Chapter 2: Night Road

The moment I saw the corpse, I was so frightened that my face turned pale, my grandmother said that when you encounter a floating corpse, you can't go down to the river no matter what, and when you encounter this kind of corpse that looks like a surrender walking in the river, in addition to immediately staying away from the river, you have to run for your life quickly!

Zhang Yidan followed my line of sight and saw the strange corpse that quickly appeared next to Huang Dong at some point, and immediately shouted: "Damn, you stupid Huang Dong! Come up quickly! Don't you see a dead body next to you!"

The little friends were scared stupid, Huang Dong was also pale-skinned, but his family lived near this river, and it was not the first time he had seen such a thing as floating corpses floating on the river, relying on him to be the child king in the class, Huang Dong immediately said boldly with a stiff face: "Zhang Yidan, who is cowardly, also said that the egg is fat and bold, why are you so afraid of death, I haven't seen a dead corpse?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he watched as the little friend next to him was torn off the water as if he had disappeared, and a string of bubbles immediately appeared on the water!

Huang Dong's face turned green with fright, and he opened his mouth wide and just wanted to call for help, but he felt that something grabbed his foot, and a huge force pulled him into the water! He lived by the river, and the water nature was not bad, at first he thought that he was just letting the aquatic plants hang, but when he wanted to paddle to escape, he swooped and pulled him down to the bottom.

"Huang Dong!" Zhang Yidan was very righteous, seeing his little friend being pulled into the water, he instinctively couldn't care about anything, and immediately went into the water to save people.

I watched Huang Dong and his little friends pull the weird corpse into the water on the shore, but there was no way, except that there was no way, the cold feeling behind it became strong again, and it was almost an alarm.

"Don't send a single egg to death! Run! Go find an adult!" I picked up Zhang Yidan and ran, because the black hole that had seen the strange corpse just now seemed to be looking at me, if I continued to stay, there would definitely be something unexpected for me!

Zhang Yidan was dragged away by me, a few friends didn't say to save people, they cried and ran with us for their lives, and finally found the adults on the shore and called the police.

I didn't dare to follow, pointed to the place where I fell into the water from a distance, and pulled Zhang Yidan and didn't let him go.

The next day, the principal sadly informed us that Huang Dong and his friends had drowned, and then I heard from the adults that their eyes were open when they were fished up, and one of the adults who went to fish them also died, and it was not until the police came that the matter was settled.

Zhang Yidan and a few friends were glad that they had picked up a life, and then they obeyed me and didn't dare to swim in the river again.

At that time, I thought, the reflection in the water pulling the corner of my clothes, could it be the child daughter-in-law that my grandmother married me?

Isn't she a human, but a ghost?

In order to understand my invisible daughter-in-law, I became curious about my grandmother's spells at a young age, and in the years that followed, I studied all her old books, and read many new and wonderful methods for exorcism, summoning ghosts, and even raising ghosts.

My grandmother knew I was studying her stuff, but for some reason she didn't stop me.

But unfortunately, even if I knew about these magic, until I went to college and joined the work, I didn't have the opportunity to perform and verify it.

As for why, maybe it was because I didn't have a chance, or maybe it was because I used to have an omnipotent grandmother in my life, but now I have the 'warning' of my invisible daughter-in-law and sister at all times, so I don't have the opportunity to use them.

However, the spells that should have been forgotten over time made me have to use them with the death of my grandmother, and I even caused a big accident because of it, and slipped into the gloomy profession known as 'Raising Ghosts'.

On July 16 of that year, I was in my twenties.

I received a letter from my grandmother, saying that she would not live to the 14th of July, and told me not to go to the funeral, not to go back to the village, to forget about the people and things in the village, and not to come back when I die of old age, so that I can live safely and safely for the rest of my life.

The letter was forwarded to me by my mother, and if I believe what it says, my grandmother has been dead for two days.

Unless someone is set a death date, or a suicide, ordinary people can determine the death date, my grandmother is almost omnipotent in my impression, how can she give people a death date?

My grandmother lives in a remote place and doesn't talk to the phone, and my mother lives in the county and often visits her, and only she knows her grandmother's current situation best.

So instead of believing what the letter said, I dialed my mother's phone on my mobile phone and relayed the contents of the letter to her.

I asked my grandmother about her current situation, such as whether her grandmother had recently shown signs of Alzheimer's disease, whether relatives and friends in the village were okay, and whether there were any conflicts between neighbors and grandmother.

My mother received my call, very surprised, but disagreed, she said that she had just gone to see my grandmother some time ago, she was in good health, and asked not to worry, and when she came back, she was given a cage of eggs, two bags of glutinous rice, and the neighborhood relationship was also good.

I frowned when I heard this, and suddenly remembered my grandmother's dream the night before, and my heart was uneasy.

In the second half of the night of the 14th of July, I dreamed that my grandmother came to see me, and she was pale, and on her shoulder sat a little girl in red with an equally white face, who smiled and waved to me, but did not say a word.

I wanted to walk over, but my daughter-in-law's sister kept holding me, and I wanted to look back at her expression, but I couldn't turn my head at all.

When I woke up, I was covered in sweat and inexplicably sad.

For more than 20 years, every time I encountered danger, it was my daughter-in-law and sister who made me turn evil into good fortune repeatedly, but what does the dream represent?

