Chapter 040: The Origin of the Red Rope
"My surname is Chen, you can call me Aunt Chen, I'm not even 60 years old."
The old lady, Aunt Chen, replied with a smile, but her eyes did not leave the cemetery.
Ling Tian nodded in surprise, this Aunt Chen's hair was all white, and the wrinkles on her face were layered, saying that she was 80 years old, some people might think that she was too small.
Ignoring his surprised gaze, Aunt Chen slowly turned her head and pointed to the paper ashes on the ground: "You burned it?" ”
"No, it's Li Xue'er, I'm her friend, by the way, Aunt Chen, what are you doing here so late?"
"Come and see my old sister, my wife is not in good health, I can only come over when he falls asleep, by the way, the little girl is gone, right?"
Little girl, Ling Tian repeated it before she realized that it should be Li Xue'er, and nodded hurriedly: "Well, she has something to do, so let's go first." ”
Aunt Chen smiled: "The little girl hasn't forgotten her grandmother, good, good, it's not in va......in." ”
Before she finished speaking, Aunt Chen waved her hand to end the topic: "I have to go back too, maybe the old man is thirsty." ”
As he spoke, he walked out with the bamboo on his own.
Ling Tian hurriedly followed and helped, the old man's arm was a little cold, but it was still warm.
"Aunt Chen, can I ask you about Li Xue'er's grandmother?"
"What can her grandmother do, there's nothing to say, nothing to say."
Aunt Chen waved her hand again and again, seemingly reluctant to talk about this topic.
Just as he waved his hand, Ling Tian saw a red rope tied to her wrist.
With a move in his heart, Ling Tian said bluntly: "Aunt Chen, someone also wants to send a red rope to the little girl, but not on her hand, but on her ankle. ”
Aunt Chen's footsteps paused, her eyes turned to the cemetery again, and only after a while did she say, "Tie it up, it's not a bad thing." ”
"Oh, Aunt Chen, do you know what this red rope is for?"
Facing Ling Tian's inquiry, Aunt Chen seemed a little hesitant: "This red rope, this red rope?" Anyway, her grandmother wouldn't hurt her. ”
Her grandmother wouldn't hurt her.
Ling Tian was overjoyed in his heart, he finally didn't find the wrong target.
"Aunt Chen, do you mean that this red rope was made by Li Xue'er's grandmother? But why did she do it? Li Xue'er was so frightened that she wanted to commit suicide several times, otherwise she would worship her grandmother, and they would not have asked me to come with her. ”
In order to get more information, Ling Tian was completely talking nonsense.
But Aunt Chen was stunned for a moment, and then looked worried: "The little girl is okay, this stupid child, isn't it okay if the red rope is tied?" Where is she now? I'll go talk to her. ”
Ling Tian shook his head: "Old man, such a strange thing, I don't dare to tell you Li Xue'er's address, unless you tell me what the hell is going on." ”
"This, what could this be?"
Aunt Chen wanted to fool the past, but Ling Tian didn't give her the slightest chance, and after repeated inquiries, Aunt Chen finally let out a long sigh and spoke leisurely.
Walking in the yin is not really entering the underworld, but entering a mysterious state, getting the opportunity to communicate with lonely souls and wild ghosts, and even letting those lonely souls and wild ghosts communicate with normal people with the help of their bodies.
This approach is very risky, after all, not every lonely ghost is so kind, in case of attracting a ghost, even the body will be occupied by a ghost.
Even if nothing happens, but if you go to the yin for a long time, the yin energy in the body will become heavier and heavier, making the yin walker become a half-human and half-ghost existence, and you will not be able to die well.
But Granny Ling is different, she is a family heirloom who knows how to protect herself, and she has been by her side since her husband's death, which makes her rarely encounter danger.
Not only that, but the help of many times has made her grateful to people, and she has also been thanked by a lot of ghosts.
It is precisely because of this that she has won the title of Lingma.
But no matter how strong a person is, he has his sorrows, just like a wise doctor can't save a terminally ill relative.
As soon as Li Xue'er was born, Granny Ling felt that something was wrong, there were too many ghosts around the little guy, even if those ghosts didn't attack her, it would be difficult for Li Xue'er to survive under the influence of yin qi.
The anxious Granny Ling used her ability to help her granddaughter resolve her bad luck, but what she didn't expect was that everything Li Xue'er encountered was not an external influence.
Those ghosts didn't want to have any intentions against Li Xue'er, but were summoned by Li Xue'er herself.
It turned out that Li Xueer was born prematurely, and she was on the verge of death when she was in the womb, and although she was rescued later, her body had been eroded by yin qi.
Yin Qi combines with people's Yang Qi to form a yin physique in yang, and such a physique will naturally attract those lonely souls and wild ghosts to their side.
For the safety of her granddaughter, Granny Ling pondered and meditated, and finally came up with a solution, that is, a secret marriage.
Different from ordinary underworld marriages, this underworld marriage is guaranteed by Granny Ling's own credit, which is equivalent to an early engagement. The other party needs to protect Li Xueer and drive away the ghosts around Li Xueer.
After a hundred years of Ling's mother-in-law, she personally put the marriage thread on her granddaughter's ankle to complete the last step.
It's just that Granny Ling didn't expect that she would die so early, and Li Xue'er passed away before she was a minor.
But according to the agreement, she had to personally put the marriage line on Li Xue'er's body, because Granny Ling had been in the yin for so many years, and her body was contaminated with too much yin, so when she died, her own yin qi was polluted, and the whole person was ignorant, so she could only rely on obsession to act, which is also the sadness of walking in the yin vein.
It turned out that it was her grandmother who had been following Li Xueer.
Ling Tian was surprised when he heard this, but he still asked the doubts in his heart: "Doesn't the secret marriage have no effect on Li Xue'er?" ”
"Nope." Aunt Chen replied categorically: "Underworld marriage is actually equivalent to engagement, and we will be together again after death, and when the little girl is alive, we will protect her safety." ”
Ling Tian nodded, his gaze fell on the red line on Aunt Chen's wrist, and he opened his mouth but finally didn't ask out loud.
After solving the matter, at the suggestion of Aunt Chen, Ling Tian left the bamboo forest with her.
I was going to call Li Xue'er and ask her to simply tie the red rope, but after thinking about it, I gave up.
If there is any danger in tying the red rope, at least he has to watch from the sidelines, and he is really curious.
In the end, Ling Tian still called Li Xue'er, he wanted to agree on a place, but he never thought that Li Xue'er was already on his way, he simply waited on the side of the road.
On the road in the countryside, there were no pedestrians at night, Ling Tian sat on the stones on the side of the road, and began to think crankily, gradually, he felt that something was wrong.
Li Xue'er's grandmother has been dead for several years, but the red rope only appeared not long ago, and she didn't see the so-called lonely ghosts around her.
What's going on?