I thought about the picture that Sister Liang said, so my eyes involuntarily looked at the mirror on the wardrobe. I imitated the posture described by Sister Liang, walked to the mirror, and asked her, do you mean to stand like this? Sister Liang nodded, and Hu Zongren also smacked his mouth and said to me, that's really weird. I stepped back from the mirror and asked Sister Liang, what happened next?

Sister Liang said that when she saw this scene after turning on the light, she was indeed frightened, so she couldn't help but take a step back in the opposite direction, and suddenly fell to her father's bed, with her hands propped up on the sheets, but she felt a cold on the sheets, which means that her father has been away from the quilt for a long time, and it also means that he has been standing in front of the mirror in this posture for a long time. But this is not the main thing, when Sister Liang retreated again and again, she suddenly stretched out a hand from the invisible place in the quilt pile and grabbed Sister Liang's wrist.

Sister Liang was so frightened that she screamed, but she couldn't break free, she said that she was just full of fear at the time, and didn't think about whether it was a ghost or not, but she just felt that her father was obviously standing by the bed, but the hand stretched out from the quilt, and her father had been living alone, and she didn't have time to sort out the logical sequence of this, Sister Liang was so frightened that she lost her mind, she casually picked up the things around her and smashed them towards the hand that grabbed her wrist, Sister Liang said that she didn't remember what she caught at that time, because there was a pebble picked up by the river next to her father's pillow to hold down those newspapers and magazines, and a flashlight, and it was estimated that what she caught at that time was one of these two things.

Sister Liang told us that she had smashed it several times, but she still didn't see the hand let go. And at this time, Uncle Liang's head, which was originally clinging to the mirror, began to hit the mirror rhythmically, not very hard, because after all, if it was glass, if it was too hard, it would break the mirror. It's like a drunken person, when he starts to smash the glass with his head, in the middle of the night, there is that kind of clanging sound, plus the old furniture, there is a little gap between the mirror and the cabinet, there is some activity in the first place, such a sound sounds at night, it is particularly frightening. Even her own father frightened Sister Liang very badly, she told us that at that time, her father had already begun to open his mouth, almost the same as now, and opened his eyes again, and he looked like those monsters. After becoming more and more scared, she smashed the thing that grabbed her wrist harder, and she didn't know how many times she repeated this, but suddenly her wrist was loosened, and the feeling of grabbing herself suddenly disappeared, so before she had time to think about it, Sister Liang struggled to escape from the door.

Sister Liang said that as soon as she opened the door, she saw a bird-like thing standing on the laundry sink at the door, and the cry was very unpleasant, but she couldn't see what it was because it was dark. It was already winter, and many of the birds had already flown away for the winter, and I was so frightened that I ran straight to the street. When Sister Liang said this, she pointed to the slightly wider street where we had bean curd rice just now, saying that there was a 110 duty point, but she didn't know how to express it after she got there, and her previous movements had actually made a lot of noise to the neighbors around her, and many people heard her shout of grabbing the sky, so they came out to see, everyone pointed and pointed, even if they didn't say anything, everyone seemed to guess something, so she stayed at 110 until dawn, and she hadn't left. Rumors began to circulate.

I have learned many times about rumors, but I must say that sometimes the rumors of the inhabitants will give me some relatively objective angles from which I can distinguish them, unless they are outright rumors, which should indeed be despised. At the same time, I also know that when the people around me believe more in hearsay than in fact, the power of public opinion is very terrifying.

Sister Liang went on to say that since she was a child, she had heard a lot of legends such as ghost stories, and she had been so scared that she couldn't sleep at night, but after all, it was temporary, and she had never experienced it personally, but everything that happened that night before was too sudden and too specific, and she didn't think it was an illusion no matter how she thought about it. Hu Zongren asked Sister Liang, did you see the hand that stretched out from the quilt at that time? In fact, I think the same as Hu Zongren, no matter how strange Uncle Liang's behavior is, he may be able to find an explanation from some angles, but the hand that appeared out of thin air from the quilt, if it is determined that it is not the hallucination of Sister Liang, then it must be a ghost. As for what kind of ghost it is, why he is hiding in the quilt, and why Uncle Liang stands up in the middle of the night and sticks to the mirror, we don't know anything, the only thing we can do at the moment is to get as much information as possible from Sister Liang's mouth.

