Chapter 8: A Gloomy Night
Wu family, just Grandpa Wu doesn't like me, I don't know why, from the first time I went to Wu's house, from the first time Grandpa Wu saw me, he looked at me with a look in his eyes, and I don't know why.
If I hadn't been unlucky this time, I wouldn't have wanted to come here.
Today's grandfather Wu is seventy years old. His short hair was like a layer of white frost, his big eyes were deeply sunken into his sockets, and his rough and emaciated hands were crawling with earthworm-like blood vessels, and the blood vessels were blue and purple.
I still politely shouted, "Hello Grandpa Wu..."
"My old man is like this, his temper has been stinky for decades, don't be surprised by Bei Nuan."
Wu sat down and crossed his legs, and Grandpa Wu looked stunned, "I didn't stand up, I didn't sit down!" ”
Wu Yan shrugged helplessly, "Grandpa, you show Bei Nuan, she is stained with unclean things." ”
Grandpa Wu stared at me, like looking at a monster, I felt more and more embarrassed, and whispered, "Wu open ......"
Wu stood up, "Grandpa? ”
But Grandpa Wu lowered his eyes, just shook his head, and although his face was engraved with many wrinkles, he didn't move at all, like a statue.
"You kid go out, you should come or come......"
Wu nodded, walked past me and swore in a whisper, "Don't worry, my grandfather will be fine when he sees it, I'll wait outside." ”
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I was left with Grandpa Wu and I in the room, and I was standing, and he sat cross-legged, and he was silent for a long time, still looking at me with strange eyes.
After pondering for a long time, Grandpa Wu finally spoke, "You were born to harm our Wu family." ”
“……”
"I can show you that, but... After this time, I want you to stay away from Wu Jing! ”
I wondered, "Why?" ”
Grandpa Wu's face suddenly showed a bitter look, but he couldn't describe it, and after a moment of silence, he took a pipe and smoked silently. The smoke rose and his words followed, "Your life is not good, you can't look at the dead by nature, let alone worship the dead, once you catch the bad luck of the dead, your soul will be separated, three souls will enter the earth, and seven spirits will ascend to heaven, this is your fate, and the yin is just the beginning ......"
Grandpa Wu spoke in a low voice, and I suddenly felt a chill down my spine, and pursed my lips, but I didn't know what to say.
"Tonight's hour, you are destined to go to the underworld, but you will only have a soul without a soul, and in a place like the underworld, people without a soul will be scattered and scattered, and if you go down, you are afraid that you will not be able to come up, so ......"
Grandpa Wu raised his head, but looked at me with drooping eyelids, "I can help you survive tonight's catastrophe, but you have to promise to stay away from Wu ...... from now on."
I've never believed much in the people of the Netherworld, but I'm extremely scared, and I've been a good friend of Wu Jing for decades, maybe I can say yes first......
"Okay."
Grandpa Wu squinted, "Let Wu go back to the front yard to ......"
Wu Jing had an unhappy expression when he heard it, and muttered before leaving, "Grandpa, you have to take a good look at Bei Nuan." ”
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A frightened night, and this night, I sat on Grandpa Wu's kang all night.
As soon as Wu opened his eyes and left, Grandpa Wu slid down the kang head, moved the square wooden table and put it in the middle of the kang, and took out four candles from the drawer, two white wax and two red wax.
Seeing him bow his head and just do things, slightly bent waist, shuttling back and forth in the house, take this and that, I thought about helping him, but as soon as his feet hit the ground, Grandpa Wu turned his head and shouted, "Sit still!" ”
“……”
Grandpa Wu brought another bowl of water, holding paper and scissors in his hand, as well as a thin red silk thread, a small black curtain, and went to the yard to pick up a yellow-green dried leaf, and when he came back, he slammed the door, and I felt nervous.
"Get ready ......"
I was stunned, I didn't know what Grandpa Wu meant, 'pop', the lights in the house were all out, it was dark, I could only hear Grandpa Wu's footsteps back and forth, I sat on the side of the kang, looking at the black room, my breathing couldn't help but become lighter, and it was false to say that I was not nervous.
A few minutes later, I vaguely felt that Grandpa Wu had climbed onto the kang, and when the candles on the square wooden table were lit, Grandpa Wu's yellow and black face was reflected against the background, and he was a little crazy at first sight.
"Come up, sit cross-legged at the table, and don't speak."
I did so, and in the middle of the wooden table was the bowl of water, and four candles, red and white, crossed around the bowl.
Grandpa Wu used scissors to cut a piece of paper into a human shape with three or two strokes of scissors, tied the paper man's neck with red silk threads, and wrapped four candles around the other end, and finally tied it into a dead knot.
A small black curtain is placed in the middle of the water, the dried leaves are placed on the water, and the paper figures are placed on the black curtain.
The thin red thread that loops around the candle is like a dense net, long, as if woven from the air to the surface of the water, and as if it is stacked layer by layer on the water.
And in the blink of an eye, the paper figure seems to be floating on this stacked web.
"Remember, no matter what happens, you must not say anything, otherwise... He'll hear ......"
“……”
Who is he? I can only make a voice in my heart, I raised my eyes to look at Grandpa Wu, he will be very cautious, for fear of destroying something, and... Does he know what a ghost wife is?
……
At this time, it was as dark inside and outside the house, I don't know what time it was, but it was estimated that it was late at night.
Grandpa Wu sat still, the room was too quiet at this time, and when the flame of a candle suddenly went out, I shivered unconsciously.
In the bowl of water, the dried leaves made a blister when they turned, as if the wind gently pushed, a long wave band extinguished the blister, and went to the black curtain, the curtain moved, and the wave marks gradually flowed into the paper figure from the edge of the curtain......