Chapter VII Rural Ghosts III
The mountain where the widow buried the king was a mass grave. It has been in the Qing Dynasty. I didn’t know how many dead people had been buried on the mountain before, so at night, the whole mountain was full of phosphorus fire, and it was indeed far away to hear many strange sounds. It was very scary. If you don’t say anything, you will feel that your hair will explode when you mention it. My grandfather had no choice but to harden his hair and went to the mass grave alone. It was not until after 2 o’clock in the evening that my grandfather came back. According to my grandfather, my grandfather’s face turned pale after he came back. No matter how my grandfather asked him, he didn’t say a word. The next day he had a high fever. But it was all cured two days later, and my second uncle was fine. Later, Yin Banxianer told me that the reason why the prince and the prince had to marry my second uncle was actually for his son.
Because Widow Wang's family is very poor, the mother and son live on a cow, so his son is 12 years old and has not yet gone to school. She just hopes that the cow can have a calf, and after selling it, his son will have money to go to school. However, after many troubles, he still has no movement in her cow. There is a saying among the folks that "marry a wife in the underworld and add animals in the world." So Widow Wang is pestering her second uncle for herself.
Liangzi finished speaking for a long time and no one spoke. He asked us, "How is this story? Is this scary?" Xiaogang said, "It's not bad! It's the first time I heard Liangzi tell such a good ghost story. I used to brag." Liangzi said, "Fuck! I'm telling the real thing. This is something my second uncle and my grandfather personally experienced." Xiaogang said, "You don't believe this thing if you haven't experienced it personally."
After listening to Liangzi's story, I suddenly remembered a story my mother told me, and said to them: "I have a story, I don't know if you want to listen to it." Xiaogang said: "Okay, I haven't heard enough yet."
I said, "This incident was told to me by my mother. She said that this was something her friend had experienced personally, and she also saw it with her own eyes. In 1984, my mother was assigned to the Yalu River Youth Site Farm to the countryside. At that time, there was a woman named Yingzi. My mother said that Yingzi could eat five bowls of rice, and she was big and thick, and had a very bad temper. After arriving at the farm, almost few people dared to talk to her. If they started, the two or three men would not be his opponents. It was nothing to have a bad temper. The main reason was that Yingzi was arrogant and unreasonable.
The conditions in the Youth Site Farm are relatively difficult. The female educated youth who went to the countryside all had more than a dozen people slept on a big kang, and everyone wanted to sleep on the side. Yingzi went back to the back. After entering the house, she threw the bedside of the person next to her and put her luggage on. The female educated youth was not convinced and shouted at her: "What are you doing? I've been sleeping here for half a year. Why did you steal my place when you come?"
Yingzi raised her eyes and said, "I just snatched it, right? Who can only sleep here?" The female educated youth saw Yingzi's posture and her outfit, so she could only think that she was suffering a loss. That's not all, Yingzi also drew her own place online, and no one was allowed to live. But I don't know if she liked my mother or something, but she actually became friends with my mother. She helped me with any work I had.
In that era, it was difficult for educated youth to return to the city after they went to the countryside, so many people were fortunate to settle down on the farm. This Yingzi also borrowed it from someone else and found a man to marry in the countryside near the Youth Site.
She is used to being unreasonable, and the same goes for marriage. She had a small fight with her old lady every two days, a big fight with her every three days, and a big fight with her every day. She didn't dare to care because Yingzi had a big body, and one could destroy her two men. If she really started to fight, she would grab the man's neck with her big hand and lift him up like a chicken.
Finally one day she got angry with her old lady. The old lady had a girl who was quite filial and came to wash and clean the old lady every day. She didn't dare to knock on the door because the old lady lived in the room in front of the door, and Yingzi only allowed her to knock on the window.
On this day, the old lady's illness suddenly became worse. The old lady knocked on the window for a long time. The old lady didn't get up. When her girl saw that the old lady couldn't get up, she became anxious and went to smash the door. Yingzi had been listening in the inner room for a long time. When she saw what this guy was? He dared to smash the door. She rushed out in anger, opened the door and grabbed the old lady's hair and scolded: "You shameless thing, you have been married, and you still want to come back every day to take advantage. You can come back, it's okay to take advantage of me anyway, but I told you that I didn't tell you not to knock on the door? What did you knock? Do you know if you affect me when I sleep?"
The old lady was also excited this time, and grabbed Yingzi's hair and cried and scolded: "My mother's illness is so angry that you are angry. If she really has a few big and small things, I will fight you." The two of them became more and more fierce and twisted into a ball.
Her man took this opportunity to go to the outer room to see his mother. He found that the old lady was dying. He knelt on the ground and hugged his mother's body and howled, and cursed loudly: "You are so happy this time, my mother made you angry..."
