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

The next morning, my grandma braided my hair into two small braids and asked me to carry a small school bag that she made with two towels. She also carefully added lace to it.

I put on the dark red cloth shoes that my grandma made for me out of old cloth and went to school happily.

My home is not far from the school. It only takes me more than 20 minutes to get there at my speed by walking along the country path.

But usually my grandma doesn’t let me take the small road, and asks me to take the main road in the village. She says it’s safer this way.

The so-called main road is about 3 meters wide, with a row of fir trees on both sides of the road.

Maybe they have been planted for some years, some of the trees are already as thick as an adult's thighs, and some are probably small saplings that were planted previously but did not survive or were broken by some circumstances.

The middle of the road is a grayish-white dirt road because people often walk on it, and there are weeds growing on both sides.

Because the road surface becomes soft when it rains, there are traces left by people walking on it in water shoes, small potholes, uneven terrain, and some large potholes created by walk-behind tractors.

Generally, after the road is dried, the village will arrange for someone to shovel the grass next to it and fill it up.

After school in the afternoon, when I got home, I found my grandmother threading a needle and piercing a black fish. This fish was obviously not the one we caught yesterday.

"Grandma, what are you doing?"

I asked curiously.

"Oh, Feng'er is back. I went to the town to sell fish today and took your birth date to a fortune teller. He said you have a water barrier. So I bought this seven-star black fish, strung it up with seven-color flower thread and released it. This will help you get rid of the water barrier."

Grandma explained it to me very seriously.

I didn’t understand what my grandma was saying, and I didn’t know if this would be any use. I only knew that I fell into the water and almost drowned yesterday, and my grandma must be still feeling scared!

I nodded and looked around the house, but couldn't find Xiao Hei, feeling a little disappointed.

Maybe it’s because I have the reputation of being a disaster star. There are only about 20 children of the same age in the village who are attending preschool.

In class, they all don’t want to play with me. Maybe their parents have warned them against it!

Only two immigrants from Henan, Zhao Xiaoling and Liu Yumei, were willing to talk to me.

But one time when my grandma was washing my hair, she found a few lice on my head and asked me if I had played with immigrant children.

Because those immigrants lived in high mountains with little water, most of them didn't like to take a bath, so they often had lice on their heads. If you get too close to them, the lice will jump onto the heads of people who don't have lice.

My grandmother searched my head for a long time and caught three lice. She put them on the edge of the chair and squeezed them gently. With a squeak, a little red blood came out of the lice's bellies.

No wonder my head has been so itchy these past two days. I didn’t expect these little lice could suck blood.

"Feng'er, when you play with immigrant children in the future, try not to put your head close to theirs," grandma warned.

Later, I had less and less contact with those two Henan immigrant children, and I felt very lonely at school.

Usually when grandma goes to work, Xiao Hei will appear from time to time to play with me. No matter if he can understand or not, I will tell him what is in my heart. There are some little secrets that grandma doesn't know.

Grandma used seven different colors of colored thread to thread the needle, and threaded the needle from the seven black spots on the back of the seven-star black fish horizontally across the fish's spine to the black spot on the other side, muttering something as she threaded the needle.

"Little black fish, I'm sorry for wronging you. Please go into the water on Feng'er's behalf and tell the water ghosts in the water not to come looking for her again."

This kind of black fish is a carnivore that specializes in eating small fish and shrimps. It has strong vitality and is still alive and kicking after all the treatment my grandma gave it.

Although there was a trace of blood from the needle hole, it still swam happily when grandma put it in the bucket.

My grandma held my hand, carried a bucket of water, and went to the river to release the black fish.

Grandma also took out a stack of straw paper and lit it up, then took out three incense sticks, lit them in the fire, shook off the open flame and handed them to me.

"Come, Feng'er, light the incense and kowtow three times to Grandpa Water God!"

I did as I was told, and on the way back, we met Xiao Hei again.

In this way, the old, the young and the small black snake lived happily for several years. With the help of Xiao Hei to catch fish, my grandmother and I lived better and better, and we had meat on the dinner table.

In order to thank Xiao Hei, grandma often catches small animals such as mice and frogs to reward Xiao Hei, and Xiao Hei always accepts them happily.

Maybe it was because he ate too well. Six years later, when I passed the baby to 6-year-old Liu Feng, Xiao Hei had grown to be as thick as my forearm and almost 12 meters tall.

It is considered a big snake in our area. In order to avoid being discovered and hurt by others, I later told it to stay in the river as much as possible instead of going ashore.

It is also very obedient and has not appeared by my side for a long time.

Because of Wang Erming’s incident that day, it came ashore again. Maybe it came to help me and my grandma.

I knew it had been following us, and I was filled with joy. However, I was puzzled as to why I could see Wang Erming's frightened soul. It seemed that the original owner did not have this function in his memory.

But I can’t care so much. As a doctor in my previous life, I often felt an inexplicable chill around me. Maybe souls really do exist.

The next day, Wang Erming came to my house with 20 eggs in a basket and expressed his sincere gratitude to me and my grandmother.

Grandma tried to refuse again and again, but she could not resist Wang Erming's persistence and finally accepted it after some persuasion.

While grandma was putting the eggs in, Wang Erming bent his huge body and whispered in my ear:

"Feng'er, what happened to that black snake last night? We rarely see this kind of black snake in this area."

I was stunned at first, then I answered him confidently: "I don't know, maybe it swam up from the river?"

"But, you can see my soul, and I know it was you who saved me!"

Then Wang Erming whispered to me again, and after he finished speaking, the corners of his mouth curved into a big arc.

I stood there in a daze, not knowing how to answer. I didn't expect that he actually remembered the process of his out-of-body experience.

"Don't worry, I'm here to thank you for saving my life. I won't tell anyone else."

He whispered to me again.

My tense heart finally relaxed.

"Don't do evil anymore in the future. Don't always bully the children in the village. I hope I've taught you a lesson this time!"

I taught Wang Erming a lesson like a little adult.

"I understand. I will never do it again!"

Wang Erming touched his head and smiled embarrassedly.

"I'm glad to know. By the way, Brother Erming, it's been eleven years since the college entrance examination was resumed. Why don't you continue studying?

Even if I can get into a technical secondary school, I won’t have to live a life of hard work anymore.”

I searched the memories in my mind, thinking that if I could get into a technical secondary school in these years, I would be able to eat the government's food, move to the city, and have a job, which would be much better than life in the countryside.

"Really? Let me think about it." Wang Erming looked at me suspiciously.

"What are you thinking about?" Grandma came out with a basket and asked when she heard Wang Erming's words.

"Grandma Xu, it's nothing. Feng'er asked me to go back to school. Hehe!" After Wang Erming finished speaking, he smiled at his grandma, picked up the basket and turned around and ran away.