Xu Guiying guarded Wen Jing, who was hot like fire and dreaming, and didn't close her eyes all night, looking forward to the east and vomiting.

Last night, she solemnly took out an object wrapped in red silk from the cupboard, and then opened it carefully, as if opening a door worth looking forward to. It turned out that the bread was a statue of Kannon carved from boxwood.

I saw that Guanyin's face was delicate and elegant, his eyebrows were half-open and half-closed, his expression was noble and solemn, his robe was elegant, he was holding a green lotus, and he was stepping on the waves...... This statue of Guanyin is still Xu Guiying's dowry, when she broke the four olds, she risked being exposed and criticized, but she did not take the initiative to hand it over under the pressure of her husband to be preserved to this day. Whenever the family luck is not good, Xu Guiying will invite this Guanyin statue in the dead of night and burn incense to worship it, praying that Guanyin Bodhisattva will bless her family with good health and abundant food and clothing. And Guanyin Bodhisattva will always fulfill these wishes of her to a greater or lesser extent. This kind of experience has accumulated a lot, even if Xu Guiying does not believe in herself, it is impossible not to believe in the mana of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

At this time, Xu Guiying had words in her mouth, and her expression was extremely pious and sad. She confessed to Guanyin that she had not kept the five precepts and ten virtues in her daily life, which had caused her children to be harmed one after another. She said that she would rather reduce her life expectancy than let her granddaughter Wen Jing have a little difference, otherwise she would be ashamed of the trust of her eldest daughter and son-in-law. After she had a heart-to-heart relationship with Guanyin Bodhisattva, the worries in her heart were reduced by more than half.

As soon as the morning dawned, Xu Guiying got up to cook. After sending a large family to breakfast, she and Zhu Zhihui sent Wen Jing to the Youth League Hospital. At this time, Zhu Zhihui's ankle was almost better, and the school was on summer vacation, so he could stay at home for a while longer.

The regimental doctor said: When panic occurs suddenly, the child's imperfect central nervous system will be temporarily dysfunctional, which may cause some abnormal physical and mental symptoms, such as malaise, not thinking about eating and drinking, restless sleep at night, non-stop dreaming, and even visual and auditory hallucinations. Therefore, adults do not need to panic about this, just go home and comfort the children.

After listening to the doctor's words, Xu Guiying regretted very much that she had beaten Wen Jing rudely yesterday. The little girl was so frightened that she lost her soul at that time, and the grandmother even beat her, she really thought she was a "wolf grandmother"!

The doctor gave Wen Jing a fever-reducing injection, and after giving her some calming pills, he took care of Xu Guiying to go home for observation for a few days and then take a look.

After Wen Jing was carried home, the fever quickly subsided, but she was still in a semi-comatose state, as if she hadn't slept for a long time, and no matter who called her, she didn't fully wake up. When he got off work in the evening, Zhu Xinghua brought a cloud cake to please his granddaughter, because this is a famous spot in southern Jiangsu that she likes to eat. But now that people are not sober, how can they eat things?

The family had a hasty dinner, and when they were gathered around Wen Jing's bed and were at a loss, they suddenly heard her say loudly: "Bold slut, dare to commit it!" Everyone present heard this sentence very clearly, because the little girl's speech has always been clear, and no one will hear it. But look at me, everyone, I look at you, I don't know what I mean. Zhu Yushan asked Zhu Zhihui: "Did you teach her?" Zhu Zhihui said: "How is it possible? Why did I teach her this? ”

"Disaster of red face and trouble, disaster to the country and the people!" Wen Jing popped out of her mouth again, and everyone looked at each other in surprise again. Then, "You and other beasts, the sin deserves death", "If this trouble is not eliminated, the future trouble will be endless" and other inexplicable and wonderful four-character sentences, one sentence after another, came out one sentence after another...... Everyone began to wonder if they were also in a dream, because they thought it was incredible!

"What do Jingjing mean by these dream words?" Zhu Zhicheng asked the second brother in a hoarse voice. Zhu Zhihui scratched his head and said, "Strange! I don't usually read aloud these jumbled words, where did she hear it? ”

"Oh no! Jingjing must have been possessed by a ghost. When I was a child, I saw a demon-possessed man in my hometown, and the words that spoke were not his own tone at all, but the tone of a dead person's voice. Xu Guiying first suddenly realized, and then hid her face and cried.

Zhu Xinghua said: "What are you crying about! Even if you are possessed by a ghost, why not ask someone to drive the ghost away? ”

Xu Guiying said: "Anyone who has been possessed by a ghost will be sucked away by the spirit; Even if a person recovers, he is a wasted person, and he will not live long. When she had said this, she began to weep bitterly.

