Chapter 7 The Mourning Hall
"Uncle, what do you mean?"
Hearing the old man say this, of course I was not happy in my heart.
"Hehe, can you bring these two superb yin demons to Huaiyuan Village, and you can still live for a few days?"
I glanced at him and forced a smile: "What, do you have any explanation?" ”
The old man glanced back at Sang Lan and Ji Yayun, turned his head and said, "One is the red-robed son Xisha, and the other is even more powerful, it is the murderer who was burned to death by the fire!" Entangled by them, how are you still there? ”
I sighed in my heart, Ji Yayun was indeed entangled in red clothes and red shoes, and Sang Lan ......
Thinking back to what happened to her in the past two days, I couldn't help but shudder.
"Old man, you are a master, do you have a way to help them get rid of the scourge that they are entangled in?"
The old man laughed dryly: "You still want to help them?" You're in for a long time! ”
The old man seemed to be a little anxious, took a puff of his cigarette, and whispered: "Master Ding, I have never taken advantage of anyone in my life, since I smoked your cigarettes, I always have to repay you." In this way, when you go to the small Taoyuan Village, first go to my shop and break the clay pot I put on the table, and then go to the peach orchard behind me to pick a peach. As long as you do both of these things, you can reverse the destiny of heaven and save the lives of you and those two women. ”
"Uncle, isn't this your shop?" I looked back, and sure enough, there was a clay pot on the table.
The old man didn't answer me, but his eyelids swept down, "Look at your hands!" ”
I subconsciously looked down, and my whole body convulsed, almost screaming in fright.
On the back of my left hand, there is a large scarlet centipede!
I hurriedly shook my hand vigorously, but the centipede seemed to be nailed to it, and I couldn't shake it off.
When I looked up again, the old man was gone.
Just as I was terrified, suddenly a hand came to my shoulder from behind!
"Ahh
I finally screamed and tried to run away, but I slammed my head against the doorframe......
"Xu Qiu, are you okay?" A weak voice rang out.
I hurriedly looked up, only to find myself in the car with my head hitting the steering wheel.
Thinking of the centipede I saw just now, I hurriedly raised my left hand, but there was no centipede, only the scar of the eight forks.
Turning around, Ji Yayun and Sang Lan both shrank in the back seat, looking at me tremblingly next to each other.
Ji Yayun said cautiously: "Are you having a nightmare?" ”
Nightmare......
Nightmare?
I clutched my aching head and looked out left and right.
The rain was much lighter, and the car stopped under a big tree on the side of the road. There are some small shops in the surrounding villages?
"Why are you here?" I try to remember what happened before.
Ji Yayun said: "I was worried that the rain would be heavy and it would be dangerous to drive further, so I said to find a place to stop." You...... I parked the car directly on the side of the road and parked under the locust tree. ”
"Locust trees?"
If you look closely, this tree on the side of the road is not a locust tree.
The branches are luxuriant, and no one with a thick trunk can hold it.
It took me a while for me to clear my thoughts.
I didn't sleep well last night, I fell asleep as soon as I stopped the car, and everything just now was just a dream.
But what happened to the small shop in the dream and the old man who called himself Ding Ye?
And also......
Tree...... Huaiyuan Village ......
After some fright, I didn't think much about it, and when I saw that the rain had stopped, I turned out the map to find the right way and went straight to Xiaotaoyuan Village.
Finally arrived at Xiaotaoyuan Village and found Zhang Xi's Taoyuan, but the gate of the fence was locked from the outside, and the shack door of the Taoyuan was also locked.
I called Zhang Xi, but I still couldn't get through.
"Gollum ......"
I looked down at my stomach, turned my head, and looked down at Sang Lan's lowered head.
She had a 'big gastric lavage' last night, and in the morning her stomach was upset and she didn't eat much, so she was hungry.
Looking at the watch, it was already past eleven o'clock.
Under the old locust tree, I slept for an hour.
Ji Yayun said: "Why don't we eat first, and then try to call your friends." ”
"Eating ......"
I'm not worried that I can't contact Zhang Xi, the key is where to eat is a problem.
Zhang Xi's orchard is in Xiaotaoyuan Village, but his family lives in the county. There are few restaurants in rural villages.
"Let's go, get in the car."
There are no restaurants, but there are always shops, so I can only buy some instant noodles or something to deal with a meal at the moment.
"If we can't contact your friend, are we here in vain?" Sang Lan asked.
