Chapter 28 Minor changes
"What do you mean, old man?" I don't understand what the old man meant by that, but he was well-informed, and since he said so, there must be a reason for saying so.
"This thing is too bloody." The old man took a sip of tea, and his tone became very formal and solemn: "What we old guys say, you young people may not believe much, there are some things that are really evil. There are old sayings, but the experience of people in the past who exchanged their lives for them. β
"Then you mean, this bead is unlucky?"
"I've been in the ancient industry for so many years, in addition to being the palm of others, I also learned a little messy things from people in my spare time, which is not proficient, but only half-baked." The old man continued: "Let me tell you this, I don't ask how this bead came from in your hand, this is the rule of the industry, but I tell you, there are a lot of lives on the bead, and if you can't suppress it, stay in your hand, I'm afraid it will be a disaster." β
The old man's words made me panic, he will definitely not talk nonsense to me for no reason, more importantly, the origin of this dzi is indeed a little weird, and then think of my current situation, I am really a little scared, what trouble will the bead bring.
"Find a blessed man and sell your things."
"Well, old man, thank you so much." I took the old man's advice, but when I think about it, I always feel that it is not right. I pondered, Wu Po had already consciously hung by a thread, so she returned this bead to me, and she shouldn't dare to talk nonsense about life and death, that is to say, this bead has been pinched in my hand since I was born, and if this matter is not clarified, it will always be a heart disease.
After the old man finished talking about the dzi, he changed the topic, and talked to me about the strange things before the ancient line, and chatted with the old man for a long time, which was also very interesting, and sat at his house until eleven o'clock in the evening, almost twelve o'clock, and then I said goodbye and left.
After I got home, I rested for two more days, which is strange to say, and I don't know if the medicine prescribed to me by the doctor worked, or if I could recuperate comfortably at home, and after two days, my right foot, which had been swollen for so many days, showed signs of swelling. At the beginning, the swelling went down quickly, and when I went to the hospital for a follow-up, the swelling almost completely disappeared, leaving no sequelae.
As soon as the foot injury recovered, the stone that weighed on my heart was finally gone. Moreover, in the past ten days since we returned to Huayang, neither I nor Lao Wang have had nightmares or any fatal hallucinations. Old man Liu, who had been pestering us before, and the one-eyed monkey, seemed to have evaporated.
I was pleasantly surprised by these changes, and if things faded like this, maybe our lives would return to normal. Because the situation seemed to be under control, the four of us didn't plan to go out again, and Lao Wang even considered reopening the butcher shop that had been closed for so long.
Two days later, the three of them came to my house for dinner, and Lao Wang brought a big waist and red wine. I could feel the ease, and they could definitely feel it, so it was a great meal.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, the dinner was over, and the three of them left. I packed up the dishes and chopsticks, and was about to take a shower, when the door suddenly rang, and I looked through the cat's eye to see that it was Zhang Momo standing outside the door alone.
"How?" I opened the door casually: "What did you leave here?" β
"Do you have to drop something here to come?" Zhang Momo was very polite, and went into the house directly: "Can't you come and talk about it if it's okay?" β
"Yes, yes." I closed the door with my backhand, and it was the most unwise thing to reason with Zhang Momo, this cold-faced royal sister is actually a donkey's temper, and if she has anything to say, her face will look better.
I poured some water for Zhang Momo, and I didn't know what to say for a while, because I knew that she was suspicious of me, and always suspected that I was hiding something from them, so I didn't dare to say too much, so I could only talk nonsense.
"It's been good lately, a few of us are quite relaxed, and your complexion seems to be better."
"You guys are easy, I'm not so easy." Zhang Momo ignored my compliment: "There are some things that you don't check, only me." β
I know that Zhang Momo has been investigating the mysterious person who first called Ning Xiaomei, and this matter is not that I don't want to investigate, but I am a small vendor in the Qikongqiao Market, and my connections are not in place, so I can't find anything. Zhang Momo is different, she has a certain family background, I used to listen to what Lao Wang said, Zhang Momo's father's business is not small, and Zhang Momo's brother-in-law used to work in Huayang, and was later promoted and transferred to the provincial capital.
"You don't have to be in such a hurry, the situation is not easing down now." I advised Zhang Momo: "We don't have nightmares anymore, and we don't have any fatal hallucinations, this is a good sign, I asked Lao Wang and Ning kitten, and they both said that they slept very soundly." β
"Is it really a good sign?" Zhang Momo was very disdainful of my persuasion, she lowered her head and thought about it, and then said to me word by word: "You don't know how bad the situation is. β
"How?"
