Chapter 27 Ninety-seventh night overcast

Ye Lao often said: "Yin ultimatum seduces people, and there are often those who are born to do it, which is called too yin."His speech and diet are no different from others, but when he sleeps, he will be stunned, and he will not be able to wake up, because he is overcast.The double shoes under the couch must be turned up and down one by one, and if you lean on the shoes all the time, you will die and never return.Therefore, every time you sleep, you must close your household.Fear of being manipulated by others.Whoever will be the dead in the next month will be the prophet, and he will foresee the ultimatum.

—— "Ear Food Record" A strange man found me, he was like a frightened bird, bent slightly, with a dark black suit jacket draped over his body indiscriminately, he didn't even notice when he turned his pockets out, his slender and sparse eyebrows could almost be counted Gen, his face seems to be a semi-finished dough made by an inexperienced pastry chef, with unevenness everywhere. Compared with the slit-like eyes and thick lips, the huge rosacea seems to fall off at any time. "Do you know about overcasting?" From the man's throat came a hoarse voice like sand rubbing against an aluminum pot, which made my ears feel a little uncomfortable.

I shook my head and raised my hand to look at my watch—the editor-in-chief didn’t give me much time, and he seemed to have noticed that I often slack off work by receiving visitors, so he made strict rules on me. The man rolled his eyes and swallowed his saliva: "Please don't worry, I bet you will be interested in my story, and I don't need any reward, I just hope that I can find someone to talk to, because I I’m afraid that if I tell others, people will think I’m crazy, my body and spirit can no longer bear that kind of torture, if I don’t tell it, I will go crazy.” He looked very pitiful, like an orphan who lost his parents Helplessly shaking his shoulders, he covered his face with his huge hands and almost cried out.Although I am very disgusted with men crying, tears caused by panic are indeed rare.

This man named Wu Ruodong is 35 years old, but he looks so old. First, he has been mentally stressed recently. Second, he works as a vice president of a small company, so he is busy with his work, which leads to the fact that he has two hairs when he is middle-aged. dye.He was troubled by nothing but his wife. (The following is Wu Ruodong's tone.) I'm just an ordinary person, I'm not as good as the top, but I'm more than the bottom. I planned to continue living an ordinary life in this city, if, if I didn't meet that woman. (Wu Ruodong curled up a little more, like a snail looking for shells.)

I have been busy with my career these past few years, so I have never had the opportunity to take care of my life.Later, I met my current wife by chance.She came from the countryside, and was admitted to a normal university by herself, where she taught psychology.She has a good appearance and temperament, and I am also from a small county. I know how hard it is for those of us who have no background and background to gain a foothold in this city, so we got together soon, and We got married six months after we met.In other people's eyes, it was unfair that she would marry me. In fact, there were many people who pursued her at that time. Later, when I asked her why, my wife just said lightly that I was a good person.

The life after marriage was very happy, but soon I was busy with work again, and she also became a housewife with peace of mind.Although she repeatedly asked us to have a baby, my company had too many things to do, so we had to postpone it, and she was a little unhappy, but she didn't say much.But it didn't take long before I discovered that there were always some strange people coming to our house to look for her. First, there was a middle-aged woman who was very poorly dressed, holding a huge black plastic bag in her hand, which seemed to contain something like a strip.After she chatted with my wife for a while, my wife took her into her own room—this was the only request she made before marriage. She needed a separate room for her own reception room and reading room, and there was indeed nothing in that room. Different, only a bookshelf and a bed.

I didn't notice it before, I went to work by myself, and when I came back, I found that she was not cooking in the kitchen as usual.I thought she had gone out, but her coat and purse were clearly hanging on the hangers in the living room. The room was extremely quiet, I thought she might be too late to come back due to school, and was planning to lie on the sofa to sleep for a while, when I heard a strange sound coming from her room.Her room is located at the end of a passage after entering the door, in the left corner of the whole house, next to the balcony. Because it is a residential area, there is usually no noise at all. Although it is good for rest, the long silence also makes people somewhat uncomfortable.So even if there is a little noise in the room, it can be heard clearly.Wearing slippers, I walked step by step towards the room where the sound came from.

