灵目鬼话

Chapter 1

It's been many years since it happened but when I think about it now, I still feel my heart palpitating because of
those experiences, every time I almost had a brush with death.

The first one happened in 91, oh 1991, not 1891 or 2091 because I'm not over 30 years old now, and I can't
be from the future, I'm just an ordinary, simple person.

I'm not an normal person, but what happened to me is not normal.

The first incident happened in 1991, when I was six years old, and it was the first death in my village that I
can remember.

Our village was small, so often when a family had a white or red wedding, every other family would send
someone to assist, and in those days there was no pre-school education for rural children, so when my mother
went to that family to help, she took me with her, mainly because she was afraid that I would cause trouble at
home.

It is human nature to fear the dead, let alone children, so I refused to go into the house.

I gradually learned that the person who died was an old lady, over seventy years old, who died of illness.

He was often bullied by older children in the village and even in the next village, even though he was
already an adult, but he was only 5 metres tall and had problems with his IQ.

Whenever he was bullied, not only did he not get angry, but he would also grin and "giggle".

That day, after my mother had gone in, Zhao Jie and I played a game of go to the door of Xiaochuner's
house, in which we made a pile of earth and stuck a stick in the middle.
 Zhao Jie is a neighbour of my family. His parents are both farmers, and his father is a bit famous in the
village, because he knows some knowlege of feng shui, so he often reads foundations and graveyards for
people, and sometimes he charged some money for it, but sometimes he reads it for free.

For example, this time in Xiaochun's family, Xiaochun's father died early, his mother worked hard to bring
him up alone, but Xiaochun was stupid and mute, he could not even work with no one leading him, so the
family lived a very hard life.

So Zhao Jie's father gave Xiao Chun's mother a burial plot for free this time.

In fact, it was right next to Xiaochuner's father's grave, and Zhao Jie's father just looked at it meaningfully,
and then said something I didn't understand at that time.

Back then, Zhao Jie and I were playing with the kung fu, and the boy was more cunning than I. He struck
first, picking up a large pile of soil in one breath.

As I watched in anxiety I scolded, "Zhao Jie, you're so cunning, you're almost catching up with Er Ben
devils."

Zhao Jie laughed, "You've never seen a cinema, Erben devils are dumb as hell, they're not as smart as me,
I'm a Baji soldier, I'm a good guy!"

Just as Zhao Jie and I were playing, Xiao Chun'er came out of the gate in a mourning suit, smiling, not at all
half-hearted about his dead mother.

When he saw that Zhao Jie and I were playing with the kang of mud, he came over to us, and since Zhao Jie
and I were still young, we were so scared that we ran away. "He even looked at the direction in which Zhao Jie
and I were running, and then laughed twice.

Only after he had finished kicking our mound of dirt did Xiaochun'er turn his head and enter the door.

When he saw Xiaochun'er go in, Zhao Jie jumped out from behind me and scolded, "Silly dummy, when I
go to first grade, let's see what I'll do to you."
 Well, in our place only people who went to primary school dared to bully the mute because we all thought
that when we went to school we were big kids and when we didn't go to school, we were just little kids.

Me and Zhao Jie didn't even go to pre-school, so naturally we were the only ones to be bullied.

When the mute left, we went back to the mound of dirt and tried to play with it again, but the mute kicked
away more than half of the dirt, so we put the dirt together again and felt that the mound was less than half of
what we had just seen, and Zhao Jie said, "It's not enough dirt, let's split up and find some more.

The ground in front of the mute's house was hard ground, and Zhao Jie and I couldn't get the soil out with
both hands, so we had to run a few steps to the soft ground nearby where people didn't walk to find soil.

It wasn't long before I returned with a handful of fine sand in my small hands, while Zhao Jie returned with
some charcoal ash.

The stuff was light and fine, and perfect for replacing the earth.

So I asked Zhao Jie where he got it from, and he pointed to an earth pit not far away and said, "Right there."

In those days, people in the village burned wood for cooking, and the ashes left over from burning wood
were poured into the pig pens, some into the cow pasture, and some into the chicken pens; these things were
good drying agents, and when put into the pens of poultry and livestock, they could not only remove moisture,
but also prevent some diseases.

But this mute family did not keep any poultry or livestock, so they dug a pit not far from the door and used it
specifically to pour charcoal ash.

Zhao Jie also told me, "We also had charcoal ash in this pile of soil just now, but I saw that there was
enough soil, so I didn't get more."
 So Zhao Jie and I went to hold the charcoal ash a few more times, and when we felt that the pile was big
enough, and we were just sticking in our sticks and getting ready to play, the mute came out of the door again
with a smile on his face and came over to us.

We both jumped and ran, and the mute kicked our mound apart again, and kicked it a few times away from
the door.

This depressed me and Jie Zhao.

After kicking, the mute yelled at me "Oh, oh" as if to warn us.

At this point, the adults outside the door all laughed, some saying that the mute was really stupid, dead
mother, and still in the mood to bully children for fun.

Some said that the mute was actually expressing his anger, that his mother had died and was sad and didn't
want anyone playing at their door.

So the adults told me to go and play in a faraway place.

At this time, Zhao Jie's father came out from far away and asked, "Who scattered these ashes, hurry up and
sweep them up, sweep them up.

The old man said with a smile, "Zhao Laohei, that is your boy and the old Shi family's boy playing with the
kang of dirty water to scatter, later kicked by the mute."

When Grandpa Sun finished speaking, Zhao Jie's father's face changed and he called us both over, then
found a broom and a dustpan from the mute's house and gave them to us, telling us to clean up the ashes and
scaring us that otherwise the ghosts would come to trouble us at night.

As children are most afraid of ghosts, we were frightened by Zhao Jie's father, so we hurriedly cleaned up
and swept the front of the mute's house clean so that the ghosts would not come looking for us.
 When we finished sweeping and went to return the dustpan, Zhao Jie's father said to us, "Xiao Jie and Xiao
Yong (Shi Yong is my name), this charcoal ash is a fire attribute, a yang/thing, a thing that ghosts scorn. Next
time it will be you who the mute kicks."

We didn't understand what it meant at the time, but we heard that it was the dead mute mother who had told
the mute to do that, so we were terrified, and when a dead person speaks again, isn't that a ghost?

So Zhao Jie and I ran away in fear, never daring to go near the mute's door again.

The old Sun head who was sitting at the door laughed at Zhao Jie's father and said, "Zhao Laohei, you keep
talking about ghosts all day long, but I have lived for more than 60 years and I have never even seen a ghost. If
the mute woman is really a ghost, I'll marry her as my daughter-in-law!"

The people around him laughed out loud.

Zhao Jie's father laughed and said, "Uncle Sun, believe it or not, it's here, I believe it and respect it, you don't
believe it, but you can't disrespect it.

Zhao Jie's father said and patted the spot where his heart was.

