On a star-sparse night of the month, the night breeze is blowing, and the moonlight is like a white lotion on the roof, street, and village side avenue, smeared with a thin layer, white and slippery.

After a day's work on the farm, the people had fallen asleep on all fours, and the streets were filled with even snoring, and the night was unusually quiet.

Two ghosts came out of the courtyard of Wang Jicai's house with their heads bowed and their heads shrunk and sneakily, one carrying a pickaxe and the other carrying a shovel, and walked towards the edge of the village. From time to time, there were several "whoa, whoa, whoa" howls of stray dogs behind them. Then there was the sound of the dog's hooves, and the swift and swift "salsa" came towards them.

The two ghosts were accustomed to the habits of the stray dogs in the village, and instead of shouting, they squatted down, picked up a stone on the road at the edge of the village by the moonlight, and threw it at the stray dogs that were chasing, and heard two stones hitting the ground, and the stray dogs stopped, just roaring "wah, wow, wow", and stopped chasing the two of them.

They began to walk step by step towards the barren mountains and mountains in the northwest direction. The wind was blowing! From time to time, dust swept up from the road and hit their faces. They had to stand still after a while, reach out and wipe the sand from their eyes, and then continue on their way.

It was getting farther and farther away from the village, and the sporadic and trivial sounds in the village were completely inaudible. Waist-deep artemisia grass hides their general bodies, and the strong night wind blows the weeds and trees around them to a roar, like the sound of weeds driven by wolves, insects, tigers and leopards. The two of them couldn't help but be timid.

Wang Hongyu, who was walking behind, whispered to Wang Hongbing, who was walking in front: "Brother, if a wolf comes this time, we won't be able to escape!"

Wang Hongbing, who was walking in front, shouted: "Don't talk nonsense! What if you really attract wolves or ghosts in the middle of the night?"

Wang Hongyu was silent, and looked ahead through the hazy moonlight for a while, and then looked behind him carefully, if there was anything coming up, if there was anything behind him, it would not be a stray dog, not a wolf, an insect, a tiger and a leopard, or a ghost in the middle of the night, so he walked for a while, and looked back and forth.

Finally they began to climb the mountain, and the lush trees on the mountain soon swallowed the two of them. Under their feet, they stepped on the leaves and weeds on the hillside, making a "salsa sha" sound. The sound frightened them even more. Wang Hongyu, who was walking behind, was worried again, "Will the sound of "salsa" made by this walk alarm the beasts in the mountains, and suddenly jump up from the jungle and rush towards them, what should I do?"

This Wang Hongyu was thinking about all kinds of terrible possible things when suddenly there was a violent sound in the dense bushes on their right, and something rushed out!

Wang Hongyu was suddenly frightened to the point where her heart was beating fast, panting for breath, and her limbs trembled, and then she cried out loudly! "Mother!" The two brothers instinctively hugged each other and fell to the ground! Frightened half to death! However, instead of rushing towards them, the thing leaped into the air, let out a series of "quack, quack" roars, and then went deeper into the woods.

At this time, Wang Hongyu trembled and said intermittently: "Brother...... Let's do ...... Crisp don't go!"

Wang Hongbing was bolder than Wang Hongyu, so he persuaded him: "What if we don't go? How can we explain Dabao? I've been walking for more than half of the time, and I'm almost there, don't give up halfway, okay? I won't necessarily bump into these things again, so be bold and stand up and go!"

Wang Hongbing helped Wang Hongyu up again, pulled Wang Hongyu, and the two continued to climb up the mountain tremblingly, climbing for a while, and the trees gradually thinned in front of them, and then a bare hill appeared. From a distance, through the hazy moonlight, you can vaguely see a mound of earth on the top of the hill, which is the ancestral tomb of Wang Jicai's family.

When they stepped into this cemetery, they saw that under the vast moonlight, surrounded by half-human tall dense weeds and dense thorns, jujube and other bushes, there were more than a dozen grave mounds lying quietly horizontally, the weeds on the mounds were overgrown, the night wind was howling, and the artemisia grass and shrubs were dancing with the wind, making a "shivering" sound. The two stood on the edge of the cemetery, their expressions cold and desolate.

Their second sister, Dabao's mother, is now lying quietly in the grave in the messy grass. Right at the edge of the graveyard, at the foot of which they had just stepped into the graveyard, this mound was. They stared blankly at the desolate mound overgrown with artemisia grass, and suddenly fell into the ...... of the sad memories of more than twenty years ago.

