Chapter 008
He smiled innocently and spoke naturally, but I was completely defeated! I really couldn't understand how Mrs. Jiu raised such a son who did things without any reason and yet could smile and shamelessly tell you that he had done something bad.
But I was also glad that he rushed in without a brain, otherwise I really don’t know what would have happened to me. So seeing him laughing, I couldn’t scold him, nor did I praise him, which made me feel a little amused and helpless…
I could only change the subject and tell Ding Ding about the pair of feet I had just seen. After listening to me, he acted very serious, but his somewhat righteous face looked very unnatural.
Ding Ding said, "The one just now was a little starving ghost. I saw it as soon as I came in, and it was very easy to subdue it."
Only then did I understand how my first bowl of instant noodles was gone. But when Ding Ding mentioned conquering, I immediately became interested and asked him how he did it.
Ding Ding fumbled in his big bag again and took out a reddish-brown object.
When I looked at it, I realized it was the small earthen jar that I had played with in front of Mrs. Jiu’s house before. It turns out it’s used to catch ghosts?
Ding Ding put the earthenware pot on the table and started to explain to me, saying that it was actually quite simple. I put a gold ingot candle in the pot, which was the favorite thing of the starving ghost. It ran into the pot without my help. At the end, he added, "But I have tried it myself, and the gold ingot candle is not delicious."
I rolled my eyes at him and asked, "Is that all?"
Ding Ding nodded and said, yes, it's over.
I originally thought it would be like in the movies, burning a few yellow talismans, and then using cinnabar and a peach wood sword. I didn't expect that this would be the end?
Tintin said that those situations did exist, but the little starving ghost you met was too low-level, so there was no need for them .
I thought to myself, are ghosts also divided into different levels? Then it seems that those I met before were all of low level.
Tintin shook his head and said he didn't know how to explain it. Anyway, there were some evil spirits as the saying goes, which were very difficult to subdue and might even bring trouble to him.
I thought so too, so I stopped asking. I had just escaped from danger and was still in a state of shock. It was best not to talk about these things.
But just as I was thinking this, I looked down and saw the report Brother Wang handed me. Thinking that I would probably run into him again at work tomorrow, I couldn't help but shudder.
Ding Ding continued to eat the instant noodles in the bowl. Seeing me like this, he said, "If you want to go to the toilet, just go and stop shaking here."
I spat at him, and after thinking for a long time, I decided to tell him about Brother Wang. After all, it seems that Ding Ding is still quite capable, unlike those people pretending to be ghosts on the overpass.
After listening to what I said, Ding Ding said, I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. You just go to work and he can be his own ghost. It won’t have much impact on you.
I yelled, "How could there be no impact? Seeing a dead man walking around you every day, you're not afraid, but I am!"
He put down the bowl in his hand, licked his lips and said, "Actually, I've experienced the same situation as you, and much earlier than you. You just started encountering ghosts in the past two days. As you see more ghosts, you'll get used to it slowly."
I hurriedly said that this was something that was absolutely impossible to get used to!
Ding Ding raised his head and slapped me on the head, which stunned me. He said, "You are such a jerk. At least wait for me to finish what I am saying."
I knew that this person did things without considering the consequences. If he hadn't just saved my life, I would have punched him. But now I could only hold my breath and listen to what he wanted to say.
But what surprised me was that he didn't mention how to face Brother Wang, but instead told me about his childhood experiences.
Mrs. Jiu got married at the age of 42. Just as Lin Tian told me, Ding Ding's father was a cripple. At that time, it was not long after a certain revolution ended. People like Mrs. Jiu, who had the ability to see ghosts since childhood and would often tell others about what they had seen and heard, were treated badly at that time. In short, they were lucky to be alive.
After finally getting married, Ding Ding's father was a cripple who could only do simple odd jobs and had little income. At that time, Mrs. Jiu and her husband lived a miserable life. But with the reform and opening up, social customs gradually changed, and people around them no longer rejected them as before.
In the second year of marriage, Mrs. Jiu became pregnant. For the sake of the upcoming birth of Ding Ding and to improve her life, Mrs. Jiu started to study the business of exorcising ghosts and evil spirits.
With her gift of seeing ghosts and spirits, she learned quickly and performed it herself several times, catching a few wandering ghosts. Before long, she became famous in the local area, and gradually people began to pay her to perform rituals to exorcise evil spirits. The old couple was naturally happy to do so, and their lives gradually improved.
Ding Ding was born after the Spring Festival. This happened to be the third year that Mrs. Jiu and his father had been married. According to Lin Tian, his father died that year.
