Chapter 7: The Woman in the Graveyard
Although I understood in my heart that Zhang Zhenren was deliberately tossing me here in order to give me some practice, I still couldn't help but viciously curse him in my heart for being such an old thing. To use a popular saying now, damn, this is to play with the rhythm of my death ah!
Coming to a place where there are dead people everywhere, do you think I can sleep in peace? I can't even squat down and stay still. I was always afraid that there would be something staring at me in places I hadn't observed, in short, my heart was creepy. Since I couldn't stay where I was, I looked around in the moonlight, constantly bracing myself in my mind.
I wandered around the graves, most of which were full of weeds and didn't even have tombstones, they were just short mounds of dirt. Of course, there are also some that have tombstones, from the photos on the tombstones, these dead people are both old and young, this really echoes the old saying, don't look at you than I am small, but it is not necessarily who left early.
Wandering around the mass graves, I even found a very pretty woman on the photos of the tombstones, with the corners of her mouth slightly upturned and a charming smile. I thought, if he was still alive, there must be a lot of fans, right?
Fortunately, blindly wandering around like this, in addition to startling a night bird to scare me, nothing unusual happened, which more or less made me feel more solid in my heart, after all, the dead are still dead, they can't possibly crawl up from the ground!
Heart @ a @ this @ read - novel xstxt think so, then my heart in turn not so afraid, or perhaps in the cemetery head stayed for a period of time, the heart more or less some sense of adaptation it.
The night is getting thicker and thicker, and I because the daytime rush a day of mountain road, and at this time in the graveyard blind wandering for so long, the spirit is also more and more fatigue. So I found an open space and lay down, preparing to squint my eyes for a while.
But as soon as I squinted my eyes, I regretted it to death. I regretted that I shouldn't have looked at those pictures on the tombstone just now, and now as soon as I squinted my eyes, my mind was filled with those fucking pictures on the tombstone. They kept flashing through my mind like a walking light, especially that pretty woman's smile.
Now I'm in deep shit, how can I close my eyes like this, I just have to sit up and look at the stars again. But this time there are no stars, the moon is there, the clouds are there, the wind is there, the people are not there, the sound is not there, what I am most afraid of is not there?
I couldn't sleep, so I had to stand up again. But this time, just as soon as I stood up, I realized the abnormality! Not far in front of me there was a crop field, and in that crop field I found a young woman doing farm work in the field with her back to me!
This scared me so much that I almost fell to the ground without standing still. I want to turn my head to run to Zhang Zhenren's home, but I thought about it but gave up this idea, after all, I came to practice the courage, if this is so shocked to run back, must be scolded me not.
But see this scene, I really feel very strange, this late at night, she does not sleep at home, actually dared to come to this kind of mass grave next to the ground to do farm work?
Who was she? So with a sense of doubt and curiosity, I quickly walked towards the young woman.
"Miss, are you a human or a ghost? Why are you out working in the field in the middle of the night?" I was hundreds of meters away from that woman, and when I got close enough to be a hundred meters away from her, I started shouting at her. Because to be honest, I really didn't dare to run to her right away.
But that's how even shouted at her several times, the young woman did not have the slightest reaction, as if she could not hear it at all, still lowered her head and did the farm work.
Is it a deaf? Heart more and more strange, according to reason so close, I shouted her, she did not reason to hear, and in such a big night, surrounded by a dead silence.
Now walking close, I also almost see her clearly. Although it is only a back, but still can see this woman is very young, wearing a red dress, keep a long hair, especially her body, that is also to have a waist, want to have ass ass. I didn't think there was such a beautiful back in the mountains, maybe she was as beautiful as the woman on the tombstone!
Seeing that she didn't answer me, I continued to walk forward again, and finally came behind her, I said: "Miss, why are you still coming to do farm work so late at night?"
However, as soon as I finished my work, the young woman turned her face to me and smiled at me, which scared me so much that I let out a cry of "Aiya" and fell to the ground in fear!
