Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 9 Seeking Doctors in Huangyao Ancient Town
I struggled with all my strength but couldn't break free. It was useless to dig my throat with my hands. My throat became cold and I retched again. The leeches still entered my stomach.

The old man raised his hand and slapped me, saying that this leech is a kind of Gu, and it won’t be cured by taking medicine and injections. It won’t hurt if it enters the stomach and only sucks blood, but after a month, people will die from the blood being sucked up. Go home and bring me back the pagoda tree card, or both of you will die.

I touched my painful burning face and nodded like a chicken eating rice.

In this way, I went home to get the pagoda tree card, and Goddess Zhang wanted to stay here as a hostage.The old man personally drove me to get it, and when I entered the house, I told the old man that the pagoda tree plaque was in the clay pot of the wooden cabinet behind the altar.

The old man walked over and dug out from the wooden cabinet the pottery vat that the sorceress Zhang used to hold the water ghost that day. He tore off the red cloth that sealed it, and looked inside with a happy face, and his face immediately darkened.

The old man turned around angrily, and the clay pot in his hand hit me.I leaned over and dodged, and the pot fell on the stone threshold and shattered to the ground.The old man rushed over and slapped me twice, and grabbed my neck. I couldn't bear it, so I quickly said that I didn't lie to you. I saw it with my own eyes, and asked him to let me go and let me look for it.

But the old man was not willing to listen to my explanation, so he slapped me twice again, which made me dizzy and buzzing in my head.

The old man grabbed my arm and threatened me to take it out quickly, otherwise he would burn the house down and kill you two.

The old man seemed like a devil at the moment, with a kind of despair that people couldn't resist.But at this moment, Uncle Xue Fei's voice sounded outside the door, his rough voice said, is fifth sister-in-law at home?I felt that the savior was coming, so I yelled at my uncle to come in quickly.

Uncle Concubine Xue is under [-] years old, a typical farmer, he has raised two ponds of fish, and has done farm work for half his life, he is very strong, if he comes in, he will definitely overthrow the old man, so I called him in loudly.

Uncle Concubine Xue heard my yell and ran in. Seeing the mess on the ground and the old man holding me hostage, he thought it was a bandit.He immediately rushed into the kitchen and took a kitchen knife, blocked the old man at the gate, and asked him sharply who he was and what he was doing here.

The old man is not an ordinary person, seeing someone blocking himself at the door with a kitchen knife, he didn't mean to be afraid.The old man threatened Uncle Xuefei to put down the kitchen knife and leave quickly, otherwise he would break my neck.

But the uncle is not an idiot, he leaves as soon as he is told, so the two sides stalemate for two or three minutes.Maybe it was because he was not in his territory, and he was afraid that it would be miserable if more people came over later, so the old man couldn't delay, so he played another card, saying that the witch Zhang was locked up by him, and he just came to find something If you find something, let her go, otherwise you will burn her to death.

I told Uncle Concubine Xue that Goddess Zhang is indeed locked up!
After hearing this, Uncle Concubine Xue hesitated for a while and put down the kitchen knife, telling the old man to let me go first.

Seeing Uncle Concubine Xue put down the kitchen knife, the old man smiled proudly and said, "If you want Sister Zhang to come back safely, let's get out of the way."After finishing speaking, he walked out of the door indifferently, got into the car quickly and left a sentence: "Tomorrow night, send the pagoda tree card to the gate of Guiping No. [-] Middle School, and he will come to get it, otherwise, Goddess Zhang will be burned to death.

The jeep flew away in the dust, and Uncle Xuefei hurriedly asked me what was going on.I told him the ins and outs, and then he asked me to look for a pagoda at home, and he and others went to the town police station to report the crime.

When I got home, I started looking for the pagoda wood card, but I couldn't find it after seeing Goddess Zhang put it in with my own eyes.She sealed her mouth with a red cloth that day, and it was never opened, so can this pagoda tree card disappear out of thin air?I searched for more than two hours but couldn't find it. The whole house was turned upside down, and I turned around in a hurry.

In the afternoon, a three-wheeled motorcycle police car came to the door, Uncle Xuefei was also on it, and there were two policemen.The uncle invited the police into the house, and then asked me to tell the comrades of the police everything I knew, and I said it in detail.

The policeman was dubious and asked me repeatedly if I was lying. After I repeatedly assured that there was no half a lie, the policeman began to take pictures in the house and asked Uncle Xuefei to press his fingerprints on a notebook.Finally, the police asked me to lead the way, and got on the three-wheeled motorcycle they drove to Guiping.

When I was a child, I thought that the police were omnipotent and only caught bad guys. In the car, I believed that Goddess Zhang would be back tonight or tomorrow.However, I took the police around for a long time, and when I found the house of the old man raising ghosts, it was already empty.The next day, I was guarding the gate of Guiping No. [-] Middle School, but I didn’t see the old man. In the last three days, there was no news from the police station, and the villagers talked a lot.

I swallowed the leeches and couldn’t delay. Uncle Xuefei asked me to go to Zhaoping Huangyao to see a barefoot doctor. He said that the man was his cousin who knew this. Uncle wrote a letter and asked me to hand it over to his old cousin when I arrived.

