After the girl finished saying this, she suddenly paused, as if recalling the scene just now, she suddenly began to feel scared again.
Since Meng Dongxue and I were listening intently, the only sounds of the footsteps of the three of us walking on the mountain road could be heard in our ears. The scene that the girl just mentioned was really scary when I think about it. The mountain wind was very strong and cold at night. I saw Meng Dongxue shivering slightly, so I asked her what was wrong. Are you cold? She said no, she was afraid. Meng Dongxue asked me again, why are you trembling? Are you also afraid? I said no, I was cold.
In front of little girls, I always have to act sophisticated.
We were about a hundred meters away from the house where she and Ji Youan lived. Just because the mountain road was winding and the night was dark, although we were not walking slowly, it still took us a long time. The girl then told us that after getting under the quilt, Seeing those ghost heads, each of them had the same expression as the ones outside the quilt surrounding the bed, I couldn't stand the fright anymore, so I started struggling and screaming desperately.
The cry didn't matter, Ji Youan was on the verge of collapse, but the girl's cry completely broke down her defenses. So the two girls were screaming like crazy on the bed. They screamed and kicked wildly with their hands and feet, but no one dared to open their eyes. During this period, the girl struggled so hard that she rolled off the bed. When she was scared, she wanted to run out of the house, but when she rushed to the door with her eyes closed, she found that they had locked it when they entered the room. The door was locked well at the moment and had not been opened at all. He turned his head and looked in the direction of Ji Youan, and found that the people surrounding the bed did not even look back after he ran to the door. At a glance, she still maintained the same posture as before, standing motionless by the bed, staring at Ji Youan who was still struggling and screaming on the bed.
She said that it was then that she took a closer look at the bodies of the people standing. They were all dressed in black. They were men, women, old and young. Moreover, from the waist down, they all looked a little transparent, and their feet could not be seen. It was as if he were suspended two or three inches above the ground, so that he could even see Ji Youan on the bed through these people's bodies. And when he rolled under the bed just now, he also penetrated the bodies of these people, because the circle of men in black had already surrounded the bed.
The screams of herself and Ji Youan alerted the old couple in the house. They were worried that the two children had already rushed over to check. They were beating on the door. The girl also screamed against the door. She quickly took it off. The key hanging by the door opened the lock. After opening the door, he threw himself into the arms of the old woman and cried bitterly. Then he pointed back at the room and wanted to speak, but he couldn't stop crying.
But the old man said, what happened in this room? Why is Miss Ji kicking and screaming on the bed? The girl said there were so many people around the bed and this place was haunted! But the old man said, where did these people come from? There is no one else in this room except you two.
So the girl looked back and found that none of the men in black who had been surrounding the bed were gone. She was too surprised, so she stopped crying. She only saw Ji Youan kicking around on the bed like crazy. With. After the old lady entered the house, she and the old man grabbed Ji Youan's hands and feet, comforted her softly, and tried to hug her. Ji Youan couldn't break free after her hands and feet were grabbed, so she could only slowly open her eyes. Her eyes were full of tears. When she saw the old lady and her husband, she couldn't hold back and threw herself into her arms and burst into tears. , crying and saying, so many people... so many dead people...
The girl said that the old man and the old lady had been staying with them in the house. Although she was also scared, her situation was slightly better than Ji Youan's collapse. After telling the two old men about the situation he encountered, the old man said that it seems that what the bandit leader said when our family lived in this house in the early years has now come true.
I asked, bandit leader? What's going on? The girl said that she was in a panic and didn't ask any questions at the moment, so the old man told himself to come to Aunt Xu's house early tomorrow morning to find me, saying that I was the only one in the village who knew these things, and that I was a nice person and would be able to help. . The girl said, but it was still so long before dawn, and she couldn't wait any longer, so she resisted her fear and ran over to me.
I asked her, when you came here, did you encounter anything on the road? Because a person who bumps into ghosts has a slightly higher chance of bumping into ghosts again than others. I think her psychology is full of fear at this moment, which can easily give the surrounding beings who are originally peaceful and even I have never noticed a chance to take advantage of it. opportunity to enter. The girl said that the road was actually fine, but she was so frightened before that she felt a little suspicious during the walk. Maybe it was just the movement of the field mouse that scared her so much that she cried for father and mother. When she came to Aunt Xu's house and knocked on the door, her tone was so panicked.
