An indescribable fear was like a cold hand tightly grabbing Xia Degui's heart.
He felt as if a immobilization spell had been cast on his whole body, unable to move at all.
At this critical moment of life and death.
Xia Degui shouted in fear.
"Xiaomi, I am your father!"
When he yelled this sentence with all his strength, the suffocating rancid smell and cold feeling suddenly disappeared.
What was even weirder was that the kerosene lamp he was holding suddenly lit up again!
The dim yellow light reappeared, illuminating the main room.
Xia Degui, who was extremely frightened, only saw his wife Xia Dong standing in front of him, and no one else.
At this time, Xia Degui saw the mud footprints again.
It's just that it's no longer full of room like last night, only in front of his wife Xia Dong's position just now, and...himself!
This meant that the earthy smell and rancid smell that he suddenly smelled in his nose just now were not hallucinations, but real!
Xia Degui felt like he was going crazy.
He turned back sharply.
I found that the door that I had locked myself before going to bed was now opened from the inside.
It's half-covered now!
Huchi, wheeze...
Xia Degui was breathing heavily and sweating profusely. He shouted and asked his wife Xia Dong next to him.
"Honey, did you open the door? Don't open the door randomly at night."
Xia Dong replied with a strange expression on his face.
"My daughter is back. If she knocks on the door outside, of course I have to answer it. You are an incompetent father. Your daughter can't even hear her when she comes home and knocks on the door."
"ah!!!"
Xia Degui collapsed completely and yelled crazily.
I don’t know whether it was because Xia Dong was shouting, or because he was venting his fear...
"ah!!!"
There was also a panicked scream outside the house.
As if he was responding to Xia Degui, he was stunned and stopped shouting. He and Xia Dong looked outside the house.
"Honey, let's go out and have a look together."
Xia Degui initially wanted Xia Dong to stay at home while he went out to take a look.
After all, those screams in the middle of the night must be dangerous!
If he and his wife were separated, who knew what evil would happen?
Even if that terrifying thing really might be his daughter...but she is indeed dead.
When Xia Degui came back from the city a few days ago, he saw his daughter lying in the coffin with his own eyes - half of her head was broken.
"Yeah, okay hubby."
Xia Dong said and held his hand.
To be honest, the relationship between the couple is quite good.
Otherwise, Xia Degui would be living a pretty good life working as a small contractor outside. There is no need to really send 20,000 to 30,000 real money home every year.
The same goes for Xia Dong. When a man is not at home, he still keeps the house in order...
If it weren't for the unexpected death of their daughter, this would be a very happy family. Maybe in a few years, the family will move away and leave the Xia family yard for the city.
Xia Degui picked up the flashlight from the clutter next to the door, handed the kerosene lamp to Xia Dong, and the couple opened the door and walked out together.
Then I saw "Uncle Xia Wu" who lived alone in the opposite yard and fell to the ground, shaking all over and his pants were wet - obviously he was really scared and peed!
"Uncle Wu, what's wrong with you? What happened?"
Xia Degui asked curiously.
The people in the Xia Family Courtyard go back more than two hundred years and are all relatives, equivalent to a small clan village. Although they are related by blood three generations apart, they are still called according to their kinship lineage.
Probably seeing someone coming, the old man opposite stood up tremblingly and said with tears in his eyes.
"Degui, I went outside to use the toilet in the middle of the night. But I just saw... your daughter wearing a red dress and running out of your door. She ran very, very fast."
"I just thought, didn't your daughter die a few days ago? Xiaodong buried it by herself. I was frightened and wanted to go back. But I stepped on a dead branch in the yard and made a click."
"But your daughter turned this way. I, I..."
He couldn't speak anymore, and the look of fear appeared on his face again.
Obviously, he must have seen something very terrible just now.
Xia Degui helped him up.
But the old man didn't dare to go back to sleep by himself. He said he would rather go to the commune at the end of the village and squeeze in with his nephew who was on duty there.
But now that it was dark and the road was difficult to walk, Xia Degui didn't trust him alone, so he asked Uncle Xia Wu to go to his home.
As a result, the old man was even more scared!
He said that your daughter ran away from your house and is already a ghost... How can I dare to go to your house?
In the end, Xia Degui had no choice but to let Uncle Xia go to the commune.
But unexpectedly, after dawn the next day... someone found Uncle Xia's body fifty meters away from the commune.
he died.
The villagers called a doctor from the township health center, and an autopsy revealed that the death was caused by sudden myocardial infarction.
Even rural people don’t understand these professional terms, so let the doctor explain them more clearly.
To put it simply, it is a sudden death caused by being too excited or too scared...
In other words, it can also be said that he was scared to death!
"But what can you see that can scare a person to death?"
The doctor muttered a few words casually, but didn't take it seriously.
But when the surrounding villagers heard this, they were horrified!
They all probably knew what happened in Xia Degui and Xia Dong's family... Now that they heard that Uncle Xia Wu was scared to death, they all became panicked.
Regarding this horrific incident, Xia Sanjin, the village party secretary, was also a little worried.
He asked Xia Degui carefully and felt that the problem might be related to Xia Dong - she seemed to know that Xia Mi would come back?
However, after some inquiries, it was found that Xia Dong was normal when talking about other things. As long as she mentioned her dead daughter, she would immediately become crazy, speak in a hemming and haphazard manner, and be incomprehensible.
In the end, Xia Degui lost his temper and even said he would beat her, but it still had no effect.
Xia Sanjin had no choice but to go to the countryside for a meeting with his village elder father that afternoon, so he could only let Xia Degui think of a solution for the time being.
As a result, he met the old village chief of our village at the village cadre meeting in the township.
During the detailed discussion, Xia Sanjin mentioned this matter, and the old village chief immediately recommended my master to him...
I also know what happened next.
"Alas...Brother Wu, do you think this is really the ghost of the noble daughter?"
After Xia Sanjin told the whole story, he sighed and asked me again.
Mr. Xia Jianguo next to me also looked at me.
I frowned slightly and said, "If there are no errors or omissions in the story you told, then 99% of it is indeed a ghost."
Both of their expressions changed slightly.
I added: "Of course, we have to go to Xia Dong's home and the cemetery where her daughter is buried to see the details. I hope that the death of Uncle Xia Wu was just an accidental collision with it. Otherwise..."
I said no more.
First, we were afraid of scaring Xia Sanjin and Xia Jianguo, and second, we had already arrived at the door of Xia Degui and Xia Dong's house.
As soon as I got here, my heart immediately became heavier.
"Sure enough! Things are a bit troublesome."
Because even though it is broad daylight, standing at the door of Xia Degui's courtyard, I can already smell a faint smell of corpse in my nose.
The smell is very light, so ordinary people can't smell it.
But people like me can!
