This is the story Shen Linsheng told me. He told about a friend of his. His name is withheld here, so he will be called an old man. One summer, he was taking a nap at his home. When he was half asleep, he vaguely saw a woman opening the door curtain and walking in. The woman had a white cloth wrapped around her head and wore mourning clothes. He went to the back room. The old man didn't know this person, so he guessed that it was a neighbor's woman who came to visit his wife. Suddenly, he thought again, why did this woman suddenly come into someone else's house wearing mourning clothes?
The old man began to be confused and frightened. When he was trying to confirm the identity of the person and his sleepiness had completely disappeared, the woman had already come out of the back room. At this time, the old man took a closer look and found that the woman looked to be in her thirties, with a yellow complexion, slightly swollen cheeks, frowning, and a frightening expression. The woman walked back and forth in the room and refused to leave. After a while, she slowly approached the bed where the old man was sleeping. The old man squinted his eyes, pretended to be asleep, and secretly watched what the woman was going to do. After a while, I saw the woman lifting her skirt, slowly climbing onto the bed, and then pressing her whole body on the old man's belly. This time it seemed to weigh several thousand kilograms. The old man understood in his heart and his head was very clear, but he thought When I try to raise my hands, they feel as if they are tied up and cannot move; when I try to move my legs, they feel as if they are paralyzed and motionless.
He hurriedly opened his mouth to shout for help, but no sound came out. At this time, the woman climbed up and sniffed the old man's face with her mouth, smelling almost everything from the cheekbones, nose, eyebrows to forehead. The old man only felt that her mouth touched his face, as cold as ten thousand years of ice, and there were waves of cold air exuding from her mouth, which was so cold that it penetrated into his bones. The old man was very embarrassed and anxious. At this critical moment, the old man thought of a clever plan. He was going to wait for her to smell near her mouth again and take the opportunity to bite her with his mouth. After waiting for a while, the woman indeed smelled something coming from her cheek again. The old man took the opportunity to bite her cheekbone with all his strength, and his teeth sank into the flesh.
The woman was in so much pain that she immediately wanted to lift herself up, but the old man refused to let go and bit her harder. As a result, the woman could not break free for a while and had to struggle and scream. The old man felt that the blood was flowing down the woman's cheek, even making the side of the pillow wet. While the two were struggling, the old man suddenly heard the sound of his wife walking in the yard, and hurriedly shouted that there was a ghost, trying to call his wife to help. But as soon as he let go and shouted, he saw the woman floating away, disappearing from the sky, and running away.
When the old man's wife came into the room, she saw nothing. The old man was the only one in the room, so she laughed at him for having nightmares and talking nonsense even though he was such an adult. The old man stood up and told in detail what had just happened. He remembered that he had bitten the woman, and said that there was still blood to prove it. The two of them went to look together and saw water all around the pillow on the bed, as if the house had leaked and soaked the bed. The old man leaned over and smelled it. It was extremely fishy and nauseating, and he couldn't help but vomited. Several days later, there was still a lingering odor in his mouth.
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Volume 1 Biting Ghost
