MTL - Mysterious World, I Have Special Understanding-Chapter 25 ask for money

  Chapter 25 Asking for money

  In the darkness of night, Sangshui County was quiet.

  The water in the ditch reflects the moonlight, making it even more deserted.

  In this closed-off town, the nights are always so quiet. Even places like Goulan, which are supposed to have good business, seem listless for a while because of the sparse number of customers.

   This is the loneliness of the small town.

  At this time, Huang Si suddenly slowed down.

  At the corner of the street ahead, a piece of light spilled out through the window paper, like water.

  The bloodstain there is long gone, but Huang Si still thinks of that person.

  The old woman who chased him that day.

  At that time, she fell into the pool of blood, staring at him like a fish stranded on the shore.

  He seems to have been unlucky since then.

  Huang Si spat, and couldn't help cursing secretly: "Unlucky!"

   After that, he quickened his pace.

  The area to the west of the city is a slum area in Sangshui County. Dilapidated buildings stand up disorderly, and some narrow alleys cannot even penetrate the moonlight.

   There was a faint smell of urine in the air. Huang Si walked into an alley with a sharp knife in his left hand.

   After that, he climbed over a low earthen wall.

  The yard is small, and some dried vegetables with poor quality are drying under the eaves.

  Here is the home of the blind old woman.

   Huang Si looked around, and after confirming that there was no one there, he drew out the sharp knife at his waist.

  He had already stepped on this alley before. There were not many people living in this alley. The blind old woman had no relatives and no reason, so she was not afraid of being discovered.

   With a bang, the door bolt of the house was pried open.

   Huang Si was a little annoyed, the left hand was indeed much clumsier than the right.

  If it was the past, he would never have made such a loud noise.

  The room is quiet.

  This old woman is old, not only blind, but also hard to use her ears.

  Huang Si took a deep breath, entered the room, and there was an unpleasant smell in front of him.

   That's the smell of old people.

   This house is not big, only a hall and a back room.

  The door of the inner room is open, the moonlight is reflected on the window paper, and the crooked figure lying on the bed can be vaguely seen.

  Huang Si gently closed the door behind him and walked there.

  His footsteps were very light, but there was still a crackling sound.

   Until he walked into the back room, the blind old woman remained motionless.

   Arriving here, the smell of the old man became more and more obvious.

  Huang Si approached a little closer, trying to confirm the condition of the old woman, but was taken aback.

  Under the pale moonlight, the old woman had a lot of brown spots on her face, which were very unsightly.

  Huang Si finally understood why the old man's smell was so obvious.

   That's the smell of corpses!

   This old woman should have died on the bed for a few days, and has not been found.

   Huang Si felt relieved all of a sudden.

   It's best to die, and he won't bother him to find money after he dies.

  After that, Huang Si rummaged through the boxes inside, and he really found more than three taels of silver.

  Huang Si was in a good mood. Fortunately, he came early. If other people knew that the old woman was dead, then the money would not be his turn.

  Finally, he set his sights on the old man's body.

  On the right hand of the blind old woman, there is a finger ring, which should be inferior jade of different colors.

   But after all, it is worth some money.

  Huang Si walked up to the old woman.

  Under the moonlight, the appearance of the old woman lying on the bed can be regarded as peaceful.

  If it weren't for the obvious corpse spots and the person was not breathing, Huang Si might have thought that the other person was sleeping.

  Huang Si stretched out his left hand to get the wrench.

  He could clearly feel that the old woman's skin was wrinkled and a little disgusting.

  But I don't care if I think I can change it for some silver.

  Huang Si's right hand was crippled, and the finger pull was a bit tight, so it was a bit difficult for him to take it out.

   But fortunately, after some rough tugging by him, the colorful jade wrench was finally taken off.

  After Huang Si succeeded, he just wanted to go to the hall to see if there were other things that could be sold for money, but at this moment, his hand was suddenly grabbed by something.

   At this moment, his scalp was about to explode.

