The person is small but the ghost is big 3412

  The old lady's face was filled with surprise and ecstasy, her aged body undergoing a noticeable transformation.

  Just like blood and flesh and energy returning to this body, first the hands, then the arms, the withered and sagging skin was slowly lifted up, wrinkles disappeared, and the skin began to become smooth.

  I... want to survive...

  I want to survive...

  The small eyes sparkled with wild joy, and the old lady's grip tightened!

  "Help! Ahhh! He Sheng! Hong Ye! Help! Ahhh!"

  Chengzhou no matter how hard he tried, couldn't break free from the old lady's two hands. He was so scared that his heart and gall were shattered, and he only felt his body getting colder and his limbs heavier.

  "Ahh!"

  The old lady suddenly let out a shrill scream of utmost despair.

  In a daze, Cheng Chou saw the old lady's body being dragged into the bathroom by something invisible at an extremely fast speed.

  He lowered his head, and a pair of arms separated from his body still tightly grasped at his ankles.

  A human face appeared on the top side of the bow of the boat.

  "Save... save me!" Cheng Zhou scratched at the door and weakly cried out for help towards the outside.

  Her face drew closer and closer to Cheng Zhou's, as if enticed by something.

  A pair of dark green hands suddenly stretched out from under the man's face and grasped Cheng Chou's neck.

  "Uh......ah......"

  Cheng Zhou raised his hand to remove the threat from his neck, but his hands were completely powerless, scratching a few times like an itch, and then hanging down weakly.

  Cheng Chou's gaze fell on his hands grasping his ankles as he hung his head down.

  Am I going to die...

  Those hands gradually lost their luster, the skin gradually withered, and eventually disappeared before turning into white bones.

  "Knock knock."

  Just as Cheng Zhou thought he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard the sound of the door being knocked on.

  "Knock knock."

  The knocking sound became clearer and clearer, so clear that Cheng Zhou couldn't fall asleep at all.

  The man slowly raised his hand and exerted all his strength to put both hands on the handle of the folding door.

  No... I don't want to die... I don't want to die!

  Help! Save me!

  The knocking sound is getting louder and more disturbing.

  The face floating above the boat turned its direction and looked towards the gate.

  The face seemed to be coldly smiling, sneering at the thing outside knocking on the door for being overconfident.

  In that case, let's first put away that annoying thing. Let him know that sparing his life doesn't mean he can't take it back. Anyway, this delicious food in front of him is already within his grasp.

  The hand on Cheng Chou's neck suddenly disappeared.

  The man's legs went limp and he knelt down on the ground, losing his supporting strength.

  Must escape, must get out of here...

  A sound came from the bathroom, and Cheng Zhou stretched out his hand to pull open the door.

  With a creak, the folding door was easily pulled open.

  It was as if he saw a glimmer of hope, and Cheng Zhou somehow found the strength to prop himself up against the wall and stand up with great difficulty, stumbling towards the gate.

  "Cheng Zhou opens the door!"

  What's wrong? It's He Sheng!

  Chengzhou leaned against the wall and quickened his pace.

  It's here, it's almost here.

  Chengzhou walked along the way and turned on the lights one by one, but they went out one by one. Apparently, something in this house didn't like the light.

  After much difficulty he struggled to the gate, and just as his hand was on the door handle, a great force suddenly pulled him back.

  "Bang!" Cheng Zhou was heavily slammed onto the floor.

  "Bang!" The large gate was opened simultaneously, and a gust of wind rushed in.

  How did you get in?!

  Rowing!

  Cheng Chou seemed to have heard an unbelievable angry roar and He Sheng's voice calling him before he fainted.

  "Do you think he is awake now or asleep?"

  "She should still be asleep." A somewhat uncertain voice.

  "Useless thing, but after absorbing a bit of yang energy, I slept until now. Hey! If you don't get up, the company will fire you!" The child's loud and shrill cry.

  "That... isn't just a little." The voice was small, with a feeling of wanting to plead but also being a bit afraid.

  "Ah! Almost forgot, you've also had quite a bit, haven't you?" A menacing child's voice.

  "I, I had no choice, I didn't want to either, really! It was just to resist that earthbound spirit..."

  "What's going on? You tell me! Hmph! Taking advantage of my absence, you're all so bold and lawless. If it weren't for the fact that I see some small merit in you, I would have had you and that coward eaten together!"

  "I... I..."

  Poor He Sheng, now you know how annoying this little devil is and how hard it is for me to be a father.

  Chengzhou mumbled and grumbled about the red leaves' bad luck, then turned over and fell asleep again.

