Chapter 126: The Story of the Oil Lamp (5)
1. Past life
She has liked to take a bath since she was a child, and since she bought that oversized bathtub at home, she prefers to take a bath, and she has to soak in it for a few hours every day, and her husband is a little unhappy, and occasionally tells her not to soak for too long, and she says with a wistful face: "Honey, I think I must have been a mermaid in my previous life." The husband smiled and said, "You were a mermaid in your previous life, so what was my previous life?" She splashed in the bathtub and said, "You must have been a prince in your previous life." She was not kidding, she really often dreamed that she was a mermaid, swimming in the ocean, sometimes swimming on the beach to see the handsome prince. Although the prince and her husband do not look alike, she still firmly believes that the prince is her husband's past life. Her mermaid dreams became more and more, and the time she spent in the bathtub became longer and longer, and her husband became more and more impatient, and his eyes became more and more irritable when he looked at her, and even dragged her out of the bathtub on several occasions. But she still felt that she was a mermaid in her previous life, and maybe in this life, she finally quit her job, soaked in the bathtub all day long, ate in it, dreamed about mermaids in it, didn't care about the children, didn't do housework, and the house quickly became chaotic like a chicken nest. Suddenly, one day, her husband rushed into the bathroom, holding a steel fork bought from the bazaar, and stabbed her in the abdomen, she was so painful that she couldn't speak, she writhed weakly, and the blood quickly stained the bathtub red, and the husband said angrily: "The previous life! Ago! I think I must have been a fisherman in my previous life! β
2. Jump, little beads, go back to the nest quickly
Walking on the way off work, his steps are a little easier, he is in a very bad mood, when he goes to work, he quarrels with a female colleague, he does not dislike each other, he often quarrels with his colleagues, even if it is a little thing, the other party has retreated, but he always does not give up. Suddenly, a small group of people gathered on the side of the road caught his attention, it was an old ugly woman, ragged, was playing tricks, she raised her hands high, chanting words, "Jump, jump, little beads go back to the nestγγγγγγ" With her call, several colored glass beads on the ground kept beating, jumping higher and higher, jumping faster and faster, and finally jumped into a bowl, spinning back and forth. The old woman wiped her sweat, picked up the bowl, and looked at everyone expectantly, in fact, whether it was true or not, it looked really fun, and people gave money, and several children gave it. But he didn't, not only did he not, but he also coaxed: "What kind of thing, you must have used a fishing line to hold the beads, and you want money?" Show an extra hand. The old woman was caught off guard by the audience's questioning, and muttered and explained: "Without a fishing line, I won't do anything else, just this." He said to the people, "You must have been deceived, so get your money back." But everyone didn't do that, maybe they thought the old woman was pitiful, and there was really no fishing line, it was just this audience who deliberately made things difficult, so they all left one after another. At night, he lay down to rest, thinking about what happened today, the female colleague who quarreled with him, scolded her thousands of times in his heart, and finally, thinking of the old ugly woman who performed acrobatics, he couldn't help but laugh in his heart, and jumped, it's funny, such a broken acrobatic is still rewarded, a bunch of stupid *. Suddenly, a voice came to mind in the darkness: "Jump! He was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and made sure that he had heard correctly, what was going on? The voice in the room sounded again: "Young man, I'll give you another bouncing show to show you if it's a fake." He sat up in a panic, and suddenly saw a black shadow standing in front of him, he was almost frightened to death, when did this old woman chase after the house? I heard the old woman say, "Alas! There's really no way, it's going to be this trick, and I have to make ends meet, so you can make do with it. After speaking, she raised her hands high, chanting the words: "Jump, jump, little beads go back to the nest quicklyγγγγγγ" With the call of the old woman, his eyeballs began to beat in the eye sockets, jumping faster and fasterγγγγγγ and finally jumped out of the eye sockets and into the old woman's bowl. "Hey, hey, now you believe it, right?" The old woman disappeared into the darkness with the bowl in her hand, leaving him wailingγγγγγγ
3. Winding
He fell in love with this woman, but the girl didn't love him, and hid when she saw him. The brothers told him that chasing girls has a tried-and-true trick, winding, winding every day, winding all the time, winding until the sea is dry and rotten, and winding until the sky is old and old, as long as you are entangled long enough, she must be yours. He listened, and from then on he always stood silently at the door of the girl's house, as soon as she appeared, he silently followed her, wherever she went, he went, like a shadow, the girl was entangled by him and was about to go crazy, and finally he really agreed, he happily took the girl to meet his brothers, on the wine table, and drank a few more wine glasses, when the door of the hotel was separated, the brothers joked, leisurely. His face was red, and so was the girl's.
