She believed her parents' words and searched the col every day, but how could she find it? As a result, she went insane in a hurry. [No pop-ups. 】”

"Now that she's gone crazy, how can she know how to raise hungry ghosts?" I asked. I'm afraid it's not so easy for a madman to learn this kind of thing.

Mom said, "Hey, listen to me." As a result, a homeless man came out of nowhere, and after coming to Thrush Village, he didn't leave, and walked around Thrush Village every day. When the homeless man first arrived, the people in the village didn't think anything special, but when they saw that he always didn't leave, they worried about whether he was going to steal. So, someone secretly followed the homeless man to see what he was doing here all day long. As a result, the man found out that the homeless man had come for the mad woman. The homeless man often invited her to the field or meadow on the edge of the village and did that kind of thing with her. When the villagers learned about it, they got angry and wanted to kill the homeless man. As a result, you did not protect him, saying that it was of your own free will. Others asked her, why did you volunteer? He said he could teach her how to feed the hungry ghosts. She was going to feed the hungry ghosts in the col and feed the children abandoned by her parents. ”

It turned out that the homeless man had asked her to do that kind of thing with him on the condition of teaching her to feed the hungry ghosts.

"The people in the village thought that you had fallen for the homeless man, so they beat him up and drove him away. It may be that from that time on, you would make an umbrella every night, or wear a coat and go to the col to sprinkle raw rice to feed the hungry ghosts. Wearing an umbrella and a cloak is all to keep others from seeing her. But when you walk a lot at night, you will always encounter ghosts, and the people in the village gradually know about her raising hungry ghosts. Her parents also felt that they had gone too far, so they told her about the child being given to the traffickers. When you told this, you wailed and wept and rolled on the ground. ”

I listened to the voice on the phone and imagined a woman rolling on the ground, covered in mud.

After rolling, she was no longer crazy, but she became demented, and sat outside the door with her mouth wide open every day looking into the distance, like a watchdog. Within two months, she died. The family thought that she would become a ghost, so they didn't hold a funeral for her, and hurriedly buried her in a remote mountain col and never went to see it again. That's about what happened to her. Mom said.

I asked, "Is there no news of the child who was handed over to the trafficker?" ”

"Actually, the traffickers are distant relatives of their family, and they seem to live in the northeast," her mother said. Later, about a decade later, the traffickers came once and said that they had handed over the children to a childless family in the northeast. When the child grows up, he also knows his background. The trafficker asked her if she wanted to come back to see her biological mother. The kid actually said no. When your family heard this, they also regretted it, saying that it was better to keep this child in the first place. ”

I also sighed with emotion on the phone. It was for the sake of fame that it was actually made like this. However, there is no regret or regret for this kind of thing, and in those days, such things were not uncommon.

"Why do you ask this?" Mom only remembered to ask such a thing after she finished speaking.

I said, "It's nothing, it's just that I heard my grandfather say it before, so I asked when I remembered it." ”

I asked my grandfather how he was doing.

Mom said it was like that.

After a few more simple chats, I hung up the phone.

By this time, it was already dark. There was no girl with an umbrella on the opposite path.