Chapter 2113 (two thousand one hundred and thirteen) in the heart
He felt that it was already very late at that time, and thought to himself: It seems that the patriarch will not show up again today, do I really have to spend the night here? If the patriarch didn't come to open the door and let me out, I would have no choice but to sleep here, but...if there wasn't just one bug, would they really get into my ears and nose after I fell asleep? Will they bite me to death and eat my body? If I have to spend this night in this terrible Twilight Pavilion, I'll just tear off part of another piece of cloth in the bag, plug my ears, and cover my nose with the cloth! Of course, it would be best if the clan leader would come and let me out!
There was a sound of wind outside again, and he thought of the steamed buns in the bag he touched before, and thought: Trouble, I can't figure out which of the two steamed buns was partially eaten by me. If I continue to eat, Which one should I eat? If I eat the steamed bun that I didn't bite originally, wouldn't it be like eating a "tribute"? Wouldn't that be terrifying?
The wind sounds like ghosts crying outside Muxi Pavilion come and go, as if there is endless sadness. As he listened, the fear in his heart became even greater, and he couldn't remember how many steamed buns he had eaten.
In fact, the missing part of each of the two steamed buns has something to do with him.
Before, he felt a little hungry, so he took out a smaller steamed bun from the bag. After taking two bites, he seemed to realize something and put the steamed bun back into the bag. At this time he stood up, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and said something silently. After that, he reached into the bag again and took out the steamed bun. What he took out was a larger steamed bun. Attacked by fear, he had no time to think about anything else. He put the steamed bun in his mouth blankly, not even noticing that the steamed bun had not been bitten at all. He always thought that the bun he took out to bite was the one he had already bitten before. Steamed bun. He thought he was biting the same steamed bun twice, but it was actually two steamed buns.
Until later, he still didn't know that he had bitten the missing pieces of the two steamed buns. He thought he had encountered a ghost here and thought that the ghost had bitten the steamed bun that he thought he had never bitten. The things he heard about ghosts when he was a child were very scary. He recalled the sayings he had heard that ghosts could appear in various forms. He recalled that some ghosts were completely unafraid of the sun when they transformed into bugs or other forms, and even Very fond of sunshine. He felt that the black insect eating the steamed buns that he saw at the place where he heard the singing the day before might be a form of ghost. Therefore, he believed that the steamed buns being eaten in Muxi Pavilion were the same as the ones he heard the singing the day before. The situation where the steamed buns are eaten when you go to the singing position is basically the same thing.
However, he was indeed affected by his own inner fear. He thought the person who ate part of the steamed bun was a ghost, but it turned out to be himself. Fear controlled him, and the ghost was in his heart. Unexpectedly, he unknowingly became the "ghost eating steamed buns."
After a long time, he felt sleepy, so he took out a pad from the bag, tore off part of it, and plugged his ears as he had thought before.
Just as he was about to lie down on the ground and cover his nose with the remaining part of the pad, he suddenly remembered the piece of pad he had placed on the stone when he was eating at the spot where he heard the singing the day before. (End of chapter)