Chapter 7: The Dumb Ghost 2
He didn't follow me this time, and saw me pass by him, but his head watched me approach like a turning electric fan, and watched me go away.
And that chill seemed to be blown out by an electric fan, and the closer I got to it, the colder it became, and the farther away I was, the less cold it became. Just one step closer to him, I almost shivered.
My mother shivered when she saw me and asked, "Why are you still cold after wearing so many clothes?" Did you kick the quilt last night and catch a cold? ”
When I was a kid, I loved kicking the quilt and sometimes rolling out of bed and under the bed.
When I arrived at my grandfather's house, I looked back and saw that my dumb grandfather was still standing on the ridge and smiling at me. But when my grandfather or grandfather came out to pick us up, my dumb grandfather suddenly disappeared. This has been the case several times. I wonder if my mother ignored my dumb grandfather, so my grandfather ignored him.
Once, my grandfather was standing at the door to pick up my mother and me, and I suddenly said, "Daddy, my dumb grandfather was there just now." ”
When my father saw me, he was smiling wrinkled, and when he heard me say this, he immediately put away his smile, and the wrinkles were smoothed out. He struggled to pick me up and asked, "Did you see my dumb grandfather?" ”
The mother said, "Grandpa, don't listen to children's nonsense. ”
Dad impatiently said to Mom, "You go in first!" ”
When my mother entered the house, my father laughed again and asked me patiently, "Tell my father, where did you see your dumb grandfather?" ”
I pointed in the direction of the ridge.
"Did the dumb grandfather tell you?" Daddy asked.
I imitated my dumb grandfather and said, "Aba, Abba ......"
Grandpa asked again, "Did he touch you?" ”
I shook my head.
"Looks like he knows he can't touch you."
"Why can't my dumb grandfather touch me?" I don't understand what Daddy meant.
"Because then you're going to get sick." Daddy said.
At this time, the crooked father walked over. He had come to ask his grandfather to help him draw talismans. He happened to hear his grandfather's words, and immediately walked up to his grandfather and whispered, "I said he wouldn't go well." If it weren't for the years of acquaintance, I would have driven him away. It's pitiful, how did he fall into the well? But there was no one around, and no one could necessarily hear him, he was dumb and couldn't scream. When I fished it up, I saw it, it was swollen like a pig. Every word he said was like spitting out a fruit pit, half of his mouth was closed, and half of his mouth was split.
Grandpa waved his hand and said, "It's out of the way." Although he has no children to send him to the end, his heart is like a mirror, and he will not be confused when he is a ghost. ”
Crooked Dad said, "You're right. But he became a ghost with yin energy, and he just fell into a well full of yin energy, so that the yin energy is too heavy, even if he doesn't harm people, as long as he gets close to people, it will make people sick and painful. He likes your great-grandson so much, you have to guard against it. Or I'll draw a talisman for your great-grandson so that he won't dare to come closer. ”
Grandpa waved his hand again and said, "I can't do it." The mute himself has no children, no daughters and no grandchildren, and treats him as if he were his grandson. It would break his heart to do so. ”
"You're just not hard-hearted enough." Crooked Dad sighed.
That's what the people in the village say about Daddy. But if it weren't for Daddy's lack of hard-heartedness, no one would have looked for a crooked father to exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts. Although Crooked Daddy basically doesn't miss out on exorcism and ghost hunting, Grandpa is many levels higher than Crooked Dad in this regard.
But Grandpa is not hard-hearted, and the way of dealing with it is relatively soft, if he can stay, he will stay, and if he can be released, he will be released, so even if someone asks him to deal with it, he is worried that the evil ghost will retaliate again. And the crooked father is ruthless, like a fly to death, and he will kill them all, so others are more willing to invite the crooked father. Because Crooked Dad was exposed to too much Yin Qi, his facial features became distorted, so he hated evil things even more.
The first time my mother ignored my dumb grandfather two months ago, he was already dead. He drowned in the well in front of his home on the day of the beginning of winter. That's why I was drenched in water when I saw him. Mom ignored him because she didn't see her dumb grandfather.
