All passers-by staying in the village will mysteriously disappear that night.
…
Under the dark night.
Jiang Chaoge walked on the dirt road with no grass roots, listening to the crows chirping on the dead trees, looking around with a pair of empty eyes.
As expected, he got lost!
But his luck seemed to be good. Two hours later, he saw a figure who was also traveling at night.
It was a young scholar, carrying a "bamboo box" half a man's height, and wearing a gray-blue Confucian shirt, which looked like Ning Caichen's dress in "A Chinese Ghost Story".
"Hey, brother, do you know what era it is now?" Jiang Chaoge waved to the scholar enthusiastically.
However, the scholar ignored him and walked alone.
Jiang Chaoge was not discouraged and immediately changed his approach to do as the locals do: "Brother, unfortunately, I got lost. Is there any village around where I can stay?"
However, there was still no reply.
Therefore, Jiang Chaoge could only stop in front of the scholar: "Brother, the mountain road is slippery, how about walking together? Don't worry, I am also a scholar!"
First, we should draw closer to each other as ‘scholars’, and then we can plot evil.
Unfortunately, Jiang Chaoge's plan did not succeed.
Because, the scholar passed right through his body!
"Wear... Wear it?"
Jiang Chaoge was stunned for a moment, and then felt a slight chill on his back.
"I hit a ghost!!"
Is there actually a ghost in this world?
In an instant, his materialistic views were directly subverted. However, fortunately, this ghost scholar did not seem to have any intention of harming him.
"But why can I see ghosts?"
"Is it because I have just traveled to this world and the three souls and seven souls have not solidified yet, so I can see some 'yin things'?"
Since such bizarre things as time travel have happened, then meeting a ghost while walking at night...should be considered reasonable, right?
Jiang Chaoge's psychological quality has always been excellent.
His legs just shook a little.
No big deal!
And, soon he had a flash of inspiration.
Since the ghost scholar appears here, does it mean there is a village nearby?
"Anyway, this ghost scholar doesn't mean to harm me. Why don't we try to follow him first and maybe walk out of the mountain?"
Jiang Chaoge had been wandering around the mountains for two hours, and finally a 'tour guide' came. Even if it was a ghost, he was not prepared to let him go.
He followed the ghost scholar nonchalantly.
Two quarters of an hour later.
We came to an old stone bridge. There was a dead tree next to the stone bridge. There was also a monument at the head of the bridge with three big characters written on it - Xiaoshan Village.
"Have you really found a village?" Jiang Chaoge was overjoyed.
Although the village in front of us was shrouded in darkness, with not a single light lit or the barking of dogs heard, and it felt a bit desolate, it was indeed a village.
Seeing the ghost scholar walking straight into the village, he immediately followed him.
Then, he saw the ghost scholar enter the small courtyard of a farmer's house.
It looked like he was about to knock on the door.
"A ghost knocks on the door in the middle of the night? This family must have done nothing good! I wonder if it's a widow?" Jiang Chaoge is actually more curious, can ghosts knock on the door?
"Dong dong dong!"
The wooden door responded.
"Who is it?" A woman's voice sounded, followed by another curse: "Damn it, you just stole it at noon, and now you are here again? Don't you know how to use the back door?"
Is she really a widow? Moreover, she also likes to let 'ghosts' go through the back door?
Jiang Chaoge didn't have any special hobbies. He just wanted to see what kind of exaggerated expression the little widow would show when she opened the door and found that there was no one at the door.
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the ghost scholar speak.
"I'm really sorry for disturbing my sister-in-law in the middle of the night. Xiaosheng is a scholar from Linhe Village thirty miles away. His surname is Liang and his given name is Ping'an. He was on his way to Huai'an County to take the provincial examination, so he missed his dormitory and wanted to stay overnight at my sister-in-law's house."
What's going on? Can ghosts in this world talk to people directly?
Jiang Chaoge felt something was wrong.
But at this time, the wooden door had been opened, and a beautiful little widow wearing a rag floral dress, with peach blossom eyes and a slim figure leaned out half of her body from inside.
"Oh, he is really a scholar. He looks very delicate, not like those vulgar warriors." When the little widow saw the scholar, she immediately revealed her dirty figure and said, "Sister-in-law just cooked some white tender meat at home.
