Hit ghost

It was nearly 05:30 when we returned to the Li family's ancestral house, and there was still more than an hour before meeting Li Yougui. They decided not to go out, so as not to cause unnecessary disturbances again.

This was the case on the way back just now. Although the villagers were no longer afraid to meet people as before, most of them avoided the three of them and took a detour.

"Can he be here?" Ji Duan opened the doors that they had never opened before. There was nothing behind those doors except a lot of dust and broken cobwebs in the dust. He turned back and turned in another direction Shout, "I don't have it here."

"I'm here too..." Xie Jin poked his head out from the room in the northwest corner, but judging from his expression, he had nothing to gain here, "A Nian didn't come back either, so where did he go?"

It wasn't until a gentle voice came from the room where they slept last night that the two of them ran in that direction.

The door that should have hung there was now in a miserable shape against the wall, and the doorknob was full of signs of vandalism.Wen Liang squatted on the ground, their luggage was scattered at his feet.

"It seems that the group of people didn't intend to hide it from us at all, and this time they just made it clear." Wen Liang picked up the dented stainless steel bowl and snorted coldly, "It seems that the old thief Zhao Dong Very angry."

Luggage was thrown everywhere on the ground, and the wooden doors were dismantled. It was obvious that someone, or a group of people, had entered here through violent means during their departure.

Because before they left, Wen Liang specially locked the door with a thickened chain, but that chain is nowhere to be seen now, maybe it is being pressed under the luggage.

"Did the Zhao family do it?" Ji Duan squatted down not far from Wen Liang, and together with him picked up the supplies and equipment on the ground, "I saw that it looked like their handwriting, that guy Zhao Dong is a vengeful master."

Wen Liang pulled out the iron chain that was originally used to lock the wooden door from under his backpack, and the iron chain that was as thick as an adult's finger had been cut.

The half he pulled out was just for the lock. Wen Liang threw the disused half of the chain to the corner of the room. Instead of being angry, he smiled, "In addition to the smell of snakes, I also smell foxes. It's Zhao. What the Gao family did was probably just to take the opportunity to find out about us."

Continuing to pack the equipment that will not delay the use in the backpack, Wen Liang asked without raising his head, "How is it? He Nian should not be here."

"No, Ji Duan and I searched the house and didn't find him." Xie Jin held the familiar cloth bag in his hand, and he handed the bag to Wen Liang, "Here, I found it on the table in the main hall that Anian used to hold origami paper. bag."

"He didn't take this away?" Wen Liang stopped his hands and turned his head to look at the cloth bag he used to hold tobacco. He Nian often hugged it, even after eating the chocolate, he still couldn't put it down, so the bag The cloth bag turned into a container for his sugar-coated origami.

Xie Jin nodded, "There is nothing else on the table except this cloth bag. Ah Nian doesn't have many things. He seems to like this cloth bag the most, but he didn't take it away."

Seeing Wen Liang take the bag to confirm the contents, Xie Jin hesitated whether to express his worries.

Occasionally glanced to the side, he saw Ji Duan's eyes were flat but firm, as if encouraging him to say, "That, gentle."

Xie Jin lowered his head, he was very unconfident about his sixth sense, but this time he was in panic, a voice in the dark was influencing his thoughts, constantly instilling an uneasy thought in him.

"I always feel that if we don't find He Nian as soon as possible, something bad may happen next."

"Yeah, he suddenly left us to play and disappear. What the hell is he doing?" Wen Liang put the cloth bag into his backpack. It should not be a coincidence that He Nianka left at this time, but what made him willing Wen Liang will not know about his departure.

Li Yougui didn't come at the agreed time, he didn't show up until after seven o'clock when the sky was getting dark, this time he didn't bring anything in his hand, he still walked through the window.

But he seemed anxious and angry, and his slit-like eyes were wide open, and they could see shock and anger in them.

"What did you do!" Li Yougui uttered the first sentence after the meeting, "I didn't have a chance to talk to you at all, so why did I just go to Zhao's house! You know Mr. Zhao... Do you know who Zhao Dong is?"

"It seems that you know." Wen Liang glanced at him indifferently, took out the dented stainless steel bowl, and poured Li Yougui a bowl of freshly dried tea.

"I..." Li Yougui's anger suddenly faltered, he glared at Wen Liang resentfully, picked up the bowl and drank the tea, "Of course I know, the Li and Zhao families have been fighting openly and secretly for so many years, no matter how I know But who is Zhao Dong?"

