When the cold winter is coming, it is also the eighth year of Mei Tian's non-human life, and she will be nine years old after this year, but her physical condition is getting worse and worse, and it seems that this year's thirty is really over.

If you are realistic, it is a relief, Uncle Mei and Aunt Mei really can't afford it, but the forty-year-old couple has aged a lot in the past few years, and their hair has turned a little gray, and Aunt Mei is even less graceful than before.

Just as every household was bustling to welcome the New Year, the family on all sides of the family went to bed early, they had no New Year's goods to buy, no relatives to visit, and they couldn't even prepare dumplings.

Although Mei Tian is weak, but the spirit is very good, he sleeps little every day, he can't sleep at night, after turning off the light, he feels water dripping on his face, he knows that this is his mother's tears of distress, I don't know how many times, he is bitter in his heart, but there is no way, but he hopes that he will leave this world as soon as possible, which may be another kind of gratitude for his parents!

At night, the village beat gongs and drums to wake everyone up, Mei Tian has not slept, their family can only go through the crack in the door to find out, they are really afraid, as long as they show up, they will always be involved, something bad must have happened in this situation, in order to be stable, they decided not to go out of this door.

There is a stone bridge at the east end of the village, which is also the only place to enter the village, but after a long time, the stone bridge is damaged and has long lost the appearance of the bridge, that is, the stones are patched together on the river surface, and few people will walk from here in the middle of the night.

It is in this place where the water is not knee-high, every year there will be one or two people drowning here, there are different opinions, the most convincing two theories, one is that there is a god in the river, and every year a living person is needed, and the other is that the water ghost is looking for a substitute.

Either way, everyone doesn't want this curse to happen to them, and everyone who hides far away is willing to take the risk.

After Zhang Wen's father finished drinking this night, he had to cross the stone bridge, accompanied by a drinking friend from the village.

Zhang Wen's father shouted all the way, and he had to stay and rest on this stone bridge, saying that he wanted to see the appearance of this water ghost, but his drinking friend was afraid of it, and he felt that the wind was gusting everywhere, staring at them, urging him to leave.

Zhang Wen, who urged his father, was annoyed, and began to scold and scold him that he was cowardly, and then he wanted to solve it here.

At this time, under the moonlight projection, the bottom of the water was shining with golden light, and it was full of gold, silver and jewelry, he jumped down to pick it up without thinking about it, and later listened to his own account that at that moment his body and mind were obsessed, as if his mind was controlled.

His friend was stunned and saw Zhang Wen's father frantically drilling into the water. He was completely frightened, and he didn't see any treasure, but a pale, weird woman's smiling face.

Timid by nature, he ran away, shouting "The water ghost is asking for his life", and shouted to wake up the whole village while running, but in ten minutes the brave people in the village rushed over, but it was too late, this person had already lost his breath, his body was stiff and floating on the water, his eyes were wide, his face was frightened, and he must have experienced inhuman pain before he died.

After listening to the narration of the companions, after the villagers fished up the corpses, they boldly went into the water to look for them, but there was nothing underneath, except for stones and mud, not to mention gold, silver and jewelry, not even a porcelain piece.

The people of the older generation are involved in the past, warning the people in the village not to leave here in the future, and also tying red ropes and hemp belts, praying that the water ghosts will let the people in the village go.

For a while, the clouds were gloomy, Zhang Wen's house was full of white cloth, and Zhang's mother was crying pear blossoms with rain. Zhang Wen, who was only five years old, didn't know what death was, so he watched his father lying at home with a white cloth, and he just thought he was asleep.

At that time, there was no economic foundation, so there was only burial, and the night before the burial, relatives and friends would be invited to have a funeral dinner, and the flowing water banquet would generally last until late.

Uncle Mei was taken care of by Zhang Wen's family, and he made up a little heart, and then went to incense, Zhang's mother also wanted to open it, this life has been in the world for decades, and it is gone, although their family of three is defined as unknown, they have never done anything sorry for people, do not steal or rob, and have always been duty. And they all mourned sincerely, so they left their family to eat.

But no one at the table was willing to do it with them, if it weren't for the bitterness of his wife and children, he really wouldn't go back to the table, he had never eaten such a sumptuous meal in the past few years, they only had a little luxury, let them eat and leave.

After the meal was served, they tasted it in the face of others, and then left the table in a hurry, and when they left the food on the wine table, no one moved, and finally had no choice but to tear it all down.

"Dad, why don't they like us?" Mei Tian noticed all this, and he also asked many times, but Uncle Mei always replied to him because he was sick, and only when he was sick would everyone play with him. But today he once again felt the taste of being alienated, and it would be a lie to himself to say that he didn't hate, but he had to endure it in the face of his wife and children.

"They don't dislike us, they have to deal with your Uncle Zhang's funeral!" Uncle Mei has always wanted the burden on the child's heart to be too great, afraid that the cruelty of reality will hurt the child's young heart.

