Chapter Thirty-Three Take Me Home
The torch for the wedding was still there and it was not moving. I don’t know who those people met again. While thinking about it, I accelerated my speed under my feet. Now I lost Director Zhang and Shanshan. Although those people also scared me, I don’t know when I will enter this village again next time. Speaking of which, this village is really strange. It appeared suddenly, but so many people searched for so long but couldn’t find it, as if it was the legendary Peach Blossom Land.
As I thought about it, I finally gradually approached the bride-welcoming team, and the sedan chair was also there. I vaguely saw them surrounding them, as if discussing something. Perhaps there were some people in the middle, but I couldn't see or hear any sounds as far away. I slowed down, hid my body, and slowly approached them, trying to figure out what these people were doing. Since Director Zhang told me about the things he encountered, I was almost always wary of these people who had died. Who knew what terrifying truth would be hidden behind their strange actions.
I tried to lighten my pace. In the place where I met me before, a group of people formed a circle. I saw the old man and Jia Chong, but this time I didn't see the old woman washing clothes. With the fire, I saw their eyes staring at the center of the circle, and the expression on my face was very excited, as if the person or thing in the center of the circle was very important to them.
I slowly moved forward. Anyway, their attention was focused on the center of the circle at this time, and almost no one noticed that I was slowly approaching them. I had gradually felt the temperature of the torch, and I could even hear the coughing sounds they couldn't help but make because of their nervousness, but there was still no movement in the center of the circle. At this moment, a scream suddenly came from the circle, and a loud voice said: "I don't know!"
The sound was extremely familiar. I was shocked by the sound and my body instinctively wanted to rush out. Although I quickly controlled my actions, I had accidentally bumped into a small tree and made a sound when I shook my heart. I felt bad, so I raised my head. Sure enough, those people had already noticed the strangeness here, and a few people rushed over quickly.
At this time, I didn't care about the person in the circle and just wanted to run away quickly. But no matter how familiar I am, I can't compare to the locals living here. Before I could run far, I was grabbed by someone on my shoulders. Then I felt four or five hands pressed on me together. Then I was pushed to the ground heavily, and then someone twisted my hands and pulled them up from the ground. A torch was immediately handed to me. Suddenly, the light made me close my eyes involuntarily. I heard someone scream: "It's you?!" The voice was filled with joy and incredible.
I also felt that the voice was very familiar. I slightly adapted to the changes in the light. I opened my eyes and saw a short fat man standing in front of me. It was Jia Chong who I had seen before. He looked at me with a look of surprise. His scream just now attracted the people around not far away. I finally saw the person in the circle. No wonder I thought that the voice was very familiar, because I was also very familiar with the people inside. He was Xiao Yang.
This was an unexpected encounter. I thought that the person here should be Shanshan or Director Zhang, but I didn't expect that it was Xiao Yang. You must know that he had always been with Leng Yue, but now he is the only one. Thinking of their question just now, it seemed that these people wanted to ask something from Xiao Yang, but Xiao Yang's answer was not known. I don't think Xiao Yang is a fool now. He seems to know something that I don't know but is extremely important, and I don't know if these people are asking this thing.
Xiao Yang also obviously recognized me, and judging from the expression on his face, he obviously didn't expect to meet me in this way. I saw his lips moving, and seemed to have something to say, but I still didn't say it.
At this time, the old man also came over, and I saw his face full of surprise. This joy was stronger and more obvious than what I discovered just now when I looked at Xiao Yang. It seemed that in his eyes I was an endless treasure full of temptation.
I immediately felt a bad premonition. The old man looked at me carefully and suddenly shouted something loudly. I couldn't understand, but immediately those people gathered around me and lifted me up. Among them, Jia Chong worked the most and hardly let others get close to me. I was forced to hold my body down by these people, and then someone took out a set of clothes from the sedan chair and put them on me regardless of the silence. With the light of the fire, I saw that it was a red dress, just like what I saw in the photo, a wedding dress worn by a woman.
I was so scared that I screamed, but these people didn't care about me. It was useless to struggle with so many hands pressing me hard. Jia Chong worked even harder and pressed my hands tightly. At this time, he felt someone take off my shoes, and then put a pair of shoes on my feet, which made my feet hurt. I knew they must have put on a pair of red embroidered shoes.
