Chapter 7: The Next Man to Die

Goya is a small place, but this place also shows a common problem of a big world, it is true that almost every adult loves their children, but perhaps in the past year after year in the traditional concept has been imperceptibly imperceptible day after day, to girls, whether it is father or mother, there are some obvious or not obvious contempt, of course, this is not necessarily to blame adults for partiality or patriarchy, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, this is the power of time and habit, plus wealth is moving.

Wealth is moving, this is a really good saying, nothing is non-negotiable, if the other party does not agree, it must be that you do not pay enough or use the wrong method.

The village chief let out a long breath and continued to talk nonsense about enlightenment and encouragement before announcing the adjournment of the meeting.

The meeting was dismissed, and the whole crowd was in a mess, and it just so happened that next to us were my grandmother and cousin Xiaoxiao.

The eldest grandmother and mother said side by side: "In fact, according to what he said, it is better not to choose or not to choose, and it is better to choose and choose, at least the family still relieves a big burden, as long as she is willing to learn, she will not worry about the problem of whether she can afford it, and the future of the doll is good." ”

Mom said: "Yes, I was very reluctant to this matter at first, but now that he does talk about it, I think this matter is a good thing for the selected baby." ”

The eldest grandmother sighed, nodded approvingly, and said, "Hey, yes, I don't know how they chosen, I'm afraid that when the time comes, it will be those who are well chosen, and our family is estimated to go through the motions." ”

Mom just replied: "It is said that it is the choice of the mountain gods, but in the end it is not they who have the final say, this kind of thing is fate, what is yours is yours." ”

Then my mother continued: "Eh, auntie, are you going home?" ”

Xiao Xiao Bao said: "Come back, Auntie, let's go all the way back." ”

"Huh! Shu Qi, where is your family Ningyu? Didn't bring it with you? The eldest grandmother asked curiously. The last word of the name is accompanied by the word Goya, which is the name of the elder generation to the junior, similar to the nickname that people call children Baobao, Bao'er, etc. now.

Mom exclaimed, "What? ”

Impossible, I also looked at the side of my mother, but at home, I saw my mother and she had been holding Ning Yu's hand and never let go.

But now look at it, where is there Ning Yu on the left hand side of my mother, but there is a pine branch at my mother's feet, and when I see this, my heart is chuckled. At this time, the village chief ran over, only to see that his face was pale, his brows were furrowed, and he gasped for breath and said to us anxiously: "Cheng Shu, go and take a look, Ning Yu and Yang Hua are in Mawu Lake, why can't they call back." ”

Mom sat down on the ground with a limp of herself, and before she could wait for someone to pull her up, she suddenly jumped up on her own and rushed forward without saying anything. Since I was wearing sandals and a skirt, it wasn't really easy to run, so I chased after my mom and fell a few times in the middle.

I was stunned at this time, I didn't feel pain at all, I thought to myself, I thought, the feeling of a lot of water poured into my throat may be very painful, Ning Yu is still young, if it hurts too much, he will be very uncomfortable. I ran all the way, and when I passed the well, many people had already turned into the fork in Yangjiapo, and my mother couldn't see it, so I couldn't catch up with them.

As soon as I turned into the path of Shangyangjiapo, I suddenly felt that my body became cold, and suddenly I tripped under my feet as if I had tripped over something, and I fell to my knees on the ground, and my hand also threw itself on the tip of a stone, and immediately bled and my knee was broken. Although it was only a flash, but the second I fell and got up, I clearly saw a large patch of white in the depths of the corpse forest, and I even saw a gust of wind passing by in that second, and the white dust flew up like snowflakes or catkins, which made people suddenly think of the sentence that Mrs. Xie's family talked about on the cold and snowy day, "If the catkins are not raised by the wind." ”

That's what's special about my eyes, Dad and Dad have said more than once, I wish I were a boy, but unfortunately I'm not.

The Ning family's ability to eat is also the same old-fashioned as elsewhere, passing on men to women.

But it can also be understood that a girl, even if you really know a lot, if you go to show others feng shui and the land, people will not believe it.

The Ning family's family heirloom skills to do the dead man's business, to our generation, the boys in the family are not willing to learn, one is the factor of the times, since the country's reform and opening up, what to break the feudal superstition activities was a blow, but at that time, the traditional concept of the older generation of people who regard death as life has long been deep-rooted, but whenever there is a chance, people who eat this meal are still like fish in water, but after decades of imperceptible, now young people's minds are becoming more and more open, advocating science and opposing superstition, This kind of words are even more reasonable, like this kind of feng shui and the craftsman who does white things, let's be regarded as a craftsman, the door is naturally narrow, second, in today's time, if you have a family member who preaches demons and monsters all day long, you will definitely be laughed at by the children, not to mention that you have to learn, naturally, the boys in the family are not willing to learn. Three, this kind of craft, no ability, is also fatal, you refuse to learn, how dare your family force you to do it.

