Chapter 049
The old man of the Lu family immediately started to say, "Yes, that's right, that's the name. My niece is very knowledgeable. I heard all this from the little ghosts guarding the mausoleum. I don't know if there was a king of a small country in that era. I can't remember these things. Anyway, when he died, he ordered all his concubines to be killed and buried with him. Those women were dragged to the coffin one by one, killed and bled into it. I don't know how many . Anyway, the whole coffin was filled with human blood. The king was soaked in the coffin after death. He wanted to become an immortal or a demon. It was so weird!
My mother didn't answer, but I could clearly see that her expression was a little serious. After thinking for a while, she asked my grandfather, "Dad, if this thing is not handled properly, even our family will be in trouble..."
Grandpa said in a deep voice, don't worry, I will definitely control it so nothing unexpected happens.
After he said this to me, my mother 's frown relaxed a little and she stopped talking.
The next morning, when my grandmother got up, she heard a series of knocking sounds. She went out and found my grandfather in the yard. He took apart the coffin, sawed off the discarded wooden boards, and planed them bit by bit.
I took a good look and discovered that after the wood of the coffin was split open, even the inside was dark red, which was a bit creepy.
I didn't know what my grandfather was tinkering with, but not long after he started, the old man from the Lu family came and directed people to bring in a large mirror.
Only then did I realize that the evil spirit of the mirror did not come from the mirror surface at all, but from the frame made of the blood coffin!
My mother also came out and looked for a while, then asked, "Dad, are you going to suppress the evil spirit of this coffin in the mirror and turn it into a mirror spirit?"
While looking at the wood in his hand, he said "Yeah" and replied, "Yes, the evil spirit of this coffin is much stronger than that of Lao Lu's house. It has to be suppressed to balance it, otherwise it will still be harmful."
My mother looked a little worried, but she didn't continue to dissuade me.
It took them three days to finish the frame, and then my grandfather painted a lot of things on it. I thought they were decorative patterns at first, but now I realize that they were runes to ward off ghosts.
It’s just that the runes are too complicated, just like the one on the box left by my mother. It’s almost impossible to recognize their original appearance. But they look better when put together.
After the mirror was finished, it was placed in the yard for three days. Grandpa said it needed to be exposed to the sun for a while to dissipate some of the evil spirits. After three days, the father and son of the Lu family came to take it away and placed it at home to protect the house!
Three days later, the father and son came happily. Grandpa hung red flowers on the mirror as if he was giving a dowry, making it look very grand. My uncle was watching from the side, not understanding these actions, so he looked at my mother and asked, "Sister, can this thing really work in their home?"
My mother took one look at him and said, if nothing unexpected happens, it will definitely work, and their family's luck will improve from now on, and they will never lack wealth, fame and fortune.
When my uncle heard this, his eyes lit up and he said that since he was so great, why didn't the father give him one for his own family? It would be a waste for the old man.
My mother glared at him and said, "Do you think it's such a simple thing? Their family's future wealth and fame were exchanged for the lives of those dead family members. If you are willing to die, I can also get one for your family."
My uncle rolled his fat face at my mother and stopped talking.
This was originally a good thing. My grandpa and grandma stood in front of the mirror and chatted with the old man of the Lu family. My grandma probably felt relieved when she saw that nothing unexpected happened. She also looked very happy. Only Lu Yao's father was curious and turned around the mirror, looking at it again and again!
When the old man from the Lu family got excited, he wanted to bring his son to thank my grandfather and others together. He called out to his son and asked him to come over to thank their benefactor together!
But his son was so stunned that he reached out to touch the frame, not even hearing the old man from the Lu family shouting. His father probably thought that he was being impolite, so he reached out and pulled him back.
This pull will cause big trouble!
The mirror frame was originally made by my grandfather in a hurry, so it is inevitable that there are some uneven places on it. When Lu Yao's father's hand was pulled, it happened to touch a small piece of wood splinter, and his finger was immediately pierced and bleeding. Although it was only a small spot, my grandfather's face changed immediately!
I saw the drop of blood being sucked into the wood, and there was a sudden bang in the mirror, as if something was trying to break free from it.
Everyone present was shocked, except Lu Yao's father, who was still standing stupidly in front of the mirror, dazed and not knowing what had happened.
The mirror suddenly started to shake, and suddenly, seven or eight hands stretched out and grabbed Lu Yao's father!
Her father was so scared that his legs went limp, and he didn't even have the strength to run. He just stood there waiting to be caught by those ghost hands. My grandfather got anxious and shouted to my mother, "Bring me the pen and cinnabar!"
Before he could finish, my mother ran into the house to look for it as soon as she saw the strange change.
Lu Yao's father was grabbed by those hands and dragged into the mirror. My grandfather rushed forward and tried to pull him out. But he didn't expect that as soon as he approached, more than ten hands stretched out from the mirror, grabbed his hands and feet, and tried to drag him into the mirror.
