Ghost Blowing Lamp II

Chapter 15 Twisted Rope (Part [-])
Amidst the entangled voices of Fatty and Swallow, I hastily pushed away the dead man's feet hanging on my chest, and moved my body back a little. Unexpectedly, there was also a dead body hanging from my back, and I hit it Immediately it shook, and there was a sound of thick hemp rope rubbing against wood immediately above my head. I didn't know how many hanged ghosts were around in the dark, so I had to lie down on the ground, but I could still feel the feet in cotton shoes like "pendulums" Usually, it hangs over my body and sways back and forth.

I was already sweating a lot. I fell down the stone steps just now. I didn’t know where I lost my satchel. I couldn’t find it even if I was in a hurry, so I hurriedly said to Yanzi: “Swallow, come to Liangzi! See where we fell. Here we come." Never mention the word "fire" near the forest farm, even the words next to the word "fire", such as "lighting a lamp" or "candle", if you have to say "lighting a lamp" In other words, it can only be replaced by "Shang Liangzi". This is not a superstition, but out of taboo, just like the fire department that deals with fire alarms, the font name has always used "fire" instead of "fire".

Swallow rolled down the stone steps just now, bumped into all sorts of things, and her mind was a little dazed. When I called her "Shang Liangzi", she finally came back to her senses, took out a pine candle and lit it. Although the air in the depths could circulate, it was still full of turbid gas that was so hot that people's eyes watered. It was good enough to light the pine candles. The faint green light was cold and clear, and there were too many impurities in the air, which blocked the light. Through conduction, the light of the pine candle is not much stronger than that of the will-o'-the-wisp, and it can't even illuminate an area of ​​one meter square.

Under the flickering candlelight, I was eager to see if there was a hanged ghost above my head, but I didn't know if it was because the light from the loose candle was too dim, or because I was just dizzy after rolling and falling, my eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of gauze suddenly, No matter how hard I tried to open my eyes, I couldn't see anything clearly, and the only thing I could vaguely recognize was the light of the candle, but in my eyes, the candle light turned into a dim green light, floating in front of me, Far away for a while, near for a while.

I rubbed my eyes hard, but I still couldn't see clearly, but I heard someone whispering softly behind the light, as if talking to me, I couldn't help wondering, who was talking?Both Fatty and Swallow are cannonballs, and their voices are full of confidence, but if it wasn't them, who was muttering behind the candle?I can neither see clearly nor hear clearly, but people have a kind of subconsciousness. The more they cannot hear clearly, the more they want to hear what they are hearing. I stretched my neck to get closer.

While the body was moving, a chill suddenly appeared in my heart, and I faintly felt that something was wrong. Although I haven't figured out what went wrong, but the dim shadow of the lamp in front of me seems to have seen it somewhere, approaching That pine candle was in danger, and I kept warning myself in my mind, but the thought of realizing the danger of the candle couldn't overwhelm my inner desire to get close to the candle, and I still couldn't help but continued to move forward, already far away from the pine candle. The green light from the candle was getting closer and closer.

Just now I clearly touched the feet of the hanged ghost wearing cotton shoes, and after lighting the candle, the hanged corpse, the swallow and the fat man seemed to have all disappeared suddenly, leaving only the flickering dot of the candle Light, I suddenly thought about the thing about the hanged ghost looking for a substitute, which is to lure people into the noose. Seeing the green light is close at hand, I want to shrink back quickly, but my body is like a nightmare. I kept calling and calling, only my head and neck could move at this time, it was all this damned will-o’-the-wisp, I completely out of survival instinct, without thinking, I aimed at the green light of the pine candle with all my strength and blew it out in one breath.

I blew out the green light of the pine candle like a will-o'-the-wisp, and the whole cellar lighted up instead, and the choking stench was gone. I looked down and saw that I was standing on a kang On the edge of the kang, I was holding a thick hemp rope with both hands, and put it around my neck. I cursed bad luck, and quickly pushed the hemp rope aside.

Before I had time to take a closer look at where I was, I found Fatty and Yanzi standing beside me, pulling the hemp rope that fell from the roof and planning to hang himself. The pine candle, but the flame was no longer green. I quickly reached out to take the pine candle in Yanzi's hand, and pulled off the hemp rope in front of them by the way. The two of them coughed and woke up again from the state of trance.

I didn't have time to think about the nightmare-like shocking experience just now, so I looked around first. I looked up and saw that there was a hut with a kang in the depths of the cellar. We fell from the stone steps and rolled into a pile. On the ground, I didn’t know when I climbed up the earthen kang in a daze, stepped on the edge of the kang and almost hanged in the room. The size of this cellar is similar to that of ordinary houses, and the interior is very dry. There are earthen stoves, earthen platforms and heated kangs. , just like the ordinary houses in the mountains, there are a few rafters on it, and there are countless nooses tied with thick hemp ropes hanging on the wood. Raw silk and copper wires are added to the hemp ropes, which will not rot and break like ordinary hemp ropes after a long time. .

Among the countless nooses, there are four male corpses hanging. The corpses have been drained by the cold wind in the cellar. The four "old hangers" are all sticking out their tongues and staring. The expression on the back was even more horrifying, because the neck of the deceased had been stretched a lot due to the hanging rope for too long.

Swallow is too afraid of ghosts, whether it is mountain ghosts, water ghosts or hanged ghosts, seeing four thrilling "Old Diaoye" in the light of pine candles like beans, I was so frightened that I quickly covered my eyes. He and the fat man didn't speak for a long time, and it was really unlucky to meet a hanger.

I saw a copper oil lamp on the top of the kang, and there was still residual pine oil in it, so I took the fire with a pine candle and lit it. This made the room much brighter. The dead male corpses all wore the same attire, black clothes, black shoes, black trousers, and even a black hat, except for the belt tied around the waist, socks, and hat spikes. , in fact, there are many kinds of red, they are the kind of pig's blood red that is bright red, I can't see what is special about this outfit, but it should not be too old, it seems to be the old style of 30 or [-] years ago Clothes, I guess the Wong Tai Sin Temple buried in the soil was probably dug out by this group of people. Unexpectedly, they failed to get out after they came in. As soon as we entered this cellar, we put ourselves on a rope like a hypochondriac Li Drilling, if I hadn't blown out the will-o'-the-wisp, there would have been three more hanged dead people in the basement at this time. Folks say that a hanged dead person must trick a living person into hanging himself before he can be reincarnated, isn't it? Did we just get hooked by the "Old Hangman" and got hit by a demon?

The fat man regained his strength at this time, pointed at the four "old hangers" and yelled at them, almost letting these hanged ghosts fall into him, thinking of it makes his teeth itch with hatred, there is a tank for lamp oil in the cellar , the fat man kept cursing, and at the same time he tried to pour kerosene on the hanged dead and light their sky lanterns.

I thought it would be better to burn them, lest they cause troubles and harm people's lives in the future, but when I got up, I found a crack in the wall on the side. There is still space behind the cellar, but it is partitioned by an earthen wall, so we couldn’t notice it in the dark. Just in the crack in the wall on the earthen partition, there are two small green lights peeping at us behind the crack in the wall.

(End of this chapter)