Chapter 34: Ghost Town
The man watched her go out, looked at the direction she was going, and was stunned for a long time, until the cigarette butt burned his hand, and ran to the back room with the thirty yuan she gave him, shouting as he ran, "Daughter-in-law! Help me see if the money is real? Oops, oh my god, it scared me to death! ”
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The dark clouds in the sky obscured the last bit of moonlight, and the sun stumbled forward in the dark night with a large plastic bag in sight. Today's most sorry thing is these two legs, this day, net walking!
It was late at night, and there were more people walking on the streets in the town, and when they saw the sunshine, an outsider, they all slowly surrounded her, and those with good letters pestered her.
Sunshine didn't bother to take care of them, she lowered her head and walked forward with her bag in her arms, and from time to time a wind blew, blowing her short hair messy in the wind, she just wanted to hurry back to Xiaoyan'er's house and feed the little glutton.
Fortunately, she could gradually see the dilapidated gate of Xiao Yan'er's house, with a dim red lantern on the door, and she took a few steps to push open the door!
Xiao Yan'er was still playing in the yard, and when she saw her coming back, she shouted to her happily, "Sister, you see there is a well in this." She only cared about dancing with her hands, and accidentally slipped under her feet, and slipped half of her body into the well.
The sun was only two or three steps away from her, and without saying a word, she rushed over and grabbed her little hand, but fortunately, she reacted quickly enough to drag her up, Xiao Yan'er was wet, and a pair of eyes looked at her resentfully.
The woman heard the voice running out of the house, and was startled by this scene, and asked, "Why are you back again?" ”
"Xiao Yan'er, my sister bought you something delicious!" Sunshine dragged Xiaoyan'er with her right hand, and shook the plastic bag containing pastries and fruits with her left hand.
Xiao Yan'er's eyes lit up instantly, and then she let go of her hand and happily rummaged through the delicious food.
"Shufang, still don't admit it? You brought the living back! Two more old ladies came out of the room, looking at the sun with a hostile expression.
At this time, there was a rustling sound outside the door, and then the knock on the door sounded like raindrops, and the sun looked up at the sky: it was not the dark clouds that covered the moonlight, but the hideous faces, old, young, fat, thin, tangled black or white messy hair slowly pressed down from the air, and every face was talking, buzzing like hundreds of flies.
Sunshine took out a wad of paper money from his pocket, lit it with a lighter, drew a circle in the air, and threw it outside the low earthen wall with a wave of his hand, and in an instant the yellow paper money burned and scattered all around.
"Grandparents, grandparents, aunts and uncles outside, I didn't mean to disturb you, but I just saw the pity of orphans and widows, and sent some food to my children, don't blame it." She muttered as she threw it.
The noise outside gradually became quieter, and the big ghosts and little ghosts took the money and went home to sleep.
The woman looked incredulous, and asked, "You know we're not human?" ”
Sunshine nodded, turned to the two old ladies who were still eyeing her, and said, "Look at how familiar you are, you were also relatives of this family when you were alive, right?" You have children and grandchildren to worship every year, and if you don't help this mother and daughter who no one cares, it's okay, I, an outsider, can't stand it anymore and send them something, why are you still not happy? Aren't you happy about your turn? ”
"The baby from the city, there are no rules! Let's go! The two old ladies were speechless by what she said, spat on the ground, glanced at her, and walked away with their crutches and each other.
The sunlight gave them a hard roll of the eyes against their backs.
The woman hurriedly ran over and closed the door, and said to her with a frightened expression, "Child, those are all elders, and we can't afford to offend." ”
"I don't respect the old and are so mean, I can't respect them." Sunshine pouted and said disdainfully, turned her head to look at Xiao Yan'er, who was still eating with relish, and couldn't help but smile slightly: Seeing that she was so happy, she ran around so far today, and it was not in vain.
The woman looked at the child with a happy face and said gratefully to the sunshine, "How do you know that we are ghosts?" We all know that we are ghosts, how can we come back? ”
Sunshine pulled Xiaoyan'er to sit under the eaves and smiled at the woman, "Actually, I was already suspicious. Because she called me sister as soon as we met, you see me like a tomboy, from childhood to adulthood, people who don't know me will mistake me for a boy at the first time, I was a little puzzled, why didn't she call me brother? Later, I saw Xiaoyan eating, it was a little strange, she shouted hungry, but I gave her egg yolk pie, she just licked it with relish, but did not put it in her mouth to eat, children of this age, when they saw something delicious, their first reaction should be immediately stuffed into their mouths, only ghosts only eat the fragrance of things, and then I thought it might be that you are strict, she didn't dare to eat, so it was just a suspicion at the time. It stands to reason that you cannot come out in the daytime, and even if you can, you will not be able to come near me; But this afternoon was cloudy, there was no sun, and I caught up with my low luck in the past two days, and everything happened to be in a hurry, and we met. At first I saw you with an umbrella under your arm, thinking you were afraid of rain, but then I walked to this town and felt a little weird, this place is too quiet to be abnormal, there are stores and hotels but no people, and the houses are very old, and I can't compare with the villages I passed along the way. Sure enough, as soon as I stepped into the streets of the town, I felt that there was yin and ghost energy all around me, and I knew that I was in the wrong place, and I had gone to someone's grave. There are so many ghosts in front of and behind me staring at me in the dark, and even passing by me, in fact, I have seen and felt, that feeling is quite uncomfortable, but there is no way, I am alone, alone, in order not to provoke you, I can only act as if I didn't look at it. ”
The woman smiled a little wryly.
Sunshine continued: "You didn't let me stay in a hotel, let me stay in your house, I thought you were going to take me to myself, but when I got to your house, I felt that you didn't want to hurt me, but wanted me to leave; You lit the candle with a ghost fire, a cold green flame, and I think you might be trying to imply to me that you're not human, and that I should be on guard, right? Later, Xiaoyan'er and I went to the yard to play, and you made excuses to send me to buy things, and said those words to remind me that I was walking on the street, and the road looked flat, but I could feel that I was going downhill. When I found the incense and candle shop, I understood that you wanted to sue me that you were ghosts, because everything sold there was for grave use. The smell of garlic and smoke on the shopkeeper's body was a ghost nasty smell, and he was a little scared because his shop was not far from the cemetery, so I was sure that you didn't want to harm me at that time, and besides, the ghosts I met should have been sacrificed by someone, not a ghost, so although they were hostile to me, they didn't have much anger, so I didn't have to be afraid of them. ”