Chapter 15: Restless Nights 15
People have three urgencies, and I know that this is a natural rule, and I can't resist it. However, I was too sleepy.
I silently muttered in my heart: "Bear with it, bear with it, bear with it, and when you fall asleep, you won't know anything." "
Thinking like this, I quickly fell asleep again. However, in my dreams I kept looking for the toilet, and every time I just found it, I woke up in a pinch.
I had to get up, quickly put on my clothes, and pee on the bed without thinking.
I quietly got up from my bed, and walked into the courtyard in the dark, where it was very dark, only the everlasting lamp on the main hall still shone dimly, and I stood tremblingly in the corner and began to solve my physiological needs.
I'm a college student, highly educated, and shouldn't defecate in the open. Today, however, the situation is special, and we have no choice but to act in a hurry.
Anyway, I just finished solving it, and when I turned around to go back to the house, I suddenly realized that something was wrong.
There have always been two lanterns in the main hall, one on the left and one on the left, but now, I can clearly see three flames.
My heart suddenly tightened: "What's the matter?" Someone is so bored that they can't light an extra light inside? "
I rubbed my eyes and looked closely, and there was nothing wrong with the two lights on the left and right. However, an extra candle came out and was placed on the ground.
I hesitated for a moment, but finally walked over gently.
I stood at the doorway, quietly looking inside, and the candle in the hall was burning violently an inch long.
Other than that, there was no movement.
I'm a little confused, what does that mean? Someone ran in at night, lit a candle and left?
Suddenly, my eyes fell on the pit. After the coffin was dug up, the pit was never filled.
Thinking of this, I walked in with a ghost. I want to see if there is any movement in the pit.
Along the way, I watched the wind and grass around me. As I approached the pit, suddenly, I noticed a faint breathing sound, very small, very soft
I was instantly alert. It was at this time that I found a trail of footprints heading into the pit we had dug during the day.
Could it be that someone climbed down?
Is it Zhang Yuan? This guy was dug out of the ghost market by us, although he can eat and walk, but subconsciously, I always feel that he is weird, it seems that I really guessed it, he is at night, he ran into the dirt pit by himself, what do you want to do?
I suddenly remembered that during the day the abbot and I tried to fill in the pit, but he would not let him live. I see, he wants to save it for the night.
I hesitated for a moment, but curiosity finally prevailed, and I held my breath as I approached the pit step by step.
At this moment, a cold hand was placed on my shoulder.
I was caught off guard, so frightened that I sweated instantly, and involuntarily, let out a low cry from my throat, but at this moment, another hand covered my mouth.
Then, someone whispered in my ear, "Don't speak." "
I was a little familiar with this voice, and I looked back tremblingly, it was actually Zhang Yuan.
The light of the fire shone on his face, jumping and jumping, and his face was cloudy.
I'm a little weird, how is he outside? I thought he was lying in a dirt pit.
I cautiously asked, "Master, are you okay?" "
Zhang Yuan showed that ghostly smile on his face again: "I'll give you the first lesson today, so that you can see the shadow of a person." "
He slowly let go of his hand, then pointed into the pit, "You go and see." "
I shook my head: "I'm not going." "
He was impatient and whispered, "If you want to go, you will go." "
I asked worriedly, "You're not going to push me down, are you?" "
He waved his hand impatiently: "I'm full?" What are you pushing? "
I looked at him with my peripheral vision as I slowly walked towards the edge of the pit, and then, with my probe, looked inside.
At this glance, I saw a man lying in the coffin. By the light of the candle, this person was a thin Taoist priest wearing a monk's robe.
I suddenly had an ominous premonition in my heart, and I hurriedly jumped away, my back against the wall of the house, my whole body was on guard, I looked at Zhang Yuan, and asked, "What are you doing putting him in the pit?" What do you want to do? Bury alive? "
Zhang Yuan looked at me strangely, and then shook his head: "I didn't put it in, he climbed in by himself?" "
I was amazed by this sentence: "What? He climbed into it himself? "
Master nodded: "Just now he walked in with a candle and then lay down in it. "
I scratched my head: "Sleepwalking? "
Zhang Yuan looked at the thin Taoist priest in the pit: "It doesn't look like it." Did you notice his shadow? "
I waved my hand, "Master, what are you kidding?" The candle is on top of the pit, and he is lying in the pit, and there is a shadow under him, how can we see it? "
Zhang Yuan suddenly reached out, grabbed my collar, and pressed my head into the pit: "You take a closer look?" "
I struggled twice, but I didn't break free. It seems that he recovered quickly, and he is no longer the weak appearance when he first came back to life.
