???????The moment I saw the corpse, I turned pale with fright. Grandma said that if you encounter a floating corpse, you must not go into the river no matter what. And when you encounter this kind of corpse walking in the river that looks like surrender? In addition to staying away from the river immediately? You have to run for your life!
Zhang Yidan followed my line of sight and saw the strange corpse that appeared quickly next to Huang Dong at some point. He immediately shouted: "Damn it? You are stupid, Huang Dong! Come up quickly! Didn't you see it?" Are there any dead bodies nearby?"
My friends were all frightened. Huang Dong was also pale-skinned. But his family lived near this river. Is this not the first time I have seen corpses floating on the river? Because he is the child king in the class? Huang Dong immediately said with a sullen face: "Coward Zhang Yidan? Are you saying that Dan is fat and bold? Why are you so afraid of death? You’ve never seen a dead body? Which month doesn’t one or two float by this river?”
As soon as he finished speaking, he watched helplessly as the friend next to him was pulled off the bottom of the water as if he had disappeared. A string of bubbles immediately appeared on the water!
Huang Dong was so frightened that his face turned green. He opened his mouth wide and was about to call for help. But he felt something grabbed his feet. A huge force pulled him into the water! He lives by the river. Isn't the water quality bad? At first, he thought it was just getting caught on the water plants. However, when he tried to paddle away, he was pulled down to the bottom of the water.
"Huang Dong!" Zhang Yidan was extremely loyal and saw his friend being pulled into the water. What can I not care about? I need to go into the water to save people immediately.
I stood on the water bank and watched helplessly as Huang Dong and his friends were dragged into the water by the strange corpse, but there was nothing I could do about it. There was no other way. The cold feeling behind his back became stronger again. It was almost an alarm.
"Yidan, don't die! Run! Come to the adults!" I picked up Zhang Yidan and ran away, because I had just seen the dark eyes of the strange corpse looking at me. If I stayed here any longer, I would definitely do it. Something unexpected happened!
Zhang Yidan was dragged away by me. Several friends didn’t even bother to save others. He cried for his life and ran with us. Finally, he found an adult on the shore. He also called the police.
I didn't dare to follow. Pointing to the place where he fell into the water from a distance? He even pulled Zhang Yidan and didn't let him go. Douli was bleeding.
The next day, the principal informed us sadly that Huang Dong and his friends had drowned. Then I heard from the adults that their eyes were open when they were fished out. The adults who went to fish them also died. One? It wasn't until the police came that the matter was settled.
Zhang Yidan and a few friends were all glad that they had saved their lives. Then they obeyed my words and did not dare to swim in the river again.
At that time, I was thinking: Could the reflection in the water pulling at the corner of my clothes be the child bride my grandmother married me?
Is she not a human being? But a ghost?
In order to understand my invisible sister-in-law, I began to be curious about my grandmother's magic at a young age. And in the following years, I studied all her old books. I read a lot about exorcising ghosts, attracting ghosts, and even A fresh and wonderful way to raise ghosts.
Although grandma knew that I was studying her stuff, she didn’t stop me for some reason.
But it's a pity that even if I knew these magics, I didn't have the opportunity to use them until I went to college and started working.
As for why? Maybe it was because there was no chance? Or maybe it was because I had an omnipotent grandmother in my life before? Now I have my invisible sister-in-law’s constant ‘early warning’ and I have become stagnant? So I didn’t use them. opportunity.
However, the techniques that should have been slowly forgotten over time, but with the death of my grandmother, I had to use them, and even caused a catastrophe because of it, slipping into what is called the 'ghost-raising way'. A ghastly profession.
July 16th of that year? I was in my twenties.
I received a letter from my grandma. The letter said that she would not survive July 14th. She also asked me not to go to the funeral, not to return to the village, to forget the people and things in the village, and not to come back until I die? So and so? Only then can you be safe and prosperous? Stable for the rest of your life.
The letter was forwarded to me by my mother? Calculating the specified date of the letter and the current day? If I believe what the letter says, my grandma has been dead for two days.
Unless someone sets a date for death? Or commits suicide? Only ordinary people can determine the date of death? In my impression, grandma is almost omnipotent? How could someone set a date for death?
Grandma lives in a remote place with no phone calls. My mother lives in the county and I often visit her. She is the only one who understands grandma’s current situation best.
So I didn't believe what the letter said. Instead, I dialed my mother's phone number with my mobile phone and told her the contents of the letter.
I asked about grandma’s current situation. For example, has grandma shown any signs of Alzheimer’s disease recently? Are relatives and friends in the village still well? Are there any conflicts between neighbors and grandma?
My mother received my call? She was surprised? But she didn’t take it seriously? She said she had just visited her grandmother a few days ago. She was in good health? She told her not to worry? When she came back, she gave her a cage of eggs and two bags of glutinous rice. The relationship with the neighbors was also good. When you say goodbye, do you look forward to seeing each other off with tenderness?
I frowned after hearing this. Suddenly I remembered my grandma’s dream the night before yesterday and felt uneasy.
In the latter half of the night on July 14th, I dreamed that my grandma came to see me. Her face was pale. On her shoulders sat a little girl in red with the same pale complexion. She smiled and kept waving to me, but she didn’t say a word.
I want to walk over, but my sister-in-law’s hand keeps holding me. I want to look back at her expression, but I can’t turn my head at all.
When I woke up, I was covered in sweat but felt inexplicably sad.
