Chapter 12: The Soul of the Dry Well
Sister Juanzi's son's soul was reincarnated after I was overtaken by me, and I felt deeply guilty in the face of a woman whose heart was as cold as ice and my body and mind were afraid of ashes. Alas, a clear lantern accompanies a lifetime, such as reciting Buddhist scriptures in front of you, this is a person's fate, and no one can change it. This incident has passed, but my heart is still very sad, and I always feel sorry for her.
My aunt's family lives in a remote mountain village in the mountains of Saibei, but because of the perennial drought, the economy there has never been much development. Young people choose to go out and settle down, leaving only some elderly people. "Xiaolong, you sit there first and drink some water. Auntie will cook for you. My aunt said to me kindly: "Oh, my eldest nephew, I haven't been to my house for a few years, and my aunt will get you some delicious drops today." So saying, the old lady put on the patched apron and walked to the outhouse.
"Auntie, why are you busy?" I shouted anxiously, "Isn't it still early before noon, you can talk to me for a while." I saw my aunt smile and said, "Didn't you live in my house for a while, you have a lot of time to chat." Saying that, my aunt walked outside the house, and I saw my aunt walking out of the courtyard with a pair of iron buckets hanging on a flat pole.
"Hey, my aunt will wait for me for a while!" I ran out of the door and shouted to my aunt, "You are so old, you still have to carry water to eat every day, or let me help you pick it." As he spoke, he took the flat burden from his aunt's shoulder.
"Oh, nephew, why am I embarrassed to let you choose!" The old aunt said politely: "You see that you have just escaped death and finally survived, and your body has not recovered yet, so let me choose." "My aunt said that she was going to take the flat burden from my hand.
"Auntie, what are you doing? You see I've got a serious illness, just a little bit. I said anxiously: "It's okay, I'm strong, a big man, I can't even pick up water, I can't do anything else!" I looked at my aunt's kind face, and thought to myself, why is my aunt's life so miserable! Is it true that people in this world, good people, are all so miserable? This series of questions came to my mind again, and I only shook my head and said: Alas, if I can't figure it out, I don't want to. After saying that, he carried the bucket and followed the old lady to the well in the east of the village.
Because my aunt's house is far away from the city and surrounded by mountains, this place is located in a windy and sandy area, the economy is backward, and the dirt road outside the village is also unavoidable. I followed along the dirt road in the village, looking at my aunt alone, my heart was full of sadness, and I was speechless.
"By the way, Xiaolong, I just heard you say to yourself that I can't figure it out, I don't want to, do you have anything on your mind?" The old aunt asked me curiously: "Nephew, the old aunt is not an outsider, if you don't understand anything, just ask the old aunt, the old aunt must be a person from the past." I thought to myself that even if you were a person from here, you didn't turn back and forth from the road of life and death like me, I just smiled and said, "No, auntie, you are thinking too much." I saw my aunt look at me curiously and said, "Okay, don't say it, you young people think differently from us old people, and recently I found that since you have a serious illness, it seems like a different person." "The two of us chatted and unconsciously came to the well.
"Don't forget to dig the well!" the old lady looked at the well and sighed, "Alas! This well is not easy to say." Of course, in order to get clean water, our village mobilized the people to dig this well, and that's how your old uncle lost his life, but unfortunately I was only 30 years old, alas! I finally pulled your cousin Rong Rong up, thinking that I could enjoy two days of happiness, but I didn't expect that a year ago, your cousin was nowhere to be seen. This girl is really unfilial, where did she go?" the old aunt said with a sad face.
Yes, my aunt's life is not good enough, and my uncle is gone. My cousin also disappeared inexplicably, and there has been no news so far, which is really worrying. Sui, my aunt's hair has turned white for more than a year. It was as if he had changed into a different person, and I sighed when I thought of this.
"Auntie, I still say the same thing, don't think about it if you can't figure it out, the world is like this, if you don't figure it out, you can't figure it out even if you have gray hair. I saw my aunt with a sad face and comforted: "Some things are determined by heaven, the so-called saying is that it will not be time, and it will be solved naturally when the time comes." I saw my aunt hanging the bucket on the wheel, but I could hear a pop! This place is so dry, how can there be so much water in this well, is it because the water level is high? I looked at the well and wondered, only to see the water in the well splash on my face.
Wow, why does this water stink so much, and the smell of blood in the well is coming to my nose. I pinched my nose and closed my eyes, only to see a woman in the well with blue eyes, and said to me in a terrible voice: "I died so unjustly!" This sound made me suddenly creepy, and I was so frightened that I immediately raised my head and said loudly: "Auntie, this water can no longer be eaten." As he spoke, he dragged his aunt towards home.
