Chapter 18: The Devil of Death

"You've seen it too?" Li Bai said in disbelief.

Shen Wen nodded, sat on a bench next to Li Bai, and said slowly: "The reason why I don't suspect the existence of ghosts is not only because I was influenced by my family since I was a child, but also because I saw it with my own eyes when I was a child. ”

Li Bai didn't expect that Shen Wen had also seen ghosts, and couldn't help but be full of curiosity, even the previous fear was gone, and asked, "What have you seen?" ”

"At that time, my family lived in the county seat, and my parents were engineers, and they often traveled on business trips, and they couldn't come back once a month, so I lived at my grandfather's house in the countryside at that time." Shen Wen saw that the place was relatively quiet, and there were few pedestrians passing around, so she relaxed and told Li Bai about what happened when she was a child.

"People in the countryside believe in ghosts and gods, although they are now superstitious. My grandmother is a person who believes in this, so she tells me every day not to let me play outside too late, for fear that the child will be weak and provoke something. Although I was not very timid when I was a child, I was a very obedient child, so I always did what my grandmother said. Never been outside after dark. Shen Wen looked at Li Bai and smiled encouragingly.

"But one afternoon, I was playing in the field with my two neighbors' children, and it was dusk, and the adults who were working in the fields had come home to cook. My two friends and I were also about to go home, but as we walked to a rice field, we noticed three people on the road to the edge of the field. The two people walking in front were wearing strange clothes, as if they were made of paper, and their faces were very white, and they were as white as a piece of paper. Because I don't know anyone. So we were a little bit recognizable, and we didn't dare to look at them more, and wanted to go around them. Shen Wen pursed her lips as she spoke. Li Bai wasted no time in handing over a bottle of water, Shen Wen smiled and took two sips, and continued her story.

"When we walked more than 10 meters away from them, one of the friends suddenly said that the person walking behind was Grandpa Zhang from the village. When we looked over there, it was indeed Grandpa Zhang, who was dressed in black and followed behind the two men with a somewhat slow pace. My little friend shouted at him. Grandpa Zhang heard someone shouting. He looked at us and waved at us. It's just that when the two people in front of him saw us, their eyes suddenly widened. It looked very scary, and my other friend was a little girl, and she was scared to cry at that time. We saw the two men walking towards us. Shen Wen said this, the expression on her face was still a little scared. After so many years, I relive this incident. She still remembers it vividly.

Then we heard Grandpa Zhang shouting at us anxiously, let's run quickly, we don't know what's going on, but the appearance of those two people is too scary, Grandpa Zhang shouted, we didn't even think about it and ran away. No one dared to look back at it again, so they ran back to their home. When I got home, my grandparents looked at me strangely. Just ask me what's wrong. I told them what I had just seen, and my grandmother was suddenly scared. Hurriedly asked me what the two people looked like, and I described it. Grandpa and grandma were very surprised when they heard this, and grandma also put three sticks of incense on the Buddha statue offered at home, and muttered a long sentence. ”

Li Bai listened attentively next to him, Shen Wen looked at him seriously, and laughed out loud, Li Bai was stunned for a moment, and said, "What's wrong?" Do I have something on my face? ”

Shen Wen shook her head and said with a smile, "I just think it's funny that you look like this." ”

Li Bai was a little confused, thinking that he had something foreign, and said, "I...... Didn't drool, did you? ”

Shen Wen was amused by him again, stabilized her emotions, and continued: "At that time, because I was relatively young, I didn't know what happened. Later, I learned that Grandpa Zhang, whom I and my friends saw that day, had passed away in the morning, and his family was doing a funeral for him at that time, in his yard, many people in the village had gone, and my grandfather had also gone. So when I heard me say that I saw Grandpa Zhang, the two old men were scared silly, and my grandmother begged God for a long time, and before going to bed at night, she specially tied red ropes on my two wrists to 'tie' me. When I grew up, my grandmother said that after I came back that day, my two former friends and I were sick and couldn't get out of bed for a few days, which made their family anxious. Fortunately, it got better in the end, and according to my grandmother, the two people we saw with Grandpa Zhang were the yin cha of the underworld, the ghost of life, who came here to take Grandpa Zhang to the underworld, but I don't know why we saw it. Grandma also said that the most fortunate thing was that we were running fast at the time, otherwise it would have ......"

"You're really scary, your hairs stand on end when you hear it, is it true?" Li Bai seemed to be immersive.

"Do you think I'm lying to you?" Shen Wen asked with a smile.

"Uh...... So, do you believe I can see those things? Li Bai asked.

Shen Wen nodded and said, "The world is so big, it's not strange to have this kind of thing, it's just that it's hard for us to encounter it." ”

"Then aren't you afraid to be with me?" Li Bai really didn't expect Shen Wen to accept what happened to him so naturally.

"I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid, if I was bold when I was a child because of ignorance, then now that I'm sensible, I'm afraid of more things. So, if I see those things, I'm scared too. Shen Wen said sincerely.

"Then you still ......" Li Bai didn't know what to say.

"You're trying to say, then why do I have to come out with you, right? In fact, whether you encounter these things or not is a kind of fate, and you are destined to encounter them, so you can't avoid them. Just like you, you've seen it so many times, don't you still talk to me here? So, even if we are scared when we see it, we still have to live our lives, and we still have to socialize with friends. When Shen Wen spoke, she kept looking at Li Bai with a smile, which made Li Bai's heart feel warm.

"Thank you, I thought normal people heard me say this, there were only two results. One is that they think I have a nervous disorder, and the other is that they will stay away from me and provoke me in the province. And you, I really didn't expect you to say that. Li Bai sincerely thanked.

"So you mean I'm not a normal person, right?" Shen Wen pretended to be angry and said.

"No, no, I didn't mean that, I mean you're different." Li Bai hurriedly explained.

"Okay, I see what you mean. So where do I go now? Shen Wen looked at the blue sky and asked.

"I don't want to tell you, but the 'friend' on your back said he wanted to go to the playground." Li Bai suddenly said in a low voice.

"Huh?" Shen Wen was so frightened that she stood up suddenly and looked behind her nervously.

"Hahaha, tease you." Li Bai laughed. (To be continued......)