One-eyed
[Today's plot is directly stuck...... So write a side story.,It's a small story with a supporting role.,For today's update.,The plot has nothing to do with the main line.,Um...... Try writing in the first person, I hope you like it. 】
My name is Li Delong, and I am a paranormal enthusiast.
It is very pleasant to stay in the city for a long time and come to the countryside with clean air and sparsely populated land. A friend from my hometown who is here temporarily acts as a tour guide. Their village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is exactly an exit, and it is said that the layout of the houses in the village was designed by a master a long time ago, and behind the mountain that surrounds the village is a river, and the outlet of the river is also the exit of the village, so the people here are used to connecting with the outside world by water.
Surrounded by mountains, the climate has always been humid, and the annual harvest makes the people here happy and abundant.
The two of us came to the entrance of the village, and saw a four-meter-tall stele, the age of the stele should be very old, and the damage is very bad, my friend said, this stele was there when the village was established.
"It's you, Little Four" A middle-aged man in his forties saw me and Sun Bing and greeted him excitedly.
He bears a bit of a resemblance to Captain Sun, with a wide forehead and a high nose, and thin lips, but his face is a little longer. Wearing a white short-sleeved shirt on the upper body and black trousers on the bottom, he stood in the front.
"Second uncle!" It turned out to be his uncle.
"Little four, if your grandmother hadn't asked you to come back on a blind date, it seems that you wouldn't have remembered your second uncle. Ah, who is this? "This second uncle finally saw me.
"He's my friend, and he wants to come here to see it, and he wants to breathe some fresh air after staying in the city for a long time." He enthusiastically wanted my second uncle to introduce me.
"Well, my name is Sun Cheng, since I am a friend of Xiaosi and a guest of our family. Come with me into the village first. "As he said he led the way, we followed behind, and as I walked, I noticed that the road here was very winding and winding.
"It's easy for outsiders to get lost here, all the buildings are laid out hundreds of years ago, there is no village person to lead the way, and once you enter the rubbish, even the compass will fail." Although I could only see the back of this second uncle, I was surprised by his words, and he seemed to know what I was thinking.
"But that doesn't mean that the people in the village have completely isolated themselves from the outside, and many young people have broken out, including my brother and of course Xiaosi." Sun Cheng said that his friend's father was a little slow, but he may still have a trace of feeling.
"This village has a lot of people with our surname Sun, but it is not called Sunjia Village, and the ancestors of all generations have called it - Fancun Village."
"Annoying Village? Annoyed? I asked stupidly.
"It's not irritability, it's Buddhist Sanskrit Sanskrit, which means pure place." Sun Bing explained cleanly.
Later, Sun Cheng stopped talking, and I don't know if I said the wrong thing, but we walked for nearly an hour before we came to Sun Bing's house.
His home was built on a high slope, and the way up it was through a twelve-story staircase. After going up the stairs, in front of the main entrance is a circular field with a diameter of more than three meters. It is the Bagua pattern of Tai Chi. The main entrance is not wide, two feet high, and it can accommodate three people in and out. Everything is wooden, and it looks like it's been some years old.
But the strange thing is that their house actually has two thresholds, although it is not high, but I didn't pay attention to almost wrestling.
After entering, it is a very large rectangular living room, just like an ordinary TV series, there is a coffee table in front of it, there is a Taishi chair on both sides, and there is a painting hanging above the coffee table, which seems to be a picture of Guanyin sending children, probably to bless the family Ding Xingwang.
There are four chairs on each side. All the furniture is dark green and smooth as porcelain. The floor is paved with stones, each of which is about 20 centimeters long, so clean that you can't see any dust.
"Sit down, I'll call my mother out, she heard that you will be coming today, she got up early, and now she is chanting Buddha in the back room." Sun Cheng beckoned us to sit down, handed us tea, and walked inside. As I sipped tea in my chair, I felt as if I had gone back decades.
It didn't take long for an old man to stagger out with Sun Cheng's support. The old man wore a silk red coat with many embroidered longevity characters. He holds a string of Buddhist beads in his left hand and a cane in his right hand. Although he is very young, his face is delicate and his facial features are distinct, and he does not have the bloated and decadent feeling of ordinary old people, but on the contrary, he looks very healthy.
