This happened suddenly. I quickly lowered my head to look at my feet, only to find that there was nothing next to my feet. I lifted up my trouser leg and saw that there were no obvious scars on the place where I had been in pain just now, but the pain was still continuing. So I reached out to touch it and found that there were two inexplicable fingers on the back of my ankle, about two fingers apart. There is obvious pain when touching the skin.
I'm wondering what's going on. Is it because I'm mentally uncoordinated? But the pain soon disappeared, leaving me squatting on the ground with a puzzled look on my face.
The young man saw me squatting and not moving, so he turned around and asked me what was wrong. I said it was nothing, because I really didn't know what to say, so I stood up and had the opportunity to take a closer look at their "dormitory".
This is a typical southern house. The whole house is in the shape of a courtyard, but only three sides have rooms, and the remaining side is a wall with only one door. There is a small circle in the middle, and there is a well in the corner of the yard, but it is said that it has been filled with dry water and then sealed. There are some ropes hanging here and there in the yard, and the washed clothes of the educated youth are hung on them. Judging from the style of the clothes, there are men and women, indicating that men and women live together in this dormitory. It's just that there were several people living in each house, and the social atmosphere at that time was relatively strict, so there must have been no immoral things happening. The house is a single-story structure, and the slogan "Fight local tyrants, fight against evil gentry, and divide the land!" is written on one of the outer walls. The rooms have wooden doors, but the windows are made of carved wood. There are some traditional Chinese story patterns engraved on it, such as "Returning a Peach to a Girl", "Zhang Liang Picking Up Shoes", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Twenty-Four Filial Piety" and other patterns. However, I noticed that almost all the characters in the carvings have no heads.
Rather than saying that it has no head, it is better to say that the head has been knocked off or dug out. Under the ideological trend of the Great Revolution, these old things are cancers from feudal society and stumbling blocks on the way forward of socialism, and will be eradicated one by one. Moreover, the traces on the fracture surface are still relatively new, indicating that it has not been around for a long time. Maybe it was done by an educated youth who currently lives here. When I thought about this, I secretly decided to be careful and not let anyone else except this young man know my identity until absolutely necessary.
Judging from the antique carvings on the windows and the brackets on the corner of the eaves, this small courtyard must have existed in the local area for at least a hundred years, and it was considered a wealthy family in the village long ago. Judging from the slogan on the wall, this house should have been occupied during the land reform period, which was the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. However, judging from the level of dilapidation, it seems that no one has lived here for many years. Even the wires on the walls are temporarily new. Most likely, this group of educated youths temporarily arranged to live here when they came.
After entering the house, my idea was confirmed, because there were torn off but not clean printed paintings on the wall. Judging from the style of the paintings, they were also produced before liberation. There is always a strange smell in the room of the male educated youth, like the smell of fart mixed with the smell of feet. The bed was also messy, which was totally different from girls. I've been to Ji Youan's house before, and I've also walked to the door of Meng Dongxue's room. Everything inside was clean, and there was an indescribable fragrance in the air. Even the main room where I sleep looks much cleaner than this male educated youth dormitory.
The young man pointed to the bed next to the door and told me that this was his bed. It was where he saw the levitating female ghost that night when he was sleeping there. I looked carefully and saw that his bed was against the outer wall, and there was the carved window on the wall. So I asked him about the time he was awakened by a female ghost at night. Did he close the windows when he went to bed that night? He said no, because the weather was getting hotter and opening the windows would provide better ventilation. While other educated youths were working, I lit a stick of incense beside my bed, let the smoke drift away, and looked for the air inlet and outlet of the room.
The smoke went towards the door, but ended at the window, which showed that the window on the young man's bed was indeed the main channel for air to enter. And at the same time, it might be possible to bring some other things into the house. So I asked him, when you sent the female ghost home that night, did you reach out and touch her body on the way? The young man thought for a while and said that it seemed that he only reached out to help her when she was helping her down the hill, and nothing else seemed to matter. I asked him again, did you feel any different when you were supporting her?
The young man shook his head and said that he didn't feel it at all. It didn't come into direct contact with his skin, but it was through his clothes. There was nothing special about it. I asked again, what kind of material are those clothes made of? He said it looked like ordinary red fabric and felt a little soft, more like a gauze scarf. I nodded and explained that since this female ghost had appeared in this room before, there must be some traces of her presence in this room, so I asked the young man to bring me a bowl of water. I started practicing the water method of round light.
