Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 16

I don't know why, after I saw this light ball, I suddenly decided to put the big fish back into the water. When I got home, the light ball always appeared in my mind.

On the second night, it was still raining, and my ears were about to fall off due to the cold wind.Tonight I came to the opposite bank of the river again, not to catch fish, but to witness the ball of light from last night again.I don't know what this thing is, but I can't see it if I want to see it, and I can't see it until the middle of the night.

Just as I stood up and was about to go home, the ball of light appeared again.This time I was on the side where the ball of light appeared last night, but tonight it appeared on the side where I caught fish last night. Are you kidding me?
Across the hundreds of meters wide river, I could only watch the ball of light fly away as it did last night, and finally stopped on a tree and the light dimmed until it disappeared.

This ball of light made me obsessed, and I ran to the river bank every day to wait for it to appear, even in my thirties.But it deliberately teases me, I appear on this side of the river, and it appears on the opposite side of the river, always across a river from where I am, so I have no way to catch up with it.

Uncle Xiao also couldn't help asking me: "Xiao Li, why do you run out every night in the middle of the night and come back empty-handed after Chinese New Year? Are you going to gamble like others?"

As soon as I heard that Uncle Xiao suspected that I was going to learn to gamble, I quickly explained that there was absolutely no way, but Uncle Xiao didn’t believe me and insisted that I was definitely not doing something good. He kindly reminded me to pay attention to the New Year’s Eve.

Seeing what Uncle Xiao said, I asked him how many years he has lived here.Uncle Xiao told me that he has lived in Etang Town for 27 years and by the He River for 11 years.

I asked him again: "Then have you wandered outside in the middle of the night in the past few years?"

Uncle Xiao probably misunderstood what I said. He glanced at Aunt Xiao who was watching TV in front of him. He smiled and told me that he was an honest person and never went out to wander around at night.

I want to say that what I asked was about going outside, such as by the river, and seeing any strange phenomena, but I still didn't say anything, and went upstairs to my room by myself.

Another night I ran to the riverside unwillingly. I knew it was not just curiosity, but a little bit more of a feeling of being charmed, but I couldn't tell.

I'm being smart tonight, and I won't let that ball of light play me like a monkey, separating me from the other side.I stole a small bamboo raft upstream and waited alone on the river, with Tongtong of course, but she was not human.

I sat quietly in the middle of the river on a bamboo raft, waiting for more than two hours, very bored.At this moment, the ball of light appeared again, and I saw it float up from the ground, float into the air about two stories high, and then fly forward in a straight line at a constant speed.

I'm so excited, you won't be named Li if I don't catch you tonight.I paddled the water vigorously, and when the bamboo raft touched the bank, I quickly jumped ashore to chase the light ball.

Same as the previous few nights, the light group floated to a big tree to stay, and then began to gradually dim.When I chased to the bottom of the tree, the light group had already dimmed more than half, which made me anxious.

I can’t run in vain tonight. Fortunately, I am usually good at climbing trees. I put the flashlight on the ground and propped it on a branch to let the light shine on the tree. I climbed up with three hands and two feet, and went straight to the tree where the light group stayed. Fork to climb.

The ball of light was getting darker and darker, and it disappeared completely before I was within a hand's reach away from it.I hurriedly took another step with my right foot, and climbed to the branch where the light ball was just now, but nothing was left behind.

I also sniffed that place, but found nothing. It's so strange, what is this light ball?Just when I was wondering, I only heard a "pop", and before I could react, I fell into the icy river.The branch I was standing on broke off, and I fell straight into the river from a tree four or five meters high and sank to the bottom of the river.

It was dark and cold in the river in the middle of the night in early spring, and it froze me completely, like a popsicle.Fortunately, Tongtong appeared in time, and she appeared in front of me with a faint green light in the water.

Tongtong was born as a water ghost, and she has been a fish demon for several years, and even ate more than a dozen virgins, so she is very powerful in the water.On land, she can only show up on the first and fifteenth day of the first day of the new year. Even in the two days of the first and fifteenth day of the first day, she just looks like an ordinary little girl.But in the water, as long as it is dark, she can appear 365 days a year, and looks like a little fairy in the water.

I only saw Tongtong's concerned and worried expression, and then I felt my mind was in a trance for a while, and then I didn't know anything.

When I woke up, I lay down on the grass on the shore. It turned out that Tongtong attached to my body and took me ashore. After she left the body, I woke up.

It turns out that Tongtong still has the ability to possess a human body in the water, so can she possess as long as animals in the water?I haven't asked her about it, and she probably doesn't know it herself.

When I fell into the river, my whole body was soaked, and with the cold wind blowing, my teeth were fighting against the cold and my lips were purple, and I ran home in an extremely embarrassing situation.

