Chapter Fifty-Seven: Only by Returning to the Yang Do I Know the Truth
Uncle Zhang took a puff of cigarette there and continued: "I don't want to die, in those three days, except for eating and sleeping, I didn't blink at all, and finally on the third day, I finished the furniture according to the style of the drawings, and the official came in to take a look, and then said: "Go, hurry up." ā
When I heard that I didn't mention money, isn't this a cheat? I wanted to ask the official for money, but the official picked me up and said, "Do you want money, or do you want your life?" ā
Of course, it was fatal, so I quickly said, "IāI'm going to die." ā
The official said, "If you want to die, come with me quickly." ā
I had no choice but to follow the official messenger, and when I arrived at the door of the official office, the carriage was already waiting there, and I got into the carriage, and the carriage was the same as that day, and the wind whined and whined, and after a while, the driver shouted home, and then the official grabbed me, threw me out of the window, and said to me, "If you want to live, run home quickly." ā
I saw that it was my home in front of me, but something was wrong at home, there seemed to be crying, there were many people in and out, they were all wearing white filial piety hats, I was frightened at first glance, it seemed that I was not at home in the past three days, our family died, I thought of this, quickly got up, ran towards the house, ran into the gate to see, there was a coffin in the yard, there was a group of people in front of the coffin, I wanted to know who the person in the coffin was, so I didn't stop, ran straight over. When I ran to the coffin, I suddenly stumbled and fell on the coffin, and I woke up with a sense of excitement, and I realized that I had a nightmare.
It wasn't dawn yet, maybe it was going to rain, and it was a little stuffy, and then I heard a thud, so I said, "Who?" What do you knock on in the middle of the night? ā
As soon as I said this, I heard someone outside shouting, "Oh no, the dead man inside has spoken." ā
As soon as I heard the dead man speak, I quickly got up, I wanted to see what was going on, I just looked up, my head slammed suddenly, touched the top, I groped with my hands, and found that this thing was like a coffin, the dream just now was true, I thought of this, so I quickly pushed the coffin lid with my hand, when I pushed open the coffin lid and sat up, the whole yard was messed up, the children cried, the adults screamed, and those who could run for a while ran clean, and those who did not run were scared to pee their pants.
At this time, my daughter-in-law came over, looked at me and said, "Master, don't scare me, are you a human or a ghost?" If you are a human being, just say something, and if you are a ghost, you will sleep obediently in a coffin, and do not frighten us orphans and widows. ā
I saw that my daughter-in-law hadn't seen her for three days, and the whole person was gone, her face was haggard, and she was dressed in filial piety, I looked at my daughter-in-law's appearance, and I felt distressed for a while, and said with tears in my eyes: "Child, I am a human, not a ghost." ā
My daughter-in-law was stunned at first, and then went crazy, and suddenly rushed at me, crying and saying, "Master, I didn't expect you to be dead for three days, and now you are alive again." ā
When I heard this, I was confused and said, "What are you talking about, child? ā
My daughter-in-law wiped her tears and said, "You have been dead for three days, and we are ready to nail the coffin and bury it, but I didn't expect the head of the family to come back to life." ā
I said, "Tell me, son, what's going on?" ā
My daughter-in-law said, "Three days ago, I came back from outside, and found you lying in the yard with two taels of silver beside you, and I hurried forward and found that you were dead. As for how you died, no one can say. ā
I wondered and said, "I have been working in an official office for the past three days, am I working for the officials of the underworld?" ā
At this time, everyone saw that I was not a corpse, but a return to the yang, so they slowly came around, they heard me say to work for the ghost, all talked about it, at this time an old man came over, I saw that it was the second master of the village, the second master was a character back then, and he had seen a lot of the world in the north and south, and the second master asked me what I had encountered in the past three days, and who I had done for whom. As soon as I heard it, I told it exactly what I had encountered in the past three days.
