Ancient Art of Sealing Ghosts

"Your grandpa is gone." Sitting on the sofa, Old Chu was smoking a cigarette with his head sullen, and said without looking at me: "Tomorrow you go to see your grandpa, the grandpa and grandson didn't see each other when we arrived, oh... ..."

I also lowered my head, hearing Lao Chu's long sigh in my ears, my heart suddenly felt empty, as if I wanted to catch something but couldn't catch it, which made me very mad and regretful.

Grandpa has been very kind to me since I was a child. He must think of me if there is anything to eat and play. Even if Lao Chu and mother don't give it to me, he has to sneak food and play into my hands.Our grandpa and grandson always go shopping in the city together. When I was young, I always carried two or three yuan or even a few cents on my body. Grandpa didn’t have much money, but as long as the two of us went to the street, we would I'm happier than doing anything.It's delicious to buy popcorn and eat it in your arms.

At that time, the popcorn was popped by an old man sitting on the street with a black stove. You can bring your own rice or corn. Although the popcorn is not as fragrant as the chocolate strawberry popcorn that is now, the taste is different after all. of.

Later, when I grew up, the communication with my grandfather gradually became less and less. I always felt that he could not keep up with the times. Sometimes I was stopped by him to ask a few words, but it was perfunctory, and I felt that he didn’t understand anything. It's useless to say it myself.

But now that my grandpa is gone, I know what regret is, and I keep thinking, what if I came back a few days earlier, what if I didn't go to Yunnan, what if I didn't always neglect his old man in the past?

Tens of thousands of ifs, I can't change back to the real grandpa. I even feel that the last figure of grandpa in my memory is starting to become blurred.

How unfilial I am, just look at the degree of regret I have now.

Grandpa is old, but I always feel that he will always be there, forgetting that people are mortal, so that I didn't have time to see grandpa before he died.

"Grandpa... when did he leave?" I was in a daze, my eyes were dazzled when I looked up at Old Chu, and my voice was dry and hoarse, which was unusual.

"A few days after you left." Old Chu was probably tired of smoking, and he extinguished the cigarette in the ashtray before he finished smoking.

I know that this matter is not only a blow to me, but also to him.

After all, he was the father who gave birth to him, so the old man left like this, and no one could stand it, not to mention it was almost Chinese New Year...

I turned my head and looked at the nutrition products that I just bought and threw all over the floor. There were actually a lot of calcium supplements for the elderly that I bought for my grandpa, but they are no longer needed.

Sister Xuan sat next to me cautiously. She just came home with me and encountered this incident. She should be embarrassed.

But she is not as depressed as I am. After packing up the nutritional products, Sister Xuan went into the house to talk to my mother. At this time, there should indeed be someone to talk to my mother.

Seeing Sister Xuan disappearing at the door, Lao Chu suddenly changed his expression, waved to me and said, "Come with me."

For some reason, I followed Old Chu out of the house and came to the house where my grandfather lived. Seeing that the house was clean and spotless, and those small horses and bamboo sticks were still firmly in place, I couldn’t help feeling another burst of pain in my heart. Sad and lost.

Old Chu walked to the table next to his grandfather's bed, picked up a thick yellow leather notebook, and said to me: "Your grandfather left suddenly, and he didn't have time to explain anything before he left, but when I was cleaning the house, I found that he was in the house. I wrote very important content in the notebook, probably because I felt that I was dying early, and I wrote it in the notebook because I was afraid that I would not be able to speak."

There was a trace of regret and shame in Lao Chu's words. He handed me the notebook and asked me to read it while listening to him.

"Your grandfather explained one thing in his notes." Old Chu said, "That's the reason why you went out this time. The incident 70 years ago is actually not over. It has affected the three descendants of the family until now... "

Grandpa was 76 years old when he passed away, and according to Lao Chu, his face was quite peaceful.

When that happened, he was just a kid of six or seven years old.

At that time, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and the three families were busy fleeing for their lives, so they planned to join hands to do one last job, and then find a remote and uninhabited place to live in seclusion to avoid the disaster of war.

The target they had in mind at the beginning was the golden ghost city in the ancient country of Nanzhao. Nanzhao country was rich in supplies. Such a huge golden city was enough to feed and clothe the three families for several lifetimes. to go this trip.

At that time, a total of 64 people went there, and two of them were not from the three families, but veterans with the same reputation on the Tao. One of them was bald and missing a little finger on his left hand. Can not remember.

This group of people disappeared after entering the Golden Ghost City. The rest of the three families were women, children and the elderly. After waiting for more than a month outside the ghost town, they never saw those people again. No one can tell. It is clear where they went, whether they fled to other places alive, or they all died inside.

Later, I heard that some of these people were still alive and came back, but no one actually met them, and everything was just a rumor.

But since then, the three families have fallen under the same curse. This curse is very vicious. It can make people's souls unable to leave their bodies after death, and they can still feel everything in the outside world, that is to say, even if a person is dead You can still witness the whole process of your burial, but other people don't know, they will only treat you as a corpse.

