Chapter 7: The Living (4)
The rune paper was opened by me, and there were many words in it, but I only knew the four words in the middle, exorcism, peace.
It's just that these four words break apart from the middle for some reason.
What's going on? Why is there rune paper inside my collar?
And this rune paper, why did the good end crack, didn't I just have a dream?
The more I thought about it, the more chaotic I became, and I lost sleep completely, lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze, until the sky began to light slightly, and the sound of roosters crowed outside.
There is a knock on the door, put on your shoes and open the door.
"Hey, I didn't sleep all night? Those with dark circles under their eyes can compete with giant pandas. Yan Shu at the door said a mockery to me.
"yes, how do you know?" I lay back on the bed with no breath.
"What's going on?"
Perhaps sensing that something was wrong with me, he didn't continue to taunt, but sat on the edge of the bed and asked.
"You didn't encounter anything strange when you went to bed last night?"
"What's weird?" What answered me was Yan Shu's puzzled face.
It seems that he really didn't have anything to do last night.
Why me?
"Did you get something strange?"
"It's fine, it's just a nightmare." I don't know what happened now, so why bother with someone two years younger than me.
Yes, Yan Shu is two years younger than me, and he is fourteen years old this year, but his style of speaking is not at all just fourteen.
"If you didn't have a good rest last night, otherwise, don't go today, anyway, you don't have anything to do today."
"Can I not go?" No matter what, I am two years older than Yan Shu, and I know more than him.
However, I must not stay in this building any longer, I have to go home.
"I'm going home, or are you with me?"
"Back to your house? Do? Funk? "Yan Shu may think that he didn't run away from a fake Taoist priest, why am I a real monument carver, so I didn't rest well at night, I just had a nightmare and was about to run.
"How is that possible?" I laughed angrily at him, "I have something to go home, and I don't feel at ease if you live here alone, so go back with me, right?" Anyway, it's nothing if the digging of the grave drags on for a day or two. ”
I think so, but Assistant Liu doesn't think so.
"No, two little masters, this matter is a bit urgent." Assistant Liu righteously rejected us, and even raised to the question of professional ethics, "Little master, did you encounter something at night?" But we said at the beginning, now that we are leaving, how can I explain to my wife here? ”
It turned out that this assistant Liu also knew that there was something wrong with this small building.
"Let's go back for a day, come over tomorrow, the location you took us to see yesterday is very good, it is very in line with Madame's expectations, you can directly arrange someone to dig it, we have nothing to do here for the time being, and other things can't be done on this day, right?"
Yan Shu really had the taste of a little manhood at this time, and stood in front of me.
"Isn't it possible that Master Chen can't engrave the monument first today?" Assistant Liu hesitated after listening to Yan Shu's words, and wanted to struggle again.
"So have you got your tombstone ready? There are also tools needed to carve the stele, do you think the soul stele is so easy to carve? Nothing ready how do I carve? ”
I spread my hands, and said it as it should.
Of course, I didn't even think about carving the monument, so I didn't ask him to prepare these things, but it would be a good idea to use them as an excuse for us to go back.
"So what do you need? I'll send someone to do it right away. ”
"Black dog blood, glutinous rice, cinnabar, Assistant Liu, you can prepare these things best, I didn't have to go back, but, I didn't bring my inscription tools!" Maybe I stayed with Yan Shu for two days, and I actually started acting, pretending to have a headache, "Originally, I thought that I would just come over and prepare the tools for carving the monument, but I went to see that place yesterday, and then thought about it all night, and felt that I still had to use the carving tools handed down by my master, otherwise, something happened later, and I and Master Yan were the first to suffer, no, Master Yan didn't worry about me alone, so he had to follow me back and watch me take the tools with my own eyes." ”
After this tirade, Assistant Liu was dizzy and nodded again and again.
He even had to drive us back in person.
How can we refuse such kindness?
So, Yan Shu and I took a high-end car back to Panjiawan.
"What's going on? How did you get back? When he got home, he fed the chickens at the door, "Who is this child?" The latter question is Yan Shu, who was following me. 、
"Oh, a friend of mine." I smiled, and regardless of what my grandfather thought, I walked straight to the hall, "Where's my mother?" They're not going back, are they? ”
"Yes! What are you doing! Why did you come back in one day? What's wrong? "My mother was helping my grandmother feed the pigs at home, and she came out of the pigsty when she heard my voice.
"Yan Shu, you wait for me here." With that, I pulled my mom into a small bedroom where I usually slept when I came.
Then he pulled out the broken yellow rune paper.
"Ahh What's going on! How did it get like this? My mother was also shocked when she saw the rune paper, but she was shocked not because I brought the rune paper back, but because she was so surprised when she saw the rune paper split in half, "You dead girl, why did you tear this up?" ”
“???” Why am I torn? "Mom, take a good look, if you tear it, will there be a burr in the middle of the torn, you see, is there a burr in this?"
After listening to my words, my mother carefully picked it up and pointed it to the light, and indeed, the cracked parts were neat and tidy, and there were no signs of tears at all.
"What the hell is going on? What's wrong with you? My mom also reacted, and then looked at me carefully.
"Where did this talisman come from?"
"It's just an ordinary peace charm, why do you ask so clearly?"
No, very wrong, when my mother answered me, her eyes didn't dare to look at me at all, but pretended to study the cracks on the rune paper.
"Mom, do you know that your daughter almost didn't come back yesterday?" It seems that my mother won't say anything if I don't take some heavy medicine.
I told her the dream I had last night, and now that I think about it, it might not have been just a dream at all.
"How can this be, didn't Master Liao say that this talisman will always bless you until you are eighteen years old? Why did you still encounter this kind of thing? My mom muttered.
Master Liao? It can't be the Liao Laosan who did things for my grandfather, right?