Could it be that he just kept silent and was peeking at me through the crack in the door?"

Li Xiulan had such a possibility in her mind, which made her shudder.

"But why did Ergou do this?"

Standing in place and thinking for a moment, she was blown by the cold wind of the night, and she suddenly felt excited.

"Hey, I've been nervous lately......

Shaking her head and shaking out the unrealistic thoughts in her mind, Li Xiulan raised the candle and walked towards the back room.

The courtyard is not very big, except for the stove room for cooking on weekdays, there are only three side rooms, sitting north and facing south, close together.

The westernmost wing room was inhabited by Li Xiulan's parents, who were two years old and had already fallen asleep at this time, and the room was dark.

The easternmost one is where Li Xiulan lives alone.

The middle wing room is empty on weekdays, and Li Ergou will live here every time he comes back from his shift.

As soon as she approached the back room, Li Xiulan heard a strange sound.

"Squeak squeak~"

The sound of blunt objects rubbing against each other is tooth-weeping.

Li Xiulan frowned and listened with her ears pricked up.

"Ergou, is that you, what are you eating?" said Li Xiulan as she walked towards the middle room.

"Squeak" pushed open the door, Li Xiulan held a candle and glanced inside the room.

The house was empty.

"Huh?"

She suddenly chuckled in her heart, and listened carefully, only to realize that this strange sound was actually coming from the next room.

It is a wing room where the two elders live.

"Could it be that the second dog went to the wrong room?" Li Xiulan retreated and gently closed the door of the middle wing.

She pressed her steps, cautiously walked to the door of the second elder's room, listened for a moment again, and finally confirmed that the voice was indeed coming from inside.

Bang bang –

She knocked softly on the door and whispered, "Father, mother...... Are you eating?"

There was a moment of silence.

No one answered, but the "creaking" sound in the room continued.

Li Xiulan pushed open the door suspiciously.

The candle flame illuminates most of the room and reflects the scene inside. I saw that the "Li Ergou" who came in from outside before was squatting in front of the second elder's bed, with his back to her.

He chewed with his cheeks and put something in his mouth.

The two elders on the bed were motionless, as if they hadn't heard the sound at all, and were still asleep.

Li Xiulan frowned, walked in across the threshold, and complained: "Ergou, my father and mother are asleep, what are you doing here?"

"Go back to your own house......"

As he was talking, "Li Ergou" suddenly stopped moving his hand, and his mouth stopped chewing.

He turned around slowly, stiffly.

Through the dim candlelight in the room, Li Xiulan saw that his lips were stained with red blood, like lip grease applied by a woman who was about to get married.

"Li Ergou" stood up and grinned, revealing a mouth full of jagged hideous teeth, as well as blood and minced flesh remaining between the teeth.

"Ah!!h

......

......

Following.

At the east end of Laohuai Village, two old men over half a hundred years old each held a porcelain bowl, which contained food, squatting under the tree and chatting with each other.

"Eh, his third uncle," the square-faced old man took a bite of rice into his mouth and said vaguely, "Did you hear a knock on the door last night?"

The fat old man on the other side of the tree bit the green onion in his hand, raised his eyelids, and said, "Did you hear it too?"

"Last night, I kept knocking on the door, and my door was also knocked, and I went out with my three boys to look, and it turned out that there was no one outside the door. ”

Speaking of this, the fat old man snorted coldly and said, "It must be a young baby who is making trouble, don't let me catch it, grab it and break the dog's leg." ”

The square-faced old man finished eating the rice in the bowl, put the rice bowl at his feet, and said, "My house is too." It was the middle of the night, and suddenly someone knocked on the door outside, and it was loud. We 'Chengcheng' ran out to open the door, but we also found that there was no one. ”

"Who the hell is the ghost here? We'll have to talk to Muramasa about it. ”

The fat old man nodded and said, "Okay, when I meet Muramasa at noon, I'll mention it." ”

While the two were talking, a burly young man walked in from outside Dongtou Village. He was tall, carrying a large package and a smile on his face.

Seeing the two old men under the tree from a distance, the young man greeted him loudly: "Third uncle, fifth uncle, get up so early?"

The square-faced old man squinted his eyes and looked at him for a while, before he smiled and said, "It's Ergou! This is not yet the Mooring Festival, why did you run back?"

The fat old man also smiled and said: "Your baby has been a big-headed soldier for two years, and her body is a lot stronger, and she is as strong as a cow." ”

Li Ergou scratched his head honestly and said with a smile: "There's no way, to protect the family and defend the country, of course you have to be in good health." And we also eat well, we can't be strong if we don't want to. ”

"Uncle, you talk, I'll go back first. ”

"Go, go, go. ”

Bidding farewell to them, Li Ergou walked briskly towards the old locust tree in the middle of the village.

Bang bang bang –

Bang bang –

"Dad, mother, I'm back!"

Li Ergou shouted loudly, his voice was loud, and it spread far away to the inner room.

Moment.

Finding that no one was coming to open the door, Li Ergou knocked on the door again.

"Dad, mother, open the door!"

Still no one answered.

At this time, there was a group of middle-aged women under the locust tree, some were washing vegetables, some were chatting, and it was a lively scene.

After Li Ergou knocked for a while, he turned around suspiciously and looked at the group of middle-aged women.

"Sixth aunt, have you seen my father and my sister?"

There was a woman in a hemp skirt in the crowd who was choosing vegetables, and when she heard his question, she raised her head, thought for a while, and said, "No, the door of your house has not been opened since early in the morning." ”

"Your father and mother, maybe they went to the ground?"

"Went to the ground?" Li Ergou frowned, "The dew hasn't dried, what are you doing in the field so early?"

"Forget it, I'll go over the wall and put the package down. ”

The woman in the hemp skirt wiped the water stains on her hands and said, "It's okay, do you want a ladder?"

"No need. ”

As the two were talking, the door in front of Li Ergou suddenly opened with a "squeak".

I saw Li Xiulan standing at the door with a blank expression, staring at Li Ergou with a pair of eyes, and her lips closed one by one: "Ergou, come in and talk." ”

Looking at "Li Xiulan" in front of him, the blood in Li Ergou's body suddenly surged to his head, and he was furious, and his eyes were about to split.

At the moment when "Li Xiulan" appeared, as a second-order "alien", how could he not understand that the real Li Xiulan was probably dead.

And the "Li Xiulan" who is talking to him now, judging from the fluctuations of the killing power emitted from his body surface from time to time, this is obviously a first-order "unknown".