Chapter 42: Reincarnation
The moment I entered the water, I only felt that it was a hot summer, but the river was cold and piercing, my breath stopped, my chest suddenly felt suffocated, and my mind lost consciousness in an instant, and I was in a most peculiar coma.
I knew I was falling into the water and should be struggling, but my brain was enjoying this state of not being able to react, and my mind and my brain were sending out two extreme instructions at the same time. One told me to get out of the way quickly, and the other kept me in the status quo.
I don't know how long I felt this feeling, but my psychological reaction defeated the rest of my brain's sleep, and my whole body slowly woke up, feeling cold all over my body, as if I was soaking in water, but my breathing was not hindered.
After a while, I barely opened my eyes, looked at the environment in front of me, and was stunned for a moment, and at this moment, Tofu's unbelievable voice came from next to me: "Damn, how can this be?" Why are we still in the car? ”
Not bad.
At the moment, we are sitting in the car.
But the difference is that our car is obviously deformed, and there is a lot of water poured into the car, and looking out through the gap, we find that our car is half-sunk in the river, and if we had gone a little deeper, we would have drowned.
Rao is that I have never been afraid of heaven and earth, and I am a little worried at the moment.
Could it be that when our car fell, it actually overturned into the river?
Is the qiē I experienced before just a dream of mine?
Immediately afterwards, Gu Wenmin also woke up, I carefully observed their reactions, and found that Gu Wenmin was also very shocked, and said, "How can this be, aren't we chasing that weasel?" ”
Now it seems that it was not my dream alone, but an experience shared by all of us.
Sitting in the watered car, the three of us looked at each other, speechless. After a while, I calmed down, knowing that I couldn't stay here any longer, and said to the two of them, "Let's go, get out of the car and be in the water first, if the water rises, it will be a big deal." ”
The hairy rooster in the driver's seat in front of him has not woken up yet, perhaps because of his injuries. The three of us used some car repair tools to pry open the deformed car door and climb out, while Tofu dragged the hairy rooster behind.
The car is next to the river, as soon as we get out of the car, we will go to the shore, next to a cliff that slopes upward, the cliff is full of rocks, can be climbed up, and we saw the cliff scene before, completely different.
Could it be that the moment we fall off the cliff, all we see is some illusion? Or is it true that what we see now is false?
In fact, we were already drowned when that weasel pushed us into the water?
I touched my palm, and it was still warm.
Gu Wenmin wiped the water on his face, looked at the cliff and breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Fortunately, this cliff has a very steep slope, we can climb it." I nodded, and was about to speak, when Tofu suddenly said, "Lao Chen, come and see." His voice was hoarse and trembling.
I looked sideways and saw Tofu staring at the unconscious hairy and thought: What is there to see? Did something happen? Sure enough, Gu Wenmin and I walked to the hairy rooster and squatted down, and immediately noticed that something was wrong, his face turned blue, and his eyes opened at some point, which was originally a good phenomenon, indicating that he was awake, but at this moment, his eyes were hooked, like a dead corpse.
Thinking of the word corpse, I felt a little abrupt in my heart, and immediately reached out to probe the hairy rooster's snort, but there was no slightest, and then I felt his pulse, but it had completely stopped beating.
Hairy ...... He's dead.
The three of us sat where we were, speechless for a moment. After a while, Gu Wenmin was the first to speak, his expression was a little sad, and said, "Why is this happening?" Tofu was speechless, looked at me, and said nothing.
Staring at the corpse of the hairy rooster, I thought a lot, could it be that the weasel hated the hairy rooster for catching it, so it saved the three of us, but only did not save the hairy rooster?
No one can tell what the truth is, and I can't even explain what happened before.
I think that our current situation has some similarities with a folk tale.
It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, there was a merchant surnamed Cai in Suzhou.
This businessman often helps the poor people and is very kind-hearted, but not long after, this businessman surnamed Cai lost a lot of money because of Xiaoxiao's frame-up, and he was once poor, and his business could no longer continue.
He thought: It is said that good people have good rewards, why did I do good deeds in my life, but I ended up like this. The more Cai Shang thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and the more he thought about it, the more he didn't feel good, so he took a rope and went to a nearby ruined temple that day, preparing to go there to hang himself, and die early and be overborn.
It is a ruined temple with wind everywhere, only one stone wall is still good, the mural on it is still alive in the wind and sun, and the mural is painted with the scene of the feast of the yin ghost Yama.
The merchant surnamed Cai looked at the mural and thought: I don't know if after I die, I will be reincarnated directly as a human being, or I will go to hell to be tortured.
When he opened his eyes again, he found that he was stretched out in a place like the Gobi, his mouth was hungry and thirsty, and he saw people in front of him in the distance, so he was ready to go over to beg for saliva and drink, but he entered the city, and almost peed his pants in fright.
When he looked down at himself, his feet were hanging in the air, and he was also a ghost.
The merchant surnamed Cai sighed, knowing that after he hanged himself, the ghost had already reached the underworld, so he walked forward with the other ghosts.
There is a little ghost head in front of him to check every ghost who enters the city, and report the name before birth, Yang Shou, etc., one by one, when it is the turn of the merchant surnamed Cai, the little ghost leader said: "You still have thirty years of wealth in your life, and the wealth is about to arrive, how can you run to our city of death at this time, go back." After speaking, the little ghost pushed him, and the businessman surnamed Cai only felt a thrill all over his body, and when he woke up, he found that he was still hanging on the rope, having difficulty breathing, and the pain was unstoppable.
He struggled violently, and during the struggle, the rope actually broke, and only then did he pick up a life.
Recalling his previous experience in the underworld, he only felt that he had had a dream, and when he woke up at this moment, it was impossible to judge whether those words were true or false. But with the painful experience of seeking death, the businessman surnamed Cai never dared to die again, thinking that it was better to die than to live, so he went out to run a tofu business.
Once, a beggar passed by his shop and stared at his tofu drooling, so the merchant surnamed Cai dug up a piece of tofu and put it in the beggar's bowl and said, "Eat, there will be more after eating." ”
The tofu just out of the drawer is steaming hot, the taste is fragrant, it can be eaten raw, the beggar eats it with a slurp, and after eating, he says goodbye and gets up, which looks polite.
It turned out that this beggar was the newly appointed admiral, on the way to the mountain bandit robbery, all the way to begging to the place, after he took office, the Cai businessman was rewarded, and also gave a plaque, called 'and tofu', Suzhou area, still exists.
In this story, the merchant's experience of roaming the underworld in an instant is very similar to what we are experiencing at this moment. Could it be that after we fell into the cliff, our souls went out of our bodies and were trapped in it by the ghost gate?
At this moment, there was no wind or rain, the summer was unbearably hot, the sun was shining in the sky, and the corpses seemed to be decomposing at any time under the scorching sun. The three of us saw the death of the rooster, it was inevitable that we were deeply hit, and it took a long time to make up our minds, and the three of us discussed, although the rooster died, but his body could not be abandoned in the wilderness, after all, we took his car, a mistake, maybe it became a murder suspect, if not handled properly, the relatives of the rooster's family, will not give up.
After some deliberation, although it was difficult, we decided to move the body out.
Naturally, only I can do this, compared tofu is not good, and secondly, I am timid, and it is impossible for Gu Wenmin to come alone. Immediately, Gu Wenming pulled out a long rope for hanging cameras from her backpack, tied the body to my back, and the three of them began to climb up the sloping cliff.
Needless to say, when we climbed to the top and sat on the side of the asphalt road, our hands and feet were already weak, exposed to the sun, and looking at the bright environment around us, we suddenly felt like we were reincarnated.