Chapter 048
Everyone present seemed to be terrified, even Lu Yao's father probably didn't expect such a thing to happen!
I just felt the arm that was grabbing my shoulder suddenly exert force and dragged my body backwards. I couldn't stand firmly and my body fell backwards immediately!
But there seemed to be no obstacles behind me, and I was dragged directly by this female ghost into the mirror!
I hurriedly reached out to find a fulcrum to free myself, but the mirror was too big and there was really no place for me to let go.
I heard Lu Yao scream and break free from her father's hands. She reached out to grab me, but before she could reach me, my body passed through the mirror!
My eyes seemed to be covered by a layer of dust, and I couldn't see clearly. I rubbed my eyes, and when I opened them again, I gasped again. The female ghost was standing in front of me, all gray and white, and she was clinging to me!
Only then did I see her clearly. She was quite old, but apart from her iron-gray skin, there was nothing too shocking about her.
I looked at her face carefully, my head buzzed and I almost screamed.
This female ghost looks 80% similar to my mother!
Having said that, this female ghost looks older than my mother.
I stared at her blankly, but she suddenly disappeared. In this gray world, everything seemed so blurry.
I stood there without daring to move. After a while, a ray of light suddenly appeared behind me. I turned around and found that a door had opened there. A ray of sunlight shone in, and the surrounding environment suddenly changed.
I seemed to be standing in an old house, a very ordinary bungalow, and there were even a lot of furniture around me and in front of me. But everything I saw was still gray, as if I had fallen into an old movie.
On the front wall, there was a rather festive statue of a deity, and on the table next to the wall, there was a dustpan. The female ghost was sitting beside it, peeling the beans out bit by bit behind her and putting them in a porcelain bowl beside her.
And behind the open door, another figure suddenly appeared. It was a man of the same age as her. When he appeared, the woman's busy hands stopped, looked at him, and asked him why he looked so sad.
The man came in silently and walked towards me. I wanted to dodge, but he passed through my body without even looking at me.
I looked carefully for a while and found that these people seemed to be unable to see me. I couldn't even touch anything in this room.
The man walked in and sat next to the woman. He was silent for a while, then suddenly sighed and said that the mother of Lao Lu's child was also dead...
The woman was slightly startled, and it took her a while to calm down. She sighed and said, "Don't be too depressed. You have advised them many times to move out of there as soon as possible, but they are reluctant to leave the house. What else can you do?"
The man shook his head and said it was not a question of whether he was reluctant to leave or not. If he wanted to move, given his family’s current conditions, where else could they go except sleeping on the streets?
The woman didn't say anything. After a pause, she started picking the beans in her hand again. Both of them looked very unhappy, and seemed to be a little bothered by this matter. As he was sighing, the man looked up and looked outside, and suddenly asked, "Charlene, what are you doing hiding there?"
I was startled. The two words "Charlene" were clearly my mother's name. I followed the man's gaze and saw a woman a few years younger than me standing outside the door, looking in.
When the man called her, she smiled foolishly and walked into the house.
As I looked at her, I was more surprised. She looked almost exactly like my mother, only younger.
She walked in, stood beside the two of them, and said, "Dad, Uncle Lu is here to see you again. My brother is outside to meet him."
I wondered, if this woman was really my mother, then the man and woman sitting in front of me were my grandparents? I didn't know what was going on. Could the scene I saw have happened before I was born? Did I travel through time? But it was different from the story. My sense of existence was almost zero, and the people around me couldn't resonate with me at all.
I don’t know the names of my grandparents because they died before I was born, and so many years have passed that I don’t even have any impression of what they looked like.
The man who looked like my grandpa heard what my mother said, shook his head and sighed, then slowly stood up and said, "I'll go out and take a look."
But before he finished his words, I heard a wailing voice outside the house rushing into the house.
I looked carefully and saw that there were three people coming. The man who came in first knelt down as soon as he entered the room, and kowtowed to my grandfather, saying, Brother Xia, please have mercy and save our Lu family!
Behind this man, two other people followed in. The first one was younger than my mother and slightly fatter. I laughed as soon as I saw him. This man was my uncle. He looked like a tender little flower back then ! But when I saw the man who walked into the room with him, I couldn't laugh anymore.
The man had a square face and a sad expression, but he was obviously not as anxious as his father. This man was Lu Yao's father when he was young! It seems that what the old man said was not entirely false. Our two families did have some exchanges in the past.