The wind from the balcony made my feet a bit cold.The low voice is a kind of chewing sound, very slow, but very clear, once and for all, very regular, just like Guizhou eating on TV. The orange wooden door was not closed, leaving a small gap. I suddenly felt guilty of stealing, and I didn't know what she was doing inside.Curiosity drove me to look inside through the crack of the door. The room inside is not very big, and even with a narrow view, I can see clearly. I saw my wife lying flat on the bed, and the previous woman was sitting on the side with her back to me.The way my wife fell asleep was very strange, and it seemed to be slightly different from usual, but I couldn't say anything at the time.

I thought my wife was resting, but just as I was about to leave, the middle-aged woman who turned her back to me suddenly turned her head. Her mouth was bulging, and there were bits of candle crumbs left in the corner of her mouth, and she was holding half a red candle in her hand, which obviously had bite marks on it.The light in the room was very dim, and it seemed that the only point of light that passed through the red candle made her face look like blood. I immediately took a step back, almost unable to believe what I saw just now, and then hurried into the toilet to wash my face with cold water.

I stayed in the toilet until I heard the door opening and the middle-aged woman thanking me. My wife didn't seem to know that I saw everything, but she just asked me if I was not feeling well, and said that she had learned medical skills from the barefoot doctor in the countryside for several years, and she could still deal with some minor headaches and brain fever. But I refused.From that day on, I gradually became less aware of her.Later, several people came one after another, and my wife was still taken to that room, and I didn't go to peek at it again, I just felt that I really didn't know her too well.

