My name is Wang Luo, a native of Guangxi, and my hometown is in a small county.

There are always some legends of gods and ghosts in the old villages of the small county town, and people pass it on from mouth to mouth, what water ghosts are looking for, barren mountain ghosts crying, and July 14 ghosts return to the door.

When I was a child, I lived in an old house, and in the summer, I could always hear the sound of talking, coughing, and so on.

I don't know if I really heard it at that time, or if I heard too many of these black jokes and scared myself.

There are many legends, and there are naturally more rules.

There are two major avoidances in the village, one is the deep mountains in the north, and the other is the old blind woman who lives in the deep mountains in the north.

Where is the mountains to the north?

We have an unwritten rule here, but anyone who dies under the age of age is not allowed to be buried thickly, and a thin coffin and a simple tablet are all right. In the early years, when everyone was poor and couldn't afford to buy a coffin, and whose children died early, they dug pits deep in the mountains north and buried them, and even smaller ones, rolled up the mats and threw them into the mountains.

That place is a gathering place for black jokes in the village, and there are many lonely ghosts.

Let's talk about the old blind woman.

She is not from the village, and she came suddenly at some point, not for long.

She was extremely ugly, bordering on horror. The ravine-crisscrossed face was covered with dense age spots, the two blind eyes were swollen like eggs, and the mouth was full of rotten yellow teeth.

He was bent up, skinny, with pimples on his skin, pus flowed out as soon as the weather was hot, and a foul smell could be smelled from afar.

At one time, it was thought that she had leprosy, and she was usually cautious and did not dare to approach. The old blind woman was also very conscious, and as soon as she came, she went directly to the deep mountains in the north, and rarely came out.

Even so, people were still in constant fear, planning when to get rid of her.

Ever since the day the old blind woman appeared, my grandfather told me not to stay away from her, not to go near her, and not to go to the mountains in the north.

I listened to my grandfather very much, I didn't have parents, I lived with my grandfather, and people said that I was adopted by my grandfather.

It is very common to raise children in the village, and people always have one reason or another that they can't raise them, but usually girls are the majority, because of the old idea of preference for sons, boys will be raised as much as possible, no matter how hard they are.

In my memory, my grandfather was a very literate person, and I didn't believe it myself, and he taught me the first English sentence in my life.

My grandfather only went to elementary school and never went out of the county in his life, so I never understood where my grandfather learned English.

Sometimes in retrospect, I even suspect that he wandered outside in a dream to steal the teacher, after all, he is not only educated, but also quite capable.

In the village, whether it is adults or children, or grandfather's peers, they all call him "Ah Gong", which is a high praise, and only the Taoist Gong in the village has such treatment.

Grandpa is not a Taoist father, and he does not hold funeral practices, and when people encounter something that Taoist can't handle, they will come to grandpa.

I often followed my grandfather to various villages and households to see people's affairs, and the most common thing I heard from my grandfather was: "This is a disease, go to the hospital." ”

So people would go to the hospital, and the sickness that had been tortured for a long time, no matter how many rituals they had done, and how much water they had drunk, would be cured in the hospital. The price is still cheaper than the method.

Still, people are willing to ask their grandfather to come over and have a look.

However, on one occasion, Grandpa changed his usual rhetoric. It's a given. Because that time, it was a young man from the next village who suddenly died.

I know the man who died, I usually call him Sixth Brother, and Grandpa calls him Sixth Son. He is the sixth in line, and he has five older sisters.

There is an idea of inheritance in the village, and the old couple gave birth to so many daughters for such a son, so they pointed to this son to pass on the family lineage and provide for the elderly. All of a sudden, it was gone.

The two of them cried for a day and a night, heartbroken, and felt that their child had died unjustly and strangely, so they found my grandfather.

That time, I followed my grandfather as usual. Because those who die early are not allowed to be buried thickly, there are hardly any mourners. The body had not yet been placed in the coffin, but was placed on the bed in the room, maintaining the appearance of the original discovery.

When Grandpa came to the bedside, his face changed suddenly when he saw the corpse on the bed.

The corpse on the bed was very white, as if it had been soaked in water, but it was not wrinkled at all, and it was different from soaking in water. The two eyes are sunken and black, which is extremely strange.

When I unfastened my clothes, I saw a black mark on my left chest.

The two of them also found out at this time, and they were shocked, and the aunt shouted: "This ...... Is this an old ghost who has taken out his heart? ”

Grandpa told me to go out first.

I didn't know why, I didn't dare to disobey my grandfather's wishes, and ran out of the house. But I was still curious about how the sixth brother died. So he lightly picked up the crack in the window and wanted to peek.

Grandpa looked directly at the crack in the window, looked into my eyes with a cold face, and scolded angrily. I was so trembling that I didn't dare to stay any longer, so I hurriedly ran away.

Grandpa never beat and scolded me, and this was the first time he had murdered me.

I was bored in the house.

It didn't take long for Grandpa to come out of the room, his face was so ugly, he didn't say anything, he took me and walked out.

