"What's wrong, Mother?" Ma Lihua asked curiously, looking at Ma Hehua's sullen face in the yard.
"It's alright, you go to sleep! Mother has gone to fetch water." The more Ma Hehua thought about it, the more suffocated she felt.
It was past 1 a.m. when they got home, and Ma Lihua and her grandmother decided to get a good night's sleep first.
And Jianshan Village.
When Xiaoya saw the elderly women in the village dressing her grandmother in her burial clothes and meticulously combing her grandmother's hair, she started crying again.
The old women in the village sighed. Why was Da Zhen so unfortunate? Now Xiao Ya was all alone, and she was the only one left in the family. It was truly tragic.
The person who came to perform the ritual was Granny Wang, who came from Laoying Village. Compared to Heishan Village, Laoying Village is not that far from Jianshan.
However, they still needed to go to town to catch a bus. In order not to miss the auspicious time, Village Chief Wu asked Wu Dali to drive his car to town to pick up the people.
There are also shamans in Jianshan Village, but their skills are lacking. Otherwise, Village Chief Wu wouldn't have invited Ma Linghua. She's only good for dealing with things like ghost encounters. If you ask her to catch ghosts? She might run away faster than a ghost.
The bodies weren't buried for long; Wu Laofeng and Gong Dazhen's bodies were buried around 1 p.m. that day, and only then did the matter in the village finally come to a close.
On the third day, Xiaoya and three classmates offered incense to her grandmother and then left. Looking at the two new graves standing out in the wasteland, she felt a pang of sadness.
She turned back from afar, and in a daze, she seemed to see her grandmother waving at her, urging her to hurry up and leave. Xiaoya also seemed to see a kind smile on her grandmother's face.
She couldn't help but quicken her pace down the mountain, with the three of them following closely behind. In the past two days, the three of them seemed to have changed quite a bit.
On the fourth day, when the group was about 100 meters from the village entrance to catch a bus, they strangely encountered the 811 bus station again. The four of them trembled all over and refused to get on the bus.
The ticket seller on the bus shouted in a gloomy voice, "Aren't you getting on the bus? It's about to leave, or there won't be any more buses!"
The girl whose ticket was swapped couldn't help but complain inwardly, "No bus? Impossible." They checked and found that there was a 211 bus that arrived at 12:30, when the midday sun was just right. So the four of them would never get on this 811 ghost bus.
Seeing that the four women weren't fooled, the ticket seller glared at them with a vicious look and uttered a cold, indifferent word, "Drive!"
Then the 811 bus started moving, but as it passed by, the ghosts on the bus stared at them greedily with their glowing green eyes, almost scaring them out of their wits. It was terrifying.
Black Wind Village.
Ma Hehua looked at her phone and discovered that she had been kicked out of Feifei's fan group. She had been in an exceptionally bad mood these past few days.
She was distracted while feeding the chickens and ducks, and wore a mask of pain while eating. Ma Linghua couldn't be bothered to look at her anymore, so she finished her meal and prepared to go to the mountains.
However, today is the 26th, and she only has three days left before she leaves. Looking at her daughter and granddaughter, she thought for a moment and decided that she should tell them another secret of the Ma family.
"After you've eaten, come with me into the mountains! I have something to tell you," Ma Linghua said, seemingly enigmatic.
"Xingniang!"
Ma Hehua answered very quickly.
Ma Lihua nodded.
At nine o'clock, the sun was still very strong. The bushes in the mountains were covered with dew, which was buried deep in the mountains and was not easily evaporated by the sun.
The three members of the Ma family walked straight into the deep mountains and forests along the winding path, where there were hidden beasts and monsters, but the three of them were not afraid at all.
Deep within the Black Mountain, there is a bronze iron gate, surrounded by mud and dark green moss.
"Hiss hiss hiss..."
A loud voice grew closer and closer until Ma Linghua spoke up, "Baiyun, come out! Meet the 99th and 100th generation descendants of my Ma family."
“Shuttering and rustling…”
The sound of something scraping against the ground grew louder and louder until a huge white snake appeared on the hillside above the bronze gate.
It was at least eight meters long, with an incredibly thick body, pure white, and its scales shone brightly in the sunlight. The most striking feature was the horn on its head, which looked like two mushrooms, bulging but never breaking open.
"Hiss hiss hiss..."
Its scarlet tongue lolled in and out of its mouth, and its purple eyes scanned Ma Hehua and Ma Lihua up and down.
Monster?
Ma Lihua frowned. It looked somewhat like a demonic beast, but she knew it probably wasn't.
When the white snake looked at Ma Hehua, its eyes were full of disdain; when it saw Ma Lihua, its eyes were full of doubt, because it couldn't see through her.
Ma Hehua; "……………………"
Ha! Who do you think you are?
Ma Lihua remained completely unmoved, unable to discern anything from her mother's expression. However, the way her mother looked at her was somewhat disdainful, which displeased Ma Lihua.
At this moment, her grandmother spoke.
"My Ma family has been ghost hunters for generations. We don't usually do evil, but countless people have coveted our wealth. So, we've always planned to live in seclusion. Now, I'm going to tell you two that my Ma family is richer than a country."
The two of them; "……………………"
"By the way, in our Ma family, women are in charge. We can't hand over the money to men. Behind this bronze door are the Ma family's rare treasures and immense wealth. Back then, my great-grandmother was afraid that thieves would covet them, so she specially raised a spiritual white snake to guard them and protect the Ma family's countless treasures." Ma Linghua became more and more excited as she spoke. This was a great secret of her Ma family for generations.
"Mother, since our family is so rich, why did you still send Fa Gui out to work?" Ma Hehua said with some resentment.
“Are you stupid?! We can’t let those good-for-nothings squander all the money in the Ma family. You have to support those five good-for-nothings yourselves, right? They’re surnamed Li, not Ma. Only members of the Ma family can spend this money.” Ma Linghua spoke eloquently and logically.
The two women nodded. Yes, her mother (grandmother) was right. Why should the money go to the man surnamed Li?
Li Fagu; "……………………"
Now I finally understand why his father-in-law looked at him with pity when his wife gave birth to five boys. He really did raise those five kids with great difficulty.
"And this mountain is extremely dangerous. Anyone who isn't from the Ma family will die!" Ma Linghua said fiercely.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but think of her mother, that woman with a screw loose, who led the villainous troops to steal the Ma family's money.
She fell in love with a man from the villainous army, foolishly lost her virginity, gave birth to her, and even wanted to lead people to the Black Mountain. She was too naive to win him over.
As a result, that group of people not only wouldn't let her go, but also shot her mother to death with their money. They were idiots. Not a single one of them made it out of Black Mountain except for her, Ma Linghua, the 98th generation descendant of the Ma family.
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