Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Garden Ghost Calls
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After everyone dispersed, my great-grandfather found the hut where the Cai Mansion watchman lived.
After my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother got married, they lived in Cai Mansion for a few months, as I said earlier, so he was no stranger to Cai Mansion.
After coming to the watchman hut, my great-grandfather asked the watchman for the tools used in the watchman, such as bangs, incense, etc., so that the watchman could sleep soundly tonight and work on his behalf. This watchman is obviously a newcomer, my great-grandfather doesn't know, and I guess the previous watchman was scared away.
When the watchman heard my great-grandfather say that he was Caifu's aunt, and he had to fight for him, he was flattered, but this watchman didn't know that Caifu's uncle, in addition to a little bit of exorcism and ghost hunting, was actually the same as him, and his profession was also a watchman.
After asking for the tools for the watch, my great-grandfather returned to the hall, took out a chair from the hall and put it in the courtyard, put the equipment for the watchman next to the chair, sat down on the chair, lit the incense for timekeeping, and kept the hour.
As time passed, it soon came to the third watch. My great-grandfather got up from his chair, stretched his waist, moved a few times, then picked up the bangzi, carried the lantern, and began to shout and shout while walking around the Cai Mansion.
No further ado. After walking around the house, my great-grandfather stopped at the garden between the front yard and the backyard, and the most troublesome place in Cai's house was the area of the garden, and my great-grandfather felt that there must be something special about the garden.
At this time, the garden was quiet, and the flowers and plants in the garden, as the old housekeeper Cai Zhang said, were all dead, the stumps were rotten, the branches were withered and yellow, and the whole garden looked miserable and depressed.
After my great-grandfather had carefully examined the flowers and plants, he went to the fish pond and shone a lantern into the fish pond.
In my great-grandfather's memory, the water in the fish pond was very clear, the water was not deep, you could see the bottom at a glance, and there were pond lotuses floating on the water surface, and the small fish were playing happily under the lotus leaves, which was pleasing to the eye. However, at this time, the water in the fish pond was blue-black, not only bottomless, but also faintly emitted a rancid smell, choking the nostrils, as if something was rotten in the water, and the pond lotus on the water surface was gone, and the whole thing looked like a muddy stinky puddle. On the surface of the water, my great-grandfather didn't see the dead fish with a white belly, and it may have been fished out and thrown away by the people of Caifu.
At this time, the tragic situation in the garden of Caifu was beyond recognition compared to the garden in my great-grandfather's memory, and it could also be said to be miserable, and my great-grandfather couldn't help frowning and feeling sorry for it.
At this time, my great-grandfather suddenly felt a chill on his back, as if a cold wind was blowing on his body from behind, he hurriedly turned around, held the lantern above his head and shone it, there was nothing behind him, at least there was nothing within the range of the lantern, but the cold wind just now was very clear and real.
According to my great-grandfather's judgment at this time, something unclean must have run past him just now, and that cold wind was the yin qi brought out by that thing.
This phenomenon may have been encountered by many people, inexplicably a gust of wind blew, the speed was very fast and cool, and it came and went quickly, suddenly came, suddenly left. In this case, people who are generally in good health and have heavy yang energy will not feel anything, but if you catch up with people with poor health and weak yang energy, it is likely that there will be a conditioned reflex of sneezing or cold war, as long as you sneeze and cold war, it doesn't matter, you will catch the way of those things. This kind of thing, in fact, is also bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, you fight a cold war, as if you are showing weakness to it, it sees that you are so bullying, it will find you directly, the light is a fever and headache, it will not be cured for a long time, and the heavy will directly give it the upper body, resulting in the six relatives do not recognize and talk nonsense.
Straight to the point. At this time, fortunately, it was my great-grandfather, who was strong in yang energy, and he still had objects to ward off evil spirits, if he were to be someone else, I am afraid it would not be as simple as feeling a cold wind.
My great-grandfather walked with a lantern and tried to walk in the direction of the cold wind. When my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother first got married, they often accompanied my great-grandmother here to enjoy the flowers and feed the fish, and he was not unfamiliar with the layout of this garden, and he remembered that there would be a well not far ahead.
After walking about a dozen paces, a well appeared, and there was no roller frame on the well, and there were no water drawing equipment such as well ropes and buckets, so it was a bare well. The wellhead is covered with a two-foot-high apron with gravel, which can be regarded as a simple protective measure. The water in this well is not for drinking, but for the Caifu gardeners to water the flowers.
