It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and the woman didn't think much about it, so she washed him casually, and then the family of three went to bed.

The next morning, I still cooked for my grandfather and son as usual. When the meal was ready, he was told to get up and eat. For some reason, this man surnamed Li is very sleepy today, and he still doesn't want to get up even after three poles. The woman thought that maybe her husband was tired from the coal mine, so she could sleep if she wanted to. Didn't take it too seriously.

The man slept until the sun went down in the evening, and when he got up, he still didn't want to talk much, so he ran out, and when he came back about an hour later, he carried a hare and a pheasant on his shoulders, and it turned out that he had gone hunting.

He threw the two prey into the house and pointed to his son, which probably meant that his daughter-in-law should quickly wash them and make them for his son to eat. Coal mine workers spend only one month a year at home, and the family gets together rarely, and the wife also wants to get her husband something delicious.

She was cooking in the kitchen, and when she looked back at the back room, where her husband was holding his son. It's just that her husband has been so weird in the past two days, how can he still face his son without a smile? That expression...... It's like a corpse.

"Mother...... Daddy Cold! It's cold! "The three-year-old son was hugged by his father, and he actually cried.

My husband always had a fishy smell on his body, as if he hadn't dried it since he was rained last night.

That night, the woman had a dream, a nightmare, that her husband was sitting on the edge of the bed viciously and glaring at them, and his eyes were terrible.

The woman was frightened awake, and when she opened her eyes, she was almost frightened to death by the sight before her, and it turned out that her husband was indeed sitting on the edge of the bed and looking at the two of them in a daze.

"You...... Why don't you sleep? ”

"Sleep...... Sleep...... Sleep......" he said vaguely, and then went to bed with his back to their mother, and there was no movement.

The next morning, before dawn, I heard the sound of a gong outside the door.

During the Qing Dynasty, there was a custom in the countryside of Shanxi that only when someone died, the gong would be struck, and the gong meant to call the villagers to go to their homes to help with the white affairs of the Great Spiritual Hall.

The woman quickly sat up, and at this glance, her husband on the bed was gone......

She thought to herself, maybe her husband had already gone out to watch the excitement, right? She put on her clothes and pushed the door open. The one who struck the gong stood at the door of his house and did not leave. She secretly cursed in her heart, whose family was killed by heaven, isn't it a curse for my family?

When I went out, I saw that it was a neighbor's man, and the man was young with his husband, and he introduced his husband to work in the coal mine.

When the man saw her come out, he rushed into the courtyard and knelt on the ground and said, "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry for you, I didn't take good care of my eldest brother." ”

She looked confused and asked what was going on. Unexpectedly, the man actually said, the night before yesterday, your grandfather had an accident, the mine collapsed, and more than a dozen workers were killed, including my eldest brother! I'm here to give you a funeral, and this is the pension that the mine asked me to give you.

The woman said no way, my husband came home in the heavy rain the night before, and he was sleeping next to me just now, you can't be joking!

The man looked at her in surprise and said, "Can I joke about this kind of thing?" It's true, the above still asked you to identify the corpse, sister-in-law, take a look?

He took out a small notebook from his pocket, which was made of coarse paper and stamped with an official seal. There were few literate women in the countryside that year, but she didn't have to look at it to recognize it, this was a death certificate issued by the imperial court! The first few words are clearly her husband's name!

The woman sat on the ground like a thunderbolt from the blue, and she was so limp that she couldn't stand up.

The villagers also came out to see the excitement when they heard the sound of the gong, and surrounded the small courtyard, and everyone stood outside the courtyard and pointed and didn't know what was going on.

The man was about to comfort her in mourning, when a man came out of the crowd, wet and carrying on his shoulders the prey he had brought for his wife and son in the mountains the previous night. He stood there with no expression on his face, staring straight at his sworn brother and his death certificate.

Everyone present was stunned, time stood still for a full three seconds, and then I don't know who shouted: "Haunted!" The neighbors and villagers were scattered.

"Big ...... Eldest brother...... You...... You??? The man walked up to him tremblingly, and slowly stretched out his hand to pat him on the shoulder, to see if there was a person standing in front of him or a ghost.

Just as his hand touched the man's shoulder, the man suddenly went limp, as if the marshmallow had been roasted in a high temperature, and quickly withered, and finally disappeared into a pool of foul-smelling thick water.

The authenticity of this black joke is no longer elegant, Ma Chengfeng supported his grandmother when he was a child. Grandma said that the man surnamed Li was a good man, and he didn't know he was dead. After his death, he relied on his longing for his wife and children, and his blood soul was born in his body, and the blood soul condensed into a human form and returned home to continue to live with his wife and children.

If no one had revealed the fact that he was dead, he would have lived a little longer. But it is not necessarily a good thing for a living person to live in the yang world, fortunately he does not live with his wife and children at night, and they all go hunting, otherwise, his wife and children will be infected with his ghost energy, and he will die in a few days.

On the way back, Ma Chengfeng kept thinking about this story. He told everyone that Granny Shui was very capable of having some thoughts in her heart that she couldn't let go of the world, so she turned into a blood soul and continued to live.

"Is it the Divine Taibao?" Xiao Man asked him.

"No, I don't think so. Because I had already given her the life card of the Shenxing Taibao that day, she already knew about her husband's death, and it was said that even if she had nothing to love, she was very calm after hearing the news of her husband's death, and there was nothing abnormal, and I saw that there were other things in her heart that had not been completed. ”

"It may have something to do with the Cat Fairy Temple. You see, the corpse of the Moon Shadow Black-Pupil Beast actually appeared in her coffin, is there some connection between the two? "Then ask him.

"Forget it, we can't explain it. Now I don't know how to face Granny Shui, no matter whether she is good or evil, in the end she helped us, we can still let her live one more day, no one should reveal this secret! Ma Chengfeng instructed everyone.

"Ma Chengfeng, I really don't understand how you guys got mixed up in the rivers and lakes until now, how can you think about your opponents everywhere? What does it matter to you whether she lives or dies? She's not a nice person! You trust me! Casilla shook her head.

Ma Chengfeng smiled and asked her, then why did you choose to be with us? Isn't it because you have good intentions? You can't do everything you can't do. People are watching!

(End of chapter)