Sister Liang nodded and said, she remembered very clearly, that hand was definitely not an illusion, and she saw it herself, although it was night, and the lamp next to her father's bed was not bright enough, but after staying in the dark environment for a while, people will gradually get used to this environment, so that even if the light is weak, they can see the surrounding situation. She told us that the quilt was also deflated at that time, which means that it is basically impossible for someone to hide in the quilt without noticing. The hand looked very thin, but it was impossible to distinguish whether it was an adult or a child, there were no sleeves, only one hand, and there was a tattoo on the arm, which looked like an open lotus flower, and the skin was a little iron-blue, as if it were a long-dead person, and the skin of the corpse had changed color due to oxidation.

Sister Liang went on to say that after she was caught by that hand, she struggled to break free, but in the process of breaking free, she could feel that this hand seemed to be connected to something that she couldn't see, not completely breaking free, but having a certain amount of concession, but her strength was obviously not the opponent of the other party, so she was in a hurry to find something to fight.

When Sister Liang said this, I suddenly felt that something was wrong. First of all, I can understand why Sister Liang broke free at first but couldn't escape, and then escaped when she started to hit with something, which is actually a yin and yang imbalance between the living and the dead. Generally speaking, both men and women are yang when they are alive, and people after death should be yin regardless of men and women, yin and yang are like water and fire, they can meet but do not blend with each other, just like the relationship between oil and water, no matter how hard they struggle, no matter how fierce the fight is, they can never be integrated. When people are afraid, the yang energy will weaken, so it will lead to the exuberance of the yin energy, as if the two sides are fighting, the enemy is forced to retreat a little, and our army will be able to take a step forward. The same is true for the relationship between yin and yang. And in the same way, if a person is ruthless, such as Sister Liang's behavior of picking up things and starting to fight, to a large extent, it can be regarded as emboldening herself with actions and fighting to the death. In this case, people's yang energy will increase accordingly, thus forcing back some of the yin energy, and the two are like a seesaw, whoever is weak, who has the upper hand. This is also why when many people encounter dirty things, the best way is not to pray to God and worship Buddha, because at that time you are always afraid in your heart, but the best way is for you to remind yourself vigorously, don't be afraid, or swear, swearing itself is to strengthen your courage and cheer yourself up, ghosts are also afraid of the wicked, so it is not difficult to break free. But what I don't think is wrong is not this, but the lotus tattoo on the hand of the ghost described by Sister Liang.

The lotus flower was originally the throne of Guanyin Bodhisattva, but the lotus flower has been regarded as a kind of feeling, a kind of nobility that comes out of the mud and is not stained since ancient times. Of the few things I can think of, almost everything has nothing to do with the ghost hands of the dead. Could it be that the deceased had a tattoo before his death, and the ghost hand that Sister Liang saw was nothing more than a manifestation of his limb memory after his death? A ghost that appears in such a way is in the midst of a great conspiracy, if not a great grievance. When I thought of this, I immediately asked Sister Liang, does your father have any enemies or anything like that on weekdays? Or maybe someone in your family or friends who had a relationship with him recently passed away and had a lotus flower in his hand before he died?

Sister Liang replied to me without hesitation, this is impossible, my family is different from many families, my mother died early, my father has not remarried for many years, but wholeheartedly brought himself up, and then helped himself take care of the children, the family originally had some relatives, but then because of their own branches, many of the older generation have passed away one after another, so the contact has become very few, the last party, it was still a few years ago. And my father is a well-known good man in this area, honest, temperamental and docile, everyone likes to joke about him, he is not angry, the villagers have lived all their lives, although everyone does not like him much, but there will definitely be nothing to hate him. Sister Liang added that when her mother died in the early years, it was because of her father's good popularity, everyone knows that the conditions in our family are more difficult, and my mother's funeral is all helped by the neighbors.

Sister Liang thought about it and said, as for the person you said with a tattoo on his arm, I really don't know about this, because people who rarely come and go with me naturally can't talk about grievances, and such a conspicuous tattoo, if I have seen it before, I will definitely remember it. The tattooed person is not a decent gentleman, and there are basically no such acquaintances in our family.

I laughed bitterly a few times, turned my head to look at Hu Zongren, and he also smiled helplessly. We understood each other's meaning, because we were probably not decent gentlemen, after all, Hu Zongren and I both had tattoos on our bodies.