Old man Sun laughed and said, "Not to mention there are no ghosts, even if there were, I wouldn't apologise
to a ghost."

Zhao Jie's father sighed and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

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Chapter 2

After laughing at Zhao Jie's father, Old Sun-Tou called out the mute from the courtyard and told him to knock
his head on the ground, and if he didn't, he would scold the mute!
 The mute hit the ground and rolled a few times, then laughed at Old Sun Tau.

Old Sun Tau was also quite amused and said, "Silly Mute, if your mother really becomes a ghost, I will be
your ghost father."

The mute could not understand Old Sun Tau's words, so he continued to grin and giggle.

Although the mute was silly, he was from the same village, so a few neighbours thought that Old Sun Tau
had gone too far and told him to stop, as the mute's mother had just died.

When he saw that everyone was saying this, Old Sun Tau had no choice but to restrain himself, kicked the
mute in the buttocks and let the mute go to the yard.

When the mute went back to the courtyard, he smiled at the old Sun head again, Zhao Jie and I looked at it
from afar, but the old Sun head did not care, only said: " Stupid mute, what do you know, dead mother does not
know what is pain."

My mother said that Xiaochuner's family was poor, so they could not afford to feed everyone at noon, so
they had to go back to their own homes to eat.

I didn't know what to do at the time, so I asked if anyone was cooking for Xiaochun'er for lunch.

My mother said, "Yes, the village chief has arranged for one of Xiaochun's neighbours to cook an extra
mouthful of rice for her at noon and send it over to her when it's ready."

After lunch, my mother and I took a lunch break at home, but not long after we laid down on the bed, we
heard Zhao Jie's mother calling out to my mother from under our window, "Fu Xia, Fu Xia, come out quickly,
something has happened to Xiaochun's family, Xiaochun's mother has faked a corpse."

When she heard that it was a corpse, my mother got up and ran outside with me in her arms to ask Zhao Jie's
mother what was going on.

So Zhao Jie's mother told my mother what had happened.

 At noon, when the folks at Xiaochun's house were all gone, his neighbour Wang Erhua's daughter-in-law
made noodles and brought a bowl to Xiaochun's house.

The whole courtyard was so quiet that she couldn't even hear the sound of the robins chirping in the trees in
the courtyard in the middle of summer.

She couldn't help but swallow her saliva, but the village headman had told her to bring Xiaochun's food, so if
she couldn't, the neighbours would say that the family was stingy again.

So Wang Erhua's daughter-in-law boldly took a few steps towards Xiaochun's house and then looked in
through the doorway of the house.

But when she did, she was shocked to see Xiaochuner's mother, dressed in a black birthday suit, sitting on a
chair by the door, her eyes staring straight at him, while Xiaochuner was crouched beside her mother, eating the
steamed buns that had been given to her.

Wang Erhua's daughter-in-law was so frightened that she knocked the noodles out of her hand and shouted
"ghosts", turned, and stumbled out of the courtyard.

While Zhao Jie's mother was explaining the situation to us, we arrived at the door of Xiaochun's house,
where a lot of people were gathered.

Zhao Jie's mother then said, "If it wasn't for that mouth of ours saying that there must be quite a few
fraudulent corpses and bringing people over to see the situation first, I wouldn't have dared to bring you over to
see what was going on."

Just as we arrived, Zhao Jie pushed his way out of the crowd and called out my name, and my mother put
me down and said, "You two go to the far side and play."

Zhao Jie pulled me to the side and told me, "The mute's mother had faked a corpse, do you know?"

I said, "I heard his mother say it, and then asked Zhao Jie what it looked like, and whether he had seen it.
 Zhao Jie told me, "How could I not see it? At the time Wang Erhua's daughter-in-law shouted that the corpse
was a fraud, I was squatting in the pit taking a shit, and I almost didn't fall in when she shouted at me, so I
wiped my butt and went to see what was going on with my trousers on.

Zhao Jie was much more daring than me, and I shivered when he said that he had entered Xiaochun's
courtyard by himself.

I asked him, "How dare you go in alone?"

Zhao Jie said, "Damn it, if I knew what a fake corpse was, I wouldn't have killed myself alone."

When I asked him what it meant, he said, "It means that the dead body moves on its own."

When I heard that, I thought it was odd.

I asked Zhao Jie what he had seen, and he said that when he went in, the mute was crawling in the courtyard
eating noodles off the ground, mixing them with the dirt and swallowing them, not knowing how dirty they
were.

I asked Zhao Jie if he had seen the mute mother.

I was just about to call out to the mute not to eat, dirty, I'll get something clean for my house, but the mute
looked into the house, I followed and looked into the house, and I saw the mute mother smiling at me, damn, I
was scared shitless, I couldn't move my legs!"

I said "Ah" and asked, "Did the mute woman eat you?"

Zhao Jie said, "Nonsense, if she ate me, I would still be able to stand and talk to you."

Zhao Jie then went on to talk a lot more, probably saying that his father had led people over to him and beat
him up.
 Later, Zhao Jie's father took the lead and went to the house to see what had happened, saying that it was not
a fraudulent corpse at all, but that Xiaochun had been lifted from the bed and put on a chair.

When the others asked Zhao Jie's father why the mute had moved his mother to the chair, Zhao Jie's father
said that it was probably because the mute was hungry and wanted to call his mother to get up and cook for
him.

When Zhao Jie talked about this, we both felt that little Chun'er was actually quite pitiful.

Later, Zhao Jie's father took the body back with him and reprimanded Xiaochun'er, and the matter was over.

But I believed Zhao Jie when he said he saw the mute mother smiling at him, so we believed that Xiao
Chun'er's mother had really turned into a ghost.

So we went to Zhao Jie's father and asked how to prevent the ghosts from eating us, and Zhao Jie's father
smiled and said, "Go home and get some ashes from the stove fire and sprinkle them on the doorway, and the
ghosts will not come to you."

So I and Zhao Jie each went home and took a dustpan from the fire in our respective homes to get firewood
and ash and started sprinkling it on the door.

But the two of us felt that it was not safe to just sprinkle the front door, so we made a few more dustpans
and sprinkled them all around our two houses, and after sprinkling them for a while we became playful and
sprinkled all kinds of figures in front of our two doors.

Zhao Jie and I often listened to my father tell us stories about the Three Kingdoms together, so Zhuge Liang
was always an idol in both of our hearts.

As for my dad, he was a primary school teacher with a high awareness of family planning, so our family
could only have me as a child, unlike Zhao Jie, who had a sister in third grade.
 However, when I was playing with Zhao Jie, a sudden gust of wind came up and the dust from the dustpan
in my hand blew in my face and got into my eyes, and I cried out in pain.

I wondered if my eye would go blind later.

My mother rushed me to the village health centre, where the doctor treated me and checked me over.

But my little eye was irritated and red, as if I had a red eye.

Despite this, my mum didn't spare me and gave me a solid beating for being too naughty and always getting
into trouble.

