I lay on the bed and stared at the half-open door, stunned for a few seconds.
I clearly remembered locking the door before falling asleep. Why did the door open?
Could it be that Wu Yingxue is back?
Countless questions filled my brain. I got up in a daze and tiptoed toward the door.
The living room was empty, the surroundings were dark, and the only light source was the TV on the wall.
The TV picture was a blue screen with nothing on it, but the sound of "Bear Bears" was playing on the stereo.
My first reaction was: The TV is broken!
So he walked to the TV screen and slapped it down.
This is a unique method for Chinese people. If any electrical appliance does not work well, it can be cured with just one slap.
Relying on my "Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms", the screen flickered, and traces of snowflakes appeared on the blue screen.
When I saw it, there was something going on. I raised my arms and wanted to do it again.
While his palm was still hanging in the air, a strange picture popped up on the TV for no apparent reason.
A pale human face, with big black and bright eyes, almost touched the screen. It scared me so much that I jumped back a step.
I jumped, and the woman on the TV jumped back too, and then covered her chest.
No matter what movement I made, the women on TV followed suit.
I took a closer look and saw that this disheveled female ghost was me, wasn't it?
I couldn't laugh or cry, but I confirmed again and again that the person on TV was me!
This might be a TV with a camera. I slapped it down, accidentally touched some switch, and turned on the camera, which led to an unexpected incident.
What a false alarm...
I gasped secretly and was about to turn off the TV when my whole body froze.
On the TV, sitting on the sofa behind me, was a blue-gray child.
The child is only two or three years old, with a pair of eyes like a dog, glowing green in the dark...
"Ah..." I almost peed myself with fright, screamed and ran away.
Just after running two steps, I felt a sharp pain. I had a splitting headache and fell uncontrollably.
"Wen Xin, what's wrong with you?" Wu Yingxue's panicked voice woke me up.
I opened my eyes and saw myself lying under the bed, with my forehead in close contact with the floor. Only then did I realize that I had fallen out of bed!
The TV set and the slate-grey child were just a nightmare.
Wu Yingxue's bare feet quickly got out of bed and helped me up.
The moment it touched me, a biting chill ran through my skin.
It was like... suddenly touching the ice of the twelfth lunar month of winter. The skin shrank instantly, and even felt a little stinging pain.
I felt so uncomfortable that I instinctively shook her hand away: "I'm fine..."
Wu Yingxue didn't notice my resistance to her, so she reached over again and pulled me up from the ground.
"You have a swelling on your head, how can you be okay?" She helped me sit on the bed and touched the bulging bump on my forehead distressedly.
"Just wait, I'll go to the kitchen and get some lettuce oil for you to rub. It'll go away later."
Wu Yingxue's concerned look moved me a little, and my grandma's appearance appeared in my mind unconsciously.
When I was a kid, my grandma would apply vegetable oil or lard on the swollen areas when I fell down, and the swelling would subside quickly.
I originally thought that only our village knew this kind of earthwork, but I didn’t expect that Wu Yingxue also knew it.
"Thank you, Sister Xiaoxue." I sat on the bed, my head full of terrible dreams, and I hadn't fully recovered yet.
Wu Yingxue walked quickly toward the door with her long legs and slender limbs twisting.
A minute later, she took a cotton swab covered in vegetable oil and carefully applied it to me.
"Don't be afraid, it doesn't hurt..." She pouted her lips and blew me while applying oil.
My nose suddenly became very sour.
I thought that no one in this world would care about me so much.
I didn’t expect that Wu Yingxue, whom I had only known for two days, would care and love me so much like a biological sister.
For a moment, I didn't know what to say.
Seeing that my eyes were slightly red, Wu Yingxue looked a little unnatural and asked tentatively: "Were you okay last night? Did you have a nightmare?"
This short sentence brought me back to reality instantly.
No matter how stupid I am, I still noticed something strange about Wu Yingxue.
Her wandering eyes and frightened tone undoubtedly told me that she must know something.
Fortunately, I was so moved just now, but now I feel like I have fallen into an ice cave.
"Sister Xiaoxue, are you hiding something from me?"
I came straight to the point, which made her a little confused: "No... no, I was just asking casually. You seemed to have been talking in your sleep last night."
"Really?" I didn't expose her and didn't bother to talk. I got up and walked to the living room.
Somehow, I had a strong desire in my heart to watch it in front of the TV.
Everything about last night was too real to be a nightmare.
I approached step by step with anxiety. When I saw a palm print on the dusty TV, I was stunned!
This fingerprint is so thin and long that it is difficult for ordinary people to find it when it is photographed on the back of the TV.
But I saw it at a glance, because I took the photo myself!
I can't use any words to describe my mood at this moment.
Everything about last night is vivid in my mind, and I can't help but shudder when I think of that kid with gleaming eyes and blue body.
This house is not clean, there is a kid living in it!
My intuition tells me that the kid has something to do with Wu Yingxue.
I roughly guessed the origin of the little ghost. It was probably an aborted baby spirit.
This is Wu Yingxue's fault and has nothing to do with me.
But it shouldn't, it shouldn't, it shouldn't mess with me, and it dares to show up and scare me. Does it really think that I, Wen Xin, am a vegetarian?
I was furious, rushed into the kitchen angrily, reached out and grabbed a small handful of rice.
The snow-white rice grains were spread out in the palm of my hand, and I silently recited the formula my grandma taught me.
"The divine soldiers hurriedly followed my orders and gathered in front of the altar to drive away evil spirits. Thousands of evil spirits and ghosts have no escape. The bad luck dissipates and the spirit is refreshed..."
While I was reciting, I followed my grandma's example and threw rice on the ground around me.
This is a formula for exorcising evil spirits and sweeping the house. According to grandma, throwing rice will lead to thousands of troops. Wherever there is rice, no demons or ghosts will dare to stay for a long time.
But I have neither opened the altar nor have any troops. If the rice is spread, the effect will of course be greatly reduced.
I can only simply sweep the house and use rice as a medium to force the imps out.
I only focused on venting my anger, but forgot about the heart-to-heart connection between mother and child. Wu Yingxue immediately sensed something abnormal on the kid's side.
She frowned, her whole face wrinkled up in discomfort, and she was rolling on the ground in pain.
Seeing this, I quickly helped her up without caring about the rice in my hand.
Before she opened her mouth, Wu Yingxue raised her throat and screamed like a child: "It hurts, it hurts..."
My body felt numb all over, was it... upper body?
