BXBX NOVEL Chapter 299: 299 Haunted Mountain
Not long after leaving, he looked back and saw Su Qingyue bending over the well’s turning handle, with his older brother watching. He blurted out, “Older brother, what are you doing staring at the well?”
Li Gui came back to his senses and didn’t say that he wasn’t looking at the well, but at Su Qingyue, “Nothing. Just wanted to drink some well water.”
“Didn’t I just carry some well water? Go home and use a ladle to drink some.”
Li Gui temporarily did not want his younger brother to know his thoughts, so he followed him.
Su Qingyue carried another load of water back to the Xiao Family and poured the two buckets into the jar, filling the big water tank.
She walked to the master bedroom door and knocked on the half-open door, “Can I come in?’
“Wife, come in…”
“Yes.”
“Alright.”
Three male voices sounded at the same time.
Su Qingyue carried the toilet bucket to the backyard again, showing that the three men in the room had all used the toilet.
After washing her hands, she went to the secondary bedroom first, filled the water pot that Xiao Qinghe had drunk from earlier, and took it to the master bedroom with a cup, “Everyone drink some water first, but not too much. To avoid having a stomachache from drinking well water in the morning.”
The three sons each had a cup of water, and although they were not full and still a bit thirsty, they didn’t say anything.
Su Qingyue opened the window of the master bedroom, and the door was also left open. This way, the men in the room could see the situation in the yard.
Seeing the two big baskets of mushrooms in the yard, the three men were all quite surprised.
“Yue’er, how did you find so many mushrooms this morning?” Xiao Yishan asked, his deep eyes full of tenderness, “Carrying such a big load back must have been hard.”
Xiao Yuchuan also said, “Wife, you must be tired…”
Xiao Qinghe silently watched her, his eyes also full of affection.
Su Qingyue said, “The day before yesterday, when I went up the mountain to collect medicinal herbs, I found a lot of mushrooms not far from our home, in that mountain. The herbs were also picked from that mountain…”
As she spoke, she described the path to that mountain, “Strange, why doesn’t anyone go to that nearby mountain?”
After hearing this, the faces of the three became a bit solemn. Xiao Yishan said, “Yue’er, don’t go to that mountain in the future.”
“Why?”
Yuchuan said, “Wife, you don’t know. That mountain used to be visited by people. A few years ago, a newlywed wife in the village committed adultery and was hanged alive by a big tree on that mountain by her husband’s family. Later, when someone went to play on that mountain, they said they saw a woman in red floating under the tree, with her neck still hanging from the tree. Everyone said that the hanged ghost had turned into a fierce ghost, and from then on, that mountain was called Hanging Neck Mountain, and the villagers stopped going there.”
Damn! Really? Su Qingyue muttered, “No wonder there are so many medicinal herbs and mushrooms on that nearby mountain, yet no one goes to pick them.
Turns out the villagers are scared of ghosts.” She said with amusement, “Second brother, third brother, fourth brother, you guys don’t really believe that there are ghosts on that mountain, do you?”
“I’ve never believed in such things.” Xiao Yishan’s cold face was full of worry,
“Yue’er, I’m afraid you’ll be in danger.”
“I have never believed in ghosts either.” Xiao Yuchuan also said, “It’s just that many villagers think that mountain is ominous, and more than one or two people have seen ghosts on it.”
“Qingyue, don’t go to that mountain in the future, alright?” Xiao Qinghe also had a worried look on his face.
Su Qingyue slanted her lips, noncommittal. Although she had picked most of the mushrooms, there were still loads of bayberry fruits on the trees untouched. It’d be strange if she didn’t go and pick them all..