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Chapter 24 - Chapter 24 Sleepwalking

Fame is related to human life, Meng Changqing was extremely caring, and ran directly to the bottom of the village without asking any reason——

When something happened in the village, every household would go to see it, and grandpa was naturally indispensable, so he also went afterwards, telling Xiaoxiao and me to stay in the house and not run around.

How could Xiaoxiao and I stay together? After a little discussion, we went out to the bottom of the village.

When I was going out, Xiaoxiao asked me if my eyes still hurt, I said no, then she squinted her eyes and asked me if I missed her, we are children with a heart, and there are no outsiders, we can say whatever is on our mind, and I said yes .

She giggled twice and said she missed me too, and cried every time I dreamed about it.

It was the first time for me to be missed so much, and I felt very comfortable in my heart.

While we were talking, Uncle Zhang in coir raincoat and bamboo hat appeared in our line of sight.

Ever since grandma died, I hated to see him. After meeting him, I said to Xiaoxiao: "Don't talk to him, let's go."

Xiaoxiao let out a cry, and then I dragged her to the bottom of the village. When she got to Uncle Zhang, Uncle Zhang suddenly said with a smile: "Oh, Xiaoxiao, when did you come back? No one told me ."

"Last night." Xiaoxiao turned around and answered her. I pulled Xiaoxiao to signal her not to talk to Uncle Zhang.

When Uncle Zhang saw me pulling her, he gave me a blank look, and reprimanded him, "Haiwazi, why are you so ignorant, I am your uncle anyway."

I glanced at him, then pulled Xiaoxiao away quickly, and walked a few steps. Uncle Zhang called out to Mu Xiaoxiao from behind, and Xiaoxiao turned her head almost subconsciously.

Then Uncle Zhang said with a smile that it was all right, and let us go.

I cursed to myself that there was something wrong, and I wore a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat on a sunny day.

Take Xiaoxiao to find grandpa and the others in the village. At this moment, most of the people in the village gathered here, we squeezed in and took a look.

An old man in the village was leaning on a chair with a dazed expression on his face. Except for the blinking of his eyes, the rest of his body seemed to be dead. The smell of excrement.

After standing here for a while, I heard the villagers discuss and realized that the old man was fine last night, but he became demented when he woke up this morning.

The villagers speculated that they had run into an evil spirit and asked Meng Changqing to help chase him away.

I saw this state, and it felt a bit similar to when I lost my soul. At that time, I also felt that my body was out of control, and my saliva flowed out. As for defecation, I also had a tendency to pull on my body. , but Meng Changqing pulled me back quickly.

"It seems that I lost my soul." I said after thinking about it.

The villagers didn't care about what I said. What can I know as a little kid? After I finished speaking, Meng Changqing looked up at me, said something to become smarter, and then told the villagers that he lost his soul, and he had to call his soul quickly. OK.

Seeing that Meng Changqing said the same thing, the villagers praised me one after another, saying that I could become a teacher.

When Xiaoxiao saw that the villagers praised me, she squinted her eyes and laughed, saying that I was amazing.

The method of summoning the soul is quite simple. It is to call back the soul that was left outside. It doesn't need to be too advanced. Meng Changqing just fiddled with it a few times on the spot, and then asked the villagers to help the old man into the room.

After the old man was taken nearby, Meng Changqing asked the villagers if they didn't hear or see anything strange last night. Generally, there are only two possibilities for losing their souls. The first is that they were scared and lost their souls, and the second is that they were hooked. soul.

The villagers recalled it and said that there was nothing strange. After they discussed for a while, a villager came out and said that when he got up to relieve himself at three o'clock in the morning this morning, he heard a dog barking a few times, and it was barking in this direction.

After hearing this, Meng Changqing said that the old man should have seen something dirty last night, and his soul was frightened. The specifics will not be known until the old man wakes up.

Throughout the afternoon, people in the village did nothing and stayed at the old man's house.

Xiaoxiao and I were also waiting here, and I, Xiaoxiao, and Meng Changqing were sitting on a bench, with her sandwiched between us. For some reason, she was very afraid of Meng Changqing, and when she saw Meng Changqing, she became cautious.

Meng Changqing was also willing to tease her. When he was bored while waiting, he pinched her face, stroked her head, or teased her a few words, and asked Xiaoxiao if he would like to be his apprentice. At first Xiaoxiao was stunned every time. , She was relieved after Meng Changqing finished pinching or asking.

After doing this a few times, Xiaoxiao also got used to it. Whenever Meng Changqing pinches her, she will avoid it.

Seeing the two of them playing tricks here, the villagers also laughed straight away.

At around six o'clock in the afternoon, the old man was helped out. After he got out, he told the villagers what he saw.

Last night he heard a cat meowing outside in the middle of the night. At first he thought it was other cats in the village passing by, so he didn't pay attention, but the cat kept meowing outside the window for more than half an hour. , standing at the door is a cat, obviously a child who can just walk.

He was frightened like this after seeing the child, and he didn't know what happened after that.

Meng Changqing frowned after hearing this, and the villagers knew that something unclean had entered the village when they saw him like this, so they hurriedly asked Meng Changqing what it was.

Meng Changqing said solemnly: "The baby spirit has entered the village. I will guard the village tonight. If you hear someone knocking on the door or cats meowing, don't go out."

The villagers didn't know what an infant spirit was, and they didn't know how to be afraid, so they asked Meng Changqing for advice.