After I got home and changed my clothes, I turned off the light and took out the willow wooden figure and asked Tongtong if he could see the light ball clearly.Tong Tong told me that she hadn't seen it, and hoped that I would not worry about it. Even she couldn't see what it was, so the matter was shelved for several days.

The day before the Lantern Festival, I asked Uncle Xiao to cancel the rent and leave Babu.Uncle Xiao asked me: "Why do you suddenly want to retire when you live well? Seeing that you are young and hardworking, and the fish is so good, it is not good to earn more money and go home to build a new house and marry a wife after a few years?"

Hearing what Uncle Xiao said, I told him that I came out to find my sister, and I only made money so that I wouldn’t starve to death on the road, and I would naturally set off when I had money.

After Uncle Xiao asked again and again, I told him my poor life experience.My father left before I was born, my mother committed suicide when I was two, my grandparents passed away one after another when I was six, and my only sister was given to a Hunan couple.

After hearing this, Uncle Xiao sympathized with my experiences and felt heartbroken, and also admired my strength.He took out a piece of paper from a cabinet, spread it out on the table, and asked me to read it.

Uncle Xiao told me that this is our map of China, and he asked me to show him where Guiping is and where Babu is.

I stared wide-eyed and searched the map for a long time, but I couldn't find Guiping and Babu. (In the past few months, I have learned some words by myself, such as my name and hometown and place names, as well as some words commonly used in daily life, such as stations and restaurants)
Uncle Xiao looked at me with a smile and said, "You can't find Guiping and Babuxiao either! Then find Hunan and come out and show me."

Now it took me less than 30 seconds to find Hunan. On this map, Hunan is as big as a plate.

Finally, Uncle Xiao took back the map and asked me: "Hunan is so big, where do you go to find your sister? If you want to ask every family in Hunan, you will never be able to ask them all your life!"

When I heard Uncle Xiao say this, my heart felt like a pricked ball, and I felt hopeless.I asked Uncle Xiao what to do. My only ideal is to get my sister back, and make money to send her to study and give her a good life.

Uncle Xiao asked me to go back to Guiping and find my uncle to find out where Hunan is, and then look for it, otherwise you will never find it.

Uncle Xiao told me to leave after the Lantern Festival. I am very grateful for his reminder, otherwise Hunan is so big, it would really be a needle in a haystack.

I promised Tongtong not to take care of the light group by the river, and I couldn’t control myself on the night of the Lantern Festival. This time, I didn’t even take Tongtong with me. I just took the ancient bronze knife and quietly came to the river. By the side, the moon is bright.

This time I was smart, took a fermented bean curd bottle and drank a bottle of urine, and came early to the tree where the light ball always stopped, and almost covered the entire tree with urine.Yes, I have pissed my fingers everywhere I can crawl, don't know if that works or not.

Next, I wore a straw hat and a straw coat and lay down on a tree to disguise myself. I waited on the tree for at least three hours, and my calf cramped from standing.If it wasn't for the cold weather, I would have fallen asleep and fell off the tree again.

It was estimated that at one o'clock in the morning, the light cluster appeared again.It floated out of the ground and came straight towards my tree, making me hold my breath nervously.

The light ball was getting closer and closer, and when it reached the side of the big tree, it danced up and down several times. It seemed that my method of smearing urine had worked, and it couldn't find a place to stop.

At this moment, I only felt that my eyes became brighter, and the light group actually stopped on my shoulder.I squinted and saw that the ball of light was like a large dandelion, fluffy and white, emitting white light.

I couldn't help turning my head, wanting to look more carefully, but this action startled it.

This light cluster did not fly and stay until it was dim like the previous nights, but left my shoulder and floated back.I was as flexible as a monkey, and immediately climbed up the tree in twos and threes, chasing behind the light group.

I saw this light cluster fly to a ground, and then disappeared.I walked over and looked through the grass but couldn't find it. I looked it up a second time and found that there was a hole like a mouse hole on the ground.

I stretched out my fingers to explore the hole, but found a little hot feeling.I withdrew my finger, pissed around the hole, and ran home to get the hoe.

After half an hour, I ran back and forth and brought a sharp hoe.I tied a torch to a small tree, let the light shine on the ground, and then I dug.

After digging for more than an hour with rest, I finally stopped when I heard a "clang".I took a flashlight and took a picture, only to see a large pottery was dug up by a hoe.

As soon as I saw this broken tile altar, I exclaimed, "What a tragedy! Will someone else's ancestral grave be dug up? This is an act that will be struck by lightning!"

According to the custom in most parts of Guangxi, the bones are picked up from the coffin and placed in a pottery after a few years after death, and then a new tomb is built.If no suitable place was found, the pottery altar containing human bones would be temporarily placed under the cracks in the rocks in the mountain, which is very scary.

(End of this chapter)