Chapter Twenty-Nine: Strange Things at Home
Ghosts?
And a pair of red heels?
How does it sound like it's more evil than meeting a ghost?
Listening to the middle-aged man's narration, the owner of the noodle shop had long been pale with fright, hiding aside and shivering.
But Xu Ying didn't react much.
The two quickly finished eating, paid, and rushed to the middle-aged man's home.
After chatting for a while, the middle-aged man was in a much more relaxed mood.
Xu Ying also learned from the conversation that the middle-aged man's name was Li Chunlai.
He is a native of Lijia Village.
Lijia Village is about 20 minutes away from Y City.
Xu Ying also learned the ins and outs of the whole thing about the red high heels.
It all started on Halloween.
That is, the night Xu Ying met the human skin ghost.
Halloween, also known as the Midyear Festival!
It is said that on the night of Halloween, when the Ghost Gate Pass is opened, many ancestors will come out of the Ghost Gate Pass and enjoy the offerings of the descendants of the descendants.
All, in some places, will go to the grave of the ancestors on this night, put some offerings, and burn some paper money.
If you are working outside and have no time to rush back to your hometown to go to the grave, you can light paper money and read the names of your ancestors at some local intersections.
The yin spirits of the ancestors can be found by listening to the call.
That is, it is commonly known as the conjuring spirit!
Of course, now that the Midyear Festival, many people no longer go to the grave.
Generally, it is the Qingming Festival, and the day of the ancestors' sacrifice, go and have a look.
There are also places where that tradition is still maintained.
This is the case in Lijia Village.
Listening to Li Chun, the entire village of Lijia Village has the surname Li, and there are no people with foreign surnames.
Their ancestors were all one person.
Therefore, the people of Lijia Village turned a mountain not far away into the Li family cemetery.
The dead people in the village are buried on that mountain.
On the day of the Midyear Festival, at twelve o'clock in the evening, everyone in Lijia Village went to the cemetery to worship their ancestors.
And that's when things started.
It was a normal sacrifice to the ancestors, and no one thought much about it.
But here's where things come to blame.
When Li Chunlai took his wife and children to the grave of his grandfather, there was a problem.
When Li Chunlai's grandfather died, he had a camera at that time, took a black and white portrait, and put it on the tombstone.
In the dark night, when they couldn't see their fingers, everyone could only rely on the light of a flashlight to illuminate the surroundings and go to the graves of their ancestors.
But when Li Chunlai came to his grandfather's grave, looking at the portrait on the tombstone, he always felt that something was wrong.
It felt like the portrait was weird.
Those black and white eyes, like a pair of living eyes, staring at you deadly, make people's hearts furious, very uncomfortable.
It's as if his grandfather was living in that picture.
Li Chunlai felt that it might be a psychological effect, so without thinking much about it, they removed the weeds around the grave and prepared to go to the grave of their ancestors.
But when they cleaned up the weeds in front of the tombstone, they found a pair of red high heels in the grass.
The shoes were red and charming, red and weird, very abnormal.
I don't know how long I left it in the grass, but it was overwhelmed by the weeds that had grown, and it was exposed to the sun and rain.
But it's still brand new, as if it was just bought.
Especially the bright red color, the red is excessive, like blood dripping on it, revealing weirdness.
Li Chun looked at the pair of red high heels and immediately froze, but he didn't think too much about it.
I just thought someone had accidentally forgotten here.
Red high heels, it was his wife who found it.
His wife took it in her hand and looked at it, then threw the heels out.
The crowd didn't take it too seriously.
I just want to go home early after worshipping my ancestors.
After Li Chunlai set up the offerings, he lit the incense wax paper money.
Can suddenly......
A gust of wind whistled and rattled the branches around the trees.
The lit paper money flew up, and the incense stuck in the ground was blown to the ground.
The offerings that had been placed were also blown to the ground.
For a while, the temperature of the entire cemetery dropped suddenly, and it was extremely cold, revealing weirdness everywhere.
The icy wind makes you feel like you're in the middle of winter.
The cold wind penetrates into the bones and pierces the soul.
People can't help but shiver and get goosebumps.
Li Chunlai only wore a short-sleeved shirt, and the wind blew, making his lips purple and his upper and lower teeth trembling.
The howling wind blew the paper money ash into the sky, and under the dim light of the flashlight, it looked weird and terrifying.
Seeing the incense wax paper money that was blown all over the place in front of the grave, Li Chunlai thought that his grandfather was dissatisfied with him and felt that he was not filial enough.
Hurry up and apologize for saying good things to your grandfather, and promise to bring a little more sacrifices and a few more bottles of wine next time.
The old man was in the shadows, as if he heard his voice, and the black-and-white photo portrait on the tombstone suddenly showed a strange smile.
It's just that no one notices this.
The wind around is gradually extinguished, and the temperature is not so cold.
Li Chunlai then sorted things out again, took out the fragrant wax paper money and lit it again, but fortunately there was no accident this time.
Everything is normal.
After everyone kowtowed, Li Chunlai hurriedly took the family back home.
By the time they got home, it was past one o'clock in the morning.
has been busy for a day, and he has only now been rested, and Li Chunlai has long been too tired to work.
After taking a cold shower, I casually made a supper, and it was already two o'clock in the morning.
After a day of hard work, Li Chunlai was physically and mentally exhausted, and he was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes.
He lay down on the bed and quickly fell asleep.
I don't know how long it took, but in a daze, he heard a strange sound.
Li Chunlai was so sleepy that he didn't want to continue sleeping.
The next morning, when Li Chunlai got up to feed the chickens, he found that two of his chickens had died.
The chicken's death was strange, the neck was bitten off, the blood was sucked dry, and the meat was dried up.
Li Chunlai was puzzled, looked around, and found no suspicious traces, so he buried the two chickens.
I thought it was over.
But on the morning of the third day, when Li Chunlai got up to feed the chickens, he found that two chickens were dead.
The way of death was the same, the neck was bitten off, and the blood disappeared completely.
There was nothing suspicious around.
This time he was wary, the mountains around Lijia Village were all reclaimed for farming, and there were no wild beasts.
What is it that bites off the neck of the chicken and sucks the blood dry?
That night, Li Chunlai had dinner and secretly put a few traps in the chicken pen to catch wild beasts.
He came to see what it was, and came to the chicken pen every night to bite his chickens.
But when he got up to feed the chickens on the morning of the fourth day, Li Chunlai found that the trap did not play any role at all.
And his chickens, this time ten died......