Chapter 21: The Devil Covers His Eyes
At this time, the sun was slowly setting, but it was not yet dark. A few pedestrians can still be seen on the street from time to time.
However, the bustle on the street is completely different from that inside the grocery store. Xiaozhou and I were in a grocery store, and we only felt that the wind was blowing and the light was dim. I couldn't help but start to be afraid.
I pointed to the door and said, "Let's not waste it here." Let's go outside and talk about it, it's brighter outside.
Xiaozhou looked like he couldn't ask for it, and walked out quickly.
The two of us were standing in front of the grocery store, about to talk. Suddenly, the sky darkened dramatically.
I was inexplicably surprised, and when I looked up, I couldn't help but cry out secretly. A large dark cloud is coming down overhead. Immediately afterwards, a strong wind rose in the street. Then the rain came down.
I pulled the boat and said, "No, let's go into the house."
Xiaozhou followed me very fearfully, muttering: My name is Xiaozhou, the boat can escape when it encounters water, and when it enters the house, it must be broken and needs to be repaired, it seems that it is dead today
I waved my hand: why are you talking all this useless nonsense? Honestly solve your problem is positive.
Xiaozhou nodded and sat on Xue Qian's bed. He clasped his hands on his knees and put his legs together, and he could see that he was very nervous.
It's pouring rain outside, not to mention going out in the rain, even if you have an umbrella, you have to splash all over the mud.
I found the half of the candle and lit it. Seeing that the rain would not stop for a while, I had to sit on the bed and ask Xiaozhou: What's the matter? What's wrong with Chen Xiaomei?
Xiaozhou looked at my room very nervously and said, "Do you want to talk about it here?"
I nodded: Just say it here, don't do bad things and don't be afraid of ghosts calling the door. My house is just not well lit, what are you afraid of?
Xiaozhou said with a sad face: Yes, yes, what the master said is right. I'm not afraid of ghosts calling the door. Hurry up and arrest Chen Xiaomei, don't let her harm me.
I asked him: What the hell is going on? How do you know that Chen Xiaomei wants to harm you?
Xiao Zhou held his hands very nervously, and after a while he said: "After you left last night, I planned to sleep again, but in a daze, I always felt that someone was in my room." I opened my eyes and looked, but I couldn't find anything.
I nodded: it could also be your psychological effect.
Xiaozhou snorted and said, "I think, I can't sleep left and right anyway, so I'll get up and take a walk." But I couldn't find my shoes. Finally I saw my shoes dangling from the window, like a hanged man. Later I found out that it wasn't just my shoes. All the clothes I brought back were tied with strings from the neckline and hung from the beams. It's like they're all hanging.
I thought to myself, this situation is indeed a little weird. However, just based on this, I am afraid it is not easy to push the matter on Chen Xiaomei.
Xiaozhou said: I was a little scared at that time. Because I live alone. The door is locked so well, and no one else will be able to do this.
I scratched my head and asked, "Did you sleepwalk and then hang on yourself without knowing it?"
Xiao Zhou smiled bitterly and shook his head: The beams of my house are very high, and I can't reach them even if I step on a stool. And how to hang up the clothes.
At this point, the panicked look on his face became even heavier. He said: I wait for the dawn to wait for the rest of the day, I don't dare to stay at home anymore, I want to go out to bask in the sun and meet people. As a result, as soon as I walked out of the door, I felt a swelling pain in my right shoulder. It's like a cold wind blowing in the middle of the night. I didn't really care about it, thinking that it would be nice to bask in the sun. But at this time, I met a young woman who was holding a child.
I glared and asked, "Is this young woman a ghost?"
Xiaozhou shook his head: The young woman is alive. However, the child in her arms, who had been looking around with her eyes open, suddenly burst into tears.
I didn't interject and listened quietly.
Xiaozhou said: Children are always crying and laughing, there is no accuracy, I didn't care. But the latter sentence frightened me. The child said that the uncle had an old grandmother sitting on his shoulder. This kid will never deliberately scare me. And he seems to have just learned to speak, and he is not very fluent in this sentence.
When I heard this, I cautiously asked, "So you're coming to me?" It stands to reason that the ghost you provoked is most likely Chen Xiaomei, but if she doesn't show up, I can't be sure.
Xiaozhou nodded: That's when I thought of you. Didn't you say that Chen Xiaomei was entangled with me? I'm thinking of begging you to see if you can help me out of this disaster. To tell you the truth, my shoulder hurt more and more on the way here. I also waved my hand and touched my shoulder so many times that I couldn't feel anything. You say, "Can people touch ghosts?"
