"Twenty years..." Second Aunt murmured, "Twenty years have passed? Oh, time flies so fast, let you see how old I look now, Really, oops..."
I was the only one watching these two flirtatiously, I don't know how embarrassing it is. I had no choice but to cough dryly and shouted, "Second Aunt..."
"Ouch!" The second aunt did not realize my existence until now, and she panicked, "This, isn't this Gu Yu? Why are you here?"
I smiled awkwardly, "Uh, that's a long story..."
"Gu Yu is working for me. He helped me a lot when I was in Yancheng." Wen Jiubai smiled and patted me on the shoulder, "This time he is also with me. What happened to the haunting incident?"
It seems that after hearing what Wen Jiubai said, my second aunt realized what was going on, and quickly opened the door, "Ah, yes, yes. If you have anything to say, come in first and then talk. Come in quickly."
The last time I came to my second aunt's house seemed to be in my third year of high school. During that period of time, my mother was busy with business matters, so she had very little time to go home, and whenever she got home, she always scolded and insulted me. The second aunt knew that she couldn't stand it anymore, so she discussed with my mother and took me to live in their house every day. At that time, thanks to the second aunt, I had the time and energy to study hard, so until now, the person I like the most at home is the second aunt.
Second Aunt's house was not big in the first place, and when I came in, I found that there were several people sitting in the living room, plus Wen Jiubai and I, the small space seemed even narrower.
I looked into the living room curiously. There are three people sitting on the sofa in the living room, namely my uncle, my cousin who just came back from Japan, and my young second cousin. Uncle was wearing a leather jacket, sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette, frowning tightly. My cousin was sitting next to my uncle, eating a handful of melon seeds. When he saw me coming, he raised his hand to greet me. And my second cousin was wearing a short skirt and high heels, sitting on the edge of the sofa with her legs crossed, looking down at her phone all the time.
"Almost everyone in the family can come." The second aunt sighed, looked at me and said, "It's just that your mother didn't come. She said that there is an important contract with the clothing company, so she might come tomorrow."
I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately my mother couldn't make it through, otherwise I would definitely be blood spattered on the spot.
"Everyone, this is Mr. Wen, the exorcist master I invited. He came all the way to see Mom." The second aunt came to the living room and introduced to the people present, "Mr. Wen, from left to right, they are my younger brothers. , my nephew and niece."
Wen Jiubai nodded, and bowed to the three people on the sofa, "Excuse me, Wen Jiubai."
But in contrast, among the three people sitting, except for my uncle who reluctantly nodded to Wen Jiubai, the attitudes of the other two were very indifferent.
"Second aunt, can you stop inviting these weird people here?" My cousin said impatiently, "It's either a Taoist priest or a magic stick. Grandma is insane. What's the use of asking these people here?" It’s better to rush to the hospital.”
"Hey, you can't say that." Uncle frowned, patted my cousin, and said in a low voice, "We have also looked for the doctor, isn't it because we can't see why?"
"Then the fortune teller will be able to tell what's going on? Really." My cousin snorted, and turned his head away, not looking at Wen Jiubai.
"What does it matter." The second cousin who has been playing with her mobile phone also said, but her eyes did not leave the screen of the mobile phone. It wasn't our money that was cheated."
The second aunt stood in the living room with embarrassment written all over her face. The hand she extended out during the introduction just now was neither accepted nor accepted. Wen Jiubai frowned, showing displeasure, but didn't say anything.
But I have long been used to the tense and smokey conversations between various relatives in the family from time to time, which is why I dislike the situation where various relatives gather together since I was a child.
"I'm sorry, come here." The second aunt whispered, left the living room, and led us to a room in the corridor.
This is a bedroom, and an old man is lying on the bed, who is my grandmother. I haven't seen my grandma for more than a year, and her face seems to have a few more wrinkles, making her look even more vicissitudes. The old man was breathing evenly at this time, and seemed to be asleep.
The second aunt walked over, tucked the quilt for my grandma, and sighed.
"I'm really sorry, they usually look like that, if I offend you, I'm really sorry."
Wen Jiubai shook his head, expressing that he didn't mind, but instead focused on the old man lying on the bed, "This is, you said in your letter, the mother who often went crazy in the middle of the night?"
The second aunt nodded, "But don't worry, we fed her sleeping pills, and there shouldn't be any trouble for the time being."
"Then tell us what happened in the past two days." Wen Jiubai sat on a chair by the bed, assuming he was listening.
The second aunt nodded and began to narrate, "In fact, the whole story is almost written in the letter. A week ago, my mother began to be mentally unstable. Like I said, she often gets up in the middle of the night, like a wandering ghost." same, chanting some strange things in her mouth, walking from one end of the room to the other. Then she didn't just move around, and the whole person began to become manic."
"What kind of manic method?" Wen Jiubai asked.
"This...it's hard to describe to you." The second aunt said hesitantly, "I don't know if you have ever seen someone with rabies."
"Rabies?"
"Yes, it's probably like that. Her face is expressionless, her eyes are cloudy, her mouth is open, and the saliva is dripping from it, but she is extremely excited. She will rush to see people and shout something in her mouth. We couldn't understand the words. Another time, she broke the window and tried to jump out, and when I went to pull her, she bit me."
Saying that, the second aunt rolled up her sleeves and showed us her arms. Sure enough, there was a clear bite mark on the arm. It could be seen that the force was too great, and the whole wound was swollen and a little purple.
I couldn't help feeling a little worried, and blurted out, "Then, grandma... really got rabies?"
I heard that the incubation period of rabies is very long, and the virus ten years ago may not break out until today.
But the second aunt shook her head, "No. After that day, I informed my family. Originally, the family wanted to send the old lady to the hospital, but the old lady went crazy, she scratched and bit anyone she saw, and no one could do anything about it." In the end, I invited several doctors to see it, and they all said that it was not a symptom of rabies, but simply crazy."