Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 17
I also had the experience of picking up bones with Goddess Zhang. Pick a good day, pry open the coffin and hold an umbrella, and then pick up the bones into the tank.I don't know if this is the case, anyway, the process of watching it is like this, and Goddess Zhang didn't explain it to me in detail, maybe because it was the first time, she only let me watch it.

I pulled out the soil, and when the flashlight shone, I saw that what was contained in the broken earthen jar was not bones, but an altar of gold, silver and jewels.

I once heard a story from my grandfather, saying that the treasures buried in the ground will produce spirituality after a long time, and a yellow cat, white horse, yellow rabbit and other animal spirits will be born.These animal spirits will be seen by blessed people, and then they will go to a place to disappear. There must be treasure buried in this place.

Am I the blessed person in the story?My eyes lit up and my heart beat wildly when I saw the gold and silver.If I had a heart attack, I would have had a heart attack already excited.

Looking at this altar of gold and silver, such a picture appeared in my mind. I drove a jeep, took my sister back to my uncle’s house, took out a wad of money from my pocket and said, “Hey! Go get your teeth fixed!"

When I thought of this, I couldn't help laughing, and sighed deeply again, thinking that I was only 15 years old, and I had suffered so much. I was wandering outside alone, and I was about to turn over now.

Although my mind is extremely excited, I am still rational. If I go back with this altar of gold and silver, what if I meet someone on the way and get robbed?
As soon as I thought of this, I quickly buried the soil again, and finally spread grass and leaves, and stuck sticks on the ground as marks. I was going to buy a box tomorrow, and I would dig it out at night, then put it in the box, and left directly. step.

After reburying the pot of gold, I hid the hoe in the grass, hummed along the way, and went home.

I was so excited that I couldn't sleep all night, but I slept like a dead pig during the day, and I slept until after five o'clock in the evening, and I almost forgot to buy the box.

After I got up, I hurried to the street and bought a wooden box with a lock. I didn't even ask for change, and I didn't even ask for change.When I got home, I told Uncle Xiao that I was going to leave tonight, and thanked him for his care in the past few months.

Uncle Xiao and his wife were surprised and asked me why I left at night?Why not wait until tomorrow, where to go at night?I thought to myself, there is no way!It is only safe to walk at night, after all there is a pot of gold waiting for me!

I don’t want all the things I bought before, I only bring the bronze knife, the money box, the needle and the willow man.Walking on the bank of the river, I told Tongtong that we would become very rich and it would be easy to find your parents with a lot of money.

Tongtong got out of the willow man, with a dazed expression on his face, I just said you will find out after a while.

Walking back to the place where the gold was dug last night, I found a hoe in the grass, picked it up and walked to the place where the gold was buried, spit on the palm of my hand, and started digging.

Due to digging and then filling, the soil is soft. This time, the pottery was dug in less than 10 minutes.Tongtong also emerged from the willow figure, and stretched his neck to look into the pit.

I jumped down the pit to dig out the mud, and I almost fainted. Where did my gold go?
The gold that I was about to get disappeared, and I buried it well, and no one has touched it.I couldn't accept the result, so I picked up the hoe and dug for a while, and the whole pottery was dug out.

I sat down on the ground, alas!The gold was really gone, and my mood seemed to drop from the clouds to the ground, and my mind went blank.How could this make such a big joke on me? I hoped that my eyes were dazzled, so I hurriedly asked Tongtong what was in the pottery?
Tongtong pursed her mouth and blew, a piece of yellow cloth floated out from the pottery and fell in front of me.

I picked up the cloth and took a look. I don't know what was written on it crookedly. I spit out a mouthful of saliva and threw it aside.

Tongtong picked it up, put it in a bag, and then got back into the willow man.Tongtong is like this, he always speaks very little, maybe because he misses his parents!

I finally accepted the reality, but reluctantly used the flashlight to illuminate the pit several times, hoping to see the gold suddenly appear, but it was obviously impossible.

I filled the hole in twos and twos, and left here, where am I going?I plan to go back to Guiping first, first to ask where my uncle and sister are in Hunan, and second to see if Goddess Zhang is back.

It has been several months since I left Guiping and came to Huangyao to seek medical treatment to catch insects, and then to Babu to sell fish.In the past, there was no telephone, even if you played by letter, you must have an address for receiving mail, otherwise it would be no different from disappearing from the world.

I already have a little savings, and I definitely won't go back on foot, and I won't encounter those mountain spirits and wild monsters again.In fact, think about it, a young man walking alone in the middle of the night in the mountains, it would be strange if he didn't encounter anything.If Tongtong hadn't rescued me that night and made me smeared with cow dung, I'm afraid I would have fallen into the belly of the mandrill ghost long ago.

After dawn, I took a bus from Babu to Wuzhou, and then took a boat from Wuzhou back to Guiping. In the early 90s, the traffic was no worse than today, and the boat was as slow as a snail.I left Uncle Xiao’s house overnight last night and never slept for a minute, so I was so sleepy on the boat that I fell asleep unconsciously.

While sleeping soundly, Tongtong appeared in the dream, snoring and saying that something was stolen, wake up quickly!After Tongtong finished speaking, she pursed her mouth and blew a sharp breath on me. I just felt shivering all over my body like being splashed with ice water, and I woke up suddenly.

