Chapter 009: Sharpening scissors and selling kitchen knives
As soon as I heard this, I couldn't help but be happy, can I really marry a beautiful sister?
But the grandparents were frightened enough by these words, and the grandmother hurriedly stepped forward and pulled the old man Ge's arm and said, "Old Ge, we can't respond to this marriage, that girl is a goblin, do you have a way, you must save the baby!" ”
Old man Ge muttered, "I can only try it, whether it is useful or not, it can only depend on the number of lives......"
Grandparents heard this, and hurriedly asked Old Man Ge what to do, Old Man Ge whispered a few words to the two, then looked at me, and said softly, "Yangwa, I know that you have affection for that girl, but she is most likely a spirit in the mountains, if you marry her, no matter whether she has malicious will towards you or not, stay with her for ten days and half a month, I am afraid you will not even be able to save your life......"
I was a little uncomfortable and said, "My life was originally saved by her, and it's ......okay for her to take it back now."
"Bastard, is it so easy for Lao Tzu and your milk to raise you? You said lightly, if you want to die, you want to die, you want me and your grandmother to bury you too, don't you? When my grandfather heard this, he scolded with anger on his face.
Grandma also came over and grabbed my hand with tears, so she persuaded me, and after a long while, I said to Old Man Ge, "Uncle Ge, what should you do......"
Old man Ge said with a straight face, "Today we gave her a dowry gift, according to the number of gifts, she will definitely give a return gift, if I guess right, they will come to the door tonight to give a return gift, and then find a way to dodge it, then the number of gifts is endless, maybe it can be delayed for three or four days, and when Boss Wang invites that person over, things will be easy to do......"
I just remembered that yesterday Old Man Ge gave the boss of the lime factory an idea, and he was still thinking about what the idea was, and his feelings were to ask him to invite someone.
The grandparents asked a lot of questions uneasily, and finally the few people hurried back.
When I returned to Shuanglong Village, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, but I didn't care about resting, my grandfather took me to the Shuanglong Pond to pick up some dry reed poles, and my grandmother went to the next door neighbor's house to buy a big rooster.
After the things were ready, the old man Ge burned a talisman, after reciting the mantra, he sat in the courtyard and began to tie up the paper figure, I have to say that the old man Ge's hands are very skillful, a few reed stalks, soon pierced out a human figure, and then began to paste yellow paper, and then took out the brush dipped in different fuels to color the paper figure, and traced the picture.
After more than two hours, a paper figure stood in the courtyard vividly, after the paper figure was finished, the old man Ge asked me to squeeze a few drops of blood into the bowl containing chicken blood, and then wrote my birthday on the back of the paper man.
Eventually, he found a few of my dirty clothes, pulled out some, and stuffed them evenly with my hair and nail clippings.
After doing this, the old man Ge said to me, "Yang baby, while the sun is still high, move the paper figure to the sun to bask for a while, and inhale some yang energy, so that it really looks like a body, and put the spirit rune in my hand on its back, so as not to make the old woman suspicious." ”
After listening to this, I carefully hugged the paper man to the sun, this paper man is well pierced, but using this thing to deceive the beautiful sister, she probably won't believe it, right?
Old man Ge ignored me, and went out on his own, and he didn't come back until after six o'clock, with a few rusty scissors and kitchen knives in his hands.
I was a little confused and said, "Uncle Ge, what are you doing here?" ”
Old man Ge smashed the cigarette gun and said, "Yangwa, listen to me, tonight I will put this paper figure in your house and stabilize the two monsters, and you will go to the village head of the old man Liu's house to hide......"
Before Old Man Ge finished speaking, I shook my head like a rattle.
Old man Liu is also a "celebrity" in our area, and in the early years, he rode his bicycle all day long.
"Sharpen the scissors...... Pin kitchen knife ......"
This shout, we didn't learn much when we were young.
About five years ago, Old Man Liu's son went to work in the construction team in the city, and he couldn't go home a few times a month, and his daughter-in-law stayed alone in the empty house.
This matter was bumped into by Old Man Liu, and the daughter-in-law and Ma Liu were afraid that the old man would leak the matter, so they cut off his tongue, and then the daughter-in-law and Ma Liu tortured Old Man Liu in a different way, wanting him to die early.
Old man Liu couldn't bear the torture, sharpened the big iron scissors at home to a bright point, knelt on the bed, and cut off his own flesh with a knife......
It is said that Ma Liu was the first to encounter this scene, and he was frightened crazy at that time and hacked his daughter-in-law to death on the bed.
After the old man's son came back, he couldn't withstand such a blow and committed suicide by drinking pesticides at home, and the family of three all died in the old house.
Since then, the old house has become a veritable haunted house, because many people can hear the sound of sharpening knives and the "click" of scissors cutting things from the house when they pass outside.
The people in the village usually go out of the village, and they would rather take a detour than dare to pass in front of this old house, but now Old Man Ge actually asked me to hide inside, isn't it a life.
"Uncle Ge, is there no other way?" I said with a sad face.
When the old man heard this, he smashed two mouthfuls of dry smoke, and sighed, "Ghosts also have territory, and the resentment in the old house is not weaker than that of the monster, you enter the old house, and the old woman just finds out that this paper figure is fake, and she doesn't dare to go in to find you easily, as long as you can hide for three or four days, and when the master comes, you will be saved......"
