Yin Yang Rogue

  At that time, the grandfather of the madman worked in a factory. The madman's grandfather was called Fang Jianguo. At that time, Fang Jianguo was a production worker in the factory. Northeast China is an industrial base, and many steel mills have to work overtime to rush for progress. There was such a time when Fang Jianguo had a night shift, and it was already 12 o'clock when he got off work. He rode his bicycle back home.

  Fang Jian's home village was a bit far from the factory, and it took him over 40 minutes to ride his bicycle there. Along the way, he passed through a cornfield. At that time, it was early spring, and the corn had not yet sprouted. Fang Jian rode his bicycle and saw a bright light in front of him. Usually, Fang Jian was also someone who liked to join in on the fun, so when he saw the light, he pedaled over to take a look. As it turned out, the light came from a kerosene lamp.

  Three old men sat around a lamp, with a set of mahjong laid out on a stone octagonal table. There was an empty seat. When they saw Fang Jian Guo coming over, they said: "Come join us for two rounds?"

  Fang Jianguo's spirits lifted as he joined in, and with a kick of the bicycle pedal, he sat down to play mahjong with them. He won repeatedly, feeling very happy, but soon those people said it was pointless and stopped playing. Fang Jianguo chuckled to himself as he collected his winnings, got on his bicycle, and headed home. By the time he arrived, the sky had already brightened up.

  Fang Jianguo's wife, also known as the madman's grandmother, pinched his ear and asked Fang Jianguo why he came back so late. Where did you go? Fang Jianguo hastily said that he was working overtime and got off work late, then told the truth, and chuckled to say that he won money playing mahjong with others at night. Fang Jianguo's wife asked him where the money he won was.

  Fang Jianguo pulled out his pockets and took a look, where was the money? His hands were all gray paper ashes after burning. This scared his wife, who quickly asked what was going on? Fang Jianguo then detailed last night's encounter with three people playing mahjong on the way home. He also said that he originally had over 80 yuan in his pocket, but it was all spent during the game.

  His wife was also afraid, and asked Fang Jianguo if he remembered the place where they played mahjong. Fang Jianguo said he did, so his wife told him not to delay, but to quickly buy some yellow paper and burn it at that place. Don't provoke any unclean things.

  Fang Jingguo was also afraid in his heart, so he quickly bought yellow paper and went over. When he took a look, where was the Eight Immortals table? It was clearly just a small piece of grave mound, among which there were several grave mounds, exactly where he played mahjong last night, and on the ground, he could still see the cigarette butts he threw away. Suddenly, he remembered another detail, these three old men didn't smoke, when he smoked last night, he offered them cigarettes, they all waved their hands, but towards Fang Jingguo's cigarette smoke floating out, they seemed to be enjoying it very much.

  He hastily went over to burn the paper, muttering to himself as he burned it. After finishing burning the paper, he looked up and saw that on top of one of the graves, under a lump of earth, was his eighty dollars in small change. He bowed again before picking up the money and heading home.

  Jiang Paozi was young and grew up in Beijing from a young age, so he had always been exposed to the nonsense of old Beijing dialect. Where would he have heard about those real-life strange events that happened in Northeastern rural areas? He was stunned by what the madman said and cautiously asked: "Is it true or false? What happened afterwards?"

  The madman curled his lip and had an expression that said "you're obviously inexperienced".

  "In the countryside in the past, pick any old man or woman at random, who hasn't encountered or heard of a few strange things? What's so peculiar about it? Rare and unusual!"

  Hearing the madman say this, Jiang Pangzi also came back to his senses and shivered with cold sweat, saying: "The ghost that the madman brother just mentioned is not quite the same as the one I encountered."

  This time, Jiang didn't beat around the bush and directly explained things clearly.

  It turned out that on the same night he put the tile pot on the roof to dry, Fatzi didn't dare play cards immediately and went to bed early with a nervous heart. The next day, it was said that something happened in the dormitory upstairs. It's said that the dormitory upstairs is haunted.

  The boys' dormitory of Jiang Pao's school has a total of four floors, and Jiang Pao lives on the third floor. The fourth floor is also a floor, but there is only one large dormitory room with twelve beds. The rest are all discarded lecterns, desks and chairs, and some broken beds. The fourth floor is almost like a storage floor. However, in the innermost part of the fourth floor, there is a space that has been divided into two places as dormitories. There is also a rooftop.

  The empty space on the rooftop usually had iron wire racks and some miscellaneous items, where boys' dormitory would dry their quilts and clothes. But it was said that the boys' dormitory on their school building was haunted.

  Jiang Pangzi's dormitory and the people upstairs have a good relationship, and four of them are from the same department as Jiang Pangzi. So after hearing this news, Jiang Pangzi hurriedly went upstairs to ask.

  The rumor says that one night, a classmate got up to use the bathroom and saw someone sitting on the balcony outside their window through the moonlight reflected off the glass. The classmate was startled and wondered if they had accidentally locked someone outside when they locked the balcony door.

