Chapter 1 Red and White: A Hundred Ghosts Walk at Night
My name is Zhang Feng, I am an orphan, and I grew up with my grandfather.
No one may believe me when I say it, but I seem to be a "dead man".
For as long as I can remember, there is a red coffin in my backyard, and my grandfather often brushes it over and over again with chicken blood and dog blood, and the piercing color and strong fishy smell make people shudder.
And every Qingming, Zhongyuan, and Chongyang Festival, my grandfather would change into a clean shroud for me, paint weird dead makeup, and let me go into the coffin and stay quietly all night.
In addition, I was asked to wear a stone as a pendant with me, and I couldn't take it off even when I was bathing.
When I was twelve, on the evening of the Midyear Festival, my grandfather changed me into a shroud and was settling me in a coffin.
Suddenly, an old man rushed in, the old branch secretary of the village, and he also knew that my grandfather would let me sleep in a coffin, so he didn't say much.
It's just that his face is very ugly, and he whispers a few words in his grandfather's ear.
Grandpa's hand paused, his face gradually became solemn, and after a long time, he said to me: "Stay well, you are not allowed to come out if I don't come back." ”
He stuffed me into the coffin, covered the coffin, left me with only a small crack, and left with the old branch secretary.
My grandfather is a Mr. Yin and Yang, and he will come to him for anything in ten miles and eight villages, and everyone calls him Zhang Xianye.
Maybe it was the hot and humid weather, maybe I was worried about my grandfather, I tossed and turned in the coffin until midnight and still didn't fall asleep.
While I was thinking about it, the lid of the coffin was knocked on.
I was startled, and just as I was about to speak, the lid of the coffin was pushed open most of the time.
Looking closely, I saw that the person who came was a prime man in the village, named Liu Dagang.
Today's Liu Dagang was a little strange, beads of sweat slipped down his face, and his face was as white as paper.
Without waiting for me to speak, he squeezed out a few stiff words from his throat: "Xiao Feng, something happened to the fairy master~"
As soon as I heard that my grandfather had an accident, my scalp was numb, and I turned out the coffin and followed him out of the door.
Liu Dagang walked in front with a shaking, and he didn't say anything when I asked him, and he didn't even look back.
Soon he led me to the river downstream of the village.
The faint moonlight makes this dark night even more eerie.
He stood by the river with his back to me, bowed his head and squeezed out two words: "Look." ”
I walked to the river with trembling legs and looked down, I was so afraid to see grandpa.
But the moment I saw the surface of the river, my throat tightened, and I almost fell into the river.
In the river was a white, soaked corpse, and his eyes were wide open, his mouth black to the root of his ears, and his hands stretched out of the water, as if to drag me into the river.
But it was Liu Dagang who was floating in this river!!
"Ahh I screamed in fright and sat down by the river.
Subconsciously looked around, it was pitch black, except for the weeds and the whining of the wind, where else did Liu Dagang bring me here.
I wasn't so anxious that I didn't pay attention to the details.
But now that I think about it, it's very wrong, along the way, Liu Dagang hasn't even said a word, and we haven't heard him gasp for breath for such a long journey.
The cold hairs all over my body exploded, and my limbs were so weak that I had no strength, and I almost ran two steps before I fell on my head.
But when I ran back to the road, I was so frightened that I didn't pay attention to the narrow path when I came, but now it was as difficult as killing me. But there was no choice, and I trembled and resisted the fear of entering this path.
This path is not wide, on both sides are a row of cypress trees more than ten meters high, and on both sides are crops more than one person high.
Suddenly, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared on the way here, and I ran towards the light as if I had grabbed a life-saving straw, but it was only a moment before I felt that something was wrong.
The light slowly shifted, turning into a mixture of red and blue, mixed with a thick fog that was rolling in, and a large number of "people" came towards me from this thick fog.
"Hum~" A melodious and weird suona sound sounded, from far to near.
I squinted my eyes and slowly saw that there were two teams of people, one in red; A team of people wore linen and filial piety. The pitch-black coffin and the red sedan chair in the back are neck and neck, and on top of the coffin sits a paper figure wearing a shroud and having no facial features; The sedan chair is sealed on all sides, and it is impossible to see the inside, and there is a word printed on the sedan curtain, which is not 囍, but a big dead word.
Those who carried the coffin and the sedan chair had dead white faces, lips like blood, no black eyes in their eyes, chewing something in their mouths, and making a rattling sound.
At the same time, there were all kinds of strange sounds coming from the fields on both sides, as if they were laughing but not laughing, and crying rather than crying.
Dark shadows surging in all directions were invisible, but I could detect their horror, and the bone-chilling wind seeped through every pore of my body, causing me to freeze in place.
No matter how stupid you are, you know that you must have hit something unclean by now.
"Hehe~ I found it, I finally found it." Those ethereal and noisy voices filled the ears with weirdness.
The paper money floated down from the sky and fell to the ground in a fluttering manner.
With a bang, the paper money and the paper man on the coffin burst into flames, and the whole path turned into a seeping white fire, and the coffin rumbled up, only to see a person lying flat in the coffin, who looked exactly like me.
The sedan curtain was also lifted in an instant, and a woman wearing a wedding dress with a face as white as paper was sitting inside.
A gloomy voice sounded: "Finally found!" ”
My feet went limp, and suddenly a strange force dragged me towards the coffin, and the "I" in the coffin was grinning at me.
I couldn't move, my heart was like ashes, and I knew that I couldn't escape today.
But at this moment, my chest was hot, and I saw bursts of golden light erupting from my chest to surround me, which was the stone that my grandfather asked me to wear.
A thunderclap exploded, illuminating the land, and the ghosts disappeared in an instant.
At this moment, I don't know where I got the strength, and I rushed towards home.
On the way, the laughter that seemed to be crying but not crying was still coming one after another, as if it was right behind me.
When I returned home, I sat in the corner of the wall wrapped in a quilt and shivered, but outside the window, dark shadows flickered, and all kinds of sounds were still the same.
It didn't take until dawn, grandpa came back, looked me up and down, his face changed dramatically in an instant, and he shouted.
"Hundreds of ghosts walk at night, red and white, and ghostly. What were you doing last night? ”
Thinking back to what happened last night, even if I was beaten, I admitted it, so I confessed to my grandfather in 1510.
After hearing this, my grandfather slapped me in the face: "What bullshit Liu Dagang, he committed suicide by jumping into the river yesterday, and his body was not found." ”
After saying this, my grandfather held up the stone on my chest, and the stone snapped and immediately shattered into powder.
Grandpa took two steps back, sat on the sofa, and sighed deeply: "They came, they all came, and they still came!! ”