From a distance, white cloths hung in front of several houses in the village.

It stands to reason that funerals should be very noisy.

But the whole village seems to be very quiet.

The closer you get to the village, the more eerie the quiet.

The whole village seemed to be shrouded in the sky, and it looked very dull.

Just as I was about to enter the village, my phone rang.

"Zheng Fan, your sister has a high fever now, what should I do, should I be sent to the hospital?"

"Don't go, don't send it. I left a few bottles of medicinal wine in the corner of the wall and used them to wipe Zheng Ling's body. The remaining incense candles are also placed there, and the incense candles are replaced when they are almost burned out, and they must not be extinguished. ”

After hanging up my phone, I walked along the sheep's gut path towards the village.

There were many people in the village, all of them with heavy faces.

I didn't ask carefully what the situation was, the purpose of coming here was to find Zhang Ying.

When the villagers heard that I was looking for Zhang Ying, they were a little silent.

pointed to the blue brick house not far away, and signaled that it was Zhang Ying's house, let me find it myself.

There were many other villagers who went back and forth to help with the funeral, but they all preferred to take a long detour rather than go near the house.

The first feeling I had in the whole Huangshan Village was that it was poor, very poor.

In those years, I have also been to many villages, not to mention the small western-style buildings with several floors, at least most of them are bungalows, and most of the poorer ones are blue brick houses. However, in this Huangshan Village, most of them are tiled houses built with stone walls, and even several are thatched houses.

Therefore, the blue brick house of Zhang Ying's family looks particularly abrupt.

"Hello, I'm classmate Zhang Ying, is Zhang Ying at home?" I knocked on the door and shouted inside.

It took a long time before I heard a noise inside.

A middle-aged man dressed with a limp foot slowly opened the door with a slap-sized slit.

The sunlight shone through the cracks, and the face that had been through the vicissitudes of life looked unusually pale.

"Are you her classmate, the same as the ones who went to pick up chestnuts the other day?" the middle-aged man stared at the canvas bag on my body.

"Her classmates are dead...... Let me see what's going on. ”

Hearing this, the middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and then opened the door and let me in.

As soon as I entered the door, I felt a chill.

Just after early autumn, the sun outside was still warm, but it was so cold inside the room that people wanted to shiver.

All the doors and windows of the whole house were closed, and the inside was black and hollow, and the black light bulbs gave a dull yellow light.

"You stay here first, and I'll take you to see her when it gets dark." ”

The middle-aged man pushed open a door, pointed to the room, and said to me.

Before I could speak, I heard someone break in from outside.

"Brother Zhang, hurry up, something happened again. ”

The middle-aged man didn't say a word, and rushed out with a limp following the comer.

When I heard that something had happened, I also chuckled in my heart.

This time I came to Huangshan Village to find Zhang Ying, just to find out what happened in the village, which led to the death of three of Zheng Ling's classmates, and her own life and death were unpredictable. It can be inferred from Zhang Ying's father's tone just now that Zhang Ying's situation is definitely not very good now, otherwise how can she take me to see her at night?

As soon as I got out of the door, I saw seven or eight people running towards this side in a panic carrying stretchers.

There was a man lying on the stretcher, who had been stung beyond the eyes of a bee, and there was more air out than air in, and it was not going to work.

"Where did you find it?" Lao Zhang dragged the crippled leg and half-squatted down to touch something on the man's face.

"Back on the edge of the chestnut forest. ”

Then I listened to the villagers talk about it.

I'm also getting to figure out what happened.

The man lying on the stretcher is named Zhang Daming, who is also a villager in Huangshan Village. Two days ago, their old man had just been stung to death by a bee in the chestnut forest in the back mountain, and his body was still parked in the hall to prepare for the funeral. Last night, it was he who kept a wake for the old man in the hall.

But I don't know why, but today it was found in the chestnut forest.

And the place where it was found was the same place where the body of his old man was found.

"Let's send it back first, I just gave some medicine, and I can't die. Go back and take care of the people, and tell the other people who are guarding the spirits, close the door at night, light the incense, and send a few more people to guard. ”

From beginning to end, my eyes were fixed on the medicine in Lao Zhang's hand.

The ointment was black and smeared on his face, and soon Zhang Daming, who had been calling, quieted down and fell into a deep sleep.

"Go back, I'll take you to see Zhang Ying in the evening, I still have some things. ”

Lao Zhang pointed to his blue brick house and said to me.

I wanted to follow him, but he turned and glared at me.

At this glance, my whole body went from the heavenly spirit cover to the soles of my feet. The look in his eyes was like that of a fierce beast, and I even felt that if I took one step further, this little life could be given to him.

After I came back, I found out that the room that Lao Zhang pointed out to me was actually where Zheng Ling and the others lived.

In the room, there are also photos of Zheng Ling and those classmates, which are exactly the same as those in the mobile phone.

In the photo, Zheng Ling's figure is gray, and several other people have long lost their colors. Only Zhang Ying's one looks more and more beautiful.

"Is it pretty?" a cold voice sounded behind him.

My scalp is hairy, and I haven't felt a second person from the time I came in.

I'm still very confident about how I feel.

has followed my grandfather to the north and south for so many years, and has avoided a lot of troubles with this feeling.

But now, there is someone standing behind me, and I don't even know it.

Turning around, I saw the familiar face.

The person who came was Zhang Ying.

It's just that she is different from the glamorous and beautiful in the photo, her whole face is extremely distorted, and there is a weird smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

The sound of the door slamming outside woke me out of bed.

I fell asleep unconsciously, it was just a dream.

I touched my forehead, covered with fine beads of sweat, and picked up the canvas bag left by my grandfather, and I felt a lot more at ease.

It was already dark outside.

got up to open the door, only to find that Lao Zhang had been shouting outside for a while.

"You sit down first, I'll cook, and I'll take you to see Zhang Ying after eating. ”

When Lao Zhang spoke, he didn't even look at me.

The cool breeze blew outside the door, which made me sober up a lot in an instant.

I wanted to take advantage of this time to call and ask about my sister's situation, only to find that there was no signal in this village.

The rice was quickly ready, chestnut rice, and the side dish was pickled pickles.

"Uncle Zhang, what's wrong with Zhang Ying, where is she?" I couldn't help but ask curiously.

Lao Zhang put down the bowl and looked at me for a while before he sighed and said:

"Zhang Ying is crazy, I locked her up in the chestnut forest in the back mountain. ”