To Raise a Soul

In the coldest winter, Grandpa Yu passed away, with a smile on his face.

Yu Zhen knelt in front of the coffin and buried her head in burning the paper. It was windy and snowy outside, making the dilapidated wooden door of the Taoist temple creak.The small light bulb on the top of the head was not fixed by a lamp holder, and was shaken by the leaking wind, making the shadows of the coffin and Yu Zhen longer and shorter, against the dim light, they looked like ghosts.

"I told you to move and live with me. If you don't want to, it's fine now. You can't live anymore. How good is this place? How can anyone come to the Taoist temple to tell fortunes now, let alone this kind of place built in the countryside?" broken Taoism."

Yu Zhen sniffed, and raised her hand to wipe the paper ashes on her face, mixed with the tears on her face, looking extremely embarrassed.

"I told you to renovate it, but you didn't do it. I wanted to come back to accompany you, but you didn't allow me to grow flowers. Why are you so stubborn." He choked up his voice as he spoke. The straight back was bent, and the hands stained with paper dust were wiped on the face indiscriminately.

The wind got stronger and snow drifted in.

He picked up a new bundle of yellow paper, opened it and continued to burn it, glanced at the peace bead hanging on his wrist, and remembered the scene of his grandfather coaxing him seriously when he was a child, he was stunned, stretched out his hand to remove it, and tightened his fingers , Throwing it directly into the brazier.

"You always say that I am blessed. I suffered in the previous life, but I am blessed in this life. But look at the life of our grandpa and grandson... You like making up stories to coax me so much, why don't you coax me for a few more years. "

The safety beads strung by red strings smashed into the brazier and made a soft "puff" sound, the flame in the basin jumped up suddenly, and then a smell of burnt plastic rose, and the back arched Yu Zhen, whose face was licked by the flames and stench, straightened up, covering her bangs that had been pulled off, and felt more and more sad from it as the smell became stronger and stronger.

"You even lied to me about this. What kind of ancestral treasure can stabilize the soul's peace bead, this is a plastic ball!"

Fortunately, he still wanted to burn this, so that the old man would have a good pregnancy in his next life!

The tears that had been gradually suppressed came out again. He looked at the white cloth covering the coffin, took a deep breath and was about to howl again, when suddenly there was an earth-shattering crash sound from the outside, shaking the light bulb above his head as if Then trembled.

His unspoken crying was so frightened back out of his throat, he stared wide-eyed, pursed his lips, shrunk his shoulders and was stunned for a few seconds, then hurriedly got up and ran towards the outside after regaining consciousness.

Qingxuguan is located in a remote place, with only woods and fields for a few miles around. It is backed by a small hill. Usually, few people come to it. There is only a bare and narrow dirt road leading to the outside. There are trees on both sides of the road, which looks a bit gloomy at night. .

Because of the snow, the dirt road was pale, which made the two deep car marks in the middle of the dirt road more terrifying.

Yu Zhen ran towards him quickly, and saw the tracks of the car going straight into the woods on the side of the road. At the end, there was a red sports car whose front was almost scrapped and was crushed by the broken trees. He gasped in surprise and hurriedly Going around and looking inside the driver's seat, I vaguely saw two figures lying down inside, reaching out to pull the car door, but it couldn't be opened, calling for someone, but there was no response, while tremblingly pulling out the mobile phone to call the police and emergency calls, while chanting in panic .

"I just want to send grandpa off for the last time. You said you rich people have nothing to do to bump into this place in the middle of the night... Hey, this is Lianhuagou Village, Anyang Town..."

After the phone call, he raised his sleeve to wipe the snow off his face, and tried to pull the car door again, but it couldn't be opened. Seeing that the people inside remained silent, as if they had died, his heart trembled, and he almost wanted to cry again .

What are these things.

"Don't die, you don't die."

He chanted with a trembling voice, searched around, found a brick, closed his eyes and slammed it down hard on the glass of the rear door, then threw away the brick, reached in and opened the rear door and got in.

Without the obstruction of the car glass, Yu Zhen finally saw the situation inside the car clearly.

There are a man and a woman lying crookedly in front of the car, both of whom look very young. The man in the driver's seat is firmly protecting the woman in the passenger seat. Her head and body are covered with blood. The woman is blocked. Unclear situation.

Yu Zhen checked the man's condition first. His skin was warm, but he seemed to be out of breath.His fingers trembled, he muttered about the sutras that his grandfather taught him when he was a child, and moved his hand to the woman below.

The steady pulse beat clearly came from the place where his fingers touched, and he suddenly relaxed his held breath, and then immediately leaned forward, not daring to move the two of them a lot, for fear of causing secondary injury, he only carefully searched for the two of them. The wound on the body, I want to stop the bleeding for them first.

"Hold on, the doctor will be here soon, hold on."

The temperature on the man's body was passing away bit by bit, and the pulse of the woman was always steady. Yu Zhen untied the white cloth filial piety belt tied around his waist, and helped the man bandage the wound on his arm with a little clumsiness, remembering that in the Taoist temple, he would never open his eyes again. The grandpa who opened his eyes, the tears he had been holding back dripped down.

