Chapter 217: It’s actually Yuzhu
While the two uncles were worrying about the girl's marriage, another strange thing happened and quickly diverted their attention.
Things are like this, one morning get up, the second uncle see the eldest son in the house straight around, looks very leisurely, sitting in the house from time to time also scratching his head, I do not know what a person is muttering.
"Da Mao, why don't you work so early." Da Mao is the breast name of the second uncle's eldest son, the second and third are called Er Mao and Xiao Mao in that order, while Yuzhu is called Mao Mao.
"I'd like to work, but there's no work!" The eldest son remained seated.
"How can there be no work? You're trying to be lazy aren't you, where's that load of firewood you picked back last night? Why don't you go and split it?" The second uncle said in a loud voice.
"It's already split!" The eldest son replied.
"Nonsense." The second uncle went up and slapped his eldest son on the head, he has always believed that filial piety comes out from under the stick (of course, this does not include the Yuzhu), "just got up not long ago and you finished chopping, you dreamed of chopping miles last night?"
"I didn't." The eldest son covered his head in complaint and said, "I woke up early this morning and someone had finished chopping, if you don't believe me, go and take a look."
The second uncle heard, see son does not seem to coax people, get up and put on a piece of clothing to the door, a look really a quart of firewood has been chopped, but also neatly yards in a side.
"Alas, this is strange." The second uncle also scratched his head and guessed, "Is it possible that Ermao or XiaoMao did it?"
The eldest son shook his head and said, "Impossible, they are sleeping right now, how could they get up so early to chop firewood."
At this time the door of another house opened, only to see the two sons strung out from the house one by one, yawning and said: "Father, what are you doing outside early in the morning, so noisy, let a person sleep?"
"Sleep, sleep, you know sleep, if the house was emptied you do not know." Several sons have not done, himself and his partner and just get up, this chopping wood thing is who did, can only say that someone last night into the yard.
"Maybe it was little sister who did the miles." The youngest son said casually, but once finished, he himself also think it is impossible, the size of the little sister, not to mention splitting firewood, parents love her so much, even the fire did not let her touch a few times.
"Do not say, hurry to see if there is anything missing at home!" Second uncle thought, still feel uneasy, busy commanded, if someone can really enter the yard, it is hard to guarantee that they will not "bypass" what objects.
But they searched for a while, even the kitchen, even the bottom of the gap in the bowl are not missing, rice and flour tank of food or so much, chickens and ducks to the eggs are not missing one, the family also had to scratch their heads, the quan chopped firewood expressed strangely.
A few people in the house things are not less, the firewood thing is so ignored, the countryside people work more, who can always look at the family there is no one or who to help split the wood.
The people thought that this thing was over, but they were wrong, the strange things are far from being over, maybe that load of firewood is just a small beginning.
Since then, the family's strange things have continued to happen, first or firewood was chopped early in the morning, they did not care too much, just as the family less work to do, anyway, no effort and no loss of things, for them is naturally good, and there may be something in the underworld in the guide, they are just ordinary people, or less to worry about the better.
The second uncle's family had thought to slowly ignore the good, but the next thing, can't let them ignore it any longer.
The second uncle and his sons found that the family's grain gradually become less, and the kitchen's hidden wine, what, as long as the kitchen rice, flour, meat and wine, this day just fill in, the next day will be less than a quarter, which in the invisible slowly, on the depletion of a lot of food.
Although the family is not lack of food, but also not rich, but can withstand food so consumption law.
But the kitchen does not prepare the food is not enough, they have tried to put the food as soon as finished, hidden inside the room, but if not prepared, the second uncle's family will find that the family's livestock barn will be missing one or two chickens or ducks, presumably because of the lack of food, take the chickens and ducks to offset the relationship.
They have not always thought of a way, they are also a leave two people to keep watch at night and so on, but this kind of thing is every now and then, not every day, if every day is like this, this family has long been eaten poor.
The sons have work to do the next day, if the night watch every day, even if the iron can not stand, so the second uncle's family in a few times after the night watch but nothing, they have to give up.
