Transmigrated into a fat wife, farming, raising children, and picking up husbands

"call."

A gust of cold wind suddenly rushed into the room, making the paper windows rattle.

The cold wind made Monkey Three cough even more violently, and he curled up into a ball.

Jia Heiyu lay fully clothed on the tattered straw mat, and suddenly shivered. He cursed and pulled a tattered garment over himself.

His cloudy eyes stared at the impenetrable darkness outside the window.

The anger and unease that had been building up inside him due to the thwarted revenge plan and the slow healing of his injuries, combined with the hunger in his stomach, made him increasingly irritable and restless.

"Just bear with it a little longer! Wait until tomorrow..."

"Damn it! If I don't get any money by tomorrow, I'm going to go and fight that woman..."

In the distance, a broken window banged repeatedly against its frame, battered by the wind.

Jia Heiyu's words were abruptly interrupted by the banging sound. He cursed and turned over, preparing to go to sleep.

The wind outside picked up, rustling the dry grass in the yard, creating an atmosphere reminiscent of an impending storm.

Monkey Three, who was trying to slow his breathing and suppress his cough, seemed to hear a sound in the wind that was different from usual.

He couldn't help but hold his breath and turn his head to listen carefully.

Splash... splash...

A very faint, yet exceptionally clear, scraping sound of chains, carried by the howling wind, entered his ears.

The sound was heavy, with a rusty, sluggish quality.

One stroke after another, as if something enormous was dragging heavy shackles, grinding across the stone slabs and weeds outside the courtyard...

Monkey Three's heart skipped a beat. Something was wrong! The sound was too heavy; it didn't sound like something the wind could produce.

He was filled with doubt and wanted to ask others, but he was afraid that he had misheard.

Just as he was about to listen more carefully, the rattling of the chains stopped.

He relaxed, realizing he had indeed misheard.

But before he could catch his breath and relax, the ease on his face instantly froze.

A faint, intermittent sobbing sound drifted on the wind.

The crying sounded like a young woman's voice.

It is melancholic and poignant, yet strangely moving, with an indescribable charm that makes the listener's heart flutter and yearn to get to know it better.

The crying was intermittent, torn apart by the wind. Its content was better left unheard, but it pierced Monkey Three's eardrums clearly without warning.

"I...died...so tragically..."

"Waaaaah... He died so tragically..."

Monkey San's scalp exploded with a "buzz"! All the hairs on his body stood on end instantly! His blood seemed to have turned half cold.

Fear, like a cold, giant hand, suddenly gripped his heart, startling him so much that he gasped sharply.

"Cough cough... cough cough cough!!!"

The cool air rushed into his lungs, and the extreme shock made him unable to suppress the coughing in his chest.

A violent, earth-shattering cough suddenly erupted in the darkness!

He coughed so hard he curled up, tears streaming down his face. His lungs hissed like broken bellows, the sound particularly jarring in the deathly darkness.

"Damn it! Monkey Three, what the hell are you coughing for?! Can't a person get any sleep?!" Dog Five was woken up and cursed irritably while covering his nose.

"Sure enough! What's all that yelling about in the middle of the night!" Zhao Si rolled over in annoyance.

Jia Heiyu suddenly opened his eyes, which were bloodshot and filled with impatience.

Ignoring their complaints, Monkey Three, before his cough had even subsided, eagerly grabbed Liu Er beside him.

"No, second brother, you, cough cough...did you hear that?! Outside...there's a woman crying outside!"

His voice trembled, tinged with fear, as he gazed into the darkness outside the window, his Adam's apple bobbing.

"She said, cough cough... she said she died a terrible death!"

"There are chains! And the sound of chains being dragged! Can't you hear that?! Can't you hear that?!"

He stared wide-eyed, futilely gazing in the darkness toward the direction from which the sound came.

"Bullshit! There was no crying sound, just night owls meowing. Go to sleep! If you keep talking nonsense, I'll beat you up."

Jia Heiyu gave an irritating scolding and turned over again.

With the boss having spoken, no one wanted to offend him, and the room fell into an eerie silence once again.

None of them were sleepy; they all unconsciously strained their ears, held their breath, and listened intently in the darkness.

Actually, before Monkey Three shouted, they had vaguely heard some of the sounds of chains and women crying.

The sound was too faint, and it was mixed with the howling wind, so it was intermittent.

In their minds, they had already attributed the strange noise to the wind and wild cats calling out in the distance.

But now, with Monkey Three's sudden shout breaking the silence, the strange feeling they had been forcibly ignoring was instantly magnified.

Fear, like cold mercury, crept up my spine.

The wind outside was still blowing wildly, pounding against the doors and windows.

Then, in a brief pause in the wind...

Splash...

...splash...

The sound of the iron chain dragging and rubbing against the stone slab seemed clearer than before.

The heavy, metallic feel of the metal stubbornly seeped in through the gaps in the door panel.

But strangely, it's so elusive!

Just when I thought the sound was coming from outside the broken wall on the east side, I listened intently, and then the next sound seemed to drift from behind the withered tree in the west garden.

Then, in a moment of confusion, the sound seemed to be clearly coming from under the courtyard wall.

The source cannot be determined at all.

But it is this elusive, unpredictable feeling that is more terrifying than a clear and accurate sound!

It was as if there really was an invisible "thing" dragging heavy shackles on its feet.

They were moving back and forth around the dilapidated house where they lived at some inhuman speed, pacing back and forth.

It looked like they were looking for something or someone.

The erratic, unpredictable, and eerie "whoosh" sound could no longer be ignored; it sent chills down their spines and banished all sleepiness.

In the darkness, Jia Heiyu clenched his fists, his nails digging into his palms, trying to suppress the inexplicable chill that was growing in his heart with pain.

Bald Lai Zi unconsciously shrank his neck, as if the pain in his lower back had intensified. Zhao Si licked his chapped lips, the cold air rushing into his toothless mouth.

Monkey Three trembled like a leaf in the wind, covering his mouth tightly, not daring to even cough. Only his wide eyes were filled with fear that was about to overflow.

Just as the erratic clanging of the chains was unsettling, the young woman's soft, sobbing voice drifted in on the wind once more.

This time, the crying sounded closer and clearer. It was no longer fragmented words torn apart by the wind, but drifted into everyone's ears completely.

"I died...so tragically..."

"I'm so lonely...who will keep me company..."

"...Someone will keep me company...!"