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The houses in the village are arranged high and low, and people come and go, which is very lively.

The day's plan is in the morning, and every household, regardless of gender, is busy. Except for children and the elderly, there are almost no idlers, except for these three people——

They wandered aimlessly in the village with a small child.

"Auntie's eldest son is getting married..." Lin Hong thought for a moment, "Do you think the dress worn by the woman in red looks like a wedding dress?"

Wan Guchuan recalled, "How do you say it, it really looks like it."

"He won't want to marry a female ghost..." Lin Hong's scalp was numb, thinking about the moment when he lifted the hijab...and the bridal chamber...it's too stupid to do it!

Wan Guchuan said: "First find out who the bride is."

Duan Yu: "Second."

Ever since Lin Hong led Gui'er, Duan Yu went to Wan Guchuan.

Lin Hong walked around Wan Guchuan and called him, "Rui Li, come here, brother loves you."

"You should still hurt ghosts." Duan Yu shrank back and let Wan Guchuan block him until he couldn't see himself.

Abandoned by Cai Cai's younger brother, Lin Hong rubbed Gui'er's head sadly, "Gui'er, brother loves you."

Wan Guchuan raised his eyebrows and looked at him.

Lin Hong noticed his gaze, "What? Do you envy him?"

Wan Guchuan: "I sympathize."

Lin Hong: "..."

The atmosphere among the villagers who came and went was harmonious, and they were also very enthusiastic about the three outsiders, and there were people asking for their health along the way.

They decided to split up and ask.

As Lin Hong was walking, he was suddenly enveloped by a puff of fragrant steam. The warmth enveloped him instantly, and he looked sideways.

An old lady was sitting in front of her house, with a kang built of stones in front of her, and a big steamer on it—the steam came out of that steamer.

Lin Hong led Gui'er over to talk to him, "Grandma, what did you steam, it smells so good."

On the other side, Wan Guchuan also took Duan Yu to find someone else to ask.

"What a handsome boy!" The old man looked at Lin Hong with a smile, lifted the lid of the steamer with a pair of skinny hands, and steaming steam rushed towards his face.

After the hot steam dissipated, I saw reddish-brown fluffy cakes neatly arranged on the steaming grid, "The steamed cakes are brown sugar cakes."

Lin Hong glanced at it, "Grandma, your pastry is exquisite, and people like it when you take it to the palace."

The old man laughed straight, "You have a poor mouth and bullied me for my age. How can the nobles in the palace think highly of me! But I have been making this pastry for decades, and the neighbors like it. Try it?"

"Okay!" Lin Hong didn't eat breakfast and was starving.

The old man wrapped a piece in oiled paper and gave it to him.

Gui'er looked eagerly, Lin Hong smiled, and handed it to him.

"I still love my brother!" The old man smiled and wrapped another piece for him.

Lin Hong stretched out his hand to pick it up, glanced out of the corner of his eye, and noticed something was wrong, "Grandma, what's wrong with your hand?"

The little fingers of the old man's left hand were all severed, the wound was still fresh, and the bloody flesh and bones were clearly visible.

"What happened to my hand?" The old man looked puzzled.

"Look!" Lin Hong motioned her to look at his left hand.

The old man stretched out his skinny left hand and put it in front of his eyes, looking again and again, as if he didn't see the bloody severed finger, he still looked puzzled, "What's wrong? It's fine."

Lin Hong's face changed, "No...it's nothing, I may have read it wrong..."

But the ghost next to him didn't eat, and quietly put the hair cake that he took a bite of on the table.

The old man laughed at him, "You kid, you are more dazzled than me."

Lin Hong smiled apologetically, but his heart was pounding. He really wanted to turn around and leave, but he didn't forget his purpose, so he said bravely, "Grandma, I want to ask you something."

"Tell me, there is nothing in this village that I don't know." The old man closed the steamer again.

"Have any strange things happened to you? Many years ago."

"There is nothing strange. I have lived in the village for more than seventy years, and nothing strange has ever happened."

Lin Hong changed the question, "Then which girl is going to get married tomorrow?"

As soon as this matter was mentioned, the old man beamed with joy, "Wang Ningxue, a girl from the Wang family! She is a beautiful girl! She and Ye Cheng are a good couple, childhood sweethearts, they are a perfect match!"

"Ye Chengcheng is Gui'er's elder brother!" The old man looked at Gui'er with a smile, his eyes showed the love of the elders.

The ghost didn't look at her, just drooped his head and kicked the stones on the ground.

Wan Guchuan and Duan Yu had already received the news, and stood there waiting for him.

Lin Hong thanked the old man and brought the ghost over to join them, his expression was not very good.

When Duan Yu saw the steaming cake in his hand, he was already dizzy from hunger, so he couldn't look away, and his stomach gurgled, "Wow! Hair cake!"

