Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and everyone is busy buying New Year's goods, preparing to slaughter pigs and chickens, and having a good feast.
The courtyard of Old Liu's house was the most lively in the village, because his children and grandchildren were all back today. Aunt Liu was holding a knife and preparing to kill a chicken. She held the chicken's head, and her hand holding the knife was shaking a little. She closed her eyes and planned to cut the chicken's neck with a knife.
But the chicken was not completely dead after the knife was cut, and it began to flutter in the yard in pain. As it fluttered, it actually flew into the well. There was a lot of water used these days, and the well was not covered.
Old Liu shouted: "Oh no, we have to catch the chicken. What can we do with the dirty water?" Old Liu's children quickly found tools and fished out the drowned chicken. Little did they know that the chicken's blood actually awakened the century-old wronged soul in the ancient well.
At night, a burst of crying woke up Lao Liu. He was a light sleeper and his room was closest to the well. He pushed Aunt Liu awake and asked her if she heard anything. Aunt Liu woke up in a daze and listened carefully. There was indeed someone crying outside.
"Could it be that the girl had a quarrel with her husband and was wronged? Let's go out and take a look." Aunt Liu said and was about to go to the field.
"No, this sound… is a little weird. Don't you think it's creepy?" Old Liu didn't think his daughter would cry so ugly.
"Then… who do you think is crying so terribly in the middle of the night? Or is it the sound of the wind?"
"Not like it. Well… I'll go out and take a look." After saying that, Old Liu got up from the ground, took the flashlight, put on his clothes, and went out.
Old Liu came to the yard and looked for the source of the sound. He searched for a long time but could not find anyone. The crying sound seemed to come from the well. Old Liu straightened his coat and walked towards the well. He looked inside with a flashlight and saw a head with long white hair rushing towards him. There was no flesh on the face of the head, just a skull with white hair. Old Liu had never seen such a strange thing before and fainted by the well. Aunt Liu saw that Old Liu had not entered the house yet, so she went out to see that Old Liu was lying on the ground. She quickly called her children to carry Old Liu into the house.
The next morning, Old Liu woke up from his coma. His eyes were bloodshot. He glared at everyone in the room and yelled loudly, which scared everyone. His three-year-old grandson pointed at him and cried, shouting "Be afraid, be afraid."
Old Liu yelled, "You bunch of idiots, you never thought that my third mother would come back, did you? Hahahaha, you killed me back then. Even if I can't find you, I will make your descendants extinct… Hahahaha, God has eyes, God has eyes, let my third mother have the opportunity to take revenge! I… want all of you to die miserably! Hahahaha…" Aunt Liu and her children looked at each other , knowing that Old Liu must have been possessed by evil spirits. The family began to discuss where to find a witch to exorcise the evil spirits.
The witch came and used some kind of spell to make Lao Liu faint. She shook her head and said to Lao Liu's family, "Move away quickly. There is a lot of resentment in your village. I'm afraid there are some evil ghosts who are haunting you."
Old Liu woke up and the wronged spirit that possessed him had left.
"Old man, how do you feel?" asked Aunt Liu.
"Oh…" Old Liu sighed and then fell silent.
"Why are you sighing? If you have something to say, just say it. You made us worried and scared when you went crazy." Aunt Liu's face was full of worry.
"Alas… we, the descendants, have to pay for the sins committed by our ancestors."
"What are you talking about? Don't talk nonsense." Aunt Liu scolded.
"When the ghost possessed me, I saw some scenes. A woman was kneeling on the ground. She was disheveled, with dishevelled hair, her mouth stuffed with rags, her eyes red, and she couldn't speak out her grievances. A man chopped off her head with a big knife and threw it into the well. The scary thing was that the people watching around actually came forward and cut off her flesh… It was so horrible, so horrible…"
"Old man, why don't we move out and live with the kids?"
"You know, I don't want to cause trouble to the children. Wait for two days… and see what this female ghost is going to do.
At night, there was a loud scream from the Zhu family next door to Lao Liu's house. Aunt Zhu was shouting for help. Several neighbors turned on the lights, but no one went out, as if they were listening to the noise. Lao Liu got up and wanted to go out to see what was happening, but was stopped by Aunt Liu. Then, Aunt Zhu's screams came from next door, and everyone was even more afraid to go out to see what was happening.
The next morning, the villagers bravely opened the gate of Zhu's house. The scene in the yard made the timid ones run away, and the braver ones squatted on the ground and vomited. Aunt Zhu's head was chopped off, and a large basin was filled with her cut meat, and the remaining skeleton was next to the basin. Uncle Zhu was kneeling beside a wooden stake with an axe stuck in it. His head rolled beside the stake, as if he had chopped off his own head. One of the dead Zhu couple was the descendant of the man who chopped off the woman's head.
The story spread quickly, and soon spread to all directions. The witch came with her senior brother, and the female ghost possessed a villager again, and began to tell her past story in tears.
The female ghost used to be an actress. She returned home after wandering for more than ten years. However, when she returned home, she happened to encounter a natural disaster and saw that the villagers were about to starve.
She used her savings to buy rice and food to help the villagers, but that could only temporarily alleviate the situation. Later, when the rice and food were all gone, the villagers went crazy and asked her to take out more money to buy rice, saying that she earned dirty money and should spend it. The woman was insulted like that and of course she was unwilling to do so, so she was brutally killed by the villagers.
Everyone present felt very sympathetic towards the ghost girl's plight, but that happened a hundred years ago. It was unjust that she was harming innocent people for revenge now.
Later, the witch and her senior brother persuaded the ghost and promised to save her soul, and she was willing to reincarnate again. Then, the village returned to its former peace.