Chapter 15 Sakura Ghost, Grimace Carving Cicada 3
readx;?“ Hey, what's going on inside?" shouted Sha Lao with his fist by the door. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
He practiced martial arts, and he was powerful and courageous, but what happened in my house tonight was outside the realm of martial arts, and he was also frightened.
I saw him carrying a large flashlight in his hand and immediately beckoned: "Throw the flashlight over." ”
Sha Lao waved his fist, and the flashlight was thrown into my hand.
I fixed my mind and pointed the flashlight at the monster, but I didn't blindly flip the switch.
"Auntie, what will happen if the demon escapes?" I asked.
"I don't know. Aunt Guan replied with a wry smile, "Legends are just legends, I have never seen a real evil ghost in my life." Maybe...... Maybe everyone who has seen evil spirits has been harmed by it. ”
Coincidentally, we each shivered, and the expressions on our faces froze.
"If I die, our Xia family will be finished. "That's the first thought that comes to my mind.
If the monster is the embodiment of a demon, then the wisest thing to do is to quit, call all the neighbors, or even call 110 to call the police, and everyone will get together and deal with it.
"I'm dead, no one goes to the police station every year to chase and ask, the information of the headless case is sealed up, and the eldest brother kills people in vain, and the murderer is at large-" I'm not reconciled.
"Shall we go out first?" said the princess.
I really reached the end of my rope, my relatives were gone, my money was gone, and my home was gone...... Everything is gone, only one of me is empty-handed, but I have met the most terrible evil ghost in Bai Gongshi.
Aunt Guan saw that I was in a wrong mood and reached out to pull me.
I stumbled under my feet, my fingers unconsciously exerted force, and the flashlight was immediately turned on.
"Huh?" Mrs. Guan gasped.
According to common sense, good people can't fight evil ghosts, no matter what kind of ghosts they encounter, they should avoid them, and the farther away they are, the better.
My luck was so bad that I wanted to tiptoe out, but I turned on the flashlight and came face to face with the monster.
The official lady was in danger, waved her hand, and the handful of incense in her hand was evenly scattered on the coffin lid, and the smoke dispersed, quickly wrapping the ice coffin.
"That's a know!" I could barely make out the shape of the monster.
The local dialect of old Jinan calls the cicada "Zhizhi", and the larvae that have just crawled out of the soil can be fried to eat, which is a good thing to accompany the meal and wine.
If it's really a cicada, there's nothing scary about it.
Sha Lao rushed in with a fist and stood side by side with Aunt Guan.
It was indeed a cicada, with a black head and a yellow belly, with half-black, half-yellow wings dragged under its ribs.
Sha Lao breathed a sigh of relief: "I really know, then there is nothing to be afraid of!"
"It shouldn't be here, it's only the fourth month of the solar calendar, and it's still early before the day when it breaks through the hole and goes up to the tree!" Aunt Guan didn't dare to relax, grabbed another handful of incense with her backhand, and lit it with a lighter.
I lowered my flashlight and wrapped the thing in the aperture, and suddenly I noticed that the cicada's stomach had a strange pattern, and it turned out to be a miniature human face with unusually clear facial features. The cicada's belly was less than an inch long and half an inch wide, and the face was clinging to its belly like a one-inch black-and-white photograph.
"Grimace...... It's a grimace......" Aunt Guan muttered.
Looking closely, it turned out that the facial features of the human face were actually carved on the belly of the cicada, and the nick was at least about two millimeters.
"Turn off the flashlight, turn off the flashlight!" called the official again.
I extinguished the flashlight, but the face was etched into my mind.
Aunt Guan dragged me with one hand and the old fist with the other, "Let's go out quickly, it's a big deal!"
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" struggling to mutter.
Outside the house, the lady lit the incense, divided it into four small handfuls, waved it three times in the air, and after the smoke quickly dispersed within the door frame, she put the incense flat on the threshold, and the incense head was against the ice coffin.
Her expression was extremely serious, and she bit her lower lip, and a trace of blood was already oozing from the tips of her teeth.
"What the hell are you talking about?" asked Sha Lao Fist.
"Grimace carved cicada, a great omen. Aunt Guan replied with seven words.
Sha Lao's fist didn't understand, and his left fist smashed into his right palm, making a loud snapping sound.