Luckily, I had a thick skin on my bottom from the spanking I had received since I was a child, and after the
spanking, I was still able to walk and not affect my play ......

What I didn't expect was that my encounter was the result of God inadvertently giving me a special ability
that has stayed with me for twenty years.

This ability was called "spiritual eyes" by a master I met later, and the only form of this ability is that I can
see things that are invisible to ordinary people ......

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Chapter 3

Of course, when I was being beaten up by my mother, I didn't know that my eyes could see things that ordinary
people couldn't see.

As for when I discovered this, I have to start with Xiaochuniang's funeral.

On the day of the funeral, Zhao Jie and I went to watch the funeral, just like the other people in the village,
but since Zhao Jie said he had seen Xiaochun's mother smile at him, the two of us stayed away from the funeral
procession and just followed from afar.
 A few distant relatives of Xiaochun's family also came over that day, kind of remembering the sentiment and
dropping a few tears at the funeral, as for Xiaochun's son, he walked in the front with a mourning stick, still
grinning.

It is a village tradition that at the front of the funeral procession is an elder who carries the food and scatters
it along the way, which means that the deceased should rest in peace and not worry about food on the way to
the funeral.

When he saw him scattering food on the ground, he yelled and giggled at him, as if he was begging for food.

Although he was used to bullying Little Chun'er, he knew that it was not the time to fool around, so he said
to Little Chun'er, "Stop it, there will be plenty for you to eat when you get to the ground."

Xiao Chun'er didn't understand, so he threw away his mourning stick and went to grab the rice spoon from
Old Sun's head, who didn't dare to do so, so he beat Xiao Chun'er back with the rice bowl in his hand and
scolded him angrily, " Stupid mute, if you dare to come back again, I'll beat you up!

Xiaochun'er, who was usually most afraid of Old Sun's anger, hurriedly picked up the mourning stick and
behaved honestly.

It was a farce, and all the onlookers laughed out loud, and as they watched the people around them laugh,
Little Xiaochun'er laughed along with them, not knowing what everyone was laughing at, and of course, we
didn't know what he was laughing at either.

As he watched the mute giggle, Zhao Jie said, "Little Chun'er is so silly, the others are laughing at him then,
and he can still laugh."

I then said, "It's not like you don't know he's stupid."

Zhao Jie made a silent gesture to me and said, "Xiao Yong, don't talk nonsense, don't worry if Xiao Chun's
mother hears you and fixes you up."
 When Zhao Jie said that, I couldn't help but feel some hairs on my back and couldn't help but look back, but
I didn't see anything.

Then Zhao Jie asked me, "Did you hear that last night?"

When Zhao Jie said that, I was shocked. Last night I really heard something, about 12 o'clock in the middle
of the night, a strange "whimpering" sound came from the street below our window, sometimes it sounded like
a person was crying, sometimes it sounded like a person was laughing, sometimes it sounded like a scream.

When I couldn't sleep, I asked my mother if it was a ghost, but when she didn't say anything, my father told
me, "Ghosts my ass, it's just a female cat in heat, calling for a male cat, and most of the screams are from
mating!"

When I heard my dad say that, I also thought it sounded like a cat, so I fell asleep.

I asked Zhao Jie, "Did you have a wild cat barking last night?"

Zhao Jie laughed at me and said, "What wild cat? That was Xiao Chunniang's scream when she hit the ashes
we scattered in front of the door. When I woke up early, didn't you see the traces of ashes that were made a
mess?"

I froze for a moment and said, "I thought it was the wind blowing."

Zhao Jie shook his head and said, "My father told me that the mute's mother came out in the middle of the
night to look for us both, and if we hadn't spread the ash in advance, we would have been eaten by
Xiaochun'er's mother."

Now I couldn't help but shiver and say, "Then we shouldn't follow them to see the burial, in case Xiaochun's
mother jumps out of the coffin."

Zhao Jie said, "It's okay, my dad is there. Even if my dad can't do it, aren't you still there?"

I asked him in wonder, "What good am I?"

 Zhao Jie said, "You're not as fast as I am, so if he catches up with you, he'll have enough to eat and won't
chase me."

Shit!

We have a custom here that the funeral procession starts at eleven o'clock and when they get to the gravesite,
the burial time must be twelve o'clock, and if it's early then the "blowers" (those who play and sing at funerals)
are allowed to play a few more songs to stall for time.

But if it's late, well, it can't be late, because everyone leaves early, and as far as I can remember there hasn't
been a case of being late.

When he arrived at the graveyard, Zhao Jie's father looked at the time, then grabbed a handful of soil,
scattered a few handfuls around the edge of the grave, and then looked out at the mountains in the distance.

When it was twelve o'clock, he shouted "Burial" and a few strong men from the village carried Xiaochun's
mother's square and put it into the pit.

At that moment, Xiaochun'er, who had been giggling, suddenly shouted, as if in anger or sadness, probably
because he felt sadness and anger when he found out that everyone had put his mother into the mound.

Xiao Chun'er first shouted, then he took a mourning stick and tried to beat the coffin bearer, who,
coincidentally, happened to be Sun Sheng, the son of Old Sun Tau.

When Old Sun Tau saw that he had driven Xiao Chun'er away, he threw down his stretcher and went to see
if his son had been hit, so he went to the side of the mound.

But the moment he reached the pit, his whole body plunged into the pit without any signs, and with a bang,
his whole body crawled on the coffin.

I saw clearly a black figure in a black birthday suit jumping out of the pit, then wrapping its arms around
Old Sun's waist and disappearing.
 The crowd there was in chaos, many people jumped down from the grave pit to help Old Sun Tau, and then
they heard Old Sun Tau's son shout, "My father is having a heart attack, find someone, take my father to the
countryside, no, to the prefecture."

Immediately, some people started to help Sun Sheng to carry Old Sun's head, and then several people ran
with Sun Sheng towards the village, supposedly to find a car to go to the county town.

And the rest of the people all began to talk about what had just happened. Zhao Jie's father told everyone to
be quiet and then continued to preside over the burial ceremony, and when the coffin was placed, those
relatives circled around the grave pit three times and after crying for a while, the few remaining young and
strong men began to fill the grave with earth.

"Hey, hey, Xiao Yong, you stoned and scared silly?" Zhao Jie shook me next to me.

Only then did I come back to my senses a little.

Zhao Jie then laughed at me and said, "You've been frozen in fear for seven or eight minutes, if you don't
move, I'll think you've had a heart attack like Old Sun Tau."

I turned to Zhao Jie and said, "Zhao Jie, the old Sun's head was pushed into the grave with Xiao Chunniang
holding his waist, didn't you watch?"

Zhao Jie froze for a moment and said, "Xiao Yong, you are confused, I didn't even blink a moment ago, why
didn't I see it? I don't think you've been scared. Besides, Xiao Chuner's mother is dead, so it's not like she can
swindle the corpse in the coffin!"

