Chapter 15: Footprints

In ancient times, the left was respected, and in the Book of Changes, men were yang and women were yin; The back is yang, and the abdomen is yin; The upper is yang and the lower is yin; The left is yang and the right is yin. Therefore, in the ceremony, if the left side is tied for the upper sitting, the left and the right of the man and the woman reflect the superiority of the man and the inferiority of the woman.

There are only right foot footprints on the incense ash, but there are some words, and what is even more strange is that the footprints go all the way to the wall, and there are half a right foot footprints under the wall, as if a person ignores the existence of the wall and passes through it so easily.

William Lin was shocked and inexplicable, his mouth was dry, he used to be a staunch atheist, never believed in gods and ghosts, but since he came out of the Forbidden City, he has become a staunch ghost theist, and in China, an ancient and mysterious country, compared with foreign ghosts and gods, both in quantity and quality, is a world of difference.

"Xiao, Xiaohu, the three-piece set we invited in the temple will work, right?" William Lin asked tremblingly.

"Tube! It works. Wang Xiaohu is not very sure, in order to ward off evil spirits, the two found a temple where the incense is still quite strong, worshiped the Buddha, prayed to God, and took the incense ash, Wang Xiaohu wanted to buy this Diamond Sutra town house, but met a monk called Shen Xu, known as the boundless mana, highly recommended that he personally opened the light of the three-piece set of evil spirits, in fact, it is a Buddha statue hanging around the neck, a small bag of cinnabar, a small peach wood sword.

Just these three things, the price is five hundred sets, William Lin is very excited, he feels that there are many things, and he can hang them around his neck, and it is more effective to bless them, and he can fool him, saying that the peach wood sword in his hand is not a problem to kill demons, and the evil ghosts and demons under a thousand years old are touching death and death......

said that William Lin became more and more excited, repaid the money on the spot, cut down fifty from five hundred, bought two sets, and hung them around his neck with Wang Xiaohu, and put a small bag of cinnabar in his personal pocket, and the small peach wood sword was pinned to the belt, which would make William Lin take out a small peach wood sword like a nail clipper, and gesture around, as if something was really close.

Wang Xiaohu frowned and looked at it, there was nothing else on the ground except footprints, and said to William Lin: "If you are afraid, you can sleep in my room tonight." ”

William Lin nodded, and suddenly his face changed again, and said, "Little, Xiaohu, listen, there is a sound of ghosts crying." ”

Wang Xiaohu listened attentively, and there was a woo woo outside...... A sound similar to a whimpering sound, sometimes loud and sometimes small, Wang Xiaohu was bold, stepped out of the room, stood in the dark corridor for a while, his whole body relaxed, and came back to William Lin and said: "The door downstairs is not closed, and the wind is pouring in." ”

William Lin didn't dare to stay in the house, rolled up the cover and got into Wang Xiaohu's house, it is also strange to say, Wang Xiaohu's house was also sprinkled with incense ashes, but there were no footprints, William Lin arrived at Wang Xiaohu's house, closed the door, and immediately didn't feel so afraid, fear is a very inexplicable thing, for example, a person will often feel afraid, but if there are others next to him, the resistance to fear will be greatly strengthened.

The two tossed for a day, and when they arrived, they were tired and hungry, but when they came back, they bought a few packs of instant noodles, and boiled the noodles in the house with an induction cooker to eat. The crunch of the sound.

In the tube building, Wang Xiaohu and William Lin were two, the huge three-story old tube building, the silence in the night, this sound came too suddenly, and the two of them were startled, and they couldn't help but look at the window.

The lamp in the room is the kind of old-fashioned bulb, it is not easy to be bright, the brightness is a little miserable, under the dim light, the fog of the window shows a clear handprint, and the handprint is not a normal person's handprint, the width of the palm is very small, the five fingers are thin and long, which has exceeded the length of ordinary people's fingers, and such a clear palm print, how can there be a few inconspicuous palm prints, but this palm print is a piece. Eerie and eerie.

The two live on the second floor, and there is no ladder downstairs, so it is impossible for someone to jump so high and take a picture on the window, so who will this handprint be? A word popped up in the heads of two people at the same time, ghost!

William Lin sat on the ground and looked at Wang Xiaohu, Wang Xiaohu also had a little numbness in his scalp, stepped forward with courage, and shouted: "Who?" What for? No one answered him at all, he rushed out of the alley, opened the bolt on the window, and suddenly pushed out, the east wind poured in with snowflakes, blowing his body with a shiver, stretched out his head to look outside, I don't know when the road was, small snowflakes sprinkled down, a layer on the ground, fluffy like a white carpet, but there was no half a figure, but there was a series of footprints on the snow to the distant street lamp.

