Chapter 5: A Different Kind of Mother
After entering the house, Sister-in-law Zhang turned around a few times, then walked to the bedroom and took a look around, then her brows tightened and she said in a low, gloomy voice, "The Yin Qi in this house of yours is so heavy! It seems like there really are ghosts!"
When I heard this, I was so scared that I hurriedly hid behind my dad, who also said nervously, "Sister-in-law Zhang, where are the ghosts? Can you see the ghost?"
"Right behind you!" Sister-in-law Zhang stared with wide eyes and suddenly turned to my dad.
"Mom!"
I was standing right behind dad, and when I heard this, I was so scared that I almost jumped out of my skin, shrieked in shock, and hurriedly ran away.
Dad also moved away with a white face, and behind him was a window, one of those old-fashioned wooden sash windows in the countryside that could be opened and closed inward.
Because there was a big tree outside the house that shaded the sky, and the eaves were long and blocked the light from outside, it was dark there at the window as well as indoors, and even in the daytime, it looked eerie.
"Don't be afraid! Watch me drive this evil spirit out!"
Sister-in-law Zhang shouted, "The Elder Goddess of the Taishang is in a hurry! I am the Great Immortal Master under the Queen Mother, demons and monsters all get out of here!"
The voice was so shrill and harsh that it rattled my eardrums. I secretly smacked my lips, although this Zhang's sister-in-law's style is a bit like a high ranking person, but it's more like a shrew in the village.
Shouting, only to see Zhang's wife hand forward a fierce stretch, and a wave, only to hear a "clattering" strange sound chaotic up, I was so scared that no one color, my father and mother are also shocked jaws, but Zhang's wife patted his hand, turned back to the clouds and said: "Well, the ghost has run away. "
"Ran away?" Dad and mom didn't react for a moment, and I was also a bit stunned.
"Yes." Sister-in-law Zhang said, "Didn't you guys hear the sound? It's clattering, that's the sound the ghost made when it ran out of the window!"
"Oh!" We suddenly realized.
Sister-in-law Zhang pointed out the window and said, "See what kind of day it is outside?"
Dad said, "Daytime."
"Right!" Sister-in-law Zhang said, "It's a clear day outside, and the big sun is poisonous! This ghost was forced by me to escape through the window, but with the poisonous sun outside, he will be sunburned to death as soon as he goes out! Your family can live in peace from now on."
I said half-heartedly, "Really?"
"This child!" Mrs. Zhang stared, "Of course it's true! Would I lie to you?"
Dad was still a bit uncertain and said, "Do you want to do something else?"
"Of course." Sister-in-law Zhang said: "This heaven has the virtue of good life, I am also a person of cultivation, although the fight against ghosts is this ...... part of the work, but also belongs to the killing well. This ...... lonely souls and wild ghosts are also some very poor things, can not simply destroy them on the line, I have to do a spell, to superdeuce them to reincarnate properly, and then in the next life are good people."
Mom listened and nodded her head, saying, "That's the reasoning, that's the reasoning."
Sister-in-law Zhang said, "Because these ghosts are haunting your home, you must also do something."
Dad said, "If you need us to do anything, please let Mrs. Zhang know."
Sister-in-law Zhang said, "That's fine, I won't say much, I want to do puja, incense, paper, candles, steamed buns, big meat ...... have to buy, this money I quite want to pay out for you guys, but there's a head for the grievances and a head for the debts, the ghosts are the most important thing, if the person who pays out the money is not the right person, they won't accept it even if they're dead, and after the rebirth, they'll still have to run to your house in the next life. , they'll still have to run to your house to make trouble in their next life."
"Sister-in-law Zhang doesn't need to say anything, we have to pay for this." Dad listened with a sweaty head and said, "Just tell us how much you want?"
Sister-in-law Zhang stretched out five fingers and said, "Less is not enough, more is useless, no more, no less, let's give fifty."
"Fifty?" Dad and mom were taken aback.
In this day and age, fifty dollars is a large amount for a small family like ours, and many people work their asses off to get almost that much for a month's wages.
Mrs. Zhang, however, bristled and rolled her eyes, "What? You think it's too much? You don't want to? That's nothing, it's fine not to do this legal work, it's just that there's something in the future ......"
