Chapter Seventy-Seven. Case 13: A dead end

To be honest, this is the first time I've heard of such a custom. Most parts of our country are accustomed to treating funerals and happy events as two extremes, never see each other, at most to say to the ancestors during the Qingming Festival or the Spring Festival, Daddy, I am married, you want to bless me and so on, this marriage period to go to the grave, it is really rare.

Hu Zongren must have thought of it with me, so he hurriedly asked Aunt Deng, then your daughter went to the grave, whose grave did she go to? Aunt Deng said that generally speaking, it is counted as three generations, but her deceased husband was a door-to-door son-in-law in his early years, so the ancestral grave is not here, but he was buried here after his death, so the only person they should worship here is her own father.

When asked about this, it seems to be stuck again. No matter what, his own child, presumably the father will not treat his daughter like this. Hu Zongren asked again, then when your daughter went to the grave to worship during this period, was there only her father's grave? Aunt Deng said yes, there is no one else, and when she went to the grave, she also went with her, but out of custom, she couldn't light incense and burn paper, she just stood on the side and watched as a surviving person, and everything was done by her daughter. I interjected and asked, "Did your daughter have a good relationship with her father when she was alive?" Probably Aunt Deng guessed what I meant, but she was still a little unhappy and said, what's wrong, the palms and backs of her hands are full of meat, how can her daughter not hurt.

I have nothing to say, because the several possibilities I imagined seemed to be denied by Aunt Deng's categorical answer at the moment. Could it be that it is really like what the village duangong said, because he stepped on someone else's grave and let the yin people be entangled? It is really possible to have these symptoms of Aunt Deng's daughter when she is entangled by a yin person, the most important thing is to be confused, and in severe cases, she will be in a coma, fever and sweating. And the wild yin people often have no motive at all, maybe they see you at a certain time that coincides with the meeting, and they feel that they want to take you with them as a companion or something, this belongs to a more dangerous category, whether they can be saved depends mainly on whether the family realizes whether this is a ghost thing sooner or later, if you don't think it is a ghost thing at first, you may be delayed a lot of time, and when you really realize it, you find that it is much later.

I suggested, can you introduce the Duangong master in your village, maybe I can ask him to understand some things. Aunt Deng said that there is nothing inconvenient about this, if you want to know more about the situation, I will call him and ask him to come over. I nodded, and Aunt Deng called the Duangong master, and after hanging up the phone, Aunt Deng told me that they were still in the town, and they would not be able to come back until after lunch, and they would come directly to our house when the time came.

Seeing that Aunt Deng didn't seem to know any new clues, I told her that I was going to walk around their neighborhood and use a compass to check for any supernatural reactions nearby. Aunt Deng agreed and said that you can just look at it, you can go in anywhere in this house by yourself. I'm really relieved, I won't go to the house for the time being, because I still have doubts about the original idea, the mourning ghost, but if the mourning ghost had appeared at the wedding banquet at that time, I would definitely be able to detect the clues of this kind of violent ghost even after such a long time. I asked Aunt Deng about the specific area where the tables were distributed when setting up the table that day, and then carefully searched for it, from the yard of Aunt Deng's house to the intersection where I parked, I walked back and forth several times, but I didn't find anything, and occasionally there were a few slight fluctuations, which were also caused by the influence of the distribution box of the nearby high-voltage wire. Ghosts are afraid of electricity, this is the truth that anyone who has studied metaphysics knows the Tao, let alone high-voltage electricity? So the trip was in vain, and I had to sit back in my seat dejectedly.

Hu Zongren asked me, did you find anything? I shook my head and said nothing. Hu Zongren said again, why don't we go into the house and look for it? Anyway, that Duan Gong still has a while to come over, since we are here, let's investigate a few places first, eliminate them one by one, and ask questions after the Duan Gong comes, and confirm it, so that it may be accurate. Well, Hu Zongren is careful, which is a good thing. So I nodded yes and told Aunt Deng that we were going to go into the house to check the situation in the house, and Aunt Deng stood up and led us into the house.

This is a very typical rural self-built house, with a hall house on the left and right sides of the hall, which is generally a temporary room for relatives to stay in when they come to the family. Facing the middle of the hall is the dining table, with a portrait of the mountain god hanging on the wall, and judging from the incense sticks inserted in the incense burner at the bottom, the people in Aunt Deng's family should be making incense every day. To the left of the statue is another room, in which a lot of miscellaneous items are piled up, when I went to check inside, although I did not notice any smart phenomenon, but I was startled by the furnishings inside, as soon as I entered, I saw a coffin with half of the lid lifted in the direction of the right. I was so scared that I screamed out with a bang. Aunt Deng said don't be afraid, it's empty, they are like this in the countryside, the so-called more than half a hundred years old, the soil is covered to the neck, I don't know when I said no and it will be gone, so the people in the village who are over 50 years old, the children have to make a coffin for their parents on their 20th birthday, in many of our places, children to their parents to send coffins is not only unlucky, it is simply a big rebellion, the curse of the red fruit, I didn't expect it to be in this remote and secluded mountain village, This turned out to be a manifestation of respect for the elderly and filial piety, and even parents had to accept it happily.

