Chapter 5 Mrs. Tian's soul travels a hundred miles
For the next few days, I hid in my room and studied the notebook, "The Strange Story of Mountains and Rivers", and the couple upstairs never made any sound, supposedly moving away.
The black discus in my hand, since the time crossing, the dark red mist on it has also disappeared, and my ability no longer appears.
I studied the supernatural events in my notes, and focused on the research of events related to Jin Tazhi, and then found a real event that recorded the real events of Mrs. Tian, who lived in Shanhe Village, after her fake death, traveled hundreds of miles away.
On October 7, 1928, the old lady of the Tian family in the village died, and when she was about to nail the coffin out of the funeral, Mrs. Tian suddenly sat up from the coffin, panting, spitting a few times, and tears flowed.
When the guests attending the funeral saw this scene, they were frightened and screamed, and some ran home directly, hiding in the house and not daring to come out.
After Mrs. Tian sat up in the coffin, she calmed down for a long time, and then slowly raised her eyes to look around, and found that she was already in the coffin, and the guests in the courtyard were staring at her in horror.
Later, Mrs. Tian's son slowly stepped forward, carried her out of the coffin, placed her on the kang and lay down, and brought hot soup and fed her a few mouthfuls.
Mrs. Tian slowed down and realized that she had been dead for two days, but she only felt that she had had a very long dream.
Mrs. Tian said that after breakfast the day before yesterday, she was sitting in the house making shoes, when she saw her young sister come to see her.
The little sister said to her: I haven't seen you for forty years, and now I'm about to leave, and I'll never be able to go back to Shanhe Village in the future.
The more the two chatted, the happier they became, as if they had returned to the time when they were children, and they were inseparable for a while, so the sister proposed to go to the neighboring county to catch the market.
Mrs. Tian discussed with her sister, so she held hands and walked out of the village, and met Jin Taizhi, the youngest daughter of the Jin family in the village, at the entrance of the village.
At that time, this Jin Taizhi glanced at her and asked: Where are you going with others? Mrs. Tian replied to her: I want to go to the neighboring county with my good sister to catch the market.
Jin Taizhi said: The neighboring county is too far away, so don't go if you don't want to. Mrs. Tian said: What can I do if I don't go, my sister came all the way to see me, and I won't see me in the future.
Jin Tazhi thought for a while and said: Then you have to come back quickly the morning after tomorrow, or it will be too late, you can take this. As she spoke, she stuffed something into the palm of Mrs. Tian's hand.
Mrs. Tian felt that her palms were hot, opened her hands and looked at them, and found that there was a handful of black things in her palms, which looked like fragrant ash. At this time, her sister had been urging by the side, so Mrs. Tian ignored Jin Taizhi and followed the sister away.
The two of them walked on the road for a long time, and did not walk to the neighboring county until the evening, but they did not feel tired. When they arrived, the two of them went straight to the market.
The markets in the neighboring counties have always been famous, with a large market every seven days, when nearby villagers and vendors can come and sell their wares.
In order to get a good position, some vendors often come in the middle of the night, choose the best spot to put their goods in place, and then keep watch until dawn.
When the two men arrived at the market, although it was late at night, there were already several stalls set up, and the keepers were smoking cigarettes to drive away their sleepiness, and they saw a stall with a little light shining in the darkness.
There was a stall selling small wontons, and it had already started to light a fire for soup, and a kerosene lamp was lit to illuminate a large area nearby.
Within the light of this kerosene lamp, the two of them found a big rock on the side of the road, sat on it and chatted, chatting and laughing.
Soon it was dawn, and there were more people in the bazaar, crowded one after another, and it was very lively.
Mrs. Tian and the sister held hands and walked around the market for a whole day, not tired, not sleepy, nor hungry.
Until the afternoon, Mrs. Tian felt that her palms began to heat up, even getting hotter and hotter, and a little hot, and she stretched out her hand to see that the incense ash that Jin Taizhi had made in her hand was still there when she left, and there seemed to be a spark on the incense ash, which burned the palm red.
She remembered what Kim Tae-che had told her to come back the day after tomorrow. She said to the good sister, "It's getting dark again, let's go back early."
When Mrs. Tian's sister saw that she was going back, she said: What's the hurry, let's play tomorrow.
As soon as Mrs. Tian was about to agree, she felt the burning pain in her palms.
At this time, she was a little angry, thinking about what this Jin Taizhi had done on my hand, it hurt tightly, and she couldn't wipe it off, so she wanted to go back to her to settle the account quickly.
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the noise and confusion of people not far away, mixed with firelight and swearing.
They dragged a person next to them to inquire, only to find out that it was a stall for fried fritters, and the oil pot didn't know how to catch fire, igniting the stalls on both sides, and it burned out in the blink of an eye, and the fire continued to spread to both sides.
The people who were set on fire to the stalls were very angry, so they asked the people who fried the fritters to settle the accounts, and for a while the whole street was in a mess, and some people took advantage of the chaos to grab things and ran away.
Mrs. Tian and her sisters were afraid of being knocked down by the crowd, so they hid in a simple shed built by a clothes seller on the side of the road.
The two of them hid inside for a long time, during which Mrs. Tian's hands hurt so much that her entire palms felt like they had been burned through.