Because when the light woman turned her face to face me, I saw a pale as paper without features of the face, the worst thing is that, although there are no features, but the mold is extremely similar to the woman on the tombstone before, 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 unconscious, but I was woken up by a villager who came out in the morning to do farm work. When I woke up the first reaction is that I'm dead or not, check out the whole body found no missing arms and legs, I was relieved. However, let me strange, when I was afraid of ready to have been placed in the chest of the talisman out, but surprised to find that the talisman actually burned to ashes!
The old villager asked me where I was from and how I came to sleep in this wild land. I then told him that I am the disciple of Zhang Zhenren, and then also told him what happened last night. As a result, the old man did not have the slightest suspicion, and also told me that the woman appeared more than once, several villagers have met.
The old man told me: "There are many villagers in this cemetery who have encountered this kind of strange things, in short, the villagers are rumors, it must be that the young woman is not willing to do with the silence of the ground, so often come out to do strange things, especially at night. So you must never come alone in this cemetery at the west end of the village again, or you'll meet this young female ghost without five senses again next time."
Hearing the old uncle's words, I winced fiercely as a wave of fear came over me.
I forgot to take a glance at the graveyard, how dare I stay, hurriedly thanked the old man, and immediately ran towards Zhang Zhenren's hut!
As soon as I saw Zhang Zhenren, I was eager to tell him what happened last night, wanting him to understand that it was dangerous for me to sleep alone in a mass grave. But before I could open my mouth, Zhang Zhenren saw my sorry state and said, "No need to say anything, you are even afraid of ghosts, don't say that you are my disciple when you see outsiders in the future, I can't afford to be ashamed of that old man!"
I just felt a few black lines hanging down from my head, and a crow flew over my head.
That night, Zhang Zhenren still let me run to the mass grave to sleep. However, this time, he specifically instructed me not to bother with anyone or anything I saw there, and to just sleep my own sleep. Of course, he also gave me another talisman for my safety.
In this way, two consecutive nights were spent in the mass grave, and I saw the young woman in both nights. But the second night I didn't go up to her again, and she didn't want to harass me, that night was peaceful.
The third night, I was still ready to go to the mass grave for the night, but just out of the door was Zhang Zhenren shouted, told me to stay at home tonight, said that there are things to explain to me at night. I thought to myself, could it be that his old man saw that I didn't perform well on the first night, so he wanted to drive me away?
At about nine o'clock in the evening, Zhang Zhenren called me into his bedroom. As soon as I entered the bedroom, I was shocked and almost thought that I had blurred my eyes!
I saw Zhang Zhenren lying on the bed, but wearing a long black robe, the chest of the black robe a large golden "longevity" word is very eye-catching.
Although I do not know much, but then again, also from the countryside out of the children, a see Zhang Zhenren body wearing clothes I will recognize, this is not the life jacket?
Life clothes, commonly known as "old clothes". To put it bluntly, it is for the dead to wear clothes. Generally speaking, in the old man full of the age of armor, its days after the old man will do a good job for the death of the clothes to wear, beautifully known as the birthday suit, symbolizing health and longevity of the meaning. Although this kind of clothes will be made before the old person's death, there is never someone who will wear the birthday suit while he or she is still alive.
In the Chinese tradition, when a person dies, his or her sons and daughters dress him or her in shoujian (寿衣). When the deceased is a man, the shoujian is usually taken care of by his sons and daughters, and when the deceased is a woman, the shoujian is taken care of by her daughters and sons-in-law. In the southern Fujian area, when putting on the life jacket of a dead person, the relatives of the old man have to have a symbolic try-on first. After the fitting, they use a scale without a hammer to weigh it and say in front of people, "This is what the children and grandchildren bought with money." It indicates the filial piety of the descendants.
Life clothes generally do not use fur and satin, for fear of becoming a beast in the next life and severed children and grandchildren, mostly made of silk and cotton, take "fondness", "remembrance" meaning. The number of pieces of clothing, avoid double happiness single. Men's life jacket for the dead to wear the life jacket is usually an odd number of, up and down the difference between two, such as on the seven under the five or on the nine under the seven, the most is on the ten under the nine, that is, to wear eleven tops, nine pants (women can be used in lieu of skirts and pants). The premature life, that is, less than fifty years old and died, generally can only wear three pieces. The older the deceased is, the more they can wear, indicating that they are blessed with longevity.
