Chapter 3 There are ghosts haunting
The night was as cold as water, and a white shadow took advantage of a glimmer of moonlight outside the window, sneaking downstairs barefoot, and turned into the kitchen.
In the kitchen, a dim butter lamp is lit. Linlang was wearing only a middle coat and a moon-white gown on the outside. Her waist-length hair was spread out, and she looked like a beautiful ghost in the dim light. She took out a few flatbreads from the pot and some pickles from the jar, and neatly laid them out on the kitchen board. She rubbed her hands, raised her head and whispered, "Come out, the food is ready." ”
After a while, a cold wind blew, and Linlang couldn't help but shiver. Two things that I don't know if they were humans or ghosts flew down from the beams of the house.
They were dressed in tattered clothes, their hair was long and scattered, their faces were blue and purple, and they looked very ugly.
When they saw the food on the board, their eyes lit up, they smiled and said to Linlang, "Thank you, girl." After speaking, he stretched out his hand with long pointed nails, picked up the flatbread and ate it in a big gulp.
Linlang squatted on the side and drew circles on the ground, sighing in her heart, these two ghosts had been with her for a long time. When she got up that night, she heard a movement in the kitchen, so she quietly went downstairs to look, and who knew that it was two hungry ghosts stealing food. She held a bright knife in her hand, and stared at the two green-faced and fanged ghosts, which startled them, and the two tall ghosts hugged each other and shook into a sieve.
They always thought that people couldn't see ghosts, and even if they did, most of them would be frightened by their appearance, after all, their appearance was really ugly. But when the little girl saw them, not only was she not afraid, but she also took a knife shining with silver light, and said angrily: "You two shameless starving ghosts, hurry up and arrest them, or your souls will be scattered." "It's not big, but it's very aggressive.
Linlang has been peeing differently from people since she was a child, and she can see some unclean things. It's just that she was afraid that others would think she was weird, so she didn't tell others, and even Cai Wei didn't know anything about it. Maybe she's seen too much, and she's used to it, and she's not very afraid. But she is also very inward-looking, she is a human being after all, how can she beat ghosts, let alone two ghosts.
But what she didn't expect was that these two ghosts were also cowards, and they were frightened by the momentum she pretended. Although the two ghosts are fierce and vicious, they don't have any bad intentions, and they come to eat and drink every day, and they don't dare to do anything harmful. Linlang is soft-hearted, so she always prepares some food for them in advance. They left after eating, and Linlang watched them go to sleep after eating, and they have been safe and sound. Now, the mother is suspicious, although she is not suspicious, and it is inconvenient for them to come again.
Seeing that they were eating about the same, Linlang said, "Don't come again tomorrow." ”
They didn't know why, touched their messy hair, and grinned, "Why is that?" What did we do wrong to upset the girl? ”
Linlang said: "You didn't provoke me, but there is always less food in the kitchen recently, and my mother became suspicious, thinking that there were rats in the room, and said that she was going to buy rat poison tomorrow." What if you eat food with rat poison and get poisoned? ”
One of the ghosts, named Liangqing, laughed: "We are already dead, we won't be poisoned, the girl can rest assured." ”
Linlang patted his head, "Hey, you're right, you're ghosts, and rat poison won't work for you." ”
The other one named Liangji laughed silly, and Linlang thought for a while, "No, even if the rat poison is useless to you, my mother will find out sooner or later, so you still don't come." ”
When they had finished eating, they lay down on their stools, burped and said, "Let's eat less in the future, so that she doesn't find out." ”
Liangqing grinned and slapped Liangji on the head, "It's not that you eat the most on weekdays." ”
Liangji touched his shriveled stomach and sighed helplessly: "No way, I always can't eat." ”
Linlang sat cross-legged on the firewood on the ground, and suddenly remembered some questions, so he held his cheeks and asked, "Liangji, how did you die?" ”
Liangji touched his shriveled stomach again, and continued to sigh: "Alas, when I was a child, my family was poor, and I always couldn't eat, and one year there was a famine, and I starved to death. ”
Linlang nodded, no wonder she always couldn't eat. As he spoke, he asked Liangqing again, "Liangqing, you usually eat a lot, won't you also starve to death?" ”
Liangqing looked at Linlang for a while, and suddenly stretched out a blood-red tongue more than an inch long from his mouth, and his eyes almost popped out of his sockets, Linlang was startled and almost jumped up from the ground. She covered her eyes and secretly looked through her fingers, and saw that Liangqing had recovered as before, so she took away the hand that was blocking her eyes. Liangqing was about to say how he died, but Linlang stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "I know, you were hanged." ”
Liangqing smiled: "The girl is really smart. ”
Linlang said helplessly: "You just tell me, you don't have to show it to me, I'll be scared." But what do you can't think of to hang yourself? ”
Liangqing suddenly put away his smile and was silent for a long time before he said, "I was strangled to death." ”
"Huh? Why? Linlang was curious.
"I offended the local bully, he wanted to marry my sister, but I refused, so he killed me."
"You're a ghost now, why don't you seek revenge for yourself?"
"It's been hundreds of years, and that bully may have been reincarnated a long time ago, where else can I go to seek revenge."
Linlang couldn't help but feel pity, these two ghosts were also pitiful. She didn't know if she should chase them out.
Linlang relieved for a while, although she took pity on them, but people and ghosts have different paths, can she still support them for a long time? So she said, "Eat and drink enough today, and tomorrow you will find another place to go." ”
They looked at each other, paused for a while, and Liangqing spoke: "We have no place to go, we have been alone in this world for many years, only you treat us well, girl." ”
Linlang was puzzled, "Why don't you go to reincarnation, how good it is to be a human being again, it's better than being a lonely soul and a wild ghost." ”
The two ghosts sighed in unison, and Liangqing said: "We also want to be reincarnated, but the underworld refuses to accept us, saying that our names are not in the book of life and death, and let us return to the yang world, but we are indeed dead in the yang world." ”
Linlang didn't understand their affairs, and she was helpless, "Alas, forget it, you can do whatever you want, but I won't come back at night in the future, lest my mother find out, and I can't explain." ”
The two ghosts seemed very happy, and only said that they would be more careful in the future. They hula flew out of the kitchen window, blew out the oil lamp, put on their clothes, and quietly went upstairs.
Walking to the door of Xiao Lianzi's room, I vaguely heard what seemed to be movement in his room. She listened slightly, listened carefully, and felt that the footsteps seemed to be in front of the door. Oh no, could it be that Xiaolianzi found out? Linlang quickened her pace, quickly ran into her room, and closed the door lightly. If Lianzi finds out about her, how will she explain it tomorrow? Xiao Lianzi was timid, so she insisted that she didn't go downstairs, maybe he thought he was dazzled.