Li Yougui's expression looked a bit distorted. He was indeed very angry. He even gritted his teeth when Zhao Dong's name was mentioned. My family was ruined, if I hadn't persevered in the end, there would be no place for my Li family in Badong Village!"

"What did the Zhao family do to the Li family back then?" Wen Liang exchanged glances with Xie Jinjiduan. It seemed that Li Yougui had more resentment towards Badong Village and the Zhao family than they thought.

Li Yougui snorted coldly. He looked at the three outsiders in front of him coldly, wondering whether they wanted to see a joke or were they simply curious about the truth behind this matter.

"So what if we know? The whole family of the Li family, including me, does not exceed twenty people. You have all seen how magnificent this old house used to be. Do you know where we live now? One in the sky and the other in the ground.”

"So where you live now, is there a coffin?" Ji Duan interrupted him without warning, and Li Yougui didn't expect to be interrupted. He looked at the young man who had hardly communicated with him, and challenged Raised his sparse eyebrows.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Don't pretend, we've all heard the rumors of Badong Village." Ji Duan pointed to the grass outside the main hall, there, "there is a rectangular trace, and only there is no grass growing, it should be that there are heavy objects on it all the year round As a result, after going to Zhao's house, we can be sure that the rumor is true."

Looking at Li Yougui's silent face, Ji Duan didn't give him a chance to speak, "In this village, what is the use of the coffins placed in every household?"

"Badong Village, also known as Spirit Coffin Village, before I came here, I was curious about the usefulness of the coffin. How long has it been since you went outside to see it? Do you know how evil the rumors about Badong Village are?"

Wen Liang leaned back and lit his long pipe. The night became darker and darker. The windproof lamp placed on the table was not as bright as before because it was maliciously smashed today.

Looking at Wen Liang's plain face in the light and shadow, Li Yougui gritted his teeth and stopped hesitating, as if making a compromise, he revealed the secret of the coffin, "It is used to invite immortals to heal diseases and eliminate disasters."

"In our Badong, if you have an intractable disease or some unusual curse, you can basically get rid of the disease by lying in the coffin and asking the immortal to upper body. If it is more serious, even the immortal family can't cure it. If it’s good, we can only wait until the day of the sacrifice to worship the Shaman God.”

After Li Yougui finished speaking, he found that the three people had different expressions. He couldn't help being a little annoyed. At the same time, he also felt that his beliefs in history were insulted by these outsiders who didn't understand anything.

"Why, you don't believe it? Obviously you insisted on asking me, but I didn't believe it when I told the truth?"

Annoyed, Li Yougui didn't dare to really make a fuss, not to mention that they were standing on the same front now, just because of the white-haired Taoist priest opposite who only cared about smoking, he didn't dare to act recklessly.

"According to what you mean, when the time comes to sacrifice, don't I have to lie in the coffin too?" Ji Duan's face was a little embarrassed. Even though he had been a ghost for so long, the coffin always had a stereotype for him.

That should be the ultimate belonging of the dead, not a prop used by the living to break the curse.

"If you don't want to die, you have to overcome the obstacles in your heart and lie down." Wen Liang puffed in the direction of Ji Duan, "I guess the coffin is a medium between people and gods. If ordinary people are possessed It is not necessarily the case of animalization in them."

Seeing that Ji Duan was choked by the smoke and was about to get angry, Wen Liang stepped back consciously, and grinned without sincerity, "Don't mind, I just lie in it until the sacrifice is over, and it's not like I want you to lie down for a few minutes. moon."

"The specifics may vary from person to person. In our village, there was an old lady who had a sudden illness and lay in a coffin for seven days before she recovered her life." Li Yougui frowned, and it took him a long time to think about it. , "Wait, listen to what you mean, did the shaman agree to your request?"

"If you don't agree, can we talk to you here now?" Wen Liang asked him back, "We waste so much time meeting a shaman, do you think we can come back before we get an answer from our brains?"

Li Yougui was silent for a long while, Wen Liang's words were not unreasonable, the three tried their best to get into the village, and finally saw Grandma Yang, how could they be willing to return empty-handed.

"So what are you calling me here for? You can't just tell me the news." He didn't know what agreement the three of them had reached with the shaman. His granddaughter will only appear on the day of the sacrifice.

"Because of He Nian." Wen Liang kept tapping the cigarette stick with his fingertips, looking at Li Yougui's not-so-standard face, and said in a deep voice, "After we parted at the gate of your ancestral house, we won't be able to contact He Nian. .”

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Ji Duan: Uncle Xie (in a coquettish tone) I don’t want to lie down