Chapter 2 It Was Not a Dream
When I woke up, I found myself sleeping in the bed, huh? This is my home, I'm back? Or was what just happened just a dream?
I touched my neck, and the jade pendant was gone! I rummaged through my whole body and couldn't find it, if it was really a dream, how could it be so coincidental that my jade pendant was missing.
I got out of bed and went to look for my grandfather as soon as I put on my shoes, and everyone was still sitting in the living room downstairs talking and laughing, and I ran to the housekeeper and asked him if he had seen grandpa, and he shook his head.
"Muzi is awake, it's time to eat." When my second aunt saw me, she immediately smiled and beckoned me over.
"Second aunt, have you seen grandpa?" I hurriedly asked her.
"He just went out, what's wrong?" Seeing that I was a little anxious, the second aunt patted me on the back and asked.
Grandpa went out, and I didn't have time to answer her, so I went out to find someone.
As soon as I went out, a dark wind blew, and my body trembled, and I wrapped my coat tightly and walked towards my grandfather's old house.
Although it is the 21st century, my grandfather still lives in the old house handed down from his ancestors, saying that he wants to guard something, but he refuses to tell me, but when I was very young, he gave me the jade pendant, saying that it can prevent demons and exorcise ghosts, so I can wear it all the time.
Today, the jade pendant is gone, and I have a dream that I don't know if it's a dream, and I can only know if I ask my grandfather.
I came to the old mansion, which was already gloomy and even more terrifying today, and I gritted my teeth and pushed open the door.
"Grandpa, grandpa." I shouted as I walked, but no one answered for a long time, and my voice was the only one in the whole house.
In the darkness I saw a light in a room, which looked like my grandfather's bedroom, maybe he was there, and I strode over.
When I opened the door, I found that the charcoal was still burning in the stove, and there was a cup of hot tea and a book on the table. The whole house is only lit here, where can it be if it is not here?
I decided to continue to go out to look for it, it was too dark to see the way clearly, and I wanted to take out my phone to take a photo, only to remember that I forgot to bring it, and put it at the head of the bed.
I groped in the dark and didn't know what I pushed, but I heard a "rattle" sound, as if the door was open. I cautiously pushed open the door, entered the room, and felt my way to turn on the light.
Because it's an old-fashioned yellow light bulb, it's still dim when the light is turned on. The faint yellow light of the light bulb reflected the room a little strangely.
There was only an old table in the room, covered with a layer of dust, and it was probably a long time since anyone came. There was an old picture hanging on the wall, and I looked closer, it wasn't my grandfather, I hadn't seen this person.
The room was empty and the only things I could see were these two things, but I remember that I seemed to have been here once when I was very young, but then my grandfather wouldn't let me come here again, and I came in by accident today.
I've always felt a little strange about this room, so I'd better go first.
As soon as one foot stepped out of the threshold, I heard the sound of a "bell", which scared me into a cold sweat. How can there be a noise for no reason, obviously I am the only one in the room. At this point, I felt a cold swishing behind me, as if something was staring at me.
I really wanted to run out without looking back, but human curiosity didn't allow me to do so, so I turned around anyway.
I slowly turned my head, my eyes closed, not daring to look. After waiting for a while, but nothing more happened, I dared to open my eyes.
The room was still empty, nothing more, except for the pictures on the wall that fell to the floor.
It turned out that the photo had been dropped, and I don't know how long the old photo had been here, maybe it just happened to fall today, and I comforted myself silently in my heart.
I tiptoed over, picked up the picture frame on the ground and wiped it, I don't know if it was my illusion, I felt as if the person in the photo was staring at me.
I shuddered, and was about to hang the picture back, only to find a small hole in the wall, about the size of an index finger.
How can there be a hole that you can't see from here? This strange thought came to me, and then curiosity drove me to actually lean over and take a look.
I held my breath and my heart was beating wildly, what if I really saw something? A ghost story popped into my mind about a man who saw a blood-red eye through a keyhole.
My heart was tight, and I didn't dare to come out.
Sure enough, nothing was seen! I didn't know whether to be disappointed or glad, so I poked the hole casually.
Unexpectedly, the wall suddenly cracked a crack, and then slowly opened, and a secret room appeared in front of me.
As soon as I opened it, a strange smell rushed out, it was a kind of long-term rotten smell mixed with a special taste, a little smelly and a little fragrant,
I've lived here for so many years, and I never knew there was a secret room here, and the elders of the family never mentioned it to me, so it's possible that my grandfather didn't let me come to this house because of this secret room, I want to see what is inside.
As soon as I came in, I smelled the smell that had just been outside the door, it was getting stronger and stronger, and it made me dizzy.
Wow, that's too many books. I saw that the room in front of me was about a dozen square meters, and there was a huge bookcase standing on the left wall, and the corners were also full of books.
I walked over to the bookcase and flipped through a few books. Huh? This is the genealogy of our family, which has my father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandfather, second grandfather, grandmother...... This is the most recent one.
I saw that there was a dilapidated one at the bottom, probably the earliest one. I don't know how many years of history our family has, but I have had a very large system since I was born, and I haven't seen all those distant relatives until now.
Taking advantage of this opportunity to learn more, I pulled out the bottom of the family tree, patted the thick ash, and gently opened it.