Ding Ding said that his father's surname was not Ding, and neither was Mrs. Jiu. But after he was born, Mrs. Jiu thought of the suffering she had endured in her life and was even more worried that her child would see things he shouldn't see like she did. She only hoped that her child would grow up in peace and not be as miserable as she was. So she named him Ding Ding, which is the sound of the ghost-repelling wind chime hanging in front of the door. She hoped that when the wind chime rang, others would think that he was called by his name, and that he would be immune to all ghosts by the sound of the wind chime.
Ding Ding's father had some self-esteem issues, and since he had a son at the age of 20, he also hoped that his son would be safe and sound. So he had no objection and followed Mrs. Jiu's wishes.
Of course, it was later proved that these were just Mrs. Jiu's wishful thinking. A name may influence a person's fortune, but it cannot guarantee their long-term peace.
The death of Tintin's father was caused by an accident during an exorcism by Mrs. Jiu. Although she was a little famous at the time, she had only been in this business for a short time. She was helpless when she encountered a powerful ghost .
At this time, a family in the neighboring village had just married a new daughter-in-law, but not long after returning home, the woman encountered strange things frequently. First, she fainted for no apparent reason, and then she couldn't get out of bed and slept in bed for several days. She was so thin that she was almost just bones.
This made her family very anxious. After seeking medical help everywhere but to no avail, they finally thought of ghosts and gods. Not long after, they found Mrs. Jiu's house.
Mrs. Jiu was also hesitant at first, but the family was very generous, and the old couple thought about it and set off to go to the family's house that night.
As soon as she entered the house, Mrs. Jiu felt something was wrong. The whole house was filled with a strong negative energy. In the past, she would have avoided such places. But since she had received the money, she could no longer back out. She could only muster up her courage and bite the bullet to enter the bride's house.
But she was shocked as soon as she entered. The bride was lying on the bed, and beside her was a bloody man, staring at her with bloodshot eyes.
Mrs. Jiu knew that this kind of ghost that could directly hurt people and kill people was already at the level of a fierce ghost, and ordinary means would probably not be of much use. She turned out and thought for a long time in the living room. The family sat beside her and kept urging her. Mrs. Jiu had no choice but to bite the bullet and go back in.
She took out the red thread soaked in dog blood from her bag and carefully tied the thread to the bride's middle finger. The ghost kept staring at her, and Mrs. Jiu pretended that she couldn't see him, but in fact her feet had begun to tremble.
I asked Ding Ding, what is the use of this red line?
Ding Ding said that the ghost had suppressed the bride's soul, so she could not wake up from her long sleep, and after a long time, she died.
The red string is tied on the middle finger, which is called "lifting the soul". There is an old saying that the ten fingers are connected to the heart, and the heart is the residence of the soul. Mrs. Jiu did this to lift up the suppressed soul. Then she would consider how to subdue the evil spirit.
Mrs. Jiu tied the other end of the red string to her middle finger. When everything was ready, she raised her hand and pulled hard. However, what she didn't expect was that everything was normal when she had tied the red string before, but when she was pulling up with the red string, the bride's hand became as heavy as a stone, and no matter how hard Mrs. Jiu tried, it didn't move at all.
The evil ghost was watching Mrs. Jiu's actions from the side. He seemed to know that Mrs. Jiu couldn't do anything to him, so he didn't react much.
Mrs. Jiu didn't believe it, so she pulled the red string on her hand with great force, causing her fingers to ache. Finally, with a "snap" sound, the red string broke.
In my opinion, this is a very normal thing. Everything has its critical point. Once it is exceeded, the red line will naturally break.
But Tintin said otherwise, if it could be explained by physical things, it wouldn't be so troublesome.
He also said that at first glance, the red thread tied the bride and my mother's fingers, but in fact, it tied the souls of the two people. It's just like the red thread of the matchmaker tied to everyone's feet in the legend, which will never break no matter where you go. It's just that in the process of exorcising ghosts, the red thread has been materialized. Once the thread breaks, it means the soul has left the body!
Mrs. Jiu was so frightened when she saw the red line suddenly break. In addition, she had exerted too much force just now, so she fell backwards and knocked over everything on the cabinet behind her.
When the family heard the noise, they rushed in and were shocked to see Mrs. Jiu lying on the ground. They hurriedly helped her up and were about to ask what happened when they saw that her face was pale and she kept shouting, "No, the bride's soul is going to be taken away by this evil ghost!"
Everyone saw that he was talking incoherently, and they couldn't see the man covered in blood. But seeing that the bride was breathing weakly, just as Mrs. Jiu said, they immediately became anxious. The groom rushed in with a knife, grabbed Mrs. Jiu and asked where the evil spirit was! I'll chop him!
Mrs. Jiu knew that they couldn't see the ghost, but in a hurry, she couldn't remember it. She pointed at the bed and shouted, "It's lying next to the bride! It's covered in blood, and there's a mole next to its right eye!"
As soon as she said this, everyone in the groom's family was stunned.
