I don't believe in ghosts today

"But... these people in the village are also my dreams." Zou Hao looked down the mountain, and could vaguely see women busy in the village.

"And you," Zou Hao turned to Li Yifan, "Why are you in my dream?"

"Think about it every day, dream about it at night, ask yourself." Li Yifan chewed the blade of grass, confidently.

"I never thought about you, you must have come in by yourself." Zou Hao was quite sure about this matter.Zou Hao glanced down the mountain again and made up his mind. "No, I still have to go and tell them." Even if it is a dream, it must have a beginning and an end.

Li Yifan shook his head. "No, you can't see them anymore. They'll hurt you."

"Li Yifan, what's going on with you!" Anyway, it was a dream, and Zou Hao wasn't afraid to call him by his first name. "Why do you have to fight against me even in your dreams!"

Li Yifan was also very helpless. "Who told you not to listen to me every time."

"But they are really nice. Yesterday they killed a chicken for me to eat, and at noon they even made vegetables for me..." Zou Hao didn't want to disappoint Mrs. Chun's good intentions, and he really wanted to eat vegetables.

"Forget it, go if you want." Li Yifan finally let go. "I'll accompany you."

The two of them descended the mountain along the mountain road. The originally clear sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and the sky darkened instantly.

"Strange, where did everyone go?" Zou Hao walked into the village, only to find that the women who had been working hard just now were all gone.The whole village was silent, except for a few open windows that shook and creaked in the wind.

"Look at that."

Zou Hao followed Li Yifan's finger and looked over, it was the big tree next to Granny Zhao's house, the branches were full of things, swaying in the wind.When Zou Hao approached, he saw clearly that the straw dolls with chopsticks length were hanging on the tree, and each belly was pasted with a piece of white paper with different names written on it——Grandma Zhao, Sister Chun, Da Ya, Er Ya, Xiao Yangmei... Each doll has a white thread tied around its neck, hanging from a tree branch, like a tree full of hanged corpses, extremely weird.

Zou Hao turned his head and glanced at Li Yifan, and the child's ethereal and complaining voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Don't go out on a rainy day, you will encounter a drowned ghost. Your eyes are bleeding, your hair is dripping with water. Grab the passer-by and push him into the well... ..."

Aunt Chun's daughter, Daya, stood behind them at some point, with empty eyes, looking at the tree, reciting weird nursery rhymes.

"Big girl, what's wrong with you?" Zou Hao asked hurriedly. "Where's your mom?"

The big girl didn't say a word, she turned her head and ran away.Zou Hao wanted to catch up, but was held back by Li Yifan. "Let me go ahead."

The two ran very fast, one in front of the other, but they couldn't catch up with Da Ya.Da Ya ran down the hillside, stopped by the dry well, jumped into it.

"Big ya!" Zou Hao chased to the well, and looked inside. The originally dry well was filled with dark red liquid, and the walls of the well were covered with scratches from fingernails.

"Zou Hao," Li Yifan persuaded him again, "We really have to go."

"Okay." This time, Zou Hao nodded in agreement.He still didn't understand what happened in the dream, but the scarecrow on the tree and the bloody well made him a little scared, and he just wanted to leave quickly.

"We have to go back to the cave." Li Yifan turned around after saying that, ready to walk up the mountain.

Zou Hao was about to follow, when his feet suddenly felt cold.He looked down, and a bloody hand stretched out from the mouth of the well, grabbing his ankle tightly.

"Xiao Zou, didn't you promise us to stay for a while longer?" Mrs. Chun's upper body poked out from the well, her pale face, a pair of eyes without pupils stared at him closely, and the smelly blood kept flowing from the tips of her hair. low.

"Sister-in-law Chun, how did you become like this..." Zou Hao wanted to back up, but because of his ankles, Mrs. Chun grabbed him and lost his center of gravity. He fell to the ground and was dragged towards the well by Mrs. Chun.

Li Yifan rushed over, took out a handful of incense ash from his pocket, and sprinkled it into the well. "Ah!" The incense ash burned on Mrs. Chun's arm, and white smoke came out.Mrs. Chun screamed and let go of her hand.Li Yifan took the opportunity to support Zou Hao, and the two hurried up the mountain.

"Xiao Zou, don't go..."

"Little Uncle Zou, stay with us again..."

The calls of women and children continued to come from behind.Zou Hao looked back, and the women crawled out of the well one by one, chasing after them, bloody water left rows of bright red footprints on the ground.

The scene in the village has also changed.The earthen house, which was originally tidy and warm, became ruins at some point. The corn in the yard was full of fine stones, and the pickles on the wall turned into dry weeds, which were slightly stirred by the wind.

The two walked up the mountain along the path, but they couldn't find the fork that turned west.

Li Yifan frowned. "This is ghost hitting the wall."

"Ghost hitting the wall?" When Zou Hao was a child, he heard this word from his grandmother and the elders in the village. It was said that on the day of NO. I couldn't find my way home either.A month later, the man's body was found on the hillside, starved to nothing but skin and bones, less than two miles away from the village.

Zou Hao took out his mobile phone and looked at it. "It's a pity that there is no signal, otherwise I can still open a navigation."

