Unexpectedly, the village chief also held a dust-cleansing party for our family.
After dinner, I heard my mother say it was already evening, so I asked why it was getting colder.
The villagers would give some corn stalks to one person and some sweet potato seeds to another. They had something to burn the kang at home.
My father and Zhaoting Lulu were burning a kang in the front room, and my mother and I were in the altar in the backyard. I was sitting in a wheelchair, and my mother was wiping ashes on the statues.
"Mom, did my father bring back the souls of Sun Ping and that child?"
"Bring them back. Mom will save them tomorrow. Nuan Ting, now you don't have snake eyes and you are no longer a cultivator. Don't worry about these things in the future. Don't worry, Mom will take care of everything."
My mother's voice came from the upper left, I put my hands in my pockets and nodded silently.
"Mom, where are you going to be saved?"
"Let's go to the cemetery. The Winter Clothes Festival is coming soon. Let's burn some cold clothes for our ancestors and do it together to avoid attracting ghosts into the village."
Winter Clothes Festival.
It is a festival held every year on October 1st of the lunar calendar to send cold clothes to ancestors.
If the ground is cold, the ground will be cold as well. We gave clothes to our ancestors so that they would not freeze there, and those with a bad temper would not bother their children because they had no clothes to wear.
After staying with my mother for a while, Zhaoting ran in, took my hand and shook it vigorously: "Sister, I want to go to Lulu's house to visit."
"No." I rejected him subconsciously, "No one has lived in your sister Lulu's house for a long time. I don't know what's inside. If I go there, I have to clean it a day in advance."
Zhaoting lay on my lap curiously, picking at my buttons and playing with them: "Why?"
My mother clicked her tongue impatiently: "Because I want to tell the people inside that someone from this family is back. Let them leave quickly to avoid collision. How many times have I told you this?"
"But, I've even returned to our home, and I haven't been to Sister Lulu's house yet."
"Go back to the house, or why don't you go kneel in the ancestral hall and disturb your sister here?"
"Hmph! Then I'll go find Sister Lulu!"
Zhaoting groaned and ran away again.
My mother shook her head and sighed, cleaned for a while, and then pushed my wheelchair back to the main house.
My dad heated the house very well. As soon as I entered the door, I felt the heat hitting my face. After a while, my face felt hot.
Before going to bed, Zhaoting clamored to sleep with Lulu and me, and my mother almost beat her with a rolling pin. Fortunately, Zhaoting ran fast.
Lulu and we got into bed, holding hands, just like we did when we were children.
"Nuan Ting, what do you have in your pocket? Why don't you take it out? Is it Tong Tong's essence?"
"Shh, keep your voice down, don't tell my mother."
"Why, can't you let Aunt Yun kill Tong Tong directly? I get angry when I think of him."
I touched my nose and said, "You can't do it now. Anyway, don't tell my mother. I'm useful."
"Okay then." Lulu got into my bed with ease and hugged me, making me feel even warmer. "Nuan Ting, I haven't been back for a long time. Why do I feel like I have been here for several lifetimes?"
I nodded: "I feel the same way."
Lulu sighed: "But when I saw the people in the village today, they are still the same people, but they are a little older, and I feel that it has not been that long."
"OK."
"By the way, there are a lot of new faces in the village."
"Ah?" This was something I didn't expect. "I guess someone is getting married, right? I remember before we left, there were a lot of young men like the second brother of the Zhou family who were not married yet."
"I guess I was busy in the afternoon, so I didn't ask."
"Well, go to sleep now, Lulu. My mother is going to the cemetery tomorrow. Today is too busy. Tomorrow you have to burn some cold clothes for Uncle Bai and Aunt Bai."
"Well, good night Nuanting."
"Good night Lulu."
...Since I was completely blind, Lulu has become more and more clingy, hugging me to sleep, and even in such a cold day, I woke up from the heat the next day.
As soon as I woke up, my mother came over to tell Lulu to get up. When I heard the sound, I tentatively stretched my hand out of the bed, and then immediately took it back. It was too cold.
My mother touched my hair and said, "Your father went to burn the kang. He will be warm in a while."
"Mom, are you and Lulu leaving now?"
"Yeah, your dad will cook for you later."
"good."
After they left, my father finished burning the kang and came in again to say a few words to me before going back to sleep.
I waited for a while until my dad's snoring started again, and then I bravely got up from the bed.
Hiss...it was so cold that I got goosebumps.
After touching the coat on the quilt and the blind cane on the edge of the kang, I got off the ground and quietly walked to the memorial hall. Fortunately, I had already remembered the appearance of my home. Although I stumbled along the way, I got there smoothly.
After entering the altar hall, I closed the door and touched the altar table for a long time. It turned out that my mother had moved the altar table.
I took out three sticks of incense from it and lit it with a lighter, thinking about the fairy who came to me last time: "I want to see you for something."
At this time, the smell of incense suddenly became much stronger, and then from the position to my left, the old man's laughing voice sounded.
"Yun Nuanting, congratulations, you succeeded."
He appeared so suddenly, I thought it would take a while, but his sudden words shocked me, and the incense in my hand suddenly fell to the ground.
I nervously squeezed the Jingyuan in my pocket and asked him tentatively: "Tong Tong is dead, but what if there is still a possibility of his resurrection?"
The old man burst out laughing immediately: "Of course we can't resurrect him. Tong Tong died abroad. We have contacted each other's managers. Tong Tong's ghost belongs to our land and must be sent to Wujian."
He will be punished in hell. Although his essence has not been found, he can no longer cause other troubles. By the way, what else do you want from me? The deal between us has been canceled. From now on, you will be an ordinary person and I can't
Appear in front of you again."
I swallowed. I was negotiating terms with a god, and the things I wanted to discuss were against the laws of yin and yang, so I was very nervous.
"If I know where the essence is..."
"You know? That's great. This is your merit. You will be blessed. Where is the essence... in you?"
"Don't come here!" I hurriedly took a step back and squeezed Jingyuan tightly. "If you get close to me, I will crush it immediately and let Tong Tong run away!"
"Oh, you can't do it. Little girl, think about it, how much it cost to bring Tong Tong to justice. What on earth did you do to do this?" The god moved back and forth anxiously.
He walked away, but fortunately his footsteps did not come closer.
I get angry when I say this: "Pay the price? Our family paid the price, what did you pay?"
The god was startled and hissed in confusion: "So you want..."
"I want all the family members I lost to come back to life."