I took a look at the time. It gets dark early in winter in the north, so I was ready to go out at three o'clock. I didn't want to walk up there in the dark. It would be fine if there was no sun. Or it would be less than five o'clock when I got there. Just in time, I put on my coat.
I glanced at Zong Bao and said, "No, aren't Aunt Yulan and uncle's train arriving in the evening? You can pick them up. I've agreed with Aunt Sun to cook more dishes tonight, so it'll be lively."
"My parents were invited by your sister-in-law. Your sister-in-law already said that she would arrange for them to stay in a hotel." Zong Bao was in a low mood and was not at all enthusiastic about his parents' arrival.
"How about that? My son is here. Of course he comes to live with him. You only go back once a year for the New Year. Your parents haven't seen you for a long time. I just saw that it had been snowing the past few days. Why don't you go there?
It's convenient. I have to attend a banquet tomorrow, so I thought I could handle things quickly today. Otherwise, I'll go pick up your parents with you. Just be obedient and pick them up. I'll live in your house then.
You just make do in the living room for a few days, just in time to take your parents around to play, you know."
Zong Bao lowered his eyes: "But can you go by yourself? I saw that Cheng Baize had lost a lot of energy that day. How dare you not have sex with him..."
"Hiss, Liu Zongbao, you underestimate me, don't you? You are my second great god, you have to speak to me, you know. Besides, I'm here to talk, talk with sincerity, not to cure anyone, don't worry.
, as long as she recognizes her sister, I’ll be fine.”
As I said that, I took out a pack of incense cigarettes and a small flat bottle of Erguotou and put them in my pocket for emergencies. "Remember, if Cheng Baize comes back later and asks about me, don't tell him that I will go by myself."
Oh, otherwise he will have to nag me again when I come back, and let my grandpa know and lecture me."
"Well, I understand. If you really can't talk, you should run away quickly. Don't wait for dark to go up."
I smiled and patted his shoulder: "Don't worry...hey, where is Xiaoni? Where has she gone?"
"I don't know." When he mentioned Xiaoni, Zong Bao looked angry again.
I sighed secretly, "I'm still thinking of letting her go with you to pick up your parents. It's just a good time for them to get to know Xiaoni, don't you think so."
"Why do you know her? She is so arrogant."
I smiled and said, "People are so lively. I'm leaving. Don't forget to go to the station in a while. You know how to take a taxi."
"Okay, go and come back quickly."
Walking into the elevator, I clicked on the things I had in my pocket. I had to bring lighters and the like, and I also had to bring two more. If there was an emergency, I didn't want to do it with nothing.
‘Buzz~buzz~~’
At this moment, a text message actually came in from my phone. I took it out and took a look, and then I was stunned.
‘Your partner has cheated on you, now come to Yau Lai Coffee on Sixth Avenue, Qinghe Street!’
My first reaction was that the text message was sent by mistake. I looked at the sender and it was Fang Dapeng. Could it be that he was also working as a paparazzi?
Thinking about it, I dialed the phone directly: "Hey, Fang Dapeng, you sent me a text message, you..."
"Don't ask any more questions. I'm keeping an eye on you. Come here quickly!"
Before I could finish speaking, he put down the phone in a mysterious but anxious manner.
I was confused for a while. The first thing that came to my mind was Zhuo Jing, but I thought it was impossible. How could Fang Dapeng know about Zhuo Jing and me? After the car started, I realized what Fang Dapeng said.
My significant other should be Wen Xiaoni. He knows that Wen Xiaoni is my girlfriend, so he means that Wen Xiaoni cheated on her...?
Anyway, I have to pass by the 'Yuanshan Cemetery' to go there. I don't mean to take a detour on purpose. In fact, my feeling has always been very accurate. I can clearly feel that Wen Xiaoni is interested in Zong Bao. Of course
, Zong Bao also has it, but Zong Bao is too dull. In other words, it is Zong Bao who holds it specially. Wen Xiaoni also tried it several times, and when she saw Zong Bao, she could basically use enthusiasm at that level.
Words like "fire" were used to describe it. Could it be that Zong Bao was too stupid and spoke too unpleasantly, which made her feel discouraged, so she found someone else?
