To be honest, I don't like cats. In comparison, I prefer dogs.
Dogs give me the feeling of loyalty and integrity, but cats are always yin and yang. This is why I can become good friends with Aunt Xu’s big dog, but I have to fight with her big cat every two days on average.
However, even though I don’t like cats, I don’t hate them, let alone fear them. But when the sound of "meow" came to my ears at this moment, from my tailbone along the spine to the top of my head, I had a feeling of hair standing on end. In this cold weather, it aroused sexy goosebumps all over my body. pimple.
Because of the meow, the sound was low and seemed to be suppressing the throat. Although it is not loud enough, in this small and quiet environment, every bit of volume is still penetrated directly into my eardrums. I was so frightened that I immediately took a few steps back towards the door, staring at the bed. When I stood still, a black shadow the size of a washbasin suddenly jumped out from under the bed very quickly. Before I had time to react, it passed under my crotch and followed the path of my crotch. The door behind me escaped.
Although I couldn't see clearly what the shadow was, combined with the cat meow I just heard, I thought it should be a cat. Could this be the old cat that Granny Yang said she had at home? Because it ran away so fast, when I turned around to see its whereabouts clearly, it was already gone.
When I turned my head and looked back, another "meow~~" sound suddenly came out. Perhaps due to preconceptions, I immediately focused my attention on the bed under the wooden bed. Could it be that there is a cat down there? The second meow heard at this moment was exactly the same as the first, which meant that the cat that escaped just now was not the one that meowed. The height of the bed board from the ground is about a foot and a half. If a person is lying on his side, he can get under the bed, let alone a cat. It is more than enough for ten cats. So I lowered my body and looked under the bed. I originally thought I would see a cat with glowing eyes squatting there, but instead I saw an old woman lying flat under the bed, her face facing my direction, expressionless, her eyes open. Her eyes were just staring at me. This old woman was none other than Granny Yang.
She just looked at me, then suddenly showed a weird smile, and then let out a nasal "meow~" from her mouth.
It turns out that the cat meow I heard just now was the meow learned by Grandma Yang. Although I am not very smart, I also know that an old woman of this age will never hide under the bed and imitate cat calls to scare people, so I know that Granny Yang must have something wrong with her. Because I was a little scared, I didn't directly pull Grandma Yang out from under the bed, but just looked at her. The cat's meow that Grandma Yang imitated has a strong nasal sound. Even if it is really a cat's meow, this meow is the kind of meow that a cat makes when it is a little angry and is about to arch its body and launch an attack. This can be proven from my rich experience in fighting the big tabby cat from Aunt Xu’s house.
But after calling this, Granny Yang's expression returned to calmness, and her eyes gradually closed. After more than ten seconds, there was no movement, as if she had fallen asleep. Is this sleepwalking? Although I have never seen a sleepwalker, I once heard Master describe that sleepwalkers look similar to awake people. They can see things and know whether there are obstacles around them. They turn their dreams into Personal action. Therefore, sleepwalking is a disease that can seriously cause schizophrenia, and if an aggressive person happens to have sleepwalking, it is actually a bit dangerous for the family. Grandma Yang's current appearance looks a bit like the sleepwalking that Master said.
Seeing that she was asleep, I slowly crouched closer. "Grandma Yang, Grandma Yang!" I shouted a few times softly, not daring to wake her up all of a sudden. For an old man of her age, it's better to be careful. After shouting a few times, Granny Yang shook her head slightly, and then made a hum sound from her nose, as if a person was about to wake up. So I reached out and patted her shoulder, and pushed her gently a few more times. This time she opened her eyes and looked at me with a confused look on her face.
I pretended to be calm and smiled and said to her, Granny Yang, why did you go under the bed to sleep? Come out quickly and be careful not to hit your head. Judging from Granny Yang's expression, she seemed to be wondering why she was sleeping under the bed, so she stretched out her hand and handed it to me, and I slowly pulled her out from under the bed. After helping her up, she Let her sit on the edge of the bed to rest.
