Chapter 3 Hair

  When the ghost's hand was about to touch my butt, it hesitated at the root of my thigh. Then, it bypassed my butt and poked me in the waist. I was so scared that I couldn't help but laugh and cry.

  I'm usually most afraid of itching, Niu Niu scratches me a little and I can laugh for half a day, she always says I'm very sensitive.

  The ghost's hand changed from one to two, pinching me on both sides of my waist, and after a while, it gripped tightly.

  "Waaa, grandma, save me..."

  I burst into tears.

  Crying and crying, I calmed down, because I felt a faint warmth from the ghostly hands on my waist. The yin soul is temperatureless, that is to say, the owner of the hand in this kiln is a living man!

  Who is playing this kind of joke on me?

  I relaxed my right hand which was tightly grasping the weeds and put it into the water.

  Who knew that my fingertips had just touched the hand on my waist, and I felt a little bit of heat. Those hands suddenly withdrew, and then a scent of roasted meat came from the water. Before I could think more, I lost my balance and fell into the pond, choking on several mouthfuls of water.

  I was originally a good swimmer, but maybe because I was too nervous, the more I swam, the closer I got to the middle of the pond.

  Supported for tens of seconds, eyes blackened, fainted.

  When I woke up, I was lying on my own bed at home. My grandmother wasn't in the room and the bright light told me it was already nighttime. In other words, I had slept from noon till evening.

  I moved a bit, and apart from my brow and the back of my hand hurting a little, I didn't feel any discomfort. My clothes had already been changed, and there was a faint smell of herbal medicine. I brought my hand up to my nose and sniffed it, hmm, the wound on my hand had already been medicated.

  Just as I was about to go out, my grandmother brought in a bowl of clear soup and told me to drink it to warm myself up.

  "Grandma, who sent me back?" I asked while drinking, "Eh... and how's your mom doing?"

  "You go rest first, tomorrow morning go keep Grandma company. Her mom has passed away." My grandma's eyes turned red, she choked back her words and didn't speak, staring at me for a long time, reached out to touch my hair, then turned around and left.

  After finishing the soup, I walked out of the room, and the main house was empty with no lights on, it was pitch black. From the other side of the house came my grandmother's low voice talking to someone. Looking at the clock, it was already 1 o'clock in the morning. Thinking that Niu Niu's mom had passed away, Niu Niu must be very sad, so I decided to go find Niu Niu first and then come back to ask my grandmother who saved me.

  There are yellow couplets on Niu Niu's door, and two white wreaths are placed at the entrance. In the center of the wreath is a large character "奠".

  How did Niang's mother die like this? Is the village chief also dead? Was it Niang's father who killed her? If so, wouldn't Niang's father have to go to jail? Niang will definitely cry herself to death.

  The gate of the house was open, and I walked in quietly. The main door of the hall was also not closed, no lights were on, it was very dark, and a coffin wrapped in white cloth could be vaguely seen in the hall. Upon closer inspection, I saw that Niu Niu was standing with her back to me, facing the coffin, keeping vigil, there was no sound of crying or wailing, the surroundings were eerily silent.

  I walked up behind Niu Niu, ready to call out to her, but then I thought that suddenly shouting at someone from behind would scare their soul away. So I raised my right hand and was thinking about how to let Niu Niu know I had arrived when a burst of laughter came from beside me: "Hahaha..."

  I was so scared that my legs went soft and I sat down on the ground.

  "Who?" Niu Niu's back stiffened noticeably, then she turned around and saw it was me. She quickly helped me up, wrapped her arms around my neck, and sobbed for a while before letting go of me. She knelt back in front of the coffin, quietly weeping. By now I had grown accustomed to the darkness, so I took a closer look at Niu Niu. Her eyes were swollen like light bulbs.

  "Yihe, don't be afraid, it's my dad laughing." Niu Niu pointed to the big gate while crying, and I turned my head to look in that direction. Only then did I see under the dim light that Niu's dad was tied up at the wooden door, his palms curled backwards, with an extremely strange expression.

  Niang Niang said: "Yi He, my mom is dead, and my dad has gone crazy."

