肋骨

The three of them turned off the lights of their mobile phones in unison, and squatted behind the wall.

"Second Uncle." A young-sounding voice yawned, looking sleepy and with a strong accent, "I said, we don't have to come here in the middle of the night, it's so dark."

"What do you know? The ancestors are willing to come out to give instructions at night!" The old man's voice was very angry, "If you can't do it, you can go back, I will send it alone!"

The young man dared not speak any more, and spoke again after a while.

"Then what's wrong with that kid? You can't just starve him all the time, can you?"

"Wait, we have to wait for 49 hours."

"Is it the hour or the hour?"

Jiang Haizhou pressed Li Zhuofan violently, "Don't be impulsive!"

"Child!" Li Zhuofan said anxiously, "Didn't you hear what he said, it must be Peng Su! Only he is from outside!"

"If it's an hour, there are five or six left?" The young man said again.

Jiang Haizhou and Fu Kuan looked at each other in the dark, it wasn't Peng Su, Peng Su couldn't have reached more than 40 hours so quickly.

"Second Uncle, that little girl is really juicy, the guy can't move, so can his sister give me something to play with?"

"The boy said, if you touch that child, you will commit suicide directly. You can be honest with me! If you can't help but find Widow Li, don't make plans with them!"

"A pair of brothers and sisters." Jiang Haizhou whispered: "There is a bargaining chip in exchange, and it's not that bad."

"What if they are all locked together!" Li Zhuofan said.

"Who?" The old man stopped suddenly.

"Da Niu, did you hear someone talking?"

Li Zhuofan was startled, his eyes widened, he held his breath, and covered his mouth tightly with his hands.

"Where is it?"

The young man yawned again, a little impatiently, "Second Uncle, don't be suspicious all the time, where is someone else in the middle of the night?"

"No, I still feel someone is there."

The old man said in a serious voice, "You are holding the holy water, and you must protect it. I'll take a look around."

Only separated by a wall, but only a few steps away, Jiang Haizhou squinted his eyes, grabbed a handful of dead branches and covered Li Zhuofan's head with a kick, then grabbed Fu Kuan himself and lay down on the ground, wrapping Fu Kuan's bag. Strictly.

There was a flashlight coming, and it shook back and forth a few times. Several people held their breath and remained motionless.

After a while, the torch light disappeared.

"What's the matter, uncle?"

"Who did the rat throw away the rotten clothes? I guess it's the old Sun's family. They're always in good spirits."

"Then let's go, the bad luck is dead, send it back to sleep quickly."

As the footsteps went away, Li Zhuofan got up first and patted the wet and smelly soil on his body, "Damn, I'm so disgusted, the environment in this broken place is really bad. I said, why are you afraid of them? It won't take 30 days to solve those two cripples." seconds?!"

"They seem to be going to the white house, why don't you follow them?" Jiang Haizhou ignored Li Zhuofan's complaints, "We don't know anything yet, so if we act rashly, you are not afraid that they will become angry and cause harm to the hostages?"

"They don't even have mobile phones, so what if they are subdued by us? There is no way to inform others."

"If they don't tell the truth, we have very little knowledge, and it will be easy to be deceived at that time. In order to ensure a higher success rate, we should not be impulsive."

Fu Kuan said: "Did you hear what they said, said just now?"

He got up and patted the dirt on his body, the back of his head was not bumped and dirty by Jiang Haizhou's big hand, but his face was slightly red.

Jiang Haizhou was all on him...it was quite heavy.

But Jiang Haizhou couldn't see his face clearly, and immediately recalled after hearing the words, "You mean the last holy water?"

"Ah."

Jiang Haizhou nodded, "What is this holy water must be very important."

"Could it be pee?" Li Zhuofan laughed dryly.

The two of them suddenly looked at him at the same time, coincidentally at this time the dark clouds in the sky parted, the moon appeared, and the light shone down, finally the ground was no longer invisible.

Li Zhuofan was taken aback by the gaze of two pairs of eyes, "What are you looking at me for, I just said it casually!"

"Maybe it's true." Jiang Haizhou was thoughtful.

"What are you doing, it's impossible!" Li Zhuofan was in a mess.

"Isn't that the kind of holy water you're talking about?" Jiang Haizhou sneered.

"It's just..." Li Zhuofan glanced at Fu Kuan, "What are you talking about? Chicken feathers!"

Fu Kuan lowered his eyelids and said nothing.

Jiang Haizhou stopped joking, and said in a deep voice, "This is just a guess. We'll have to look into the details. It's really possible that it's urine, but it's definitely not the kind you said. It's probably... a boy's urine."

