Chapter 10: Tsing Yi (I)
According to them, on the fifth floor of the boys' dormitory in Block B last night, someone saw a blue ghost floating around the window.
Some people say it was a plastic bag blown up by the wind, some people say that the student drank too much and was dazzled, but more people subconsciously linked this incident to two previous suicides.
Others don't know, how can I not know, it's clear that the female ghost in blue is doing tricks, it seems that she is looking for the next substitute ghost, and I can't figure out that the next one to come to find is me.
Thinking of this, I only felt cold sweat all over my body, and I didn't know whether I was hungry or scared, and I stood in a trance for a while, until the voice of the cafeteria aunt urging me to order food quickly sounded, and my thoughts were pulled back to the real world.
I was still thinking about eating, and I didn't care about eating by myself, so I took the meal according to what Luo Xiaoxiao asked for and went back to the dormitory directly.
The three of them didn't go out in the dormitory, and when they saw me coming back with dinner, they all greeted me and took them over, because I was a little depressed about what had happened in the cafeteria just now, and went back to my bed without saying a word.
Lin Qian saw that I was not very happy, so she persuaded: "Lan Lan, what's wrong with you, it seems that you are not very happy." Her tone was always so soft that it made me feel as comfortable as a cool breeze blowing in July. I told her that it was okay, but I was a little tired, and I stopped talking.
Luo Xiaoxiao said while inhaling the hot dry noodles: "In my opinion, it must be that Zhang Nifeng who bullied Lan Lan, and I said that he is not a good thing." The noodles in her mouth hadn't been swallowed yet, and her words were slurred.
I leaned over to my bed and said to her weakly, "It's really okay, I just think people are too fragile, and if you say no, it's gone." ”
Of course, they knew what I was talking about, and they stopped talking one by one, and when I saw that the atmosphere was a little heavy, I forced my spirit and said, "Okay, it's really okay, I just think that we are too small for this world, you say, is there really a ghost in this world?" "I don't know why I'm asking them this question, but I feel more comfortable asking it.
At the mention of this, Da Wei was obviously more interested, and showed her head from the top bunk and said: "I don't know, but there are many such stories in our north, and the older generation believes in this more, and it is much more important to do things." ”
I hurriedly asked her what she was going to say.
Seeing that I was interested, she simply climbed down from the top bunk and sat on my bed and told me a story she had heard her grandfather tell her.
Although she is a native of Beijing, her ancestral home is in Hebei, and her grandfather was a native of Hebei before he fled the famine to Beijing, which is the real experience of his grandfather in his hometown in Hebei when he was a child.
At that time, her grandfather was a pair of walnuts as soon as he landed, followed by a twin brother who fell out of the mother's womb, and the poor clank in the family couldn't even open the pot, where could he afford two children, and it happened that the mother-in-law of the landlord's family in the village did not give birth, so she passed her grandfather over as a son and raised.
The landlord father that her grandfather recognized was not a bad person, and he was also pampered as his own, and often sent some rice grain to help her grandfather's family.
At that time, the landlord had money, land, and grain at home, so he liked to raise some singing and trick-playing artists when he was idle, and her grandfather's family was no exception.
Different from the people of Beijing who love to listen to Peking Opera, Hebei folk customs are simple and prevailing in Hebei Bangzi, her grandfather's family raised such a small troupe of Hebei Bangzi, and every New Year's funeral and wedding must be pulled out to sing a few days of big opera, different from Peking Opera, Hebei Bangzi is divided into four elements: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Ugly, of which Dan Xing is divided into five categories: Tsing Yi, Hua Dan, Wu Dan, Lao Dan and Cai Dan.
Among them, Tsing Yi is also called "Zhengdan", generally on stage is to wear a black costume, after applying makeup, the black sideburns and face covered by fat powder always reveal an indescribable charm, plus the village stage singing is generally busy during the day after the farm work before singing at night, every time Tsing Yi comes on stage, the unique singing voice is opened, accompanied by the atmosphere created by musical instruments such as banhu, suona, and three strings, the children in the village will be scared to leave the adults at home half a step.
One year, the head of the village held a funeral, and invited her grandfather's troupe to help perform at night, and everything went well, and it was already midnight after the play was finished and the stage was cleaned up.
Because it is his own troupe, he has also stayed overnight before, and the landlord didn't say much, arranged the room and ordered someone to send some food to the past, and then went back to the house to sleep.
