Chapter 153: Hysteria
Seeing Wang's figure disappear into the hazy night, Chu Yi, who was hiding in the darkness of the woods, protected his wife and Yuan Shuang and came to Chu Ping, who was standing on the bank of the river.
Yuan Shuang took two steps forward, and while helping his father-in-law tidy up his hair that was deliberately scattered in front of him, he complained in a low voice: "You scared me to death, didn't you tell you to keep quiet, why did you still talk to that aunt, what if she recognized it?"
"It's okay, I deliberately suppressed my voice, you look at the way she ran for her life, how does she seem to recognize me! But don't say it, the two cries between you and your cousin-in-law are really terrible in the middle of the night, and I get goosebumps when I listen to it next to you!" Chu Ping said as he rubbed his arms exaggeratedly.
Chu Yi didn't expect his wife to have this hand, and he also laughed and joked, "It's really scary."
Shen Luzhu also didn't expect the environment to be so cooperative tonight, and the effect was surprisingly good: "It's all up to God, haha!"
Chu Yi helped her tighten the coat she was wearing, and then said, "It's not early, and people are probably running away, let's go home."
A few people were about to leave, Chu Ping suddenly caught a glimpse of the basket behind him that had just been used by the Wang clan to attack him, and said, "What about that basket, just throw it here?"
A few people followed Chu Ping's words, looked at the abandoned basket on the ground, every household in the village will use rattan to weave some kinds of baskets, this thing is not uncommon in the field, even if it is thrown here, no one should be suspicious.
However, Shen Luzhu said unexpectedly, "Let's take it, maybe it will be of other use in the future!"
Wang stumbled and ran for an unknown amount of time along the way, and finally saw the door of his house, and hurriedly stepped forward and knocked on the door desperately: "Come on, come on! Open the door and let me in! Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
The Li family, who was coaxing his son in the room and waiting for the Wang family, was startled when he heard such a loud voice, and hurriedly pulled the coat on the side, and trotted to the courtyard gate while putting it on: "It's coming, it's coming!"
Seeing the sweaty Wang outside the door, his face pale and empty-handed, Li was a little surprised: "Auntie, you didn't go to get paper money, what's wrong?"
As if he was afraid that he would be caught by the terrifying thing behind him if he was one step too late, Wang didn't care to respond to Li, and rushed into the door with a stride, and then hurriedly closed the courtyard door with a "bang"!
Li was even more confused by Wang's series of actions, and called tentatively: "A-Niang?"
Looking at the candlelight in the room in front of him and listening to Li's voice in his ears, Wang finally felt that his body was starting to warm up a little at this time, he took two breaths, and replied calmly: "No, I didn't see that person, let's talk about it tomorrow!" After saying that, he dragged his stiff legs and entered his room without looking back.
Standing in front of the courtyard gate, Li glanced thoughtfully in the direction where Wang left, and said in his heart, Could it be that Wang was robbed? Otherwise, why is it that even the basket that was specially used to hold paper money when going out is gone, and after thinking about it, I feel that it is wrong, who would grab a basket with burning paper in the middle of the night!
As a daughter-in-law, she should follow up and ask for clarification in this situation, but now Chu Ren has not come back when he went to Fucheng to catch the exam, since the Wang family is unwilling to say more, then the Li family is even happier than less, so he simply locked the courtyard door, and turned around and went back to the room to sleep.
Wang was still tense in front of his daughter-in-law, and when he returned to the house, he couldn't hold back at all, he was frightened and tired from running all the way back from Hexi Village, and the whole person was directly paralyzed on the ground when he entered the door, and Uncle Chu took the person to the kang.
"Old man, let me tell you, I've seen a ghost today! Female ghosts! In the woods by the river in Hexi Village, I cried a miserable cry, and later came over and slapped me! Say, say I'm not waiting for her! Old man, you say, she can't come back to our house with her, can she? Why don't we blow out the candles tonight! It's not that ghosts are afraid of fire, let's light it and stop blowing it!"
Uncle Chu was taken aback by Wang's sudden crying voice, and said in an unkind tone: "What nonsense are you, where did you come from, I think you are hysterical, what nonsense are you talking about!"
Seeing that Uncle Chu didn't believe it, Wang suddenly sat up from the kang: "Really
Target! It's true! I heard it so really! She patted me, and I still have a feeling on my shoulder!"
"Then tell me what that ghost looks like, I haven't seen it once when I've grown to this age, and you tell me too!"
Wang felt that Uncle Chu didn't believe in himself, so he hurriedly continued to explain: "How dare I look back? Don't die! By the way, my basket, that basket was taken by me and thrown at her, she must have been hit by the basket, or I would have choked enough to run back!"
"But pull it, the more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes, you said that it was so windy tonight, and you still ran to the woods, how could there be no movement? Maybe the branch was scraped off and hit you, and some the hell slapped you! If your broken basket can really hit a ghost, then it's a hell!"
"Really, I can't even tell the difference between the wind and the cry? I'll tell you......"
Uncle Chu yawned, waved his hand and stopped, "It's done, hurry up and go to sleep, what time is this!"
