Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 11 To Dream
At this time, the sky was getting dark, and I didn't know how far Gongqiao Township was.Last night, the old man who smoked said that Xia Yi Township was less than four hours away, but it was twice as far away and he encountered a mandrill ghost.So this time someone told me that it would take less than an hour to get to Gongqiao, and I couldn't believe it.

Counting the money on my body, I went from Jiangkou Town, Guiping to Huangyao Town, Zhaoping. I spent a total of 23 yuan for food and rides, leaving only [-] yuan.

It was just nightfall, and although some remote villages were not connected to electricity at that time, the town and surrounding villages were already connected to electricity.I took advantage of the lights to visit Huangyao for a few laps, and finally slept under a stone statue for the night.

The next day, I walked to Gongqiao Township at dawn. It turned out that it was not that far away, and it took more than half an hour to get there.It took more than 20 minutes to walk from Weishang to the village of Concubine Xue's uncle's cousin.

After asking the villagers, they found the house of cousin Xuefei, but there was no one at home. The neighbors said that their children went to school, and the adults went to sell vegetables in the town.

It wasn’t until evening that I saw a 50-year-old man wearing an old-fashioned People’s Liberation Army cap and carrying a frame. He saw me squatting at the door of his house, and asked me why I was sitting here while opening the door with the key.
I said I was looking for Huang Jinjun.

The old man said his name was Huang Jinjun, and asked me where I was from and what I could do with him.

I took out the letter written by Uncle Xuefei from the bag and handed it to him. He opened it, looked at it, put it away, and invited me into the room.

He entered the room, sat down and poured tea for me, asked me what time I came, how long I had been waiting, and other things, and I answered them truthfully.I asked him what to call him?Huang Jinjun said that it would be fine to call him Uncle Huang.

We communicated in the Hakka dialect, and chatted a little more, when a woman in her 50s came back, accompanied by two little girls.

Uncle Huang said that this was his aunt, and the two were his daughter's daughters, that is, granddaughters.He also has two sons, one is in high school in the county and the other is in junior high school in Huangyao. The eldest daughter is married to the next village. These two are the daughters of the eldest daughter.

The two little girls were nine years old and eight years old, and they were holding a plastic bag with books in it.As soon as they walked into the hall and put down their books, Old Man Huang asked them to call me cousin, which made me feel flattered, and gave each of them a piece of pocket money.Uncle Huang and his wife hurriedly said not to give it, why should you give them money when you are not too old.

It's a bit embarrassing for me to come here empty-handed, but Mr. and Mrs. Huang are real people, and they don't care about these polite things, besides, I'm not an adult.

Uncle Huang's family is an ancestral witch doctor, counting from him for four generations, who specializes in treating various strange diseases.For example, there was once a person who suffered from shoulder pain and could not take injections or medicines. He went to the city hospital and found nothing wrong.Later, I went to see Mr. Huang, and it turned out that it was caused by a ghost slapping his shoulder, and he was cured easily.Then there was a man who fell in love with a girl from the Yao nationality, and finally dumped her girl. As a result, he was poisoned in his brain, and he went crazy for several months. Later, Old Man Huang cured him.Even so, there are some who are cured, and most of whom are not cured.

How many such strange diseases can there be in a small town, ten in a year is considered as many.So old man Huang still has to plow the fields, because he can't support his family with this, besides, he has two sons who are studying.

After I sat down, I told Uncle Huang all the ins and outs, and he brought me a bowl of rice-washing water for me to wash my face.After I washed my face, he showed me a mirror. I was so scared that I wanted to cry. My whole face turned into a liver color.

The liver-colored face lasted less than 2 minutes before returning to its original state.Uncle Huang said that it was not serious, but it would be difficult to deal with it if it took another ten and a half months to turn into black charcoal.

Uncle Huang prepared another big wooden bucket for me to take a bath in. I don’t know what kind of leaves were put in the water, and the steam coming out was very hot.As soon as I took off my clothes and sat in, my stomach hurt like a knife. The pain was so painful that I almost passed out. Fortunately, it only lasted for a few seconds, and I never felt comfortable after that.

After dinner, old man Huang arranged me to sleep in his son's room and let me have a good rest.Uncle Huang's son's room has nothing, just a cabinet of books and nothing interesting, plus I have been driving for two days in a row, so I lay on the bed tired and fell asleep.

That night I had a dream, in the dream I was walking by a river, it was raining lightly and it was very cold.I have been walking along the river for an unknown amount of time, when I suddenly saw a wet little girl in a white dress sitting on a big rock by the river, shivering from the cold.

