Chapter 16: Trickery
"Haha!" Seeing the second uncle's frightened and panicked appearance, Jiang Xiaoyun smiled like a flower.
"Just your guts... Also a soldier? Don't insult the soldiers," Jiang Xiaoyun said sarcastically.
"It's not... Master, the old woman in this painting has her eyes moving! The second uncle was surprised.
Jiang Xiaoyun snorted coldly: "Then don't you just look at her eyes?" By the way, take this painting to your house to dry, and don't be afraid at night, shame on the soldiers...... Alright, I'm going to rest, it's time for you to go. ”
As soon as he heard this, the second uncle gasped and took it to his house to dry? What does this girl mean? It's for another purpose... Or is it specifically to test your guts? To say... The second uncle just felt evil, but he was really not afraid.
Carefully picked up the painting, the second uncle returned to his room, and felt inexplicable after spreading it out, although this girl is really capable, but every move is full of evil nature, I don't feel like a decent disciple, that Du Guangzhi said that she is a Taoist priest in Huashan, and Taoist priests in Huashan are good at painting ghosts?
I thought I would have nightmares at night, but this night the second uncle slept very peacefully, but when he got up the next morning and looked at this painting again, he suddenly realized something...... Isn't this village Guli Village? It's just that the house is dilapidated, and I didn't recognize it at once, it's really evil, what is the world that this little girl sees in her eyes?
Following the master back to Du Guangzhi's house in Guli Village, it was already more than ten o'clock in the morning, Jiang Xiaoyun came to the windowsill of the old lady's house, took out a small box, and after opening it, there was a big black and shiny black cricket.
The cricket jumped out of the box and landed between the bricks of the windowsill, "squeaky squeak" with a strong cry.
The second uncle felt extremely weird, and it didn't take long for him to ..... I saw the old lady watching TV in the house drowsy, yawning, covering a small quilt and falling asleep.
"Master Jiang, what are you?" Du Guangzhi asked with some concern.
Jiang Xiaoyun put away the crickets and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's just a drowsy spell, your mother will wake up in a while." ”
After that, she, her second uncle and Du Guangzhi entered the old lady's room, and asked the second uncle to spread out the painting, with the ink side down, and cover the old lady.
The second uncle was a little worried, afraid that Du Guangzhi would surprise others when he saw Jiang Xiaoyun painting his mother so terrifyingly, so he was quick with his hands and feet, and tried his best not to let Du Guangzhi see the content of the scroll.
After the cover came out, Du Guangzhi asked Jiang Xiaoyun with some hair: "Master, my mother she... Is it really alive? ”
Jiang Xiaoyun said with a smile: "The fire of life and soul on the old man's shoulders is thriving, at least he can live for twenty years, don't worry about it, I said that she is not that, she is not that ......"
"Oh, oh......" Hearing Jiang Xiaoyun say this, Du Guangzhi let out a long breath.
Only the second uncle is confused, I feel... Jiang Xiaoyun seemed to have drawn a ghost and insisted on attaching it to the old lady.
Half an hour later, Jiang Xiaoyun asked the second uncle to enter the old lady's room and take off the painting, the second uncle carefully entered the house, when he picked up the painting again, the whole person was stunned, but seeing the scene in the painting, it was completely different from before, the old lady of the Du family was radiant, with a childish face, standing under the old locust tree with a crutch and smiling.
And the old locust tree is also full of locust flowers, and the tree is full of magpies and swallows, where are there any crows and wild dogs? What's even more incredible is that the whole village has also taken on a new look, not at all the dilapidated and famine-stricken appearance before, and has become a thriving scene.
The second uncle was in disbelief, and after being stunned for a moment, he walked out of the house with the scroll, and seeing that it was done, Jiang Xiaoyun said to Du Guangzhi: "Your mother is fine, let her not grow old in the future, and go to places where disasters have occurred, it is easy to attract unclean things." ”
"Oh, oh," Du Guangzhi nodded in fear, and asked uneasily: "Master, my mother, is it really okay?" It's really not that kind of thing.......? ”
Seeing that he was still not at ease, Jiang Xiaoyun was a little angry, and scolded: "Your son, you are really not filial, and you still expect your mother to be a zombie!" ”
After that, he rolled his eyes and left Du Guangzhi's house with his second uncle, Du Guangzhi wanted to give Jiang Xiaoyun some money, she didn't want to live or die.
On the way back, the second uncle was driving, which was really a question mark in his head, and he wanted to say ..... Suspecting that the old lady is a zombie is really possible, after all, that thing is invulnerable, boiling water... It's definitely better than a dead pig, but can a zombie digest the boiling water of that aluminum pot? This also seems unlikely.
"Master, it's a little interesting, why does this old Du always suspect that his mother is a zombie?" The second uncle asked with a cigarette in his mouth.
Jiang Xiaoyun said: "Don't talk about him, I suspected it was a zombie at first, but I didn't know it until I saw it with my own eyes. ”
"Why is there so much trouble in this place?" The second uncle asked.
