Chapter 2 Talismans
After listening to this story, I couldn't help but laugh: "Li Yang, Li Yang, you can really do it." The good thing didn't say thinking about me, you think about me when you use people to fill in the pit as cannon fodder, walk and step on dog shit and fall into the dung pit. It's hard for me to call you brother. ”
Li Yang didn't look angry when he saw me, he smiled: "I really can't help it, the old man has such a wish to be a junior, and it is naturally incumbent on him to solve it." Besides, the emperor is not bad for hungry soldiers, no more, you stay in the hospital for three days, and the remuneration is 1,000 yuan. Brothers are brothers, business is business, let's settle accounts, you just say do it or not. ”
I stuffed the red envelope into my bag: "Why don't you do it." Alas, I'm also unproductive, and money is pressing slaves. However, let's make it clear first, if it is hysteria in the elderly, Alzheimer's nonsense, there is no imp at all, and I will not return the money. ”
"Of course." Li Yang said: "If it's really the old lady's nonsense, there are no ghosts at all, then you won't pick up the cheap." My grandmother lives in a senior ward, and there is a bed for escorts, so you can rest casually. Just sleep in a hotel for three days. Boredom is a little boring, sleep enough for three days to take away the banknotes, is there such an easy job in the world? ”
I coughed, "Do you think there are any imps who will come?" ”
Li Yang seemed to smile: "How do I know Lu Dao." Anyway, when the old lady saw my grandfather's situation that day, it was really a bit evil. Just take a gamble. ”
I stretched: "I'll make it clear first, once the old lady wakes me up in the middle of the night, and tells me in a daze what gold bar and diamond ring she used to steal and hide, I can get it myself, nothing to do with your family." ”
Li Yangha laughed: "Dream of your big-headed ghost." Not only are you there at night, we also employ two caregivers who work 24-hour shifts. Also, every night we have to leave someone there to keep a vigil with you. If you really want to have any inheritance, it is also a three-hall trial, and it has nothing to do with you. ”
So since when? I asked.
Li Yang said, forget it tonight, you will live with me. Tomorrow I will take you to my uncle.
I didn't think much about it at all, I just had more fun, and I was bored anyway. Or say that people are cheap, when I encounter something, I pray every day, hoping that after the wind and waves are calm, I will never get into trouble again, and live in seclusion. It's really going to be a peaceful day, and my heart is itching, and I want to take the initiative to find something exciting to do.
We added wine to the lamp to reopen the banquet, Li Yang's family had nothing else, there were too many kinds of wine, and there were several cases of dark beer alone. In the evening, he found a horror movie, and we drank and watched it, and it was dark to drink.
When I woke up the next day, my head was still dizzy.
After a brief wash, Li Yang took me to his uncle's house.
There are thousands of people in the family, and there is one person in charge. The old lady was lying in the hospital, looking at it, this was a big deal for the whole family. Nursing care, prescribing medicine and seeing a doctor, all day long. My uncle's family is now the overall headquarters, and he sits in the central military tent, responsible for deploying manpower and coordinating resources. Everything about the old lady must be approved by him before it can be implemented.
This old man is said to have poured cinders in his early years. The left hand is in and the right hand is out, and with the family connections, he really makes a lot of money. The family lives in a large apartment near the city center, the decoration is European style, splendid, anywhere is good, but there is no home taste, like a high-end restaurant, how to look awkward. When we arrived, Li Yang's little aunt and her daughter also happened to be at my uncle's house.
Li Yang's little aunt looks miserable, dressed in her fifties, with big wavy hair, and a sheepish smell. Listening to Li Yang say in private, this little aunt is a legendary figure, she was quite discerning in her early years, and she used the family's spare money to make up the house, and there were no less than six or seven sets of real estate in her husband, her daughter, including her, all of which appreciated in value. Now that the state has tightened its grip on real estate, she has turned her business around and started to dump cemeteries and make a fortune from the dead.
This woman made me feel very uncomfortable. I don't know how to read faces, but after a lot of experience, I have an intuition to look at people. There was an indescribable aura on the little aunt's body, gloomy and foggy. Do you know who I remembered when I saw her - I had nightmares in bed, and in a daze, I felt a fat woman who looked like a pig, lying on my stomach and dragging my soul out.
