Chapter 17 Sleepwalking in Ghostland
"Yeah, OK..." I nodded.
The master looked at me in a daze, with loving eyes in his eyes. After a moment, the master sighed, bowed his body and held my shoulder with his hands. I smiled at the master.
"Close your eyes," said the master.
"Um…"
After I closed my eyes, I heard from my master, "Switch off the lights in this room."
‘Pa’, the light went out. After a moment, a fire broke out, and it felt like it was a candle.
"Leng'er, calm down and eliminate distracting thoughts..."
"good…"
I took a breath, and my spirit was introverted. Although I was a little excited and didn't know what would happen, I tried my best to control myself and didn't think about anything. After a while, I heard the sound of Master's reciting the Dharma. Then, I felt a sense of heaviness in my body and mentally exhausted. It seemed that I had not had a rest for several days or nights. Soon, Master's voice sounded farther and farther away, and I was sinking into the deep darkness...
It seemed as if after a long time, I vaguely heard a 'bang-boom' sound. I was shocked and I woke up. Looking around, I was still sitting in the room. The old man also woke up and was sitting next to me. The master and the old man's son were gone. I was watching, and the 'bang-boom' sound was getting closer and closer. As a black thing stopped at the door of the room, the 'bang-boom' sound disappeared...
I saw that the thing parked at the door was like a carriage... Suddenly, two people appeared at the door and walked in slowly... When I saw the two people clearly, I was shocked. These were obviously two paper men, wearing flower-ball shrouds and pale foundation on their faces... I realized that at this moment, I should be in a ‘dream’...
The two paper men floated to the old man, one of whom stretched his hand and pulled the old man up from the ground, and then pulled the old man out. I couldn't help but stand up lightly and walked with the old man. The two paper men didn't stop him. When I came to the door, I saw that it was indeed a car, which looked like paper, and a paper horse was driving the shaft and stood motionless in front of the car. The old man was helped onto the car, and I also got onto the car and sat next to the old man. Two paper men sat onto the shaft, one of them pulled the reins, and the horse neighed for a long time. My eyes dazzled, and the carriage passed through the wall and came outside...
The carriage carried me and the old man, passing through the building and passing through the room, as if nothing had happened, and finally came to a street. Looking through the car window, the street scenes of the county town, buildings and teahouses, all seemed to be misty. The carriage ran faster and faster, and suddenly, the horse pulling the carriage neighed, raised its legs, and flew into the air with the carriage, rising higher and higher, but saw clouds and smoke on both sides floating by...
I was surprised and didn't know how high the car would float, but suddenly, I felt that the car was falling down. At the beginning, I just felt that it was falling. When I reached the back, the faster it was falling, and I heard the wind whistling in my ears... With the sudden "huh", my eyes blurred, and I felt that my body had weight compared to before, and my feet seemed to be stepping on the ground.
I calmed down and saw that the carriage was gone, and the paper man driving the carriage was gone. Not far from me, there was a deep mansion. The building was quite ancient, and the clouds and mists looked like a ghostly spirit...
I was looking at me in surprise when I suddenly felt someone pushing me, which scared me to jump up from the ground. When I turned around, it was the old man who looked at me in horror.
"Big...Master..."
"You kid... are you zombie?" The old man patted his chest, "Who are you?"
"I'm here with you..."
"Where is this?" the old man interrupted me and looked around.
"This is..." I scratched my head, "In my dream..."
"In the dream?" The old man was stunned and stretched his neck, "Once Is the ancestor Banban'er..."
"Master, shh..."
I made a gesture and looked over. The two doors of the house slowly opened. A man wearing a melon-skin hat and ancient clothes walked out.
The man first looked at the old man, then looked at me, and said, "After you are here, please follow me into the house. Everyone has been waiting for a long time..."
This man spoke in a strange tone, but fortunately, I could barely understand what he said.
The old man looked at this person and suddenly shouted, "I remembered that I have been here when I was a child!"
"That's right." I said, "It's here, let's go."
"But this..."
"Don't be afraid, go..."
Actually, I was a little nervous, and I stubbornly held the old man and followed the man into the house.
