Chapter 4: Ghosts
Dead person? I was so confused by her words that I thought to myself, did she mean that there had been a death in this bathroom? So, I asked her, "You mean, there's ever been a death in this bathtub?" ”
She nodded and said, "Before." ”
"How do you know the way?" I asked, somewhat disbelieving.
Bu Jin ignored me, continued to look around the walls around the bathroom, and then suddenly walked out of the bathroom, opened the suitcase I had just bought for her, and took out the cloth bag she brought out from the mountains. Bu Jin opened the cloth bag unhurriedly, and I was a little curious, so I stood by and watched her every move. The sack contained a few small wooden boxes, a pack of tobacco leaves, and a small pipe. I was stunned for a moment, and said that this little girl can even smoke?
I saw Na Bu Jin take the pack of tobacco leaves and the pipe back to the bathroom. I went after her, and saw her crouching on the ground and filling the tobacco leaves into her pipe, and I didn't know what she was going to do, but I was always very curious, and I didn't bother her, but silently took out the lighter in my trouser pocket, and reached out to her with a fire. She put her pipe in her mouth, then leaned over the flame and took a puff.
I soon found out that Na Bu Jin was not smoking, but rather making smoke, she took the smoke into her mouth and immediately spit it out, and just like that, after a while, the whole bathroom was filled with smoke. It was obviously not an ordinary tobacco smell, but a thick, fresh aroma that closely resembled the aroma of her body, and it smelled pleasant. During this period, Bu Jin was not idle, she kept adding tobacco leaves to her pipe, and I lit cigarettes for her again and again, until the bathroom was completely surrounded by a faint smoke. Strangely, although the bathroom was full of smoke, I didn't feel choked, I just felt that everything was blurry, and the white light in the bathroom became a little weird.
Then, she did something even more weird and unusual. For some reason, she actually started dancing in the smoke-filled room. Although Bu Jin is beautiful, I have to say that she dances so ugly that she is like a giant baboon showing off her might, and I gradually realize that she seems to be learning some kind of animal, sometimes a monkey, sometimes a tiger, sometimes a cow. She danced without saying a word, sometimes serene and sometimes excited, and my long black hair fell down her face, and I felt a sense of horror all the more.
Suddenly, I suddenly realized what she was doing. She's practicing witchcraft. Practicing witchcraft is the so-called practice of witchcraft. When I was a child, I heard my father say that witchcraft in ancient times was mainly expressed in the form of dance, and witchcraft evolved into a sacrificial dance with the development of the times, and later on, it became a pure entertainment performance. However, in ancient times, witch dances had an extremely sacred and mysterious status, and it was believed that shamans could communicate with the gods and fortune divination for the world. To this day, the Miao people in some places still have forms of witchcraft such as "Jumping Duangong", "Suing Yin", "Chasing the White Tiger" and "Turning Nine Dragons into Water", and most of these witchcraft are also embodied through dance.
Since this Bu Jin is the descendant of Ashina's great witch, it is not surprising that she knows some witchcraft. But what exactly is she doing this for? Also, on what basis did she say that there had been a death in this bathtub? I watched Bu Jin dance the stiff and unnatural dance, although I still didn't believe it in my heart, but cold sweat broke out on my back unconsciously.
As Bu Jin beats, the smoke in the room gradually changes, and the smoke around her seems to rotate in the direction of the bathtub under her agitation. Finally, Bu Jin stopped her ugly dance and returned to her original quiet appearance, and I saw her staring intently at the bathtub. I followed her gaze, and I gasped, and my legs went limp, and I almost sat on the floor. I saw that in the bathtub full of smoke, I didn't know when, there was a vague and faint black shadow, and if I looked closely, it was clearly a figure squatting in the bathtub. I thought I was dazzled for a moment, but when I rubbed my eyes, I found that the black shadow was still there, and I couldn't help but scream.
