Chapter 518: Choosing a Sword
"What are you doing here, do you want to scare me to death?" I couldn't help but be a little annoyed, looking at his back, and not ready to approach. Because I felt something bright in front of me, something I instinctively didn't want to get close to.
And my daughter-in-law's sister's hand seemed to be pulling me behind me, but I knew that even if I turned back suddenly, I wouldn't see her.
"Is it Brother Chi...... Chico...... Don't go back. β
Zhang Yidan dragged a trembling voice to talk to me, he didn't turn around, in the back, he was wearing dirty clothes, as if he had been soaked in muddy water, and his shoes were papier-mΓ’chΓ©.
I listened to his voice disagreeable, and his face was a little ugly: You kid. Didn't you plan to scare me by pretending to be a ghost?
Looking for the figure, I really wanted to kick him so that he wouldn't be fucking scary next night, but when I tried to get closer, a cold gust of wind happened to blow in front of me, and the hidden air instantly pinched my vision.
I immediately stopped, and waited until the hidden qi cleared. Where is the shadow of Zhang Yidan?
I pondered, could it be that I was hallucinating, or was Zhang Yidan squatting near Qiqi catching voles in recent days, and happened to play tricks on me?
It feels like there is still more than half a distance away from Xiaoyi Village, although I feel that the feelings just now are a little supernatural, however, I have no intention of returning to Carrying Dragon Village, because when I turned around. Again, I sensed something pulling at the corners of my clothes, and it was stronger than the direction back to Xiaoyitun.
Even if I can know the danger, sometimes I have to choose one of the two dangers that is relatively smaller.
Therefore, I can only bite the bullet and go back to Xiaoyitun. Sandwiched with sub-sitting.
Standing in the place where Zhang Yidan stood, there was a puddle of wet yellow water, I don't know where the water came from on the dry road, the fishy smell is a little pungent, it seems that Zhang Yidan may fall into the stinky ditch in a bad mood, and he wants to take me to make fun of it.
The warning of my daughter-in-law's sister and the strange disappearance of Zhang Yidan made me have an ominous omen for this night road, and along the way, I paid attention to the surrounding environment.
But after walking for another half an hour, I didn't find the weird love again, and my heart relaxed a little.
Now. The thick faint gradually showed the appearance of a two-meter-wide stone bridge, and the stone I was carrying in my heart was about to be put down.
It is the ancient bridge of the hall 'Siqiao', listening to the old people in the village, it has been stored when Xiaoyitun should be up, they all said that it was before Yingguo, I think, it should be Xiaoyitun or Yizhuang's time steal.
But regardless of its age, the other side of the bridge is the village, and I can faintly see the dim lights of the village.
I stroked the ancient bridge, and I still remember stealing when I was a child, and I was swimming in the river and lake under the bridge with Zhang Yidan and other friends. At that time, the water of the creek was clear, and you could see the pebbles at the bottom of the water.
In the night light, I looked under the bridge with nostalgia, but this look made my cold section explode!
Under the bridge, a group of monks dressed as monks carried bamboo poles to the shore to fish for corpses, while a few children lined up and ran across the river reciting nursery rhymes.
"Thousands of flowers, 10,000 flowers, fluttering, sprinkling, piling, piling, stacking, snowman, not afraid of cold, not afraid of freezing ......"
These corpses were children, women, and old people, and they were soaked in the water to a little white, and even some of their faces were crawling with maggots, and the constant wriggling of the dead was very terrible.
Behind me, my daughter-in-law's sister was pulling at the corner of my clothes, and I stopped all of a sudden, and I was so shocked that I couldn't move.
A burst of cold water blew by, and I looked under the bridge again, only to find that there was no light!
The water was still babbling across the bridge, and the monks and children were like never existing, and I wondered, was it because I was too tired and hallucinated?
But how can the nursery rhyme come back, and this mirage can still spread thousands of miles?
"Brother Qi, why are you still standing there, wait back to the village. β
As I struggled with the vision at the bottom of the bridge, the girl's voice called out to me on the other side of the bridge.
I was startled by the shouting, I turned my head sharply and breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be Yu Xiaoxue, a childhood follower.
I was still a girl with a snot, and now she has the appearance of a beautiful girl, if I remember correctly, she should be sixteen or seventeen years old this year, before she also wrote to me and said that she wanted to go to Guangdong to work, and I stopped her on the grounds that she was not old enough to have an ID card, after all, I can't let the only remaining 'fruits' in the tun go out and let the bad guys scourge.
I was looking at her in a daze, but I found that her father was still standing at the door of her house, it was Uncle Yu Gen, Uncle Gen looked at me with a blank gaze and did not speak.
Xiao Yitun was still a wasteland when his grandmother arrived, and he became popular one after another for decades, so there are many people with foreign surnames from all over the world.
"Why are you here. I said hello and walked towards their door, wanting to say hello to Uncle Gen.
Xiaoxue ran over and said to me sadly: "Brother Qi, why did you come back, my mother-in-law is gone, let's go to my mother-in-law." β
Hearing this, my heart sank instantly, it seems that the time to come is still coming, and my grandmother is really going.
My eyes were a little uncontrollable and wanted to shed tears, but I pinched my eyebrows to hide the past, and I felt that I should cry in the mourning hall.
