Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 10 Meeting the Mandrill Ghost at Night

It was difficult to encounter the blindfolded ghost that Goddess Zhang once said, that is, the ghost hitting the wall often said in folk ghost stories. We call it blindfolded.

The scientific explanation for blindfolded people is that people's legs are of different lengths, and when walking in a directionless place, they tend to return to the original place, that is, they circle in a big circle.

But on the mountain road that can only go forward or back, there is no place for people to circle around, and they never go outside the road.I believe that people who have encountered blindfolded ghosts will find it difficult to believe the scientific explanation, just like the scientific explanations of those will-o'-the-wisps and ghost presses.

According to Zhang's explanation, the ghost is blindfolded because it amuses you. If you can't get out, don't be afraid. It will lose its effect at dawn.But if you can’t get out and you still run around, then accidents may happen, such as falling off a cliff.

But how could I wait until dawn, maybe I really went the wrong way instead of being blindfolded, I took a pee towards the root of the pine tree, regardless of whether it was blindfolded or went the wrong way.

With a sound of "dang", before I finished peeing, a small stone flew from the mountain and hit the trunk of the pine tree.I thought it was the pine cones falling and didn't pay attention, but after I pulled up my pants, a few stones fell from the mountain.

Is anyone here tonight?I yelled several times towards the mountain: "Who is throwing stones here! I catch you and you will die!"

I shouted a few times and there was no response from the mountain, so I took a few stones from the ground and threw them to fight back, cursing while throwing them.There were more stones thrown from the mountain, and I had to hide behind a big pine tree that two people couldn't hug.

I hid behind the pine tree and pointed the flashlight towards the stone-throwing mountain. The trees and weeds were dense and lush, and I couldn't see anything except the stone being thrown out of it.

Probably monkeys!I can't afford to mess with them here, so I quickly grabbed the bag and fled forward.Now I was trotting forward, and walked for another 10 5 minutes, and vaguely heard someone singing a folk song in front of me.I thought I had arrived at a place with a village, so I quickened my pace and walked for about [-] minutes, before returning to the five big pine trees.Now it can be confirmed that the ghost is blindfolded, what should I do?What puzzled me the most was that there was a man standing under the pine tree.

That person was an old woman, wearing flowered clothes and barefoot singing folk songs there.The old woman was hunchbacked, dirty, and as dark as a gorilla.

How could an old woman suddenly appear in this deep mountain night? I shone a flashlight over 30 meters away and asked boldly, "Grandma, what are you doing here?"

Grandma had seen me coming long ago but pretended not to. Now that she heard me calling her, she stopped and greeted me in poor language to sing folk songs with her. "Come and sing" four words.

I answered her, "I'm on my way! How can I have time to sing folk songs? I seem to have lost my way after walking here a few times. Grandma, can you tell me how to get to Xiayi?"

Seeing that I refused to accompany her to sing folk songs, the old woman let out a few wicked laughs like a eunuch, and said in bad language: "You can't get out, I'm so hungry!"

When I heard Grandma say this, I was inexplicably startled, and quickly said: "Grandma, I have bread and eggs in my bag, I'll give you some to eat, and you tell me how to get out!"

Grandma had a weird smile on her dark face, and told me to take the eggs and bread for her to eat, since she has trouble walking.

Inconvenience?Then why would you come to sing in the mountains in the dark at night, crazy!If it's not neurosis, what is it?To be honest, from the words my grandma said that I can't go out and she is so hungry, I have already guessed that she might not be human. .
I fumbled into the bag with my hand, not the bread and eggs, but the needle from Witch Zhang, which I wrapped in rags and put in the bag when I went out.

This needle, which Goddess Zhang can't even name, was dug out of the mountain after being possessed by an immortal in her family. Who knows what dynasty it is.This little hairpin is deadly against evil things. It looks like a thin hairpin, and its original owner is unknown.To deal with this old woman, I will walk over with a needle, and if something is wrong, I will stab her to death.

I reached into the bag with my hand and found a hard thing. I didn't know what it was and took it out to have a look. I couldn't help but piss in fright. This is the pagoda tree that Goddess Zhang put in the jar that day.

This pagoda wood sign contains the little water ghost with the fish body attached to it. I couldn't find it that day, but now it's in my luggage.

Seeing that it was the pagoda wood card, I threw it on the ground in fright. When I was about to touch the needle again, the old woman rushed to me.It's not that the legs and feet are inconvenient, it's as light as a swallow and as fast as flying!

The old lady rushed to less than five steps away from me, and I finally saw what it looked like.As I guessed, it was not human at all, with a black face with a sharp mouth, and a few fangs protruding from its big bright red lips.Its outstretched hands have only four fingers, the nails are red, long and pointed, and the hunchback is less than 1.3 meters tall.The flowered dress she was wearing was tattered, and she didn't know where she picked it up. It looked like the mandrill ghost mentioned by Goddess Zhang.