  The man opened his eyes again after a long time of being dazed, and was instantly dazzled by the glaring sunlight that made him tear up.

  Who is the idiot who pulled open the curtains? Can't even let people sleep?

  "Red leaves!"

  Dead kid, why don't you like sleeping in? Don't you know that normal kids all like to sleep until the sun shines on their butt before getting up? I'm your dad, you should get up later than me.

  The old father roared in his heart. He didn't understand which gene was messed up, resulting in the appearance of a child who doesn't love to sleep and is lazy.

  "What's going on?" A small figure appeared in front of the door.

  "Pull up the curtains..." Dad muttered.

  A small figure walked up to the bed and poked his head, "Hey, old man, do you know today is Wednesday?"

  Cheng Chou told himself not to get angry with this kind of person at all costs.

  "What time is it?" The warm bed was really reluctant to get out of.

  "Ten thirty."

  "Huh... what——?! 10:30?!" A man suddenly yelled and jumped out of bed.

  "It's all over, I'm done for! I had an appointment with a client at 10 o'clock today and this afternoon I still have to ask the department head for leave. Now it's definitely all over! Hongye, why didn't you wake me up?" The man shouted while quickly putting on his clothes and socks.

  "Old man, don't you feel a bit dizzy and whatnot?"

  Dizzy? Lightheaded?

  This sounds like it's kind of...

  With a thud under his feet, Cheng Lao Da immediately fell onto the large bed with an extremely ungraceful posture.

  Is it because I slept too much?

  A small figure climbed onto the bed and sat down on his dad's belly with a fart.

  Cheng Zhou opened his eyes and felt that the adorable face in front of him was even more terrifying than a ghost.

  The little hand stretched out in front of his forehead and poked it again.

  "Do you think it's funny to poke fun at your dad? Get up, I still have to go to work. By the way, weren't you in the hospital? Xiao He came to pick you up?" Cheng Zhou tried to calm himself down.

  "Going to work? No need, you've already been absent for five days including Saturday and Sunday."

  "What?! What did you say?!"

  "I told you don't have to go to the company, anyway it's already been five days since you last went."

  Five days of unexcused absence? Cheng Zhou couldn't accept this fact.

  "Cough, Cheng Ge, you're awake?" A thin and frail young man appeared outside the door.

  It's unbelievable I wasn't fired after being absent from work for five days! How could I possibly miss work for five days?

  Chengzhou's mind couldn't turn around, he just felt that the more he thought, the more his head hurt.

  Unfortunately, there were still people who wouldn't let him go.

  "Hey, did you know that you talk in your sleep? Did you know how many times you've talked in your sleep in the past five days?" The little hand continued to poke him.

  "Sheng Ge..."

  "I'm warning you, if you poke me again... Ah! Dead kid, what are you doing getting so close?"

  The dead child stuck close to his eyes, staring at him gloomily.

  "Do you know what nonsense you just said?"

  "What?" Cheng Zhou stretched out his hand to push the little ghost away.

  "…You actually dare to scold me loudly in your dreams, and the five days' worth of nonsense you spoke was all about scolding me. You have a lot of nerve! You dared to scold me from head to toe, inside and out, top to bottom. Who do you say has mutated genes? Who do you say doesn't know what's good for them? Who do you say deserves a beating, deserves to be taught a lesson? Who do you say is an unwanted child that no one loves? Ah? You dare to say such things?"

  Wiping away the saliva on his face, it took more than half a day for him to realize that he had become an old dad.

  "Did I really scold you with nonsense for five days?"

  Red leaves use cold hums to represent answers.

  "......I'm still an honest and down-to-earth person after all." The man sighed.

  Hong Ye's eyes changed in an instant, becoming extremely ferocious.

  Rubbing Hongye's little head, the man said: "Let your old man take a nap, I don't know if it's true or not that I slept for five days, why am I so sleepy?...... Did I really sleep for five days?"

  "Of course!"

  He fell into a trance, his hands spread out, and his eyes were lifeless.

  "It's all over, I'm definitely going to be fired. Waaah... my life is so miserable! Why did I sleep for five whole days?! My salary, my bonus, how am I supposed to live now?! Waaah... and I just paid the down payment on a house with all my savings!" The man buried his face in his hands and wept.

  "Cheng Ge, that..."

  "Son, your old man has wronged you, go ahead and leave. Your dad can't support you anymore, go to your grandma's place, just go... sobbing..." The man cried as he waved goodbye.

