The last Onmyoji

Chapter 24 Father's Bong

I came back to deal with the burning lights in the ancestral hall, but I spent a whole day at Lin Erdan's place as soon as I got home. When we got home, I wanted to say thank you to my second uncle at the dinner table, but it wasn't him today. He reminded me that I might not be able to deal with Erdan Lin's affairs well, but he didn't even look at me, and shut himself in the room by himself after eating.After eating, my father packed a pipe of cigarettes for me, and handed them to me: "Xiaofan, you are also a big boy, come and have a taste, the northeast big toad tobacco that your grandfather liked to smoke most when he was here, take a sip , burn directly from the throat to the soles of the feet, that is a pleasure."

When my father handed me the cigarette, seeing his quiet smile, I was in a trance, and I hesitated whether to pick up the bong.

From childhood to adulthood, my father gave me too much freedom. In his words, if you are sensible, you will naturally not do some things. If you are not sensible, you will do it even if I tell you. You'd be annoyed by talking too much, so just don't say anything.

What I remember more clearly is when I was caught smoking in the toilet with a few brats when I was in middle school and was caught by the teacher to ask the parents. The other classmates were beaten by the parents when they were in the office, and my father kept me quiet. When I brought it back from school, I said to me: "If you want to smoke, you can. You are curious, because you feel that smoking is like a man, but when you take the cigarette from me one day, at that time, you are A real man, a man who can take responsibility."

That's why I said that although I grew up in such a family, I never felt any kind of psychological pressure. I have a father who doesn't have much education, but he has transferred all his life's insights to me.

I took the bong, and suddenly my eyes were red.

Father has gray hair.

"Xiaofan, you have really grown up. There are some things that my father can't do anything about, but you can handle them well. I am very satisfied to see you like this." Father said.

I took a puff of the cigarette, but was choked by the thick earthy smoke and coughed badly.

My father went to pour me a glass of water, and said to me: "No one outside talks about Lin Erdan's family, but you and I should know it well. It must be inextricably linked with your grandfather." I won’t say anything else, but if you can handle it, do your best, even if you feel in your heart that it’s none of your business, after all, this inexplicable thing comes from your grandfather At the beginning, you have to carry it."

I nodded and said, "Success."

"Go to bed, it's getting late. Three days later, it will be your grandfather's six or seven. And at this time, the lights in the ancestral hall are off." Father said.

I froze on the spot, of course I understood what my father meant.

The lights in the ancestral hall went out, Grandpa Liuqi, will he return to his soul again?
My father went back to the room, and I sat in the living room for a while, then went to help grandma straighten the mosquito net, went back to the room, and fell asleep drowsily on the bed.In the middle of the night, I was suddenly woken up by several slaps, and when I opened my eyes, in a drowsy state, I saw a person eagerly pulling my arm.

I took out my mobile phone to take a picture, and found that this person turned out to be my old lady who had never entered my room.

"Mom? What's wrong with you, staying up so late?" I asked.

She didn't speak, but pulled my arm with astonishing strength. I was shocked. Could it be that my mother was also possessed by a ghost?Otherwise, how could such a weak-looking woman pull me back?
"Mom? Are you still yourself?" I asked.

She didn't open her mouth to speak. I turned on the light and saw that she was neatly dressed, which turned out to be something she had never worn. The clothes my father bought her back more than [-] years ago, my father often talked about himself. At that time, the human traffickers in the city rushed over a dozen women, and my mother's face was covered with ashes, and she looked extremely embarrassed, unkempt like a lunatic, but he just took a fancy to her at that time. She was quietly in the corner.He said it was the most discerning choice he had ever made in his life.

Whenever he said that, the neighbors would expose him and say: "Lin Yutang, you only had 300 yuan in your pocket at the time, so you can only buy such a silly woman back?"

Every time at this time, my father is not angry, just laughs.

What's more, my father's name is Lin Yutang, which is the same name as a great writer, and it was named after a literate comrade-in-arms of my grandfather at that time.

When I was a child, my father told me: "Xiaofan, your mother is not stupid at all. She is more transparent than anyone else." But he only said this to me once.

How could my mother put on clothes she didn't usually wear in the middle of the night, and cry with tears all over her face?I got up from the bed, my mother was not possessed, but she wanted to pull me out!

I just ran out in my underpants, kicked open the door of my father's room, and found that the room was empty.Father is gone! !
"Mom, where did Dad go?!" My whole body was instantly drenched in cold sweat.He grabbed my mother's shoulder and asked.

My mother pointed to the open door.He signaled his father to go out.

"Second Uncle!" I yelled in the yard. Second Uncle is a strange person in my eyes. The martial arts masters on TV must have very keen senses. He must know when and where his father left.

After I finished yelling, the second uncle walked out of the room door. He was also only wearing a pair of shorts. When he saw my mother beside me, he hurried into the room and put on his clothes. Fortunately, he came out and asked me, "What's the matter, Xiaofan?"

I said to my old lady: "Mom, you stay at home and don't go anywhere. When I come back, I will definitely bring my father back to you."

But as soon as I turned around and left, my mother followed me out. I couldn't help it. I directly resisted her and put her on the bed, then locked the door of the room, and she knocked on the door frantically again.

We didn't care about her anymore, and the second uncle asked me when we went out, "What's going on?"

I glared at him and snorted, "Stop pretending in front of me, don't you know where he went?"

After speaking, seeing the second uncle was stunned and said: "Xiaofan, I'm not a god."

"I didn't say you're a god!" I'm really a little annoyed at my second uncle now.You can be indifferent to others, but why can you be indifferent to your own family's wealth and life?Xu Lin once said that my grandfather's grave is on top of other people's coffins. If it takes a long time, it will be a feng shui taboo situation where the whole family will die, but my second uncle has never tried to change all this. ——I have an intuition that he should know all of this clearly, he is a person with a story.

If I know from where I know that he definitely has abilities that I don’t know, it’s not because he dealt with the third grandpa’s fraudulent corpse in the ancestral hall that night, nor is it because he has been facing all the supernatural events calmly and can handle them. The third grandpa's fraudulent corpse is not surprising, just watch a few ghost movies from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and it can also be the reason for his personality that he is not in a hurry or afraid of supernatural events.What really convinced me that he has a powerful ability is when Xu Lin came.

That time after Xu Lin dug out the red coffin, he was going to walk away in panic, but that time, the second uncle pulled Xu Lin to the side of the grave and whispered for a while, and then Xu Lin who was helpless There is a way to deal with the red ghost coffin.

In the eyes of outsiders, it may be that the second uncle gave Xu Lin money outside the grave, and it is more likely that Xiaozhi said something to Xu Lin with affection and courtesy.

But I am the only one who knows, the most likely thing is that Xu Linzai really has nothing to do with the red ghost coffin that makes his compass spin wildly. Behind the cemetery, it was the second uncle who taught him how to deal with this ghost !

That's why there is a peach tree for the lower pillow and a sky lantern for the upper.

The second uncle was absolutely sure and capable of preventing all this from happening, but he didn't.

Today, I believe that he can definitely stop his father from going to death, but he didn't, and that's why I'm angry with him today.

Yes, I knew my father's plan when I saw my mother put on that dress, and I wanted to slap myself twice.Why didn't I see what my father meant when he handed me the bong today.

Grandpa gave him a bong.

He gave it to me.

It's a legacy.

He told me that what my family should bear, I must bear it.

He threw the burden on me.

He was going to face what he needed to face.

He went to the ancestral hall!
(End of this chapter)