Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

It is said that Li Nianxian, the Lishu of Shimen County, Zhejiang Province (today's Tongxiang City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province) (the clerk of the county government responsible for registering land area, four seasons, etc. It is voluntary and does not receive official salary), once encountered something strange things.

One day in a certain month of a certain year, Li Nian went to the countryside to urge him to pay the rent. At night, he came to a village in the wilderness and wanted to stay, but there was no inn.

Li Nianxian saw a light coming from a thatched house from a distance. So, he walked towards the light.

When he got a little closer, he only saw a tattered fence blocking the door in front of the hut, and heard moaning sounds coming from the house.

Li Nianxian didn't want to rush in, so he shouted loudly: "Is there anyone at home? I am Li Nianxian, the secretary of the county government, and I came here to urge you to collect food. It is getting late now, and I want to stay at your house for one night. If If someone is here, please open the door quickly!"

No one in the room responded.

Li Nian first stood across the fence and stood on tiptoe to look inside. He saw that the floor of the house was covered with straw, and a man was lying in the grass. He was thin and his face was very ugly, as if his face was covered with paper ash.

The man's face was more than five inches long and three inches wide. He was lying dying, occasionally turning his body.

Li Nian knew at first glance that this was a seriously ill person.

I didn’t want to go in and disturb him, but I was really tired and hungry and didn’t want to leave anymore, so I called out again and again.

The man inside couldn't refuse, so he responded in a low voice: "I'm really sick and can't get up. Guests, please push the door open and come in!"

Li Nian heard the words first, pushed open the broken fence door and walked in.

He took a closer look and saw that the man was indeed too sick to get up.

Li Nian asked him first, what disease did he have? Is there anyone else at home?

The patient weakly told him that the plague was prevalent here some time ago and his whole family was infected. Now he is the only one left to survive, while the others have died of illness.

The words are very sad and miserable.

Li Nianxian was hungry and thirsty, and his back and legs ached. He didn't care what kind of plague that person was, he fell down on the straw and didn't want to move.

He asked the patient what food he had at home and gave it to him to satisfy his hunger.

The patient said that because of the plague, he had not gone out for many days and there was nothing to eat at home.

Li Nian first discussed with him and wanted him to go out and buy some food and wine for himself.

The patient declined, saying that he was too weak and really didn't want to go out.

Li Nian first promised him that if he went to sell wine and buy food, he would give him another two hundred coins as a reward.

The patient finally struggled to get up, took the money and the wine bottle and went out.

After a while, the lamp oil in the room burned out and the lights went out. Li Nianxian was so exhausted that he still fell on the haystack and closed his eyes to rest.

Suddenly, he heard a rustling sound in the haystack, as if someone stood up from inside.

Li Nianxian was suspicious, so he took out a flint and struck it. When the fire light came on, he vaguely saw a person with disheveled hair. He looked even thinner than the previous patient. His face was only about three inches wide, and his closed eyes were still bleeding. I couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, just like a zombie, standing there leaning on the straw.

Li Xiannian asked him who he was, but the man ignored him.

Li Nianxian became suspicious and felt a little scared involuntarily, so he kept hitting the flint. Every time he hit it, the fire lit up and the zombie's face appeared. When it lights up and disappears, it looks very eerie and terrifying.

Li Nianxian was frightened and wanted to escape. In his panic, he accidentally got entangled in the straw under his feet and fell to the ground.

He became even more frightened and did not dare to stay for a moment. Before he could get up, he sat on the ground and slowly backed up.

He took a step back, and the zombie took a step forward.

Li Nianxian was so frightened that he quickly got up, rushed out of the fence gate, and ran away.

The zombie followed closely behind and chased desperately, its footsteps making a rustling sound on the grass.

Li Nianxian ran for more than a mile in a panic. When he saw a hotel in front of him, he shouted: "Help! There is a ghost!" and broke in.

Because he was running so fast, he fell to the ground when he entered the door and fainted. The zombie chasing him seemed to be following his example, and fell to the ground, motionless.

The shopkeeper of the hotel asked the waiter to go to the kitchen and bring some ginger soup, which he drank first for Li Nian.

After a while, he woke up leisurely.

The hotel manager asked him what happened, and he told him what had just happened, still frightened in his words.

After the hotel manager and customers talked about it, Li Nianxian finally learned that not long ago, a plague was prevalent in that village. The whole village was infected with the plague, and nine out of ten people died from the disease.

The zombie who chased him and fell to the ground was the patient's wife. Because the family was poor and several people died in succession, there was no coffin to put in after her death, so she could only hide it in the straw at home.

Maybe it was because Li Nian arrived at their house first and she felt the breath of a strange living person, so she was frightened and moved around.

The villagers learned that Li Xiannian had entrusted the patient to come out to buy wine and groceries, but they did not see him coming to the hotel.

We hurriedly went out together to find the patient who bought wine.

After not looking far, they found a bridge, and the man, holding money in one hand and a wine bottle in the other, fell beside the bridge and died!

There are only more than fifty steps from here to the hotel!