I have been on tenterhooks all day long, and all I can think about is the woman in the flowered shirt I saw last night. The scariest thing is actually not that woman, but the weird song "The Ballad of Turning the Rope".

Throughout the whole day, I was also extremely curious about the room in Niu Zhuangshi's house that was locked with a large iron chain.

For some reason, that room seemed to have magic power, and it kept pulling me, making me really want to go in and find out.

At about 7pm, Mrs. Niu sneaked out of the door alone. Only I knew in my heart that this old lady must have gone to the small shop to buy burning paper!

Niu Zhuangshi sat on the kang and filled the kettles with water. The water in these kettles was boiled with ginseng and astragalus. Then the medicine was cooled and poured into the kettles, which became our water source into the mountains.

Because it is extremely cold in the mountains and ridges, drinking some ginseng and astragalus water can replenish qi and blood, keep our bodies warmer, and prevent us from frostbite in the mountains.

Pan Donghan was so addicted to playing Landlords that he lay sideways on the bed, shouting from time to time.

"Robbing the landlord! Two kings, four with two..."

I put on my down jacket alone and sneaked into the yard. I slowly approached the locked room and wandered outside the room from time to time.

There was a glass window above this locked room. However, the window was covered with newspapers, so the scene inside the room could not be clearly seen.

I could vaguely see that there seemed to be gaps in the middle of the newspapers covering the windows.

I pressed my whole face against the window, closed my right eye, and stared with my left eye, desperately trying to peek through the gaps in the newspaper to see what was going on in the room.

I saw that it was an empty room. There was nothing in the room, no wardrobe, and no valuable medicinal materials.

There is a urinal on the edge of the kang, and a quilt is placed on the kang. The most important thing is that there seems to be a wooden tablet on the edge of the kang, and next to the tablet is the portrait of the deceased.

I stared hard, trying to see clearly the face of the deceased on the portrait.

Just when I was extremely focused, suddenly, a huge eyeball appeared in front of me.

That eyeball was lying inside the room, looking out through the gaps in the newspaper.

I was startled by this sudden eyeball, and took two steps back. Just as I was in a trance, I seemed to see a flowery shirt flashing past the window.

"Ah! Oh my god! There's a ghost!" I screamed.

Following my howl, Niu Zhuangshi and Pan Donghan also ran out of the house.

I pointed to the locked room.

"Here, there is a woman in a floral shirt inside! No, it's a ghost, it must be a female ghost!" My face turned pale with fright, and my heart was beating wildly.

At this moment, Aunt Niu, who had gone out to buy burning paper, had just arrived at the entrance of the courtyard.

Pan Donghan turned around and saw Mrs. Niu's hands full of burning paper, and was instantly frightened into a cold sweat.

"W-what on earth is going on?"

When Niu Zhuangshi saw that he couldn't hide the matter, he could only stamp his feet angrily, and then hurriedly explained to us.

"Ouch! Misunderstandings, all misunderstandings! There are no ghosts, there are no ghosts at all, where can there be ghosts!"

"Then, is there really a woman in that room?" Pan Donghan asked.

Aunt Niu said to them from the side with a sad face.

"The person locked up in that house is not a woman at all. The person in that house is my son Xiaowei!"

"Xiaowei? How could it be Xiaowei?" Pan Donghan was a little surprised.

"I remember that two years ago, didn't you say that Xiaowei was sent to the city for treatment?"

The strong man covered his head with his hands, his expression extremely painful.

"That's what I lied to you! My Xiaowei is getting worse and worse. I felt embarrassed, so I locked him in the house!"

"What on earth is going on?" Pan Donghan was confused by them. The one who was most afraid was probably me. I thought I had seen a female ghost the whole night. I was so scared and scared. The most important thing was that I thought I had seen a female ghost.

Yes, I am afraid of that nursery rhyme!

Niu Zhuangshi invited Pan Donghan and me into the house, and then asked his daughter-in-law to burn paper first.

After entering the house, Niu Zhuangshi fully explained to us.

"Man, you know that I have a son, Xiaowei. My wife and I have only had one child, Xiaowei! That is my fate."

Pan Donghan nodded.

"I remember the few years when I first met you, Xiaowei was still a naked baby. But at that time, I was less than 20, so I was not very old.

Later, I only knew that Xiaowei was sick, and you didn’t let Xiaowei go out at that time, so I didn’t see him often! Later, didn’t you say that Xiaowei’s condition worsened and sent him to the county hospital?”

"What's wrong with you?" I asked casually, sitting next to Pan Donghan.

Pan Donghan stretched out a finger and nodded his head. I instantly understood that Niu Xiaowei was actually a fool!

Niu Zhuangshi said: "My son was very good when he was young, and he was smart and smart. Later, he fell into an ice cave in the winter, and when he was fished out, his whole body was frozen into popsicles. He was sent to the hospital for rescue, and he was sick for three consecutive years.

I had a high fever for more than a month.

When the temperature drops, my son's brain will not work properly and he will become a fool."

I couldn't help but ask.

"But today I heard you talking to Aunt Niu about the death anniversary and who died? Isn't Xiaowei alive and well? Also, Aunt Niu is still in the yard now, who are you burning paper for?"

Niu Zhuangshi continued to explain while smoking a cigarette.

"This matter also starts with my son's illness! To be honest, someone in my family has indeed died! And it has been three years since he died. The person who died is my daughter-in-law!"

"Daughter-in-law?" I was curious.

"My son has been crazy and stupid all the time because his brain is burned out. In his situation, he can't get a wife at all.

But I have such a single person under me, and I can't let me leave behind me without any descendants. Just three and a half years ago, this man also knew that I had taken people who collected medicinal materials into the mountains over the years, and I also collected some medicinal materials to sell.

I did save some money this year!

I used this money to pay a large betrothal gift and find a wife for my son."

Niu Zhuangshi said: “As long as you have money these days, you can still get a wife!

My daughter-in-law is from a remote mountainous area. There are many poor children in the family, and girls are worthless. Moreover, my daughter-in-law is not in good health, she is thin and weak.

I spent a total of 200,000 yuan to bring my daughter-in-law home.

But to be honest, my daughter-in-law is as beautiful as a flower and has a nice name, Mei Xiaodie."

"Mei Xiaodie!" I whispered slowly,

The colorful butterfly on the plum blossom branch has a really beautiful name!
Chapter completed!