It wasn't until the night, when the city's security team came to manage the order, that the chaotic crowd began to slowly disperse, and Mrs. Tian pulled her sister out of the shed.
The palms of her hands hurt uncomfortably, and Mrs. Tian wanted to go back to the village immediately to find Jin Taizhi, but the good sister persuaded her to play for another day, and pointed to a big house with red bricks and green tiles on the side of the road, and wanted to pull her in to spend the night.
Mrs. Tian resolutely disagreed, saying that her hands hurt and she wanted to take her sister back to the village. The sister said that it would be good to go into the house with a sore hand and find someone to rub some medicine. Mrs. Tian said that she was homesick and wanted to go home, so she should go home and find a way. Neither of them could persuade the other, and they were at a stalemate for a while.
At this time, there was a rooster cry in the distance, and Mrs. Tian's sister was not happy, and said: In order to let you live a good life, how much effort I have spent and how many people have begged me to allow me to take you, if you want to go back, you can only go back by yourself, and I will stay here in the future.
So saying, he turned and walked into the big house.
Mrs. Tian's palms were so painful that she didn't have time to consider her sisters' emotions, and she was really a little homesick after coming out for two days, so she turned around and ran on the way back.
Along the way, she ran fast, and the pain in her palms eased, and as soon as she slowed down, the pain was like a thread that pierced her heart.
So she didn't dare to stay, so she kept running, running until she felt that phlegm had accumulated in her throat, and she didn't dare to stop and vomit.
Until the sky was already bright and the sun had fully risen, she also saw the village from afar, so she ran into the village in one breath, ran home, ran into the courtyard, and saw Jin Tazhi standing in the courtyard.
Jin Taezhi frowned and asked, "Why did you come back?" Don't go yet! As he spoke, he slapped her the back.
This slap made the bones of her whole body feel like they were about to disperse, and the pain made her unable to hold back her tears, crying for a long time, only to find that she was sitting in a coffin.
When the Tian family heard Mrs. Tian say this, no one believed it, thinking that it was a dream she had after she passed out, and that Jin Taizhi had stayed in her house and never came to their house.
A few days later, someone in the village came back from the neighboring county, and said that a few days ago, in the market of the neighboring county, a stall selling fritters, the oil pot caught fire, burning most of the stalls in the street, and the people in the whole street fought and scolded, and the chaos was incomparable, and the noise was incomparable, until midnight, and the city's security team came before it stopped.
Only then did everyone know that what Mrs. Tian said was true.
After another half a year, Mrs. Tian's health slowly improved, and she caught up with the spring flowers, so she sat by a wall in the village to bask in the sun.
At this time, a person from another village kept staring at Mrs. Tian, looked at it for a while, and then came forward and asked: In October last year, at the big gathering in the neighboring county, did you sit on the stone behind the wonton stall with another old man in the middle of the night and chat.
Mrs. Tian remembered the things in the dream, and without answering directly, she asked who you were and how did you know?
This man said that I was in a stall across from you, smoking a cigarette and waiting for dawn, and I was so happy to see you talk and laugh for most of the night, like a pair of sisters with a very good relationship, so I remember it very clearly.
With this, Mrs. Tian remembered her sister again. In fact, her sister died of illness before she was twenty years old, and the two had a very good relationship since childhood.
After her sister was gone, she could cry for four or five years in a row.
A few days later, someone in the village was going to a neighboring county to run errands, and Mrs. Tian had to follow, but no one in the family said they would listen, so they had to let her go.
When she arrived in the neighboring county, Mrs. Tian went straight to the big red brick and green tile house that her sister took her to in her dream, and after turning around the door for a long time, she finally mustered up the courage to call the door, saying that she was passing by and begging for water.
A young woman came out, opened the door to let her in, poured water for her, turned around and took out a baby from the back room and coaxed it, the baby had been giggling, but when she saw Mrs. Tian, she immediately straightened her face.
Mrs. Tian asked the child's gender, age, etc., and the young woman sighed and said that she was born in October last year, and on the night of childbirth, there was a fire in the market, and many people took advantage of the fire to rob, and there were robbers who broke into the house, and she was frightened.
Talking about the family again, I learned that the woman's husband was an official in the county, the family was very wealthy, and he already had a son, but the husband was different from others and only wanted a daughter, so he loved the little daughter born later very much, but sometimes sighed that the other one was not saved.
During this period, Mrs. Tian teased the baby girl several times, and the baby girl dodged angrily. The woman was also strange, saying that this child was born with a love of laughter, and it has never been like today.
Mrs. Tian later lived for another twelve years before she died.
This incident is one that I watched again and again because it mentioned the person I had always wanted to know about - Kim Tae-chi.
Mrs. Tian saw Jin Taizhi twice when she was unconscious, and thanks to the things that Jin Taizhi put in the palm of her hand, she was able to keep her immortal, and ran back at the last moment, but this happened in a dream, but in fact, Jin Taizhi did not show up.
Could it be that at the time of Mrs. Tian, the teenage Jin Taizhi already had such skills?
Looking at the time of this incident, just a few days after I came back, I stayed in Shanhe Village for more than two months, and I also intended to go to Jin Taizhi, but I never saw her, why did something related to her happen just a few days after I came back?