Thinking about this all the way, as soon as the car drove to the door of the coffee shop, I walked in. Through the transparent glass, I saw Wen Xiaoni chatting and laughing with a strange man. Fang Dapeng immediately knocked on my car window outside. At this moment
He looked like he had been cuckolded and was filled with indignation: "Jiaolong, I just heard it all from the table behind them. Your girlfriend is actually going on a blind date behind your back, and she's still with a man!?"
I sat still and glanced at Wen Xiaoni inside. No wonder she seemed very busy recently. It must have been arranged by her family. She had been urged to deal with various blind dates, large and small.
"Jiaolong, I know you must be feeling very sad. If you want to go in and beat him up, just go in and I will accompany you. Don't worry, I can cripple the man inside with just one arm."
After coming back to my senses, I looked at Fang Dapeng and cleared my throat: "Well, Fang Dapeng, I thank you for this. In fact, Nini and I have broken up."
"Break up?!" Fang Dapeng was shocked: "Didn't you say at the airport a few days ago that the two of you have been in a stable relationship for several years? Did she cheat on you just these days after you left? How can she still be on a blind date?
Well, this is so sorry for you!"
"Fang Dapeng, don't be so excited. It's okay. We have both broken up. She can be with whomever she wants to be with. This is her freedom. Are you right? I have other things to do some other time.
Thank you for inviting you to dinner. You should go back quickly. It’s a cold day. Don’t stare at her here. She and I are just friends now."
After saying that, I was about to leave, but Fang Dapeng stood beside me and looked at me with worry: "Jiaolong, if you are depressed, just go have a drink with me. Don't pretend to be okay. The more you act like this,
The more worrying it is, actually it’s nothing. It’s good that she’s gone. You can give yourself more choices, isn’t it? Hey! Jiaolong! Don’t do stupid things!”
I stepped on the accelerator lightly, and when I thought of Fang Dapeng's slightly sympathetic eyes, I felt helpless. Sometimes in life, you really have to pay for the lies you have told.
However, I really had time to have a good talk with Wen Xiaoni. When I thought of Zong Bao's tense face, I really had a heart to worry about my brother's life-long affairs.
Because I drove very fast, even if I was delayed for a short time at the entrance of the cafe, I still dared to reach the bottom of the mountain before 4:30.
I looked up at the sky where the sun had already set for most of the west. I took a long breath of air-conditioning. It was really more depressing when it was dawn. My body shivered. One was really cold and the other was that I was entering.
You will naturally encounter yin energy in cemeteries. Some people are weak, so you will feel suppressed when you enter a place like this. And we onmyojis are dealing with these things. As I said before, if we usually
When we meet one or two, they will walk around us, but if you enter a place like this, with the aura they say they are afraid of, they will also rely on the "ghosts are overwhelming" to suppress you. If you say you don't feel anything, it is a lie.
Your heart will feel dull and your shoulders will feel heavy, not to mention the thorns on your back being stared at by countless eyes that you cannot see.
The old black ones are still screaming. If you look up casually, you will see three or five of them landing on the gray tombstone, staring at them with dark eyes full of vigilance.
You, and then before you walk in, he flutters his wings and flies away, and then drops down to observe you from a distance or a short distance. It is particularly annoying, but the wild cat is not as intrusive when seen during the day as it is at night, because at night
During the day, you can only see glowing eyes, but during the day, you just feel that they are dirty stray cats of various colors, and there is nothing strange about them.
I walked up the stone steps while pulling at the branch in the tree. When I looked up, I felt that the small tombstones were waving to me, as if they were here to play. There was no village in front of me and no shop behind.
Son, looking around, there are all graves, and it feels really sour and refreshing.
Because I could see clearly, and I also memorized a few words that night, I walked fairly quickly. When I arrived at the pile of hay that I saw that night, it was still bright and I adjusted my breathing slightly.
, I walked directly to Aunt Xuehua’s grave with the bouquet of flowers I bought in advance and the fruit in my hand. Now her photo looked like she was smiling again. I squinted and looked at it carefully, but I still felt that something was wrong.
She looked familiar and didn't say anything. She bowed three times first, then slowly placed the flowers in front of the monument, and then began to pull out the weeds growing near her grave. There were still some piles of stones scattered around, so as not to hinder people's walking.
It also seemed to be placed very unintentionally, but I knew this was Cheng Baize's Tianmen Formation.