After reading the letter repeatedly, I thought about it for a long time and decided to go back to my grandmother's house, and I didn't go back for nearly a year, even if it was dangerous, I couldn't care so much.

And the words in the letter are very sloppy, which is the unique handwriting of my grandmother, and there is an old yellow paper charm with brown and yellow handwriting on it.

I've seen these kinds of paper symbols, written in human blood and changing color over time.

In my early years, I used to use my grandmother's paper talisman books to play ghost drawing tricks, so I was very sensitive and familiar with these things.

After careful study, I even saw the function of this paper talisman, which I had read from my grandmother's book before, called the 'Tongyin Talisman', which warded off demons and spirits.

The important thing is that it is written with the essence blood of the middle finger of the person, and it is a long life, so it is classified as a more domineering talisman, and no one will draw or play with this kind of thing unless it is a last resort.

Maybe my grandmother meant that I wanted to avoid evil spirits, not moths to the fire, or maybe it was just to keep the letter safe, but in any case, this unusual behavior worried me.

In addition, the place where I work now is a gallery in a shopping mall, business is not good, and my boss often threatens to fire me because of my silence.

This incident gave me an opportunity, so I didn't explain anything, and I didn't get the rest of my salary, so when I got off work and went back to the rental house, I packed up and got on the express bus back to my grandmother's house.

My mother's place is not the same as my grandmother's village, so I didn't inform her about going back, but I was also afraid that she would be worried, because my premonition was not good this time.

Premonitions can be attributed to the sixth sense, which cannot be explained, and is often prescient.

There are only about 20 households in my grandmother's village, which is what I call Xiaoyitun, which is located in the deep mountains and old forests, and it is difficult to reach by transportation.

If you want to enter the village, you have to walk several kilometers of dirt roads from the village, so when it rains, it is difficult to walk an inch.

When I took the van to the village of Carrying Dragon, it was smooth sailing, and I didn't hit the rainy day, but the fog was a little big, and the hazy visibility was not high.

I looked at the electronic watch in my hand, at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was not particularly ugly, it was late in the south, and it would be dark after eight o'clock, so according to the time period, if you enter my grandmother's small village, or it will be dark.

If my grandmother is okay, then I can still have a hot meal.

Thinking so, I picked up the simple package and headed towards the path to return to Xiaoyitun.

"Young man, it's so late, you're going to Xiaoyitun?"

Watching me walk along the village's remote path, the old man who got out of the van kindly asked me.

"I'm visiting family. ”

"It's late, why don't you stay in the village for one night, this road is not very easy to walk at night. The old man reminded me that there was a hesitation on his face.

I know what he wants to say, Xiaoyitun is inconvenient, it is the last village on this land, people outside are not relatives who will not go in at all, plus grandma is famous, after a long time, some people say that Xiaoyitun is gloomy and has unclean things, so at night, no matter how hurried and anxious things are, no one dares to take the night road of Xiaoyitun.

But that's because they don't know the situation of Xiaoyitun, after all, I have lived there for most of my life, and there is no one I don't know, remembering that I used to study in the town, and when I came back, it was often five or six o'clock, and then I went back to Xiaoyitun, ** o'clock is normal.

When I was young, I had never seen a real mandrill ghost, and I was very bold, but the key was that my grandmother didn't say anything when I walked at night, and I was used to it.

When the old man saw that I insisted on leaving, and his expression didn't seem to be joking, he didn't dare to say anything, no one likes to discipline others in this land, especially those who want to go to Xiaoyitun.

Legend has it that before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a small town in Xiaoyitun, and a plague took away all the living people, and Xiaoyitun couldn't even be called Tun, but a Yizhuang outside the town that hoarded corpses was abandoned for an unknown number of years, until my grandmother arrived there, there was a place where there were less than 20 families.

Of course, I also used to listen to the old man Zhang from my neighbor talk about the ancient times, and I didn't take it seriously.

The night is as cool as water, and the path is narrow and difficult to navigate.

The shrubs and woods are as dense as ever, and when the night breeze blows, there is a clattering sound, and the occasional night bird chirps, which is indescribably eerie.

On the foggy mountain road, you can't see anything clearly six or seven meters away, even if you meet an acquaintance, if there is no footsteps, you can see a shadow.

Sand, sand, sand.

I don't know how long I walked, there was a sound that sounded like footsteps, and it sounded like the sound of animals crossing the bushes, I don't know when it sounded around me, I am not a good man and a woman, and I stopped when I heard this sound, for fear that it was the mountain grass snake borrowing the way from the side, so I broke a branch in my hand.

But when I stopped, the sound also stopped, which surprised me, remembering that when I came back before, there were often friends who teased me like this, and I had a hint of fun in my heart, and continued to take steps.

After I walked around, the voice continued to sound, I think it will be Zhang Yidan's goods, this guy often came out to catch voles at night when he was a child, and he didn't forget to play tricks when he met acquaintances walking at night, but now I heard that he is now married to a daughter-in-law, should he open a small stove for his daughter-in-law today, and come out to catch mice, right?

Walking through the fog, a black figure stopped in the middle of the road, I saw his back from a distance, and his face sank, isn't this Zhang Yidan, who had a good time when he was a child?