I tried my best to convince Zhao Jie and said, "Didn't your father say last night that Xiao Chuner's mother
even went to us, so that means it was a ghost, and it must have been Xiao Chuner's mother's spirit just now."

Zhao Jie was a little hairy from my words, so he confessed, "I just swindled you and scared you, my dad also
told me that it was a wild cat calling ......"
 I ......

I swallowed and said, "I did see it."

Zhao Jie then said, "Why don't we go over and ask Dad?"

I shook my head and said, "I won't go next to that grave pit even if it kills me," and Zhao Jie said, "Do you
want us to go back first.

I still shook my head, we were just two kids at this time, if we left the crowd of adults, wouldn't we have to
be more scared.

So we waited for Zhao Jie's father to finish off the ceremony, and then when we returned, we would find a
chance to talk to him about it.

Or was I really looking away just now and really mistaken?

I was a bit apprehensive at that time.

This was also the first time in my life that I saw a ghost, and in the months that followed, I saw the figure of
Xiaochun'er's mother more than once, and every time she appeared, someone in our village or the next village
would have something happen to them, or even die ......

Chapter 4

I remember when I was a child, whenever someone died in the village, I would be terrified for days, not even
daring to pass by the door of the house where the person had died.

Among these countless frightening experiences, the one I remember most is the time when Xiaochuniang
died, because from that time onwards, I saw something I should not have seen.
 The old Sun head fell into the grave pit, everyone thought he was chasing Xiaochun'er had a heart attack that
caused it, but what I saw was Xiaochuniang in her funeral dress jumping out of the grave pit, hugging the old
Sun head and pushing him in ......

That afternoon Zhao Jie's father presided over the final coffin ceremony, away from the grave, walking back,
Zhao Jie and I leaned up, I just said the scene I just saw, the result Zhao Jie's father's laughed: "Xiao Yong ah,
you are most likely frightened, even if there really is a ghost, it is impossible to come out in broad daylight, let
alone in the middle of the day. "

Even Zhao Jie's father said so, could it be that I was really wrong.

The children play up, things will be forgotten quickly, the turn of the night, after dinner, I am ready to go to
the stove fire stove to find the ashes, and then sprinkle some more to the door, mainly because I am afraid that
Xiaochunniang come to me at night.

But as soon as I got the dustpan, my mother picked me up and slapped me on the buttocks twice, saying,
"You haven't changed, you've forgotten about the eyes."

Although I was afraid that Xiaochuniang would come looking for me, I was even more afraid of my mother's
merciless fists, so I didn't scatter the ashes this time.

My father slept late at night because he had to correct the students' homework at school, so my mother and I
watched our old black and white television set for a while and then went to bed.

The night was very peaceful, I didn't hear any movement during the night, and I didn't even dream about
Xiaochunniang, so I thought I was wrong when I saw the image of Xiaochunniang jumping out of the grave.

He asked me if I had dreamt of Xiaochunniang at night, and when I said no, he laughed and said that he had,
and that he had dreamt that Xiaochunniang was smiling at him, but that he had not been afraid when he dreamt,
but had been startled when he woke up to pee, and had peed on the bed.

When I heard Zhao Jie say that he had wet his bed, I pointed at him and laughed, saying that he was making
up excuses for wetting his bed again.
 I don't remember too much about what we did that day, but on that night something happened that I will
never forget.

My mother and I still went to bed early that night, and my father was still grading homework.

I fell asleep in a daze and then had a dream that Xiaochun's mother came to our house with Xiaochun in tow.

She even praised me for being good and obedient, and even touched my head.

At that moment, a rat, a stupid rat, fell from the top of our wardrobe.

"It woke me up with a poof.

When I woke up, I remembered that Xiaochuniang was dead, but why was she touching my head? I was still
young and couldn't tell the difference between dreams and reality, so I burst into tears.

My father, who was still awake at that time, rushed to the bedside and told me, "Xiao Yong, don't be afraid,
it's a mouse."

My mother also hugged me and said, "Be good, Xiaoyong, Xiaoyong is not afraid, it's a mouse, it's a
mouse."

I crawled into my mother's arms and said, "It's not a mouse, it's Xiaochun's mother."

My father told me not to talk nonsense, but my mother, who knew me better, asked me if I was dreaming
about something.

When I finished, my parents laughed, probably at my childlike innocence ......

They coaxed me for half a day before I gradually forgot what had just happened and gradually fell asleep
again, but just as I was dozing off, there was a sudden "uh, er, er" roar from outside our window.
 It was Xiaochun's voice, and it sounded like he was laughing.

I burst into tears again.

My father was unable to correct my homework and when he heard Haru's voice, he got a little annoyed:
"What's wrong with him at midnight?"

My dad grabbed a lantern and went out to take a look, trying to "send" Xiaochun home.

But within a minute of my dad going out, I heard my dad's angry voice: "Xiaochun, what are you doing,
look what you've done, you're crazy."

Now that I think about it, there was a hint of fear in my old man's angry voice.

When she heard my father's voice, my mother also put on her clothes and went out to see what was going
on. They all went out, so I dared not stay in the house alone, wrapped in a sheet and hurried to follow.

When my mother reached the front door, she screamed "Ah" and turned quickly to cover my eyes, but she
was still one step too late, and I saw a scene that has been a nightmare for me all my life. What's even more
terrifying is that the head's face, which was somewhat dried up, was still smiling ......

I was so scared that I cried out and hugged my mum's leg and started shivering.

The next thing that happened was that all of our neighbors rushed over and were shocked to see Xiaochun
carrying a human head in his hand, but with more people, people were emboldened, and a few people began to
reprimand Xiaochun for not knowing what he was doing.

Everyone said that Xiaochun'er had thrown open his mother's grave, and that he had thrown open a large
grave pit all by himself, and had cracked open the coffin ......
 The next thing you know, more than a dozen people in the village were bold enough to get a basket together
and snatch Xiaochuner's mother's head from Xiaochuner's hand, put it in the basket, and send it to the grave to
be buried once more.

When they went over there, they found that the grave had been thrown open and a shovel had been thrown
next to it, and the coffin had been cracked open, with Xiaochun's mother's body still inside.

Of course I heard all this from the adults, but I didn't have the guts to see it with my own eyes at that time.

We all guessed that Xiaochun was alone at home and missed his mother, so he went to open the coffin, but
the reason why he only carried one head was that the opening was too small and Xiaochun was not too "smart",
so he pulled his mother's head out of the coffin and it got stuck in the gap. After a few days of death, the body
parts would start to decompose, so he pulled the head off after a long time.

As for why Xiaochun'er came to my door with his fucking head, we couldn't figure that out at that time.

He couldn't say a word because he was mute, and the only person who understood him, his mother, was
dead.

After the incident, I was scared sick, with fever, headache, talking nonsense, in short, my parents were very
anxious.