Only when they packed me up would I have the chance to see my current makeup. I was wearing a wedding dress for women. My feet were indeed wearing a pair of red embroidered shoes as I thought. But the shoes were too small and were already out of shape. Before I could speak and questioned me, Jia Chong took a rope from somewhere, tied my hands and body tightly, and then blocked a piece of cloth in my mouth. He carried me up and stuffed me into the sedan chair. The moment he put down the curtain, I found that Xiao Yang was still being escorted by two people. He looked at me in the sedan chair with a sympathy.
The curtain was quickly put down, and then I felt the sedan chair being lifted up, tremblingly and unknown where to lift it. Those people were following the edge of the sedan chair, with a torch close to it. A slight light came in from the gap in the sedan curtain. I held my right hand tightly. The ropes were actually not tied very tightly, at least I wouldn't say that my hand could not move. I tried to relax myself to save my energy. After a while, I carefully spread my right hand and placed a small cloth head in my palm.
This is what Jia Chong put in my hand just now.
From the beginning, Jia Chong seemed very excited when he found me, and this was even more so when he tied me up later. Not only did he move quickly, but he also had a huge range of movements, and almost no one could get close to others. The cloth head was stuffed into my hand at that time. He also deliberately put water when he tied me up. Not only did he not tied it too tightly, but he also did not tie my hand behind me. I even suspected that the torch closest to the outside of the sedan was deliberately made for me to facilitate it so that I could now have the opportunity to see the mystery of this cloth head.
I bent down with great effort and tried to lift my hand up. I saw that the cloth head was very irregular, and there seemed to be some silk on the side. It was obviously torn off temporarily. A few words were written in a charcoal pen: "Take me home."
The hairs all over my body suddenly stood up. This sentence was so familiar. In the hypnotic world, Yi Niang once received a letter from Erliang who was already dead. The letter simply said "Take me home". Later, although I had a person who looked very similar to Erliang in Fengmen Village, I knew that the story of "Old House" behind it was actually not a simple story. There were a lot of secrets I didn't know, but I didn't know how to crack it, and gradually I forgot it. But I didn't expect that at this time, in this strange village, a dead person suddenly handed me a piece of cloth, with such a very familiar word on it.
You know, I have seen Jia Chong's grave with my own eyes. Could it be that the story of "Old House" is to tell me that people can actually be resurrected if they die? Although this statement sounds ridiculous, I did see the dead Wang Zihua and Yang Zijiang resurrected again in Fengmen Village. Director Zhang also saw Yang Zijiang's body with his own eyes, but soon afterwards he reappeared in his hometown. All these incredible things seem to show that people can actually be resurrected if they die. The question is why Jia Chong asked me to take him home, why did he not say these words to me last time he had a better chance to contact me, instead of using sneaky methods until now?
These questions are not something I can understand, but I am not in a hurry. Since Jia Chong gave me a signal, it means that he will definitely come to me. Even to be optimistic, at least there will be no danger to my life safety during this period. The sedan chair gradually tilted a little, as if it was going uphill. After a while, the sedan chair stopped, followed by rustling footsteps. The people retreated one after another. I immediately became quiet, and I could hear nothing except my breathing.
I couldn't help but start to get tired, but I was unable to break free from my body. Maybe Jia Chong was worried that I would run away, so although it was not tied up very tightly, it was impossible for me to break free. After struggling for a while, I had to give up the plan to escape and waited for Jia Chong to come. However, after waiting for a while, no one came over, and I couldn't help but start to be scared.
I can't see the scene outside or the sound outside in the sedan chair, but I can hear my breathing sound. Even because of the small space in the sedan chair, the breathing sound gradually became heavy, making people feel involuntarily afraid, as if it was not the sound I made, but the other person I couldn't see was hiding in the sedan chair.
My heart suddenly moved, remembering that I had seen the sedan chair with Shanshan in a small temple not long ago. There was no one inside at that time, but I strongly felt a person sitting in the sedan chair looking at me. I couldn't help but think: Could it be that there was actually a person sitting in the sedan chair at that time, but I couldn't see him, and he was tied up, so I couldn't move, so I could only look at me silently, just like I am now. If someone lifted the curtain at this time, would he not be able to see anything, but I was really sitting here?
As soon as this thought came up, my previous thought came out again. If they really couldn't see me, wouldn't I actually really not exist in this world? I am the real ghost?
I couldn't continue thinking about it because the curtain of the sedan chair was suddenly lifted up, and I felt relieved. Jia Chong finally came over. I was thinking too much just now and couldn't even notice the sound of his footsteps.
Chapter completed!