She slept soundly in her space, but the Li family fell into panic.
Li Changhe walked around the yard several times but didn't find anything suspicious. Thinking about the evil things that he and his son had done over the years, he became more and more frightened. He returned to the house and wanted to smoke a cigarette to calm himself down. He put the tobacco into the pipe with trembling hands, but when he went to light the oil lamp, he couldn't light it.
"Dad." The terrified Li Laosan was even more frightened when he saw his father's expression. He asked tremblingly, "Is it a ghost coming to seek revenge?"
"There is no spirit, there is no spirit. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, spirits are not allowed to become spirits, and there can be no ghosts." Li Changhe murmured, as if he was comforting his son, and as if he was comforting himself.
"If there are no ghosts, how could all that gold disappear out of thin air?" Li Laosan knew how much blood was on his hands. His father was only giving advice behind the scenes, but he was the one who was really at the forefront. If there really were ghosts in this world, the souls of those killed by them would definitely come to seek revenge on him.
"Maybe they are animals in the mountains. Some animals come and go like the wind. They must be them." Li Changhe recalled the stories his grandfather told him when he was a child, saying that animals in the mountains all have their own nature.
Among them is a kind of flying squirrel that is extremely fast. It can run and fly. When it flies, people can't even see its afterimage. It is no exaggeration to say that it comes and goes like the wind. It also particularly likes shiny things. Perhaps it was the bag of gold that attracted the flying squirrel and took them away.
"Yes, yes, it was an animal. It was an animal that came out from Beishan and stole our things." Li Laosan agreed repeatedly as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw.
"What animal?" At this time, Qiu Shuiai came in with a bowl of egg noodles, "Third brother, eat noodles."
"Well, thank you, Mom." At this time, Li Laosan's fear had subsided a lot. Seeing the bowl of noodles made with pure pork noodles and two pork fried eggs on it, he began to eat it with big mouthfuls.
Although Li Changhe kept comforting himself in his heart, the scene of the pile of gold disappearing out of thin air appeared in his mind again and again, and he became more and more restless. After Li Laosan finished his noodles, he took him to check the things he had hidden in the house before.
This sight frightened them to death: all the things they had retrieved by such shameful means were gone, whether it was the banknotes hidden in the cabinet, the gold and silver jewelry hidden in the interlayer of the box, or the gold bars hidden in the rat hole, all were gone without a trace.
"Dad, did we really encounter a ghost?" Li Laosan couldn't bear it any longer. He sat down on the ground, feeling that there were pairs of hateful eyes staring at him, as if they wanted to tear him apart and eat him up.
Li Changhe also felt a chill rising from his feet, spreading to his back, and then to his whole body. Finally, he fell to the ground powerlessly.
Qiu Shuiai first saw her husband and son rummaging around, and now she saw them sitting on the ground. Not knowing what was going on, she quickly walked over and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why are you sitting on the ground?"
"Mom, I'm scared." Li Laosan hugged his mother and started crying, "We encountered a ghost, everything in the house is gone, gone..."
"Don't cry, mom will help you up." Qiu Shuiai helped her son up with great effort and took a stool for him to sit down. "Don't be afraid, third brother. There are no ghosts in this world. If there are ghosts, they are caused by humans. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
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