Chapter 538: Ma Yi (Additional chapter 3 for the book friends who are the crowdfunding leader)
Manbao handed him his handkerchief. Bai Erlang took it and wiped his tears, saying, "I felt this house was bad from the beginning, but you insisted on renting it. Now it's okay, right? There really is something fishy going on."
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Didn't you hear her crying out for injustice? That means she was a good person in her life. What's there to be afraid of when a good person turns into a ghost?" Man Bao said, "I don't know what injustice she suffered."
Bai Shanbao: "Let's go ask her tomorrow."
Manbao nodded repeatedly and asked Bai Erlang, "Do you want to join us?"
Bai Erlang wiped his tears and looked at them, "Aren't you afraid?"
"A little bit, but aren't you curious?" Manbao said, "This is a ghost. I want to ask her what ghosts are like after death. Can ghosts go wherever they want? Are there many ghosts in the world? Can everyone become a ghost after death?"
Bai Erlang was stunned and asked, "Why are you asking so many details?"
"Everyone will die. Only by fully understanding it can we prepare for it early."
Bai Jilang: "...What preparations should we make?"
"That's a lot, haven't you noticed?" Manbao said, "Every year during Chinese New Year, Qingming Festival, and Zhongyuan Festival, we have to offer sacrifices to our ancestors. We have to wait until our ancestors have eaten before we can eat."
Bai Jilang was confused: "So?"
Bai Shanbao patted him and said with dismay, "So ghosts can't do everything. If ghosts really exist, they only eat the offerings given to them by the family. Otherwise, if ghosts can do anything, wouldn't they be able to enter any house or store and eat food?"
Bai Jilang was stunned.
"So, what's there to be afraid of ghosts?" Manbao said, "If ghosts could harm people at will, there would have been more ghosts than people in the world long ago."
Bai Erlang pondered for a long time before he understood what they meant.
I have to say that he felt a little more at peace now, but he was still afraid. "So, tell me, is that really a ghost?"
Manbao was a little nervous and a little scared, but he still said, "I've never seen a ghost before. I want to see it."
Anyway, it shouldn’t be as good as her Koko.
Bai Shanbao was also a young and fearless person, and he also wanted to take a look at the ghost.
"I've seen it," Bai Erlang said in a low voice, "When I was at home, I woke up in the middle of the night and it seemed like there was a ghost standing at the head of my bed, not moving. I was so scared."
Manbao, who always sleeps until dawn, and Bai Shanbao, who is used to sleeping with a light on, cannot empathize with her.
Bai Erlang saw them staring at him quietly with a look of disbelief on their faces, so he couldn't help but shout, "I'm telling the truth!"
"A lot of people say that," said Manbao, who has many brothers, nephews, and nieces. "But my brothers said it was just the reflection of tree branches on the wall, or the outline of clothes. You were half asleep and scared yourself."
Bai Shanbao: "Anyway, we'll know tomorrow night whether there's a ghost or not."
Bai Erlang asked, "How are you going to catch ghosts?"
Manbao chuckled and said, "That's easy. As long as she still cries tomorrow, we can catch her. If she doesn't cry tomorrow, she will cry the day after tomorrow, and the day after that."
Bai Shanbao said, "Fortunately, she showed up not too late, so we didn't have to spend too much time waiting for her."
Manbao thought of Teacher Mo's class and sighed worriedly. She hoped that she could catch the female ghost tomorrow, otherwise she would have to miss many days of classes.
Although the classes in the classroom are taught at any time, Teacher Mo can see and record which days she studies and which days she does not.
Teacher Mo, who was used to checking the course progress and assigning homework to a student every day, received an email asking for leave as soon as he came online today.
Manbao didn't know how long it would take to catch the ghost, so he wrote that the return date was uncertain.
Teacher Mo looked at the leave application and couldn't help but touch his chin. What could a little kid do? He didn't even know when he would be back.
However, after looking at the words "urgent matter at home" in the letter, Teacher Mo closed the email and turned to do other things.
Manbao and the others went to bed after discussing it. Bai Erlang didn't dare to sleep alone, so he stayed in Bai Shanbao's room at night and wanted to sleep with him.
Mr. Zhuang took their Shui Jing Zhu and, in a very willful manner, gave the books on the list to Bai Shanbao, asking him to choose one to read first. After he had read it, he would explain it to him again, and he could ask him if he had any questions.
Bai Shanbao agreed, gave a book to Manbao, and then slipped into the yard to read. When it was Si time and they could rest, the three of them said goodbye to Mr. Zhuang and went out.
Daji goes out with them.
Bai Jilang asked, "What are we going to do?"
Bai Shanbao: "Go buy some white linen clothes."
Bai Erlang asked in confusion, "Why buy that?"
"Pretend to be a ghost." Manbao said as a matter of course: "If we want to catch ghosts, we have to let the ghosts down first, so the best way is to pretend to be a ghost."
Bai Shanbao: "What do you think ghosts look like?"
"The one wearing white clothes, with long flowing hair, can fly!" Bai Erlang listed three characteristics in one breath.
Manbao and Bai Shanbao nodded and said, "So we are going to buy hemp clothes."
Daji, who was walking behind, wanted to say something but stopped talking. However, when he saw that the three people had already found the place and were walking into the store, he thought about it and stopped talking.
The three people who bought the linen clothes waited patiently until dark, changed their clothes and went out. The moon tonight was still half a moon, but it looked a little bigger than last night.
But there were still dark clouds floating around the moon, blocking it from time to time. Manbao looked at it with great satisfaction.
The three of them let their hair down. The little boys, about twelve or thirteen years old, had kept their hair for several years, and it was always waist-length. When it was let down, most of their faces were covered.
The three of them walked to the door laughing, peeked outside, and when they didn't see anyone, they carefully slipped into the alley.
Zhou Silang supported their actions very much. Although he did not have the courage to do such a thing, in order to show his support, he spent money to buy a lot of firewood today and placed it all at the end of the alley near his own courtyard wall.
I even left it a little further out so that they could hide inside.
Then he handed Manbao the only weapon in the house - a kitchen knife.
Manbao gave the kitchen knife to Daji and secretly took the electric baton for himself.
Zhou Silang found a ladder, leaned against the wall quietly, and said to the four people: "You stay outside, I'll help you inside."
Everyone: ...
Manbao said disdainfully: "Fourth brother, you should stay at home to protect the master, we will go by ourselves."
Bai Erlang is not so scared now, mainly because there are many people, and more importantly, Daji is standing behind them.
Taking advantage of the sunset and the dark sky, the three of them sneaked out of the door and entered the space Zhou Silang left for them.
The three of them squatted behind the firewood, and through the gap they could see half of the alley, which was a place said to be haunted.
Daji did not go in, but stood against the wall in the dark. He was dressed in black and stood in the shadow without saying a word. Even though Manbao and the others knew he was there, they sometimes couldn't find him.
The three of them realized belatedly, "We seem to be wearing the wrong clothes. We shouldn't be wearing linen clothes, we should be wearing black clothes."
Good night
(End of this chapter)
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