Chapter 2: Night Road
The moment I saw the corpse, I was so scared that my face was pale. Grandma said that when I encountered a floating corpse, I could not go down the river no matter what. When I encountered such a corpse that seemed to be walking in the river like a surrender, in addition to staying away from the river immediately, I also had to run away from the river immediately!
Zhang Yidan followed my sight and saw the strange corpse that appeared quickly beside Huang Dong at some point. He immediately shouted: "Mom, you are stupid Huang Dong! Come up quickly! Didn't you see a dead body next to you!"
The friends were all scared, and Huang Dong was also pale, but his family lived near this river. It was not the first time he had seen floating corpses floating on the river. Relying on his role as the king of children in the class, Huang Dong immediately said boldly with a frown: "The cowardly Zhang Yidan, he also said that the eggs are so fat and bold, why are they so afraid of death? Haven't you seen a dead body? In a month, there has not been one or two of them floating in this river?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he watched the little friend next to him be pulled off the bottom of the water as if he had disappeared, and a bunch of bubbles immediately appeared on the water surface!
Huang Dong's face turned green with a scared look. He opened his mouth wide and was about to call for help, but he felt that something had grabbed his feet and pulled him into the water with a huge force! He lived by the river, and the water was of great quality. At first, he felt that he was just letting the water plants catch it, but when he wanted to escape, he pulled it down to the bottom of the water. [Ran^Wen^Book Library]
"Huang Dong!" Zhang Yidan was very loyal. Seeing that his friend was pulled into the water, he instinctively didn't care about anything and immediately went into the water to save the person.
I watched Huang Dong and his friends pull the strange corpse into the water, but there was no way. Except for the lack of help, the cold feeling behind me became stronger again, which was almost an alarm.
"Yidan, don't die! Run! Go and find an adult!" I pulled Zhang Yidan and ran away because I had seen the strange corpse's black eyes just now. If I continued to stay, something unexpected would definitely happen!
Zhang Yidan was dragged away by me. Not to mention the few friends went to save people, they ran with us crying and finally found the adults on the shore and called the police.
I didn't dare to follow me, and pointed at the place where I fell into the water from afar, and even pulled Zhang Yidan and didn't let him go.
The next day, the principal informed us in pain that Huang Dong and his friends were drowned. Then I heard from the adults that when they were fishing, both of them were open with their eyes open, and one of the adults who went to fish for them was also dead. It was not until the police arrived that the incident calmed down.
Zhang Yidan and a few friends were all glad that they saved their lives, and then they obeyed me and did not dare to swim in the river again.
At that time, I thought, the reflection in the water pulling the corner of my clothes would be the child bride that my grandmother married me?
Is she not a human, but a ghost?
In order to understand my invisible daughter-in-law and sister, I began to be curious about my grandmother's magic at such a young age, and in the following years I studied all her old books and read many new and wonderful ways to exorcise ghosts, attract ghosts, and even raise ghosts.
Although my grandmother knew that I was studying her stuff, she didn't stop me for some reason.
Unfortunately, even though I knew these magical techniques, I didn’t have the opportunity to use them and verify them until I went to college and joined the work.
As for why, maybe there is no chance, or maybe it was because I used to have an omnipotent grandmother in my life, and now I have become a 'warning' of my invisible daughter-in-law and sister, so I have no chance to use them.
However, the magic that should have been forgotten over time has forced me to use them with my grandmother's death, and even caused a disaster, sliding towards the gloomy profession called "Ghost Raising".
On July 16th that year, I was in my twenties.
I received a letter from my grandmother, which said that she would not live on July 14th, and told me not to attend the funeral, not to go back to the village, forget the people and things in the village, and not to come back even if I die. In this way, I can be safe and safe for the rest of my life.
The letter was forwarded to me by my mother, and calculated based on the specified date of the letter and the current day. If I believe what was said in the letter, my grandmother has passed away for two days.
Unless someone decides the death date or commits suicide, ordinary people can determine the death date. In my impression, my grandmother can do almost everything. How can she set the death date for someone?
Grandma lives in remote places and does not have a phone call. Her mother lives in the county and often visits her. Only she understands her current situation best.
So I didn't believe what was said in the letter, but instead dialed my mother's phone and told her the content of the letter.
I asked my grandmother’s recent situation, such as whether her grandmother had signs of Alzheimer’s disease recently, whether her relatives and friends in the village were still in good condition, and whether there were any conflicts with her neighbors.
My mother was surprised when she received my call, but she didn't agree. She said that she had just visited my grandmother a few days ago. She was in good health and had no worries. When she came back, she gave her a bag of eggs and two bags of glutinous rice. Her neighborhood relationship was also good. When she said goodbye, she gave her a gift and was very warm.
After hearing this, I frowned and suddenly remembered my grandmother's dream the night before, and I felt uneasy.
In the second middle of the night of July 14, I dreamed that my grandmother came to see me. She looked pale and a little girl in red with an equally pale face sat on her shoulder. She smiled and waved to me, but didn't say a word.
I wanted to walk over, but my wife and sister kept holding me with her hands. I wanted to look back at her expression, but I couldn't turn my head at all.
When I woke up, I was covered in sweat, but I was inexplicably sad.
For more than 20 years, I always encounter danger. It is my wife and sister who made me turn bad luck into good luck again and again. But what does dream mean? What happened to my grandmother?
