The door creaked open, the mother came back from outside, the father saw that the mother's face was ugly and asked her what happened, the mother said that she had just gone to the shop of Wang Fugui's house at the head of the village and made a call to a person she knew in Kongjiazhuang, that person was the eldest sister who taught her the craft when she used to learn needlework, and her mother asked her if there was a widow named Xiulian in Kongjiazhuang.

On the other end of the phone, when I heard my mother mention the name Xiulian, I seemed to be frightened, and I hesitated on the phone for a while, saying no.

The mother asked if there had been.

After the mother asked, the phone was immediately hung up.

After a while, the phone came again, and the voice on the other end of the phone was changed to a man, he first confirmed the identity of my mother, and then said that Kongjiazhuang did have a woman named Xiulian, but not a widow, and married to Wangjiacun in the third year of the Cultural Revolution, because it was a distant relative of their family, so the two of them remembered, he said that Xiulian had hanged herself at her husband's house twenty years ago.

Mother and father sat in the house for a long time, and when it was almost twelve o'clock, my father asked my mother to wait in the house, and during the day my father said that he would hide at the door of the third brother's house tonight to see who the woman was, and he always did not believe that there were ghosts in the world, and wanted to see what was going on.

When the midnight bell rang, I vaguely heard a knock at the gate of the third brother's house, and I knew that it was Xiulian in the mouth of the third brother.

At this time, the father must have taken advantage of the bright moonlight to see Xiulian's face clearly, if this Xiulian is really Mrs. Meng's daughter-in-law, her father, who has lived in Wangjia Village since childhood, must be able to recognize it.

I ran into the hall and saw my mother sitting at the head of the bed waiting for my father to come back, and when my mother saw that I had not slept yet, she knew that I was scared and asked me to come to her.

After a while, the father came back from the door, and the mother got up to greet him, and saw the father crept in, put his finger up to his lips and shush.

"What's wrong?" The mother also tensed up and asked in a low voice.

The father's face was ugly, and he said, "I hid behind the wall and didn't see anything!" ”

"What do you mean by not seeing anything? Are you napping? "My mother didn't understand my father's words.

The father explained, "I mean, when the clock rang midnight, I kept staring at the door of my third son's house, and I heard a knock on the door, but I didn't see anyone at the door!" ”

The mother's face turned white, and her voice trembled a little, "Could it be that you have lost your eyes, maybe the girl is short, and you are lying in the cracks of the wall and blocked by shadows?" ”

The father shook his head and said, "Impossible, how could I be wrong about this kind of thing, the third son came out of the door with the writer, and as soon as the two came out, they went back, their hands were in the air, and their tone was ambiguous, like someone in the middle!" ”

When the mother heard her father say this, she muttered in a low voice: "So that woman is really Kong Xiulian, who has been dead for twenty years." ”

My mother looked back and saw that I hadn't slept, so she came and squatted next to me, for fear that I would be afraid, and I felt my mother's hand trembling, so I put my mother's hand on my face, and I looked at my mother and said, "Mom, I'm not afraid." ”

My mother nodded and coaxed me to go to bed quickly, and then she turned and whispered to my father, "Now do you want to go to his grandfather and tell me about it?" ”

The father hesitated for a moment and said, "The old man is afraid of this matter, and he can't do anything about it, that thing can't be seen at all, how can the third son get into trouble with such an unclean thing?" ”

The mother said with red eyes: "The third son is still a child after all, and he is still saved by a ghost, and I feel that something is wrong when I look at him during the day, so I ask where the woman is from, who knows that he can encounter such a disaster when he brings that writer to our Wangjia Village to investigate." ”

My father couldn't help it, and my father didn't dare to go out in the middle of the night, in case the squeak of opening the door was heard by something unclean, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

So my father and mother stood by my side and didn't dare to close my eyes.

What I didn't expect was that as soon as I fell asleep, I immediately heard the gasps of the third brother and the writer, as well as the coquettish panting of a woman.

