The YIN wind just stopped slightly and immediately rushed over here again. Then they began to revolve around burning paper money and fight for it again.
I gave a disdainful “Hum”. Later, I also picked up the candle in my hand and began to throw them into the air crazily. Then the waxy oil spattered and the screams was constant.
“Come out.”
“Don’t beat me. Don’t beat me. I am coming out.” A weak female voice sounded. Then a cloud of YIN wind fell to the ground and turned into a 15 or 16-year-old girl. There were still tear marks on her delicate face. She made her hands clasped in front of her chest, with a look of grievance.
I couldn’t help but touch my nose and thought I was like a strange man who had bullied the little girl.
Just when I felt a little guilt, those clouds of YIN wind, which intended to fall on the ground just now, suddenly rushed into the woods quickly, just leaving only the little girl standing here alone. The little girl looked at those clouds of YIN wind with surprise and she even never believed that she had been abandoned.
“He He.” I coughed on purpose to attract the eyes of the little and the said, “What's your name and how long have you been dead?”
The little girl sobbed, “My name is...is Zheng Yan and I have been dead for...for four years.”
“You're from this village, right? Don’t be afraid. I will not hurt you. I just want to ask you some questions and then all this paper money is yours.”
Zheng Yan shrank her body and felt aggrieved to say, “You just beat me just now.”
“Don't mind the details. You haven't answered my question yet.” I continued touching my nose.
Zheng Yan nodded and said, “Alright. Just ask me.” Then she realized that I had asked and added, “Yes, I am from this village.”
Then I pointed to the graves in the mass burial hillock and tried my best to make my voice soften down, asking her, “So, was you also buried here?”
Zheng Yan gave a shiver and seemed to be frightened by my voice. It had taken a long time before she replied to me, “I...I was not buried her. My dad had said I was a bane, so I was buried very far away, but I often came back here.”
I just looked Zheng Yan with pity. Then I tore off a drumstick from the whole chicken used as articles of tribute and gave it to her, “Come to eat some food.”
Zheng Yan took it very carefully. At the same time, she also took a look of those articles of tribute and said, “I...I want to eat the chicken ass.”
I felt speechless and directly asked her, “If you answer my questions, I will give you all the paper money and articles of tribute.”
“Um.” She nodded.
“Do you know why there is no ghost in this grave?”
Zheng Yan only nodded but didn’t speak.
“All of them have been driven out of here.”
“Driven out?” I felt somewhat surprised, because the bodies of these ghosts were buried here and being driven out of here was equivalent of being driven out of their own homes, which was no small matter.
Zheng Yan nodded and continued, “Yes, they have been driven out. Here came a really fierce sister. She could turn into a frog and then she drove everyone out. These who were unwilling to leave all were eaten by the frog that she turned into.”
Shi Xiaodie, this name suddenly occurred to me in my heart. The sister that Zheng Yan had mentioned should be Shi Xiaodie who was combined with golden toad with three legs. Then I asked her again that just why Shi Xiaodie want to snatch this place?
Zheng Yan shook her head and said, “I also don’t know that. I just know the sister hasn’t been here since she drove everyone out of here.”
“Do you know where Shi…… the sister is buried?”
Zheng Yan nodded but also shook her head again, “That sister is also buried here, but I don’t exactly where it is.”
Was it the truth that the reason why Shi Xiaodie drove the ghost away was to hide her body? All of sudden, I felt very confused. There were too many villagers buried here. I guessed that anyone who dared to find the body of Shi Xiaodie would be expected to be killed by the villagers.
I also didn’t want to dwell on this question anymore and directly asked Zheng Yan, “Do you know the woman named Chang?”
“The woman named Chang?” There was confused expression on her face.
Then I suddenly realized that “the woman named Chang” was only the way we called her, so I asked her in another way, “There is a wronged soul in the village, you know that?”
Zheng Yan nodded, revealing a trace of sadness on her face, “Yes, Sister Chang. She is really very pathetic.”
“You know her?”
“Of course, I know. I even secretly burnt some paper money for her. Although just a little, she usually goes to pick up the paper money that hasn’t been burnt over in other grave land.”
Zheng Yan's words even made me respect that woman with a square face.
“Do you know something about her?” I directly asked her the most important question.
But the Zheng Yan began to become very hesitant.
“Do you see the two police officers behind me? I am coming to help her.” I pointed to the two police officers behind me who was frightened and curled up.
It had taken a long time before Zheng Yan made her mind to tell me all what she knew in detail.
Then I carried out a show-up incantation to let other people also enable to listen to the story told by Zheng Yan.
As the story telling began, the two police officers were also no longer afraid, with their eyes widely open and their faces full of murderous expression.
After having listened to Zheng Yan’s telling, I took a long breath. It seemed that I had been holding on this breath from the beginning of her telling.
After finished tell, Zheng Yan wiped the tears and said, “Can you help sister Chang?”
I nodded heavily and pushed all the articles of tribute in front of her. Her eyes suddenly became bright, but then she said with a little embarrassment, “Can all of you wait till I finish eating and then leave? I'll be quick.”
I was surprised to look at Zheng Yan. Then I made my mind out of the story just now and forces myself to show a strange smile, “What’s the matter?”
Zheng Yan just said in a low voice, “I would be fine at past because the all ghosts in the village were here, but after they all had gone, I would always be robbed and then I had nothing to eat.”
I took a look of Zheng Yan with pity and nodded, “OK, just eat and we wait for you.”
Zheng Yan also no longer hesitated. She probably was afraid that using too much would make us unhappy, so she swallowed a whole chicken, except for the chicken ass. Maybe she wanted to slowly taste the chicken ass.
When I saw she was choke and even got a bigger neck, I immediately let her stop eating. What a pretty beauty. Why she must make herself like a ghost, which was very ugly?
Zheng Yan tried to swallow the whole chicken hard and then looked at me in fear. She even didn’t understand why I let her stop.
“Hasn’t anybody given you articles of tribute?”
Zheng Yan nodded and began to sob again, “My dad said I was a bane, so nobody came to burn paper money to me. Besides, I also wouldn’t rob others. Even the paper money burnt by sister Chang was also robbed by others.”
I nodded. Compared with Xiao Lingdang who was loved by everyone in the ghost building, situation of Zheng Yan, who was at the same age with her, was much worse.
“Are you willing to go with me?” I blurted out.
But she kept stepping back, looking at me with caution.
I also looked back at old Mr. Chang and other people and explained, “I have a older sister there, um, maybe younger sister. You can make friend with her and then nobody dares rob your things.”
Zheng Yan just looked at me with suspicion, as if I were the bad man who asked the little girl to see the goldfish. Even the police officer behind me said, “Ah, master, she is just a little girl.”
F**k yourself, little girl. Was I that kind of person? By the way, Zheng Yan was ghost. Well, I wouldn’t say this point again. Lulu was also a ghost.
Zheng Yan was finally persuaded by me and entered the bloody bracelet that Lulu had given me. The police officers had made a phone call to Su Jun and he was waiting for us in the open space.