Chapter 6
Maomao and I quickly got out of Xiagou. There was a crossroads here. If we walked west, we would reach Xiaogangzi, and if we walked north, we would reach Niujiawan. If we walked east for seven or eight miles, we would reach the mouth of the Lan River.
"Or we can go back from Niujiawan," I said.
If we go back to Xiaogangzi, we will have to take a long detour. It is already late, so I want to take a shortcut to get home early.
The path to Niujiawan is flanked by trees and overgrown with weeds, and the road surface is uneven and full of potholes.
Maomao nodded. He didn't have much of his own opinion and basically listened to me.
Maomao and I were walking and talking about the acrobatics we had just done, and we didn't notice that a thin layer of mist had risen in the woods.
There was no wind tonight, and the woods on both sides were filled with the chirping of various insects.
After walking for a while, Maomao muttered, "Why haven't we reached Niujiawan yet?"
After he reminded me of this, I also felt something was wrong. Logically, we should have seen Niujiawan by now.
"Are you scared again?" I said, "It's okay, we have nothing to be afraid of."
Actually, I was a little scared when I said this, but I was just pretending to be calm.
Maomao didn't say anything. We walked for a while and suddenly there was a light in front of us.
"Have we arrived at Niujiawan?" I said, pointing to the light.
Maomao also saw it. He nodded and said, "It should be."
We both quickened our pace and walked towards the light.
When we got closer, we found that this was a big stage with a play being performed on it and a dozen or so people standing sparsely below.
Maomao and I walked into the crowd, feeling puzzled because we hadn't heard that there would be any opera performances in Niujiawan tonight.
There was a woman on the stage with a melodious voice. Even though I didn't understand what she was singing, I was attracted by her accent.
She was dressed gorgeously, had a graceful figure, and every move she made was graceful.
How can there be such a beautiful person in this world!
At this time, Maomao suddenly pulled me and secretly pointed at the people around him.
I looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that the man had a pale face, empty eyes, and the corners of his mouth were stiffly raised.
I looked at the others again. They all looked pale and had stiff expressions. It was obvious that they were not normal people.
At this moment, my heart was pounding. I knew that I had encountered something unclean, so I grabbed Maomao and ran away.
Unexpectedly, the woman singing on the stage suddenly turned around and looked at us.
As soon as Maomao looked at that person, he looked at her blankly and clapped with the people around him. The movements were very uncoordinated and very weird.
Now I don’t dare to wake him up at all, for fear of alarming the “people” around.
I pulled his arm hard, but it wouldn't budge.
The feather stone on the neck also emitted warmth at this time, but it only lasted for a moment before it stopped reacting.
This is because the remaining energy in the feather stone was used up by me last time at the reservoir and has not been replenished.
I asked my grandfather how to replenish energy. He just told me to wear it on my body all the time. He didn't know any other methods because the "Yin Fu Lu" had long been incomplete and I could only explore it myself.
I've been wearing it for so many days, but the feather stone has only gained a little energy. I'm afraid that the energy has been used up in the moment it was hot just now.
I knew I had to take Maomao away from here as soon as possible, otherwise no one knew what would happen!
At this moment, the woman on the stage leaned forward and said to me, "Young lady, now that you two are here, you can't leave. I see that although you are young, you are a beauty. Why don't you stay and keep me company?"
Following her words, the people in the audience turned their heads stiffly and looked at me with empty eyes.
My scalp instantly went numb when they looked at me.
Maomao said dully, "Little sister, please agree to her, please agree to her, please agree to her."
He kept repeating this sentence, and I got anxious, so I slapped him in the face.
He woke up from my beating and covered his face and said, "Little sister, why did you hit me?"
I didn't answer him, I just pulled him and ran out.
The woman on the stage and the people in the audience did not stop it.
I only heard the woman behind me singing again: "Northern geese fly south, who dyes the frosty forest crimson at dawn? It's always the tears of parting."
We both ran away without looking back. Maomao came to his senses at this time and followed me without saying a word.
I ran for an unknown amount of time, but I could still hear the voice behind me clearly, as if it were right next to my ear. But as I ran, I realized something was wrong, because the stage appeared in front of me again. Although it was still far away, I could clearly see the woman singing to me.
I pulled Maomao and quickly turned around and ran, but after running for a while, the stage still appeared in front of me.
"I can't help but feel sad when I am poured good wine. I wish I could be on equal footing with Zhang Lang." The sound of opera came from the distant stage, covering Maomao and me like a net. We could hear it no matter where we ran.
We were both exhausted from running and bent over, gasping for breath. When we stood up again, we were standing under the stage again.
The people around him also changed. Their clothes were tattered, their faces were no longer flesh and blood, their empty eyes turned into two black holes, and their hands turned into dry white bones.
Looking up at the stage again, I saw that the beautiful woman's clothes were still gorgeous. Looking up, I saw that her charming face had long since rotted away, with a pair of fangs exposed in her mouth, blood dripping from the corners of her mouth, and her eyes were all white, staring at me intently.
Maomao screamed and sat on the ground. The look she gave me made my hair stand on end and I broke out in a cold sweat.
She walked towards me step by step, and I closed my eyes, not daring to look at her. I could feel her in front of me, and the rotten smell got into my nose, and I felt sick to my stomach.
She smelled my body, starting from my neck and moving up to my chin, cheeks, and forehead...
Then he raised his hands and moved closer to my neck little by little.
I wanted to run, but my feet were like they were rooted to the ground, unable to move. I frantically tried to activate the feather stone, but it didn't respond at all.
I could feel the dry hands touching my neck.
At this critical moment, I felt that she was suddenly moving away from me.
I was puzzled and opened my eyes quickly. It turned out that Maomao was so scared that she wet her pants, and the urine was flowing to where she had just stood.
At this moment, I suddenly remembered that boy's urine is a very yang substance and has the effect of warding off evil spirits. I regained control of my body and quickly called out to him, "Run!"
We definitely cannot deal with her. First, I have never studied the incomplete "Yin Fu Lu" properly and only have a half-baked knowledge of it. Second, the Yuhao Stone does not have any energy and cannot protect the two of us at all.
Maomao listened to me and slowly stood up from the ground, his legs trembling. Seeing him like this, I wanted to kick him.
But I couldn't do that, so I pulled him and ran. But he fell to the ground after only two steps and couldn't get up no matter what. He just kept crying.
Seeing this, the female ghost smiled and floated towards me again. Because Maomao had boy's urine on him, she didn't dare to get close to him. But this made me unlucky. I retreated step by step and watched her approach me.
"Don't come over!" I said fearfully.
But what's the use of saying this? She still came in front of me and stared at me with her eyes that only had the whites!
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