Chapter 2: Paper Horses Help
I crept my head out and looked, oh my God, the cabin was starting to get flooded, and I couldn't care about anything else: "The cabin is flooded...... Hmmm......"
Before the words fell, the cold lake water instantly flooded to my waist, and the next second it flooded over my head, and a sense of suffocation near death swept over, fortunately I learned to swim a little, I hurriedly paddled a few times, and finally surfaced, shouting for help: "Help!" β
At this moment, I felt as if something was tugging at my feet, pulling me to sink continuously, and the strength of that thing was so great that I was pulled into the lake again before I could react, and the water kept pouring down my throat.
My consciousness began to blur.
It was as if I saw the "thing" pulling my foot under the water, and it turned out to be the little girl who had just paid for her on the splint, and she was smiling at me insidiously.
My eyes turned white, and the little girl's hand suddenly let go, and she quickly retreated in horror until it disappeared in front of my eyes, and then I felt a force supporting me to the surface.
I finally found a piece of driftwood, and I quickly lay on it, looking at the dark lake around me, empty and alone, here and in the endless darkness.
When I finally opened my eyes, a gust of wind and thick fog swept towards me, the smell of decomposing corpses filled my nostrils, making it difficult for me to breathe, and various sounds such as crying and laughter came from all directions, piercing my eardrums and causing me a sense of desolation from the bottom of my heart.
"Origami Horse!" The voice rang out in a hurry.
After all, for this industry, everything that is pierced, folded, and cut is for the dead, and the paper horse is used to guide the underworld to prevent ghosts from harassing.
"Shen Qiao, do you want me to help you?" The voice became gloomy and dark.
My hand actually took out the yellow charm uncontrollably and folded the paper horse, one fold to send the ghost, the other fold the yin and yang road, and soon the paper horse was folded, and then I saw a sci-fi scene.
Little by little, the paper horse grew bigger until it was the size of a real horse.
"Get on the horse." Before I could react, I felt my body be grabbed and rudely thrown on the horse's back.
"Phewβ" The white horse let out a long roar in the sky, and then ran quickly.
I was so frightened that I grabbed the saddle, not to mention that the horse was running so fast, I could only feel the countless winds whirring in my ears.
As the horse was running, my hand seemed to touch something that resembled a skeleton.
I forced myself to open my eyes and look at it, how could this horse be so familiar?
Blinking my eyes and looking closely, hey, isn't this the horse that I burned with my grandmother in the back temple when I was a child, why did I appear here?
When I was a child, I was not in good health, one day my grandmother forced me to get up with a high fever and learn to tie a paper horse with her, but I was young, just for fun and didn't pay attention to the paper on the horse's neck to tear up, I thought my grandmother would let me re-tie, who knew that grandma said that it was too late, so she took me directly to the temple to burn.
Later, I learned that the rule is that men die and horses burn, and women burn cattle.
Just when I was still thinking about the horse, the surrounding scenery began to change, becoming a familiar country road, and the paper horse under me began to become transparent, I looked at the door of my hometown not far in front of me, and breathed a sigh of relief, I felt like I had survived the catastrophe.
"Qiao Ya, who asked you to come back." This is grandma's voice, probably when I get home, I have no line of defense, when I turn around, where is grandma! It's clearly the eldest sister who held the child just now.
"Haha, you've turned around, I've seen you, I've seen you." Her voice was sharp and eerie, like a sudden scream next to a quiet graveyard, which was particularly penetrating.
"You're dead!" A scream of excitement was close at hand, and a miserable white hand grabbed at me.
Finished! Finished!
I almost went out with one foot at the door, but at this time the boat capsized in the gutter.
I was grabbed by the neck by the miserable white hand, and my whole body was quickly dragged back like a chicken.
I struggled desperately, but I was helpless, and my heart was cold, am I going to die like this?
Just as I was about to be strangled to death by that hand, the white horse suddenly roared as if stimulated by something, and then a cold voice came: "Get out!" β
I saw the face of the female ghost close at hand distort with fear, and then her body was thrown out.
At this time, I immediately flew off my horse, and then ran frantically towards the entrance of the village, until the big locust tree at the entrance of the village leaned on the slump in place, looking at the sun rising on the mountain in the distance, I was shocked that I really came out.
I don't know which god saved me yesterday, I should go back and set up a tablet for him, and make three sticks of incense for a day.
Suddenly, someone hugged me tightly, I was startled and just wanted to struggle, but I touched the familiar long hair, it was my grandmother, she let me go, and her pale face was full of crystal tears.
When I grew so big, it was the first time I saw my grandmother crying, and a wave of sadness came up, and I cried out.
When I got home, my grandmother cooked me a meal, without mentioning what happened before, I ate it, and I secretly vowed to cherish all this in front of me more and be more filial to my grandmother in the future.
After eating, I helped my grandmother clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and she praised me for being a lot more sensible.
It's just that when I wiped the table of the Eight Immortals, I found the yellow talisman used to fold the horse last night, didn't you use this talisman last night? And what's going on with the paper horse? How is Aunt Zhou's family now?
I have a stomach full of questions I want to ask, but looking at the grandmother who is drinking tea in the courtyard, I don't know why I keep sighing, think about it or ask later!
"Qiao Ya, don't be busy, grandma has something to tell you." Grandma waved at me with the fan in her hand.
I put down the rag in my hand, sat beside my grandmother obediently with a quadrangular stool, and called sweetly: "Grandma." β
"Qiao Ya, you are also older, there is no need for grandma to hide many things from you, did you hear a voice yesterday, and a white horse that you wore when you were a child."
I nodded in agreement.
Grandma took out a yellow talisman as if she was playing a trick and said: "Qiao Ya, you heard grandma say that the ancestors of the Shen family have been born as colorsmiths for generations and have a single lineage, and they have been high-ranking officials in their glory days, and they have been hawkers in their troughs. β
"And in your generation, you happen to be a girl, or you were born on the fifteenth day and you are too yin, hey! The Shen family has been dealing with ghosts since childhood, and has done countless things that are detrimental to yin morality, your grandfather once asserted that the retribution of the Shen family is all on you, granddaughter, grandma is sorry for you. β
Grandma couldn't help but hide her face and cry as she spoke.
My nose was sore, tears flowed down, and I reached out to wipe my grandmother's tears.
"Grandma, I'm fine."