"Little four." As soon as the old man came, he looked at Sun Bing and walked over step by step, and his friend hurriedly stood up and went up to meet it.
Naturally, the two grandparents have a lot to talk about when they meet, and I am an outsider, so it is inconvenient for me to be present. As soon as he got up, his friend's uncle Sun Cheng immediately walked over, "I'll take you out for a walk." ”
"Okay." I replied.
I didn't trip over this time.
Going out from the old house of the Sun family, I followed Sun Cheng to many places, including a large number of farmlands behind the village, to be honest, it is indeed very beautiful with my own eyes, and now it is busy in the summer, and everyone is working very hard. The village also saw other things that are old, such as ancient temples and tombs, and the people in the village consciously love them. And they're friendly. However, I found that among all the houses, only the Sun family's house was sitting on a high place, which was really eye-catching and conspicuous.
There are also electrical appliances in the village, but there are not many, according to Sun Cheng, everyone does not like to be constrained too much by these things, and I sighed that it is good to have such a blessed land similar to Taoyuan in a society like this.
I suddenly thought of the taboo in their village, that is, the back mountain.
"I've heard that people rarely go into the back mountain, right?" I asked suddenly. Sun Cheng was stunned and immediately asked me who told me. I said it was Sun Bing. Sun Cheng smiled: "That's all old things, but because there are wild beasts in the back mountain, we usually don't let the children go up alone, in fact, it's just an ordinary mountain." ”
Since he said so, I don't need to ask more. Sun Cheng looked at the sun and said to me that it was not early and that I should go back to eat. When it came to eating, my stomach immediately screamed. After all, the food on the train is hard to swallow.
Back at Sun's house, the grandfather and grandson are still talking. But it seems that the grandmother is trying to persuade her friend to agree to meet the girl she likes.
"Little four, you know that grandma lives every day, and my greatest wish is to marry and have children while I can still see and hear this old bone, and I will be blind." After saying that, the old man actually had tears in his eyes. Sun Bing on the side couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to comfort the old man.
"Grandma, I'm not a fertility machine, not to mention that I haven't even seen the face of a girl, how can I talk about marriage? Don't embarrass me. ”
"So you mean you agreed to see her? Great, I'll ask your second uncle to bring her after lunch, and you can meet at home. But if you succeed or not, you have to see her. Grandma's face immediately changed, and she smiled again. Sun Bing was helpless, so he nodded and agreed. He looked at me, and I snickered, glad I wasn't so involved.
The lunch was gorgeous, full of raw food, good local chickens and fresh vegetables, and fish that had just been hoisted up from their own pond. However, since I was a guest, I was somewhat restrained and only ate four bowls.
However, Sun Bing was not in the mood to eat, and watched me gobble him up and put chopsticks in the bowl. But I was surprised that there were only four of us in the big house.
After eating, the second uncle Sun Cheng went out. I was amused when I saw Sun Bing spinning around the room uneasily. I thought to myself, you haven't experienced so many bizarre things, but I didn't expect to be at a loss in front of the blind date. It seems to be true that he told me that he had never been in a relationship. When he arrived in the city, his grandmother and I had a casual chat.
At this time a girl walked in, and I looked back and was startled. This girl is none other than my colleague at work, Xu Ling.
However, she is not very familiar with me, how could she know a nobody like me with hundreds of people in the company. But she's a well-known figure in the company. The youngest director in the history of the company, or the most beautiful, and it is said that the family is illustrious, but I didn't expect the so-called blind date to be her?
She was wearing a very ordinary yellow cotton sleeveless top and jeans today. The hair is also tied haphazardly at the back of the head. I looked at Sun Bing, he was a little surprised, I didn't expect it to be a city girl.
Over there, Xu Ling was also surprised to see him, but she still sat on the chair and looked at Grandma Sun Bing. Everyone was silent for a while. In the end, Grandma Sun Bing said: "Let's avoid it first, you young people in the province are ashamed." Saying that, the second uncle Sun Cheng took her in. Naturally, I couldn't be idle, so I had to excuse myself to go out and have a look. Before leaving, I glanced at Xu Ling, but I didn't expect her to be looking at me too, I was a little flustered, and I almost fell down when I crossed the door.
