Chapter 1.23 Heavy rain (Extra)

“If you don’t believe them, then how do you explain what happened to us?” I asked him. The living snails in this coffin and the shadow in the stream were both mysterious. If it wasn’t haunted, I really didn’t know how to explain it.

“This is still unknown. I don’t believe in ghosts and gods, but now that I know the origin, I at least have a direction to think in,” Uncle Two said. “Anyway, we don’t have to worry too much about these snails now. We won’t return to Hangzhou for another three days, so I’ll think about it and see what happens. If it’s really the evil spirit of the woman’s corpse, then our ancestral grave has been moved and the nameless woman’s corpse has been buried in it. There’s no reason to complain.”

We all sighed. It seemed that there was nothing better we could do now. Biao Gong looked at the clock on the wall and stood up while saying, “Let’s get busy then!” He went back to see if the dinner was over while Uncle Two, Uncle Three, and I went back to rest.

Xu A Qin’s pickles were also in my car. “What should I do with these?” I asked. “I can’t take them all the way back to Hangzhou. When I deliver goods, people will smell pickles all over the antiques and the sales will be ruined.”

“Find a place to pile them up first,” Uncle Three said. “I love to eat them.”

After tossing and turning for a while, I still felt uneasy as I thought about the legendary woman’s rotten green corpse. I felt uncomfortable all over and checked all the sewer drains in the house again from top to bottom—the water tower connected to the tap water was in town so I figured that probably didn’t matter. I couldn’t think of any other places where water flowed, so I felt a little more at ease.

After yesterday’s fatigue, staying up late, and getting up early in the morning to drive all day, I really couldn’t help it and fell asleep at eight o’clock. This was the sleep of pure exhaustion, and I slept heavily for once. I was so tired that I didn’t even dream and managed to sleep through the night.

When I got up at five in the morning, I was completely refreshed and rejuvenated, but I noticed that the sky was very dark. I put on my clothes and went to the window to listen to the sounds outside when I suddenly froze—something was wrong.

I didn’t know when it had started raining.

A sense of foreboding entered my heart and I immediately rushed out from under the eaves of the house, only to see Uncle Two and Uncle Three standing there with pale faces.

I followed the direction of their gazes—in the pouring rain, there was something standing in our yard.

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