I vaguely feel that she has another profession besides university psychology teacher. So I started to inquire about her, and I asked for leave to come to her hometown, but I still couldn't find anything. My wife was a cute girl in the village since she was a child, and she didn't have any weird behaviors. Maybe I'm just too worried, maybe I'm just a little nervous because of the heavy workload, and my wife often says that I'm a little nervous in the tone of a psychologist. However, when I gradually wanted to forget those things, another thing happened, and that also caused the life I am now living in fear. I will always remember that at the end of last year, a tall man came to my house. He looked quite haggard and had dark circles under his eyes. He begged my wife as if he had seen a savior, and my wife was obviously in pain. It was revealed that she really wanted to help this man, but it seemed that she had something to hide. "Get up quickly, I've tried my best, and I can't change this kind of thing." The wife tried her best to help the man who was kneeling on the ground—even if he was kneeling, he was about the same height as his wife. I also wanted to go over and lift him up, but the man was too heavy. He refused to get up for anything, and even threatened that if he didn't agree to his request, he would kneel down at my house.My wife let out a long sigh, and had no choice but to tell me that this man was from her hometown, and she wanted to go home. It could be as short as a few days, or as long as a week. Let my wife go on a long journey with a tall man who is strange and emotionally unstable. I am afraid that no husband will be relieved. But at that time, my company was at a very important moment, and my wife kept saying that I was not allowed to go with me. I had to tell her a few more words, and then sent her to the station. But a week passed, and my wife didn't come back. A few days later, I finished my work and contacted her family quickly, but there was no news. An ominous feeling covered my heart like ink soaking white paper, and I only felt tightness in my chest.In the following days, I searched all her friends and relatives, but found nothing, including that tall man, and there was no news. "There is no one alive, no dead body. She disappeared like this for no reason. I went to the police station to call the police, but there are so many disappearance cases every year. No one can say when she will be found." Speaking of Here, Wu Ruodong hugged his head fiercely, and whispered in pain, "If only I didn't let her go that day!" His annoyance and remorse were all written on his face, and after listening to it, I also felt that Wu Ruodong's wife was indeed in danger. "But, did you find me just to let me publish a missing person notice? I personally want to help you, but to be honest, it doesn't help much." I patted Wu Ruodong's shoulder in admiration and help, unexpectedly He raised his drooping head as if he had been electrocuted, and held my shoulders with both hands. "No! No! Please listen to me, and I believe my wife is not dead, only you and your friends can help me find her!" Wu Ruodong looked very excited, compared to the previous decadence, he seemed to be drowning As if grasping the only life-saving straw, the strength in his hands was so strong that it hurt my shoulders. Fortunately, he quickly realized his gaffe and calmed down to talk again. (The following is still Wu Ruodong's tone.) In the following days, I lived alone, and those friends and relatives who should comfort me gradually left, and even as time went by, they became indifferent to this matter.But I couldn't, I was suddenly left alone in the house, which made me very uncomfortable, so I had to wait for my wife's return.Seeing that I had an accident, the company also gave me a big vacation, so I lived a life of asking people around with her photo during the day, and posting help posts everywhere on the Internet at night. Until one day, I lazily got up from the bed and saw the door of my wife's private room open. But I always remember that since the day she disappeared, this room has been locked tightly, and I have never opened it. At that moment, I thought she was back, and I was ecstatic and ran over. The moment I opened the door while holding the doorknob, I felt a chill all over and couldn't help shivering, but when I opened the door, I was disappointed that there was no one inside. To be precise, I saw a mirror. My wife often likes to use that mirror. She likes to look in the mirror very much. Almost all the mirrors in the house are hers, so there are both inside and outside for her convenience. And this mirror is often placed in the room.I carefully picked up the mirror on the round table and looked at myself. I don't know if I didn't take photos, but I turned out to be frighteningly old, with sunken eye sockets, tanned and wrinkled skin, and my face was already full of beards, and I was no different from a beggar on the street.So I decided to fix my face. But when I was about to go out with this mirror, I unexpectedly found a few black things hanging from my shoulders in the small round mirror. I thought I was wrong, so I took a closer look. Sure enough, there were a few thin black filaments on my shoulders in the mirror, but when I turned my head, there was nothing on my shoulders. When I looked in the mirror again, I realized that it was hair, and it was very long, women's hair. My wife has long hair. But what happened next made me barely able to hold the mirror. I saw the hair on my shoulders slowly squirming like snakes, and more and more, as if there was a silk machine on it. It seemed to hang down gradually like life, approaching my throat. My hand slowly shone upwards, almost subconsciously wondering what the source of those hairs were. The mirror slowly moved upwards. It was still hair, as black as ink, with a few red spots in the middle. Finally, I saw a pair of eyes. With a little water blue, but lifeless. A pair of eyes buried in hair.It was only a quick glance, but I saw it, and I dropped the mirror in horror, fumbling with my shoulders in terror as if there were actually hair on them. And actually nothing. When I picked up the mirror again, there was