Chapter 6: Shrimp Cage Horror
Dad knew a master, that is, the fortune-telling old man, and asked him to arrange my fortune chart, and when I saw that Kun was wrong, I quickly asked my parents to pack up their burdens and leave, saying that I was on the way to be born, and the car happened to roll over the life gate of a cultivating snake, which broke its qi, that is, people were rushing to become immortals, and its qi was the weakest at this time, and it was killed by our car. Generally speaking, animals can become immortals, there are very few such animals, to have spiritual intelligence, that is, to think for themselves, in the process of cultivation will be struck by lightning, and there are even fewer people who are struck by lightning and do not die, that snake died in an unborn child after nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, not that I am unlucky, but that it is unlucky. The last trace of snake gas attached to my mother's fetal gas, and just like that, I was born, and the fortune teller meant that it was already kind enough before I became a snake. And my parents' Bazi and I, the snake girl, not only don't want to rush, but also cooperate very tacitly, and I don't want to cultivate that snake in vain.
Then why don't we want to rush the eight characters, and we can't be together, the eight characters cooperate well, not only for the benefit of the parents but also for the children, and I am not a normal child, I was born wrapped in snake energy, and I can't benefit my parents in pairs, otherwise, the cultivation nature of that snake is so strong, how can it not continue to use me as a host? If you are with your parents, you will soon reveal your true nature as a snake. I only started to lose my vision in the fourth grade of elementary school, and it was too late to start molting a few days ago. As for being able to live with his parents at the age of 18, it is because if the snake nature arises, it must be before adulthood, and it will be determined at the age of 18, and it will be obvious at the age of 18, and it will not be afraid of benefiting each other again.
Although I am far away from my parents, the snake still affects my growth, I am taller than children of the same age, but my bones are very slender, and my waist is definitely a few points thinner than everyone else. Snakes have almost no vision, relying on a keen sense of smell and touch, and at night they also rely on infrared rays to discern the direction of their prey, which explains why I can feel the movement around me when I close my eyes and sleep, and I should be thankful that I was not blind when I was born, so I retained a little sight, thanks to the old man.
As for being able to see certain things, the old man's explanation is that he is the same kind, and he has become a ghost before he becomes an immortal, and you can't see who can see it? So, I'll see it more often in the future? How can I say that the snake qi is now integrated with me, that is me, and I was born in the solstice yin to yin, and I am also a little ghostly? No, I'm human, I'm afraid of ghosts!
"So what does my molting mean? How can I molt in the summer? "I wondered, it seemed like winter in my memory.
The uncle shook his head and said, "Who said that snakes can't molt in summer?" Snakes basically shed their skin once every three months. "Huh? Am I going to have to learn about the snake, alas...... So, I'm going to molt every three months too?
"Dad, did the old man say how often I should do that?"
Dad replied, "Sir, you are on the right track." "That means ...... Do I change my skin every three months? Isn't it my life!
When my parents left, my father handed me a book wrapped in red cloth, "Take a good look, Xuanzi, no matter what, get through it, remember, you are human." "I opened the red cloth and looked at it...... "Snake" Okay, I'm human, but you have to know yourself well to become a real person.
So that summer I carefully studied the next book, the chapter about snake molting, I remember the most, before the snake molts, the eyes are stained milky white, I see if the eyes will change color before molting next time, I didn't pay attention to it last time, I will be temporarily blind a few days before molting, I'm fine, I'm just the day before, I don't know what will happen next time. And also stop eating? No wonder I felt like vomiting that day, and I had to stay without eating for a period of time after molting, so do I have to live by hanging water? It seems that it will take a while to get used to this life. Comfort yourself that I don't have all the habits of snakes, such as ...... I don't need to hibernate.
By the time I got to the fifth grade summer vacation, I had already shed several layers of skin, at this time molting was already very familiar to me, just like a girl's menstrual affairs, it came very regularly, after all, I was a human being, not a snake, the second molt no longer hurt, just a slight itch, the snake molt is a whole piece, I molt is a small piece of a small piece, soak it in water and then wipe it off on its own, it is easy to do without eating, and I will not be hungry, I started not to be hungry the day before, I began to lose sight a few hours before molting, and my eyes improved one day after molting, and I began to eat. Once the eyes are covered with white fog, if it is during the school day, it is inevitable to take leave to go home and prepare to molt. I found that although molting is an unnecessary hassle, I am still happy to peel my skin every three months, and my skin is new every three months.