Tongtong's voice appeared in my mind, saying that the thief had run to the stern.When I saw that the bag I had kept by me was gone, it contained a flashlight, a willow wooden figure, a bronze knife, the needle, and the more than 1000 yuan I earned from selling fish in those two months.This scared me into a cold sweat. If I lost these things, I would be back before liberation.

I immediately chased out of the stern, and saw a young man in a big brown cotton coat squatting at the stern.He has already pried open my money box, and other items such as the bronze knife and the needle are scattered beside it, as well as the yellow cloth note from last night.

Seeing so much money in the box, the thief was delighted and smiling from ear to ear, but he saw me appearing suddenly.I thought he would suddenly jump into the river and escape, but the result was unexpected. His panic only lasted for half a second, and then he looked at me arrogantly and triumphantly.In his eyes, I was just a skinny young man, and the wind could blow me into the river, so he was not afraid of me, and had no intention of running away.

There were three NO.40 people on the boat, and I yelled into the cabin that someone was stealing something, come out and catch him.As soon as the words fell, three strong men rushed out of the cabin and asked me where the thief was.The thief was proud just now, but when he saw something was wrong, he immediately turned around and jumped into the river, taking only my money box.

After the thief jumped into the river, several women watching the fun ran out of the cabin, and after a while there were more than 20 onlookers standing on one side of the boat.

Seeing the thief jumped into the icy water, the three strong men didn't want to chase them any more, they just took things out of the cabin and smashed them.Those things did not hit the thief, he had already swam four to fifty meters away, and I stomped my feet anxiously.

At this critical moment, Tong Tong made the move, she said that this person can't escape, let's see her!
Although the thief was wearing clothes, he could swim very fast in the water. He probably stole things from boats all year round, and then jumped into the river to escape.The people on the boat were watching the excitement, and I was also looking at the river, with a relaxed face, because Tongtong was in the water.

Tongtong stayed in Xijiang for several years, and probably swam to this section of the river to harm people when he had a fish body. The thief killed himself and stole it from me.

Seeing that the thief was about to swim to the shore, a large whirlpool suddenly appeared on the surface of the river, sucking him in at once.The [-] to [-] onlookers were all very surprised when they saw the inexplicable maelstrom.They don't know why a large whirlpool suddenly appeared on the surface of this slow-flowing river and swallowed people.

Just when everyone thought that the thief was sucked to the bottom of the water by the whirlpool and disappeared, he appeared again.He floated up from the bottom of the water, less than one meter away from the boat, floating on the surface like a dead body, but still holding my money box in his hand.Two strong men caught him up and tied his hands and feet with ropes as soon as he touched his nose and was still breathing.

A strong man picked up the money box and asked me: "Little brother, is this your thing?" I nodded, and saw the strong man opened the lid of the box curiously, and said a lot of money!Then reluctantly handed the box back to me.

Money is a good thing. Everyone wants it. If you carry too much money, you will be missed.Looking at the greedy eyes of this strong man, if it weren't for the large number of people here, he would probably take my money box for himself.

Although Tongtong was the one who recovered the money box, it was rare for them to be able to help the first time they met by chance.I gave each of the three strong men a 20-yuan red envelope, packed up my things and got off the boat soon.

I don’t know how long it will take to arrive in Guiping. I’m afraid I won’t arrive until dark. When I disembark with so much money, I will be followed and robbed.

So I switched to a different boat, which was much safer.

I had nothing to do in the cabin, so I flipped through the bag and found the yellow cloth note left over from the disappearance of the gold last night.

Although I have been self-studying for more than two months, I don't know any of the characters on the yellow cloth, and they are very different from the characters I usually see.I asked a middle-aged man wearing glasses next to me, what was written on the cloth?
When the middle-aged man saw me asking him, he took a look from my hand, then frowned, and I asked him, don't you know these words?
The middle-aged man told me that these were not Chinese characters, but a bit like Tibetan, and he couldn't understand them either. Then he shook his head, smiled again, and returned the yellow cloth note to me.

When the boat arrived in Pingnan, I disembarked, because Pingnan was a little closer to Jiangkou than Guiping.Some people may ask if the boat does not stop at Jiangkou?Yes, non-stop, at least the boat I took asked non-stop.

It was already dark when we arrived in Pingnan, so I found a hotel to stay overnight, and boarded the bus back to Jiangkou at dawn the next day.When I got off the bus, a feeling of coming home filled my heart, although I am from Shepo, not Jiangkou.

It takes half an hour to walk from the town back to the village of Goddess Zhang's house, and I don't know if she has returned.Since I was cheated by the old man in white that day, I haven't seen Goddess Zhang for three months. I feel very complicated, and I don't know whether she is dead or alive.

At the entrance of the village, the third house belonged to Mrs. Zhang's house. She didn't come back for three months. The village has changed a lot. The electricity has been turned on, and there are telephone poles on the roadside.

I ran to the door in two or three steps, knocked on the door, and yelled twice, only to see a young woman under 30 years old walking out of the room.After the woman opened the door, she asked me where I was from and who I was looking for here. I said I was looking for my aunt!Has she come back yet?
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw the woman's face darken.

(End of this chapter)