Fu Kuan thought, with Jiang Haizhou's mind, it's not difficult to think of this point, although he still doesn't know what Zhen Chixuan said about the boy not being able to go, but combined with the Changsheng boy at the entrance of the village, and thinking about the legends about the boy's urine being used as medicine when he was old, he said Maybe it really fooled Li Zhuofan.

"Then shall we follow those two?"

A few people were about to leave, but unexpectedly the two people had already come out, and they quickly hid again.

"Come here at dawn, and you can get a new one." The old man felt relieved, "It's really not easy to get this stuff."

"What if it doesn't work?" asked the young man.

"It must be all right." The old man said, "We still have an obedient dog that can be used, let's go."

After the three of them left completely, they came out one after another and came to the tile house.

"Under normal circumstances, it shouldn't be an ancestral hall or some kind of temple. What is the meaning of the white lanterns hanging at the door of this tile-roofed house?"

Jiang Haizhou took a mobile phone and took a picture of the couplets with black characters on a white background carved on the tiles on both sides of the door.

The holy water of the gods is eternal, and the essence and blood are handed down to Fuze descendants. Banner: Immortality

"So bloody?"

The yellowed corners of the tiles are scratched, and it looks like it has been around for some years. If it was made of paper, it would have disappeared long ago.

There is a lock on the door, it is not rusty, it should be replaced recently, and the metal part still has a layer of alloy light.

Jiang Haizhou touched his body. He had kept the brooch at home, otherwise he would not be willing to use it. It was the first gift Fu Kuan gave him.

He thought for a while, and saw that there was an open ring on Li Zhuofan's hand. He couldn't help but pull it off and straighten it. He fiddled with the keyhole drum a few times, and the lock popped open with a "click".

"Fuck, why do you know all kinds of teachings?!" Li Zhuofan expressed shock.

Jiang Haizhou didn't speak, which is also the reason why he didn't catch up with those two people just now. The lock is easy to open from the outside, but from the inside...he might not be able to kick the thick iron door open. They are all turtles in the urn.

The door opened, and a few people walked in lightly. The space inside was unexpectedly large, like an ancient mansion, and there was another house directly opposite, with a high foundation. There were about five or six steps at the door, and there were two trees. Crooked-neck willows hang lifelessly on both sides, and two stone sculptures stand tall.

"It's really interesting. There is a tile-roofed house on the outside, but there is a hole in the sky when you come in." There is no such thing as a door and a pair of households at the door. It is empty, but there are stone lions inside.He took a closer look and said "Tsk", "It's not a lion."

"What is that?" Li Zhuofan also went over to touch it.

"This should be...the Kissing Beast." Jiang Haizhou said, "The Kissing Beast is a decorative statue on ancient buildings, used to ward off evil spirits and shake ghosts, but it is usually built on the beams, ridges or corners of the eaves. Here."

It should be a half-baked guide, and this kiss beast is not exquisite, and those who don't know this thing will definitely not recognize it.

"Crap!" Now Li Zhuofan looked at Jiang Haizhou with admiration, "Brother, why didn't I realize that you are still a fucking schoolmaster!"

Several people stepped up the steps. This time the door was unlocked, and they easily pushed it open.

The space inside the second door is about the size of a lecture theater. It is very clean but dilapidated, with a mixed smell of mud and incense ash. It is indeed the design of the temple, but the enshrinements are all ranked, half Surrounding the incense table, they are arranged neatly and orderly in steps. There can be more than a hundred of them. There is a candle in front of each one. is white.

There is no draft, but the candlelight itself will dance slightly, and the candlelight of hundreds of white candles is burning silently in front of the memorial tablet. No matter how brave you are, this scene will feel weird and even creepy.

The room was illuminated brightly, and it was not too high when viewed from above, not much different from an ordinary floor. The ceiling was covered with a layer of gray cloth, and no lighting facilities were installed.

"Damn, it's not even electricity, right?" Li Zhuofan's voice was very soft, but he couldn't believe it.

"It's possible." Jiang Haizhou was also a little speechless, he couldn't imagine how people without electricity should live, so primitive.

Fu Kuan took a few steps forward to observe the words on the tablet.

Behind the memorial tablet is a wall with no windows and no back door. When Jiang Haizhou walked to the two sides, the white paint murals and reliefs painted on the wall have turned yellow and peeled off. Occasionally, he could see a few ferocious faces. He couldn’t recognize who they were. , mixed with soil, it looks a bit uncomfortable.

Apart from the tablet censer on the incense table and the three futons in front, there is nothing in the middle. Except for the reliefs on both sides, there are only two standing stone tablets left.