Days just like this day by day, they also have to take it as the family raised a big appetite, but the good thing is that although the food is less, but the next day they will find that there are a lot of work, such as splitting wood and picking up water and so on will also be someone to help do a good job.
Sleepwalking in the middle of the night.
Until one night, the second uncle's wife got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, in a trance, when she got up and crossed the yard, suddenly heard a rustling sound, scared her violently awake, thought the house was burglarized, and hurriedly and quietly go to shout at the old man to get up.
Second uncle just in a dream, was the wife shouted to wake up to hear a thief in the house, but also fiercely scared awake a large part, and hurriedly greeted the wife to hide in the room, thinking of calling the next door of the three sons get up.
The old couple did not dare to turn on the light, just want to hide in the house to see what the thief looks like, they are not sure it is a thief, the strange things that have happened over the past few days so that they thought that the family thing to live in an unclean thing, do not dare to rashly go to call the son for fear of getting the most "that thing".
They had to hide in the door, slightly open the door a small mouth, the house is dark without lights, only then the moonlight outside to secretly observe.
Not long after, there was a rustling, two mouths, shocked atmosphere do not dare to breathe, for fear of alarming the yard, only to hold their breath, continue to observe.
They took a look through the dim moonlight. The gate in the yard was tightly closed, and a black shadow was projected onto the bare ground, shaking and unable to see what it was doing. Soon, they heard a banging sound and saw a shadow on the ground, as if holding a knife, mechanically repeating a movement.
Boldly, the two families opened the door a little more, stretched his head out to see, there is actually a person in the courtyard.
Just see that person sitting in the corner with a machete in one hand and one hand bang bang bang phi firewood, every split a pile of firewood, they neatly stacked on one side, and so on and so forth, until all the firewood split finished.
Finished chopping firewood, only to see that person slowly walk to the kitchen, a moment, that kitchen will come out vaguely bright light, a small fire is slowly burning, the kitchen wall of the silhouette was shining more and more tall – that person actually cooking in the kitchen.
"Hey, old man, what do you think that is?" The second uncle's wife asked with some apprehension.
"Who knows mile? I guess that this person is the one who did the strange things in the past few days." The second uncle replied quietly, although he wasn't quite sure if it was a person.
"Hmph, no." The second granduncle's wife complained with fear and trepidation, "Spoiling so much of our grain, when I catch him later, I'll have to ……"
"Hush! Don't say it." The second uncle said quietly, "Now do not know is a person is a ghost mile, if that unclean thing, offend it, we still have a good day!"
"Then …… what should we do?" Hear may be that thing, the second uncle grandmother also hesitated, after all, the little ghost is difficult to deal with, their family can not withstand this kind of torment.
"We first and in to see." The second uncle returned.
At this time, the fire in the kitchen has been very large, almost and so on as illuminated the whole house, only to see a black shadow projected onto the wall, it sat down, in front of a small box of items, on the top actually set up a few dishes and a bowl of rice, next to it also stood a bottle, the second uncle recognized that the bottle is he used to fill the rice wine, which is also filled with half a couple of miles of the best rice wine.
Just see that black shadow a butt to do down, first casually picked up the hand of the rice wine, a tilt on the go most of the half, the heartache of the house of the second uncle grimaced, almost did not rush out, but this is he stayed for a long time did not want to drink all of the yo!
After drinking a few mouthfuls of rice wine, the shadow will start a chopstick vacation, began to mouth mouthful of mouthfuls of stuff, not long, a table of things soon to be swept away, the shadow will begin to collect the table and wash the bowl, with a good care of everything after the fire a turn off the kitchen door a closed, walked out.
The person slowly walked out, the second uncle almost on the doorway, and then not very bright moonlight look, the person in front of them really let the old two were surprised – this person is actually Yuzhu.
The second uncle's wife almost shouted in surprise, it turned out that these days to do these things is the family's quietest and most unlikely youngest daughter Yuzhu, it is really surprising.
