Chapter 32: Meeting a Drunk at Night
The seven pieces of yellow rune paper attached to the lid of Liu's coffin aroused my strong curiosity, and this curiosity was actually a kind of uneasiness that I couldn't say.
Originally, pasting talisman paper on the coffin is also a very common custom in rural funerals, but the strangeness of the seven rune paper is that they are pasted on the inside of the coffin lid, and the rune paper is not painted with common symbols, but the names of seven people and the eight characters of birth are written.
Although I don't understand Granny Xian's intention to do this at all, I can be sure that the weirdness of this talisman must be related to Shi Mengya's being hidden in the coffin by Granny Xian, wanting to marry the ghoul Liu Degui.
I was worried about Shi Mengya's safety, although she had woken up, her body looked extremely weak, and her originally pretty face had lost the brilliance of the first time I saw her.
Granny Fairy has been sealed in the green jade ring at the same time as my grandfather's ghost, and it is unknown what evil spell she cast on Shi Mengya. To understand the reason, perhaps these seven rune papers have become the final clue.
Shi Mengya was temporarily out of trouble, and I couldn't worry about the future affairs of the Liu family, so under Shi Mengya's pleading, I drove her to a nearby train station.
Her vacation is coming to an end, and she has to go back to the magazine to report. Although I really want to keep her, it is too pale to want to be a reason to keep her just by chasing after the wind and shadows.
On the way to the train station, I saw Shi Mengya leaning on the chair with her eyes slightly closed, and the sense of loss in my heart became stronger and stronger, for fear that she would never have the chance to meet me again if she left.
What made me even more heartbroken was that her mobile phone was lost in the Liu family's mansion, and I tentatively asked Shi Mengya if she would only change the phone and not the card after she went back, but she just smiled and didn't tell me clearly.
I deliberately drove very slowly so that I could stay with her a little longer before parting ways. Bypassing the hillside in front of you, you can see the train station, and you can already faintly see the lights at the end of the train station reflecting the night sky slightly red.
Suddenly, I made an emergency brake, which startled Shi Mengya, who was recuperating. I also broke out in a cold sweat, secretly glad that if I hadn't reacted quickly, I was afraid that I would have been in big trouble.
A middle-aged man staggered less than three meters in front of the car. I rolled down the window of the car and yelled angrily, "Looking for death? ”
The man ignored my swearing, walked to the side of the car crookedly, and said with a snort of wine: "Hey, brother, borrow a light and take a ride!" ”
The small space in the car was originally the two-person world between me and Shi Mengya, but at this time, a drunk who appeared recklessly wanted to hitchhike, which was really bad scenery.
I refused angrily, but the man insisted on pulling the car door. Shi Mengya heard that the man was living in the col in front of her, and whispered to me, "Brother Ling Sen, anyway, I can catch the train in time, so you can give him a ride!" Seeing him like this, he is drunk, and if we don't take him, it won't be good if something happens to him. ”
Shi Mengya opened her mouth, and I could no longer refuse the drunk's request, so I had to glare at him fiercely and open the car door.
The drunk got into the back seat of the car and muttered, "This young lady is so beautiful and has a good heart, haha, little brother, she is your daughter-in-law, right?" You're blessed. ”
So far, the only sentence of the drunk has given me a good impression of him, even if he is not telling the truth. I restarted the car, turned my head to him and asked, "Which village are you from?" ”
He obviously understood what I meant, and grinned: "Little brother, I am from Lijia Village in front." Looks like you and this young lady are going by train, right? Then we're on the way. ”
I nodded, and he told me that to get to the train station, I had to pass through Lijia Village, but there was a fork in the road at the entrance of the village, one leading to the train station, and the other to his door.
The drunk man stopped talking to me, but chattered with Shi Mengya. From his rambling words, I suddenly felt a little uneasy in my heart, and from time to time I watched his every move from the rearview mirror.
The drunkard's name is Wang Zhimin, and he is the only foreign surname in Li's village, so his family has kept a distance from most of the families in the village, and it is a standard single-family household.
Today is the first seven days after the death of his old mother, who has depended on him since childhood, and according to rural customs, he invited a few Taoist priests from other places to do Dharma for them.
After the ritual was completed, Wang Zhimin bought a few side dishes to entertain the Taoist priests according to our customs, and then sent them outside the mountain after eating.
He drank too much, and on the way home after sending the Taoist priest, he was blown by the mountain wind, and he didn't feel that the wine was up, and he stumbled all the way, almost hitting my car.
After talking for a while, he saw that he was about to arrive at the Lijia Village he said, but the drunk suddenly lost his voice and snored loudly.
I secretly complained in my heart, secretly complaining that Shi Mengya shouldn't be soft-hearted and agreed to him to get in the car, but I was embarrassed to say it. Suddenly there were two rows of street lamps in front of them, and at the end of the concrete road, which was slightly whitish in the night, was a low brick house.
I haven't been to Lijia Village for a long time, but I didn't expect such a big change. What puzzles me even more is that the people who built the road didn't know if it was a convulsion, and after building such a good road, it only led to the front of the low house, and did not extend to the place with the most people living in Lijia Village.
Maybe that low house is Wang Zhimin's home! I stopped the car and said loudly: "Wang Zhimin, I have arrived at Lijia Village, is it your home in front?" ”
Wang Zhimin didn't say anything, still snoring. I pushed him a few times before Wang Zhimin opened his worried eyes, hummed and fell asleep again.
I sighed and said, "Mengya, look at this guy is so drunk, I can only drag him out of the car, let him wake up and go home on the way." ”
Shi Mengya hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother Ling Sen, isn't this okay?" Just do the good thing to the end, you drive him to his door! ”
I really didn't want to do that, but she opened her mouth again, what could I say? I rolled my eyes, suddenly had an idea, and deliberately sighed: "Mengya, you have a really good heart." Alas, it's just that we can't send him anymore today, have you forgotten that his house is his mother's first seven today? According to our rules here, outsiders can't go to his house, it's too unlucky. ”
A hint of horror suddenly appeared on Shi Mengya's face, perhaps my words reminded her of the panicked scene in the Liu family's mansion.
She hesitated for a moment, then nodded. I was secretly proud in my heart, and quickly jumped out of the car, grabbed Wang Zhimin, and dragged him out of the car.
This book was first published on Kanshu.com