Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 4 Plantain Ghost

Goddess Zhang told me to sleep under the banana tree, and I reluctantly lay down under the banana tree.Goddess Zhang told me to lie down and pretend to sleep, and she and the four young children hid in the grass next to me.

As soon as I heard it, I was not happy. I asked desperately to keep a young boy with me, otherwise I would be scared to pee.Goddess Zhang didn't care about my request, she said that if she didn't do what she said, she would leave me here alone for the night.I don't know if Goddess Zhang is really scaring me, but I'm more afraid of being left here alone overnight, so I obediently listen to Goddess Zhang.

I lay under the banana tree again, while Goddess Zhang and the others hid in the grass 20 meters away.

When I just lay down, I could only hear the screams of various insects around me, and there was nothing wrong with it.I tried my best not to be so scared, so I used my hands to pull the banana leaf that fell next to me and used it as a quilt cover.

Once the banana leaf was covered, it was terrifying. I heard moaning in my ears: "Mmmmmmmmm." The moaning sound was very long, like the groaning of a seriously ill old man before he died.

At this moment, my only thought was to get up and run away, but when I thought of Sorceress Zhang and the others observing me in the grass not far away, I suppressed the trembling and lay still.Not long after I heard the moaning sound, a gust of wind came out of nowhere and blew away the banana leaves covering me, and the moaning sound stopped abruptly.

This scared the shit out of me, because in front of me was a huge green human face, the size of a computer screen.The green face was blowing air on my face, the smell was cold and smelly, like the smell of a garbage dump, and my face was sticky from the blowing.

This time it really scared me to pee, I really peed my pants, don't laugh at me, after all, I was only 14 years old at that time.I only felt the heat in my crotch. At this moment, I suddenly saw clearly that there was no human face in front of me, but a banana leaf that was not too big or too small.

When I lay down just now, there were no banana leaves hanging down at all, but now there is one hanging in front of me from such a tall tree, isn’t it weird?

All horror scenes are hallucinations, so some people can see dirty things because it can affect your visual nerves and cause hallucinations. Of course, this is just my own understanding.The huge green face made me pee my pants, maybe it was because of the boy's urine, which made the phantom show its prototype, which was just a banana leaf.

At this moment, Goddess Zhang, who was hiding in the grass, came out, and she asked the four young children to stand in the four directions of the banana tree.Goddess Zhang told me to get up, she took out a piece of white cloth from the yellow cloth bag and wrapped it on the plantain tree trunk, and asked me to draw a small figure on the white cloth with my saliva.After I finished drawing the villain, Goddess Zhang took out a rusty knife from the cloth bag and inserted it into the chest of the villain on the white cloth, directly into the banana tree trunk.

I only felt a sharp pain in my heart like a needle for 0.01 second, and I saw black and red liquid flowing out of the white cloth.Incredible!The banana tree was bleeding, and the place where the knife was inserted was still smoking. The green smoke floated in the air for a while and disappeared without a trace.

Banana ghosts are formed by chance and coincidence. The reason may be that mountain spirit ghosts possess banana trees and absorb the essence of the earth through the banana trees like parasites.As for the mountain spirits and wild monsters that can attach to banana trees, they are usually those ancient trees that gave birth to spirituality and remain resentful after death.So I advise some friends, don’t pee and shit under the old trees. In the countryside, there are people offering incense to the old trees near the village.

Goddess Zhang pulled out the knife and put it in the cloth bag, praised me for doing a good job with a satisfied face, and then called the four young children over and told them to dig down the roots of the plantain tree.

Since I only brought a machete and no hoe when I came here, I had to sharpen the bamboo to dig.After digging for more than half an hour to a depth of more than one meter, a young boy dug out the body of a baby.Goddess Zhang looked over and guessed that it was Guo Xi's son who died young.

Goddess Zhang picked up the baby's body, sighed and said, "This child is so pitiful!"After speaking, there was another sigh.

I saw that although the baby's body had been dead for so many days, it did not decompose. Instead, it looked a bit like the ginseng fruit in Journey to the West, a large ginseng fruit.

We backed out and passed the dustpan, and Mistress Zhang told me to pick it up and take it with me.So I reluctantly picked it up, took the dustpan and followed it back to the bamboo forest.

Goddess Zhang found a bamboo root, put Guo Xi's son's body on the ground, then told me to cover the body with a dustpan, and told me to go back to the path and wait.

I remembered the cry of the baby when I came here just now, and I couldn't help asking a young child next to me: "Brother Le, are all the dead children in your village thrown into this bamboo forest?"

