Chapter 32: Walking in the Water (text)
After going around the village several times, there was no one to be seen, and when I arrived at the other end of the village, I realized that the villagers had gathered here. There was a family in the village who bought two coffins in the city, but when they got to the highway entrance, the car couldn't drive in, so they could only be carried by people, and all the men and younger women in the village went, and Meng Changqing also went.
When we went, the coffin had already been carried to the door of the coffin's owner's house, and Meng Changqing was also among the people carrying the coffin.
After the coffin entered the house, the master's family left the people in the village to have lunch at him. Everyone else in the village agreed, but the old man who took us in didn't agree, saying that he wanted to go back.
The villager hurriedly asked him what he was pretending to be strange, and the villager persuaded the old man for a while, and the old man stretched out his hand and pointed to the three crows on the plane tree next to the house and said, "Yesterday when I went to work in the field, these three crows have been following me, and they can't go." They're waiting for me to die to eat my meat, and I don't think I'm running out of time, so maybe I'll kick my legs right away, and my mud house is dirty, but I still want to die there. ”
The villagers saw the crow and hurriedly drove the crow away with stones, and persuaded the old man not to believe it.
After a few words of persuasion, the old man still insisted on leaving, and I could see that they did not really keep the old man at all, for fear that the old man would really die in their house.
After the old man left, we also refused the host's stay, and went back with the old man.
After arriving home, the old man held Meng Changqing's hand and begged him for a few things, Meng Changqing agreed one by one, and the old man asked Meng Changqing to put him in a coffin after he died, and by the way, inform the people in the village.
The old man also told Meng Changqing the address where he wanted to be buried, and asked Meng Changqing to tell his son.
The old man asked Meng Changqing to agree one by one, and after he finished speaking, the old man told Meng Changqing, saying that the reason why he stayed at his house was that he was afraid that he would rot in bed like his wife after he died, and the people in the village were unwilling to come to his house, so he had to leave us behind, and there was a good person to report the news.
Meng Changqing smiled after hearing this, and didn't say anything.
The old man went to make lunch, and I looked out, and the three crows rested on the tree outside, and I hated it when I saw it, so I took Xiaoxiao outside and threw the three crows with stones.
Xiaoxiao thought that these three crows were going to harm the old man, and threw them with extra difficulty, but the force was too small, and they fell down after throwing less than five meters.
We threw it in the heat outside, and when we looked back, Meng Changqing was looking at the backs of the two of us and laughing.
The first time I saw him smile, he was a little creepy, and he hurriedly stopped Xiaoxiao, pulled him to Meng Changqing and asked him what he was laughing at.
Meng Changqing replied: "It's nothing, you pay attention to safety, don't throw it on your head." ”
After he said that, we went out and threw the crows, first to relieve the hatred, and then to pure play.
While we were having fun, the old man beckoned us both to come in from inside the house.
"I'll give you both a gadget." After entering, the old man said, and then took out a white hairpin from an iron box in his hand, and the hairpin was engraved with a Tai Chi, which looked very charming.
He handed me the hairpin, and then took out a book with a green cover from the iron box, on which were written the words "Walking Horses in the Water".
He handed the book to Xiaoxiao, and at the same time said: "When I die, the things in this house will be burned, and these things are given by others, and it is a pity to burn them." For the two of you, if you want to play with it, just treat it as a toy, and sell it if you don't like it. And that book, I don't know a few big characters, and I don't know what is written, you can take it and read it, and increase your knowledge. ”
I fiddled with the hairpin, then snatched the book in Xiaoxiao's hand and looked at it, the old man looked at us a few times and then walked into the stove house with a smile.
Meng Changqing also looked at us and smiled, then closed his eyes and took a nap.
Two minutes after he closed his eyes, the sky outside became gloomy, and in a few moments it began to rain, and in the blink of an eye, the water flowed outside.
Xiaoxiao saw that it was windy and rainy outside, stared at Meng Changqing for a while, and then went to the old man to borrow a quilt and put it on Meng Changqing's body. With such a big movement, Meng Changqing didn't feel the slightest bit of consciousness, which showed how sleepy he was.
I was bored, so I went to the stove house to see, the old man had lived alone for a year, and he still had a set of cooking, and when he saw me entering, he knew that I had nothing to do now, so he asked me to find a hat in the house and go to the field next to him to cut some leeks for him.
These are all trivial matters, and I naturally have no reason to refuse, so I found a hat in the house and put it on and went out.
There is a small field with an area of about 50 square meters next to it, Tianli grows all kinds of fruits and vegetables, and I have stayed in the countryside for so many years, I naturally know leeks, and I didn't delay a little bit and went directly to the leek field to cut it wildly.
When I was about to go back after cutting the leek, I saw a group of people walking down a path opposite the leek field.
