Chapter 4: Old Village, Ghost Stories

I took some breast milk and poured it into the corner where Li Mazi usually kept his embroidered shoes.

Soon, some faint traces of water gradually began to appear on the originally clean ground.

Until the end, the water mark actually formed two footprints, one large and one small, closely attached to each other, very clear.

Li Mazi was even more frightened and asked me what was going on.

I said with a dark face: "The big footprints belong to the mother. The small footprints are the child she just gave birth to..."

Li Mazi was stunned: "Why did another child pop out?"

"You forgot, you were the one who gave birth just now."

Li Mazi's face twitched, obviously remembering the scene that happened before.

I briefly explained to Li Mazi that the mother-child flesh mark was actually the clothes and shoes worn by the pregnant woman when she died tragically.

Because maternal love is the strongest when a pregnant woman is pregnant, she must be unwilling and resentful of an unexpected tragic death, so it will affect the clothes she carries with her.

Pregnant women are most afraid of eating olive oil because it can cause miscarriage. Breast milk will make her jealous, so you can use these two things to temporarily suppress the mother-child flesh mark, but it certainly cannot be suppressed for too long.

Unless you find another shoe, leaving the two shoes together is the perfect solution.

Li Mazi grabbed his hair and shouted angrily: "Brother Zhang, please come with me! Damn it, I had to settle the score with the family who sold my shoes, and they almost killed me. died."

I immediately stopped Li Mazi and said, "Don't mess around when you arrive at someone else's house. Otherwise, if you make them angry, they will never give you the other shoe."

Li Mazi gritted his teeth and finally agreed.

I can't go tonight, because looking at Li Mazi's expression, I want to tear him apart.

I tried my best to comfort Li Mazi, saying that he might just be selling something for money and didn't know the inside story. In any case, Li Mazi's anger must be suppressed first.

This night, I barely slept. It wasn't until the east was dimly lit that I finally took a nap.

But not long after he fell asleep, he was awakened by a rapid knock on the door.

It turned out that it was Li Mazi's son who came back. When he saw that we were all fine, he jumped up and down with joy.

Li Mazi said earnestly to his son that he would be traveling far away in the next two days to resolve some matters, and asked him to live on campus as much as possible and never stay at home alone.

Li Mazi's son was obedient and nodded immediately in agreement.

After that, Li Mazi and I drove to his hometown.

Li Mazi's hometown is in Kaifeng, Henan. Like most rural areas in China, it is dirty and messy, and even the roads are not well built.

It is precisely because of the inconvenience of transportation that the antique market here has been promoted.

I couldn't help but admire Li Mazi's ability to choose the best place to defraud antiques.

It had just rained here and the ground was muddy. The car couldn't get in at all, so it had to park at the entrance of the village and the two of us walked in.

Li Mazi said it when we passed a dilapidated old house. But when we looked at it, we suddenly despaired. The door was locked, and we could see the weeds in the yard through the cracks, and there were all kinds of messy pots and pans piled up.

Needless to say, the family ran away.

Li Mazi's anger, which he had held back for a long time, finally burst out. He kicked the door open, sat on the threshold and cursed.

After Li Mazi scolded him for a while, a rural man walked out of the next door. He glanced at Li Mazi, his face full of displeasure.

I quickly went up and asked the uncle, why did this family run away?

The uncle said angrily, what can I do if I don't run away? This family is haunted, and if they don't run away, they will have no descendants.

I was taken aback and knew there must be something fishy in it, so I immediately put a packet of Yuxi in my pocket into the uncle's hand. The uncle's expression softened and he gave me a brief introduction.

It turns out that this family also moved here from a neighboring village in recent years. However, ever since we moved here, things have become unstable at home. The children cry every night, and footsteps can always be heard in the yard.

Even in the past few years, the hostess has been pregnant three times, but she always miscarried due to various accidents.

Especially after selling a pair of Qing Dynasty embroidered shoes last time, the quarrel at home became even fiercer!

In the middle of the night, the family could always see a woman with disheveled hair sitting by the well. But as soon as they approached, the long-haired woman would jump down from the well mouth and shine a flashlight inside, but nothing could be seen.

On cloudy days, you can still hear women sobbing from the well, which is extremely scary.

This was nothing. The real reason that made them move was that several times they found that their children were always standing by the well intentionally or unintentionally, and they were stunned for a long time.

They were worried that their children would jump, so they simply moved.

What I heard was that my scalp was numb and I was covered in cold sweat. Why is this scene so similar to the situation in Li Mazi's family?

However, I was relieved when I figured it out. Needless to say, it must be the other embroidered shoe that was causing trouble. It seems that the other embroidered shoe is indeed in this family.

However, I don’t know if he was taken away by them or not.

So, I decided to look for another embroidered shoe tonight and try to give this pair of shoes a happy ending.

After making up my mind, I immediately told Li Mazi my idea. Li Mazi was a little scared after hearing this. Is it dangerous?

I said it's not a big problem. Now go and prepare a few things for me to use in the evening.

My idea is very simple. Since the two embroidered shoes want to be together, the embroidered shoe in our hands will definitely go to find the other embroidered shoe at night, and it will definitely leave some 'footprints' in the yard.

As long as we follow the footprints and find the other shoe, it is easy.

I made a list for Li Mazi and asked him to try to get it together before dark.

And I went to do the neighbor's uncle's work, because we were staying at his house temporarily tonight.

Money can make all the difference. Under the temptation of money, the uncle readily agreed to my offer.

Li Mazi came back half an hour after going out, carrying a large bundle of willow branches on his shoulders and a large baggage in his hand, which contained the pot bottom ash I wanted to use.

Li Mazi and I sprinkled the pot ash evenly in the yard, and then spread a large layer of willow branches on top of the pot ash.

Li Mazi asked me what this meant?

I explained that the dust on the bottom of the pot can leave the footprints of embroidered shoes. And spreading the willow branches into a ladder shape tells the other party that these stairs can be stepped on.

Li Mazi said in surprise: "Brother Zhang, I can't tell you are a very capable person!"

I laughed and said that I have a lot of skills, which are all left over from my experience in this industry. I'm half-baked, so I'll let you see my grandfather's methods if I have the opportunity.

Then, we carefully placed the embroidered shoe at the door of the yard. After doing all this, we crowded into the uncle's house next door, and at the same time pricked up our ears and listened carefully to what was going on in the yard.