Although the mandrill ghost is also called a ghost, it is different from ordinary ghosts. It is a physical animal and likes to eat human flesh.Mandrill ghosts are a type of mountain elves and wild monsters, similar in nature to werewolves.It is a kind of ancient stone age human, between gorillas and modern humans, living long enough to even pass as human beings, making it difficult to tell the difference.These mandrill ghosts may still exist in the depths of the Greater Khingan Mountains and in places like Shennongjia, but who has ever seen them!
Where we call the mandrill ghost the human bear woman, the mandrill ghost is most afraid of thunder and cock crowing, and many rural people have heard stories about old women eating children when they were young.The story is about a cannibal old woman who pretended to be someone else's grandmother and helped others take care of their children, but in the end the children were eaten by it. I believe many people born in the [-]s and [-]s have heard it when they were children.

This thing is very powerful, I'm sure I can't beat it, but it's too late to do anything, let alone escape.Before I could touch the needle, I was thrown to the ground by the mandrill ghost. There was a sharp pain in my back, and I hit a stone on my back. It was really unlucky.

The flashlight fell to the side, and I struggled wildly. I retracted my right foot and hit the mandrill ghost's belly hard, kicking it two meters high and falling to the side.Although it is strong, it only weighs seventy or eighty catties, and in this case, I used all my strength to push it away.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, I grabbed the flashlight and got up and ran away. The mandrill ghost got up and chased after him, screaming angrily.I ran for a while and finally couldn't run anymore, and found that I went back to the five pine trees, which made me dumbfounded.

"Bullshit! Bullshit! Apply it all over your body!" Just when I was at a loss, a baby voice sounded in my mind, and she told me to put cowshit on my body.

I took a flashlight to look around and saw a lot of cow dung in puddles by the side of the road. I didn't care who the voice was, I went over and grabbed a handful of cow dung and wiped it on my face.Don't look at this cow dung like mud, but the smell is really disgusting!But I can't control that much, I smeared myself into a "bull shit person."

As soon as I wiped the cow dung, the mandrill ghost chased me to the root of the tree. It grinned and turned its head to look around, but it didn't see me.I was only ten steps away from the mandrill ghost, but it searched under the root of the pine tree several times, and finally rolled and roared on the ground angrily.

The mandrill ghost couldn't find me, and I had no strength to run, so Gulu got into the bushes by the roadside and turned off the flashlight.The current situation is that we can't go any further. Maybe after evading the mandrill ghost, other mountain spirits will come out.I believe that rural people over the age of 40 know that the eighties and 90s are the most chaotic. There are many people who died unjustly, and there are many kinds of ghosts.

I hid in the bushes, and the smell of cow dung was really bad. It didn't matter. My body was extremely itchy, which might be the cause of allergies.I hid in the bushes for a long time and felt that there was no movement outside, so I turned on the flashlight and found a ditch to wash my clothes, and then I found another place to hide until dawn.

After dawn, I went back to the five pine trees. There were still traces of last night under the roots, and the pagoda tree plaque lay quietly on the ground.I thought of the baby voice who told me to wipe cow dung on my body last night, and the little girl crying by the Xunjiang River that day, and my heart softened inexplicably.This little water ghost, Goddess Zhang, is going to come to raise her. It would be bad if she can't find her when she comes back. Thinking about it, I picked it up and put it back in the bag.

Then I walked to Xiayi for less than 10 minutes, and saw the local people coming out to herd cattle.I asked them how far it was to Xia Yixu, and they told me that it would take two cigarettes to walk.

Sure enough, after walking not far, I arrived at Xiayi, where I ate a bowl of rice noodles for 5 cents at the noodle stall.After eating breakfast, I thought there was a car to take, but there was no way to connect the car in Xiayi, so I had to ask someone to walk to Wenxu, and then from Wenxu to Zhaoping
It was already past one o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in Zhaoping, and it was so far away. The main reason is that there are many mountains winding around. If we walked in a straight line, it would be too close.The current expressway can be called a high speed because there are fewer turns and a lot of distance is shortened.

To my surprise, it took nearly five hours to drive from Zhaoping to Huangyao.It takes five hours by car from the county seat to the town, how remote it is!
All the rides along the way depended on asking people. After all, I was illiterate, and literacy came later.

I thought Huangyao was also a bustling place, but after getting off the car, it was not at all bustling. Those houses were different from ours, they were all built of blue bricks and stones.

The person I'm looking for is Uncle Xuefei's cousin, that is, the cousin of Xuefei's younger sister, in a village called Xiabai in Huangyao, surnamed Huang.Only after asking did I know that this village is not in Huangyao, but in Gongqiao Township next door.

(End of this chapter)