Artisans in Tunli

Chapter 37 The Old Lady's Story
I was lying on the kang, fiddling with the box that my second uncle left for me. It has been a week, and there is no sign of opening it soon.Jing Jing is at ease, cooking with her second aunt in the kitchen.

Originally, I thought Jing Jing was a quiet person, so it turned out that she didn't meet the right person.The second aunt also kept praising my father for how sensible she is, you have to find such a daughter-in-law.Fortunately, my father went to work in the field today, otherwise I would have to graduate and get married.

Putting down the box, thinking that school will start soon.There is always a little fear in my heart, the junior year is about to start an internship, and I am still living in the theoretical knowledge of books, and the theoretical knowledge is not very good.I feel that I may not be able to adapt to the fast-paced life in the city, or the comfortable and unrestrained life in the country.

"Going back to school tomorrow? Haven't talked to you enough yet? Hey, I ask you, when do you plan to marry my nephew?" It wasn't me who eavesdropped, the second aunt's voice didn't allow her to whisper at all.

"Hey, Second Aunt, you're so annoying. You haven't even figured out your birth date yet!" Jingjing said this, but I could tell from her tone how much she wanted to get married soon.

I don't hate her, firstly, she is kind-hearted; secondly, she doesn't mind my poor family conditions; thirdly, she can protect me by knowing Sanda.But I always feel that she is too nice, she doesn’t have a good personality at all, she is obedient to me, she occasionally acts coquettishly, and her figure is not like that of other professional players, she has a strong back and a strong waist.

I always feel that if Jing Jing really marries me, it might delay her for the rest of her life.I don't even know she likes me, and that's what kills me the most.

Before the sun rose in the morning, I saw a fire cloud in the sky.As the saying goes, if the morning glow does not go out, the evening glow travels thousands of miles.At around three o'clock in the afternoon, God finally confirmed my thoughts, and it began to rain heavily.

Dad also braved the rain and drove back with a tractor.

"This corn is growing well this year, next year I plan to buy a house for Shisan in the city." Dad was chatting with Second Aunt in the outhouse.Entering the room quietly and tactfully, lying beside me and looking at me giggling, I overheard the conversation between Dad and the others.

"Yes, save more money for my nephew. When the child grows up, he will need money for marriage and so on. The children's money now is not like ours at that time. They are under too much competition pressure." Hearing what the second aunt said I'm really not interested in listening to it.

This is indeed true. The pressure is too great. I want to retreat to the mountains and forests.

"Hey, let me tell you, your second aunt is really nice." Quiet poked me and whispered in my ear.It made my ears itch, so I quickly turned to look at her, hoping she would stop.

"Bo", she took a bite as soon as she came up.

"Hey, my dad is still in the outhouse, it's not good to see." Jing Jing always likes to kiss me, as if my mouth and face have been smeared with honey.

She said a little disappointed: "I know! Oh, it would have been great if I had gone to Harbin, so that we could be together."

"I'm going to see you when I have time, and it's not far away. Besides, I'm about to start an internship soon, and I'll graduate in a year. I'm not sure where I will be when the time comes. I'll try my best to follow you when the time comes." Get closer." That's what I said, but I was always afraid, afraid that I would bring him danger by her side.

Misadventures gradually spread around me like a plague.

"Let me tell you a secret. One month after the start of school, I will go to participate in various competitions, basically in Harbin. Then, we can." After finishing speaking, her eyes moved to the bottom of my body, and I quickly Protected the lower body.

"I said, can you please stop molesting me at every turn, you bastard!" I said.

"Hey, what era is it now, why are you so conservative in thinking?"

"It's not that I'm being conservative, it's called responsibility." Actually, it's not some nonsense sense of responsibility, but I'm not sure whether I want to be with her or not.

When eating at night, my father accidentally saw the wound on his shoulder.Although my body has recovered very quickly since practicing qi training, but due to the deep injury and my scarred physique, I couldn't hide it from my father.

"What's wrong with you, you're always injured? I have to ask your Master Zhang to show you if something dirty has happened to you." After speaking, he took a sip of white wine, "My head, your Master Zhang has gone to another place right?"

I nodded to reassure him that life is always full of accidents, so I can't keep asking the bottom line.

Xiao Li called and said he couldn't see me off. His uncle suddenly asked him to go back to Korea to go through the formalities. It seemed that he had found a job for him and was going back to China.His tone on the phone was full of unwillingness. It has been two years and he hasn't had a Korean girlfriend yet.