The man kneeling on the ground kept kowtowed to my grandfather, and my grandfather hurried to help him up, but no matter how hard he pulled, he just wouldn't get up from the ground. With tears and snot on his face, he said, "Brother Xia, my family is almost dead. You see, we father and son are so pitiful, please help us!"
After saying that, he pulled his son beside him and asked him to kneel down like him. But I could see that although Lu Yao's father did not dare to disobey, he was somewhat unwilling in his heart and was just pretending.
Seeing them like this, grandpa stopped helping them and sat down instead, saying that this was a difficult matter. Your place is not just the house, but also the land. At first I thought it was just a Feng Shui problem, but later I wanted to make some changes. I dug into the ground and found so many bones. I didn’t know what that piece of land was used for before. It was like a mass grave. The evil spirit was too strong. People living in it would die sooner or later. It was not so easy to solve…
When the crying man heard what my grandfather said, he knelt down and took two steps forward, stretched out his hands to hug my grandfather's legs, and cried, "Brother Xia, you can't just watch your brother's family die like this! I really beg you, Brother Xia, I can be your slave in the next life! At least save my son!"
My grandfather showed a look of reluctance on his face. He looked at Lu Yao's father, sighed again, and said, "Okay, you go back and prepare, come with me on a long journey, and we'll find some things. As for whether it will be useful, I can't guarantee it to you."
As if he had grabbed a life-saving straw, the man's face lit up with joy, he burst into laughter, and hurriedly thanked him. After that, he hurriedly took his son home to prepare.
As soon as the two of them left, my grandmother slammed the table and said, "Old man, where are you going again!"
My mother interrupted and said, Dad, you are going to the mountains to look for something again. We don’t know how long it will take to go there and back, not to mention how dangerous it is.
My grandfather touched his beard, sighed, and said, "If it can save lives, it's worth taking the risk!"
Naturally, my grandmother was not happy about this. How could she sacrifice herself for others? She cursed me several times, but my grandfather had made up his mind and refused to move no matter what. In the end, my grandmother was so angry that she kept silent.
Only my uncle was standing at the back , and said stupidly, Dad, if you are going, please take me with you so that I can broaden my horizons.
I glared at him without saying anything. Instead, my mother looked at him and said, "What are you doing? Dad is going to find something very dangerous. We don't know how dangerous this trip will be. Do you think you will die if you go with him?"
My uncle was not convinced and said, "Sister, Dad hasn't even said what he's going to look for, how can you be so sure?"
The man outside sighed and said that if you were half as smart as your sister, I wouldn't worry about it. She was right, this dangerous place needs a dangerous thing to suppress it. I let Lao Lu go because he is the one who was involved. Don't get involved.
My uncle was still very afraid of my grandfather. He stuck out his tongue and stopped talking.
The matter was settled and they set off the next day.
I just felt that the scene in front of me kept changing, as if all these things were extracted from my grandmother's memory. The family stood outside the door, seeing my grandfather and the old man from the Lu family off. My grandmother looked very worried, and she could hardly eat for a while. I don't know where my grandfather and his family went, but this scene changed three months later, and the statues on the wall were already a little worn. That night, my grandmother was about to go to bed when she heard someone knocking on the door.
She went out in a hurry and saw that my grandfather and Old Man Lu were standing outside the door, pulling a horse-drawn carriage. There was something on the carriage, covered with a black cloth, so it was hard to see clearly.
My grandmother lit the lamp and let them into the yard. The two carefully took the things off the carriage, with very happy expressions on their faces.
I originally thought this might be the mirror, but when I looked at the shape, something seemed wrong.
My grandmother was also very surprised. She looked at it for a while and asked, "Is this what I found? What is it?"
My grandfather smiled, and the old man from the Lu family came up to him and said happily, "Sister-in-law, you don't know how powerful my brother Xia is. All the little ghosts hide away when they see him."
I listened to what happened. It was basically that the two of them went to the mountains and searched many places but couldn't find any clues. Finally, my grandfather came up with an idea. He let the little ghost lead the way, and they finally found an ancient tomb. After some hardships, they finally found the thing.
They were talking so animatedly that even my uncle and mother came out to watch for a while. My uncle was almost mesmerized by it, as if he were listening to a fairy tale, but my mother's face showed no expression and instead looked much more serious.
My uncle was quick and had already lifted the black cloth before he could finish. I looked inside and saw a slightly tattered coffin. Under the light, it looked dark red inside and out.
I don't know if there was any foul smell, but as the black cloth was lifted, several people covered their noses. My mother took a look inside and the expression of disgust on her face became more serious. I heard her humming a few words from her nose, which seemed to be the three words "blood coagulation coffin".