  Just as he finished speaking, Niūdì (the father) burst out laughing again: "Hahahaha... the corn is so sweet, I'm so cold, I'm riding on Yīngzi's body... Yīngzi is calling under Lǎowáng, Lǎowáng is so fierce, he's still sprinting... Wuuu... Yīngzi's hair is so long, it's tying me up; Yīngzi's mouth is so sexy, Lǎowáng put his treasure in Yīngzi's mouth... Hahahaha... I pulled out Yīngzi's hair, Lǎowáng hit me, and Yīngzi tied me up again with her hair, I want to watch them do it... Wuuu... Lǎowáng won't let me run away, he says if I don't give him the land, he'll...". Niūdì was laughing and crying at the same time, saying some nonsensical things in a disjointed manner: "Yīngzi's fur is so delicious, hahahaha... If I eat her fur, she can only be mine, hahahaha... Lǎowáng's flesh is so tasty, like corn on the cob, hahahaha..."

  Yingzi is a mother, Old Wang is the village head.

  In the end, he still made his move despite his crazy words and actions.

  Just... ate Niu Ma's "hair", what hair is this? Head hair? And also, Lao Wang's meat was really eaten by Niu Ba? What kind of meat is it? When honest people are forced to desperation, they can do anything.

  I didn't dare visit Niu's father again, quietly accompanying Niu by the coffin.

  A rooster's crow brought me back to my senses, I glanced at the clock, it was 3:10. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that Niu Niu had fallen asleep leaning on my shoulder, I didn't dare move, afraid of waking her up, and only moved my fingers slightly. Suddenly, I felt a hand patting my head, I thought it was Grandma coming to tell me to go back to sleep, I turned around to touch the hand, but before I could say "Grandma", I froze.

  That hand is not grandma's hand.

  Grandma's hand is small, this hand is big. Judging by the sense of touch, it should be a man's hand.

  "Hehehe... Yingzi..."

  A strange laugh from Niya's dad came from above my head.

  I was shocked silly. When did Niya's dad untie the rope? Why did he put his hand on my head? Why is he calling me Yingzi?

  "Haha, so much hair..." Dad said with a smile, his hand searching for something in my hair, "Not this kind of hair, hmm, not!" I was just about to ask him what kind of "hair" he wanted when he suddenly flipped me over, pinned me down, and started tearing off my clothes.

  Niang Niang was pushed aside, let out a cry of surprise, rubbed her eyes and muttered: "Who dares to bully me, be careful my dad will beat you up!" Seeing me, she suddenly became stunned, as if only now did she realize that the hero in her heart had gone mad.

  "Dad, what are you doing? Stop it!" Niu Niu hugged her dad's neck and pulled him backwards to let me get up, but Dad was too heavy and she couldn't budge him.

  Actually, Father is just empty sitting on me, I am not so uncomfortable.

  But he kept tearing at my clothes, and I got scared.

  Niu Niu let go of her dad, turned around and looked around the house. I knew she was going to find something to knock him out with. I quickly gave her a signal, telling her not to act rashly and hurt her dad, and instead hurry over to my place to get Grandma.

  The evil spirit is being exorcised!

  Niang Niang understood what I meant, nodded and ran out of the house.

  The girl's dad turned his head to look at the girl, then turned back to me, showing a big yellow toothy grin and said: "Hehe... so much hair, I like it..."

  His movements were rough, but his hands seemed to have no strength, tearing my clothes for half a day without breaking the buttons on my shirt. I breathed a sigh of relief and thought back to our physical education class where the teacher taught us the three-step self-defense technique for women.

  First kick in the stomach and then punch under the chin, kick **. But Dad is sitting down, how should I do it?

  Just as I was thinking, my father-in-law pulled me up with one hand and pushed me forward. My back immediately hit the coffin lid, and it hurt so much that tears burst out of my eyes. The coffin lid tilted to one side under my forceful push. Before I could react, my father-in-law flipped me over, and now I was face to face with my mother-in-law inside the coffin.

  The girl's mother still had a pale complexion, very beautiful, but her hair was gone, and the black scabs on her scalp were like spots on a toad.

  "Ah!" A few strands of my hair were pulled out by Niu Ba, and it hurt so much that I couldn't help but cry out.

  Dad stared at me with my hair covering my eyes: "Huh? It's not the hair on top, it's the hair down there." At that moment, I finally understood what he meant by "hair". I felt a chill run down my spine. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a copper basin placed next to Mom's head in the coffin. I slowly reached into the coffin to grab the basin for protection, but accidentally touched Mom's face, which was like rotting flesh that fell off with just a light touch, and I started shaking with fear.

  If it weren't for the fact that they are Niu Niu's parents, I would have been scared to death.

  "Stop!"

  As soon as my hand touched the edge of the copper basin, someone suddenly scolded me. The voice was exactly the same as the male voice that pulled me into the water. At the same time, a fragrant and smelly smell came over.