C2 Wake

When we arrived at the east end of the village, Old Man Gao's house was already full of people. Everyone was talking about something at once, and a few of the Eldest Aunt's wives were comforting the crying Old Man Gao's daughter-in-law, Liu Jie.

I saw Imp's father, Zhang Erde, standing in front of his house, so I pulled him over to light a cigarette for him. "Second Uncle, isn't Old Uncle Gao in good health? "Why did you leave just like that?"

Zhang Erde pulled us to a secluded place and told me and Imp about what had happened.

When he saw his own daughter, he went crazy as if he had seen a ghost. He kept saying that it was impossible, that his second daughter had already died, and the person who came was neither a human nor a ghost. This ghost was here to collect debts. Zhang Erde took a look and saw that this girl was exactly the same as old man Gao, Yi, and Gao Xiaoyun. Not only was she similar, she was basically carved from the same mold. Just by looking at it, one could tell that it was a seed planted by Elder Gao. He touched flesh and blood. He was clearly a human, how was he a ghost?

Everyone also said that Old Gao was lucky to have just gotten married and now he had a daughter back. This girl wasn't young anymore. She was probably at the age where she would be married off. When the time came, Elder Gao would be able to receive a free gift for free. He had truly picked her up for free.

In the end, Elder Gao's justice was finally settled by everyone. By night time, everyone returned home. But this morning, early in the morning, Zhang Erde was called by the wife of Gao Laoyi, saying that Gao Laoyi had hanged himself in his son's house. Upon hearing this, Zhang Erde nearly peed his pants in fright when he entered the room where Old Man Gao had hung himself. Elder Gao's back was facing the door. Facing his son who was already hanged, his face was purple, his eyes were wide open, and his tongue was hanging out of his mouth, which scared Zhang Erde so much that he almost fell over.

Elder Gao was hanging in his son's room, but his son, Gao Gen, was still sleeping soundly in his bed. Gao Gen was a fool, and when he woke up, he saw his father hanging himself from the ceiling and grinned foolishly, saying that his father was on the swing and he wanted to be on the swing too. When his mother heard this, she immediately slapped him twice.

Hearing Zhang Erde's description of the situation, I broke out in a cold sweat. What I am afraid of is not the miserable state of Elder Gao's hanging, but this scene, the exact same as the painting's contents. The hanging man in the picture was Gao Laoyi, and the one sleeping in the bed was his teenage son, Gao Gen. The sketch on the anonymous courier seemed to predict a series of events happening around me, first when I came back from taking the courier and met Gao Xiaoyu, then when the courier was hanged by Gao Laoyi.

When I thought of this, I no longer felt that it was a coincidence. I was about to take out the sketch and look at it again when I remembered that I had placed it on the table in my bedroom. The coward saw me trembling and said, "Brother Feng, are you cold? Why don't you go to my house and warm up. "

At this moment, I suddenly thought of those crooked red words on the drawing: "Protect the Gao Family's last bloodline!"

Gao Family, wasn't that the surname Gao? Stunned, I asked Imp, "How many people in our village with the highest surname are there?"

"Just one family, Old Uncle Gao, Easthead of the Village." Coward scratched his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

"What?" I was surprised: "There is only one family named Gao in Gaozhuang?" How could this be? "

"Feng, you might not know since you've been studying outside the academy." Zhang Erde said to me, "Although our Gaozhuang is called Gaozhuang, the one surnamed Gao is currently Old Gao Yi and his family. I remember when I was a kid, there were a few families with the last name Gao, but they either moved away or died. In the end, only the Gao family is left, but our Zhang, Wang, and Liu family members became the big family names in the village. With Elder Gao's departure, Gao Xiaoyun had just gotten married, and Gao Yuan was a fool. This family will not be easy to deal with in the future. "

"Come, let's go see Aunt Liu." I said to Imp.

They all said that the child was the flesh and blood of the mother, but Liu Jie didn't approve of Gao Xiaoyu at all. It was obvious that she blamed Elder Gao's death on this second daughter of hers as she pinched and bit Gao Xiaoyu, "It's all because of you, jinx. You even took my life!" As he spoke, he moved forward to grab Xiao Yu.

In the village, a bunch of first wives and second wives tried to coax Auntie Liu to stop her. Compared to Aunt Liu's crying, this Gao Xiaoyu was particularly calm. She stood there with her head lowered and didn't say anything. Perhaps she just came back and didn't have any feelings for this old man, neither sad nor happy. I nodded to her and she looked at me without a word and went into the house. I sighed. This Gao Xiaoyu's life was also miserable. She had just come back to get married, but her father had already hanged her, and her mother didn't even acknowledge her.

Gao Gen, the son of the old man, was a fool. He was laughing and crying at his father's funeral. He was jumping up and down and yelling that his father would come back to him in the evening. Of course, no one would take a fool's words seriously. He didn't expect what the fool said to be true.