nothing unusual. When my wife and I are in bed together, my favorite thing is to rest my head in her lap while she hangs her head, letting her long hair brush my face and shoulders. And when I looked up, I could only see her light blue eyes in the long black hair. I was frightened into a cold sweat, but soon the room became quiet again, and the sunlight began to pour in the room. But in the following days, as long as it was something she used, I could feel her presence in several subjects. In the new house where I and her, she was almost everywhere, as if she was one with the house. Whether it is cooking, drinking, or taking clothes, I always touch something intentionally or unintentionally. When I take a shower, in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass, through the fuzzy water vapor, I can vaguely see my feet in the mirror. A pair of delicate female feet stood beside me.I was almost going crazy. At this time, the middle-aged woman who came to find my wife first came to my house again. I dragged her into the house and asked her loudly where my wife was.She seemed to be frightened by me, her face was pale, and it took a long time before she raised the gift in her hand and said thank you to his wife.And I, aware of my rudeness, took the opportunity to ask her what happened in the room with my wife that day. She moved her lips, as if she was extremely reluctant to mention that incident, but when I said that my wife might encounter accidents because of this incident, she was a little stunned, and then slowly told me. It turned out that his wife was passing the sun that day.That is to leave the body through one's own ability, and ask some things in that posture.It is said that persuasion is quite dangerous, and those who pass the yin may lose control and die. In the Yin-passing ritual, the perpetrator will lie on the bed, no different from the real dead person. No wonder I saw my wife sleeping unnaturally that day. And when I asked the woman why she was chewing candles, she blushed.She said that she was asking her wife to ask her dead husband if she could remarry, because strange things often happened in her family during the days when she decided to get married again. I don't know either. "It seems that my dead ghost man was very unconvinced, and actually attached to me and gnawed off half of the red candle I brought, and I still have the bitter taste of candles in my mouth.",, She opened her mouth and smacked her lips to show that she wasn't lying. "Later, my dead ghost seemed to make sense, so he ran away. No, I just got married and wanted to send her some wedding candy, but I didn't expect this to happen." She was a little disappointed and sentimental, and bowed her head in silence. After sending the woman away, I realized that the tall man must have asked his wife for something that day, but he didn't know where they were going.According to my wife's return time, I checked all the train lists, but there was no wife's.I have no choice but to beg you if there is any way to know where they are going. Speaking of this, Wu Ruodong had a pitiful expression on his face, and I also felt compassion. After all, things like disappearance are the most annoying thing, always hanging there with no results, and the unknown of life and death is the most worrying. Seeing his wife's body, he would never give up. I comforted him a few words, sent him out, and then asked for leave and went home, checked all the information, and there was not much about Yin. But that's what I expected, because I could still get an answer from one person. "Is it overcast? The place of the ceremony is very important. If you simply ask questions that need to be answered by the deceased, you only need a small closed room, but if you ask about that, then..." Li Zheng sat on the sofa, holding a A cup of green tea. "Which one?" I asked curiously. "Death." He put down the teacup, put one hand in his trouser pocket, and made a movement of spreading it out with the other. "If someone wants to ask about the date of his death, he can also know the answer in Guoyin, but there is only one place to ask about his death. He walked past me and walked up to the window, bowing his head in silence. I didn't ask him because I knew he would answer if he wanted to. Sure enough, a few minutes later, he raised his head and said with a smile, "That place is the birthplace of the overcast." "Oh? Why did the bag pliers take so long to talk about it? It's such a big deal." I complained dissatisfied, but he didn't take it seriously. "Because I just remembered." Li Zheng raised his head, narrowed his eyes and smiled. So I informed Wu Ruodong and asked him about his wife's birthplace. He hesitated for a while and said that he should think about it carefully, or ask his wife's family.And I happened to be going to ask the editor-in-chief for leave.As for Li Zheng, he said that he was very interested in this matter, so he made an appointment to meet at the train station two days later, and then he disappeared without a trace.And Wu Ruodong told me repeatedly that we must gather together in two days, because his company will be reorganized next week, and he must attend. Two days later, I took a long vacation and went with Li Zheng and Wu Ruodong to the birthplace of Wu Ruodong's wife. Wu Ruodong's wife was not born in her current hometown. Her parents gave birth to her in this small county. She lived for a few years, but somehow she moved to the current countryside. As for the reason, Wu Ruodong's wife never wanted to tell him. People in this county seem to be very indifferent. Wu Ruodong hurriedly took the photos and asked around, but they all shook their heads and said they didn't know. It wasn't until they asked a young man that they got the answer. A few months ago, Wu Ruodong's wife and a tall man came here, but soon they went to a private house in the county. It is said that the house has been vacant for a long time, and I also thought that maybe it was the place where Wu Ruodong's wife was born.But why did she and her parents leave here? Why did no one dare to live in this house after being vacant for decades? Wu Ruodong said that his wife had mentioned this old house before, and she came here to clean