20demayo Chapter 140 Guiding the Way
Chapter 140 Guiding the Way
Zhang Wei and others gathered around the small iron stove, roasting melon seeds and peanuts, and chatted while eating.
If it hadn't been for Su Le'an, Gu Yunting would never have had the possibility of sitting together eating melon seeds and chatting with his children in this life.
Zhang Wei ate some melon seeds, picked up his grandfather's big tea vat, took a sip of water, and started telling stories.
In fact, this was something he heard from his father and mother when he was still a half-grown child.
Zhang Wei's father is Zhang Liangcai. When he was young, he was assigned to the Kyoto Commercial Bureau by the Gu family just after graduating from school.
At that time, high school students were comparable to college students, well-educated people.
After Zhang Liangcai went out to work, he still lived in the Gu family's old house and had to walk a long way to get off work every day.
Later, in order to shorten the time of commuting on the road, he took a path through the mountains. It was indeed much closer to take the path.
It used to take an hour to walk on the main road to get to the main city.
It only takes 25 minutes to climb over the hill behind the old house to get to the main city. Including the time to walk to the workplace, it only takes about 35 minutes at most.
In that era, working hours were pretty fixed, but this time off work was not.
Sign in to work at [-] a.m., and it depends on how much work you have done after get off work.
When there is little work, I will walk by at six o'clock, and when there is a lot of work, I will walk by at ninety o'clock.
Originally, Mr. Gu said that buying him a bicycle would make commuting to and from get off work much faster.
It happens that there is a machinery factory in Haishi that produces bicycles.
But back then, bicycles were a luxury item.
As a person who has only been working for a short time, he cannot afford it at all. If he rides a bicycle to work all day long, why should he be targeted by others?
So he didn't want it and continued to walk to and from get off work every day.
Sometimes Grandpa Gu would wait for him at the place they agreed upon after getting off work late, and pick him up and go with him.
On this day, there were a lot of things going on in the work unit, and it wasn't until after 11 o'clock in the evening that he finished what he was doing.
He packed his things as usual and walked home.
On the way back, he had to pass by a small village. Usually when he passed by this village, it was quite quiet.
But I don’t know why. As soon as he walked into the village, the dogs in every house kept howling.
He felt a little scared in his heart. He was still a little scared to climb this mountain alone in the middle of the night.
When he walked out of the village, the dogs in the village stopped barking for no reason.
This made him even more scared.
He wanted to go back and take the main road, but looking at the sky, it was indeed very late.
If we go back and take the main road, we don’t know how long it will take to reach home.
When I got home, I was probably still sleepy, so I had to get up and get dressed for work.
Later, he gritted his teeth and decided to go back over the mountain.
There was nothing unusual at first. It was already summer, and the moon was still shining brightly in the sky.
He was walking on the mountain road with a flashlight.
As he walked, he suddenly felt footsteps following him behind him.
At first he thought he heard it wrong, so he didn't pay attention and continued walking forward.
But the further he walked, the more obvious the footsteps behind him became. He stopped again, and the footsteps behind him also stopped.
He tentatively walked forward a step further, and sure enough, the footsteps behind him started to sound again.
At this time, he was extremely frightened, but he did not turn around or run.
When he was a child, he heard the old man say that there are three fires in the human body, a divine fire on the top of the head, and an unknown fire on each shoulder.
If you are walking on the road at night and hear someone calling you, don't look back.
As soon as you look back, the nameless fire on your shoulders will be blown out, and dirty things will take advantage of it and hurt you.
On a hot day in August, he felt that the pores on his body were standing upside down and his whole body was cold.
One step he took was followed by another. His legs felt like they were filled with lead. Every step he took felt so strenuous.
Later, when he walked to an open space, he was so scared that he simply found a big rock and sat down.
He stopped, and so did the footsteps behind him.
With trembling hands, he took out two cigarettes from his jacket pocket, struck several matches, and then lit the cigarettes.
He took a cigarette, shook it, and put it on the stone next to him.
He usually doesn't smoke.
He buys cigarettes because he sometimes needs to smoke when meeting colleagues and leaders for social purposes.
That's why he buys a pack of cigarettes and carries them around every day.
He picked up the other cigarette in his hand and put it in his mouth to smoke, almost choking him to death.
After he calmed down, he took another puff, blew out the cigarette and said: "Brother, you have been following me, can't you find the way?
Let me show you the way.
The north direction is towards Tunhe Village, the south direction is towards Qili Village, the east direction is towards Jiagou Village, and the west direction is towards the urban area. "
After he finished speaking, he said nothing more.
After he finished smoking, he looked at the cigarette on the stone next to him. After he finished lighting it, he stood up and said:
"Brother, I also showed you the way. If you find your way home, just go back quickly. It's so late at night, and I have to go back to sleep."
After saying that, he turned on the flashlight and walked towards home.
Hey, don't tell me, after burning the cigarette and pointing the way, the footsteps no longer followed him.
He quickly quickened his pace and ran home to the foot of the mountain. From a distance, he saw his parents standing at the door of the old house waiting for him with flashlights on.
Housekeeper Zhang and his wife felt a little anxious when they saw that it was already midnight and Zhang Liangcai hadn't come back yet.
I wanted to find him, but I didn’t know which way he would come back, so I had to go to the door of my house and wait for him with a flashlight.
Zhang Liangcai sprinted [-] meters and ran to the door of his house. He was breathing heavily and was too tired to say a word.
Butler Zhang saw that his clothes and trousers were soaked all over, and his trouser legs were still dripping, as if he had just been fished out of the water.
