7 Chapter 7 (Punctuation)

The journey is indeed the same as Jamie said, the town of Ravensfield is very remote. A lot of people have moved here, and most of the people who are left behind are elderly, and few young people show up. The empty houses on the side of the road also looked desolate and gloomy during the day.

The old house of the Eisen family looks very magnificent, and the Eisen family should have been a very wealthy family in those days.

The group walked out of the car, and Jamie stood downstairs with an inexplicable expression, not like nostalgia and faint rejection.

"Honey?" Lisa put her hand on Jamie's shoulder and stroked it gently as if to comfort her.

Jamie nodded quickly to gather his emotions, took two steps up the steps, raised his hand and pulled the knocker on the door. They didn't have to wait long for the door to open from the inside, and a blonde lady in a suit and skirt walked out smiling and giving Jamie, who was looking at her confusedly, a hug.

Seeing that Jamie's expression was still a little cloudy, the blonde lady smiled brightly and said, "Hello Jamie! I'm Ella and we're on the phone. After speaking, he turned to the person next to Jamie, and the smile remained unchanged, and he also gave Lisa a warm hug: "Welcome home!" ”

Lisa looked at Jamie and made an embarrassed sound, "Oh." ”

Jamie was obviously not used to the excessive enthusiasm of this strange stepmother, and after vaguely introducing his friends, he led everyone into the mansion.

At this moment, a middle-aged and elderly man's voice came from nowhere: "Ella! Who's coming? "Sounds very neutral.

Ella led the way, looking back and smiling at Jamie as she went, "Edward would be glad to know you're back today." ”

Hearing this, Jamie barely twitched the corners of his mouth, but he couldn't show a smile. He didn't think his father would be happy to see him, and they had been tired of each other for so many years.

The Eisen's old house is as historic as it looks, and the furniture and floors are spotless. The roof is very high, and there are many oil paintings hanging on the walls, and Winnie walks in the back and looks all the way, and you can see the portraits of the Eisen's parents.

They walked up the spiral staircase and looked up to see the high roof, the sun streaming in from above. After walking up a long staircase, you enter a room directly opposite, in the center of which a man in a wheelchair is watching this side, wearing an oxygen mask on his face.

"Oh, look who's coming? My son? The man's voice came from behind the oxygen mask, muffled.

Winnie noticed that both Ella, who came to greet her, and old Eisen, who was in a wheelchair, were dressed very formally. The elder Eisen wore a crisp black suit with a bow tie around his neck. Looks...... Like another puppet Billy.

Ella walked over briskly and removed the oxygen mask from his face, stood beside the man, and affectionately placed one hand behind his back and one hand on his shoulder.

Old Eisen gasped: "If I didn't call you, wouldn't you plan to come back?" ”

Jamie moved his lips and swallowed what he wanted to say, his eyes turned to the wheelchair under old Eisen and asked, "How did you get a stroke?" ”

"I'm old, Jamie." Eisen Sr. said, and he looked back at Lisa, who was standing next to Jamie, "I heard that you are pregnant, which is good news." ”

Lisa put her hand on her lower abdomen and smiled.

Neither the young couple realized that the news of Lisa's pregnancy was only known to Winnie and Warren, and where did old Eisen "hear" about it?

Probably seeing that the atmosphere was too awkward, Ella whispered to her husband, "Jamie has brought a friend back, we should prepare the bedroom, they must be tired all the way over." ”

"No!" Jamie interrupted suddenly, "We'll be staying in a hotel." ”

Everyone can see that Jamie is not on good terms with his father. None of them retorted, and it was indeed more comfortable to live in a hotel than in a stranger's house.

"Didn't you come back to see me?" Old Eisen asked.

"We still have a lot of spare bedrooms in our house." Ella played a round game: "The first time I bring my friends back, we will entertain you well." ”

"Nope." Jamie's attitude was very resolute, he was very uncomfortable with his father, and he didn't even want to introduce the friends he brought back to old Eisen. "I have one more thing to ask you."

Old Eisen was accustomed to Jamie's attitude, "What's the matter?" ”

Ella stood next to Eisen Sr., her gaze swept over Lisa's lower abdomen in no hurry, and then looked at the "friends" standing behind Jamie.

Jamie: "We used to sing a nursery rhyme when we were kids, beware of the gaze from Mary Shaw......"

When Jamie finished speaking, old Eisen told him with a flat expression: "It's just a nursery rhyme, and there are more or less similar nursery rhymes everywhere, so there's nothing strange about it." ”

"But it's true." Jamie said: "I wonder how this nursery rhyme came to be and who is Mary Shaw? ”

"It's just a story to scare kids." Ella said.

Seeing that there was nothing to ask, Jamie didn't want to tell old Eisen about what had happened to them, so he planned to leave and ask the others in the town to ask. Even if he hadn't seen his father for a long time, he felt uncomfortable seeing Jamie again.

Jamie: "Okay, then I'm leaving. ”

Old Eisen and Ella looked at each other, "But you're just back." ”

Jamie was unmoved, pulling Lisa to turn around and go out, and the Warrens could only smile awkwardly at old Eisen and leave after Jamie. Winnie was still at the end, looking at Ella, who was trotting out after Jamie, and then looked back at old Eisen.

At this time, old Eisen lowered his head and couldn't see his expression clearly. It's like a sad attitude towards my son, like I'm asleep, and it's like I'm unconscious.