   Huang Si's throat was rolling, and he glanced out of the corner of his eye, only to find that the dead blind old woman suddenly opened her eyes and grabbed his wrist.

  Her eyes were covered with a white film, which was snow-white under the moonlight.

  Cheat a corpse!

  The moment this idea came to mind, the old woman suddenly spoke—"Lin'er, my son, is that you?".

   At this moment, Huang Si was about to shed tears.

   This is not the voice of a blind old woman!

   It was chasing the old woman who fell down before!

  At this moment, the face of the blind old woman seemed to have changed, becoming a little younger, and then, a pool of blood spread behind her head.

  She just looked at him like that, staring at him firmly, like a fish stranded on the shore, exactly the same as before when it fell in a pool of blood.

  At this time, the old woman's complexion changed again and became serious.

   "You are not Lin'er, you are not Lin'er, what are you doing with my money?"

  In the night, her face was so terrifying.

   Huang Si pulled his hand suddenly, the skin was torn, and he broke free.

  He ran out of the house screaming, "There's a ghost!"

  But the night was quiet, like a silent tomb, and no one gave him any response.

  Huang Si panicked and ran to the street, not far behind, always followed by a slightly hunchbacked figure.

  It was almost exactly the same as that day.

  He frantically knocked on the door next to him several times, shouting "Help!", but no one paid any attention to him.

  Huang Si ran five or six streets in one breath, feeling that his lungs were going to explode, and his left hand, which was scratched with bloodstains, was shaking constantly.

   Until then, he realized that the shadow was not following him.

  Huang Si remembered something and ran home in a panic.

  He remembered that his old mother left him a talisman before she passed away.

  It is said that it is a talisman opened by a Taoist priest in a Taoist temple. As long as it is pasted on the door, it can eliminate disasters and drive away evil spirits.

  Huang Si scoffed at this, but now he suddenly thought of it, and thought it was a life-saving straw.

  He returned home with a look of panic, closed the door heavily, and started rummaging through the boxes.

  At this time, the old lady’s voice sounded outside—“Silver, give me back my silver, give me back my silver. It’s the money for Lin’er’s marriage.”

  Finally, Huang Si found the yellow talisman, and there were red runes painted on it.

  He was about to stick the talisman on, but there was a bang, and the courtyard door he had locked opened suddenly, revealing a thin figure with a hunchback.

  The old woman came very quickly, and Huang Si ran away.

   While running to the backyard, he accidentally fell and broke his knee.

  Behind him, the sound of the door opening kept ringing.

  Huang Si limped, crawled into the hut, and threw his shoes to the corner of the wall, pretending to escape over the wall.

  In a panic, he hung the yellow talisman on the curtain of the hut.

  After that, Huang Si covered his mouth, not daring to let out a breath, for fear that the sound of his breathing would attract the old woman.

   Outside, there was an old panting sound.

  The old woman has come!

  Huang Si nested in the corner of the hut, sweat ran down his forehead and into his eyes, and he didn't dare to blink.

  There was a little more footsteps outside the hut, and the toe of the black cloth shoe could be vaguely seen protruding there.

  The talisman paper on the door was slightly shaken by the wind, and it looked like it was about to fall off at any moment.

   Huang Si couldn't help but hang in the air.

   Fortunately, after a while, the old woman's footsteps disappeared, and they should have gone outside.

   Huang Si dared to let out a breath.

  He didn't know whether it was the function of the talisman, or he hid well, which barely saved his life.

   As a result, at this moment, the moonlight above his head suddenly dimmed a little, and he couldn't help but raise his head.

  The next moment, Huang Si's pupils shrank into two pitch-black spots, and his entire face was distorted and deformed by fear.

  There is a bowl-sized transom on the wall of this hut.

   And the old woman was squeezing in through the narrow transom, looking like a wriggling giant worm.

   "Silver, give me back my silver, give me back my silver! That's Lin Er's wedding money."

"what!!"

  (end of this chapter)