Chapter 26: Unexpected Calls
There was a mirror nailed to the wall of the room, and I stepped forward and turned my body to see that the wound on the shoulder was blurry with flesh and blood, but not as serious as I expected, and there was a large bruise and scratches on the back, and blood was still bubbling up.
Fortunately, it rained heavily, otherwise my wound would have scabbed over when I came back, and I would have died of pain when I took off my clothes.
I turned to the other side again, and I saw a palm-sized bruise behind my right shoulder, which was extraordinarily dark and shaped like a distorted woman's face.
I swallowed my saliva and moved closer, the face almost identical to the corpse of the woman in red, painfully twisted and full of resentment.
It bulged slightly, and it looked as if it wanted to tear my skin free, and my heart was pounding, it was so terrifying now, I don't know what it looked like in the tomb.
Fortunately, Ah Chuan didn't let me see it, so I quickly turned my eyes away, wiped my whole body with a hot towel, and then twisted my body to give myself medicine.
This was really the most depressed time I have lived for more than 20 years, in the dark and rainy night, in an unfamiliar place, to heal myself.
I finished my medicine, turned off the light, washed the towel behind me, and lay down.
My body was tired and painful, and my mind was very troubled, but I couldn't sleep staring at the ceiling, and the scenes after returning home passed by like a movie.
Who burned my father's body, where did Lao Ma go, what did Ah Chuan and Xiao Qi know, and what does my father have to do with them.
I felt really stupid, I didn't even see that all this was arranged, Ah Chuan already knew the way to go directly to the main coffin, but he still symbolically accompanied me for a while.
He was scaring me and using the horror of the tomb to force me to give up the ancient jade, but I didn't understand why they would give it to me so neatly.
It's impossible for me to go to them now to find out the news of the Blood Curse, and after thinking about it, my only hope is the old horse.
It's just that the old horse has been labeled as untrustworthy by me, and I don't know where he is at all, I touched the jade in my pocket, the old horse wants this piece of jade, although he left for some reason, but as long as he wants the jade, he must come back to me.
I rekindled hope in my heart, he didn't have a mobile phone, and if he wanted to find me, he had to go to my house, I just had to go home and wait, only this time, I wouldn't be played by him again.
I was sad to find that this trip was played by everyone, I was obviously inseparable from the old horse, when did Ah Chuan replace him?
My head was in chaos, and I couldn't grasp the direction of things at all, but the details of the past were extremely clear.
A flash of lightning flashed, and the room instantly became transparent, and I sat up with a spirit, and I remembered that the old horse was indeed with me when he went out for a while with a flashlight, and then came back.
I took it for granted that he was going to get up at night, but Ah Chuan must have replaced him at that time, and the old horse was choked by me because of the donkey's leg before going to bed last night, but this afternoon he didn't think about taking the donkey's leg into the grave at all.
He is so precious about this donkey leg, how can he forget it because he is in a hurry? And these incense paper cinnabar, the real old horse will definitely carry it.
I lay down slowly, thinking that today's old horse was wrong everywhere, and when I patted his face in the afternoon to get him up, I felt that his face was exceptionally cold, he did not wash his face, and when he went up the mountain, he unusually did not walk in front.
He wasn't tired, he wasn't in a bad mood, he was just replaced and replaced with Ah Chuan, who didn't know the way at all.
Ah Chuan said very little along the way, he didn't know much about Lao Ma, he was worried that the disaster would come out of his mouth and be seen through by me, and when he couldn't turn back when he entered the tomb, he didn't bother to hide it.
Such an obvious abnormality, such a clumsy scam, I didn't even react when I saw Xiao Qi, Ah Chuan was right, I was just a fool.
Thankfully, he had no ill intentions, and if he had tried to kill me, I would have lost my life last night.
I held my breath in my heart, I couldn't sleep, Lao Ma went out for a while last night, what did Ah Chuan say to him, so that he would abandon me in a hurry and leave?
That must be something more important than getting jade, it seems that Lao Ma doesn't know much, but Ah Chuan and Xiao Qi must have important secrets.
Another flash of lightning, the rain outside seemed to be heavier, I raised my hand in front of me, my body no longer allowed me to think cranky, it desperately wanted to rest.
……
"Come on, come on, here, put ...... here"
I was woken up by a cacophony of noises, and when I opened my eyes, I felt dizzy and my arm hurt so much that I could barely lift it.
The yard was mixed with various footsteps and talking, and there seemed to be a lot of people, and I rubbed my eyes with great effort, feeling distraught.
I subconsciously touched my trouser pocket, the jade was still there, I took it out, and looked at it with the not-so-bright light.
The painting on the genealogy has long been deeply imprinted in my mind, and the patterns on the jade are exactly the same as in my memory, and through the light, I see that there is a bright red color in the jade, which is naturally irregular.
