncle is gone, his aunt finally has a chance to take revenge, turning over as a serf and singing.

Although the aunt said so, her face became pale and uncertain, probably angry and afraid.

5. Borrow life to continue life

Lee was my elementary school classmate who lived near my house, and we were good friends until we grew up.

When we were in the third year of junior high school, his father fell from the second floor of the factory, only three meters high, and actually fell to his death! Li has two younger brothers, he is the eldest, and his mother is unemployed, so he dropped out of school to work.

Three years later, I was in my third year of high school and was preparing to take the college entrance examination, when one day, I heard him say that one of his younger brothers drowned, and the day he died happened to be the anniversary of his father's death.

Another year later, I went to university in a city 200 miles away from home, and the same city where Li worked. One day, when we got together for dinner, he talked about his family again, saying that his grandmother was dead, and I listened to him, and found that he didn't look sad, and even a little disgusted with his grandmother's appearance, and then he said, and I understood why.

Because the date of his brother's death was too strange, the family found a feng shui master to see if the feng shui in the family was not good. The feng shui master said that there was no problem with feng shui in his home and reminded them to find a shaman to take a look.

When the wizard came, he looked at the environment and the people in the house, and then he did a hexagram, and called his mother aside, saying that the day of his father's death was supposed to be the day of his grandmother's death, but his grandmother had been instructed by someone somewhere, and buried a jar with red cloth under the jujube tree in the courtyard, so that she could save her life for three years. On the day his sister died, his grandmother buried another piece of red cloth, which would have saved her life for another three years. The lives of future generations will be used to keep her alive for only three years). The wizard said that as long as the jar was dug out, the red cloth was taken out and burned, and the jar was smashed, the family would not suffer again, but his grandmother's life would be over.

After the wizard left, he and his mother came to the bottom of the jujube tree with a shovel, and vigorously rose up to the earth, but only listened to the sound of the "bell", the shovel touched a hard thing, thinking that it was a jar, and the two of them quickly dug it, and a black jar showed its head.

The jar was smashed by him with a shovel, and there were really two pieces of red cloth inside, the red cloth was wet, and the color was very bright, and when it was burned with fire, the red cloth first turned dark red, and then turned to ashes, and when I think about it, it was not water, but blood, and the blood was dried by the fire and turned dark red.

There was a sudden scream in the house, it was the grandmother's cry of pain, and the mother and mother hurried to the house to find that the grandmother had died on the edge of the kang.