Jiang Xiaoyun replied: "Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan, the soil is fertile, the earth qi is too thick, it is easy to nourish zombies......"
She said that since ancient times, those who have obtained the Hangu Pass have won the world, on the one hand, because of the steep terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but all the martial dynasties are the capital of the Guanzhong generation, Qin, the Western Han Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty are all exceptions, on the other hand, it is the 800 miles of Qinchuan The soil is fertile and the agriculture is extremely developed, which is also the fundamental reason why the Qin State consumed the Zhao State and the Changping Battle to annihilate its main force in one fell swoop.
But there are two sides to things, fertile soil is easy to nourish zombies, so the farmers of the Baoji generation, who died in ancient times, had to be buried after the bones rotted out in the field to prevent the corpse from changing.
In ancient times, zombies were frequent in this place, and many people caused droughts, which made the agriculture of the Guanzhong generation more and more degraded, and finally moved the political and economic center to Luoyang and Beijing......
"The man surnamed Du is worried that his wife will become a zombie, because the bones are ruthless, after the dead become zombies, the first thing to kill is the person closest to him!" Jiang Xiaoyun said.
The second uncle was dumbfounded when he heard this, it turned out that there were so many ways in this, and Jiang Xiaoyun's knowledge really shocked him!
"Master, that's... Isn't it easy to find zombies in the Guanzhong generation? The second uncle smacked his tongue.
Jiang Xiaoyun sneered: "How can it be so easy, now people practice cremation, and there are basically no zombies, I originally thought that this old lady of the Du family was a stinky girl, but I didn't expect it to be ......."
"Master, what is a stinky girl?" The second uncle asked curiously.
Jiang Xiaoyun said: "A kind of zombie, eh I can't explain it to you for a while, you should concentrate on driving first." ”
"Then Master... Can you tell me what the old lady is provoking about? The second uncle couldn't help but ask curiously.
"I'm not sure yet, I'll talk about everything after I go back, by the way, remember to buy a bottle of high-grade wine later," Jiang Xiaoyun commanded.
Back at the county guest house, Jiang Xiaoyun spread out the "unrecognizable" picture scroll on the table, opened the high wine bought by the second uncle, and sprinkled it on the painting little by little.
A surprising scene appeared, but when I saw that the ink in the scroll began to melt with the dilution of the high wine, it did not seep out at all, and gradually shrank, distorted, bulged and bulged, and turned into a black real thing! It felt like a black paste, condensing little by little.
"What is this?" The second uncle was surprised.
"Don't talk, close the curtains!" Jiang Xiaoyun was solemn and frowned.
"Woo..... But in the picture scroll, there was a cry of a little girl, sad and sad, twisted and oozing bones, and it made people's hearts hairy.
Jiang Xiaoyun took out a match and threw it on the picture scroll, "Huh" a guy, the flames jumped more than a foot high, and the flames showed the image of a 7-8-year-old girl above the flames, kneeling on the ground and crying, her face was dark, and in the background of the rising flames, there were also blurred walls, chairs, and steps...... It's like a miniature mirage.
The second uncle was completely stunned, feeling like magic, and the flames suddenly appeared, showing "another small world".
"Woo.....oooooo Help me, help me," the little girl screamed in pain in the flames, she stood up and ran out, but the sudden flames trapped her again, and she could only flee back and forth within the confines of the scroll.
But seeing that her phantom body was a little black, her hair was burning, her skin was burned into charcoal, and her bright red flesh was shrunk and twisted into a fluid shape, and it was squeaking with green smoke...... The second uncle imagined how miserable it was for the people to be burned to death, but he "saw" it with his own eyes...... Or for the first time.
The girl knelt on the ground and didn't move, the flames burned her into a small ball, and Jiang Xiaoyun's mouth muttered, as if she was reading something..... Until the flames are all extinguished, the picture scroll shows a 7-8-year-old little girl with a ponytail and a cute face. Incredibly, this painting is completely burned! The little girl in the painting is the one in the fire just now......
After the smoke cleared, there was not a trace of burn on the table! And that painting, there is still a wet luster of pen and ink, as if it has just been painted, the second uncle is completely stupid!
"Master...... What is it? He was taken aback.
Jiang Xiaoyun sighed wistfully: "Burning ghost, I should have thought of it at first, but unfortunately I was negligent." ”
"Hell? What is this? The second uncle asked nervously.
"The person who was burned to death, there was a fire in the movie theater in the county seat, she was burned to death, the old lady of the Du family went to the county seat to see relatives more than two months ago, and this guy happened to be attached to someone," Jiang Xiaoyun explained.
The second uncle was stunned, blinked and said, "It means..... Or is it a ghost? ”
Jiang Xiaoyun nodded: "Not bad!" I guess the girl's bones weren't cleaned up......"
"But Master, didn't you say that it wasn't a ghost?" The second uncle said incredulously.
Jiang Xiaoyun replied: "Ghosts are different from ghosts, I only considered ghosts before. ”
"But..... Where did the old lady run away after drinking so much boiling water? The second uncle asked in confusion.