Chapter 25: I'm Waiting for You
What's going on?
The godmother said that this mark only changes when it absorbs the soul, and I didn't do anything. Why is this all of a sudden?
As I thought so, my body was already sweating in pain, and I sat on the ground with my arms crossed and gasped for air, and the mark was like a red-hot iron at the moment, burning my flesh and blood.
Seeing that I had suddenly become like this, my uncle didn't care about staring at the crack in the rock crevice, so he quickly squatted down and asked with concern, "Xiaozang, what's wrong with you?" β
At this moment, the mountain monkey in the crevice of the rock suddenly let out a roar, and rushed out with the high-temperature flames of the liquefied gas tank and spray gun, and it was covered in flames, grinning at my uncle and me.
Two policemen slammed their pistols at the mountain monkey, but when the bullet hit the mountain monkey, it continued to rush forward as if it had no feeling.
The onlookers exclaimed, and when the uncle heard the sound, he quickly got up, picked up the old tree vine cane of the godmother, and rounded it and hit it with a stick at the mountain monkey that pounced.
I originally thought that the mountain monkey was so powerful that my uncle's stick might not be effective, but what surprised me was that the mountain monkey didn't dodge, and was beaten to the ground by my uncle with a stick, and then he couldn't stand up.
It was as if it had lost all its strength, lying on the ground twitching and writhing, the flames on its body would burn fiercely, and the flesh and blood on its body would emit a pungent stench under the flames.
This thing was too close to me, and the ashes from the flames on its body were blown on me by the mountain wind, and I subconsciously wanted to dodge, but the pain in my arm made me weak, and I couldn't get up at all.
The fly ash with residual heat fell on my face, just when I opened my mouth to breathe, I immediately choked and coughed, I could even feel the fly ash into my lungs, I don't know if it was a psychological effect, I felt that the fly ash seemed to follow the body towards the mark on my left arm.
The tingling sensation in my arm gradually disappeared, and only a blister on my skin proved that what I had just experienced was not a hallucination.
The mountain monkey was quickly burned into a scorched shell, and when my uncle poked it with an old tree cane, the scorched shell turned into a cloud of flying ash and drifted away with the mountain wind.
The villagers let out a burst of cheers, and even the eyes of the two policemen who looked at their uncle were full of admiration, but the uncle frowned and couldn't help but whisper: "This is too easy, right?" How does it always feel that something is wrong? β
The pain dissipated, and I finally regained some strength, stood up and looked at the crevice where the flames were still burning, and my heart was also confused - the mountain monkey turned into a female corpse was done like this? Then don't I have to worry about this flower mark on the other side?
Just when I was secretly relieved, a green figure on the mountain road in the distance suddenly caught my attention, the figure looked so familiar, my heart suddenly plenched, I walked two steps quickly, came to a big rock, looked at the side of the mountain road.
On the mountain road, the woman in the green dress turned her head and smiled brightly at me, her green dress and embroidered red flowers were unusually conspicuous.
When I saw the woman's face, I only felt a chill down my spine - who was this not the female corpse? It's just that she didn't turn into a mountain monkey and was burned to death? Doesn't this mountain monkey have anything to do with her?
Impossible, I saw the godmother hit her forehead with a cane, and the mountain monkey's forehead was also broken, so many clues show that she is the mountain monkey, but the mountain monkey was burned to death, why is she okay?
After the female corpse turned her head and laughed, she disappeared into the mountains and forests in a flash, I still wanted to catch up and find out, but I accidentally stepped on a stone, my feet slipped, and I almost fell to the ground.
Uncle came over and asked, "Xiaozang, why do you look like you're not giving up, what's wrong?" β
"Uncle, did you see a woman in a green dress just now?"
The uncle shook his head and said that he didn't see it: "I know you are under a lot of psychological pressure, is it wrong to be dazzled?" β
Definitely not dazzling. It must be the female corpse doing evil.
I subconsciously looked down at my left arm, and then I realized that the imprint of the flower on the other side had changed, and the barbed serrations on one of the petals seemed to have become much longer, and more vivid, compared with the other petals, the difference was not half a star.
How so? Did I do something wrong that made the imprint change? Thinking of the words of the godmother, my heart felt like falling into an ice hole, cold and cold.
My uncle didn't know about the female corpse, he thought I was worried about something else, so he patted me on the shoulder: "Let's go down the mountain first, your father should be sober, and I will persuade him well during dinner, they are all a family, what can I not overcome?" β
We followed the villagers down the mountain, and when we returned to my grandmother's house, I saw my father sitting on a chair in the courtyard with a gloomy face and smoking.
