Chapter 7: Sending the Soul
Yikes! What are you doing? Not suitable for children! I quickly covered my eyes with my hands, but instinctive curiosity allowed my fingers to split a gap.
The woman raised her right hand expressionlessly, and then her right hand became a claw, and it was forcefully inserted into her heart. With the sound of flesh tearing, the woman actually tore open her heart socket and dug out her heart, and hot blood splattered on my face, and I was already stunned by the scene in front of me.
You see! Look! This is my heart! This is my heart! The woman held her bloody heart in her hand and handed it to me, and the blood was dripping down her face.
I don't care about you! You've mistaken someone! You've mistaken someone! In extreme fear, I waved my arms almost instinctively, and the whole person retreated into the corner.
Syllable!
The heart in the woman's hand fell to the ground.
My face turned pale as paper: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
You have failed my heart! You've failed my heart! The woman let out a terrible roar, and the flesh on her face fell like shattered glass, one piece after another. Her face was rapidly rotting, and white maggots were slowly wriggling inside the rotting flesh.
Wow! I opened my mouth to vomit, but I couldn't.
The maggots rolled down on my bed, and the white flowers rolled on top of the quilt, and I was trembling and speechless with fear.
A strange smile suddenly appeared on the woman's rotten face, her rotten face was full of blood, which looked extremely hideous, and there was a bloody hole in her chest, which was empty and had no heart. She walked towards me step by step, and a strange and gloomy laugh came out of her throat: "Honey, I want to have sex with you!" I'm going to have a cave with you!
Don't scream, I sat up from the bed.
Looking around, the bedroom was quiet, the afterglow of the setting sun slanted in through the window edges, there was no female corpse in the room, no bloodstains, and no maggots on the bed.
I gasped for breath, feeling like I was about to run out of breath, covered in cold sweat, like I had just crawled out of the river. Thinking back to that terrible dream just now, I couldn't help but hold my arms and tremble.
Xiao Qi, what's wrong with you? Hearing my screams, Grandpa hurried into the bedroom.
It's okay! I wiped the cold sweat from my face: I just had a nightmare about the woman in the coffin, she came to me
Grandpa reached out and touched my forehead: It seems that the resentment of the female corpse is really strong enough! I'll do a ritual for her at night, and overrun her soul, or she'll appear in your dreams!"
Will it still be in my dreams? I was taken aback, and waved my hand again and again: Master, you better let her go quickly! My little liver can't stand her scare!
Affected by this nightmare, I also lost my appetite at dinner, and I lost my appetite after a few casual bites, and then sat on the threshold, looking at the red lacquered coffin in the middle of the courtyard in a daze.
The light of the setting sun fell on the coffin, the coffin shone with a strange red light, and the woman's sharp roar echoed in my ears: You are lying to me from beginning to end! You bad guy!
Grandpa patted me on the shoulder: Don't be afraid, grandpa will send her away later!
After dinner, I didn't dare to go back to my bedroom, so I sat in the hall and watched TV, my favorite "Saint Seiya" was playing on the TV, I always felt that the sentence was burning, small universe! It's the coolest line.
Grandpa closed the bedroom door, didn't know what to do in the room, and didn't come out all night.
It was close to midnight and my upper and lower eyelids were fighting, and my grandfather pushed open the door and walked out. In his left hand he carried a pocket filled with yellow laminated paper, on which were drawn in cinnabar with strange patterns of charms, apparently just drawn.
Let's go, let's go see your daughter-in-law go together! Grandpa smiled, and he didn't forget to tease me at this time.
I cried with a sad face, and muttered to myself in my heart: I would rather beat a bachelor for the rest of my life than such a ghost daughter-in-law!
We came to the courtyard, and the red lacquered coffin was still silently lying in the middle of the courtyard.
Grandpa placed two big red candles in front of the coffin and lit them, and the candlelight flickered, illuminating the surface of the coffin. Then he took out three incense sticks, bowed to the coffin, and asked me to come forward and incense the coffin. After doing this, my grandfather asked me to stand on the side and told me, "No matter what you see or hear, don't talk later, understand?"
