Chapter 18: There Are Ghosts Behind the Wall
In the middle of the night, he startled me like this, and saw that I had finally woken up and approached me under the covers.
With his head on my shoulder, he whispered, "Brother Yu, what's behind my head?" β
I glanced through the glimmer of light outside the window and whispered, "White wall." You sleep against a wall behind not what the wall is. β
"I want to swap places with you. I feel cold inside. β
I was so sleepy that I didn't bother to move, so I said, "Okay, you can turn it over from me." β
He wrapped himself in the quilt and "rolled" over me, and I squirmed towards the wall, giving up my place.
After that, I fell asleep again.
Soon after I slept, I shivered and wrapped myself in the quilt, but it was still as cold as if I had hit an ice cube.
I leaned towards Yun'er, and suddenly slumped in behind me, as if someone had given up the place to lie down.
The drowsiness disappeared suddenly, and Yun'er and I were next to each other, she was breathing evenly and sleeping soundly.
A slight sigh, "It's so comfortable." "Dissipated in my ears.
Then, I couldn't move.
Even the little finger couldn't move for a moment, and the brain soberly ordered the throat to scream, but the body seemed to be paralyzed, and the voice was stuck in the throat, and it just couldn't come out.
My little sarcophagus was taken away by my grandfather, and when the events in the village were over, he took them.
Without the amulet, the thing stretched out its arms and passed under me, cold as a snake, entangled around my body.
It was straining, trying to roll me over.
In a hurry, an idea came to mind.
I simply closed my eyes, listened to Yun'er's breathing, and didn't take long to fall asleep.
After reciting a few words from my grandfather's handover to me, I successfully left my soul and sat up from the bed gently.
The feeling of having more people was still there, and I slowly turned my head-
A lump bulged under the sheets, and a man lay on my side under them.
Two thin white arms hugged me tightly, and it had managed to pull me over and face it.
Then, it did something I didn't expect, and it was disgusting.
It "kissed" my mouth and didn't let go for a minute, humming pleasantly.
Fearless, I reached for the sheet that was draped over "it".
The moment my hand reached into the sheets, the man moved.
"It" rolled against the wall with the order, and I didn't even see it.
I threw myself against the wall and grabbed a corner of its monopy, a sheet of pink peony flowers.
It disappeared along with the list, and I didn't dare to go through the wall to catch it, God knows what it would be over there?
Fear overcame curiosity, and I threw myself back into my body.
The cold feeling disappeared, and I huddled around Yun'er and hugged him, away from the wall and fell asleep.
The light made my eyelids red, and I struggled to open them, unusually tired.
Yun Zu stood in front of me angrily, clutching his thin quilt in his hand.
"What's wrong?" I struggled to sit up.
Only to find out that because I was desperately squeezing him at night, I only left him a position about 20 centimeters wide next to the bed.
"I fell out of bed and woke up." He looked at me angrily.
"What the hell did I get at night." I rubbed my eyes and slowly lay down again, probably because the ghost kissed me on the mouth, so tired.
When he told him about his experience at night, he was a little excited, "I'll just say, it's so cold over there that I can't sleep with Ben." β
As he spoke, Grandpa entered the house and collapsed on the bed from exhaustion.
"The first time you two went into the city, you went out to play, it's twenty dollars, eat out at noon, don't come and call me. Go ahead. "He didn't raise his head when he spoke to us, his eyes were closed.
Not long after Grandpa fell, he began to snore, and I had never seen him look so unrefreshed.
I didn't have time to tell him about the strange things that happened last night.
Yun'er picked up a quilt, gently covered her grandfather, and took his arm to the outside of the quilt.
"Brother Yu!" He snorted softly.
I stepped forward and stood next to himβthere was a small handprint on my grandfather's arm, and the blue-black color seeped into the texture.
It seems to be pinched out vigorously.
I concluded that my grandfather had not stayed in a small hotel the night before, and that he had not known what he was doing without us.
Yun'er and I left Hongying's mother's room worriedly and closed the door gently.
"Let's just play in this yard." I didn't have the heart to go out because I was worried about my grandfather.
This is an urban village, a U-shaped courtyard, and the building in the courtyard belongs to a family.
The house that you can't live in is rented, you don't have to work, and your income is acceptable.
We came downstairs, and an old man in shabby clothes that had lost his color was pulling a tricycle and preparing to go out.
The old man was hunched over and looked like a headless monster from behind.
