Chapter 5: There Are Ghosts
Just as I was in a hurry, there was a night owl (owl)' The sound of gurgling and cooing came from the woods on the gutter, it really scared me half to death, the old man in the village said, the night cat barked in the middle of the night, the day will die, I used to always hear the night cat bark at night, the next day the village will come out the news of the old man's death, I don't know what the night owl and the Lord of Yama have to be connected, but I don't dare to think about it anymore, I closed my eyes in pain, just when I closed and closed, I seemed to see a black shadow swaying in the post, intermittently I could hear a woman' Hum 'aggrieved cry, my body was weak, kneeling in the gutter, I couldn't stand up for a long time, and the black egg also silently lay beside me silently and accompanied me silently without making a noise, was it just an auditory hallucination, otherwise why didn't the black egg scream just now?
Erdan, what to do, only two steps away, just two steps, all the efforts tonight are about to see the results, if you go back at this time, all the efforts will be in vain.
I can't retreat, I must not retreat, this is the last chance in my life, the last chance to be a man, an inexplicable force in my heart told me to live like a real man, don't steal life in obscurity, I stomped my heart and stomped my heart, as if I had beaten chicken blood and rushed into the gutter, I didn't take a few steps to feel a chill coming, from the foot to the throat, although this season is spring, even if it rains, it will not be as cold as the cold winter wax moon, under the nightI looked out at the black mist around the three-mile-long gutter, and countless low, low mass graves everywhere, and I raised my alertness and I felt that my two lobes of lungs were about to vomit out.
Damn, I can't care so much, if I don't do it again, I can't say it anymore, I ran into the grave in three or two steps, and kept persuading myself not to panic, don't panic, and kept muttering: "The name of the tomb owner engraved on the tombstone of the sixth grave in the third row from the east"
Tombstones, here is a mass grave, no ghost, there are few tombstones, first look at the direction and then find the tombstone, and then set the number of rows so that it will be much easier, in the panic of the search, I found that the graves of this fucking dead child gang have no row at all, or call the mass graves, it is this unlucky meaning, it is not like the current planning of the community row by row easy to find.
In the dark night, I walked around in this mass grave one by one, it was incredible to think about it, but I was here to climb the grave to find the tombstone, the more I couldn't find it, the more anxious I scratched my heart, how is this good, I turned around at dusk and found that the black egg was digging something with its paws under a ruined and reckless grave behind me, it was all a dog with yin and yang eyes, it was yin, it was not true, I hadn't thought about it yet, I watched the black black egg take two steps back and barked impatiently at the tomb, and then there was a wolf howl on the side of the wolf ridge, little ancestor, Let's not make trouble, okay, you are digging out a hundred-year-old zombie, and besides, the hungry wolf on the ridge can run down and eat us in less than two minutes, although I love my black egg very much, but I still kicked it, the black egg screamed and lay behind me, I can continue to search, God beg you, let me find it, I don't want to feed the wolf, I'm still very young, I haven't married a wife yet, I keep praying in my heart, and I keep touching the tombs with monuments.
"Dandan"
'Dandan', I subconsciously touched the two Dandans in my crotch and told myself that they were still there, in fact, Dandan, my fashionable name is rarely called.
"Erdan, Erdan......" A woman's shrill and cold voice floated past my ears, and my scalp suddenly exploded, and I could count how many hairs were straight, and the goosebumps on my body were the size of wild mountain dates.
"Who" I shuddered and said this word in my mouth, I suddenly remembered Master's instructions, and when I heard someone call your name, don't respond, and now I regret it, and I want to slap my big mouth.
"Erdan, I'm your aunt, why doesn't your eldest nephew recognize your aunt" The female voice came out again, followed by a strange laugh of a baby.
"Come, come here, auntie" The creepy voice sounded again, mother, there are ghosts, there are really ghosts, how many years has my aunt died, my father in his fifties has never seen her, not to mention me, I want my own life.
At this time, the black egg couldn't hold back anymore, it desperately tore towards the desolate grave, I couldn't stop it, it didn't matter what it screamed, the hungry wolf in the wolf ridge behind the gutter screamed happily again, I looked up at several pairs of green eyes on the ridge swaying in the dark, it was a group of wolves, black master, I pounced on the black egg, tried to stroke the black egg to make it quiet, it had no effect at all, it was more ruthless than just now, and grinned, as if meeting a mortal enemy, it dragged me back several steps, I instinctively turned on the flashlight, and the light shot right towards the deserted grave, I thought there would be a grimace with blue faces and fangs, but there was nothing, the black egg broke free from my arms and pounced on the deserted grave, sniffing left and right, and there was no movement on the side of Wolf Ridge.
