[Folk Horror] Ten Days of Mourning

After that, you went to the nearest village clinic and told the adults in the village about someone maliciously damaging the statue of the land.After you walk out of the clinic, you call your parents.

"Hello, good girl?" It was your mother who answered the phone, "Why are you calling at this time, aren't you at home? What's the matter?"

You are standing in front of the grocery store with your friends, and one of you bought a fruit-flavored popsicle. You bought a mango flavor, and your friend bought a strawberry flavor. He held the popsicle in his hand and didn't care about it, and it slowly melted a little.

You said, "Mom, when are you coming back?"

"Hey, just tell me if you have anything to say! It's really..."

"Hey...it's really nothing...Mom, I just want to ask my grandpa's father, uh, it's about my grandfather."

"Why did you suddenly think of asking your grandfather?"

"Nothing, just ask."

"Your grandfather passed away in 90. At that time, he was exactly [-], the same age as your grandfather," Mom seemed to recall, her speech slowed down. "Your grandfather was still fighting when he was born... oh, He has never had a good life in his life. He used to be a carpenter with good skills and good health. He never got sick. But when he was fifty, he became confused. In the last ten years, he could not even speak. Tian sat in front of the ancestral tablet, or went out for a walk. When he left, your grandfather was still in good health, and it was also the funeral hosted by your grandfather..."

Mom paused, and then said: "Hey! It's very strange to say, don't talk about these things to outsiders, it's our own family's business - I don't know if your grandfather and your grandfather have a bad relationship , your grandpa just left, and before he was born, your grandpa burned a lot of things left by him. We haven't seen it, and we don't know what it is, so your grandpa picked it up one by one. Burn it clean... But this is a matter for the elders, and we juniors don't want to ask too much."

"That's it..." You thought about it, "Well, thank you Mom—what's for dinner?"

"Hey, it's rare that you bring your good friends back to live here. My parents will definitely do a good job, so just wait!"

You smirked twice, your voice was a little dry at first, but gradually became normal.After you hung up the phone, you stuffed the popsicle in your mouth and glanced at your friend secretly. She was also smiling and looked at you smiling, as if you were sweeter than the popsicle.You are happy that you have parents and friends around, and the fear during this period is too sudden and unquestionable. Rather, it is this strange panic that makes you unconsciously take the ghost thing as real.If you don't have someone by your side, you might literally break down.

You show the heartiest smile to your friend: "The popsicle has melted, eat it quickly!"

Today, you came home with longing for dinner.

The dinner was really rich, but your parents still did the same thing, urging you to eat more, and you also tried to eat as much as possible for your face, no longer caring about whether you would gain weight, listening to your parents chatting about the statues in the earth temple in the village It was broken by someone, and a dead mouse was stuffed in it. I don't know who is so crazy.

You know who it is, and so do your friends, but you don't say it.If this matter develops later, if you can't handle it yourself, tell your parents.You think so.If you can solve it yourself, you don't want to see your parents look sad because of you.The close person who is worried about you already has a friend. Seeing her occasional worry, you have enough fear and guilt that you don't want to admit the little sweetness you feel because she cares about you.

Really only a little bit.

After dinner, you and your friend slip back into the bedroom, and you take out the snake slough again and hold it through the cloth. As if your friend is facing a big enemy, you not only turn on the light, but also turn on the flashlight function of your mobile phone to illuminate it for you.

Snake slough is the shriveled skin of a snake. This slough is complete, with a head and a tail. It seems that the original appearance of the snake can be deduced from it.Enduring the indescribable touch, you stretched out your hand to touch it inch by inch, but still found nothing.This looks and feels like an ordinary snake slough, and your exploration has encountered a bottleneck.

Fortunately, although you often forget this, friend is a very smart girl.She thought about it, sat next to you, held up her phone and suggested, "Do you want to open it and read it again?"

"It makes sense." You nodded, "It's hard to let go of any corner."

You follow her advice, turn the snakeskin inside out, inside out, and look again.This time you really discovered something: there is a line of small red letters on the inside of the snake slough.

"What did you write?" Your friend couldn't see clearly, and moved closer to you, which made your heart beat a little faster.You cough lightly, and by the light of the flashlight in her mobile phone, slowly read the small words: "Entertain your parents, bury your son and serve your mother..."

This is the story of 24 Hyori.You immediately realized that you read it from Lu Xun's essays in high school, and even went to find the full text of the 24 filial piety story, and you have been deeply impressed since then.

Wearing colorful clothes, pretending to be crazy and foolish, trying his best to make his parents smile.

In order to provide for the elders, they buried their children alive.

These are also the two allusions you hate the most in 24 Filial Piety.

"...Go to sleep." You put down the snake slough, wrapped it in cloth again, and stuffed it into your bag.You are surprised by the calmness and determination of your voice, "I want to be a filial daughter, and I will not be a filial daughter of a Yin God—we will solve this matter."

Your friend gently squeezed your hand.

"I believe in you," she said.

Her hands are warm, and your body is warm too.You don't know how to reply to this sentence immediately, because you always feel that a sentence of "I believe you" is often more valuable than anything else.Why can a friend tell you this so openly?She'll say I'm so glad I'm close to you, she'll say I want to be there for you, she'll say I believe it - you feel the same way, but you just don't dare to say it out of fear that she will follow you. The secret love you tried so hard to hide is detected in your tone and eyes.

You like her so much, although you are looking forward to a little bit of luck, so that you can get the answer that I like you too, but confessing means a big risk, even if you can't be a friend, you will lose this completely relationship.You hope that you are more determined and calm, but you still worry about gains and losses, and you don't want to take risks for that little luck.You don't understand either. You told yourself to be content and happy, but you can't control your mind. At this time, you still think about these girls.

You can only say "we".

So you crawl under the covers and whisper, "Let's go to bed early."

Friend lying next to you, she has a cute smile and says good night sweet dreams.

It's the third night and you had a dream.

The author has something to say:

Walk the love line again

The next chapter will be scary again, I hope it will be scary enough haha