02: Who is she?

Just a few days after my eighteenth birthday, I went to an Internet café all night, and when I came out of the Internet café in the morning, I felt weak and couldn't lift my spirits.

When I woke up in the afternoon, I struggled to get out of bed, and when I walked out of the room, I was so sick that I crawled back into bed and fell asleep.

My mother woke me up after dark, and I struggled a few times but couldn't get up, and I felt like I hadn't slept for days and nights, and I couldn't tell how sleepy I was.

I slept until the next morning, and I slept for a day and a night, and I should have been full of energy, but after I got up for a while, I was sleepy again, and my eyelids were fighting.

The whole body is weak, I can't lift my spirit, I feel drowsy, it feels very similar to the soul loss before, I think it won't be a soul loss, but when I think about it, I think it's unlikely, because I haven't taken off the cloth bag that my grandmother gave me, and I've been carrying it all these years, and I haven't seen a lost soul.

In the evening, when my mother came back from work, she was angry when she saw that I was still sleeping, and I said that it was not that I wanted to sleep, but that I didn't know why I wanted to sleep so much, and I couldn't lift my spirits.

When my mother heard this, she asked me, "Did you take off the bag your grandmother gave you again?" ”

I said no, I came home and that's it, and my mother went to the old house to find my grandmother.

When my grandmother came to meet me, she stared at me and asked, "Ziwu, are you sure you haven't taken off the cloth bag I gave you?" ”

I said no, and my grandmother came up and looked at me, then picked up the cloth bag I was wearing, looked at it, and muttered, "Weird, how can this be?" ”

After that, my grandmother sat next to me and muttered as if she were wondering why I was like this all of a sudden.

It seems that I couldn't figure out anything, my grandmother asked my mother to bring me a kitchen knife, and this time the kitchen knife didn't stand like the last two times I threw it, but threw it three times in a row, and each time I threw it out, it was lying flat on the ground.

My mother asked my grandmother what was going on, and she shook her head, not quite sure why I was like this.

After waiting for a while, my grandmother told me to lie down on the floor in the living room, and my mother would bring the ashes and scatter them around me.

When I saw my grandmother come in with a bowl of water, I asked her what she was going to do, and she said that she would ask God with chopsticks.

The bowl filled with water was placed in front of my head, and my grandmother brought a chopstick that I used to eat on a daily basis, first on my eyebrows, whispering in my mouth, and then tapping twice on my shoulders.

Then, the grandmother hung the chopsticks above the mouth of the bowl and let go of her hand, only to see that the chopsticks that had fallen into the bowl did not fall down, but were standing straight in the bowl.

I was wondering how this could happen, when a biting cold wind blew in from the door, and I shivered with coldness, and my consciousness began to be foggy, as if I was half asleep in a dream.

When I woke up again, I was already back in bed, and when my mother saw me open her eyes, she asked, "Ziwu, think about it, did you meet any strange people before you came back yesterday?" ”

Weird people?

I was puzzled and asked, what is weird?

Grandma interjected and said, "It's the person who looks like something is wrong for you at first glance." ”

After thinking about it, I still can't think of when I met someone who was wrong, so I said I didn't remember, and my grandmother said angrily, "Hurry up and think about it." ”

Seeing grandma wasn't like a joke, I didn't dare to say anything, and carefully thought about the people I had met before yesterday.

Thinking about it, I suddenly thought of someone.

When I was working all night at the Internet café, I had an urgent need to urinate in the middle of the night, so I ran outside the Internet café to solve it. When I returned to the door of the Internet café, I suddenly bumped into a long-haired woman dressed in red.

The woman had just lowered her head, and I was about to apologize when she raised her head, so frightened that I choked on the words in my throat.

The woman had a palm-sized red birthmark on the right side of her face, like a red mask, and where there was no birthmark, her face was very white, as white as paper, and her eyes were staring at me straight at me, and she saw that I was hairy all over my body, and hurried into the Internet café.

"The birthmark on her face is not like this?"

Before I finished speaking, my grandmother drew her hand on her face, as if she knew what the birthmark on a woman's face looked like.

At that time, the light was not bright, and I was frightened by the woman, I said I couldn't remember, and my grandmother didn't ask, and sat thoughtfully.

Suddenly, the mother broke the calm and nervously asked the grandmother, "Is it her?" ”

I don't know what my mother knew, so she sat across from me, and then I realized that she didn't look very good since I said that she had bumped into the woman in red.

Grandma's face suddenly turned pale: "What is she and not her, what do you say." ”

After being counted, my mother looked at me and got up to leave, and my grandmother also looked at me, staring at me blankly, her eyes were indescribably strange, as if she had something to say, I asked what was wrong, and she shook her head again and said nothing.

