Chapter 34: Escape (text)
I sighed after hearing this, and I thought there would be some reason to cry ghosts and gods.
"Could it be that your grandfather is influencing you?"
"Who knows!" Meng Changqing responded, and then said, "Concentrate on walking, and then ask east and west and throw you two out." ”
Xiaoxiao and I looked at each other and smiled, and stopped talking on the road, Meng Changqing walked slower because he was dragging the two of us cumbersomely.
When we got to the door, we saw the old man standing at the door and did not go in, I thought that he refused to go in because the door was broken by the walking corpse, and I was afraid that the walking corpse inside had not left, so I quickened my pace.
When he got to the door, he followed the old man's gaze and looked inside, and met the black-robed man he saw in the morning.
He was standing motionless in the middle of the room, and when I saw him, I was amazed and said that it was you.
The black-robed man looked at us anxiously, and then beckoned us to go in, I, Xiaoxiao, and the old man didn't dare to rush in, Meng Changqing took the lead and walked in, and made a respectful gesture at the black-robed man, the black-robed man looked at Meng Changqing and nodded slightly, um, and then looked at the old man again.
We saw that Meng Changqing had already entered, and we also went in one after another.
The old man was the last to come in, and after he came in, he asked Meng Changqing who this was.
Before Meng Changqing could answer, the black-robed man took the lead in asking, "Are you Chen Zhong?" ”
The old man nodded yes, and then the black-robed man said, "You are about to end your life, are you willing to die naturally and reincarnate or follow me to make a mistake?" ”
"This ......" The old man looked at the black-robed man with a puzzled look, not understanding what he meant.
This black-robed man said that he was one of the four souls, and because of the lack of manpower, he was recruiting some dying Taoist priests, goddesses, duangong, gods and the like.
I couldn't help but pat myself on the head and felt like I was on TV.
The old man thought for a while and nodded, and then the black-robed man took out a yellowed book from the black robe, and after turning a few pages, asked the old man to write his birth date on it, and dripped a drop of blood.
After finishing it, the black-robed man said that he would come to pick up the old man in the evening, and he would now send a batch of ghosts, so he had to leave first.
Until he was gone for a long time, I was still standing, and I had wondered whether hell would exist or not, but now the people in hell were standing in front of me alive.
Meng Changqing smiled when he saw my surprised appearance and didn't care about me.
After the black-robed man left, the old man hurriedly went into the house and cleaned up, and he received all the things he had used, saying that he would burn them for him when he died.
After tidying up the house, he told us to call the people in the village and talk to them before he died.
We went and called all the people in the village, and they thought that the old man was dying, but when they came, they saw the old man sitting on a chair in good health, and they all said that the old man was joking.
Since they came, they naturally had to talk for a while, and when they talked until about ten o'clock, someone wanted to leave, but the old man forced them to stay.
At eleven o'clock, the crows in the trees outside suddenly crowed, and the old man's little yellow dog barked at the old man.
After listening to the crow's cry, the old man said: "The time is coming, after I leave, I will trouble the villagers to bury me, I have already chosen the cemetery, next to my wife, the coffin is also ready-made, just drag it to bury it, no need to keep vigil." ”
The villagers said that they would not die or not, so the old man relaxed, and the old man smiled, and then leaned back on the chair and fell asleep.
I looked outside the room, and now the black-robed man stood at the door again, beckoned to the old man, and the old man's soul broke away and walked outside the house.
None of the villagers saw this scene, only Meng Changqing and I did.
After the old man's soul went out, I muttered, "He's dead." ”
When the villagers heard this, they immediately turned their heads and reprimanded me for talking nonsense, but for the sake of insurance, they still touched the old man's hand, and then they were shocked, because the old man was really dead.
When the person died, they didn't have the leisure to chat, and prepared for the old man's funeral, Meng Changqing carried the old man into the coffin, and then burned a stick of incense in front of the coffin, explained some things to the villagers and left with us.
After leaving the village, he asked Xiaoxiao to take out the book, he looked through it and handed it back to Xiaoxiao, so that Xiaoxiao could focus on reading the book in the future.
When I asked what the book was, Meng Changqing said, "Walking Horses in the Water looks like a castle in the air, but if you study Feng Shui thoroughly, it is not impossible to achieve it." This book is mainly about Feng Shui, which is very suitable for beginners. ”
Xiaoxiao sighed, and Meng Changqing said in a joking tone: "Girl, you have to read more of this book during this time, if I die in the future, I have to ask you to find a good tomb for me, and by the way, find one for this stinky boy, and make trouble for me all day long." ”
Xiaoxiao laughed when she heard this, I muttered on the side where I was in trouble, and after muttering, I took out the hairpin in my hand and discussed with Xiaoxiao, wanting to use the hairpin to exchange it with her.
