husband from hell

Chapter 34 Strange Village
"Eh?" I sat up, completely messy, and quickly got up: "Doctor, what's the matter?"

Unexpectedly, those two doctors might be too flustered, and their words trembled: "You wait...you wait here first..."

With that said, he went out!
Of course I wanted to ask what was going on, so I chased to the door, only to see Zai and two doctors hurrying along, unsteady as they were about to rush to an office, but was suddenly blocked by Cheng Ke's tall figure the way!
I feel cold, what does Cheng Ke want to do?
And the hurried steps of the two doctors stopped all of a sudden!

I ran over, Cheng Ke looked back and saw me, his thin lips curled up, and a smile appeared: "Lu Qiao, the doctor said that you are in good health, you may be a little bit cold, just take care of yourself."

"What?" I turned to look at the two doctors and asked, "Doctor, what happened just now?"

However, the two doctors who were still terrified just now suddenly changed their faces, and they were full of amiability: "Drink more hot water, menstrual disorders are very common."

"Irregular menstruation?" My heart was pounding, which meant I wasn't pregnant!
But the reaction of the two doctors just now was really strange. I asked cautiously: "Doctor, besides this, do I have any other questions? What did you see in the B-ultrasound just now?"

"I didn't see anything!" Unexpectedly, the two doctors denied it flatly, and replied to me with a stiff smile: "The test result is normal, you may be too nervous, just relax."

How could it be a mental allergy?The appearance of the two doctors just now is definitely not pretending to be fooling me on April Fool's Day!How could they do this, turning faces is faster than turning books!

I want to ask again, but Cheng Ke has already held my hand and thanked the two doctors in a very educated manner. The doctor smiled, but the smile was stiff, and he moved, but the movement was unnatural?

Even the eyeballs didn't move, like... two dolls being manipulated...

"Cheng Ke..."

Cheng Ke hugged my waist and smiled slightly: "I am here."

I know, Cheng Ke, can do anything!It was a coincidence that he appeared in front of the two doctors just now, could it be...

"Lu Qiao!" At this moment, a clear voice rang out. When I turned around, it was a coincidence that I ran into Li Minglang and Daoist Chu Yang at the corner of the hospital stairs!

Li Minglang's complexion has improved a lot, and his eyebrows are more picturesque, but the gauze wrapped around his body can still be seen from the neckline under his slender neck, it seems that he is about to be discharged from the hospital.

As soon as we met each other, Daoist Chuyang looked distraught, and quickly shrank behind Li Minglang, and Li Minglang's big bright eyes met Cheng Ke and me.

Cheng Ke looked calm, but the look in his eyes was tense, and the arms around my waist became tighter.

Li Minglang's eyes fell on Cheng Ke's hand, he paused, avoided his eyes, looked at me, and showed a clean smile: "Why did you come to the hospital too?"

"I..." I didn't mean to say that I came to see my aunt, so I smiled back: "It's nothing, it's just a little headache and brain fever. How is your injury?"

"It's much better." Li Minglang went down the stairs and stood beside me. He was a head taller than me, but he was about the same height as Cheng Ke. His big eyes swept Cheng Ke's expression, somehow provocative with a newborn calf not afraid of tigers. But in a blink of an eye, he was so educated that he suppressed it. He just looked at me and said, "It was really thanks to you last time."

"Don't say that..." I shook my hands. "It was a misunderstanding. No one wants to have that kind of thing happen. I want to say sorry."

Daoist Chuyang followed timidly, with the word "hypocrisy" clearly written on his expression, I pretended not to see it.

"So, I..." Li Minglang smiled slightly, and wanted to talk, but Cheng Ke took over the conversation coldly, with the same disdainful expression when he saw Li Minglang last time: "We are still very busy, There is no time to reminisce about the past, besides, there is nothing to reminisce about with you, two Taoist priests, see you by fate."

Li Minglang seemed to be a very proud person at first glance, he was a bit unwilling after he had spoken halfway: "I was only talking to Lu Qiao, not you."

"With Lu Qiao?" Cheng Ke raised his chin, still looking very contemptuous: "When did you get so close, why didn't I know?"

"You are just a ghost following Lu Qiao. There is no need to let you know about me and her." Li Minglang looked young and vigorous, always showing his sharpness, and Cheng Ke's wicked temperament made him even more so. People are unpredictable, looking at this appearance, it is almost like a flash, a gun goes off, and a rage...