As I approached the well, another cold wind blew in front of me, as if something had run past my great-grandfather. Of course, it still didn't affect my great-grandfather, but because of this, because my great-grandfather had a lot of yang energy on his body, and he had evil spirits on him, he couldn't see anything, but felt a little cool air in the wind.
After I learned the arts, among the people I helped and came into contact with, there were really people who saw these unclean things, but their statements were different, some said that it was a white shadow, like fog, some said that it was a black shadow, like a human shadow, and some said that it was like a small animal such as a cat and a dog and a fox, and the last one was to directly see a fluttering human form.
I don't know why there are so many theories, what exactly these dirty things look like, our ancestors have not really seen them for generations, this may have something to do with the crafts we have learned, and it may also have something to do with some of the evil things we carry all year round. As for what we carry with us to ward off evil spirits, I think many of our friends are very curious and eager to learn about it. I'll leave this at that, I'll get to that later, but I'm not sure if these objects will work on other people.
Straight to the point. At this time, my great-grandfather found that these two cold winds might have blown out of the well, so he wanted to go to the front to see it, but at this time, I don't know where a series of cries came from, the cries of women, and there were vague words in the cries, and the cold people in the middle of the night heard how mad and how mad they were.
My great-grandfather's heart suddenly tightened, because he clearly heard those vague words shouting, "Uncle, I'm Xiaolan, help me......"
Hearing this voice, my great-grandfather also felt a little hairy in his heart, this is the first time he has heard the sound of "ghosts" for so many years of helping people exorcise ghosts, and hurriedly raised the lantern to shine around, but unfortunately, he didn't see anything in the four times.
In fact, if a person lives in a troublesome place for a long time, even if the person with heavy yang energy will be affected for a long time. Just like the martial artists in Cai Mansion, the yang energy on the martial artists is generally heavier than that of ordinary people, but this can't withstand the long-term interference of yin energy, and it will be affected over time.
My great-grandfather was able to hear Xiaolan's shouting at this time, in fact, it was also because of this reason, he was disturbed by the yin qi, and here in the garden, there is not only Xiaolan, but there is also an even more powerful one, which will be mentioned later.
This caused my great-grandfather to be more or less affected at this time, even if my great-grandfather had an object to ward off evil spirits, and he stayed for a long time, he couldn't last long.
Writing this, I think of the possibility that this may be another reason why our ancestors and grandchildren have not seen ghosts for generations, because we usually stay in those troubled places for a short time, and before we can be affected by them, we have already sent them away, and if we stay for a long time, or if the yin qi of that thing is very heavy, it is probably a big trouble for us.
Well, this possibility is valid, I just realized this, and when I go out to help people in the future, I will pay attention, but I don't know if I think about this now, is this considered a refresher.
After a few more words of nonsense, let's get back to the point. At this time, hearing Xiaolan's cries and cries for help, my great-grandfather was also hairy in his heart. Listening to the narration of the old housekeeper Cai Zhang before, my great-grandfather was sure that Xiaolan was now dead, but what made my great-grandfather accept it was that he could now hear the cries and cries for help of Xiaolan's ghost, it can be said that this is the voice of "ghost", this is the first time he has heard a voice since he helped people exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts, even his master Wang Shoudao has never told him in the past that he can hear ghosts or anything like that.
My great-grandfather originally wanted to go to the well to have a look, but when he heard Xiaolan's voice, he immediately stopped, held his breath and stood in place and listened carefully, he wanted to find out the direction of the sound, but after listening for a while, it was a pity that he found that Xiaolan's voice was floating, a moment far and a moment near, a moment left and a moment right, as if the garden was surrounded by her voice, and it seemed that Xiaolan had been circling around my great-grandfather's side, and could not determine her specific location at all.
At this time, there was an extra voice in Xiaolan's cry, a man's angry reprimand.
The man's voice was not clear, it was the same as Xiaolan's voice, far and near. My great-grandfather could barely hear clearly, the man seemed to be scolding Xiaolan for being a "slut", and there were some things like asking Xiaolan to pay for her life. Then Xiaolan no longer called for help, except for crying, screaming, the voice was very miserable, as if she was being pulled by the hair by a man, and she was beaten violently.
At this time, my great-grandfather could already conclude that the man who beat Xiaolan was also a ghost, that is, the white shadow that the people in Cai's Mansion saw and chased behind the blue shadow, the blue shadow was Xiaolan, and the white shadow must be this man, and my great-grandfather judged at this time that the white shadow who beat Xiaolan was probably Zhang Jiang, the apprentice of the old cook in Caifu