"Don't die..." Why do people have to die?

pat.

Warm tears dripped down on the back of the man's drooping hand, as if being scalded, the man's slender and beautiful fingers moved suddenly.

Ok?

Yu Zhen froze, staring wide-eyed at the pale and bloodless hand in front of her, her lips trembled, then pressed tightly together, her heart beating faster suddenly.

Yes, it's an illusion, although, although he didn't want to have one more person walking on Huangquan Road today, and deceived himself to help others bandage, but, it was obviously cold, why, how...

"do not……"

"what!"

He yelled and dropped his filial belt, got out of the car, ran back to the Taoist temple without looking back, knelt down in front of the coffin, picked up a bundle of yellow paper, and desperately stuffed it into the brazier with only sparks left, chanting : "It's fake, it's all fake, it's a dream, it's a dream, how can there be such a thing as a fake corpse, it's fake, it's all fake."

The snow stopped slowly.

Outside the Taoist temple, the sirens of police cars and ambulances blared continuously. Yu Zhen hid behind the door of the Taoist temple, peeping out through the gap, and saw two policemen walking towards this side together, shaking his head in panic. He retracted, took two deep breaths, knowing that he couldn't hide, he simply turned around and pulled the courtyard door open.

"Did you call the police?"

Seeing him coming out of the door, the older policemen stopped and asked him.

Yu Zhen took a quick look at the accident scene surrounded by police cars and ambulances in the distance, nodded a little cautiously, and asked bravely, "How are the two people in the car?"

"The broken car has been rescued. The man was seriously injured, and the woman was only slightly injured. It's nothing serious." The younger policeman replied, his eyes glanced at the filial badge on his arm, and he glanced vaguely at the coffin and mourning hall in the lobby of the courtyard. , Stretched out his arm and abducted his colleague.

The older policeman also saw the situation in the courtyard, glanced at Yu Zhen's still young and childish face, with a little sympathy in his eyes, and asked in a slow tone, "Are you alone here? Where's your family?"

Yu Zhen shook her head: "There is no one else, just me."

After speaking, he glanced at the ambulance again, and asked for confirmation, "Is that man just seriously injured?" Instead of being cold?

He asked this question a bit strangely, the two policemen looked at each other, guessing that he might have been frightened, the older policeman said soothingly: "It is indeed a bit heavy, but fortunately the bleeding was stopped in time, otherwise the doctor might not arrive. Did you help bandage it?"

Yu Zhen nodded again, clenched and relaxed her fingers, and the flustered feeling eased.

It seems that it was just an illusion before, and his hands are cold in winter, maybe he touched it wrong.

"Did you also smash the rear glass of the car? What did you use to smash it? Can you tell us more about it?" The police continued to ask, and took out a notebook to record.

Yu Zhen calmed down, answered the police's questions honestly, and went down to the scene at the request of the police to find out the brick he had used.

At this time, the tree pressing on the sports car had been removed, the door was opened wide, and all the people inside were transferred to the ambulance.As soon as Yu Zhen pointed out the brick to the police, the ambulance started and drove the patient away along the dirt road.

"The road is slippery in snowy weather, and this place is remote. I don't know if that male patient can make it to the hospital."

A certain little police officer sighed and said something, Yu Zhen listened and looked at him sideways, just about to bid farewell to the police and go back to the Taoist temple, when his eyes suddenly went dark, a coolness spread from the soles of his feet, his body swayed, and he fell on the ground. on the ground.

"Ouch! What's the matter?"

"What's the matter with you, boy, what's wrong?"

"Quick! Someone help me lift him up!"

The coolness invaded the whole body, the head ached sharply, and the body was moved. Yu Zhen forced his eyes to open and looked at the police officer's lips that kept opening and closing, but another low and cool strange male voice sounded in his ear.

"Don't cry."

What are you crying for?Who is talking?

"wait for me."

Who are you waiting for?Who are you?

He shook his head, his heart suddenly felt warm, the pain in his head eased, his cold limbs slowly warmed up, his consciousness suddenly broke free from the fog of pain, and all his senses returned to reality. His gentle voice.

"What's the matter with you, young man? Come on, drink some hot water first."

A thermos was stuffed in his hand, Yu Zhen opened his mouth, but couldn't speak, shook his head and returned the thermos to the old police officer, got up and walked towards the Taoist temple in a daze.

Illusions, all illusions, he must have had a bad rest, so he had an illusion.

In the ambulance, the nurse helped the man wipe off the blood on his face, saw his lips moving as if he was talking, and bent slightly.

"Don't cry..."

"Don't cry?" the nurse was puzzled, suddenly the car body shook violently, so frightened that she quickly stretched out her hand to hold the hospital bed, and raised her voice, "Slow down! Do you think the patient is not injured enough?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the ground is completely covered by snow, and there is a pit that I didn't see." The driver quickly explained.

"Quiet."

The doctor who had been concentrating on treating the patient's wound suddenly frowned and opened his mouth. The nurse shut up, looked back at the doctor, and then at the handsome facial features exposed by the patient on the bed after wiping off the blood. Thinking of the completely deformed sports car, he sighed in his heart.

These rich people are really... sinful.