C5

"Grandma, I'm fine." Su Nian hesitated for a moment and finally smiled, "My granddaughter has not been home for too long. She misses you."

"Nonsense, you just started school a few days ago. You don't even know how to lie. " The old lady sighed and held Su Nian's hand, "Grandmother understands you the most. Quickly tell Grandmother what exactly happened?"

"Grandmother …" Su Nian pursed her lips, "I think..." I saw a ghost. "

The old lady's hands trembled as she looked at Su Nian in fear. Su Nian thought she had scared her grandmother, but before Su Nian could say anything, the old lady grabbed her wrist and tremblingly walked out. "Come, come, let's go find Ninth Granny."

Granny Nine lived next door, a crazy Goddess. In the surrounding villages, there were children's nightmares. They had 'lost their souls', or something strange had happened at home. They all came to find her. Some things couldn't really be explained with science. Su Nian had a high fever when she was young and couldn't back down. She didn't even get to use any medicine or needles. She just burned some paper money at the head of the bed as she said.

"Grandmother, it's already late. Why don't we go tomorrow?" Su Nian was somewhat surprised. She took the train all day, took the bus back to C County for a few hours, then took a taxi back. She had been on the road for a long time, and it was getting late. Although it was just the beginning of nightlife in the big cities, people in small places were already sleeping.

"Quick, let's go." The old lady was rather stubborn. She chanted this phrase over and over, pulling Su Nian along as she headed outside.

"Alright, alright. Grandmother, don't be so anxious. I'll go right now. Wait for me here." Su Nian couldn't force the old lady, but her grandma's health had been poor for the past few years, and her legs and feet were not agile either. She really didn't want to make her suffer.

"Go, go." The old lady just repeated it again and again.

Su Nian suppressed the doubts in her heart and went out. Lang Yue was hanging in the air by herself. Her cold radiance was plated with a silvery white light. The huge osmanthus tree outside the courtyard was like a skinny old man. She extended her withered hand towards the ink-splashed night sky.

Su Nian clicked on the wooden door and realized that it was ajar. Before she could push it open, it creaked open.

"Granny Nine?" Su Nian tentatively called out, but no one replied. The room didn't look like it was lit, but there was light. Su Nian thought about her grandmother's expression and pursed her lips, "Ninth Granny, sorry to bother you."

There seemed to be a lot of junk piled up in the yard. Su Nian turned on the light on her cell phone and looked around. It was a wreath of flowers, all kinds of flowers.

"Sin!" A black shadow scuttled past Su Nian's feet, rustling in the weeds to the side. The ghostly green eyes were particularly frightening in the night. It was a cat.

Su Nian bravely walked into the house, "Ninth Nanny?"

However, when he entered the room, Su Nian discovered that there was no one there. However, the layout of this room was a bit strange …

It was hard to tell if this was the mourning hall or the wedding hall, with red and white curtains, and in front of it was a altar, and beneath the white cloth was a strange brownish-gray, and on the altar were fruits and two burning candles, surrounded by paper men and paper paste at the dinner table, and food.

Beside him was an exquisite coffin. The dark brown coffin was carved with dragon and phoenix patterns. The coffin was nailed to the ground with heavy chains locking it in place. Strange characters seemed to be written on the four corners along with runes.

But the most horrifying thing in the room was a photograph hanging on the wall.

To be honest, based on the layout of the room, Su Nian wouldn't find it strange even if he saw the photo. But this one wasn't. It was a full-length black-and-white photo of a woman who was basically her height. The woman in the photo was wearing a Republic dress and seemed to be looking at her, smiling darkly.

This feeling was too strange, she didn't even dare to look at the woman in the photo directly, feeling that the woman in the next photo was about to crawl out like a virgin.

He wasn't sure if it was an illusion, but Su Nian could faintly hear the sound of drums and suona. Although they were separated by a distance, it wasn't very clear. Why would anyone marry at such a late hour …

Su Nian took a step back, but accidentally bumped into something. The paper man next to him landed on the altar and lit up with the light of a white candle. There were too many people in the room. Su Nian took a broom behind the door and put out the fire. One of the white candles went out.

She didn't know if she had broken the rules, but she didn't dare to stay in this room for long.

Su Nian didn't notice that the woman in the picture had turned ferocious from her strange smile to her distorted face.

Su Nian hadn't even run out of the courtyard when she felt that she had really run into a ghost. The sound of the wedding music sounded like mourning music to her at this time. Something floated in from the outside. The summer wind carried heat that had not completely faded yet. It carried the 'leaves' that filled the sky as it drifted down.

Su Nian took out her cellphone and took a look at it before realizing that it wasn't a "leaf" at all … Paper money...

The cold suddenly became very cold, and the surrounding air seemed to freeze inch by inch. The summer heat had yet to completely disperse, and now the cold came with an inexplicable chill that pierced into one's bones and struck at the heart. At the tip of his nose was the smell of blood. The smell of blood. A feeling of walking in the underworld.

Su Nian completely panicked as she ran outwards with her life on the line.

"Ouch!" She bumped into someone who let out a cry of pain and bent over to massage her stomach. The people behind didn't anticipate this situation and rammed into the backs of the people in front.

"Aiya, the palanquin has fallen. You must be committing a sin." An old voice came from outside, a hoarse voice with a stern tone, "This is bad, you guys just wait for the ghost to come and take her life!"

"Granny Nine, you can't blame me for this! "It was her who hit me!" The man panicked and roughly pulled Su Nian over, "Even if it's her, I have to find her for my life!"

A rotten smell wafted over. Su Nian could not describe it, because right next door, Su Nian knew the Ninth Madam. She always smelled like rot, wore old clothes, and had an old bun in her hair. She looked lifeless.

When she was young, she was most afraid of this Ninth Granny. Later on, when she grew up, Granny Nine would often say some weird, strange words at the top of her voice when she saw him. Su Nian didn't understand the rest of the words, but she remembered them in her heart. When her parents were divorced when she was young, this Ninth Granny took half of the credit.

"Hmph. You are truly a disaster. Sooner or later, we will all be nullified." Granny Nine sneered and pulled Su Nian's wrist as they walked in. "Come with me quickly." Then, he said to the people behind him, "Invite her in."

Su Nian's wrist was torn so much it hurt, but she was indeed in the wrong and did not dare to say anything. Since they were neighbors, she didn't think that Granny Nine would really hurt her, even though she had always thought of Granny Nine as a cannibal witch when she was young.