Bah, when I'm still thinking wildly, I'm afraid that something will happen again, and I will end up dragging myself to clean up the mess. For a while, I really can't wait to hide when things happen. Dare to offend Cheng Ke, who gets along with me day and night, so I can only say to Li Minglang apologetically, "We are really in a hurry, so I'm sorry."

Li Minglang was startled, what else to say, I pretended not to notice, and quickly dragged Cheng Ke away.

Cheng Ke was very unhappy when he left, and he would probably be happy only after a fight, so he looked a little disappointed.

She obviously looks introverted and wicked, why is she becoming childish today?
Male ghost heart, sea needle.

Just turned around, but I heard Daoist Chuyang lower his voice and say: "Minglang, I advise you not to have anything to do with them, that ghost is not easy to mess with, but it's that woman, Yintang said Black, the obvious bad luck. Whoever gets it is unlucky."

Alas... I sighed from the bottom of my heart, this bad luck, when will it pass?

Li Minglang hadn't answered yet, but Cheng Ke smiled as if he had seized the opportunity. I only heard a "coax", and the emergency light on the wall suddenly fell off. On Daoist Chuyang's head, he covered his head with his hands, and blood flowed profusely from his fingers, obviously seriously injured.

"oops……"

"Brother, are you alright?"

Of course I knew that the emergency light would not fall off so easily, so I quickly quickened my pace and dragged Cheng Ke away.

Li Minglang and Cheng Ke, although they each concealed it very well, are actually like two fighting cocks. When they meet, they seem to be able to pinch each other at any time.

This is probably the so-called natural crime?It's best not to let these two people meet next time.

Just as I was thinking wildly, my phone rang. I took it out and saw that it was a WeChat message from... Li Minglang?

I don't know who chose the angle. Although Li Minglang's profile picture is his own, it is much uglier than his own.

A little guilty, I avoided Cheng Ke and took a peek, and my heart sank, and I saw that the WeChat said: "Just now I want to tell you that besides your Cheng Ke, you also have For other suspicious spirits, be careful in everything, and if you encounter something that needs me, please contact me at any time."

There was a sudden movement in my heart. Up to now, I am still wondering, how did I think of "Mother Fritillaria" when I was in the Black Bully Gang?

This feeling is very uncomfortable, as if there is something that follows you like a shadow, but it is invisible and intangible.

Could it be that he wants to eat strange things with Yin Qi again?Or... just like what Cheng Ke said, the one who released the pubic lice to harm me, and only kills the ghost master?
"What's the matter?" A chill came over, and Cheng Ke's clear voice clung to my ear, and asked in a low voice.

"It's okay." I subconsciously put the phone in my pocket and said, "Spam ads."

Cheng Ke's peachy eyes flickered for a moment: "Okay, if you tell me, I'll believe it."

I was taken aback: "Then, what should I do if I lie to you?"

"If you lie to me, it means you still care about me." Cheng Ke's peach blossom eyes seemed to be filled with a gust of wind and snow: "What I fear most is that you don't even bother to lie to me."

These words were so sad that it made people feel a little distressed, as if a needle had been pricked and a tube of blood came out.

Why, I always feel, where have I heard what he said?
"Ding..." Just put the phone in my pocket, it rang again unwilling to be lonely, this time I took it out, it was my mother's phone, she and my dad went abroad for a trip a few days ago, now the roaming bill should be It's very expensive. It's strange. How could my mother call me directly with her budget-conscious personality?

I picked it up, only to hear my mother's nasal voice, as if she had been crying: "Lu Qiao, where are you?"

I have a guilty conscience, how dare I tell about my aunt's investigation: "Outside, strolling...Mom, what's the matter with you? Did you quarrel with my dad again? Didn't you say the last time you were fighting? Do you like to kick it with your feet? Could it be that my dad has the upper hand this time!"

"Smelly child, what nonsense are you talking about," my mother said, "Does your father have the ability to mess with your mother? You think too highly of that old thing."

My heart tightened immediately: "Then, what happened?"

"Your second aunt just called." My mother sniffed heavily, "Your second uncle's cousin, Lulu, is gone..."

"What?" I just felt that a basin of cold water was pouring down my head and brain, and I froze all of a sudden, and my voice became louder, causing all the people next to me to look sideways at me, but I also didn't care. No more: "Didn't Lulu just graduate from college? How could it be gone? Mom, did you say it wrong, or did I hear it wrong?"

