Chapter 12: The Dream (text)
Meng Changqing saw me covering my eyes and screaming in pain, so he took me under my armpit very decisively, and then ran to the thatched pit inside the Taoist temple.
After arriving at the pit, he didn't hesitate to put me down, it was so stinky that I almost didn't faint when I went down.
Fortunately, the dung water in the pit only reached my chest, and if I drank a sip of dung, I might as well die of pain.
"The ghost in your body can't stand my blood, but he likes this filthy place, you bear with it first, and when your eyes hurt, I'll pull you up again, you be careful not to fall." Meng Changqing stood on the bank of the pit and shouted at me.
I didn't even dare to open my mouth below, for fear that the fecal water would enter my mouth, so in order to deal with Meng Changqing, I nodded to show that I understood.
I stayed in the pit for two hours, and my eyes were soaked in my body before the pain stopped, and I didn't want to stay in it for a second longer, so I was busy letting Meng Changqing pull me up.
After getting up, Meng Changqing threw me into the bathhouse with me in his pocket, and only after washing me up did he release me.
When I changed my clothes and went out of the bathhouse, the roosters outside began to crow, I didn't sleep all night, and Meng Changqing also accompanied me to toss all night.
After leaving the bathhouse, Meng Changqing immediately took me to another half-old man in the Taoist temple, and asked him to help watch me for a while, and he said that he was going to go out.
I asked him what he was doing, and he said that I was too sensitive to ghosts, and even a curse by others could make the flame extremely low, so that if I didn't pay attention to it, I would die, and he heard me say that what kind of Shangqing Great Cave Seal was useful to me, and he was going to go out to other Taoist temples to inquire about the whereabouts of this Great Seal.
He also took away the cinnabar stone, paulownia chain and other things on my body, he said that at this stage, I am like a confinement person, delicate, with a masculine thing, which will stimulate the ghost in my body, and the feminine thing will raise the ghost strong, the cinnabar stone is too masculine, I am not suitable, Li Yan lives in the bracelet, it is too feminine, I am still not suitable for the time being.
Now the only thing I can do is meditate and meditate, and he will bring back the big seal before the next illness and see if it works.
The role of the Taoist seal is to draw symbols, different seals have different effects on the talismans, and he estimated that the intention of the second grandmother was to let me find the big seal to draw the talisman to take out the ghost in the body, and this method is feasible.
After entrusting me to this half-old man, he also said with a straight face: "Last night, your soul was lost for a period of time, and the flame was not very low before you lost your soul, but after you returned to your soul, the flame dropped very low, and during this time, someone was cursing you, or someone hooked your soul to do something that damaged the flame." ”
I listened to it and thought to myself, this is too mysterious, yesterday there was a moment when I couldn't concentrate, he scared me back, and after I was scared back, my body began to have an accident, I thought it was the unclean things in the cemetery that lowered the flame, and now I listen to what he means, someone is deliberately manipulating me?
"I suspect that the whole night last night was secretly manipulated, before you went out of the Taoist temple, the fire was similar to a normal person, if a normal person is a normal person, people are afraid of ghosts for three points, ghosts are afraid of people for seven points, and ghosts dare not look for trouble. But after going out yesterday, I got into trouble with so many ghosts one after another, and if it wasn't for human reasons, other explanations didn't seem to make sense. Meng Changqing added.
"Wouldn't it? I didn't offend anyone. ”
"Do you think about any strange things you encountered along the way, such as eating something given by others, asking for your name, asking you to stamp something, etc."
I thought about it, except for the old man's house when he scolded me when he drank water, everything else was normal.
I told the old man about scolding me, he said that it had a little impact, but it was definitely not the case, Meng Changqing thought about it, and finally guessed that an acquaintance did it, and said this, and asked: "How does your second grandmother usually treat you?" ”
"She's been the best for me." I say.
After that, Meng Changqing nodded and sighed, he said that only by knowing other people's names or birthdays can they hook souls or curse.
Although Meng Changqing said it very vaguely, I knew that he meant the second grandmother, and only she understood these things among the people around me, and she was the first to mention these things to me, and she was also the one who raised ghosts, and she was naturally the one who knew my birthday.
After being reminded by Meng Changqing, I remembered the paper figure I found in her room at that time, in addition to a charm and my name, there were two big holes in my eyes, and my eyes were red from pain, similar to the situation of the paper man.
It turned out that I didn't pay much attention when I saw these things, but after leaving her for a long time, my heart and eyes have increased, and at this time, I was full of wonders if it was the second grandmother who was fixing me? After thinking about it, I just thought that she was doing something important with my soul, and I firmly believed that she would not harm me.
Meng Changqing couldn't pay attention to this matter, saying that the top priority was not to cure the root cause, but to treat the symptoms, as long as the fire flame was stabilized, no matter how much others rectified it, it would be useless.
After explaining some things to me, he went down the mountain and told me not to go out during this time, because going out would definitely attract ghosts again.
