Chapter 25 Section VII

After Huang Jiangshui left Xijiao Village, the old man Lan hurriedly held a ghost marriage ceremony for his cousin's daughter, and then left here. One night, Chen Mazi's wife went out to visit relatives and came back very late at night.When he came back, Chen Mazi had already fallen asleep, and the small yard was extremely quiet.Almost everyone in the village fell asleep, and the whole village sank into a quagmire without a sound.There was only the occasional barking of dogs in the wind, sometimes near and far. Chen Mazi's wife was exhausted, and her feet were swollen from the long mountain road.As soon as she opened the courtyard door, she sat down under the old locust tree and rested her feet.While rubbing her sore and swollen calf, she muttered cursing to Chen Mazi that she didn't know how to pick him up at the entrance of the village when his wife came back so late.

After kneading for a while, she stood up and planned to go back to the house to sleep.At this moment, a faint rustling sound came from all around.The night was so quiet, the voice was very clear.She stopped and looked back.There was no one in the yard, except for her, there was not even a ghost in sight.Strange to say, in an instant, the dogs barking outside the courtyard wall also fell silent. She listened carefully, and found that the voice was not unfamiliar, it was a human voice—it was the voice of a woman muttering. The wind suddenly picked up, carrying the voice around her ears, as if there was a woman whispering in her ear, and she deliberately didn't want her to hear clearly.Only then did she confirm that the voice came from her small courtyard.Could it be that when I was leaving relatives today, a new tenant rented the house.

This assumption is not impossible. So she turned and walked towards the empty east room.The door of the east room was locked, and she looked into the room through the window.There is nothing in the house.She felt strange, but didn't think much about it, turned around and walked towards the north room.But at this time, the seemingly invisible voice suddenly changed, and became a woman's unique crying. The voice was like that in a TV drama, when an angry little daughter-in-law was scolded by the wicked mother-in-law, she was heartbroken, but she didn't dare to resist. She was stunned for a moment, the soles of her feet began to feel cold, and the cold continued to the top of her head.She turned her head again, this time fixing her eyes on the window of the West Room - the very house from which the cry came.

She folded her hands on her chest, moved her feet little by little, and approached Westinghouse.Finally, she leaned against the window.She peeped in through the gap in the curtain, but most of the room was blocked behind the curtain. The room was too dark, and the only gap was sunk in ink.She was suddenly a little anxious, the more she couldn't see it, the more anxious she became.At this time, the moon peeked out half of its head from the clouds, and the dim light shone on the window, covering the room with a layer of fluorescent whiteness.At the same time, her hair stood on end. She saw a pair of shoes.

To be exact, he saw half of the lower legs covered in red high-heeled shoes. Those lower legs were white and transparent, and the shoes were as red as flames.It's a pity that, apart from this, most of the woman's remaining body was blocked in the darkness behind the curtain.All I could see were those calves trembling slightly with the crying. That night, she was terrified and practically fucked her ass back into the North Room. At this point, Chen Mazi stopped, as if the matter had come to an end.But obviously, it's not that simple. "That's all?" Huang Jiangshui was confused, "Then what happened afterwards? What did my sister-in-law see? Who is that woman in my room?"

Chen Mazi said unhurriedly: "Do you really want to know? I told you not to be afraid. Later, after your sister-in-law fled back to the house, she told me about it. I went to your house to have a look. But lying behind the window, I didn’t see anything, let alone hear a woman crying.” "and after?" "After that day, your sister-in-law became ill. When she woke up the next morning, her whole body started to have a high fever. There was no way, I sent her to the small hospital in the town. Due to the rush, I didn't bring enough Money, I rushed back to get the money that day. It was already dark when I got home. I thought that your sister-in-law’s condition was basically stable anyway. When I went back to the hospital, it was already early in the morning, so I wanted to sleep at home for the night. "

Chen Mazi stopped at this point.Huang Jiangshui noticed that Chen Mazi's hands were shaking.He knew instinctively what must have happened that night.He didn't ask, didn't urge, but just waited silently, waiting for Chen Mazi to speak again. Chen Mazi took a big sip of water before continuing to talk, abruptly saying, "Brother, your sister-in-law didn't lie to me." "What do you mean?" Huang Jiangshui was a little anxious, "Please explain clearly." Chen Mazi glanced at his wife on the bed, and said, "That night, when I slept in the middle of the night, I had the urgency to urinate. I ran to the yard to pee. When I came back, I... I heard the crying .That burst of crying from your room. I was stupid at the time. I wanted to go back to the house, but I just couldn't control myself. I ran to the bottom of your window to see what happened. Guess what? What did I see?"

