Chapter 16: Looking for a Son
Seeing this strange scene, I couldn't help but be a little curious.
When the handful of incense was burned again, the old lady still had a dissatisfied expression.
"Why, why am I still hungry, young man, you give me a little more, just a little." The old lady also sensed that something was wrong with me, and I wondered in my heart, and wanted to remind her, so I stretched out my finger and pointed to the position of her belly.
"Old lady, you're leaking......" I whispered.
The old lady's cloudy eyes suddenly brightened, and she trembled her hands and slowly lifted her clothes.
Curiosity drove me to look at the old lady's abdomen, just one glance, made my spine shiver, shivering, only to see the position of the old lady's belly, a bowl of thick blood hole appeared in front of me, the old lady's belly belly was empty, I could see the things behind the old lady at a glance, as if the internal organs had been hollowed out.
This horrible scene made my stomach tumble, and a feeling of nausea and vomiting rose from my heart, and at that moment, the old lady suddenly looked at me and grinned at me with a strange smile.
"Young man, could it be that I have a hole in my stomach, so I can't eat?"
I nodded yes, and said that this is your own problem, and that you have eaten my incense, so don't come to me.
As a result, the old lady quit, and she sat down on the steps, saying no, either I would feed her or help her fill the hole in her stomach.
This is simply unreasonable, I ran out of ideas, so I let the old lady sit by herself, entered the store by herself, and asked Qin Chuyun's opinion again.
"You have also noticed, her resentment is deep, maybe there is some obsession that has not yet been completed, since she has found you, even if you are unlucky, you try to set her words yourself, and the source of her resentment is out, it really doesn't work, just shoot a talisman to death, but you have to remember that she is still a wronged soul and has not yet become a ghost, so killing him, you will damage Yin Virtue."
"Okay!" After listening to Qin Chuyun's words, I probably understood, even if I am unlucky, it's a big deal if I don't sleep tonight, I still don't believe that you can't get a wronged soul.
I grabbed a large handful of incense again, and this time, instead of lighting it directly, I shook it in front of the old lady's eyes, and after attracting her attention, I asked her about a series of things about her life, and in reply, I lit one for her.
The old lady's memory was not good, and she couldn't remember many things, but I still asked for a rough idea, the old lady didn't remember her own name, but she remembered her son's name.
Her son's name is Zhang Deshun, a construction worker at a nearby construction site, and the old lady died on the way to find her son, the cause of death is not remembered, but most of it is inseparable from the blood on her stomach.
The old lady said that she wanted to eat enough and see her son again, this is a trivial matter, and I understood the general course of the matter, so I told the old lady to let her go back tonight first, and come back tomorrow night, and I will go to his son tomorrow, so that their mother and son can be reunited.
The old lady was very happy when she heard this, so I gave her another handful of incense and let her take it away, and when the old lady left, the puddle of blood left on the ground disappeared.
I breathed a sigh of relief, closed the door of the store and went back to my room, Ma Laosan will leave this time for at least two days, that is to say, this old lady's matter must be solved by me alone.
"What kind of bad luck am I doing...... I complained in my heart, and I went to bed.
The next day, I got up early in the morning and began to wander around several construction sites in the city, asking if there was a person named Zhang Deshun, and finally asked about Zhang Deshun's whereabouts at a construction site, and the foreman said that they did have a construction worker named Zhang Deshun, who was in his thirties, but the foreman said that Zhang Deshun had not come to work for several days, and it was said that he had a nervous breakdown after his mother's death and had gone crazy.
I said that I was a distant relative of Zhang Deshun, and when I entered the city for the first time, I didn't know the way, and asked the contractor if he knew where Zhang Deshun was now.
The contractor pointed me in the direction of the east of the city, saying that Zhang Deshun was probably at home, and that his house was in a tube building near the suburbs in the east of the city, where there were factories nearby, and it was easy to find, just ask a taxi driver.
"Zhang Deshun has a bit of a mental problem, you should be careful when you go to him later."
The foreman reminded me, and I left separately from him.
I have been to the tube building that the contractor said, and most of the people living there are migrant workers, all employees of nearby factories.
According to the address given by the contractor, I found this, rows of tube buildings, asked several uncles and aunts who sat in the shade, I determined the location of the three buildings where Zhang Deshun lived, and after going upstairs, I came to the door of Zhang Deshun's house, and I knocked on the door a few times.
There was no response inside, and at this time, an aunt came up from the corridor on the side, saw me knocking on the door of Zhang Deshun's house, and asked me what I was doing.
"I am a distant relative of Zhang Deshun, and I came to the city to join him." I said.
As soon as my aunt heard my words, she stepped forward and reminded in a low voice: "Young man, let me tell you, Zhang Deshun doesn't know what stimulation he has suffered during this time, he has a mental problem, he hasn't gone out for several days, and now he is not sure whether he is dead or alive, and you still come to him?" I advise you to leave quickly. ”
Listening to Auntie's words, it seems that this Zhang Deshun is an extremely dangerous character, but who made me unlucky, it was a coincidence that the soul coffin attracted his mother's soul to my store, I had to find Zhang Deshun, I couldn't stand feeding an old woman every night, besides, I was also a little curious about the cause of the old woman's death, the belly was broken, and the internal organs were hollowed out, which was obviously an unnatural death.
