Qiu Wuhen had never seen such a strange thing before, so he walked over and shouted: "Who is it? Who is there?"

The man moved sideways twice, then stopped again, still squatting there and smiling at them.

Qiu Wuhen held the lantern, raised the dagger in his hand and said loudly: "Who are you? What do you want to do?"

The people by the pond still ignored them and just smiled at them.

Qiu Wuhen gritted his teeth and said to Su Jinsong: "You are here, I will go over and meet him."

As he spoke, he walked forward and pointed the dagger at the opponent.

He rushed forward a dozen steps, and the man squatting by the pond suddenly jumped under the big locust tree on the slope. Then he squatted with his legs and flew up. He grabbed the branch and easily

He jumped up freely and grabbed a higher branch. He squatted on the branch and looked back at him.

Qiu Wuhen was stunned for a moment, then laughed.

Su Jinsong was far away and couldn't see what was in front of him. When he heard his husband laughing happily, he quickly asked loudly: "What's wrong?"

Qiu Wuhen pointed at the man on the tree: "You see clearly, that's not a human, that's a monkey. The snow just now covered all the fur on its body and its face, so it looked like a person. Just now.

As soon as it ran away, the snow on its body fell off, and its hair was exposed, especially its long tail, which was still flicking when it jumped into the air! - Let me tell you, what the hell is going on?"

Su Jinsong ran over, raised the lantern and looked carefully. Sure enough, it was a monkey standing there, looking at her with his eyes rolling, and the treetops were swinging up and down under gravity.

Su Jinsong couldn't help but chuckle.

At this time, hearing the shouting, Xie Ma and several girls in the room came out and asked what happened?

Su Jinsong chuckled and said: "It's nothing. I just saw something squatting by the river. I didn't know if it was a human or a ghost. I called my husband over, but when I held a lantern, I saw it was a monkey. It's really funny.

It scared me half to death."

Several people heard talking outside, and Mrs. Su and the others also came out to watch. When they heard Su Jinsong's explanation just now, they all laughed.

The monkey heard the laughter below and saw that more people were coming. He jumped from one tree to another and quickly disappeared into the night.

Qiu Wuhen said: "It can be seen that it is true that suspicion breeds ghosts. How can there be ghosts in the world? Don't scare yourself. If you encounter strange things in the future, you should investigate them clearly, otherwise you will become more and more frightened.

The more you worry, the more you look at yourself, the more you see things that look like ghosts, then you will get sick from fear."

Xie Ma laughed and said: "My husband couldn't be more right. If you encounter any weird things in the future, just ask me to investigate. I'm not afraid. The fortune teller said that my destiny is very hard, and I can kill the Bull Demon King."

Woolen cloth!"

Mother Su said: "That is natural. If your life is not tough, you will not be able to escape the disaster. I hope you can help us tide over the difficulties."

After talking, they went back to their houses. It was too cold outside.

Back in the attic, Su Jinsong helped her husband pat the white snow on his head and shoulders, and said: "It's all my fault that I didn't see clearly. I just scared myself. It also scared everyone. If it's not my husband, please check carefully."

, I really thought it was haunted!”

After the two of them washed up, they undressed and went to sleep.

In the middle of the night, Qiu Wuhen was suddenly shaken awake by someone. It was his wife Su Jinsong who curled up in his arms and pushed him gently with her hand.

Qiu Wuhen was sleepy: "Sleepy..., let's meet again tomorrow night...?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Su Jinsong slapped him angrily, "Listen, there seems to be some noise outside. It seems to be the sound of grinding that the old lady said, and it's downstairs."

Qiu Wuhen suddenly woke up and listened carefully. Indeed, there was a booming sound, but he couldn't hear it clearly.

Qiu Wuhen's sleepiness disappeared, he sat up immediately, and immediately picked up the dagger placed on the bedside, but he could not light the lantern immediately.

At this moment, he really misses modern society, where a mobile phone can be used as a flashlight. But in ancient times, even if you wanted to light a lamp, it would take a long time, but he decided not to use a lantern, because it was snowing outside and the ground was

The room was relatively bright against the white snow, and I could barely see what was going on inside.

He held the dagger tightly and walked down the stairs slowly and carefully. When he reached the top of the stairs and listened, the rumbling sound disappeared.

He carefully looked around the place downstairs, but there was no abnormal sound, so he walked down, turned around, and opened a window. Now the room was brighter. With the reflection of the white snow outside, the room became brighter.

I looked around again, but there was still nothing strange, so I closed the window, bolted it, went back upstairs, and got under the covers again.

Su Jinsong asked: "How is it?"

"There's nothing, it's just suspicion."

"No, it's just the sound of grinding. Grandma is right. I heard it too. You should have heard it just now too."

"There is a bit of a resemblance, so I went down to take a look just now, but there was nothing there! I thought the sound of snow falling outside was the sound of grinding!"

Qiu Wuhen also felt that his statement was a bit far-fetched, because when he opened the window just now, there was no sound outside. It was really completely silent, with only snowflakes falling, silence, and no wind at all. Where could the sound of wind and snow come from?

But I did hear the strange sound clearly just now. It sounded like the sound of grinding. It was really strange.

He suddenly remembered the so-called haunting he heard in the lobby of the Yamen: "Could it be a cat? Cats can make all kinds of strange noises, such as babies crying, and some cats can make purring sounds. Immediately

Spring is about to begin, and cats are also in heat. At this time, they become even more aggressive."

"What kind of spring is it? The New Year is not over yet! Why is the cat in heat? Besides, even if it is a cat, the sound is obviously coming from inside the house. If you go down and take a look, you should be able to see it if there is a cat.

ah!"

"Well, I have to give you some popular science. There is something called directional illusion. That is, some sounds that you hear clearly come from the east are actually coming from the west. Due to various complex processes such as vocal tract rotation,

, making you feel that the sound is coming from this direction, but in fact it is coming from another direction. This can explain why we hear the rumbling grinding sound coming from downstairs, but maybe there is a cat outside the building, or even behind us

There was a strange roaring sound on the roof, but we thought it was downstairs, which was an illusion of direction."

Su Jinsong listened carefully and found that the sound had disappeared. Then he said: "I don't care if it is an illusion or not, just go to sleep. Maybe you are right."

"What does it mean? I'm obviously right."

"Okay, okay, go to sleep. My husband, you have to go to the Yamen tomorrow morning!"

The two of them hugged each other and continued to sleep, but despite saying that, they were still quite nervous. Fortunately, they didn't hear any more noises, so the two of them felt relieved and gradually fell into a dream.

the next morning.

When Qiu Wuhen woke up, he found that Su Jinsong had already gotten up and there was no one on the pillow.

He quickly got up and put on his clothes, walked to the window, opened the window and looked down. Wow, the whole world was silvery white. There was thick snow on the ground.

Downstairs, Su Jinsong was sweeping the snow with a broom. He swept the snow to both sides of the corridor and piled it up high. You can tell how thick the snow is from the piled snow.
Chapter completed!