Li Yang's little aunt feels especially like that weird fat woman. It's like a swollen and rotten female corpse just fished out of the water. In a word, the haze is very heavy.
For such people, I am respectful of them. After a few simple greetings, I wanted to sit in the corner, but who knew that the girl was still eyeing me, holding my hand, and inquiring about family and work.
Li Yang smoked a cigarette and smiled beside him: "Auntie, Lao Liu is my good friend, and he is also a good young man with a very promising future." Working in XX Group, a top 500 enterprise, I will soon be promoted to middle management. The guy is also handsome, chubby, and rich. If you want to change into a tunic suit, you will be like a leader of Goryeo. ”
The little aunt said kindly: "As soon as I look at Xiao Liu, we will fall in love." Xiao Liu, is there any object now? ”
"No, no object." I replied stiffly.
The little aunt glanced at her daughter: "Yang Shanshan, come and say hello to your brother Liu." ”
The little aunt's daughter has been sitting on the sofa playing with her mobile phone, and the very big girl doesn't understand the least politeness. Her brother Li Yang came with a friend and didn't even say hello. I didn't raise my head and kept swiping WeChat and Weibo.
She put down her phone, sat down directly across from me, and nodded coldly at me: "Brother Liu, hello." ”
To put it bluntly, this girl is quite beautiful, with short hair that only boys have, extremely delicate facial features, and fair skin. And this girl has a lot of aura, at first glance, she has traveled south and north, and has experienced a lot of things. I had an inferiority complex and nodded humbly: "Hello." ”
The uncle called the little aunt and Li Yang to the inner room to discuss the matter, and the living room left me and Yang Shanshan.
She asked me, "Brother Liu, do you have any cigarettes?" ”
My heart was pounding, Tainyima was wild, this girl was not a young lady, and she spoke with the fireworks of the night dance hall. I said no. Yang Shanshan straightened her two long legs, took out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket, took out one and lit it herself, and spit out a puff of smoke rings very skillfully.
I was a little embarrassed: "What do you do?" ”
"Gnaw on the old." She smoked a cigarette and said, "My mom has money. I used to be a Tibetan drifter, and I only came back from there. Knowing that the road is hidden, right? ”
"Isn't it similar to drifting in the north, drifting in Tibet?" I asked.
"Hmm. I lived in Tibet for four years, opened a small shop selling souvenirs, climbed snow-capped mountains, visited monasteries, and met living Buddhas. "She's cynical. I know what she means: Don't beat me, sister, I'm well-informed, and your dick is not enough to stuff my teeth.
She stretched out her right hand to show me, and on her white wrist, there was a very strange tattoo that looked like a butterfly flapping its wings.
"What is this?" I asked.
"This was tattooed for me by an elder of a monastery in the snowy mountains of Motuo. This tattoo can exorcise evil spirits and suppress demons, and said that if I meet someone with the same tattoo in the future......" Speaking of this, she stopped talking, and suddenly stuck out her tongue mischievously: "Do you know how to do Motuo?" ”
I said stupidly: "Mo Tuo doesn't know the way, I know the way of the road." ”
While chatting, my uncle and others came out of the room. My uncle held my hand: "Xiao Liu, I'm going to trouble you these days." After the deed is done, there is still a heart to send. ”
I replied, "You're welcome." This is going to the hospital? ”
"There's no hurry." The old man said, "Seeing that it's noon, let's go eat first." Just go by in the evening. ”
The little aunt smiled at me, laughing so much that my scalp was numb: "Xiao Liu, my family Shanshan will keep vigil with you tonight, you should take care of her more." This girl is used to being wild and ignorant, so you can take care of it. ”
I looked at the girl, and I was not feeling good. The girl looked like her whole body was covered with spikes, and it was uncomfortable to be around her, and it was difficult to approach.
We had dinner and chatted for a while, and then arrived at the hospital in the afternoon.
The old lady's ward is on the fourth floor of the inpatient department, which is a superior single room, and the old lady herself lives. In the window position of the ward, there is a snow-white bed, and on the bed lies an old lady who is in her last years, skinny, probably less than fifty pounds. The hair was a lifeless grayish-white, and the skin was as loose as the bark of an old tree, especially the face, which was full of overlapping wrinkles, shaped like walnuts, crumpled tightly in a clump. With an oxygen mask on his face, his eyes closed, and a snorting breath without a mouth, he could die at any time.
