As Zhang Chu walked on this great land, he encountered quite a few old farmers along the way.
At the same time, Zhang Chu also learnt that in this world, almost all of the villagers lived peacefully and had simple folkways.
And on this very day, Zhang Chu arrived beside a large lake, and just as he approached this large lake, Zhang Chu sensed a heavenly resentment that enveloped the entire large lake.
“Hmm?”Zhang Chu was stunned in his heart, as he could not feel it from a distance, and it was only when he got closer that he realised that this great lake had a heavenly grievance aura within it!
“What’s going on? Within this small world, how could there be such a special Grudge Bane Land?”Zhang Chu was surprised in his heart.
And right at this moment, an old man’s voice came from the distance, “Quickly get out of there, quickly get out of there! Don’t you want to die?”
Hearing the old man’s voice, Zhang Chu turned his head to look back.
He only saw an old man carrying farming tools, walking quickly with an anxious expression as he shouted, “Young man, what are you doing? Don’t want to live!”
Knowing that the old man had good intentions, Zhang Chu walked towards the old farmer and said, “Old man, I’m a foreigner, I don’t know the rules here, this lake, can’t you go near it?”
The old man said, “At a glance, I know that you are a foreigner, haven’t you noticed that a large portion of the land beside this lake is full of weeds, no one has ploughed it, this lake, you can’t go near it.”
“Why?”Zhang Chu asked.
“This is the Lake of Sin, it can eat people! Inside, ah, it’s full of the dead souls of sinners.”The old man said.
“Sin Lake? Sinners?”Zhang Chu looked surprised, “What does that mean? Are there people who have committed sins and will be executed here?”
The old man, on the other hand, explained, “No, it’s just a saying passed down from the generations of our ancestors, saying that there were once tens of thousands of sinners that were executed here and thrown into the Great Lake.”
“From that time onwards, this place has become evil, and whoever gets close to this place will surely be pulled down by the water ghosts.”
Zhang Chu couldn’t help but ask, “Old man, in these last one to two decades, has anyone died in this lake?”
“Yes, why not, there can be many!”The old man said.
At this moment, the old man and Zhang Chu walked some distance in the direction away from that big lake, came under an old tree, and sat down.
Then the old man sighed and said, “Far from it, just the year before last, my granddaughter died in that lake.”
“Eh?”Zhang Chu’s heart stirred as he hurriedly asked, “Was the child too young to watch over?”
The old man then shook his head and said, “It’s not that the child is small, it’s the ghosts and monsters inside that lake that snatched it away and couldn’t even pull it away.”
“Snatched!”Zhang Chu frowned: “What do you mean robbed?”
At this time the old man said, “That night, I remember very clearly, my granddaughter suddenly cried and wanted to eat the baked buns.”
“In the middle of the night, where do I go to get her baked buns, but the child cried and cried and cried and had to eat, the child’s parents were too lazy to care, so I climbed up, built a fire, and had to bake slices of steamed buns for the child to eat.”
According to the old man’s description, at that time, because it was summer, the weather is sultry, can not make a fire in the house, can only go to the yard to make a fire.
That night, the fire was blazing, the old man and the child around the fire, baked some slices of steamed bread, the child ate the little red face, looks very happy, face has been with a faint smile.
Now that I think about it, recalling it, I feel that smile, a little weird, because that smile does not look like a child’s face to show, more like an adult, or rather, the dead people may have that kind of weird smile.
Under the light of the blazing fire, the old man had a very clear memory of that day’s smile.
And after the child had eaten for a while, the yard of the old man’s house was suddenly blown open by a gloomy wind.
The old man hurried to close the door, and as a result, a group of people, dressed in ancient clothes and carrying a palanquin, appeared at the old man’s door.
As the old man spoke, he couldn’t help but sigh, “I was so frightened that I squatted on my arse on the ground, because there is a legend in our area, that inside the Lake of Grudges, there is an old woman.”
“And that old woman, every once in a while, she has to choose a maid, to accompany her to do needlework, and every time she chooses a maid, she carries her away in a sedan chair.”
“I was trying to shout for help, trying to stop those things, but, after my granddaughter ate those slices of steamed bread by herself, she stood up by herself and got into that palanquin by herself.”
“Then, I watched as my granddaughter, was carried away by the palanquin.”
Zhang Chu asked, “There was no chase?”
The old man sighed, “Chased after, once that group of people left, my legs and feet got the better of me, so I shouted, and our family, the child’s parents, chased after them together.”
“Eventually, we got to the lake and saw a terrible sight.”
Zhang Chu asked, “What did you see?”
At that moment, the old man said, “I saw that the group of people carrying the palanquins, oh no, the ghosts, were walking on the great lake with the palanquins on their shoulders, as if they were walking on the ground.”
“I also saw, that night, on the lake, unexpectedly emerged a very large palace-like compound, around the compound ah, inserted full of torches, that yard lit up brilliantly.”
“And then later?”Zhang Chu asked.
The old man shook his head, “And then later, I don’t know anything anymore, I never saw my granddaughter again, a good child, just gone.”
Zhang Chu slowly twisted his head and looked towards the huge lake, then asked, “Old man, this lake, how often does it eat a person?”
The old man said, “I’ve heard that it eats three people a year, two children and one adult.”
“So many!”Zhang Chu’s eyelids raised.
At this time, the old man said, “I heard that this is the case, because around this big lake, there are thirty to forty villages, so I might have been caught up by which one, whether it’s specifically this number or not, I’m not sure.”
“Didn’t consider leaving this big lake?”Zhang Chu asked.
For his part, the old man shook his head and said, “How can we leave, our land, our houses are around here, and, although it is said that this lake is dangerous, there are so many villages around it, it won’t necessarily fall to our village ……”
Zhang Chu nodded, essentially, it is still a reason, the land is here.
Go somewhere else, who would give you land to farm?
In this world, there was no commercial activity, basically, all the people, they were fixed on their own dozens of acres of land, so they had to live here.
At this time, Zhang Chu said, “I know.”
The old man then instructed Zhang Chu, “Don’t go any closer to this lake, I’ve heard that if you casually go near that lake, you will be ripped down by the severe ghosts in the water.”
Zhang Chu thanked the old man, but still said, “Old man, I specialise in catching ghosts, and since the matter here has come across me, I can’t just ignore it.”
“Ah? You can catch ghosts?”The old man was very surprised.
Immediately after, the old man was surprised, “Then you must go and sit in our village, if you can catch the ghosts, then all of us in the ten miles and eight villages will thank you.”
With that, the old man got up, “Let’s go, follow me to see our village chief!”
