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【009】Grandpa's Shadow

The door made a groan-like squeezing sound, and pale hands and heads poked out from the crack in the door. Zhong Kui was so shocked that he suddenly woke up from his nightmare. He cried out, "

"Grandpa" kicked off the quilt and rolled over, not daring to sleep anymore.

Grandpa's bed was so small that Zhong Kui could only curl up to sleep all night. He was afraid that he would accidentally kick Grandpa. Grandpa was very old and could not withstand his tossing.

Zhong Kui sat up, wiped the sticky saliva from the corners of his mouth, and glanced at his grandfather who was still sleeping soundly. When he stretched his elbows, he felt extremely sore. His eyes fell on the door, and he suddenly remembered just now.

It seemed that the nightmare was caused by his sleeping posture, with his body curled up and his hands resting on his chest. This was the reason why he had nightmares. His father had once told him about the importance of sleeping.

At this moment, Zhong Kui saw the scene he least wanted to see. His two mysterious friends suddenly walked in through the door, and the cold air all over their faces formed one. They appeared quietly in front of him like shadows.

.

"You guys?" Zhong Kui asked, feeling the hot air coming out of his mouth, forming a ball like mist. He couldn't help but tighten his clothes and pull the quilt to cover himself. He knew that every time these two people couldn't talk,

As soon as my friends appeared, the atmosphere in the space became extremely cold. I knew even more that something bad would happen to them as soon as they appeared. Who were they coming from?

The two shadows who came through the door, like skateboards, silently slid past Zhong Kui and went straight to Grandpa's side.

Seeing this extremely weird scene, "Grandpa, you can't take him away." Zhong Kui exclaimed.

But Zhong Kui's words were insignificant and could not stop the two friends from summoning his grandfather's soul.

It can be said that this was the first time in Zhong Kui's history that he saw a person can be divided into two forms. Grandpa's body suddenly supported another person in form. It was just this person who stood up, and his body was completely transparent.

As light as mist.

Zhong Kui stood dumbfounded, looking at his grandfather's shadow in surprise, and followed the two silent friends. When he climbed to the other side of his grandfather's bed to look, he found that his grandfather's body was already cold, and his hands were cold.

Eyes closed tightly, a faint smile remained at the corner of the mouth.

The old man had been depressed all his life and finally told the story in his heart. He was so happy! But he didn't know that Zhong Kui, who was struggling, had bigger things waiting for him to face.

Zhong Kui bought firecrackers from a consignment store and did not dare to light them. When he saw his grandfather's neighbor passing by with a hoe on his shoulder, he couldn't stand it. He stepped forward and plopped down, imitating the last time the Yan family came to visit his father, kneeling down.

Kowling is the most respectful etiquette for people. When the man saw Zhong Kui kneeling to him, he knew that something must have happened, so he put down his hoe and asked.

"Grandpa~wuwu~grandpa~he's gone." Zhong Kui burst into tears and sobbed. He still kept his kneeling posture and said to the man.

"Ah~ when did this happen?" The man was afraid. What he was afraid of was that he would unknowingly get into trouble and bump into a dead person just as he was walking away.

"I don't know, but his body is already cold when I touch him."

"That's good." The man said, took out the match in his pocket, and lit the firecracker with a "Pu" sound. There was a deafening crackling sound, and then pieces of paper flew up and mixed with a blue stream.

The smoke drifted in front of the door of the old cave-slayer's house to notify all the people in the village that he was gone.

After the firecrackers went off, the enthusiastic neighbors nearby came to help. Several aunts stood at the door, watching the movement. If the owner's family had the conditions, they would be happy to help. If the owner's family had no money, they could not even afford a coffin.

, I'm sorry, so I have to leave. A few talkative women had nothing to do, so they were chattering there.

"Tsk! This old man is dead. He worked hard all his life. How pitiful."

"That's right, last night there was an old owl barking in the back of our house. At that time, I told the manager that something would happen if the old owl started barking. Sure enough, it was."

"Who is this kid?"

"Bah, your life is in vain if you don't even know this. Let me tell you..." A woman put her mouth close to another woman's ear, glanced at Zhong Kui with a sly look, and whispered like this

.

Zhong Kui ignored these talkative women. What he was thinking in his heart was: Grandpa is gone, and dad has to be busy again. He has to call dad over quickly. What should be done about grandpa's funeral? There is still money in the family, and that money is

Dad used it to buy piglets.

Zhong Kui trotted all the way home. What surprised him was that when he was far away from the door of his house, he saw that the door was open. He was overjoyed; Dad was at home? But then he thought again, since Dad

At home, why didn't you come to see grandpa?

The sound of the firecrackers should have reached here. Zhong Kui thought to himself in confusion and quickened his pace. As he ran, he shouted: "Dad~Dad."

Zhong Kui shouted countless times. The door was indeed open, but his father was nowhere to be seen.

"Dad~" Zhong Kui was unwilling to give in. He walked into the house and walked through the three shabby houses. He didn't see his father. However, he saw that the beds, bedding and pillows at home were all messy, as if someone was looking for something.

Chaotic.

Because there was something on his mind, Zhong Kui didn't pay attention to these unusual scenes, but because he couldn't find his father, he felt something was wrong.

Zhong Kui's house didn't have much sloping land, only three or two areas. He couldn't find it at home, so he hurriedly ran up the sloping land. In addition to the crops undulating in the wind, there were also some grasses growing again on the sloping land. There was no father.

Figure. "Dad~ where are you?" He didn't see his father, and an indescribable ominous feeling suddenly came into his mind.

Grandpa is still waiting, and he can’t waste time here like this. Zhong Kui thought that on weekdays, his father would always stuff money into pillows. He ran home quickly and shook out all the Patama tidbits from the big and small pillows. Without money, a

There's not even a dime left.

Zhong Kui was completely confused by what was happening in front of him. Where was the money? Did his father take it away? Or did he use the money to buy piglets? If so, then it would be nothing. Sooner or later, dad would

Will be back.

But why did dad take the money and ransack the house as if it were a house raid? Zhong Kui glanced around the house in confusion. In the end, he had no choice but to go to his grandpa's house.

At Grandpa's house, except for two or three kind-hearted men who were still there, the rest of the gossiping mothers-in-law and aunts had already dispersed.

When the three men saw Zhong Kui running back alone, they hurriedly asked why his father didn't come.

Zhong Kui told them the situation of searching for his father in this way. They shook their heads speechlessly, and finally decided to wrap him in the bamboo mat the old man slept on and put him in the only house. Waiting for the hole cutter from the neighboring village to do it.

It's a good thing to cut off the old man's acupuncture point.

Looking at my grandfather's body wrapped in a torn mat, I felt as if my heart was broken. A man who spent his whole life beheading the dead was wrapped in a torn mat after his own death.

Fortunately, the hole-cutter from the neighboring village was a good friend of Grandpa Zhong Kui. After a while, he came over after hearing the news. Without saying anything, he quickly took out a piece of paper and wrote down the old man's height and weight. Then he
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