I was so engrossed in watching that I remember shouting and wanting to go over to help. But as I moved, I remembered that I couldn't touch these things at all. I was so anxious that I didn't know what to do.
Just at this time my mother came out, holding the cinnabar in one hand and the brush in the other, she drew towards the hands that were holding Lu Yao's father. There was a "sigh" sound, just like the sound of burning charcoal being extinguished by water. The places on the arms that were stained with cinnabar seemed to be corroded all of a sudden, and they sank little by little, revealing the flesh and bones under the skin!
At that moment, I seemed to hear a scream. The sound was extremely shrill, as if dozens of women were crying together. It was very scary.
My grandfather didn't care about that, he took my mother's pen and started drawing on the hands that were holding him. After a while, the hands seemed to feel pain and quickly retracted into the mirror.
Grandpa broke free, his face still looking very ugly. He quickly breathed a sigh of relief, but his expression did not slack off at all.
Lu Yao's father was now lying on the ground, looking at the mirror in horror, as if he was frightened out of his wits.
My grandmother hurried over, grabbed my grandfather and asked him if he was okay.
Grandpa shook his head, stared at the mirror, and said nothing.
The old man of the Lu family was probably also frightened by this change. He came over and grabbed my grandfather and shouted, "Brother Xia, what's going on? This thing is too scary. How dare I take it home!"
Grandpa was annoyed by him and was about to shout to stop him when he suddenly heard another shrill scream. Before he could react, he saw a huge shadow jumping out of the mirror!
Just this one blow knocked my grandma to the ground!
I had never seen anything like it before, and even as a bystander I was pretty scared.
The ghost that jumped out of the mirror looked like a piece of meat to me! A big, fat lump! But almost every part of it had the facial features of a woman, and its eyes were bigger than the other, looking around blankly. Its mouth was wide open, and it was screaming miserably. The ghost had no legs, but had countless arms, just like a horrible deformed person. It crawled on the ground, supporting itself with countless hands, and even half of it was hidden in the mirror.
My grandmother was pinned down by it and screamed in fear! My mother reached out to pull her out, but after trying several times, she failed. Grandpa was in a hurry and took the cinnabar in his hand and pressed it all on the ghost!
Suddenly, the screams became even more piercing. The ghost was twisting on the ground, and my grandmother was suffocated by it, and her face had turned purple. Then, the ghost shrank and went back into the mirror. This action was so fast that there was almost no time for people to react!
The hands under it tightly grasped my grandmother's body, and in the blink of an eye, the whole person was dragged into the mirror!
My grandfather and several others tried to rescue her in panic, but the monster didn't give them any chance. As soon as my grandmother entered the mirror, all her senses changed suddenly. She became icy cold and lifeless, just like what I saw when she dragged her into the mirror!
She was caught in the arms of the ghost and struggled to get out, but her resistance was so powerless in front of the ghost. She could only watch outside the mirror, her grandfather and my mother flapping their hands in panic, as if they wanted to go through the mirror to the world inside!
The monster's arms loosened slightly, and my grandmother broke free and threw herself towards the mirror, but she suddenly felt as if there was a force that trapped her in the mirror. She could see the scene outside, but she couldn't see herself. At that moment, she suddenly realized that she was dead when she passed through the mirror!
Grandpa's eyes were red outside, and he kept slapping and cursing, but he couldn't do anything with the mirror. My mother's eyes were also red, and she couldn't help crying.
But it wasn't over yet. The ghost in the mirror seemed to have become more agile after my grandmother's death. It rushed out of the mirror without hesitation! My mother couldn't dodge and was thrown to the ground. Her hands fell to the ground and she quickly crawled out of the house!
All I heard were the panicked cries of the Lu family father and son, and my uncle’s exclamation that the Mirror Spirit had run away!
Grandpa was so angry that he didn't care about the mirror anymore and rushed out after the mirror spirit. Only my mother was lying in front of the mirror, looking inside and crying.
I stared at her infatuatedly, and there was only a thin layer of glass between my grandmother and her, but we were like human beings and ghosts, and we were both crying...
The scene in front of me slowly changed and returned to the gray chaotic state before. I don’t know how this mirror came to the Lu family after that, nor do I know what happened to the mirror spirit after it escaped. But according to what I just saw and what my uncle said before, from then on, my grandmother became the new mirror spirit, and my grandfather’s family began to decline. Just like my mother said, if one of them is not handled well, they will also be in trouble.
I suddenly understood what my grandfather said. Although it was my uncle who told me, I now agree with him. He hoped that my mother and my uncle would live like ordinary people in the future and not cross the line between human and ghost.
Humans and ghosts each have their own worlds, but once they cross the line, all that will come is disaster. Just like me now, I still don’t know whether I will live or die, but Lin Tian, Ding Ding, and Mrs. Jiu, none of them have escaped the disaster...