I laughed at him and said that Korean beauties are all plastic surgery, why are there so many beauties?Besides, isn't there Jinxue?He said sadly that it had turned yellow long ago, and it turned yellow before the mouth was kissed.

When I asked him what was going on, he just said that he couldn't explain it. He also said that he might go back to China for an internship. If there was no accident, he would go to BJ.I immediately thought of Liu Chunling, and blurted out.

"That rich woman? Well, I don't want to work hard anymore." After chatting casually for a while, the other side hung up.

I said to myself, you haven't written your horoscope yet, you just think so much.But his eloquence is getting better and better. It's the first time I've talked with a man on the phone for so long.It may be that when the topic of women comes up, he can't control his superior vernacular ability.

"Who have you been chatting with for so long? Tell me, did you have an affair!" I looked at Jing Jing and cutely pretending to be angry, not knowing what to say.

"It's because I was young and I'm going abroad again, so I chatted casually." I said quietly with my arms around me.

"Okay, forgive you."

While waiting for the bus at JMS, Jing Jing was holding my arm all the time. I rarely show affection in this kind of crowd flow, and it feels very awkward.

"You go back and tidy up the room. I can just wait here. After a while, Zhou Peng will come over to accompany me." I whispered to her.

"Okay, but you have to kiss me." I looked around and found that no one was paying attention to me, so I quickly kissed her on the cheek.

"It's too perfunctory, I want you to kiss my mouth!"

Before I could move my mouth, Zhou Peng's voice came from behind, Jing Jing, this female hooligan, took advantage of my inattention and sucked me.

"Hey, you're not afraid of dying if you show your affection in public?" Zhou Peng was still so wretched.

I scolded him: "Don't talk nonsense, it's unlucky." Jing Jing also echoed.When she was about to leave, she kept telling me to call her, because women are troublesome.

"By the way, I remembered something." In the car, I asked Zhou Peng if he knew if Xiaoxiao touched anything when he was in the Wetland Park.

"Let me think about it, my memory has declined recently." I saw that Zhou Peng's eyes were a little blue, and I thought it was caused by his excessive indulgence.

"It seems, I remember that she seemed to touch a little black cat."

"It should be the old black cat. Have you heard of Duoshe?" I asked him, and he shook his head.

I explained to him that to put it bluntly, Duoshe is to use a dead body to resurrect the soul.

There is also this kind of explanation in Taoism, using talismans to cover up one's own death, and before the black and white impermanence comes to seduce the soul, one's soul is transferred to another person who has a soul but no soul, and takes his life.That is to say, consciousness, memory, etc. are still his own, but his physical body has been replaced with a new one.

As Ma Wen said, Zhang Xiu used the method of seizing the house to resurrect his soul with the corpse, but he only used his own soul.But in real life, humans are not the only ones who can seize homes.Some animals can also seize their homes after they have cultivated to a certain level.

It's not just the five great baojiaxians in the Northeast, basically any animal can be cultivated into a spirit.Even simple inanimate objects, such as a chopstick or a chair, may become spirits by absorbing the spiritual energy of all things under favorable circumstances.

An animal that has become a climate, of course, will not stop at an animal in thinking.They will also think like people how to live healthier, better quality, or live longer.

Cats are more intelligent creatures.

It is said that it has nine lives. According to the traditional Chinese concept, this kind of creature is a very intelligent creature with a lot of curiosity. Some people also say that they can attract wealth.But the black cat, in the eyes of many people, is a symbol of evil.However, these are all passed down by the ancient population, and no one can verify the authenticity.

"I said, are you off topic? Hurry up and get serious." Zhou Peng listened to me in the seat behind me. There was an old lady sitting next to me, who seemed to be very interested in what I said.

"Then, the little encounter that day was not caused by the talisman. My master had never seen the talisman at that time, so he just made a guess and misled me." I unscrewed the mineral water and took a sip, "Actually, Xiao Xiao should have been the cause of the talisman that day. I was possessed by the evil spirit only after I met the black cat. I estimate that the cat is an old cat and has lived for who knows how many years. All nine lives should have been used up."

"What's the matter when it's used up?" Zhou Peng asked.

"What do you think? Of course I have to change my body when I run out. Maybe it's the little old cat whose birth date is right, so I chose her. But if the soul of this person is still in the body, it's just If you want to take it by force, there will only be one situation, which is the effect of ghost possession. The souls of the two compete for a body at the same time, and whoever wins in the end will own it."