Over the past twenty years, have I always encountered danger? It was my wife and sister who made me turn danger into danger many times? What does the dream represent? What happened to grandma?
I read the letter over and over again. I thought about it for a long time and decided to go back to my grandma's house. I haven't gone back for nearly a year. Even if it's dangerous, I don't care so much.
Moreover, the handwriting in the letter was very sloppy. It was grandma's unique handwriting. There was an old yellow paper symbol hidden in it. There were brown and yellow writing on it.
I've seen this type of paper charm written in human blood that changes color over time.
In my early years, I often used my grandmother’s paper talisman books to play ghost drawing tricks, so I was very sensitive and familiar with these things.
After careful study, I even saw the function of this paper talisman. I had read about it in my grandmother's books before. It is called a 'tongyin talisman'. It wards off evil spirits and communicates with ghosts and gods.
The important thing is that it is written with the blood of the middle finger, which means "Zhe Yang Shou", so it is classified as a more domineering talisman. No one would draw or play with this kind of thing unless it is absolutely necessary.
Maybe it was grandma's message to tell me to avoid evil spirits and not to fly into flames. Or maybe it was just to protect the safety of the letter. But no matter what, this abnormal behavior made me worried.
In addition, the place where I currently work is a gallery in a shopping mall. Business is not booming. My boss often threatens to fire me because of my reticence.
This incident gave me an opportunity, so I didn’t explain anything, and I didn’t get the rest of my salary. When I returned to the rental house after work, I packed my bags and saluted, and got on the express bus back to my grandma’s house.
The place where my mother lives is in a different direction from the village where my grandmother lives? So I didn’t notify her about my return. In fact, I was also afraid that she would worry because my premonition this time was not good either.
This kind of premonition can be attributed to the sixth sense. It cannot be explained. It is often prescient.
There are only about 20 households in my grandmother’s village, which is what I call Xiaoyitun. It is located in the deep mountains and old forests, and is difficult to reach by means of transportation.
If you want to enter the village, you have to walk several kilometers of dirt road from Ganlong Village, so it will be difficult to walk on rainy days.
When I took a van and arrived at Ganlong Village, it was smooth sailing. It was not raining. It was just a bit foggy. The visibility was not high.
I looked at the electronic watch on my hand. It was 6 pm. The sky was not particularly ugly. It gets dark late in the south. It would be completely dark after eight o'clock. So according to the time period, if I entered my grandma's small village, it would be dark.
If grandma is okay? Then I can still have a hot meal.
Thinking like this, I picked up a simple package and headed towards the path to return to Xiaoyitun.
"Young man? It's so late? Are you going to Xiaoyitun?"
Looking at me walking along the remote road in the village? The old man who got out of the van asked me kindly.
"I'm visiting relatives."
"It's late? Why not stay one night in the village? This road is not very easy to walk at night." The old man reminded me, with hesitation on his face.
I know what he wants to say? Xiaoyitun has inconvenient transportation? Is it the last village on this land? People outside will not go in unless they are visiting relatives? In addition, my grandmother has a good reputation? Over time, some people say that Xiaoyitun is spooky? Are there unclean things? So at night, no matter how pressed for time or anxious about something, no one dares to walk on the night road in Xiaoyitun.
But that’s because they don’t know the situation in Xiaoyitun? After all, I lived there for most of my life. There is no one I don’t know in it. I remember that I used to study in the town. It was often five or six o’clock when I came back? Yitun? ** point is normal.
I'm young, I've never seen a real mandrill ghost, but I'm very brave. The key is that my grandma doesn't say anything when I walk at night. I'm used to it.
When the old man saw that I insisted on leaving, his expression didn't look like he was joking, so he didn't dare to say anything. In this land, no one likes to control others, especially those who want to go to Xiaoyitun.
Where is Xiaoyitun? Legend has it that it was before the founding of the People's Republic of China? There was a small town further inside Xiaoyitun? A plague took away all the living people? And Xiaoyitun couldn't even be called a village? It's just that Outside the small town, there was a righteous village where corpses were stored. It had been abandoned for countless years. It was not until my grandmother arrived there that Xiaoyi Village, a place with less than 20 households, came into being.
Of course, I also heard my neighbor, Mr. Zhang, talk about ancient times before, and I didn’t take it seriously.
The night is as cold as water? The path is narrow and difficult to walk.
The shrubs and woods are as dense as before. When the night wind blows, there is a rustling sound. The occasional night bird chirps, which is indescribably eerie.
On a foggy mountain road, you can't see anything clearly six or seven meters away. Even if an acquaintance comes walking towards you, if there are no footsteps, you can only see a shadow.
Sand? Sand? Sand.
I don’t know how long I walked. It sounded like footsteps? It also sounded like the sound of animals crossing the bushes. I don’t know when it started to sound around me. I am not a good man or woman. I stopped when I heard this sound. I was afraid that a mountain snake would borrow the road from the side, so I broke a branch in my hand.
But when I stopped, the sound also stopped. This surprised me. I remembered that my friends often teased me like this when I came back. A trace of amusement arose in my heart and I continued to walk.
After I started walking, the sound continued. I thought it could be that guy Zhang Yidan. This guy used to go out at night to catch voles when he was a child. He didn't forget to tease acquaintances when they walked at night? But now I heard He has a wife now? Shouldn't he be setting up a small stove for his wife today? She's out to catch mice, right?
Walking through the fog? While walking? A black figure blocked the middle of the road? I saw his back from a distance? His face darkened? Isn't this Zhang Yidan who played well in childhood?