Looking at the letter repeatedly, I thought about it for a long time and decided to go back to my grandmother's house. I haven't been back for nearly a year. Even if it is dangerous, I don't care about so much.
Moreover, the characters in the letter are very sloppy, which are unique to grandma's handwriting. There is an old yellow paper talisman with brown and yellow characters on it.
I have seen this type of paper talisman, written in human blood, and the color has changed over time.
In my early years, I often used tricks of ghost drawing talismans with my grandmother's paper talismans, so I was very sensitive and familiar with these things.
After careful study, I even saw the function of this paper talisman. It was something I read from my grandmother's books before. It was called the "Tongyin Talisman". It avoids evil spirits and connects with ghosts and gods.
What’s important is that it is written with the essence and blood of the human middle finger, which reduces life, so it is classified as a more domineering talisman. No one will draw or play with such things unless it is absolutely necessary.
Maybe it was my grandmother's meaning that I could avoid evil spirits and not fly to the fire, or maybe it was just to protect the safety of the letters, but in any case, this abnormal behavior made me worry.
In addition, the place where I work now is a shopping mall gallery, and the business is not prosperous, and the boss often threatens to fire me because of my taciturnity.
This incident gave me an opportunity, so I didn't explain anything and didn't get the rest of my salary. When I got off work and returned to the rental house, I packed up the gift and took the express bus back to my grandma's house.
The place where my mother lives is different from the village where my grandmother lives, so she was not notified of her when she went back. In fact, I was also afraid that she would worry because my premonition was not very good this time.
Premonition can be attributed to the sixth sense, and cannot be explained, and it is often prescient in the dark.
Grandma's village has only more than twenty families, which is what I call Xiaoyitun. It is located in the deep mountains and forests, and it is difficult to reach the transportation.
If you want to enter the village, you have to walk several kilometers of dirt road from Zhuanglong Village, so it is difficult to move forward when it rains.
When I turned to the van to Zhuanglong Village, it was smooth sailing. I didn’t hit the rainy day, but the fog was a bit heavy and the hazy visibility was not high.
I looked at the electronic watch on my hand and it was not particularly ugly at 6 pm. It was dark in the south and it would not be completely dark after 8 o'clock. So according to the time period, if I enter my grandmother's small village, it may be just dark.
If my grandma is fine, I can still have a bite of hot rice.
Thinking of this, I carried a simple package and headed towards the small road to return to Xiaoyitun.
"Young man, it's so late, are you going to Xiaoyitun?"
Watching me walk along the remote path in the village, the old man who got out of the van kindly asked me.
"I'll visit relatives."
"It's too late, why not stay in the village for one night. This road is not easy to walk at night." The old man reminded me, and there was a feeling of hesitation on his face.
I know what he wants to say. Xiaoyitun is inconvenient transportation and is the last village in this land. People outside will not go in without visiting relatives. In addition, my grandmother is famous. Over time, some people say that Xiaoyitun is gloomy and has unclean things. So at night, no matter how hurry or anxious things are, no one dares to walk on the night road of Xiaoyitun.
But that was because they didn’t know the situation of Xiaoyitun. After all, I lived there for most of my life, and there were no people I didn’t know. I remembered that I used to study in the town, and when I came back, it was often five or six o’clock. It would be normal to go back to Xiaoyitun again.
I am young and have never seen a real mandrill ghost, so I am very brave. The key is that my grandmother doesn’t say anything when I walk at night, and I am used to it.
When the old man saw that I insisted on leaving, his expression was not like a joke, he didn't dare to say anything else. No one liked to control others in this land, especially those who wanted to go to Xiaoyitun.
Where is Xiaoyitun? Legend has it that before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a small town walking inside of Xiaoyitun. A plague took away all living people, but Xiaoyitun could not even call him a trunk. It was just a charity house outside the town that was abandoned for countless years. It was not until my grandmother arrived there that Xiaoyitun, a place with less than twenty households, was found.
Of course, I was also the one who heard from my neighbor Zhang talk about ancient times, but I didn’t take this matter seriously.
The night is as cool as water, and the path is narrow and difficult to walk.
The shrubs and forests are as dense as before. When the night wind blows, there is a clamor, and occasionally the night birds are singing, which is indescribably gloomy.
The foggy mountain road is so 6 or 7 meters away that I can’t see anything clearly. Even if an acquaintance comes to me, if there is no footsteps, I will see a shadow.
Sand, sand, sand.
I don’t know how long I walked, but it sounded like footsteps or the sound of animals crossing the bushes. I don’t know when it started to ring by my side. I am not a kind man and a woman. I stopped when I heard this sound, for fear that the mountains, wild grass snakes borrowed the road from the side, so I broke a branch in my hand.
However, when I stopped, the sound also stopped, which surprised me. I remembered that when I came back, my friends often teased me like this. I felt a little more interesting in my heart and continued to take steps.
After I walked around, the sound continued to ring. I thought it was Zhang Yidan, who often came out to catch field mice when he was a child. When he met an acquaintance, he still didn't forget to tease him when he walked at night. But now he heard that he has married a wife now. Could it be that he would give his wife a small meal and come out to catch mice today?
Walking through the fog, while walking, a black figure blocked the middle of the road. When I saw his back from afar, my face darkened. Isn’t this Zhang Yidan, who had a good time when he was a child?
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Chapter completed!