This time, I didn't dare to walk around without Sun Cheng's lead, so I just looked along the old house of the Sun family. I didn't expect to see a stone Buddha at the back of the house.
It's just a stone Buddha, but its carving technique makes me wonder. Although I know that this area belongs to the Northern Wei Dynasty in history, the Buddha carving of the Northern Wei Dynasty is very famous, it is famous for its bright colors and rich facial expressions, and this stone Buddha should be carved to apply Muni Although it is somewhat destroyed, it is far from the carving characteristics of the Northern Wei Dynasty. It feels like this carving style is very old.
There are still words underneath the statue, but I don't understand them, and I don't know what they are. This stone Buddha is more than two people high, and it seems that it will take some time to carve it.
I was bored and returned to Sun's house, and Sun Bing saw that I came back like a savior.
"Li Delong, you came just in time, Miss Xu said that she is in the same company as you." As he spoke, he pointed at Xu Ling.
"Hello, I remember that you are under President Zhao. He used to tell me about you, and the other day was a hard day, so he took a month off. Her voice was like honey thrown in boiling water, so sweet that it couldn't be melted.
I was flattered and smiled embarrassedly.
"It turns out that you are friends, but in fact, I was also forced by my family to come. But just make a friend. Xu Ling said generously. So the three of them unexpectedly became friends.
Sun Bing's grandmother thought that Sun Bing and Xu Ling were developing well and were very happy, but she didn't like me hanging around.
The next few days were very pleasant for all three, if Xu Ling didn't have an accident.
The three of us were walking around the village that day, but we forgot that none of us knew the way. It turned out that Xu Ling was also here for the first time.
"I'm a little tired." Xu Ling sat on the ground rubbing her legs, Sun Bing and I were also a little tired, and I didn't know where the three of us were, in short, there were very few people. I saw that the sun was gradually setting in the west.
"Look what it is, it looks like a party of marriages." Xu Ling pointed into the distance. Sun Bing and I looked over but saw nothing.
"No, there is, how can there be a marriage team at this time, there are very few people who get married this month." Sun Bing looked at it and said.
But Xu Ling insisted that she saw it, although the distance was very far, the bright red team was absolutely not mistaken.
Sun Bing and I looked at each other, and I laughed: "You don't want to get married, right?" Xu Ling's face turned red when she heard this, but she didn't expect that she would blush when she usually felt high.
"Hey!" Sun Cheng's voice came from behind. I was finally able to go back.
"How did you get here?" Sun Cheng said sternly as soon as he came over, and then turned his head to look, as if he was looking for something.
"Uncle Sun, I just said that I saw the marriage team, and the two of them didn't believe me." Xu Ling shouted at Sun Bing.
Sun Cheng smiled, you are mistaken, and said and took us back to Sun's house. Xu Ling's family said that let Xu Ling stay here for a few more days, anyway, it doesn't matter to the villagers. I thought to myself, it's great to be able to enjoy the night view and see the stars with her.
After dinner, Xu Ling said that her eyes were a little uncomfortable, and then she went to her room to rest. I didn't feel at ease, so I went to her room to have a look.
"Xu Ling, are you there?" I knocked on the door, but no one answered. I guess I'm asleep? Just as he wanted to go back to find Sun Bing, he suddenly heard a voice inside.
Every room in the Sun Mansion has windows, not the kind of glass aluminum alloy sliding windows, but a single-brace window. I heard the windows look like they've been smashed. When I twisted the handle, the door was unlocked.
When I opened the door, it was dark inside, but by the moonlight I saw that Xu Ling was not in the room. The windows were also closed. I opened the window, but I saw Xu Ling walking outside alone.
Climbed out of the window? I was about to call her out loud, but suddenly my mouth was covered!
Looking back, it was actually Sun Bing.
He made a quiet gesture and whispered, "Don't shout, waking her up now will frighten her." Looks like there's something wrong with her. We followed her and saw where she went. As he spoke, he pulled me out and followed Xu Ling.
We always kept a distance of more than 20 meters from her. Her steps were small and disorganized, like that of a drinker.
There was no sound at night, and the people here seemed to go to bed early, so it was no wonder that the day's work was tiring. Everyone went to bed early after eating. The two of us followed Xu Ling like this, and we didn't know how far we went.
