Chapter 2: Evil Old Lady
I knew they were all dead, but I could see them, and when I first told my mother about it, she beat me and said that I was talking nonsense and that it would lead to bad luck, but when I saw more and more ghosts, I couldn't sleep all night, and my mother began to worry.
A person ran to the town to call Li Baohua (it was not good to call the villagers in the village to make them hear) Li Baohua told my mother that after I was seriously ill, I inadvertently opened my yin and yang eyes, and it was normal to see those things.
Mom asked if I could close it, and Li Baohua said no, it was more dangerous to close it, and it would kill me.
Mom came back from town in despair, and in the evening, Mom and Dad had a fight, the first time they had ever quarreled since they got married, and I knew it was because of me.
In the days that followed, the two of them often quarreled over my business, until something else happened. I remember it was a June day, and I was guarding the watermelons in the melon shed, and it didn't take long. I saw that the little tiger in the village secretly ran to my melon field to steal watermelons. I was silent until he plucked a watermelon before pounced.
Twisting his neck and collar, Xiaohu and I fought, but he was smaller than me, so naturally he couldn't beat me, and I kicked him down and pressed him into the mud and beat him until he wailed and begged for mercy.
After Xiaohu left, I guarded for a while, and saw that it was dark, so I packed up my things and walked back, and I felt that something was wrong while walking, and I couldn't find my way home in the fog, and after walking for a while, I found myself back in the melon shed, and walked three times in a row, all of which were like this, and the fourth time I walked a few steps, I saw an old lady with a cane walking across the road.
When the old lady got closer, I realized that it was Xiaohu's grandmother, and I remember that his grandmother died at the beginning of spring this year, and I also danced the dragon for her at that time (a funeral custom in the south), how could she be here.
The old lady walked up to me and said with an angry face: "Xiao Ming, who told you to beat my little grandson!" ”
The old lady's old face was already ugly, and when she was angry at this time, it looked very terrifying, and I was so frightened that my teeth rattled and I held back the fear in my heart and said: "Xiaohu, he stole my melon!" ”
"Oh! Steal a melon from your family, and you will kill him, you will beat him! Who let you fight! The more the old lady spoke, the more agitated she became, her whole face distorted, and her lips fell out, revealing a few sharp teeth. I turned around to run in fright, but the old lady grabbed me, grabbed me by the neck, lifted me up, and scolded in her mouth: "Dead boy, I let you bully my little tiger, I let you bully my little tiger!" ”
I felt difficult to breathe, and said in a loud voice: "Grandma, I know it's wrong, I'm so uncomfortable, let me go!" ”
"Hmph, then do you dare to bully Xiaohu in the future!" The old lady threatened me.
"Don't dare, don't dare!" I burst into tears and shook my head.
The old lady was satisfied, and walked slowly along the way she had come to her grave with a cane. I sat on the grass and gasped for breath for a while, and then my mind slowly recovered, and I thought in my heart with hatred: This dead old woman, who bullies the small with the big, will dig your grave when I grow up.
"Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming!" At this time, I suddenly heard a shout, which frightened me into softening again, and when I looked up, I saw my mother standing one meter in front of me, sweeping around with a peace electric phone, and crying and calling my name.
I replied weakly, "Mom, where am I?" ”
My words startled my mother, and then my mother told me that she had been going back and forth there for more than ten turns, but she didn't notice me, so how could she have thought that I would suddenly appear behind her?
My mother saw the finger prints on my neck and asked me what was the matter? I told her what had happened. My mother was very angry, ran to Xiaohu's grandmother's grave and scolded for half an hour before pulling me home, pointing to the ghost handprint on my neck and crying to my father: "The surname is Zhang, do you want to watch your son die?" ”
My father looked at the ghost handprint on my neck, and he was going to Xiaohu's house with a hoe at that time, but he was stopped by my mother, and the two discussed for most of the night, and finally made a decision: let me follow Li Baohua.
Afraid of being known, the ceremonies at that time were held in the middle of the night, Li Baohua (no, now it is my master) seemed very happy, ate the apprenticeship tea I handed over, and happily helped me up, and then I stayed at the master's house for a long time, claiming that I was following the master to learn to make medicinal candy, but in fact, I was learning the Yin Yang Taoism.
Master is a very kind person, he is very kind to me, to be honest, sometimes I feel that he is even better than my parents to me, I was self-willed at that time, I didn't study hard, now I think about it, I really regret it.
One day I asked about what had happened to me. Master told me that when I felt uncomfortable, it was a ghost pressing the bed, which wanted to suppress the yang energy in the human body, and then pull away my soul, as for the sedan chair, it was called the five ghosts carrying the sedan chair, which was a common means for ghosts to carry things.
I asked Master why he suddenly appeared at the foot of the mountain that night, and he said that it was a coincidence, that someone in the town ordered him a version of medicinal candy that day, and he didn't finish it until three o'clock in the afternoon, and when it was delivered at half past six, he had already run out of the car, so he had to walk back, and just in time to see me escape from the sedan chair carried by the five ghosts, he saved me.
As for who that Granny Zhou was, he refused to say a word.
I asked again, "Master, why do you know that I didn't come to my rescue when I was sick, because I suffered for so long in vain?" ”
Master pinched my nose and said, "What is that bowl of medicine you drank when you were drinking, I ran dozens of mountains to get it together, and the night before I gave you a dream, I stayed by the medicine stove to boil medicine!" ”
I was very moved. There's one thing Master didn't say - that's what I learned later. After the master rescued me, when I got home, I encountered a hundred ghosts haunting the house, and there was not a single poultry left in the house, such as chickens, ducks, dogs, etc., and I could hear the ghosts crying and wolf howls in broad daylight.
Because of this, Master's body has straddled, and he used to be able to walk more than ten villages with medicinal candy in half a day, but now he is out of breath when he turns two or three, but he has never regretted it.
In the blink of an eye, in 2014, half a year ago, my relationship with Master finally came out, because I was going to college, although it was not a good school, but it was far away from home, that night, Master and our family got together rarely, Master drank a whole bottle of 52 degree burnt knife, patted me on the shoulder and said: "I am a good apprentice, I am a college student, I can puff up my chest when I see Master Zu at this time, they have never accepted apprentices with such a high degree of education!" ”xh118