Yingzi was very clear in her heart and knew that she was in the wrong. She hid the old lady away and hid in the inner room and couldn't come out. Until the old lady was in funeral, she didn't come out to take a look. On the night after the old lady was buried, she had a dream and saw that the old lady came back from outside like a gust of wind! She didn't report it at that time, so she went out to see it. Unexpectedly, after the old lady arrived at the door, she went up to the roof without leaving the door! She entered the room along the chimney! Before Yingzi could report it in her dream, she entered the house with curses and saw the old lady facing her back in her room, and didn't know what she was looking around.
Yingzi asked, "I said you, an immortal, why are you rumbling over here? Can you make people calm for a while?" The old lady ignored her and was still looking for something on her own. She became even more angry when she saw it, and opened her mouth and cursed. At this time, she saw the old lady turning around suddenly. Yingzi was shocked by the old lady's appearance. She saw that the old lady's expression and movements were like a monkey. She was muttering a branch in her mouth, and she was pecking at it, as if she was smoking.
What scared her the most was the old lady's five fingernails. Her nails were very long, just like five sharp knives, and their fingertips were still shining with cold light under the moonlight. The old lady looked at her very strangely, as if a butcher was looking at the slaughtered lamb. Suddenly, the old lady suddenly spit out the branches in her mouth, sneered, and then slowly stretched out her hands like an iron hook and slowly stretched out her, asking deeply: "Where did you put my cigarette box!!!" Yingzi was so scared that she was scared even though she was bold. It was her man who pushed her to wake her up.
In the next few days, she had such a terrifying dream every day, dreaming that the old lady entered the house in various ways, and when she saw her, she didn't talk, she just stared at her with her eyes, which made her dare not sleep until night. Yingzi couldn't stand it anymore, so she found a sensible man in the village, Aunt Zhang, and showed her. Aunt Zhang was in her eighties, and her little eyes were clenched inside, and she was so bright that she seemed to be able to see her in your heart.
Aunt Zhang said to her: "Fortunately, you found me in time, or you will die in a few days. Your old lady has long nails when she dies and has not been cut off, so her magic power after death is particularly strong. Otherwise, the person who just died will not be able to dream of others. As the saying goes, if a dead man has long nails, it is difficult to reduce impermanence. This means that if a person's nails are too long when he dies, even the life-seeking impermanence ghost will have no choice but to deal with her."
Yingzi was really scared now, so she asked, "What should I do? Am I dead?" Zhang Dagu smiled and said, "Actually, this is nothing. As long as you go to the cemetery to cut off the old lady's nails at one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, it will be fine, but you must pay attention to three points, otherwise hum..."
Yingzi was so scared that she couldn't do it anymore and said to Aunt Zhang in panic: "As long as she doesn't bother me, let alone it's three o'clock, it's okay at 3 o'clock." Aunt Zhang nodded and said: "One of this, you must first offer three incense sticks to the old lady before opening the coffin, kowtow three sincerely, and then act according to the result of the incense. If the incense burns to the end, it means that it can cause the earth to be destroyed. Otherwise, you will have to come back immediately to choose another time.
Secondly, the scissors used to cut the old lady's nails must be soaked in the well water that has just been dug for an hour before they can be used. Because the thing with the word "knife" must contain murderous aura. If the corpse is stuck with murderous aura, it is easy to get a corpse and hurt people." Yingzi asked if he didn't understand what he said: "Then why should we soak in well water?" Zhang Dagu explained: "The freshly dug in well water can dissolve the murderous aura."
Seeing Yingzi nodding in a slight understanding, Zhang Dagu smiled and continued, "Thirdly, before cutting the old lady's nails, you must use three 'dog tails' straws to make a defense, and tie the ring finger of the old lady's left hand, so that the old lady's ghost will fall into a 'soul-painted' state and will not hurt people."
After Yingzi returned, she prepared all the things she needed and asked her man to accompany her to the grave camp where the old lady was. Although her man hated Yingzi for being unfilial to the old lady, her mother died after all, and she still had to live this life, so she accompanied Yingzi.
Just as the sensible person said, Yingzi first lit three incense sticks in front of the old lady's grave. He kowtowed and said, "I'm immortal... Oh no, mom! Don't bother me anymore. I will give you more money during the Chinese New Year and the holidays in the future..."
After waiting for about 20 minutes, the two of them dared to dig a coffin after seeing the burning of Xiang Yijing. After more than an hour of struggle, they finally dug out the old lady's coffin. Yingzinan raised the coffin lid and said in a trembling voice: "Mom! Don't be angry! Forgive your son's unfilial piety!" The moment the coffin lid was pushed down... Ah!!! Both of them screamed in fear and rolled and crawled away.
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