I quickly opened my eyes and saw Lulu sitting up like a fake corpse.
"Nuan Ting! Uncle Qian said someone is dead!"
"I heard it!"
We both got up immediately and opened the curtains.
The second uncle had already walked out and put on my father's blue coat in a hurry. He didn't even have time to pick up his shoes: "What's going on?"
"Oops! This morning, the eldest son of the old Yang family died in front of their home!" Uncle Qian beat his chest and stamped his feet and said, "He has moved to the brigade now. The appearance of his death is so strange. Go and have a look!"
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"Lulu, let's go take a look too." I hurriedly got off the ground to put on my shoes, and Lulu also hurriedly got off the ground.
Before we both left the house, we heard my second uncle standing at the door and shouting: "Don't come out, stay at home!"
"Second uncle! I have to go with you!" I stood at the door of the house and shouted to my second uncle's back.
The second uncle's figure had already walked out, and a serious voice came back through the courtyard wall: "The situation is unknown, so don't take risks first!"
I walked out of the yard, and the cold wind flowed through my clothes and stuck to my skin, making me shiver.
I looked at the hazy sky and couldn't help but sigh with my hands behind my back.
Why is this so old and dead?
How many dead people have I seen in the past six months?
What's all this about?
Are you going to let me have a wonderful childhood?
Other people's childhoods were all about lollipops and toys. Why was my childhood filled with ghosts, demons, or dead people?
I rubbed my nose and felt deep worry in my heart. I really hoped to find out the cause of this matter quickly so that no more people would die.
"Nuan Ting! Come back and put on your clothes! Don't freeze!"
"Oh! It's coming!"
My second uncle went away all morning, and it was almost 12 o'clock noon and he still hadn't come back.
Lulu and we lay weakly on the kang, looking at each other pitifully.
"Nuan Ting, I'm hungry."
"I'm hungry too. There's nothing to eat at home."
"How about we go to Aunt Lu's house and buy some?"
"No, my second uncle said I won't let you out."
"Should it be okay?"
"Why is everything okay? You forgot what Aunt Li said yesterday. No one in our village went to pay homage to the ceremony, and there were little ghosts watching outside the house. Then the eldest son of Uncle Yang's family is dead."
Lulu scratched her face in distress: "What should I do? I'm really hungry."
I sighed, turned over, and lay sprawled on the Kang that had cooled down: "Just wait a little longer, maybe my second uncle will be back soon."
"Okay, then I'll go get some cold water and we can drink some water."
I closed my eyes and nodded, then heard the rustle of Lulu putting on her shoes.
Just as Lulu ran out, I heard an older female voice coming from the direction of my door: "Fruits for sale! Pancakes and fruits!"
Wow! There is actually someone who buys pancakes and fruits! This is great! Lulu and we don’t have to be hungry!
I shook my feet leisurely and waited happily for Lulu to bring in the pancakes and fruits.
"Grandma? How much does it cost?"
"Not expensive, not expensive, four yuan."
"Then I want two!"
"Okay, little girl, my legs and feet are inconvenient, so you can come out and get it."
I suddenly thought of something, and my shaking feet suddenly froze. I immediately opened my eyes, quickly got off the ground to put on my shoes, and ran to the door of the house: "Wait a minute, Lulu!"
Lulu was holding the door and was about to step out. When she heard me calling her, she put her feet back in confusion.
"What's wrong Nuanting?"
I slowly walked to the door and pulled Lulu into the courtyard before I dared to look at the old lady at the door.
She is about fifty or sixty years old. She has a wrinkled face and looks very much like a Shar-Pei. Her smile looks very fake. She is wearing a blue cloth dress and black cloth shoes. She is carrying a bamboo basket in her left arm.
It was covered with a yellowed drawer cloth.
I looked at her and said nothing.
Lulu seemed to smell the smell of pancakes and fruits in the bamboo basket, and she was so greedy that her saliva almost came out: "Nuan Ting, let's buy one, I'm really hungry."
What Lulu smelled might be the smell of pancakes and fruits, but what I smelled... was clearly the rusty smell of blood!
My hand holding Lulu was shaking a little, and I kept my voice low, for fear that the old lady would hear her and rush in.
"Lulu, she's not normal. No one is out in the village now. How come she's out selling pancakes and fruits? Besides, she's not from our village." I took another sneak peek, and the old lady looked at her with a smile.
We neither walked nor spoke.
Lulu frowned and rubbed her growling stomach: "That might be someone from another village."
I shook my head: "I know all the people in other villages."
My mother used to be a goddess here, and I met a lot of people.
Lulu also hesitated and whispered to me openly: "Is that... an outsider?"
I looked at the bamboo basket that exuded a strong smell of blood and scratched my forehead: "I don't know, but it's twelve o'clock at noon, and when the yin energy is extremely strong, I'm afraid..."
Before I finished speaking, the old lady suddenly took a step towards the door of my house and said somewhat unhappily: "Do you want to buy it for your two children? It's already noon, and I have to go back to eat. If you don't buy it, I'll do it."
Eat it yourself."
Lulu swallowed in dismay, stared at the bamboo basket eagerly, and pulled at my sleeve with greed: "Nuan Ting, let's buy it, I'm starving, please."
Lulu was almost crying.
The old lady sat down in front of my house, looked at us proudly, took out the pancakes and bit into them.
I suddenly gasped.
Lulu was probably so greedy that she couldn't bear it. She kept describing it in my ears, hoping that I would agree to her.
"Nuan Ting, look at it! The pancakes are square in shape, and the fried eggs on the outside are golden and sizzling. Inside, there are green onions, dried fruits, shredded potatoes, coriander, and peanuts. They are all dripping with oil! Let's buy them!
"
Lulu's voice hovered in my ears like a swarm of small flying insects.
But my mind exploded with a coaxing sound, and a creepy coldness ran down the soles of my feet and went straight to Tianling Gai!!
The skin on my back is also tightly stretched!
Because what I saw was different from what Lulu saw!
What she saw was the fragrant pancake fruit, and what I saw...the old lady was biting her fingers...
That is a bloody human hand!!!
"Go back, go back to the house!!" My throat was so tight that I could hardly speak, and my whole body was shaking like chaff. I grabbed Lulu tightly, and using my hands and feet, I almost crawled back into the house!
"Nuan Ting, what are you doing..."
"Lock the doors and windows quickly!" I screamed. Lulu was frightened by me and hurriedly locked the doors and windows with me.
After we finished doing this, we squatted behind the curtain. Lulu hugged me, who was still shaking, and asked me anxiously: "What's wrong with you, Nuanting?"
I swallowed my saliva, moistened my throat, and said with difficulty: "Lulu, we may have encountered an evil spirit."
"What?"
"That's not pancake fruit, it's human hands!"
"Ah!!!" Lulu sat down in horror.
At this time, the old lady at the door of my house suddenly laughed loudly: "Someone can actually see through me."
I shook my fingers and pulled open the curtains, just in time to see the old lady casually throw the bloody and prickly hands on the ground. She pinched her nose and started to smell the air, and her eyes under her folds suddenly lit up.
"Snake Eyes, there's an unexpected gain, hahaha!" She smiled, suddenly raised her skinny legs, and walked towards the door...