Chapter 62: The Red Curtains
I turned on the wall light in a hurry, and at the moment the light came on I heard a terrible wail, the desperate voice of a woman, and I was frightened, and I was looking at the window where there was nothing, and there was only darkness of night outside the window.
No, but I remember that I drew the curtains before I went to bed, and it was a habit that I would close the curtains every day before dark, because my grandmother told me a story when I was a child.
A long time ago, when my grandmother was still a child, their family lived in the countryside, each family was a separate courtyard, a large yard, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren lived together, and my grandmother's family lived on the side of the mountain, and the window at the back was facing the mountain, and there were many new graves on the mountain.
But the rural people are bold, and no one cares about this. Grandma's sister-in-law just gave birth to a baby, the whole family is very happy, but this child will cry every day as long as it is dark, how to coax is not good, but there is nothing during the day, one day grandma in front of the house Grandpa Li is seriously ill and the whole family went to see Grandpa Li, only sister-in-law and grandma and the child who is not full moon, it is dark again, today the child is not crying, has been looking out the window and laughing, sister-in-law is very puzzled and looks out the window, but nothing, but the child has been looking out the window, The expression seemed to be someone teasing the child, and the sister-in-law asked the grandmother to go out to have a look.
Grandma walked to the backyard, it was winter, the weather was very cold, the snow was very heavy, it was just dark, so that some outlines could be seen clearly, at this time grandma saw that there were two people outside her backyard who were helping Grandpa Li to walk in the direction of the mountain, grandma was very puzzled, Grandpa Li was not sick, why did he have to go up the mountain so late, so he called twice, the three people stopped, Grandpa Li slowly turned around, grandma was stunned there, Grandpa Li's face was white and glowing, his eyes were wooden, and he was dressed the same as the dead people in the village before, Grandpa Li raised his stiff arm and waved it to Grandma, then slowly turned around and disappeared into the night with the two men.
Grandma was frightened, and quickly ran back to the house to tell her sister-in-law about it, and her sister-in-law didn't believe it, and waited until midnight, grandma was already asleep, and vaguely heard her brother come back and say to her sister-in-law, asking her not to wait, go to bed early, something happened in front, Grandpa Li died when it was just dark, but at that time people died with coffins, but Grandpa Li's coffin was ready when Grandpa Li was sick, but it was very high to be carried down, and four young men from the village helped to carry the coffin down, but somehow because of a slippery foot, The two people in the front are fine, but the two people in the back were smashed by a big coffin and are now being sent to the hospital. I don't know how it turned out. It's a mess in front, and my brother has to go to help, so I'll come back and talk to my grandmother and sister-in-law first. After saying that, he turned around and went out.
From that incident, the grandmother noticed that as long as there were dead people in the village, the children would look out the window and laugh, and they would always cry, but they could not find people in the village who would see evil diseases, saying that it was because the place where the grandmother's house lived happened to be the place where the ghosts would pass after the death, and some would tease the children, and the children would laugh, and some would cry when they were scared, because the eyes of the newly born children were clean. If you want to say that the way to crack it is also simple, buy a red curtain as long as it is dark, it is also strange, it is really fine after blocking the red curtain, and the child really does not cry.
My house is facing the avenue and the side of the mountain, so since I was a child, my grandmother asked me to block the curtains as soon as it was dark, which has become a habit for me, but the curtains were not blocked, I trembled and closed the curtains almost with my eyes closed, turned around and let out a sigh, but at this moment I heard a knock on the door.
"Bell, bell." The voice was very soft, and who would come at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and knock not on the door of the outside but on the door of the house. I didn't want to go out, but the knock was in my ears, like some magic that drew me to open the door, and every time it knocked on my heart, it tossed my spirit.
I walked towards the door, and there was an unhurried knock on the door. I was scared that when I put my hand on the doorknob, the sound suddenly stopped, and all around me was the sound of the clock hand crossing the clock face.
I pushed the door open violently, and a gust of wind swept in front of my face, and when I opened my eyes and looked into the courtyard, there was no one outside except the moonlight.
Just as I was about to close the door, I suddenly saw a pair of shoes at the door, a pair of girls' cloth shoes, one after the other, placed by the door, as if to go inside, I was frightened, and quickly closed the door. Leaning his back against the door, his whole body covered in sweat.
Except for the sound of the heartbeat, there was no knock on the door. I walked wearily into the house, but suddenly I noticed a row of footprints on the ground, a row of wet girl's footprints. All the way to my bedside.
I distinctly felt like there was something more in the room, the feeling of being spied on. I slowly walked to the bed, squatted down a little bit, slowly lifted the sheets, I suddenly looked inside, a big black cat suddenly came out of it, and I sat on the ground in fright. The cat bowed, the hair all over his body was bundled, his eyes widened at me, and I subconsciously closed my eyes and ducked to the side, but the cat did not attack me, but hit the curtain headlong, made a "bang" sound, and then scratched the glass hard with its paws.
I was stupefied, I don't know how long the cat was making trouble, I just knew that gradually when it calmed down, I somehow curled up on the edge of the bed and fell asleep.
In the dream, I have always had a feeling of being out of my body, I am asleep, but everything in the room seems to be visible, the moonlight shines through the curtains in the room, then I feel a person slowly walking out from the edge of the bed, the corner of the wall inside me, I can't move, I can only see her passing by me, slowly walk to the window, raise her hand and open the curtains, and then just stand motionless in front of the window, I can only see her back, but I can't see his clothes, but I can feel her head down, Long hair hung down from both sides.
The cat didn't know where to go.
Through the window, I could clearly see my yard, and at this time, I saw a lot of dark shadows swaying in the yard, but when I tried to look closely, they all disappeared in a flash.
At this time, the girl in front of me slowly turned her stiff body, and an invisible fear rose from my heart, I wanted to scream but I couldn't move anything except to see everything, little by little she turned around.
The front is still long hair, and you can't see it. But she was barefoot and had no shoes on, and I instantly thought of the shoes at the door, and suddenly a voice came from my ear, cold and piercing, "I'll come back tomorrow." ”
Then I woke up from my sleep and heard my mother's chickens in the yard crow and the sun rose.