I slept in Master Liu's room all night, probably because I was not used to it, I woke up very early the next day, so that when I woke up, Master Liu was still "snoring" and "thundering".
I'm the type of "skin" who likes to play pranks, so I twitched a soft licorice off the licorice mat under the bed right away, and then went to sweep Master Liu's nose.
Before I even glanced at Master Liu, I spit out a sigh, just like a fart, and I didn't feel happy when I heard it. I also found it funny in my heart, so I got addicted to it.
As a result, after scratching seven or eight times, Master Liu woke up!
As soon as he opened his eyes, I smiled and shouted, "Father!"
I am so flattering with him, of course, because I am afraid of being beaten, because every time I lose my skin, if my parents don’t know that he will definitely beat me once, and Master Liu, I feel that he is a good person and is very affectionate to me. So I think if I laugh with me, he won't care about me.
But the reality is often cruel. The moment Master Liu opened his eyes, he scolded, "Bear boy!" Then he picked me up, pushed me down on the bed, and beat my ass more than ten times. .
Master Liu's attack was no less severe than my father's attack, so I was beaten and cried.
As soon as I cried like this, my parents also came over, and they realized what was going on. My dad gave me another slap on the butt, and my heart suddenly became a mess, didn't I just get naughty? As for
After hitting me, seeing that I was crying so hard, Master Liu said to me, "Do you know why I hit you?"
I shook my head, feeling extremely aggrieved.
Master Liu said: "You can't get used to some stinky problems of children. You are joking and throwing shit, it's okay, but the object of your actions must not be your elders, this is the most basic way. If you don’t even have this bit of Dao, you will become an unfilial person over time.”
I didn’t understand this at the time. It wasn’t until I grew up that I saw a lot of things like this, and then I gradually understood the truth. For example, some children started to make fun of their elders since they were young, and the elders were used to it. I forgot to give me the least respect, and if I post it again, I will beat him up. If I don’t like it, I will scold my parents, my grandparents, and even those who do it in my eyes.
In the end, such arrogance will harm his own children. In Master Liu's words, if these children do not have the most basic "Dao", then they will go down the wrong path.
After I was beaten, I would naturally get angry, so I played a temper and said that I would not go with Master Liu. As a result, my father was so angry that he wanted to beat me up, and I was even more aggrieved at the moment, and I cried a lot.
But Master Liu grabbed my dad and said, "Okay, it's not a big deal, don't fight, by the way, is breakfast ready, I'm hungry, I've eaten, and I'm ready to go."
At that time, I felt that I asked Master Liu to eat quickly and leave immediately. I didn't want to see him again.
But who knew that Master Liu suddenly said to me: "Don't cry, have dinner, let's go to the city by car, I'll buy you ice cream to eat!"
I know about ice cream, and I have seen it in the countryside. The inferior ones cost two or three cents, the good ones cost fifty cents, enough for me to eat several sorbets. It is said that they are many times better than sorbets. So I sucked my nose and said, "Really?"
Master Liu said, "Really!"
For the ice cream that I have been dreaming of for a long time, I held back my tears and started to be a good child.
After dinner, Zhao Laohei came to my house with his purse and a clean tunic suit. For so many years, I have never seen Zhao Laohei so handsome, and Zhao Jie and Zhao Yuan followed them. I heard that I was going to "play" in the county town for a week, so I came to express my congratulations and envy to me.
And I patted my chest and assured them that I would tell them what I saw when I got back.
After a while, Grandma Hong Rong also came to my house. She was carrying a walking bag with a lot of lotus flowers embroidered on it. She looked very beautiful.
Master Liu was leaving, and many people from our village still came to deliver it, including Sun Sheng. He also gave Master Liu fifty dollars, saying that it was to repay Master Liu for saving his daughter, but he was rejected by Liu. The master blocked it back: "If you give me money again, I'll be angry, I'm not the kind of mountain trail that catches ghosts and makes money, I'm... In short, I can't ask for your money, I took your money. , isn't my good relationship a deal, isn't everything I've done in vain?"
Sun Sheng didn't quite understand Master Liu's words, but it meant that if he wanted to give Master Liu money, he would hurt Master Liu, so after Master Liu shied away a few times, he didn't hold back.
We were waiting at the entrance of the village to board the bus to the county seat. Zhao Laohei bought tickets for all of us. This time, Master Liu did not shirk. There were not many people entering the city at that time, so there were still seats on the bus, and the four of us only Got to the last row and sat down.
I asked Master Liu why he didn’t want Sun Sheng’s money, there might be several ice creams, and Master Liu said, “Because I have gained something more important than money, now I tell you, you don’t understand, when you grow up, You'll know."
