Chapter 25: The Snake Grudge
I couldn't believe what I saw, how could an ordinary person hang upside down on the roof? What's more, this is still an old man!
I sat down on the ground in fright, and the old woman who was hanging upside down in the house was holding a dead chicken in her hand, chewing on the meat mixed with chicken feathers in her mouth, and in a short time there was a pool of blood on the ground.
"Wang Huai! Wang Huai! ”
I screamed and crawled out, perhaps Wang Huai heard me calling him, and after a while he ran over, picked me up and asked what was wrong.
I shivered and pointed to the house and said that Yang Xiaojuan's mother-in-law was inside, and Wang Huai asked me to step aside and enter the living room alone.
Seeing the chicken blood on the ground, Wang Huai was also slightly surprised, only to see him look up at it, take out a yellow talisman from his bag, and reach up with his hand to drag Yang Xiaojuan's mother-in-law down.
The talisman in her hand spontaneously combusted, and she turned around in front of Yang Xiaojuan's mother-in-law, and the old woman immediately opened her mouth, and her eyes fell to the ground.
"What's the matter?!"
As soon as Yang Xiaojuan and his father-in-law ran over, they saw their wife lying on the ground, holding a hen that had eaten most of the half, and they were speechless by this shock.
"Come and help get the old lady in."
Wang Huai said to the two men, turned around and took out some things from his bag, including paper charms, bells, and a short wooden sword, and after moving a table, he quickly set up the altar.
The first time I saw him doing something, I couldn't help but stare at him as I stood by, and I didn't dare to ask.
"Go out, all of you, and you will not come in without my command."
Wang Huai said to us with a serious face, because Yang Xiaojuan had told his father-in-law about this in advance, so although his father-in-law was worried, he could only watch it first.
The three of us waited outside the door, and from time to time there was movement in the room, and there was a rough roar like that of an old lady, but like that of a man.
"Is this really okay?"
Yang Xiaojuan's father-in-law wanted to rush in to see it several times, but was stopped by me and Yang Xiaojuan, for fear that he would commit a taboo when he went in, so he could only persuade him with good words.
After about a stick of incense, the room finally quieted down, but Wang Huai came out with a calm face.
"Mr. Wang, is my mother-in-law okay?"
Yang Xiaojuan stepped forward and asked Wang Huai cautiously, but her father-in-law couldn't care so much about rushing into the house.
"The old lady is fine, but try not to let her get wet these days, just take a good breath for a while."
Wang Huai explained, Yang Xiaojuan nodded, and was about to enter the house to see her mother-in-law, Wang Huai stopped her again and asked her if there was an ancestral hall or earth temple in the village.
When Yang Xiaojuan saw Wang Huai asking, she immediately said that there was a small temple in the village, which was raised a few years ago, and asked him if there was anything wrong?
"It's okay, you look at your mother-in-law, I'll go over with Zhou Ning to take a look."
After Wang Huai finished talking to her, he packed up his things and asked me to go around the village with him, and I asked him what happened in the house just now.
"The old lady killed a snake a few days ago, the snake was originally an evil thing, and it was burned to death by the old lady in the pot, and she was resentful and unwilling, so she went up to disturb their family's peace."
Wang Huai explained to me, saying that it was fortunate that we came in time, otherwise Yang Xiaojuan and her mother-in-law would probably not be saved.
"So terrifying, what are we going to do now?"
I asked him, seeing that he had just asked Yang Xiaojuan about the earthen temple and ancestral hall, was there anything special about this?
"That thing used to be incense in the small temple, and it was disturbed by the old lady like this, and the resentment was too great after death, in order to prevent it from doing evil in the future, I used to do a small ritual for it to overdo it."
Wang Huai said that he had already led me to the small temple, which was a really small temple, built next to a tree.
After approaching, Wang Huai took out the rune paper bell and chanted the mantra and spun it around, stepping on the steps that I didn't understand, and waited until the rune paper in his hand was burned out.
"Are you alright?"
I asked him, but Wang Huai put a stick of incense next to the small temple, turned around and said to me.
When she returned to Yang Xiaojuan's house, the old lady on the bed actually woke up, but she didn't remember what she had done, and looked at us two strangers and asked us who we were.
Of course, Yang Xiaojuan didn't answer truthfully, but just said that our friends came to play, and stuffed a red envelope into us after coming out.
"That's a little bit of a thing, thank you for your help."
Yang Xiaojuan said to me, with a relieved smile on her face.
Wang Huai took out the money in his hand and looked at it, it was exactly 10,000, and returned 5,000 to Yang Xiaojuan, saying that for the sake of her and I as old classmates, there is no need for so much, if there is anything, you can find us again, and we will leave after a simple goodbye.
"Here you go, keep it."
Wang Huai handed me the remaining 5,000 yuan, saying that I had taken the job and asked me to take the money.
"Don't, it's obviously your credit, I didn't help you anything, you don't have to give it to me."
I shirked and shoved the money back into his bag.
Wang Huai didn't say anything when he saw this, and took me back to the city.
"It's still early, go to my house and sit down?"
Wang Huai looked at the time on the display screen and said, I saw that it was only half past twelve, and I agreed.
After the two of them returned to Wang Huai's house, he sweated because of the hot weather today, and went into the bathroom to take a bath.
I was idle on the sofa watching TV until Wang Huai came out to order takeout for the two of them, and after lunch, people felt drowsy, and I fell asleep on the sofa unconsciously.
When I woke up again, Wang Huai was nowhere to be found.
I called him, there was no response in the house, I could only pick up my mobile phone to call him, Wang Huai answered, but there was some noise around.
"Hey Ningning, are you awake?"
Wang Huai's voice came from the phone, he seemed a little anxious, I asked him what he was doing? Wang Huai didn't have time to explain, so he asked me to help him bring something over, saying that it was in the low cabinet in his house.
I took my mobile phone to his room, and went through the cabinet next to the bed as he said, which contained his ID bag, and Wang Huai asked me to bring it all to him, saying that he was waiting for me at the airport......
I don't know why everything came so suddenly, I took out his ID bag, and immediately went downstairs to take a taxi to the airport, there is an airport more than ten kilometers away from our city, I don't know what Wang Huai is going to do at this time.
On the way to the airport, I flipped through Wang Huai's ID book, which contained all the documents and a faded photo.
I pulled out the photo and looked at it, and my face twitched, and it showed a woman holding a four or five-year-old child, and the two of them sat on a chair and looked at the camera with a smile on their faces.
I'm not sure if that child is Wang Huai, but the woman holding the child actually has a face exactly like mine!
I looked at the woman in the photo in surprise, what is the relationship between her and Wang Huai?
I felt something bad and mixed my feelings, until I saw Wang Huai, I didn't say anything, I just handed over the things to him.
"I'm really sorry, I'm going to be away for a while, you take care of yourself."