He thought Zhang Liangcai had fallen into the water, so he asked Zhang Liangcai anxiously: "Liangcai, what happened to you? Did you fall into the water?"
Zhang Liangcai shook his head, took a breath, and said out of breath to Butler Zhang and his wife:
"Mom and Dad, let's go in quickly. I encountered something dirty tonight."
Butler Zhang and his wife were shocked when they heard this, and they quickly entered the house.
After entering the house, Zhang Cailiang fetched two buckets of water from the well, took a hasty shower and changed his clothes.
Butler Zhang cooked him a bowl of sweet soup, let him drink it to calm his shock, and then asked him what was going on?
After Zhang Cailiang drank the sweet soup in one gulp, he told Butler Zhang and his wife what happened.
Although since the founding of New China, it has advocated belief in science and resisted feudal superstition.
But this theory of ghosts and gods has lasted for thousands of years. You think that if it doesn't really exist, it can't last for thousands of years, right?
Zhang Liangcai thought that he could go home safely and let this be over, so he didn't take it to heart and went back to his room to sleep.
Who knows, he won't be able to get up the next day.
The next day, Butler Zhang prepared breakfast for him, but no one came out to eat. At this time, he had already packed up and went out to eat.
Butler Zhang went to knock on his door, but there was no movement inside. He was a little worried that something had happened, so he just opened the door and went in.
He saw Zhang Liangcai wrapped in quilt, his whole body was shaking and his face was red.
Butler Zhang reached out to touch his forehead. The temperature was frighteningly hot.
He quickly pulled the man up, put his clothes on, and put him on the cart, preparing to take him to the hospital.
As soon as he walked to the door, he met Mr. Gu's security guard who came to pick him up and take him to the army.
Mr. Gu saw that Zhang Liangcai had been burned to the point of unconsciousness, so he slowly dragged him to the hospital on a cart. He didn't know how badly he was burned.
Mr. Gu asked the housekeeper to help the person directly into the car and take him to the hospital first.
On the way, he asked the housekeeper what was going on?Although Zhang Liangcai doesn't look strong, he doesn't get sick often.
Occasionally I get a minor cold, which is fine after taking one or two medicines. It has never been that serious.
Butler Zhang told Mr. Gu about Zhang Liangcai's encounter with dirty things in the back mountain the night before.
Although Mr. Gu is galloping on the battlefield and is upright, after all, he was born in the old society and respects ghosts and gods.
After listening to Butler Zhang's words, he frowned and said, "I'm afraid Liangcai may not be cured well in the hospital.
However, drag it over and try it first. If it doesn't work, let's talk about it later. "
When they arrived at the hospital, Butler Zhang admitted Zhang Liangcai directly.
But after two days of fluids and two days of injections, there was still no improvement. On the contrary, the fever became more and more confused.
When he was in a coma due to fever, he just kept crying and didn't speak. He acted extremely scared, like a child.
After staying in the hospital for three days, there was no effect at all. Mr. Gu took the person back home and quietly asked a gentleman to come and see him.
After the husband came to look at it, he chirped a few words into the air.
In the middle of the night, I asked the housekeeper to fill a half-full bowl of water and rice, and took a scented wax paper candle to the foot of a big tree that Zhang Liangcai passed every day.
They lit incense and candles, burned yellow paper, poured water and rice, and muttered a lot of words.
After the paper was burned, the two came back.
Butler Zhang asked his husband what was going on?
The husband said that this thing was the hanging ghost on the big tree by the roadside.
When Zhang Liangcai passed by the mountain at night, he followed Zhang Liangcai, hoping to find a scapegoat.
It has been following Zhang Liangcai for a long time, but it has never bothered him.
That night, he suddenly wanted to mess with Zhang Liangcai. He wanted to trick Zhang Liangcai into going to the big tree, taking off his belt, and hanging himself on the tree as a scapegoat.
But who knew that before Zhang Liangcai reached the tree, he stopped in the open space, gave him a cigarette, and then gave him directions.
That thing benefited from Zhang Liangcai, so it let Zhang Liangcai go temporarily and did not continue to kill him, but it still followed him home.
Because Zhang Liangcai encountered dirty things the night before, his yin energy was corroded by it, and his yang energy became weaker and weaker.
In addition, the hanged man kept following him, so he couldn't afford to fall ill.
But it is very strange to say that the husband came to do the Fa the day before, and the next day, Zhang Liangcai miraculously recovered, as if nothing was wrong.
Later, after Zhang Liang recovered, he no longer dared to walk on that mountain road.
He would rather work harder every day than take the high road.
Although the road is not safe, at least it is empty.
After two months of absence, Grandpa Gu said that he would rent a room in the city to avoid the tiring trip back and forth.
He doesn't want to. He would rather walk two or three hours a day and go home to live.
He felt that if he did not return to his old home, his heart would be empty, and he would feel like a child without a home.
Therefore, no matter how late he works, he always goes home.
Later, on his birthday, Mr. Gu gave him a bicycle to ride to and from get off work.
Not to mention how much he cherishes it, he only has to carry the bicycle to and from get off work every day.
I have to give my bike a bath every day. If there is a little bit of dust, I quickly take out a rag and wipe it clean.
People asked him how much the bicycle cost.
He told others humbly that he didn't know how much it cost, but that the bicycle was a birthday gift from his uncle.
From then on, there was new gossip in the work unit. Xiao Zhang from the commercial department had a very rich uncle. This Xiao Zhang must be a rich second generation.