"Brother Lin, do you want to eat?" He asked cautiously.

"Don't eat..."

Duan Yu heard a "no", and took a bite before Lin Hong finished speaking.

After chewing for a while, his expression suddenly changed, and he spat out on the ground with a "wow".

I saw a steamed little finger lying between the crumbs of the hair cake, the skin was torn and the meat was torn, and the end was waxy.

"Finger! Vomit—" Duan Yu immediately vomited when he saw it.

Lin Hong was also stunned, unexpectedly the old man's broken finger was in the hair cake.

While patting Duan Yu on the back, he told them what he saw.

Wan Guchuan said: "People here don't seem to be able to find out what's wrong with them. The elder brother I asked just now had white eyeballs. I thought it was a disease, but after a while his eyeballs rolled back—— It looks like it just got stuck in the eye socket."

He gestured to Duan Yu who was still vomiting, "He didn't see it just now, so he dared to eat your hair cake."

Lin Hong's complexion became even worse, "Tsk...what's going on here?"

Now looking at the villagers coming and going on tiptoe, I feel even more panicked... Just now I could say it was a way of walking, but now it seems that it is not the same thing...

Call these people ghosts, but they are so alive, and they haven't found anyone trying to harm them for the time being.

"This place is probably transformed by the female ghost in red, so there are so many unreasonable things." Wan Guchuan said, "Let's find a way to go back."

"How to find it?"

"Step by step—what did you just ask?"

Lin Hong said: "The bride's name is Wang Ningxue."

"Hmm." Wan Guchuan asked the same name.

Lin Hong suddenly remembered, "Oh! I forgot to ask where this girl's home is!"

He was running back to the old man to ask again, when Wan Guchuan grabbed him, "I have asked."

"Brother Sufeng is thoughtful." Lin Hong smiled.

"Anyone with a brain should ask, right?"

Lin Hong:.

Lin Hong ignored him, and turned to look at Duan Yu, "Haven't you vomited enough? You have to vomit all the bile."

Duan Yu waved his hands straight, with a weak expression on his face.

Wan Guchuan looked at Guier, squatted down, and looked him straight, "Why do you walk on tiptoes?"

"Hello!" Lin Hong was startled, and he actually asked directly.

The ghost was startled, looked at his heels hanging in the air, turned his head, and suddenly grinned at Wan Guchuan, staring at him with a pair of dark eyes, somewhat gloomy, "Brother, don't go out at night."

"Why?" Lin Hong asked.

Ghost looked up at him, "Because it hurts."

Lin Hong didn't know why, but got goose bumps all over his body.

No matter how much I asked Guier after that, he stopped talking.

The three of them stood outside the door of Wang's house, and found that this house seemed to be far away from the house of the old lady just now—that is, the house of Gui'er's mother.

Duan Yu still looked pale.

Lin Hong comforted him, "Don't you just bite the root and cut off your finger? It's steamed, so don't be afraid."

Duan Yu started to retch again when he heard that, saying that he was not comforted.

Lin Hong looked at the room in front of him, and was a little apprehensive about going in, "This Wang Ningxue might be that red-clothed female ghost, have you figured it out? Do you want to go in?"

Wan Guchuan didn't answer his words, and had already knocked on the door.

A middle-aged man came to answer the door, looking at them with a pair of eyes, "What's the matter?"

Wan Guchuan asked, "Excuse me, is Miss Wang at home?"

The man said: "She's not here, she went to pick wild vegetables in the mountains."

Wan Guchuan hesitated for a moment, and said nothing else, "Excuse me."

"Is there something for the three of you to find a little girl?" The man asked.

"I just want to ask the girl a few questions."

The man also heard about the visitors from the village, presumably they were the three in front of him, and said politely: "Tomorrow the little girl is getting married, and you can just find her at the banquet."

It probably means that it is inconvenient for the girl who is going to get married tomorrow to see the three of them from outside.

"Thank you."

So this trip was in vain.

A group of people wandered around the village for a long time, except for some slight abnormalities in some places, everything else was natural.

The villagers come and go, smiling and greeting each other, the smoke from the kitchen is curling up, and people's lives are orderly.

Lin Hong observed Gui'er all the way, but didn't find any abnormal behavior in him, but just followed them obediently, neither crying nor making trouble.

"We're not going to be trapped in this former village for seven or eight years, are we?" Duan Yu's feet hurt from walking, and he wanted to cry but had no tears.

Lin Hong comforted him: "Maybe I won't live for seven or eight years."

Duan Yu: "... Please don't comfort me..."

"I don't know what's going on with the couple." Lin Hong said, "I wonder if they can get out of the forest."

"Where is going out of the forest?" Duan Yu asked, "Why don't we go too, this place is too scary..."

