Chapter 173: Buddha's Hand (24)
Gao Sheng, who has experienced three more terrifying things in his life.
Once, when he couldn't remember.
On a rainy night, a group of robbers ransacked his house, and in desperation, his mother taught him to the nurse and asked the nurse to carry him and leave through the back door first. He stayed in the front yard with his husband to delay the robbers. The nurse could have escaped with him, but she was a timid person, and when she opened the backyard door, she heard a cat meow, and the sound she made was louder than the cat's meow, and the robbers who heard the sound rushed to the backyard. The nurse was so frightened that she had already walked to the door, but she couldn't step out. In a fright, she fell to the ground, and the child in her hand flew out of the door and rolled down the steps. The robber picked up his knife and slashed at the nurse's back, and the blood splattered outside the door, flew into the rain, and fell into Gao Sheng's eyes.
The child under the age of one, who didn't know whether he was stunned, or knew that he would die as long as he made a sound, he lay quietly on the ground, just open his eyes and watch the rain that kept falling.
The slashing in the courtyard subsided, and the robbers quickly ransacked their finances and disappeared into the rain at night. He was taken in by Mr. and Mrs. Gao who were passing by.
Lao Gao is the husband in the mouth of the girl in black, he has married two daughters-in-law, and the original wife is petite and cute, but he can't give birth. The vulgarity of the concubine only gave birth to a somewhat stupid daughter for him. After his daughter was born, his father and mother fell ill one after another, and the family's money was spent like flowing water, and by the way, he also wanted to continue to take concubines.
When a person is poor, his will is broken, and after a few years of guarding the vulgar concubine and the foolish daughter, he accidentally ran into an abandoned baby, and he was still a boy with sound limbs and did not look stupid. Lao Gao felt that this was God's compensation for him, and he persuaded his concubine to take the boy home on the grounds that his foolish daughter would need to be taken care of in the future, and named him Gao Sheng, hoping that their old Gao family's life would rise step by step.
The second time was when Gao Sheng was three years old, and it was also the third year that he was brought back to the Gao family by Lao Gao.
First of all, Lao Gao was sick, and he forgot about the concubine who was by his side day and night, and he always talked about the wife who had been missing for many years. The concubine beat him, scolded him, pointed to his nose and said that he had no conscience, but he seemed to be unable to hear. Lao Gao went crazy for a while, and after falling asleep one evening, he never woke up. Immediately after, the concubine also went crazy, she always said that she had seen a ghost, so she immersed her head in the water tank and drowned herself alive.
After the death of Lao Gao and the concubine, the three-year-old Gao Sheng and the foolish sister who was a few years older than him became the children that no one wanted. Although he was young, he was also ignorant, as if he knew something. They still live in the Gao family, but they have become children under the fence from a young master. That man, or that family, wasn't very nice to him and his stupid sister.
Three-year-old Gao Sheng remembers that night, he heard his stupid sister crying, whining and crying. His eyes widened and he saw a black shadow swaying on the beam. After a while, the cry of the foolish sister was gone. He turned sideways, saw the man, and dragged the foolish sister out of the bed and carried it on his shoulder. After a while, he heard the man shouting that the foolish sister had fallen into the well.
Three-year-old Gao Sheng knew that the foolish sister would not go to the well. When her mother was still alive, she protected her like an eyeball, and never allowed her to go to such a dangerous place. At first, the foolish sister would also be disobedient, and after being beaten a few times, she became afraid. For the foolish sister, walking to the well means being beaten. Therefore, she will definitely not go by herself.
Three-year-old Gao Sheng knew that the foolish sister was thrown in by that villain. He listened to them arguing outside the window, rolled over, closed his eyes, and obediently went to sleep.
Gao Sheng knows that there are some things that you have to treat as if you have not heard them. If you see it, you should treat it as if you don't see it. Otherwise, he will end up like his stupid sister. He didn't want to die, he wanted to keep living.
The next day, he held the bowl and looked through the gap in the crowd at the stupid sister lying on the ground. She was dragged up from the well by the man with a hook. The hook hooked her chin, making her face look more and more weird.
The man pretended to yell for a while, and asked his old mother to change the fool's sister into clean clothes, and took out a long red cloth and cut it, and wrapped it around the fool's sister's broken neck. The man bought a small coffin, put the foolish sister in it, and left it in the yard and waited for it to get dark.
After dark, a few people came, and they carried away the small coffin containing the fool's sister, leaving some silver coins for the man. The man smiled from ear to ear, hugged his son and said, wait for tomorrow, take him to Luoyang City, eat fragrant and drink spicy food.
The man failed to fulfill his promise, because the people who carried the coffin went and returned, taking advantage of the night, wiped the necks of the man's family of five, and they also wanted to kill Gao Sheng, but Gao Sheng neither cried nor made trouble, just stared at the knife, hook, and other things that he couldn't name.