After thanking my aunt, I continued to knock on the door, and after about seven or eight minutes of knocking, my hands hurt, and then I heard the reluctant voice of a man inside, followed by a sound of footsteps.
With a squeak, the door opened, and the moment the door opened, a sour and rancid smell of the garbage heap came to the surface, and then, a sloppy middle-aged man poked his head out, and the man had a strong smell of tobacco and alcohol.
"Who are you?" The man squinted, looking like he had just woken up.
I resisted the urge to vomit and said, "My name is Chen Jue, are you Zhang Deshun?" ”
"yes? Something? ”
"Hmm......" I tweaked my words, trying to be tactful, but I really didn't know how to speak: "I just want to ask, did your mother just pass away recently?" ”
Zhang Deshun's expression suddenly became vigilant: "How do you know?" Are you a police officer? Stalking me? ”
"No, no, no." I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "That's the case, uh, don't be in a hurry to refute my words, listen to me, if I say that your mother's spirit came to my shop last night, and she said that she wants to see you again, do you believe it?" ”
Zhang Deshun squinted his eyes and looked at me with a strange expression: "You mean? My mom became a ghost? ”
"Wronged souls, not ghosts, do you believe these?"
"Why don't you believe it?" Zhang Deshun nodded, then pushed the door open and waved his hand at me: "Come in and talk." ”
Things went much smoother than I expected, I pinched my nose and went into Zhang Deshun's house, I have to say, his room was like a garbage heap.
The house is full of empty wine bottles, garbage bags everywhere, lunch boxes that have been eaten, instant noodle barrels, it is like a pig's nest, I think when I was in high school, the dormitory was six sloppy boys living in a dormitory, and it didn't reach this level, so I basically didn't even have a place to put my feet.
Zhang Deshun walked into the house and sat on the sofa, and I noticed that his right foot was a little lame.
Zhang Deshun patted the sofa and asked me to sit down, I saw the dust of the sofa when he patted the sofa, and I didn't dare to sit.
"I'll just stand." Then, I told him about the old lady coming to me last night, Zhang Deshun listened, with an indifferent look, he nodded, saying that the old lady died the night he gave him a dream, and he also wanted to see the old lady for the last time.
"Okay, you come to my store tonight to find me, the address is ......"
"You might as well bring her here." My words were interrupted, and it was okay to think about it, anyway, as long as I could solve the old lady's affairs, I could do anything.
The process went smoothly made me feel a little surprised, originally heard the contractor and the aunt next door said that Zhang Deshun had a problem when I thought things were difficult, now it seems that this Zhang Deshun is relatively normal, if you have to say that he is not normal, it may be the reaction after hearing his mother become a ghost, normal people should be scared, but it is not easy to say, after all, his mother has just passed away, it may be that he misses him or not.
At this time, I thought of the bloody wound on the old lady's stomach, so I asked Zhang Deshun how the hell died.
Who would have thought that Zhang Deshun's face changed suddenly, he shook his head excitedly, his eyes became a little evasive, and after a few vague words, he pushed me out of his house.
There was a problem, and Zhang Deshun's last reaction gave me a feeling of extreme unease.
Leaving Zhang Deshun's house, I went back to the store and asked Qin Chuyun in the soul coffin how her injuries were treated, and Qin Chuyun said that it was almost there, and she would be healed tonight.
I was relieved, returned to the counter and continued to do the task assigned by Ma Laosan, and painted until the evening, and finally reluctantly drew another one, I was hungry, so I went to the kitchen to make a bowl of noodles for myself to eat, and when I came out, the old lady was already standing at the door of the store with a crutch.
She seemed to have forgotten what happened yesterday, and stood in front of the store and kept saying, "Hungry, hungry, let me hurry up and get him something to eat."
Putting the noodles on the table, I asked the old lady.
"You don't remember last night?"
"Last night? What's the matter? Hurry up and get something to eat, young man, I'm hungry. ”
This memory is really bad enough, I shook my head helplessly, went back to the house and took a handful of incense and lit it and threw it on the ground, the old lady sucked her incense on the side, I ate my noodles here, irrelevant to each other, and when I finished eating, the old lady also smoked almost the ground.
So I went back to the house and came to the side of the coffin, knocked on the lid of the coffin, and asked Qin Chuyun inside, "Are your injuries healed?" Can it come out? ”
"What? Do you have something? Qin Chuyun asked.
"Well, I need your protection." Just in case, I decided to bring Qin Chuyun with me.
Closed the door of the store, I grabbed a handful of incense in my hand, lit it and stopped a taxi, the driver saw me in the car and grabbed a handful of incense, a puzzled face, generally I don't talk nonsense when I encounter this kind of thing, directly stuff two hundred yuan to the driver, otherwise what to do, I can't tell her that there is a ghost lady sitting in the car who eats incense, right?