Chapter 7 Burning Incense to Distinguish Good Luck and Evil 1

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His eyebrows are very sparse, but the sparse and elegant mountain-shaped eyebrows still exist, which I am used to seeing every day. Including his pen barrel nose shape, ingots lip shape, oval ear pinna are also familiar to me, if there is another soul in this body, what should the soul look like?

"Tang Wan, what you said, you have to give me a little time to get used to it. I said.

I believe that Tang Wan's words that were so sincere and calm were by no means pretending to be amazing.

"Not only you, but myself, will need time to get used to. Tang Wan replied.

I lowered my hand to test my grandfather's snort, and the breath was very weak and came and went when it came out of my nostrils.

"I will make a good duty record, make rounds tomorrow morning, and ask the authority in the hospital to come and have a look. Tang Wan said.

As a doctor, she still has some procedural work to complete.

I didn't mention the man in black who suddenly appeared and disappeared mysteriously, after all, there were so many strange things in front of me that I had no time to think about the intentions of the man in black.

"Seventy-two hours later, that soul will disappear too?" I sent Tang Wan to the door and asked.

Tang Wan nodded: "Yes, according to my judgment, at most seventy-two hours, at least twenty-four hours, but- there are some things, no one dares to pack tickets, what do you say?"

I looked up at the monitor, and my grandfather's heartbeat and blood pressure values were normal, and there were no signs of sudden death.

The soul cannot be seen, heard, or touched, but I suddenly remembered a person-the official lady at the entrance of Qushuiting Street.

Aunt Guan is a goddess, who knows everything and knows everything, such as calling souls, sending paper, burning incense, making vows, worshipping ancestors, praying for blessings, and even red and white official affairs.

I think that as long as I invite the official aunt, I can understand my grandfather's current state.

As a goddess and medium, Aunt Guan must know better than us what the dying old man is thinking.

"I'll go back to the office first, and I'll be called for something if I have something. Tang Wan pushed the door and said goodbye.

As soon as Tang Wan went out, I immediately called Aunt Guan.

Almost every neighbor on Qushuiting Street has the phone number of the official lady, and from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, everyone bothers her at least once or twice.

It was so late, Aunt Guan didn't sleep, the phone only rang three times, and she picked up the phone.

I first reported my home and then told her about my grandfather.

Aunt Guan sighed: "I know, no wonder I was so irritable tonight that I couldn't sleep." Wait, don't deduct the phone, I'll light the incense first and see what the situation is with Uncle Xia. ”

Aunt Guan has the secret skill of "burning incense to see the good luck", and the incense spectrum of others only has 24 and 48 styles, but her incense spectrum has as many as 108 styles, and she claims to be able to foresee the future good and evil in great detail.

I held the phone and waited, and after about two minutes, Aunt Guan spoke again: "It is a smooth fragrance, but the wind is the wind through the hall, and the water is flowing eastward, all of which are auspicious and fierce." Stone, you have to be mentally prepared, Uncle Xia is old, and everyone has that step. ”

"Aunt Guanβ€”" I choked up suddenly.

For ten years, although my grandfather has been sick in a daze, as long as he is there, there are two people in our Xia family alive. As soon as he left, I was literally alone.

"Don't be sad, child, life is in the world, there is coming, there is coming, there is life, there is death. This is the law of nature, and no one can avoid it. "Aunt Guan comforted me.

I looked at my grandfather's face, hesitated, and didn't say Tang Wan's words, but said, "Aunt Guan, I want to trouble you to come to the hospital tomorrow to have a look." No matter what my grandfather's situation is, the next step is inevitably troublesome aunt. ”

Aunt Guan sighed three times in a row: "Child, I'll go over early in the morning." You just keep watch over him, and for all other things, as long as you say hello, the neighbors in the street will help a lot. ”

Putting down the phone, I suddenly felt dazed and overwhelmed, and spread my hands more than a dozen times to look at the palm prints.

"Is it me who was changed against the sky? What else is grandpa hiding? Is it the owl that appeared and took away grandpa's soul? Whose soul is hidden in grandpa's body......" I recalled what grandpa and Tang Wan had said word by word, and asked myself these questions in my heart over and over again, torturing myself to exhaustion.

Before dawn, Nurse Li came and brought a large box of instant noodles that had been soaked.

"Eat, Dr. Tang ordered it to be delivered. She said.

When I sat up to eat the noodles, I realized that my lips were full of blisters, and my throat was so dry and swollen that I couldn't even swallow the noodle soup.

Grandpa lay stiffly for hours, motionless.

At five o'clock in the morning, the official lady dressed in gray cloth pushed open the door of the ward.

She was carrying a gray cloth bag in her hand, which was bulging, and it should be filled with incense, candles, paper money, and the like.

"Son, sit down and don't get up, I'll light the incense first. She raised her hand to stop me from getting up to greet me, and said with a serious face.

I sat down quickly, not daring to make a sound.