I counted the number of stone piles before and after. I remembered that a few years ago when Cheng Baize was building the Tianmen Formation, he had spoken to me on the phone and said that no one except him knew where the Achilles heel of this formation was, that is, everyone else had broken it.
No, looking at it now, it should be in a certain pile of rocks, and then... Well, the occupational disease occurred again. I came back to my senses and thought about what to do. Even if I figured out how to break it, I wouldn't dare to give it to Xue.
Aunt Hua is broken. Otherwise, well, everyone will be happy. If she goes to be reincarnated, if not, then she will become Mr. Dongguo and the wolf!
Thinking that I had almost pulled out the grass, this was also close, I knelt down in front of the monument again, arranged the fruits and lit the incense candles. Everything went smoothly. I guessed it might be because it was not dark yet, so I sighed.
I said directly: "Aunt Xue Hua, Aunt Xuemei asked someone to find me before she was reincarnated. She has been there for many years, but I didn't expect that she would be reincarnated now. She told me that she was most worried.
It’s you. I hope you can let go of these resentments and leave this place of wrong as soon as possible. Death is like a light extinguishing. You should try your best to let go of everything in this world. If you need my help in any way,
Just open your mouth and I will definitely do whatever I can..."
'Giggle...'
The tombstone trembled again. I looked over and saw that the somewhat blurry face in the photo was slowly shedding tears. It wasn't anger. She must have thought of her sister. Seeing this, I continued to speak: "Aunt Xuehua, I
I am really here to help you sincerely. If you have any trouble, just follow me..."
Before I finished speaking, the old man's voice became louder. I raised my eyes, and because it was bright, I could see clearly. The dense black birds were like a large black cloud coming towards me, with a low sound.
The meowing of cats was also heard immediately. I looked over and saw dozens of wild cats standing in line a few meters away from me, looking like they were ready to attack me at any time. My heart tightened, wasn't it?
Come!
"Aunt Xuehua, you know that I am an Onmyoji, but I don't want to cause trouble for you!"
Maybe my voice was too loud? Aunt Xuehua was angry again. Now I could see the blood clearly. It spread out under the tombstone and went straight to my knees. The old boy's screams became louder and louder.
I suspected that Aunt Xuehua had gathered all the old boys in this hilltop. They began to circle around my head, and kept gently hooking my shoulders with their sharp claws to test. Even the wild cats who were watching
I also started to get closer slowly, and I resisted the urge to jump up, "Aunt Xuehua, you are really here to help! You believe me!!"
After shouting, I closed my eyes and endured it. I didn’t believe what a lonely soul trapped in a grave could do to me!
The old man started to call in my ear, and the claws of the cat or the old man began to pull my clothes. The blood under my knees was cold and sticky. At this point, I felt very uncomfortable and was about to collapse...
Behind the curtain, my ears suddenly became quiet, and my eyes suddenly brightened up.
Everything in front of me was a little blurry, but I could still distinguish it. It should be in a house. Wherever I looked, everything seemed to be transparent. I opened a door vaguely, and there was a woman with her back to me.
She has long hair and a very slim figure. She is Xue Hua?
Thinking about it, I took a few steps forward, and the woman's sharp and crazy voice suddenly came out: "Why don't you believe me! It's all my wife's fault! She is not who you think she is at all, you know?
, the company is a conspiracy of hers! She already knew that I told you... what, what did you say..."
I walked slowly to her side. Everything around me was blurry, but I could clearly see this woman, the old flip phone she was holding, and even the teardrops on her chin.
She could see very clearly. Maybe it was blocked by her hair. I couldn't see her face clearly. How should I put it? It was a bit like the partial mosaic and background blur of beautiful pictures. Except for the woman in front of me, I couldn't see anyone else.
The place had been treated like this, and it could only be vaguely recognized that it was a house, and she was standing at the window.
"What about our children! Our children!!!"
The woman suddenly went crazy. I was startled by her tearful cries. She raised her hand vigorously to hammer on the window, and her voice was extremely broken and exhausted: "The child is not careless on my own. Do you know how careless I am?"
I'm so happy to be pregnant with your child! The accident was also designed by her! Why don't you believe me! Why don't you believe me!! I'm already like this, are you still willing to believe her! Everything today was designed by Jiang Meiyuan, what a lady!
!She is just a cruel and ruthless woman!!!”
