99. Be greasy
My mother wrapped her shawl tightly and stood up sharply,
"I'm fine." Her voice was cold, and I could hear the tremors in her words, and I knew my mother was not doing well.
As if I remembered something, I looked at the calendar hanging on the wall and said in a deep voice, "Tomorrow will be fifteen, and in a month it will be my grandmother's birthday." β
This sentence of fifteen frightened my mother all over the body, and she couldn't even sit steadily, I took everything into my eyes, and I clearly knew that the night of the full moon of fifteen was a major blow to my mother.
She leaned back on the sofa, cold sweat broke out, covering her heart, I helped her and didn't ask more.
I sent her back to my room, and my dad didn't keep me to talk a few words, but she became more and more distant than before, and when I went back to my room, my grandmother was meditating cross-legged. I didn't dare to disturb her, so I played in the living room with my mobile phone.
When I swiped WeChat, I saw a message from Fu Luo, saying that she had a lot of fun in Yangjia Village, and she also took a lot of antique photos, which attracted many classmates.
I gave her WeChat, and she didn't reply to me once. Didn't block me either.
I flipped down and noticed that Fu Luo's circle of friends had become a little weird, and there were a few photos that were completely gloomy, like pictures taken by dead people.
On the bare back, a huge Guanyin face is carved, and the color tone is also mainly black, revealing a red light. There were a few eyes staring at me outside the screen, and I looked at it for a while before putting down my phone.
I was so tired that when I got back to my room, my grandmother played a piece of music and asked me if I really didn't think about those people.
I shook my head.
"This matter is in a hurry, Chuan'er, grandma also knows that you have a deep relationship with that Lu family boy, but it is for your good and for his good." Grandma thought that I rejected those two people because of Lu Jinshen, but in fact, it was not.
I continued to shake my head, and my grandmother sat there cross-legged, and she ruffled her hair, saying that this time it would be anyway. She has to choose my future husband for me herself, and she must not make her own decisions like my mother.
"But grandma, the secret marriage is that I marry the dead, does it really matter who it is?" I asked this deliberately, but my grandmother said that there are many ways to go here, and it depends on fate, and the person who can control the yin life is absolutely extraordinary.
She seemed to be particularly upset with my father, and I followed the clichΓ©, ostensibly following her words, but in fact it was not.
It wasn't until my grandmother realized that she had been taken around in a circle by me that she was stunned.
"Your father is not bad, it's just that your mother sacrificed too much for him." Grandma was stunned, "Chuan'er, don't always think about me." β
"Grandma, to tell you the truth, I went to the Yin Si Temple and saw my mother's life candle, which was broken. According to the words of the previous Master Jingxuan, the broken life candle means that someone has done something. I looked at my grandmother, her face changed slightly, but she was still calm.
She nodded, saying that my mother's life candle had indeed been tampered with.
"Was it taken by someone? Or did you take someone else's life? I wrinkled my eyebrows and looked at my grandmother, "I'm afraid I'm taking someone else's life." β
"Chuan'er. You shouldn't know this, it's too cruel for you. "Grandma said in a deep voice, she has been blocking me from getting close to the truth of this matter, and she said that it was for my good, but the more she hid it from me, the more suspicious it was, and the more she pushed me into the abyss step by step.
You might as well make it clear to me now. I thought I would be able to shake my grandmother's heart, but in the end, like my mother, she gave up.
She shook her head: "It's definitely not a good thing for you, Wanwan experienced a car accident before giving birth to you, and she almost confessed there." I can't help it, find someone to keep her alive. β
"What about life, whose lifespan is used, is it also the market price, lured from someone else's hands?"
"Nonsense!" Grandma's voice was trembling, saying I was talking nonsense, how could she be like that.
Grandma got into the bed, reached out and turned off the light, saying that she was too tired and needed to rest.
I had no choice but to follow into the bed.
Maybe I was too tired, or maybe it was the incense my grandmother lit, and I soon fell asleep.
The dream was deep and I slept deeply. I was so tired that I couldn't do it, my limbs seemed to be restrained, and I felt like someone was tying me up with a rope, and I couldn't turn over even if I wanted to.
I couldn't sleep well all night, but I still couldn't wake up in a daze.
I had a dream that I was walking by a pond where an old woman was squatting on the stone steps to wash her clothes. There are a lot of water hyacinths and weeds growing in the pond, and this place is very remote.
The mallet struck on her garment, making a clattering sound, and the old woman bowed her head, her hair falling down, obscuring her countenance.
I stood in the mire by the pond and walked slowly to the front.
Suddenly, as if he could feel my presence, the old woman looked up, and her dark face was crawling with insects, burrowing through her skin like maggots, and I covered my mouth violently.
