After the old man returned to the room, Xiang Luyang and the others tied their horses in the yard, took the things down under the porch, and checked them one room by one, in fact, among these rooms, only a few of them had coffins, and most of the other rooms were empty, so they found two adjacent rooms to settle down.

Ye Qiushui and Gao Biying began to give everyone dinner, in fact, their dinner was bought today before going out of the city, after spreading the food and wine, everyone was about to prepare to start, at this time Xiang Luyang suddenly said: "Marco, you go and invite the old gentleman to come and eat with us, borrowed someone's place, the etiquette is still indispensable." ”

After a short time, Marco and the old man walked in together, and the old man was not polite, and after sitting down, he began to eat by himself, and everyone was hungry after an afternoon of travel, and when they saw that the old man began to move, they all sat down and ate.

After a few glasses of wine, the old man's face gradually became a trace of blood, and seeing that the old man's attitude was not as cold as just now, Xiang Luyang opened his mouth and said, "How long has the old man been guarding this Yizhuang?" ”

The old man took a sip of wine and said, "The old man was born here, and now it has been more than sixty years. ”

Marco said: "I was born here, do you see Yizhuang, is it a family heirloom?" ”

Xiang Luyang scolded: "Marco, don't talk nonsense. ”

Seeing that it was Marco who spoke, the old man had a good impression of this young man who called himself to eat, so he was not surprised, but said: "This was not Yizhuang, but my home, although you look at it here now, although it is very dilapidated, but more than sixty years ago, this was the most famous place within a radius of fifty miles, and there was a lot of traffic all day long, and there was an endless stream of guests, almost all of which had to step on the threshold of this." ”

"At that time, my father had just resigned and returned to his hometown, because his old man's popularity in the capital was not bad, and there were some connections, so there was an endless stream of people who came to his old man's house, plus I was just born, and my father had a middle-aged child, so it was lively here for a long time."

"But later, as my father became more and more estranged from his friends in the capital, the place gradually lost its former prosperity, and the family road began to decline, and when I was fifteen years old, my father died of depression, and the place completely lost its former glory."

At this point, the old man stopped speaking and seemed to be lost in thought.

After a long time, Xiang Luyang opened his mouth and said: "Although the family is in the middle of the road, it is enough to sell this place, and it will not be reduced to a righteous village?"

The old man sighed and said, "I had this idea at the time, but not long after my father died, the servants of the family came to me to ask for my resignation, and all of them used the same excuse, saying that after my father's death, they could often see his ghost wandering here. ”

"A month after my father died, my mother also died, and I was the only one left here, and I wanted to give up here several times and leave the country, but I was not reconciled, after all, this place carried my entire childhood, and there has always been a mystery in my heart that has not been solved, that is, why everyone saw my father's ghost, why I didn't see it."

"With this doubt, I have been living here, and later when I was sorting out my father's relics, I found a notebook of his, because I was curious, I opened this notebook and looked at it, the previous content is similar, all some officialdom trivia, and some of the things I saw after returning to my hometown."

"But in the last year's notes, I found a strange thing, it turned out that a year before my father's death, there was a mysterious person, came to my father, he wanted to buy this house from my father's hands, although my family was not as good as before, but it was not to the point of selling the house, so my father rejected him."

"Not long after rejecting him, strange things happened, just a few days, first in the middle of the night, in my father's room, there was an inexplicable noise, at that time my father thought that this was a house that had lived for a long time, and there were rats passing back and forth here, and it would be fine in a few days, so he didn't care."

"Sure enough, within a few days, the voice disappeared, but on the night when the voice disappeared, my father had a strange dream, dreaming of a woman in white, who came late at night, and she first cried and complained, saying that my family's house had been pressed against her grave for many years, which made her miserable, and this time I came to ask my father to move."

"In the dream, my father didn't know what to do, but only good words to comfort, who would have thought, just when my father was close to the woman in white, she suddenly hugged my father, lay on him and cried bitterly, until the east turned white, the woman left, before leaving, she told my father, in the main house of my house, about three feet under the east wall, there is one of her shoes, let my father help her take it out tomorrow, she will find my father to get it at night."

"When my father got up that day, it was almost noon, and the dream of last night made him confused, and he tried to dig the place that the woman said several times, but he held back."

"That's it, my father waited until it got dark, he didn't dare to sleep after dark, for fear that the woman would come to him to ask for shoes, but three more ten, my father somehow fell asleep in a daze, not long after falling asleep, the woman came again, this time she cried even more, saying that my father didn't move, even her small request was not satisfied, my father had no choice but to promise her, as soon as the morning dawned, he would go to get her shoes."

"After dawn, my father didn't dig the shoe, but packed up his things and went out to visit friends, and this time it was half a month, and my father never dreamed of that woman in this half month, so this incident gradually faded into oblivion."

"On the night of the day I got home, the woman appeared in my father's dream again, this time the woman did not cry, but threatened my father with a cold face that if she didn't get her shoes back tomorrow, she would attack my family, and after that, a sharp knife slammed into my father's bedside."

"When the dream came here, my father woke up suddenly, looking at the marks of being stabbed by a knife on the bed, my father didn't sleep all night."

"As soon as the day dawned, my father got up, he did not alarm the family, but secretly dug up under the east wall, and sure enough, less than three feet under the wall, he dug up a white embroidered shoe, although this shoe was buried deep in the ground, but it still looked very new, my father put the shoe in his arms, and refilled the hole, and then began to wait for dark."