Winnie's perception of the soul is now at the bottom, but she can still tell the difference between the living and the dead, and although old Eisen has an oxygen tank next to him and speaks in a clear manner, Winnie notices that he has not been breathing from beginning to end. Except for two deliberate movements and heavy panting, his chest and abdomen did not rise or fall at all.

Coupled with her vague impression of the plot of the movie, she remembered that old Eisen was indeed dead. Winnie originally thought that Ella was a puppet made by Mary Shaw, but according to her observations, Ella was a living person. What exactly did Jamie's stepmother make to Mary Shaw?

The strangeness and unusualness of it were not discovered by fellow exorcists. Winnie thought to herself that she was lucky to be here, otherwise they had really come to give the head away.

With yin and yang eyes, Rowling has a strong sense of evil spirits, but she is not aware of the evil of the living. What Winnie wants to do is to remind you without a trace, but she can't know everything like she has opened her eyes.

When they walked down the stairs, Ella was still holding on to Jamie, and she seemed to really want Jamie to stay at home: "It's rare for you to come back, and you bring your friends, why don't you stay at home?" Lisa is still pregnant, so let's stay at home! ”

"No need." Jamie is too resolute to say that he doesn't want to live at home.

Everyone learned from their later conversations that old Eisen's perennial domestic violence caused Jamie's mother to commit suicide and his second wife divorced, even if Ella said that Eisen had changed a lot, it only got Jamie's sneer.

When the group left the mansion, Jamie's mood was slightly better, and he looked at Winnie and said apologetically, "I really don't want to live here, so I can only take you to the hotel." ”

Mr. Warren looked up at the mansion thoughtfully, and when he thought of something, he swallowed the words and swallowed for the puppet in the trunk.

"It's okay, it's comfortable to stay in a hotel." Rowling said that everyone could see that Jamie had a shadow over his father and was considerate of him.

In the end, they stayed in a small hotel, and when they had booked a room, everyone took out their luggage and put it away, and Mr. Warren deliberately left the box containing the puppets at the hotel. After a quick bite to eat, they drove away with Jamie, and they went to the old man in the town to inquire about Mary Shaw.

On the way, Mr. Warren, who finally took the puppet down, told his wife about his discovery: "Mr. Eisen's stepmother, her back and walking posture are very similar to the woman in the surveillance video. ”

Rowling, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was startled and turned her head to look at her husband: "Are you sure?" Saying this, my mind also began to compare the image of Ella I saw not long ago with the image in the video.

The view from the window was rapidly receding, and Rowling frowned and kept thinking back and said, "If she was really the one who gave the puppet, was she possessed by Mary Shaw?" ”

"I don't know." Mr. Warren shook his head, his eyes fixed on the red car in front of him, to prevent himself from being lost in an unfamiliar place.

Possessed by evil spirits, they can't find out at all unless they are actively exposed. When Ella led the way, Warren thought she was familiar, and after observing him, he raised his suspicions to seven or eight points. The evil spirit would hide in the puppet, and he didn't say it for fear that Mary Shaw would hear it.

"It's right that I didn't live in Eisen's house." Rowling said.

There is also a pregnant woman among them, and if she is possessed by Mary Shaw, the baby, who is less than a month old, will definitely not last until the exorcism is over. Even, evil spirits may seize the child's body to be born, and it will definitely be a disaster at that time.

"We're going to get to the bottom of Mary Shaw." Rowling's eyes were worried: "I thought she could only possess a puppet, but I didn't expect that she could also possess a human." ”

"Evil spirits possess humans." Mr. Warren said.

It wasn't until the car stopped in front of a house in the town that Mr. Warren had the opportunity to ask Jamie for a surveillance video. When Jamie sends the video to Warren's phone, he doesn't understand what is happening, thinking he's going to use it to compare it to the people in the town.

Living in this house are old people Jamie knows, and the young people in the family have also gone out to live. Jamie knocked on the door, and it took two or three minutes for the door to open from the inside.

The gray-haired old man looked at the stranger outside the door and was a little puzzled, waiting for Jamie to say hello before recognizing him.

"Jamie! I haven't seen you in a long time! The old man smiled and asked, "Is there something wrong with me?" ”

Jamie nodded, "Yes, I have something to ask you." Do you know Mary Shaw in small town nursery rhymes? ”

When these words came out, the expression of the old man who was originally smiling froze, as if he had thought of something bad, and his smile was gone, and he said slowly: "Oh, I know that nursery rhyme, it scares you." "I didn't say anything I wanted to invite them in, but now I just want them to leave quickly.

The Warrens saw the problem at a glance, they met too many people at work, and there were not a few who kept secrets and didn't dare to say anything.

"But it's true." Jamie said, his gaze pleading: "Someone brought Mary Shaw's puppet to my house......"

"Impossible!" The old man suddenly interrupted him: "Those puppets are buried!" After saying that, he knew that he had lost his words, but he really did not want to have anything to do with Mary Shaw's curse, so he retreated into the house in fear and closed the door by the way.

Seeing this, Jamie hurriedly stepped forward and knocked on the door, and the rapid knocking sound continued one after another, which made people's hearts beat when they heard it.

The old man behind the door just wanted to chase them away and said, "If you want to know, go to the funeral home, Mary Shaw and the puppets are buried by his family." ”

Jamie lowered his hand, and he could see in the old man's facial expression that he was jealous of Mary Shaw. Since he mentions "funeral parlors" and "burials", Mary Shaw is not a superstitious story.

She was real, even buried in the cemetery.

"Let's go! Go to the funeral home! ”