I saw Brother Le nodded, but he didn't speak, and I didn't ask any more questions.About 10 minutes later, Goddess Zhang came out and just said let's go home!

We quickly walked out of the bamboo forest. On the way, Goddess Zhang repeatedly told me and the four youngsters not to come to play in this bamboo forest if we had nothing to do. , it was too heavy to be caught by it, but its life was not hard enough, so it followed directly.

We nodded in agreement repeatedly, and a younger boy couldn't help but asked Goddess Zhang, why a road was opened since she couldn't come here.Goddess Zhang said: "This was opened by the production team. People often walk this road during the day to cut firewood. The sixth (Damei's father) has a brain made of tofu and came here early in the morning to pick bamboo. Ye, otherwise there would be no such troubles."

I wanted to tell Goddess Zhang that I ran into this bamboo forest alone on No. 15 that day, but I still didn't say anything, because I was afraid of being scolded, and I didn't want to be asked about my family.

After returning home, the third aunt gave each of the four youngsters a red envelope (red envelope) and another red envelope to Mistress Zhang.He also sent a large piece of pork, at least five catties, and thanked Mrs. Zhang with a flashlight for sending her home.

Sister Xuefei and I were left in the room. She asked me where I had been just now, and I said I went to pick bamboo leaves during the day.I asked Sister Xuefei what happened during the day, and she said that she saw a pheasant running into the bamboo bushes, and she chased after it.When she got into the bamboo bushes, she didn't see the pheasant. She wanted to get out but couldn't find the exit, so she burrowed around in the bamboo bushes.She kept calling us, but no one answered her, in fact we didn't hear her at all.She said that when she wanted to cry in a hurry, she found that her feet were heavy and she couldn't walk. When she saw a child with a white face holding her feet on her calf, she fainted from fright.

At this time, the third aunt sent Goddess Zhang back and urged us to go to bed quickly.But after going through a lot of things today, how dare I sleep alone, I just shirk that I don't want to sleep yet.

The third aunt knew that I didn't dare to sleep alone, so she called Uncle Xuefei to sleep with me.Now that I have an adult, I'm not afraid anymore, but Uncle Xuefei snores so loudly that I can't sleep all night.

Four days have passed in a hurry, and it's already the Dragon Boat Festival. The rice dumplings were wrapped yesterday, and the bamboo leaves were picked by Uncle Xuefei.In the morning, Sangu went to the town to buy meat and vegetables, and there were guests at home, including a man about 30 years old, who was later the stepfather of Concubine Xue's younger sister.

More than a month has passed in a hurry, Xuefei's sister's school has been on summer vacation, and Ghost Ami and the others are also on vacation.They are fourteen or fifteen years old, but they only go to the fourth grade of elementary school, but it is better than me not going to school. I just live in the third aunt's house. At my uncle's house.

To be honest, I don't want to study, but usually all my friends go to school, but I have to work in the field alone.Now that they are on vacation, everyone can play together again.The weather in June is very hot, and I usually don't go out to do farm work except in the morning, so it is a rare leisure time in a year except for the New Year.

Early that morning, Agui and the others came to Sangu's house and asked me to go pick yellow fruits together.After I told Sangu, she told us to be careful when climbing trees.A few of our partners went to the vegetable garden of Agui's house behind the village.

In the vegetable garden there were three big yellow-skinned fruit trees, which were so full of bunches of yellow fruit that their branches were bent.We took off our shoes and began to climb the tree. Agui told us to be careful not to break the branches of his fruit tree, otherwise he would be beaten when he returned home.

I picked a handful of fruit, picked a big and yellow one and put it in my mouth, it was so delicious!A few of us ate and bragged on the tree until noon.

Ah Gui suggested to go swimming!Everyone agreed, and we went swimming.

The river water in the 90s is so clear!That summer we spent our days playing like this.I also learned to swim that summer, and it was fine.Then came the busy season of farming. Harvesting rice is the most tiring. After a day, I feel tired, hot and itchy.After harvesting the rice, we had to dry it and go to the field to harvest peanuts. We were busy until the end of August when our playmates started school.

I have lived in Sangu's house for half a year, and Sangu Xuefei and her sister are completely like a family.In the past six months, I have also grown taller. I used to be up to 143 centimeters, but now I am 150 centimeters.

One day at the end of August, I was helping Uncle Concubine Xue’s family graze cattle by the stream, and when I met Goddess Zhang coming back from the market, she asked me to have dinner at her house in the evening.

(End of this chapter)