Chapter 141 Chapter Fourteen The Red-haired Savage

"What's going on here?" I pointed to the outside and asked Grandpa.Only then did I discover grandpa's exhausted expression. "It's just a small blindfold." Grandpa wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and replied, "I just blocked the moonlight with a scarf and destroyed the way of existence of the green-haired water demon. Judging from its changes just now, its The bones are no longer under the water." "It's not under the water anymore? Where is it?" I asked in surprise.I originally thought that putting away the bones of the green-haired water demon would be a perfect ending. If the bones of the green-haired water demon are not at the bottom of the water, where can we find them?

Grandpa took a deep breath and said, "Did you see it just now? When it came to attack me, it turned into a lot of fish." "Hmm." I nodded. "So I speculate that it is no longer a complete skeleton. It was eaten by the fish in the reservoir. Now, many fish have its skeleton in their stomachs." "Then what should we do?" "Catch those fish and bury them all." Grandpa said in a sonorous tone. "Is this equivalent to burying it?" Grandpa nodded. The next day, the child's mother paid for all the fish in the reservoir.The contractor of the reservoir cast a net to catch all the fish in the reservoir.

Although the green-haired water demon did not keep the promise, Grandpa still asked someone to dig a very large pit on the top of the mountain, buried all the fish that were salvaged in the deep pit, and then erected a tombstone with Bingbing's name written on it. After finishing these, the grandfather said to the child's mother: "Okay, we can collect the soul." I know about "receiving souls", and "receiving souls" is also called "shouting souls". I have personally experienced it.That was when I was very young, and I had a high fever after returning from herding cattle in the mountains.The fourth grandma said that my soul was lost on the mountain, and asked my mother to call it for me at night.That was my first and only "soul call".

After the moon came out at night, I lay quietly on the bed. My mother opened the door and went out, shouting as she walked: "Liangzi, come back. It's getting late, don't play outside, come back!" over the mountain.The night in the countryside is very quiet. Even if my mother has gone three or four miles away, I can still hear the flickering sound clearly on the bed at home. Every time my mother yelled: "Liangzi, don't play around, come back." I will answer once at home: "Okay, I'm back!" Mom shouted again: "Liangzi, it's getting late, come back!"

I replied again: "Hey! Come back!" My mother walked to the place I had been to during the day, and then turned back. She had to keep shouting along the way, and I had to keep answering.In this way, when my soul hears my mother's call and my response, it will obediently walk back the same way and return to my body. But this child who was victimized by the green-haired water demon was a little different.We have to rescue his soul from the water before we can "shout the soul" and call him home. The child's mother put three sticks of incense in the place where he slipped down, burned some paper money, and then put the river lantern into the reservoir.A small boat made of paper, with a lighted candle in the boat, makes a river lantern.

Candle-lit river lanterns float on the water, and the child's mother must follow the river lanterns.Where the river lamp hits the shore, the child's mother can start to cry at that place. My grandpa and I were there too.At the beginning, the river lanterns never came ashore, and the child's mother walked along the bank of the reservoir for more than half an hour, terribly anxious. Grandpa put his hands in front of his mouth, making a trumpet shape, and shouted: "Hello!" Dad will also do this kind of teasing method.When we are harvesting in the field, Dad often does this, so we can enjoy the cool wind.Dad was sweating on the threshing machine, so he stopped for a moment, put down the rice in his hand, and shouted into the depths of the mountain: "Hello!" In a flat voice.Even though it has been more than ten years, I can still hear my father's loud whistle-like yelling in my memory.Then, a gust of cool wind really blows, dissolving the scorching heat of the weather.

Dad told me that this is the way to tease the wind.I've tried many times, with little success. As soon as grandpa's "啦啦" came out, a gust of wind came immediately, blowing the river lights on the reservoir and quickly approaching the shore. The child's mother hurried to the side of the river lantern and shouted: "My child, it's getting late, go home." Then I heard a voice from Thrushcross Village in the distance: "Okay, I'm back." It was the voice of a child answering at home, and it seemed empty and distant in the silent night. After shouting and answering like this, I, grandpa, and the mother of the child walked slowly back to the village.A pungent fishy smell floated in the night wind...

After sending the child's mother home, my grandpa and I walked into the dark alleyway.At the end of the path there is a dimly lit lamp, that is Grandpa's home. Grandpa coughed twice, this time the cough was not from smoking too much, I could tell it was a deliberate clearing of the throat. "That..." Grandpa said, "That, Liangzi." "Huh?" I turned my head to look at him, because it was too dark, I could only see the cigarette butts of my grandfather on and off.Grandpa hesitated, as if he had something to hide. "I, I don't want to hunt ghosts anymore." Grandpa's cigarette lit up again, and then quickly dimmed.

"Not hunting ghosts anymore?" I asked in surprise.I know that grandpa's health is no longer good, and the excessive smoking has ruined half of his lungs.Maybe grandpa's body is too tired, maybe grandpa's heart is too tired, or both.However, I still keep the matter of the Ruoji ghost a secret.If grandpa quits, what will happen when the Ruoji ghost reappears?There is also the Water Ghost Mountain Father. I read "Baishu Drive" and suddenly found that the place where he was buried happened to be the location of the resurrection soil.The dead body of Shan Dae is very likely to evolve into a "red-haired savage".

"Red-haired savage" is a local appellation, and it is called "red-haired ghost" in "Baishu Drive".The reason for its formation is that if the organs of the corpse are buried in the resurrection place without material damage, it is very likely to evolve into a red-haired ghost. What is the land of resurrection?This is compared to the difference between fertile and barren land in farming. There is no hair on the barren land, but the stems bloom on the fertile land.This is as far as the nutrients of the land are concerned, the nutrients supply the elements needed by the plants, thereby promoting the growth of the plants.If the essence of the land is divided, the land can also be divided into two types: the essence is poor and the essence is fertile.Because most of the land is directly illuminated by the sun, the essence cannot be gathered, and it will evaporate like water.Only a very small number of lands, not only the essence will not evaporate, but will continue to absorb other essences.