小时候踢过水库边的一双鞋，多年后爷爷穿着纸鞋走了

The post was written by a Hunanese person, saying it happened when he was in junior high school.

There is a reservoir on the edge of the county town, and he often went to play by the reservoir on weekends with the girl next door, Xiao A, who was a year older than him. One year there was a drought, and the water level dropped significantly, revealing the concrete road below. A black woman's leather shoe was stuck in the mud, toe pointing down, looking fairly new.

He didn't know what possessed him, and kicked the shoe out with one foot. Xiao A stopped him, saying not to kick it, it had been soaked in water, and they didn't know if it belonged to a living person or a dead one. But he insisted on scaring her, saying maybe it was dropped by a drowned woman, so there must be another one. As a result, they really found a second shoe in the mud and kicked it out too.

He said that after the second one came out, the sky turned gloomy and cold. Xiao A's face turned white, her lips had no color, she said her head hurt, and the whites of her eyes were all red. The two ran toward the embankment, but when he looked back, the pair of shoes was already lying not far behind them, toes pointing at them.

When they reached the street, Xiao A squatted down and vomited, bringing out black muddy water that was very fishy-smelling. After vomiting, she felt fine, but later she insisted she had never vomited at all.

Several months later, one evening, Xiao A ran to his house, saying no one was home, and asked him to accompany her back. It turned out that at noon that day, her grandmother had been sleeping at home when someone knocked on the door selling shoes, carrying a large bag and holding two pairs of shoes, one of which was a pair of white women's leather shoes with a hollow-out pattern, very fashionable. The grandmother haggled and bought them for 25 yuan, gave 30, and the other party returned 5 yuan.

When her grandfather came back from playing cards, he picked up the pair of shoes from the shoe rack and loudly cursed whoever was so immoral. They were a pair of shoes made of white paper, the kind worn by the dead during burial. The five yuan the grandmother gave was also produced—a piece of white paper cut to the size of a banknote, with “5 yuan” written in pencil. The grandmother completely couldn't remember whether the shoe seller was male or female, what they looked like, or what their voice sounded like. She was so angry she ended up in the hospital.

Nothing happened for many years after that. During the 2019 Spring Festival, he returned to his hometown, and Xiao A told him that her grandfather had passed away. Before the New Year, her grandfather suddenly went missing, and the whole family searched for several days, finally finding him in the abandoned pigsty at the old countryside house; he was already dead. In his pocket was a diagnosis of late-stage esophageal cancer and a note saying he didn't want to burden the family. Xiao A said there were two strange things: the scene didn't look right, though she couldn't explain how; and her grandfather was wearing a pair of white paper shoes on his feet.

The OP says he still doesn't know if these things are related to that pair of shoes. In the replies, some people said this matter actually had nothing to do with Xiao A, but that the OP himself had brought it on.

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