"Follow me, don't wander around." Li Yifan took his hand and clasped his fingers tightly. "I will definitely take you out."

Li Yifan led Zou Hao out of the path, and stepped on the rocks and weeds straight to the top of the mountain.Zou Hao looked out, and all he could see were endless mountains, no roads, and no people. It seemed that this strange village was the only one left in the world.

Li Yifan let go of his hand, took out a thick stack of yellow talismans from his pocket, and threw them into the air forcefully.Wrapped by the wind, the yellow talismans fluttered one after another, drifting towards the village at the foot of the mountain.The women who were chasing them up the mountain showed fear, and retreated back to the well along the same path.

Only Granny Zhao, facing the sky full of yellow talismans, walked tremblingly with a cane.Blood dripped from her body constantly, and every step she took turned the withered grass under her feet red.

"All those who are facing the battle are marching forward..." Seeing Granny Zhao getting closer, Li Yifan stretched out two fingers of his right hand in the shape of a sword, drew five horizontal lines and four vertical lines in the air, and stood in front of Zou Hao.

Hearing the sound of Li Yifan reciting the mantra, Zhao Granny's eyes suddenly shot fierce light, she raised her crutch high, and chopped it down towards Li Yifan.Li Yifan blocked it with two fingers, taking advantage of Zhao Granny's unpreparedness, he swiped his fingers on Zhao Granny's arm, and there was a sizzling sound, creating a wound emitting white smoke.

Grandma Zhao yelled, raised her crutches and smashed it down again, Li Yifan turned around to avoid it, and wanted to make another move.

"Stop, all of you!" Zou Hao opened his arms to block between the two of them.

"Get out of the way!" Li Yifan and Granny Zhao blurted out at the same time.

"I won't let it! Can't you talk about it properly?" Although he didn't understand why they fought, Zou Hao knew that Li Yifan was a good person, and Granny Zhao was also a good person. There must be some misunderstanding.

"If you don't get out of the way, I'll kill you too!" Granny Zhao's eyes were bloodshot, her face was bulging with veins, and she looked fierce.As soon as the words fell, the crutch raised in the air slammed towards Zou Hao's head.

Zou Hao actually closed his eyes tightly and remained motionless. Li Yifan exhausted all his strength and managed to pull him away.

Grandma Zhao's crutch stopped above Zou Hao's head, and it did not fall down.After a while, Grandma Zhao put away her crutches, and the blood red in her eyes gradually faded away. "Little Zou, you are too courageous, you are not even afraid of ghosts..."

"Our little security guard only has courage." Li Yifan put away his finger sword and couldn't help complaining. The atmosphere that was originally tense finally eased.

Zou Hao asked Granny Zhao: "What happened? Why did the village suddenly become like this?"

"That's how the village is," Grandma Zhao sighed, "Ask this stinky Taoist priest."

"You? Stinky Taoist priest?" Zou Hao turned to Li Yifan.

Li Yifan looked at Tieshu Village at the foot of the mountain with deep eyes. "Since hundreds of years ago, there has been a horrific custom in Tieshu Village—murder of women in the family. Newborn baby girls or elderly people, as long as they are women who are useless to the family, they will be thrown away. In that abandoned well, some drowned, some starved to death. The bottom of the well was already full of women's bones."

"Is this... is this true?" Zou Hao asked.

Granny Zhao nodded slowly. "I was old, and once I broke my foot and couldn't work, so my two sons threw me into the well. I cried and cried in the well for three days before I starved to death. There is also Mrs. Chun, who gave birth to two daughters in a row, and she bled heavily when she gave birth to Erya, and she will never have children again. Her cruel father-in-law threw the mother and daughter into the well together... and the little girl Yangmei, she didn't want to stay in this village, so she ran out secretly and fell in love with a young man in the town. Her own brother caught her back and found that she was pregnant with a child, so she couldn't marry again in exchange for a bride price, so he also took her away. thrown into the well..."

A line of tears fell from Grandma Zhao's cloudy eyes, embodying the suffering and torture that the women of Tieshu Village have endured for hundreds of years.Zou Hao's eyes turned red when he heard that. He once fell into that well. It's not hard to imagine the fear and despair women would feel when they were locked in it.The dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, and the sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the clouds and illuminated the earth again.However, the small village at the foot of the mountain is still an empty ruin.

"20 years ago, Tieshu Village was completely abandoned. Even if you have resentment, you should rest in peace." Li Yifan sighed.

"That's what they deserve!" Grandma Zhao was so angry that she tapped the ground several times with her cane. "They killed their mother, wife and daughter with their own hands. Only men are left in the whole village, and no women are willing to marry in."

"Then why do you still stay in the yang world and refuse to reincarnate in the underworld? Granny, do you have any unfulfilled wishes?" Li Yifan asked.

"Wish?" Granny Zhao was startled. "My wish... I just hope that there will be an offspring to offer incense to us women who died in vain... I have waited year after year until this village has become a wasteland, and there will be no more The living still haven't waited."

Another line of tears flowed down Granny Zhao's cheeks.

The author has something to say:

came back! !

At night, I climbed over the Balang Mountain, which is 3500 meters above sea level at minus [-] degrees, and my heart skipped a beat... The sky full of stars is so beautiful QAQ