"At any funeral, it doesn't matter whether it's a man or a woman, whether it's old or young, or where the grimace appears – as long as the grimace appears, it's a bad omen. There have only been two cases of this situation on Qushuiting Street, one is the Wang family the year before last, and the grimace appeared in the well water, and as a result, the family of five was all diagnosed with cancer within half a year. The other one, the Yao family in the alley at the end of the street, when the grandfather died, the grimace appeared on the back of the portrait, and all the men in the family suffered from mortal diseases within a year, and none of them were spared. Now, this is the third time I've seen a grimace, and you say, should you quit first?" explained the official.
Everyone knows about the Wang family and the Yao family, and it is even derived from the rumors of gossip in the market as a strange story of "the king of Hades is crazy and impermanence asks for his life".
There should be no cicadas in this solar term, the lid of the ice coffin is wide and heavy, and it is impossible for a single person to take it off, and it is absolutely impossible for the cicada to get in.
The only explanation is that the cicada came from the grandfather's body, and at this time it came out on its own, flapping its wings and trying to escape.
"Catch it with a net, won't everything be fine?" asked Sha Lao fist.
Aunt Guan shook her head: "Catch it, what to do with it?"
Sha Lao's fists were choked, after all, he didn't even understand what the cicada was.
"What should I do?" I said to the official.
She shook her head, "I don't know. ”
By tomorrow, there must be a farewell procedure to the body at the funeral, the coffin lid must be opened, and at that time the cicadas will definitely fly out. If it is there to spread bad luck, then all the guests who come to mourn will be poisoned. So, this huge hidden danger must be eliminated tonight.
Since the official lady is also helpless, this matter is troublesome.
I looked at the south wall, feeling embattled and frightened. The mysterious ghost had just retreated, and the grimace appeared again, as if they had calculated that I was at the end of the road, and they all came to get the last piece of the pie.
"I'm going to call for help. Aunt Guan said.
I know that there is such an alliance of white business masters in Jinan City, which specializes in solving strange problems at funerals and weddings for ordinary people.
Mrs. Guan dialed the phone, briefly introduced a few words, and then turned on the speakerphone, waiting for the other party to answer.
On the phone, an old man asked in a low and slow voice, "Junior official, are you sure that the person is dead?"
Aunt Guan responded: "100 percent." ”
The old man was silent, and did not respond for a long time.
Aunt Guan couldn't hold her breath: "Yin Jiuye, this matter is urgent, can you always deign to come over and help me?"
That Yin Jiuye sighed: "If I go, I may not be able to solve the problem." If people are still alive, that's easy. ”
Aunt Guan scratched her head anxiously and opened her mouth, but she didn't make a sound.
"Grimace, carved cicada...... You have been in this industry for a while, you should know that scraping bones to drive away evil spirits and ghosts is a ......point of danger," Yin Jiuye said.
Aunt Guan's face changed, and she spun in place, towards the door of the north house.
"Dead people, dead people......" Yin Jiu Ye muttered to himself.
"Yin Jiuye-" Aunt Guan's voice suddenly became miserable and tragic, "You just have to come, if you want to die to destroy the evil, I will bear it!"
My heart sank, and I knew that things were getting worse.
It is said in many ancient books that evil spirits and demons make all kinds of strange things, which are terrifying, and their ultimate goal is nothing but cannibalism and murder. If someone is willing to make a great sacrifice and give his life to put an end to the trouble, then everyone else will be safe. Similarly, since Aunt Guan said such a thing, Yin Jiuye naturally had no worries.
Sure enough, Yin Jiuye's voice was much easier: "Little official, don't say that, everyone is running for the lives and safety of the people of Jinan, no matter who sacrifices, it is a thing that makes people sigh." Don't worry, I'll take someone there. ”
Aunt Guan reported the address of my house, and Yin Jiuye sighed again: "Little official, why are you so bothered? The person you admired back then has long since died, do you still have to take care of the affairs of his Xia family to the end? Isn't this kind of senseless sacrifice ...... Isn't it a pearl cast secretly?"
Aunt Guan smiled: "Ninth Master Yin, this is my private matter, I don't have to worry about it." If you're really good for me, bring someone over quickly, and we'll have to settle this matter before dawn." ”
Yin Jiuye agreed repeatedly, and then hung up the phone.
From the conversation between the two, I seemed to understand something, but I didn't dare to ask more.
"Yin Jiuye is the boss in the business of Jinan Baigong, he has a group of masters under his hands, and most of the problems that others can't solve are easily solved when they come to him. Stone, don't worry. Aunt Guan said.
