Volume 1: The Rise of the Witch Clouds _ Chapter 2: Midnight Red Makeup
I had a sudden shock in my heart, the people who were hanged were all hanging their hands, and Cai Lanlan's weird hanging posture scared everyone.
Everyone talked about her around her, and they all said that they had provoked a bad ghost, and they looked very frightened.
The knot in Cai Lanlan's hanging place was tied extremely high, and as soon as she touched her, she swayed in mid-air, and she couldn't put her body down for a short time.
I panicked, and slowly covered the fingerprints on my wrist and withdrew from the crowd, as if I had to tell my grandmother about it as soon as possible, and she might know what was going on.
The dog's carcass was still stuck at the mouth of the sunny corner, and my grandmother had returned, sitting on a futon in the middle of the hall, with her back to me, holding a string of prayer beads in her hand.
Grandma has been fasting and doing good deeds all these years, I don't know what she believes, but every day she will come to sit in front of the statue of Sanqing for a while, and the rosary in her hand is also left to her by the fourth uncle.
Hearing my footsteps coming in, my grandmother didn't turn around and asked, "How many years has that grave been there, and your grandfather won't let it move, what's wrong with this year, did they force you to go?" ”
She should have known about the villagers going to dig graves.
I hummed, and just wanted to explain to my grandmother, she had already stood up tremblingly, turned her head to look at me, and suddenly sighed, "Alas, what a sin, did the dog get stuck in the corner of the yard by himself!" ”
I nodded, said the evil bark of the dog at night, and showed the finger marks on my wrist to my grandmother, she stared at my hand for a long time without speaking, her expression became very cold, and she said to herself, "Has Qian Mazi come back?" ”
Grandma said that Qian Mazi is a god in our village, often to see things, it is said that he will also look at feng shui, but he is not at home during this time, otherwise the villagers will ask him before digging the grave.
I shook my head, I hadn't seen him at all last night.
Grandma lowered her head and walked a few steps, and suddenly said, "Then I can only call your fourth uncle." ”
My fourth uncle is a Taoist priest, since I can remember, he is a Taoist priest, he has been back three times over the years, once when he came back I asked him what Taoist priests do, he looked down at me and said, "Catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits, seek the avenue." ”
This is too mysterious, but the fourth uncle, who looks thin and has a pair of dark eyes, left a deep impression on me.
Grandma rarely called the fourth uncle, for fear of affecting his cultivation, this time it should be in a hurry, I have dirty things on my body, Qian Mazi is not at home, it was obvious that the dog blocked a disaster for me last night, and there is no way to do it tonight.
The fourth uncle listened to the situation on the phone, didn't speak for a while, and asked me, "Can the female corpse be recovered?" If you can find it, you must bury it again, light incense in front of her grave, and all those who have touched the grave will come and confess, and maybe it will be fine. ”
When Cai Lanlan hanged herself, I heard that someone got up in the morning and went to the river embankment to look, and the grave had long since disappeared.
Moreover, now the people in the village think that it is a murderous grave, and they categorically refuse to recover her body.
The fourth uncle insisted that I go to find it first, and after finding it, it was fixed on the riverbank, and I must persuade the villagers to pull the coffin back and rebury it.
I had to push out my grandmother's bicycle and search along the river embankment, but after searching for more than ten miles, I couldn't even see the shadow of the coffin.
This coffin has disappeared overnight, and if anyone takes a fancy to this precious Nanmu coffin and carries the female corpse out and buries it in the soil, there is no way to find it.
I went back and called the fourth uncle's Taoist temple, and the fourth uncle sighed, "Then you go to find two things first, one is the vines growing on the yin tomb, and the other is pasted with the ashes of the bottom of the pot of the stove prince, these two things can protect you." ”
"What are you looking for these two things for?"
"Yin vine attracts evil spirits, can lead the hidden dirty things over, and the ashes at the bottom of the pot drive away evil spirits, so that the dirty things dare not come close to you, first make sure you are okay."
The fourth uncle made it clear, although I didn't believe it all, but I didn't dare to delay, so I took the sickle and went out to find the yin grave with vines.
After many rounds around the village, I finally found one in an old forest, which we locals call the peach tree, which was growing on the tip of a small grave, and it was growing very luxuriantly.
When I cut it down with a few knives and pulled the plant down, I found a small offering table on the other side of the grave, with a dirty black rag doll on it and a few cracked steamed buns. When I got closer, I was so frightened that the vines in my hands were almost thrown away, and two of the steamed buns were actually stained with blood! It's just that the blood has been dry for a long time.
I can't remember whose grave this is, but fortunately, the vines have already arrived, and I don't care so much, so I sent it back to my grandmother's house in a panic, and then went to an old man with five guarantees to get a handful of ashes from the bottom of the pot.
This time, before I got to the door of my grandmother's house, I heard someone call me, and when I looked back, I saw that it was a cousin of my father, and I called him Su Wubo, who was holding a dismounted guillotine in his hand, and it was shining. No one has fed the cattle in years, and I don't know what he's doing with the guillotine.