Zhang Momo got up from the sofa, tightened the curtains on the balcony of the living room, and then walked up to me, turned his back to me and began to undress. The weather is not cold now, and she is not wearing much, she took off her coat and lifted the long sleeves inside, and the movements were so smooth that I didn't have time to stop them.
"You ......"
"Just look at your back, if you look somewhere else, I'll blind you." Zhang Momo lifted his shirt, and his entire back was exposed.
I understood that she wanted me to see the faint, faint black lines on her back. The black veins were the first to be discovered by Ning Xiaomei, and then we checked each other, and the three of them all had this faint black veins behind their backs, only I didn't, I think, this may also be a reason why Zhang Momo suspects me.
When I saw the black lines behind Zhang Momo, my heart chuckled, and an indescribable feeling emerged, I can't tell what it felt like, it was very uncomfortable anyway, it was like a mess of weeds in my heart.
From the last time we checked each other to now, it has been more than a month, and at this moment, looking at the black lines on Zhang Momo's back, it seems to be thicker than more than a month ago, and the mottled black lines are pieced together into a blurred face, and this face seems to be clearer than more than a month ago. The eyes and nose of the human face are still confused, but the mouth has already revealed a clear outline.
I can't look at their backs every day, so the change in the black lines is something I didn't expect, this change is very subtle, but in my eyes, it is blocked in my heart.
"The black lines seem to be thicker...... "I finally know why Zhang Momo feels that things have not eased, the thickened black lines, and the gradually clear face, no matter who it is put on, will make people's hearts beat.
"Do you think it's just a little thicker? There are even worse. Zhang Momo turned his face sideways and said to me, "You watch with your heart and listen with your heart." β
Zhang Momo expanded his two arms backwards, and as soon as his arms moved, the face on his back was slightly distorted, especially the mouth of the human face, like a real mouth, squirming gently.
Immediately after, my scalp went numb.
I heard a very light voice, a slight and ethereal human voice, I was so close to Zhang Momo, so I could tell that this ethereal human voice like a mosquito humming actually came from the mouth of the human face on her back.
My head buzzed wider, and I couldn't help but take a step back. Since I came into contact with these things, I have experienced a lot of strange things, and if I pick one thing and tell others, others will think that I am talking in my sleep, but compared with the scene in front of me, those strange things seem to be not so strange.
The face behind Zhang Momo is talking, really talking!
I held my breath and continued to listen, the ethereal voices were staccato and very indistinct, and I could hear them, but I couldn't make out what was being said.
It may have been three or four minutes before the voices died down. Unconsciously, a cold sweat broke out on my forehead, although there was no face behind me, but I could imagine how terrifying Zhang Momo was when he found out about this: a face grew behind him inexplicably, and this face was talking to himself......
Since Zhang Momo has this situation, then Lao Wang and Ning Kitten must be inevitable, but they haven't found it for the time being. I don't dare to think about it anymore, the faces behind me are now just spitting out some very light and vague syllables, if it continues like this, what will happen more terrifying?
The situation seems to be less optimistic again, and what is worse is that we know that this strange thing has happened, but there is no way to resolve it.
"You don't have a face on your back, so your burden will be relatively smaller." Zhang Momo got dressed and sat on the sofa: "But for me, Lao Wang, and Ning Kitten, this is definitely a bad thing." β
"I don't deny it, it's a bad thing...... I wiped the sweat off my forehead, feeling that my relaxed mood these days seemed so naΓ―ve, so many abnormal situations before, in fact, it has shown that this matter cannot be resolved smoothly. Gone are our nightmares, but in their place are more outrageous and worryingly weird.
"I'll tell you one more thing that's a good thing." Zhang Momo picked up the cup, turned his fingers around the rim of the cup, and said, "The person who called Ning Kitten first found it." β
"Found it!?" My worries were diluted by Zhang Momo's words at once, the person who first called Ning Xiaomei and asked her to contact us was definitely an important person, if he found out his identity and found a way to find him, then many things would be solved.
"I found out, that person's name is Zhao Donglin."
"Zhao Donglin?" I thought about it, I hadn't heard of the name and didn't know the person: "I haven't heard of it. β
"His big name is Zhao Donglin, and he also has a nickname, Blind San'er."