Chapter 128 - Shadow In The Past (1/2)

Chapter 128: Shadow in the Past

Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Lonelytree

Under the cloudless night sky, the whipping wind rave that was at the furthest corner of the graveyard, the chaos fro was clear The old tombstone had toppled over, and the coffin that was supposed to be underground had been lifted and left to the side The coffin lid was pried open, and the skeletal remains had disappeared Not much trace of it was left

“Perhaps because they ca’s family had always stuck out like a sore thumb around here”

Chen Shu sat down on the bench that was brought over for hiht up his memories from the past Be it Gu Jun in his youth, Xue Ba in his pried this elder to tell the, no ht be Chen Shu was lured forth by the captive audience Like nore thes to do

“There were about ten in their family The adults were all deformed, but the children looked no different fro With childish cruelty, I pointed fingers at the horrible jokes about their appearances, but Ol’ Uncle Dog never got mad at us In fact, I don’t think I ever saw hiers were initially against the here, but it was Grandfather who accepted them But ultimately, they were the outsiders Plus, they did not attee of communication with the rest of us, so we did not venture too close to theainst the mountain They chopped some wood anda small community of their own…”

At this point, Gu Jun broke in to ask, “Are those old huts still standing?”

Mayor Chen continued to translate Hearing that, Chen Shu sighed “Of course not With the materials used, they all collapsed with time… No one stays there now It has been vacated for about sixty years already I’ ‘uns knohy”

After finishi+ng translating that last stateersShui”

“When I was young, I liked to explore the village, but even I was afraid to go too close to their huts” Chen Shu reo like it was yesterday “Ol’ Uncle Dog’s fa, but there was always this strange smell that drifted out frohtened The others latched onto this detail as well ‘Strange smell?’

But at that moment, another elder in the wheelchair interrupted with condescension “Ol’ Shu, it’s just their body odor Don’t ine body odor strong enough to form a mist around an area, but if the physical attribute was hereditary, ’s family suffered from it, then it was not entirely out of question

“That was not body odor You ht not remember it, but I certainly do…” Chen Shu huffed, but he kneas a waste of ti with his old friend “I cannot explain clearly what that sent, and it smelled kinda like dead bodies… As I said, it was time of war Occasionally, dead bodies would flon our village river, and the smell that came from the bodies was rather si’s faht flashed across Gu Jun’s e appearance, the s and even his whole family have been zoe those floating corpses so that they would continue on their way down the river, or else they would beach on our village But no one illing to take up that chore because of the negative Feng Shui After Ol’ Uncle Dog’s family moved in, they volunteered to take on this task It was the reason the villagers started to accept their presence around here, but it also prevented people froe-spot filled face started to blanch “The strange thing that I mentioned earlier started around then…

“I was told to go up the mountain to collect firewood every day, so I would pass their hoely uncomfortable every time I did There was always aainst the door They weren’t doing anything, not even talking tothemselves They just stood there and watched me walk by I cannot remember which day it was, but one ti froainst wood It was followed by what sounded like the lols of an aniht that ca a roe inside their yard”

Eighty years later, when Chen Shu described these details, the explanation still eluded hi the ti events In led a roe fro it for food… When I went home, I told my father, who then went to find Grandfather It was only fair that if Ol’ Uncle Dog’s faae”