Chapter 55: Excess
Master instructed me to take care of the little girl, and went straight to the small temple in the north of the village, in fact, his old man did not say that I also knew in my heart, as I said before, 'small temple', in the north of every village in the countryside there is a small temple tied with red cloth, it should be said that it can be seen everywhere, in the words of yin and yang, it is the so-called 'soul collection temple', to put it in layman's terms, it is the permanent office of the ghost in the underworld, specializing in collecting souls, and there is a very grand ceremony before the funeral of the deceased in our rural areas is 'sending souls, Filial sons and filial sons and grandsons wear linen and wear filial piety to send their souls to the small temple in the north of the village, burning paper kowtow and sprinkling millet soup along the way, which means that the deceased is about to enter the earth for peace, and the soul should leave quickly! In the next life, I will give birth to a good family...... If I still had doubts before, I should say that it is true now, there are indeed ghosts or Yin soldiers in this soul collection temple, and the master should still have a good friendship with them, otherwise he would not have brought the little girl here, I can't help but sigh, there are too many mysterious things in this world, but we know too little......
During this period, I kept teasing her, I asked her, what is your name, she smiled and said her name is 'Tiantian', I told her, what a nice name, she asked me ignorantly.
"Is it really good, my mother gave it to me" She immediately put away her smile when she thought of her mother, gloomy and sad, what made me strange was that she didn't cry like before, maybe the ghost's seven emotions and six desires were not so complete, or not repeatedly.
"Brother, what's your name? I think it's going to be nice too," I heard her ask, and suddenly I felt like I couldn't answer her.
"Tiantian, my brother's name is very earthy and not good, so my brother can't tell you, do you understand?" I really don't want to tell her my name 'Erdan', such a young child, I think it's a blasphemy to say it, so I .......
"Brother, I understand, you are really a good person" I heard this sentence and my face felt like I had been slapped in the face, hot, am I a good person? Yes or no? At least not in front of this little girl, I'm a bad person.
"Sister Tiantian, my brother is actually not a good person, not a good person" I turned my back and turned my head out the car window and didn't dare to look at her.
"Brother, let's play charade, I'll come first, I'll write on your back, guess, okay" Her sincere and immature voice sounded in my ears.
"Okay, you come first," I said back to her.
"Brother, you have to turn your head, you can't look at it"
I turned my head back as I did, and she raised her little finger and gestured it on my back, and I could feel the chill on my back, like a small cold wind blowing, and I gradually felt the general glyphs.
"It's sweet, sweet, isn't it?" I asked.
"Brother, you're so good, you actually guessed" I heard her giggle behind me.
"Let's come again" she wrote a lot of words on my back over and over again, and then I deliberately guessed wrong, which made her so unhappy, I asked her to close her eyes, I wrote a few simple words in the palm of her little love, so that she guessed all right, I kept praising her for being very smart, she just 'hee-hee, giggle' laughing, the smile was cute, children, in the end, children, in the end, children, in the end, they forgot their troubles and sorrows, and there would be no hatred, their world was so simple.
I don't know how long it took, but before the master came back, the little girl suddenly said to me, 'I'm hungry, I want to eat' Although people and ghosts have different paths, yin and yang, and seven emotions and six desires are even different, they will also cry and laugh, and they will also feel hungry, and the difference is not different at the same time.
"Tiantian, don't come out in the car, my brother will find you something to eat" I will agree to any request she makes, as long as I can do it, I will bring it to her.
I got out of the car and locked the car door, only to remember this point in time, where to find food in this wilderness, go home for fear of disturbing my parents, what to do, I raised my head in the distance The dark peach orchard met my eyes, pick a few peaches and let the little girl eat first, anyway, I can't starve her, I ran to the peach orchard, fortunately I didn't let me down, there are a few late-maturing golden peach trees, the yellow golden head on it is about to ripen, it seems that the owner of the peach orchard has not had time to pick it, I picked one and broke it, put it in my mouth to eat, sour, But it's fragrant.
I hurriedly picked a few and returned to the car, I wiped it several times to remove the hair and dirt on it, and then handed it to her, she said thank you brother, and then reached out to take it, took it in her hand, but the peach seemed to float in the air inexplicably, she ate it in a big gulp, it looked like she was really hungry, she said while eating it was delicious, it was so fragrant, but the peach in her hand was thrown intact, that's right, their world is like this, she only absorbed the essence of peaches, that is to say, she ate it, Although the peaches are whole, they have long lost their taste at the moment, and they are as light as cold water.
She didn't finish a peach, she dozed off, and after a while she fell asleep in my arms in a daze, I learned to gently pat my little shoulder like an adult, so that she could sleep quietly, I seemed to make strange movements to the air, but she could feel it, her petite body rolled in my arms several times, every time she did this action, she would ask:
"Brother, what about my mother, I miss my mother, every time I sleep, my mother hugs me and sleeps" I listened to this sentence over and over again, until I heard it heartbreaking, tears flowed, we are also children, and we all have parents, but what about her? There is nothing left, even if she is sent to the Yin City, I don't know how many reincarnations, what kind of creation she has gained, how many hardships she has endured, how many sins she has suffered, and how many years she has to endure to return to the world, who can say this well......
"Uncle, I'm going to find your mother, I'll be back in a while, you can sleep first" I could only lie to him so perfunctorily, I hugged the poor her, and before I knew it, I burst into tears, and finally sobbed.