Xiaoxiao was willing to change with me, but Meng Changqing glared back at her will.
Since Grandpa has already returned to the village, there is no point in us staying here any longer, it is a mistake for us to work hard to come here, we have done nothing, and we have exhausted ourselves. But at least I know about the baby spirit and the walking corpse.
As we walked back from the village, the three crows that had been parked at the door of the old man's house flew in our direction and followed us ever since.
When I saw them, my heart was in my throat, and none of the people here could die.
Thankfully, they only followed for a while before leaving.
We were delayed on the road for a day and a night, and when we returned to the head of the village of Snakehead, we saw the three crows again, and they screamed when they saw us.
Seeing that they were crying happily, I recalled the whereabouts of these three crows all the way, at first I found them at the door of the old man's house, and then Meng Changqing and the old man went out to carry the coffin, and they also followed, and now they are following us again.
Thinking about it this way, the person they followed all the way was not the old man, but Meng Changqing?
As soon as I thought of this, I was shocked, and Meng Changqing looked at the three crows for a while.
After that, he placed a nine-square grid on the ground, pinched his fingers after a few fiddles, and only after about a minute did he get up and said, "I'll give you two the count, you won't have an accident recently, don't worry." ”
"What about you?" I asked.
After hearing this, Meng Changqing said: "My life is not over, and I will not die." ”
Although I said that, I was still very worried about Meng Changqing, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that these three crows had been flying with him.
We were talking at the entrance of the village, which alarmed the dogs in the village, and when the dogs barked, the villagers naturally came out and saw us and hurriedly welcomed us into the house.
After entering the house, I didn't have time to be polite, so I asked my grandfather if he had come back, and they said no.
After we left, the second grandmother called and came, and only said a few words and hung up.
I asked the second grandmother what she was talking about, and the villagers said that the second grandmother seemed to be confessing her last wishes, let us take care of Xiaoxiao, and also asked Meng Changqing not to let Xiaoxiao have an accident, and asked me not to forget what I promised her before.
When asked where the second grandmother was, the villagers didn't know.
Meng Changqing and I were secretly anxious, Xiaoxiao cried directly, and was clamoring to find her grandmother.
The villagers told us about this and then asked us where we had been these days, and we talked a few nonsense at the villagers' house and then went straight back to the house.
Grandpa really wasn't in the house, after entering the house, Meng Changqing asked us to go to sleep quickly, and he went to the second grandmother's house to see if he could find any clues.
Meng Changqing was originally extremely conservative, but she was afraid that Xiaoxiao would be afraid after she separated, so she asked me to take care of her.
At night, she lay next to me and fell asleep quickly, although I was very sleepy, but I couldn't sleep at all, all I thought about was the crow screaming at Meng Changqing.
Until Meng Changqing came back, I was still staring at the bed.
After Meng Changqing entered the house, I got up from the bed and asked him if he found anything in the second grandmother's house.
He took out a photo of his second grandmother and Xiaoxiao from his pocket and asked, "This is your second grandmother?" ”
I said yes, and he said, "She was the one who told me that I had to be a Taoist priest to live." ”
I wasn't surprised when I heard it, after all, Meng Changqing's grandfather was the master of the second grandmother, and when she saw that Meng Changqing was haunted by ghosts when she was a child, she naturally wanted to lend a helping hand.
It's just that what did she do with the two of us?
Meng Changqing also had doubts, saying that now it seems that grandpa will not return to this place, and we can figure out the answers to these mysteries as long as we ask one of them, which was originally a very simple matter, but now it has become very difficult.
Meng Changqing then asked me to rest, and set off early tomorrow morning to find the second grandmother.
I listened to his arrangement and went back to bed to continue sleeping, while Meng Changqing went to the room where my grandfather used to sleep.
At about eight o'clock the next morning, Meng Changqing woke up the two of us and told us to quickly pack up and leave.
Came back only one night and left, the villagers knew that we were going to go far this time, they all came out to see off, got on the car and rode away, because they didn't sleep well a few days ago, and they closed their eyes and fell asleep directly when they got in the car.
After the car stopped, Meng Changqing woke us up and got out of the car with a small bag, and didn't know where to go for a while. I don't know where the second grandmother is going.
When asked Meng Changqing, where should we go, Meng Changqing pointed to the north and said: "I will go out first, and find you a place to live in a while, if I don't come back by tomorrow morning, you can take this to a nearby Taoist temple, and let the people inside give you some money and send you back." ”
Meng Changqing said as he took out a seal from his baggage, which was engraved with the words Deacon Yuzhen.
He spoke as if he were resolute, and we couldn't help but be a little worried, so we asked him where he was going.
Seeing that we were worried, he smiled and said, "The crow is barking at me, and my eyelids have been jumping in the car today, and I always feel that something is going to happen." I can't sit still and wait for death, so I'm going to run for my life......"