It has been nearly twenty years since I left rural life, and these ghost stories were often spread among the older generation in the rural areas. Especially the four-day generals (coffin bearers) have many ghost stories. Why are there less of them now? The elders used to say that when Lao Mao became the king, he became very popular. Later, there were less of these little-waisted ghosts. Let me tell you something, please don’t accuse me of being superstitious or anything like that…
There is a four-day general in the village. Farmers usually see water in their fields on summer nights. And some of his rice fields are in a place called Dead Pond Cave, which is a place where people from a village with a large population (which means there are many dead people and ghosts buried there) are buried after death. Although the place is not far from the village, due to the unique terrain, you can't see the surrounding residents or people passing by there during the day. That day he went to see the paddy field late at night, and he saw groups of ghosts with upper body but no lower body, large and small, catching loaches in the paddy field and stuffing each one into their mouths desperately…
When he went to the corner of his field, he saw something strange! I just came here this evening and there was nothing. At that time, there were many bamboo stalks about three or four inches long scattered. As soon as I thought about it, it would be nice to pick it up and cook it, so I picked it up and carried it back with a dustpan. Well, not long after he went home and went to bed, a lot of people came to the door, making noise and demanding the return of their keys. It was really haunted. He thought there was no key at all, so why were so many ghosts asking him for the key ? One night, the cockcrow was so loud that the ghosts left, and he finally got some sleep. It was haunted like this for several nights in a row…
Later, he realized that the bamboo stalks he had picked up were the keys to the ghosts. He returned the bamboo stalks to their original place, and there were no ghosts asking him for keys late at night.