After making sure that this inhabited family would not open the door for me, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, what happened to the villagers here? I heard a knock on the door, and I was almost slamming the door, and they didn't even light the lamp, or even say a word, even if it was a yelling "go away". Nor did it. This is really strange, I had no choice but to choose the next one, but knocked on the door of more than ten houses in a row, and the result turned out to be the same, none of them were willing to light up and open the door for me.

All the way to the south of the village, I saw a small house in front of a small puddle, this small house has no courtyard wall, but the door is very neatly cleaned. Just by seeing the firewood piled up on one side of the stove house, I can be sure that this household is inhabited, and since I can't recklessly climb over the wall to enter the hospital, then I simply knock on the door of this house to see, the door is next to the inner room inside, even if I don't want to open the door, I will always give an explanation.

"Bang bang bang!"

After a few hard knocks, I hurriedly and politely asked, "Is there anyone at home?" Can you open the door? I'm from out of town, passing through here, there is nowhere to stay, if it is convenient for home, I ask to spend the night. After saying that, I waited for a while, but no one answered, frowned, and I couldn't help but ask again, "Is there anyone at home?" Can I stay overnight? ...... at home"

Before I finished speaking, I saw a withered yellow oil lamp lit up in the inner room, and my eyes lit up and I grinned. In the end, it's still the road to the sky! However, it seemed too early for me to rejoice, and I saw that the yellow oil lamp had just been lit and all of it was extinguished in an instant, and then I heard an old voice coming from inside: "Go and spend the night in someone else's house, I have only a small bed here, not enough for two people to sleep." ”

It's an old man's voice, not enough for two to sleep? Isn't that telling me that there's an old man living in it? This is great, I thought it was inconvenient at first, if it was just an old man living in it, then I would be better to do it, what to say is not enough for two people to live, in fact, this is clearly the meaning of eviction. I said earnestly again: "Uncle, I have asked all the people in the village, but no one wants to open the door for me, so I really have no choice but to come to your house, I hope you can take me in for one night temporarily." ”

"Well, you'd better go quickly, we don't welcome anyone into the house at night, and no one wants to open the door." Immediately afterwards, the old man in there responded, and when I heard this, I muttered in my heart, why don't the people in this village welcome people into the house at night and no one wants to open the door? Don't...... I suddenly remembered the strange blood baby I met outside the village, could it be that this village is haunted?

But I didn't ask for clarity, and I can't guess casually. It's just that this lonely old man doesn't want to open the door for me, and who wants to open the door for me in the village? No, I must live in this old man's house, after thinking about it, I suddenly said: "Uncle, since, since you are unwilling to take me in, then I will leave......" After speaking, I pretended to raise my feet and walked away, but after a few steps, I instantly crept to the side of the door and squatted.

Not long after, sure enough, I saw the oil lamp lit up in the house again, and I couldn't help grinning, this old man will definitely come out to see the situation, as long as he opens the door, don't think about letting me go again. Then I heard a footstep, and walked slowly out of the inner room, and came to the back of the door and paused, and then I heard the sound of the latch being drawn, and then the door quietly opened a crack.

I stood up and grinned, "Uncle! I didn't go, hehe! ”

"Huh?" I saw the white-haired old man behind the door suddenly frightened and frightened, trembling all over his body, and almost fell to the ground, and then he hurriedly closed the door, but I blocked the edge of the door at the same time as he closed the door. The old man was pushing inside, but I was pushing outside, but pushing back and forth, the old man looked at me carefully, and gradually relaxed, and after a while, the old man exhaled heavily, but sighed: "Young man! Did you know that scary people can scare people to death?! ”

With that, the old man finally let go of his hand, and I pushed the door open. The old man just took two steps, and immediately said in a panic: "Come in, come in, close the door!" "Hearing the old man's words, I walked in for some unknown reason, and then saw the old man close the door. Then he leaned down on the crack of the door and looked out, and after a long time the old man withdrew his gaze like a thief, turned his head to look at me, and waved me into the inner room.

