[Miaojiang Gu Stories] Fleeting Years Gu

To a word, wow!

The corners of his mouth twitched, and he looked at me for a while, with a strange expression on his face, and suddenly he squeezed his eyes at me, smiled and said, hey, big nephew.

At my grandmother's urging, I called him fourth uncle.Grandma grinned and said, Lu Xiao, I will trouble you from now on.

I lowered my head and didn't hear his answering voice, so I probably nodded.

I saw white saliva oozing from the corner of my grandma's grinning mouth, and I suddenly felt a kind of class hatred for the man next to me.I secretly admired myself for being able to be happy and angry at this time, and thought that Lao Tzu might be someone in the future.

I pinched my palm with my fingernails, and told myself that I couldn't let my grandma feel worried about walking.

Grandma sighed and said, don't worry, let me have a chat with my son.Grandma finished talking with me and urged me to go out.I walked out of the ward just in time to see the police officer who brought me here and my new fourth uncle standing at the other end of the corridor talking.Lu Xiao looked young, but he talked eloquently in front of the police, calm and composed, with a very good demeanor.

When he saw me coming out, he turned his head and smiled at me, and said to the police officer, then I will take Lu Li back.The police officer looked at the tall and burly man, but he didn't know whether to respect or fear him. He nodded repeatedly and said that it was no problem, and Mr. Lu would do it himself.

Lu Xiao came over and wanted to pull me, but I took a step back and stared at him.He looked a little helpless and told me to follow him.I glanced at the plainclothes men who had been staring at me, and followed him out of the hospital without saying a word.

It was around ten o'clock when we left the hospital, and there were no cars on the streets of the town, only the street lights were still on.

I took the exam for a day, and I sweated all over early. Our middle school uniform was famous for its big bad wolf fur, which was airtight, gray in color, and wrapped around my body dirty and sticky.I glanced at the man in front of me. He had obviously been on the go all day, and his whole body looked gray, but he was much more energetic than me.

I took a few steps forward and said that my grandma told me that she killed the man, and that Luo Laosan had my uncle's resentment on him.He looked back at me, surprised by my actions, but also a little happy, hummed, and said that my mother-in-law used the 虺虫 from Zhongyang Miao Village.

Among Miaojiang witchcraft, the witchcraft is the most poisonous.

I hated and grieved, and spat hard, saying that the **** is not worthy of grandma using natal Gu.Having said that, I stopped in my tracks, and suddenly called out to him: "Old Xiao...Lu Xiao!"

Old Xiao.

I was stunned for a moment, thinking it was absurd, and hurriedly changed my words, thankfully he shouldn't be able to hear it.I don't know what's going on, but this name rolled on the tip of my tongue, and it came out so smoothly, as if I've called it countless times.

Looking from behind, Lu Xiao could also be seen froze and stopped in place.I felt a little embarrassed, so I called my fourth uncle.

He stood with his back to me and didn't respond.

I suddenly didn't want to get entangled in this matter anymore, made up my mind, straightened my neck, took a deep breath, and asked, "Is it you who made my grandma look like that?"

Did you kill grandma?

I have been learning Gu from my grandma since I was a child, and I know that grandma's methods are not something ordinary people can easily deal with. This person is not a few years older than me, but he made my grandma look like that-I admit that I was cowardly, this sentence is in After going back and forth thousands of times in my stomach, the tone of my words was not at all the righteous questioning I imagined, rather lacking in heroism.

I saw him look up from behind, still silent, nodding silently.

I turned my head and walked away. After walking a few steps, I felt that I was too embarrassing. I turned my head and stared at him fiercely, saying that you are a lob, roll as far as you can, and I will fuck you to death next time I see you.

After scolding me, I turned around and ran away. I turned around and ran through an alley before stopping to catch my breath. I looked back and saw that the alley was empty under the street lamp, and I didn't see anyone chasing me.

I think I should breathe a sigh of relief, but my heart feels like a big rock is blocked, and my eyes are damp and I can't see clearly, as if I have suffered the biggest grievance in the world.I pulled my school uniform and wiped my face. I felt that it was shameful to stand alone in the alley at night. I reached into my pocket and squeezed the few coins left. I took a breath and had an idea.

I don't have enough money for accommodation, and when something like this happens at home, I feel so bored, and I don't want to live with my classmates.My destination is the long-distance bus station in the town. Of course, there is no bus to the village in the evening, but there is a fast food restaurant next to the station, which is open 24 hours. It will probably allow me to make do for the night and return to Duncun tomorrow morning.

It was eleven o'clock in the evening when we arrived at the long-distance station.The reason I remember it so clearly is that when I got there, I happened to see a stall selling hot and sour noodles and malatang next door to the fast food restaurant closing down.This shop sells supper until eleven o'clock, which is very punctual.When I returned to the village in the evening, I was snatched into the car by the police without taking a sip of water. By this time, I was already so hungry that my chest was pressed against my back.I asked the stall owner if there was anything else to eat, and I was overjoyed when I got an affirmative answer, so I quickly asked him to cook a bowl of hot and sour noodles.