Meng Changqing saw that the sky hadn't completely darkened yet, so he told everyone about the baby spirit.

Infant spirits are formed by the wraiths of dead fetuses or infants. Most of the causes are related to abortion. After being aborted, they will reattach themselves to the stomach of the person who aborted them, reborn, and then take revenge on their own. parents. An important feature of Yingling is that they cannot speak, but their voice is like cat meowing.

Yingling's very powerful ghosts, their resentment is heavier than ghosts, and their adaptability is stronger than humans, so they are very difficult to deal with.

With just such a few simple words, the villagers' backs felt chills, and some smart people thought of the child that Hu Haiyan killed, and said, "Could it be the doll that Hu Haiyan and the others dropped?"

Meng Changqing said it was very possible. He said that only Hu Haiyan and Zhang Shike had abortions in this area recently, but Hu Haiyan had already been taken away, and even if she gave birth to a baby spirit, she would not be able to come back here, so Meng Changqing guessed that the baby spirit must have been born from something else.

Born from other things, all I can think of is that the big yellow ox gave birth to a calf and ran away a few days ago. It is a strange thing for the big yellow cow to be pregnant. During pregnancy, the big yellow cow would cry when I saw it. If it was pregnant normally, it would How could there be such a strange performance.

There is also a big ox that died after giving birth to the stuff in its stomach. No one in the village has ever seen what was born.

I can think of it, Meng Changqing can naturally think of it, and the villagers also thought of it, asking whether it was born from a big yellow cow.

Meng Changqing said that if the baby spirit would normally attach to the body of his original parents, it would not enter the body of the cow at all, if so. Someone must be playing tricks.

After he finished talking to the villagers, he looked at me and Xiaoxiao seriously, and at the same time said very seriously: "You two must follow me closely these few days."

Seeing how serious he was, I nodded. The villagers saw that Meng Changqing was protecting us so much, many of them wanted to give their grandsons or sons to Meng Changqing as apprentices, but Meng Changqing politely refused.

After the sun went down, Meng Changqing told all the villagers to disperse, told them to go home and close the door, and told them to throw out their cats, otherwise Yingling would think it was one of its kind when he heard the meowing of the cat, and when he found it, he would come trouble.

Meng Changqing wanted to guard here at night, fearing that the infant spirit would come out to make trouble again, Xiaoxiao and I were naturally brought by his side.

Grandpa wanted to stay with him, but Meng Changqing politely refused.

After his grandfather went back, Meng Changqing changed into his Taoist robe, found a chair and sat on the flat ground in the village, with his right arm slightly open, he put the money sword on the ground.

Xiaoxiao and I were guarded by him, and I saw his posture so handsome, Xiaoxiao didn't know what he was doing, so he asked me.

Before I could answer, Meng Changqing turned his head to look at Xiaoxiao and said with a smile, "Girl, you worship me as your teacher, and I will teach you Taoism, how about it?"

Xiaoxiao nodded repeatedly and said no, but when I heard it, I thought it was unfair. I have been with him for so long, and up to now it is just drinking tea. According to what he said, as soon as Xiaoxiao asks for a teacher, he will teach her.

I thought to myself that if Xiaoxiao had learned it, it would be the same if she taught me. Seeing that Xiaoxiao rejected Meng Changqing, I immediately shook her to signal her to agree.

Meng Changqing sensed my movement and stared back at me: "Brat, why don't others want you to shake her?"

I chuckled, and sat up behind Meng Changqing's back in accordance with Meng Changqing's request. Xiaoxiao was sleepy by herself, so she fell asleep on top of me.

It was almost midnight, and there was still no movement around, but the door behind us creaked open, and the old man in the room brought us a pot of tea.

Meng Changqing is not thirsty at the moment. Although I am thirsty, I am afraid that Xiaoxiao will be woken up by too much movement. The old man put the teapot next to us and told me that if I am sleepy, I can go to his house to sleep first.

Seeing that I was really sleepy too, Meng Changqing nodded in agreement and asked me to take Xiaoxiao into the house.

The old man's son and daughter-in-law have gone out to work, and his grandson has also been taken to the city, and now he is left alone at home.

There are not enough beds in his house, so he arranged me and Xiaoxiao on the same bed. It was fine at our age, but I always felt it was weird. If Meng Changqing saw it, he would definitely scold me for being very lewd.

I didn't think too much about it for the time being, and fell asleep after lying on the bed for a while. After I don't know how long, when I was in a daze, Xiaoxiao sat up from my side, then got out of bed sideways and walked outside.

I murmured and asked where you were going, but Xiaoxiao didn't answer me, and went straight out.

After hearing the door creak and being opened, I woke up suddenly, got up as fast as I could and chased it out.

The old man also heard the sound and got up. He thought we heard movement outside opening the door and came out to stop us. After hearing me that Xiaoxiao had gone out, he hurriedly chased it out with a flashlight.

Meng Changqing was no longer outside, and I didn't know where she went. I saw Xiaoxiao walking outside step by step, and was about to go up to hold her, but was stopped by the old man.

The old man had a lot of knowledge and said that Xiaoxiao was sleepwalking, and if she was woken up now, she would be scared to death.

Now I don't know where Meng Changqing went, he must know what to do in this situation, the old man thought about it, and finally asked me to follow Xiaoxiao, and he went to find Meng Changqing.