Chapter 59: The Old Man's Story (2)
"After dark, my father went to bed early, he wanted to dream of that woman as soon as possible, and settle this matter as soon as possible, but strangely, he didn't dream of that woman all night."
"After three days, on the night of the fourth day, my father finally dreamed of the woman again, and the woman was very happy to take the shoes, and put them on her feet, and then my father realized that the woman had been barefoot all these days."
"After the woman found her shoes, she talked to my father for a long time, all about her past, she was originally the daughter of Li Shan, the richest man in Sanguan Town, when she came back from a visit to relatives and passed by here, she was robbed and killed, and the robbers were afraid that the matter would be revealed, so they buried her body, and later my family built a house here, she was pressed underneath, and suffered from trampling all day long, until recently, the popularity of this place is declining, and she has the ability to come out, and go to my father in a dream to talk about this and complain."
"In this way, this woman kept talking until dawn, and finally when she was leaving, she told my father to go to Sanguan Town to send a letter to her family, saying that she was dead, and let her family often come to her grave and send some things for use."
"The next day, my father had breakfast and went to Sanguan Town, after many inquiries, there was indeed a rich family surnamed Li in Sanguan Town, more than 20 years ago, there was indeed a daughter missing, but not long after the daughter disappeared, the family moved away, and no one knew where they moved."
"When I got home, my father told the woman about it, and the woman cried again, and my father persuaded her for a long time before she stopped crying, and finally the woman asked my father if he could come and talk to my father often, because she was very lonely."
"In this way, in the year before my father's death, this woman came back to my father's room almost every night, and in the last half year, the two of them even developed to the point of sleeping together, until the day before my father's death, the last note was still full of his affairs with the woman."
"At that time, I was very angry after reading this, and after burning all those notes, I wanted to burn down this house, and then leave this place, my father's choice made me very incomprehensible, although three wives and four concubines are very common for men, but I can never forgive being killed by ghosts."
"But when I calmed down and thought carefully about the cause and effect of this incident, I found that there are many strange places in it, why everything happened after the mysterious man bought the house, why he didn't find the shoe when he built the house, why my father didn't have that strange dream as soon as he left his room, all kinds of doubts made me make a bold decision, that is, I want to move into my father's room to see if I can dream of that woman."
"I lived in that room for half a month, nothing strange happened, I couldn't help but be more suspicious of this matter, so I was in my father's room, and began to look through the boxes and cabinets to see if I could find any clues, from noon until dark, I turned my father's room upside down, but still no clues were found."
"Looking at the room that I had turned over and had no place to put my feet, I didn't bother to clean up, so I went back to my room to sleep, because of this afternoon's tossing, I was also tired, I didn't lie down, I fell asleep, but the strange thing is that that night, I actually dreamed of the woman in white."
"The woman in white is almost exactly the same as what is described in my father's notebook, and even the content of what she says is basically the same, she also told me first that she was crushed under the house, and then asked me to help her find shoes."
"When I woke up the next morning, I felt a little pain in my head, but I still insisted on digging the corner of the wall, and sure enough, I found the shoe there, which made my doubts even heavier."
"Why does this female ghost come out every time, she has to do everything from beginning to end, can it be said, what is the secret in this, that night, I went to bed early, but lying on the bed, tossing and turning can not sleep, I have been thinking about this in my mind, and the more I think about it, the more sleepy I become."
"Just when I was about to get up to read, suddenly there was a slight noise behind the cabinet in my room, and when I heard this sound, I hurriedly continued to lie on the bed and pretend to be asleep, but the sound only rang once, and then it stopped ringing, and just as I was about to get up to check, I suddenly smelled a fragrance, and then fell asleep, and then I dreamed of the woman again, and the scene in the dream was still the same as described in my father's notebook."
"When I woke up the next morning, I packed up my things, and then went to Sanguan Town, this time I didn't go to inquire about Li Shan's family with great fanfare like my father, but went to a teahouse, and enlisted as a young man, I paid attention to those elderly people every day, listened to the gossip between them, and from time to time also introduced the topic to Li Shan's family."
"Hard work pays off, just half a month after I went to that teahouse, I finally heard something about the Li family in the mouth of an old man, this old man used to work as a handyman in the Li family, so he knows more about the Li family than outsiders."
"It turns out that this Li Shan is not a local, but moved here from other provinces, his family used to do the work of digging up corpses and robbing tombs, and he had a very bad reputation in the local area, and then he couldn't live there, so he came here, this Li Shan has no children and no daughters, but he has a few apprentices,"
"After coming here, on the surface, I was doing the business of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, but secretly, I was still doing the work of digging graves and digging graves, and the graves around Sanguan Town were almost dug up by them."
"After knowing this, I left the teahouse, this time I went to my uncle's house, my uncle, in the early years, was a dart master, often walked around the rivers and lakes, and now that he is older, he has returned to his hometown to retire."
"I told my uncle what happened, and he told me to keep quiet, go home first, and as if this incident had not happened, I would leave other things to him to deal with, and I would return home suspiciously, at home, waiting for news from my uncle."
"That's it, I waited for more than ten days, and there was still no news from my uncle's side, and I still dreamed of that woman every night."
"Because of my dreams every night, my spirit began to languish, and I was always listless during the day, just like my father was at that time, and just when I was about to lose it, one night, things finally took a turn."