After the peach demon pasted the talisman in the house, I thought for a while before putting a white lamp on the beam.

I pointed to the white lamp hanging on the beam and said to Kaoru Nishinomiya, "Did you see that lamp? If the lamp falls off on its own, don't touch it." Just let it hang in the air, and you stand still under the light, and don't let the lights go out, you know?"

Nishigong Kaoru said softly, "Are you leaving?"

I said in a deep voice, "Probably ......"

As soon as I finished speaking, the old man sitting in the next room suddenly laughed, and I stepped out of the room and looked at the old man sitting on the earthen kang. The muscles on the other party's face did not change at all, like a frozen piece of dough, only the corners of his mouth were cracking a little.

As soon as my toes touched the threshold, Lao Zhangtou turned his head and said, "Someone is coming." ”

I subconsciously asked, "Who's coming?"

"At the door!" said the old man, and there was no movement at the door.

When I looked out the window, I saw a closed door. I was about to speak when I heard someone knocking on the door: "Comrade Chen, are you asleep? The county interpreter came and said he wanted to see you." ”

Village chief? Did he jump over the wall again?

I opened the door and let the village chief in: "Where's the translator?"

"In the village, people have big shelves, so they don't say anything, so they have to let you pass. "When the village chief spoke, he was standing about a meter away from me. The other party's voice was a little hoarse, as if he had just waded out of the water, with a slightly wet breath.

"Xuanzi, let's go to the village headquarters!Little demon, you watch don't move in the house!" I greeted the peach demon, and left with Ye Xuan and the village chief.

The village chief still didn't go through the gate, and jumped over the stone under the courtyard wall.

I followed the village chief and said, "Why don't you go through the gate?"

As he walked, the village chief said, "Some doors can be walked by the living, while others can only be walked by the dead. Old Zhangtou is dead, his family is a grave, how dare I go through the gate?"

Ye Xuan stepped forward and stood side by side with me, reaching out and grabbing the bamboo whip behind his back.

I quietly touched Ye Xuan and motioned him not to move. He opened his mouth and said, "How do you know that Lao Zhangtou is dead?"

The village chief couldn't help but straighten up: "Do you see the dishes and chopsticks placed in front of Lao Zhangtou?

I was shocked. Old man Zhang is next to three plates and a bowl, the bowl is in the middle, the plate is in the shape of a zigzag, the tip of the chopsticks is punched inside, and the tail is facing outward, which is clearly the way to place the offering. Moreover, there is no oil star in Old Man Zhang's bowl, which means that his bowl is only filled with rice.

I suddenly looked up at the village chief, and it was only then that I remembered a detail.

When the village chief jumped into Old Man Zhang's house from the wall, his dog looked up at the village chief and immediately fell back. At that time, the dog was holding his tail. Dogs only tuck their tails when they are afraid.

The dog could see that the village chief was a dead man, and that he was threatened when he looked at the village chief, otherwise, he would not have stayed still.

I said in a deep voice, "What you said to me during the day was false?"

The village chief said slowly: "I shouldn't have taken you to find Lao Zhangtou! If I didn't take you to him, I wouldn't have died." I jumped into the outer wall of Lao Zhangtou's house and fell to my death. Watch your soul lead the way. ”

When a person jumps off a wall, there must be a forward squat to cushion the impact of the jump. When the village chief jumped over the wall, he was blocked by the wall, and it took me two or three seconds to see him get up, and at that time, he was dead?

The village chief said, "When you entered the door, no one looked back! At that time, I squatted in the shadow in the corner of the wall and watched you go into the house!"

I said in a deep voice, "When you left, I kept looking at the door, why didn't I see your body." ”

The village chief smiled and said, "You look at the door, but do you look behind the door? My soul is in the house, and people are squatting at the door." When I came out, I closed the door and went back. ”

"People, the soul can't leave the body, and if you leave the body and go back, you can't take the body, when I go out of the old Zhangtou's house, I feel that this body is heavy!

It was only then that I remembered that when the village chief went out, he walked a lot slower, and from behind it looked like he couldn't take a step.

I subconsciously slowed down: "You are already dead, why don't you dare to go out of the door of Lao Zhangtou's house?"

The village chief said: "There is someone at the door, I am afraid of hitting him." A dead man hits a living man. Either the living are planted with a heel, or the dead are scattered! I don't dare to bump outside. Hey hey ......"

Someone at the door?

I hadn't gone far from Lao Zhangtou's house, and I subconsciously looked back at the door.

Sure enough, there was a figure over there, the other party was not tall, and the person stood sideways in the doorway, holding one hand in the air, as if he was going to knock on the door, but his hand never touched the door panel.

