Seeing her raise her face, I quickly retracted my head, covering my chest with my hands and breathing heavily...
Perhaps because he heard the movement on my side, Aunt Liu's urgent voice came from the phone:
"Xiaoyu...what did you see?!"
"Then...that old lady came over and burned paper figurines under my window, and there was...fire, the fire was green..." I said incoherently.
"Then have you seen her face?!"
"No, but I almost saw it. Aunt Liu, what on earth is going on?"
"Don't ask so many questions, just don't see her face! That old guy was wearing a red shroud, he must have died violently! I don't know how you got into trouble with such a difficult person, now you just follow my instructions
Do it without making any mistakes, otherwise you won’t survive tonight!”
Aunt Liu's words were like a bell hitting my brain. It made my whole body weak and almost collapsed on the ground, but I knew she wasn't being alarmist.
I took a long breath, adjusted my tense nerves a little, and then began to listen attentively to Aunt Liu's instructions.
A few minutes later, my brows were already knitted into knots, and my voice was trembling as I asked Aunt Liu,
"Is this...is this okay? Why do I sound like I'm going to die?"
"This is a way to save your life, just do it! Don't waste time, if that old guy comes to your door by himself, you will be dead!"
After speaking, Aunt Liu hurriedly hung up the phone.
Listening to the beeping busy tone, I was stunned for a few seconds, and then my mind settled.
"Hey! If you die, you will die!"
Coming out of the bedroom, I walked in the dark to the door of my house, and picked up the pair of red-soled floral cloth shoes on the ground with trembling hands. The moment I touched the shoes, a chill that penetrated my bones spread throughout my body.
I shuddered unconsciously, then suppressed my inner reaction and put the cloth shoes on my feet! The strange thing is that they looked like a pair of old lady's shoes with small feet, but when they were put on my feet they were
So appropriate.
Is it true that as Aunt Liu said, these shoes are just for me?!
Not daring to think too much, I walked step by step to the bed in my bedroom wearing floral shoes, cut my finger with a knife, dripped a small pool of blood on the ground, and then stepped on the blood, trying to get the blood to cover the soles of my shoes.
Then I lay flat on the bed, put my feet in cloth shoes on the outside edge of the bed, then slowly closed my eyes and read loudly:
"When the gong sounds, the night is dark, and it is difficult to walk on the road to the underworld. People attract souls, ghosts build bridges, and injustices continue to be grievances by the Forgotten River!"
"One gong, two gongs, three gongs!"
After reading, I quickly covered my face with the white cloth I had prepared before, and then lay on the bed like a dead person, motionless...
I don’t know how long it was silent, but suddenly the resentful and harsh sound of gongs came to my ears...
"Bang...bang...bang..."
Still no more and no less three gongs!
"coming!"
I thought to myself, my body started to tremble unconsciously, as if I could hear the "clucking" sound of the two rows of teeth trembling.
At this moment, a gust of cold wind blew by, and the white cloth covering my face was slightly blown up. I couldn't help but squint my eyes and glance outside.
Through the gaps exposed at the corners of the white cloth, I suddenly saw a man wearing a red floral shirt standing next to my bed, holding a brazier and a wooden stake in his hand, like a wake-up call!
The red color looked so dazzling in the dark room.
Before I could see her face clearly, the edge of the white cloth had fallen and covered my face again.
"Young man, I'm here to see you. Do you think I should be burned or not?"
That old and hoarse voice sounded faintly in my ears, as if she was asking this question against my ear.
"First...don't burn it first. Paper figures don't know the way, so they can't be saved by relatives..."
I replied stutteringly.
"Then what do you want to do?" the old lady asked nonchalantly.
"I have a pair of shoes on my feet. You can put them on the paper man. After putting on the shoes, he will be able to find his way."
"Don't lie to me..." The old lady's voice was very long and sounded indescribably scary.
Then there was a deathly silence, and I felt very uneasy, as if I was expecting something, but at the same time I was afraid of something.
Suddenly, a chill rushed to my feet, and I felt a pair of cold hands slowly rubbing back and forth on my feet...
My body suddenly tensed up, but I could still feel the hands slowly taking off the two floral shoes on my feet, and then there was a "crackling" sound.
I could vaguely see a burst of green light through the white cloth on my face. I thought the old lady had burned both the paper man and the cloth shoes.
At this time, I felt a little relieved, because Aunt Liu had told me that as long as the old lady accepted the pair of shoes stained with my blood and burned them, her obsession would be temporarily put down.
If she doesn't want to accept it, then she will ask me to guide the paper man, and the result will be death!
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. It seemed that I was safe tonight.
As a result, this breath blew away the white cloth covering my face, and my face was completely exposed!
"Oops!"
I was startled, and hurriedly raised my hand to cover my face with the white cloth again, but as soon as I raised my hand, it froze in mid-air, and my body lying on the bed began to tremble uncontrollably...
I saw a face as pale as paper pressed tightly in front of me, and her disheveled white hair fell on my face, as cold as frost.
For a moment, my eyes met with hers, and her eyes were so red that they seemed to bleed.
"This...this is?!"
I stared at this face in stunned silence. I didn't even have the strength to scream. I didn't know whether it was fear or horror.
Because that's not an old lady's face, but... it's my own face!
