Chapter 6: Nightmares
Hearing me mention it, my grandfather got up, paced back and forth several times with his hands behind his back, and finally sighed and said, "Child, remember, the ghosts in this world are not the most sinister, the most sinister, but the human heart!" ”
My mind suddenly couldn't turn around, and my heart said that this is talking about ghosts, why did it run to people's hearts again?
However, I was only seven years old at the time, and although I remember these words very clearly, I was far from understanding them.
At the age of seven or eight, it is the age when dogs are also suspicious, and soon I forgot about it, and licked my face and said, "Grandpa, if not, you can teach me to catch ghosts!" How fun is this? ”
I cocked up two fingers and posed like my grandfather wielded a mahogany sword.
Grandpa leaned down with a smile, pinched my little face and said, "Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" ”
I immediately raised my head with my chest straight: "Don't be afraid! ”
Then I lowered my head weakly: "I'm still a little scared." ”
Unexpectedly, my grandfather smashed on my head with a violent shudder: "At a young age, I don't study well, what do I learn to catch ghosts?" ”
I rubbed my head and said, "Didn't you say that you want me to inherit the family lineage and become a great ghost doctor like you in the future?" ”
Grandpa's beard and eyebrows suddenly curled: "Little rabbit, I let you be like me in the future, I didn't say that you will be like me now!" What's going on? Isn't it a little god? ”
I stuck out my tongue and watched my grandfather blow his beard and stare at him, but I didn't dare to say anything more.
"Let's go, go home and sleep with me, I don't sleep in the middle of the night, and I'm late for school during the day."
Grandpa instantly changed from the old man who exuded a fierce aura just now to an amiable old man, and led me home with his hands behind his back.
When I entered the door, my grandfather pulled me and said, "Remember, you are not allowed to mention to your mother that you went to the hospital, otherwise you will ......."
I bared my teeth and smiled, "How?" ”
Grandpa smiled: "Otherwise, you won't be able to eat popcorn in the future." ”
I immediately surrendered! I will not let my stomach suffer because my mouth is not strict.
When I got home with my grandfather, I glanced at the old wall clock on the wall, and it was already past two in the morning.
I realized that I was born heartless, and I had just gone out and seen two ghosts, and I thought that if I were to be replaced by other children, I would not be too scared to fall asleep, but I should be excited to fall asleep. I'm going to have a fight and want to sleep.
In my sleep, I seemed to dream that a man was talking to me, the figure of the man was tall and mighty, but he could not see his face clearly, he touched my head very majestically and slightly doting, and talked to me.
But I looked at him with disgust, pulled his nasty palm away, and said something out loud in anger.
Then the picture changed, the image of the man became very cold, he said something to me coldly and arrogantly, and then we, we fought.
As a result, needless to say, I can also know that at my age of seven and a half years and my body, how could I beat that tall and mighty man, three times and five divided by two, I was grabbed and pressed on the thigh, my pants retreated halfway, and I slapped my ass directly.
While smoking and scolding something, I could only resist weakly with my teeth and claws.
"Xiao Ning, Xiao Ning, wake up, wake up, it's time to go to school!"
In a soft, whispered cry, I opened my eyes and saw my mother looking at me with a caring look.
"What's wrong with you? Do you have nightmares? ”
My mom looked me up and down, and it made me feel like I was loved.
I scratched the back of my head, trying to remember what the man had told me in my dream, why did I look at him with such disgust?
But I found that I couldn't remember anything at all.
To tell you the truth, I have had this dream more than once, and I have often had this dream since I was sensible, so that the figure of the man in the dream has become my nightmare.
Maybe that's why I'm not particularly afraid of ghosts, because the man in the dream, he follows me like a ghost, and he comes out every once in a while to educate me.
I didn't tell my mom about it because I was afraid she would worry.
Although I am young, I have known since I was a child that it is not easy for my mother, I have to take care of my grandfather by myself, so no matter what, I try not to worry my mother.
"Nightmare? Yes? Nope! I slept a little late last night and was a little sleepy. ”
I rubbed my dry eyelids and said.
"Sleeping late? Didn't you go to bed after eating? Why are you still trapped like this? ”
I saw my mother's suspicious eyes, and I knew that I had slipped out, and I didn't know how to say it for a while.
Fortunately, at this time, my grandfather walked in and said, "Boy, the older you get, the more sleepy you are, and you won't sleep much at my age." ”
After speaking, the old man picked up the cigarette pouch and pot from the kang and walked out.
My mother pointed to the old wall clock and said, "Okay, hurry up and have breakfast, I'm going to be late." ”
I hurriedly turned over and got up from the kang, glanced at the old wall clock, the hour hand was already pointing to half past six, broken, there were still ten minutes before the shuttle bus arrived at the entrance of the village, and it was too late to get up.
I put on my clothes in a panic, stepped on my schoolbag, and hurriedly ran out, and when I lifted the curtain, I saw my grandfather sitting at a small table in the yard drinking soy milk comfortably, eating the big meat buns made by my mother, and smiling wickedly at me.
I ran to the table in a few steps, picked up a bowl of soy milk and drank it, wiped my mouth, picked up two large meat buns and ran out.
As soon as I ran two steps, I turned around and saw that my mother was still in the house and didn't know what she was cleaning up, so I tiptoed to my grandfather and whispered, "Thank you, grandpa." ”
Then he turned his head and ran towards the entrance of the village.
"Goblin Head."
My grandfather laughed and cursed, and picked up his dry tobacco pouch from the table.
As soon as I ran out of the gate, I heard a burst of cries, which sounded especially intrusive in the early morning.
With last night's experience, I'm particularly sensitive to these slightly weird noises, and the first thing that comes to mind is that it has something to do with ghosts.
I don't know if other people have that kind of psychology that is both scared and curious, but I have this kind of psychology anyway.
After carefully identifying the direction, this cry was actually from Grandpa Liu's house next door, I was excited in my heart, and immediately remembered the sick and dead ghost Liu Quan last night, could it be that Liu Quan's guy made the ghost? This also worked too quickly.
I glanced at the entrance of the village, where there were quite a few children and adults waiting for the bus to go to the town. Look at it like this, the car hasn't come yet, why don't you take this opportunity to go and see what this crying is all about?
I didn't even have time to think for a second, and my curiosity overcame a qiē, and I involuntarily walked towards the wall of Liu's house.
Why the wall? This kind of thing, it must be seen secretly, Grandpa Liu's house lives next door to my house, in case my grandfather catches me, don't I want to be beaten?
As for whether it was the sick and dead ghost Liu Quan who made a ghost, if it was replaced by another ghost, maybe I was still a little scared, I was not afraid of this kid, I had seen the real body last night, and there was no fear anymore.
Besides, in broad daylight, the ghost should be afraid of me.
The earthen wall in the countryside was not very high, so I quietly came to the root of the wall of Grandpa Liu's house, stepped on a big stone, grabbed the wall, and looked into it like a thief.
It's good not to look at it, but this one almost scared me out of the wall.