Forbidden City

Chapter 5
Uncle Zhou and I went home in the rain.Uncle Zhou said to me as he walked: "Feng Feng, something so big has happened, I have to tell you something." I stopped and looked at Uncle Zhou and asked him what was the matter.

Uncle Zhou said: "A strange thing happened to your land when your grandfather gave it to you. Your grandfather moved out of this house not long after your grandfather gave it to you. It's very cold in this house, and I always hear strange noises when I sleep at night, to put it simply, it's haunted."

"Haunted?" My heart sank, and an ominous feeling rose spontaneously.

"Yes, haunted." Uncle Zhou said: "Your grandfather gave birth to three sons, your father, your second uncle, and you have a third uncle. When your third uncle was born, your grandparents were already over 40 years old. It can be said that a child is born in old age, but when your third uncle was two years old, he disappeared from this house for no reason."

"Disappeared?" There was a sudden thunderbolt in the sky, which almost made me jump up.

Uncle Zhou continued: "At that time, the whole village searched for a long time but failed to find your third uncle. In the end, this matter was settled. I didn't expect it to continue. When you were ten years old, your parents planned to live in this house. In the end, they disappeared that night. The next morning, we heard you crying in the house. After entering the house, we found you sitting on the ground and asked where your parents were. You said you didn’t know..."

"Yes, I don't have any memory of what happened before I was ten years old!" I felt sad for a while, and I couldn't remember what happened back then.

Zhou Bo said again: "Your grandfather and grandmother died in depression because of this incident. Later, this house was handed over to your second uncle, and your second uncle didn't live there either. I don't know why this ghost house was given to you."

When we parted, Uncle Zhou told me not to go to the land, and wait until Wu Banxian invited his master to come.

When I got home, I was very upset. I knew it was a haunted house, so I didn't want it.Could there be some connection between the tree roots popping up suddenly, the coffin under the black hole, the dead man and the house once haunted?The second uncle gave me such land, I don't know whether it is out of kindness or malice.Had he forgotten that the house was haunted?And now that things have developed to this point, I really don't know how to end it.

After taking a shower and not getting dressed, there was a knock on the door outside. I opened the door and saw Uncle Zhou leading two police officers in uniform standing at the door. After entering the cave, they came to rescue people, and I said that people have already come up.Because it was raining heavily, they didn't go to see the land, they just asked a few questions and were about to leave. I blocked them and said that my land was abnormal and there were ghosts under the ground.The two police officers scoffed, and one of them said with a stern face: "You rural people are superstitious, what the hell? Isn't there a hole? Just put the soil and fill it up!"

After the police left, I cursed inwardly, what kind of broken police, if you come, it means you didn't come.

I decided to go to Wu Banxian's house to see if he was back. When I passed by my second uncle's house, I suddenly found water stains on the floor at the door of my second uncle's house, and a five-finger watermark on the door panel. My heart skipped a beat. Did my second uncle come back?I gently pushed on the door, but it was closed from the inside.I yelled loudly: "Second Uncle?" I called twice in a row but no one responded.

Just as I was about to leave, the door opened, and my second uncle appeared behind the door.

"Second Uncle?" I said happily, "Are you back?"

Unexpectedly, my second uncle stretched out his hand suddenly and grabbed me in. After looking outside the door, he closed the door smoothly.Inexplicably, I looked at my second uncle and asked, "Second uncle, what's wrong with you?" The second uncle hissed at me, and said mysteriously, "Shut up, don't let people know that I'm back."

"Ah?" I was even more surprised, and asked again: "Where did you go this morning?"

"Don't ask," said the second uncle, "you can sleep well at home in the afternoon, and I will take you to do something big in the evening."

"Big thing? What big deal?" I was surprised.

"I'll tell you tonight." The second uncle played tricks: "Remember, don't go anywhere in the afternoon, and don't tell people that I'm back. Come on, go back." The second uncle pushed me towards the door, and I stopped Looking at the second uncle, he asked, "That piece of land was haunted before, wasn't it?"