On the other end of the phone, my mother's voice trembled early, as if she was suppressing the urge to cry loudly: "Who wouldn't think it was wrong? But that child...is really gone, you go back to grandma's house first, you and I Dad, I will go back as soon as possible."

"How is this possible..." I hurriedly asked, "Why not?"

"The child couldn't think about it for a while, and drank the pesticide..." My mother wiped her nose heavily, and her voice became hoarse: "Don't ask so many questions, all relatives are here, you should hurry up, there are not many people at grandma's house, With such a big event, manpower is needed, you should go there quickly, you should give money, give money, and work hard."

take things too hard?I didn't even know how I hung up the phone, I just felt my hands were shaking all the time.

Grandma's house is not too close, and I haven't been back for a long time, but Lulu went to university in Yuning, so we have been in touch. She said that she would stay in Yuning to work after graduation, and I invited her to join me at that time How could she commit suicide if there was no news for a short period of time?

"Where is grandma's house?" Cheng Ke had heard it a long time ago, and his face became serious: "I will accompany you back."

"It's on the outskirts of the city, called Tanshen Town." I replied in confusion, "The place is small, maybe you don't know it."

Cheng Ke's peach blossom eyes flashed an imperceptible doubt: "Tan Shen Town..."

"Huh?" I frowned: "What's wrong?"

"Just like JDZ produces porcelain, and Suzhou produces osmanthus candy." Cheng Ke said: "Tan Shen Town produces ghost masters."

"What?" I was stunned: "Why don't I know?"

"The world is so big, how can we know everything." Cheng Ke smiled slightly: "I know enough."

When Cheng Ke said this, in his mind, the long-term memories that seemed to be separated by thousands of mountains and rivers suddenly looked like a picture of a revolving lantern, flipping through one by one. How many years have I not been to grandma's house...

When I was in elementary school, I would occasionally go to my grandma’s house for the summer vacation, but I never went there again. I vaguely remembered that there are many taboos in the village that are not in the city.

You are not allowed to go out after nine o’clock in the evening, and you are not allowed to raise your head when going to the toilet. When someone in the village gets married, pregnant women and people who belong to the dragon are not allowed to participate. When sleeping, the head of the shoe must face the door...

And the people there never go to the hospital when they are sick, but treat them with strange folk remedies.

For example, once I was ill, my high fever persisted, and everything looked like a kaleidoscope, but no one sent me to see a doctor. It was my grandma who took a needle and murmured something, and pierced my chest. Squeeze out a lot of black blood, after that, it will be fine.

When I was young, I didn’t think much of it, I just took everything for granted, thinking that the elderly had many taboos, now that Cheng Ke mentioned it, inexplicably, I started to feel cold behind my back!
It turns out that I myself am so close to the mysterious profession of ghost raising teacher?

Then, my grandma's family also...

In any case, because of Lulu, I still have to go back. Sitting in the car, I looked out the car window at the scenery that was passing by quickly, and the memories of the old days also quickly flowed in my mind.

I remember the big mountain behind Tanshen Town. There were wild apricots and wild mulberries on the big mountain. Lulu and I went to pick them together. The juice from the wild mulberries couldn’t be washed off my clothes. I was scolded for this.

Obviously I am older, but the ones scolded by my grandma are always Lulu: "Your sister is from the city, how do you know so much? You come up and down the mountains every day, and you don't know how to say a word?"

Both Lulu and I know that grandma is just a little bit of thunder and rain, and she didn't intend to embarrass us.

It was a good time...

Later, I also forgot why, and never went back to that small town.

Lulu, why can't she think about it?Obviously, he is such a cheerful and smiling child... Thinking of this, I shed tears in the warm and smoky wind blowing in from the car window.

Cheng Ke put my head on his shoulder, and said in a deep voice, "There are many things that depend on life and death."

I didn't speak, I closed my eyes, Cheng Ke's cold and slender fingers wiped away my tears, and I fell into a dream in a drowsy state.

Like in the scarlet setting sun, Lulu shouted and laughed, and ran into the wheat field dyed red by the setting sun. I was panting and chasing after me. arm, dragging Lulu in!

"Sister! Sister!" Lulu called out terribly. I ran to the wheat field to save her, but I couldn't find anything after calling and calling!
Suddenly my feet felt cold, and a hand stretched out from the ground and grabbed my ankle!

A scream was choked in his throat, and he opened his eyes suddenly, feeling a chill all over his body. It turned out that he had already fallen into Cheng Ke's arms.