I stepped forward and weakly shouted, "Dad......"
Dad looked up at me, his eyes were red and bloodshot, but this time he didn't say anything don't let me call him Dad, he just snorted.
I'm a little at a loss: Dad's attitude, do you want me anymore?
"Xiao Zang, go to the kitchen to boil water and heat up a few dishes I made, and I'll drink some wine with your father." Uncle commanded.
I understood my uncle's intentions, so I went to the kitchen, put a few dishes on the steamer, steamed them over high heat, and brought them to the table in the courtyard.
My uncle pulled me to sit down: "Xiaozang, you are also an adult, come and have a few drinks with me and your father." β
I glanced at my dad and saw that he was not responding, so I sat down a little uneasily.
After my uncle greeted and drank twice, he kicked me under the table with his foot, and I immediately understood, picked up the wine bottle, got up and poured wine for my father: "Dad, no matter what, you are my father in my heart, you and my mother, I will also support my old age." β
Dad's hand trembled, he picked up the wine glass and drank it all, put down the wine glass, he was already in tears: "Xiao Zang, Dad's heart is distressed, it hurts a lot, Dad doesn't dislike you, it's ...... It's ......"
Dad said this, and he couldn't say any more. I understood his feelings, and the son who thought he was his own son suddenly became a stranger of unknown origin, and no one could stand it.
I put down the bottle, knelt on the ground, and said to my father, "Dad, don't worry, no matter what, I am your son and my mother." β
"Good...... Good...... When you say that, Dad is relieved. β
My dad and I were both drunk, and in a hazy state of drunkenness, I seemed to have said a lot to my dad, but I didn't remember what he said.
I don't know how long I slept, I suddenly woke up, but found myself lying in a dark place where I couldn't see my fingers, I wanted to move my body, but I couldn't move at all, I touched around, I found myself lying in a box, my body was surrounded by viscous liquid, so sticky that I couldn't move.
Where is this? Who got me here? What did he want to do with me in this box?
I was so frightened that I wanted to open my mouth to shout, but I couldn't open my mouth at all, let alone make a sound.
What's going on? Just as I was in doubt, a low voice suddenly came from outside the box.
The voice was very old, reciting obscure scriptures, listening to the scriptures, I suddenly felt lazy, like the sun basking in the sun for an hour on a winter afternoon, so lazy that my bones were crispy, I didn't want to move, I just wanted to sleep lazily.
Just as I was about to fall into a slumber, the old voice of the chanting of the scriptures stopped, followed by the sound of paper money burningβdon't ask me how I could hear it, I could just feel the paper money burning outside the box.
After the paper money was burned, the three pillars of fragrance were ignited, and the fragrance permeated and entered my nose, and a sense of happiness and satisfaction spread in my heart.
What's wrong with me?
At this time, the old voice sounded again: "Ji Zeming, quickly let go of the obsession in your heart and reincarnate." It's all your life, it's not that I don't want to save you, you don't blame me. β
Ji Zeming?! Isn't that the name I had before I changed my name? Am I dead? No, I'm Ji Zang, not Ji Zeming. Ji Zeming died early.
It's just, why did I suddenly become Ji Zeming? Am I going to die? Or is it that I am Ji Zeming, this is a memory that I have forgotten before?
Suddenly a lightning bolt flashed in my heart, and I finally understood, what kind of box was this place I was lying in, it should be a coffin, and the viscous liquid under my body was those black sludge, the owner of this old voice must be a godmother, maybe this was the situation when she worshiped Ji Zeming's spirit card.
Just, why am I here? Why did you experience what happened to Ji Zeming?
In the midst of my thoughts, the godmother's voice sounded again, another obscure scripture, but I understood the meaning, it was the scripture that let the ghost sleep in peace.
As the scriptures were recited, my consciousness began to fall into darkness uncontrollably, and my soul fell asleep, what would happen? Completely dead?
No, I don't want to fall asleep, I don't want to die. I cried out in my heart and struggled desperately.
In my madness, I seemed to push something, it was a thick wooden door, and after pushing it open, I rushed out desperately, running forward in the darkness.
I don't know how long I ran, but I stopped at an intersection, a dirt road in the country, and in the middle of the intersection was a child squatting in the mud, playing in the mud, and next to him was a lantern.
The horse lantern has been extinct in the countryside for more than 20 years, and I suddenly became curious: "Little friend, what are you doing?" β
"I'm waiting for you!" The kid turned around, and he had a face exactly like mine, and he smiled brightly at me.