I sat on a low grave, panting heavily, was it just an illusion, I don't want to think about it, a few pairs of green eyes on the wolf ridge have hit the gutter here, this time there is really no time, even if there is no ghost in the hallucination just now, this group of ghost wolf cubs will destroy her second egg.
I just wanted to get up from the grave but was slammed into the small ditch under the grave by an unknown thing, something, actually threw Lao Tzu into a dog to eat, I hurriedly got up and wiped the dirt in my mouth, I looked around in horror for fear that something dirty would attack again, but the mass grave in my eyes seemed to have changed, and there was a row to be found, from the sixth grave in the third row of the east number, I found it, God help me, at this time the black egg resumed the barking just now, pulling the dog's throat, and barking desperately for the dog's life, I can't take care of the black egg, I went crazy and threw myself at the sixth haunted house in the third row of the eastern number.
"Scream, scream, scream, it's noisy to kill the old lady" The black egg screamed and flew into the air, and fell heavily to the ground, it was obviously kicked away by an unknown thing, and the black egg just landed and pounced desperately.
"Black egg" I secretly screamed in my heart, raised my head from the entrance of the tomb, and circled around the tomb and didn't find any tombstones, "Your mother has a big pillar, the sixth tomb in the third row of the East is actually a tombless tomb, you let Lao Tzu play with his life to find the tombless tomb, Lao Tzu must have killed you when he went down the mountain."
In order not to make a mistake in my judgment, I didn't play the old life for nothing, I repeatedly looked around the pile of desolate graves three times, and referred to the direction object three times, and I was sure that the sixth tomb in the third row of the Eastern Number was indeed a tombless tomb.
At this time, the screams of the black egg became more and more urgent, as if I was caught by something, the black egg, I screamed and ran up to save it, the black egg seemed to know my intentions, it seemed to break free from the hands of unknown things, ran to my side and used its thin body to keep hitting me to the pubic mouth, and knocked me down several times, I grabbed the head of the black egg, a wet liquid stained my left hand, I put my hand in front of my eyes, even in the dark night I can still see that it is dark red blood, black egg, what's wrong with you, I burst into tears, and the black egg licked me, and the green eyes looked at me again, and then they broke free from my arms, and barked and rushed into the grave and tore at what I could not see.
Black egg, come back, we are home, I chased it up and wanted to pull it back, black egg saw that I was going to come up again, it wailed, as if to say don't come, black egg, we go home, come back, it saw that I insisted on not leaving, it screamed like I ran, I can feel that the black egg is no longer good, it is still desperately hitting me, I can feel that if the black egg can speak, it must be for me to go quickly, hurry up, once, twice, until I was knocked out of the pubic mouth and the dead child is outside, and the black egg ran into the gutter for me to block upI watched from afar as his vague figure ran into the mass grave just now, and a scream pierced the dark night sky, and then there was no sound.
'Black Egg' I cried out in pain, the scream tearing through the silence of the night, and the nightbird screamed and flew into the night sky.
In the distance, those pairs of green eyes had descended to the north of the gutter, and I was very close to me, and I turned around, and was about to run away, when another woman's bone-eating sneer came, and I was hit in the back by something unknown, and I rolled down from my and knew nothing.
When I woke up, to be exact, when I was confused, I vaguely saw an old man with faint eyes who was holding my pulse with his hand and kept looking at my face, looking left and right, and then I saw a white-bearded old man beside the bed who was so anxious that he threw the cane in his hand, it must be the second master, I told myself that I was still alive, I didn't feed the wolf, and I wasn't hurt by the ghost, and after a while I heard the second master's scolding.
"Do you understand your mother's second child, Erdan, and she is not a yellow flower girl, do you need to touch it like this?"
The old man helped him, and the reading glasses on his face, which were as thick as pot cakes, turned his head and smiled at the second master, and said:
"Second master, don't worry, second egg, it's a false disease, it's not a real disease, it's just a frightened person, it's not a big deal, now it's just that the pulse is not very stable, and it appears from time to time."
"Why are those two eggs as hot as a stove, they have been burning for three days, and they haven't woken up yet, I'm afraid they burned their brains."