"Not much, not much, should be." Dad hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law Zhang wait a moment, I'll get you the money."
Only then did Zhang Sister-in-Law stop talking.
When Dad handed the money to Sister-in-law Zhang in a heartbreaking manner, Sister-in-law Zhang stuffed it into her pants pocket and said, "Good, then I'll go buy something, and then I'll directly supersede these lone souls that are haunting your house at the temple."
"Good, good." Dad and mom coyly kept sending Sister-in-law Zhang to the front door, and of course I followed all the way.
After Sister-in-law Zhang left, Dad and Mom looked at me and I looked at you, they were all sad.
"Alas ......" Dad sighed and said, "Fifty dollars, I don't know how many pounds of wheat I have to sell."
"Don't count this account." Although mom is also meat pain, but still persuade dad said, "Use with all right is the best."
"Let's hope it won't be okay again."
"Well, I see that Mrs. Zhang is quite capable."
Dad and mom were talking and I was silent.
It was daytime, nothing happened, and I also felt that after what Sister-in-law Zhang did, my heart did settle down quite a bit.
However, not all of my worries had disappeared.
I spent the rest of the daytime almost in torment, and then waited for the night to fall in the complex emotions of both expectation and fear.
Anticipation because I wanted to see if those things had been removed after Mrs. Zhang's spell.
I was afraid because I was afraid that those things had not gone away.
During the night, my father and mother didn't go out, probably because they were afraid that something would happen to me, they stayed by my side all the time, from six o'clock until after dinner, and nothing really happened during that time.
After dinner, the three of us sat in the house and watched the black and white TV, and I don't know what was on our minds.
I don't know whether it was because my mind was distracted, or I was overly worried and my spirit was not good, as I watched, I was a bit tempted to doze off.
"Heh ......"
"Heh ......"
My yawn one after another, in a daze, I heard my mom say, "Use use, doze off and go to bed."
I hurriedly rubbed my eyes and shook my head, saying, "I don't, I don't sleep alone."
Mom said, "Come on, I'll stay with you. Tonight, we'll sleep in one house as a family."
"Good!" I then happily stood up and pulled mom's hand towards the inner room.
When I got up, I saw that Dad was still sitting still, so I said, "Dad, when are you going to bed?"
"Just go and watch a little longer. You guys go to sleep first." Dad said.
I said, "Oh," and followed Mom.
The lights in the inner room were not lit, when I walked in, I wanted to turn on the light, mom said, "don't turn on the light, it's not like you don't know where the bed is, take off your clothes and come over to sleep."
With that, mom took my hand and walked inside, not letting me touch the light switch.
I followed a few steps, and suddenly felt that my mom s hand was strange, it didn t feel like a hand, as if it was ...... a piece of wood, or the kind of charcoal that was burned!
Thinking that way, I immediately thought of the burnt child and shivered involuntarily.
"What's wrong?" Mom asked.
Mom's voice also sounded a bit raw, and her tone was cold and icy, not at all like the way she used to speak to me.
"Mom, why are your hands so cold." I was getting scared and before I could finish my sentence, I hurriedly jerked my hand out of the room as I tried to get to the lights, more than anything else, I wanted to get to my dad.
"Why are my hands cold?" Mom's voice was still cold, and she clutched my hand in a death grip, not letting go.
I got even more scared and mumbled, "Your hands feel weird too ......"
"Strange?" Mom suddenly laughed, a sharp and mournful laugh, she said, "What's so strange about that, anyone who burns to death will have hands that look like this!"
Hearing this, my scalp seemed to explode, and I struggled desperately to get up, crying and shouting at the same time, "Let go of me! Let go of me! You're not my mom!"
"Let go of you for what? Are you going to turn on the light?" The icy voice said teasingly, "Want to turn on the light to see who I am? Haven't you seen me many times before?"
As soon as the words left my mouth, the room lit up all of a sudden, but instead of the electric lights coming on, there was a strange bright light that appeared in the room.
I saw at once the man who had seized my hand, the **** child who had died!
The big head, the round eyes, the spiteful eyes, the strange smile, the blackened face, and the burned body, the burned short hand, were right in front of me!
Extreme horror, all of a sudden crushed my spirit, the sky turned, I fell down without a sound.
