Chapter 15 Pretending to be a Ghost
"Wife, hold Bao'er and wait here. The child is small, don't scare him."
Nuan Ma nodded, then obediently picked up Nuan Bao.
Dad Nuan found a few broken stones, piled them against the wall, stood on them himself to try, and only after confirming that they would not collapse did he let Mom Nuan stand on them.
Standing here, not only can you have a panoramic view of the yard's living conditions, but you won't be easily seen by people in the yard. It's a good place to sit and watch the show.
After settling his wife and daughter, Nuan's father fetched a long bamboo pole from somewhere. After tying the paper figurine covered with mosquito netting with a rope, he nimbly climbed up an elm tree beside the courtyard wall.
Ergouzi went into the room, and Liu Sanni and her family of three were there too.
Er Gouzi had hidden the fact that he went out last night from his sister and brother-in-law. When asked where he had been, he just said that he had gone to brag with his friends.
Liu Sanni knew how hopeless her uncle was, so she believed it without thinking too much.
Zhang Ping told Er Gouzi about his plan to bring trouble to the third house, and immediately received Er Gouzi's approval.
"Okay, then I'll go to town at dawn."
"Bang!"
There was a sudden knock on the window. Everyone was startled and looked over, but saw nothing.
In those days, everything required a ticket. Ergouzi's mother, though spoiled, wasn't so generous as to give him enough cloth tickets to buy curtains. So, there were no curtains on the windows at the moment. Outside, there was nothing to see; if you stretched your neck, you could still see it.
"Nothing. I guess it was a cicada that saw Liang and bumped into the window."
Er Gouzi didn't take it seriously. After listening to his explanation, the others also thought it might be true, so they continued to discuss how to skin the jewelry box before it fell into the hands of the boss.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
This time the knocks on the window were stronger and the sound was clearer. It was a bit far-fetched to say it was a ground cricket.
"Who, who?"
Er Gouzi stretched his neck to peek outside, but saw no one. Remembering the days when his friends would get together to tell ghost stories, he swallowed hard, a chill running up his spine along his tailbone.
He looked at his sister's family and Ergouzi showed an expression that was uglier than crying.
"No, no one!"
Uncle Liu had never been a brave man, and now he was trembling with fear. If his legs had not been so weak that he could not move, he would have left this shabby house long ago.
"Mother, it's getting late. Why don't we go to the house and sleep?"
Zhang Ping was not a brave person. Looking at the dark yard outside the window, she felt a little nervous for some reason.
"Well, I'm sleepy too. Let's go to the hut and sleep!"
When Ergouzi heard that his sister and brother-in-law were going to leave him alone, he hugged Liu Sanni.
"I, I'm scared! How about, let Sanni sleep with me!"
Smelling the stinky feces on Ergouzi, Liu Sanni almost vomited. Without thinking, she kicked Ergouzi in the stomach.
"You're scared like this when there's nothing. If you really saw something, you'd be scared to death right away."
Ergou, a grown man, was scolded by his three-year-old niece, and his face looked uglier than if he had eaten shit.
brush!
A figure flashed past the window as fast as lightning, and at the same time, there was another sound of forceful knocking on the window.
"Oh my god! There's a ghost!"
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