Uncle Xuefei didn't say how to go to Zhaoping Huangyao, let alone take me there, after all, I have nothing to do with him.The current situation is that I only have more than 20 days. Uncle Xuefei only told me that there is someone in Zhaoping Huangyao who understands this and can show me.

The only adults I can rely on in the village are Sangu and Goddess Zhang. Sangu remarried and left, and Goddess Zhang is still alive and dead.Uncle Concubine Xue also avoids me, and turns around when I meet him during the day, maybe because I am afraid that I will trouble him to take me to Huangyao, or maybe because I am afraid that the bugs in my stomach cannot be cured and people will not survive. Such bad luck.

On the morning of the fifth day after Goddess Zhang disappeared, I packed my things as soon as I got up, including a change of clothes and a flashlight.I also took away the needle and the knife that Goddess Zhang gave me, and finally found the demon egg in the wooden box of the altar. The reason why I took these away was only for the purpose of keeping them.

Sister Concubine Xue came to Grandmother Zhang's house early in the morning and asked me if I was going to a far away place for medical treatment.I asked her how she knew that I was going to be treated, and she said that my uncle said that you might not come back in the future.

Hearing what Sister Xuefei said, I couldn't help sighing, I was a homeless boy, and I was able to live in this village for half a year only after meeting Sangu and Goddess Zhang.Now the third aunt has remarried elsewhere, Goddess Zhang is missing again, nothing here belongs to me, what is the reason for me to stay here?For me, my current goal in life is to go to Hunan to find my sister, so why stay in this village?After thinking about it this way, I didn't feel much reluctance to leave.

I asked Concubine Xue whether she was willing to let me go?Sister Xuefei shook her head, saying that she was going to go to her mother soon after the exam.

I gave Sister Xuefei two pocket money and told her that when I grow up, I will go to her house to play and let her study hard.

When I went to the door and closed it, Sister Xuefei was still crying, and I was crying too. Sister Xuefei watched my back go away.I really don't know if there will be a chance to meet each other this time around. In those days, we relied on letters to play, unlike today's communication methods such as mobile phones and QQ.I don't know if the worm in my stomach can be cured, and I don't know if I can find the doctor my uncle mentioned.

How do I get to Huang Yao here?At that time, the transportation was not so developed, and remote places were all relying on walking.I asked an uncle in the village who was repairing the road in Zhaoping, and he told me to walk to Mengshan and take a car to Zhaoping, and then take a car to Huangyao.

From Jiangkou Town, where I live, to Mengshan County, there are five villages and towns, three of which are in the mountains. The mountains stretch for tens of kilometers, and half of the distance needs to be walked, about 30 kilometers.

Asking people from the town took a bus to Guancheng, and then took a bus to Tonghe from Guancheng.It was already two o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in Tonghe, and finally took a tractor from Tonghe to Ningkang after four o'clock, and then there was no car to take.I want to get to Xiayi Yao nationality township before [-]:[-] p.m., because after Xiayi is Mengshan, of course I was told by people on the road.

An old man smoking a pipe on the side of the road told me that when he was young, he often walked from Ningkang to Xiayi in less than 4 hours.If I go, it is estimated that it will be about four hours!Tomorrow is also a walk, I hesitated for a while and decided to go to Xiayi first, and take a bus from there to Mengshan tomorrow morning.

This place is really remote. Unlike Jiangkou, Jiangkou is half flat and half mountainous, while here is full of mountains, although there are villages a mile or two away.

I arrived at 06:30 in the evening, probably halfway there, it was already dark, and I could only walk for half an hour without turning on the flashlight.

It was already dark at seven o'clock and I couldn't see the road. I had to turn on the flashlight. I estimated that I would be able to reach Xiayi in another hour and a half. Though I was tired, I still quickened my pace. fun thing.People used to be able to walk, but now young people are exhausted after walking a few kilometers. At that time, we walked directly for tens of kilometers, and some people could walk with things on their shoulders.

I walked on the road in the middle of the mountain with a flashlight, but I was not afraid at all. After all, I have trained a lot in the past few months, and ghosts are no longer so scary.But what I want to remind here is that in the sparsely populated mountains, there are very few ghosts. They are some messy spirits, most of which are animals and plants.

But not being afraid doesn't mean you won't encounter them, and it doesn't mean they won't play tricks on you.My horoscope and time of birth have destined me to be more close to this kind of thing, from childhood to adulthood.

As I walked, it became foggy unknowingly, and I didn't know what time it was. I always felt that I had walked for a long time, and it seemed to be much farther than the old man said.

After walking for more than an hour, the soles of my feet seemed to have blisters, and my walking speed slowed down. I had to feel that the old man was talking big.

The soles of my feet were blistered and I was about to sit down and rest, but I saw that I had been here before, and the flashlight shone on it. Isn’t this the section of the road that I have just walked?
There are five big pine trees on the side of the road. Obviously, I have passed through them just now, but now they come back again. It is really evil.
(End of this chapter)