The tender tofu, would you like to come in and take a bite, little scholar, before continuing on your way?"
"No...it's no trouble." Liang Ping'an dodges his eyes and shakes his head repeatedly: "Xiaosheng has brought his own dry food and just wants to stay overnight. If it's convenient for my sister-in-law..."
"It's convenient, sister-in-law, it's very convenient today! But, little scholar, you really don't eat tofu? It's big and white!"
"No...don't eat."
"Humph, forget it if you don't want to eat!" The attitude of the little widow, who was rejected twice, changed in vain: "Xiaoshan Village will not take in outsiders, let's go!"
"Boom!"
The door is closed.
…
Xiaoshan Village is still very dark.
Liang Ping'an sighed after being rejected and left the little widow's door angrily.
He walked to the second house.
Knocked a second time.
"..."
"Come on, come on, outsiders are not welcome in Xiaoshan Village!"
Not far away, there were shouts and curses.
This time, the person who refused him to stay overnight was a kind-faced and seemingly innocent old man. Moreover, the other party also asked Liang Ping'an's family by the way.
"..."
"If you go out, any scholar who wants to stay overnight... there is no way!"
"..."
"Gungungun, what a great scholar? Don't say you are just a scholar... Even if you come here, you can't get in through the door of my house, Zhang Ergou!"
"..."
Liang Ping'an kept knocking on the door, but was repeatedly rejected, and gradually moved further and further away.
And in front of the little widow's door.
Jiang Chaoge stood stiffly on the spot.
Because, he finally knew what was wrong.
If the little widow can see and talk to Liang Pingan, then who is the ghost?
"I'm the ghost?!"
Even with a strong psychological quality, Jiang Chaoge was about to collapse.
What can a ghost do?
Clean yourself up, and then find a good family to reincarnate?
Wait, reincarnation!!!
"Is there a possibility that I traveled a little early and my host hasn't 'died' yet, so I haven't completed 'seizing the body' yet?"
Jiang Chaoge has read many novels in the previous world. The protagonist will be put under some pressure at the beginning. There are many people who end up in prison cells, but no matter what, they can't end up as ghosts, right?
Absolutely impossible!
His subconscious still wanted to struggle again.
"It's just that if I really traveled through time too early, then who would I take over?"
Could it be...
Liang Pingan!!
Yes, it’s Liang Pingan!
Otherwise, why did Dudu meet Liang Pingan on the mountain trail?
This doesn't look like a coincidence.
"Speaking of which...where did Liang Ping'an go?"
Jiang Chaoge looked around and found that Liang Ping'an had disappeared.
However, he vaguely remembered that Liang Ping'an should have gone to the west of the village.
No big deal!
"By the way, I am a ghost now, so can I go directly through the little widow's house, which seems to be closer?"
Jiang Chaoge definitely had no intention of being scornful of his 'sister-in-law'. He just understood that the straight line between two points was closer. At the same time, he also wanted to do an experiment to see if he could really penetrate.
Then, he walked towards the wooden door in front of him.
To be cautious, he did not hit it directly with his head, but tried it with his hands first.
The door is so smooth!
"This feeling... is quite magical."
In the blink of an eye, Jiang Chaoge entered the little widow's house.
Immediately, he saw the little widow walking towards the back room with small steps, one step at a time, and holding a gray-white towel in her hand to wipe her snow-white body.
"Why are sister-in-law's clothes gone?"
Looking to the side, Jiang Chaoge found that the floral shirt was drying on a bamboo pole in the courtyard, with water dripping down.
Turns out I just took a shower?
So fast!
But, why is there still one person in the sister-in-law’s family?!
It was a young man about twenty years old, just at the door of the little widow's back room.
He wears a crown cap on his head and a standard blue official uniform with a big word "capture" printed on his chest. At first glance, he is a small policeman from a certain yamen.
But that's not the point. The point is that the young man is hanging on the door beam with his head down and his feet up, with a healing smile on his face.
The corners of his mouth were raised high, and his eyes were as curved as the crescent moons in the sky. He looked at the little widow quietly, and his face was filled with the quiet tenderness of time.
It's very warm, as warm as the peach blossoms blooming in March.