Zhu Xinghua knocked on the table impatiently and scolded: "People are not dead yet, you cry a ball!" Hurry up and find a way to save the girl, or hurry up and send a telegram to call her mother! ”

Seeing this, the brothers and sisters of the family began to talk about it. They agreed that it was the mother's nervousness and crankiness. What ghosts, gods, immortals and Buddhas are in this world? The reason why my mother believed in feudal superstition was because she was born poor, had never read since she was a child, and was an illiterate person who only knew her own name.

Zhu Zhihui comforted her mother and said, "Didn't the doctor say that it is normal for children to have fever, talk in their dreams and even hallucinate after being frightened?" Let's wait for Jingjing to rest for a day or two! ”

Xu Guiying stopped crying after listening to her second son's words, but she thought that Wen Jing's condition did not seem as simple as the doctor said, and those inexplicable words must have a origin. Therefore, she decided to go to Aunt Hong's house, because Aunt Hong knew a demi-immortal of the Ninth Brigade. I heard that many villagers who had an accident at home secretly went to the half-immortal's house to ask for a hexagram, and the half-immortal often spoke word for word.

Zhu Zhizhen saw that her mother insisted on going to find Aunt Hong, and it was already dark, so she had to find a flashlight to accompany her mother. Xu Guiying's mother and daughter, accompanied by Aunt Hong, walked a long distance of village road, and finally found the black rumbling home of the half-immortal. The half-immortal's surname is Geng, and when he looks sixty miles away, everyone calls him "Uncle Geng". Uncle Geng was watching the sky in his yard at this time, and after seeing Xu Guiying and his party explain their intentions, he understood six or seven points in his heart.

Xu Guiying begged Uncle Geng to go to her house, but Uncle Geng said slowly: "I have been scared of fighting in the past few years, and now I am old and can't stand the fight, so I will never go to show others anything in the future, let alone collect any more money." But if someone asks me about something, I will still tell the truth and tell me how to crack it. Then, from a dirty cloth bag, he took out a shabby yellow booklet with no title, three copper coins of "Qianlong Tongbao" and a shiny and yellowed bamboo tube, and began divination in the dim light.

At this time, Xu Guiying's heart reached her throat, as if she was waiting for a life and death verdict that was closely related to her. Uncle Geng frowned and shook the money again, drew circles and crossed again, and finally flipped through the booklet and got the divination results. He told Xu Guiying in a firm tone: "Your granddaughter is not possessed by a ghost, but because she was frightened and her soul ran away to another time and space, so it is not a big problem." ”

"Soul ...... Run to ...... Another plane? What do you mean? Uncle Geng, can you explain it clearly? Xu Guiying looked puzzled.

Let's put it this way, the human body is like a house, and the soul is like the person who lives in the house. Usually people live in this house very comfortable and safe, right, but one day when the house suddenly has an earthquake, collapse, fire or flood, do people suddenly run out of the house in fright? That's the way it is, the soul of your little trick is scared away and runs away to another place, so you'll hear her say those inexplicable things. Uncle Geng used a popular metaphor to explain the relationship between the body and the soul, which finally made Xu Guiying seem to understand whether he understood or not.

"If your little trick is lost by the Gongqiba River, you will get the Gonggongba River to call her soul home; Then use the method of 'standing water bowl' to test whether the soul has returned. If the soul returns, she will wake up tomorrow after a night's sleep. Then Uncle Geng explained the specific steps of "shouting souls" and "standing water bowls" to Xu Guiying one by one, and told her to go to the Chinese medicine store to buy some cinnabar and hang it on the chest of the little trick, saying that cinnabar has the miraculous effect of calming the nerves and calming the soul.

Xu Guiying had heard of "shouting souls", but she never thought that one day she would need to use this method that ordinary people think is a ghostly way to save her children. For illiterate people like Xu Guiying and Aunt Hong, the out-of-body theory is not difficult to understand, because what they have been instilled with since childhood is feudal superstition. But in Zhu Yuzhen's opinion, Uncle Geng is talking nonsense, no wonder he is so criticized that he doesn't dare to go out. These bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods who preach feudal superstition should be swept into the garbage heap of history, and they will never be able to turn over!

Before saying goodbye to Uncle Geng and walking out of his house, Xu Guiying deliberately walked at the end and silently put a five-yuan bill on the table; Uncle Geng glanced at it and said, "Let's go."

On the way back, Xu Guiying's mood was obviously much more relaxed than when she went, but she asked Aunt Hong to help her review the steps of "standing in the water bowl" again, lest she would not be able to call back her precious granddaughter's soul because she missed a certain detail.