Jiang Haizhou walked over and squinted his eyes to look at the inscription. There were characters on the Yang side of the stele, but not on the Yin side. It should be something recorded, and it was still in seal script.

"Could this village be a hidden hometown of cultural scholars?" Li Zhuofan tried to read, but couldn't understand a single word.

Jiang Haizhou shook his head, "I think it's more like playing tricks."

"What do you mean?"

"Some characters did not exist in ancient times. Including variant characters, there are many typos and wrong use of characters. It is more like imitating something imitated by someone who is not skilled in learning skills. It looks very inconsistent."

"Hey." Li Zhuofan has refreshed his understanding of Jiang Haizhou. He has never heard of such high-end things as variant characters, and he doesn't even know where to start.

Fu Kuan looked at Jiang Haizhou silently. He didn't know about it, and he had never heard of it. He knew that the tablet was in seal script, but he didn't know it either.

His boyfriend is really good.

"Mr. Jiang, can you read what is written above?" Li Zhuofan said.

"Tsk." Jiang Haizhou didn't pay attention to his teasing, and really read through the stele.

"The above probably says that people who lived a long life are enshrined here for generations, and those who live a long life enshrine a boy of longevity, and then drink holy water, and they can live a long life, or even a long life. I didn't find the signature and date, but this stele..." He touched it with his hand, "It can't be seen with the naked eye, and it doesn't feel like new. It's not the same as the monuments in the open air of scenic spots that have been photographed and worn by tourists. Even if this thing is old for a few years, it is still the same, and it is still the same after hundreds of years."

"And it's written in classical Chinese. It's a pity. I can't go online to check if there are any records." He turned on his phone, but there was no signal at all.

"Yeah." Li Zhuofan said, "You know enough, if I come here by myself, I won't be able to tell the shit!"

"Go, go to that monument and have a look."

The two of them changed directions, and Fu Kuan said after reading the tablets, "I found out..."

"Ok?"

"The people on the stele have concentrated surnames and live a long life. On the back, they are engraved with how old they are. Most of them have lived, more than 100, and they all died without any illness. The youngest and youngest are also alive. More than 80. One hundred and eight people, all, all like this."

"Word grass." Li Zhuofan was shocked again, "So amazing? It's fake!"

"Let's take a look first." Jiang Haizhou walked to the last stone tablet, which recorded the past events of the Zhou family. It was written in traditional characters, densely packed, and many of the characters were worn out. It took a long time for a few people to understand. .

The text said: The Zhou family has always been troubled by many disasters, their children died young, and bad luck continued.In order to resolve the disaster, the ancestors went to the temple to pray for blessings. At that time, the master teacher in the temple told him that he would go back and worship the Longevity Boy, and worshiping the boy for generations would eliminate disasters and solve difficulties.The ancestors of the Zhou family followed the instructions, burned incense every day, and worshiped devoutly. As expected, all diseases in the family disappeared.

The ancestor of the Zhou family was a good man. He told the whole village about this method, and everyone was grateful. The Zhou family has accumulated virtue and done good deeds, and lived to be 80 years old without disease or disaster. One day, sitting at home, he suddenly enshrined the Longevity Boy He spit out words, he was shocked, and immediately fell to his knees in a hurry.

The boy said: I thought you were a selfish person, but I didn't expect you to be so kind-hearted, which is really rare. Then I will give you 20 years of life, let you live a long life, and you drink it.

After saying that, a golden light flashed, and a gold bottle suddenly appeared in front of Zhou, he quickly opened it, and drank the contents without looking at it.

However, Zhou woke up suddenly, and found that it was just a dream, but all the tiredness disappeared, and he became energetic and radiant, and he really lived to be a hundred years old.

Before Zhou's death, he called his descendants to the bed, saying that he was about to leave, but the secret recipe of the holy water was preserved. After that, he took out a gold bottle and asked the descendants to melt the bottle and cast it on gold leaf, and the secret recipe would appear .

and after?Li Zhuofan couldn't understand traditional characters, so he asked Jiang Haizhou to speak.

"Later..." Jiang Haizhou said slowly: "The descendants of the Zhou family fought for the gold bottle, but in the end they were captured by the most unpopular blind son in a dramatic way. The blind man melted the gold bottle and found a piece of gold leaf. , he couldn’t recognize all the notches on it, but he didn’t dare to show it to others, for fear of causing scrambles and casualties, so he could only make up a copy based on the notches and announce it to the world before his death.”

"Then what's the real secret recipe?"

