adow moving slowly, and hear the gentle tapping of a cane on the floor.He moved like a ghost in the tomb, stepping lightly until he reached the main chamber.We were sweating buckets, could it be that...I turned around and saw my cousin Chen Susin. She ran into the dressing room wrapped in a large towel.

"Cousin, let's wash together!" She jumped into the pool with a smile.

The pool was just big enough to keep us a little distance apart, and we were both wrapped in towels, so I didn't feel embarrassed. I thought about soaking for a bit and then going back to sleep, too lazy to pay attention to my chatty cousin.

"Cousin..." she blinked, leaning closer and whispering, "Did that creep do all of this" Her face was full of envy.

I don't want to discuss these things with others, I just said lightly: "You'd better not be interested in these issues."

She pouted in disagreement: "What makes you say I..."

"Why don't you go find a yin person and experience a soul marriage"

"No, I don't want to die." She stuck out her tongue. "Just tell me, aunt! Satisfy my curiosity..."

I'm so annoyed with her, these enlightenment courses she can learn on her own, I'm not a health teacher!

I got up to leave, and she quickly grabbed me, pulling me right into the bathtub.

"Wow, you're so beautiful!" she exclaimed, staring at me with wide eyes.

"Are you crazy!" I shouted.

But the decoration on her neck caught my eye.

That was many layers of red thread wrapped around, hanging a long life lock underneath.

If the red string is too long, just cut it short! Why wind it so many times Is that supposed to look fashionable

She saw my eyes on the longevity lock and asked strangely, "What's so interesting about this I've been wearing it for years."

“...For many years Have you always used such a long red thread” I asked.

Chen Su-xin nodded. "My mom put this on me, she said the red string's length matches my eight characters (bazi), and I can't cut it short, I can only wear it like this around my neck."

Really Does the length of the red string have to match one's eight characters I've never heard that before.

"Such a long line, you don't find it troublesome" I casually said, hurrying away from the pond.

This night, I had a dream.

I dreamt of a gentle woman with long braids smiling at me. She vaguely resembled the nanny who used to lull me to sleep every night when I was a child. But when I tried to approach her and ask her name, or if she was related to our family, she vanished.

This made me sleep very restlessly, and more frighteningly, the door to my room was suddenly slammed shut with a deafening sound.

"Xiao Qiao! Baby, open the door quickly!" My brother's voice came from outside the door.

I was stunned. What on earth was this guy doing in the middle of the night

I opened the door, and my brother rushed in with a bang, slammed the door shut, then stuck a bunch of talismans on the back of it, before sitting on the edge of the bed trembling.

"You...you...you, is your ghostly husband around Could you ask him to help us" My brother was wrapped in my blanket, his teeth chattering.

"What did you see" I asked in surprise.

My brother is actually scared like this Besides, this is our ancestral home. My great-grandfather lives here, and everyone around here understands yin and yang and geomancy. How could any ghosts dare to come here

My brother calmed down for a moment, reached out and touched my neck, but I slapped his hand away: "Just tell me, stop being so cryptic!"

He took a deep breath and whispered, “I was just playing on my phone under the covers—you know I’m a night owl, right Suddenly, a white shape flashed across the phone screen, and I almost fell off the bed! When I looked up—”

"What did you see" I couldn't believe anything could scare him.

"Ahhhh! You won't guess what I saw! You won't guess!" My brother clutched his head frantically, and this wasn't an act.

He reached out and hugged me, trembling as he whispered in my ear, "I saw a Luotou clan member! A real, genuine Luotou clan member!"

I got goosebumps and whispered, "Really ... This is an old house, how could there be something like that"

"If I were to deceive you, I swear I'll never raise my hand again!" he declared with a venomous oath.

I was completely dumbfounded. I reached out and touched his face. "Calm down," I said, "what's going on Tell me clearly."

My brother's teeth were still chattering. He probably felt safer with me around—after all, he had a spirit that was impervious to evil protecting him.

"I really saw a flying head, translucent, trailing a long white tail, and it was someone we both know." My brother wiped his face.

"Who"

"Chen Su-hsin."

I shivered involuntarily, "Cousin No way, I was just taking a bath with her not long ago."

"Did you see the face clearly"

My brother nodded and said, "She was sleeping with her eyes closed... Her hair was scattered, her whole head came in through the window, and then rolled around in my room for a few circles. I was holding a talisman to ward off ghosts, she floated for a while and then flew away... It looked like an out-of-body experience."

“Could she be possessed” I remembered the books about goblins and ghosts, and shivered involuntarily.

The term "Luòtóu shì" refers to a legend where, while sleeping, one's head detaches from their body and flies away. This is just a legend, though. My brother uses this term to describe situations that resemble the legend's description.

The head is the first of the six yangs. For humans, it's impossible to be separated from the body, but for the dead or ghosts, it's no problem at all. Could Chen Susin be a ghost

"I don't think she's a ghost," my brother shook his head, "She might have been summoned by some kind of magic, her soul out of her body. Just the pose is pretty special, scared the living daylights out of me..."

I was even more afraid, thinking about the red string wrapped around Chen Suoxin's neck. I immediately told my brother about it.

There is a legend that women with red string wrapped around their necks are the fallen-headed clan, whose skin on their necks is very thin and has red blood vessels spreading beneath it.

"What if... we find a time tomorrow to take off her longevity lock and have a look" I suggested.

"I wouldn't dare to touch you! I'm terrified!" My brother patted his chest, refusing to get any closer to Chen Suxin.

I remember that Chen Susin's mother was married to someone else before, and she divorced a few years ago. She took Chen Susin back to her parents' home. If something were wrong with Chen Susin, wouldn't our large family have noticed

And this is still the old master's house, how could he possibly not know that a Luotou family member was wandering around in the middle of the night!

Could it be... that Grandpa allowed this The thought struck me like a thunderbolt, making my whole body shudder.

Mu family, tomb family, could it be that my grandpa really crawled out from the tombings" I asked, confused.My brother scoffed, "There's a black market for cultural relics, and even special channels for overseas circulation. You don't know about that This business runs deep. Our coun...