Chapter 21: The Ghost
"Quack."
There was another sharp crow's cry, this time the sound was close to the window, and Chen Sui even saw the hazy dark shadow through the window, like a ghost......
She got up from her chair with a bang, walked quickly to the door, looked to both sides, and said in a trembling voice, "Is there anyone...... Yes...... Anyone? ”
No one responded to her, and her slightly trembling voice echoed in the huge courtyard a few times before gradually moving away from her. Now, the sunlight has completely withdrawn from the mound house, and what remains is only the dark shadows of the houses and flowers and trees that seem to be depicted in thick ink.
Something is wrong with this house.
As this thought flashed through her mind, a figure also fluttered into her mind: the woman in the sedan chair was repeatedly reciting a drama that she didn't quite understand.
"Don't love heroes, don't envy arrogance, voluntarily live together, die with the same hole......."
"Don't love heroes, don't envy arrogance, voluntarily live together, die with the same hole......."
"Don't love heroes, don't envy arrogance, voluntarily live together, die with the same hole......."
Now, the voice seemed to be amplified, not in her head, but in the house.
Chen Sui gasped and suddenly came back to her senses: she heard it, heard this sound, it seemed to be outside the courtyard wall, and it seemed to be above her head, fluttering, sometimes big and sometimes small, like a kite that was high and low. However, the string of the kite is this house, and it cannot fly away, and it will never fly away.
Chen Sui was taken aback by her own idea, she shook her head, and forced this crazy idea out. She can't manage so much now, even Song Huan can't take care of it, she must escape from this courtyard first, and if she is one step later, she is afraid that she will be like this song hovering overhead, and she will never be able to go out.
Chen Sui walked out of the house quickly, bypassed the shadow wall, and walked towards the outside of the courtyard. But after only a few steps of the general, she suddenly noticed that there were several slender bamboo shadows not far in front of her, slender and straight, light and delicate. At first, it was just a few, but after a while, it was connected together, and the bamboo shadows were clustered, layered on top of each other, like a black barrier.
How did such a large bamboo forest grow out of thin air on the ground? Chen Sui couldn't figure it out, but there were too many things about this mansion and the owner of this mansion that she couldn't understand, including the thick mist that flowed from nowhere.
The white mist swirled through the forest, brushing the bamboo knots and the newly emerging bamboo shoots on the ground, like thick snakes. Chen Sui felt as if the mist was alive, and she thought, maybe there were a lot of unjust souls wrapped in the mist, and they couldn't get out, so they were trapped here, condensing into a thick mist......
So are Song Huan and Xiao Yao also in this?
Chen Sui was startled by this thought that suddenly came to her, but at this time, she could only walk forward, because the courtyard gate was behind this forest, and this forest was the only way for her to escape.
She stepped in, and the moment the mist touched her clothes, she felt a penetrating coolness that ran down her skin and soaked her internal organs cold.
Chen Sui swallowed hard, and his fingers reached into his slightly bulging belly, as if the unformed child inside could bring her a trace of warmth.
"Don't be afraid, my mother protects you, we will definitely be able to go out."
She stretched out her hands in front of her, groping her way towards the bamboo forest like a blind person, and just took a few steps, but her foot tripped over a young bamboo shoot that had just emerged, and she threw herself forward, hitting a slender bamboo.
There was a hot pain on her forehead, and her skin seemed to be scratched by the raised bamboo knots, she gasped slightly, rubbed her forehead casually with her sleeve, and wanted to bypass the bamboo and continue to walk forward. But before she could take a step, she suddenly saw a person standing behind a bamboo not far away, and the figure was familiar to her.
"Xianggong." Chen Sui recognized that the person was Song Huan, and couldn't help but be surprised and delighted, and ran forward with a step.
But after running a few steps, she felt that something was wrong, Song Huan obviously didn't move, but she kept a few steps away from him, and she never seemed to be able to get close to him, although he was close at hand.
Thinking of this, she felt that the hairs on the back of her neck suddenly opened, Chen Sui stopped, and looked at Song Huan again, only to find that Song Huan's facial features were blurred, and his face seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist. And his body was a cut taller than usual, still swaying gently, as if a gust of wind could blow him away.
"Xianggong."
Chen Sui's voice was mixed with crying, and she didn't walk in his direction again, because she knew that Song Huan was dead.
"Don't go here...... From...... Walk ...... from the back door of the yard."
Just when Chen Sui was overwhelmed with grief, Song Huan spoke, he spoke very hard, and his neck stretched out in advance, as if only in this way could he squeeze the words out of his throat.
"Go through the back door...... No...... Don't go here......" he said again.
Chen Sui didn't need any more reminders, she turned around and ran towards the outside of the bamboo forest, her feet on the muddy wet soil, almost slipping, but finally she steadied herself, and after bypassing a few bamboos, she ran under the shadow wall.
"Xianggong."
When she was about to pass the shadow wall, she turned back and took one last look at the bamboo forest: Song Huan was still behind the bamboo, his body looked lighter and lighter, floating from head to toe and floating on the ground, and in the end, the clothes and his body dissolved into the white mist and dispersed into the forest.
Chen Sui wiped away the tears on her face, turned around and ran into the main hall, and after coming out of the back door of the main hall, she ran along the road towards the back door of the Qiu house.
On both sides of the road are the east and west courtyards, and Chen Sui knows that these two rooms live Qiu Ran and his wife and the old couple of the Qiu family respectively. Now, the doors of both courtyards were open, and when they looked at it, it looked like two large open black mouths, as if they were about to swallow her in one gulp.
Chen Sui looked at these two courtyard gates, and felt that the blood in his whole body was boiling, and his heart was pounding in his chest as if he was about to fly. She stared at the courtyard gate, urging herself to hurry up, but it was so unfortunate that when she passed through the courtyard gate, her shoes got stuck in the brick cracks, and she tried several times, but she couldn't pull it out.
Chen Sui sweated in a hurry, squatted down and grabbed the upper of the shoe with her hand and pulled it outward, and finally pulled the shoe out, but just when she was a little relieved, she caught a glimpse of several figures in the courtyard on both sides, walking in her direction.