It was wilderness from the beginning, with no stones and no shelter. Sun Bing looked at it, and suddenly said that this is not the place where we just came during the day, and she also said that she saw the marriage team.
"Do you want to call her, she's gone so far, do you want her to go down?" I'm a little worried, seeing that it's almost early in the morning, I can't let her go until tomorrow morning.
Xu Ling stopped, which made us strange. However, we didn't dare to get too close, and still kept our distance and watched carefully.
She threw up her hands, not knowing what she was muttering. Slowly turning towards us, Sun Bing and I didn't know where to hide, so we just lay on the ground.
Turning around, I clearly opened Xu Ling's left eye was actually flashing red, and looking at the flashing red eyes in such an empty place made me feel a little chilly.
"What's going on? It doesn't look like sleepwalking, does it? I turned back to ask Sun Bing, and he bit his lower lip and shook his head.
"I don't know, but I feel like she's in the dark." Sun Bing stood up, "Since it's not sleepwalking, let's go and take her back." He walked over.
Of course, I followed, and when we walked a few meters away from Xu Ling, Xu Ling suddenly fainted. We scurried a few steps, and she sat up as if nothing was going on.
"I, why am I here?" She looked around in amazement, and then at us. Sun Bing and I looked at each other and decided to make up a lie to deceive her.
"You're asleep, so Li Delong and I want to make a joke with you, didn't you say that you saw the marrying team here during the day, so we quietly carried you here, and let's take a look again, or let's watch the stars together."
…… I admire Sun Cheng's ability to talk nonsense.
"Really?" Xu Ling asked me again, and I had to nod like a chicken pecking rice. That night we had to hug each other and look at the stars, don't ask me why I didn't go back, because Sun Cheng and Sun Bing are both road blind.
The next day, Xu Ling returned to normal, and the events of last night were very puzzling to me and Sun Bing. Could it be really sleepwalking? But what is that weird red light?
On the third day, everyone played around again during the day, and Xu Ling said that she finally wanted to take the opportunity to relax, but the pressure of work was too great. Sometimes I'm okay to peek into her eyes, but I don't see anything.
On the fourth day, it seemed that the night here came unusually fast. Like yesterday, Xu Ling said that her eyes hurt again, and she didn't eat much and went back to the room. Sun Bing and I also put down our jobs. One guards the door, the other guards the window, and I can't let her out today.
Time flies quickly, it's past ten o'clock in a blink of an eye, it's strange, nothing special seems to happen today. I don't know what happened to Sun Bing, anyway, I leaned against the door and slowly fell asleep.
In a trance, I seemed to hear music, and it seemed to be the most popular wedding music in the countryside. I woke up with a thud. At this moment, the wooden door behind me made a real creaking sound of the door opening.
The back was as cold as ice, and when I looked back, Xu Ling was actually wearing a blood-red wedding dress! The upper body is a silk jacket in the early years of the Republic of China, the lower body is wearing a red skirt with a turned-up skirt, and the feet are wearing red embroidered shoes, and the lips are also rubbed bright red, and the surroundings are very black, looking like the mouth is dripping with blood. She looked at me blankly, no, I should say she couldn't see me at all, and walked out slowly.
Where did the wedding dress come from? I rubbed my eyes and thought I had seen it wrong, but it was clearly a red wedding dress, and she had already walked out of the back room.
I shouted in my heart that it was not good, so I quickly ran to the window, and it was a long circle, but Xu Ling walked very slowly, and I thought it was still in time.
I gasped and ran to the window and saw that it was empty. I thought to myself, Sun Bing, you shouldn't have run away from the evil spirit. There was no way to run back again, and I found that Xu Ling was almost out of the house.
"Don't worry, she can't get out of those thresholds." Suddenly, Sun Cheng's voice sounded behind him, and Sun Bing stood next to him with a calm expression.
I looked at Xu Ling again, and sure enough, I suddenly fainted the moment I stepped out of the threshold.
It seems that the double threshold is not just tripping people. The moment Xu Ling fell, the wedding dress on her body also disappeared. No, it should be said that it all flew into her left eye like smoke.
"The eye-gouging bride." Sun Bing and Sun Cheng said in unison.
