Looking over, it was as if there was only a red lantern coming towards her in the dark night. However, as the red lantern drew near, an old woman with a hunchback and black clothes holding the red lantern came into sight.
Upon seeing the weird old woman appearing here, she looked at her calmly and asked: “Elderly lady, are you from this town?”
The hunchbacked old woman raised her eyes and glanced at Feng Jiu, then turned and walked back to where she came from: “This isn’t a good place to talk, come with me!”
Upon seeing this, Feng Jiu hesitated for a bit, then followed.
“Elder sister don’t go, elder sister, play with me….”
Suddenly, a voice came from behind her and she was so shocked that she got goosebumps.
She was shocked as she saw the rag dolls that were abandoned by the roadside and in the fields around her seemed to come alive under the moonlight. One by one, they crawled up and came towards her.
“Elder sister don’t go, elder sister, play with me….”
One of the rag dolls walked towards her stiffly, with her eyebrows drooping and her mouth closed, she said: “Elder sister play with me, play with me…”
“Hu!”
As she stood dumbfounded, the hunchbacked old woman who was holding the red lantern actually picked a spark from inside the red lantern and flicked it at the surrounding area. For a while, sounds of exclamations bearing hatred could be heard.
“Ah” Granny Ghost, nasty Granny Ghost…”
She saw the rag doll that was coming towards her hiss at the spark that hit it and fell to the ground crying and wailing like a wolf howling. That sound gave her goosebumps.
“Let’s go!”
The hunchbacked woman in front said and moved slowly forwards, holding the red lantern.
Feng Jiu calmed her nerves and took a look at the figure, then followed her again until she arrived at a place that looked like an ancestral hall.
“Please, sit down!” The hunchbacked old woman said. She hung the lantern up and went into the back. After a short while, she returned with two cakes and handed one to Feng Jiu.
“Thank you.” She said. She took the piece of cake but didn’t eat it. Instead, she asked: “Elderly lady, why is it so strange here?” Yes, it was strange. She didn’t feel any negative energy from the moment she had entered this place, it didn’t seem like a place where lonely ghosts wandered about. However, those rag dolls seemed like they were alive, as if a ghost had attached itself to them.
However, she clearly didn’t sense any ghosts. So if there were no ghosts, what were they?
“They’re vengeful spirits.”
The hunchbacked old woman told her as she took a bite of her cake and continued: “Vengeful spirits are not ghosts, but they are similar to ghosts. The difference is that ghosts have negative energy and like the gloom and cold, but the vengeful spirits like to cling to people with a strong sense of resentment.”
Upon hearing that, Feng Jiu was slightly startled and lowered her head glancing at herself with a strange expression: “I have grievances on me? Surely not?” How could she have any grievances?
The hunchbacked old woman glanced at her, she spoke slowly in her coarse and old voice: “If there are grievances on you, you wouldn’t be able to get in here and you wouldn’t live to see me.”
“What could be the reason then? Why did the vengeful spirits ask me to play with them?” Just thinking about what happened earlier gave her goosebumps. It was too strange.
They were ghosts but not ghosts, those things had no ghost energy at all and she really didn’t know when they appeared.
