"Snake, it's this snake!" Cheng Gang looked down at Mo Xiao who was wrapped around him, and his face turned pale with fright.
My uncle looked at Cheng Gang strangely, not understanding what he meant by the snake. Cheng Gang didn't understand how such a big python suddenly appeared in the house, but when he realized that except for him and me, my uncle couldn't see the snake and the two children beside me, Cheng Gang immediately shut up and didn't dare to say a word.
In fact, I didn't want him to see Mo Xiao and Xiao Ye, but this guy is really dishonest. If he doesn't listen to me, not only will he not return the money, but it will probably cause more trouble. It's better to scare him and let him know how powerful I am.
"Okay, stop standing there. The puddles in the yard haven't been cleaned up yet." I waved at Mo Xiao, and Mo Xiao swam down from Cheng Gang's body, coiled up beside him, hissing and moving his tongue.
Cheng Gang shuddered, lowered his head and went out to work without saying a word. The uncle-in-law was a man without a strong opinion, and seeing his son give in, he also went out to scoop up the sewage from the big pit.
I went back to my room and took another nap, then bought some food to eat. During the meal, Cheng Gang was always far away from me, occasionally looking up at me as if he was looking at an evil ghost. I ignored him, and after the meal, I walked into the side room and looked at my aunt.
When I saw the water ghost last night, I felt that its power was actually very weak and it didn't seem like a fierce ghost.
Ghosts are actually a trace of resentment left in the world by people. The heavier the resentment, the stronger the power of the ghost, and the more it can affect people. On the contrary, people with little resentment and no attachment to the world have little impact on the living after death. Some of them will be reincarnated after the first seven days of death and will not wander around the world at all.
Otherwise, with so many people dying in this world every day, the streets would be filled with ghosts at night.
Therefore, since the water ghost's power was not great, she had no ability to parasitize on my aunt and occupy her body. If that was the case, why did my aunt suddenly go crazy?
I was puzzled, and just then my mother called to ask how things were going. I told her everything was going well, and asked about my aunt's birthday. She was born on September 3, 1975, at the hour of the Ox. After knowing her birth date, I sat in the room and took out the piece of leather I was carrying.
There is a piece of leather with a record of a method of fortune-telling by weighing bones. I have always been interested in this technique, but I have no time to practice it, and no one can tell fortunes for me.
The rules of bone fortune-telling are much more than those of other fortune-telling methods. There are seven things that are not counted: direct relatives, the elderly and the young, the extremely evil, and the incomplete limbs. In addition, marriage, future, and oneself are not counted.
These seven things to calculate include almost everything that I'm interested in. They can't calculate marriage, future, or myself and relatives. So what's the point of me learning this thing? Am I going to pretend to be a deity and tell fortunes for others under the overpass?
So I had never studied it seriously before. But now that I have my aunt as the candidate and I have enough time to study, I might as well do a good job of fortune-telling.
After studying for a while, I found out that in bone fortune-telling, the bone weight ranges from 2.2 liang to 7.1 liang.
This fortune-telling by bone weighing emphasizes that the heavier the bone weight, the better. The average person's bone weight is between 3 and 5 taels. Those below 3 taels are miserable, those above 5 taels are rich, and even those 6 or 7 taels are kings, princes, generals and ministers.
By adding up her date of birth and time of birth, I calculated that my aunt's bones weighed a total of 28 cents, or 2.8 liang.
Two liang eight is only six liang more than the lightest two liang two beggar life, which also means being born in poverty and having to work hard all life. For women, the bone-weighing song describes it like this: Women are born with eight characters, and their actions are like floating duckweed; their ancestral property is in dreams, and their virtues are ruthless; you treat others as your own children, but others are falsely attentive to you…
This judgment is very accurate. My aunt has not had a good life since she married my uncle. She has toiled for half her life and finally raised her son. But when her son was sick, she was unwilling to even take care of him. I feel sad for my aunt.
But after calculating her bone weight, I understood why the woman was swollen in the river. She must have been dead for a long time, but only my aunt was affected by the water ghost. This is because my aunt's bone weight is light, and her fate is also light. Such people are easily affected by ghosts and gods. As long as they go to places with heavy yin energy, they are likely to see dirty things.