The Gao family is all alone in our village, and the Gao family doesn't have any uncles or brothers, but the funeral is still a must. The funeral was presided over by the venerable old men of the village, and every family in the village had contributed to it. The men built the sheds to buy longevity materials, arranged for funeral items, and the women washed vegetables and cooked and bought some miscellaneous items.

By the time the spirit shed was built, the sky had already darkened. For Gauguin's son was a fool, and there were no uncles and brothers, and the village arranged for me and a few unmarried young men and Takatsu to keep watch. This was also a habit left behind by the villagers when they were in their twenties and full of anger. Even ghosts and solitaries had to be afraid of this, and it was unlikely for anything to happen to them while they were on vigil.

On a winter day, the sky was freezing cold. After a short while, Gao Ren fell asleep on his knees. Imp egg, Liu Cong and I, along with another fellow villager, felt chills go down our spines. It's the first time I've been on vigil. Facing a dead person in such a cold weather, don't even mention sleeping. He didn't even dare to take a nap.

After staying up until midnight, the coward suddenly said that he wanted to take a piss. He poked my arm and said, "Brother Feng, accompany me to take a piss. I always feel a little panicked when I'm alone."

Coincidentally, I also had the urge to pee, so I said, "Okay, I'll go with you."

When Liu Cong heard that the two of us were going to pee, he also wanted to go with us. "Both of you went to pee. "Let's go together."

"Isn't this Gao Genji accompanying you? We'll be back soon after we finish peeing." The coward handed a cigarette to Liu Cong and said with a smile.

Liu Cong took Yu Di's cigarette, looked at him kneeling on the ground with his eyes wide open, sleeping soundly, and then swallowed his saliva and said, "You guys better drop it. It's because I was with him that I felt terrified."

"How dare you." The coward said in a bad mood, and then said to me: "This wake is a folk custom, just like the ancient bride to sit in a bridal sedan chair, to split the New Year's money. Even if a person dies, there won't be any problem. I think the three of us should go to the toilet together, so don't suffocate this grandson Liu Cong too much. "

Hearing Imp's words, I nodded my head. This dead man really doesn't need to worry about others stealing from him. Furthermore, he'll be back soon after using the toilet, so nothing bad will happen.

The three of us finished peeing and smoked in the bathroom. Suddenly, I heard a sigh. It was definitely not the sigh of a young person, but more like the voice of an old person. I shone my flashlight around. "Who just sighed?"

"We didn't sigh. Brother Feng, did you hear something? " Liu Cong and Imp Egg were nervous to begin with, and when they heard my words, they looked at me nervously. I used my flashlight to shine on the bathroom. I was relieved to find nothing unusual. "I'm fine. Maybe I'm hallucinating."

Liu Cong sucked on his cigarette and whispered, "Tell me, how could the three of us be so unlucky?" Elder Gao was hanged, he was a dead man. I've heard that Hanged Ghost has the most grievances. "If …"

"Go away." Don't try to scare yourself here. After smoking, he quickly went back to guard the spirit. I always feel a little uneasy about Gao Genji being there. " When I finished, my eyes fell to the wall of the bathroom, and my heart skipped a beat.

The three of us were in the bathroom, but there were four shadows reflected in the light from the flashlight on the wall. I counted them carefully and found that they were indeed four shadows, which meant that there were other things besides the three of us in the bathroom. Gao Laoyi's spirit was hiding behind us, eavesdropping on our conversation.

"Brother Feng, why aren't you saying anything?" The coward tilted his head and asked me, and I made a silent gesture. Pointing at the shadow on the wall, the two of them look at me in confusion, then they look at the shadow on the wall and stop talking. The three of us don't dare to move, we can hear each other's heartbeats.

"What should we do, Brother Feng?" Asked the cowards and Liu Cong in a low voice.

"I don't care?" I gritted my teeth and said, "Wait a moment. I'll call the one, two, and three great families to run outside together."

"Alright." The two of them tremblingly nodded in agreement.

"One, two, three … "Run!"

The three of us hurriedly ran out of the toilet. The coward ran into a black shadow and cried out involuntarily, "Ghost!"

"What the hell, your father is your father." That person said in a bad mood.

With a flash of our flashlight, the black shadow that the coward bumped into was none other than his father, Zhang Erde.

"Why is it you, Second Uncle?" I asked, feeling relieved as I wiped the sweat from my face.

"Why can't it be me? I was worried about you three brats guarding me, so I came over to take a look. What did you see that frightened you? "

"Dad, there's a ghost in the toilet." The coward said with a sad face. Liu Cong and I hastily nodded. "We saw it too."

Seeing how the three of us were panicking, Zhang Er De didn't seem like he was lying. He snatched the flashlight from Imp's hand and rushed into the toilet at the old man's house.