My father also took a leave from school and got a wagon to take me to the county clinic, where a man from
our village was also staying, namely the old sun head who had a heart attack the day of Xiaochun's mother's
funeral.

I was supposed to go for treatment, but my parents didn't expect that my illness would get worse after they
sent me to the county hospital. What happened to me at the county hospital is still haunting me when I think
about it ......
Chapter 5

On my third day at the county clinic, my fever finally went down and I stopped talking nonsense, while my
mum was happily hugging me and crying for half a day and saying things like I was really too good to wake
up.

I asked my mum where I was, and she told me that it was the Prefectural Hospital, and told me the story of
why I had been sent here.

I remembered what had happened to Xiaochun's mother and was so scared that I asked my mother, "Where
is Xiaochun's mother?"

My mother laughed and said, "Good boy, Xiao Yong, it's all right, she was buried again by the village
people."

Hearing my mother say that, and the fact that I was now in the county hospital, which was far away from our
village, made me feel less scared.

As for what kind of nonsense I had said in the past few days, my mother didn't tell me, but when I looked at
the strange expressions of the two people in the same ward with me, I could more or less guess that I was
probably saying something bad.

Well, what I said at the time was far worse than the secret I had told.

Later my dad came back from buying me fruit outside and I asked my dad the same question, but he gave
me the comment, "Ah Xiao Yong, you should go to school, you're full of old feudal superstitions."

I suddenly felt that I shouldn't have asked my old man that question, had I really said anything about me
going to the Shaolin Temple?

In the afternoon after I came to my senses, Sun Sheng, the son of Lao Sun Tou, also came to see me in the
ward where I was, after all, we are from the same village, my parents naturally also went to see Lao Sun Tou
early, at this time I also learned that the day fell down the grave "heart attack" Lao Sun Tou is also in the
county hospital.
 At that time I felt a chill down my back, but why I felt this way was a bit of a mystery to me.

He had been in the county hospital for nearly a week, but was still in a coma and had no intention of waking
up. When I heard Sun Sheng talking to my parents, I also knew that the hospital had told Sun Sheng to prepare
for the worst.

The night after I woke up, my dad went back to the village side to teach a class. At that time, there were not
many teachers in the village, and if a teacher took a leave of absence, all the children in a grade might have to
take a holiday because there was only one teacher in that grade.

And my old man belonged to the kind of person who was dedicated to education, and my mother knew him
very well, so when he went back, my mother didn't say anything.

After all, my family still had to live on my old man's salary.

And just that afternoon, our ward had three patients, they discharged one, so there was an empty bed to,
originally my mother wanted to go to that bed at night to lie down and rest for a while, but I did not expect to
see the woman who was pregnant with the male child, directly put her things up to take up space.

When the nurse came in, she hid her things under the bed, and as soon as the nurse left, she took them out
and put them on the bed, fearing that my mother would take the space for her.

So that night my mother had to squeeze me into a bed.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the lights went out and the male patient fell asleep snoring, and the woman
who was with the sick man tidied up the bed and went to sleep.

I don't know how long it was, but I suddenly heard someone in the ward saying, "It's so crowded, so
crowded. ......"

I thought it was my mother who was sleeping in the same bed with me, so I thought I was crowding her and
moved to the side of the bed.
 But the voice still kept saying, "It's so crowded, so crowded ......"

And this time I could hear it more clearly, it wasn't my mother's voice at all, and it was low, like someone
deliberately speaking in a thick nasal voice.

I opened my eyes in a daze and found my mother sleeping next to me, one hand still holding me back,
probably because she was afraid I would fall under the bed, after all, this was the first time I had ever slept in a
single bed.

The voice I heard at this time became clear, it happened to be coming from the hospital bed that had just
been moved today, near the door.

So I slowly sat up in the bed, and across the male patient, I could also see what was going on in that bed
over there, and there were indeed two people in that bed, a woman in rags, and an old man in black with a
stooped body.

And that old man's figure looked somewhat familiar.

When I looked over there, the old man's back was still turned to me, but the sound of "it's so crowded, it's so
crowded" did come from there.

I was sure it wasn't from the woman because I had heard her voice before and it wasn't like that.

But at that moment, the old man, with a sound of "What a crowd", rolled over and turned his face right
towards me.

I don't know why, but in this not too bright room, I could see the old man's face clearly, a face with tightly
wrinkled folds, and in the middle of these folds was a strange smile.

So I burst into tears with a cry.

As soon as I cried, I noticed that Xiaochun's mother suddenly looked a bit panicked and then turned around
and disappeared into the woman's body.
 When she heard me crying, my mother woke up and hurriedly turned on the light in the ward and asked me
what was wrong.

I cried and said, "Xiaochun'er mother, Xiaochun'er mother ......"

My mother's face became ugly, and the male patient I woke up with looked unhappy, the woman of the male
patient even complained directly: "What is Xiaochun'er mother, who is Xiaochun'er mother, why do you keep
calling her these days, are you hitting an evil spirit!"

My mother hurriedly said, "Sorry, sister, my son is frightened, he keeps talking nonsense, don't take it
personally."

I put my arm around my mother and said, "It's not nonsense, I really saw Xiaochun's mother, she was on the
bed by the door, and just now she kept shouting, "It's so crowded, so crowded, didn't you hear her?"

When I said that, the woman was startled and subconsciously stood up and took two steps away from the
bed.

My mother looked a little embarrassed and said, "Sister, don't forget your heart, the child probably had a
nightmare."

I said even more aggressively, "Mom, I didn't dream, really, I even saw little Chunniang burrowing into her
body."

As soon as I finished speaking, the woman said angrily, "Oh, you child, you say such evil things and curse
me, do you have any teachings?"

When this woman said that, my mother was also a bit angry and said, "Sister, my son is only six years old
this year, why do you have to take it up with him?"
 The male patient was probably afraid that his woman would argue with my mother, so he hurriedly said, "All
right, cut the crap, it's normal for children to wake up from a nightmare, no need to make a big deal out of it,
sleep, sleep, if you're scared, just leave the light on, it's the hospital's electricity anyway, it doesn't cost much."

When she heard her man speak, the woman said nothing more and lay back on the bed, but before she did,
she checked around to make sure it was okay before lying down, but this time the lights in the room were left
on.

The next thing I knew was that my mother had gone to sleep with me in her arms, and once I was asleep, I
didn't hear that weird sound again, but I had a strange dream in which I always dreamt that a person whose face
I couldn't see told me that I should go and see Old Sun Tau tomorrow and take him home.

Chapter 6

The next morning, I woke up from that strange dream, at daybreak, and my mother was still stopping me from
sleeping.

I shivered as I remembered the sound of "so crowded, so crowded" in the middle of the night, and I woke up
with a shiver.

She saw that I had opened my eyes and looked out the window to see that it was not yet morning, so she said
to me, "Xiao Yong, sleep a little longer, it's still early."