Halfway through the night of shame, he was awakened by a slippery cold sensation in his deep sleep, and when he opened his eyes, he felt that something was wrapped around his body, and he thought it was a girl, so he said, "Honey, go to sleep." In the darkness came the sound of "sizzling" letters, the sound of snakes, he was completely awake now, touched the thing wrapped around his body, like γγγγγγ like the body of a snake, he heard the girl's voice before screaming: "Winding, winding, this is sent to the door by yourself." β
The next day, he was gone in bed, only a huge python with a round bellyγγγγγγ
4. Affair person
I have a partner who used to work together, and I recently worked full-time in my workplace, because we are both married men, so we can talk better, and we often drink and talk together. On this day, we drank together again, chatted and talked about marriage, we all admit that when men are bored with marriage, their hearts begin to be restless, maybe they are always restless, men will not be loyal to a woman in their lives, everyone wants to have three wives and four concubines, this is the instinct of men, if there is no strength, it will become a man's dream, a dream hidden in the heart. He smiled suddenly, and began to talk about one of his experiences.
About a year ago, he met a woman nine years younger than him, in the Golden Week of the National Day, he was with her, she asked him to marry her, but, that is impossible, not that he loves his wife more, but can not be sorry for his own pair of children, not so much between his wife and lover, but between children and lovers, as a responsible father, of course he chooses children. The woman wept sadly and made a lot of noise, but he left her behind and wanted to return to the family. He went down from the elevator on the 11th floor to the 1st floor.
"I didn't expect that," he said suddenly, covering his face sadly, "and when I walked out the door of the apartment, she was already waiting for me outside." β
5. Go home
Today, I was scolded by my boss in the company, it was the old woman who was in menopause, as a woman, I felt that women could not be leaders, and the employees under the female leader would be tortured worse than hell. When I go home, it's not actually a home, it's an apartment I rented, and there is a mess here for everyone, who let the little girl be a poor girl and can't afford to buy a house, alas! It can't be helped. When I unlocked the door, I was shocked that the wardrobe in the living room was turned upside down! I remembered that I forgot to lock the door when I went to work after eating this morning, so I went to work like this, which is really Ma Daha! I can't help but blame myself, huh? The window is closed, which means that the thief must have come in through the door! Forget it, I'm too lazy to tidy up, let's go rest, it's so bad today, it's really unpleasant, I want to die! Forget it, let's open it, I'll call the police tomorrow, I made sure the door was locked again, and walked to the bedroomγγγγγγ
6, Amei returned to the soul
My high school classmate Amei was a modest girl, I had never seen her lie, and now that everyone is working, I don't think she has changed. But what she told me this time was about a girl in her dorm room sleepwalking at night when she was in college, which was really a bit bizarre.
In the evening, in my little one-child dormitory, it was raining outside the window, the wind was blowing the window frames, and the weather was already cold, and when I heard this kind of thing, I got goosebumps all over my body.
Amei said unhurriedly: There are six people in our dormitory, and the sleepwalking girl is called Li Xiaomei (hehe, it's a coincidence, we all have a plum character in our names). She didn't sleepwalk at first, but it was suddenly diagnosed after her father's death in her senior year. At first we didn't know it, until one night, about one or two o'clock, I felt something brushing over my head, and I waved it with my hand, and I actually touched a human hand! I opened my eyes suddenly, and saw a woman with long hair sitting on the edge of my bed, and stretched out two hands to slowly stroke my hair, and I couldn't help but open my mouth wide in fright, and I couldn't make a sound at all. I belong to the kind of wooden people who are so frightened that they don't make a sound, fortunately, otherwise I might have scared Li Xiaomei to death who was sleepwalking. I tried my best to get out of bed, and then desperately shook Xiaoxuan from the next bed. Xiao Xuan suddenly saw a woman in white standing behind me, and she was also frightened. But then we figured out that Li Xiaomei was sleepwalking. Then, the other 5 of us, huddled together, because it was cold, lit candles, and watched Li Xiaomei wander ghostly on the floor of the bedroom alone. She was dressed in white pajamas, her eyes were half-closed and half-open, and her eyes were frozen, as if she had been stricken. She did a lot of things, and finally went to bed by herself after eating half a mooncake. We were relieved and dared to go to sleep.
When I asked her the next day, she didn't know anything. We vaguely mentioned it, and she immediately looked horrified, and couldn't believe it. We were afraid of scaring her, so we didn't mention it again.
Later, she committed it a few more times from time to time. Every time, the people in the dormitory were scared half to death. Once Xiaoxuan got up at night and came back, shivering with cold and drilling into the quilt, went in and touched a person, and immediately jumped out in fright, it turned out that it was Li Xiaomei sleepwalking into her quilt. Another time, I woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly saw her sitting on the edge of my bed again, and stretched out her hands straight, I thought she was going to give me a haircut again, but she grabbed my neck. What a lot of people who sleepwalk.