On the way back, my grandfather touched my head: "In the future, try to go out as little as possible, stay at home, and don't go to the mountains in the north, stay away from the old woman." ”

At the end, he sighed softly: "You've grown so big......"

I often heard my grandfather say this to me, and for as long as I can remember, he would touch my head, sigh, and whisper such a sentence from time to time. Probably because I'm physically strong, I eat a lot and grow fast.

I can't sleep at night, and when I close my eyes, I look like the sixth brother. I don't know if I'm scared, I always feel very uncomfortable choking in my heart. How did the sixth brother die?

There was a rustle of footsteps from outside, as if someone was walking in the mountains. Our house is on the edge of the village, far from the rest of the house, and is surrounded by mountains on three sides.

I got out of bed, went to the window, and opened a slit to look out. Then he saw a faint green fire moving in the mountains and forests.

I was startled, but when I looked closely, it turned out that someone was walking in the mountains with a blue oil lamp.

It's an old blind woman! Behind her was a vague figure, most of her body was in the oil light, but only a hazy shadow could shine. But the fat figure immediately made me recognize this man.

It's the sixth brother!

Isn't the sixth brother dead? How is it still alive? I also followed the old blind woman to the mountains!

The sixth brother walked lightly, well-behaved, and didn't make trouble at all, not like him at all.

Grandpa usually doesn't allow me to get close to the old blind woman, and if the sixth brother follows the old blind woman into the mountains, it will be okay!

I had the courage to grab the window and shout over there: "Sixth brother! Don't go! Come back! ”

The figure of the sixth brother paused, and the old blind woman turned her head, her terrifying face became more and more hideous and weird under the shroud of blue light. I shuddered.

Seeing that the sixth brother still hadn't come back, he had the courage to shout again: "Come back quickly!" Don't go with her! Grandpa said he couldn't get near her! ”

The window slammed shut with a tremendous force. I was pulled away from the window by a hand.

Grandpa looked at me with a dark face and scolded me angrily: "What are you shouting about! ”

"The sixth brother wants to follow the old blind woman to the mountains!" I said hurriedly.

"Your sixth brother is dead! That's not your sixth brother, go to sleep! Don't open the windows again! ”

"I really saw it!"

"Sleep! If you don't obey again, beware of me hitting you! ”

I didn't dare to speak up when I heard that my grandfather was going to beat me, and although he never hit me, I was still afraid of being beaten by him. If he hits me, he's really angry.

I obediently lay down on the bed and slept, and my grandfather did not leave, sitting in my room.

There were bursts of clear or faint footsteps in the mountains and forests, flickering far and near, as if someone was approaching and walking away, wandering.

The next night, my grandfather told me to go to his house and sleep.

A few days later, when I was playing in the village with a few friends, I heard a sound of blowing and blowing in the distance, this is someone has passed away!

The sound is far away, not from our village. A few children ran curiously to the entrance of the village, which came from a neighboring village.

Only when an adult dies can there be such a blowing and thumping sound.

The sound rang for most of the day, and then it disappeared in the afternoon, indicating that this was a simple burial, and the deceased was no more than sixty years old.

In the evening, I heard rustling footsteps again. I quietly got out of bed, lay on the crack of the window and opened out, the faint oil light moved in the mountains and forests, and the old blind woman walked slowly into the mountains like last time, followed by a tall figure, I don't know who it was.

Syllable! The head was suddenly struck. Grandpa grabbed me and walked away from the window: "Look! I'll spank you until your ass blooms when you see it later! ”

Grandpa dragged me back to bed: "Sleep! ”

This was the first time my grandfather had beaten me, and I didn't dare to breathe, so I quickly lay down on the bed and went to sleep.

But his brain couldn't calm down, who was the one who followed the old blind woman into the mountain? How was the sixth brother last time?

Later, after listening to the discussion of uncles and aunts, I learned that the person who died in the neighboring village was a middle-aged man of forty years old, tall and strong, without illness and pain, and suddenly died like this, and he was also white, his eyes were sunken and black, and there was a black mark on his chest.

People whispered that it was an old ghost, which was taken out by the old ghost.

The dead man's family seems to have come to invite his grandfather, but the grandfather said that he didn't go, so the matter was over.

Not long after this, I heard that another village had died, this time a baby in swaddling clothes!

He was also white, his eyes were sunken and black, and there was a black mark on his chest.

The baby's parents were young people with a bit of culture, so they called the police.

Listening to the sisters-in-law's discussions, the police said that he died suddenly, nothing unusual, and the heart is still there.

That night, I heard rustling footsteps again, this time with the intermittent cry of a baby.

That baby was taken away by the old blind woman! I thought to myself.

I thought about it, but I was afraid that my grandfather would beat me, so I had to endure it.

The sound of footsteps and the staccato cry of a baby flickered and flickered, lingering, but refusing to leave. Sometimes I even feel like the other person is right outside the window, and I can faintly hear the hoarse coughing sound.