I nodded my head and said " ok".

But just as I was about to close my eyes and go to sleep, I heard the woman in the bed next to the doorway
grunting, and I was startled again.

Naturally, my mother heard the sound and got up to look at the woman, then asked her, "Sister, what's wrong
with you, are you having a hard time?"

The man in the bed also heard his woman's slightly painful voice and asked, "Mother-in-law, what's wrong
with you?"
 The woman rolled over a little, but did not make her way up from the bed, but said in an extremely
depressed voice, "I, I have a headache and I feel so cold ......"

Hearing that woman say that, my mother hurriedly got out of bed and then ran over to touch the woman's
head, "Aiya, sister, you have a fever, your head is so hot, wait, I'll call the doctor for you."

The nurse took the woman's temperature and then went to do some simple tests, proving that she had only
caught a cold, but the fever was indeed a bit high - 39.5 degrees.

In the words of the doctor, it was lucky that the fever was detected in time, otherwise she would have
developed meningitis or something, and the woman would have been finished.

With all the commotion in the ward, no one could sleep well, so I didn't sleep much until dawn.

After the woman had been given a shot and was awake, she began to thank me over and over again, saying
that she had been sick thanks to my mother's help in taking care of her, and my mother was just being kind.

I kept staring at her, not because she was so pretty, but because Xiaochun'er was inside her, and I wondered
if her fever could be related to Xiaochun'er. I even wondered if it was because this woman had bullied my
mother, and then Xiaochun'er, who was a ghost from our village, had taught her a lesson... ...

That day the nurse gave me a check-up and proved that I was well enough to be discharged, so in the
afternoon my mother took me out of the hospital and prepared to take me back to the village.

After all, when I first came to the county hospital, Sun Sheng had also visited me.

As soon as I heard that I was going to see Lao Sun Tou, I was startled, I remembered my strange dream that
said something about me taking Lao Sun Tou home ......

Thinking about it, I asked my mother if I could not go, and my mother said, "Xiao Yong, know how to be
polite know, your Uncle Sun can have seen you come, when you leave, you should go and return the gift,
remember how your father taught you?"
 At that time, children in our village basically did not have much right to be pampered, and I did not dare to
be pampered casually, because when I was pampered, I was basically going to be beaten, so I had to listen to
my mother.

Old Sun was in a coma, so he was in an intensive care ward, so when we were walking there, my mother
told me to keep quiet for a while, to just take a look and not to disturb him.

But no sooner did we get to Old Sun's ward than we heard Sun Sheng's cries, "My Father, how could you
just leave like that? ......"

He cried with a long drawn out voice, a typical rural cry of mourning, which indicated that old Sun Tou had
died.

My mother pulled me and paused for a moment carrying her things, then had a quick walk over.

After going over, Sun Sheng and his daughter-in-law both cried over the hospital bed, and when she saw my
mum go in, Sun Sheng's daughter-in-law cried and said, "Sister Fu Xia, my father-in-law opened his eyes once
an hour ago and said a few words of nonsense, then he couldn't wake up anymore, so the doctor came over to
see him, and after a few minutes of resuscitation, the doctor said it was gone and couldn't be saved."

Sun Sheng's daughter-in-law didn't have any crying voice, her crying was obviously mostly fake, while Sun
Sheng was crying with real emotion.

My mother nodded, said a few words of comfort, and then asked Sun Sheng what he was going to do.

The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.

Then Sun Sheng saw my mother carrying things, pulling me, is also aware that we have to be discharged,
said, let us do not have to go to the station to take the car, wait for a while to do their looking for a car, together
back.

The car is to pull the old Sun head back together, I certainly will not sit, my mother is also quickly shook his
head and said, forget it, after all, the Sun family out of such a big thing, will no longer give people trouble.
 Sun Sheng also did not say anything.

After a few words at the hospital, my mother took me out of the old Sun's ward, but just as I was about to go
outside, I subconsciously looked back at the old Sun's head lying on the bed, I had never been so close to a
dead person, curiosity is natural, Xiao Chun'er mother does not count, because I had only seen one of her head.

But when I turned around, my heart was in my throat as I saw Old Sun Tau sitting up from his bed, his gaze
dully looking towards me.

I was so frightened that I wanted to scream, but found that my voice was half caught in something and I
could not make any sound at all. The next thing I saw was the old Sun's head sitting up from the bed, waddling
through Sun Sheng's body in a hospital gown and coming towards me.

This was a ghost, I wanted to cry, I was scared, okay, I admit I'm no good, but I'm only six years old after
all, and this was way beyond my little heart's capacity.

I tried to tell my mother, but she didn't even notice and dragged me out of the room, and I mechanically
followed her steps, wanting to speak, but I couldn't. It was as if my mouth was no longer mine.

The old Sun head followed behind me with no expression, but I could clearly see the dead old Sun head still
on the hospital bed.

"Ghost, ghost, ghost ......" I was yelling hysterically in my mind.

Seeing that I kept looking back, my mother reached over and twisted my little face and said, "Come on,
Xiaoyong, don't look."

But just as I twisted my head around, I realised that there was an old woman standing in front of me,
hunched over and dressed in a silk robe, with a weirdly creased face, squeezing out a smile and smiling down at
me, and by the time I spotted her, my face had almost collided with hers.

This person was the little springer lady who had been pestering me.
 "Ah!" I was hissing inside, but I just couldn't make a sound.

I tried to stop myself, but I found that my body seemed to be out of my control as well, and in a flash, my
face collided with the face with the weird folds all over it.

"Ah, I'm being eaten." I was already scared to death inside.

I wasn't being eaten, it was just that my body passed through Xiaochuniang's body and I felt a dry heaving in
my heart while feeling as if my body had been poured with a tub of ice water.

As I passed through Xiaochun's mother's body, I craned my neck hard and found that my head was still
under my own control, but when I turned around, I was just in time to see the sight of Old Sun Tau bending
down and carrying Xiaochun's mother on his back.

Old Sun was still expressionless, and Xiaochun'er's mother was still smiling strangely.

At this time my mother is also vaguely noticed my abnormal, and asked me what happened, I naturally have
to say, I saw a ghost, or two, but the words I could not say, just when I could not make a sound, but I heard my
own voice: "Nothing ......"

What was going on, I didn't speak, who was controlling me, was I possessed by a ghost, was it the ghost,
Little Chuner's mother, Old Sun Head, they were all behind me, was there a third ghost in my body ......

I've been possessed by a ghost, I was completely devastated!

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Chapter 7

The feeling of being "possessed" was unbearable. I could see, hear, smell and feel myself, but my body, speech
and movements were not under my control, as if I had been split into two parts.
 I was only six years old at the time, so I felt like I was going to collapse instantly.

