Chapter 2: Strange Things
A few days after my father's burial, I always felt cold on my back, like someone was following me, but when I looked back a few times, I couldn't see anything.
It so happened that the next day, my grandfather from the countryside came to my house, just to give his youngest son, my father, a pillar of incense, a few words, and send him on his last journey.
Grandpa sat in front of his father's portrait and muttered something in his mouth. I couldn't hear the content clearly, but word by word, slowly and reassuringly.
I was tired, like a fever, and the world was spinning around in front of me, and I almost fell. When my grandfather saw me, he asked me if I was provoking something, and why was my face so ugly.
I didn't know who I was provoking him, so I just said that it was okay and went back to the house.
For a few days afterwards, I always felt a little flustered when I was alone, as if someone was staring at me, and that feeling was like a man's back.
My grandfather is a person who understands yin and yang feng shui, maybe from the first day he saw me, he knew that I was entangled in something, and he has been secretly preparing something to protect me.
The next day, Grandpa brought a big black dog home and locked it in the toilet. There is no rope, only the toilet door is ajar. The big black dog didn't make trouble, and he was lying on the ground with his tongue stretched out and panting.
About half a month has passed, and my grandfather is guarding at home every day, but when I went out that day, I was the only one left at home with the big black dog.
That night the moon was dark and the wind was high, and dark clouds covered the whole sky, and before eight o'clock, the sky was completely dark.
Somehow, I always felt a little like I was on my back, as if someone's eyes were on me, and goosebumps were coming out.
I was about to close the door, when suddenly the big black dog in the toilet rushed out of the half-hidden door, and roared wildly at the door, baring his teeth and growling.
I quickly closed the door, and I was so frightened that I immediately took a few steps back when I heard the door slammed down a few times.
I looked out of the cat's eye, and there was a blood-red eye outside the cat's eye!
The cloudy pupils split the whites of my blood-soaked eyes, which made me feel a chill in my heart, and cold sweat instantly soaked my back.
I asked out loud, who are you looking for?
There was no response from the door, and I slowed down for a while before I finally mustered up the courage to look through the cat's eye, and there was no one outside, not even a fly.
I'm a little curious, what's going on?
Just as I was putting my mind at ease, I smelled a disgusting rancid smell and didn't dare to look back for a while.
Because in my eyes, there is clearly a hand reaching out to me!
Those two hands are not human hands at all, or rather, they are not human hands at all!
It doesn't have any blood, it's skinny, there are a few knuckles and even no skin, and the orange bones are exposed!
I didn't look back, those two hands rushed towards my door, instantly clasped my eyes, and grabbed my neck.
The feeling of suffocation came over me, and I felt like I was going to die, and although it was dark in front of me, it was gradually spinning, as if I was going to lose consciousness in the next second.
At the last moment, the big black dog roared and pounced.
I vaguely heard a scream coming from behind me, and the hand seemed to disperse into smoke, followed by a light on my face and neck, and when I opened my eyes, I found that the woman was gone, leaving only a few burnt notes for the dead.
That night, my grandfather came back, and I briefly told him what had happened, and he sat on the couch without saying a word, smoking a dry tobacco pouch.
I think about it in my room, and I still have lingering palpitations.
Sleepless nights.
The next day, the Zhou family sat in a circle on the sofa, and the grandfather had a very gloomy look on his face, and came over to ask them what was going on, and said that there was a debtor and a debtor, and this kind of thing would not entangle someone for no reason.
"Impossible, it's definitely that kid who took the blame for himself and did something wrong, which made Daxian come to the door!" My uncle Zhou Zhantang said with his eyebrows fluttering, as if he could turn the fake into the real with his own strength.
"Really?" I sneered, and was about to blurt out the words of greeting his family of three and swallowed them back into my stomach.
"Isn't it? You little beast, whatever retribution has befallen you is all your own fault, and you can't blame anyone else! Now you want our Zhou family to be implicated for you, you should kneel down and apologize to us! Zhou Zhantang was adamant, his face smug.
I knew I hadn't done anything wrong, but I couldn't put it back to it.
"Travel, be honest with us." Grandpa stared at me solemnly, but the word "innocent" was written all over my face.
The five members of the Zhou family stared at me together, as if they wanted to kill me with their eyes.
"Daddy... This matter is indeed Zhou Zhantang them..."Uncle Chu Sanshi called out to his grandfather a little timidly, breaking the frozen atmosphere at the moment.
"Say!" Grandpa didn't hesitate and asked him to tell what had happened.
It turned out that after my father's burial, my uncle Chu Sanshi, Zhou Zhantang and Zhou Zhantang's wife Wang Xia went to the foot of a nearby mountain to smoke. Zhou Zhantang is an unassertive man, smoking with his uncle, and Wang Xia is scolding these two useless men. Wang Xia is an old woman who wants to come out at once, and immediately instructed Zhou Zhantang to throw all the cigarette butts, garbage and plastic bags and wrappers used in the burial that day into a soil pit. In the pit, there may have been bones that could be filled in the soil in the future, but they were filled with garbage by these few animals who were not long-sighted. Zhou Zhantang, who was distraught, indiscriminately put the "garbage heap" into it with a stick and stirred it into a piece, stepped on it a few times, and spat on it.
When I went back that day, it wasn't just me who had something strange, all of them had been tricked. Zhou Zhantang's TV suddenly flashed with snowflakes in the middle of the night, the toilet sink suddenly released water, and the photo frame containing their family of three fell and fell to pieces for no reason, etc.
After the uncle said that, Zhou Zhantang's face went from smug to surprised, to surprised, to now shocked and speechless, embarrassed and panicked.
Only then did the explanation make sense. If there wasn't a certain immortal in that pit, how could he come to you? Evil people can be found by blood. If you say so, you are implicated in the tour! Grandpa roared angrily, and the slap landed on the table with a loud "click".
"Zhou You, follow me to apologize and atone for your sins, and beg Daxian to let you go! Others, to fend for themselves! ”
Grandpa's words made me freeze instantly, and now he wants me to negotiate with that thing that I can't avoid?!