The woman said, "Third son, I have a sister, and if you want, I can call her to serve you." ”

The third brother and the writer who were in dire straits heard the woman say this, and their hearts blossomed, and the third brother looked at the woman and said, "Xiulian, you are so good." ”

The writer said, "Xiulian, where is your sister, you can call me tonight!" ”

The woman named Xiulian giggled twice and said, "I knew you wouldn't be able to wait, so I told my sister early in the morning, she came with me, and she is still waiting at the door." ”

When the third brother heard that Xiulian's sister was still outside, he hurriedly said angrily: "Xiulian, I didn't say you, you actually let your sister stand outside the door for so long, we have been doing it for more than an hour, and she is a weak woman who still can't catch a cold outside the door?" ”

The writer said, "I'm going to pick her up and spend the night together!" ”

Xiulian saw that the writer got up and walked towards the door, and hurriedly stopped him and said, "Wrongdoer, you haven't dressed yet!" ”

Ji writer said with a provocative look on his face: "Xiulian's sister must also be a lover, what else do I wear!" ”

I heard him open the door, got up from the bed, bypassed my worried mother and father to the courtyard, and then gently jumped on the flower bed against the wall, and secretly looked at the third son's house.

I was so frightened that I covered my mouth, because the woman in red had just seen it in my dream, and it was the woman in red wedding dress buried in the courtyard of Mrs. Meng's house.

When the woman in red entered the courtyard of the third brother's house, I smelled a foul smell, which was much lighter than the smell of the big rats in the yard of Mrs. Meng's house, but it was still clear and audible. The red wedding dress on her body seemed to have taken off a layer of red veil on the outside, leaving only a close-fitting red dress, and her feet were still a little stiff when she walked, and her knees were almost not bent.

When the woman in red arrived at the door but didn't go in, the writer hurriedly asked, "Sister, is this shy?" ”

When the writer spoke, he rubbed on the woman in red, intentionally or unintentionally, and the woman in red laughed and said, "It's a good moon night, and it's too dark in the house, so carry the bed to the courtyard." ”

The writer asked, "Is my sister going to be in the yard?" ”

The woman in red hid her face and smiled, and immediately began to unbutton her clothes, and the writer glanced at the third brother who was peeking in the door, and the two hurriedly carried the big bed in the house to the courtyard.

I looked over the wall and saw a faint halo emanating from Xiulian's body, which was the same as mine, but slightly different, the halo on my body was like a gentle moonlight, and the halo on hers was slightly black.

"Xiulian, you two sisters really look alike, if it weren't for the slight difference in dress, they would be almost identical." When the third brother spoke, his hand was reluctant to move away from Xiulian's body.

"It's the same when you take off your clothes." Xiulian slapped the third brother's hand away, then looked at the woman in red and said, "Sister, everything is done?" ”

The woman in red said, "It's all done, just tonight." ”

After saying that, the two of them looked together in the direction of my yard, and I couldn't help but retreat, and almost fell off the wall of the flower bed, because the two women really looked exactly the same.

I was scared and puzzled in my heart, if in the bureau designed by Mrs. Meng, her husband, son and grandson were just abandoned children, and the woman she buried at the bottom of the corpse soil was her revenge on my grandfather, then who was Xiulian who looked exactly like this woman?

I held my breath and looked into the courtyard of the third brother's house again, and in the hazy darkness, I saw the moonlight enter the body of the woman who was dressed in red like a waterfall.

And the black veil floating above the heads of the third brother and the writer had already covered their respective faces at this time, their skin began to appear fine wrinkles and began to age, and their hair began to turn gray, I rubbed my eyes, thinking that I was wrong, I never knew that people could age so quickly.

Seeing that the third brother and the writer who were lying on the bed had begun to foam at the mouth and twitch their hands and feet, at this time, something strange happened.

The woman who was dressed in red before, that is, Xiulian's sister, suddenly let out a cry of pain, and the long hair behind her was stretched straight at that moment, and then it was like being soaked in water, slowly fluttering, and a black shadow emerged from her body, the black shadow was wearing a shroud, and her body also exuded a halo, which was darker than the halo on Xiulian's body, like a layer of black mist shrouded around her.

She turned her head to look at me, and I could see her face clearly in the moonlight, it was Mrs. Meng.