My dad and I walked into the restaurant, and the waiter warmly greeted us to sit down and gave me a recipe book.
My dad was flipping through the recipes page by page, and I heard a man's voice on the table behind me.
"Dad, look behind me, is that Uncle Li on the west side of our house?"
My dad stretched his neck to take a look, slapped his thigh in surprise, and almost shouted. He lowered his voice and said, "Hey! It's true! This man is not treating his wife well. It turns out he is looking for a woman outside!"
Looking for a woman?
"What does it mean to find a woman?"
"You don't know, don't worry about it, we'll go back after eating."
"oh."
I stretched my ears, and sure enough, there was a woman's voice next to Uncle Li. It was soft and slimy.
I sniffed.
There's something slutty about that woman.
…
It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon when I got home. My dad told me again and went to the ground with the shovel.
After he left, I quickly found a bag and went to the stove pit in advance to take out a large bag of ash and put it in it. This meant that my mother was not at home, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to get the ash.
After I finished taking out the bag and tied it up, I found dust everywhere in the kitchen, so I tried hard to clean it up again so as not to let my mother see it.
As evening approached, I opened the newly bought basin, mirror, and needlework. Following the doctor's instructions, I filled the basin with water, put the mirror into the water, and placed it on the edge of the kang where I usually sleep.
Thread the needle and thread again and hold it in your hand.
Now, everything is ready and all that remains is to hang the ghost.
"Hey, why aren't you here yet?" I waited anxiously and fell asleep without realizing it.
In a daze, I felt an icy wind circle around my head twice. I shivered from the cold and woke up immediately!
Then I looked into the mirror through the white gauze, and there was a shadow dangling above my head. It was so silky!
You can actually see the hanged man!
"I thought you didn't dare to come!" I held my waist and stood on the edge of the kang, and quietly put the needle on her waist.
The hanged ghost was completely unaware, and the eerie and sharp screams of the ghost made my eardrums hurt.
"Little girl, I thought you would run away, hahaha." As soon as she moved her position, the ball of red thread in my hand rolled rapidly, and one end of the thread was firmly stuck on her body, regardless of whether the mirror caught her or not.
I know where she is.
Ha ha!
"Stop talking nonsense! Start blowing!" I raised my neck and the battle finally started!
The two of us blew against each other for another night, which made me feel in a daze and my steps were sluggish. The blow made her weak and dying.
When the chickens crowed in my backyard, she didn't even say hello, but turned into a gust of cold wind and floated away through the crack in the window.
With my stiff and sore body, I touched the edge of the kang and got down to the ground. I walked to the kitchen and carried the ashes on my back, and then rolled up the red thread as I walked.
"Hey, girl from the Yun family, you got up so early?" The voice sounded like Aunt Lu.
"Good morning Aunt Lu."
"Haha, early, early, early, your eyes are not healed yet, where are you going?"
Oops, Aunt Lu is usually the best at chatting. Her family owns a small shop and she is the leader of a street intelligence organization. She will keep chatting with anyone she catches!
I couldn't let her catch me, so I hurriedly said perfunctorily: "Walking around!"
I ran away quickly.
Fortunately, Aunt Lu didn't call me much, and Uncle Qian went to her house to make soy sauce.
I walked for almost half an hour, and the more I walked, the more familiar this road became. Isn’t this the cemetery my second uncle visited?
Sure enough, I vaguely saw my second uncle from a distance. He was circling an isolated grave far away from other graves with his hands behind his back.
"Tsk, where did the red thread come from?" the second uncle muttered to himself.
I shouted: "Second uncle!"
The second uncle paused for a moment, as if he didn't expect me to come out on my own, but at this time, he turned and ran towards me: "Oh, you girl, it's not fully light yet, why did you come out!"
I smiled and raised the red thread in my hand, and said in a very showy manner: "I'm catching someone who's going to hang himself!"
"What kind of thing are you trying to catch and hang? Let me take a look at what kind of thing you are carrying." My second uncle reached out and took the ashes from behind me.
My back suddenly relaxed, I straightened up and moved my waist.
"Grass and ash?" the second uncle shouted in surprise, "Did the hanged man find you?"
"How do you know it."
"Isn't that what you use for your set of things? There's also a new red basin, a mirror, and a needle, right?"
Let me go, my second uncle knows everything...
"Second uncle, you are not really a goddess, are you?"
"Go, go, go, you don't have anything nice to say when we meet, and you talked about such a big thing, why didn't you tell me? Look at your yellow face." The second uncle said as he walked towards his hut.
...Just ignore me?
"Second uncle, what are you doing?"
"Don't you still want to dig a trench in front of the grave? Can you dig it?"
"..." Oops, it turned out that I was going to get a shovel! My second uncle helped me dig a ditch, and I was so happy!
"Hurry up and take a nap in my room. I'll call you after digging."
"Thank you, uncle!"
"Hey! The door hit the door after a while!"
I have almost become a night owl now, I don’t go to bed until dawn every day, and I don’t wake up until almost afternoon.
But there is another thing that excites me today, that is, my gauze can be removed! I can see the beautiful world again!
Thinking of this, I immediately woke up from my sleep, jumped up from my uncle's bed, and jumped up and down excitedly.
"Please be gentle and don't collapse my kang. Can you fix it for me?" Although the second uncle said this, his tone did not mean he was angry at all.
"I don't know how to repair it, hey, second uncle, second uncle, can you see if my gauze can be removed?"
"Today is the fifth day?" The second uncle seemed to be washing his hands. Otherwise, he and my father could have become brothers. His hands were crackling when he washed them.
The water droplets were so far away that they fell onto my face.
I wiped the water droplets randomly and raised my chin cheerfully: "No, it's the fifth day."
Second uncle pulled on his shoes, sat next to me, moved the back of my head, and untied the gauze knot for me.
I was still a little worried: "Second uncle, do you think my eyes will change?"
"No, the doctor said it is no different from human eyes. Turn around and let me take a look."
The moment the gauze was removed from my face, I felt more comfortable than ever before. Before, my face seemed to be bleeding from the gauze.
I slowly opened my eyes, and what I saw was my uncle's round, white face, and the top of his head without a few hairs. I even felt that my sight was clearer and more sensitive than before, even the wallpaper behind him
I can see those little black dots clearly.
I think this is a blessing in disguise.
"Second uncle..."
"Bring it on."
The second uncle put the gauze on my face again without any expression, his voice was slightly trembling.
I pulled off the gauze haphazardly and pouted unhappily: "Why do I still bring it with me? My eyes are healed and I don't have to carry this crap anymore!"
But why does the second uncle look unhappy?
He lowered his brows and said nothing. After sighing a few times, he took a cigarette from his pocket and smoked it until he finished it. Then he took a small mirror from the wooden cabinet and handed it to me.