Fortunately, Uncle Li came back in time, and I felt a little relieved. Just as I was about to get up, I found that Uncle Li was staring at my back.
After Uncle Li looked at me like this, my heart, which had just calmed down, began to get scared again.
It seemed that after leaving the alley, except for the taxi driver, everyone I met, whether it was a person or something else, was staring at my back. At this time, I saw Uncle Li staring at my back, and I felt something was wrong.
"Uncle Li, what are you looking at?"
I forced a smile. Although there was no mirror around, I knew that my smile must be ugly without looking in the mirror, because I could feel that my facial muscles were very stiff! ! !
"Nothing."
Uncle Li then retracted his gaze and said something inexplicable to me: "Wait here first, I'll go upstairs."
After that, Uncle Li quickly went upstairs, leaving me standing there stiffly, not daring to move. After Uncle Li retracted his gaze, although he looked as if nothing had happened, I was too familiar with him and still noticed that something was wrong with him. It seemed that he was deliberately pretending to be nothing...
What happened?
Why do people and other things always stare at my back? Is there something wrong behind me?
Just as I was thinking about it, Uncle Li had come down from the building. He was completely different. He walked like a dragon, with his back straight and his nose wide open. He looked like a furious King Kong. He held a fist-sized golden seal in his hand. He rushed to me in a few steps and roared, "You evil beast, don't hurt my nephew!"
I was completely shocked by Uncle Li's roar. After all, the Uncle Li I knew was always a gentle and respectable elder. He was not like this. He exuded an aura that I dared not look at. For a moment, my legs seemed to be filled with lead. I stood there straight and motionless. I just watched Uncle Li rush to me and swing the golden seal in his hand to hit me hard behind me.
Bang!
There was a muffled sound behind me, followed by an extremely sharp roar of "Ah".
The roar was not like a human voice. It was sharp, cold, and full of resentment with a hint of pain. I got goose bumps all over my body.
Then, I felt a gust of cold wind blowing behind me, and the door opened with a clang...
I felt my body lighten up. My heavy body suddenly became relaxed. I don't know where I got the courage. I turned around and looked at the door. Then I opened my eyes in disbelief.
I saw an old lady with white hair, hunched body, and wearing a black shroud running out quickly. She was wearing a pair of small shoes that were only three inches in size, with wide soles on the top and round on the bottom, and shaped like flower pots. She ran very fast and disappeared at the end of the dark long street in a few flashes.
From beginning to end, I didn't see the face of the hunched old lady. I only saw her back, but it was enough to scare me silly!
Who would wear shrouds?
And even if there are still old people with bound feet alive today, they will never wear shoes with wide soles on the top and round bottoms, which are shaped like flower pots, because those shoes are called flower pot shoes, which were only worn by women in the Qing Dynasty. They have been eliminated now. Except for people like me who study antiques all day long, most people can't even name those shoes, let alone recognize them! !
All these made me sweat all over my body. That old lady... is not a human!
"Xiaotian, it's okay."
Uncle Li's voice woke me up from my daze. I turned my head and saw that Uncle Li had unknowingly walked to my side. His face was slightly pale. He was staring at the direction where the old lady in black shrouds left, and seemed to be frowning and thinking about something.
I laughed bitterly and asked a question that even I found ridiculous: "Was that thing behind me just now?"
"On your back.
This thing is very fierce, and it looks like it will not give up. It is clearly here to harm you, not a lonely ghost!"
Uncle Li sighed and said in a deep voice: "I guess it must have tried to make you turn back, but it failed. Seeing that you have three Yang Fires to protect you, it can't get on you, so it simply climbed on your back."
No wonder I felt so heavy before, it turned out that there was a dirty thing crawling on my body!
Thinking back to it now, I still get goose bumps all over my body. I remember hearing this kind of thing from my father once before.
The same thing happened to a rich man's son. He kept a female college student, got her pregnant, and left after leaving tens of thousands of dollars. The female college student was so upset that she hanged herself in red clothes and red shoes at midnight when the yin energy was the heaviest. On the seventh day, she turned into a fierce ghost and came back to the rich man's house. Because the rich man had a talisman given by a master, she couldn't possess him to harm others. So she simply lay on his back and let him carry her for three days and three nights. Not only was her spine broken, but even her yang energy was sucked out. She died extremely miserably, almost skin and bones were left, and her hair was completely white for a person in her twenties.
I couldn't help but sigh at my luck. If it weren't for Uncle Li, I would have followed in the footsteps of the rich man. I sincerely thanked Uncle Li at the moment.
"Don't be polite to me, your father is gone, I won't let anything happen to you!"
Uncle Li said this firmly, then looked at me seriously and asked, "Xiaotian, tell me everything that happened before you came to the store. I can't understand how you could get into trouble with such a vicious thing."
"To be honest, I don't know either."
I lowered my head and smiled bitterly, and then told me everything that happened from the time I left home to the store, even the thing that pretended to be Uncle Li that was taken away by the mysterious woman. After all, Uncle Li is my only lifeline now, and I dare not hide anything.
After I finished speaking, Uncle Li lit a cigarette for himself and fell into silence for a long time, frowning, as if thinking about something, and his face was a little uncertain in the smoke.
After more than ten minutes, Uncle Li finally let out a long sigh: "Logically speaking, these gods and ghosts should also be reasonable. A child just accepted something he shouldn't have accepted because of greed. Even if they come to collect debts, they should be warned first. How can they catch me and beat me to death without giving me any chance!"
When I heard Uncle Li say that those things clearly wanted to kill me without any room for maneuver, I was a little panicked and asked hurriedly: "Uncle, do I still have a way to survive?"
"Yes!
Don't worry, Xiaotian, uncle will not let you get hurt no matter what you say."
Uncle Li gave a positive answer and said in a deep voice: "But the only thing that makes me confused now is the thing that sent you the marriage certificate, and the mysterious woman you mentioned and the dirty thing pretending to be me.
I still can't be sure whether they are human or not!
As for the driver not seeing the things on your back, this is easy to explain. Drivers who dare to drive at night are generally more Harder ones, they have strong Yang energy, plus the thing on your back is not aimed at him, it is normal that he can't see it. "
I felt a little more at ease, and then I cast my eyes on the golden seal in Uncle Li's hand, and asked curiously: "By the way, Uncle Li, what is this thing in your hand? And how do you know this exorcism technique?"
Uncle Li smiled and said: "I am old, and I have been in our business for a long time. I have heard a lot, so it is inevitable that I will know a few tricks."
After saying this, Uncle Li looked at the golden seal in his hand, and then threw it to me directly, saying: "This thing is not mine either. To be precise, it is yours. You carry it with you for the next few days. With this thing, at least it can keep you safe for the time being. I will take you to see someone when it gets light, and let him help you figure out what is causing trouble for you. "
After taking the golden seal, I looked at Uncle Li in a daze. For a moment, I found that I couldn't understand this kind elder who always smiled on weekdays.
It seems that after experiencing the series of events tonight, everything around me has become unpredictable, even my destiny!