When my mother heard "me" say "it's nothing", she didn't take it seriously and dragged me out of the
hospital, while behind me, the expressionless and mute old Sun Tau was swaying and carrying Little Chun'er's
mother, whose smile was hidden in her folds, right behind me.

I could feel even the expression on my face gradually turning into the same mute expression on Old Sun
Tau's face.

When we left the hospital, we waited for the bus at the bus stop and stood side by side with Xiaochuniang on
his back.

Some would pause for a moment, some would shiver inexplicably, some would sneeze, and some, like me,
would feel a little dry heaving and slap themselves on the chest a few times.

As soon as the doors opened, the conductor greeted the passengers and told them to get off first and then get
on.

My mother also hurriedly took out the money for the ticket and gave it to the person to say thank you.

I could clearly see that when they stepped up, they didn't lift their legs at all, but floated straight up.

I no longer know how to describe how I felt at that moment, except that I felt like I was going to die, I felt
like my body was about to cease to belong to me, and at that moment, I was like a puppet with several strings.

I even had this feeling at that time, they two want to eat me hurry up and eat, don't torture me anymore,
being followed by two ghosts, this is too scary.

There are not many people in the car, there are seats, we sat down, the old Sun head carrying Xiaochuniang
stood next to us as, and I was so dumbfounded to look at the side of my seat, my mother asked me what I was
looking at, "I" said: "nothing ...... "
 But what I really wanted to say was that there were two "ghosts" next to me, and there might be another one
inside me.

After a while, my mother asked again, "Xiao Yong, why are your hands so cold?

"I" shook my head and said, "Nothing ......"

But what I wanted to say in my heart was that I felt bad, really bad, I felt like I was going to die.

My mother also noticed the difference in "me" at this time, although "I" always answered my mother's
questions, but "I" almost always said two or three words, while I usually followed my mother I'm always the
chatterbox when I'm with her.

So my mother asked me tentatively if I really didn't feel bad.

I still answered mechanically, "Nothing ......"

This time my mother I was completely sure that there was something wrong with me, her face already
showed panic and anxiety, but she did not dare to be too open, so she pulled my hand as hard as she could,
afraid of losing me, at the same time he kept chanting in my ear: "Xiao Yong is good, Xiao Yong is fine, Xiao
Yong is the strongest, the most capable... ..."

Listening to my mother talk like this, somehow I felt as if my body was feeling better, but overall I was still
very uncomfortable, breathing, heartbeat, as if I had to deliberately control it or it would suddenly stop.

Next to me, Old Sun Tau and Xiao Chun Niang were still one expressionless and the other smiling strangely,
except that they were both staring at me with deadly eyes, afraid that I would run away.

At this time, I really wanted to run, but my legs and feet wouldn't stop.

As my mother chanted, the bus came into the station, and instead of pulling me, my mother hugged me this
time and got off the bus as fast as she could, while Old Sun Tau, carrying Xiao Chunniang, also floated off the
bus and followed behind us.
 Instead of carrying me into the station where we were going home, my mother walked to a kiosk with a
public phone near the station, then he put me down next to her and said, "Good boy, stand still, mum, I'll call
your dad."

At that time, only the village chief had a telephone in his house, and usually when people from the village
worked outside the village called their families, they called the village chief's house and then had the village
chief relay the call.

So at that time, my mother also called the village chief's house, the phone is connected to hear my mother
anxiously said: "Aihua sister, my family Xiao Yong seems to be struck by an evil, I am now taking him back to
the village, you help me to notify Zhao Laohei, he does not know how to read a grave site, may be able to help
my family Xiao Yong, right, In our village is there a person who is good at reading this ah? "

That Aihua is naturally the village chief's daughter-in-law.

The next thing my mother did was to talk to the other side, but mostly to ask the village head's daughter-in-
law to contact a few more "good people" to come to our village and look after me when I returned.

When my mother was on the phone, it was as if Old Sun Tau and Xiaochun'er's mother couldn't even hear
me, they didn't even look at my mother, one was staring straight at me.

I was already sobbing inside, "Don't look at me, don't look at me, I'm scared."

After calling and paying, my mother carried me and my things to the station, trying to catch the nearest bus
to take me back to the village, while of course Old Sun Tau followed me with Xiao Chun Er Niang on his back.

My mother got on the bus with me in her arms, and there was an empty seat at the end of the bus, so my
mother sat there with me in her arms, while Old Sun Tau floated on the bus with Little Chun'er on his back,
and then came over to where my mother was holding me.

The car running to the village was basically a small bus, so the roof of the car was not high. When Old Sun
Tau was carrying Little Chun's mother, Little Chun's mother's head passed through the roof of the car, and it
felt as if Old Sun Tau was carrying a headless corpse.
 I was reminded of the scene where Xiao Chun'er was carrying Xiao Chunniang's head, and my heart was
racing, and I didn't know what was happening, but my body was shaking inexplicably.

I shivered, my mother was frightened, she hurriedly asked me what was wrong, I wanted to say how I felt,
but the words came out "I" but the two mechanical words: "Nothing ...... "

My body was shaking, but my tone of voice was unusually smooth, so several people next to me were
surprised to look at me and my mother, my mother did not have time to pay attention to the eyes of others, and
kept stroking my head to soothe me: "Xiao Yong, not afraid, you have mother here, it's okay, it's okay ...... "

The first thing you need to do is to asked by your mother if I'm scared, or if I've messed with something
unclean, and my mother first shook her head, then nodded her head, while anxiously asking the older people
what they could do to save me.

One of the old men said, "The year before last there was also a girl in our village who was possessed by an
evil spirit, and it was only to an old Taoist priest that she was able to get well, and it took several charms to
work ......"

My mother hurriedly asked the old man, "Grandpa, is that gentleman from our village?"

The old man shook his head and said, "No, I heard that he was a wandering Taoist priest who happened to
be passing through our village at the time and heard that someone in our village was suffering from an evil
spell, so he did something about it.

When my mother asked him where she could find the wandering Taoist priest, the old man said that he didn't
know.

My mother could only shake her head helplessly and continue to soothe me, and my body gradually stopped
shaking, but my sense of touch, smell, and hearing were slowly disappearing, and I had a feeling that I was
about to disappear ......

The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you're getting into.
 On the way, many people came to see how I was doing, and a few enthusiastic people kept advising me, but
in the end there was no good solution, and finally someone even said, "This child is probably going blind! (In
dialect, it means dead, gone)

I later heard my mother say that at that time in the car I had begun to roll my eyes, and my breathing was
also beginning to weaken, even my mother thought I was going to die ......

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Chapter 8

By the time the car reached our village, I had basically lost my sense of sight, hearing, smell and touch, so I
couldn't know what happened next, but my mother told me all about it years later.

As I returned to the village that day, my mother rushed out of the car with me in her arms and ran
desperately to the house because by that time I was foaming at the mouth, my eyes were almost all white and
my body was still convulsing.