I didn't ask yet, but he sighed first, "Stinky baby, what's the matter with your grandmother's dog, how can you drill into the mouth of the yang horn by yourself, and you can't get out?" ”
I shook my head and said, "I don't know, the dog is like a crazy dog at night, and when I see it, it gets stuck." ”
Su Wubo snorted and said, "Is it because of some dirty things?" Our elders all say that dogs have spirituality, and their eyes can see dirty things best. The gate walks the living, and there is yang energy; And the Yangjiao mouth is to open an opening in a place where the yang energy of the living lives is heavy, to prevent the family members who can't get out of the soul after a hundred years, it is to go out of the yin qi, and the dog must have seen something. ”
I was shocked, and Su Wubo told me at this time that my grandmother asked him to cut off the dog's head so that the dog's corpse could be removed.
Su Wubo has been doing manual work all year round, and he has a lot of strength, and he slashed it twice, and the dog's head rolled to the side, still clenching his fangs, his eyes were wide open, and he looked terrifying; Grandma asked him to take the dog's blood again, but after the dog died, the blood returned to his heart, and in the end he only took a small half bowl.
After Su Wubo took the dog's corpse away, his grandmother also left his guillotine, and the blood stains on it were not wiped off, and it was placed vertically next to the door, and the blood flowed down the sharp guillotine.
I looked strange and asked my grandmother what she was doing with the bloody guillotine.
Grandma snorted, "There is a bad smell on this guillotine, so that dirty things don't dare to come in." ”
Then grandma took the dog's blood out, and before leaving, she told me not to walk around, she said that the fourth uncle had called just now and asked me to stay under the statue of Sanqing.
When I went back to the house, I saw that my grandmother had already hung the statue of Sanqing on the head of my bed.
It's just that it's already dark outside, if I'm not mistaken, it should be the seventeenth or eighteenth of the lunar calendar, there is a saying in the countryside, seventeen or eighteen, be blind in the dark. That is to say, as long as it is night, it is dark and you can't see anything.
On this big night, I don't know what my grandmother is doing when she goes out, so I can only sit under the statue of Sanqing and wait for my grandmother to come back.
With the skin of the yin vine already tied around his wrist and the ash at the bottom of the pot tied around his waist, I don't believe anything strange will happen.
It was about ten o'clock in the evening, grandma hadn't come back yet, it was quiet and dark outside, I was starting to be a little scared, I couldn't sit still, so I stood up and wanted to turn on the flashlight to call grandma at the door.
At this time, there was a loud bang on the window, as if someone was slamming the glass with his fist, I was so frightened that I took a few steps back, turned my head with a flashlight, and saw a black shadow shuttling up and down like a ghost outside the window!
The shadow swam very fast, and it took me a moment to see that it was a weasel!
It looked like it was about to break into the house.
My heart trembled, I played a flashlight in one hand, grabbed a broom with the other, and hit it on the glass!
With the "bang" of the broom hitting the glass, the weasel cry suddenly came from outside the window, which was both like a mouse and a bird, which was particularly scary in the quiet night!
When he saw me knocking on the window, it stood on the window, grabbed the glass with its two paws, stared at me for a while, and then suddenly disappeared into the night.
After waiting for a while, there was no movement outside, but I was covered in a cold sweat on my back by the sudden weasel!
It's the first time I've seen such a bold beast, but when I think about it, I'm shocked again, could it be one of the lonely graves?
The dog is the nemesis of the weasel, although now that the dog is dead, I will not be afraid of a weasel, if it dares to come and scare me again, I will definitely knock it to death!
When I thought of this, I grabbed the broom with my hand, but I noticed that the cyan pinch marks on my wrist had faded.
The method that the fourth uncle said seems to work!
But when I moved to the lamp to look at my hands, my face appeared in the mirror erected by the wall, and I didn't sleep well last night, and tonight I saw that my hair was a little burnt, and my eyelids drooped, and I was very haggard.
I subconsciously sighed and touched my head with my hand, is this really something evil?
But when I pulled my hand down, I noticed that my finger was actually in the shape of an orchid finger, as if combing a long braid.
I was taken aback by my own unconscious movements.
On the table is the red paper of my grandmother cutting window flowers, I know that I am really evil, I have heard grandma say that red exorcises evil spirits, and the New Year's pictures are all bright red, which is used to drive away evil spirits and avoid plague.
I grabbed a stack of red paper and pressed it against the hand that made the orchid finger, trying to hold down the evil hand.
But something creepy happened to me, and I suddenly laughed out of my mouth, and the smile was poignant and inexplicable.
Immediately I felt goosebumps rise all over my body.
Why should I laugh?
Suddenly I realized that I was too far away from the Sanqing statue, so I hurried to the bedside.
Fortunately, his legs and feet were still at his disposal, but he still held the stack of red paper tightly in his hand, and his hand naturally raised when he ran, smearing it on his face like wiping sweat.
It felt like my whole being was divided.
I was very slow to react for a while, and when I came back to my senses, I found that a large piece of the red paper in my hand had been wiped off, and another piece was already wet, and there was a lip print on it!
I'm putting myself on makeup?!
At that moment, I screamed in shock, there must be a ghost in the house, and I didn't care about my grandmother's orders, so I turned around and pulled the door open and ran out.