Atheism tells us that there are no ghosts in the world, and that there are no ghosts against the will of most people. If you do a survey with a thousand people, there are probably 999 people who will confide to you in private, they hope-there are ghosts, this is the reason why the click rate of the supernatural website is high, and it is also a ghost horror movie. Reasons for popularity.
Friends gathered together, the eternal topic is an exciting and inexplicable ghost story besides the opposite sex. People don’t know education level, no matter ethnicity, as long as there is a group of people chatting, you can always see someone telling a mysterious story.
Nancy is our supervisor. Everyone knows that if there is a company with a more relaxed atmosphere, it must be a computer software company. We are a software company, we don’t have a dress code, we don’t have to wear a tie to work, we don’t have to run out of breath to be afraid of being late, and we don’t have to hide the uneaten sandwiches under the file when the supervisor walks into your office. You can swallow it in front of your supervisor, and you can even ask Nancy to serve you a cup of coffee to help digestion. This is unthinkable in those construction companies and oil companies. They want to establish a corporate image. Their supervisors are reserved like turkeys during working hours, and their subordinates are sitting like penguins.
Loose atmosphere helps to increase feelings, we know every member of Nancy’s family, Nancy’s husband Richard and two little babies David and Barbara, and finally two beautiful Arctic sled dogs snowball And snow bear. These two dogs are very expensive, and it is said that each of them costs about 3000 Canadian dollars. The members of our office go to Nancy’s house every two months or so. Generally, after a product release, everyone wants to celebrate. Nancy’s home is a fake four-story building on Mount Emington. From the rooftop, you can see the Rocky Snow Mountain in the distance. That area is a noble residential area, each detached house has a large garden, the distance between the houses is far, connected by cars and trails.
In a chat after a party, somehow, the topic turned to mysticism. Like every conversation like this, the topic was changed unconsciously. Before this, it was originally to praise the Chinese diet. When we met, each of us brought one of our best foods from home. I brought it that day. It is homemade bacon. The unique flavor of the bacon was poured into the Nancy’s family. By the way, I don’t like the bacon of the Westerners, bacon. The first tasting was acceptable. When you use bacon to sandwich your breakfast bread all week, you will feel very bored. I bought pork belly in Chinatown and soaked it with the long-lived soy sauce and sugar wine made by the North American Tang Dynasty. Every step I went to the Internet food webpage to find a basis. I was very careful not to overheat the temperature, and finally made a successful orthodox Sichuan bacon. . When Nancy tasted the delicious food, she tirelessly asked me detailed preparation steps, and finally marveled that you Chinese can always make some mysterious food.
Then we started talking about oddA special diet, and then…is…the last ghost story.
We are on the deck of Nancy’s house. The deck is connected to the living room. The trees in the garden are sparse. The latitude here is equivalent to the Mohe area in mainland China. The sun is particularly long in summer, and the sunset is still hanging in Los Angeles at nine o’clock in the evening. The summit of Rocky Mountain. Deck is a wooden platform. The deck of Nancy’s house is particularly large. It extends more than ten meters from the living room. The outermost is the children’s swing and slide. On the end of the living room, Nancy is used to entertain guests. Barbecue on the deck.
Nancy’s husband, Richard, is a very gentle person. This is related to his occupation. He is the regional head of a large insurance company. His job is to persuade customers with ease. I think his annual salary will reach 300,000 yuan, otherwise there is no condition to live in this residential area, the price of each house here is between one or two million.
Richard prepared the “Cabo Ctenol” hot coffee for us, and then he made a gesture that asked us to listen to Nancy’s speech, then wished us a good time, and took two children upstairs . Nancy said with a smile, Richard wanted to let everyone know my story. My story is very simple, not scary, but a little incomprehensible. I am willing to tell everyone. The following is the story that Nancy tells. This is the first time I heard a foreigner tell a story about a ghost. Because of the difference in cultural background and language barriers, there will be some omissions, or even an incorrect understanding. Everyone has to forgive me.
Our family is an Irish immigrant. My great-grandfather moved from his home in Europe to Montana in the United States. That was in 1890, when the Rocky Mountains were still the power of the Indian Sioux. My great-grandfather died before I was born. His name is Jack. Generally, children rarely remember their great-grandfather. I know that my great-grandfather is because my grandfather often talks about him. The most impressive thing is “Jack and an Irish water ghost are good friend”. My grandfather said that when he was young, his great-grandfather’s friends called him “Jack who made friends with water ghosts.”
The grandfather of Jack and the water ghost know very well. Ireland is an island country. The place where my ancestors live is by the sea. That sea is part of the Atlantic Ocean and is called the North Sea. The wind in the North Sea is very strong. The storm will sink some ships. The dead ships and the remains of the dead drift to the shore with the current. The people on the shore will bury the dead and pray for them. The Irish believe in Catholicism, live rigorously and are kind to others. They believe that if a person dies in a shipwreck in a storm, if the corpse is not found and buried in accordance with a Catholic ceremony, but sinks to the bottom of the sea, their souls cannot rest in peace and cannot rise into heaven and be embraced by the Lord. They will wander in the sea every year and become a water ghost that heaven and hell do not want on earth. There are different legends about how the water ghosts can enter the kingdom of heaven. Some people say that they want the priest to pray for them. Some people say that they need to sprinkle them with the holy water from the altar in the church.