  Thinking of this, he hurriedly woke up another classmate. That classmate also saw it and approached the window screen to shout: "Who's on the balcony?"

  That person was still facing away from them and didn't say a word. The classmate thought, "Is he asleep?" Although it was summer, the night was also very cool, and sitting there made it easy to catch a chill. So they went downstairs to find the dormitory manager and came up to open the balcony.

  After opening the balcony door, where is anyone's shadow? The pale moonlight shines on the balcony, and all around is a gloomy atmosphere. On the balcony, you can see the campus in the dark night, as quiet as a dead city.

  The dormitory administrator thought these two students might have been sleeping and got confused, complained for a couple of sentences and then left. However, the two boys didn't dare to sleep all night.

  Actually, there were rumors of ghost sightings in every school, so Jiang Paozi and others just listened for the excitement, without taking it to heart. However, over the next few days, things became increasingly bizarre, and two days later, the boy who first saw the ghost on the upper floor went mad.

  Another boy told them that the shadow appeared every night, getting closer and closer to them. The night before last, it was standing right outside the window, its face twisted and distorted as it stared inside. Last night, while they were sleeping, they heard a terrified scream. When they woke up, they found their roommate had gone mad. He was curled up in the corner, shivering with fear, and whenever anyone approached him, he would burst out screaming: "Get away from me, you're not human, get away from me..."

  Later, the school teacher came over and had the mental hospital staff take him away. Because someone went crazy, everyone was on edge, and it was just the night after that boy went crazy that Jiang Paozi felt like there was a commotion in the room after he fell asleep, and the sound was like someone moving things around.

  At first, Jiang thought it was someone who couldn't sleep at midnight, looking for something and moving furniture. The noise kept going on, annoying Jiang so much that he cursed: "What the hell is going on in the middle of the night?"

  The scolding stopped, and when the fat boy was dazed, the sound came again. This time the fat boy heard it clearly, it was the sound of tiles rubbing against the cement floor. However, at that time the fat boy was too sleepy to care, and the next day he got up and told his classmates about it, and they said they also heard it. They all thought it was someone else making the noise.

  Because we've lived together for a long time, everyone is familiar with each other, so they tolerate it. It doesn't matter anymore.

  Pangzi didn't think much of it at the time and let the matter drop. But on the third night, something happened to Jiang Pangzi.

  That night, Jiang Pangzi and his classmates played cards. As they played, they got sleepy. This time it wasn't just about losing money; there were wins and losses. But they didn't play too late either. Pangzi was in high spirits and probably played until after midnight. When he got tired, he wanted to go to sleep. The others continued playing.

  Jiang Pangzi got up to use the bathroom at 2 am and saw that the people in his dorm were still playing cards. At that time, the lights in the dorm had already been turned off, but they had found a way to continue playing by lighting candles.

  Pangzi didn't care about them and was about to climb back into bed to continue sleeping, when suddenly he heard a classmate shout: "Jiang Pangzi, you're such a cheater!"

  Jiang Pangzi was taken aback, he had been sleeping well and just went to the bathroom, how did he become lazy? Just as he was about to scold loudly, he raised his head and felt something was off.

  Because there were many people, the candles were only two, so some of those who sat farther away couldn't see clearly. However, the shadows cast by the candlelight at an angle didn't seem right either. Jiang Pangzi found that what was wrong was precisely because of the shadows.

  It was clearly seven people, but Jiang Pangzi didn't play, so it should be six people. The six people were sitting in their usual positions, but Jiang Pangzi found that the shadows cast by the candlelight were actually seven. Seven shadows. Not counting himself.

  In this small eight-person dormitory, there was an additional "person".

  Jiang Pangzi found that the place where he was originally sitting, someone was also sitting there, playing cards with others. However, that position was just far from the candlelight, and his face couldn't be seen clearly. He vaguely felt that someone was sitting there, hiding in the darkness, occasionally throwing out a card.

  Jiang Pangzi's face suddenly turned pale, and he almost cried out. He felt that all the hairs on his body were standing up, and at that moment, Jiang Pangzi's mind was a jumble of thoughts.

  If that person is not a human but a ghost, then what about the others who are playing cards with the ghost now? If I speak out now and break this harmony, will it cause any trouble?

  Besides, it seems that thing is still some distance away from me. If my classmate made a mistake and I expose the truth now, what kind of trouble will I get into? Before this, I was sleeping well, so why not just pretend to know nothing and continue sleeping.

  Thinking of this, Jiang Pangzi quietly crept back onto the bed, pretending to know nothing and continued sleeping. The sounds of those people playing cards sounded like a needle piercing his ears, making him tense up.

  He didn't know how long it took, but he finally fell asleep in a daze. When he got up in the morning, he asked his dormitory roommate, "How late did we play cards last night?" His roommate said: "It was almost 4 o'clock in the middle of the night, have you forgotten or did you arrange to leave at that time? We just dispersed."

  Jiang Pangzi felt his head "buzz" for a moment.