Chapter 3: The Legend of Devil's Bay (2)
In the face of Lin Jianguo's honest smile, Liu Erye, who already had a high evaluation of Lin Jianguo, naturally would not slack off, and after piling up a smile like a best friend on his face, Liu Erye walked to Lin Jianguo's side and squatted down.
This position is exquisite, there is a look of about one or two meters away from Lin Jianguo, who is squatting at the door to eat noodles, neither looks rusty, nor is it too close to the shack behind him that is not lit with an oil lamp and looks a little black, which is Lin Jianguo's taboo.
Others don't know this taboo, but Liu Erye knows, no matter who it is, as long as he gets close to Lin Jianguo's shack, his face will always show unhappiness, and several times, unwitting people in the town have inadvertently entered Lin Jianguo's shack, Liu Erye always sees Lin Jianguo with a black face, barely keeping calm, but the hands are clenched into fists, and they are still trembling slightly.
This detail was inadvertently noticed by Liu Erye, and after Liu Erye took a look, Lin Jianguo seemed to notice it, and stuffed his fist into his trouser pocket.
Speaking of which, there is nothing in Lin Jianguo's shack, this shack that can be seen transparent at a glance, what can it hide? Second Master Liu, who didn't know at first, also went in, and there must have been nothing inside, but he didn't know why Lin Jianguo was so nervous and caring, and even disgusted!
Liu Erye has his own careful thoughts, or a kind of 'cunning' unique to the people at the bottom, after discovering this, he didn't tell anyone, but he silently stuffed in his heart, he thinks that he is the person who knows Lin Jianguo best in the town, and he is also the one who has the closest relationship He doesn't want others to gain insight into these, especially a few other insiders, and then the relationship with Lin Jianguo is closer than him.
Liu Erye didn't have any particularly bad thoughts, he just thought that if one day a hundred years later, Lin Jianguo could personally come to handle a funeral, the more capable people are, the more they can let their souls rest and transcend, although they are now anti-superstition, but these concepts are still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Lin Jianguo kept a low profile and Liu Erye pondered in his heart, there are many people close to him, he may not agree to his request, because he has handled his own, so can he not handle other people's in the future? Chinese people talk about personal feelings, once this matter starts, it can't be finished.
But if he has a good relationship with himself, he can still have an excuse.
Thinking of this, Liu Erye's eyes became more and more friendly when he looked at Lin Jianguo, and when he saw Lin Jianguo's bowl of oily spicy noodles to the bottom, he hurriedly wrapped a stick of dry tobacco and handed it over.
"Smoke a rod after dinner, cheer up, come on." Liu Erye is extraordinarily attentive.
Lin Jianguo smiled, didn't postpone it, put down the bowl and said, "Second master, have you eaten?" Shall I get you a bowl? This side is fragrant. ”
Liu Erye swallowed a mouthful of saliva, even if it is a person in the town, eating a bowl of oily and spicy noodles is a luxury, after all, who can be as chic as Lin Jianguo, not to mention that he is also a worker in the timber transportation office.
But how can it be so troublesome? This good impression can't be ruined because of some trivial things, Liu Erye smiled attentively, waved his hand, and then said: "Don't eat, the old woman will make cakes at night, and she will eat to her heart's content." Let's smoke, I'm not idle and bored, I'm coming to you to nag again, don't you bother? ”
Lin Jianguo lit the dry cigarette handed over by Liu Erye, took two puffs, shook his head with a smile, and then chatted casually with Liu Erye, in fact, he has better paper cigarettes on him, he is still willing to accept Liu Erye's hospitality every day, he just wants to have someone who can talk too much.
Under the moonlight, the two squatting figures next to the dilapidated shack were somewhat warmer than a lonely figure squatting here.
In the era when there was no entertainment, people always fell asleep early, and after a while, Liu Erye said goodbye at a similar fixed time on weekdays, Lin Jianguo glanced at Liu Erye's back, his eyes were very deep, and he didn't know what he was thinking, he sighed slightly, and got up and entered the house.
The dilapidated shack, the moonlight shone into the house through the cracks, but it was not so dark, Lin Jianguo took advantage of this faint, cold moonlight, touched the oil lamp, lit a match, and lit the oil lamp.