"Brother, why are you crying" Although the little girl was asleep, she still heard her, and I was afraid of disturbing her, so I hurriedly wiped away my tears and said:
"My brother didn't cry, he just felt a little cold and was fine"
"Brother, my mother will take me away in a while, what if I miss you in the future?"
"In that case, my brother will go and play with you when he has nothing to do," I said after a moment's hesitation.
"That's right."
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Watching the little girl sleep gradually sweetly in my arms, I became anxious again, Master has been gone for so long and hasn't come back, time should be running out, what's going on on Master's side, I don't understand, but I know in my heart that it is difficult to ask for people, and it is even more difficult to ask for ghosts, as the saying goes, there are family rules, the country has national laws, and the laws of the underworld are not so easy to play, not to mention that they want to get by, and it is impossible for people to send Yin soldiers or anything to risk going down to the eighteenth layer of hell for people and things that have nothing to do with themselves. It's a tricky job, and it's not very easy to do.
Time passed minute by minute, but the master didn't come back, I was even more anxious, I was just psychologically or something else, I saw through the car window that the east had shimmered, and it was really not far from the dawn of the rooster's crow, and the other thing I was worried about now was that if the master and the ghost soldiers did not succeed in negotiating and then put his old man in, this would be fucked up.
Suddenly, the little girl flipped from my arms, sat up, regained her spirits, and said:
"I feel that someone is going to take me away, brother" I was surprised at first, and I saw a black shadow running out of the small temple from a distance, and three vague black shadows appeared around the temple, and I suddenly understood something, I said to the little girl, Tiantian, no matter who the child is in in the future, I have to come to my brother to hold a dream, and my brother is good to see you.
She nodded yes, but she didn't understand the meaning, and she asked me what a dream is? I said, you will know when you go over there, at this time, the master rushed to the car door at once, and snatched Tian Tian away like a robber, the master went crazy and ran towards the Soul Collecting Temple, I looked at the little girl's reluctant eyes, I burst into tears again, Tian Tian sister, I hope you will give birth to a good family in the next life, and you can complete the unfinished things in this life, my brother is a useless person, and nothing can help you.
The master finally ran to the front of the Soul Collecting Temple, and as soon as he sent the little girl to the hands of the three black shadows, I heard the sound of a rooster crowing from the village, and I was almost a step late, and I was quite frightened and collapsed to the ground.
At this point, the little girl's ending is quite satisfying, sending her into the underworld, as for when she will return to the world, it depends on her creation...... Although the murderer of the murder was not found this time, this ending can be regarded as the satisfaction of dissatisfaction, although they are in ashes, it can be regarded as giving them an explanation, we are not saviors, we can only do so much, or this ending is not so satisfactory, but the sacrifice of their family has been exchanged for the peace of hundreds of villagers in Heifengkou, and it can only be said that it is worth it.
It was only at this time that the little girl was sent away, and the Master was relieved, and when he came close to me, he collapsed to the ground and said:
"Be a man and do good deeds, and reckless deeds will be rested with death"
"Master, what do you mean by that? People deserve to die, so how can we live? I listened to Master's words and questioned him very dissatisfied.
"There is no justice in this world! Only you don't deserve to live! ”
"I don't want to listen to your big truths, how do you usually teach me, help the poor, and support justice, but in the end you tell me that there is no fairness and justice in this world, Master, don't you think it's ridiculous?"
"Childish, or immature"
Just as I was arguing with Master, a dark figure lay down next to Master, and before he could lie down, he heard him say:
"Shao Xingze, you don't play cards according to common sense......" The thick and slightly hoarse voice was very familiar, and I looked up and saw that it was Hezi, the second doctor in the village.
"Get out" Master replied to him in a rough way, I think his appearance is by no means accidental, he is more like he has been spying on me and Master, he seems to know Master better than me......
"Hmph, you Shao Xingze is unrepentant, sooner or later you have to put your life in it" What he said and Master's attitude made him more mysterious, my previous guess was that this person was not wrong, this person was by no means a simple person, listening to his words, he seemed to be a little smarter than Master, what kind of person is he? I really couldn't guess for a while.
"You don't have to take care of our affairs, Erdan, let's go" Maybe the words of the second Hezi are too demagogic, the master turned around and left after speaking, I followed the master into the car, the car drove far away, and I could hear the beautiful mountain song of the second Hezi from the back of the car...... The most attractive thing about this person is that in addition to his mysterious identity and the skill of seeing patients and saving people, that is his attitude to life, coming at night, walking by day, elusive, one person eats enough for the whole family and is not hungry, and a medicine box breaks into the world...... At that time, I secretly decided that one day I would find out his identity and confess to the world.
Dawn, when I returned to Master's house, I hurriedly hid in the dark room and bowed three times and nine times to my grandfather, made tea and incense, and then respectfully took out the notebook and began to record:
Number: 13,828,Deceased: Zhu Benyu's family of five, nature: Tragedy, cause of death: murder, died on a certain year, month, and day, and the end of life is marked with X, and the ashes are drawn (empty), and the last column is written:
Unjustly die and be unjustly destroyed, and turn into mortal dust!
When I finished writing, Master took the pen and wrote heavily, 'It is detrimental to yin virtue.'