Zhang Meng continued to work as usual in the morning. When she finished, she asked the village chief for half a day off.
After returning home, Zhang Meng ate the lunch made by Grandma Zhang while explaining to her the reason why she had to go out in the afternoon.
"Grandma, I asked the village chief for leave this afternoon. I want to go to the county to see if there is any way to get some food."
Grandma Zhang immediately put down her chopsticks and said, "How can it be safe for a girl like you to go there? Don't go. As long as we eat sparingly in the next few days, we should be able to survive the food distribution period."
Zhang Meng bit her chopsticks and told me the second plan she had thought of beforehand. "Grandma, I'm not going alone. I'm going with Li Hao. Since I broke up with him, he must return the food I gave him. I've already discussed this with him. He said he's finished eating all the food I gave him, so he can only buy it back from the county town and return it to me."
Grandma Zhang drank a mouthful of porridge without saying a word. After a while, she spoke again, "Since they are going to return it to us, then we should come back. But you have to be careful and don't fall into their trap."
Zhang Meng patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, grandma, who am I? It's up to others to tell me what to do."
Grandma Zhang smiled, glanced at the dining table, picked up her chopsticks, split the only egg on the table into two halves, and gave them to the brother and sister.
"Grandma, you eat it. I don't like eggs." Zhang Meng picked up the eggs in the bowl and put them back into Grandma Zhang's bowl.
"Grandma, I don't like it either. Let you eat it." Four-year-old Zhang Tao also sensibly took the egg from his bowl back.
Seeing this, Grandma Zhang's eyes became moist. "Grandma doesn't want to eat it, so you guys eat it. Grandma is old, so a little bit doesn't matter to me. But it's different for you. You are still young and it's time for you to grow. You must eat more." After saying that, she put the two fried eggs back into the bowls of the siblings.
After a while, when Grandma Zhang saw her granddaughter trying to take the egg back again, she immediately said angrily, "If you don't listen, I will be angry."
Zhang Meng then picked up the egg again with a sad face, and swallowed the half egg with a sad heart.
After finishing this somewhat bittersweet lunch, Zhang Meng told Grandma Zhang that she was going to the county town, and when Grandma Zhang wasn't paying attention, she went into the utility room first.
"Zhang Yu, are you here?"
"I'm here." A muffled voice sounded from the beam.
When Zhang Meng looked up, she saw Zhang Yu hanging upside down on the beam. His already resentful and pale face became even more frightening.
Zhang Meng suppressed her fear and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Zhang Yu jumped down from above with a whoosh. "As soon as I left this room, I went to see the man I loved back then. But when I got to his house, I found out he had already married and had children."
After hearing this, Zhang Meng finally understood that the ghost had suffered a broken heart.
"Then how about giving you some time to heal the wound in your heart?"
Zhang Yu, who had been feeling dejected, suddenly raised his head and said with a gloating smile, "No need. I'm in a good mood now. I have good news for you. When I went there, I found that my beloved's wife was possessed by a ghost. Haha, that's great."
Zhang Meng looked at the female ghost flying around her and sighed helplessly. She didn't expect that this ghost had such a childish side.
"Since you are in a good mood, can you fulfill what you promised me last night?" Zhang Meng looked at her and said.
Zhang Yu waved his hand and said, "No problem. I asked you to get an umbrella. Did you get it?"
Zhang Meng nodded and said, "I got it."
"Open it," Zhang Yu said. Zhang Meng followed her lead and opened it. Then a gust of cold wind blew into her umbrella.
"Hurry up and go! Aren't we in a hurry to get food?" Before she could figure out what was going on with the cool breeze, Zhang Yu's voice floated out from under the umbrella.
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At noon in Zhangjia Village, the scorching sun was burning the earth. Even though Zhang Meng was holding an umbrella, no one thought it was strange.
Under Zhang Yu's command, Zhang Meng finally found the food that the Zhang family had stored in a very hidden cave on the mountain.
"One, two, three, four..." After counting the grains, Zhang Meng couldn't help but look at Zhang Yu who had come out from under the umbrella, "Sister Zhang Yu, I can't believe your family was quite wealthy back then. You actually hid so much grain. And you found a good place, it's dry and pristine. The grain has been stored for so long, and it hasn't spoiled at all."
Zhang Yu straightened his body and said proudly, "Of course, this place was discovered by my father by accident one time. In order to avoid the disaster, our family spent a lot of money to buy these grains. Unfortunately, we all died before we could eat them."
Seeing Zhang Yu sad again, Zhang Meng was stunned for a moment before saying, "Don't worry, I will help you finish all the food. Not a single grain will be wasted."
Zhang Yu suddenly sighed, a pair of pleading eyes suddenly shot over, and her voice changed, "Xiao Mengmeng, promise your sister one more thing."
Zhang Meng immediately got goosebumps all over her body. "Can you please stop calling me so disgusting? I have goosebumps all over my body."
Zhang Yu curled his lips and said disdainfully, "You really don't know how to enjoy life. Fine, I'll call you Zhang Meng, okay? If you promise to do one more thing for me, I'll tell you where the gold is hidden."
Although she was a little moved, Zhang Meng still asked soberly, "What favor do you want to help me with? Tell me first and I'll see if I can help you."
Zhang Yu said immediately, "You can definitely help. Help my beloved's wife exorcise the ghost. Although I hate him for forgetting me and marrying someone else, but now I think about it, his actions are understandable. After all, I'm already dead. It's impossible for him to stay married just for me."
Zhang Meng didn't listen to what she said next. Her mind was full of the fact that she had asked her to exorcise the ghost.
"I don't know how to drive it away. You've got the wrong person." Zhang Meng shook her head vigorously.
Zhang Yu looked at her and said, "You can. You may not know that you have a power that scares us ghosts. Also, since I came into contact with you, I found that my spiritual power as a ghost seems to have increased a lot. So, I am sure that you are the nemesis of us ghosts, and at the same time a beneficial star."
"What nemesis, what beneficent star? You've confused me. I really don't know how to exorcise ghosts. Before I saw you, I was just an ordinary girl. I haven't learned any magic to exorcise ghosts. Please forgive me."
"If you don't believe me, go ahead and try. If it doesn't work, I won't force you. I promise you, whether this thing succeeds or not, I will tell you where I know the hidden gold."
Zhang Meng's heart was moved. Her family was very poor now. If she had the gold that Zhang Yu mentioned, she could let her grandmother and brother live a better life.
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