When the dim oil lamp light is on, it finally adds a touch of warmth to this deserted shack, it is said that at this time, people will always feel at ease and relax all their defenses, but the light clearly reflects Lin Jianguo's face that looks a little painful and afraid.
He looked up, glanced at the moonlight in the sky through the gap in the roof of the shack, estimated the time, and then took out a pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket with trembling hands, felt out the cigarettes, rolled them with the white paper in them, lit them by the light of the oil lamp, took a deep breath, and the fear on his face subsided a little, but the pain was still there.
After walking for so many years, she should be older, can you take her mother-in-law and pick her up with her? At this age, you're 7 or 8 years old, and you're sensible, so you shouldn't be able to talk nonsense, right? No matter how late it is, it doesn't mean to come out by yourself, you can't be 9 years old, and the painful look on Kan Lin Jianguo's face is even heavier.
It's just that if it's hard for my father and mother, what will happen to them? Thinking of this, Lin Jianguo suddenly buried his head, grabbed his hair in pain, and made a low 'whining' sound in his mouth, like a wounded beast.
The cold moon rose higher, and Lin Jianguo, who was lying on the tattered table and whimpering in pain, suddenly straightened up as if he sensed something, and didn't even have time to wipe away the tears and snot on his face, so he stood up like a demon.
At this time, his expression changed, no longer the pain and fear just now, but replaced with a mechanical numbness with an expressionless face and empty eyes, and then his body also matched the expression on his face, and he walked to the only kang in the shack numbly, and then squatted down under the dim oil light.
This picture is so weird, mixed with a hint of horror in the swaying oil lamp light, cold moonlight, expressionless, mechanical A man must know that even if it is full of painful expressions, beast-like whining, it is also a vivid emotion of human beings, unlike this, Lin Jianguo at this time is like an indescribable existence.
He stretched out his hands and groped his way into the kang hole of the fire kang, because it was not yet winter, so there was a thick black kang ash piled up in this kang hole, his hands were pulling in the kang ash, the movement was very skillful, and in less than two minutes, he pulled out a very finely wrapped package from the thick pile of kang ashes.
The wrapped cloth is a typical kind of rural flower cloth, but it can be seen that it is very thick, it should be the kind of 'luxury' cloth that will only be used for marriage, and is used to sew quilt noodles, after turning out this flower cloth package, Lin Jianguo's numb and empty face suddenly appeared a strange smile, in such a face, suddenly smiled like this, if someone was present, he might be startled, and then he would choose to say goodbye and leave in a hurry.
But this is an empty shack, no one saw Lin Jianguo's smile, and no one could interpret the smile on Lin Jianguo's face with an inexplicable sense of reassurance, he just took the package and returned to the table, and then after the originally empty and numb face showed a trace of fear, he suddenly regained his strange expression and opened the package at once.
In that flower cloth wrapping and the like, it is a statue, but it is different from the statues of gods worshiped everywhere in the land of China, even if it is a mountain ghost, it will not make people feel frightened, and the statue in the package, at the moment it was opened, it was indeed with a terrifying atmosphere, which met Lin Jianguo's eyes.
This is a skeleton statue, but not a human skeleton, but a fish skeleton, to be precise, it should be a cross between a fish head and a human, a strange skeleton statue, the statue is black, lifelike, with a hideous expression, an open mouth, sharp teeth, and empty black eye sockets, as if there are still that kind of cold eyes staring at Lin Jianguo in front of it.
The terrible thing is not exactly these, but the mottled blood on the skeleton, Lin Jianguo glanced at the skeleton statue, and then picked up the statue with trembling hands and walked to a corner of the house.
On the wall in that corner, there was a wooden plank, which was empty, but it was not particularly eye-catching Lin Jianguo put the skeleton statue on the wooden board, and then knelt down respectfully, and began to bow three times and bow to the statue, and began to hum a strange tune in his mouth, which was melodious and desolate, just like the soundtrack of a horror movie.
After doing all this, Lin Jianguo suddenly ripped off his clothes, and there were messy wounds on his abdomen, and the new and old ones were superimposed, making people look chilling.
But Lin Jianguo didn't seem to feel anything, took out a sharp knife from the waistband of his pants, and then slashed towards his abdomen without hesitation