Chapter 47. The man outside the window

Hearing me say this, the youngest daughter of the Tian family was heartbroken to save her sister, so she told me what she called "ridiculous things".

She stared at the bowl I had placed on the floor, and then pointed to the gray image of the lowercase "h" inside and said to me, "This is a bit like what I saw almost ten days ago." I asked her, do you see an "h"? She shook her head and said no, she saw two people walking out of the window, an old man leading a child of seven or eight years old, and he walked outside the fence outside the window, and walked along the road to the end. The tall and the short are holding hands, and they look a bit like the one in your bowl.

I thought about it, and it did look like an "H". I pointed out the window and said, "Is this the way you are passing by?" The youngest daughter of the Tian family nodded. So I pushed open the window and poked my head out to see that about two meters away from the window was the bamboo fence around the house, and outside the fence was a small road, from which the village chief and I walked when I came to Tian's house, and then turned to enter the courtyard of Tian's house. But at the end of the road, I looked at it from a distance near a small dirt bag, on which some bamboo grows, and it looks like an ordinary road, if the wind is good, maybe it is still a good view.

The youngest daughter of the Tian family then told me that this incident happened about ten days ago, and that at noon that day, her parents were working outside, and she was taking care of her sister at home. So in the afternoon of that day, my sister suddenly became ill, and after struggling in bed for a while, she gradually calmed down, but she looked out the window with fear in her eyes.

The youngest daughter of the Tian family said that in fact, every time her sister became ill, there was a similar action, but she and her family had not paid attention to it, but that day she glanced out of the window and found an old man with a small round hat and a small child passing by, but they were passing by while looking at themselves.

Although I know that there must be a problem here, but just imagine, if I saw these two people at that time, I would not be easy to notice, because the road in front of the door felt that there were still many people walking, maybe others heard Tian Xiaofang's movement at home, and naturally looked over. The youngest daughter of the Tian family said that she thought so too, so she didn't care at all, but about ten minutes after the two people passed, her sister had gradually fallen asleep, and beads of sweat began to appear on her body. So she got up and closed the window, but as she closed it, she glanced at it inadvertently, and found that at the end of the road, the two men holding hands, one tall and one short, one old and one young, were standing at the end of the road, just standing and looking at herself.

The youngest daughter of the Tian family said that this was what made her feel a little strange at the time, it stands to reason that when these two people passed by just now, it was already more than ten minutes ago, even if this road is slow, it will be completed in a minute or two at most, and then it will go along the road to the corner, and that part is invisible to her own home. Another point is that when I closed the window, I saw these two people, and my eyes were staring at myself, not my own yard.

The little daughter of the Tian family had a little frightened look on her face, and she told me that this feeling was as if there were two people who had been watching her house, and their eyes had been looking at the location of the window of her sister's room, only to happen to be seen by her, and what was even stranger was that when she found those two people, they walked away as if nothing happened, and disappeared around the corner at the end.

This is the time, Tian Deping's wife said, oh yes, I also have an impression of this matter. So I asked her, "Why, did you see those two people too?" She shook her head and said that she had not seen it, but she had heard her little daughter talk about it when she went home that day. The youngest daughter of the Tian family said at this time that after the two people disappeared around the corner, her mother came home from the farmland in a few minutes, and the way her mother went home was this road, if you calculated according to time, her mother would definitely meet those two people, but when she asked her mother, her mother said that she had not seen anyone along the way.

I frowned and thought, according to what the youngest daughter of the Tian family said, I guessed that the two people, the old and the young, were most likely ghosts. Because I know that ghosts will allow the living to see their appearance under certain circumstances, but this appearance will only be seen if they are willing to be seen by this person. For example, when I helped Uncle Ma in Longmen a while ago, he saw the ghost of the old man, but the other guests present did not see it, which is the same reason. Assuming that these two ghosts are running for Tian Xiaofang, then it is not impossible for Tian Xiaofang's sister to see them, after all, they are sisters and have the same blood.

I asked the youngest daughter of the Tian family, so you've only seen this once, right? She said yes, since then, whenever her sister is sick, she will look out the window in fear, and she will subconsciously look out the window, but she will never find any trace of those two people. So I said to her, "Now tell me more about what those two people look like."

The youngest daughter of the Tian family said that the old man was wearing a bowler hat and a black horse coat, which had a dark green jacket inside, and the jacket was a little long, about to the knee, and the lower part was similar to what our people here were wearing. The kid was weird, the boy, with dirty clothes, a shirt made of off-white fabric, black pants, barefoot...

When she said this, the youngest daughter of the Tian family suddenly stopped, and then suddenly realized, yes! On such a cold day, why is he dressed so thinly and still doesn't wear shoes? I wanted to tell her it because it was a ghost and not a person, but I didn't want to scare such a lovely little girl, so I kept silent. Judging from the appearance she said, the elderly man's style of dressing is quite different from today, some like the way those rich and noble families wore before liberation, and a bit like the shroud that people put on after death.

The former is okay, if it's a shroud, then it's troublesome, which means that this ghost must be here for revenge, otherwise the bag of the shroud is filled with breath money and road money, not only did it not go on the road but also appeared around the living, it was not a fun thing.

After asking a few more words, I found that the youngest daughter of the Tian family had no more information to provide to me, so I said to her, I will wait outside now, you can help me wake up your sister, put on clothes, I have something to ask her. Then I asked Tian Deping's wife, "Is your eldest daughter conscious when she is sober?" She made it clear. I said, didn't you ask her what she saw when she was scared? She said that she had asked a long time ago, but she kept biting her lip and refused to say, her expression was more resistant, and we were afraid of stimulating her, so we had to stop asking.

So I didn't ask, sometimes the stubbornness of children and the love of parents can harm children because of this.

I walked outside the house to free up time for them to dress Tian Xiaofang, although I regretted not seeing it, but I also took this opportunity to go outside the house to breathe, because the smell in the house was indeed quite bad.

The village chief and Tian Deping squatted side by side in front of their house to smoke dry cigarettes, which looked very much like they were defecating. I walked up to them, and they asked me how I was doing, and I also admitted that there were some clues now, but everything was still unclear, and I had to wait for Tian Xiaofang to wake up and investigate. Then I asked Tian Deping by the way, when you go back and forth in the village on weekdays, have you ever seen an old man dressed like an old man before liberation, holding a seven or eight-year-old child in his hand?

I tried to get a clue from Tian Deping, after all, he often walked back and forth in the village, and he was Tian Xiaofang's father, so in terms of lifeline, it should be close. Maybe you've seen it? Tian Deping thought about it and said, there really hasn't been one, not only that, but in retrospect, there doesn't seem to be such a person in the village.

He told me that he was a petty official in the village, and that the village was not very large, and that there were only about 20 families, each of whom he knew himself, and that most of the families had lived here for several generations, except for those who had married out and married, and that he had never seen the two people I mentioned.

So I got stuck again, and I didn't ask any more. After a while, the youngest daughter of the Tian family came to the door and called me that my sister was awake and told me that I could go in. So I walked into the house, although I had already seen Tian Xiaofang, but for her, it was the first time to see me, I had to introduce myself a little, telling her that I was invited by her father to help, but I saw her body earlier, I skipped it.

To my surprise, after Tian Xiaofang heard that I was a Taoist learner, she did not have doubts or despise my profession like many girls who had entered the city, her flickering eyes seemed to have finally grasped a life-saving straw, which made me more sure that I could get very important information from her, and she herself knew these contents early on, but when the family asked, she avoided answering, which shows that these contents are not daring to tell the family.

This girl has secrets, and she hides too many secrets in her heart, which will hurt people.