But in the middle of the night, her grandfather suddenly heard a woman's scream from the other side of the hut in the house, her grandfather was still young at that time and did not know what had happened, so frightened that he hid in the bed and covered his head and did not dare to go out, and his landlord father put on his clothes and beckoned the men of the family to go to the hut to find out, but as soon as everyone entered the house, they were all dumbfounded.
In this room lived the young female actor who sang Tsing Yi, because she was a woman in the whole troupe today, so she occupied a room alone, but at this time, where was there any female drama on the earthen kang in the house, only a naked female corpse with a shaved face remained.
There was a death in the head of the house, this is a big deal, the landlord is quite calm, knowing that this matter is not trivial but not sloppy, so he hurriedly called the man to hand the lamp, and he took a closer look at it by the light in the house.
He looked around the room, and suddenly found a black cotton shoe lying crookedly on the kang next to the female corpse, and immediately ordered the man to take the shoe, and took it in his hand to see that it was the size of the child's foot, he knew that this was the only clue, so he led people to search the house of the child in the village overnight.
When I found the house of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy nicknamed Crooked Eyes, I found that he only had one shoe under the bed.
The crooked eyes were picked up from the bed and slipped out, first scolded, saw that the person came and knew that he couldn't please him, so he was quieter, his wrinkled mother and the lame father were on the side to talk and persuade but couldn't stand the landlord's family, and he could only watch his son being put on the street by a group of people.
For a while, the street was lively, several guys beat the gong, shouted and shouted, the people in the village were woken up one by one from the house to see what was going on, and her grandfather was also carried out by his landlord's mother to watch the excitement.
The crooked eye is also a twisted seed, he was held up and couldn't move, and he still used his slightly crooked thief eyes to look at the crowd and shouted viciously: "Why catch me!" Why are you arresting me? ”
The landlord recounted to the villagers what had happened, how he found someone dead in the house, how he found the crooked-eyed cotton shoes next to the corpse, and how he brought people out of the house to catch the crooked eye, and reported everything to the villagers.
At that time, the temperament of people was so simple and honest, I heard that the crooked eyes killed people and scratched people's faces, a good big girl was just gone, and suddenly the spittle stars flew sideways, almost drowned the crooked eyes, the villagers, you and I said a word, they all thought that the crooked eyes were afraid of the dress of Tsing Yi singing, so they killed the female actor and ruined people's faces.
Where have I seen this kind of formation, most of the arrogance that was still arrogant just now was extinguished at once, and he looked at the crowd of cold-eyed bystanders and explained: "It's not me who killed, it's not me who killed, I didn't kill anyone, I'm not afraid of Tsing Yi." ”
"Why didn't you kill the dead, why did your shoes run to the dead man's bed?" The crowd didn't know who shouted.
When his father and mother saw this situation, they refused to give up, pulled the landlord's pants and knelt and kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Master, my son didn't kill anyone, my son didn't kill anyone." ”
The physical evidence is conclusive, where are you willing to listen to their explanations, they have spat at the crooked eyes, the landlord master instructed the men to pull the two elders aside, and said to the crowd: "Debt repayment, killing people to pay off, that is the rule set by the ancestors, now there is such a bad obstacle in our village is really a shame to the ancestors, and he will be escorted to the official office at dawn!" Hearing this, for a while, the voices of harmony in the crowd came and went.
Crooked eyes were deducted from a high hat that insulted the ancestors, and heard everyone say that they were going to escort themselves to the official master, he was ashamed and wronged in his heart, and a stream of blood rushed straight to the heavenly spirit cover, and suddenly broke free of the guy who pressed his shoulder, he shouted: "I didn't kill anyone, you wronged me!" He slammed straight into the gray brick wall next to him, and in an instant, blood splattered on the spot, and a young life was lost.
Everyone was stunned by this sudden change, only crooked eyes, his father and mother rushed up to hug their son's corpse and cried.
It is said that the child is the lump of flesh that fell from the mother's own body, and now the white-haired person sends the black-haired person is really heart-wrenching, and the old couple can not hate their son who has worked hard for more than ten years to be forced to death!
At this time, the crowd of onlookers also began to panic, but they didn't expect two lives to be killed in the village in a row, and just when everyone was stunned, the old couple holding the crooked corpse stood up suddenly.
The crooked-eyed lame father pointed at the crowd with calluses and gritted his teeth and said, "You forced my son to death, and our family will not let you go!" As soon as the words fell, the old couple hit the wall with their heads, and they were angry on the spot!