Cheng Ke's long eyelashes flickered in the setting sun, and his big peach blossom eyes seemed to reflect a dream: "Having a nightmare? I am here, I have always been here."

For the first time, I felt "lucky" about Cheng Ke's existence.

Got hit by a sugar-coated cannonball again.I am such an unstable person, I really deserve to be hit, no, I deserve to be smashed to death.

But as soon as the matter of Lulu came to my mind, I felt heavy and oppressive again, and I didn't have the mood to think about it anymore. The car had already turned around a large desolate willow forest, and stopped at the bottom of a soil slope.

This road goes up slowly, and there is only one three-storey small building on the huge soil slope, which is neither foreign nor foreign, and its style can be called a combination of urban and rural areas. After inquiring, it is the second uncle's house.

Cheng Ke and I got out of the car, and this meeting is already like in a dream, when the setting sun is like blood, the branches of the willow forest are danced by the wind-blown demons in the afterglow of the setting sun, like a strange hand that only needs to be stretched out to catch people .

It is very obvious that here, there is a heavy yin atmosphere similar to that in the wax museum in the haunted house in the community, and it is deeper than those two places, and it is almost oppressive.

Cheng Ke's expression was actually a little moved, and even his steps were surprisingly familiar.

"Have you been here before?" I couldn't help asking.

"I don't know..." Cheng Ke looked at the high soil slope, and frowned handsomely: "Many things have passed for too long, so I can't remember them."

When I got to the slope, I was just about to knock on the door. As if I had a heart, I pulled a few withered fingers from the crack of the door, and the blood-painted door creaked open.

My heart skipped a beat, a pale face was in front of me, it was a middle-aged woman, her head was unkempt, her eyes were sunken deeply, her mouth was still scarlet, her voice was very hoarse, staring at me He and Cheng Ke were still nervously defensive: "Who are you? What are you going to do?"

I was stunned for a moment, and I couldn't help being startled. I didn't see it unless I looked carefully. Isn't this... isn't the second aunt who likes to dress up most back then?
The second aunt was a flower in Tanshen Town back then, but now... the years are ruthless.

I stepped back and replied, "Second Aunt, I'm Lu Qiao."

"Lu Qiao?" The second aunt stared at me, looked left and right, and suddenly she smirked and caught me off guard: "You are Lu Qiao? I haven't seen you for many years, and you have become a big girl!"

"Yeah," I nodded, a little sad: "I should come here a few times, Lulu is separated from us forever, it's really..."

"Who is this?" The second aunt didn't seem to hear me at all, and then saw Cheng Ke.

"My name is Cheng Ke." Cheng Ke nodded very politely: "It's Lu Qiao's boyfriend."

"Oh, so it's your boyfriend? But he's handsome, he's handsome!" The second aunt looked at Cheng Ke with a rag-like face; "Okay, okay...hehehe..."

I became puzzled. The second aunt’s emaciated body is always dancing. I don’t know where, but there is something strange. It’s obvious that my daughter died, and I should be in pain. Why do I look at her like the corner of her eye? The tip of the brow, with a little joy.

It was almost as if the shock was too great, and the mind was deranged.

"Second Aunt, why is Lulu so hard to think about it..." Before I finished speaking, Second Aunt grabbed my hand very warmly and dragged me inside: "Come in first, my son..."

I had no choice but to follow in. Cheng Ke followed behind me, watching the small courtyard with all his leisure.

After entering the yard, there is a side room on the left, which has an iron door, only opened a crack, I suddenly found that behind the gap, there is a pair of eyes hiding, looking out.

"Forcing you, get up," the second aunt also followed my gaze and saw those eyes, went up and kicked on the iron gate, and after a low scream, those eyes disappeared into the shadow behind the big iron gate inside.

"Who is that?" I hurriedly said, "Second Aunt, did you kick him?"

"Don't worry about it." The second aunt could see that she was very excited, and hurriedly pulled me in, her two rows of yellow teeth were stained with scarlet lipstick marks, and she smiled at me: "I miss you, I haven't been here for a long time, I'm thinking very much ..."

The sun was almost sinking, and a huge shadow shrouded the courtyard of this small building. A huge coffin was placed squarely in the center of the courtyard, like a giant beast dormant in the darkness.

On the head of the coffin, there is a huge multicolored satin flower, which is some kind of new funeral style.

A group of people were silently surrounding the big coffin, some were standing and some were squatting, like statues, they must be relatives who came to help.