"Cut, it doesn't matter, it's a big deal to climb over the fence and get in. Besides, every family here grows peach trees, and the peaches are already in season, so which fellow can't ask for a few pieces of wood? ”
While reassuring the mother, I drove around and looked around, and before I knew it, I arrived at the end of the village.
"There's a little shop there!" Ji Yayun pointed not far away and said.
When I looked at it, I shuddered violently and almost pressed the accelerator as a brake.
It was indeed a small shop, a window with a red paint on the wall that said 'Commissary'.
Thinking of the dream under the old locust tree, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart.
This commissary is exactly the same as the one I saw in my dreams!
I parked the car and hesitated for a few moments before biting my lip and getting out of the car.
"Anyone? Shopping! ”
Sang Lan shouted twice into the commissary, then turned around, "It seems that there is no one." ”
I walked straight to the main entrance, looking at the two mottled wooden doors that were closed, and my breathing became heavy involuntarily.
"The store is open, there should be someone inside." Ji Yayun said as he knocked on the door.
She only knocked twice, but before she could withdraw her hand, the door creaked open.
"Ahh
Seeing the situation in the house clearly, Ji Yayun and Sang Lan screamed at the same time.
In the room, an old man in a shroud lay on the door panel raised in the middle.
Incense and candles are placed on the table, and in the center is an enlarged black and white photograph.
This is actually a mortuary mourning hall!
"Let's go, let's go!" Ji Yayun cried and pulled me.
However, at this moment my whole body was stiff and I couldn't move at all.
The person in the photo is actually the old man who asked me for a cigarette in my dream before!
"What are you doing?" Someone behind him asked.
In a trance, I heard the man's "oops", "Why did Ding Ye turn his head?" Bolt, hurry up and find the village chief! ”
I walked slowly into the mourning hall, and when I saw the faces of the parked corpses, I only felt that the world was spinning.
By the time he came to his senses, dozens of people had gathered inside and outside the house.
An old man about sixty years old walked to the corpse with a cigarette stick and looked at it, then looked at the portrait decoration on the table, and muttered: "Brother Ding, why did you say that you would just leave......
Ji Yayun pulled me aside and said, "I just asked the villagers about it, this old man is an old family in the village, so he opened a small shop and planted an acre of peaches. It's knowing that you're dying, sending it to yourself. ”
"You found him gone?" The old cigarette stick walked over and asked.
Sang Lan hurriedly said: "We originally wanted to buy something, but we shouted outside, but no one answered, pushed the door open, and he was already like this." ”
The old cigarette stick said in a deep voice: "I am the village chief of Xiaotaoyuan Village, Lao Yang. I thank you for Lao Ding, if you hadn't bumped into him, he would have had to be gnawed by rats the next night. ”
"You're welcome." Ji Yayun glanced at me and said to him cautiously, "Village Chief Yang, it's okay, let's go first." ”
"Let's go."
Village Chief Yang waved his hand, turned his head and rushed outside to ask, "Is the person who asked about the matter here?" ”
"Here we are." With a quiet response, a thin, half-grown old man in his fifties walked in.
Asking questions is a kind of side hustle and a kind of profession.
Generally, it is a person who is highly respected and understands etiquette.
Which family has a red and white wedding, responsible for hosting and taking care of it.
The questioner and Zhang Xi of Xiaotaoyuan Village are from their own family, surnamed Zhang, and their name is Zhang Ande.
Ji Yayun wants to pull me away.
I said wait, and see.
I have a very strong feeling that the dream under the old locust tree before is definitely not accidental.
What's more, on one side of the case, there is a clay basin!
Zhang Ande first bowed to the parked corpse a few times, and then looked around in the mourning hall.
"Hiss......"
Looking at the offering table, he suddenly took a breath, "This spirit card ......"
"What's wrong?" Village Chief Yang asked.
Zhang Ande turned around and whispered a few words to him.
Turning his head, his brow still slightly furrowed.
Soon, he stretched his eyebrows and said loudly to the outsiders: "We all know about Ding Ye's situation, so I won't say more." Folks, let's give him a ride together! ”
Village Chief Yang walked to the door and beckoned the villagers to stand up.
Zhang Ande walked to the case, gathered a handful of incense on it, looked at the statue and sighed, and whispered something.
"Dad." A man who looked honest walked in and nodded at Zhang Ande.
Zhang Ande lit the three incense sticks with a candle flame and handed them to him: "Give you Ding Ye incense." ”
The man nodded, walked to the parked corpse, held the incense in both hands, and said loudly, "Ding Ye is good." ”
As he spoke, he bowed respectfully.
However, just as he bent down, the corpse's eyes suddenly opened!