I thought that the young man in front of me had probably never seen these techniques of mine before, so he opened his mouth slightly and stared intently, as if he was very curious. So I began to feel a little proud. I could obviously complete the talisman burning action in one go, but I was stunned. I waved the talisman in big circles in front of my chest several times and hummed hummingly, looking mysterious and mysterious. . After the spell burned out in the water bowl, the paper ashes slowly sank from the surface to the bottom of the water, and then gradually condensed and formed a shape at the bottom of the white bowl.
It was extremely obvious that a pair of scissors appeared in the image. This basically confirms what the young man said before. According to his shape, after the female ghost took off the handkerchief, the entire lower half of her face was bloody and bloody, with many wounds and blood gushing out. Half of the tongue in her mouth has fallen off, and the scissors appearing in the bowl at this moment are saying that this is the murder weapon that caused this female ghost to be in such a tragic state? And the female ghost was in this state when she appeared. Could it be that she died because of this?
According to common sense, the tongue is a tool for eating and speaking. Many people think that biting the tongue can commit suicide, but in fact, very few people bite the tongue and die. Most people who bite their tongues to death do so because they bite a large artery and lose too much blood, or they bite off the root of their tongues, causing choking and suffocation. According to what the young man said, female ghosts have half a tongue. In fact, apart from knowing In addition to being in great pain, at most I couldn't taste food or speak. This is especially true on the face. The skin outside the mouth is like a rubber ball. If it is broken or punctured, it will only cause air leakage. Although such an injury looks miserable, it is not serious. The point of death. So if the cause of death of the female ghost is not like this, then what is the reason? After all, judging from what the young man said, there seemed to be no other obvious injuries elsewhere.
I asked the young man to see if he could recall more details, but he couldn't think of anything else. There is no evidence. If I rely solely on my guess, Qimi's answer may not be accurate. Because asking questions is based on the premise that I assume that a phenomenon or situation really exists, the conclusion will be true. The biggest question that bothers me now is why the female ghost keeps pestering this young man who has just arrived in the village again and again.
My thinking began to fall into a bottleneck state, and I summoned soldiers and horses to search, but the smoke of the incense of soldiers and horses circulated around the room for a few times and then dispersed. That was a sign that I had not found the result. The young man probably knew that I was hungry too, so he went to cook some porridge. After I drank two bowls, I continued to search around the entire yard. An afternoon passed, but I found nothing.
This inevitably made me a little anxious. At about 7 o'clock in the evening, the educated youths living in the courtyard came back one after another. Everyone was talking and laughing. The noisy environment made it even more difficult for me to think calmly. So I whispered to the young man, "When your roommate sees me later, don't tell me what I'm here for!" He said don't worry, I will tell them that you are a villager from the neighboring village and play well with me, so I invited you to come and play.
Educated people are indeed different. After hearing that I was a villager in a neighboring village, everyone was very hospitable and called me "fellow villager" one after another. After dinner, all the educated youths in the courtyard sat together, exchanging their labor experiences and learning the instructions in the Little Red Book. They were all very motivated. I was also invited to join them, but I said nothing. , I wonder if these children would directly tie me up and criticize me if they knew my true identity.
At about 11 o'clock in the evening, everyone went back to sleep. Since I arrived unexpectedly, there was no place for me to sleep in the house. The young man hadn't slept for two days, and he would probably fall asleep as soon as he lay down on the bed. And I do need to stay here for one night. If the female ghost has appeared in that way before, it is very likely to appear again. But the young man's bed was not very big, so we had to squeeze together, and I slept on the side against the wall.
The young man seems to be a little afraid of sleeping. He always feels that the female ghost will come to him as soon as he falls asleep. Although I have been telling him not to be afraid of so many people here, I am still here. He was still taken aback. As long as there is a little noise, he will wake up immediately, and then reach out to touch me.
I didn't care about him taking advantage of me. At about one o'clock in the night, I felt sleepy due to excessive boredom and fell asleep quickly. But when I was drifting into sleep, I suddenly felt a cold feeling coming from my forehead to the bridge of my nose.
This feeling is very much like someone putting a popsicle in front of you and blowing on you...
