Chapter 3 Water Ghost Stand-in
I don't know why, when I saw Xiaohu's miserable situation, although I was a little scared, but I couldn't take my eyes off his face, and I couldn't make any sound if I wanted to shout, I looked at Xiaohu and felt that his smiling face was becoming more and more distorted towards me, and so many people around me didn't even notice the strangeness of the two of us. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this moment, I heard the big black dog barking at the little tiger for a while, then I felt a sense of relief, Grandpa Zhang seemed to feel my strangeness, pulled me back to my side, took me home quickly, walking on the way home, I felt as if I had collapsed, there was no strength in my body, all relied on the big black dog in front of me to drag me back to the home, after returning home, Grandpa Zhang called me to take a hot bath first, and then let me rest on the kang, lying on the kang I fell asleep like this.
After I fell asleep, Grandpa Zhang whispered to his mother in a nervous tone: "Xiaohe, this child is afraid that he is being targeted by Xiaohu, the water ghost is different from the average dead person, because the water and the land are two completely different spaces, and the drowned person cannot be reincarnated normally, he will repeat the process of choking in the water and dying every day, so that the resentment will only get deeper and deeper, and the soul drowned in the water wants to get out of the water, only to find the next person, step on the soul of that person to escape from the water, Xiaohe's life is different from other people, his yang energy is insufficient and his body is very weak, Xiaohu wants to pull Xiaohe over as a stand-in! ”
Grandpa Zhang's words made her mother panic suddenly, and hurriedly asked Grandpa Zhang: "Uncle Zhang, what should I do, you have to think of a way!" ”
Grandpa Zhang sighed when he heard this, thought for a moment and said to his mother: "You go to the commissary to find someone to call Xia Yiping and ask him to come back, don't work in the city first, let the big black dog stay here these days, and then go and prepare a peach tree, make an anmen stick at the gate of your house, and then find some willow branches with leaves removed and put them in front of the kang, and finally make a fire in the courtyard, the water ghost is afraid of fire and dry, as long as you can hold on for a few days, and then don't let Xiaohe go to the small river in the future." ”
When my mother heard this, she immediately put down the work at hand, and hurriedly followed Grandpa Zhang's instructions to prepare, and when my father rushed back, it was almost midnight, and when I saw that I had nothing to do temporarily, Grandpa Zhang went home, and my parents guarded me all night without sleeping, but I slept very sweetly, and I never woke up at night.
When I came the next day, I felt refreshed, and the malaise of the previous day was swept away.
But when I was strolling around in the yard, I don't know why, I always wanted to look in the direction of the river, and what was even more strange was that the big black dog who usually didn't like to take care of me was now following me every inch, and it followed me wherever I went, and in the afternoon my father hurriedly came back from the little tiger's house, but his expression didn't look very good, as if something had happened.
It turned out that when Xiaohu was taken to the crematorium for cremation, his father, who was a villager in the township, naturally followed, Xiaohu's mother felt sorry for the child, and wanted to see Xiaohu for the last time, so she spent more money to use a visible crematorium, and in the process of burning, Xiaohu's body sat up!
It's nothing if it's put in normal times, because a little common sense knows that the corpse can sit up because of the heat of the muscles and bones and the change of internal air pressure, but after Xiaohu sat up, he actually raised his arm and stretched out his finger to point to my dad's position, my dad felt very surprised and changed his position, strange to say, Xiaohu seemed to sense it and fell, and after a few seconds, Xiaohu actually sat up again, stretched out his other hand, and pointed at his father again, Dad was a little angry by Xiaohu, Jin stared at him so tightly, this time the little tiger did not fall for a long time, until it was burned by the fire and turned into ashes.
After Grandpa Zhang knew about this, he paced back and forth in the house for a while, and then turned to his father and ordered: "You go and take away the peach wood at the door, it seems that this matter can't be hidden, keep an eye on the child these two nights, I will move to the room next to you to sleep, and see what Xiaohu can do!" ”
Strange to say, I was still very energetic during the day, but as soon as I arrived in the evening, I became sluggish, I especially wanted to sleep, and I felt very heavy all over, as if someone was pressing on me.
I didn't even have dinner and I fell asleep, in the middle of the night, in my sleep, I vaguely heard someone calling my name, the voice was not really heard at first, and then slowly heard very clearly, the voice was so familiar, and then I woke up, and when I woke up, I found that there was no one at home.
Mom and Dad are gone, where will they go in the middle of the night?
The voice lingering in my ears made me feel an urge to go out and see, at the beginning I could still control my body, and then my consciousness became more and more depressed, and finally I went out barefoot unconsciously, it was the beginning of the month, there was no moon at all, and there were no street lights on the rural dirt road, but I don't know why I was able to see the road in front of me clearly, and it was no different from the daytime, so I followed the sound to the small river where Xiaohu had an accident, At this time, the voice that lingered in my ears became unusually clear.
I followed the sound to look, into the eyes of the tiger actually saw the little tiger, only to see him in the middle of the river stretched out his hand to me shouting, his face is getting more and more ugly, there is a person lying on his back at the moment, so it seems that the little tiger is carrying him, but the little tiger can't move at all, is constantly sinking, sinking, my body is no longer under my own control, actually walked to the middle of the river, consciousness is getting heavier and heavier, and then I lost consciousness.
Later, I learned that my parents and Grandpa Zhang had been following me that day, but because Grandpa Zhang's eyes couldn't see, my parents took him to move a little inconvenient, but the big black dog was spiritual, and they came to the water's edge one step ahead of them, when they came to the river, I had already walked into the water, the cold river water had not reached my neck, the big black dog was desperately biting my clothes and dragging me to the shore, my father ran directly into the water when he saw this, and the big black dog worked together to drag me back to the shore, it is said that my strength was particularly strong at that time, Dad almost couldn't hold me, I was still muttering something, the voice and tone were the same as Xiaohu, and the expression was not much different from when Xiaohu died, and the laughter was very weird and miserable.
In the end, I had no strength, so I was not struggling, I was carried home by my father, I was seriously ill when I got home, I didn't get off the kang for a whole week, I had no strength, I had to be helped to go to the toilet, and then I got better and asked my mother about Xiaohu, but my mother refused to tell me, until I grew up and read a book left by Grandpa Zhang that he traveled around when he was young and wrote down the notes, which included a record of water ghosts, and I understood the fate of Xiaohu. . . .
Because water and land are completely two different spaces, so the soul of a person who dies in the water is not allowed to die, can only keep wandering and struggling in the dead water, repeating the process of drowning every day, over time, the resentment of the water ghost is getting heavier and heavier, and the only way it can get out of the water is to find a stand-in, and the soul of the stand-in can step out of the water, and the process of the water ghost is also very cumbersome, and the success rate is not high. So with the situation at that time, there are only two ways to completely let Xiaohu stop pestering me, one is to exceed, and the other is to completely let his soul fly away, the first method is to make Grandpa Zhang's condition and physical condition at that time He can't do it at all, and he has no choice but to choose the second method, because even if I get lucky enough to escape, there will be other people like me, so Xiaohu must be dissipated to prevent him from hurting others.
Since then, every summer to the day of Xiaohu's accident, Grandpa Zhang will always let me lead him to bring some of Xiaohu's favorite food and burning paper, and personally go to the river to pay tribute to Xiaohu, when I grow up, I know that Xiaohu has already disappeared in this world, leaving nothing, these even I understand the truth Grandpa Zhang is naturally clear.
Perhaps, he just wanted to give his heart a comfort.