Chapter 8: The Posthumous Image
"It's your first time, right? I haven't seen you before. The landlady asked.
"Well, what's your last name, boss?" Lei Baoquan lay there, letting the female boss fiddle with his head.
"Just call me Sister Fang." The landlady smiled and said, "Is this little brother going to cut his hair too?" ”
Li Bai was looking left and right, and when he heard Sister Fang's question, he replied with a smile: "I'm here for the second time." ”
"Oh?" Sister Fang looked up at him, and then said a little apologetically, "That's because I didn't remember." ”
Li Bai waved his hand: "I just came yesterday." ”
"Yesterday" Sister Fang was stunned for a moment, handed Lei Baoquan a towel, and said gently: "Come, wipe it." ”
"yes, yesterday, you saw my hair was cut here." Li Bai pointed to his hair and said.
Sister Fang took a closer look, her hair was indeed freshly cut, but she was sure that she had not cut Li Bai yesterday, and said, "Little brother, it's not that I have a bad memory this time, only one neighbor came to shave my hair yesterday, I don't remember you." ”
Li Bai smiled and said, "Yesterday was cut for me by an old man." ”
"Uncle?" Sister Fang was stunned, "I'm the only one here, how can there be any old man?" ”
"Huh?" Li Bai and Lei Baoquan glanced at each other, could it be that what Sister Wang said was true?
"I listen to that uncle, you may be his daughter-in-law?" Li Bai asked tentatively.
As soon as he finished saying this, Sister Fang's face suddenly became ugly, she looked a little panicked, rubbed her hands nervously, and said, "Little brother, we can't make such jokes, my man's father has been dead for a long time." ”
"Really?" Li Bai thought that the kind-faced old man yesterday was actually not so terrifying, but he didn't know how. There is a kind of regret and sorrow in my heart.
"Really, could it be" Sister Fang seemed to suddenly remember something, quickly picked up a towel and dried her hands, and said to Lei Baoquan, who was already seated, "You wait a minute, I'll come right away." ”
"Okay." Lei Baoquan and Li Bai watched strangely as Sister Fang pushed open a door next to her that was blocked by the curtain, and then walked in. After waiting for a minute or two, no one came out.
Lei Baoquan touched his hair and said to Li Bai, "What about people? If I don't come back, my hair will be dry. ”
Li Bai stood up and walked to the door of the small door, poked his head out and listened, there seemed to be a sound of broken thoughts inside. Li Bai felt very curious, and couldn't help but open a small crack in the door curtain and look in through the gap, but it turned out to make him feel a little frightened.
I saw Sister Fang, who was still smiling just now, with a table in front of her. There were several plates of fruit on the table, and in the middle there was a small incense burner, and the incense burner was facing a picture frame, and in the frame was a black and white photo of an old man. Li Bai was startled when he saw it, isn't it the old man who cut his hair yesterday in the photo? It turned out that he had really passed away.
Sister Fang held three incense sticks that had been lit in her hands, bowed to the old man in the photo, and said in her mouth, "Dad, why are you back again?" Okawa and I burn paper and incense for you every year on your death day. Why are you still not satisfied? Please, don't come back. What can you do if you scare your grandson again?"
Li Bai saw Sister Fang muttering, and was about to slowly lower the curtain and return to its original position, but Sister Fang suddenly heard the voice, and suddenly turned her head to look at this side, there was no light in the room. Only the candle-lit room on either side of the photo is gloomy. And at this moment, Sister Fang's face was reflected by the candlelight, which was even more terrifying and abnormal, like the female ghost she had seen before.
Li Bai gasped and quickly turned around and exhaled.
"What's wrong?" Lei Baoquan saw Li Bai's appearance through the mirror and said strangely.
Li Bai was afraid that Sister Fang inside would hear it. He didn't answer, just made a gesture, pointed to the house, and then made a "scary" mouth on his mouth.
Lei Baoquan looked at him helplessly and said, "Neurotic? ”
At this time, Sister Fang walked out of the hut with a smile on her face and said, "I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long." ”
"You went just now," Li Bai wanted to ask.
Sister Fang picked up the scissors and fiddled with Lei Baoquan's hair, while sighing and said, "It may scare you when you say it, and you may not believe it." ”
"Huh? We love to hear about it, so let's hear about it. "Lei Baoquan is interested.
"As soon as this little brother said that the old man who shaved his head just now, I guessed that it should be my father who came, and you don't think I'm mentally ill when I say this, because my father has been dead for a few years, and my family and I will pay him some tribute and burn incense in the hut every year on his death day." Sister Fang said.
"Have you seen the old man? I mean the old man after his death? Li Bai was surprised, could there be people like himself.
"It was my man who saw it, and when he told me, I was quite scared. It was a few days after the old man died, and my man was waiting for work in the barber shop, because our shop closed late, so it was almost midnight that night, and my man heard a little movement in the back room, so he felt strange, and when he entered the house, he almost didn't die of fright. The old man sat in front of his portrait and shook his head vigorously, saying that he didn't like to eat apples, why did he put so many apples. Then he turned around and smiled at my man, who was so frightened that he sat on the ground, and then the old man was gone. Since that time, my man has found a master, and the master said that it was because the old man was still relieved that he could not have children and wanted to come back to see it, so that scene appeared, and then let us worship for a week every year on the death day, and put some things that the old man loved to eat. After so many years, I haven't been fine, but I didn't expect this little brother" Sister Fang listened to Li Bai say that, and she had a little more scruples in her heart, and a little fear.
"Eldest sister, don't take it to heart, my nephew loves to joke." Lei Baoquan saw Sister Fang's sad face, and felt as if he had done something wrong.
"Yes, eldest sister, I just said casually, I remembered it wrong, I seemed to cut it at another house yesterday." After Li Bai finished speaking, he felt very fake.
Sister Fang naturally knew what they meant, smiled a little, and said, "It's okay, it's okay, my father was a warm-hearted old man when he was alive, and he never harmed anyone in his life, so how could he hurt anyone when he died?" Since it doesn't hurt people, what else is there to be afraid of? ”
"Yes, yes, you are right." Li Bai echoed again.
Lei Baoquan glanced at him through the mirror, isn't this a typical wall grass, falling with the wind?
Ten minutes later, Sister Fang put down the clippers and asked, "How is it?" Still satisfied? ”
"Not bad, not bad." Lei Baoquan looked at himself in the mirror, although this hairstyle was still a little different from what he expected, but in general, it was okay, and he couldn't ask for more, after all, Li Bai, this kid, scared people too. (To be continued.) )