Chapter 12 The Great Burial on Qushuiting Street 3
readx;? I figured out what she meant, nodded and responded: "Auntie, I'm not a talkative person, I've always been tight-lipped when others tell me something." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Since she came over while there was no one at home, she must have told me the secret. I showed my attitude, and she did a lot better.
"Do you want to roll one too?" Mrs. Guan handed over the cigarette case.
I shook my head and raised my hand to block: "Auntie, I don't smoke." ”
As the twilight grew heavier, we didn't turn on the lights, only the two wax tables on the table in front of the spirit that replaced the ever-bright lamps emitted a faint yellow light. The halo could only illuminate half of the shed, so my body and that of Aunt Guan had almost been obliterated by the twilight.
Neon lights, frenzied nights, and busy traffic never sleeps belong to Furong Street, Quancheng Road, and Quancheng Square, and across a few streets, this old town is all hidden in the dark side of the bright city, and has been forgotten by the red men and green women outside. Here and outside, the night is the same as centuries apart, outside is drunk and golden, and this place is quaint and old.
"Auntie, I remember everything that should be remembered, and what should not be remembered should be the wind in my ears. I said again.
"Good boy, smart enough. Aunt Guan said, turned her head to look at the broken wall of the old wall in the south, and suddenly thought: "Stone, since you were a child, has anyone taught you, and you heard strangers calling your name in the dark, don't say yes casually?"
I nodded: "Big brother taught me." ”
The eldest brother said that those unfamiliar voices are called "seducing ghosts", especially under bridges, by rivers, in ruins, and in the woods, and their evil arts are especially powerful. It called, you agreed, and the soul was immediately snatched away, and the whole person became a ghost, at their mercy.
Growing up, I hadn't encountered such a weird situation, so I just dismissed it as a weird story.
"That's good, that's good. Aunt Guan said.
The old wall in the south is only two meters high, and the anti-theft performance is extremely poor, but in a dilapidated courtyard like ours, thieves rarely bother to visit, because they also know very well that the harvest from coming to the old city is very small, even if they steal a dozen houses, I am afraid that they will not be able to make up 10,000 yuan. Therefore, I have never had any plans to repair the courtyard wall, and let it go on to fall into disrepair, and the bricks at the head of the wall are also arched and wrapped in dogtail grass, swallow lily clothes, and purslane, and seven or eight times out of ten have been broken and loose, and there is a danger of falling when the wind blows.
Similarly, the three north houses of the old house have also fallen into disrepair, and it is already common for rain to leak and wind to fall. I thought that after I was busy with my grandfather's funeral, I really had to ask a craftsman to come to the house to plaster and repair the tiles, so as not to leave me with nowhere to go when the heavy rain came.
"There are a lot of strange things in the old town, so it's better to be more careful at night. Aunt Guan said again.
There was a longevity incense in the incense burner between the two lanterns, and at this moment the three incense sticks had burned to the bottom, so I naturally got up to renew the incense. If you keep the vigil overnight, you should renew the incense at least ten times and change the lantern twice. These tasks are really difficult for a person, because in the second half of the night everyone is napping, and there must be a shift changer.
Before Tang Wan left, he left a message that he would be on duty in the middle of the night tonight, and he would come back to guard my spirit at two o'clock in the morning.
As soon as I thought of Tang Wan, my heart immediately warmed, and my sore limbs also gained strength.
"Stone, Dr. Tang is good to you, seize the opportunity, don't miss it. Aunt Guan said behind me.
I turned my back to her and nodded deeply: "Thank you for the reminder, it's just that we have just met, and we don't have a deep relationship, and many things still need the test of time." ”
Aunt Guan slapped her thigh and made a snapping sound: "You kid, Doctor Tang is a member of the 'divine hand' Tang family! Does this golden doll sent to the door still need to be tested? As long as you get along with her, it is equivalent to being covered with talismans, and who else dares to beat your idea? Even Auntie and I have to touch your light!"
I lit the incense, bowed respectfully to my grandfather's portrait, and then planted the incense firmly in the incense burner. After continuing the incense, I knelt down on my knees again, kowtowed three times in a row, and touched the ground with my forehead.
"Summer Stone—" Someone behind me called me, and the voice was quite unfamiliar.
I was kneeling with my forehead touching the ground, and I naturally raised my eyes and looked behind me from under my armpits.
Behind, in addition to the straw mats on the ground, the tents of the mourning shed, and the official aunt, there is the gray south wall. The curtain on the altar did not hang down to the ground, but was left a foot high on all sides for ventilation and heat dissipation.
In this case, if someone comes in, I can see their legs and feet through the one-foot-high gap.
In fact, I didn't see anything, and no one came in the direction of the courtyard gate.
"Stone, stone, summer stone?" the voice cried again.
Since the other party called me by the nickname "Stone", it was naturally a neighbor or acquaintance, so I immediately agreed: "Hey, I'm here, who's coming?"
As soon as I said a word, I suddenly realized that something was wrong, and immediately put my hands on the ground, bounced up, and turned to the south.
"What's wrong?" asked the official.
"I ...... I heard someone call me, so I casually agreed. "I don't dare to slack off, I'll tell you the truth.
Aunt Huo Di stood up and raised her hand to lift the curtain around her.
The small courtyard is twelve meters horizontally and fifteen meters longitudinal, which can be seen at a glance even in the fog.
The courtyard gate is in the southeast corner, and it is an old-fashioned gatehouse-style double-push wooden door. At this time, the door was hidden, and the half-foot-wide crack in the door let in the faint light of the street lamp outside.