So until now, the three families insist on burying their relatives in the way of burial, because if cremation is used, the soul will no longer be able to reincarnate, and will still feel the pain of being burned alive by the fire.

Bury relatives in the best coffins, preserve their bodies and at the same time preserve their souls. Everyone hopes that one day this damn curse can be lifted and the souls of the three families can be reincarnated safely.

After reading grandpa's notes, my heart sank completely. Through the narration in grandpa's notes, I can vaguely guess some signs, but now I don't have the heart to sort out those clues. I just want to know, grandpa is now What happened? Did he leave with peace of mind? Is he really, as the notes said, still suffering the pain of death?

Severe pain spread in my heart. I gritted my teeth and put the notebook back to its original place. My mind was filled with the kind and slightly cunning smile of my grandpa. How can I let him suffer after death?

Thinking, I stand up and go out, I want to see what is going on with grandpa now, if he hasn't left with peace of mind, then even if I risk my life, I want to keep his future generations safe, this is The only thing I can do as his grandson.

Old Chu seemed to see what I was going to do, he pondered for a moment, and when I was about to open the door to go out, he said in a low voice: "Do things quickly, don't make too much noise and disturb your grandpa's safety... remember to knock a few more times Size, my old arms and legs are failing, you must find a way to let your grandpa go safely."

I nodded, went out and called Sister Xuan, carrying a few bags of nutritional supplements bought for grandpa, picked up the rusty shovel in the corner, and walked quickly towards the wild woods outside the village.

If Lao Chu didn't quite agree with me fighting with Dao Feng before, now that he knows the truth of the matter, he probably won't stop me any more. This unfortunate curse has been passed down for three generations, and I don't know how many people haven't been able to really leave until now , according to Lao Chu's temperament, he must also want to let this matter settle down in his generation.

Thinking about it now, the Dao and Wu families must have been working hard on this matter all these years. They didn't know that those people entered the weird place like the end of the earth. They only thought that more than 60 people did not come out because it happened in the tomb. What happened, it might even be cannibalism, so the relationship between the three families became worse and worse later on, no one was pleasing to the eye. The purpose of the next head of the family is to let them do whatever they can, and stop meddling if they can't, so as to keep their lifespan of 80 to [-] years, and just go safely.

Old Chu didn't know the truth, and seeing Dao Feng was not pleasing to his eyes, so he was at odds with each other at first, but Wu Mou persuaded him to help, so I joined.

After knowing the truth, even if you want to stay out of it, you can't help it. Lao Chu and I are the same kind of people, and it is impossible for us to watch our relatives suffer.

As the night was getting dark, I led Sister Xuan to the place with the most graves in the wild forest. Sister Xuan saw that I was in a bad mood, so she didn't ask me what I was doing out, and didn't comfort me, but just followed me silently.

I am very fortunate to have a partner like Sister Xuan, who avoids the embarrassment that I don't want to talk at the moment.Of course, if Dao Feng was by my side, then I might tell him a lot, because now I really need someone to comfort me or let me vent, but I can't do these things to Sister Xuan.

I walked among the graves, and it didn't take long to find the place where my grandfather was buried. Looking at the fruits and ghost coins in front of the grave, it should be that people often come to pay respects this time.

I put the nutritional supplements and shovel aside, then knelt in front of the grave and kowtowed a few times, telling my grandfather that the unworthy descendant Chu Yang came to see him, and told him not to get angry.

I picked up the shovel, dug up the grave, jumped down to pry open the coffin carefully selected by Lao Chu, and then saw the scene I least wanted to see in my life.

Grandpa's body was slightly rotten, and I didn't dare to touch it. I could only stand by and watch silently, shaking uncontrollably.

When people are buried, they must be well-dressed and stable before they can be put into the coffin. But right now, in front of my eyes, Grandpa’s head is tilted to one side, his eyes and mouth are slightly opened, as if he still has something to say.These are enough to prove that grandpa still moved his body after death, he did not completely pass away, maybe he is right in front of my eyes.

But I dare not ignite the fire of the underworld. Unlike the corpse demon, it is impossible for the soul imprisoned by the curse to be transformed. I dare not meet the soul of my grandfather. I am afraid that he will complain why I didn't come to see him earlier.

I used the fastest speed to carefully re-bind the coffin, covered it firmly with soil, then knelt in front of my grandfather's grave, and kowtowed desperately.

There were muffled sounds in my ears, and my forehead was about to split open. I really wanted to find a place where there was no one to cry, but I knew that once I really cried, it meant that I was weak, and I couldn’t live here. Time is weak, so I held back my strength and kept tears in my eyes.

Seeing me like this, Sister Xuan pulled me back in fear to prevent me from continuing to harm myself, and kept yelling: "Chu Yang, Chu Yang, don't do this!"

Sister Xuan let me go crazy for a long time, and then pulled me away with all her might.

Before leaving, I burned all the nutrients that were no longer needed.