The first place we arrived was the place where Hongying's life lasted, the collapsed old house of the Jian family. Even though I had faced such a terrifying ghost turning into Hongying, I still can't forget seeing the whole process of her death here.
I felt sympathy for her in my heart and felt a little guilty about my own powerlessness.
The Jian family has completely ceased to exist, and all that is left is a pile of broken bricks and rubble, piled up where it once stood.
The yin energy here has disappeared, making it the cleanest place in the village. I don't know where the many ghosts of the Jian family have gone. They have probably been taken to where they should go by ghost messengers.
Obviously this is not a place where Hongying might feel nostalgic and appear again, but we still want to come and have a look.
I think she might hate it here...
I turned around the ruins and walked towards the edge of the village, where there was a long-dried ditch and under two peach trees. If I looked carefully, I could still see small pieces of weathered bricks.
If you look carefully, you can see that under the cover of soil, houses should have been built here, but they have collapsed for a long time and traces are hard to find.
"I don't think Hongying will come back here." Lang Hongyi's voice slowly sounded around me, interrupting my thoughts that were dwelling on the past years.
I sighed along with his voice, "You should be right. Although home will be the last attachment for many souls, Hongying may have given up on the home that once pushed her into the pit of fire.
There should be Blacksmith Song's workshop not far from here, and she would avoid it on purpose."
Blacksmith Song died for Hongying. After his death, he was bewitched by Hongying and killed hundreds of Jian family members. In the end, he was devoured by Hongying. He even lost the chance of reincarnation. Does Hongying have any regrets about this?
We have no chance to confirm these questions. I am afraid that only Hongying herself knows.
But it was clear before our eyes that we were looking in the wrong place again.
This is not the place where Hongying will appear, and he will return in vain.
That's right, Lang Hongyi and I are wandering around the village like headless flies, just to find the place that Hongying missed the most during her lifetime.
As the old saying goes, dead people are straight, dead people are straight. They often follow their obsessions, either returning to the place they miss the most or going to the person they miss the most.
Nowadays, it has been a hundred years since Hongying lived. The past is gone, things and people have changed, and most of the relevant people and things have been crushed by the gears of time.
It's really hard to find a place like this nowadays.
There is no trace of her in the place where she died or in her home, so where is the Hongying who traveled through hundreds of years and came to the present?
Suddenly, Lang Hongyi seemed to have discovered something. In this night when there was not much light, he could actually see a little flash of red in the dense grass on the hillside far outside the village.
"There...do you think that is the color of Hongying's wedding dress?"
Indeed, in this season, if you can see such bright red colors, it is unlikely that they are wild flowers.
Since nothing is found here, we might as well go over and have a look.
"That should be the hillside outside the village. It's not very far from here. Let's go and have a look, but we have to be careful on the road. It's a wilderness and the ground will definitely be difficult to walk on."
This is the difficulty of living in an unfamiliar place. It doesn't look far away, but when you walk, it's not very close.
It was already about an hour later when we walked from the village to the hillside.
It is not easy to walk along the way. Walking in the wilderness without trails is like an adventure. No one knows where to step next.
Compared with Hongying's previous grave on the edge of the field, this place is more like a deserted grave.
There was a gloomy wind everywhere, blowing the surrounding grass. In the quiet night, there was a seemingly invisible voice of a woman singing nursery rhymes, mixed with the sounds of insects all around.
The woman's voice was a little erratic, with a deep desire...
"The red sedan is carried on both sides, and the beautiful girl sits inside, staggering all the way, playing and beating to get in the door, kicking the sedan door, holding red flowers, the lover in the door welcomes his lover, first worships in the hall and then the bridal chamber, and one year he will be blessed with the number one scholar.
, riding a red horse, wearing red flowers, playing the wind and playing music to return home..."
Walking into a place with dense grass, the red color in front of me can no longer be covered up. Her long red hair reaches her waist, and she sits quietly in the grass, looking at the direction of the village.
From this location, if you look at it during the day, it should be a good place to see people in the village busy farming and the smoke coming from the kitchens of every household in the village.
And such a picture of a girl singing in the gentle breeze should be such a beautiful picture.
It's a pity that the one singing at this time is a female ghost. She has lost her life long ago. She does not belong to this world, let alone the ghost that the song depicts.
"Have you come?" Hongying stopped singing the ballad and spoke quietly without turning around, as if she whispered to us.
She didn't show off, nor was she as crazy as when we saw her in the house before. After leaving Jian's house and coming here, she seemed to have sobered up a lot and became normal.
With disbelief, I asked her softly, "Are you waiting for us?"
"Yes, I have figured out a lot of things after I came out. I don't want to continue like this. It may be best to destroy it in your hands, but can you give me a little more time before taking action?"
Hongying calmed down and spoke in a gentle voice. If I hadn't been convinced that the person before had been extremely crazy, I wouldn't have believed that the person in front of me was the same soul.
I didn't answer her request because it was beyond my control. If she didn't want to, we would probably have to go through a lot of trouble to deal with her. As for what she wanted to do when she needed time, I didn't know at all.
I can't understand.
As if to explain her behavior, Hongying spoke slowly and quietly, "This is the place where I used to graze cattle. Blacksmith Song was not a blacksmith at that time. I always called him Brother Shuanzi."
This is the first time we know Blacksmith Song's name. We didn't ask, but Hongying took the initiative to mention it.
"My family is poor and lacks food and clothing. When Brother Shuanzi and I herded cattle together, the wild fruits here could fill our stomachs, so I like it here very much."
I can somewhat imagine what she didn't say.
Grandma Bai said before that the reason why she sympathized with Hongying's experience was because Hongying's life had not been easy since she was a child.
The family was already poor, and the emphasis was on boys over girls. Since there was no cooking platform, I started to help the family make a living, eating the worst food and doing the most tiring work.
In the end, he was replaced with food for chewing and ended up like that.
Herding cattle was probably the most comfortable time for her. There was no beating or scolding, and there was no endless work. It was just like picking wild fruits and vegetables for a game. It was the time she missed the most.
"I just want to stay here for a while. Okay, that's it. You go ahead and do it!"
I took out the blood salt and sprinkled it on Hongying's body. When the blood salt came into contact with her body, her whole body trembled obviously, white light rose up and left her body, and she suppressed not to make a sound.
The yellow form came out and was thrown on Hongying's back. Hongying's figure gradually disappeared and became transparent, but at the last moment, she said something, "She came to me and promised me eternal life, but I didn't agree.
I think I agreed to one..."
Who is it?
Who came looking for Hongying? Could it be that the one who agreed was another Hongying that we killed? What was promised and what was exchanged for?
Everything seems to be a mystery. It seems that we can reach out and grasp it in front of us, but it seems so far away.
No one expected Hongying to follow us so easily. The sun slowly fell on the entire earth, and everything seemed to have settled, but something was still going on in the darkness.