Chapter Twenty-Four: Tales of a Mountain Village

Lu Xiaoruo sat on the edge of the bed, opened a book, peeked at the corner, the hand in the corner slowly groped and came out, touched around the outside but didn't touch anything, Lu Xiaoruo walked up, put down a few pieces of pastry, took the previous piece and nibbled on it himself, and then said: "Don't worry, Shi Aming I have brought it home, I won't run out of water to drink, I won't sleep on the streets, grandma, don't worry." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

The hand holding the pastry trembled, slowly leaned out, and sat cross-legged in front of Lu Xiaoruo, the ghost was wearing shabby flower clothes, it was an old man, her face was haggard, and there was a bruise on her neck, she didn't say a word, just looked at Lu Xiaoruo blankly, just like this afternoon.

This afternoon, after Shi Aming left from today's sunshine, this grandma appeared, she first looked at Lu Xiaoruo, and then looked sadly at the direction of Shi Aming, Lu Xiaoruo didn't know the reason at first, and thought it was the wandering ghosts who followed him every day, but Grandma cried, very sad, wanted to scream but still didn't say a word, Lu Xiaoruo was puzzled in his heart to keep up with Shi Amin, and then there was something after.

"Grandma, is Shi Amin your child?" Lu Xiaoruo has asked no less than ten times today, but every time Grandma won't say, she won't shake her head and nod, she just looks at the ground, restrained and uneasy.

"If you don't say it, how can I help you?" Lu Xiaoruo is obviously also in trouble, Shi Aming can't ask over there, he has to find some breakthrough here, otherwise he will look at it with two eyes? Although she thought so, Lu Xiaoruo really looked at it with her eyes, looked at it, her eyes suddenly lit up, she found that there seemed to be something in the pocket of Grandma's jacket, it was a blank paper-like thing, revealing a corner, Lu Xiaoruo reached out to take it, and instantly passed through it and touched a wall, Grandma was also anxious when she saw it, protected her chest, shook her head desperately, and then simply turned around and ignored Lu Xiaoruo, Lu Xiaoruo hurriedly apologized, and must have been too abrupt.

"I'm sorry Grandma, this is your privacy, I shouldn't be rude, you follow us, we will take you and Amin home." Grandma glanced back, and finally lowered her head again, as if crying, Lu Xiaoruo saw her trembling shoulders, but still couldn't hear her voice......

The next day, the wind and the sun were beautiful.

Lu Xiaoruo sat in the waiting hall waiting for the train with a backpack and the white cloth bag she must bring, Gu Yiling took a mobile phone next to her and flipped through it, Lu Xiaoruo estimated that he was cheating on which girl, and he also pondered that he would give him back later, the old bully girl is not single-minded, and she will be beaten when she goes out. Shi Amin went to buy something, he said that he was taken care of last night and must help them arrange it well today, Lu Xiaoruo actually didn't mind at all, but Shi Aming was so enthusiastic, Lu Xiaoruo was happy.

There are a lot of people at the train station today, and the pedestrians who come and go are in a hurry, none of them are as leisurely as them, the world has always been busy, but Lu Xiaoruo and everyone in the magazine don't like it, everyone hopes that time will slow down and they can do everything they want to do.

Today, Grandma followed Lu Xiaoruo again, no, it was not so much to follow Lu Xiaoruo as to follow Shi Aming, Gu Yiling sometimes looked up at Grandma, except for Lu Xiaoruo and Gu Yiling, no one could see her here.

"Okay, okay, I bought some food, and I'll get in the car in a while, let's get ready." Shi Aming ran with a big bag and a small bag, Grandma stood beside Shi Amin and watched him silently, Shi Aming ran sweaty, Grandma groped on her body for a long time and couldn't find anything, and finally could only look at Shi Amin with pity in her eyes, Lu Xiaoruo understood and handed Shi Aming a pack of tissues, Shi Amin took it and thanked him, and a smile appeared on his dark face.

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There are more people on the train, and it seems that it is because the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. Lu Xiaoruo was protected by two men and sat in the innermost, but he was still breathless, and he couldn't breathe until he got to a big city and got on a train with a lot of people.

"I'm sorry, I was going to buy a faster train, but I didn't expect to run out of tickets, I'm really embarrassed to take a one-day train this time." Shi Aming was very sorry from the moment he got in the car, he was always very embarrassed, Gu Yiling joked with him informally, let him relax, and told him that it was okay, but Shi Aming still felt that he had neglected the guests from the provincial capital.

"By the way, Shi Ming, I've always wanted to ask you about your mother, now can you tell us about it?" Gu Yiling turned his mobile phone in his hand and asked Shi Aming, who was sitting opposite.

Shi Amin hesitated for a moment, looked left and right, and finally wiped his sweat before he said-

"Four days ago, my mother was found hanged on an ancient tree next to Lao Tan, not by an accident, but by hanging herself, our whole family doesn't know what's going on, why did my mother, who has always been healthy, die, and just the day before my mother called me and said that she wanted to come to see me, who ever thought, who never thought that she would not even see me." When Shi Amin said this, his heart was full of sadness.

"This, although most hanged ghosts are a bit difficult and have deep grievances, but I think ......" Gu Yiling glanced at the grandmother sitting next to Shi Aming, the grandmother had a kind face, and her face was not black, "Your mother is definitely a ghost who can become a Buddha soon, superstitious or something, just believe half of it." ā€

"Not really." Shi Aming immediately interrupted Gu Yiling, "What you said is actually what my eldest son also said, don't listen to superstition, but you don't know, our old village caused some trouble during the Republic of China, which is the reason why we are afraid of people who die unnaturally." ā€

"What? And what's going on? Lu Xiaoruo hurriedly opened the book, this is a good subject, and the next time it is processed and put in the magazine, it will definitely set off a storm!

"The seventeenth year of the Republic of China is a **** era, but it is relatively better for us mountain people, that year we should get married and get married, we should have a baby and have a baby, and there is no change, until, until someone brings a woman to the mountain......"

"This is still what I heard the elders say, the woman went out to escape the famine, hid in the mountains, was seen by an old bachelor who chops wood for a living, wanted to marry, the woman desperately resisted, but to no avail, and then on the day of marriage, the woman ran away, was blocked by a large number of people to the deep pool of the back mountain, the woman saw that there was no way back, but it was also Zhenlie, and jumped down without hesitation, but this is not the end, after a day the girl's body was suddenly hung next to the ancient well at the entrance of the village, and the strangulation marks on the neck were obviously strangled to death, and then later, This village is constantly ****, and even countless deaths and injuries overnight, people say that the female ghost came back to take revenge, and she was very scared, and since then she has died and injured herself, and this has become a taboo in our village. ā€

Lu Xiaoruo listened for a long time, and nodded silently, "I see, so this time your mother died like this, so that the people in the village thought that this female ghost had come back to take revenge, which made people panic, so they came to invite us to go?" ā€