A wave of sleepiness and nausea hit, I asked if I had lost my soul again, my grandmother said about the same, I said why not like the last two times, and she said that this time the situation was different, and she had to change the way.

In order for me to sleep peacefully, my grandmother drew a figure that looked like gossip on the ground next to the bed, saying that it was a magic circle, writing my birthday on yellow paper, pressing it with a copper stove, and lighting three sticks of incense.

I don't know if it's the mental effect or the things my grandmother made work, but after a while, I felt a lot more comfortable.

Early the next morning, my grandmother said that she was going to do something for me, that she was going to the town to buy something, and that before I went out, I couldn't go out of the yard no matter what I did.

I began to sort out the whole thing, analyzing whether the sudden loss of soul would have something to do with the woman in red who bumped into the door of the Internet café. After all, it was good before entering the Internet café, but when I got home, I started to feel uncomfortable.

After thinking about it, I think that the sudden change like this is probably really related to the woman in red, and my mother and grandmother obviously know the woman with a red birthmark on her face, otherwise how could my mother react so much when she heard that I bumped into the woman in red?

Thinking back to the woman in red, I don't remember such a person in the village, but I feel like I've seen it somewhere, but I can't remember where I've seen it.

At noon, the village elder Liu hurriedly came to ask if his grandmother was there, saying that he was looking for her urgently.

I said I could tell me something, but he shook his head again.

As soon as the village chief was about to leave, I thought of the woman and asked, "Uncle Liu, did any woman in our village have a red birthmark on the right side of her face before?" ”

"The woman with a red birthmark on the right side of her face? Have you seen it? ”

The village chief stared at me in surprise, and his stunned eyes looked at me very uncomfortable.

When I said that I had just met two nights before, he knew that I had just finished speaking, and his eyes widened, and his voice was raised, as if he didn't believe it, and asked, "Have you really seen it?" ”

I said I had seen it, and I thought the village chief would say something, but I knew that he looked at me with complicated eyes and sighed, and left without looking back.

Looking at the back of him leaving in a hurry, I think he knew the woman in red with a red birthmark on her face, otherwise he wouldn't have asked me one after another if I had seen it. I just couldn't figure out why he looked at me and sighed.

Towards evening, the grandmothers came back with a white coffin.

I've seen both red and black coffins, but it's the first time I've seen a white one, so I asked what I was doing with a white coffin, and my grandmother said I was doing things.

While he was packing up the things he had bought, the village chief came, and after whispering a few words to his grandmother, she hurried into the house and took the cloth bag she never left and went out.

At nine o'clock in the evening, my grandmother came back tired, and my mother asked what was wrong, and my grandmother looked at me, as if it was because I was there, and she endured the words that came to her lips again.

Although my grandmother didn't say anything specific, my mother seemed to know what was going on, and she looked at me from time to time, and her eyes were the same as when my grandmother looked at me last night, and she felt very complicated.

Although there were three people sitting in the room, no one spoke, and the atmosphere was very strange, and I felt sleepy, so I went back to my room to sleep. After lying down for a while, I was dazed, and the feeling of being stared at reappeared, and it was so clear that I was so frightened that I immediately woke up.

As soon as I looked up, I saw a red shadow flashing outside the back window, and I couldn't help but scream, my mother and grandmother rushed in and asked what was wrong, and I said that someone was staring at me sleeping in the back window.

"Mom, come and see."

My mother, who went to the back window to look, suddenly exclaimed, I hurriedly got out of bed, and when I looked at my back, I suddenly felt a chill.

On the windowsill of the rear window, there is a pair of black palm prints.

The fingertips of the palmprints tilted inward, towards my room, like a man watching me sleep on the windowsill.

Thinking of the red shadow I had glimpsed earlier, I subconsciously thought of the woman in red.

"Mom, is that her? Is she really back? ”

My mother's face turned white, and I asked her who she was, if it was the woman in red with a red birthmark on her face. My mother didn't reply to me, but looked at my grandmother.

"What should come will come after all, what are you afraid of, I'm not dead yet."

Grandma seemed to be a little angry, and walked away pinching her fingers, and I asked my mother who she was, and my mother looked at me and said nothing.

The more they didn't say anything, the more I thought I was right, that it was the woman in red who peeked at me sleeping, and that my mother and grandmother knew her.

I couldn't figure out why she was peeking at me sleeping, and why I had never seen her since I was from the village.

Looking at the black palm print on the windowsill, I still had some cheap hands to touch, I thought it was just an ordinary palm print, and then I knew that my fingers touched the palm print like touching a needle, and the pain made me hurriedly retract it.

After that, my grandmother redrew the talisman and pasted it on the windows and doors.

After the charm was pasted, the night was quiet.

The next morning, as soon as I woke up, I felt some pain around the right eye on my face, so I went to the mirror to look.

This sight frightened me and I couldn't help but sit on the ground.