This night, the Wang family tossed and turned for a long time, and for a while he uncontrollably recalled the ghost scene at that time in his mind, and for a while he was so scared that he couldn't do it, desperately telling himself that it was all fake, and he didn't know what time he tossed until he fell asleep in a daze.
Early the next morning, Wang, who felt as if he had just fallen asleep for a long time, was called up by Uncle Chu, who had already gotten up, rubbed his swollen head and went out of the house.
I opened the courtyard door, and as soon as I stepped out with my front foot, I kicked something, looked down and looked at it, and then with an "ah" sound, I fell backwards!
By the time Uncle Chu and the others heard the sound and ran out of the courtyard, Wang's eyes were already closed, and he was unconscious on the ground.
Everyone carried Wang back to the house, and Li hurriedly ran out to find Langzhong in the village, only then did Uncle Chu notice that there seemed to be something in front of the courtyard gate, and when he got closer, he muttered to himself in some confusion: "Isn't this the big basket that the old woman took out yesterday? Why is it here? Didn't you say ...... yesterday?"
As if thinking of something, Uncle Chu stared at the basket that he was all too familiar with, his eyes widened, and his heart couldn't calm down for a long time!
Shen Luzhu slept until mid-morning before getting up today, and was eating a late breakfast with Chu Yi in the hall when he saw Chu Ping running over from outside the house.
"Cousin and sister-in-law, guess what? Didn't we put that basket back in front of my cousin's house yesterday? I just met Lu Jin's kid in front of the door, his second uncle doesn't know how to grab some herbs, he said that his second uncle was invited to his uncle's house, saying that when Uncle Tang opened the courtyard door early this morning, he fainted somehow! Hahaha, I guess I can't be scared by that basket!"
Shen Luzhu originally wanted to get the basket back yesterday, maybe it could be counted as evidence or something in the future, but when he walked halfway through, he thought about it, and it seemed that there was no need for the Wang family, who could argue three points without reasoning, but he couldn't come from his own house, so he simply put it back in front of Uncle Chu's house, but who thought that this was a clumsy coincidence?
Wang couldn't rest well all night, and she was frightened twice in a row, causing her to faint the moment she saw the basket being placed in front of her door, and then she entered a state of high fever and confusion.
It doesn't matter if Wang's dizziness, Uncle Chu's family is completely messed up, although the shop has no supply of Wang's goods, but the coffin still has to be sold, Uncle Chu has to make coffins every day, and Li's has to take care of the shop on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has to help Grandma Chu do housework and take care of the children, in addition, there is a special person to take care of Wang's family, and he is very busy for a while.
On the day Chu Ren returned home, the Chu family's new house was so chaotic, at this time the Wang family was no longer asleep all day, but the person was still weak and weak, palpitations and panic all day long, Uncle Chu was not much better, since the Wang family woke up, he confirmed with his wife about the basket at the door, and he was also in a trance all day long, suspicious.
"What's wrong with Auntie, why is she sick like this? Can you invite Lang Zhong to take a look?"
When Wang saw his eldest son, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, he suddenly felt that his body seemed to be stronger than the previous day, and he took Chu Ren's hand and said, "It's not a big deal, A-Niang is no longer there."
Go up in flames. Don't talk about me yet, Ah Ren, tell Ah Niang quickly, how did you do in the exam this year? Didn't you say that you have to stay in Fucheng all the time and wait until the list is released? The result, what? But it's high school?"
Li looked at the excited Wang on the side, and couldn't help but be disdainful: It's really a brainless person, how many times have you said it, if you win the move, you want to take advantage of this momentum and go directly to participate in the follow-up imperial examination, before Xiang Gong left, he said that he would wait until the list was released before making plans, and now that he has returned, I am afraid that the result will not be satisfactory!
Chu Ren's face was a little bad: "I didn't get admitted to A-Niang!"
When Wang heard this, he instantly felt that Fang Cai's strength had been extinguished again, and he was relieved: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay to take the exam next time!"
Under Chu Ren's continuous questioning, Wang finally told the whole story, and unlike Uncle Chu, Chu Ren's first reaction was that his father and mother had been deceived!
"Zi Bu is silent, and the strange power is confused, Ah Niang Xiu wants to believe those ghost words, you are clearly being teased!"
Although Wang has always listened to Chu Ren on weekdays, the experience of that night was what she saw with her own eyes, coupled with the continuous recollection and reinforcement in the past few days, she couldn't believe it anymore: "Ah Ren, it's true!"
"If it's true, then why doesn't it just put the basket in A-Niang's house, wouldn't it be even more scary!"
"This ......"
Chu Ren sighed and shook his head in his heart: "A-Niang, let's go and ask the person who sold you paper money!"
After solving Xie Daqiang's matter, it was already mid-September, and seeing that there were less than 20 days to go, it was about to usher in the Winter Clothes Festival, and now the weather was getting colder little by little, Shen Luzhu's appetite and body were also improving, and the little couple discussed, it was time to reopen the shop in front of their house.
The shop has been closed for two months since the Midyear Festival, but it doesn't seem to have much impact on the paper money trade.