Jiang Meiyuan? I seem to vaguely remember that Zhuo Jing’s mother’s name is Jiang Meiyuan——
"No...Yuncheng, I have nothing...I can't lose you, no, no, I don't want anything, just don't separate from you. I know you have helped my brother-in-law a lot, I never have any extravagant expectations
I didn't do it on purpose, it was really Jiang Meiyuan who did it...Yuncheng!"
Yuncheng? Zhuo Yuncheng, isn't this Zhuo Jing's father? I broke into a cold sweat after contacting him one after another. Aunt Xuehua, this is the third son of Zhuo Jing's father. He also has a child. No, listen to this
You mean, the child is gone?!
She started to call frantically, but no matter how many times she called, no one seemed to answer the phone. I stood there and sighed silently. No matter how the times change, the mistress will definitely leave the most hatred. Didn’t you ask for it?
, but then he realized that his position was wrong. At this time, he should have been on Aunt Xuehua's side, so he sighed silently, that's right, Zhuo Jing is definitely not an ordinary person, but if she harms you, you must at least
Come up with evidence, it's useless to shout like this. Besides, that man knows better whether it is... eh...
Before I could finish thinking about it, she turned around and wondered what was going on. Then her phone rang again. I watched her answer the phone with her back to me, shouting loudly: "I didn't serve as his mistress."
Son! Even if I did it, it wasn’t him! This is a rumor Jiang Meiyuan made for me! I only had dinner with him for company business, and Jiang Meiyuan asked someone to take the photos! What Mrs. Zhuo, she is a snake-hearted person
Woman! If you dare to write nonsense, I will never end it with you!!!"
Her voice was so loud that she was really close to collapse. I saw her sitting on the ground in despair, crying non-stop. During this time, she kept scolding Zhuo Jing’s mother. I thought she must have been tortured by Zhuo Jing’s mother.
After being pushed to a certain point, the company should collapse, and then the reputation will be ruined——
I just stood like this, watching her squatting with her back to me and crying for who knows how long. Then she got up and wiped her tears, then turned and walked to a place. I followed her. I don’t know why I didn’t follow.
During this period, I tried very hard to see her face clearly, but I couldn't see her face clearly. Until she took off her stockings, I frowned. Do you want to take a shower? Are you still in the mood to take a shower?
Then I overturned my idea. She stood in a large basin that was vaguely like a bathtub, then tied the stockings to the horizontal tie rod above, and slowly wrapped the other side around her neck, mouth
He said fiercely: "Jiang Meiyuan, I will never let you go even if I am a ghost..."
After finishing speaking, he bent his legs heavily!
"Why!!"
I was frightened and wanted to reach out to pull her, but I couldn't pull her at all. Seeing her in pain, I couldn't help her at all. In fact, people's desire to survive is the strongest, especially when it comes to suicide. When you jump into the river, you will be drowned.
She habitually wants to flutter, let alone hang herself, especially for someone like her. In fact, as long as she stands up, she will be fine. However, except for her hands, she is still holding on to some leg in pain but refuses to stand up, which shows her desire.
The desire to die was so strong that the tie rod creaked loudly when she was hanging it. I was sweating profusely and wanted to reach out to pull her, but everything was in vain until her head tilted completely and her body became extremely weak.
Relax, my nose actually felt sore, so I just ended it for myself?
This scene looked familiar, but I couldn't remember it. Her face was still white and I couldn't see clearly until something like a door behind me was opened, and then a woman screamed: "Help!
!It’s killing people!!!”
I immediately looked over, my eyes widened immediately, and I actually saw myself.
It was very clear that it was me, my eleven-year-old self. The eleven-year-old me was looking here with a confused look on my face, and my sister-in-law was standing behind me. She screamed and covered her eyes with my hands.
,: "Qiaoqiao, don't look!"
They seemed to be people from another time and space. I looked at them in a daze, and even saw my grandma who was following behind to tell them to leave quickly. My grandma was still very young at that time, and there was also my sister-in-law, who was also so young. I
Turning his face numbly, everything became clear.
Aunt Xuehua behind her, her head tilted somewhere, face facing outside, staring with blood-red eyes, tongue hanging out, legs still half-kneeling in the bathtub... I said how could I look familiar? I accidentally saw it more than ten years ago.
The hanging woman I saw was actually her——(To be continued)