What a terrible night it was. Not long after the two of them finished their homework and fell asleep, they were suddenly awakened by their mother's heart-rending cries! The two of them sat up in horror, not understanding what was going on and what had happened? He got down from the kang in fear and ran to the big room to see what was going on, and as soon as he entered the room, he saw his mother crying dead and alive on the kang and his father squatting on the ground and crying!

They didn't know what was going on, but it took a long time to know from the intermittent crying and chatting of their parents that their second sister had died, hacked to death by their brother-in-law Liu Manzhu with a kitchen cutter!

After a while, Dad stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go see your second sister!"

So, their father helped their mother, and the two brothers followed behind towards the east entrance of the village.

The night was dark, Dad supported Mom with one hand, and held a flashlight in the other hand to illuminate the road ahead, the cold wind "swished" straight into the clothes, and the fear in their hearts, coupled with the cold wind, they followed Mom and Dad shivering!

When they reached the entrance of the village, they saw a stretcher on the grassy beach at the edge of the village, covered with a futon, and their mother threw herself on the stretcher and screamed hoarsely! Their mother's cry was extremely terrified in the dark night! They seemed to feel that this was a night of cannibalism! Their mother was about to reach out and uncover the futon covering their second sister, but their father stopped her with his hand. Because the corpse was horrible!

His mother wanted to take their second sister home, but their father said, "There are rules in the village, and people who die outside are not allowed to enter the village." ”

So that night, they temporarily set up a spiritual shed at the entrance of the village and put their second sister in it. The family spent the night in the mourning tent.

The next day, their father hired a carpenter in the village to build a coffin, put new clothes on his second sister and bury her in the coffin. On the third day, the villagers came to help carry it up to the ancestral grave and buried it in the ancestral grave.

A cold wind blew, and they shivered and walked out of their memories. At this time, Wang Hongbing and Wang Hongyu said, "Let's start!"

Wang Hongyu said: "Okay, then let's start!"

Wang Hongbing began to raise the head of the hammer and dig the grave, Wang Hongbing dug a pit for a while, and then Wang Hongyu jumped into the pit and used a shovel to dig out of the soil, so he took turns to dig for less than an hour, and then he dug the coffin. The two of them removed the soil from the coffin with a shovel and a pickaxe, and when they looked closely, the coffin had long since rotted, but fortunately the coffin did not fall apart, and they gently moved the plank away, and the bones of their second sister were exposed, and the bones were still connected.

So Wang Hongbing stood aside and said, "Second sister, do you miss your two sons, we will send you home now, don't scare us!" And at this moment, suddenly a series of frightened screams came from the edge of the cemetery!

"Huh?" the two of them hugged each other in fright, and they looked around tremblingly, until they finally saw that the howling thing was in the tree. At this time, Wang Hongyu shouted in horror: "Owl!"

"Ahh

People say that owls can smell dead people, and perhaps when they open the grave, the smell of the dead comes out and attracts them. But there are also people who say, "An owl can see a ghost, and when an owl calls, it means that it sees a ghost, and the ghost is not far from it." ”

Suddenly, Wang Hongyu exclaimed again: "Ahhhhh

At this time, Wang Hongbing was so frightened that his upper and lower teeth "clucked!" and he trembled and asked, "Where is the ghost?"

Wang Hongyu pointed to the side of the owl roaring and said, "There is a dark shadow there." ”

Wang Hongbing looked at the place where Wang Hongyu's finger was pointing, and indeed saw a black shadow shaking. So Wang Hongbing coughed loudly, and the black shadow disappeared in an instant.

At this time, Wang Hongbing said: "Let's quickly load the bones and go, we can't stay here for long." ”

So the two of them jumped into the pit again, and began to pick up the bones of their second sister, and first reached out to hold their second sister's head, and the two of them had just stretched out their hands in fear, when suddenly the skull head "gurgled" and rolled aside.

"Ahh

So Wang Hongbing became bold and said: "Second sister, don't you dare to scare us! We will send you home and let you go back to reunite with the people in your family!"

After Wang Hongbing finished speaking, the two of them divided five by two, and then picked up the bones of their second sister and put them in a sack. Then the soil around the mound was backfilled. Wang Hongbing said: "You carry the shovel and the head of the head to go forward, and I will follow the bones on my back and hurry down the mountain!" Wang Hongyu carried the shovel and the head of the shovel to his shoulder, Wang Hongbing threw the sack on his back, and the two of them ran down the mountain in despair.