Mrs. Guan took out a palm-sized gray coarse porcelain incense burner from her cloth bag, looked around, and placed the incense burner in the northwest corner of the bedside table. Then she took out a small packet of a mixture of grains and incense ash, poured it into the incense burner, and then took out a handful of yellow incense one foot long, lit it with a lighter, and inserted it into the incense burner.

The incense burned well at first, and the cigarette floated upward, but after only half an inch, it made a clatter, and all the incense on the periphery exploded in all directions, and the incense fell all over the table. What's even more bizarre is that the smoke from each incense stick no longer naturally drifts upwards, but dances in the wind and floats everywhere.

The official lady was silent, pinched a piece of incense to look at, and slowly crushed the fire that was still burning.

"Don't speak!" I was about to speak, but the official lady had already stopped me.

At that time, she was diagonally facing me, not looking at me at all, already knowing what I was going to do.

She spread out the bun that she was combing on the top of her head, coiled it neatly for the second time, and then inserted the old hosta. After that, she dusted off her shirt and trouser legs, and bowed deeply three times to the incense.

"The old body is in a hurry, not thoughtful, and offended, no matter which way you come, please forgive your sins. She whispered, each bow bent more than ninety degrees, and her expression and tone were extremely humble.

Outside the window, the night has receded, and the morning light is gradually emerging.

Under the dual effect of the early morning glimmer and the ceiling light in the room, the shadow of the official lady was projected to two different angles, and the two shadows also bowed with her.

After bowing, Aunt Guan opened the cloth bag again and grabbed four handfuls of incense at a time.

"In this room, there are many people, a handful of incense to worship God, a handful of incense to worship Buddha, a handful of incense to worship immortals, and a handful of incense to worship ghosts, it should be enough, right?" She lined up the incense sticks on the table, talking to herself as she lined them up.

Strange to say, when she finished speaking, the remaining incense in the incense burner returned to its original state, and the smoke still drifted upward.

"Thank you to everyone for giving face to the old body, thank you, thank you. Aunt Guan clasped her palms together and bowed deeply to the incense burner three times again.

Although she said these words politely, her face had sunk.

I can feel that all the "people" she is dealing with are not good.

She pulled the incense out of the stove, carried it upside down, circled the bed twice, and held the incense flat again, brushing it from the top of her grandfather's head to the soles of her feet, and then from the soles of her feet to the top of her head.

"Uncle Xia, don't scare the child, don't be embarrassed for me, if you want to go, go well, walk peacefully, the southwest avenue is flat, and the Western world will keep your place. If there is anything you don't worry about, bring the letter back, if the child doesn't do it, I have to help you do it immediately. Let's go, let's go, thousands of miles to send off guests, there must be a time to disperse, let's go......" The official lady stretched her voice and said in a high and low voice.

I have seen Mrs. Guan preside over the funeral of the elderly in the neighborhood, and her remarks are obviously for the deceased. However, now Grandpa is still alive.

"My grandfather is not dead, he is still alive - Aunt Guan, what are you doing here?" I couldn't hold back and blurted out.

"Shut up! Silence me! This room is full of everyone, is it your turn to talk nonsense?" the official rebuked loudly.

Her face was already extremely thin, her eyebrows were like knives, her eyes were like leaves, and her face was tight at this time, without a smile, as if she was facing a great enemy.

I don't know what's in this ward, but it's already dawn at the moment, so I don't have any fear, so I simply said bluntly: "Aunt Guan, my friend said that grandpa still has a soul in his body. You're a connoisseur, see if that's the case, and if so, who is he?"

Actually, I don't need Aunt Guan to give birth to too many things, I just want her to help me find the extra soul in my grandfather's body.

At this question, Aunt Guan changed her face abruptly, rushed towards me, and covered my mouth with both hands.

Her eyes were full of horror, as if I had said something that pierced the sky and was a perverse bastard.

I raised my hand and blocked the hand of the official lady.

"Child, you can't talk nonsense, you can't talk nonsense!" the official aunt roared angrily, "What do you know?

Things have developed to this point, and I regret inviting Mrs. Guan to the hospital.

"Aunt Guan, I don't understand, and I don't want to understand. I just want to ask you, how is my grandfather doing now?" I freed up a hand and pointed to the hospital bed.

He ...... He has already ......" Aunt Guan paused twice, and did not say a sentence completely.

My heart sank suddenly, because from her expression and tone, I could already tell that her opinion was exactly the same as Tang Wan's.

That is, my grandfather has really passed away.

In an instant, I couldn't control my emotions, and two lines of tears fell on my chest. Since then, no matter how big the world is, I Xia Shi is just alone, there are 1.6 billion people in China, and 6 billion people in the world, but so many people have no blood relationship with me, all of them are strangers who have nothing to do with it. For the remaining seventy or eighty years between now and my departure from this world, I will be left alone.

"Grandpa, grandpa, don't go, I still have a lot to say to you......" I pushed away Aunt Guan, threw herself in front of the bed, her knees weakened, and she fell to her knees.

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