"It's okay, second master, the second egg just encountered some dirty things in that dead child's gang, it will be fine in a few days, don't you people say that we old Chinese medicine doctors are witch doctors? I still see this matter very clearly, then again, I can cure the real disease of this fever, and I have to go to the unlucky big pillar Shao Xingze."
"You are here again, see that I don't pick you with crutches" The second master pretended to be angry.
"Second master, don't be anxious about me all the time, who let this big pillar let the second egg go to the dead child post in the middle of the night, it's idle"
"Erdanniang, come here, you take this prescription to the town to grab some medicine and come back to take Erdan, tomorrow I promise that Erdan will wake up"
My mother choked and touched the tears in the corners of her eyes until I took the prescription from the hands of the old Chinese medicine doctor Erhezi in front of my bed, I looked at the thin mother's crying red eyes, and my mouth couldn't stop:
"Mother" I called weakly, saying that the mother's strength is great, and this child will be fine when he sees his mother.
"Erdan, wake up, his father Erdan's wake up" My mother finally had a smile on her face.
"No, don't move, Erdanniang stepped back, there's a problem! There is a big problem, I pinched my fingers just now, and the second egg should wake up at noon tomorrow," the old Chinese medicine doctor and the second Hezi jumped up from my bed.
"Get out, Erhezi, Erhezi has woken up, you're still talking nonsense here" The second master picked up the crutches in his hand and drove Erhezi out of the door, and then Erhezi's medicine box also flew out of the door.
The second Hezi picked up his medicine box in embarrassment, jumped to his feet and said unhappily:
"If you people don't listen to me, something big will happen to this village sooner or later"
"Mother, what about the black egg, has it come back?" I can't wait to know the answer.
"My mother hasn't seen the black egg for three days, since you had an accident, it has never come back, why don't you go out to find some food, I have been busy with you with your father these days, and I haven't taken care of it, and I will let your father go out to find it"
"No need to look for it" I couldn't help but cry, I don't know where I got the strength from when I was weak, but I know that I will never see the black egg again.
Hearing the cry, Master Dazhu ran into my room, his hands gently caressed my forehead, his eyes full of love, thinking back to that night, I swore that I would kill him when I went down the mountain, but when he sat in front of my bed with love, there was no resentment in my heart.
"Master, Master, I'm ......," I called out twice, I wanted to tell him exactly what happened that night, and he seemed to understand what I meant.
"Erdan, do you see clearly?"
"Well, the sixth tomb in the third row of the Eastern Numbers is a tombless tomb," I snorted, my chest aching uncomfortably.
"Are you sure?" Master asked, as if skeptical.
"I'm sure it's a tombless tomb."
After listening to me, Master patted me on the shoulder and got up from my bed, he carried me behind my back and let out a sigh, I looked at his back with blurry eyes, he actually touched the tears in the corners of his eyes and left, how could Master not think of everything that happened that night, the only thing I didn't understand was why he cried? Later, I heard from the master that he never thought that on such a rainy day, such a dark night, I would dare to break into the child's post alone, and he also said that I could go out of the village and come back and lie that I didn't see the words on the tombstone when it was dark, and he would pretend to believe that he would not pierce me, and he never thought that I not only went, but also recorded the true appearance of the sixth tomb in the third row of the Eastern Numbers, which is a wild tomb without a monument, and the master has long known that this circle he set up proves that my second egg is a sincere and brave child. He cried because he was really touched by me, and he told me that he felt narrow-minded in front of me, and that the saying that heroes come out of teenagers is right since ancient times.
After a few days, my body got better, I heard my mother say, my life is the second master to pick up, when I ran out of the village the second master was not at ease and called a few strong men in the village out of the village to find me, when they saw me running towards the dead child gang, they thought I was a ghost lost in the mind was led up by the ghost, so they ran back to the village to organize the old and young masters to take the torch up the mountain to find me, and then what happened everyone knows, if they didn't arrive in time, I was either eaten by the wolf, or ......
That night, like a nightmare, left me with two unforgettable things in my life: the many sets of tooth marks on my back that seemed to have been bitten by a baby, and the blouse with black palm prints under my bed.
And the black egg, the dog who blocked my life, I went to the baby hill three times at noon in the middle of the day for three consecutive days to look for the black egg, and there was not a single hair left......
At this point, I can't admit that there are ghosts in this world, but I am no longer an outright atheist.
Many years later, now that I think back, I realized Master's good intentions at that time, in fact, Master didn't let me practice courage that night, as for what he asked me to create a dead child post on a rainy night, that's all for later.