Chapter 5: Whipping Paper Figures
I closed my eyes in shock, and a cold and sad voice rang in my ears, "You're finally here..............."
The cold breath brushed my skin, causing my hair to stand on end.
I panicked with my heart, and let that hand hold my neck, and I didn't even have the strength to struggle.
When I was about to suffocate in pain, my grandfather's urgent shout suddenly came, "Ah Ling! ”
At this time, the restraint around my neck was gone, but my whole body was weak and my head was dizzy.
I couldn't climb out of the sarcophagus, I didn't dare to look at the man's corpse, I could only barely raise my head.
In the night, a figure with a slight back ran out, and I recognized it as my grandfather, and tears instantly burst out of my eyes.
I wanted to call my grandfather, but my voice was as thin as a mosquito's chirping, and my vision gradually blurred...............
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When I woke up, it was already dawn, and I was startled to find myself lying on the kang at my uncle's house.
Before I could reflect on what had happened last night, there was a terrible howl outside.
"Dad, stop fighting, don't fight, I don't dare anymore, you will spare me..............."
"It hurts! Grandpa, I was wrong..............."
Hearing that it was my uncle's family, I was so angry.
I got off the kang and walked out of the house to see my uncle and them kneeling side by side in the courtyard.
They all had yellow talismans on their foreheads, apparently unable to move.
Not far away, there was a table with four small paper figures the size of palms on it.
Grandpa stood at the table, holding a mahogany chopstick in his hand, and took turns beating the paper figures.
The name of the paper man was written on it, and the paper man whose name was written in the peach chopsticks was screaming in pain.
This is a small technique specially used to teach people, and my grandfather taught my uncle like this.
"Ah Ling, you're awake." When my grandfather saw me, he put down his peachwood chopsticks.
Thinking of almost being separated from my grandfather, I couldn't help choking, "Grandpa! ”
"Ah Ling, let you tie the paper man, why did you run back to the village?" Grandpa asked.
"I'll come back and get the scissors." I told my grandfather the reason for the incident.
The more my grandfather listened, the more his face sank, it turned out that my uncle didn't tell him the truth.
They lied to my grandfather that I insisted on digging the ancestral grave with them, and was dragged into the sarcophagus by the corpse of the male who 'woken up'.
Of course, my grandfather didn't believe their nonsense, but he didn't expect that they would try to kill me.
"Cripple, what are you talking about? Dad, don't listen to her, ah-"
As soon as the uncle was about to quibble, he was whipped several times by his grandfather with peachwood chopsticks.
I remembered the matter of the cemetery and asked my grandfather if it had been solved.
Grandpa was silent for a moment and shook his head, "This is not a good thing. ”
He didn't wait for the paper figure I pierced, and he couldn't set it up, but instead angered the ghast inside.
After some fighting, my grandfather temporarily trapped the ghast in the tomb.
He rushed back to the store, only to see the half-pierced paper figure, thinking that something had happened to me.
Fortunately, someone in the town saw me riding my bicycle in the direction of Nangou Village.
After my grandfather entered the village, he happened to meet his uncle and others who had just escaped down the mountain.
Seeing that their behavior was suspicious, my grandfather forced me to interrogate, and only then did I know that I was in the mountains behind the village.
Speaking of the male corpse, I had palpitations, "Grandpa, the corpse really moved." ”
My grandfather looked at me with a solemn expression, as if he wanted to stop talking.
The first time I saw my grandfather like this, I was a little panicked, "Grandpa, what's wrong?" ”
My grandfather didn't say anything, he sighed heavily, and I panicked even more.
I wanted to ask again, but my grandfather pointed to my forehead and said, "Ah Ling, take a look for yourself." ”
I touched my forehead in confusion, and my face suddenly changed, "Grandpa, what, why is this happening?" ”