But I glanced over and found that I didn't know any of these relatives who came to work, and the clothes they were wearing...

It's just weird that the white linen material of the mourning clothes has been tied into the big hundred flower style of the wedding clothes.

Those relatives all stared at me, only the eyes were moving, as if they wanted to poke a few holes in my face with their eyes, which made people feel chills.

I had no choice but to nod to them, and asked by the way: "Second aunt, where are my grandparents, grandpa and uncle?"

"Hahahahahaha..." Second Aunt laughed wildly, as if she didn't hear what I was asking.

I feel more and more awkward.

Looking back at Cheng Ke, Cheng Ke's piercing eyes fell on the big coffin.

There was an incense table in front of the coffin, on which there were neat offerings and fragrances, and there were also neat piles of yellow paper in front of the coffin.

A black-and-white photo of Lulu was placed on the head of the coffin, her almond-shaped eyes were smiling, and her dimples were faintly visible. She was such a young girl, how could she not think about it!
At any rate, I still remember the funeral ceremony. I lit the yellow paper, put it in the brazier, and saluted Lulu. Because the deceased was the oldest, even though I was her cousin, I also knelt in front of the incense table, silently I shed tears.

It is a custom in my hometown that mourners cannot get up without the support of the family members of the deceased. I knelt for a long time before I remembered this incident, but when I went back to look for my second aunt, I found that my second aunt was gone.

"Eh?" I was a little dazed, where did the second aunt go?

Cheng Ke pulled me up early: "Crying too much hurts my eyes."

I hesitated for a while, even if the second aunt didn't come to help me, the other relatives shouldn't turn a blind eye like this, but they still looked at me with cold eyes and looked at me like a joke.

Even, as if he couldn't help it anymore, he gave a "puchi" laugh.

How does this atmosphere look like a funeral?
The feeling that something is wrong is getting stronger and stronger!I took out my mobile phone and wanted to make a call to my grandma's house, but I couldn't get through. I took down the mobile phone and found that there was nothing in the signal column!

What age is it, there is no place where the mobile signal is not covered!

I sighed, turned around, and saw at some point, an old lady was sitting next to the coffin, wearing a gaudy Tang suit, gray hair, red face, looking very rich, picking the fruits on the altar table, peeling bananas to eat While eating the banana, he twitched his mouth, and his feet in black cloth shoes were still dangling leisurely.

People are not buried, offerings cannot be eaten, this is a taboo that children know.

I guess this kind of informal old lady is generally kind-hearted and soft-hearted, so I struck up a conversation: "Grandma, I am Lulu's cousin. I came from Yuning and I don't often go back to my hometown. I don't know my relatives very well. It's impolite. Don't be surprised, I don't know which family you are a relative of? I want to ask about Lulu. "

The old lady looked at me and smiled with her big white teeth that were neat and somewhat false: "I'm not your relative, I'm here to help with the wedding, hehehe."

"Happy event?" I was stunned for a moment. It was clearly a funeral, so why did it become a happy event?
Cheng Ke dragged me over and said, "Lu Qiao, you don't know the specifications of the funeral here, do you?"

Specification?When I was young, I also saw funerals, and I even ate the snacks at the funeral together with Lulu, just like the old lady just now. Although the impression is not very clear, it should roughly look like this ?
Wait a minute... I suddenly remembered that there is a custom in Tanshen Town, that is, if unmarried men and women pass away, funerals are generally not held at home, because if they are not married, they can only be regarded as children. They are not qualified to be buried in the ancestral grave, but they have to be buried at the crossroads like children who died young, and sending them to the next life will never be like here, where you have to make a fuss and invite so many helpers!

What's more, in the village, suicide is a sin at all. People who commit suicide can never see their biological parents again, so they should be buried. Therefore, Lulu's grand funeral does not conform to the rules of Tanshen Town at all!

For some reason, those dusty memories that I thought had long been dissipated in the long years seemed to be suddenly lifted today, and my heart suddenly became clear.

I turned my head and looked at the old lady again, only then realized that what she was wearing was not a Tang suit at all, but a shroud!
Under the setting sun, the shadows of everything were stretched into a long piece, except for the toes of the old lady who were three feet above the ground, there was no shadow.

I felt a chill all over my body, no wonder, she ate the offerings of the dead in front of so many people, so...

"Sister..." A clear and sweet voice rang close to my ears: "Are you here?"

I was stunned, that was Lulu's voice.

(End of this chapter)