This is a ghost story that happened in a neighboring village in the early days of liberation. After the liberation of the rural areas, the government carried out land reform, fighting the landlords to divide the land, and the wave of clearing up property boiled over the entire mountain village. At that time, the poor and middle farmers were happy, and finally turned over and became the masters of the house, and had their own land.

It is said that there is a big landowner in the neighboring village, surnamed Cai Minghanlin, and his ancestors have been rich for three generations. He is treacherous, sinister, and taciturn, and is called Cai Laohu by his neighbors behind his back. Since his land was confiscated, the existing two-story building was also confiscated by the local government, and it was inevitable that he was overly sad and painful, and he was criticized by the masses every day. Moreover, the high-ranking people could not withstand the destruction of their hearts, and after a few days, they hanged themselves.

These two floors belong to the ancient building, the red brick walls, doors and windows are made of stone strips, one side is sturdy and durable, and the other side is used to prevent bandit invasion. Therefore, the light in the room is dim, the ventilation is insufficient, and the room feels gloomy as soon as you enter the room. In the countryside of the old society, there were very few buildings. At that time, there were two brothers assigned to this building, the eldest brother was called Cai He, and the younger brother was called Cai Shun. Ever since the brothers happily moved into this room, strange things have happened one after another, and when they walked through the door every night, they saw that there seemed to be a person sitting on the chair of the master in the hall, but when they looked closer, there was nothing. The kerosene lamps also often crackle every night, and the blue lights are long and short, like a thread. Especially at midnight, there are often vague ghosts in front of the bed, so the two brothers are in a panic, they can't sleep at night and take turns to get sick, they live in the shadow of fear every day, after living for three months, the eldest Cai He fell ill, during the illness, he was often awakened by nightmares, the dead Cai Hanlin often sat at the head of the bed, looking at him angrily or pressing on his body, so that Cai and he were out of breath, and when the younger brother Cai Shun was taking care of his brother, he often heard his brother shouting desolate in his dreams, "Please don't come, I didn't mess with you''s desperate language. Soon after, the boss Cai He passed away quietly.

The second Cai Shun, since his brother fell ill and died, he heard his brother's dream cry with his own ears, and his heart has been hairy, after burying his eldest brother, he discussed with his sister-in-law and moved back to his former three broken grass houses together. Since then, this building has been empty, and no one dares to go in to live, and occasionally comrades from the work team go in, but they all live for a day or two and move out one after another. Every time the red sun sets in the west and the jade rabbit rises in the east, it is so frightened that all the doors and windows are closed early, for fear of bringing mildew. Even during the day, children are not allowed to play there, for fear of bad luck, and the building has since become a haunted house for the villagers to talk about the tiger's color.

One summer, a team leader was transferred from the county government to the village to guide the progress of production and class struggle, his surname is Lin Haodong, a native of Hubei, is a grassroots cadre who went south with the army, many years of military career has refined a body of courage, before Lao Lin came to the village, he had also heard the rumors of this ghost house, he did not believe that there were any ghosts and gods in this world. When the peasant union cadres arranged their accommodations, Captain Lin volunteered to break these superstitious beliefs. Determined to live in this building, despite repeated refusal by the village cadres, he said angrily: "Now is a new society, the party is trying to break superstition and emancipate the mind, what kind of ghost house?" What can I do if there is.'' The village cadres said that they could not help him, so they had to ask a few militiamen to clean up the building and move Lao Lin's marching and quilts and straw mats into it.

After dinner, Lao Lin went to the village to have a meeting, and returned to the house, it was eleven o'clock in the evening, and he made the bed and went to bed immediately. Just fell asleep, only to hear the doors and windows crackling, the vigilance of the soldiers made Lao Lin open his eyes, with the faint light of the moon outside, as if there was a figure shaking outside the window, he thought that the landlord bully wanted to take the opportunity to carry out assassination. Picked up the pistol and walked over quietly, he quickly opened the door to see, there was no one outside, several times in a row, so that Lao Lin was exhausted, he thought that maybe the neighbor's cat came to make trouble, simply closed all the doors and windows, took a flashlight upstairs to check, only to see a coffin and some furniture and other miscellaneous items upstairs, and fell asleep with his head in his arms after coming down.

At one o'clock, Lao Lin was in a haze, as if he heard a loud bang upstairs, and there was a ticking of footsteps on the stairs, as if someone was gently walking down the stairs. He opened his sour eyes, a little suspicious in his heart, the doors and windows had already been closed, and there was no one in the room except himself. Lao Lin got up with a flashlight and looked around, but he didn't see a mouse, is this really a haunted house that people legend? Lao Lin suddenly had this kind of thought in his mind, although he didn't believe in evil, he also felt a little creepy at this moment. After tossing for a while, he turned off the flashlight and put it back at the head of the bed, turned on the safety of the pistol, put it in the right side of the bed, blew out the kerosene lamp, and finally couldn't stop the fatigue of the day. He fell asleep again, and in his dream he saw a vague ghost coming down from the upper floor, all the way to Lao Lin, who struggled desperately, but his feet couldn't move, and his mouth was screaming desperately. It may also be that justice has turned evil into evil, and Lao Lin has woken up from the intense struggle. He opened his eyes, his ears heard the footsteps of the stairs very clearly, ticking and ticking, and walked towards Lao Lin step by step, at this critical juncture, Lao Lin hurriedly reached out to take the flashlight, but he didn't know where it fell, Lao Lin immediately thought that when he had a nightmare just now, he was likely to push the flashlight under the bed, at this time, the ghost was slowly approaching Lin Haodong. At this time, Lao Lin was also scared and sweaty, he picked up the pistol in his right hand, flipped it over, and immediately went to the ground, when his left hand touched the flashlight in the dark, the ghost shadow had reached two steps in front of him, Lao Lin quickly turned on the flashlight, and shone to the ghost, the pistol in his right hand was a buckle machine at the same time, the gun rang out, and a squeaky ghost scream rushed out of the window with a blue light.

At this time, the clock on the wall was striking twice, and Lao Lin was trembling all over his body at this time, and he was stunned for a while. Cold sweat spread all over his body, his shirt was all wet, Lao Lin sat on the edge of the bed weakly, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness, his face was pale, and he waited until dawn. Since then, the haunted house has finally quieted down, and there has never been any ghost fire again.