Speaking of which, Amei took off the silk scarf around her neck and showed me her scars.
Really, it's all red and purple. I exclaimed. Then the dorm mates pulled her away?
Ame shook her head, they were sleeping soundly, and there was no sound at all.
Soγγγγγγ did she walk away on her own?
Ame still shook her head.
I stammered.
Amei's face turned purple little by little, her eyes slowly bulged out, and her tongue fell out long.
That's how I was. Amei said softlyγγγγγγ
7. Makeup artist in the night of resurrection
In recent months, I have been having a recurring dream. In the dream, every full moon night, Xiao Fen would get up from the bed, flutter through the wall, and disappear into the dark corridor. Later I realized that it was not a dream, but a real thing, because, as if awake, I could clearly hear the click of her sandals on the floor. The sound of her walk is distinctive, always so urgent and hurried, like a spinning top that never stops.
Xiaofen and I are classmates, and we live in the same dormitory, and there are six people living in one room, and her relationship with me is not bad. She is a rural child from a poor background, and it is not easy to be admitted to this university and still be able to study. In addition to the hard work, she also has to find ways to make up for the expensive tuition, so while everyone else is clubbing and eating KFC, she is running around with a piece of dry food and two pickles, busy working to earn money. Her strength and hard work are one of the reasons why I admire her.
But what job required her to go out so late? One night, by the moonlight outside my window, I could vaguely see that the clock hanging on the wall had passed twelve o'clock in the morning. An abrupt thought suddenly popped up in my mind, the rice fat next door was for money, and an old man had a lot of money, could it be that Xiaofen was also like her, and began to fall? But Yi Xiaofen's appearance is impossible, is it worse than this? I thought of those low-class women who were dressed in plain clothesγγγγγγ yes, in the past six months, Xiaofen has indeed changed a lot, she has a plain face, she actually hides a whole set of cosmetics in her backpack, and a thick big envelope.
If a girl is like that, the ending will basically not be good. Thinking of this, I can't help but worry about Xiaofen, I feel that I have the responsibility to wake up the alarm bell in time and let her stop the precipice.
It was another full moon night, and I heard Xiao Fen wake up again, carry the black bag and go out the door. I quickly got up and tiptoed behind me. She wore a white dress and walked hurriedly, like a fluttering ghost. My scalp tingled, and I heard that the ghost had no feet, but her beige sandal-clad feet were clearly visible in the dim moonlight.
I followed Fen out and walked through the rose-covered path on the east side of the campus, where there was a low wall adjacent to the outside world, which was the only way for us students to return at night.
I wasn't as lucky as hers, and just as I stepped on the low wall, I suddenly remembered a roar from behind me: "Who! What are you doing! β
It was the doorman who patrolled at night to check for candles, and I was so unlucky that he was caught. I ran back, chasing after the uncle's messy footsteps, but fortunately, I finally got rid of him.
Back in the dormitory, before I had calmed down from my panting, my eyes widened in surprise, Xiao Fen! Xiao Fen is lying on the bed and sleeping! It seems like never left.
I was so shocked that I couldn't describe it in words, could it be my hallucination, that something was wrong with me, not Xiaofen?
Xiao Fen's breathing was very even, and in the faint moonlight, her face was calm, and the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, as if she was having a sweet dream. I had the urge to wake her up, but then I thought, if something really happened to me, wouldn't I be considered a psychopath? So I dismissed the idea of waking her up, and wanted to observe for a while to see if there was something wrong with her or me.
I lay down and went back to sleep.
Like a dream, I seemed to feel that a person came in from the outside, I woke up, quietly opened my eyes, white dress, black satchel, it was clearly Xiao Fen, I saw her go straight to her bed, lay down, the two Xiao Fen slowly coincided together, merged into one.
I fainted.
The next morning, I was shaken awake, and when I opened my eyes, it was Xiaofen, and she said, "I'm up, I'm going to be late for class." β
Or the original cheerful her, I began to wonder if I was dreaming last night, maybe because of the recent exam, the hallucinations caused by too much mental pressure, right? Am I wrong?
After the exam, my spirit was much lighter. As soon as I finished the exam, I picked up my favorite novel, I'm a horror fan! When I saw a story about an out-of-body soul, I turned my eyes to Xiao Fen again and remembered that night. Xiao Fen that night, how much like an out-of-body soul! I decided to stalk her one more time and get things straight.
Wait, wait, wait, finally waited for the full moon night again, just like last time, I followed Xiaofen out of the bedroom, this time, the doorman may be napping in the house, I didn't see his shadow, I quickly crossed the low wall.
