Chapter 15: Golden Ghosts Injuring People, Water Ghosts Demanding Their Lives
Two years passed quickly.
When I was eight years old, it was the beginning of summer, and it was really the season when the family's wheat was ripe.
There was no combine harvester at that time, so the wheat was harvested by hand, one crop at a time, with a sickle, and then pulled back to the house, where they found a threshing machine, and several families worked together to beat out the wheat grains.
In those days, the threshing machine was very primitive, bulky and inefficient, and the wheat was not clean, always mixed with broken straw, so the wheat had to be dried for a while, and then lifted the wheat on a windy day, so that the wind would blow away the broken straw.
This year, my father was very happy because he bought a second-hand wheat thresher from someone at a low price and brought it back to the village.
Wheat threshing machine is placed outside my house, the village who want to come to wheat threshing, just give ten dollars, so calculated, can also make a small fortune.
However, no one thought that the machine would almost kill my father.
It was when the neighbor's family was threshing wheat, my dad was helping to stuff the wheat into the inlet of the threshing machine, which was a high-speed rotating iron wind wheel that spiraled to break up the wheat stalks.
It was while stuffing the wheat that Dad had his accident.
He just stuffed the wheat in, but I do not know what happened, a gust of wind, his sleeve was suddenly blown into the wind wheel, the wind wheel twisted the sleeve, and even Dad's arm was rolled into it, and then came out "click" a crunch, blood splattered all over the place, my father screamed, and people fell down.
Fortunately, the neighbor was on the sidelines, quick to see the opportunity, fast action, an arrow darted forward, struggling to pull my father out.
At that time, Dad was fainting from the pain, if the neighbor did not help, half of Dad's body would have been churned in by the wind turbine and smashed to smithereens!
Dad was lucky to get his life back, but his right arm was almost ruined, not to mention the meat, almost rotten, the bones were cracked, the doctor put in six steel nails, before and after recuperating for more than six months, only to keep it unbroken.
Afterwards, we realized that the original owner of this wheat beater why to sell this machine at a low price, is because this wheat beater had an accident before, churned to death a person!
The owner felt bad luck and didn't dare to use it again, so he sold it at a low price.
The old people said that the machine was inhabited by an evil spirit that would find someone to take its place, and that Dad, as the new owner, had been chosen by the evil spirit.
This statement makes me, dad, mom three people are listening to the creepy, and then remembered the words of Chen Hansheng, I am not dead, there will be a blessing, during the worship of Liu Wei tablets, there is his blessing, but the five elements of the ghost congregation to find provocations on the search for dad, mom, Chen Hansheng also said that dad's life five elements of the crime of gold, so that he is careful of the knife and weapon, the accident is considered to be an unfortunate words.
Dad touched the spiritual stone hanging around his neck, lamented: "Mr. Chen is really a divine face, said every word is true, this spiritual stone has saved my life!"
After saying that, dad stared at the spirit stone on mom's neck again, and said, "The old gentleman said that you are destined to commit a crime against water, you should never go to the water's edge, and don't go to this spirit stone, lose it."
"Uh-huh!" Mom nodded and looked at me again, "If it wasn't for old Mr. Chen, this disaster would have been suffered by Use. He is now blessed with good fortune."
This blessed fortune continued for another twelve years.
Twelve years later, I was twenty years old, failed the college entrance examination, idle at home for two years.
Still in the fall, the ninth day of the ninth month of September, this day at noon, I ate dinner, back to the house ready to sleep, just sat on the bed, I heard "pop" a crunch, as if something broke.
I was startled, and quickly tilted my face to look around, trying to find the source of the sound.
Finally, my eyes fell on the north wall under the incense, where the original curling smoke of the three yellow incense, at this moment all extinguished.
Not burned out, but still half of it went out.
My heart can not help but rise a sense of foreboding, something is going to happen.
I walked to the front of the incense case to take a closer look, Liu Wei's tablet from top to bottom, neatly cracked a seam, straight as if it was split by an axe.