The inheritance is almost broken, but there is no way to do it.

I got up and continued to run, and when I arrived at the lake, I first saw Yang Hua in my mother's arms, but I didn't see Ning Yu and my dad around, and on the other side were some people pulling my mother.

"What about them?"

I asked the people next to me in a daze, a few people around me saw me, my mother broke free from them and rushed over to hold me, her hair was messy, her eyes were red, her hair and tears were stuck together on her face, she cried and said: "Ning Yu went into the water, your father went to save him, and he didn't come up yet......"

I opened my mouth and said nothing, and for a moment my heart seemed to be blocked by a stone so big that I couldn't breathe, and the wall that guarded my tears fell apart, but I didn't know if I was crying or not, because my mind was full of paste at that moment.

After a while, the people at the water's edge suddenly became excited, and my mother and I rushed forward, and my father raised his head from the water, took a big breath and turned back.

Mom fell to her knees and trembled.

What to do? I forced myself to come to my senses, staring at the lake with my eyes wide open, not letting go of a wave.

I saw a translucent, tall shadow floating on the water, his face so pale that he was so pale that he was indifferent, his dirty, messy hair hanging long on both sides, and his brown robe hanging down into the lake.

This time I could see clearly that he was a man, but who was he?

"Help me, save him." From muttering at the beginning to shouting into the center of the lake, I made the transition in just one sentence.

Everyone turned to look at me, and everyone probably thought I was begging them, and even my mother echoed my plea with tears. They thought I was crazy, and at this time it was good to look at the excitement and protect myself, who would really jump into this unknown lake to help regardless of their own safety, but I was gambling, betting that this ghost who appeared in front of me twice was a desire, and if the bet was won, our family would be happy to reunite, and as for the rest, I had nothing to fear.

Obviously, I felt like I might have lost.

He just stood there, and for a moment, everything fell silent.

But suddenly, the tall black shadow moved quickly towards me, when he came to me, suddenly changed an image, it was an existence that could not be ignored, although no one around me noticed it, but I saw his face, with three points of coldness and seven points of smile in the eyes only reflected my shadow alone, my embarrassment, tears, helplessness are clearly refracted, he gently stroked the broken hair on the top of my head with one hand, he said a word to me with his mouth, and then disappeared!

He said, "Good boy!"

The gentleman came, and he rescued me.

The people by the lake boiled again, and when my dad came out of the water again, he was holding Ning Yu who had fallen into the water.

On the night I came back from Mawu Lake, my parents accompanied Ning Yu at Dr. Cheng's house, and I came back to sleep alone. When I returned, I still felt the urgency of being watched, so I went to bed early.

It's midnight again.

The musty smell was in the room again, strong and pungent, I had not been very good on my respiratory tract, and the doctor said that I might have mild asthma.

In a place where the air is bad, I feel like I've been choked by the neck, and I can't care about it anymore, so I get up and just push the door open.

I wasn't going to go out of the room again, but I was going to sit still on the long wooden staircase for a while.

But I didn't expect that this time the door was no longer a wooden plank, and there was no white light, and when I pushed the door, it was a dark area where I couldn't see my fingers, as if the wind was passing back and forth through the alleyway, constantly making strange sounds like whimpering and laughing, and crows chirping, faintly coming from all directions.

In the distance, a few bits of dark blue light flickered on and off.

In the darkness, it is like a grumbling ghost hiding countless teeth and claws.

In the room, I wondered if something was pushing me forward. So I closed my eyes and took two steps forward before I opened my eyes, and suddenly everything in front of me suddenly became clear, and the door behind me was gone.

A huge old house, at the foot of the pale mountain rock, the surroundings of the old house are dim and damp, the wall skin has long been peeled off, the wall is uneven, the vermilion paint of the gate is corroded because of the antiquity, when the wind blows the wooden door, it makes a creaking sound, and the bricks on the roof also fall off a little.

Several bats flew out of the cornices.

There was someone, a young man who was too pale to speak, dressed in a black shroud, and he was pacing back and forth in front of the door, when there was a faint sound of wind and the sound of gongs in the darkness.

"Big ghosts and little ghosts sit in rows......"

As if he had received some command, the pale young man walked briskly to the threshold, his large, slender hands "bangbang...... Bang bang ...... wooden door, the old wooden door is in disrepair, because of the collision by external forces and squeaks, for a moment, this squeak actually overshadowed the sound of knocking on the door echoed in the bleak night.

After a long while, the man suddenly fell to one side silently.

He struggled to get up, but his body was like a puddle of soft mud, and he didn't have any strength at all.

At his feet, a small green snake swam out, constantly spitting out tender green letters, and a gloomy cold light reflected around him.

The man ignored the snake, barely propped up a small part of his body, rested his head and shoulders against the crack in the door, and raised his hand to continue tapping on the door.

"Quack......" A frog's cry echoed in the night.