I nodded, I couldn't say a lot of words of gratitude, but I just felt that Aunt Guan was my dearest relative at the moment, and she was the only one worth relying on.
"Stone, take a step to speak?" Sha Lao pointed his fist out of the door.
Before I could speak, Aunt Guan had already blocked it for me: "No, it's dark outside, don't go out." If you have anything to say, just say it here. ”
The monster that called my name retreated, but at some point it would quietly come again. It's really not wise to go outside the door and talk about things at this moment.
"But this thing...... It's a confidential matter, and I can only tell Stone alone. Sha Lao's fist was anxious.
Aunt Guan shook her head coldly: "Then wait for Yin Jiuye to come, make sure that the street is safe, and then you go out to talk." ”
Sha Lao's fist was so angry that he gasped: "When they come, there will be many people, and there will be no chance to talk about it." Okay, okay, you're not an outsider, so it's okay if you say it. Stone, this is for you-"
His right hand was originally in his trouser pocket, but as soon as he took it out, his five fingers were opened, revealing a yellow thing in his palm, which turned out to be a small gold bar two inches long. The width and height of the gold bar are half an inch, and it is roughly estimated that it will be at least 50,000 yuan or more when converted into RMB.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
Although the relationship between the neighbors in the street is good, after all, everyone is not related to each other, and I don't dare to take such a heavy gift for no reason.
"This is for you, you need money for funeral services. Sha Lao replied with a fist.
I ducked back, not daring to take the gold bar, but Sha Lao stepped forward with an arrow with his fist, grabbed my right wrist with his left hand, and then slapped the gold bar in my right palm.
"I can't take it, I still have some money. "I tried to resist him, but the strength of his arms was so great that even if I were a red-eyed yak, I would probably have been subdued by him on the spot.
"Old Uncle Sha, what are you doing here? I am afraid that it will bring bad luck to the stone. Aunt Guan said.
Sha Lao shook his fist and shook his head: "You don't know, this thing was given to me by Lao Xia before." ”
This sentence really surprised me, I remember, my grandfather was always squatting at the gate of the courtyard in a demented way to watch the ants, dressed in tatters, with a scruffy beard, and there was no way to store gold bars. If there were, I would have given it to my eldest brother to exchange it for RMB to live and eat.
"When Lao Xia gave it to me, he asked me to help him do something. I didn't accept it, he insisted on giving it to me, and in the end we had to turn our faces on the spot. My Lao Sha is not a greedy person, the gold bar surname is Xia, then it will never be surnamed Sha, now that I have given the stone, I can sleep soundly. Sha Lao explained calmly with his fist, and then let go gently.
I lifted the gold bar to see, under the light, the gold bar was engraved with four traditional Chinese characters of "Thousand Feet of Pure Gold", and a line of numbers was engraved on the left and right ends, that is, its weight was "250 grams". It seems that I still estimate its weight to be light, and according to the market value, this gold bar can be exchanged for at least 70,000 yuan.
70,000 yuan is not a small amount, and Sha Lao Fist is not a particularly wealthy person, if he changes to someone else, he may hide it and pretend that there is no such thing. Grandpa is dead, who can still get up with the old things of this gold bar?
"If you're short of money, sell it to the Sun Gold Store and exchange it for cash. Sha Lao clapped his fists, as if shaking off the dust in his palms.
In fact, there are many people in the old Jinan who value righteousness and light profit, although they can't treat money as dung, but they have their own principles and boundaries for doing everything, not too greedy and not stingy and calculating, and never easy to cross the thunder pool in terms of moral integrity.
I put the gold bar in my pocket and bowed deeply to Sha Lao's fist. The family really has no money, the medical expenses at the hospital have not been paid in full, and the funeral expenses of my grandfather are already a large amount that I can't bear. People are poor and short-sighted, and with this gold bar, at least the problem in front of me has been solved.
"It's getting late, it's time for me to go back. Stone, it's good in the future, don't let the old Xia family break off like this!" Sha Lao patted my shoulder with his fist, turned around and walked towards the door.
Aunt Guan stared at the back of Sha Lao's fist, and sincerely raised her thumb in admiration: "Good!"
It was dark outside the door, the street lights on the street had all been extinguished, and the streets and alleys of Qushuiting Street and thousands of households had entered a state of deep sleep in the early morning.
The night is long and dreamy, and such a lifeless dark night is the moment when dangerous events are prone to occur.
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