It was at this time that I saw the shadow of the thin Taoist. That's right, I saw the shadow of the thin Taoist priest from an unbelievable angle.
Two shadows, to be exact.
The thin Taoist priest lay at the bottom of the pit. On the pit wall, one on the left and one on the right, two symmetrical figures appeared.
Inexplicably, I suddenly remembered Li Bai's poem "Raise a glass to invite the bright moon, and the shadow becomes three people", I didn't feel anything when I read this poem before, but now I really see this situation, and I can't help but feel a chill in my heart.
I retracted my head and asked Zhang Yuan, "Why does he have two shadows?" And that's not the right angle. Light travels in a straight line, which doesn't seem to conform to the laws of physics."
Zhang Yuan pulled me out of the main hall: "Of these two shadows, one of them is not his own. The one who was left with himself also had a bit of a sense of detachment from the body. "
I was surprised: "Why is this happening?" "
Zhang Yuan looked up at the starry sky, then sighed and said, "You go to the school tomorrow to inquire about any unusual situations in this little Taoist priest recently." Then, let's take a long-term view. "
The more he said this, the more I felt that the situation was serious, and I couldn't help but ask, "What happened to the thin Taoist?" "
He waved his hand: "Don't ask, do as I say." My body has not recovered yet, and I need to rest and recuperate, so as to calm the brakes. "
Then he sent me back to sleep.
Let the candle burn quietly in that room, and let the thin Taoist priest lie in the coffin.
Back in the house, I lay in my bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep at all. As soon as I closed my eyes, I felt like I was lying in a coffin, and the thin Taoist priest was beside me, and he smiled at me from time to time, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.
I just stared at it, and I struggled all the time.
Suddenly, I felt a fire move outside the window, reflecting through the window.
I quickly turned my head to look outside, and at this time, the door slammed and rang.
I want to sit up and see who it is. However, the next second, I dismissed the thought.
Because by this time I had seen clearly, the person who came over was the thin Taoist priest, who was walking towards my bed step by step with a candle in his hand.
I didn't dare to move, squinted and pretended to be asleep, and saw through the gap in my eyes what the thin Taoist priest wanted to fight.
The thin Taoist priest walked up to me with a candle and looked at it carefully, although his eyes were open, his eyes were blank and not focused at all.
The guy looked at me for a moment, then lowered his head and sniffed at me.
I felt the breath in his nose be cold. The cold made my face tingle. And, I asked, with a strong smell of alcohol.
I was scared and tried to push him away, but then I suddenly realized that I couldn't move at all. When I was in a hurry.
Suddenly, the thin priest stood up, held the candle and left.
After the thin Taoist priest left, my body began to break out in a cold sweat, cold sweat followed by hot sweat, always, this night was even frightened, I was about to collapse.
I took out my phone and looked at it, it was four o'clock in the morning.
I sighed in horror and was about to relax when I heard footsteps outside. My heart instantly became nervous again: Could it be that the thin Taoist priest can't go and come back?
I couldn't decide whether to continue pretending to be asleep or to hide. When he was hesitating, he heard someone whispering beside the bed, "The rooster crows." "
I was stunned when I heard this: "The rooster crows? "It's a city, and there's no chickens at all.
I was wondering, suddenly there was a knock in the window, and then, Zhang Yuan's face poked in and said to me, "Come out with confidence, the rooster crows." "
I said to him, "What chicken? Where are the chickens here? "
Zhang Yuan shook his head and said indifferently: "As soon as the rooster crows, it means that it is dawn, and all the little ghosts have to avoid it." Although I can't hear the rooster crow now, the time hasn't changed. "
I nodded thoughtfully, I see.
When I got dressed and slowly walked out of the house, I suddenly thought of something and hurriedly grabbed Zhang Yuan: "You mean to say that the thin Taoist priest went back in a hurry because of the rooster's crow?" So, he's a ghost? "
Zhang Yuan didn't answer me, just waved his hand and said to me: "Explain your business last night, you can do it." "
At this time, I suddenly remembered that Zhang Yuan asked me to go to school last night to ask if there was anything abnormal about the thin Taoist recently.
I looked at the sky, it was just dawn, so I yawned: "Let me sleep and finish my breakfast"
But Zhang Yuan suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed me by the collar, and shouted, "Go now." "
Then, without saying anything, he pushed and kicked me alive and drove me out of the Great Holy Temple.
I thought indignantly, "Old thing, have you been relieved?" It's not the time to just crawl out of the pit and beg me to give you a hand. "