Chapter 13: The Stranded Rope (Up)

In the fat man and swallow entangled words, I hastily will hang in front of the chest of the dead feet push away, body moved back some, did not expect the back is also hanging a dead body, was I hit under the immediate shaking up, the top of the head then issued a coarse hemp rope rubbing the sound of wood, the darkness does not know how many hanging ghosts around me, I had to lie down on the ground, but I can still feel a pair of shoes wearing a pair of cotton foot like a “pendulum” general hanging above my body swaying back and forth. “I had to lie back on the ground, but I could still feel a pair of feet wearing cotton shoes swaying back and forth above my body like a pendulum.

I have a head full of sweat, just fell down from the stone steps, do not know where the satchel lost, the black light can not be found, so I hurriedly said to the swallow: “Swallow fast on the bright! Let’s see where we’ve fallen.” In the vicinity of the forest, you can never mention the word “fire”, not even the words with the word “fire”, such as “light a lamp”, “candle”, and so on. “can not say, if you have to say” light “a class of words can only be used” on the bright son “instead, this is not a superstition, but out of taboo, just as the fire department to respond to fire, the font size never have to use the” fire “and”, “fire”, “fire”, “fire”, “fire”, “fire”, “fire”, “fire”, “fire”, “fire”, “fire”, “fire”. “Fire”, not “fire”.

Swallow just rolled down from the stone steps, hit the seven meat and eight, brain a little confused, listen to me greet her “on the bright”, finally came back to God, took out a pine candle lighted up, the cellar depths although the air can circulate, was still full of hot people’s eyes watering the turbid gas, pine candles can be lit has been good, the weak Bright green and cold and clear, coupled with too many impurities in the air, blocking the transmission of light, so that the light of the pine candle than the ghost fire is not much stronger, even a meter square area can not shine.

Under the flickering candlelight, I was eager to see if there was a ghost overhead, but I don’t know whether the light of the pine candle was too dark, or just rolled with a dizziness, my eyes were like a layer of gauze suddenly, no matter how hard I opened my eyes, I couldn’t see anything, and vaguely recognizable only the light of the candles, but the candlelight in my eyes, turned into a greenish hazy bright light in front of me, drifting and fluttering for a while. But the candlelight seemed to me to be a greenish, hazy light, drifting in front of me, far away for a while, near for a while.

I rubbed my eyes vigorously, still could not see too clearly, but I heard a person behind the light whispering softly, seemingly saying something to me, I couldn’t help but wonder, who was talking? Fatty and Swallow are both big gun barrels, talking in a loud voice, but if it is not them, who is mumbling behind the candle? I can neither see nor hear, but people have a kind of subconsciousness, the more inaudible, the more I want to hear what I heard, I stretched my neck to lean closer.

Body movement at the same time, my heart suddenly gave birth to a chill, vaguely aware that this is not quite right, although I have not figured out where the problem is, but the hazy shadow of the lamp in front of me, but it seems to have seen where, in the close to the pine candles on the danger of the brain repeatedly warned themselves, but realized that the candle danger of the idea, but completely overwhelmed the yuwu in the heart of the candle want to get close to the candle, and still can not help continue to move forward! Moving forward, already closer and closer to the green light emitted by the pine candle.

Just now clearly touched the hanged man wearing cotton shoes feet, and after lighting up the candle, the hanged body, and swallow and fat man seems to be all suddenly disappeared, only the candle that fluttering a little light, I suddenly thought of the hanged man looking for a substitute thing, is to attract people to the rope set, see that the green light is close at hand, I would like to hasten to shrink back, but my body is like a nightmare, simply do not listen to the command. I want to retreat quickly, but my body is like a nightmare, simply do not listen to the command, only the head and neck can move, are the damn ghost fire, I am completely out of survival instinct, do not think about it, with all the strength of the pine candle aimed at the green light of the breath blew out.

Pine candle ghost fire like green light, was my breath blew out, the whole cellar, but all of a sudden bright, and there is no choking stench, I looked down, I am standing on the edge of a kang, his hands are grasping a thick hemp rope set, to their necks, I cursed a bad luck, and hurriedly pushed the hemp rope to the side.

I haven’t had time to look at where I am, I found that Fatty and Swallow are also standing beside me, even the eyes straight pulling the hemp rope set that fell from the roof intending to hang themselves, Swallow’s hand is still holding up a lit pine candle, but the flame is no longer green, I hastily reached out to pick up Swallow’s hand of the pine candle, and by the way, the hemp rope in front of them to pull off, the two of them coughed and once again woke up from a trance state! .

I can’t think carefully about the nightmarish encounter just now, first look at the surrounding situation, raise your eyes to see, deep in the cellar is a hut with a kang, we fell down from the stone steps, as a pile of rolled to the ground, I don’t know when confused climbed up to the kang, stepped on the edge of the kang and almost hanged in the room, the size of this cellar interior is similar to the ordinary residence, the interior is very dry, with an earthen stove, an earthen table and kang, as in the ordinary homes in the mountains, the interior is very dry, with an earthen stove, earthen table and kang, the interior is very dry, with an earthen stove, earthen table and kang, with an earthen stove and kang. Like ordinary people in the mountains, there are also a few sorghum citrons on the top, and countless rope covers tied with thick hemp ropes are hung on the wood, and raw copper wire has been added to the ropes, so that they won’t rot and break like ordinary hemp ropes after a long period of time.

Countless noose, hanging four male corpses, the body has been the cold wind in the cellar drained, the four “old hangman” all spit out their tongues and stare, the dried corpse of the sauce purple skin after the death of the expression is more horrifying, due to the noose hanging neck for too long, the neck of the deceased has been stretched a large part of the length of the neck.

Swallow is too afraid of ghosts, whether it is mountain ghosts, water ghosts or hanging ghosts, in the light of the pine candles like beans to see the four curtains of the thrilling “old hanged masters”, scared to hurry to cover their eyes, I and the fat man and half a day did not say a word, happened to hanged guest when the head, can be really considered a bad luck to the home.

I see the kang head has a copper oil lamp, there are remnants of pine oil, will use the pine candle to take over the fire to light up, this time in the room much brighter, hold up the oil lamp by the light of a light, found that the four hanged male corpse, attire are the same, a water of black, black shoes, black pants, even the head of the hat is also black, the only tie in the waist belt and socks, cap thorns is red, in fact, the same red is divided into several kinds of them! This is the colorful red red pig blood red, I can not see what this line of work on, but should not be too long, it seems to be two or three decades ago the old-fashioned clothing, I estimate that buried in the soil of the Yellow Immortal Temple, probably this group of people dug out, I can not imagine that they came in and did not get out of the cellar, we entered this cellar, with the hypochondriacs as if they drilled into the rope set, if it is not that I blew out the ghost fire, and now the Manhole at this time has long been more than three hanged dead, folk say hanged dead, must cheat a living person hanged, in order to be reincarnated, is it that we have just been “old hanged master” on the body, in the magic barrier?

Fatty at this time to ease the strength, pointing to the four “old man” cursing, almost let these hanged ghosts to set in, think about it, hate the teeth itchy, cellar in a tank to put lamp oil, Fatty one side of the cursing, one side of the open to give the hanging of the dead to splash on the lamp oil to light up the lamps of their heaven.

I want to burn or good, lest they do evil in the future to harm people’s lives, but just got up, I found the side of the wall there is a crack in the wall, the wall crack is not a long time room cracks, but purposely left out of the back of the cellar there is still space, just hit the earth wall partition, dimly did not notice, just in the earth partition on the wall, there are two small green lamps in the wall cracks peeping at us.