1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 326 Totoro Creation
The next morning.

The strong wind that had been blowing all night had long since died down, and the simple and ancient courtyard was as calm as a lake.

There were no ripples.

The light was on in the bedroom next to the main house of the courtyard. The warm yellow light shone through the printed windows and fell into the dry gutter, leaving a slanted block of light.

It is very conspicuous in the dim and foggy yard.

Through the window, you can vaguely see a figure sitting quietly at the desk, shaking his hands.

"rustle……"

The silver fountain pen tip was filled with azure ink, and it wrote majestic and meaningful words on the rough paper. As my eyes focused on the words, they gradually became clear:

"This is a haunted house in our town. I heard that every time it rains, strange black marks will appear in the house!"

"Haunted house?!"

Xiaofeng quickly hugged his sister's legs, frightened.

"Yes, one time, Xiaohu's black cat ran into that room and disappeared. We never saw it again."

"Xiaohu cried for a long time! I heard from the adults that he was eaten by something in the house!"

"real or fake?"

Now my sister's face turned pale.

"Of course it's true, the one who lied is the puppy!"

……

The sunshine in early summer is particularly bright.

The neatly arranged rice fields were filled with clear river water, in which green rice seedlings, newly planted, were growing and swaying in the wind.

A tractor emitting black smoke was parked on the ridge that neatly divided the rice fields.

"Whoosh..."

I was rolling up my sleeves and moving the luggage and furniture off the tractor one by one, and the driver was standing on the luggage to help me.

The old house is located at a relatively high position, on a flattened hillside, and at the intersection leading up to it there are two cement piers embedded in the soil, the distance between them is too narrow for a tractor to go up.

The daughters and children from the village went up from the intersection and stood on the cement pier covered with soil and weeds.

While looking curiously at the adults who were moving the luggage, we were chatting seriously about the old house where we were going to stay this time.

Of course I don't believe in ghosts.

But...it's a good thing that the daughters were able to find friends to talk to in the village so quickly.

After all, they will be going to the town’s primary school in a while.

I was thinking while moving my luggage.

After a while, all the luggage was unloaded.

"Whoosh..."

I raised my hand to wipe the sweat from my forehead, breathing heavily, and a complex mixture of smells rushed into my nose.

It was the heat of early summer that was evaporating the moisture in the rice fields, and the smell of grass juice mixed with sweet and sour berries.

It makes people feel extra relaxed.

I thought so in my heart, and waved to my daughter who was high up.
"Come down and help daddy!"

"coming!"

The two little guys heard the sound and responded immediately.

Then he politely apologized to his friend and trotted down.

I carried the large luggage up with great effort, while the two little ones worked together to lift the small items. It took the three of us, father and daughter, half an hour to move all the items to the door of the old house.

This is a wooden house built of solid wood and mortise and tenon structure. It is black and gray in color. The paint on the wooden door is mottled and the color has faded after more than ten years of wind and sun.

The wooden house has two floors, and the bottom is raised to a certain height to prevent moisture and mosquitoes, snakes and ants. It looks like a child can fit in it.

“It looks scary.”

The youngest daughter Xiaofeng looked at the small house and said timidly.

"They all say there's a ghost in there!"

I found that my eldest daughter, Xiaofei, was calmer, probably because she took after my wife.

"With daddy here, are you two still scared?"

I touched my daughters' warm heads, ruffled their hair, and said with a smile.

"That's right!" The two little guys breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now I'll give you a task! Go open the doors of every room, as well as the closets, cabinets, and windows, to let in some fresh air!"

I spoke in a serious tone, like a cadre giving orders.

"Yes, sir!"

The daughters raised their hands and saluted with fists, and nodded like chicks pecking at rice. It was so cute.

I found out that they were actually doing the Young Pioneer salute, which made me laugh. So I waved my hand and said loudly like an actor in a theater: "Go, go on an adventure!"

"Da da da--"

The two of them walked into the house wearing hard plastic sandals, which made a particularly crisp sound as they rubbed against the stone floor.

"Comrade Cheng, you just moved in, right? I'm your neighbor, and I came here specially to help you!"

I continued to move the luggage with my head down, and soon an old voice came from behind me.

When I looked back, I saw an old woman with a towel tied on her head.

As I moved things and chatted with the old lady, I gained a superficial understanding of this town.

Inside the house, the two sisters walked upstairs from the main room. The wooden stairs creaked under the weight of the two little people, as if they would break in the next second.

Xiaofei held her sister's hand tightly, and walked carefully on the stairs with a worried look on her face.

One step, two steps.

"what!"

"Sister, there is... there is something black!"

Suddenly, something cold and soft brushed past Xiaofeng's feet. The sudden contact made Xiaofeng scream subconsciously.

My sister looked over quickly and saw a black object flash by and escape through the gap in the wooden floor.

"Is it a mouse?"

"certainly not!"

“Round like a meatball, cool like ice cream, and furry like a kitten.”

The picture created by the words her sister described was so beautiful that Xiaofei couldn't even imagine it.

So without caring about anything else, he quickly pulled his sister upstairs.

Arriving upstairs, the two of them split up.

Xiaofeng scratched his head and looked at the wardrobe covered with spider webs in front of him, and his little hand slowly reached for the drawer.

"rustle……"

The wood made a sound of friction, but nothing came out of it, so Xiaofeng breathed a sigh of relief.

"Gulu gulu..."

But the next second, groups of black balls suddenly popped out from inside, like soda. The surging wind blew Xiaofeng's pigtails upside down, and they hit her face one after another like small balls.

The little girl stared at them as they disappeared from the corner of the wall, then touched her face which still felt painful, and excitedly opened all the drawers of the wardrobe. In a moment, the black balls were all over the room and flew out of the window.

This time, my sister opened her eyes wide, she saw it too.

The two sisters looked at each other, hurriedly ran down from upstairs, and shouted loudly:
"father!"

“There are strange black briquettes!”

downstairs.

The old lady and I had already packed our things and were drinking tea in the main room downstairs.

I heard the voice and turned to look at my daughters. No...it should be my daughters who had turned black.

"You're talking about a dust spirit, maybe?"

After listening to it, I thought about it.

"That's pretty much what the dust sprites said. They're actually coal bugs. These little guys like to live in dark, damp, uninhabited old houses. Just smile at them and they won't hurt you!"

The old woman explained with a smile, while holding the dark-skinned Xiaofeng in her arms and gently wiping the dust off the little girl's face.

"Coalworm?"

"oh oh!"

My daughters and I looked at each other in amazement. It really is there!

All I can say is that in this country town close to the primeval forest, there are indeed many mysterious things that cannot be explained by science.

(End of this chapter)