Xiao Fen walked very fast, I always followed her closely, and after some time, she entered a room with no windows, only a door that looked black in the moonlight, and the whole room looked very strange, standing alone in the wilderness. I didn't have the courage to go in, so I had to peep through a small slit.
There was a puff of oil lamps lit in the room, and tall and low stood a few men dressed in white, all with their heads bowed, like dead people, perhaps they were dead people in the first place. I shuddered at the thought of this.
I saw Xiao Fen wave her hand at one of them and said, "Are you ready?" You come first. β
Her voice was cold and harsh, as if she had an ice lump stuffed in her throat, and she couldn't hear it as Xiao Fen's voice. I wrapped up and seemed colder.
The man sat on a chair in front of her, and slowly lifted his face, what a face it was! His facial features were horribly distorted, as if he had seen something terrible before his death. Xiao Fen opened the black satchel and took out the set of cosmetics from it that puzzled me, she picked up the powder puff and threw it around on the distorted face, which immediately became as white as flour, and then took out another lipstick and applied it to the mouth on that face, and the mouth immediately became as red as blood.
"Okay, it's beautiful, put the money on the table, let's go, next." Xiaofen said.
What has become beautiful, in my opinion, has become more terrifying.
What's even more terrifying is that the man, maybe the ghost is more appropriate, rushed to the door, I think it's leaving, leaving here, going to Hades to report, I wonder if this face will also scare Hades. When I saw that it was about to come out, I ran away.
I ran back to campus in one go.
Jumping off the low wall and almost hitting a man, I let out a frightened cry and fixed my eyes to see that it was the doorman.
"Curiosity kills. That girl is half-human, half-ghost now. Uncle said.
I didn't know what he meant, and looked at him strangely.
Next, the uncle told me about thisββββ it turned out that the uncle and Xiaofen were fellow villagers, so they turned a blind eye to Xiaofen's going out, but, then again, even if the uncle wanted to take care of it, it would not work on his own. Later, in order to earn more money, she applied for a job as a makeup artist in a funeral home during the summer vacation. In this way, perhaps the dead people who had been transformed by her were also envied by the ghosts of the underworld, so some ghosts came to Xiaofen to put on makeup, thinking that they also had a beautiful face, and promised her a good reward. Xiao Fen was confused for a while, so she agreed to them. So under the guidance of those ghosts, he learned to go out of his body and put on makeup for them.
Xiao Fen went out at night, at the beginning the uncle also caught her, Xiao Fen was still kind, did not harm the uncle, but said his own bitterness, the uncle decided to let her go, in fact, I don't dare to care, the uncle said, Xiao Fen's out-of-body appearance is terrible, and the voice of the voice is like a ghost. I nodded approvingly, for I had heard her creepy voice just now.
However, the uncle also said that those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and people's souls will be mixed with ghosts for a long time, and they will slowly lose the purity and kindness of their nature. After the complete degradation of human characteristics, she will become a veritable evil spirit, possessed by the flesh, and does evil everywhere. Now Xiaofen is probably about to harm people.
So what to do? I said, you can't watch her become a wicked person, can you?
Uncle said, there is no way, only to do the right thing for heaven, only to eliminate her, otherwise, not only your dormitory, but more people will be in danger. There's a way to try. However, I can't get into the girls' dormitory, so this difficult task has to be done by you, are you willing to do it?
I thought about it, if I can't do it, I'll die, so I nodded and said, no problem.
Uncle said that this way to destroy evil spirits is to cut off her toenails while she is sleeping, so that her soul will die, and she will γγγγγγ alas! However, it must be done before the soul returns, and if you happen to be bumped into by the returning soul, the consequences will be unimaginable, so you have to act quickly.
I ran back to my dorm room as fast as I could.
At this time, Xiao Fen's body was still asleep, and in the pale moonlight, she still had the same smiling expression, as if she was having a beautiful dream. I lifted her quilt and saw her feetβtoenails three inches long, with green hairs on the surface, like zombies. Fighting back my fear, I raised my sharp scissors.
There was a rush of footsteps in the hallway, accompanied by a terrible howl. Xiao Fen's soul also understands that at this moment, every second counts, either you die or I die.
Just as her soul rushed in in a panic, I just cut off her last toenail. Now it can be said that it is an evil spirit, and it screams in despair, and the figure in the white dress dims little by little, and the terrifying and hideous face slowly disappears into the suffocating air. On the ground, only the black satchel remained, and I opened it to look at it, and there was a stack of red coins, alas! Poor Xiaofen, presumably she was also fooled by the ghosts, but she didn't dare to stop.
I'm sorry Xiao Fen.
I walked out of the dormitory and burned the stack of coins with my uncle, burning them for Xiao Fen, Xiao Fen, go all the way.