The next afternoon, with a bag of rice in my hand, I put two new bowls in the bag and carried a black umbrella to the old house opposite my home.
The old house has been neglected for a long time, and the weeds in the yard are so high that they almost reach my waist. I followed Jiang Xiu's advice and started walking around the old house from one o'clock.
Stick to it at first, but after waiting for a long time, my legs are really sore. Whoever walks for three hours feels tired. Until about four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was much weaker and someone came.
At that time, I happened to pass the door of the old house. Suddenly, I heard someone calling Shengjiang Cheng. I turned around doubtfully and found it was Tan Dongyu.
His face was terribly white, his lips were bloodless, and he seemed to be much thinner every day. His clothes were still sloppy. He stood on the side of the mountain road, his body straight, his eyes glazed at me, and he looked like a wooden man without a mind.
At this point, I was still in a circle and dared not stop. I asked what was wrong, but my body continued to circle. Tan Dongyu, however, did not reply. He stood by the roadside and watched me circling. His expression hardly changed. I feel puzzled, but I haven't asked much. I guess Tan Dongyu is mostly evil. It's better to ignore him.
I don't feel guilty either. It's his reward.
Until the sun set, Tan Dongyu did not leave. When I came to the door, I couldn't help looking back at Tan Dongyu. His eyes were still looking at me, his mouth moved slightly, but he didn't say anything. At this point I said an interruption and went inside.
When I came in, I put an umbrella in my armpit, took out two new bowls, carefully poured rice in, and filled both sides with bowls.
Then I went into the inner room and looked. Although nobody took care of it for a long time, nobody dared to come to the old house. It was still clean. I lay on a bed with broken bedclothes and tied my umbrella to the end of the bed with a rope. My umbrella is big enough. How can I turn over under the umbrella?
When you lie down, it's quiet. It was getting darker and darker. At about 6:30 or 7 o'clock, I heard something moving outside, as if someone was walking around. Curious, I couldn't help looking out of the window, but found that Tan Dongyu was walking outside. And the way he walks makes my hair stand on end.
He walks sideways like a crab and circles around the house as I did before. But his eyes were staring at me, which was why he walked sideways. The eyes were like radar, looking at me without looking elsewhere. When he goes around the back of the house, I guess he's watching me too.
I was afraid that Tan Dongyu was really evil and looked like a neurosis. At that time, there was another noise in the room, but Tan Dongyu was still walking outside. I knew immediately that there were more people in the room.
Suddenly, footsteps sounded as if they were coming towards me. I stared dead at the door of the room. After a while, a shadow came into the floor of the room, but the man was still standing outside, so that I could not see who it was.
The shadow reflected on the floor is the side of a human being, which makes his scalp feel numb. The shadow was very long, very tall, with a large breast. It was supposed to be a woman, with a ponytail tied to her head. I remember the daughter-in-law who hanged here before. She was in a ponytail and had a very big chest. The most frightening thing is that the shadow should stand on tiptoe. It's so exaggerated that it can hardly walk with big toes.
I was so frightened that I wanted to ask who was outside. I also remembered that Jiang Xiu had told me not to say anything superfluous, so I put up with it. At this time, the person outside the room heard a voice, especially sharp, pointed as if to grasp the glass window with nails, making people straight up gooseflesh.
"Husband, you're back."
This sentence made my legs tremble and I was stunned. Is this really the daughter-in-law there?
I'd like to see who's standing outside, but I don't have the courage, so I just have to keep my scalp up and say as Jiang Xiu told me, "Those who send rice are staying here for a while."
"Oh."
That shrill voice was like that. Then I saw the shadow go away. From the shadow, the man was walking on his toes, floating lightly, as if he had no weight. I was so frightened that my heart was beating wildly that I bit my arm with my teeth in case I breathed too loudly. At this time, I looked out of the window with the corner of my eye, and I was terrified.
I saw that Tan Dongyu actually put his head into the window and stared at me. It was late now, and his face looked dark and frightening. I quickly closed my eyes, thinking that I could not see my heart.
Meanwhile, there was a crisp noise outside, as if someone was chewing rice and crunching. I don't think it's possible. Those are rice, not cooked rice. How can anyone eat them?
As it grew dark, I closed my eyes and tried to make myself fall asleep. At first, I was very scared. There was a lot of movement inside and outside the room, but no one came into my room. Slowly, I was relieved. Later, I really fell asleep.
When I fell asleep, I heard someone calling my name and opened my eyes in a daze. The room was dark and I couldn't see anything.
"Jiangcheng, let's go."
Suddenly there was a voice ringing around me. I immediately recognized Tan Dongyu's voice. I looked to the side. In the darkness, there was indeed a vague individual.