C5 Homecoming

The wounds on my body had healed a little bit. Last night, when I slept, I felt as if something was pressing down on my body. However, when I tried to open my eyes, it felt as if my eyes had glued onto me, causing me to be unable to open them.

Maybe it was the thing inside me that made a ghost. It was a ghost.

When I pushed open the door, it started to drizzle. When I was at home, my father would always call me to do farm work in the fields.

Because the rain didn't know if it was going to rain hard, and although it wouldn't have much effect on the crops, my father would always use a hypothetical reason to go down into the fields.

After leaving home for three days, I suddenly felt a little homesick. I have stayed in this small mountain village all my life and have never left my parents for more than a few hours. I don't know how they are doing right now.

Have you been scolded by Uncle Zhou? Have you also been thinking about me …

Or... My head jolted.

I didn't expect that my parents would be in danger and that if the old witch didn't capture me, the consequences would be unimaginable if she were to make a move on my parents.

So I have to go home.

After consulting with the Taoist priest, he told me to go home quickly and see if my parents were in any danger.

I wanted him to accompany me down the mountain, but he refused. I don't know why, but he asked Ah Tong to accompany me down the mountain.

Ah Tong didn't give me any trouble along the way. He walked on my left side in his tracksuit.

I told him to be careful of the three things around him as we went down the mountain, and he didn't seem to care what I said. He shook a dachshund in his hand.

Maybe it was because he was alone, so he didn't spend too much time down the mountain.

It was this familiar road again. Two steps forward was the place where Mr. Huang and I got off the car that night.

I led Ah Tong along the road. Sometimes, a toad would jump out from both sides, and he would run after me with his arms and legs wide.

I called after him, but he couldn't hear me.

I do not understand why he did so. He did not accompany me personally, and at least sent some disciples who knew some of the ways to protect me.

I guess he seems to be wandering around the border of life and death these few days. If I don't report to Yama, he would think that I was playing around with him.

He finally saw the entrance to the village, this familiar entrance, and the dog house beside it.

As I got closer and closer, I could not suppress the joy in my heart.

I was very familiar with this place, but the people who were kind to me before thought I was dead, leaving only my parents and Uncle Huang.

And that crazy woman.

I don't know what the villagers will look like when they see me.

I put on my hat and crossed the sign at the entrance to the village. There was no one sitting in front of the dog house, but the clothes were red and disheveled.

My house is on the east side of the village, so I still have to walk for a while. Fortunately, it is raining so the villagers are basically at home. Some of them eat at the entrance and chat without noticing me.

Even if you saw me, you would be wondering which stranger brought this little Taoist.

I could see my own house from a distance. I really wanted to run over to it. If my mother was there, I would pounce on her.

The door was closed, which was abnormal. Could it be that his parents had gone out? It couldn't be such a coincidence, right?

I knocked a few times, but there was no answer, so I had to jump through the second-floor window at the back door, the way I used to do when I ran out in the middle of the night to catch a toad.

My room still smelled familiar, but there was a picture on the wall and I walked out quietly.

He didn't expect that Ah Tong would sneeze at this time. Sounds immediately came from downstairs.

I heard the footsteps of someone coming up. It was clearly my house, but I could only act like a thief.

I bumped into my father, who was rushing towards me. He was obviously shocked when he saw me. The scythe in his hand froze, unsure if it should be put down or swung down.

"Dad." I shouted, and the scythe fell from my hand, and he slapped me in the face.

I didn't know what to do. Ah Tong, who didn't know what was going on, hid behind me.

The next second, my father hugged me and patted my back, saying the whole time: "Child, why did you come back? If the village head knew about this, he would have brought you back."

Of course I know that, but it's enough to see my parents.

My mother became even more excited when she saw me. She hugged me and cried, telling me what had happened in the past few days.

The day I left, Uncle Zhou found that my grave had been dug up by someone. The coffin inside was empty. The first thing he did was find my parents.

Not only did he get people to destroy a lot of things in the house, but most of the money had also been taken away by him.

The villagers only watched from the side, but no one helped to stop them.

I clenched my fists. Previously, when my family and Uncle Zhou were well, they would come to deliver food and meat every day. Since the family had turned into this, it didn't have anything to do with them being on high.

I asked about Uncle Huang's situation, and my father told me that someone told Uncle Zhou that it was my parents and Mister Huang who sent me out of the village, so he didn't escape.

All the instruments in his clinic had been smashed, and he seemed to have been knocked down.

My mother caressed my face and asked how I had been these past few days.

"Daoist Priest saved me and has been very considerate towards me for the past few days. I live very well in the temple, but I always feel that I owe you a lot." Right after I finished, Ah Tong tugged at my clothes.

Liang, I'm hungry.

This sentence, from the mouth of a child, is particularly funny, teasing the mother who still has tears on her face, she said immediately to cook for us.

My mother went to cook, and my father and I sat on the bed to discuss the matter.

My father asked me what I was doing back here, and I said I wanted to see them.

"Dad, what are you going to do? It's impossible for us to continue like this forever, right?"

He sighed and shook his head. He had offended the Village Head. Right now, they can't even leave the village. As soon as they left, there would be people stopping them.

At the dinner table, my mother kept helping me with the food, saying that I had lost weight.

After all, he hadn't eaten meat for two or three days, so it was normal for him to lose weight.

However, Ah Tong was different. He had no concerns. It was rare for him to see two or three plates of meat and vegetables on the table in the next mountain. It was an irresistible temptation.

I looked at him helplessly. Perhaps the monk had asked him to come down the mountain with me just so he could have a good meal.

There weren't many emotions on the table, so my parents and I didn't talk about what had happened recently. I watched as Ah Tong started to talk about my childhood.

After dinner, Ah Tong was taking a nap in my room. My mother went to pack up while my father was still on the phone.

I was worried and I wanted to go out and find out.

The rain was a bit heavy, so I didn't take up an umbrella. I sneaked into Yellow Emperor's clinic with the door closed, but I had the key to his previous home.

I closed the door quietly behind me and looked around to see if anyone had seen me.

Inside, it was a mess, the needles scattered all over the floor. The air was filled with the smell of medicine and it was extremely unpleasant to the touch. My stomach rumbled for a while and I almost vomited my lunch out.

No one answered when I called him.

No one answered at the clinic. Where did he go?

The smell on the first floor was really unpleasant. After smelling it for a while, his head began to ache.

I went up to the second floor, and although the smell of the medicine had lightened a little, there was something else about it that was suffocating, like the smell of a piece of pork left on a table for a month.

I pushed the door open and stepped on the red liquid, but it wasn't sticky because it was dry on the ground.

I looked over to where the blood was coming from. The sheets were already stained red with blood, and they were now black. There was a person lying on the bed.

I looked closer, and my mouth kept spitting out, and I didn't want to look at the thing again.

That person was none other than Lord Huang. He was already dead, with only a bloody hole left in his eye socket. No one knew where his eye had gone to.

As for his body, there were dozens of needles inserted all over the place, which made his scalp tingle.

I quickly fled the scene, holding on to the wall and gasping for breath, the rain hitting me above my body temperature.

I felt someone staring at me, and I turned my head. It was the crazy woman.

The face under the messy hair revealed an evil smile.