4. Cat ghosts
Blind Ah Tai and Linglong came to my house after dark, when our whole family was at home, my grandmother and mother were folding paper money and dead clothes for the paralyzed daughter, and our grandparents and grandchildren were helping with chores. Some people will ask me if I still have three sisters, why I am not at home, my three sisters are already married, and I am the only one left in the family.
At that time, the door of my house was open, Linglong helped the blind Mrs. in, until the yard Linglong called out my grandmother, we saw that the blind Mrs. came by herself, were very surprised, in the morning she had said that she would not help, now I don't know what it is, we invited her into the house, she sat down and said: "In fact, before you came, I had some very bad omens, always like something was going to happen, the first few days I dreamed of my son-in-law every night, it was a coincidence, He stood at a well every time, as if trying to say something, but as soon as I asked, he woke up, and for several nights in a row, but not last night, and then you came over this morning. ”
I don't know how the blind grandma's son-in-law died, but I know that he is dead, and she doesn't have any expression when she talks about this stubble, as if she is talking about a very ordinary thing. Of course, when Blind Auntie talks about this, she doesn't mean that his son-in-law's death has anything to do with the well, but just wants to tell us that before we go to her, she has been given an omen, in her words, like they know this way, they generally don't dream, if they have any dreams, it is to indicate something, especially if they dream of dead people, it is a very bad thing, not to mention that they still have the same dream for several days in a row.
Blind Ah Tai said: "Since I have received such a foreshadowing, that is to say, I can't hide if I want to, and I don't really want to refuse you in the morning, but I don't have a good way, let alone ......"
When she said this, she suddenly looked up at me, at this moment, I didn't believe that she was blind at all, because this is an action that only normal people can do, so she suddenly made such an action to startle me, and her abrupt stop seemed to cooperate with this action, as if the latter words were completely related to me.
The blind lady said, "When you came in the morning, did you notice that a cat came with you?" ”
Grandma and my mom both looked at the blind grandmother in confusion and asked, "Cat? ”
Blind Atai's voice became a little stern, and she said, "The cat is following behind the wood, and you didn't see it, but I did." ”
No wonder when I was at her house, she was able to find exactly where I was standing, and before we could answer, she said, "After you left, this cat didn't go, it stayed in my house." ”
We were all confused, not knowing what I was going to say, so I said weakly, "But I didn't see a cat behind me." ”
"In the old days, there would be people who would put the corpse of a child under the age of three in a clay pot, and then soak the cat's blood into the jar, and then mix it with loess and tar talisman ash wax and other things to seal the clay pot, and they buried the clay pot in a more yin place, and put a mirror under the clay pot, and after forty-nine days, the child's soul will become a cat ghost, and the cat ghost can be a child's appearance, or a cat's appearance, this kind of cat ghost specializes in haunting people. And after being entangled, it is generally not good to give up without killing this person, so these people will bury such things near the enemy's house, and when the cat ghost is formed, they will invade the house and disturb the living. ”
Blind Auntie said this, she was saying that she saw the cat that followed me this morning, not a cat, but a cat ghost, but Blind Auntie said that this cat ghost is not pestering me, and the symptoms of my evil spirit are not cat ghosts, so to speak, but my grandfather suddenly looked like a cat ghost, which is why I saw that there was always a child with him when I saw my grandfather's demon, it turned out that the one I saw was the cat ghost, so in this way, is it that Huaxiu saw this cat ghost?
No matter who is pestering, what Blind Auntie wants to say is that there should be a crockpot like this buried in my house, otherwise the cat ghost will not appear in my house for no reason, so then the question arises, who buried this crockpot in my house?
Then the blind aunt told us that the whole family was almost stunned, and she said that when she came in, she felt that there was a special cause in my yard, and that place was not somewhere else, but the location of the well, and she said that if it was correct, the cat ghost's jar was probably in the well. I believed it when Mrs. Blind said this, because I thought of what Hua Xiu said to me, the night before she died, she said that she saw a child crawl out of the well, and then kept telling me that there was a problem with the water in our house, which turned out to mean this, including the dream I had, the child who pulled Hua Xiu, it was this cat ghost!
I thought so much for a while, I couldn't help but sigh, what did Hua Xiu see and what she experienced before she died, and Hua Xiu is a very good person, I don't understand why the cat ghost chose to harm her first.
So Blind Grandma's suggestion is that our family drain the well water first, then find this crockpot, take it out and send it out, and the sunshade cat ghost will not continue to pester our family, but she said that it is very troublesome to send the cat ghost, because sending it out means letting someone else take over. And to destroy the cat ghost, not only to destroy the crockpot, but also to destroy the cat ghost itself, this is very difficult, because the cat ghost is difficult to catch, so generally the cat ghost is sent out, whoever bumps into it is unlucky, the best way is to send it to some Taoist temples or temples, relying on the gas of the temple to put the cat ghost in it so that they dare not disturb people.
Of course, these are all later words, because the first thing we need to do is to find the crockpot first, whether it is in the well or not is still a problem, if it is not in the well, then where it will be buried, this is the problem that needs to be solved at the moment.
And today's big night must not do this, blind Ah Tai said that the reason why I don't say it during the day, she actually wants to see in person where the problem of my family is, the day is the most abundant yang energy, at this time basically can't see anything, night is the best time, sure enough, she just came to my house, and saw the clues in the well, she said this is the water source of my house, if there is really a cat ghost crockpot in it, then our family drinks this water......
She didn't go on later, probably because she didn't want to scare us, but from her words we knew that it was not very good, and it might even cause more serious problems, especially when she said that we drank it for many years, even I have been drinking it for seventeen or eighteen years, but when it came to this, she said that it was too early to say this, and when it dawned tomorrow, my house would begin to drain the water in the well, and then go down to find it, before going down, it was better to find the gentleman who helped our family watch before, and the blind Ah Tai said that after all, she was blind, There are a lot of things that can't be done, and some things that suppress evil spirits and sacrifices still have to be done by this gentleman.
After saying this, the blind lady left my house, our whole family sent her out, Linglong helped her to the gate, when she arrived at the door, she suddenly turned her head to look at me, as if she wanted to say something to me, but she wanted to say something and stopped, and finally didn't say anything, and went out, but after walking for a while, she suddenly stopped again, I saw him bow his head and say something to Linglong, and then Linglong, who was holding her, turned around and went to the gate, came to me and said, "My grandmother said, you better not sleep at night." In case something bad happens, you can make up for it during the day. ”
When I heard Linglong say this, my heart sank a little, and I asked, "Why?" ”
Linglong replied: "Grandma didn't say it, you just do what grandma said, you won't be wrong." ”
After saying that, she turned around to the blind Mrs. and helped the blind Mrs. to go, I was very worried by her words, thinking of her desire to speak and stop just now, I always felt that she didn't finish talking about our family, the cat ghost was just a part of it, and there was nothing else she didn't say.
Linglong's family heard all these words, they believed the blind aunt, and they all emphasized that I should remember, my father was afraid that I would not be able to stay up and said that he would accompany me, but my mother said that he would ask him to invite Mr. in the morning, and he still went to sleep, and my mother said that she had nothing important to do, and she could accompany me.
So it was decided.