Huang Jiangshui swallowed, but did not dare to answer. Chen Mazi paused and said, "I saw a paper man sitting on your bed!" Huang Jiangshui shrank suddenly, and Chen Mazi continued: "That paper man was wearing a flowery skirt and high heels, sitting on your bed, covering his face and crying continuously. I was so scared that my legs went limp, and I fled back to the place like hell. After that, the thing kept crying in your room almost every night, and I really didn’t dare to stay there anymore.” Huang Jiangshui felt that his head was getting big, he fell down on the chair, his head was in a mess, he didn't understand why, he had already returned the gold ornaments, why didn't she let him go.Outside the house, the child of my cousin's family suddenly started to cry. The child didn't know what kind of nightmare he had, and cried heart-rendingly.

The cry slipped through the air and tore everyone's heart. Huang Jiangshui suddenly thought of a savior, maybe he is the only one who can explain all this now: "Brother Mazi, do you know how to find Master Lan?" "Him?" Chen Mazi shook his head, "He didn't leave any contact information when he left." "Where's your cousin?" "have no idea." That night, neither Huang Jiangshui nor Chen Mazi went home, and the few of them huddled together at their cousin's house and spent a worrying night.Huang Jiangshui couldn't fall asleep at all, as soon as he closed his eyes, he saw the paper figurine sitting on his bed and crying non-stop, while crying, she asked him why he didn't want her anymore.

In the middle of the night, Huang Jiangshui woke up by himself, and Chen Mazi's wife fell ill again, yelling loudly on the bed, her eyes were full of murderous intent, as if she wanted to eat people, which made the whole family feel uneasy.He ran to the yard to hide alone.After a while, the sound in the room disappeared, and Chen Mazi's wife fell asleep again. But he was even more annoyed. Outside, the sky and the earth were dark, the sky seemed to be swallowed by a monster, and there was not a single star to be seen. Huang Jiangshui suddenly had a bold idea—he wanted to go back and have a look, to see what happened, to see thoroughly.

Fear is often like this. Sometimes it is like a kind of accumulation, a kind of superposition. When it reaches a certain level, the carrier will fall into a kind of madness, just like those who commit suicide on hunger strike. When the feeling of hunger has gradually dissipated, the body When the power of the human body has gradually disappeared, people will appear excited and runaway. The water of the Yellow River "ran away".He returned to the house to get a flashlight, turned and walked out the door.He left in a hurry. Although his cousin's house was separated from Chen Mazi's house by several rows of houses, he soon came to the gate of the courtyard.He listened first, but there was no movement inside, then he opened the door and walked in. There was a groaning sound from the courtyard door, and the courtyard was pitch black.Huang Jiangshui stood on tiptoe and moved lightly to the bottom of the window of the West Room.He pricked up his ears again, and the room was eerily silent.He took a breath before turning on the flashlight, and a beam of bright light hit the sky with a "click", and he hurriedly covered the flashlight again, for fear that the light would attract some unknown creatures that were about to move in the darkness. Finally, Huang Jiangshui stretched out his hand and slowly tore open the newspaper stuck to the window. Huang Jiangshui plucked up his courage, and poked half of his head out to the window. The light of the flashlight penetrated the glass and shone furry in the room.There was no one in the room, except for the furniture, not even a mouse could be seen.Huang Jiangshui took a flashlight and shot every corner of the room like a machine gun, but still got nothing.His heart fell into his stomach, no matter what Chen Mazi and his wife saw, anyway, he didn't see anything. Huang Jiangshui turned off the flashlight and decided to go home.