Lin Hong thought of the ghost hitting the wall he met when he came here, and he was not sure, maybe he couldn't get out?

His words were quickly confirmed-they met the couple at the entrance of the village.

The two looked at the village and the three of them with terrified expressions.

"Why are you back again?" Lin Hong asked them, did they encounter something terrifying in the forest?

"We... We obviously walked along the straight road!" Jiang Jiao's hair was crooked, and she looked very embarrassed.

"We may have gone in the wrong direction," Guo Zigui comforted his wife, "We took a break on the way, maybe we started on the road and turned back."

"But...maybe." Jiang Jiao's breathing was a little short.

Sure enough, you can't get out?

Lin Hong advised them, "Why don't you stay? I'm afraid you won't be able to get out by walking."

"No no! There must be something wrong with this village!" Jiang Jiao grabbed Guo Zigui's arm, "We can't stay here, we can't sit and wait for death, our star has not been found yet... Zigui, let's go again, don't rest this time, look for it Go in the direction."

Guo Zigui agreed with her.

Lin Hong didn't dare to make any guarantees, so he didn't persuade them much, and watched the two leave again.

"Brother... I think what she said is also reasonable, we can't just sit and wait in this village, let alone this village is very abnormal." Duan Yu said.

Lin Hong said: "So we have to figure out the situation? When I came, I encountered a ghost hitting the wall. Do you think that female ghost tried her best to lure us in, but was willing to let us go out?"

"It makes sense." But Duan Yu wanted to cry.

"What do you say?" Lin Hong asked Wan Guchuan.

Wan Guchuan glanced at him, "Follow the clue of the female ghost."

They returned to the aunt's house just in time for dinner.

"Are you back?" The aunt set out a table of dishes and wiped her hands on her apron, "Come and eat!"

They didn't eat anything all day today, and they were so hungry.

The ghost had already run over and sat at the table.

There are all kinds of wild vegetables on the table, and the aunt also stewed chicken soup specially for them. The yellow oil floating on the surface looks very appetizing.

Duan Yu's stomach was twitching because of the shadow of the fat cake, and he dared not move his chopsticks for a long time.

Lin Hong and Wan Guchuan had already eaten it.

The Chen Dynasty style from 300 years ago, the taste is not bad.Lin Hong was still thinking optimistically, going back would be enough for him to show off.

"Eat," Lin Hong picked up a chicken leg for Duan Yu, "I can't get out for a while, do you want to starve to death first?"

Duan Yu swallowed, "Why are you acting like a normal person? Are you not afraid?"

"Afraid, why not?" Lin Hong said, "But as the saying goes, 'what comes, you will be safe', you can't starve yourself to death first."

"..." Duan Yu picked up his chopsticks and ate as if he was dying.

Lin Hong wondered how the couple would solve the problem of food and accommodation in the forest.

The food seemed to suit the appetite of the three of them. The aunt was happy to see it, but then she remembered something. She sighed heavily, and her eyes showed worry, "This Ye Cheng, why didn't he come back so late after going hunting! He won't come back when he gets married tomorrow! I know that when I come back, I will make preparations first."

Lin Hong comforted: "Don't worry, ma'am, auspicious people have their own appearance, you are kind-hearted, and with your blessing, he will be fine."

The aunt laughed, "Thank you for your auspicious words - you eat slowly, there is not enough left in the pot. After you finish eating, you go to rest, I will clean up the bowl here."

"Thank you ma'am!"

In early spring, it got dark very early, and the three of them returned to the house arranged by the aunt after eating.

The aunt's house is small and there are not many rooms, they can only sleep in one room, and there is only one bed.

The aunt gave them a lot of bedrolls.

Lin Hong took a look around the room and found that it was quite clean, "Rui Li, you sleep on the bed, and I will sleep on the floor with Brother Su Feng."

"Brother." Duan Yu called him.

"kindness?"

Duan Yu hesitated for a long time and said: "Don't call Wan Ge 'Brother Su Feng' (Breast Enlargement) (Note 1), it made me... make me always stare at his chest..."

Wan Guchuan: "..."

Lin Hong patted the back of his head, "Every kid thinks about something every day."

"Then you are talking about how I should call him?"

Duan Yu whispered: "Isn't it better to just call it 'Su Feng'?"

The two quarreled for a long time.

Lin Hong started to make the bed, the young master was used to it, and the bed was made in a mess.

"Is this a pigsty?" Duan Yu was ashamed.

Lin Hong threw the quilt in his hand, "Then you come."

"I'll come if I come!" Duan Yu rolled up his sleeves.

And then—the quilt cover is a mess that has been adjusted in one direction.

Lin Hong: "..."

Duan Yu: "..."

"Forget it, the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as my doghouse." Lin Hong gave up and fell on the bed, like a dead pig.