I nodded, clenched my fist, and felt nervous.
Jingle Bell!
Grandpa took out a yellow and clear copper bell from his arms, raised his right hand high, and shook it twice in the air, and the copper bell made a crisp sound, which was particularly pleasant in this silent night. As soon as the night breeze blew, the bell fluttered far away.
Grandpa shook the copper bell, walked around the red lacquered coffin, returned to the same place, slammed the copper bell on the coffin lid, and shouted: Get up!
I thought the female corpse in the coffin was going to crawl out, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement in the coffin.
What does Grandpa mean by that? The female corpse in the coffin didn't move?
Just when I was puzzled, I suddenly found that the two clusters of candlelight swayed without wind, and after a few swayings, they turned into a strange dark blue. The faint blue light reflected on the surface of the coffin, adding to the terrifying feeling.
Grandpa turned around, turned his back to the coffin, raised his arms, and threw out a yellow talisman in the sky.
The yellow talismans fell down one after another, and the grandfather actually sang a strange ballad: Embark on the road to death, hey, drink Meng Po's water, this is not the place for you to stay, hurry up and go back, hey, hey, hey
The tune of the song is very strange, high and low, undulating, sometimes hoarse and deep, sometimes sharp and ethereal.
I looked at my grandfather in amazement, never knowing that he would perform such a style of music.
Every time Grandpa sang a sentence, he took a step forward, took out a yellow talisman from the bag, and threw it on the ground.
What is surprising is that after the yellow talisman falls to the ground, it will actually burn on its own, turning into a small cluster of flames, like a strange flower emerging from the ground. Grandpa walked all the way forward, leaving clusters of flames behind him, like a lotus under his feet, both illusory and real.
Soon, I discovered something even stranger.
Those burning flames turned dark blue one after another, and the fire lotus flowers all over the ground turned into ice lotus.
I stared at the strange scene in front of me in amazement, and I didn't even dare to breathe out of the atmosphere.
Grandpa kept walking forward, out of his yard gate, all the way to the river.
From a distance, it looks like there is a winding fire dragon, stretching from the front of the coffin to the river.
I crept along the fire dragon on the ground until I reached the river.
I looked down at the yellow talismans on the ground carefully, only to realize that these yellow talismans were not discarded casually, but seemed to be combined into a pattern of footprints. A bold speculation popped up in my mind, could my grandfather be paving the way for the female corpse in the coffin?
When I arrived at the river, my grandfather was dragging his wet feet up from the riverbank.
Grandpa wiped the water stains on his face and said to me: Xiao Qi, from now on you can sleep with peace of mind, I sent the soul of the female corpse away!
Sending souls?! I was slightly stunned: it turned out that the ritual that my grandfather did just now was sending the soul of a female corpse!
Grandpa said: The resentment in the female corpse is too heavy, and the ghost will not disperse, so it will enter your dream and disturb you. Just now I have sent the ghost of the female corpse back to the Yangtze River, she drowned in the Yangtze River, and the ghost naturally wants to return to the Yangtze River! See these yellow talismans under your feet? This is the Huangquan Road I laid for her! Oh, there are still her footprints on the ground!
I looked at my feet and saw three footprints on the sand of the riverbank.
A string of footprints is slightly larger and deeper, which should be grandfather's footprints; There is also a string of footprints that are very small, and at first glance they are childlike, needless to say, they are my own footprints; The third series of footprints is not big or small, like a three-inch golden lotus, and it is very shallow into the soil, which is obviously a woman's footprints.
The series of footprints stretched from the river beach to the front of the coffin, and a terrifying image involuntarily emerged in front of my eyes:
A woman in a red bridal dress crawled out of the coffin wet, followed her grandfather with a pale face, and walked along the Huangquan Road under her feet to the river, her body was slowly submerged by the river. Finally, the red disappeared into the night, leaving only a clump of long black hair entwined like aquatic plants on the surging river