I picked Xu Ling up and put her on the chair. Her bloodless face looked terrifying. But what made me feel most uncomfortable was that she was dizzy now, but her left eye was actually round and open, and her pupils were blood-red.
"What an eye-gouging bride." I asked, puzzled.
"You're an outsider, so of course you don't know the legend. During the Republic of China, there was a very beautiful girl in the village, but at that time, war was rampant, and even a remote mountain village like ours was not spared. She was taken by an officer who came here to serve as a military officer, but in fact she was no different from a bandit. Of course, she was reluctant to marry, but the officer threatened the lives of the entire village. As a result, the people in the village came to persuade her to marry the officer, and some even insulted her for not knowing what to do, and wanted to drag everyone to die together. In the end, in tears, she agreed to marry an officer. And let the officer swear that as long as he marries him, he will not harm the village. Naturally, the officer agreed.
That night, the officer waited for the sedan chair at the entrance of the village. It's a long queue to send off relatives. When they arrived at the entrance of the village, the officer went to open the curtain door of the sedan chair, but sat on the ground in fright. There were people from the village who were there at that time. A few dared to walk by and take a look. The girl actually committed suicide with scissors, and it was just suicide. But before she died, she actually gouged out her left eye with her hand, and I had it in my hand. The locals know that this is a very poisonous curse. Because they think that the human face is like a taiji diagram. The two eyes are the two black and white dots on the diagram, respectively. The left eye looks at yin and the right eye looks at yang. Strike a balance. But before she died, she gouged out her left eye, which meant that everyone she saw with her left eye would die. Sun Cheng looked at Xu Ling, who was glowing red in his left eye, and said slowly.
"Then there was a massacre in the village, and one after another people died, starting with the officer, who was found dead in his room by his subordinates. The left eye is gone. Later, the villagers who threatened her did not have a left eye. And some say that on the night of the accident, they all saw a girl in a red wedding dress appear. There is also a person who claims to have seen the girl's face with only one eye. Things got bigger and bigger, and the result was that the old lady of our Sun family, that is, my grandfather, came forward and sealed her in his own eye at the cost of his right eye. So the surviving people in the village respected our Sun family very much and built this house for us.
But grandpa couldn't suppress her resentment. It didn't take long for her to become ill, and she said that the eye-gouging bride would come out again in seventy years, but she would not kill indiscriminately, but find a girl of the same age as her to sit in her sedan chair and walk her path for her. ”
I was shocked. Xu Ling hasn't woken up yet. Is she really going to be a stand-in for the eye-gouging bride?
"Is there no other way?" Am I watching her die like this?
"I don't know, she died with a grudge that distrusted others. It's hard to deal with. The double threshold only slowed her down for the time being. You see her open left eye. That eye will slowly turn red from the pupil, and once the whole eye turns red, there is no help. Sun Bing walked over and pointed to the red glowing eyes, and sure enough, the red part was slightly larger than just now.
"Help her." I grabbed Sun Bing's shoulder and yelled. Sun Bing looked at me in surprise and patted me on the shoulder. "Don't worry, my uncle and I will temporarily take her to the ancient temple, hoping that we can control it temporarily, and we can have a way when we have time."
That's all there is to it. The ancient temple is in the center of the village, and I don't know how many years of history, anyway, it is still well preserved under the protection of the villagers. We put Xu Ling under the Buddha statue and surrounded the whole body with golden Buddha beads. The three of us sat around her.
Sun Cheng told us that his grandfather had said that in order to completely subdue her, her resentment must be appeased. As for how to calm down, he passed away before he could explain it in detail. I only said that where you came from, you should go back from.
We haven't thought about this sentence yet, but Xu Ling's eyes are getting redder and redder. The whites of the eyes are barely visible. Ancient temples and Buddhist beads did not work at all.
Where did you come from, where did you go back? What the hell did I mean, I looked at her pale face and her left eye, which was still unable to close the blood-red glow.
"Do you have to change your eyes?" I couldn't help but blurt out. Sun Bing next to him was startled.
"By the way, can you find the eyeballs she gouged out back then to calm her resentment?" Sun Bing's words are very reasonable, but it is equivalent to not saying that the village is not big, but it is not easy to find an eyeball here a few decades ago.
"No, her left eye should be in Grandpa's right eye." Sun Bing said firmly.
