Chapter 15 You don't need to pay for small noodles
"Brother, let's go!"
Chujiu patted his backpack and said with a silly smile that this was the guy he was fighting, and he felt uneasy if he didn't.
The moon has only one small tooth. Walking into the cemetery gate, under the moonlight, the tombstones not far away cast long black shadows.
Thinking of the bet and sleeping in the cemetery at the beginning of the military training, I felt a slight chill on my back. Is this the same me who once sat next to the graveyard of bones and corpses to have lunch?
I unconsciously slowed down a bit. Human beings always react instinctively with fear and rejection towards things they don't know.
Chujiu walked along the steps of the ramp, counting the rows in front of him, and said without looking back:
"Guo Guo, actually I was so scared that I wet my pants when I opened my eyes for the first time when I was a kid. You are much better than me. My old man's old man said that when Grandpa Qin saw the ghost for the first time when he was young, he was so scared that his legs went weak.
Come on. In fact, it’s not that scary. There are human laws in the world, and there are ghosts in the ghost world. Generally speaking, ghosts will not cross the line and harm people. Of course, evil ghosts and innocent ghosts are not within this scope. However, there will be people who specialize in dealing with them. "
After Chujiu finished speaking, my heartbeat, which I seemed to understand but didn’t understand, became calmer.
I smiled and praised Chujiu for knowing so much. Chujiu rolled his eyes at me and said, "What's the point? He's not a person who does physical work. It's not like you just use your brain."
"Hey, Guo Guo, are you sure this is here? There is no inscription on the tombstone, and there is no photo."
Chujiu stood in front of the tombstones in the second row and looked at them carefully over and over again. He kept saying, "It's very strange. This is just messing around."
"I'm not a god! According to the hexagrams, it should be here!"
Just when I thought that the clues had been cut off at this point, and that I would just let it go and let it develop naturally.
Chu Jiu began to dig out a red candle, three sticks of incense and a piece of yellow paper folded into a triangle from his backpack. The yellow paper was wrapped with red thread.
I remember that I could see the remnant soul of Wang Li because this triangular yellow paper was crossed in front of my eyes on the ninth day of the lunar month.
"Chujiu, how did you make this yellow paper? It's amazing!"
"Yellow paper? This is a talisman! It's very good!"
Chujiu said something disdainful, put the candle on the tombstone, took out a match and lit it.
Under the light of the soybean-sized flames, I saw that this upright tombstone had no inscriptions, and the place where the photo was posted on the tombstone was also blank.
On the ninth day of the lunar month, I picked up the three sticks of incense placed in front of the tombstone and lit them. I was curious, was this to worship Wang Li on the ninth day of the lunar month?
I saw Chujiu standing up with his back to the tombstone, bowing respectfully towards the eastern sky three times, turning his wrist and throwing out the three sticks of incense in his hand.
The three sticks of incense were separated in three directions in the air and inserted into the left, right and rear of the tombstone like sharp arrows, and the candles just surrounded the tombstone.
"Three boys, three masters of collecting souls. Don't eat a little water from the underworld. Souls collected from thousands of miles away will also return. Three souls will return on their own way. Seven souls will return on a vast road. The soul will return to its body. The body will be at ease. The soul will return to others. People will be pure.
Collect your three souls and seven souls from Wang Li and come back. I serve the Supreme Lord, the divine soldiers and generals, and the fire is as urgent as the law. The urgency is as the law and order! Return!"
A burst of urgent curses ended with a loud "Go back!" Chujiu's right hand made the shape of a sword. I don't know if it was an illusion, but I saw the talisman in front of the tombstone move.
"Done! It's really Wang Li's remnant soul!" Chujiu picked up the talisman with his fingers and put it into his pocket, then picked up the candle and shook it to extinguish the candle.
After taking two steps, I remembered something and returned to the tombstone. I pulled out a black and white photo from my backpack. I remembered that it had fallen out of Zhang Feng's pants pocket.
Chu Jiu gently took the photo on the tombstone. Strangely enough, without using tape or glue, the photo just stayed quietly stuck in the stone frame of the tombstone, as if it were embedded in it.
"These photos will stop running around! Guo Guo, please walk a little faster, it won't be good after a long time!"
Chujiu's steps were so light that he looked at the steps as if they were flat ground. Having followed my grandfather in stance boxing since I was a child, I could barely keep up with him. If I were an ordinary person, I would have been so handsome that I wouldn't be able to see Chujiu's figure.
On the edge of the lake in the playground, Chujiu asked me to stay away from him, saying that too many people would hurt the residual soul due to the strong Yang energy.
I stood not far away and watched Chujiu staring at the lake and reciting a similar spell as before, then squatting on the ground and folding a paper boat with talisman paper. I didn’t know the specific situation, but I heard Chujiu from a distance.
Jiu seems to be talking to someone.
"People and ghosts have different paths. Don't miss things you shouldn't miss. I hope you have a good pregnancy after crossing the line!"
"I don't know, but I will do my best to protect you from this period of time. As for the other side, I have no choice."
"Probably not, but the cause and effect will definitely be contaminated. Fortunately, you didn't harm anyone."
"I will tell him (her), you go!"
From a distance, I saw the paper boat in the lake slowly floating towards the west. It floated for tens of meters without sinking.
When I was thinking about learning origami boats with my junior high school students when I had free time, ripples began to appear near the paper boats.
The paper boat swayed but did not sink. It was still floating slowly towards the west. Then a larger wave appeared. If this wave appeared out of thin air and hit the paper boat, it would definitely sink.
It seemed that Chujiu had also thought of this situation. He jumped up suddenly and walked a few irregular steps on the shore. When he took the last step, I felt from a distance that there seemed to be some force blocking Chujiu.
The soles of the feet hit the ground.
The soles of Chujiu's feet were suspended in the air. It was clear that there was nothing between the soles of the feet and the ground, but it was like there was a stone placed on the soles of the feet and the foot could not step down.
When the waves were a little far away from the paper boat, I heard a burst of urgent words coming from Chujiu's mouth. In the last sentence, "Urgent as a rule," Chujiu's feet actually collapsed to the ground.
At the same time, the paper boat disappeared in the distance. I don’t know if it was knocked over by the waves and fell into the lake or something else. In short, the paper boat disappeared.
Chujiu's body suddenly fell backwards. I rushed over and saw Chujiu lying on the open space on the shore, sweating profusely and breathing heavily:
"Guo Guo, from now on I don't have to pay for noodles."
After resting for a while, Chujiu regained some strength. On the way back to the dormitory building, Chujiu explained to me everything that happened that night.
After Wang Li's soul was summoned from the cemetery and reunited with other souls, Wang Li recovered her short-term memory and briefly explained some things to Chujiu.
Because Wang Li was kind-hearted and without any thought, her remnant soul did not harm anyone's life, but just did what she wanted to do most during her lifetime, so the photo on the tombstone appeared by the playground and lake.
The male classmate who was picked up established a relationship with the residual soul. Under the guidance of the residual soul, he sleepwalked to the lake and unconsciously imitated the actions of Wang Li and his boyfriend.
Because it is a situation where souls are in direct contact, it is easier to resonate. There is nothing difficult to understand when things like living and dying together and dying for love happen.
In the end, Wang Li's remnant soul used instinct to carry the fallen boy to the shore.