Warlock Notes

Chapter 7 The Woman in the Graveyard

Although I knew in my heart that Zhang Zhenren was deliberately tossing me here in order to train my courage, but I still couldn't help cursing him as an old bastard in my heart.To use a popular saying nowadays, damn it, this is the rhythm that will kill me!
Coming to such a place full of dead people, do you think I can sleep peacefully?I couldn't even crouch down and stay still.I am always afraid that there will be something staring at me where I have not observed, in short, my heart is creepy.Since I couldn't stay where I was, I looked around under the moonlight, constantly cheering myself up.

I wandered around in the tombs like this. Most of the tombs here are covered with weeds, and there are not even tombstones, just a small mound of short soil.Of course, there are also some tombstones. Judging from the photos on the tombstones, these dead are old and young.

I walked around the mass graves, and even found a very beautiful woman in the photo of the tombstone, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, smiling very charmingly.I figured if he was still alive, there must be a lot of crushes, right?

Fortunately, after wandering around like this, nothing unusual happened except that a night bird frightened me, which made me feel more at ease. Get up from the ground!
Thinking this way in my heart, I didn't feel so scared in my heart, or maybe I stayed in the cemetery for a while, and I felt a sense of adaptation in my heart.

The night was getting thicker and thicker, and I was getting more and more tired because I had been wandering around the graveyard for so long at this time because I had driven the mountain road for a day during the day.So I found an open space and lay down, ready to squint my eyes for a while.

But as soon as I closed my eyes, I regretted it to death.I regret that I shouldn't have looked at those photos on the tombstone just now, but now I just squint my eyes, and all I can see in my mind are those photos on the tombstone.They kept flashing in my mind like a revolving lantern, especially the smile of that beautiful woman.

This made me miserable, so I dare not close my eyes, so I had to sit up and look at the stars again.But today there are no stars, there are moons, there are dark clouds, there are winds, there are no people, there are no voices, is there anything I fear most?

Couldn't sleep, so I had to stand up again.But as soon as I stood up this time, I discovered something unusual!There was a field of crops not far in front of me, and in that field of crops, I actually found a young woman doing farm work in the field with her back to me!
This blow scared me badly, and I almost lost my footing and fell to the ground.I wanted to turn around and run to Zhang Zhenzhen's house, but I gave up this idea after thinking about it. After all, I came here to practice courage. If I ran back in such a surprise, I would have to be scolded.

But when I saw this scene, I really felt very strange. In the middle of the night, she didn't sleep at home, but she dared to come to this kind of mass grave and do farm work in the field?

who is she?So with doubts and curiosity, I walked quickly towards the young woman...

"Miss, are you a human...or a ghost...a ghost? Why do you still come out to work in the field in the middle of the night?" I was hundreds of meters away from that woman, and when I got closer to a hundred meters away from her I started yelling at her.Because to be honest, I really didn't dare to run to her right away.

But even calling her several times like this, the young woman didn't respond in the slightest, as if she couldn't hear her at all, and continued to do farm work with her head down.

Is it a deaf person?It was getting more and more strange in my heart. It stands to reason that we were so close, and she couldn't hear me calling her like this, and it was such a big night, and the surroundings were dead silent.

Now that I'm getting closer, I can almost see her clearly.Although it is just a back view, it can still be seen that this woman is very young, wearing a red dress, with long hair, especially her figure, which also needs a waist and a butt.I never thought that there is such a beautiful figure in the mountains, maybe she is as beautiful as the woman on the tombstone!
Seeing that she didn't respond to me, I continued walking, and finally came behind her, and I said, "Miss, why are you here to do farm work so late?"

However, as soon as I finished speaking, the young woman suddenly turned her face and smiled sinisterly at me. I was so scared that I yelled "Oops" and fell to the ground...

Because when that young woman turned her face to face me, what I saw was a face as pale as paper, without any facial features. The most terrible thing was that even though she had no facial features, the face was very similar to that of the woman on the tombstone before. Similarly, my intuition tells me that the woman in front of me is the woman on the tombstone!