"Then why didn't Mrs. Sun return her left eye back then?" I asked.
"Maybe she was too angry at the time." Sun Bing replied.
"Well, Xiaosi's statement is very reasonable. But if this is the case, we will dig up Grandpa's grave, not to mention that Grandma does not agree, and you yourself will inevitably be charged with unfilial piety. Sun Cheng warned Sun Bing.
"It's nothing, I'll convince her on Grandma's side, you guys are going to open the grave now. It's a matter of human life, and grandpa will understand us. As he spoke, he said to me before he walked out of the ancient temple, "Don't worry, Xu Ling will be fine, I will never see my good friend die in front of me again, never." I know what he means. I believe Sun Bing will succeed.
Sun Cheng and I asked someone to look at Xu Ling. Then he took some people to the ancestral grave of the Sun family to prepare to open the coffin.
Mrs. Sun's grave is magnificent, and it is very clean and tidy. After we went to the incense and bowed, we pleaded with the old lady for forgiveness.
The tomb was built of marble. It's not easy to open, and you have to be careful not to damage it. At this time, Sun Bing came.
"Grandma's side, I convinced. I said that my granddaughter-in-law was in danger in the future, and I wouldn't live if something happened to her. "Sun Bing really has the ability to be a host.
Finally, we dug up the wooden coffin, and after another kneeling prayer, we opened it. Old Lady Sun's body was completely decomposed. But his right eye, like a ruby, was still glowing red. We carefully picked it up and wrapped it in a red cloth.
Just as everyone was about to restore the old lady's tomb, the few people who were in charge of watching Xu Ling ran over. My heart sank and I knew something was wrong. Sure enough, they said that Xu Ling suddenly stood up just now and rushed out of the door, with so much strength that she couldn't stop it. They had no choice but to come and tell us.
There is not much time, and a few of us hurried to find Xu Ling with eyeballs, but where will she go.
"Because it should be the place where Xu Ling said last time she saw the marrying team." Sun Bing guessed. No way, we just have to go there. Fortunately, his guess was accurate.
Xu Ling wore that red wedding dress again, if I saw her wearing it at night last time, it only made me feel terrible, then I only felt a very tempting and miserable beauty when I saw her wearing it in the middle of the day.
She just stood there and didn't speak. Just looking at the sky. I put my eyeballs in my hands and slowly approached her. Sun Bing also wanted to go over, but was stopped by Sun Cheng.
"You should go back from where you come from, I don't want to see this girl become your stand-in, if you have to wear a wedding dress, I also hope that she will walk with the person she likes in the future." I said carefully.
"Who are you? Do you love this girl? She replied with a sneer, her voice had changed, very ethereal.
"I can't say love, we don't know each other well, but I can't watch her die, and I don't want to watch you go wrong."
"Wrong? Can you feel the feeling of people betraying you and forcing you to death? You don't realize that if you were me, you would hate this world a thousand times more than I do. She looked at me faintly, her left eye still red.
"So I'll give you back what belongs to you, if you don't feel like it's enough." I paused, took a deep breath, and said firmly, "I can give you my left eye." ”
She looked at me in surprise and then said with a sneer, "Okay, give it to me." He stretched out his right hand.
I was also stunned, easier said than done. My hand is always on the left side of my eye.
"Dig? I don't have much patience, and when the time comes, the sedan chair that picks up this girl is coming. Look over there, it looks like it's already here. "She laughed at me all the time. I also seemed to hear the music of greeting the kiss, and sure enough, a team of people dressed in bright red clothes was walking towards me carrying a sedan chair.
Like a red tongue, stretching out over this open ground.
There's no time, if one less eye can save her, it's worth it. I dug into my left eye.
The moment my fingers touched my eyeballs, a gust of wind arose, almost knocking us all down. Sun Bing and Sun Cheng also rushed over to help me. Nothing was left after the gale. Xu Ling fell to the ground, and the blood-colored wedding dress had faded from her body.
The voice sounded in the sky, and said bitterly, "I'll keep an eye on you in the future to see if you're lying." And then it was all over.
The eye-gouging bride who had haunted the village for decades had finally left, and I couldn't be sure if she had actually left, or if her reddish left eye was watching me from a corner......