I don't know much about jade, but I think that such a piece of jade mixed with a touch of red is very destructive to the beauty, I have a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, maybe another person will think this is a different kind of beauty.
This red color makes me very uncomfortable, it is not like the flocculent lines that are common in jade, but the red is dazzling, like blood.
I couldn't help but think of the symbol behind my father's back, the color of the jade was as bright red as those spells.
I shoved the jade back, got up from the bed, and chose the latter between the bloody clothes and the unwashed sweat clothes the day before, and I walked to the mirror and hesitated, but still put my right shoulder up.
The horrific bruise became more distorted, barely a human face, much lighter in color, about to merge with the ordinary bruise on its back.
I was relieved that the injury was getting better.
I opened the door, and it was still raining outside, but it was much smaller, and the moment I showed my head, the whole yard looked at me.
There were at least 20 people in the courtyard, including ordinary villagers, as well as children I saw at the entrance of the village when I first arrived, and the most conspicuous ones were those wearing headphones and fiddling with photographic equipment.
"Brother, you're awake!"
The little girl looked excited, ran with an umbrella and pulled me out, I was at a loss, only to see a woman holding a microphone coming over.
"Sir, did you also encounter the ghost press last night?"
It turned out to be an interview, I was stunned for a moment, I wanted to speak but felt my throat was astringent, and I coughed a few times before I spoke: "No." ”
The sound was almost astringent and I looked at the camera with some embarrassment, hoping it wasn't live.
The female reporter showed a curious gaze: "Then did you feel anything unusual last night?" ”
"No, I went out to climb the mountain yesterday and came back late......"
I said vaguely as I wanted to go back to the house, but when the reporter saw that I didn't want to speak, he quickly motioned to the cameraman to change the lens.
I ran back to the house in three steps and two steps, I didn't expect this incident to make such a big fuss, fortunately Lao Ma closed the mechanism of the Yangtze River, otherwise I don't know how many experts would come.
The interviewer tossed and turned all morning before leaving, and I was lying in the room staring at the ceiling in a daze, I didn't think about anything, but I didn't want to sleep, so I stayed like this all morning.
"Brother, let's eat, they're leaving!" The little girl "banged" the door outside.
I jumped off the kang and opened the door, and the little girl was stunned, and she glanced at me: "Eat." ”
There were only two of us left in the guest house, and the little girl did not shy away from it at all, and sat down at the same table with me to eat, and I glanced at the light rain and felt that it was time to leave.
"When do you have a bus to Taixing here?" I asked casually.
"Let's go?" The little girl stuffed her mouth and said vaguely, "If you don't have a car, you can ask anyone who wants to go to the city, and they can carry you." ”
I answered, hurriedly finished eating, and went out, passing by the shop and buying another pack of cigarettes, I don't know why, the smell of tobacco made me particularly obsessed.
I was very lucky, a fellow was going to Taixing in the afternoon, I hurriedly went back to the guest house to settle the bill, took an umbrella with an empty bag on my back and got into his car.
He was riding a three-wheeled motorcycle, and I sat in the car with an umbrella and felt very funny.
The dirt road was muddy and bumpy, my bones were falling apart, and my stomach was tumbling over, and I wanted to take a cigarette to smoke, but I found that I couldn't hold it at all.
We arrived in Taixing in less than two hours, the villagers refused to ask for my money, and I didn't force it, looking at the crowd coming and going, I felt extremely lonely.
I'm going to go home and wait for the old horse, but before that I have to buy clothes and take a shower, and I can't go back like this.
Just as I was packing up and preparing to leave the hourly room, my phone suddenly rang, still a familiar ringtone, but an unfamiliar number.
Now the people who can call me are either advertisements or scammers, I hesitated, but pressed answer.
"Awesome buddy, they're all on TV!"
On the other side was a rough and loud voice, and I was stunned for a few seconds, completely unaware of knowing such a person.
The man was still saying like a cannon: "Look at you stupidly, you are still the same as before, why are you still going to the countryside to help the poor?" Look at it, haha, look at your ......"
I really wanted to hang up, but I could already hear who it was, I can't remember anything else, and the signature "haha" is unforgettable.
"Lao Huang, you owe a cigarette!" I slammed it back.
"Your sister, I can't remember Lao Tzu's name, my nickname is screaming, and I can endure it!"
"It's useless to say less, how do you know my number?"
"My old classmates inquired about it, how about it, brother, I am now opening an inn in Lijiang, do you want to come and play?"
My heart moved, and I almost agreed, but as soon as I thought of the blood curse, I was in no mood, so I could only excuse myself: "Something happened to my family, I'm afraid I can't go now, wait for later." ”