The boat talked to me in a rambling manner, but I had all the left ear in and the right ear out. I was engrossed in looking at the wall behind him, and I couldn't be distracted from the rest.
Here's how the grocery store looks. Xiaozhou and I shared a bed, leaning against two walls, with a broken table in the middle, on which candles were lit.
I saw the shadow of the boat, illuminated by candlelight, on the wall behind him. The shadow was other than his own body and head. And a large black patch. In fact, it is not difficult to tell that there is a man squatting on his shoulder. The man was talking back and forth with the boat, and he was also shaking slightly.
Xiao Zhou said a few words, and seeing me staring straight behind him with my eyes, it was probably a little strange. So I looked back.
Just this glance made him howl like killing a pig. He stared at the shadow behind him, shouting and shaking. Keep slapping your head.
It's a pity that the shadow sat firmly on his shoulder, and there was no intention of being thrown off.
Xiaozhou shouted loudly: water, water, water, I have to go if I meet the water.
It was pouring rain outside, and the boat rushed out desperately.
I looked at him dumbfounded, and ran to the closed door. Then push the door hard
I couldn't help but be reminded out loud: this door is fake, it's a wall, and there is a door next to you.
At this time, Xiaozhou, like a blind man, groped back and forth on the wall: there is a door next to it? Where is it? The farther he groped, circled around the wall, and returned to Xue Qian's bed.
At this time, I could see his shadow clearly by the candlelight. The man sitting on his shoulder stretched out two palms as if they were on his face.
My heart moved, and I couldn't help but scream: The ghost covers his eyes.
This action, eighty percent of them was a ghost sitting on his shoulder, covering his eyes. So he couldn't see where the real door was.
Although my voice was soft, it was very close to the boat, and he listened to it in his ears, and his legs went limp, and he sat on the ground.
Then, as if he remembered something, he fell to his knees with a thud, and then kowtowed to me: Master Zhao, you save me.
I looked at the big knife that was placed under the pillow. This murderous knife kills people without counting, and it has a lot of anger, and if I pull it out now and slash it at that ghost, it will be eighty percent of his soul scattered from the collision. But I couldn't get my hands on it.
Although I am not a monk, I also know that there must be a cause for effect, and there is a truth that good and evil will eventually be rewarded. This evil ghost has found Xiaozhou, I'm afraid there is something inside.
Thinking of this, I quietly sat down next to me and blocked the knife, while my hand reached behind my back and grasped the hilt. It's best to talk about it, and if this evil ghost really wants to commit murder, then I will have to draw this knife.
After arranging this qiē, I said calmly: This friend, if you have any grievances, you might as well show up, and we can discuss it.
Then I said to the boat, which had been kneeling on the ground: You stand up, go to the bed and sit down, don't sway from side to side, so that the friend on your shoulder can't sit steadily.
When Xiaozhou heard this, his body was not panicked, and he began to tremble violently. He staggered back on the bed, his hands clutching his knees.
At this time, the black shadow on the wall began to slowly become brighter, and after a few minutes, the appearance of an old woman was revealed. It's not who Chen Xiaomei is.
Chen Xiaomei grinned at me, the wrinkles on her face were layered, and she only heard her say: Young man, do you really want to care about me?
I stubbornly said: Old lady, you don't have to scare me anymore, since you have found my empty house, Bacheng is to let me take care of this matter.
Chen Xiaomei nodded: Yes, that's right.
I had just answered a few words with Chen Xiaomei, and Xiaozhou suddenly asked with a pale face: Master Zhao, who are you talking to?
When I heard this, I couldn't help but be stunned, and then I understood, he couldn't hear the conversation between Chen Xiaomei and me.
I shook my head and said, "Don't ask, don't ask."
Then, I looked at Chen Xiaomei and said, "Old lady, I have already been to your house." It's not easy for you to raise a stupid son, you have made a living by picking up rags for so many years, and you have never stolen or robbed, it can be seen that you are a good person who accumulates virtue and does good. Why did he die and die, but he became entangled with the boat?
Chen Xiaomei smiled and said: Young man, your mouth is not bad. But why I want to pester him, I'm afraid he knows best.
I saw Chen Xiaomei squatting on the neck of the boat. She also carried a coil of cotton thread on one of her legs. It dawned on me: I understand. You were hit by a boat and died.
Xiaozhou was trembling listening to me and Chen Xiaomei, but when she suddenly heard me coming, she panicked, crying and justifying: It wasn't me who hit and died, it was she who got under my car by herself.
As soon as I heard this, my heart said: I can't run, it seems that it is really you.
Chen Xiaomei didn't say a word, with a smile on her face.
I had to bow my head and ask Xiaozhou: What was the situation at that time? You make it clear.