Dreaming of 1988, I have the ability to see ghosts and ghosts

Grandma put the soul-purifying bottle and soul-locking bag away, I cleared my throat and began to recite.

After I recited it once, my grandma scolded me, saying that I had made a mistake in one place. I shrank my neck and continued to recite. I recited it many times before my grandma was satisfied. I felt that my grandma was deliberately training me.

We placed the soul-purifying bottle on the incense table in the main hall, and grandma asked me to hold the soul-locking bag.

"Feng'er, when you recite the last sentence, open the soul-locking bag." Grandma said.

At this time, Xiao Min in the soul-locking bag started clamoring again.

"You old woman, what are you doing? Let me out, let me out. I want revenge. I want revenge. When I get out, I will make sure you die miserably. You all deserve to die. You all deserve to die."

There were also bursts of heart-wrenching cries from little kids, which made my hands holding the soul-locking bag tremble slightly.

The crying sounds came one after another. You can imagine that if twenty or thirty children were crying in front of you at the same time, and with resentment in their voices, most people would be scared out of their wits. At this moment, my scalp was also tingling.

"Feng'er, stay calm. Don't pay attention to what she says. Just chant your spell."

Grandma saw my nervousness and told me to calm down and not be disturbed by Xiao Min.

I calmed myself down and began to recite the spell of the Soul Purifying Bottle word by word according to the method my grandmother taught me. In fact, I was still a little nervous. After all, it was my first time and I was afraid of making mistakes.

However, it was relatively smooth. I did it in one go. As the black air came out of the soul-locking bag, it entered the soul-purifying bottle. I quickly put the faucet lid on the soul-purifying bottle and gently placed it in the middle of the incense table.

Afterwards, my grandmother asked me to light three incense sticks, put them in the incense burner, and bow three times to a painting on the incense burner.

This painting is also of a black dragon. It should be quite old, but the dragon's shape is still lifelike.

I once asked my grandmother, other families either hang a picture of Guanyin or other gods, /but why does my family hang a black dragon?

Grandma said that this painting was passed down from the head of the Xu family, and has been hanging for generations.

For a period of time, for fear of being seen by others, I hung this painting in the room and covered it with something.

I didn't worry about it. After all, everything I saw at home and in my dreams over the years was related to the black dragon. Perhaps the Xu family really had some connection with this black dragon.

I know that Xiao Min is full of resentment and she won't be able to be obedient, but ever since she and those little ghosts were put into the soul-purifying bottle, I have never heard her shouting or the children's crying again.

By the time my grandma and I finished everything, it was already past 6 o'clock.

"Feng'er, do you want to eat something before going to bed?"

Seeing that I looked tired, grandma asked.

It is just like what grandma said. Even using these instruments can consume the energy of the user. I am so exhausted at this moment that I don't want to eat at all.

Besides, my grandma had been up all night with me, and I didn’t want her to work in the kitchen anymore, so I said to her:

"Grandma, I can't eat now. Come to bed with me and sleep for a while. We'll talk after we get up."

Before my grandma could answer, I yawned, turned back to my room, and fell asleep.

When I got out of bed, it was already past one in the afternoon.

Grandma has come back from outside. She has gone fishing again and caught a lot of fish today.

"Grandma, why don't you take a rest? You're going fishing again. Aren't you tired?"

I took the bucket from my grandma with heartache.

"It's okay. Grandma is old and not so sleepy anymore. I also took a nap in the morning before going. Thanks to Xiao Hei, I can catch so many fish every time."

Grandma paused and continued.

"I'll make more money while I'm still strong, just in case..."

Having said this, grandma's voice suddenly stopped.

I knew what she was going to say next, and because I was afraid that I would be unhappy, I didn't continue.

My eyes felt sore. I helped grandma put the bucket away and quietly went into the kitchen. After a while, grandma brought in two killed flatfish.

"Feng'er, fry the two flat fish. Oh, and I'll get some dried fish later. Fry some and bring them to school to eat in the evening."

"Okay." I agreed as I took the fish.

Dried fish is not afraid of going bad and can be kept for a week. In order to save living expenses, I can prepare meals in the last few days by relying on dried fish.

Many of my classmates who came from poor families ate pickles and hot sauce with their rice, but I had dried fish with my rice, which was already a pretty good meal.

Because there were so many fish, grandma decided to go to the town with me to sell them. I thought I could help her carry the fish for a while, as the autumn harvest was almost over and the road construction work had also started.

The road was full of small stones and the bridge was under repair, so it was not easy for grandma to walk.

Most women of my grandmother's age have bound feet, but my grandmother is an exception. Her feet are normal except that her little toe is slightly bent.

My grandmother told me that when she was a child, her grandmother and mother used foot binding cloth to bind her feet like other families, but her grandmother couldn't stand the pain, so she secretly untied it.

Her grandmother and mother grabbed her and tied her up several times, but she either struggled to break free or secretly untied them.

Maybe it was because she was the only child in the Xu family in this generation, and her grandmother and great-grandmother gave up on her in the end, so my grandmother had a pair of relatively normal feet.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to carry fish to the town to sell every day over the years, and it would have been even more impossible for her to raise me to this age on her own.

I have also seen the feet of those old ladies with bound feet. They are so pitiful to look at. Their feet are bound so tightly that they are twisted and out of shape.

I really admire how they can endure the pain and walk and go to work in the fields.

The custom of foot binding in the old society was so severe in restricting and destroying women's bodies. I am very glad to be born in this new era.

I made an appointment with Qin Juhua when I came back last week. This afternoon, I was waiting for her at home. We go to school together, but she didn't have my phone number, so I had to wait until I arrived at school in the evening to explain to her.

My grandma and I went all the way to the town. I wanted to wait for my grandma to sell the fish before going back to school, but my grandma asked me to go back to school first and bought me a thermos nearby.

I couldn't persuade her, so I had to walk towards the school reluctantly.

In this way, I quickly integrated into the environment in this school and studied much more seriously.

But after the first monthly exam, when I got the results, I was very depressed because I was only ranked 15th.

I didn't go to dinner that day. I was looking worried, thinking that the teaching quality of the two schools really wasn't that different at all.

In Sanxiang Middle School, I could be among the best students, but here, I think I have worked hard enough, but I can't even make it into the top ten.

I was very upset. I sat alone in the classroom, looking at the blackboard and analyzing it carefully. Maybe I wasn't working hard enough. I secretly made up my mind that I would work harder for my grandma.