Uncle Gen didn't go with us, just stood silently and looked at me from a distance, I don't know how Uncle Gen, who was originally shouting at me, became silent.
It was not surprising that the lights were on early in the morning, but they were still closed, because there were no street lights in the village, and no one wanted to move around after it was dark.
But apart from Uncle Gen, I also found that the other neighbors were standing at the door from afar to watch me enter the village, and I was still some distance away from them, so I didn't go to say hello, thinking that you would know that I was back.
I hurriedly walked to the door of my grandmother's house, the door was already hung white, the mourning hall was also arranged, the door was a paper horse, and there were a man and a woman paper figures.
In addition, there is no one around, if it is the usual rule, there should be three or five tables, relatives and neighbors gather together to talk, drink tea.
However, I think that my grandmother is a goddess who is respected by her neighbors, and she may die differently.
The two doors each earn two grandmother painted door gods, the look is twisted, but the pen is very vigorous and powerful, there is a grandmother's surname, first name, date of birth and death on the door post on the white paper, I only glanced at it, and found that it was also written by my grandmother herself, the handwriting is extremely sloppy.
It seems that she knew that her confined affection was true.
In the Feng hall, a coffin covered with red paper lay quietly, which is the treatment that only old people who have died normally will have.
There is no one in it, and the incense in front of the coffin has also been burned, and I haven't had time to be sad before I feel sad in my heart, the incense can't be broken, is there no one to incense?
I glanced at Yu Xiaoxue, she shook her head, her face was a little pale: "Brother Qi, just now...... No, I just ordered it just a few minutes ago, and I saw you pick you up at the entrance of the village, why is this gone?"
My grandmother's house belongs to a higher position in the village, and there are no neighbors next to it, so it is normal for Yu Xiaoxue to see the entrance of the village.
It seems that the current businessmen have a bad conscience, and they make money on the dead, and even the incense will be faked, and it will be burned too much.
I hurriedly stepped into the house, but the moment I stepped in, I couldn't help but shiver, feeling that there was a yin wind blowing in all directions, and my daughter-in-law and sister seemed to pull me.
But I had no choice, my grandmother died, and it was necessary to give her incense, so I knelt down in front of the coffin without hesitation and lit four incense sticks.
After being shaken off, three were placed in the ash basin in the front and one in the ash basin in the back.
There are no anomalies.
I breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that my daughter-in-law's sister is not all right, I am not out of the way?
After I got up, I chose the straw mat on the left side of the coffin and sat down, and Yu Xiaoxue looked left and right, and when she saw me sitting down, she shrunk her neck and walked in, and then sat on the right side of the coffin.
Although I didn't wear filial piety directly, there was nothing wrong with Yu Xiaoxue and I keeping a wake together, and when the old man of the neighbor died, we would occasionally sit by the coffin with my friends and chat about it.
Besides, the relationship between her family and our family is good, I steal when I am not there, Yu Xiaoxue often pesters her grandmother, and she is 'mother-in-law', because grandma's family has never lacked sugar and biscuits, Yu Xiaoxue is a snack, and it is common to steal and eat grandma's sacrifices to the gods.
The death of my grandmother made our hearts empty, and we lost our backbones all of a sudden, although we haven't seen each other for a long time, but there is no one to speak.
It was eerily quiet inside and outside, and I could feel the yin qi gathering little by little, so I was ready to say something to light it up and break the silence.
But suddenly, I saw the three cigarettes in front of me fuming, and I frowned.
The three incense sticks burned very irregularly, the left side was long, the right side was short, and the middle burned the most, when I saw it it was the shortest, and the word 'evil incense' immediately appeared in my heart, and I felt that it was going to come out.
"Grandma...... I'm coming back late, don't be angry, burn the incense and take care of it. "I felt that the deceased old man would inevitably get angry when he cut off the incense during the wake, so I touched the cold coffin and comforted him, but I found something that shocked me:
The coffin was not nailed.
The cold, stunned feeling came from within, making my heart pound suddenly, why didn't I put a nail on it? Could it be that the person presiding over the funeral forgot to do it?
"Chigo...... I'm a little scared...... I want to sit next to you......" Yu Xiaoxue said as she looked at me scaredly.
"Well, come over here, then. "I forced myself to calm down, not to mention Yu Xiaoxue, my heart was also beating like a drum, and I felt that the yin qi around me was too strong.
The coffin is strange and has not been nailed yet, and there is no one around the house, just like the Feng family did not know that their grandmother had died.
In previous years, when other old people died, they would never be so deserted, and someone should be in charge of the funeral.
I also noticed that there was no trace of anyone cooking rice in the vicinity, so no one had ever come to visit my grandmother after she died.
This is definitely not a good sign.
I watched Yu Xiaoxue walking towards me, and my heart tightened suddenly, after all, I warned my daughter-in-law and sister that there were some grass and trees.
But fortunately, this time my daughter-in-law and sister didn't pull the corners of my clothes, and Yu Xiaoxue didn't seem to be in danger of being bright for me.
"Snow, where have the others gone?" I looked left and right, and white paper was gathered all around, making the hall miserable.
Boom!
Before Yu Xiaoxue could answer me, the two old doors were suddenly blown together by the wind, not only was I startled, but Yu Xiaoxue jumped up even more, and hugged my arm in shock. R832