After sitting down, Granny Yang was still at a loss, touching her forehead and looking around blankly. I told her that I came back with my master just now and found that you were not at home. I thought you had gone to the barren slope of the back mountain. My master even ran to look for you. Unexpectedly, you hid under the bed and fell asleep, haha. Ha ha. I told Granny Yang about her ridiculous behavior in a joking tone, trying to pretend to be relaxed so as not to make the elderly person afraid, but I still failed. Granny Yang heard what I said. After that, she suddenly came back to her senses and told me that she didn't climb in by herself, but she didn't know why she got in.
I told her, don't worry, think about it slowly. After I went out with my master just now, we asked you to sit on the chair. What did you do next? Grandma Yang thought hard for a while and said that she felt thirsty at that time, so she went to the kitchen to drink some water. Then after walking into the kitchen, I didn’t remember anything.
I looked back at the kitchen outside the door. It was almost 10 meters away from Grandma Yang's bed. If sleepwalking is because the body does what it was doing in the dream after falling asleep, then it must at least fall asleep first. There's no reason for Granny Yang to fall asleep immediately after walking to the kitchen, right? How can a person fall asleep standing up? It's not like a horse. And even if she falls asleep while standing, she still has to turn back and walk about 10 meters, then lie down flat, and then move herself under the bed little by little. Is this going to be very difficult for an old woman of her age? Would it be a little too incredible?
So I secretly paid attention and planned to check the kitchen carefully after the master came back. Because I think Grandma Yang is not sleepwalking, but is controlled by some kind of external energy. She is controlled by this energy when she loses her memory. Cats like to crawl under beds, and cats also like to wander around in the kitchen. In addition to Granny Yang’s weird meows, I guess that the energy that controls Granny Yang’s mind comes from a cat. .
This cat is most likely the old cat that has been missing from Grandma Yang's house for a long time. It can directly affect living people, which means that the old cat is dead. So the black shadow that came out from under the bed just now is probably the ghost of the old cat. The reason why I couldn’t see clearly the appearance of the black shadow was because the black shadow had no shape. It was just like me at Old Man Wang’s funeral a while ago. Yes, the same reason is true for those lonely ghosts caught in the back room.
When I think about this, I can basically conclude that this is a ghost thing. And since the opponent is a cat, it shouldn't be difficult to deal with. It's just that there may be no way to communicate and the only way is to capture it by force. So I helped Grandma Yang to the main room, then moved the water bowl on the table to the floor, and then used the quilt to fill Grandma Yang with a glass of water, telling her not to think about this matter, and to rest and drink some water first, while I Entering the bedroom again, he lay down and used a flashlight to observe the situation under the bed.
Since this bed is placed in a corner, the space under the bed has two walls. The house had red clay walls painted white, and the spider webs that had been formed under the bed over the years were particularly obvious against the white walls. Even a person who is not very hygienic would not just get in and lie down. However, I noticed a few details. First, there were many claw marks on the back of the bed board under the bed. It was not difficult to distinguish, just like the marks left when a cat used the bed board to sharpen its claws under the bed. But apart from the small details, In addition to the cat claw marks, there are also some thicker long claw marks in groups of three.
I stretched out my hand to touch the claw marks, and then used my own hand to mark the mark. It matched the shape of my hand, so I thought that this type of claw mark was made by someone. But judging from the freshness of the traces, it was not just caught today, which means that this is not the first time that Granny Yang got under the bed.
This guess was confirmed by subsequent discoveries, because it is usually easy for dust to accumulate under the bed, but the ground under this bed is relatively clean. It feels like the original dust has become much thinner after being wiped away by something. But when I helped Granny Yang out just now, I wanted to help her dust off her body, but I didn't find much dust. In addition, after Grandma Yang lay down, there were several obvious footprints on the wall in the direction of her feet. This kind of footprint is not the shoe print made by wearing shoes, but the sole print of bare feet. But when I pulled Grandma Yang out from under the bed, she was wearing shoes and socks.
These clues indicate that Granny Yang might often lie under the bed like this, and sometimes she would lie in there without wearing shoes or socks while sleeping. Those foot prints are the best proof. This is not the first time that this happened, but it started to happen before Master and I came, or even half a year ago as Granny Yang herself said.
As for why she doesn't remember what happened every time she wakes up, it's most likely that after she fell asleep, she got out of bed, lay down under the bed, and then returned to her bed before waking up. .
Could it be that he is possessed by a cat?
