It is said that on this day, Tang Seng and a few people came to a village, because the twilight was dark, everyone planned to find a private house to stay for one night. The village is not very large, with a total population of only about 100 households.

After learning that Tang Seng was a Tang Dynasty monk who went to the West to learn scriptures, Li Fugui of the village warmly invited everyone to live in his home.

Although Li Fugui's family is the head of a village, the living conditions are not very high. In addition to his wife, there is also a daughter-in-law and a seven-year-old granddaughter Xiaonan at home. In order to prepare a meal for everyone, Li Fugui specially went to a neighbor's house to borrow a few pairs of chopsticks and a bowl of white rice.

According to Li Fugui, no outsiders have passed through their village for a long time. Even if there were, it was just passing by in a hurry, and I would never dare to stay here too long. Tang Seng felt very strange, so he asked him why?

Li Fugui sighed and said, "Don't hide it from the elders, our village is actually not peaceful. ”

"Isn't it peaceful? How do you say that?" asked Sun Wukong after putting the steamed bun in his hand in Tang Seng's bowl.

However, Li Fugui seemed to be suddenly frightened, and hurriedly got up and beckoned his wife to close the door. At the same time, he motioned to the daughter-in-law on the side to take her granddaughter into the back room.

After doing all this, Li Fugui said to everyone: "You don't know, as long as it gets dark in our village, no one dares to go out anymore." ”

"Your village is really interesting, you are still afraid of the dark?" Zhu Bajie, who was sitting at the wooden table, held two steamed buns in both hands and said with a smile.

"Eight precepts. Tang Seng glared at him lightly from the side, and the latter shrunk his neck slightly, and then stopped talking.

Li Fugui shook his head and said helplessly: "We are all honest people who farm in a down-to-earth manner, how can we be afraid of any dark night." ”

"What's going on with that? You mean!" Sun Wukong couldn't see such a grinding conversation with people, so he hurriedly urged.

Li Fugui secretly glanced at the door that had been bolted in, and said slowly: "Don't hide it from your masters, as long as there are ghosts in our village at night. People really don't dare to go out!"

"Ghosts?"

Hearing the word ghost, everyone was stunned. Ruan Jiu, who had been sitting on the wooden table and nibbling on steamed buns, directly dropped half of the steamed buns in his hand on the table.

Why? It's actually quite simple.

Because she's afraid of ghosts!

That's right, for Ruan Jiu, what kind of monsters, monsters, immortals, she is not afraid. But I am afraid of those ethereal ghosts. This is also related to a horrific thing that happened to her when she was a child.

Ruan Jiu was nine years old at the time, and one night she was doing her homework in her room. Suddenly, I heard a strange noise outside the window. Ruan Jiu thought it was strange, because the sound was not like the sound of birds chirping in the wind, but rather like the sound of someone knocking on the window.

For a while, Ruan Jiu only felt a tingling in his back, and the hand holding the pencil began to tremble slightly.

"Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......"

The strange noise continued, and Ruan Jiu no longer dared to sit on the desk by the window. What's even more terrifying is that through the dark curtains, Ruan Jiu can vaguely see a round head outside the window, which is bigger than a basin, and is banging on the window glass with its head very regularly at the moment.

At this time, Ruan Jiu was completely frightened, so he rushed out of the door barefoot without even wearing shoes.

At that time, a group of singers happened to come to the village, and almost all the family members ran over to watch the play. Poor Ruan Jiu didn't dare to go out through the front door, so he could only escape from the back door while crying.

You know, not every house in the countryside at that time had bright headlights at night. In order to save electricity, people often only light a light bulb with a small wattage. As a result, the whole village becomes pitch black at night. In addition, there are many big trees in the village, which adds up to an even more eerie and eerie situation.

After Ruan Jiu escaped alone, he took advantage of the faint moonlight in the sky and ran directly towards the entrance of the village. She didn't dare look back at the window outside her room, for she feared that if she did, she would see something terrible that she couldn't accept.

It may have been that he ran too quickly, and Ruan Jiu's feet slipped around a corner and fell directly to the ground.

At this moment, next to a land temple more than 90 meters away from Ruan, a figure suddenly poked his head out of the temple. Because the light was too dim, Ruan Jiu couldn't see what the other party looked like at all. However, this sudden scene almost scared her to death on the spot.

In the past, she often listened to her grandfather tell some stories about gods and ghosts, and she was both afraid and curious about those mysterious beings that she couldn't see on weekdays. Now the figure that suddenly appeared outside the Land Temple has defeated the last line of defense in her heart.

Frightened, she only felt that the world was spinning in front of her, and then she didn't remember anything.

When she woke up the next day, she didn't know until she listened to the adult's story. It turned out that she slept for an hour on the mud floor of the village last night. Fortunately, it was later discovered by Aunt Zhang, who was passing by. Because of this incident, Ruan Jiu had a high fever for three days.

As for the mysterious noise that appeared outside the window that day, it was later confirmed that it was actually a round kite. Because after breaking the line, he inadvertently floated to a big tree outside Ruan Jiu's window. So under the blowing of the breeze, there was that scene of terror knocking on the window.

As for the strange figure of the Land Temple, the people in the village have been looking for a long time, but they have not found any clues. So some people said that maybe Ruan Jiu was too nervous at the time and saw it wrong. Some people also say that it was actually a small jujube tree next to the Land Temple, but it happened to be blown by the wind at that time.

After this incident, Ruan Jiu became more sensitive to the matter of ghosts. Even now, she does not dare to walk alone in the night. Therefore, when Li Fugui said that there were ghosts in the village, the most nervous thing in his heart belonged to Ruan Jiu himself.

However, she didn't show this fear, after all, it was too embarrassing to be afraid of ghosts. What's more, he is still Tang Seng's apprentice. If this spreads, won't people laugh to death?

Just as Ruan Jiu was thinking wildly, he heard Sun Wukong say: "Old man, don't all the ghosts in this world end up in the underworld?

Li Fugui sighed: "We are just ordinary people, how do we know these truths? Since the appearance of ghosts, strange things have begun to appear frequently in our village. ”

"What's weird?" Zhu Bajie asked curiously.

"First, someone suddenly passed out in the middle of the night, and the next morning woke up to find bright red scratches on their legs and arms. Later, things became more and more serious, and many people who went out in the middle of the night would bleed the next morning for no reason and die on the spot. ”