"I didn't say anything." Jiang Haizhou said, "It's probably brought into the coffin. If it was true, it might have been in the pocket of the tomb robber."

"Then if this record is true, then the secret recipe of this holy water is probably incomplete or even incorrect. Then why are there so many people with long lives?"

Jiang Haizhou looked at the tablets of longevity and murmured, "It is possible that they were hit by mistake and found the right one by later generations, or these are all fake.

"If it's fake, it must be for some ulterior purpose to make the wedding dress. The hidden things behind it may be related to Peng Su's disappearance, or they just discovered the secret of the village by chance. In any case, the only thing they want to do is to save Peng Su. People don't want to change anything else, and they don't have the ability.

Jiang Haizhou has always had a clear purpose. If it has nothing to do with finding someone, he will definitely not be nosy.

They stood for a while, Jiang Haizhou looked at his watch, it was almost four o'clock.

"By the way, did you see what they sent in?"

Several people came to the incense table again, a white porcelain vase was placed inconspicuously behind the incense burner, no wonder they ignored it when they entered.

Fu Kuan wanted to take it, but was stopped by Jiang Haizhou.

"Brother Li." Jiang Haizhou smiled, looking a bit malicious under the flickering candlelight.

"What are you doing?!" Li Zhuofan looked at him as if facing a formidable enemy.

"You don't want to know what's in it?" Jiang Haizhou chuckled, "Maybe it's the holy water of the Longevity Boy."

"I'm not interested." Li Zhuofan shook his head repeatedly.

"You don't want to look for Peng Su anymore?" The smile on Jiang Haizhou's face did not change, but his tone became colder by three points.

Li Zhuofan choked, cursed, and took the bottle awkwardly. There was a cork on it similar to the one commonly used in red wine bottles. He unscrewed it vigorously, and took a close sniff.

"You must have never taken a chemistry experiment class." Jiang Haizhou sarcastically said.

Li Zhuofan didn't understand, but he knew it was not a good word, so he put the cork back angrily, "Damn, I guessed it right, the smell of urine is so fucking strong, and it's mixed with a bit of it ..."

"what?"

Li Zhuofan's face darkened a little, he hesitated to speak, "Children and grandchildren..."

He put it back with a look of disgust, and rubbed his hands uncomfortably, "It's disgusting, it's disgusting."

Fu Kuan took out the disinfectant alcohol he carried with him from his pocket and sprayed it on Li Zhuofan.

"Hey! This is good, this is good!" Now Li Zhuofan felt relieved, "Sure enough, people in Dazhou are so exquisite."

Jiang Haizhou frowned, vaguely having a very sad guess, but he didn't say anything, just ordered: "Take the things."

"What?!" Li Zhuofan was rubbing his hands with alcohol, and he glared suddenly, "Stop joking! Let me take such a disgusting thing, you might as well let me die!"

"Fucking didn't let you drink it." He moved his nose, his expression changed, and he asked suddenly, "Do you smell anything?"

Li Zhuofan and Fu Kuan shook their heads.

Jiang Haizhou looked around, and his bad premonition became stronger and stronger, so he quickly stuffed the bottle into Li Zhuofan's pocket. The latter just wanted to refute, and suddenly pointed at the door in horror.

"You, look!"

Jiang Haizhou and Fu Kuan looked at the door subconsciously. The former found nothing, but the latter suddenly softened and staggered.

Jiang Haizhou picked him up by the waist, "What did you see?"

Fu Kuan looked pained, and shook his head when he heard the words, and only said three words with great effort, "Illusion, let's go!"

Jiang Haizhou instantly understood that they might have stayed here for too long, and what mechanism was triggered, resulting in the release of special gas. He hurriedly pulled Li Zhuofan away, but the latter threw his fist straight at him. come over!

"Hold!"

Jiang Haizhou hurriedly avoided, and found that the surrounding buildings were deformed, and the twisted and ugly monster reliefs on the yellow and white walls jumped out of the wall to attack them as if they were alive.

Jiang Haizhou hugged Fu Kuan tightly, dodging the attacks of those realistic monsters as if facing a formidable enemy. He smashed them with his bare hands, as if he could hit an entity like a copper wall and an iron wall every time.

The door was suddenly closed from both sides with a bang. Looking at Li Zhuofan again, his eyes were red and he was writhing and struggling on the ground, looking very funny.

"Li Zhuofan!"

He yelled a few times, but the other party lost his mind and didn't notice anything.

Jiang Haizhou panted heavily, and slammed on the door hard but couldn't open it, as if something was holding him (bie four times), his anxious face was covered with sweat, he didn't know what other mechanisms were in the house Well, in case a few people confess here today, the damn corpses may not be discovered when, and they may even be used in some unimaginable places!