After hearing this, the second master thought for a while and said: "You did work for the ghost for three days, to be precise, it should be the work for the gods, in the place of seventy miles away from here, there is a city god temple, which was later destroyed in the war, the city god temple was very effective, so there are many good men and women." According to the style you said, it must be the City God Temple, and you have worked for the City God Master for three days. ā
In fact, I'm still thinking that this world is so big, there are no surprises, and I, a mortal, can actually go over there to work for the city god. Therefore, I think that the matter of your aunt is very strange, and if you see your aunt again, you must not be reckless. ā
I listened and nodded, and we dug down another foot, and Uncle Zhang said, "Don't dig boldly, this grievance has not sunk to the ground at all." Let's go back, and when we go back, we will discuss how to find your aunt. ā
So we lit the torch and burned the hanging rope, and then walked towards the village, and when we arrived at the village, a group of people were talking there, and then I heard a girl, pulling her throat and saying: "I will tell you a big thing, a big thing, do you want to hear it?" ā
I saw that this person was a long-tongued woman in the village, because the long black is not slippery, the mouth is poor and poisonous, everyone gave her a nickname called the black eagle (crow), as long as she said it in her mouth, good words became bad words, as soon as everyone heard that the black eagle had something to say, they gathered around and let the black eagle say. The black eagle said, "You don't know, do you? The daughter-in-law of the old Yang family has now become a bloody ghost, if any of you have a pregnant daughter-in-law, you have to pay attention, maybe when you give birth to a child, the bloody ghost will go to your house with a cloth bag, and then there will be two deaths. ā
This black owl said really vicious, everyone doesn't know, at that time, the blood paste ghost is one of the most taboo ghosts, it is said that the blood paste ghost is a woman who died due to difficult childbirth, when she died, she was too resentful, and she did not want to re-enter the reincarnation, wandering in the wilderness, carrying a blood cloth bag in her hand, which contained bloody things, as long as there was a child, the blood paste ghost ran to the side of the mother, and looked at you with those extremely terrifying eyes.
As soon as the black eagle finished saying this, everyone said that she was talking nonsense, and the black eagle said loudly: "I didn't talk nonsense, when my sister-in-law gave birth to a child, I saw it, if you don't believe it, I'll tell you about it, when our village was called Lingzhuang, our village was surrounded by graves, and most of the people in our village were the descendants of the mausoleum keepers. Because our village is often haunted, like big black guys, wall ghosts, and small ghosts, maybe we will run into them. When I was a child, I often went to the cemetery to steal the food of the dead, so since I was a child, I had yin and yang eyes, and I could see many things that others couldn't see. ā
At this time, someone said: "Black eagle, don't talk about those useless things, talk about that bloody ghost." ā
The black eagle said, "Don't worry, don't worry, I'll just say it." When I was a daughter-in-law, my sister-in-law once gave birth and asked me to help in the house. The midwife I found was a very experienced midwife, after I came, I asked me to help find scissors, boil water, and wait for the midwife, you didn't know back then, my sister-in-law gave birth to a child, how much can I call, I complained in my heart, looking for a daughter-in-law is not looking for a big butt, giving birth to a child is so troublesome, you look at me giving birth, like playing, it was born. ā
When this black eagle hurt people, he didn't forget to talk about his own good, and everyone asked the black eagle not to talk nonsense quickly. The black eagle coughed and continued: "That my sister-in-law gave birth, she was comfortable, lying on the bed and humming, I was called by the midwife like a rabbit, busy with everything, it was the middle of the night, I was sleepy, my eyelids couldn't be raised, my sister-in-law couldn't give birth, the midwife was anxious, and said to my sister-in-law: "Hurry up and give birth, this piece can be a bloody ghost, in case you meet ......"
As soon as the midwife said that the blood paste ghost, it almost scared my sister-in-law to death, and I looked down on my sister-in-law for her little courage, so I went to prepare hot water with a basin, and when I opened the door and went out, I saw a blood paste ghost standing at the gate. ā