The village chief said, "This man, he doesn't look up at the door frame, not even at the tile or the stone on the door frame, isn't he drilling into the tomb by himself?"

The door of the northeast courtyard must be covered with tiles, even if it is a door frame made of stones, two tiles must be built on top of it, so that the rain can flow down. Only the tomb door is three flat strips of stone.

When I looked up along the door frame, I found that the gate of Lao Zhangtou's house had turned into a stone slat, and it was clearly a tomb door.

Ye Xuan subconsciously said: "When I went out, I looked at the gate, why didn't I see the slate?"

The village chief smiled: "What the living see on the outside is the tomb, and the dead see the house inside." Can it be the same inside and outside the grave? You have just come out of the grave, and if you go back now, it will still be a door. ”

Ye Xuan pulled me, meaning to ask me if I should go back to reinforce the peach demon?

I waved my hand at him gently.

I suspect that the village chief is trying to trick the two of us into going to the grave, and if we go back, we will be given the order. Besides, the peach demon is a leader in magic, and she can handle ordinary scenes.

The village chief seemed to have no idea of the little movements we were making behind him, and still led us forward: "Aren't you looking for Number Forty-four? I'll take you there." Forty-four is only visible to the dead, and the living cannot find a place. Unless it's the people in the courtyard who want to look for you, otherwise, you won't be able to see the compound if you turn the village upside down. ”

I said in a deep voice, "Did that old devil find Compound No. 44 in the first place? Who led him the way?"

"It's the compound looking for him!" the village chief smiled: "Aren't you looking for the compound?

The direction of the village chief now is not to go to the village headquarters, but to walk along the courtyard of Lao Zhangtou and then to the outside of the village. Lao Zhangtou's family is already the last one in Xiaohe Village. I have the impression that from that side it is a wasteland with a ditch.

As I walked out of the village behind the village chief, I noticed that there were a few more courtyards outside the village. I'm sure the place was still open when I came during the day. But now, across the river, there were a few more courtyards on the wasteland. It is a place where large families live

There were no lights in the courtyards, but the courtyard doors could be seen ajar, and there seemed to be someone whispering while quietly looking at the cracks. I couldn't hear what they were saying, only a murmur.

I've heard the elders say that if you hear something talking from below in the middle of the night, don't go ahead and don't listen to what they say? It's a dead cat talking in the barley, and what they say is, how are you going to die? If you can't hear clearly, it's fine. If you really get to the front and hear clearly, you will have to go down the dead road they say. Whatever they say, you will rush to the dead road they say, and if you don't fall under a cliff, you will fall into a ditch.

When he heard a movement, he quickly covered his ears and walked to a place where there was a light, and when he saw the light, he was fine.

Ye Xuan had also heard this, holding the bamboo whip in one hand and touching the flashlight in his waist with the other.

The further I went, the clearer I heard.

Someone said, "It's time to go to the bridge." It's time to hit the bridge...... Just wait for them to get on the bridge. ”

"Will they be able to go up to the bridge?"

"Why can't they? They were almost to the river, and before they could see that it was a paper bridge, they could go up. ”

Paper work!

When a person dies, he has to burn paper. In addition to the boys and girls, the paper cow and the paper horse are fixed to burn things, other things are different, and some places will add a pair of gold and silver bridges to the paper work. Legend has it that people have to cross three bridges when they die, the golden bridge and the silver bridge. In some legends, the Golden Bridge and the Silver Bridge are things in the underworld, and in some legends, only the Nai He Bridge is there. The golden bridge and the silver bridge have to be burned by filial sons and grandsons, otherwise the dead will not be able to reach the underworld. That's why I added a pair of gold and silver bridges to the paper work.

At that time, I didn't think about some folklore, but I grabbed the order and caught up again.

The paper bridge is something that a dead man has crossed, if Ye Xuan and I step on the bridge, it will not be equivalent to using a dead man's thing, which just triggers the order to seize it.

But where is the first condition for seizing the order?

On the village chief?

In the midst of a sharp turn in my mind, I heard someone in the courtyard say, "If they get on the paper bridge, won't the bridge collapse?"

Someone replied: "If you go on the bridge, you are a dead man, and the bridge will definitely not collapse." If the bridge collapses, it means that they should not die, and they will have to wait until the next time. We may not be able to eat this bite today!"

Is there a turnaround in seizing orders?

As soon as the thought popped into my head, countless images flew through my head.

The previous two Meridian Summoners were not aimed at a specific person, but all of our names were written on it, that is, there was a certain randomness in seizing orders to kill. Can you delay the order with human life?

In the middle of my thoughts, the village chief suddenly took out a white flag.