"Nobody called you, I didn't hear anyone. Aunt Guan said in a deep voice.
I couldn't help but clench my fists and slowly sweep my gaze over the south wall.
"What kind of voice is it, and how do you call it?" asked the aunt.
I cleared my throat and replied in a low voice, "That voice is quite unfamiliar, at first it called me by my real name, I ignored it, and then he called me 'stone' again, I thought it was an acquaintance, so I agreed." Auntie, isn't there something wrong?"
The dog's tail grass on the top of the south wall swayed in the wind, and there was no human figure, only the sound of the wind.
Outside the wall, occasional people pass by on battery bikes, leaving a few short bells.
"No one. Aunt Guan said with certainty.
Biting my lip, I pulled open the drawer under the table, took out my flashlight, and pointed it at the south wall, and suddenly lit it up.
The three-cell flashlight was extremely bright, and the bright pillars of light swept across the wall, illuminating the leaves of the dog's tail grass like a sharpened lancet.
I shone seven or eight times in a row, got up and turned on the electric light in the yard, and finally I was sure that no one was near, and the sound was sudden, like an auditory hallucination, and I was nowhere to be found.
"I really don't, I don't know where the evil devil came to the door to ask for a bargain when you were overwhelmed by your funeral and your luck was weak. Don't be afraid, child, where is the aunt here, where is ......" Aunt Guan said, picked up three sticks of incense and lit them, waving them up and down around me, and there were words in her mouth.
It was only then that I realized that my back was covered in cold sweat. After tasting it, the voice that called me was full of indescribable evil. What was especially strange was that I couldn't tell whether it was a man's or a woman's voice, or even whether it was old or young. In my ears, it was just a "voice", a "voice" calling my name, without any sense of color, cold, without a trace of human flavor.
Aunt Guan walked around me three times, turned around, pointed straight to the wall, and shouted in a low voice: "Listen to the evil devil passing by, the Xia family is a good family, and has never done anything bad and betrayed morality, let alone reckless and treacherous." Therefore, those who pass by only pass by, and those who do only do things, don't disturb the soul of the old lady of the Xia family to ascend to heaven. The gods and spirits inside and outside the four gates of Jinan City are all watching, and there is nothing to do, and the thunder and thunder are waiting for them!"
I could tell from her that the strange voice that called me was anything but good.
There was nothing unusual in the courtyard, outside the door, or on the walls, and it seemed that the evil spirit that had maliciously called me had fled far away.
"Okay, okay, it's okay. Aunt Guan exhaled and gently wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.
"I was careless, but I've never encountered anything like this in my long stay in this yard. I said.
There are no new houses in this old town, and the shortest houses are more than 30 years old, so the old neighbors have lived in the old houses for a long time, and they have also experienced the strange things of the times and the strange things of life.
"When luck weakens, strange things will come to you, this is a normal law. Just as a person will get sick when he is weak, the same epidemic infectious disease, some people get it and some people can't, this is exactly the reason. Aunt Guan explained.
She snuffed out the three sticks of incense and put them back on the offering table.
After a false alarm, her face was not very good-looking.
"Stone, stone—" Someone called my name again, but this time, as soon as the other person spoke, I heard the angry voice of my neighbor Sha Lao's fist.
The grandfather of Sha Lao Fist is said to be a sumo wrestler in front of the Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, and he is quite good at wrestling. It is a pity that as soon as the Qing Dynasty died, the Sha family fled from the capital, and all the family business fell into the hands of the Eight-Nation Alliance.
As soon as the door opened, the burly and sturdy figure of Sha Lao's fist swayed in.
Although it is still late spring and the temperature is only a dozen degrees, Sha Lao Fist has already put on a short-sleeved wrestling jacket, half-open-chested, with black hair on his chest, and his whole body exudes bravery.
"Stone, stone, why can't you hear the promise?" Sha Lao opened the curtain with his fist and strode in.
Seeing Aunt Guan, Sha Lao's fists were stunned, and his black face became a little uncomfortable.
"Old Uncle Sha. "Aunt Guan stood up straight and saluted, with a respectful attitude.
"Oh, you're here, I thought the stone was alone!" Sha Lao came over with his fist, put three sticks of incense on his grandfather's portrait, and bowed three more times.
"Brother, I'm coming to see you. You are in a hurry, and even if you don't explain what happened to us after death, we can't stand idly by. From now on, we will treat the stone as our own child, take good care of it, and prevent him from suffering the losses of outsiders. Sha Lao said with a fist.
I stood aside and bowed in return.
Today, I kowtowed at least hundreds of times a day in the shed, and my knees could no longer be bent, so I could only take the alternative of bowing.
Sha Lao turned to look at me with his fist, then looked at Aunt Guan, and walked out with a long sigh.
I had a gut feeling that he must have something to say to me, but because of the presence of the official, I couldn't speak freely.
"Uncle Sha, if you have something to do with finding stones, I'll go out first. Aunt Guan reacted quickly and said.
Sha Lao waved his fist without looking back: "I'm fine, I'm just coming to see my brother." Let's talk, I'll come back tomorrow. ”
Looking at his back, my eyes moistened again.
Suddenly, I felt something stuck to my eyebrows, and it hurt hotly.
I stretched out my hand to wipe it, and there were immediately a few more blood marks on the back of my hand.
"Auntie, what's wrong with my face?" I asked, turning my head.
Aunt Guan's gaze moved to my forehead, and she immediately stopped stiffly.
"Auntie, what's wrong with my face?" I asked.
"It seems to be...... It should be 'ghost'...... Something is wrong!" Her hand reached to my forehead, her voice trembling with her body.
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