Chapter 1: Midnight Knocks
At eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, the lights were turned on in the house, and the whole village was silent without a sound.
My grandfather and I hadn't slept yet, and I was staring at the door a little nervously.
When twelve o'clock came, the black dog in my yard suddenly barked wildly. The sudden ringing in this quiet night is really scary.
"Knock knock—"
Amid the barking of the dogs, I heard a sudden knock on the door, a hoarse and ugly sound sounded outside the gate, which sounded very cold and eerie.
"Lingering ......"
"Jiang Mianmian...... Daughter-in-law ......"
Here it is, here it is again!
I was so frightened that I went straight into my grandfather's arms, and my little body kept shaking.
In normal times, I would not be afraid, but now, I am extremely scared, because I know that the knock on the door is not human, but ...... That thing.
Hearing this voice, the grandfather immediately roared angrily: "Get out, there is no daughter-in-law here, be careful that I am not polite to you!" ”
The knock on the door was silent for a few seconds, and I heard a strange laugh before calming down.
It wasn't until the black dog stopped barking that my grandfather patted me on the back: "Okay, Mianmian, go to sleep, it's gone." ”
"Grandpa, I'm afraid ......"
I didn't dare to leave my grandfather's arms, and I clung to the corner of my grandfather's clothes, for fear that the thing would come again.
"Don't be afraid, grandpa is guarding here, go to sleep." Grandpa comforted me for a long time before I climbed into bed.
I was lying on the bed, and my grandfather was sitting in the room, and I took out a box of Hongtashan from my pocket, smoking one after another, my brows furrowed, and the wrinkles on my face deepened.
I couldn't help but think of a few days ago, when nothing happened, but since that happened, everything has changed......
I was picked up from the graveyard by my grandfather.
According to my grandfather, when he saw me, I was lying on the edge of a lonely grave, wrapped in a rag, and I was dying of hunger, and I couldn't cry.
My grandfather took me back and fed me warm milk, and I survived, and when my grandfather had no children and no daughters, he took care of me as his own granddaughter when he saw that I looked pleasing.
Since I didn't know who my parents were, my grandfather's surname was Jiang, so I took his surname and gave me a name, Jiang Mianmian.
When I grew up a little, I learned that my grandfather was a grave keeper, guarding a large cemetery, which was buried with some very mysterious people, and every month the family members of those graves would give my grandfather a lot of money, and my grandfather would go to the cemetery every day to sweep the graves, and occasionally burn some of the things that their families had entrusted to them, and they had persisted for decades.
Because this industry is very unfortunate in the eyes of others, my grandfather has never found a daughter-in-law in his life, and he depends on me for his life.
Grandpa was very kind to me, in our village, when the people in the village heard that I picked it up from the cemetery, they all said that I was bad luck and a broom star, but grandpa didn't care. When other friends were reluctant to eat candy, I had already eaten many flavors of candy, and I was almost held in the palm of my grandfather's hand until I was five years old.
On this day, my grandfather, who had always been healthy, suddenly fell ill, and I struggled in bed for a long time without getting up, seeing that it was almost time to sweep the grave, my grandfather looked at the sky outside with a sad face, and when it was four o'clock in the afternoon, my grandfather finally couldn't help but call me to the bedside.