Chapter Twenty-Nine: Mother and Daughter Meet, and the Taoist Book Entrusts
"But I haven't seen her for so many years, and you say you don't know what her appearance has become, so how can I find it?" I felt a bit of a headache clutching my head.
"You don't have to worry about this, you just need to take this comb with you, and then I can follow you down the mountain." I took the comb from the female ghost and touched it, and I have to admit that the texture of this comb is still very good. After so many years, I can still feel that it is made of fine wood.
"Can't you get out of here yourself?" Listening to her, it is clear that she misses this daughter very much, but why hasn't she left here for so many years?
"Of course I've thought about what you said." Hearing me say this, she couldn't help but sigh faintly, and suddenly I felt that the temperature around me dropped a little more: "But I am a suicide person, so I have no way to leave the land where I died, and I can only be trapped in this forest all the time." Watching people come and go and come day by day, I can't do anything on my own. ”
It dawned on me that she never went to look for her daughter, and it dawned on me that she had to let me come to this place every time we agreed to her. I didn't delay any longer, put the comb in my pocket and went down the mountain.
Although many years have passed, it is not very difficult to inquire and there are not many people in the village who have been adopted. For this reason, I specially went to ask Wang Cripple and his wife, and sure enough, I found out that Aunt Liu in the west of the village was adopted. But Aunt Liu herself can't tell who her biological father and mother are, but she just remembers that no one wanted to play with her when she was a child anyway, and they all said that she was a father and mother.
Lame Wang is not a few years younger than Aunt Liu, so he will remember these things, but according to my impression of Aunt Liu...... She doesn't look like a female ghost at all.
Aunt Liu is in her fifties this year, she got married and had a son and a daughter in the early years, and now the children are working in the city, she and her husband are still in the village, only occasionally going to the city to sit, she said she doesn't like the atmosphere in the city, and the neighbors never talk to each other. I've also seen her a few times as big and thick, and she is an introvert who doesn't like to talk to strangers very much. The face is full of traces left by the wind and frost, and the facial features are plain and not outstanding, but they are not very ugly, compared with the female ghosts whose appearance is more flamboyant, I don't think the two of them are mother and daughter.
"What do you know, a person's appearance will not change after death, and her face will definitely change when she is alive." Hearing me say that the left-behind guard was not as good-looking as him, the female ghost was suddenly unhappy, and there was a faint tendency to get angry. Seeing this, I didn't dare to say a word, walked around twice outside Aunt Liu's house, and while she was not paying attention, I quietly put the comb on the backyard table, and immediately turned around and left.
I don't know about the rest of the things, but after the incident, I chatted with others once and inadvertently talked about Aunt Liu. Some people said that they heard Aunt Liu crying very much one night, and even her husband was frightened, but no matter how she asked her, she didn't say why she was crying, and finally asked more times before she said that she saw her biological mother that night and understood her mother's distress at that time. People said that Aunt Liu was sick and confused at the time, her biological mother had been dead for several years, how could she come back to talk to her, she hadn't seen a ghost. I was just silent, in the final analysis, it was someone else's business, and I didn't ask too much.
The next afternoon, near evening, I was sitting in the courtyard in a daze, when there was a knock on the door. When I opened the door, there was Aunt Liu standing outside, I was surprised, and before I could ask, Aunt Liu suddenly smiled and said to me.
"Okay, after so many years, my wish has finally come true, and I can go to reincarnation cleanly. Knowing that this child is doing better than me, I am happy. The decision not to keep her by her side back then was the right one. "As soon as the person who came opened his mouth, I understood that this was a female ghost who borrowed Aunt Liu's body to talk to me.
I didn't ask about anything else, but I was just glad that the female ghost had finally let go of her obsession and could go to reincarnation.
"By the way, do you have pen and paper here?" I thought the female ghost was here to say goodbye to me, but I didn't expect her to suddenly ask me.
"Huh? There is pen and paper, why do you need to use it? He nodded and told me she wanted a notebook, and I hurried into the room and handed her a brand new notebook and a pen that had not yet been used.
I don't know what method he used that day, but I wrote almost a full book very quickly. She told me that this notebook was the last gift she could give me, not only in return, but also in the hope that I would be able to deal with that evil ghost in the future. You can live well.
"I'm supposed to be in the underworld for a while, boy, I don't want to see you so soon. If you really decide to go against that ghost, then I hope this book can help you a little. She handed me the notebook, and I hurriedly flipped through it a few times and was stunned, it was full of all the things I hadn't seen before.
It includes almost everything, not only is it not worse than the book that Lu Qing regards as a treasure, but it can even be said to be better.
"About ten years ago, a Taoist priest walked by on this mountain, and he found me. He was going to get rid of me, but I told him I had never done anything harmful in all these years. On the contrary, he often instructed those who were lost to go down the mountain. He went and inquired and knew that what I said was true, and I told him that I would stay there. It didn't mean anything, I just wanted to meet someone who could take me to meet my daughter one day. ”
Seeing my puzzled eyes, the female ghost spread her hands and told me all these things. Before that, I had heard from people in the village about times when I got lost in the mountains or encountered ghosts hitting the walls. I will hear a woman's voice inexplicably, and then follow that voice, and it won't take long to be able to go down the mountain, and it turns out to be the female ghost in front of me.
"Later, the Taoist priest told me that if I stayed here, I would always be lured away. He taught me something and left me a book for me to use as a self-defense. He drew a formation around me to make sure the ghosts wouldn't find me, but now that I'm following you, I'm sure they'll find me tonight. The female ghost stretched, but I could see a look of relief on her face.
"That little Taoist priest is also stupid, hasn't he thought about it? I'm a ghost, how can I learn these ways? At that time, he wanted to take me to find my daughter, but in his words, the mission was in his body, and he didn't dare to delay. If you meet after you come back, you can help me find it, but after he left, he never came back. ”
With that, the female ghost stood up and waved at me, her back to the setting sun, and I couldn't see the expression on her face a little.
"It's been too long, and the book has rotten, but it's okay, although I can't study, I read the contents of the book to pass the time. What I didn't expect was that I just memorized these things and gave them all to you now! So we're all clear. ”
When she had said this, she did not delay any longer, and turned away from my little courtyard, knowing that I would never see her again. In fact, there are some problems with what the female ghost said, I only repaid her for returning the kindness of Mu Xiaofeng's soul, and the rest of her saved me once, and the kindness of giving me this book has not been repaid.
But I don't think I have a chance.