During the summer vacation of fifth grade, I was still as crazy as usual, I was already a big kid at that time, and I was the king of children in a group of children. At that time, the shrimp pot was red, a shrimp cage put away a handful, spread out to be three meters long, put tomatoes and other food in the shrimp cage, it is best to bolt a few pieces of salted meat, throw it into the lake, tie one end to the shore, collect it in the morning and collect it in the afternoon, collect it in the afternoon and collect it at night, collect it in the morning at night, generally collect the cage at night, there will be lobsters in it when it is collected, and there will be small fish jumping, so there are a lot of people in the cage at night, often when we go to the cage, we will see a lot of strong flashlights by the lake in the field.
When I saw the beam of light from afar, I knew that it was the person who collected the cage. Often, we collect cages on this side of the shore, and there are people on the other side of the shore who collect and shout a few words to each other. Of course, there will also be the wrong cage, but the more the cage is stolen, the cage is stolen back or the fish and shrimp inside and then put back the thing from time to time, the lobster in the market is several dollars a catty, and it is very weighed, so we make the marks are very secretive, and often change places. The grandmother didn't approve of me going out to collect the cage, but she couldn't resist me, there were several of us in a group, and there were so many cages outside. That day, we laid six cages during the day and were ready to collect them at night.
I received a place with lush vegetation, it was already the third shrimp pot, I remember that there was another one not far away, and there were lights on the other side, so I walked over, I didn't have a flashlight, Xiao Ming poured lobsters into the bucket and shone on me. I walked to the place where I had an impression and began to look for the marks left during the day, and now that I think about it, tears will flow unconsciously, and I was so bold at that time, I said to myself, "It should be here." ”
Xiao Ming was a little dazzling when he was shining not far away, "It's right here." A male voice replied, and I jerked my head back, there was no one here! Xiao Ming is over there, and the two of them are also over there, and I will hear the people on the other side of the strait speak so clearly in my ears?
"Xiao Ming!" I called out to him, and I was bold.
"Xuanzi! What's wrong! We're coming! "I'm too scared to stand up......
Xiao Ming and they quickly came over, saw me squatting there, thought it was the shrimp pot stolen, took the stick and poked into the lake, when it was poking, there was a rustle in the ditch next to us, and when I looked back, it was two children crawling around there, almost the appearance of a third-grade child, Xiao Ming chased with a stick, "Dare to steal our cage!" Looking for a fight! ”
I felt that something was wrong, the cold hairs on my body stood up again, and I hurriedly stopped it, "Xiao Ming, don't go!" "But Xiao Ming is angry, my legs are weak, and I hurriedly shouted to the two people next to me to pull me up, and ran over with Xiao Ming, and the two children saw someone coming, and they got up and ran, and we chased after them.
I shouted as I ran: "Xiao Ming, stop chasing!" "There's a cemetery over there!
Running and running, suddenly the two children stopped, turned around, looked at Xiao Ming, at this time I would rather have poor night vision as at the beginning, than good enough to see their faces all at once, the first time I saw Grandma's ghost, it was broad daylight, it was not as clear as it is now, I saw their faces very clearly, miserable white, like smeared with flour, the legs were already weak, and then I ran for a while, I was about to sit down, tears could not stop, just couldn't make a sound, just like in a dream I couldn't shoutI wish it was a dream, but the cold hairs that stood on my roots reminded me that it was real.
My eyesight is weak, but my night vision and feeling are absolutely sensitive, this time I really met something, I trembled and pulled the two people around me, they haven't seen the faces of the two things, Xiao Ming is still scolding in his mouth, raising the flashlight to shine on their faces, at this time I don't know where I got the courage to step away from the thousand-pound legs, ran towards Xiao Ming, and held down his flashlight, "Xiao Ming, they didn't steal it!" No, they didn't steal! No! Our shrimp pots were not stolen! Let's go back! ”
"Really? Then why didn't you say it earlier, then let's go back quickly. "I didn't even dare to look ahead, I knew they must be glaring at me with those blank eyes.
Xiao Ming said to them again: "Since you didn't do it! Hey, let's go home! It's so late, two little guys ......"
"Let's go!" I tugged at Xiao Ming's clothes for fear that he would tell those two things.
