★ Haunted House
There is an old man who is almost a hundred years old in a neighboring village. His surname is Zhang. I call him Uncle Zhang. He has no land and is often idle with nothing to do. He likes to tell ghost stories to others. I heard many ghost stories from him, and the scariest one was the one about the haunted house.
At the west end of the village, there is an old house with blue-grey bricks and mottled outer walls. This old house is very old. Even the oldest man in the village doesn’t know when it was built or who built it. He just knows that the old house is very old. The original owner of the house was an old widow. After the old widow died, because she had no relatives or friends, the old house lost its owner. But since the old widow died, the place has become haunted. Whenever the sun goes down, as long as you approach it, you will hear a very miserable cry, lingering in your ears, and sometimes you can see many will-o'-wisps. Running around the broken house will scare you so much that you can't even run. An old man herding sheep in the village once saw a black smoke coming out of the roof of the old house for no reason. He felt strange, so he went to a goddess to take a look. After looking at it, the goddess said, this is from the old house. The ghost smoke would appear only when the ghost was cooking, so the villagers were all frightened and did not dare to approach it again.
One spring night one year, a child named Liu Zhen played hide-and-seek with his friends in the village. When it was his turn to catch someone, he accidentally came near the haunted house. The moon had already risen at that time, and the pure white moonlight cast the shadows of the trees on the ground. The shadows were mottled, the black ones were the tree shadows, and the white ones were the moonlight, which made people feel quite scary. When he thought about the villagers saying that this place was haunted by the scariest ghost sounds , he felt very scared and wanted to leave. At this time, he suddenly saw a figure walking around in the haunted house, and thought excitedly: It must be a little friend hiding there, and he must be caught this time. Thinking like this, he didn't feel scared anymore, and looked toward him in the moonlight. Walk into the haunted house. Just when he came to the haunted house, he suddenly heard the bustle inside, with people chatting and joking, moving things, fighting, and scolding children, but no one could be seen. Only then did he realize that he had encountered a ghost, and wanted to run outside. But what made people feel weird was that the more he wanted to run, the more he felt like someone was grabbing his clothes behind him, and he couldn't run at all. This time He was dumbfounded and said in his heart: "It's over, I've been caught by the ghost this time." Just when he was desperate, the voices of his friends calling his name suddenly came from outside the haunted house. Suddenly, the sounds in the house stopped suddenly, and there was no sound. Someone grabbed his clothes, so he ran out of the haunted house and came to his friends.
Only later did he find out that a friend saw him walking into the haunted house and quickly called other friends to shout his name, which scared away the ghosts in the haunted house and saved him with the scariest ghost sounds. One life.