Chapter Ninety-Five: The Mourning Hall
Immediately, the two of us did not delay any longer, and hurriedly looked left and right, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, and quickly touched the third courtyard.
For fear of attracting attention on the road, we didn't turn on the flashlight, and directly relied on the memories of the day to touch the corridor where I ran to the boy who chased Wang Quan. We walked down the corridor, and in a short time we came again to the little garden.
As soon as I arrived in this small garden, I felt a little hairy all over my body: it was quiet and quiet during the day, but how could it feel gloomy at night. I didn't want to stay here any longer, so I wanted to urge Wang Quan to leave quickly, but before I could say anything, Wang Quan suddenly yelled: "Who!"
I was already a little hairy standing on end by this little garden, and then I was screamed by this kid on the ground, almost didn't give me a direct startle kneeling, I quickly opened my eyes and looked around, and looked carefully for a long time, but I didn't even see a ghost.
"Damn, you kid wants to scare me to death, who is this?" I said tremblingly, grabbing Wang Quan's arm and looking left and right. Wang Quan stared at the hanging flower gate at the end of the small garden, and said in a deep voice, "I just saw a dark shadow flashing past. As soon as I heard him say this, I became even more nervous, and seeing that I was shaking like a dog, Wang Quan said with some disgust: "Tsk, I said Your Majesty, you can be regarded as a person who has experienced strong winds and waves, and the monster and the female corpse have not scared you like this, and a thing that doesn't know whether it is a human or a ghost has scared you into this virtue?"
Looking at his disdainful face, I quickly let go of him, thinking that I couldn't let this kid look flat, so I settled down and said: "You kid knows a fart, this is called the unknown is the most terrifying, if you know what it was just now, can Lao Tzu still be scared like this bear?"
"Okay, you're amazing, I think we'd better go to the yard and have a look." With that, the king took the lead and walked into the door of the hanging flowers. I gave him a blank look, took a deep breath, and cheered up, and followed him into the small courtyard with the corner gate leading to the long street. Walk into the yard. We didn't notice anything unusual, we didn't see any ghosts, and after a closer look, we walked towards the corner gate that led to the long street.
Out of the corner gate, it was the long street I had arrived at during the day. - Strangely enough. During the day, there is a long street with sparse figures, but at this time it is empty, all the doors of the courtyards are locked, there is not even a trace of light, and there is no trace of popularity in the whole courtyard, like a ghost town, it looks very terrifying.
Looking at the scene in front of me, Wang Quan and I were a little hairy, I turned on the flashlight, raised my hand and looked at my watch. It's only 9 p.m.
I was puzzled, and began to carefully calculate: This Wang family's big mansion is divided into three entrances, the first one should be ordinary clansmen, and the second one where Uncle Shao Hong lives should be the people with relatively high status in the family, but in this way, who are the people living in the third entrance? Could it be that their status is higher than that of Uncle Shao Hong, the head of the family?
Seeing that I turned on the flashlight in my hand, Wang Quan hurriedly asked me to turn off the flashlight: "It feels strange here, let's move forward in the dark." When it's not necessary, try not to turn on the flashlight, and besides, there are things that the person just now is not a ghost or a ghost, so let's not expose ourselves. ”
I thought about it. felt that it was right, so he immediately turned off the flashlight, and with the memory of the day, he walked to the depths of the long street with the royal power.
When I got to the end of the long street, I led him into the alley where I found the strange courtyard during the day, and we both went all the way to the depths of the alley in the dark—"Look. That's it. "Walking to the end of the alley, I pointed to the closed black wooden door and spoke.
Wang Quan looked at the closed wooden door with his chin on his chin and muttered in a low voice: "It's really strange, let's go all the way, the houses here are all decorated like collective dormitories, except for the house number is almost exactly the same, why is it so special, nothing?"
I looked at the wooden door, and my heart was stunned for a while, and I muttered quietly: "Who knows what's going on......" But before my words fell, the strange wooden door in front of me actually opened with a "squeak"!
This startled both of us, and I was about to scream when a familiar figure came out of the wooden door—Wang Nineteen!
I saw that Wang Nineteen looked at me and Wang Quan, who were so frightened that the three souls were gone, and Wang Quan said, "Come in." With that, he ignored the two of us, and turned and walked straight into the black wooden door that had been opened. I looked at the king: what was going on?
"No matter, let's go first, anyway, it seems that our lives are not in danger. The king settled down and spoke at me. I stood in place, frightened by this sudden change for a long time before I came back to my senses, and nodded stiffly: "Okay." ”
Wang Quan looked at my useless appearance, gave me a blank look, and directly grabbed my arm and walked towards the door.
As soon as I entered the black wooden door, I saw a tall shadow wall, and there seemed to be something carved on the shadow wall, but it was so dark that I couldn't really see what pattern was carved on the shadow wall. Bypassing the shadow wall, I was greeted by an old courtyard house - this courtyard was obviously older than the "staff dormitories" outside, but it was a little dilapidated, and some parts of the courtyard were overgrown with weeds. At this time, in the somewhat dilapidated carved wooden door of the main hall of the courtyard, there were bursts of faint light, reflecting the entire ancient courtyard more mysteriously.
At this time, Wang Nineteen was already standing at the door of the main hall that was swaying with a ghostly light, he looked back at us, and said nothing, and then, he turned around, opened the carved wooden door of the main hall, and walked into the main hall.
As soon as I approached the main hall of the old courtyard, I was struck by what I saw—it was empty, there were no windows, only a tall black wooden shelf on the wall facing the door. The shelves were filled with a bunch of wooden plaques, and I looked at them – they were all tablets!
I roughly counted them, and there were about a dozen tablets on the shelves, but in front of each tablet, there was no tribute, only a small incense burner and a white candle—and the faint light seen from outside the hall came from the candles in front of these spiritual tablets. The pale yellow candlelight reflected the dark ranking, which looked particularly solemn and solemn - it turned out that the black wooden door was locked inside, and it was a mourning hall!
Looking at this scene in front of him, Wang Quan was also stunned and speechless, just when the two of us were standing at the door in a daze, Wang Nineteen walked out of a room on the right side of the main room - and at this time he was in his hand, and he also pushed a wooden wheelchair, and there seemed to be a person sitting on the wheelchair!
"Hehe, little dolls, scare you. A hoarse and faint voice came from the mouth of the figure sitting in the wheelchair, but the candlelight was too dim for me to see what the person in the wheelchair looked like, but judging by the voice, it should be at least a few years old.
I was stunned in place, speechless, Wang Quan reacted quickly, and hurriedly said: "Where is it, you are serious, how can we be so timid," Wang Quan smiled and said: "I don't know that this grandfather is ?......"
"Hehe, a clever boy...... Nineteen, go and light the lamp, it's been dark here for too long, and you should see the light on......" The old man in the wheelchair did not directly answer the question of Wang Quan, but said slowly to Wang Nineteen, who was standing behind him, his voice was still very hoarse and weak.
"Yes. After a while, he took out an oil lamp from the room, and the orange light illuminated the entire dark mourning hall, and Wang Quan and I finally saw the appearance of the old man in the wheelchair clearly...... (To be continued.) )