I stepped back and cursed unconsciously, "Fuck, what the fuck is this?" ”
At first, I thought that the shadows of me and Bu Jin were reflected in the light, but soon I realized that it was impossible. First of all, the black shadow was in the shape of a squatting, while Bu Jin and I were both standing at the moment; Secondly, the shadow does not seem to be a flat figure, but three-dimensional, and I can even see the thickness of the shadow from the side. It was like seeing a person walking in the distance on a foggy day.
Bu Jin turned his head to look at me, nodded, and said in a flat tone, "Look, dead man." ”
I see that her expression seems to be accustomed to this kind of dark shadow, is this the Miao people's spiritualist witchcraft? I was looking at Bu Jin in amazement, when I suddenly noticed that the black shadow in the bathtub actually stood up and fluttered through the tiles of the bathtub to Bu Jin.
I saw that the situation was a little bad, so I hurriedly pulled Bu Jin, but I didn't expect that when I pulled her, she shook her hand suddenly, turned around and glared at me viciously. I will never forget that look in my life. It was an extremely ferocious look, as if she was going to chop my body into pieces in an instant, not so much that her eyes were incredible, but rather that she was not a person at all, but more like some kind of bloodthirsty beast. What made me even more frightened was that at that moment, I seemed to vaguely see a trace of red light flashing in Na Bu Jin's pupils, which was aggressive and impressive.
I stood there all of a sudden, I don't know what to do, and I'm not afraid of other people's jokes, at that moment, I was a little afraid of her, although I am a tall northeastern man, but for a moment, I do believe that Bu Jin is very likely to kill me on impulse.
The shadow seemed to hesitate for a moment, and stopped moving. And Na Bu Jin began to stare at the black shadow motionless again, and after a while, the black shadow floated into Bu Jin's body.
That's right, it was "floated into" Bu Jin's body, and the ghost floated in, and the two seemed to merge together, and immediately, the smoke in the entire bathroom dissipated almost instantly, the lights became brighter, and the scenery became clearer. When I looked at Long Bujin again, I found that she fainted all of a sudden and fell to the ground limply.
I screamed a few times, but she didn't respond, and she seemed to be completely unconscious. I wanted to step forward and help her back to the bed, but I was still jealous of her eyes just now, and hesitated for a long time, I only touched her arm first, and when I saw that she didn't react, I had the courage to carry her back to the bed. I saw that her forehead was covered with sweat, and her face was pale, as if she had gone through a rather exhausting toil. Looking at her appearance, I was a little surprised, thinking about the mountain road that she had walked so far this morning, she was not red and breathless, how could she be tired after dancing two dances.
I sat on my bed and looked at Bu Jin sleeping peacefully, my heart pounding. I looked at my watch, it was past ten o'clock in the evening, but I decided to call my father anyway, after all, what had just happened was so strange that I couldn't sleep at all.
In order not to make Bu Jin, I deliberately came to the corridor of the hotel to make a call. To my surprise, the phone turned out to be busy. I secretly wondered in my heart, my father's weekday schedule is very regular, before ten o'clock in the evening, his old man will definitely go to bed, but why is the phone busy today?
As soon as I hung up the phone, my mobile phone rang suddenly, and when I saw it, it was my home phone number. My father and I dialed each other's numbers just now, so it caused the problem of busy lines.
As soon as I answered the phone, before I could speak, my father asked straight to the point, "Did anyone get it?" ”
I was stunned, this is not my father's way of speaking. In terms of my father's personality, when he answered the phone, he should have had a casual chat with me before cutting to the point. But as soon as he heard his father ask such a straightforward question, he also replied bluntly: "I got it." ”
Unexpectedly, the father on the other end of the phone asked, "Are you sure you picked up the right person?" ”
When I heard this, I chuckled in my heart. What does it mean to be sure you're picking up the right person? Could it be that the Miao girl I picked up was not the one who should have been picked up? Then who is this Miao girl I picked up? But after thinking about it again, I said in my heart that it was impossible, and I also saw Ashina, she obviously said that Long Bujin was her descendant. Although all this seemed so certain, when my father asked me, I was a little confused, so I said, "Dad, what do you mean by that?" I hadn't seen any of Azina's descendants before, so how could I be sure that the person I took was the right one? ”
My father thought for a moment and said to me, "Is Azina's descendant a man or a woman?" ”
"It's a woman." I replied, "I'm still very young, just in my early twenties." ”
"Go and see if the woman is wearing a jade plaque the size of an egg around her neck?"
