Chapter 63 Back Soul Day (2/2)

Fortunately, she was nothing to do with the ghost house, so I was relieved.

I continued to persuade her and said that there was nothing to hide.

Suddenly, Feng Chunsheng rushed over: “Damn it. I washed my hair for a long time. There is still a very disgusting stench. I demand that you compensate me for my spiritual loss.”

I quickly stopped him: “Cut it out. It was an accident.”

Seeing he was angry, she also hurriedly bowed, ”sorry, sorry. I really wasn’t in control just then, I didn’t do it intentionally.”

When she spoke, Feng Chunsheng suddenly fell on his butt and crawled away from her, desperately clawing at the ground with his hands as if her apology was a very terrible thing.

”What's the matter? Is she going to eat you?” I pulled Feng Chunsheng.

He raised his hand, pointing to her and said: “She... Behind her, there’s a woman… She’s carrying a woman in red clothes.”

Hearing, plus knowing she recently started noticing strange things, I immediately became afraid. She had just told me that the creepy woman who used an oiled paper umbrella was dressed in red clothes.

How can this be?

I slowly turned around, wanting to see if the red-clothed woman was behind her.

I looked back and found that she was squatting on the ground, holding her head, and something indeed flashed red behind her.

The red flash disappeared too fast. I could not see whether it was a woman, but it was really weird.

I helped Feng Chunsheng up. “The red dress woman is gone. She’s gone.”

”This is very weird.” He was a little shaken up.

Lei Qiaoqiao was squatting on the ground, shivering: “No, how can I be carrying a woman around? The woman in the red dress just keeps following me.”

I grabbed her and said: ”it's OK, really OK.”

She was in shock and kept mumbling, seeming to comfort herself.

Feng Chunsheng pulled me aside and said, ”This woman is very weird. I won’t give her trouble, and you let her go quickly! Normal ghosts are very difficult to reveal. If revealed, she’ll be even fiercer than the female ghost from the ghost house, on account of too much grievance.”

”Is that true?” I looked to him: “If we don't help her, what happens to her?”

”What about her? She’s dead.” He asked me: ”Do you know why there is a custom of the first seventh day from the day of death?”

In our rural country area, basically everyone observed the first seventh day custom.

It meant that, after death, the coffin had to be sealed on the same day, and after seven days the coffin was to be opened to scrub the body clean. Then the coffin was resealed in a funeral.

I said I knew. The old people said that ghosts will look at their relatives after seven days. It was called ‘back soul day’.

Feng Chunsheng smiled coldly: “You just know a little. Why is it the first seventh day, and not the first eighth? A long time ago, it was said this ghost harmed people after seven days. Six days ahead, it sticks to you, but on the seventh day, it will certainly do harm.”

When a person died, his or her family members would put them into the coffin and leave the coffin at home for seven days. It was thought that if the person did not die in a natural way, they would have enough time to take out their resentment in seven days. After that, the family members would clean the body and bury it.

He said: “The female ghost is in this woman's back, it possessed her. In no more than seven days, she will die, no doubt.”

”So weird?” I said.

He smiled coldly: “In the ghost business there are many rules. I knew few, but there are too many things I do not know. You have to learn. Quickly, let this woman go.”

I said with a bitter smile: “I can't let her go.”

”Why?” He asked me.

I said, “She is my childhood friend, my neighbor, Lei Qiaoqiao.”

”What?” He shouted loudly, then sat on the ground, shook his head, and sighed, ”Alas, ever since I met you, it has been a bloody hell. You love to help your friends, so I guess, this time, you have to help too.”

I smiled and said to him, ”Brother Chun, don't be so upset. We can settle this thing.”

”Settle? Bullshit.” He said, ”No matter who meets this thing, they will die. You go and ask her how many days she has been haunted by the red woman.”

I walked over to her. Her mood had slightly eased by now. I asked her, ”For how many days have you been haunted by that female ghost?”

”How many days?” She thought for a while: “Five days.”

”Five days?”

I trembled in my heart.

According to Feng Chunsheng, the ghost would take its revenge on the seventh day. After midnight will be the sixth day. If she did not clean up the female ghost on her back tomorrow, then she would die.

I was in a hurry. Suddenly, she broke out a strange laugh: “Heehee.”

I was startled by the laughter and looked up quickly. I felt her face, I couldn't see clearly. She seemed to suddenly become very terrible.

She giggled and sang a nursery rhyme.