I can't describe how I feel now, I just know that my mind has gone blank.
I don’t know if you have ever seen a wooden man with your own eyes, not the one on TV, but the one right in front of you in real life. His eyes are blank and his mouth is open. He doesn’t look like a wooden man. , but more like a ---- corpse!
That's right, it's a corpse! Even the color of his skin is the kind of gray that only a dead person would have.
But that's not what scares me the most. What I'm most scared of is Mr. Wang carrying this wooden man!
The light in the main room was so dark that I couldn't even carve out a wooden figure exactly like me, or carve out a human shape with an axe.
But Mr. Wang not only did it, he also carved it so lifelike that even I couldn't notice any difference when I looked at it. What's more important is that I have never shown such a frightened look in front of Mr. Wang, but Mr. Wang cut it out exactly as if he had seen me look frightened countless times.
How could such a person not scare me?
I was so frightened that I stood motionless in the main room. Mr. Wang didn’t realize it until he ran to the courtyard door. He turned around and there was a loud bang. The wooden man’s head on his shoulder hit the door frame hard. dispatched.
This sound was like a hammer in the cage on his back, hitting my head so hard that I almost lost my balance and fell to the ground.
But Mr. Wang looked indifferent and shouted at me, "Why don't you leave quickly and stand there waiting to die?"
Only then did I come to my senses and hurriedly followed.
When I got to him, he stopped me and asked me, how many horoscopes do you have on your birthday?
I don't know why he asked this, so I can only answer truthfully. However, I don’t know how to calculate the lunar year. I can only say that it was 1990 in the solar calendar. As for the specific date and time, I won’t go into details here. This is what Mr. Wang specifically told me, telling me not to tell anyone my horoscope anytime in the future. As for the quack fortune teller, I can't even say that.
After Mr. Wang got my horoscope, he reached out and counted a few times, then handed me the wooden figure on his shoulder, and told me to put it on my shoulder and not touch the ground, otherwise I would be crippled if it got contaminated by the earth's energy. ).
After he finished speaking, I saw him take out the ink fountain from the cage behind his back, then put his right thumb on the threshold, then straighten his index finger and tap it on the ground.
Then Mr. Wang pulled out the ink cone with his right hand and nailed it accurately to this point. Then he pulled the line in a direction parallel to the threshold. The length was exactly five vertical distances from the threshold to the ink cone. Mr. Wang then used the middle finger of his left hand to hold the ink line. Then stretch out the tail finger of your right hand and hook it on the ink line.
After picking up the ink line, Mr. Wang slid forward a little, just enough to accommodate the length of a palm. Then he picked up the ink line and released it. A straight black line parallel to the threshold appeared in front of me.
This was not over yet. After Mr. Wang finished playing the lines and put away the ink fountain, he reached into his arms and took out a handful of copper coins of unknown age.
Then Mr. Wang counted with his left hand and placed copper coins on both sides of the ink line with his right hand. Copper coins have pros and cons, and there is no rule at all. But I could see clearly that the number of copper coins outside the line was the number of my birth, and the number of coins inside was the month of my birth.
This series of movements sounds very complicated, but in Mr. Wang's hands it is as fast as lightning, as if it has been practiced countless times in daily life, and it does not take even a minute.
After doing this, Mr. Wang took the wooden man from my hand, and then walked out of the yard from the side of the ink-line copper coins, but let me step over the black line.
I didn't know why, so I could only follow the instructions. After I crossed the threshold, I asked him, what's the point of this?
He said, this is called crossing the Nai River Bridge.
Naihe Bridge? The Naihe Bridge in hell in myths and legends? You don't look like this at all. At least you can make it look like a bridge.
Mr. Wang trotted forward and snorted coldly, "Who told you that the Naihe Bridge must look like a bridge?" Let me ask you, what is Naihe Bridge mainly used for?
I thought about the sayings in myths and legends, and then said that after crossing the Naihe Bridge, drinking Meng Po soup, all the past events will be forgotten, and then reincarnation will occur.
He said, let me ask you again, can Yang people go to Naihe Bridge?
In the eyes of their craftsmen, there are only two kinds of people in the world, yang people and yin people. Yang people are living people, while Yin people are dead people.
I say, that is definitely not possible.
Mr. Wang said, "That's right. The Naihe Bridge can only allow Yin people to walk, but not Yang people. What do I mean by setting up the Naihe Bridge? Didn't you see it?"
Aren't you talking nonsense? The police need several piles of clues to solve a case. How dare you just give me a few words and expect me to guess the answer?
As Mr. Wang ran forward, he turned his head and rolled his eyes at me, saying, "You didn't even notice it, are you a pig?"
I have been an outstanding student since I was a child, and my academic performance is among the best. I have never been scolded like this. If it had been before, I would have definitely scolded him back, but this time, I didn't, because what I have experienced in the past two days is far beyond what I can understand. Even if they say I am a pig, I will admit it.
When I didn't say anything, Mr. Wang continued, "A person can only have one body. Do you understand this?"
I nodded.
He said, isn’t that necessary?
He patted the wooden sculpture on his shoulder and said, "You already have one body. How can you have a second body?" If I didn't leave your body in the house, wouldn't it cause chaos?
Leaving my original body in the house?
Hearing this, I was so frightened that I hurriedly turned around to look, but was slapped on the back of the head by Mr. Wang, and then I heard him yelling, "Gruddy, I'm calling you a pig, are you?" Admit it, tell you not to look back, don’t look back, how many times do I have to teach you?
I said, I just wanted to see if my body was really still in the yard.
He said, "Aren't you stupid enough to die?" If you leave your body inside the house, won't you die? Setting up a Naihe Bridge is just a trick to make others think that this on my shoulders is your real body.
I was so stunned by Mr. Wang's words that I couldn't react at all for a while. I had no idea what he meant.
Why should others think that the wooden person on my shoulder is my real body? Also, I wanted to ask before, why did Mr. Wang insist that I change into the clothes I was wearing before, and why did he have to be a wooden person exactly like me?
My mind was filled with doubts, and before I could think clearly, I followed Mr. Wang to the door of the ancestral hall. Before I even entered, I heard dull 'bang bang' sounds coming from the courtyard.
I am very familiar with this sound. It is the sound of my grandfather kicking the coffin...