A female nurse walked in from outside with a urinal, saw her uncle and said, "Big brother, you're here." ”
The old man pointed his chin on the bed, and the old lady said, "How is my mother?" ”
"The old lady is very good, the doctor just saw it, and said that the heartbeat is quite stable."
My uncle pointed to me and Shanshan and said, "They are here with you tonight." ”
The female nurse smiled: "The little girl and the little boy don't need to use it, and the big night will affect the rest." I can serve the old lady myself. ”
The uncle waved his hand: "It's okay, so be it, be a companion with you." ”
At this time, suddenly the old lady on the bed coughed, and we hurried around. The nurse was experienced, shook the hospital bed up, and gently patted the old lady's back. After a while, the old lady's mouth was tightly wrinkled, shrugging one by one, and the female nurse brought a paper and put it under her mouth, and the old lady spit out a mouthful of sticky yellow thick phlegm from her mouth, and the corners of her mouth and chin were all over. The female nurse gently wiped it clean, wrapped the tissue and threw it in the trash.
The uncle and the little aunt frowned, they were disgusted. The female nurse stroked the old lady's chest with her hand and whispered, "It's okay to spit it out, continue to sleep." ”
Li Yang sighed in the back: "It's really good." That's it for my own mother. ”
At this moment, the old lady's closed eyes suddenly opened, and she tilted her head to see a few of us. She came down so suddenly that we were unprepared and took a few steps back together.
The old lady opened her mouth and seemed to have something to say, and the old man said, "Mom, what do you want to say?" ”
The old lady muttered, "Xiaoxiao, your father came again last night." ”
Several of us looked at each other. At this time, the fluorescent lamp was turned on in the ward, and there was an indescribable dull twilight air, and the lamp tube hissed. My heart was racing and my scalp was a little numb.
The old man said with difficulty: "Mom, are you having a nightmare?" ”
"Nope. You ask her, and she sees it. The old lady pointed to the nurse.
The female nurse whispered, "The old lady talked nonsense last night, it was too scary. I couldn't help it. ”
The old man nodded and said loudly into the old lady's ear, "Mom, you are having a nightmare." ”
The old lady ignored him and said directly: "Your father, he is wearing the same shroud at the funeral." I haven't seen it for a few years, this old thing is still in good spirits, and people are fat and smiling. I asked him, how are you doing over there, did you find your wife behind my back again. Guess what he said, he said that he missed me, let me go to accompany him early. Hey, hey, hey, hey......"
The old lady laughed strangely.
When she laughed, my legs and stomach were spinning. glanced back at Shanshan next to her. The girl turned white with fright, hid behind her mother, and trembled. I sneered, aren't you awesome, aren't you a Tibetan drifter, and you've seen a living Buddha, if you don't scare you tonight, I'm not surnamed Liu.
The old man coughed dryly: "Mom, you're talking nonsense again, hurry up and go to sleep." ”
The old lady said, "Your father told me that the little ghost in the underworld will come to me tonight." He also gave me something last night. As she spoke, the old lady raised her hand and pointed to the white wall opposite.
When we look back, there seems to be a pattern in the dark corner of the wall. This pattern should be soot, dust, water, or something, formed naturally over the years of adulthood. Everyone's eyes widened when they saw it, this pattern was quite evil, it looked like a stick figure grimace, and the oblong and somewhat distorted face were the three black holes of the eyes and mouth.
The old man said to the female nurse in a trembling voice, "Why is there such a thing?" After a while you wipe it off with a rag. ”
The female nurse was also frightened: "His eldest brother, it's too scary, I don't want to do it." ”
The uncle said, "Add money to you!" Wait for the old lady to leave, and I'll add another thousand to you. ”
Others just felt scared, but Li Yang and I were extremely shocked! We know this grimace too well - on the black curtain of the Yin-Yang Concept and on the manuscript of Brother Peng in the mental hospital, it is this weird pattern.
Li Yang asked, "Grandma, do you know what this is?" ”
The old lady smiled: "This is called Fu Mu, and it is a summons from Lord Yama." The imps of the underworld are coming to collect my soul. ”