Retreating to the hall, there is a doorway on the right side of the statue symmetrical with the utility room on the left, which is the staircase going upstairs. Aunt Deng told us that her daughter's room was on the second floor, and the third floor was her own room as well as a separate toilet. So we went to the third floor first, and after some searching, we still didn't notice the slightest movement, even before the spiritual position and portrait of Aunt Deng's deceased father, we didn't find it. Retreating to the second floor, an aunt who looked a few years younger than Aunt Deng also poked her head out of the door of a room to look, needless to say, it must be the aunt of Aunt Deng's daughter. There are more rooms on the second floor, and the house type is different from the first and third floors, Hu Zongren and I first asked Aunt Deng to take us to other rooms for a while, and as before, we didn't find anything, and finally narrowed down the scope to her daughter's room.

As soon as I entered the door, I smelled a rushing smell, I can't describe the feeling of that smell, it was very similar to someone who had burned wormwood here, there was a smell of herbs, but it was mixed with the smell of feces and urine, and it smelled strange and uncomfortable. Directly facing the door was another door, which led to the balcony on the second floor, and the room was quite large, but it was a little dim. The head of the girl's bed is close to the balcony, and the foot of the bed is facing the door of our house, although it is almost the end of the year, and the temperature in the mountain village is a little lower than in the city, but the quilt on the girl's body that looks so thick still makes me feel hot just looking at it, and it is strange that I don't sweat when I hold it like this. So I said to Aunt Deng, why do you build so much for your daughter? Aunt Deng said helplessly, I don't want to, I shiver as soon as I lift her, it's quieter to cover her, it seems that it's more comfortable to cover, although the quilt will get wet when I sweat every day, so I can't help it, I can only change the quilt every day.

Hu Zongren and I walked to the bed, and I took a closer look at the girl. I can't tell you what she looks like, but her face looks a little swollen, probably because of her excessive prostration these days. Tightly knit her brows, her eyes are also closed, and the skin under her eyes is a little purple-red like bruises, as Aunt Deng said before, she is sweating profusely, and the roots of her hair are tired because of sweat, but I noticed a strange phenomenon, usually when people are asleep or unconscious, the brain is in a relatively static state, that is, at this moment, the mind and body seem to be powered off from each other, there is a connection, but they are doing their own thing. For example, the body is resting motionless, only maintaining breathing and metabolism, but the spirit may be dreaming. In the past, I used to look at the advertisements of those contact lenses, and I knew that the small amplitude was used to wear glasses, and when people closed their eyes, the angle of the eyes would be slightly upward, that is to say, if the person who was asleep or unconscious, if there was no eyelid covering, he would see that he was rolling his eyes. But even so, the state of the eyeballs will be stationary, but the eyes of the girl in front of me have been turning slightly from side to side with her eyelids resting, and the angle seems to be looking straight ahead, which makes me suddenly think, could it be that this girl wants to open her eyes, but can't control her body? If that's the case, it's more likely to be a ghost.

When I thought of this, I couldn't help but be a little vigilant, and stretched out my hand to pull Hu Zongren back a few steps a little, away from the position of the bed. After walking to the side, I whispered to Hu Zongren about it in his ear, and Hu Zongren also thought it was very strange, and finally we decided to check it quietly in this room, if the girl was really a ghost, the compass would explain everything.

So I made a shushing gesture to Aunt Deng and the girl's aunt, and then slowly squatted down and lay on the ground, which looked like a gecko. I did this because when I lay down, the height of the space was lower than the bed, and if the girl was really a ghost, I shouldn't be able to see my movements. Then I took out the compass and began to check from the place where I entered the door, until I walked to the girl's bedside, I asked Hu Zongren with my eyes, if the girl was anything wrong now, he shook his head and said no. So I lay on my side on the side of the girl's bed, my body as parallel to the girl's sleeping position as possible, and then held the compass in my right hand, and supported the ground with my left hand, slowly raising my body, because no matter how awesome the compass is, it is not accurate if it is not level, and when I put the compass on the girl's face, there is still no reaction.

Shet, this is weird.