A Guest In A Ghost House

"Since she is still unwilling to see us, we respect her opinion. Besides, if she is there, you all will be safe." This was old Mrs. Li"s words by herself.

Although among the people who were going to go back to the hometown, there was no one from ghost building, there still were Li Guihua and Huang Xiaolong, so I didn"t think the strength of our team was worse than that at last time. Even if Huang Xiaolong couldn"t match old Mrs. Li and other people from the ghost building, Li Guihua, I thought, was definitely powerful in strength than them. One strong with one weak was enough.

Nothing strange happened to us during the time when we went back to the hometown this time. Soon, we arrived. For a short time, there was no change in the hometown. Although a few villagers felt strange about us coming back, it was also a normal reaction. After all, in the past days, we had basically never come back.

It was already afternoon when I arrived here. After dinner, we went to the entrance of the village with great strength and vigor. However, as soon as we arrived there, we were totally shaking, only to find that the blue stone covered on the old well had disappeared and there even was a huge crack on the wall of the ancient well, almost arm-sized wide.

As Wu Jian and I were discussing to go down the well, but Li Guihua"s voice suddenly came out, "There is no need going down, because there was nothing here."

After hearing her words, my mom had a great reaction, so we still went down the well under mom"s strong urge. Unfortunately, there really was nothing below.

Ever since we came up from the old well, Mom had become terribly depressed and even witch Yan went to hold her and kept comforting her. This old well was hope for her to save my dad and my older brother, but now, there was nothing. Not mention to mom, even I was at a loss.

Finally, witch Yan opened her mouth, saying, "Let"s go to ask the people in the village and see what is going on."

Then mom slightly cheered up and stumbled to the village with the help of witch Yan. Huang Xiaolong and I were in a team alone and also went there. As for Wu Jian, he went back home alone first, because he didn"t the people in the village.

I had been walking around the village for a long time and also had been asked a lot of people, but everyone seemed not to know what was going on with that old well. What"s more, every time I said the old well had cracked, they all felt very surprised and began to worry, which made us gain nothing.

After meeting my mom, I found that they didn"t gain any useful information either and her whole person seemed in a bad mood. As for this, there was nothing I could do but keep comforting her.

After the dinner, mom went to rest very early. I and Huang Xiaolong felt very bored, so we even pulled Wu Jian out to the end of this village where there was the only night market stall of this village. In fact, it was not a night market stall, just because when the road here was being built and there were many workers, someone in the village opened a small shop here.

Later, the road was repaired and this small store was also preserved, but just what was mainly sold here was no longer the food, but some daily necessities. Perhaps the villagers were used to coming here at night to chat and eat some food sometimes. Therefore, the boss simply prepared some bricks and made a grill. This was the unique scenery of our village.

After taking some food from home and spending 10 yuan buying some charcoal, we began to have our self-service barbecue. Fortunately, beer was still sold here.

The people in the village were very hospitable. When they saw us come to have a barbecue, they also went home to get some food and came to enjoy with us. Soon, there were a lot of people here and this was also a scene I couldn"t see in the urban.

I didn"t know that how long we had eaten, and I even felt slightly drunken. Then I saw a child walking slowly to us on the main road at the entrance of the village, wrapped in a circle of white cloth on his body, which was very much like the trendy dress at the fas.h.i.+on show.

When the child approached, I just found the child was a little girl, about 7 or 8 years old. She looked very clean on her body but didn"t wear the clothes. Her body was covered in beige strips of cloth. Besides, she also didn"t wear shoes, just standing a few meters away from us.

Many villagers also saw her. Then one of middle-aged woman took some food from the grill, put them on in a bowl and went over holding the bowl. The little girl was obviously frightened and then took a few steps back, but she also seemed unable to resist the temptation of the food and also didn"t run away.

Then the woman handed the bowl to her with a deep sigh. The little just took the bowl, gave her a sweet smile, bowed and ran away.

Watching the little girl run into the woods by the side of the road and disappear, I shook my drunken head and asked the woman who just walked back, "Dear lady, who is that girl?"

The woman just sighed and answered, "Alas, she is poor child. She lives with her parents halfway up the hill of this village. About a year ago, her parents died but n.o.body knew that, even their corpses had rotten and given out bad smell. This girl even still waited for them to go back home for meal. Later, it was only when old Mr. LIU went to her father to ask him to make a table that he knew this couple had already dead."

When the woman mentioned the hillside and making the table, I suddenly had some impression. I remembered that there was a carpenter in the village who lived halfway up the hill. It was just that I had little touch with him.

"Dear lady, what about the little girl?"

The woman put down the food in her hand and said, "The police came and saw that the child was hopeless, so they decided to ask some villagers to take care of her. However, this child was very stubborn, and only when she felt hungry, she would come to our village. At any other time, she wouldn"t. come. You could see what she wore on her body. Even we gave her some clothes, she still wouldn"t wear. There even were several family willing to take her in, but she was unwilling and even claimed that she wanted to be together with her parents. She would stay be the side of her parents" grave every day. What a filial child."

"Filial piety? In my opinion, she was stupid and maybe she was possessed by the ghost. You just think about it. Even her parents" corpses had rotten, she still would sleep with them. Even a normal person would become stupid if so." When hearing the woman"s words, the villager on the side began to be against her.

Then all the people present began to talk about it and their talking even became more and more groundless. However, just think about it. A few-years-old girl didn"t know anything but only stay by the side of grave. Where did she live? Besides, it had been one year. This child even had never been sick or anything. If it were not that she felt hungry and came to the village for food, maybe these villager would already think she was dead.

Wu Jian touched my hand and whispered, "Did you see this little girl the last time you came?"

I shook my head. Although we were here for a long time at last time, we never saw this little girl.

Then Wu Jian said, "Alas, this is a poor child. I"ll report back and mobilize the crowd to see if anyone is willing to adopt this child."

I nodded, then only looked at the direction where the little girl disappeared and also sighed deeply.

My mood that was already very bad became even worse. Then I said, "Huang Xiaolong, just hand me a bottle of beer." However, he was just lowering his head, without any reaction and the kebab in his hand was almost falling down to the ground.

Then I pushed him hard and said, "What the h.e.l.l are you doing?"

Huang Xiaolong just said loudly, "What!", as if he was frightened just now, and even the kebabs in his hand fell to the ground now. I just looked at him in amazement, asking, "What happened to me?"

Huang Xiaolong looked around and took the hands of me and Wu Jian. Then he pulled us to approach his head and whispered to us, "The white cloth that was wrapped on the body of the little girl! Did you see that? That was the wrapping-corpse cloth!"