When I came to the inner room, I glanced at it, and saw a small oil lamp lit in front of the simple dilapidated bed, and the old man sighed casually: "Young man, you didn't make it clear whether you were a human or a ghost just now, I thought you were a ghost, and I almost scared me to death!" And I obviously heard your footsteps and walked away before I got up and opened the door, tell me about you, why are you hiding outside the door to scare me? At my age, if I am scared out of you by you, I will be too aggrieved! ”

As he spoke, the old man made another gesture of invitation, motioning for me to sit on the edge of the bed and speak. I sat down honestly, but hurriedly stood up and saluted respectfully, and said: "Senior Li Ergou is a footwalker, passing by here, the junior was offended just now, and I hope the old man will forgive me." Actually, I can't think about it, so I ...... Alas, it's all to blame the younger generation for being reckless, don't be surprised by the old man. ”

"Oh, so young man, you're a young man, and you're a Taoist priest?" The old man looked me up and down carefully again, and then politely invited me to sit down, and then said: "Speaking of which, I don't blame you, it's all the problem of the villagers in our village, we now close the door at night, and no one goes back and forth, let alone open the door to let an outsider like you enter the house." But even if you're lucky, if you meet a lonely old man like me, if people have a family and a room, I'm afraid no one will dare to open the door randomly, for fear that their own house will enter a ghost! ”

"Ghosts? Uncle, is the ghost you are talking about a woman who looks crazy? She still had a swaddling swaddling cloth in her hand, but the swaddling clothes were a pile of rotten flesh, full of blood! "I remembered the strange woman I had just met outside the village, and the bloody swaddling clothes, and I guess the villagers of this village were on the lookout for that woman. It's no wonder that I, as a Taoist priest, feel scared when I see the bloody swaddling clothes, let alone these ordinary villagers.

"Huh? You, did you see it when you first came to our village? The old man's eyes widened in horror, and then he hurriedly turned his head and ran to the outhouse to look around, and came back with a bunch of peach branches, and couldn't help but say that when he came to me, he beat me back and forth, up and down, with peach branches. But just after the beating, the old man was stunned again, seemed to be a little embarrassed to look at me, and then looked at the peach branch in his hand, and said with a wry smile: "Look at you, I actually forgot that you are a Taoist priest, and you are still playing with a big knife in front of Emperor Guan, and you actually exorcise evil spirits for a Taoist priest, hehe!" ”

Hitting the body with peach branches can indeed drive away the evil spirit on the body, and these common senses are known to ordinary people. Hearing the old man's words, I smiled and said: "It's not in the way, it's not in the way, the old man is polite, even if I am a Taoist priest, I often use peach wood, and using peach wood branches can indeed drive away evil spirits, you did the right thing, and I should also thank you for driving away evil spirits for me." But can the old man tell me about the woman and the swaddling ...... Blood babies, are they all ghosts? ”

Actually, I couldn't figure out if the swaddling clothes were babies or not, and at first it was a baby, but what I saw with my heavenly eyes was a pile of bloody rotten flesh. So I hesitated a little, but for the sake of explaining what I was seeing, I could only call it a blood baby for the time being. Hearing this, the old man turned his head to look out of the window again, and checked whether the window was closed tightly, and then turned his head and whispered to me: "Ergou, maybe it's because you are a Taoist priest, the female ghost didn't harm you, I actually saw the female ghost with my own eyes, and I can still be safe, this is in our village, but what's new, you don't know, the people who have seen the female ghost before are now dead!" ”

Listening to the old man screaming a female ghost, daring to love that woman, what a ghost. It's a pity that I forgot to look at her with the eyes of heaven at that time, if I had known in advance that she was a ghost, I am afraid that I would not have come forward to talk to her for a long time. It's just that I didn't expect that I blamed it for a long time, and in the end she ignored me and left, is it really because I am a Taoist priest?

No, I don't think so, ordinary ghosts, unless they meet a Taoist priest with advanced Taoism, they will automatically stay away, and they won't even hit their faces. And I not only saw it with my own eyes, but also talked nonsense with her at close range for a long time, which shows that she is not afraid of me at all, and she doesn't even take me seriously. Perhaps, maybe it was my luck, at that time, the female ghost didn't hurt me.

I thought about it, and then asked, "Uncle, what kind of ghost is that female ghost?" Is it someone from your village who died? Or are lonely ghosts coming to your village to haunt you? Since you're so afraid of her, you must know something about her, right?! The old man seemed to be stopped by my series of questions, and looked at me in a daze for a long time before the old man sighed, and seemed to not know where to start for a while.

After a long while, the old man spoke: "We naturally know that the female ghost is the person who died in our village, and I tell you, the swaddling clothes you see are not a baby. But it doesn't seem right to say this, because the female ghost was pregnant when she was born, but she died because of dystocia, and the baby was not born at all, and died with her! ”

My heart thumped at the words.