  "Cry! Cry you big-headed ghost! Are you really going to sleep until you die?" The child not only had a vicious mouth, but also kicked people with his little hooves.

  "You're still young, don't be so vicious with your words. Waaah... my life is so bitter, how did I end up with a son like this? Heaven, are you playing tricks on me?"

  The loud and hoarse voice of a big man, combined with the sharp and shrill cries unique to children, formed a special symphony in the room - the kind that could kill people without paying for their lives.

  The young man outside the door saw that things were getting out of hand, so he finally plucked up his courage and coughed loudly, shouting: "Hey! Cheng Ge, it's okay if you sleep a bit longer, I've already taken your leave for you at your company!"

  The symphony screeched to a halt, and the big one and the small one looked together in the direction of the sound.

  As soon as he saw He Sheng, Cheng Zhou's forehead felt like it had been hit by someone, and the memories of a certain night that had been intentionally forgotten in some corner all came flooding back to his mind.

  Can I just forget about it...

  Covering her head with a quilt, she hummed and murmured, wanting to escape reality.

  Half an hour later.

  Cheng's father sat at the dining table in the living room, staring blankly as Cheng Hongye devoured food in front of him. He then looked down at the bowl of thin porridge in front of him and cast a resentful glance at the current head chef and housekeeper of the Cheng family - still wearing a plaid shirt and jeans, He Sheng.

  "Xiao He..."

  "Brother Cheng, it's not that I won't let you eat, but you've been sleeping for too long and your stomach can't handle it yet. Have some porridge first to fill you up, and I'll make something delicious for you tonight."

  "Xiao He, I didn't ask you that."

  "Oh, you're asking when I moved in? I've already moved in, so don't worry about it. Hongye eats his fill every day, and I pick him up from school every morning and afternoon." Xiao He smiled very innocently.

  "Xiao He!" Cheng Zhou covered his forehead, "I remember everything now."

  "Is it...?" He Sheng quickly glanced at Hong Ye, who was gnawing on a duck neck.

  "What happened later that night? Why did I sleep for five days? And what about those ghosts, are they still around?"

  "Cheng Ge, you're just fine physically, don't think too much, wait..."

  "Just tell him it's okay. Otherwise, he'll become a nervous wreck if he remains suspicious every day. Haven't you seen that his eyes are already lifeless, his face is dull and stupid, his forehead is dark, and he can't even walk steadily?"

  Cheng Chou saw a rag on the table and thought to himself: "I wonder if using this rag to stuff my son's mouth would be considered child abuse?"

  "Cheng Ge, you eat, I'll talk to you while you're eating."

  Xiao He got permission from Hong Ye and then told Cheng Chou about what happened that night.

  "At night, I was sleeping soundly on the gate when I suddenly felt the yōkai's presence grow stronger. I suspected that it might be thinking of doing something unfavorable to Cheng Ge, so..."

  "Wait a minute!" Cheng Chou's eyebrows furrowed into a "川" shape, "What did you just say? You were sleeping soundly on the gate? What are you doing sleeping on top of the gate? Can you even sleep up there?"

  "Cheng Ge, you don't know yet?" This time it was He Sheng's turn to look surprised.

  "What's up?"

  "Actually I don't live opposite, sorry for cheating you last time. But I thought you should have known that I live on your house gate."

  "What did you say? You live on the gate? Haha! Wahahahaha!" Cheng Zhou was stunned, suddenly burst out laughing, laughed so hard that he couldn't catch his breath.

  "What's wrong with you, Xiao He? You want to crack a joke and relax me, I don't mind, but please don't make such an earth-shatteringly ridiculous one, okay?" Cheng Zhou laughed so hard that tears came out.

  "Cheng Ge..." He Sheng's face turned ugly. I thought this guy knew everything, but it turns out he was the one who didn't know anything.

  "You don't even know I'm a ghost?"

  What? The laughter stopped abruptly.

  "Xiao He, do you think it's funny to tease your big brother me?" Cheng Zhou put down his chopsticks and scowled.

  "Idiot." Someone blurted out two words to express their opinion.

  "Cheng Ge, I didn't deceive you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't even be able to enter this door. Before those few residents had an accident, I also wanted to remind them, but they couldn't see or hear me. And I couldn't deal with the evil spirit living in this house, so I could only watch as they..."

  "Wait, wait, wait! Speak slower, please start from the beginning, I'm getting more and more confused!" Cheng Zhou felt that his head had never been so big before, and it was throbbing with a stinging pain.

  He let out a deep sigh and began to tell his story from the beginning.