Suddenly, I remembered what Chen Hansheng said fourteen years ago: "I have Liu Wei's birth date here, you go back to do a long life tablets, engraved with his name, birth date, placed in the inner room, three incense sticks a day, worship on New Year's holidays. If one day the tablet breaks on its own for no reason, it can be removed. At that time, he should have already had his grievances eliminated and reincarnated."
"Whew ......"
I took a long breath, staring blankly at the tablet, the complexity of the feelings in my heart is difficult to describe, fourteen years, originally a yin and yang arch-foe, but later on, it was like a brother who had been accompanying me growing up, suddenly it was really gone, after the unusual ease, I always feel frustrated.
This is a relief, but also binding.
But, after all, the tablet should be removed.
Chen Hansheng's words, I completely believe until now.
He is a strange man, but also the first person I admire in my life, and can even be said to be the most admired person, that the godlike metaphysical skills and unparalleled style, enough to make me a lifelong fascination.
However, in these fourteen years, because of various things, I have never seen him again. Not only did I not go to see him again, even any news related to the Chen Village, I deliberately avoided it, and my parents never mentioned it, didn't care, didn't ask.
It's not that I don't have time to see him, but I don't dare to see him.
Why don't you dare to see him? Just because he swore that poisonous oath.
If I don't become his grandson within fifteen years, if he is alive, he will be beaten by heaven; if he is dead, his coffin will be split by thunder.
It's been fourteen years now.
My parents have never had any intention of letting me pass on, so how can I have the face to see my savior?
Not only me, my parents also feel ashamed of the Chen family, not only have not been there again, and never mentioned it again.
People are like this, to hate the people avoided, to have a favor to their own people also often avoided. Because, owed a favor is always not a good thing.
Not right!
I suddenly remembered that fourteen years ago, I hid in the Chen family's west courtyard and followed Chen Hongde to peek inside the Chen family's compound.
At that time, Chen Hansheng was gambling with his grandson, Chen Yuanfang.
Betting on what?
He was betting on his life!
Chen Hansheng bet that he only had ten years to live, and if he won the bet, Chen Yuanfang would have to join the minister.
Now, ten years have passed, where is he?
Has Chen Yuanfang entered the phase yet?
My heart a sudden burst of panic, Chen Hansheng's skill is subtle and unparalleled, what he said is like a golden rule, can not be wrong, he said that only ten years to live, that should be only ten years to live.
If that's true, he's been dead for four years?
No, I have to go and see him.
I'll go as soon as I say so.
Even if I feel guilty, I have to go.
I first removed Liu Wei's tablet and incense, then rested at home for a while, and going to look for someone at noon didn't seem like the right time.
Besides, if you go to visit the person who saved your life, you have to bring something with you.
After resting, I washed up, dressed up, rode my bike to the town commodity store to buy some fruits and eggs and came back, ready to discuss with my parents to see if we should go together.
I just rode my bike to the entrance of the village, I saw a group of people crowded together in a disorderly manner, boisterous and lively.
I hurriedly went up to see what's going on, not yet come to the front, the crowd squeezed out a person, it is the grown-up two wazi, I shouted at him: "letter ball wazi, what's going on ah?"
Ever since that year when he was unrighteous and left me alone to escape, causing me to be possessed for several days, I have been cursing him when I see him as "Xinqiu", which is the dialect of our place.
That's our dialect here, which means idiot, fool, or wimp.
When Erwazi saw me, he ran over and said, "Wu Yu, you're still watching, that's your mom falling into the water, almost drowned!"
I first "ah" a sound, and then split his hand grabbed the second child, scolded: "You fucking letter ball goods dare to curse my mother?"
"Really!" Erwazi struggled: "The dog only pit (cheat) you! You go over to see, your father is also there!"
I then believed, lost the bike, also rushed into the crowd, and saw my mother lying on the ground unconscious, wet and covered with mud, my father was pressing hard on the chest to squeeze the water.
I was so shocked that I lost my color and jumped up and shouted: "Mom! Mom--Dad, what's wrong with my mom?"