When they passed by me, I gave a shout and asked them why they didn't have an umbrella, but they ignored it and walked away.
I watched them walk towards the pine forest next to them, and thought to myself, what are these people doing, they don't have umbrellas on rainy days, and they go into the mountains.
When I thought this, I looked down and saw them stepping on the ground. Because it was a rainy day, the soil on the ground had long been soaked loose, and a casual step on it would leave traces, but this group of people stepped on the ground, and even the rain on the ground did not fluctuate.
I understood right then that they weren't people at all, they were ghosts, and they were floating.
Most of them were cut off from the wilderness by the sun before, but now they take advantage of the rain to go into the mountains.
After understanding, he pretended not to see them, and continued to bend down to do his own thing, and only when he could not see them did he raise his head and walk into the house.
When he came to the house, before he could enter, he saw a group of people passing by the side of the house, walking in the same way as the previous wave of people.
I thought it was strange, why are so many feminine things passing by today? And they all go to the same place.
I wanted to ask Meng Changqing, but seeing that he was sleeping soundly at this moment, I didn't disturb him, but went into the house to ask the old man.
When the old man heard this, he put down the spatula in his hand and went out to take a look, and then said: "You just stay in the house, don't go out, this is the Yin soldier passing by, and he is going to the City God Temple over there." It's unlucky to see this. ”
"What are you doing at the City God Temple?"
"This place is sandwiched by three mountains, the feng shui is very bad, most of the people who die have become ghosts, and the yin cha will come to the City God Temple every once in a while to collect ghosts, and take them below to be reincarnated. These are people who are in a hurry to be reincarnated. ”
I sighed, and then asked what the yin difference looks like, Meng Changqing also said that the yin difference before, I don't believe this.
The old man said: "Yin cha is actually a human being, now the number of people dying every day has increased greatly, and the number of original soul seduction messengers is greatly insufficient, so I hired some yang souls to temporarily do things for them, and this group of people is called Yin Cha." ”
The yin soul is the soul of a person who has already lived a long life. The yang soul is naturally the soul of the person whose yang life is not finished. I thought that Yin Yi was so mysterious, but it turned out that it was also changed by ordinary people.
After that, he continued to talk to the old man about the perineum, and he didn't call Meng Changqing after the meal was ready, the meal could be eaten at any time, but he might not be able to sleep at any time, he hadn't slept well for a long time, so he had to let him sleep a little longer.
After eating, the old man went out alone, saying that he wanted to see some of the places he had walked before, and that he would have a thought after he died.
Not long after the old man left, Meng Changqing woke up, and because he didn't see the old man, he got up and went out to find him, and Xiaoxiao and I continued to stay in the house.
Meng Changqing went out all afternoon, and when it was almost evening, they didn't see the two of them come back.
Xiaoxiao and I were waiting in a hurry, and we were about to look for it, but just as we wanted to go out, we saw Uncle Zhang wearing a hat and walking over quickly.
When I saw him, I just froze for a moment, and although I knew that he was a ghost, I didn't feel much scared.
When Uncle Zhang saw the two of us, he walked over quickly, and as soon as he came over, he took off his hat and asked me where my master was.
When he learned that my master had gone out, he hurried into the house and closed the door, and at the same time bolted the door.
I asked him what he was doing, and he made a shushing gesture to me, and as soon as the gesture was done, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and the footsteps were approaching, and finally stopped outside the door.
For the next half minute, there was no movement outside, and I mistakenly thought that something outside had left. Just as he was relaxing, there was a knocking sound on the door.
When Uncle Zhang saw it, he hurriedly told us to stay away from the door, and at the same time motioned for us not to speak.
We withdrew a few steps, and the door rumbled and shook immediately afterward, and when Uncle Zhang saw it, he hurriedly ran to the side door, and we were also frightened by the menacing appearance of something outside, so we ran to the side door and waited.
Uncle Zhang stood at the side door and listened to the sound of the gate, and when he heard the sound of the gate rumbling to the ground, Uncle Zhang immediately opened the door and ran out.
I listened to the sound and ran out with me.
Uncle Zhang walked all the way, and when I asked him, he didn't answer, and only after he reached a relatively distant place did he say, "Find your master." ”
I asked him how he found us, and he said that when we were in Yejiawan, he knew that we were following them, and he was afraid that Meng Changqing would take him in, so he avoided it, and now he was chased by walking corpses and had no way out, so he came to Meng Changqing to seek refuge.
This place is not very large, and it didn't take long to find Meng Changqing and the old man in a cemetery.
Meng Changqing frowned when he saw Uncle Zhang, Uncle Zhang didn't care what Meng Changqing's expression was, he stepped forward and said, "That walking corpse has been moved in by a terrible ghost, and now it's chasing me everywhere." ”
Meng Changqing asked him what was going on, and Uncle Zhang told him about the matter from beginning to end.