While we were talking, we rushed downstairs to the old father's house. I have lived in the village for almost a year and a half. In fact, I know everyone in the house, but I don’t go to these people’s homes very often. I have passed by the old couple's house countless times, but I have never visited it. I know that they have two sons, but they are not in the village. They all married wives in Tianjia Village next door, the village I visited before, and settled down there. However, the grandparents of the two brothers are helping to take care of their children.
Every time I pass by their house, those two naughty little guys always like to make faces at me, so I often tease these two little guys. But at this time, the two little ones should have gone to bed long ago. The girl took us up the small stairs behind the cowshed to the second floor. The door was wide open and the lights were on. When we walked to the door, we saw the old lady holding Ji Youan's shoulders and comforting her like a child. Then he squatted outside the door and smoked dry cigarettes. Seeing me coming, the old man hurriedly put out the cigarette on the soles of his shoes, and then said to me, you are finally here. If these two girls hadn't made a fuss tonight, I would have almost forgotten about it. Our house , I’m afraid it’s also an evil place!
Since he said that, I don't have to beat around the bush. So I asked him, just now this girl said something to me on the road, that sentence was what you said to her, what a bandit leader, what and what words said came true again, why have you never told any of us about this? What's going on?
The old man slapped his thigh and said that this happened decades ago and he had long forgotten about it. There were bandits in the village back then. After the troops suppressed the bandits, they left a few relatively sturdy houses in the bandits' den and gave them to nearby people to live in. The room I have is one of the units that was allocated to me at that time. Originally, there were some other people living nearby, but because it was a bit far from the land where my family farmed, they didn't live here. Later, when no one lived there, they simply demolished the house and opened up the land.
From what the old man said, it seemed that he did not doubt that the two girls bumped into ghosts today, but felt that the ghosts they bumped into were the same bandits. So I asked him, when we were suppressing bandits, were many bandits killed? The old man said yes, because this place is on a small hill. It is said that occupying the mountain is king. The house we live in now was the bandits' den back then. The troops surrounded the mountain for nearly half a month before knocking it down, arresting people inside and outside. We killed more than thirty bandits, and the cowardly ones surrendered. The remaining twenty or so tough-talkers stood in a line and were shot to death with machine guns.
After he finished speaking, he pointed to the cowshed underneath and said that this place used to be a large courtyard for bandits to practice martial arts and bayonets. When those people were shot, it was also in this place. In order to establish prestige, chickens were killed to scare monkeys. While these bandits were being executed, the whole village was called over to watch!
In my mind, I was not yet born when the bandit troubles in Sichuan were at their worst. The reason why people of my father’s generation later joined the Sichuan Army to fight against Japan was precisely because my father was the leader of Pao Ge’s organization, and it was just because he was in the city. So don't call them bandits. Most of those Pao Ge in the countryside and mountains are gathered together out of loyalty and live as a family. The Pao Ge organization may not have a popular hall, but the rules are almost the same as Pao Ge. What they did was to rob the rich and give to the poor. They would rob on official roads and even ransack other villages, but they were still very kind to the people in their own village.
The old man said that many of these bandits were originally villagers in the village. They were born in bad years and were poor, so they were forced to become bandits. They did not bully the villagers too much, but everyone was afraid of those swords, guns and sticks, so it was fine. Not much contact. I asked him, why was this house later assigned to you instead of someone else? The old man said that because his old house was not far from here, and the land he helped the landlord farm was also nearby. In addition, he had some friendship with the bandit man here in his early years, and he would help transport some tobacco or grain, so When the anti-bandit troops asked who had no house to live in, I stood up.
I snorted in my heart, is that friendship? You were just doing it to get a small advantage. Now you feel comfortable. Something happened.
But I still don't understand why this bandit who has been dead for so many years comes out to cause trouble at this time? Moreover, Ji Youan and this girl have been living here for several months. They would have stopped making trouble sooner or later. Why are they making trouble now? Could it be that the two of them stayed up at night telling ghost stories, which attracted these guys to stop and listen?
The old man said, you don’t know this. When I was delivering goods to the bandit leader, I once discovered something very strange.
