Harmonious home

Chapter 29 The ghost that scares you in the middle of the night
The night came quietly, the stars in the sky dotted the sky, and the moon shyly hid in the clouds. After a tiring day, I comforted the two children and fell asleep early.

In the middle of the night, Dabao suddenly yelled loudly, waking me up from my deep sleep. I quickly turned on the light and asked, "What's the matter, Dabao?" ...Ghost, ghost, so many ghosts!" I saw his eyes glazed over, his hands and eyes fixed on the electric light, his appearance was terrified, and he kept crying, "Ghost...", Both hands firmly grabbed the quilt and burrowed in. I reached out to comfort him, but he buried his head in the quilt even more tremblingly and screamed.I comforted him and said, "Don't be afraid of Dabao, with my mother around, even the most powerful ghosts will not dare to come." Then Dabao gradually calmed down.I thought about the series of events that happened during the day, and felt a little strange. Just like what I saw at my aunt’s house when I was a child, I took off the needle on the mosquito net, wrapped the thread around my middle finger, and then pricked it to bleed. Crosses were drawn on the forehead, palms, feet, and chest. As for the words my aunt recited at that time, I don’t know. I just learned to sit like a gourd, and then grabbed rice and sprinkled it around. I just woke up, and poked out a small head to say to me: "Mom, I want to take medicine." I said "Oh", thinking, is there really a ghost?Otherwise, I will learn from the gourd painting like a big treasure like a normal person, and my eyes are brighter than before, and I am worried about waking my sister, so I crawled to my side in a low voice and said.Seeing that he didn’t move, he pushed me again and said, “Mom, I’m going to take medicine.” I quickly motioned him to lie down, then poured boiling water and handed him the medicine, and Dabao quickly put the medicine in his mouth and drank it Drooling, I swallowed the medicine with a "gudong" of my head, and I didn't bother at all. I thought to myself, it's strange that this child is completely different from taking medicine during the day?But time didn't allow me to think too much. In order to give Dabao a sense of security, I moved to Dabao's side to sleep next to him. I never thought that Dabao's cough would be healed the next day.I felt very strange, but I couldn't explain the reason behind it. I just felt a pair of invisible eyes staring at me.

On this day, the house that had been busy for several months was finally completed. The nephew who was contracted to build the house smiled and said to me after removing the last wooden stick: "Auntie, you can rest assured now. The house is built, and the last step Once all the sticks are dismantled safely, you don’t have to worry about any more problems.” I thought to myself, I’m already exhausted from these busy months, if something else happens halfway, I really can’t hold on anymore?Then he smiled and said to him: "Thank God! You have been tired during this period. Now you can go home and have a peaceful sleep." After saying that, the fifth brother of Liuzi also came over to help me put the wood into the house. I was moving around, but when I reached the last stick, my foot accidentally stepped on a rusty nail. A sharp stabbing pain made me realize that I looked down at the instep of my instep. The nail almost nailed the instep of my instep. After wearing it, there was only one layer of leather missing. From the outside, the upper of the shoe suddenly arched up. I held back the pain and told Brother Wu to wait a moment. He asked, "What's going on?" I said my foot had stepped on a nail. .He stood still, and I quickly stepped on the wooden board with the nails on it with my right foot. I pulled out my left foot hard and pulled it out. I carried the wooden sticks into the house one by one.My nephew looked at me and said, "It's really hard work. It seems that this evil ghost won't let you go. You should quickly put a sour eggplant on the nail hole and slap it hard. Just pat the rust out of the nail. I did it and it didn't work. My feet will be fine in a few days, and I can walk freely on the ground.

A week later, I caught wind and cold again. I was short of money after the house was built, and I thought it would be better after a while. I never thought that the cough would get worse and worse. It could not be cured for a long time, and my waist hurt when I walked. I couldn't stretch straight, and when it was severe, I coughed so much that my waist hurt on both sides.Seeing me like this, my mother-in-law nagged and said, "Let me tell you, when people know that you are going to build a house and ask witches to send ghosts, they deliberately pour water and rice on your side, but you don't listen, and you don't listen when they tell you to go to Guanyin Bodhisattva to burn incense. Look at this, the repair of the house is either the food is not cooked properly or the worker fell from the roof, or the child is haunted in the middle of the night. After finally watching the house being built, your feet were pierced by nails again, and now you are coughing like this , I think if you continue to toss about like this, there may be some moths, and I will see how you owe the money..." I thought the same, is it possible that there are really ghosts?If it weren't for God's blessing, this house really wouldn't be built!Well, I can't go on like this, I have to get well and go out to earn money to pay off my debts.Thinking of this, I smiled and said to my mother-in-law: "Well, you are right, health is the fatal capital. If you lose money, you can earn more. If you lose your life, you have nothing. There is still a lot of money, believe me, I can't just fall down like this and be tricked by evil spirits, I have to go to the medical store to get medicine and cure my illness." The mother-in-law sighed and shook her head and left.After a period of infusions, injections and medicines, the evil spirits that disturbed and harmed our family were sent away.I smiled, entrusted the two children to my mother-in-law and went out to work. After more than a year of hard work, I just paid off the debts I owed, but I thought that the house was empty and I needed to chip in to buy some furniture. The children grew up in a healthy environment. Unexpectedly, Liu Zi's elder brother called and said that his father-in-law suddenly fell ill and died. His dream of buying furniture for the children was ruined.

Just after the funeral, the six sons called to tell me that my mother-in-law had been diagnosed with lung cancer and needed treatment. Our family suddenly fell into a stalemate. There was no place for the two children to be entrusted, so the six sons had to stay in their hometown to take care of the two children to go to school.

Later, my six sons and I discussed that in order to ensure that our two children would not lack maternal love, I transferred the outside store and returned to my hometown. I thought that this would give my children a complete home, but the reality was far from as simple as we thought.

(End of this chapter)