I said "oh" and didn't ask.
Children have one thing in common in the car, that is, they don’t get excited at first, they like to make trouble, but after a while, they start to feel sleepy, and then they start to sleep. At that time, I was also an exception.
So much so that when I got off the car, I didn't know how many times I got off the bus when I got to the county seat. In short, when I was woken up again, Master Liu held me and accompanied me Zhao Laohei and Hong Rong's mother-in-law. When I arrived at a place similar to a cave, this cave was different from ordinary caves. There was a muddy earth statue with its lacquer skin falling off. It was half a person high, and it was full of dust. There was no incense candle tribute in front of the earth statue. No one worships.
The side of the statue is also covered with spider webs, and the walls and the ground are full of scattered adobes. Most of the wooden windows and doors at the entrance of the cave have been demolished. Have they been demolished by nearby villagers as there is less firewood? It is unknown.
I woke up in a daze, and was taken to such a place. Naturally, I was very surprised, so I asked Master Liu, "Where is this?"
When I asked my mother-in-law Hong Rong, she replied, "This is Lao Xingjia Village, the land temple at the entrance of the village."
"Old Xingjia Village?" Of course I've never heard of this place
Zhao Laohei on the side explained to me: "It's a village in the east of our county. In the early years, because coal mines were discovered under the village, the whole village was moved away. Later, the coal here was finished. The well is also deserted, so the place we are staying now is a deserted village."
Zhao Laohei seemed to want to continue to say something, but was interrupted by Master Liu: "Okay, let's not talk about this village today, we are here to do a small thing, we will leave when we are done. What's going on in this village has nothing to do with us."
Zhao Laohei said "Oh" and said no more.
Then Master Liu took out a yellow cloth bag from his backpack. Several special red runes were embroidered on the bag. I asked Master Liu what was in it. Master Liu put me aside and shook the cloth bag. Said: "Ghost!"
I was subconsciously frightened and jumped a step away, jumping to the side of Granny Hong Rong.
But Master Liu asked Granny Hong Rong again, "Are you ready? I let him out?"
As soon as I heard that catching the ghost had something to do with Grandma Hong Rong, I quickly ran to Zhao Laohei's side, and Zhao Laohei also stopped me behind me.
Grandma Hong Rong nodded to Master Liu and said, "I'm all ready, let him out."
I saw Master Liu released the cloth bag with one hand, squeezed a few finger gestures, and chanted a few words for a while, and a vacuous figure floated out of the cloth bag, and this figure looked very familiar. It was the day I was in Zhao Jie's yard. The male ghost in the tunic suit I've seen here.
It's just that at this time, the male ghost's hostility is completely gone. When I look at him, I don't feel a trace of horror, but I feel that he is a little pitiful.
Master Liu said to the male ghost: "Cui Guangjin, is this the place where you died? I brought you back, and the person you've been waiting for day and night is also here. If you have any words or wishes, Just tell her."
The male ghost in Chinese tunic looked at Granny Hong Rong, his expression changed, and then he started to move his lips, as if he was talking, but I couldn't hear it at all.
But Grandma Hong Rong, as if she had heard everything, nodded or shook her head, and even left her face full of tears.
I asked Master Liu what did they say? Master Liu said that it was a secret belonging to Granny Hong Rong and Cui Guangjin, and we should not know it.
The male ghost talked to Granny Hong Rong a lot. In the end, Granny Hong Rong knelt down in front of the male ghost, but the male ghost kept shaking his head, then slowly became illusory and disappeared.
When Cui Guangjin disappeared, Grandma Hong Rong shouted: "Guangjin, I, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for you!"
Master Liu put away the cloth bag and said, "Okay, he's gone, I'll take care of you in this matter, we can't stay here any longer, let's go quickly."
Grandma Hong Rong kowtowed a few times at the place where Cui Guangjin disappeared, as if she was sincerely admitting her mistake, and then she stood up after wiping away her old tears.
When I got out of the cave, I realized that this was indeed a barren village. The stone houses on the slopes were overgrown with weeds, and the original yard was lined with trees and grasses. Apart from being desolate, it was still desolate.
But at this time, I found a few people in black clothes coming out of the desolate courtyard, and then talking and laughing to the temple of the earth we left just now.
I'm curious, isn't this a deserted village
But before I could ask, Master Liu told me, "Don't say anything about what you're looking at, don't ask, just follow us out, there is still some chance for you in this deserted village, it's just not now, but when you're a little older. How old are you?"
I have realized in my heart that what I see are not people, but ghosts!