Chapter 3: The Art of Raising Ghosts (text)

I don't let others bully her on weekdays, but now it's because of me that she will be cut a big hole in her hand.

So when I saw her crying in pain, I felt bad and said sorry to her.

The second grandmother touched my forehead and said with a smile: "You just treat her well in the future." ”

In the evening, the second grandmother did not let me leave and let me stay at her house.

During this period, I went to her bedroom and saw a very small incense altar on the bedroom desk, on which there were five incense sticks, and the incense jar was not filled with incense, but a bowl of rice, and there was a paper figure cut behind the five incense sticks. I was curious, so I fiddled with the paper figures.

The paper man was pointed at me on the back, I saw that there were words on the back of the paper man, so I looked closer, it doesn't matter if I don't look at it, I was shocked to see that my name was written on the back of the paper man.

Turn over the front of the paper figure again, the front eye of the paper figure is stuck with two large holes in the nail, and the rust on the nail is left in the eye hole, which looks like a circle of red, which is a little scary.

Before I could see more, the second grandmother walked in, saw that I was looking at the paper figure in a daze, put away the smile on her face, and asked me, "What do you see?" ”

I still believe in the second grandmother, and I didn't have any scheming at that time, so I said, "I just saw my name written on the back of the paper figure." ”

The second grandmother listened, nodded and said, "That's for your eyes, don't you go back and tell your grandfather, you know?" ”

I hummed, and then went out to play with Mu Xiaoxiao.

Mu Xiaoxiao had a big cut on her hand just now, and she was sitting on a chair staring at her hand in a daze, this was probably the most seriously injured she had ever been.

After I went over, I took her hand and blew a few breaths, saying, "It won't hurt if I blow it for you." ”

Mu Xiaoxiao hummed with tears in her eyes, and then asked me while sobbing: "Brother Ye Hai, do your eyes still hurt?" ”

I shook my head and blew on her wounds.

At this time, the second grandmother came out, saw the two of us, grinned, brought a chair and sat next to us, and said with a smile: "You two are really a natural pair." ”

We were little kids at the time, and we didn't know what she meant, and we just listened to it.

The second grandmother saw that I was chatting happily with Mu Xiaoxiao, and she didn't bother us, staring at me for a long time before she spoke again: "Haiwazi, when you grow up in a few years, you must marry Xiaoxiao home, I am a bad old woman, maybe I will go one day, and Xiaoxiao will have to entrust you to take care of it at that time." ”

Mu Xiaoxiao and I didn't understand the weight of what she said at the time, but seeing that the second grandmother believed in me so much, I still beat my chest and made a promise, saying that I would take care of Xiaoxiao.

The second grandmother talked to us very late that night, she talked very little on weekdays, but today she has a lot of special words, from when I was a child, I talked about Mu Xiaoxiao's childhood, and then talked about my life with Mu Xiaoxiao.

The second grandmother said that my life is not good, there will be a lot of hardships and hardships along the way, Xiaoxiao's life is good, and the people who are with her can turn evil into good fortune, so let me stay with Xiaoxiao more in the future, which is good for my eyes.

I only knew that Eun agreed at the time, and it was precisely because of this that my relationship with her became closer after that, we had nothing to say, basically every time I appeared, I would be with her, I used to feel awkward to call her Xiaoxiao, but now it is not awkward at all.

Every time the villagers saw me and them holding hands and staggering by, they would make fun of us and say, "Look, those two are here again." ”

But one day, however, such a day was broken.

I was eleven years old and Xiaoxiao was ten years old.

We've been together for three years, and time flies so fast when we were kids, and now that I think about it, it doesn't feel like it's gone at all.

I never had a conflict with her when I stayed with her, and it became a good story in the village, and the villagers taught their children to learn from the two of us.

When I was eleven years old, my grandmother prepared a meal at home, ready to pick up the second grandmother to my house for dinner, after the meal was ready, my grandfather ran to the second grandmother's house to call the second grandmother, because the second grandmother went outside for a while, grandpa went into the bedroom to find her, and saw the paper man and incense altar placed on the windowsill.

After that, the grandfather went crazy, knocked over the second grandmother's incense jar, and burned the paper figure with a fire.

At that time, many people were present, and their voices were very unanimous, all accusing the second grandmother, saying that the second grandmother should not raise ghosts on me.

After that, grandpa quarreled with the second grandmother, and almost made a move, which scared Mu Xiaoxiao so much that she was about to cry. I didn't dare to go up to persuade me, so I comforted Mu Xiaoxiao there.

Everyone broke up unhappily that day, grandpa forcibly took me back to the house, and called my parents in the evening, grandpa strongly asked to send the second grandma to the court, my father did not agree, and then there was a stalemate.

While they were arguing at home, Xiaoxiao appeared at my door.

Although my grandparents were angry at that time, they really liked Xiaoxiao, and they stopped for a while when they saw her coming.

Xiaoxiao didn't dare to sit down after entering the house, stood next to me and lowered her head to play with her fingers, I saw that it was dark outside, so I asked her: "Xiaoxiao, it's so dark outside, did you come alone?" ”

She nodded, then whimpered and sobbed, and I hurriedly asked her what was wrong.