Someone said, "Forget it, let's keep a living, this kid is stupid, and he won't hurt our business." ”
After speaking, he pinched Gao Sheng's face, "You are Gao Sheng, do you know how your sister died?" It was killed by that bastard. He killed your sister just to get money. We killed him to ask for money. They are all bad people, and no one can blame anyone. You are not from the Gao family, nor are you from this bastard's family, we will spare your life, and you will not prevent us from getting rich. From now on, we will act as if we don't know anyone. ”
The man said, and wiped his hand on the hilt of the knife. He had blood on his fingers, and pressed them into Gao Sheng's eyes. Gao Sheng's eyes were still open, but he couldn't see the faces of those people clearly.
He was only three years old, a three-year-old child, and he couldn't remember much in the first place. After a long time, he really forgot the faces of those people, and only remembered the incident. But that thing, even if it was said, no one believed it.
The third time was when he became an adult. At that time, he had already worked as a coachman, often going back and forth between Luoyang City and Gaozhai. He remembered very well that it was also a rainy day, and he helped a shopkeeper deliver medicinal herbs. The wind blew the car swaying, and he had no choice but to drive the frightened donkey to a dilapidated mountain temple halfway through.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw a girl lying on the ground. The girl lay in front of the altar of the mountain god, and her clothes were blown by the wind, and all of them floated up. Although he was not a gentleman, he was not a villain, and when he saw that the girl was unclothed in front of the mountain god, he took off his rain-soaked clothes and covered the girl. When the girl moved, he realized that the girl was not dead, and she still had a breath. He hurriedly took down everything he could eat and drink. The girl looked at him with her eyes open, but he twisted his face to the side and rushed back into the rain with his whip.
In a trance, he heard the girl's voice. The girl said, "Thank you, if there is a coming day, I would like to repay you for your gift of clothes today." ”
That year, Gao Sheng was in his early twenties, and his biggest dream was to renovate the Gao family's old house. He didn't like to talk much, and he never thought of marrying a daughter-in-law one day.
A few days later, when he was pulling goods in the city, he saw a list of murderers, which said that a girl died in the mountain temple.
He thought, he couldn't wait for the girl to make a promise.
Three years later, on the same rainy day, in the same mountain temple, he met the girl again. The difference was that she stood in the temple and smiled at herself. She asked, "Are you afraid of me?" ”
Gao Sheng shook his head.
She asked, "If I want to be your lady, will you marry me?" ”
Gao Sheng hesitated for a moment and nodded.
The girl walked up to him, took him by the hand, and knelt down before the mountain god.
After becoming his wife, the girl told him that her name was Zhizhi and that she was also from a nearby village. On that day, when he went out to visit relatives, he met bandits on the road, and was forced to go to the mountain temple, where he was bullied and died. It rained heavily that day, and there were many pedestrians on the road, and some hurried to the mountain temple to avoid the rain. But those people are either afraid of trouble, or afraid of getting into a lawsuit, or they take the opportunity to touch her and take a few looks. Only him, only Gao Sheng, maintained the demeanor of a humble gentleman, and took off his coat to help her cover up. She was grateful in her heart, and before she died, she begged the mountain god. She is willing to be a slave, serve the mountain god for three years, and then change to a husband and wife for three years.
The girl said that she had come to repay her kindness.
Gao Sheng didn't dare to tell the people in the village about the girl's origin, so he made up another story. Gao Sheng did see a Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest also clearly pointed out that there were ghosts in Gao Sheng's house, but the Taoist priest deceived Gao Sheng, saying that as long as Gao Sheng burned the charm to ashes and gave it to his lady, her mother would not return to the netherworld, but would always stay in the yang world and stay by his side.
He did so, but ended up harming her mother. In a fit of rage, he went to the Taoist priest to theorize, but the Taoist priest said that this was only one of the steps. If she didn't let her lady return to the Netherworld, how could Lord Yama erase her name. If she hadn't erased her name, the little ghost would come to Yangshi to look for her sooner or later, and the little ghost would come to the door, and even if her lady wanted to stay, she couldn't stay.
He believed the words of the Taoist priest, and according to what the Taoist priest said, he buried his wife in the ancestral grave of the Gao family.
"But how did I hear that you didn't find that Taoist priest."
"That was later." Gao Sheng sighed: "When my lady first went, I went to find the Taoist priest, but he hadn't escaped yet. I believed him, and as he commanded, I buried my wife. Shortly after the funeral, I overheard the bastard laughing with someone, and I realized that the Taoist priest was found by him to deceive me, and my lady was deliberately harmed by him. I went to him to theorize, but he called someone to beat me up, and I can't remember what happened afterward. ”
"You're dead, if you're right, you're dead at that time."
"I'm dead?" Gao Sheng looked at his hand: "If I die, then how can I still ......"
"Is there a well in your yard? In that well lived an ancestor of the Gao family, who was also killed, lived in a deep well for a long time, and became a ghost. You made a deal with her before you died, and became a walking corpse driven by her. The reason why you still have your own consciousness should be because of the roses that your mother planted at home. On those flowers, there are things she left behind. ”