When I came to the yard, the woman was still crying quietly, but when I took a closer look, I found that she was not Liu Xiaoman's wife at all, but Liu Xiaoman's sister Liu Xiaoying.
Because Wang Dongyue and I occupied her room, this girl slept at a neighbor's house for the past two days. Why did she suddenly run home and cry in the middle of the night?
My first reaction was that she might have been bullied by a boy from the neighbor's house. This phenomenon is actually very common in rural areas. Usually, if she is bullied, she will be forced to marry in the end.
After all, remote rural areas like this are relatively conservative in this regard, and are also more demanding on women, with a strong emphasis on chastity.
This is actually not fair to women at all. It doesn’t matter if men mess around, but they require women to stick to their duties. Moreover, in this kind of place, women’s status has always been very low. Apart from maintaining chastity, their only use is Have a baby.
Moreover, most of the men in this village beat their wives, and they think it is normal.
So if you observe carefully, you will find a problem. The poorer and backward the place, the lower the status of women.
It can be seen that the development of an era is closely related to the degree to which women are respected.
I complained in my mind, and then stepped forward to ask Liu Xiaoying.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"I am cold."
Liu Xiaoying raised her head and looked at me with a pale face.
I was startled and took a step back.
Because Liu Xiaoying's face was obviously abnormal, and she was wearing a lot of clothes, and she said she was cold, it was obvious that something had hit her.
"Are you Liu Xiaoman's wife?"
After I came to my senses, I quickly frowned and asked her.
"Yes, I can't find Xiao Man, and I can't find my parents either."
Liu Xiaoying said and began to sob softly again.
"You don't know you're dead yet, right?"
I asked in a deep voice: "Then do you know where you have been during this time? What have you seen?"
"I...am I dead?"
Liu Xiaoying suddenly stopped crying, and then looked at me with those big, blank eyes.
"Yes, you are dead."
I nodded and said.
Although it was somewhat cruel to say this kind of thing, she would have to know it sooner or later and face the reality.
"I'm dead, I'm really dead..."
Liu Xiaoying began to mutter to herself, and her eyes became increasingly hollow.
"What have you seen during this time? Can you tell me about it?"
I saw that she seemed to be leaving soon, so I asked quickly.
"I saw a lot of people, but I didn't recognize them, and they were scary."
Liu Xiaoying said with some fear.
"Where did you see it?"
I quickly asked.
"It was in a village more than ten miles to the north. There were many people there. I was very scared, so I ran all the way back."
Liu Xiaoying said tremblingly.
"A village in the north?"
I raised my head and glanced in that direction, not knowing where it was?
But since Liu Xiaoying's soul was hooked there, it means that the ghost refiner should also be in that village.
"I have to leave, someone is calling me."
Liu Xiaoying said suddenly.
"Who called you?"
As soon as I heard this, I immediately became alert.
But Liu Xiaoying didn't answer me. She just rolled her eyes and fell down.
Obviously Liu Xiaoman's wife has left.
I quickly stepped forward to catch her, and then pinched her, but Liu Xiaoying was still unconscious and showed no sign of waking up.
This was caused by being possessed by ghosts and being invaded by Yin Qi, and he was probably in a coma for a period of time.
I looked around and felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
This girl definitely can't be carried back to the house where Wang Dongyue and I live. That would easily be misunderstood.
As for the village chief's house, it is definitely not suitable for it to be a mourning hall now.
So I thought about it, and finally I just held Liu Xiaoying and knocked open Liu Xiaoman's door.
Anyway, this was her brother's house, so it didn't matter. Besides, Liu Xiaoman's wife was gone, so he wouldn't encounter such an embarrassing scene if he lived alone.
Liu Xiaoman was very alert tonight. As soon as I opened the room, he immediately got up from the bed.
This made me somewhat surprised, because Liu Xiaoying had been crying in the yard for a long time before. Didn't he hear it if he was so alert?
"Your sister is possessed by a demon."
The room was dark, and I was afraid of scaring Liu Xiaoman, so I spoke first to let him know that I was human.
Then I put Liu Xiaoying on the bed and turned on the lights in the room.
Liu Xiaoman was so frightened that he shrank to the corner of the wall, then looked at Liu Xiaoying with some horror, and then at me.
"You don't have to be afraid. Your wife is in love with your sister, but she's gone now."
I glanced at him and comforted him.
"Really...really my wife?"
The expression on Liu Xiaoman's face couldn't tell whether it was fear or sadness. In short, his eyes were wide open and he still didn't dare to approach Liu Xiaoying.
"yes."
I nodded and said, "Go and get some rice wine for your sister to drink, so that she won't get yin energy entering her body and damage her yang energy."
Liu Xiaoman got off the kang and ran to the kitchen to find rice wine.
I lit a cigarette and sat on the kang to think for a while.
Liu Xiaoman's wife just said that there were many people in that village. I think the people she saw were not people at all, so the village must be unclean.
Inferring from this, the person who refines ghosts is probably not in Waping Village, but he must be refining ghosts and harming people in this village, because the formation of pulse gathering in the ancestral cemetery is definitely his method, and that There are also traces of him left on an old pear tree.
Just as I was thinking about it, Liu Xiaoman had already come in with rice wine.
"Actually, I heard it too."
Liu Xiaoman said, now he had obviously calmed down.
"Your wife's cry?"
I looked at him somewhat differently.
"Um."
Liu Xiaoman nodded and said, "I heard it, but I just didn't dare to go out."
"People and ghosts have different paths. It's best not to see each other."
I said, taking the rice wine from his hand, and then drank it for Liu Xiaoying.
Liu Xiaoman nodded, then held his right hand with his left hand, looked at Liu Xiaoying, then looked at me, and asked: "Is my sister okay?"
"It's okay. Let her have a good sleep and she'll be fine when she wakes up."
I said and handed him the bowl.
"Then...then I'll sleep next door?"
Liu Xiaoman said and motioned to the room opposite.
"No, just watch here, I have to go back to sleep."
I said and hurried out the door.
In the middle of the night, her sister and I were alone in a room. Wouldn't it be easy for others to misunderstand?
"This...I...I'm a little scared."
Liu Xiaoman chased him from behind. It seemed that he was indeed quite scared.
I opened my mouth and was about to say something to comfort him, when suddenly there was a muffled sound in the main room.
Only then did I remember that there were still people keeping vigil in the main room. Why didn't I hear any movement for such a long time?
