Chapter 11: Plain Memories - Nightmares

October 1971. This small mountain village is called Shuangsheng Village, and he was born into this family of poor farmers at that time. There was a well in front of his house, which was the one where the whole village fetched water from it at that time. That evening, the sun had just set, and there was still a touch of red in the sky, and the ghost daughter-in-law was alone in the yard with firewood to cook, and her husband was about to come back from the market.

The daughter-in-law of the ghost family found that for some reason there was a faint white mist rising from the well in front of her, and suddenly a golden pony ran out of the fog, and the horse ran out of the air with four hooves, flew over the sparse wooden fence between the well and the ghost house, and ran past the daughter-in-law of the ghost family. The daughter-in-law of the ghost family stayed there for a while and couldn't move, although she had heard the old people talk about some strange things that happened in many mountain villages, but this time it really happened in front of her eyes, and she really couldn't accept this reality for a while......

When the ghost daughter-in-law opened her eyes again, she was lying on the kang, maybe she had a dream just now, but this dream was too real. People are really strange sometimes, sometimes they don't understand the difference between reality and fantasy.

When I was thinking about this strange "dream" in my heart, I suddenly felt that the little one in my belly began to move. But it doesn't hurt, it's just moving. At this time, the husband also came back, and looked at the daughter-in-law's unnatural expression and asked, "What's the matter, is it going to give birth?" ”。 Hearing this, the daughter-in-law of the ghost family learned from her husband what seemed to be a dream just now. The husband immediately frowned, and his face was terrified.

"What's wrong?" The ghost daughter-in-law asked puzzled.

The husband didn't answer immediately, but comfortingly brushed his daughter-in-law's head with his hand, as if saying to himself: "What a hell." Then, as if realizing that he had slipped his mouth, he immediately said, "It's nothing, it's just that I was tired from walking on the road just now."

The daughter-in-law didn't ask anything more, but she understood that her husband only had that kind of expression when he encountered something very big. But what could it be? Is it about this "dream"? "Dreams" are illusory, how can they be taken seriously! But even if it's true, that's not a bad thing, shouldn't Shenma be a good omen?

This night, the little guy was not idle, moving east and west. The ghost daughter-in-law's heart was also thinking about it, strange dreams, her husband's inexplicable expression, and this little guy was moving endlessly.

At dawn, the little one finally came into this world safely. It also temporarily pulled the family into happiness in September 1990. For more than a month, the ghost has often been awakened by a nightmare, and the plot of each time is not very clear, anyway, it is the chaotic kind, but in the end, there is always someone who says: You will die in 2018! It's at this sound that Onijiu woke up. The college entrance examination is coming next year.,Due to the interference of dreams.,The ghost doesn't rest well for a long time.,I can't get up in class.,I often fall asleep on my stomach on the desk during the day.。 At that time, Onijiu was in the liberal arts class of Mulan Senior High School, and if his former classmates were lucky enough to see the strange experiences recorded by Ogyu, they would definitely recall Onijiu's strange behavior when he was in school.

Onihisa called his father and told him about the dream, but his father didn't say anything on the other side of the phone, and after a moment of silence, Onihisa only heard a sigh, and then his father said that he would come to see Onihisa in the afternoon. Onijiu's heart was moved, and a dream made his father miss it like this! At about 6 o'clock in the evening, my father appeared at the school gate, and my father's expression was more worried than fearful.

"Isn't it just a dream! Don't worry, it's not true. "Oni didn't understand the reason for his father's expression. The father didn't answer Akihisa's words, but just took out a cloth bag from his pocket.

"What is this?" Oni asked in surprise.

The father didn't answer, just opened it silently, and a strange picture appeared in front of him, more precisely, this is a talisman drawn on the skin of an animal, and the upper left corner of the talisman head is written with four seal characters of "Yanjing Dadu", and many other parts are also marked with many pictures that look like words, and these ghosts can't be recognized for a long time. In 1215, Genghis Khan captured the capital of Jinzhong, reverted to the old name of Yanjing, in 1271, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, Kublai Khan called the emperor, promulgated the decree of the "founding of the country", took the meaning of "Dazai Qianyuan" in the "Book of Changes", officially founded the country called the Great Yuan, a year later, under the planning of Liu Bingzhong, the Yuan Empire was built in Yanjing, called the capital, which is today's Beijing. In 1218, the Mongols destroyed the Western Liao, in June 1227, in June 1227, in 1234, in 1234, in 1246, Tubo was recruited, in 1253 Dali was destroyed, and in 1279 the Southern Song Dynasty was eliminated As a high school liberal arts student, Onijiu knows the history of the Yuan Dynasty very well. However, most of them appear on the talismans, but the ghost has been unable to figure it out for a long time.

"Xiao Jiu, your mother dreamed of Jinma coming out of the well before you were born, and I dreamed the same thing the day before your mother had this dream, but this dream was longer, and the dream behind me was - I dreamed that you died in 2018."

My father sighed again, and then said, "At that time, I only had a dream, and I didn't take it to heart, but after your mother described it to me the next day, I wondered in my heart, how can there be such a coincidental dream in the world?" ”

"Dad, there really is such a coincidental dream, maybe the dream of the three of us is just a coincidence," Onihisa told his father about a coincidental incident report about a dream that he saw in a book.