"Alas, what are you dragging me for!" the old lady shouted loudly as she broke free from the well, "What the hell is your child doing today! We have been eating this well for half our lives, and we have nothing to do." "I couldn't help but drag my aunt back to the house.
"Auntie, you must go to that well to fetch water. I looked at my aunt and said seriously: "Auntie listen to me, I won't hurt you." "You said you weren't allowed to go to the well to fetch water, so why don't we cook?" The old aunt said impatiently: "What the hell is wrong with you child!" "Don't go if you don't let you go, aunt!" I said solemnly: "This is good for you, otherwise your life is in danger!" The old aunt looked at me with a blank look and said with fear: "Is it so evil?" After speaking, she looked at me with a somewhat frightened expression.
"Auntie, you are waiting for me at home, I will go and you buy water!" I ran out the door. "Hey, I said where are you going to buy water, come back quickly!" the old aunt looked at me running out of the village with a blank face.
The water in this well should be said to be clear to the end according to the time, why does it look red, and there is a fishy smell. I sat in the car and thought about the well while looking out the window. I suddenly remembered an incident that happened before, that is, those old people threw dead pigs and rotten dogs into the river, and this is the smell of animal carcasses when they decomposed.
That's wrong, why do I close my eyes and use it, when I have yin and yang eyes, I can always see a soul of injustice. It is said that the death of animals should be natural deaths, and there should be a special yin to pick them up. Even if the animals are unjustly killed, they are killed by the butcher and eaten for meat, and they can't look for me! Thinking of this, my mind lit up, and the answer to this question was finally found, that is, the unjust soul in the well is the person who killed the person! "I figured it out, there is a grievance in the well, it must be the person who was killed and thrown into the well!" As soon as my words fell, I saw the eyes of the people in the car look at me.
"Oh, Xiaolong, why are you coming back now!" The old aunt looked back at the door and asked anxiously, "What did you do?" Looking at the anxious appearance of the old aunt, I replied with a smile on my face: "Auntie, we don't need to fetch water, I bought the water back." After speaking, I smiled and pointed with my hand, only to see a strong man from a neighboring village carrying more than a dozen buckets of water and falling into the water tank of my aunt's house.
"Ahem, I said you kid, why are you like this?" the old aunt said babblingly: "Our village is not without water, what are you spending that unjust money for?" I saw the old aunt smirk and laughed twice. The night in my aunt's countryside is very beautiful, although it is not as quiet as in our city, but it is much quieter than the night in our city.
The people of the village are sleeping at home, in their own homes. My aunt cooked a pot of hot porridge, put the vegetables boiled in the pot and brought it up, and a fragrant smell came to my nose. "Auntie, the food you cook is so fragrant, I really love to eat it. I said happily, "If only you could cook for me every day." "Yes, as long as you stay at my house for a few more days, my aunt will cook for you every day." After speaking, the old lady looked at me and smiled.
Due to the backwardness of the countryside, the phenomenon of power outages at my aunt's house is no longer strange. "Huh, there's a power outage again. The old aunt complained and said, "Hey, take the wax!" The old aunt picked it up and went to the cabinet to look for the candle, only to see a gust of wind rushing over my face, and a miserable voice sounded in my ears: "Cousin, I died so unjustly!" My heart suddenly stirred and shouted: "Who, who are you?" I saw the old aunt light the candle and look at me in surprise. My aunt put the lit candle in front of the table, and the dim candlelight shone in front of me, and the gust of wind blew in front of the candlelight, and the candlelight flickered in the light.
"Hey, this window is closed, where does the wind come from!" The old aunt asked in surprise: "Xiaolong is tired, then you have to finish eating and then sleep!" The old aunt looked at me with her eyes closed and looked at me in surprise. "Before opening the Yin and Yang Eyes, Xiao Long must close his eyes, because people can only see the unjust souls with heavy Yin Qi when they are sleeping or closing their eyes. "This is the advice that my mentor King Chang Ancestor gave me, and it is also the spell he gave me.
After this miserable sound, the light in front of me turned red and black. Signaling the soul to suck the candlelight into the face, there was a whimpering and miserable sound, and the old aunt screamed in fright: "Xiao Long, come with me to that house, this house is not clean!" I saw that the old aunt was so frightened that she hid in that room, and I became dark in this room, and an unkempt hair, pale face, bloodless face, bleeding from seven orifices, and flashing blue fierce light stood in front of me.
"Who are you, why did you come to my aunt's house to make trouble!" I closed my eyes and asked angrily, "You don't know how powerful I am, do you?" I saw the unjust soul standing in front of me, blood flowed from his eyes, and he cried and said: "Cousin, I am your cousin Rongrong, I died so miserably, you must avenge me!" After my cousin finished speaking, she shook in front of me and shook in the wind.