The gate is high and wide. Through the gate, it is a large garden with strange flowers and trees inside. I can't name it. I turned to the right, walked along the long eaves for a while, turned two turns, and came to a small moon-shaped gate. After passing through the door, it was a curved stone path, which was along the stone path. But I saw rockery on both sides and strange trees abruptly... In theory, if there was a place like this in reality, it would make people feel very quiet and elegant. Walking in it, I felt relaxed and happy, as if I was in a paradise or a fairyland on earth... However, the scenery in front of me showed an indescribable weirdness, and there was no feeling at all. I don't know why, anyway, it was not because I knew this was caused by the psychological reasons of the "ghost realm". In short, everything was surprisingly quiet, making people's scalp numb and their hair stood up...
After walking like this, there was another small door, and three small doors were passed through. I suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums. After passing through the fourth small door, I suddenly realized that a large courtyard appeared. There was a stage in the yard, with several actors with colorful oil paint on their faces, performing on it. There were many people around the stage. Under the eaves on the right side of the yard, there were several tables, fruits, snacks, etc. on the table, stacked high. Two old men sat at the table, and didn't know what they were talking about...
I was looking around and the person who brought us in shouted, "Come here..."
The performer stopped watching, the audience stopped watching, the old man stopped chatting, everyone looked at us in one go. So many pairs of eyes made me feel bleak in my heart. I barely squeezed out a smile, and I nodded at the crowd...
The two old men stood up to greet me. One of them looked at me, frowned, but said nothing. He bowed to the old man next to me and said, "I haven't seen you for many years. Now you are old, so it's time to call Mr. Zhou. You take the liberty to invite you to tell me, and I hope you will forgive me, please sit here..."
The old man took me and Old Man Zhou to the middle table to sit down. Old Man Zhou sat in the main seat, and I accompanied him next time. After we sat down, the old man waved his hand and the actor on the stage continued to sing.
"Use whatever you want." The old man pointed to the candy and dessert on the table.
These things look tempting, but I don’t dare to touch them if I know what they are. Old Man Zhou was not polite, and grabbed a piece of snack and stuffed them into his mouth that was leaking teeth. I wanted to stop him, but I was afraid of annoying the old man who died of devil. If he said that, he swallowed it back.
I sat like this and watched the show for a while, but I didn't understand what I was acting, and gradually became impatient. I thought to myself, I don't know when it's now. Master said that these dead ghosts called Old Man Zhou over because they had something to ask for, why haven't they talked about it yet? Did the master make a mistake in his judgment? These dead ghosts called Old Man Zhou over to just reminisce about the old man?...I looked at the old man who was dead ghost and saw his face stiff. I didn't dare to ask, so I had to sit silently. I thought to myself, when I was in that villa before, I took a look with these dead ghosts. Judging from the situation, "they" didn't seem to recognize me... I thought,
At that time, I was surrounded by these dead ghosts. Later, when they saw the bronze man, they all fell to the ground. What was the reason? At first, I thought that the bronze man had the function of repelling ghosts, but later, when the dead ghosts who were originally trapped in that room attacked me, the bronze man did not work at all... Could it be that the bronze man was a kind of holy object to these dead ghosts now?... However, Mr. Yang said that the bronze man and Sanxingdui were of the same age, and the dead ghosts in front of me, judging from their clothes and words, I felt that the "they" should have been people from the Ming Dynasty during their lifetime...
Finally, Old Man Zhou seemed to be full, wiped his mouth and said, "You ask me to come, what's the matter?"
The old man of deceased stood up and said something to a servant. After the servant left, the old man said, "No hurry. Since I'm here, I'll take Mr. Zhou to visit everywhere, please..."
I thought to myself, looking at this situation, I really have something to ask for Old Man Zhou. Although I can't wait to know what, I can only endure it, patiently follow the two old men and walk around the manor. The manor is quite large, with pavilions, towers, small bridges and flowing water, everything. I thought to myself, although these dead ghosts are not in the cycle of reincarnation, they feel that they are no worse than the world when they stay here. Why do you still ask Old Man Zhou to help "them" fulfill their so-called wishes?
Just as he was thinking, a servant ran over and said, "Master, everyone is all."
The old man of deceased nodded and said, "Please move on and talk here."
I felt excited and said, I finally got to talk about the serious business...
We followed the old man in the dead and came to a gloomy house, and saw a few old men standing there in the house.
"You..." Old man Zhou looked at everyone in confusion.
The old man who led us in turned around and looked at Old Man Zhou, "fighting" and kneeled on the ground, and the other old men also knelt down.
"Are you guys?"
Chapter completed!