Coincidentally, the dumb grandfather had no relatives and no reason, and no one paid attention to him, even if he disappeared in Thrush Village for four or five days, no one would find out. Since there were no residents in his vicinity, the well was not used by anyone but him. If someone hadn't come to find Daddy, it is estimated that the dumb grandfather would have rotted in that well.
On the evening of the second day after the beginning of winter, a man came to his father's house and asked him to help him calculate where his key had gone. He remembered to bring the key when he went out at noon, but when he came back in the evening, he found that the key was missing and he couldn't open the door, so he came to find his father.
Grandpa asked him the time he went out, the time he came back, and the time when he found that the key was missing, and then pinched his thumb and four fingers to calculate where the key was now.
After a moment, Daddy said, "The key should still be here." You look for your pocket again, if it's not in your pocket, it's near the threshold. ”
The man took out all his pockets, but did not find the key, and went home to look at the threshold, and sure enough, the key had fallen into the gap between the door and the threshold. He picked up the key and came to his grandfather's house, praising his father's calculations.
Another person who watched the excitement quipped by the way: "Old Xiucai, I want to borrow some dumb tea seed shells to smoke bacon in the past two days, I haven't seen anyone at his house, and I haven't met him in the village, can you help me calculate where the dumb is?" I'm going to go find him. ”
The other people who watched the excitement coaxed: "Yes, yes." The key is dead, it can't run, it's either lost at home or on the road, it's not a big deal. You have to count the living, the living have grown legs, and they will not stay in one place waiting for you to find them. If the living can be counted anywhere, this is the real power! ”
When Grandpa saw them coaxing, he didn't shirk it, and asked the person who wanted to borrow something with a smile: "When did you want to borrow something?" And when did you go to the dumb man's house and not find him? When the hour comes, I can count. ”
In fact, the people who coaxed had already seen Daddy's calculations before, and they had never doubted Daddy's ability. Hearing Grandpa say this, they immediately became excited. They always wanted Daddy to make a mistake so that they could break the myth.
Grandpa used to calculate the loss of objects, the loss of chickens and ducks, and the loss of money, and it was accurate every time. The position of a living person is indeed a novelty.
The man told him the time when he wanted to borrow something and the time when he was looking for a dumb man.
Daddy was calm, raised his wrist again, and pinched his thumb with the other four fingers.
The people watching the excitement couldn't wait for Daddy to report the location of the dumb man at the moment, as soon as Daddy said it, one of them immediately went to the corresponding direction to check and confirm whether Daddy's calculation was correct.
Grandpa's thumb was at the middle finger, his eyes suddenly widened, and he said loudly: "No! You're looking for a dead man! ”
The man laughed at the joke, shook his head and said, "Lao Xiucai miscalculated this time!" I did not fabricate the hour, but indeed it was the hour when I was looking for a dumb man. ”
Some of the people who watched the excitement regretted their father's mistake, and some were happy.
Grandpa was unmoved, and said sternly: "If your time is indeed not wrong, it means that the dumb man has now had an accident!" According to your hour, he should be in the position at this time, which is water, ditch, and hidden, and it is also for people, for worry, for heart disease, for earache, for blood hexagrams, and for public opinion, and for many fierceness. Ditch blasphemy is a waterway, which means predicament; The blood hexagram is a great culprit. Therefore, he should have fallen into a pond or well, and he was already unlucky. ”
The people who watched the excitement were stunned.
Grandpa waved his hand and shouted, "What are you guys doing here?" Take a look at the dumb man's house, especially the ditch and well next to it! At that time, my father's health was even worse, and he couldn't sit up while lying in the old bamboo chair. Sometimes, however, when there was no one around, he secretly beckoned to me and told me to come up to him and watch him slowly sit up from the old bamboo chair. "Daddy can still kill a tiger!" He said. I thought his weakness was fake, but he said, "Daddy, I can't do it!" Flowers have a reblooming day, and no one is young. He said that he had lifted him up by spirits that had passed by.
The people who watched the excitement hurried to the dumb man's house, and sure enough, the dumb man's body was found in the well.