Seeing that I still looked uneasy, Old Man Ge continued, "Don't worry, according to what the uncle said, Old Man Liu won't do anything to you!" ”
When I heard this, I gritted my teeth and said, "Okay, Uncle Ge, what do you say......
Seeing this, Old Man Ge took out a few rusty scissors and kitchen knives from the yellow cloth bag he was carrying, and took me a small crescent-shaped white bone, and then said.
"I'll help you deal with the yang energy in a while, so that Old Man Liu can't feel that you are still a living person, and then enter the old house before dark, remember, before entering the house, you must first burn three incense sticks at the door, and shout directly after entering the door, saying that the scissors and kitchen knives at home are not fast, and the ...... to sharpen the knives"
I felt a chill behind me and whispered, "And then?" ”
"Then you put the scissors and kitchen knives in the hall, and you sleep in the side room, remember, every hour, you have to light three sticks of incense in the hall, and no matter what happens during this period, you say that you are here to sharpen the scissors and kitchen knives, and it is late, stay overnight and leave!" Old man Ge said very seriously.
Hearing Old Man Ge's words, I couldn't help but shudder, how did I feel that Old Man Ge asked me to take the initiative to jump into the tiger's mouth.
The grandfather who was standing on the side obviously felt that this method was a bit unreliable, and asked with a tangled face, "Lao Ge, is this so reliable?" ”
"Hmph, anyway, Lao Tzu has such a little ability, you can do it if you can trust it, but if you can't believe it, then just wait for the female monster to take this stinky boy away tonight!" Old man Ge was a little angry when he heard this, and he stood up with a pout and prepared to go out.
Seeing this, Grandpa hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Old Man Ge, persuaded me with a few words, and then patted me on the shoulder and said, "This matter is as your Uncle Ge said!" ”
As soon as I saw this situation, I couldn't say anything, so I had to respond with a sad face.
Seeing this, Old Man Ge asked me to find a soup bowl, then lit the rune paper and put it in the soup bowl, and began to bake scissors and kitchen knives.
Strange to say, as soon as this rune paper was lit, I felt that the surroundings were much colder, and the flames produced when the rune paper burned turned out to be light blue, just like ghost fire, jumping and jumping, which looked extremely weird.
A few minutes later, the rune paper burned out, and when Old Man Ge saw that the flames were about to be extinguished, he took a bowl of water and poured it into the soup bowl, and then threw the small crescent-shaped bone into it.
After soaking for more than ten minutes, Old Man Ge fished out the bones, asked me to pour all the big bowl of runic water into my stomach, and then explained a few more words, and let me go out.
When I came to the front of the old house, it was already dark, so I took out the soaked white bones and put them at the base of my tongue according to Old Man Ge's instructions.
I don't know if it's because of my heart, but as soon as I put the bones in my mouth, I had a chill all over my body, and I shivered from the cold.
I didn't think about it so much, so I hurriedly took out three sticks of incense from the bag and lit them, bowed to the old house, and then whispered, "Disturb ......"
Then he put the incense in the crack in the doorway, took a deep breath, and pushed it towards the wooden door of the old house.
"Crunch ......"
There was a strange and long sound from the wooden door, which made me shiver and goosebumps rolled all over my body.
I settled down, and first shouted at the top of my voice, "Third Grandfather, the scissors and kitchen knives at home are not fast (meaning not sharp), please help me sharpen them!" ”
After saying that, I stared nervously at the inside of the room, and after a long time, I saw that there was no reaction inside, and then I stepped inside.
Because no one took care of the old house, the weeds in the yard were almost up to my waist, cobwebs, dust, and even the walls and roof had a lot of holes.
There is not much furniture in the hall, there is a table of eight immortals in the center, an incense burner is placed on the table, and on the wall, there is a black and white photo of the old man Liu, which looks very weird.
I couldn't be afraid, so I hurriedly took out three incense sticks and lit them, inserted them in the incense burner, and then put the scissors and kitchen knives prepared in advance on the table of the Eight Immortals.
After doing this, I saw that there was no movement in the room, and finally let go of my hanging heart, and I trembled out of the hall, came to the side room, and found a fairly clean room to hide in.
Immediately after, there was silence, so quiet that I sat on the floor, staring stiffly at the electronic watch on my wrist, and every hour, I went into the hall to change the incense, although I was afraid, but fortunately nothing happened.
By the time I went to change the incense for the fourth time, it was already twelve o'clock in the evening, probably due to psychological reasons, I suddenly felt that the whole old house was a little different, and the temperature had dropped several degrees.
I shuddered into the hall and hurriedly took out my lighter.
"Smack"
There was a crisp sound, and as soon as the flame of the lighter was lit, I suddenly saw that in the photo hanging on the wall, Old Man Liu seemed to smile strangely.
"Ah......h
I screamed in fright, stumbled and fell to the ground, and crawled to the door.
However, my legs and feet were so frightened that no matter how hard I tried, they were just fluttering in place.
After tossing for a while, and seeing that there was no reaction in the room, I regained my courage and lit the lighter again.
Seeing that the photo of Old Man Liu was hanging on the wall intact, my hanging heart relaxed a little, and I should have been dazzled just now.
I hurriedly took out three sticks of incense and lit it on the lighter, and after a while, the incense was lit.
But the strange thing is that the freshly lit incense burns down at a speed that is visible to the naked eye, and a wisp of green smoke rises from the incense and slowly drifts towards a room on the side of the hall.
Before I could react, a voice came from inside the room, which almost scared me away.
"Sharpen the scissors...... Pin kitchen knife ......"