"What does it mean to be dead?"

"To die is to leave this world, to have nothing, not to see your family, not to hear speech."

"Oh, then will I be like Uncle Zhang one day, lying there that day!"

Aunt Mei heard this and hugged him: "No, are you willing to give up your parents?" ”

"Reluctantly!"

"Mom can't bear it, so you have to live well, and we will definitely get better."

Xiao Meitian was afraid to see Aunt Mei's sad appearance again, so he didn't dare to say much about himself, but he thought of Zhang Wen, who was younger than himself, will he have no father in the future?

It was late at night, and the people who kept watch to play cards were also sleepy, and they took turns on duty, especially when it was almost dawn, when people were most likely to be sleepy, and the night watchmen also took a nap.

Even if a weak black shadow passed in front of him at this time, he couldn't detect it for the time being.

When I woke up, I saw that there was a big one lying in the coffin, the big one was Zhang Wen's father, and the small one was Mei Tian, the ghost boy who everyone in the village avoided him.

This suddenly exploded, usually this kid is scared enough, but now in this situation, it is even more eerie, and the scared pants of the night vigil are wet.

There are too many people, so there are naturally bold people, but no matter how bold people are, no one dares to touch Mei Tian, so they called Uncle Mei.

When Uncle Mei took Mei Tian out, he found that he was cold and breathless, and Aunt Mei cried when she saw it, because she ate better tonight, so she slept more deeply at night, and the child secretly ran out They didn't notice it at all, and finally failed to live through the Chinese New Year's Eve.

It's unbelievable why this kid climbed into the coffin, did he know that he didn't have the money to buy him a funeral, and wanted to save trouble, the more he thought about it, the more evil he felt, but this kid was different from ordinary people, and he felt that anything could happen to him.

Just when everyone was in the air, there was a sound in the coffin, which made the dead dawn lively, and the people in the coffin struggled, and the custom here is that when people pass away, they will be tied up with white cloth, and then covered up, and the bed quilt will be covered before entering the earth, so that there is a meaning of entering the earth for peace.

After struggling for a while, the corpse suddenly sat up, and the white cloth covering his face also slipped down, Uncle Zhang looked at the situation at home as if he was fine, and understood that this was a funeral for himself, but he didn't remember at all when he woke up from drowning to now.

Until he opened his mouth to speak, everyone present panicked, they thought that the corpse had been cheated, and the only thing that changed after all this happened was that there was really a person in the village who had passed away, and that was the ghost boy they had been waiting for for a long time.

On the other hand, people will only highlight kindness after death, they think that this child is saving the late Uncle Zhang, exchanging life for life, or how to explain that a person has drowned and suddenly come back to life, and how to understand that a child crawls into the coffin late at night and dies, as a beautiful publicity, this is more acceptable.

The family has no money to build a mourning hall, only to copy Uncle Zhang's, Xiao Meitian is not so lucky, she has not woken up after a long time at home, and her already thin body has only skin and bones after a long time, and it looks even more panicked. Uncle Mei accepted the reality and decided to bury him ruthlessly with Aunt Mei, hoping that he would not have to suffer this crime again in the next life, and that the world would be fair to him like a normal child.

That night strange things happened again, the whole village was restless, people and animals were restless, it rained the heaviest rain ever, lightning and thunder as if to split the dark night, the children in the family were too frightened to sleep, and the adults were panicked.

Unexpectedly, the skinny Mei Tian actually crawled out of the soil, the scene was extremely terrifying, the thin body actually broke free from the coffin nails, and it was still able to climb out, which made people feel chills down their spines when they thought about it.

He stood in front of his grave, lonely by the wind and rain, the heavy rain washed away the soil on his body after a while, he was unfamiliar with the world, but there were people who cared, he supported himself with this belief, the rain could not break the wind and the wind could not blow, and walked back step by step.

Everyone didn't understand why this child was alive in front of everyone the next day, obviously seeing him buried in the ground, including Uncle Mei and Aunt Mei, but family affection is greater than everything, as long as you can see your son again, it doesn't matter what strange things happen.

People still isolated them, and they were even more convinced that the child was a ghost reincarnation, and whoever approached him was unlucky, and in order to avoid it, some people in the village moved away, for fear that something would happen to them one day.

Uncle Mei's family doesn't care about the rumors outside at all, they have been like this all these years, he is very grateful to God for giving his children back to him, even if he is willing to take care of him for a lifetime, even if he lives in a small house all his life, even if he can never eat a good meal.

Maybe God pities their family, Mei Tian's body healed without medicine, her skinny body recovered in two or three days, her face was not so pale, everything was the same as ordinary children, she could run in the sun in a good manner, and her strength to carry water and chop wood was no less than that of adults, and even her voice was louder, and for them this hard life was finally over.