Chapter 9: Dreams and Reality
There were two hands, no, four hands tugging at my legs.
I just had a cramp once, and I had no strength anymore, so I was easily dragged into the water again.
"Woo Woo Woo Woo ......"
Faintly, I heard the shrill sound of sirens.
The police finally arrived?
I lifted my spirits, someone came to save me, I can't die here!
The sirens were getting closer, but I didn't have the strength to struggle.
After another moment, I heard a noise coming from the shore, and the police seemed to have reached the river.
"Go down and save people, someone jumped into the river!" This is Tian Xin's voice?
My consciousness was blurring, and my body seemed to be starting to freeze.
In the end, I didn't make it to the police and fainted in the water.
In a trance, I had a long dream.
A rickety old man carried a baby to a dilapidated village.
That village is Xiahe Village, where I have lived for more than ten years.
The rickety old man was my grandfather, and I secretly guessed that the baby in swaddling clothes should be me.
But when I left the village, I was seventeen years old.
The grandfather holding the baby in my dream is exactly the same as when I left the village, as if he has not changed in seventeen years.
And I found out a detail, my grandfather took me to Xiahe Village alone, and did not see my parents.
Our grandparents and grandchildren are outsiders in Xiahe Village, and they are allowed to move in because of the identity of our grandfather, Mr. Yin and Yang.
Over the years, my grandfather didn't tell me this, and I always thought that I was a native of Xiahe Village.
After I staggered and was able to walk, my grandfather used a large wooden barrel many times, which was filled with various medicinal herbs, and then asked me to bathe in it.
I have no memory of this experience at all, after all, I was too young at the time.
After a few more years, I started crying about going to school.
Grandpa was unwilling, but in the end he couldn't stand my begging, so he had no choice but to send me to school.
What happened next, I was more or less impressed.
This dream is really long, and my experience from childhood to adulthood seems to have come to my mind like a movie.
I'm sure none of these are my own memories.
Even if it's the things that I have an impression of, I'm an experiencer and have my own perspective.
But what I saw in my dreams, I was like a bystander, just watching a realistic movie.
At the end, I left Xiahe Village.
As soon as the picture turned, Grandpa's kind smile came to mind, and he reached out and touched my face.
It was the same feeling as the real thing, and I had a gut feeling deep down that I was about to lose something important.
My nose was sore, and hot tears slipped from the corners of my eyes.
"Fanzi, don't cry, remember to take care of yourself." Grandpa's voice was hoarse.
I panicked and looked at my grandfather with wide eyes: "Grandpa, are you leaving?" ”
Grandpa didn't make a sound, and the smile on his face did not diminish.
Looking closely at my grandfather's face, I finally realized that he had been getting old all these years.
The wrinkles on his face are getting deeper and deeper, and his figure is getting more and more rickety.
At this moment, I really regret it, why didn't I go home to see my grandfather in the past few years in order to be angry with my grandfather?
"When your father comes back, let him go to my grave and kowtow."
After Grandpa said this, he suddenly disappeared.
"Grandpa, don't go!" I cried and shouted.
I sat up abruptly and reached out to grab Grandpa.
But when I opened my eyes, I realized that it was just a dream.
No matter how realistic everything in the dream is, it is just a dream.
Maybe I haven't seen my grandfather for a long time and miss him a little bit, right?
But what I saw in my dreams really happened?
I have always had good sleep quality and rarely dream, does this realistic dream have any special meaning?
"Fanzi, what's wrong with you?" Xiaobai's voice woke me up from my contemplation.
My heart trembled, isn't Xiaobai already dead?
So I've died just like him, and that dream just now is just a review of my life before I die?
I raised my head in a daze, looked at Xiaobai in front of me, and was in a trance.
Xiaobai shook his hand in front of my eyes: "Are you okay?" Is it that after soaking in the water for too long, your brain is broken? ”
"Get out, you're in the wrong head!" I casually retorted.
Xiaobai shrugged his shoulders: "It's okay if your brain isn't broken, you've been in a coma for three days, I'm really afraid that you will become a vegetative person." ”
A flash of inspiration flashed through my mind: "Vegetative? You mean I'm not dead? ”
Xiaobai looked at me like a fool and pouted.
"Almost, your life is so hard! It is said that good people do not live long, and disasters will last for thousands of years, which seems to be true. ”
In normal times, I would have unceremoniously retorted.
But now I haven't fully recovered from the influence of the dream, and I'm not in the mood to argue with him.
Xiaobai saw that I was depressed, and I was very amused, so I kept silent.
After a while, I gradually calmed down and looked at Xiaobai carefully.
He's alive too, and he looks good.
What happened that night, that the two of us were finally rescued by the police?
Recalling the events of that night, Xiaobai still shuddered involuntarily.
He told me that it was indeed the police who came and rescued us under the guidance of Tian Xin.
Now I know that the guys who pulled my legs in the end were Xiaobai and the rich woman.
It doesn't matter if Xiaobai survives, the rich woman soaked in the water and her whole body was white, her skin was wrinkled, and she didn't even die.
Since both of them are fine, of course Xiaobai will not be involved in the murder.
Director Li only asked him a few words and let him go.
The police paid the most attention to the highly decomposed body that was fished out of the river.
"It's really evil, you dug up a corpse from the river that day. After investigation, the deceased disappeared half a year ago and had a relationship with Tian Xin. ”
When Xiaobai mentioned the corpse, his face was also very ugly.