She sobbed for a while before she said, "Brother Ye Hai, my grandmother is moving, and she wants me to go with her." ”

As soon as I heard it, I was not happy at the time, and when my grandparents heard it, they were a lot quieter, and then my grandmother blamed my grandfather and said: "It's all you, what's the matter like this, Haiwazi's life was saved by her when she was a child, and Haiwazi didn't do anything, and now you make people want to move, you are satisfied." ”

Grandpa didn't reply, lowered his head and smoked, and after a while, he got up and said, "Haiwazi, you come with me to find your second grandmother." ”

I hummed, my grandmother also went that day, and Xiaoxiao was naturally taken with us.

When we went, the second grandmother was packing up her things, and when she saw us, she smiled, and she didn't explain anything, and the grandparents persuaded her not to move, she said that she couldn't stay in this place, and if she stayed any longer, something would happen.

The grandparents persuaded for a long time, but the second grandmother refused to listen, and still insisted on leaving.

After that, Mu Xiaoxiao also said that she didn't want to leave, but her grandmother didn't follow her, so she went into the house to sleep.

After the second grandmother finished cleaning up, she came to me and said, "I raised a ghost on you, and now that the paper figure has been burned, the ghost can't come out, tomorrow you go to the field with me, and I will find a way to get the ghost out of you." ”

I nodded with a sigh, and then my grandparents asked the second grandmother, "What are you doing with ghosts on him?" ”

The second grandmother said: "I saw that he was short-lived, and I wanted to raise a ghost, and after a few more years, I would be able to listen to him, and then I could protect him and Xiaoxiao." On weekdays, the ghost stays on him and doesn't make a mistake, when he wants to be yin, I will give him some women's blood, so that the ghost will not hurt him, the paper man is like a talisman, it was burned by a fire, and the ghost will stay in his body and can't get out, so I have to solve it as soon as possible, and I will take him out tomorrow, otherwise he may have an accident. ”

When grandparents heard this, they immediately sighed, grandpa looked remorseful, and grandma blamed. As a client, I didn't feel it at all.

In the evening, my grandparents talked to my parents on the phone for a long time, and finally agreed to take my second grandmother out with me.

At six o'clock the next morning, before it was completely bright, Xiaoxiao knocked on my door, and my grandparents opened the door and welcomed her in.

She turned to me and said, "Brother Ye Hai, grandma told you to hurry up, the car will come in a while." ”

I hummed, and then my grandmother handed me the clothes, money and other items she had prepared, and said a lot of things, such as asking me to listen to the second grandmother.

I agreed one by one, and then took Xiaoxiao's hand and left the house together.

The second grandmother called the car to pick us up, the car walked on the road for a long time, and finally we changed to a long-distance bus, this time it took two days to stop walking, and I didn't know where the southeast and northwest were.

The second grandmother took the two of us to a roadside restaurant, and then said to me: "Haiwazi, there is an Anshun Temple here, and when you go to the temple in a while, you find the biggest person there, and you ask him to borrow a 'Dutian Dharma Treasure Seal'." ”

I sighed and asked, "Isn't the second grandmother going?" ”

The second grandmother said, "I'm waiting for you at the door." ”

I nodded, and after eating, the second grandmother took us into a taxi, and after I don't know how many turns, we finally stopped in front of a quaint building.

When she arrived at the door, the second grandmother smiled and said, "You go in, we are waiting for you here." ”

Before I could say anything, Xiaoxiao hurriedly said, "I also want to go with Brother Ye Hai." ”

The second grandmother grabbed her, beckoned to me, and let me in.

I glanced up and said to Mu Xiaoxiao, "Xiaoxiao, I'll be back in a while, you wait for me here." ”

She let out an unhappy oh, made a goodbye gesture to me, and watched me walk in.

When I went in, I met a man about 30 years old, dressed in the same clothes as the Taoist priests, and asked me what I was doing here.

I directly explained my intention, saying that I wanted to borrow the 'Heavenly Dharma Treasure Seal', but he said that he had never heard of this thing, and I said that I would ask the biggest person here to borrow it.

He laughed twice, and really took me to the outside of a house in the inner courtyard of the Taoist temple.

When we got to the outside of the house, he said to me, "The biggest man here is inside, go in and find him." ”

I looked up and wanted to borrow something early so that I could go out to find Xiaoxiao and them, so I walked in.

The first time I met someone alone, I was naturally very nervous.

When I went in, there was no one inside, so I looked around and walked out, telling the person dressed as a Taoist priest that there was no one inside.

He said, "You should go out, and you can come back next time." ”

I sighed, turned around and left the Taoist temple, preparing to go out to find Xiaoxiao and them.

But when I arrived at the gate of the Taoist temple, where could I still see their traces, the surroundings were empty, and I didn't see them for a long time.

It's ridiculous, my first thought at the time was that they were lost, not that they dumped me.

I didn't see them for hours there, but this time I was really panicked, and in the evening, I cried and found the Taoist temple.