As for Cheng Gang, his bone mass is not light, but I let Mo Xiao pester him all day yesterday. Mo Xiao is a snake spirit, and the yin energy on his body will naturally affect the living, which is why Cheng Gang saw the female ghost in the yard late at night…
A day passed quickly, and after midnight, Cheng Gang and I went to the river. The ghost girl reappeared soon after seeing us, but the moonlight was very bright today, and under the moonlight, the ghost girl showed her rotten appearance, and her whole body was swollen like a sponge soaked in water, which was very scary.
Cheng Gang was a little afraid to go and see, but I was used to seeing ghosts and didn’t find it that scary.
"It was you who pulled my feet last night? Do you want to use me as a scapegoat?" I asked in a low voice.
The woman shook her head and told me that she didn't drown in the water, but fell into the water after death, so there was no need to find a scapegoat. She didn't mean to hurt me, she just wanted me to take her body home, her parents were still looking for her.
This woman was quite sincere, and I knew she didn't really want to hurt anyone. I felt sorry for her, so I promised her that I would salvage her body and send it back, but I didn't know where her home was.
The female ghost in the water was originally calm, but when she talked about her home, her voice suddenly became choked.
After sighing for a while, she told me that she was actually only in her twenties. She failed the college entrance examination for several consecutive years and she was so depressed that she bought a bottle of pesticide and drank it in October last year.
After drinking the medicine and struggling, she rolled into the river and floated here after her death. If Cheng Gang hadn't set up a fishing net by the river and caught her hair and clothes, this woman would have drifted to who knows where.
In fact, the moment she drank the pesticide, when the pesticide entered her stomach and burned her internal organs, she regretted it. As long as she was still alive, even if she was miserable and unhappy, it was better than death. Unfortunately, she was already a cold corpse, and it was too late to say anything.
I consoled her and asked her if she had seen a woman in her forties with short hair who lived in a house with a big pit in the yard where the diversion ditch led. The girl nodded and said that no one else in the village could see her, and she had no energy to ask for help from others, so she could only ask for help from the woman with a very light fate.
The girl didn't want to scare others, but her strength was weak and she couldn't leave the water. She could only barely maintain her normal appearance in the dark night without moonlight. Once exposed to the moonlight, she would reveal her dead appearance.
The girl had told her aunt everything, and her aunt agreed to help her. Just as her aunt took the girl's hand and planned to go to the river to look for the girl's body, the clouds in the sky suddenly dispersed, and the moonlight shone down, revealing the girl's dead appearance.
The aunt was frightened by the girl's dead appearance and fainted on the ground. After the aunt fainted, the girl was also very sad. She retreated back into the river and didn't want to scare the aunt anymore. But the moment the girl entered the water, she vaguely saw a shadow leaving the aunt's body and followed her into the water, then quickly dissipated in the water and could not be found.
When I heard the girl say this, my heart sank.
My aunt's bones and body are light, so her soul is easier to leave her body than normal people. It is very likely that her soul left her body due to extreme fear, and the girl was holding her hand at the time, so her soul and spirit sank into the water with the girl. No wonder my aunt kept complaining about the cold and was afraid of being pulled by others.
If a soul is lost, it is relatively easy to find it back in a short period of time, but my aunt's soul has been lost for nearly two months, so it is very difficult to find it again.
I was just worrying about it when the girl in the water whispered, "There is a shallow beach downstream of this river where many people gather. If you want to find her, you can go there and see if she is attracted there. But that place is very scary and I usually don't dare to go there."
I responded. The only hope now was near the shallows. If we couldn't find my aunt there, then the hope of her coming back to life would be slim.
After saying goodbye to the girl, it was already past four in the morning. Early the next morning, I asked Cheng Gang and my uncle to clean up the pit in the yard thoroughly, and then called the police.
The police arrived quickly and fished the girl's body out of the water under my command. The girl was only in her twenties, and her parents were probably only in their forties, but when her parents rushed to the police station to claim the girl's body, I saw that the old couple's hair was already completely gray.
After arranging the girl's affairs, it was already afternoon when we came out of the police station. After eating a few bites of food in a hurry, I took Cheng Gang to the village market to buy a ghost soul-locking incense , a kerosene lamp, and a few yellow talismans.
After everything was ready, I took him down the river that night.
Cheng Gang was afraid of Mo Xiao. Although he didn't say no, his face was always bad, as if he was not going to save his own mother. After walking for more than an hour, we had walked out of the village. The river was getting wider and wider, from less than four or five meters near the village to more than ten meters wide, and the water was getting deeper and deeper.