"Jade? How do you know what is wearing around the neck of the Daoist family? ”
The father seemed a little impatient, and said, "Don't ask so much, just go and see it right away." ”
It seemed that my father was in a bit of a hurry this time, so I told him to wait for a while, and then tiptoed back to the guest room, quietly walked into Bu Jin's bedside, and found that there was indeed a black rope around her neck, but what was hanging from the end of the black rope was hidden in her white shirt, and I couldn't see it. I wanted to reach for it, but I felt that such a posture was really obscene, and it was suspected of molesting a girl. But my father's words, I didn't dare to disobey my fate, so I carefully clamped the black rope around Bu Jin's neck with two fingers and pulled it out little by little. Fortunately, that Bu Jin had completely lost consciousness at the moment, so he didn't wake her up. After a few tuggings, sure enough, a thick jade plaque the size of an egg peeked out from her neckline.
I fixed my eyes and saw that it was really a piece of beautiful jade, although I didn't know a lot about jade, but the jade plate around Bu Jin's neck, as long as he was not a fool, he could see at a glance that it was definitely the top grade of jade, and it was a piece of white jade. The jade plaque was about the thickness of three one-dollar coins stacked together, but it was transparent, and you could even see through the jade plaque that the skin was covered underneath, and the jade was crystal clear and transparent as a whole, and I didn't want other low-grade jade to be often mixed with cotton wool-like substances. In addition, there are several lines of text carved on the jade plaque that look like seal scripts, which I can't read at all.
After seeing the jade card, I tiptoed out of the room and said into the phone, "Dad, are you still listening?" ”
"Why is it so slow?" I really don't know what's wrong with my father today, always in a hurry.
"I'm not afraid of waking her up." I was a little unhappy and said, "I have read everything you said, and it is the same as what you said, and I do have a jade plaque around my neck." ”
The other side of the phone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and the father said, "That's good, that's good." ”
I was just about to tell my father about the bizarre and strange things I had just experienced, but my father preemptively said, "Listen to me, I want you to stay in Yunnan for the time being and not go home." ”
"Why......"
"Don't ask so much!" My father interrupted me and continued: "In the past few days, you may encounter all kinds of bizarre things, but you must not be afraid, and do not make noise everywhere, just stay there. ”
The more I listened, the more confused I became, and said, "Then I'll have to find a place to stay." ”
The father said: "You go to find a colleague of mine back then, his name is Wang Chengbao, in Kunming, I have already explained your affairs to him, you can find him." ”
"And how do I find him?" I asked.
My father left me a phone number for me to remember, and it was easy to remember, and I quickly memorized it.
I said yes and said, "Dad, what you said is not a problem, but I have something I must tell you about, just ......" I suddenly realized that the phone had been hung up.
When I returned to my room, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong, what had happened to make my father, who was usually calm and free, so flustered? Looking at the Miao girl Long Bujin lying on the bed next to me, I always have a strange premonition, that is, she is pretending to be asleep, I hope I think too much. What does this girl do? I couldn't sleep, I couldn't suppress my curiosity, and finally I quietly got up and rummaged through Bu Jin's cloth bag. The first thing that catches my eye, which I have just seen, is those large and small wooden boxes. I took one of them casually, opened it and looked at it, and suddenly my scalp was numb, and I was shocked into a cold sweat.