The cover had long since turned yellow, and the words on it could not be distinguished, but it could only be seen that it was a long time ago, because the first book and the most recent one were still several stacks thick.
I looked at the names on it and were a little familiar, Mu E, Qin Fusu, Mulan Yun, Mu Qingqing...... The names of these people seemed to have a sense of déjà vu, and I was still thinking carefully about whether I had seen them somewhere when a gust of wind suddenly blew.
How can there be wind, there are no gaps around my secret room here, it stands to reason that the wind can't blow in, it must be a yin wind, something has come in.
I've been learning a lot from my grandfather for many years, and although he is not an exorcist, he always knows some strange techniques. And I have a very strong intuition that there is something in this room besides me.
The light in the chamber was very dim, and I could faintly see a dark figure crouching in the corner of my right hand, motionless.
I mustered up my courage and the shadow walked over and shouted at him, "Who are you?"
The shadow didn't know if he heard me, and was still huddled in the corner.
I had the audacity to touch him, but I didn't expect to really touch him, it's an entity!
But before I could retract my hand, he suddenly got up and clamped it, and he looked up at me, and the peach blossom eyes that I saw in my dream appeared vividly in front of my eyes.
"It's you!" I exclaimed, it was really the man of my dreams. No, it's not a dream, he's really there, and he's a ghost.
He looked at me with a smile on his face, his eyes were indescribably cold, and he said lightly: "Lady, I came to you for my husband."
His sneer made my heart tremble, I hurt him, he would definitely not let me go, and now he might want to arrest me back. No, I hurt him so badly that he will definitely die if he is caught.
I turned around and tried to run, but I was about to run to the door, but he arrived before me, and his tall body was in front of me, blocking my only way.
"You want to run? What, afraid of me? "He approached me step by step, and I looked at him in horror and involuntarily stepped back. I don't have any self-defense now, I have no power to resist at all, and if I am caught by him, there is only a dead end.
I had no choice but to make one last effort, and I started shouting at the top of my voice: "Help! Grandpa save me! …… Save ......" was choked by his neck and pressed against the wall before he finished shouting.
He grabbed me by the neck and lifted it up so hard that my feet were off the ground, almost out of breath, and I felt like my neck was about to break.
"Let it go...... Open...... I ...... "I used my last bit of strength to spit out a few words in fits and starts.
Finally, before I was about to completely lose consciousness, someone barged in.
He quickly let go of me, and I was thrown to the ground, struggling to breathe in the air I hadn't seen for a long time.
It was Grandpa who came in, he was holding a yellow talisman in his hand, and he didn't know what spell he was chanting, and before the male ghost's hand touched him, he was hurt by the light emitted by the talisman.
The male ghost may feel that he is not his grandfather's opponent, and disappears into a wisp of smoke. Grandpa didn't catch up again, but just walked over to me and picked me up.
I followed my grandfather back to his bedroom, and I didn't dare to make a sound. I didn't listen to him and ran to the house, and I almost killed a ghost, and according to my grandfather's temper, a beating was inevitable.
Grandpa took out a bottle of safflower oil from the medicine box and handed it to me, his eyes swept to my neck, and his eyes were shocked that he couldn't hide.
"Where is your jade pendant?" Grandpa's tone was heavy and trembling.
"Lost."
"Lost? Didn't I tell you not to go out today, not to run around? You lost such an important jade pendant! "Grandpa is very angry, today is my eighteenth birthday, yesterday he told me a thousand times that I should not go out today, saying that he wanted to avoid something.
"I didn't go out, I was lost in a dream......" Seeing that my grandfather was very angry, I didn't know how to explain it, so I could only lower my head and mutter.
"In a dream?" Apparently he couldn't understand my answer.
"I met the ghost just now in a dream, he wanted to kill me, I injured him with a jade pendant, and then I escaped."
was silent for a long time, and finally grandpa sighed, with the vicissitudes and helplessness in his eyes that could not be concealed, "Hey...... That's it, you still have to come, and you can't hide from it. ”
He turned on the safflower oil and tried to rub my neck for me, but as soon as I touched my neck, I couldn't help but snort in pain. After taking the medicine, he gave me another bottle of pills, which was in a small porcelain bottle of white jade, and I don't know what it was for.
"It's an exorcism, and you take one pill a day." After explaining, he walked outside the house, stopped halfway through, turned his back to me and said, "You have been sleeping in the house for the past few days, don't go back to the villa." After saying that, I really left.
Now that the medicine is so advanced, it can also exorcise evil spirits, which is amazing. But then again, grandpa seems to know something, why can't he hide? Does he know about the male ghost?
Although I was full of doubts, I could only swallow it in my stomach, and since my grandfather was unwilling to tell me, Rao would not reveal half a word no matter how he asked.
I went back to the villa to celebrate my birthday, but when I looked in the mirror, I found a few black handprints on my neck, which should have been left by the ghost, and I don't know when it will disappear, it seems that I will always wear a scarf.
Then I went back to the old house to sleep, I have to say that the old house is really very gloomy, only a few hundred square meters of space only grandpa, me and the old housekeeper three people.
But since my grandfather must have protected me by letting me stay here, I still have to be obedient for the sake of my life.