The father shook his head: "If it was just this coincidental dream, in the winter of the second year of your birth, after I had drunk with a few friends, I dreamed that night you were crawling from a grave bag, and a spirit flag was inserted on the grave, and a symbol was drawn on the flag, that is, a picture of the same shape as this symbol. As a result, the next day your mother woke up at noon and disappeared, when your mother was woken up by the wind that came in with the door open. The whole village helped to find you, but I didn't find you for two days. Just when everyone was discouraged, the elder brother of the Zhang family in the front yard of our house proposed to look for it on the Mongolian mountain a little farther away. I understand what my brother said, because there were wolves in the mountains at that time, and it is impossible to say whether they were taken away by wolves, alas, if you can't see anything alive, you have to see if you can find some shoes and other things on the road, so that you can find your heart when you die. ”

It is strange sometimes that there is no hope and no despair has to be confirmed.

Next, his father told Onijiu about the bizarre process of discovering him: it was snowing, and the winter in the Northeast was really cold, and there was a lot of smoke and cannons. People who have never been in the Northeast can't imagine what it looks like, and it is definitely not an exaggeration to say that dripping water turns into ice. He and more than a dozen young people, under the leadership of Brother Zhang, went all the way to the Mongolian Mountains. Because it is a wolf's den, most of the living creatures in the nearby villages can find fresh bones around the mountain. The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and my father's heart was getting heavier and heavier. The greatest pain of man is that God does not even give him a chance to prove his despair.

The horse can't move on the plow. The heavy snow buried the world, and all he saw in his eyes was white, whiter than the filial piety cloth that his grandfather wore on his head when he died. At this time, the wind stopped, the snow stopped, and everyone's hope stopped.

Just as everyone was about to go back, Brother Zhang suddenly shouted and pointed to the halfway up the mountain, and everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and a cyan pillar stood straight up the mountainside, and it seemed to be slightly shaking. Everyone stopped there and looked at the pillar in amazement, speculating about what it was. Just as everyone was arguing without a head, Brother Zhang interrupted everyone's voice: "There's no fuss, it's just a firework." Everyone showed expressions of disbelief, but Brother Zhang didn't explain too much, but led the way forward with difficulty. Everyone followed him with doubts. Sometimes the snow doesn't even reach the waist, and everyone moves slowly one by one.

Finally approaching the "pillar", a pile of smoking things finally confirmed Old Man Zhang's words. Old man Zhang went to look at the smoking place and told everyone that it was lit dried wolf dung. The smoke after the wolf dung is lit will rise very high and is straight upward, ancient communication is not developed, sometimes the war signal is used to transmit this thing, find the enemy's situation, ignite the wolf smoke, its smoke will soar, can be seen within dozens of miles. The effect of wolf dung ignition producing such a straight upward, sky-high effect is truly incredible. The father's eyes looked forward from the wolf dung, and a snow bag appeared in front of him, round and round, like a steamed white flour bun during the New Year.

Father's pupils contracted suddenly, this was obviously the tomb in the dream, the spirit flag in front of the grave with a talisman drawn, the grave hole, exactly the same as in the dream. A string of eye-catching words on the ribbon on the banner made everyone's mouth open wide: "In 2018, the old world will be examined, and the ghost will be the soul of the flag for a long time." Speaking of the writing of this soul-attracting flag, it is very particular in Mr. Yin and Yang's industry: those who die at the age of 60 should write the word "world" in front of the word "therefore"; For those who die at the age of 60-70, write the word "elderly" before the word "therefore"; Those who died at the age of 70-80 should write the word "耄" before the word "therefore"; Those who died at the age of 80-90 should write the word "period" in front of the word "therefore". And the word "world" written on this banner proves that the person who wrote the banner may be an expert, because in 2018, Onijiu is just middle-aged. Another point proves that this is no joke.

Looking at the streamers on both sides, on the left side "the golden boy leads the way to the east", and on the right side "the jade girl sends the west to the west", this is also obviously a curse! The funeral culture formed in Chinese civilization for thousands of years is like a course, with its inherent rules, and there are many things in it that are not understood by ordinary people. Just as a water molecule in chemistry must be composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, Feng Shui also has its own specific principles and laws. Just like the way this spirit flag is written, the words on both sides must fall on the life of "life, prosperity and death". These two sides should have been written like this: "The golden boy leads the way to the east by the dragon" and "The jade girl sends the west to ride the crane to the west" is nine words. From the word "gold" from "life", the word "sheng", the word "before" is read death, the word "citation" is read absolutely, and then from the word "road" from the word "life", down is "life and death", and the word "go" is "life". But there are two words in the middle on this banner, and the words in the back fall on "death", is it a curse or a threat? So what is the purpose of this person? How could an ordinary peasant child be worth such a lot of trouble?

The father rushed over like crazy and ran and crawled, desperately using his hands to pick up the snow on the edge of the cave, and the cry of a child came from the hole, and Onijiu was rescued in this way. But the stench of the frightened, helpless, and incompletely decomposed corpses in the grave was like a knife deep into Onejiu's soul. Although Onijiu was only more than 2 years old at the time, he couldn't remember the scene at that time, but the abnormality of Onijiu's personality must have something to do with it.

My father said that since then, he has treated Brother Zhang as a benefactor, and without his suggestion, the ghost may really become a zombie for a long time. Who raised that wisp of wolf smoke? Who built that tomb, who drew the talisman on the spirit flag, and how did Onejiu get there? Maybe these are not so important compared to the survival of the ghost for a long time! Maybe this mystery will never be solved, so why bother to solve it, after all, the ghost is still alive for a long time, life is hope, and life has a future!