"If that day was a little later, I guess Xiaoxiao would lose his soul and become a lunatic or a fool." I drank most of the bottle of water in just a short while, and I didn't know what was going on. thirsty.

"Oh, so it turns out that she was possessed by an old cat that day. No wonder her posture was so weird when I opened the door. I thought it was a spider spirit?" Zhou Peng said on the side, I almost didn't spit out , but think about it a bit like a spider.

The old lady next to me heard what I said, and then continued what I said. Although it was a bit unexpected, at least it was not bad to have someone take the initiative to tell stories and listen to it without the boring car ride.

The old lady said that when she was very young, there was an old cat in the village. She named it Heizi, and she would feed it some leftovers when nothing happened.She couldn't remember how long it had lived, but as long as she had memories, she saw the cat often disappearing in the village.

It's not because it is a black cat that it has a deep memory.But she remembered that the old cat was lame in one leg.Speaking of this, the old lady licked her lips, and I asked Zhou Peng for a bottle of water, unscrewed it and handed it over.

"Thank you." He drank the whole bottle of water in a short while. "That is the dowry I am preparing for my sister's wedding. You are young and may not know it. At that time, women had to take it with them when they went out. It's a dowry. When I was young, my family was very poor, and apart from my mother's pair of silver bracelets, I only had one quilt left." The old woman said with a smile on her face.

"I just sewed a quilt for my sister, but just the night before my sister went out, the wife of the old Niutou in the village got seriously ill, so he didn't die." When we heard that someone was going to die, Zhou Peng and I immediately became nervous. up.

She said: "His old Niu's family is very superstitious. He never sees a doctor when he is sick. He just finds a horse fairy or a Taoist priest. That night, he found a horse fairy from the next village. This horse fairy I remember very clearly that she was a girl who was only a few years older than me at that time. Her surname is Lang, a Manchu, and I heard that she has some blood relationship with the Queen Mother."

When I heard this, it became more and more evil, even Cixi moved out.I looked at Zhou Peng, and he asked me who the Queen Mother was.I winked, meaning you should stop talking, don't be ashamed.

"The Queen Mother of the West is Empress Dowager Cixi." The old lady glanced at Zhou Peng and continued: "This little girl is said to have a natural yin and yang eye and can see ghosts and other things. I also joined in the fun and went to Lao Niu's house to see it. look."

"Sure enough, her eyes are different from ordinary people. There are two halves in one eye. I don't know if I am dazzled. Anyway, it is quite scary. When she entered Niu's house, she hugged the village animal. The old cat is Heizi. I didn’t understand what she did with the gestures. Heizi died, and then the old lady Niu sat up, as if nothing happened.”

What the old lady said was quite mysterious, and I couldn't tell if it was a story or the truth.

She continued to say seriously: "At first, everyone thought that the little girl had great abilities, but then I realized something was wrong. After the old lady Niu recovered, she seemed to like fish very much. Every once in a while, I would see the old man Niu carrying fish. Back home, although the old lady Niu is in good health, she basically doesn't go out of the house very much." The old lady's expression seemed to become terrified.

"Until the old man Niu passed away, his wife was fine. On the day of his funeral, the old lady Niu finally came out of the house, but she was still lame in one leg. I wondered if the old cat had fucked her , just like you said, it's called Duo, Duo"

"Seize the house?"

"Yes, did you let the old cat take over the house? I'm just curious. I was young at that time, even younger than you are now, and I was ignorant, so I shouted from behind: Heizi! As a result, Mrs. Niu turned her head and looked He looked at me and smiled at me, but it scared me so much that I fell seriously ill that day." When I said this, I saw sweat on the old lady's face, and gave her another bottle of water, and the result was the same. Finished it in just a few sips.

"After I recovered from the illness, I told my family that the old lady Niu was the old cat in the village, Heizi. But no one believed it. They said that the old lady Niu was missing. I went to her house to see her, but she was really missing. Now, her son and daughter-in-law are moving things at home. I thought, it’s okay to leave, so I don’t have to be afraid. But when I came home, what do you think I saw?”

"What did you see?" Zhou Peng and I said in unison.

"I saw that dead old cat, Heizi. He is staring at me with wide-eyed eyes." I have to say, we were really scared by the old lady's expression, and she is really suitable for telling this type of story .

(End of this chapter)