He had patches on his pants and one eye that looked like he was blind.
Pull open the gate and put up a sign on the tricycle, "Pull goods, give away." β
He boarded the tricycle and greeted the morning light and began a hard day's work.
By the communal sink, a good-looking young woman was brushing her teeth with her hair draped, looking tired from waking up.
"Sister, that grandfather is also a tenant here. It's really pitiful to go out to work at such an age. I asked casually.
The girl burst out laughing, and the toothpaste foam squirted far away.
She rinsed her mouth and pointed at me with a toothbrush, "You still pity him?" He's making more than your parents combined. β
"It's so profitable to ride a three-wheeler?" Yun'er asked curiously.
"Silly boy, this whole building is his, this old sour, water bills are not exempt, leave so much money to be buried in the soil."
"He doesn't have a son?"
"Yes, I saw that his grandson came to see him, and he came to ask for money."
The girl put away her things and went upstairs, and after a while she was dressed up neatly.
"By the way, two little guys, the old man won't let him enter the room at the top of the third floor, and he will curse people for a long time from there. Be careful, he's got a weird temper. β
She waved her hand and left the small courtyard, "If it weren't for the fact that the rent here is half cheaper than other houses, and it has its own generator, and there is never a power outage, who would suffer from this kind of gas." β
Yun'er and I looked at each other, and the room at the top was the one next to us.
When I went upstairs, I had a lot of guesses, could there be a coffin parked inside? Or is it an offering to the spiritual seat?
Yun'er and I tiptoed up to the top floor, past the room we were staying in, and right next to it was-
"A room that is not allowed to be approached."
I stopped as I walked past our roomβthere was talk in the room.
I thought I had misheard, so I stepped back and put my ear close to hear a few whispers from my grandfather.
"I do what I say."
"Finish it."
"You have to keep your word. I'll keep an eye on you. β
It's always been grandpa talking to himself.
When Yun'er and I had been playing below, we didn't see anyone going upstairs.
I thought he was talking in his sleep.
Grandpa's voice lowered and he said a few more words.
Just when I concluded that my grandfather was dreaming, I heard someone snort coldly, "Got it." The black coffin is also about rules. β
The tone of the speech is impatient and full of disdain. I remembered that voice right away.
I ran to the end of the aisle with Yun'er, and saw that the man was about to come out, but there was nowhere to hide.
Yun'er pointed to the lock hanging on the door and said, "Brother Yu, look." β
The lock, though rusty, was not locked, but hung on the nose.
She quickly took the lock down and we slipped into the room.
However, after waiting for a long time, there was no sound next door, and no one opened or closed the door, as if grandpa was just talking in a dream.
That's when we turned our attention to this room.
This room is no different from other rooms except that it is very dusty.
The bed was covered with floral sheets, and the quilt seemed to have just been lifted and piled up on the bed.
I walked over and looked closely, and there were cobwebs on the walls.
There was a layer of dust on the quilt, and there was white ash from the ceiling on the table.
There is also a table, two chairs, a half-height cabinet and a refrigerator.
It's completely inhabited by people who suddenly leave.
Worried about grandpa, because there was nothing special in the room, and because I was worried that the hunchbacked old man would come back suddenly, Yun'er and I hurried out and rehung the lock.
I pushed open the door of our room, and in the darkness, my grandfather was lying on the bed and snoring, and there was no one in the room.
In addition, we never left the yard, that is, we didn't see anyone come in, and we didn't see anyone go out.
The sound I heard just now was like I was dreaming of myself, but Yun'er heard it too.
On this day, Hongying's mother came back and became lively, and she brought the wine and food she cooked.
Grandpa wore a long-sleeved shirt to block the blue-black mark, but he couldn't stop the deep tiredness on his face.
Grandpa asked us to turn off the lights, took out the small sarcophagus, and summoned Hongying.
Hongying's mother looked at her daughter, although the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were tired, she could see that she was very happy.
"Master Fang, can you really let Hongying be my daughter again?"
Grandpa nodded and replied lightly, "What I have said, I have never counted." Hongying, don't worry. β
At night, Grandpa went to sleep at the hotel again.
I wanted to call him and tell me about the night before, but Yun'er stopped me by tugging at my sleeve.
After Grandpa left, he said worriedly, "Let's stop making trouble for Grandpa, he has something on his mind." β
The two of us plan to follow Grandpa together and see what he does that night.
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Grandpa actually went to the hospital.