diskusbooks Chapter 144 Grandma, what are you eating?
Chapter 144 Grandma, what are you eating?
(The following are stories about walking in the underworld that the author heard from her grandmother.)
When I was a child, I lived with my grandmother, who told me many strange and bizarre stories.
Some of them were heard from others, and some were my grandmother’s own experiences.
My grandmother also told me about this matter of Yin-walking. It was something she had experienced personally.
My grandmother's mother did not live long and passed away when my grandmother was in her teens.
In the past, life expectancy was not long, and many people died in their fifties or sixties.
Nowadays, people in their fifties and sixties are just retiring and enjoying life.
Aunties in their fifties and sixties are happily dancing in the square, and uncles in their fifties and sixties can sit by the river fishing all day long.
On the third anniversary of my grandmother’s mother’s death, the family invited a ghost walker to come.
Although their mother has left, they still care about her and wonder how she is doing in the afterlife.
The man who was practicing Yin-Walking was from their village, and his secret technique of Yin-Walking was never passed on to outsiders.
Generally it is passed down from father to son, but it seems that practicing Yin seriously depletes Yang energy, and the number of people who know this skill is decreasing.
My grandmother was watching nearby at the time. A large stone millstone was pressing on the chest of the ghost.
Lying on a big table, when moving, the posture really looks like walking.
He also held yellow paper money in his hand to bribe the ghost.
After a while, it seemed that I had reached the underworld and found my grandmother's mother.
The ghost asked her if she needed anything in the underworld.
The person walking in the underworld was a man, but when he spoke again it was a woman's voice.
She said a few words, the main point of which was that she was still very poor down there, without even a house, and had to live under someone else's eaves every day.
Life is miserable and very difficult.
After the ghost came back, he prepared some things to burn, mainly paper houses, gold ingots, paper money, etc.
When I heard my grandmother tell this, I was really confused because I don’t believe in ghosts or gods.
I grabbed my grandmother's hand and asked her very seriously.
"Grandma, you are not kidding me? Are you kidding me? Is this true?"
Grandma nodded, "Really? Why would I lie to you?"
But I was still confused. "Is the voice of that ghost walker really your mother's voice?"
Grandma spoke without a trace of doubt, "It must be my mother's voice, how could I have heard it wrong?"
To this day, I still don't understand what is going on.
Do ghosts and gods really exist? Is there really reincarnation in this world? Is there an underworld?
I don't understand, but I think all I have to do is remain in awe.
In addition to this story about walking on the Yin, my grandma also told me a story about the bear-human grandma, which many of my Sichuan friends have heard of.
This story is also very interesting. I often ask my grandma to tell it to me. I have heard it many times.
There was a family whose father went to work far away and whose mother usually stayed at home to take care of two girls.
Once there was a wedding in the village and someone was needed to help steam the buns.
In the past, in rural areas, after a happy event, each villager would be given a large steamed bun to take home and share in the good fortune.
So the mother prepared to go to this family's house and help with the steaming of buns.
Go a day in advance and stay at the host's house for a day or two.
But what about the two children at home?
Both girls were very young. The older sister was only ten years old, and the younger sister was just beginning to understand things.
The mother was worried about her two children, so she asked their grandmother to come and take care of them.
Before leaving, the mother gave her two children some instructions.
"You should behave yourself at home. Grandma will come and take care of you later."
Grandma's home is very far away, and the two sisters have never seen their grandmother since they were born.
So the elder sister asked her mother, "Mom, what does grandma look like? We don't know!"
The mother thought about it and didn't know how to describe the appearance, so she mentioned the most distinctive feature.
"There is a small piece of white cloth sewn on the front of your grandmother's clothes. When you see the person with the white cloth sewn on the chest, just open the door."
"Okay! Mom, go ahead, we will be good!"
The elder sister held her younger sister's hand and said goodbye to their mother.
The two sisters waited in the room until late at night, and finally there was a knock on the door.
"Dong dong dong! Dong dong dong!"
There was a knock on the door outside. My sister didn't open it immediately, but stood at the door and asked.
"who are you?"
A voice came from outside the house, "Open the door quickly, I'm your grandma!"
The sister was very cautious. After hearing this, she did not open the door directly, but opened it slightly.
My sister looked outside through the crack in the door.
There was indeed an old woman outside, and there was a white thing on the front of her clothes.
The little girl felt relieved and opened the door.
"Grandma, you're here, come in and sit down!"
"Hey! Good, good, good!"
Grandma walked into the house with a smile, but after entering she stood there without sitting down.
My sister took a stool and handed it to grandma.
"Grandma, please sit down and rest for a while."
The grandmother took the stool but did not sit down. Instead, she spoke to my sister.
"I recently developed a sore on my buttocks, and this stool is uncomfortable to sit on. Do you have a water tank at home? I want to sit on it."
Although my sister felt a little strange when she heard this, she didn't think much about it. She took out an empty tank from home and let grandma sit on it.
After that, the three of them sat in the room and chatted about random things.
My sister always feels that there is something strange about grandma, but she can't tell what's wrong.
As it was getting darker, it was time to go to bed.
My sister brought a basin of water for washing feet and prepared to wash up and go to bed.
The grandmother said to the two little girls with a smile on her face.
"You two should wash carefully. Whoever washes cleanest will sleep with me tonight."
"Sure! I want to sleep with grandma!"
My sister smiled happily and scrubbed her feet carefully, making them white and clean.
But my sister felt a little uneasy and always felt something was weird.
When washing my feet, I smeared the dust on the ground on my feet.
After washing my feet, they are still dirty.
Grandma came over, looked at their feet, and hugged my sister in her arms.
"My sister washes the cleanest. I will sleep on the same bed with her tonight!"
So the grandmother took the two children to bed together.
My sister was sleeping in the middle of the night when she suddenly heard some noise, a creaking sound.
In the dark night, she rubbed her eyes and asked her grandmother sleepily.
"Grandma, what are you eating?"
Grandma was stunned for a moment and said, "I'm eating fried broad beans. Your grandfather made it for me before he left."
My sister didn't eat anything at night and is now very hungry.
So he said to his grandmother, "Grandma, please give me something to eat. I'm so hungry now."
But her grandmother refused her, "These fried broad beans are very hard, and children can't chew them."
My sister was so hungry that she kept pestering grandma to give her something to eat.
"Grandma, please give me something to eat. I'm really hungry!"
Finally, her grandmother was so annoyed by her that she handed her a small thing.
When my sister took it and was about to put it into her mouth, she could see clearly what was in her hand under the faint moonlight.
Suddenly his eyes widened, his whole body stiffened, and all the blood in his body froze!