This series of footprints is the same as the footprints in William Lin's house, only the right foot, no left foot, under the wind and snow, Wang Xiaohu felt a chill in his heart, the pie falling from the sky was really not delicious, at this time it was already winter, inside and outside the house were the two worlds, was it scared to death by a ghost in the house, or went out to freeze to death outside?

In addition to these two roads, there seems to be no other way to go, Wang Xiaohu suddenly remembered what his father said to him: People, there are only blessings that cannot be enjoyed, and there is no suffering that cannot be endured. Now that I think about it, it really makes sense, the wind and snow are misty, and the cold weather is dead, where can I go? , can only continue to live.

Wang Xiaohu calmed down, closed the window, turned around and smiled at William Lin with a frightened face: "It's okay, even if there is a ghost, I didn't dare to come into the house, just scare and scare people outside, it is estimated that it is not very fierce, I think our three-piece set has worked." ”

When William Lin heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, squatted on the ground to cook noodles, Wang Xiaohu saw William Lin's down-and-out appearance, and he didn't know what he was trying to do, he had to mix in China, and he didn't return to China if he was worse than the migrant workers, I really didn't know what Lu Dao thought, so he couldn't help but ask: "William, you told me that your family was once a nobleman, and was canonized by the Queen of England, although it was down, but there was still an ancient castle left, and you didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, why didn't you go back?" Why are you here to be frightened and suffered? ”

William Lin was silent for a long time, and said to Wang Xiaohu: "I have been fascinated by Chinese culture since I was very young, there is a mysterious room in my family's castle, I once secretly entered, there are many antiquities in it, since then I decided to come to China, but my father did not agree, he wanted me to study in England, for which the two of us had a big fight, I ran away from home and came to China, and began to learn Chinese culture......"

William Lin quietly recounted, Wang Xiaohu listened quietly, although the two brothers have been together for two years, they have never talked like today, Wang Xiaohu did not expect that William Lin's cynical appearance also hides a sensitive and persistent heart, William Lin is a buddy worthy of friendship, in Chinese, righteousness, especially for Wang Xiaohu.

It didn't take much effort, the water boiled, the noodles were almost cooked, and after talking about his own thoughts, William Lin was not so afraid, looked at Wang Xiaohu and smiled: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, in your Chinese dialect, life is not good, our brothers are both hard to live, just so hard to live, I still have you with me, but Xiaohu, if there is no me, you will not get mixed up to this point, I am dragging you down." ”

Wang Xiaohu smiled: "What nonsense, when I can't pay the rent and can't eat, you help me, did I say that I would drag you down?" It's a buddy, don't talk about that useless, I'll talk about it today, if you are really Tang Seng, buddy will accompany you through the eighty-one difficulties. ”

After listening to Wang Xiaohu's words, William Lin's heart was warm, he knew that Wang Xiaohu was a person who easily did not make promises, but once he said it, he must do what he said, Wang Xiaohu is a person with a cold face and a warm heart.

Speaking of these two people, they were a little silent, even the poor-mouthed William Lin didn't know what to say, divided the noodles, sat on the edge of the bed and snorted and finished eating, filling their stomachs, their bodies were warm, and their spirits felt much better, William Lin was accompanied by Wang Xiaohu, and he was not afraid, and said to him: "Xiaohu, let's study and study that little ghost record, maybe we can find a way to solve the strange things in the building, and we can live." ”

Wang Xiaohu nodded, finished eating the noodles, wiped his mouth, didn't brush the dishes, threw it aside and pulled out some ghost records from his arms, and turned them page by page, this book is very strange, it looks very thin, I really want to turn it down, but it seems to be endless, and all kinds of ghosts are described in detail, but they haven't seen a ghost shadow until now, it's nothing more than seeing weird footprints and a ghost hand, and I really can't see what the hell it is, and how to crack the law?

What's more, the text in the book is very boring, and after another day of tossing, William Lin is not as strong as Wang Xiaohu, so he can't stand it, so he and Wang Xiaohu moved a wooden bed from another room, laid out the mattress of Lu, covered the quilt, and lay down without even taking off his clothes, and fell asleep after a while.

Wang Xiaohu studied the ghost record in his hand alone, and there were countless thaumaturgical methods, but he couldn't figure out what was going on in the house, and he didn't know that the method of Lu Dao worked, so he unconsciously fought between the upper eyelids and the lower eyelids, and he couldn't stay up and fell asleep.

Wang Xiaohu is in the prime of life, he sleeps sweetly, and he doesn't even have a dream, but he feels a little cold around him in a daze, and vaguely hears William Lin's trembling voice calling him: "Little Tiger, Little Tiger ......"

Thanks to Xiao Xinling for the 100 starting coins.