She waved at me, and my feet slipped, completely submerging in water, and then a black shadow flashed.
The old woman swam up to me, put her arms around my head, and her mouth came towards mine.
I kept struggling, but my hands were entangled in water hyacinth and water weeds, and I couldn't move at all, and I reached out to push her, and the suffocating feeling became deeper and deeper.
"Chuan'er Chuan'er"
Who's calling me?
I felt a lot of water choking, and my face hurt hotly. When I felt that someone was beating me, I woke up suddenly, covered in cold sweat, and realized that my mother and they had all come to the room.
My hands were around my neck and I was pinching hard.
"Mom, what's going on?" My mom was in a hurry and pointed at me. Grandma had a gloomy face and said that I was caught in a nightmare, and it was a shame that she found out in time, otherwise it would be over.
I was relieved, soaking wet, my heart sank, I was scared, and I looked at my parents standing next to me, but suddenly they looked so strange, as if they were wearing a mask.
My hand hurt too much, and I glanced down at it, and there were shallow marks on my wrist, as if it had been strangled by something.
I didn't say much, my heart was pounding. Maybe it's because of the nightmares, I have some gains and losses, and even looking at my parents' expressions, it feels weird.
It's as if they don't really care about me, and they don't smile at that kind of delusion.
"Light a lamp, it's still a long time in the middle of the night." Grandma muttered, and I realized that the night had not yet passed.
I lay down. Keep a distance from your grandmother and watch them warily.
My dad said that he was too sleepy to go over first, and my mother glanced at me, her eyes were full of pity and reluctance: "Chuan'er, if you can't sleep, don't force yourself." β
"Haisheng, take Wanwan back." Grandma said coldly, as if she wanted to forcibly drag my mother away.
I clutched my heart, still a little frightened, and my grandmother asked me what I saw in my dream, and I thought for a while, when the old woman by the pond was holding my face. As if to say something.
"I don't remember, it must have been a horrible nightmare." I whispered, and my grandmother asked me if I had seen if it was a man or a woman.
I shook my head, and my grandmother continued to press me, as if she was in a hurry.
"Forgot everything, Grandma, it's just a nightmare. Don't be nervous. "I reassured my grandmother, and she felt that she had gone too far.
She reached out and turned off the headlamp on it, leaving a small lamp, I hid myself in the quilt, curling incense, but I couldn't sleep anymore, I was in the quilt. Touching my own wrist, it hurts, the strangulation marks are not deep, but there are still traces.
My originally stiff feet gradually became conscious at this time, and I clutched the quilt tightly, not daring to make too much noise. I hunched over my hand, and when I touched my ankle, there were two marks like this.
"Chuan'er, can't sleep?" Grandma's voice was cold.
"Didn't change positions."
I replied and rested my arm. I didn't dare to fall asleep again, and I didn't dare to make too much noise, I touched the jade bracelet in my hand, and before I fell asleep, Shen Yan said that he had something to deal with tonight.
I thought in my heart that he would come back, but when he wasn't there, I couldn't even sleep.
Grandma's breathing slowly became calmer. I knew she was asleep, and I crept out of the covers to get some water in the living room, but just as I opened the door, I bumped into a figure.
I was so scared that I almost screamed.
When my dad saw me, he was also horrified: "Why are you here?" β
"Dad, I'm thirsty." I should have asked why he was here, and he looked like a thief, and my mother came out of the room after her, and when she saw me, she was so frightened that she couldn't do it.
I'm just getting up and drinking some water, is that so?
"You two got up in the middle of the night and ran to the door of my room. What for? I whispered, there seemed to be a strange smell in the room, coming from my mother's room.
Incense, the smell of incense burned when I go to the temple, I saw that there was a crack in the door, and there were three small red dots inside, why did they light incense in the room?
"Your dad said he was afraid you wouldn't sleep well. Wanted to come and see. My mom said hurriedly, she couldn't react quickly.
I nodded, and didn't ask much, sneaky in the middle of the night, I really don't know what I want to do?
My dad smiled awkwardly and went back after him, and I hurriedly followed, pulling my mom's clothes, and coquettishly said, "I want to sleep with you tonight." β
"Don't make trouble, how old are you, you're still sticking to me, your dad is at home tonight, you can bear with it." My mom pushed me away because she was afraid that I would enter their room, and sure enough, she was tired.
I squinted, the smell of incense became stronger and stronger, my mother slammed the door shut, I took a step back, only to find myself walking out in a daze, forgetting to put on shoes, and the back half of my head hurt a little, and it hurt so much.
I leaned back on the couch and listened to the pendulum on the wall, ticking and ticking.
Inexplicably, I feel that this familiar home has become gloomy, like a mourning hall.
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