Duan Yu continued to ponder while holding the sheet in his head.

In this room, Wan Guchuan stood motionless by the window and looked outside.

Lin Hong lay on the bed and turned his head to look at him, "Sufeng..." He swallowed the last word abruptly, "What do you see?"

"Come and see." Wan Guchuan called him.

Lin Hong got off the bed and walked over, "What are you looking at?"

He looked outside through the window frame, the night was deep and light, and the lights of the house were still on, rising and falling, like a meandering river in the dark mountains.

The wind is soft, insects and birds sing softly...

Wan Guchuan pointed him to a place, "There is a man standing there."

Lin Hong looked over and saw that the house on the opposite side was not lit. After looking hard for a while, he could tell that there was indeed a black figure standing there by the window, as if staring at them...

"This..." Lin Hong was taken aback, "How long has he been looking at it?"

"He's been there since we entered the house." Wan Guchuan locked his handsome eyebrows.

Lin Hong observed for a while, and found that the man was really motionless, "...Maybe he is enjoying the shade?" He comforted himself.

"I don't know." Wan Guchuan closed the window, turned his head, and looked at the messy bedding on the bed and floor, "...was robbed?"

Lin Hong: "..."

Duan Yu: "..."

With the help of Wan Guchuan, they owned the "Golden Nest and Silver Nest".

The three sat down and began to discuss today's situation.

No matter how absurd and bizarre this matter was, it still happened to them. Today, everyone didn't say it clearly, but their minds were blocked.

However, no matter whether he is bewitched or haunted, it will not help if he collapses. The first task is to go back alive.

The three of them just said that, and started chatting about some of their own affairs to relieve their discomfort.

We got to know each other a lot while chatting.

Duan Yu slept on the bed, while Wan Guchuan and Lin Hong slept on the floor.

"Let's say it first, I don't sleep well at night, so don't hit me." Lin Hong said to Wan Guchuan.

Wan Guchuan closed his eyes, "I don't sleep well at night, and I don't know if I will hit you."

Lin Hong: "..."

As the night deepened, Duan Yu's breathing became even and smooth, but Lin Hong tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep, thinking about the black shadow in front of the opposite window all the time.

He couldn't help getting up and went to the window again, opened the window slightly, and looked at the opposite side through the night...

——The man is still standing there!

The action was exactly the same as before.

All the lights in the village were extinguished, the night was darker than before, and the sound of insects became exhausted.

But that figure maintained the movement just now and stood in front of the window looking at them...

Lin Hongneng could feel a gaze falling over, trying to squeeze into the window.

He quickly closed the window.

The room was dark, and two strangers lived with him in this strange place full of dangers. He was not a pessimistic person, but he felt that his mood was extremely heavy at this time.

Back on the bed, Wan Guchuan was lying beside him, not asleep, looking at him.

Lin Hong waved his hands and lay down beside him, afraid of disturbing Duan Yu, he whispered: "That man is still there."

Wan Guchuan was silent for a while, and said, "Go to sleep."

His voice was very deep, which relieved Lin Hong inexplicably.

In the middle of the night, not long after Lin Hong fell asleep, he was awakened by a commotion outside, and scattered sounds of fighting and screams came from his ears, erratic like a dream.

He looked to the other side of the door, but saw that the fire was brightly lit outside, and figures in twos and threes quickly ran past the window.

what happened?

He was about to get up to take a look, but a hand with sharp bones clasped his wrist tightly. In the darkness, he met a pair of dark eyebrows.

Wan Guchuan whispered, "Don't go. Have you forgotten what the ghost said today?"

The ghost said: Don't go out at night.It hurts.

Lin Hong's scalp felt numb all of a sudden, and he didn't dare to move.

Duan Yu also woke up, poked his head out from under the quilt, and looked at them.

Wan Guchuan made a booing gesture at him.

Duan Yu nodded.

The shouts of men and women outside were extremely shrill, and the cries of children were also shrill and ear-piercing.

"Ahhhhhhhh!! Help!!"

"Don't kill me, don't kill me!!"

"mother!!"

"Ahhhhh!!"

Lin Hong didn't know what happened, and his whole heart was seized.

Wan Guchuan had been listening to the movement outside, and suddenly his eyes froze—he heard footsteps approaching from far away.

"Someone is coming, hide."

Duan Yu quickly got out of the quilt, at a loss for what to do, "Hide in the closet." Hearing Wan Guchuan's voice, he immediately got into the closet.

Lin Hong is still looking for a place to hide, and the footsteps are already very close.

In desperation, Wan Guchuan grabbed his waist, rolled over and hid under the bed.

"Bang"!

The door was kicked open violently.

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Note 1: There was a breast enhancement culture in the Tang Dynasty, not a modern term