it when she got married, so we followed him and walked towards the old house where his wife used to live. The house is located in the remote northernmost place from the station. It is a low three-bedroom bungalow. The three houses are strung together in a row. It is really deserted for a long time, but people can clearly find people coming in and out at the door. past traces.Wu Ruodong was a little excited, I let him rest for a while, so the three of them walked in together.It was quite dark inside the house, and Li Zheng and I almost fell down. The house was filled with a disgusting smell of damp and rotting wood. In the middle of the house was a dilapidated wooden table with a half-burned candle on it. "It seems that your wife has indeed been here." Li Zheng picked up the remaining candle and looked at it, then pointed to the ground. Sure enough, there were vague but recognizable prints of a pair of women's shoes on the thick dust. Of course, there were also A pair of men's. We continued to walk to the back room, where there was also a big bed, and there was actually a pair of dusty women's leather shoes under the bed. "It's her leather shoes, I remember, I bought them for her birthday!" Wu Ruodong ran towards the shoes like crazy, but was stopped by Li Zheng. "If you don't want your wife to die, you'd better not touch those shoes." Li Zheng's words were soft, but they calmed Wu Ruodong like a tranquilizer. Because before I came, I told Wu Ruodong that if he wanted to get his wife, he had to listen to this silver-haired weirdo. "The placement of the shoes determines the state of life and death of the overcast people. When passing the overcast, one of the shoes must be turned upside down. If they are all corrected, the overcast people will wake up. If they are all overturned, they will die. .” Li Zheng said while looking at the pair of shoes. Wu Ruodong and I also looked over carefully. One of the women's leather shoes was turned upside down. "If no one touched it at that time, maybe your wife is still alive." Li Zheng stared at the pair of leather shoes and said in a deep voice. "Why, why did their family move out of here?" I couldn't help asking Li Zheng who was looking for clues.Wu Ruodong also looked over, and he also had the same question. "It is said that people who are able to pass the Yin will not cry when they are born, and according to common sense, children who do not cry cannot survive, but they can not only survive, but they are much smarter than others, but they never From the beginning of being sensible, you know when you will die. The first time you pass the yin is often unconscious, and it happens in your sleep. This is just like the natural reaction of the body when it develops to a certain point. Of course, it is not very Definitely at a certain age." "They remember their dreams very clearly, and they will gradually realize that they are passing Yin. Of course, some people will keep it secret, and some people will use this to do other things. Your wife is probably helping others. Maybe, she Realizing when and where she will die, in short, the overcast will definitely return to her birthplace, if she has a premonition of her own death." Li Zheng said word by word. Wu Ruodong next to him changed his expression, he rushed up and grabbed Li Zheng by the collar. "You nonsense! You said just now that she would be fine!" He yelled at Li Zheng, but the latter didn't take it seriously. "I'm just telling the truth, if you don't believe it, forget it." Li Zheng squinted at him. I immediately went up to separate them, and then signaled Li Zheng to stop talking before provoking Wu Ruodong.Wu Ruodong sat down on the ground as if in a state of collapse, talking about his wife absently. "If you can't find that tall man, I'm afraid you won't be able to find your wife either." I looked around, but there was indeed no clue.Wu Ruodong stood up in pain, planning to go out. "I said, if your wife disappears, I'm afraid you will be the first person suspected by the police?" Li Zheng suddenly stood there smiling and looked at Wu Ruodong.I was very surprised why Li Zheng was like this, and Wu Ruodong was also very puzzled. "The police did question me, but that was a long time ago." Wu Ruodong replied. "Actually, you found us because you were afraid that today would be your death day, right?" Li Zheng put his hands in his trouser pockets. "I don't understand what you're talking about." Wu Ruodong stared blankly at Li Zheng. Li Zheng didn't answer him, but turned to me instead. "Do you know why their family left here? If you are a villager, a child often predicts the date of death of others with amazing accuracy, and this child is born without crying, you What do you think of him?" Li Zheng asked me. "Monster." I replied honestly. "Yes, monsters, full monsters. So the poor family had to move away and hope to start a new life. The poor girl grew up every day, but because she was away from the place where she was born, she could no longer predict the fate of others. At the time of his death, he gradually lived a normal life, and occasionally helped others ask questions of the deceased." "But there is one more thing buried in her heart, because she knew the date of her death a long time ago, so she was anxious to get married and have children, hoping to live a full life of a woman. So she met a man, she was originally She thought she could spend the last few years of her life in peace, but she was wrong." "She roughly thought that her husband didn't know anything about Yin at all, and she didn't expect that man had already learned everything in detail by consulting information and asking people, including predicting life and death." "So her husband knelt down in front of her and begged the two of them to go to their hometown, because this man needs to know the date of death of some important people. Yes, for a businessman, the life and death of some people directly determine his life." future." "So her wife finally decided to come to the place where she had nightmares as a child, and had sex in this dilapidated house." "Her husband got the answer, but it's sad. Everyone has a common weakness, that is curiosity. The man asked casually when he will die." Li Zheng