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While they were immersed in grief, my grandfather hurried over. He wanted a person to quickly follow him over to his house because Hu Shizhen wanted to look for him. Something about my soul seems to have come to mind. My mother was happy, dried her tears, told my father to take care of me, then quickly left with Pappy.
After that, my mother told me that when she saw Hu Shizhen, her elderly face was covered with scars, and she still had a worried look on her face. She had also become more gaunt and skinny, and told me a piece of news: ”Not long ago, my family's black cat gave birth to six offspring, and its body was purely black and without any other colors, a total of seven female cats in total. I sent seven black cats to search for the child's soul. He found it and surrounded it. At my age, blind, and leaning forward, I had to bump into obstacles and get a bruise. I finally made it to the place where the black cats were gathered and tried to persuade my grandson's soul to return to him, but he insisted on refusing, even if I had to kneel down and beg him for it.
My Blind Old Woman felt that it was strange, so she asked: As a soul, why did you not return to your original body? What was she going to do?
Sun's soul replied, I want to go to a place.
Where to? I asked.
The child of that child did not answer me directly, but only said: Even if the future is limitless, sooner or later, I will come back.
It turned out that the seven black cats were unable to trap it. The reason he pretended to be trapped by the black cat was to lure this blind old woman to find him. Because it has something to ask me, this blind old woman. ”
Reaching this point, Hu Shizhen stopped talking. Her trembling weakness betrayed her, though her old face, covered with deep folds like walnuts, was sullen. She was undoubtedly very excited.
My mother couldn't suppress her curiosity and immediately asked, ”Great-grandma, what did my child's soul ask you about?”
After being silent for a while, Hu Shizhen waved her hand while trembling, and said with a shaky voice: ”You better not ask, that is the worst nightmare in my life that I don't want to talk about! You don't need to know! ”
In our younger generation's eyes, Hu Shizhen is just too mysterious. She didn't know how many secrets she was hiding. Since she wouldn't say anything, and she was being polite, my mother couldn't ask any more questions. She then anxiously said, ”My child has lost her soul, what should we do now? I can't just keep on being a retard like this! ”
Hu Shizhen said: ”Even the soul is scared of noise, today is Lantern Festival, the firecrackers are endless, even the lone soul is scared into hiding. It just so happened that a soul stayed in our village and wasn't afraid of the cannon exploding. It is just outside your house, wanting to go in but not daring to! ”
Startled, my mother asked, ”Whose soul is that?” What are you doing in my house? ”
Hu Shizhen said, ”Who cares whose soul it is. Let it come into your house and attach itself to your grandson! It's better than not having a soul at all! ”
His mother was hesitant and indecisive.
Hu Shizhen then said, ”That soul is not ordinary. To be able to attach himself to a grandson, that grandson's life must be extremely tough!”
When she heard this, my mother felt relieved and asked, ”How can I get him into my house?”
Hu Shizhen said that after you take off all the pictures of the God of Doors on the door of your house, you would drive out the dogs, roosters and geese.
Mother did as she was told when she got home.
As a result, I sat up in bed in the middle of the night, wiped my saliva, and was in high spirits. I made people scream about being hungry again, and I was so itchy that I wanted to take a shower.
These things are what my mother told me, I do not know if it is true or not. But one thing is undeniable: I have no memory of what happened before I was eight years old.
Once, playing with my cousin, I suddenly asked him if he had ever thrown a firecracker under a bench to shoot me. He said yes, back then the cannon I got was as thick as a red radish, and it exploded and deafened my ears for several days, scaring away your soul and turning you into a fool for a period of time.
When I was ten years old, my back began to develop in an unstoppable fashion. The longer I grew, the thicker my back became, and after two or three years, when my shoulder blade had proliferated and gathered together to form a bridge, my head didn't go up much, and my face was thin and sallow. I had grown into a Hunchback with a big, bulging back. At that time, the TV series ”Prime Minister Liu Luodan” was being broadcasted at the peak of its popularity. Still too young to worry, I felt complacent about Liu Yong in the TV series, believing that the hunchback had great wisdom and would be able to become a high-ranking official in the future. Don't often face the mirror to practice their ears moving, and like Liu Dui back hand, smile crooked mouth. It was just that my parents saw that I was getting more and more impatient all day, so they began to despise me and wanted to give birth to my fourth child (the second and third were girls). As I was a dull person who rarely offended anyone, everyone would politely call me Jin Shi on the surface, but behind everyone's back they would call me Jinluo Pot.
Time flowed, until I was fourteen years old. Something incredible happened to me.