"They're gone." What the? When I looked up, they were gone.
When I got home, I had a high fever, and I dreamed wildly that night, and I always saw the two white powdery faces in my dreams, and my grandmother was wiping my body all night, and my body was like being stepped on, and it really seemed to be run over by a wheel, and it hurt to my heart, and my grandmother said that I was crying out about pain that night, and asked me where it hurt, and I couldn't answer, it just hurt, and it hurt everywhere.
The next morning, the yellow skin was like a famine, but miraculously he was cured, and he did not have a fever, but the next night, he began to have a fever again, and he said that it hurt all night long, and my grandmother stayed up all night to wipe my body, and strangely, as soon as the sun came out, it was better again.
The grandmother asked me what had happened, whether I was frightened, I couldn't hide it anymore, so I told it all, and the grandmother inevitably scolded me and hugged me for a while. In the morning, I went to the famous local Shuangguan Temple, this temple is very famous, the grandmother will come to ask for Laba porridge with many people on the eighth day of the lunar month every year, I have also been here a few times, all at the door to watch, the grandmother never let me in, afraid that the cold air on my body is too heavy, this time the grandmother still left me outside.
When I saw the stone lion at the door, I actually had a feeling of fear, very depressed, and the grandmother came out of it after a while, and when she came out, she still held a handful of lighted incense in her hand, bent down and began to smoke my feet.
After smoking my feet, I started to smoke upwards, and when it reached the bottom of my nose, my grandmother said, "Take a few more sips." ”
I hurriedly inhaled several puffs, a strong fragrance into my nose, almost choked, and so on after my whole body fragrant, the family milk pulled me in, there are many Bodhisattvas inside, the family milk did not stop, directly pulled me through a courtyard, inside is the main hall, a few children are eating, a female steward greeted me, "That's it, follow me." ”
I didn't know that there would be a steward in the temple, and she was shocked, she took us to a side hall and told me to sit down, I sat on a chair, and I saw her pour a bowl of rice into the bowl, wrapped the rice in a cloth, turned it upside down, and then took a sip of water, and before I could figure out what was going on, she sprayed a mouthful of water on my face, and then a few more sprays, and there were a lot of droplets of water on my face, and then she began to pick up the upside-down bowl wrapped in cloth, and began to chant words in her mouth, and I couldn't open my eyes when I was sprayed by the water, and I didn't dare to move, With blurred eyes, I watched her shake the bowl in her hand while reading, and after reading for a while, the water on my face had not yet evaporated, and I saw her open the cloth, put the bowl inside upside down on the cloth, and then uncover the bowl, and a large piece of rice was missing!
She said to her grandmother, "I'm scared. "It's so weird, what about that big piece of rice? It's really gone right under my nose! Could it be that this is a magician?
She took out another yellow charm and handed it to the grandmother, "When you go home, burn it, add water and let the child drink it." "Then pour the rest of the rice into a bag for us to take home and put under the bedside or pillow. That's it?
On the way home, I asked my grandmother, "Grandmother, why are you using aromatherapy for me?" ”
"Increase your yang energy, the temple is a sacred field, you can't just do it."
"So that was the surprise just now?"
"Yes, when a person is frightened, he must collect his soul, otherwise the soul will grow hair after being outside for a long time, and he will not know the way home."
Souls also grow hair? "Grandma, is my soul back?"
"It's good if you don't have a fever tonight, but the people in the temple say that you are not scared, and the grandmother is ready to call you the soul again, otherwise you don't worry." The grandmother said that if it is too heavy, you should shout it again when the sun sets, and shout it again at night, and if it is not heavy, you only need to shout it again at night. This time, I have already collected my soul in the temple, and I just need to shout it at night. In the evening, my grandmother asked me to go up early, put the rice under my pillow, and took my close-fitting gown in my arms to the kitchen to cry out for my soul.
I only heard the grandmother shouting all the way back from the kitchen in a soft voice, "Xuanzi, don't be afraid, come back, I'm afraid to sleep with my grandmother at night, Xuanzi, don't be afraid, come back, I'm afraid to sleep with my grandmother at night......" kept shouting by my bedside, and stuffed the gown into my pillow, I was afraid of my soul, patted my chest, not afraid, this is me. The grandmother turned off the lights, came into the tent, and patted me to sleep, and that night, I had no fever, and the grandmother called me for three nights, and slept well every night.