Chapter 3 He glanced faintly
In fact, Xia Chongming had also been to the west of the railway before, and had also been to play in these small forests, but he only walked outside the woods during the day, and did not go into the depths of the woods.
From a distance, through the trees, you can vaguely see that there are some large and small deserted graves inside, some have tombstones, and even wreaths for worship, and some are directly a small dirt bag with a yellow paper pressed with bricks, even in the daytime, no one will be idle to go to that kind of place.
In recent years, the surrounding villages have been demolished, and there are almost no people near the woods, so the groves have not been visited for a long time, and the grass and shrubs are very messy. The woods are almost full of locust trees, and although the older generation has said that the graves under the locust trees are not good, they don't know why there are so many graves here.
Xia Chongming looked down at his watch, it was already half past eleven, and it was midnight in half an hour, thinking that the awakening ceremony was almost over, so he hurriedly walked along the path in front of him, and soon her figure was swallowed up by the darkness.
The trail may be because Lin Luo and the others have been here before, and the tall grass on both sides has been trampled down, and after the eyes get used to the darkness, they can see that there is an obvious dirt road ahead, and it seems that walking along this road will not diverge.
There were almost no people here, and seeing that the creases on these grasses were still fresh, Xia Chongming groped his way forward. The silence was terrible, and the occasional chirping of a magpie startled her. So he quickly quickened his pace and walked forward with his head down.
"Xia Chongming." At this time, even the chirping of the cicadas around him stopped, and Xia Chongming heard someone behind him calling his name, which was very clear! She quickly stopped and looked back.
But there was nothing behind him except the pitch-black woods, but the trees, which at first glance looked a bit like the shadow of a person. Xia Chongming rubbed her eyes, looked carefully and made sure that no one was calling her behind, so she continued to bow her head and hurry.
A chill suddenly rushed from the soles of her feet to her forehead, and a gust of wind blew in her ears, and suddenly her body seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar.
Xia Chongming shuddered and quickened the pace of his feet, it was too weird, obviously there was no one, but who was calling again with such a clear voice? It's so quiet all around, it can't be that you heard it wrong with tinnitus, right? I've studied ghosts myself, but I've never seen them once.
Then a terrible conclusion came to her mind, and she was sure that something must have happened to her. I remember that my mother once said, don't pay attention to this kind of general, don't look back, otherwise it will haunt you for a lifetime, but what to do? I've just turned around, what's next?
Xia Chongming chuckled in his heart, walked with his head down, full of fear in his heart, but he had nothing to do, so he could only gradually speed up his pace, and finally ran up.
After stumbling and running for a long time, she never heard anyone call her name again, and the evil wind did not blow in her ears again, but Xia Chongming slowly felt a slight pain in her left eye.
It was the height of summer, but her body was extremely cold, and her fingers were stiff from the cold. It's not cool in the middle of summer, how can this be? She looked down in thought, and when she looked up, she saw a glimmer of light in front of her, which seemed to have arrived.
Xia Chongming walked over slowly, now his body was very cold, his head was dizzy, and he was a little unsteady on his feet.
But as soon as she pushed aside the branches blocking in front of her, before she could see the scene in front of her, she was stumbled by a figure, and when she looked down, Lin Luo was holding her hand, and said with an aggrieved face: "I said Xia Chongming, why did you come so late?" Look at it, that jumping god! If you have to cut off my fingers, it will hurt me to death! ”
When Lin Luo saw her, he frantically showed Xia Chongming her bloody fingers, and looked at the man in yellow Taoist clothes in front of the grave with an angry face.
Xia Chongming carefully looked at the surrounding environment, this is a circular clearing, surrounded by locust trees, and there is a big tomb bag in the middle, don't think about it, it must be Lin Luo's grandfather. In addition, they were all some people from the Lin Luo family, all of whom were holding flashlights in their hands, shining on the small square wooden table covered with yellow cloth in front of the grave.