I don't know how long I was in a coma, but I was woken up by a villager who came out to do farm work in the morning.When I woke up, my first reaction was that I was dead or not. I checked my body and found that there were no missing arms or legs, so I was relieved.However, what surprised me was that when I was about to take out the talisman that had been on my chest in fear, I was surprised to find that the talisman had actually been burned to ashes!
The old villager asked me where I was from and how I came to sleep in this wilderness.I told him that I was Zhang Zhenren's apprentice, and then I also told what happened last night.As a result, the old man didn't have the slightest doubt, and told me that the woman had appeared not only once, but several villagers had met her before.

The old man told me: "There are still many villagers who have encountered such strange things in this cemetery. In short, the villagers are rumoring that it must be the young woman who is quietly underground, and often comes out to make troubles, especially in the Evening. So you must never come to this cemetery at the west end of the village alone again, otherwise you will meet this young female ghost with no facial features next time."

Hearing the old man's words, I shuddered severely, and I felt a sense of fear in the back.

I forgot to take a look at the cemetery, I didn't dare to stay, I hurriedly thanked the old man, and immediately ran to Zhang Zhenren's hut...

As soon as I saw Zhenren Zhang, I was eager to tell him what happened last night, and wanted him to understand that it was very dangerous for me to sleep alone in a mass grave.But before I opened my mouth, Zhang Zhenren saw my embarrassed look and said: "Needless to say, I'm afraid of ghosts. When I see outsiders in the future, don't say they are my apprentices. I can't afford to lose that old man!"

I only felt a few black lines hanging from my head, and a crow flew over my head...

That night, Zhang Zhenren still asked me to go to the mass grave to sleep.But this time he specifically told me not to pay attention to anyone or anything I saw there, just sleep on my own.Of course, he gave me another talisman, probably for the sake of my safety.

In this way, I spent two consecutive nights in the mass grave, and saw the young woman in both nights.But on the second night, I didn't go up to talk to her again, and she didn't intend to harass me, so it was safe and sound that night.

On the third night, I was still planning to go to the mass grave to spend the night, but as soon as I went out, Zhang Zhenren stopped me and told me to stay at home tonight, saying that I had something to tell me tonight.I thought to myself, could it be that the old man wanted to drive me away because he saw that I did not behave well on the first night?

At about nine o'clock in the evening, Zhenren Zhang called me into his bedroom.As soon as I entered the bedroom, I was taken aback. I almost thought I was dazzled...

I saw Zhang Zhenren lying on the bed, but he was wearing a long black robe. On the chest of the black robe, there was a big golden word "Shou" that was very eye-catching.

Although I don't know much, but no matter what, I'm still a child from the countryside. When I saw the clothes that Zhang Zhenren was wearing, I recognized them. Isn't this a shroud?
Shroud, commonly known as "old clothes".To put it bluntly, it is clothes for the dead.Under normal circumstances, when the elderly reach the age of [-], they will make clothes for the elderly to wear after death, which is called shroud, which means health and longevity.Although this kind of clothes will be made before the old man is alive, no one will wear a shroud while he is alive.

In Chinese tradition, after a person dies, his sons and daughters wear shrouds for him. If the deceased is a man, his son and daughter usually take care of him. If the deceased is a woman, his daughter and daughter-in-law take care of him.In southern Fujian, when putting on a shroud for the dead, the relatives of the old man have to try it on first.After trying it on, use a scale without a weighing hammer to weigh it, and say in front of people: "This is bought with money by descendants." It shows the filial piety of descendants.

Shrouds are generally not made of fur or satin, for fear of becoming a beast in the next life and cutting off children and grandchildren, they are mostly made of silk cotton, which means "nostalgia" and "remembrance".The number of pieces of underwear, avoid double happiness.Men's shrouds The shrouds worn by the dead are usually in odd numbers, with a difference of two up and down, such as seven up and down five, or up nine down seven, and up to eleven down nine, that is, eleven jackets and nine pants (women can use skirts to replace them). pants).Young people, that is, people who died before the age of 50, generally can only wear three pieces.The older the deceased, the more he can wear, which means good fortune and longevity.

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