My mother was crying while holding me, and at the same time she was doing her best to reassure me: "Be
strong, be strong, be strong, don't be afraid, I'm here, nothing filthy can snatch you away from me."

I think my mother's crying must have been hysterical.

If she could have seen them, I am sure she would have had the guts to fight them for my sake.

When my mother returned home with me in her arms, my father, the village chief and Zhao Jie's father were
all waiting for me at home. Why didn't you stay in the hospital."

My mother then cried and said, " Xiaoyong is not sick, he has met something dirty, I have heard the old man
say that when Xiaoyong spoke to me before, although it was Xiaoyong's voice, I could feel that the tone was
not Xiaoyong's at all, something dirty had taken over our Xiaoyong's body."
 My father is a teacher and has always been against feudal superstition. When he heard my mother say this,
he was ready to refute some words, but was stopped by Zhao Jie's father: "Old Shi, you should move aside first.
My sister-in-law is right, Xiao Yong is afraid that he has really met something dirty."

Our village chief followed suit, "Lao Shi, although I am also a materialist, the things passed down by our
ancestors are not all wrong, so listen to what Lao Hei (Zhao Jie's father) has to say."

Now I was half-dead and concerned, my parents were already a bit overwhelmed and had to listen to
someone who "knew" what to do.

Zhao Jie's father wanted my mother to carry me home to my bed, and then asked my mother to fetch some
ashes for the fire, make a basin of water, and take out all the joss sticks and candles used at home for the New
Year and the Qingming Festival.

When everything was together, Zhao Jie's father said to the village headman, "Village headman, please invite
Granny Hong Rong from our village, she is a famous woman of spirit in the village, I'm afraid I can't handle it
alone.

She was originally a foreigner who had remarried to our village when she was young, and everyone said that
her life style was not very good because after she remarried to our village, she had once gone behind her man's
back to hang out with a man in the city.

Although she was indeed a divine woman, she had only danced at the temple fairs in the nearby villages and
had not been heard of catching ghosts or anything.

Zhao Jie's father, on the other hand, hurriedly urged, "Whether she is really capable or not, but someone who
often dances the Great Spirit at the temple slope will more or less take up some divine energy, which will be
helpful to Xiao Yong."

When Zhao Jie's father said this, the village chief turned his head and went out to call Granny Hong Rong.

Zhao Jie's father, on the other hand, instructed my mother to sprinkle the side of the bed with stove ashes,
then she could leave an opening half a meter wide and then light incense and candles in the place of the
opening.
 As for the pot of water, Zhao Jie's father told my father to place it in the middle of the incense and candles to
block the half-meter opening.

I'm not sure if today's ritual will work, but there are no powerful people in our township, and now that Xiao
Yong is in such a bad shape, distant water can't put out a nearby fire. I'll have to try my best, but if it doesn't
work, you won't blame me."

My mother cried, "Zhao Laohei, why are you talking so much, hurry up, Xiao Yong is losing his breath."

Zhao Laohei took a deep breath and then said, "This ritual is also about timing, if the dirty things don't
move, I can't help it, you guys wait first, I'll go home and get some things I left behind when I was studying
Taoism.

Zhao Laohei said I then ran out of the house, within three minutes ran back again, at this time he took two
yellow talismans in his hand, his body well dressed in a yellow Taoist robe, and also held a peach wood sword
in his hand.

When he came to my house, Zhao Laohei said, "I had thought that I would never have a chance to use these
things in my life."

After saying that, Zhao Laohei, without any further ado, spoke about two yellow talismans and took them
out without stinting, one was put on my chest. From what my mother said, the moment that yellow talisman
was put on, my body reflected and began to shake non-stop, as if I had been half electrocuted, while my mouth
kept hissing in pain.

My voice was very shrill, "Ah", the sound of a child crying out in pain.

My mother asked then what kind of talisman Zhao Laohei had put on me, and Zhao Laohei said, "It's a peace
talisman, a kind of amulet, a good thing to protect against dirty things, but this peace talisman of mine is much
more powerful than half of them, but my master drew it himself, it's a blue talisman."
 My mother didn't know much about the level of the talisman, so she said "oh" and watched Zhao Laohei's
next move. After the first talisman was attached, Zhao Laohei pinched me a few times in the middle of my
body, and although I didn't wake up, the trembling stopped and my mouth stopped foaming.

When he saw that the talisman had worked, he was relieved, and as if he had received an encouragement, he
continued to take out a second yellow talisman, and with his sword in his right hand and the talisman in his left
hand, he began to chant in front of the basin of water and the joss sticks.

After about three or four minutes, he raised his hand and put the yellow talisman in his hand on the iron
basin filled with water.

At the same time, the peach wood in Zhao Laohei's hand was also lit directly into the basin of water, and the
water in the basin instantly rippled in layers.

My mother, seeing how hard he was working, tried to pass him a towel to wipe his sweat, but he shouted,
"Stand down."

My mother was startled and hurriedly took a few steps back.

My father pulled my mother back and said, "Don't make a mess when Old Hei is working."

My mother bit her lip and didn't say anything.

After another minute, the pot of water in front of Zhao Laohei's face had turned from a small ripple to a
splash, just like a pot of water being boiled, with water splashes jumping out of the pot from time to time.

After a few steps, Zhao Laohei said: "People and ghosts are different, why do you have to make things
difficult for a child? If you stop now and enter my soul binding charm, I can give you a ride as a mage, so that
you will suffer less. If you are obstinate, then don't blame me for sprinkling the water with raw ashes and
scattering your soul."

At that time, Zhao Laohei was very stylish, as if he had the appearance of a man of great power.
 And at this time, three more people came to my house, the village chief, Granny Hong Rong, and another
one, the mute Little Springer.

At that time, my mother was very surprised because Zhao Laohei had asked the village chief to call for
Granny Hong Rong, but why did he also bring Xiaochun'er? At that time, I was afraid of anything associated
with Xiaochun's mother, let alone Xiaochun'er, who used to stand in front of my door with her own mother's
head.

The yellow talisman on the iron pot was drenched, and the incense and candles next to it were knocked off
the ground.

Then a gust of wind suddenly rose from the side of my bed, followed by two eerie screams, and blew away
the ashes from the fire.

Zhao Laohei got up from the ground in a panic and said angrily, "Why did Xiaochun'er come and spoil my
spell? I just saw that the face floating in the water basin was Little Chun'er's mother, and the dirty thing on
Little Yong's body was Little Chun'er's mother, only it was a pity that Little Chun'er let her go, if she came
back again, without the talisman that Master left me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have any way to deal with her!"

Said Zhao Laohei with a reproachful look at the village chief and Granny Hong Rong, after all, Xiaochun'er
had followed them here.

And at that moment Granny Hong Rong stood out and said, "Old Black, it was me who brought Little
Chun'er here, the reason for which I will tell you later, let's take a look at this child Xiao Yong first."

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Chapter 9