If she was a member of her own family, why would she do these things? Moreover, when the second uncle's family had mentioned it many times at the dinner table, the daughter had acted as if she knew nothing about it. The second uncle's family immediately stood up, wanting to open the door and go out to ask their daughter for clarification.
They have loved this daughter since she was a child, almost always respond to requests, what the daughter wants to eat and drink, there is no need to sneak around like this, directly out, even in the golden old couple of them will get it for the daughter.
The second aunt stood up, really want to open the door to go out and call her daughter, was about to open her mouth, was aside from the second uncle a hand to stop, looking toward his side, the second uncle shook his head, stretched out a finger to the side of the mouth a gesture, signaling her not to make a sound.
Not quite understanding her husband's meaning, the second granduncle only had to look ahead again, the second granduncle still stopped her and shook his head, not allowing her to go out or speak, only waiting until the courtyard Yuzhu slowly walked back to her room before quietly closing the door.
"Old man, just now that was Yuzhu, it's not something unclean, why are you stopping for not letting me call her?" Second uncle's wife sat in the room and quietly complained.
Second uncle did not speak immediately, just frowned, one hand picked up the bedside cigarette roll a little, took a puff of smoke, and then slowly spit it out, "I look at my daughter's appearance, does not seem to be awake."
"What? What do you say, the daughter did not wake up, impossible, not awake she can do so many things, but also can burn the fire to cook?" The second uncle's wife did not quite believe it.
"Think about it, does our daughter usually chop wood? She even drank half of my bottle of wine." Thinking about his own long time, the second uncle felt a pain in his flesh, "Usually she doesn't even make a fire, not to mention chopping wood and wine, if she was awake, could she have done these things?"
"Then, then, Mr. Dangjia, do you think my daughter is possessed by a ghost?" The second uncle's wife began to worry a bit and made a wild guess.
"That shouldn't be." The second granduncle took another puff of smoke, "We are usually clean and innocent, and did not dare to do anything wrong, we should not provoke that thing, but rather ……"
"What is it? Don't buy the secret, quickly say!" The second grandma was anxious, the matter is about the little girl, of course she is very anxious.
"Rather, I look at the daughter of this appearance, like the city head to talk about sleepwalking!" After all, the second granduncle had lived most of his life and immediately voiced his guess.
Although he lived in the countryside, he would read the newspaper from time to time, he was a good learner, although his family didn't have the money to study, but by going to the schoolhouse and eavesdropping, he had more or less learned a few words.
He had read in the newspaper that he got back from the head of the city that if he came across someone who got up in his sleep to do something, he must not go to call that person, otherwise that person would probably be scared to death by his own behavior.
This kind of thing is not to be believed, he remembered that he was a child in the village there is so a person, also has this problem, the night once asleep will come out to sneak, and sometimes even run to the village entrance like a dog guarding there to fall asleep, we all know that he is this problem, but the old man of the family have urged not to say go out, so they have never and that person mentioned that he has this problem.
Although the man is also very strange why sometimes he will wake up in the village, a go ask the guys, the guys also waved their hands and said they do not know.
Until one day, the family came to a distant relative, a young man.
The young man got up in the middle of the night, suddenly saw a black shadow flashed in front of his eyes, scared immediately rubbed his eyes to see, it turned out to be the owner of their own home, he looked at the man with his eyes closed, slowly open the door, and slowly walk out, even the door is not closed.
The young man did not know what happened, but also thought that a relative has something important to go out, and quickly called him to ask him to close the door.
Which know just a call to the man's name, the man slowly stood still, the boy thought the relatives did not hear their voices, raise their voices to the man shouted his name.
The voice just landed, only to see the original closed eyes of the person violently a jolt to open his eyes, wide open eyes staring forward, fell straight backward.
The young man panicked, rushed up to shake the relatives, which know how to shake also do not wake up, the village people heard the commotion hastily draped in clothes out, see the situation after the seven hands and eight feet to carry people to the hospital, until the hospital was not easy to revive the people over, only to find that the people have been crazy.