When great-grandfather Jack was a 15-year-old child, like all children of this age,Did not listen to any words. He was responsible for guarding the sheep in his family. The adults told him not to lead the sheep too far, especially not to the cliff of Menley, but he had to take the sheep there. His secret is that climbing down the gaps of the cliff can pick up a lot of bird eggs. When he brought some hard-to-get beautiful bird eggs to his partners, his envious eyes made him very proud. Pride is a motivation for children, like money for adults.
The Cliffs of Mengli protrude above the sea, where the most wreckage of shipwrecks drifts along with the current. The reef under the cliffs smashes all the floating things like a stone crusher. Due to the waves, there was a lot of noise under the cliff all year round. The wind blew through the cave and made a strange noise, much like the roar of a monster. The villagers are not here, except in one case, when there is an unlucky boat far away from the sea caught by the stormy waves and the danger signal is sent, the villagers will look around here, there is no other place better than here See clearly. The villagers did not have the power to rescue the dangerous ships, but only prayed for them, or hoped that the wind would bring the luckier ones to the shore.
The weather was very clear this morning. Jack drove the flock to the hillside of the cliff of Monley, and he lay on the top of the cliff and watched the sheep graze leisurely. At noon he ate the bread and cheese brought from his home. At that time, the weather changed. Large clouds of clouds occupied the sky at a rapid rate. The four sides became dark and dark like dusk, and the sudden storm fell from the sky. Jack is not afraid of such storms. The sheep do not need to worry. They will find a place to shelter from the rain. He also has a good place to hide from the rain. It is a cave under the cliff. Jack can climb from the top of the cliff with his eyes closed. Hole. At this moment he did not dare to neglect. He climbed to the entrance of the cave in three steps and then rushed in quickly.
When he rushed in, Jack used the light of lightning to see that there was a strange humanoid in the innermost part of the cave. He could not think of anyone hiding in the cave at this time. When he sat down on a relatively flat and dry stone where he usually rested, he found that the humanoid figure was a water ghost. He was frightened to cry with all his might. Such a call should be able to scare away a group of wolves or something. It’s too loud.
Even as surprised as Jack was the water ghost, he obviously didn’t expect anyone to break in in such weather. It was just surprise, he was not afraid of Jack, but Jack’s cry made him bored.
“Is that you? Jack! Don’t you shout like this.” The water ghost’s voice was very old.
“You know my name?” Jack is a daring child after all, and after yelling to no avail, he began to test whether the water ghost is aggressive.
“I know the name of your family. Your grandfather yelled at me like this when I was a kid.”
“You said my grandfather?”
“I attended your grandfather and grandma’s The wedding, that time I ate too much snowberry, your grandfather finally took itI sent it back to the sea. “
“Oh, oh… “Jack did not know the relationship between Grandpa and this water ghost, but he knew that there was no danger.
“I have been underwater for three hundred years. I know all the people in your village from birth to old death, We are friends who have never met before.
Jack began to observe the water ghost. The water ghost was green all over. Jack thought it was ridiculous that his green beard and long water grass-like hair hung wetly beside his wrinkled face. He It’s supposed to be true to live underwater for three hundred years, because his face is full of wrinkles, like old oak bark, but his eyes are very bright. Because of his natural curiosity, Jack began to inquire about the water ghost living underwater Okay, do you have food such as roasted bread and cakes? The old water ghost said that he was a crew member during his lifetime. His underwater life was deserted and monotonous. Drinking was his hobby during his lifetime, and he couldn’t quit this habit after death. But this The hobby is easy to satisfy. There is a lot of wine on the shipwreck, which is enough to make countless drunks drunk. Jack quotes the priest in the church as saying that drinking is a bad habit that God hates. The water ghost said he has not been in the church for more than three hundred years. , He doesn’t think it’s a problem. He said that God manages the ocean, the sky and the earth, and he’s busy enough to blame a poor and harmless soul under the sea for drinking.
The last problem caused water. The ghost is burning, Jack carefully asked if the legend about the ghosts of the water ghosts is not true. The water ghosts quarreled and said that he did not know that there is a more stupid question than this. The water ghosts are completely free, why does God want Punish them just because they didn’t have time to repent and perform religious rituals at the end of their life. In that case, the earth will be filled with the souls of the soldiers who died in the war, and there will be no place for mankind. Jack sees such anger as the water ghost , Hurry to comfort him and say that he never believed these claims. Swallow the question that he wanted to ask why he stayed here for three hundred years. He thought that maybe the old water ghost likes this kind of life very much. Staying for three hundred years is not always necessary. After the rain stopped, Jack said goodbye to the old water ghost. The old water ghost told him that he could bring something from the shipwreck as a gift to him. When would you like to see the water ghost You can make a mark with a stone in this hole. The water ghost and Jack made an agreement that the secret of the water ghost cannot be disclosed to anyone. The old water ghost does not trust Jack and thinks that a 15-year-old child must No secrets can be kept. In his usual style, Jack is courageous to promise what he cannot do (in fact, this is a common problem for children). He repeatedly assured the water ghost that he would never tell others, not even his parents. Since my grandfather didn’t tell his dad about the existence of the water ghost, Jack believed he could keep it secret.
Three days later, Jack got several Spanish coins from the cave, one of which was gold. Jack didn’t Knowing the true value of these coins, each silver coin is worth eight rials, and each gold coin is worth one hundred rials. The gold coins were minted in Mexico in 1750, and the front is