When the little girl saw me coming, she raised her head and revealed a pair of dark and scary eyes. I was so scared that I wanted to run errands but I didn't listen.At this moment, the little girl stood up, dripping water all over her body, and walked towards me.

I saw her appearance clearly, isn't this the little water ghost from that day?Thinking of her big mouth that was split to the ear, I was afraid and wanted to run away, after all, I had an old grudge with her.

Just when I was anxious about how to escape, the little girl spoke. She asked, "Brother, can you do me a favor?" Her voice was young and sad, as if she was begging.

When I heard the little girl ask this question instead of rushing forward, I lost a little fear in my heart, and quickly said, "Little sister, where are you from? Just tell me what you can do for me! If I can help, I will definitely help you, but I can't help you." Don't embarrass me, okay?"

The little girl told me that this was in the dream mirror, and the reason why she found me was because we were destined, and hoped that I could help her find her parents before she was alive.

The little girl continued to talk about her life experience. She said that when she was 6 years old, she had a serious illness. The doctor said that the disease was incurable and she could only live for three months at most.However, just a few days after the countdown to life was announced, someone came to the family and told her parents that her illness could be cured, as long as he took the little girl away.At first the parents refused to agree, but later the man gave the little girl's parents a large sum of money and promised to bring the little girl back within six months.Her parents are dead horses as living horse doctors, and they can't just watch their daughter die, even if there is a glimmer of hope, they still have to try.

In the end, the little girl was taken away. The man tattooed a lot of strange things on the little girl, carefully selected a day, took the little girl to the river and threw her down to drown.

The little girl told me that after she was thrown into the river and drowned, that person picked up her body and buried her in a grove by the river.Her soul was collected into a bowl filled with water scooped from the river.She lived in the bowl for a long time, and suddenly one day a small fish the size of a finger was put into the bowl, and the small fish swallowed her into the stomach as soon as it sucked in its mouth. When she woke up, she found that she had become caught a small fish.

He took Xiaoyu's body by himself, and was thrown into the river by that person.At first, she was like an ordinary small fish, eating small water bugs and playing among the aquatic plants.In the end, she grew bigger and bigger and couldn't get enough to eat. One day she pulled a swimming child into the bottom of the water and ate it, and she was full for a whole year.

Later, she became more and more hungry. In order to have enough food, she swam around every day looking for swimmers to drag her to the bottom of the water and drown to eat.At the beginning, I ate one person for half a year, and then I ate one person for only one month. No one was hungry and uncomfortable, so I went to the shore every day to lure people into being fooled.

The little girl said that it was not until I killed the fish that day that she was freed. After so long, she was finally sober and free.

Because the people she ate in the past few years were all virgins, different from those lonely ghosts, the soul body is very pure, (it has the same nature as Tang Monk meat!) Because the demon eggs (also called demon pills) were taken away ), so it became like this.

The little girl asked me to release her from the pagoda wood card and return the monster egg to her. She also hoped that I would help her find her parents before she was alive, hoping to see her parents again.

After saying these requests, the little girl kowtowed to me three times, and I hurriedly helped her up, but her hands were still so cold and wet all over.

The little girl didn't know where she was from, she only knew that her name was Huang Tongtong, and everyone in her family called her Xiaolanhuang.Although Xiaolanhuang looks only 6 years old, she has been dead for 8 years and is only a few months younger than me, so she does not speak like a 6-year-old girl.

I asked her how to release her, how did you escape from the crock pot that day, where did you hide, and whether releasing you would harm me.

Little Lazy Huang told me that it would be fine to wear off the runes carved on the pagoda wood tablet and put it in the water.The other one who released her was an aunt in white, who quietly put her into your bag again.

I asked her what auntie in the white dress and what she looked like.Xiaolanhuang shook her head, saying that this was a secret, and her aunt told her not to talk nonsense.

The next day after waking up from the dream, I told Uncle Huang about my dream last night, and he became interested as soon as he heard it, and quickly asked me to show him the pagoda wood card.

This is a wooden sign about the size and thickness of a palm, with some symbols and villains engraved on it, which I can't understand.Old man Huang took it and fiddled with it, but he couldn't understand it, so he gave it back to me.

I asked him if he could let it go, and the old man Huang told me that this is the fate that is often said, let me decide whether to let it go, but first catch the bugs in the stomach and then decide!
Today I used the same water as last night to take a bath, the water was still so spicy, the steam was so hot that I coughed and my eyes burst into tears, but my stomach didn't hurt anymore.

At night, the little water ghost had a dream again, and begged me to help her, and promised me that if she was released, she would listen to me.I told her that it was not enough now, and I would consider letting her out after I caught the worms in my stomach.

(End of this chapter)