Thinking of Jiang Haizhou biting the tip of his tongue, he must find a way to escape!

The monster was still attacking, the space seemed to be cut off, Jiang Haizhou felt top-heavy, and forced himself to stand still, the pain of being attacked was very real, knowing that these things were all fake, but he still felt as if he was facing an enemy.

The walls on both sides seemed to be falling down one after another. The monster roared and approached, stretching out its sharp claws and pounced on him. Jiang Haizhou subconsciously protected Fu Kuan and sat on the ground suddenly. A strong wind hit his ears, and his body seemed to be torn apart. His skin was ripped open and his flesh was bleeding.

Jiang Haizhou trembled as he held Fu Kuan in his arms, he was fine with whatever he did, if he hurt Fu Kuan...if he hurt Fu Kuan, he would even die and turn into a ghost to take revenge!

He forced himself to calm down, but he became more and more flustered, accompanied by a stronger sense of suffocation. He had never felt that death was so close to him. Jiang Haizhou felt his heartbeat beating like a drum, and his mind went blank. He looked down at Fu Kuan, couldn't see Fu Kuan's face clearly, but could feel that she was hugging him.

Just hold it.

Damn it, it's good to die with you. If I'm still a human being in my next life, I'll have sex with you, and I won't pretend to be alone to save others anymore!

Fu Kuan closed his eyes tightly, opened them abruptly as if feeling something, and suddenly stretched out his hand to touch it, and pressed it hard against the people in Jianghai Prefecture!

"Bite your tongue!"

Hearing the words, Jiang Haizhou paused, and quickly bit the tip of his tongue hard again. This time, for some reason, it was very effective. The sharp pain came, and he regained his clarity for a moment. Taking advantage of this gap, he found that the door was only closed by The falling solid wood smashed through and closed.

!!!

It's now!When it was too late, he stood up and grabbed Fu Kuan with one hand, yanked the ropes on both sides with one hand, kicked the door open with one foot, and dragged the crazy Li Zhuofan directly down the steps. There was burning pain and a cold sweat.

Li Zhuofan followed Gulu down, grinning his teeth in pain, said "Ouch" a few times, and gradually recovered his sanity.

Fu Kuan sat up, ignoring the scratches on his palms, holding Jiang Haizhou's face with both hands, and making eye contact with him.

Jiang Haizhou froze for a while, closed his eyes, and suddenly felt the pain in his mouth, licked his lips, and licked the blood in his mouth.

"Farewell, let's talk." Fu Kuan kissed his mouth, licked off his blood, and said softly, "T-Take a while, it's okay."

Jiang Haizhou nodded, his head still buzzing.

Fu Kuan gently rubbed his temples with his cold fingertips, while patting his back, "It's okay, hallucinogens, that's all."

"Uh-huh."

Jiang Haizhou hugged his soft body, buried his head in his neck, and gasped for breath.

Feeling the other party's panic, Fu Kuan's heart warmed up, he pursed his lips, and kissed Jiang Haizhou's ear, "I'm fine, I'm fine, don't be afraid."

"You're fine." Jiang Haizhou repeated several times, "It's good that you're fine, it's fine that you're fine."

Tears rolled down the corners of Fu Kuan's eyes, and his chest seemed to be filled. He was not crying because he was afraid, but because he was moved.

At the juncture of life and death, Jiang Haizhou was thinking about him.

Jiang Haizhou panicked and feared because of him.

This person, he will never let go in this life, even in death.

At this time, the sky was not yet bright, but the moon had disappeared, and it returned to a state of pitch darkness. The panting sounds of several people sounded particularly obvious, as if they were infinitely magnified, and the chest cavity and eardrums seemed to be beating with drum hammers, again and again.

After about twenty minutes, several people gradually calmed down.

Li Zhuofan seemed to be a little delirious, but he was obviously no longer mad.

"Damn, damn...they are really, really unfriendly to outsiders."

After a long while, Li Zhuofan calmed down, patting the dust off his body, his voice still trembling.

Jiang Haizhou wanted to speak, but there was a sharp pain in his tongue. He frowned in pain, and said concisely for a long time: "It's time to go."

"Go?" Li Zhuofan asked, "Where are we going next?"

"Look for someone." He said, "Something is missing. Someone must be anxious. If you are anxious, you will show your feet. It is almost dawn. We have to leave here. No matter what, we need to find a medium. We need to find a family to settle down. Remember to eat Don't touch anything you drink, play by ear."