The second uncle was stunned. He probably didn't expect me to ask such a question. He turned his face down, glared at me and said, "What haunting? You are an educated person, why are you so superstitious? Are there ghosts in this world? If there are ghosts , how can there be bad people? I have been eaten by ghosts... Don't be suspicious here, act like a man, believe in science, go home!" After saying that, he opened the door and pushed me out.

When I got home, I couldn't calm down for a long time. Why did my second uncle get so angry when I mentioned that there were ghosts in the land?Why didn't he let people know that he was back?Where did he go last night?What are you asking me to do tonight?
It rained heavily for nearly an afternoon, and at dusk, the rain finally stopped.The second uncle came to my house and asked me if I slept in the afternoon. I lied that I did. In fact, I have been waiting for Wu Banxian to call his master. I hope Wu Banxian's master will settle this matter sooner.The second uncle called me to his house, only to see two bowls of delicious chicken on the table.The second uncle said while pouring wine: "I specially killed that coquettish rooster who likes to make troubles everywhere, eat more, eat enough, and have a good night's work."

I didn't know what to do at night, my second uncle told me not to ask, but to eat meat first, and told me to drink a small glass of wine, saying it was to give me courage.

After eating the chicken, it was already dark.The second uncle told me to go to bed again, and said that he would call me when the time came.Inexplicably, I thought to myself, Second Uncle wouldn't ask me to steal cows with him at night, would he?
At this moment, my mobile phone rang and I received a message asking: Is the baby's clothes ready?

I was taken aback, and it was still the Ma Daha who sent me a message in the morning.I messaged back and said: You sent the wrong message.Unexpectedly, the other party replied immediately: Yes, the baby is about to be born, hurry up and get ready for clothes, remember, one piece for everything from 1 to 5 years old.I cursed crazy in my heart, and I didn't bother to reply to the message.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, my second uncle woke me up, and I followed him to the main room. I saw two very thick hemp ropes on the ground, and there were a lot of them rolled up, at least three to forty meters long. A big wooden stake, about the size of two bowls, is one foot long.The second uncle handed me a large flashlight and said, "Let's go." Then he walked towards the door.

I stood still, and my second uncle looked back at me and asked, "What's wrong?" I asked cautiously, "Second uncle, what are we going to do? Are we going to steal a pig?"

"What are you talking about?" The second uncle frowned: "Your second uncle, am I the kind of person who would make low-level mistakes? Even if you want to steal, it's not like stealing a pig, at least you have to steal a cow. Let's go. Don't dawdle." He dragged me out of the door without any explanation.

It really is stealing cattle!I was very depressed.

There was a cart at the door. The second uncle put wooden stakes and hemp ropes on the cart, and pushed the cart forward quickly.

The nights in the countryside are very quiet, and usually there are no lights at nine o'clock, and everything in the village, including people, dogs and poultry, has fallen asleep.But there was no moonlight tonight, and I followed my second uncle, looking at his slender and dark back, which seemed strange, and suddenly felt a sense of fear in my heart.

I don't want to go with my second uncle, but I also want to know what my second uncle is doing, so I feel very conflicted.

When I walked all the way to the land, I vaguely felt what the second uncle wanted to do.

After a whole day of rainwater washing and irrigation, the roots on the ground grew a little longer, and they have already crossed the land, tending to go deep into the village, and the skin is smooth, without a trace of soil, just like snake skin. Odd, I saw it, and I was horrified.

The second uncle took me to the black hole, put down the cart, took a photo with a flashlight, turned to look at me and asked, "Why, are you afraid?" I tentatively asked, "Are you going down?" The second uncle nodded.I asked again: "Did you go down here this morning?" The second uncle nodded again, put his hands on his hips and said, "If you have anything else to ask, ask it all at once, and after that, we have to work! "

"What's down there?" I asked.In fact, I wanted to ask if there were coffins and dead people below, but I didn't ask.The second uncle said seriously: "Want to know? Then you come down with me to have a look." I looked at the hemp rope and the stake and said, "You want to bring up the coffin below."

"You are very smart, as expected of my nephew." The second uncle was gearing up for a while, and said excitedly: "Go down and have a look, you will be deeply shocked by your discovery, you and my uncle and nephew will witness the world's ninth largest Miracle!"

(End of this chapter)