suddenly stopped and looked at Wu Ruodong, and I followed suit. looked at him. Wu Ruodong's face suddenly became full and full of tension, his cold eyes were full of hostility and sadness at the same time. "The answer is, today." Li Zheng walked slowly to the center of the room. "You have repeatedly asked to come today and tell us the so-called story. In fact, you are afraid of revenge from your dead wife? So you think that by catching us as a straw and coming to this place, you can survive today's death, even that At that time, you might have also thought about whether killing the Yin man would change your fate of dying today?" Li Zheng continued. "Stop talking!" Wu Ruodong yelled, "I never thought of killing her, I was just afraid, I was afraid of her." Wu Ruodong sat on the ground collapsed. "There is no such thing as a tall man. The person who told us about your wife earlier was probably arranged by you, so you rushed to ask that villager. And those shoes are actually not your wife. Yes, the dust on the top and the ones on the candles are not from the same time period at all. The air flow in the previous room is faster than that of the inner room, and the leather products are more dust-absorbing than the candles, but what about the shoes? It also seems to be paved with ashes by hand? The most important thing is that those who have passed through the shadows will not wear high-heeled leather shoes for ceremonies. I am afraid that the previous shoes are not easy to take out, so you replaced this pair of shoes, right?" "The reason why you made up such a story and repeatedly asked us to come here today is just to be a witness at the same time, so that you can prove that it was the mysterious tall man who killed your wife? You probably didn't think that I knew more about the murderer than you. , so you had to come here in a hurry to arrange the so-called scene casually, and persuaded the locals not to tell you that you and your wife actually came to this old house that day. You persuaded them by taking advantage of the people here's hatred of your wife, Perhaps for those people, the sooner your wife dies, the sooner they die, the more peace of mind? Here, people who are old and know that your wife can pass the yin will avoid talking about her, just like a convention, and treat her as a Break the taboo of this place." Li Zheng continued to question Wu Ruodong. "I thought she was joking. After all, predicting the date of death is just a legend. But she saw that I didn't believe it, and soon foresaw the death date of a local villager. Sure enough, at that time, I began to fear and quarreled with her She cried and said that Yin is not necessarily accurate, especially when some special things happen. Ghosts will believe her! How can death have an end? To me, this woman is undoubtedly a devil, leave She, maybe I can live without her! This is what I thought at the time. So I proposed to go back to the old house again, and predict the date of death again, she had no choice but to agree, and that time, when she started, I Turned her shoes over together." "I really didn't expect that she died. No matter how much I shouted, she would not wake up. I started to be afraid, because I didn't know if my behavior was murder, and maybe no one would believe in flipping The absurd thing that shoes can kill a person, not to mention my head, even if I voluntarily surrendered, I would be kicked out by the police or sent to a mental hospital. I had to bury her body in the innermost room The underground, including the pair of shoes, and made up the story of the tall man, saying that she disappeared with the man. But after that, I suffered from her every day at home, so I thought of her predicting my death , I came to you with the mentality of trying, and I hope you can help me get through this day." Wu Ruodong said weakly. "Do you think I have the ability to help you avoid death? You are wrong, and neither can I. Your wife's prediction is very accurate. If you don't believe me, you can look back." Li Zheng suddenly pointed at the darkest room in the innermost room. The door at the back was closed for some reason, leaving only some white and cold sunlight leaking in through the gap of the window, like a sword, pierced into the apparently soft and overturned ground in the back room. Wu Ruodong's eyeballs almost bulged out, staring fixedly there.The pile of soil squirmed upwards a few times, and suddenly broke open. A nearly rotten hand protruded from it, and then a pair of thin shoulders. It was the poor woman. Her long hair wrapped her head tightly. Husband lying aside. Wu Ruodong was already unable to stand up, he just subconsciously covered his eyes with his hands. When I wanted to save him, the woman entangled Wu Ruodong at an unbelievable speed, and the latter just hummed a few words in a low voice and didn't make any moves. Wu Ruodong's head was resting on the woman's lap, and the woman slowly lowered her head, her long, black and muddy hair slowly hanging down towards Wu Ruodong's face. I heard a sound like a bone being gnawed.Wu Ruodong's body began to twitch violently, like a poisoned field mouse, unable to escape or resist at all. And then the two of them stayed in that position until their heads were tightly wrapped by that hair. Li Zheng sighed, suddenly looked at the female corpse in surprise, and then let out a sudden realization. When I left, I finally couldn't help asking him if he found anything else. "Actually, I don't know too much about Yin. It turns out that if a new life is conceived in the body of a person who has passed Yin, they can escape the terrible death, or the special reason Wu Ruodong's wife said refers to this. Right. Just now I saw her hands tightly protecting her stomach, just like instinct, so I suddenly thought of this." "The end of life is death, and the end of death is rebirth? But why didn't she tell Wu Ruodong earlier?" I asked puzzled. "Because I told him too early, the man would definitely ask to kill the child. His wife actually wanted to use the birth of the child to change the fate of their husband and wife. In the end, they couldn't escape." Li Zheng said with a gloomy face. Looking at the two corpses on the ground with regretful eyes.