There was a young man standing in front of the grave, it was the jumping god wearing a zodiac suit in Lin Luo's mouth, this person looked very young, Xia Chongming pondered that it was not much different from her, but his face showed a coldness that did not match his age. This couldn't help but make Xia Chongming a little puzzled, anyway, it was also someone invited by Lin Luo's grandmother, how could the old lady invite such a young person, can this person really do it?
"I'm sorry, it's late, I can't get a taxi in the middle of the night. Lolo, where's your grandmother? Xia Chongming pulled Lin Luo to ask her grandmother about the ins and outs of the matter.
Lin Luo didn't say a word and walked over with Xia Chongming: "Well, next to that ugly Taoist, let's go over together." Ah, Chongming, why are your hands so cold? Only then did Lin Luo notice that Xia Chongming's hands were surprisingly cold, and there was hardly any temperature.
"It's okay, it was a little cold from the wind just now, let's go!" Obviously, Xia Chongming didn't want Lin Luo to worry, so he casually found an excuse to prevaricate and pulled Lin Luo towards his grandmother. I don't know when Lin Luo's grandmother started talking to the Taoist priest, obviously something was stuck in the progress, which made the grandmother look sad.
Xia Chongming pulled Lin Luo out of the crowd, Lin Luo's grandmother Xia Chongming, looked at Lin Luo with a reproachful face, stopped talking with the Taoist priest, squeezed out a smile and said: "Hey! It's obvious! Why did Luo Luo call you? This girl is really getting more and more nonsense...... It's so late, what are you doing here? ”
When the Taoist priest saw Xia Chongming coming, he walked away, turned around and recited a few words in front of the grave, but no one noticed his actions.
Xia Chongming just glanced at him slightly, then turned his head and smiled and talked to his grandmother. "It's okay grandma, anyway, I'm very idle now, it's not far from my house, I'll come over to accompany Luo Luo. By the way, what's going on in your house? Why do you suddenly want to move the grave? ”
Lin Luo's grandmother is nearly 80 years old, and when she was young, she helped Lin Luo's grandfather build a large family business. In his later years, he was full of children and grandchildren, and he could finally enjoy happiness after being busy for most of his life, but Lin Luo's grandfather died suddenly just 3 years ago.
The old lady suddenly aged a lot. It was after that that the Lin family, which had been living a smooth sailing, suffered a great setback. First, Lin Luo's uncle lost all his property, ended up poor, and died at the wine table at the dinner half a month later due to alcohol poisoning.
Later, Lin Luo's second uncle suddenly fell to the ground on the side of the road and died, due to cerebral congestion. In addition, Aunt Lin Luo's company is also slumping, unable to make ends meet, and is on the verge of bankruptcy.
As far as Xia Chongming knows, the income of Lin Luo's family in recent years has not been as good as before. These things made the old lady suspicious all day long, and she didn't know what was going on recently, so the old lady had to find a Taoist priest to come and see Feng Shui.
Grandma's eyes were very cloudy, revealing a trace of sadness, she was in a trance for a moment, and wanted to say in a heavy tone: "Harm, it's actually nothing, it's just ......" was about to explain, but the Taoist priest slowly came over and interrupted her words.
"Excuse me, I've tried many methods, but I can't get Ling Zu to wake up. Maybe you need to be smarter. After speaking, the Taoist priest spread his hands, looking very embarrassed.
But the grandmother was anxious when she heard the Taoist priest's words, and quickly pulled the Taoist priest's sleeve and said: "Daoist, you can think of a way for us again, I have asked many people, and they all say that you are the most capable in this area." Even you can't do anything about it, who else can we turn to? ”
After hearing this, Xia Chongming looked at the young man with a little surprise, and thought: The greatest ability? Just him?
The young Taoist didn't pay attention to Xia Chongming's probing gaze, just glanced at Xia Chongming lightly, gently pulled off the hand that was holding his sleeve, and said softly: "Old man, don't worry, don't you see this method coming?" After speaking, his hands pointed at Xia Chongming in one fell swoop, as if Xia Chongming was a big Buddha now.
Although his tone was very gentle, looking at his expression, Xia Chongming only felt cold and cold, without a trace of fluctuation, and he suddenly came to Xia Chongming a little caught off guard, and he shivered and took a step back.