After he descended the mountain, I immediately asked the half-old Taoist priest, "Is there a way to find the person who cursed me?" ”
This half-old Taoist priest is not very familiar with me, he was entrusted by Meng Changqing to look at me, and his true intention was not very much to talk to me, seeing that I asked, he replied perfunctorily: "If it is a curse, it must be within a certain range, it should be in this city." When your master comes back, he will accompany you to find that person, and you can stay in the Taoist temple with peace of mind, but your spirit and fire are very poor now, and there are basically no living people who talk to you when you go outside. Your master asked me to watch you drink tea, and before he came back, you should drink what the tea tasted like, and if you couldn't do it, you would have accepted it. ”
After the half-old Taoist priest finished speaking, he flipped through the book and read it, and I nodded absentmindedly.
If that's the case, it means that the second grandmother is still in this city, I thought they had left the city and returned to their hometown, but I can't remember where my hometown is, so I haven't gone out to look for them, and now I know that they are in this city, I naturally can't sit still.
After a call to the half-old Taoist priest, he went out to the toilet, and then took the opportunity to run to Meng Changqing's house, packed a few clothes in his room and secretly escaped from the Taoist temple.
Although Meng Changqing is good to me, in my heart he is not as good as the second grandmother. All I could think about now was finding them, figuring out why she hooked me and why she dumped me.
After I made my debut, I ran down the mountain without even looking back.
At the foot of the mountain to the direction of the main city, I don't care about getting lost, this county is so big, the second grandmother is in this county, even if I run around, there is a certain chance of encountering.
After entering the street of high-rise buildings, I suddenly felt that the world was spinning, these four directions were exactly the same, the road was full of traffic, and I even hesitated to cross the road for two or three minutes.
I finally crossed the road, and when I was about to walk forward, a car pulling the coffin sped by the road.
The coffin is vermilion, much smaller than the coffin in the countryside, and it looks like it was intended for small children.
When pedestrians on the road saw the coffin, they stopped to watch and sighed: "Whose child is dead?!" ”
I watched the coffin leave, and then continued to the other side of the city.
The county seat is not very big on the mountain, and you can see the panorama at a glance, but you only know how small you are when you step here, and it is no less difficult to find a person here without a head than looking for a needle in a haystack.
The second grandmother has a habit, that is, she likes to be quiet, and she usually likes to sit on the dam with a chair and bask in the sun on her back.
Judging by her habits, she definitely won't stay in the main city.
I narrowed this down to the periphery of the county.
The county town doesn't look big, and it took me more than three hours to get from here to there, and it's noon after the other end.
Yesterday, I didn't sleep all night, I didn't eat in the morning and evening, and after a morning of rushing, my stomach naturally rang when it was time to eat, and I was so hungry that I gurgled.
When you are in the countryside, if you are not an adult, the villagers will take you to his house for dinner, but here it is different, one by one is very indifferent, and you don't even greet neighbors when they meet, let alone strangers.
I came out with no money with me, and I watched other people's restaurants open, so I couldn't see it, so I simply ran away, and I was spared the pain of painting cakes to satisfy my hunger.
People are hungry and naturally in bad spirits, and after finding an alley to lie down and fall asleep, they actually dreamed that Xiaoxiao was lying in the coffin with a frightened face, and she was already crying into a tearful person, she was crying to me, saying that I would pick her up. And that coffin was the same one I had seen on the road earlier.
I was about to speak to her, but my body jerked, and a sense of death woke me up from my sleep.
When I woke up, I saw a kind old lady standing in front of me, and when the old lady saw me sleeping in this alley, she thought that I had lost my family or run away from home, and after persuading me a few words, she saw that I was pitiful, and invited me to her house for dinner.
I was so hungry that I couldn't do it now, so I didn't refuse, and followed her to a house not far away.
The downstairs was full of crumbs of firecrackers, and the stairwell was also full of crumbs of yin-yang paper, and I saw it and asked, "Is there anyone dead in the building?" ”
Yin-yang paper is generally burned to the dead, and when I see yin-yang paper, all I can think of is the dead.
The old lady turned around and said, "A little girl in the building died, and she was just taken away, saying that she was going to be taken back to the countryside for burial." It's a pity. ”
I let out a sigh and casually asked, "What's your name?" ”
The old lady thought for a while before she said, "Their ancestors and grandchildren moved here a few days ago, and they seem to be surnamed Mu." ”
After listening to this, I chuckled in my heart, what she said was similar to Xiaoxiao and them.
After that, I asked very anxiously about the appearance of the dead man, and the old lady described it, and she choked up directly after describing it, and finally I couldn't hold back and howled violently.
When the old lady saw me crying, she asked me what was the matter.
I didn't answer her, I crawled out of the building, and chased after the firecracker debris outside.
I just remembered the dream just now, I thought it was an ordinary dream, but now I know that it is not at all, but Xiaoxiao is giving me a dream.