The owner of the stall is an old lady, very kind, she said it was the last bowl of noodles for the day, she didn’t charge me, she sat on the side and watched me gobble it up, and asked me if I didn’t pass the exam, why didn’t I come back tonight Home?

Maybe it's because I put too much hot and sour powder chili, and my eyes were sore and swollen when I was smoked by the heat, and tears finally flowed out.

I stayed in the fast food restaurant for one night, and the next morning I took out the remaining money to buy a ticket, and took the first long-distance bus back to Duncun.After arriving in the village, I went back to my uncle's house to take a look. General Tie was guarding the door. My uncle was guarded in the county hospital, and my aunt was not at home.Looking around, I can't see anything similar to plainclothes.I had the key, but I didn't open the door and went in. I turned around and went straight to the old house where my grandmother lived.

There was no one at the gate of the old house, and a few villagers saw me coming back from a distance, turned around and walked away.Grandma's house is always filled with a cloudy air, which is very cool in summer.There is a clay statue of the Three Pandemic Empresses in the main room. I arranged it briefly in front of the shrine, and offered fruit again. I took the small clay sculpture tripod in front of the statue, took out the incense ash inside, and took it from the door of the old house. A little mud was dug out from the roots of the old locust tree, mixed with incense ash, and then filled back.

I took another porcelain bowl, filled it with half a bowl of freshly tapped well water, took off the piece of old jade around my neck, put it in carefully, submerged it completely, and finally offered the bowl in front of the shrine.These are all my grandmother's orders. I don't know what my grandmother wants to do. I just feel that the moment the jade pendant is immersed in the cold well water, I feel cold for no reason, and I shiver several times.

Finally, according to my grandmother's instructions, I silently recited my grandmother's name three times and lit three sticks of incense.

When I lit the incense, for some reason, I had an ominous premonition.

I seemed to hear grandma calling me.This feeling is very mysterious, I didn't hear any sound in my ears, but I felt that there was a grandmother's voice in my consciousness, greeting me very kindly, just like when I was a child, her rough hands patted my back, hum The same as when singing to lull me to sleep.My consciousness was gradually made a little dizzy by the sound, I gritted my teeth and shook my head to cheer up, but suddenly I saw a blue light flashing in front of me, which sank straight into the porcelain bowl in front of me.

There was a bang in my consciousness, and it seemed that something was about to be squeezed into my head.The severe pain seized me in an instant, and I vaguely heard myself scream, and then lost consciousness.

I had weird dreams again.

The reason why I say that I have had strange dreams since I was a child rather than pure nightmares is because although I am unconscious, I subconsciously know that these dreams have a certain continuity and logic, just like the same tree and another tree , clearly knowing that they are all a class of things.

This time, I felt like I was walking along a river.

A river, the river water is very dark, I can see a lot of strange-shaped black shadows gathered by the river, some are crowding and pushing each other on the bank, and some are sinking and floating in the river water.This river brought me an inexplicable sense of fear, and I subconsciously wanted to stay away from it, but my own body didn't obey me at all, and wandered along the river bank step by step mechanically.

I seemed to wake up once in the middle, and vaguely felt that I was lying on the bed.I opened my eyes and saw a big hen-like parrot sitting next to my head on the bed, and my fourth uncle Lu Xiao was also there.There was a lot of noise in my ears, and I vaguely heard someone saying "soul incompleteness". I was so depressed that I fell asleep again after a while.

This dream is very long.

I woke up again at night.

The ceiling light in my grandmother’s old house is an old-fashioned incandescent light bulb. There is no switch. It is held by a wire. When you reach out and twist it, it will turn on, and then unscrew it when you want to turn it off. I used to think it was dark when I was doing homework and reading. , Now I feel that the dim yellow light is sometimes dazzling, making my eyes dry and uncomfortable, but it finally brings me a sense of familiarity and peace of mind.

I got used to the light and saw clearly that I was lying on my grandmother's bed with a towel over my body.There was a dark shadow on the other side of the bed blocking the light, and Lu Xiao was sitting there.I squinted my eyes for a while before I could see clearly what he was engraving. He had no distractions, his eyes were fixed on the work in his hands, and he couldn't pay attention to other things, as if he was isolated from the world.I didn't even know I woke up and stared at him.

Lu Xiao's hair was not tied well, a few strands leaked out, scattered lightly on his shoulders, and fluttered around his cheeks.I suddenly had an idea, and I really wanted to reach out and push those strands of hair behind his ears for him.

I had no strength in my hands and somehow felt a little regretful.

Never expected to see him again so soon.