"Something to do with Tian Xin? Sun Mulan? ”
I unconsciously remembered that when the body was just fished ashore, Tian Xin seemed to say such a name.
Xiaobai nodded.
"That's right, it's Sun Mulan, how do you know? The last tenant of Tian Xin's rented house was the deceased Sun Mulan, who disappeared half a year ago. ”
In this way, things are on the right track.
The police investigated Sun Mulan, a ballet dancer, 24 years old, and a foreigner.
Half a year ago, Sun Mulan disappeared mysteriously.
Later, Sun Mulan's family looked for her for a long time, but Sun Mulan seemed to disappear and never appeared again.
In desperation, Sun Mulan's family could only take her things back to their hometown.
Then it happened that Tian Xin was looking for a house, and after the apartment was empty for a few months, it was rented to Tian Xin.
Sun Mulan's body was badly decomposed, and there were no useful clues at all.
What is certain is that Sun Mulan has also been dead for at least three months, and her body was tied to a large stone and sunk to the bottom.
If it weren't for the fact that the body was accidentally fished up from the bottom of the water by me that night, it is estimated that Sun Mulan would only be treated as a missing person now.
After a few years, it will be completely forgotten, and no one remembers that such a person appeared in Seaside City.
But was that really an accident?
I guess this is simply Sun Mulan's resentful spirit deliberately doing it.
She managed to get me to get her body out and also brought her murder to the surface.
But how did Sun Mulan die?
At first I thought she had been kicked down from the upper floors and fell to her death, but that couldn't have been done quietly.
The neighbourhood has a high occupancy rate, and there are excellent security facilities and the property is competent.
Even if it falls in the middle of the night, it will definitely cause a sensation and be known all over the city.
If Sun Mulan was just tied to a stone and thrown into the water to drown, then what does the illusion she created mean?
Why did she let me see her being kicked downstairs? And who was the one who kicked her?
If this issue is further investigated, it will be a lot of trouble.
If you want to find out the cause of Sun Mulan's death, you have to rely on professional means.
After all, I'm just an onmyoji, not a criminal investigator.
"By the way, how are Tian Xin and Xiaoyu doing?"
That's what I'm supposed to focus on.
Sun Mulan's body was found, which may mean that her goal has been achieved and she will no longer pester Tian Xin.
Xiaoyu should only be affected by Tian Xin, if she can keep her distance, it will not be a big problem.
I'm afraid that she won't understand anything, and she will be unlucky with a piece of confusion.
"Xiaoyu is fine, she has already returned to school to start classes. I gave her a few of your talismans, so you don't have to worry about her. ”
Xiaobai showed a lewd smile.
I stared at Xiaobai with suspicious eyes.
"You don't really want to do anything to Xiaoyu, do you? You're a beast, she's just a child! ”
Xiaobai rolled his eyes: "Am I that kind of person?" At least I'll have to wait until she's admitted to college. What's more, Tian Xin's calf guards by my side, and I have more than enough strength to do it. ”
Speaking of Tian Xin, Xiaobai told me that Tian Xin is now suspended.
The reason is that she had just been in a car accident the day before yesterday, and she hit the security guard while riding out of the community, causing the security guard to lose sight in both eyes.
Although Tian Xin is not all at fault for this accident, but if such a big thing happened, she couldn't go to work for the time being.
Now she is irritable, and she has scolded Xiaobai several times, how dare Xiaobai touch her head.
There's no way, even if Xiaobai can fight again, he generally won't attack women.
And now he has a crush on Xiaoyu, and it's almost too late to set up with Tian Xin, Tian Xin restrained him to death.
"Tian Xin is haunted by resentful spirits, has the resentful spirits let her go now?"
Xiaobai shook his head: "You ask me, who do I ask?" You're the Onmyoji, I'm just an errand boy. ”
I sighed, this kind of question was really asked to him in vain.
Judging from the car accident, Tian Xin should still be unlucky, but I don't know if this resentful spirit has anything to do with it.
After much hesitation, I finally decided to go to Tian Xin again after being discharged from the hospital.
If the spirit is gone, everyone rejoices.
I really couldn't do it, so I asked my grandfather for help, and I was about to go back to my hometown to see my grandfather.
Soon after I woke up, Director Li came to the ward to look at me and asked me a few more words about the night.
I had something to hide from what happened that night, and I didn't dare to tell the truth, and there were some things that the police couldn't solve, so I could only temporarily take the matter of fishing out the body as a coincidence.
There was nothing abnormal in my body, I was in bed for three days, and when I woke up, I was in a good mental state.
After cooperating with the doctor for the examination, the doctor readily approved my discharge.
When I returned to my shop with Xiaobai, I felt that something was wrong as soon as I entered the door.
Everything on my desk was gone, except for a broken book on the table.
On the wall behind my seat, there used to be a peachwood sword, but now it has been replaced by a copper coin sword.
When I saw the copper sword, my mind went blank.
Grandpa is here?
I am very familiar with that copper coin sword, it is my grandfather's usual magic weapon, and I have not left it for more than ten years.
"Grandpa!" I yelled and rushed into the back room.
Pushing open the door, a rich and pungent smell of blood rushed to the face.
My bed was red with blood, and in the center of the bed lay a woman covered in blood.
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