Chapter 131: The old Taoist priest pretended to be forced
"Then why did he control these ghosts?" I'm still a little puzzled. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"I'll have to ask the corpse thief in the village at night, he should know." After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he stood up, put his coat on his shoulders and turned around and said, "Let's go, these evil ghosts are disposed of, and the ghosts hitting the wall are naturally gone, seeing that the sky is about to dawn, go back and sleep for a while, and I will take you to find that person during the day." ”
After speaking, the old Taoist priest ignored me, and walked out of the woods, I was also stunned, the old Taoist priest actually said that he would take me to find that person, could it be that he knew who that person was? He had only been in the village for the first day, could it have something to do with what had happened on the last night in the provincial capital?
While I was thinking, the old Taoist priest had already walked a long way, and I quickly took out a flashlight from my canvas bag and rushed towards the old Taoist priest.
When I returned to the village, the electricity in the village had already come, and the crying of the family that started the incident was even more tragic, and I could faintly hear the voice of the fat man's father, it seems that the fat man's father was still there and did not go home, and I don't know if the husband went back.
The door of the fat man's house is still the same as when we left, that is to say, the fat man did not come out all night, and no one entered the fat man's house all night.
Seeing the fat man like this, I really wanted to slap him, but I didn't expect him to sleep so soundly.
After lying on the bed, I didn't even have the strength to take off my clothes, and I didn't know how I crawled back behind the old Taoist priest just now, so I barely stood up, took off my clothes, and fell asleep not long after covering the quilt.
When I woke up, it was already noon the next day, and as soon as I got up, I saw the fat man and his parents explaining this to the fat man outside the door, and after I came out, the fat man and his parents said hello to me, said hello and said a few words, and walked directly to the house where the incident happened last night.
"Fatty, what's going on?" I rubbed my eyes and asked the fat man with sleepy eyes.
"Xiao Qi, something happened, my Xincheng brother's body was lost." When the fat man spoke, his voice was very low, as if he was afraid that others would hear it, which also happened to show the fear in the fat man's heart vividly.
Hearing the fat man's words, I came to my senses and remembered the incident of last night.
Thinking of the old Taoist, I turned around and looked at it for a while, but I didn't see anyone else, so I asked the fat man, and the fat man pointed to the toilet over there, saying that the old Taoist went to the toilet after getting up, and it had been a long time, and he hadn't come out yet.
Just when the fat man and I suspected that the old Taoist priest had fallen into the dung pit and wanted to save him, he came out of the toilet with his pants on.
"Dao Chief, it's time to eat." When the fat man saw the old Taoist priest come out, he shouted at him, and was about to go into the house and bring the meal that his mother had prepared for us to the table.
But the old Taoist priest heard this is not a taste, he just came out of the toilet, the fat man actually said that he had eaten, so he opened his mouth to scold two sentences of "little rabbit cub" and the like, if it was not for the old Taoist priest to scold, I and the fat man could not think of this one, after his scolding, I and the fat man both began to laugh heartlessly.
This smile, coupled with the bright sunshine, swept away the haze of last night, and for a while, my heart was full of fighting spirit.
After eating, my eyes were fixed on the old Taoist priest, who had said last night that he would take me to meet the man who robbed the corpse, and I was waiting for him to speak. But the old Taoist priest ignored my gaze as if he was angry with me. The fat man was on the side, looking at me for a while, and at the old Taoist priest for a while, his eyes full of doubts.
In desperation, I had to take the lead in speaking: "Dao Chief, Mr. asked me to meet him last night, let me bring you with me, you see if we go to see Mr. first, or go first......
"Let's go see the gentleman first." This time, the old Taoist priest didn't wait for me to finish speaking, and directly gave the answer.
Now that the old Taoist priest has already made his choice, although I really want to know who the person who stole the corpse is, I can only go to see Mr. Wan now.
I heard that I went to see Mr., the fat man flinched a little, so many years of fear of Mr. since childhood, so he was a little afraid to see Mr., which is also very understandable, and his house is not far from Mr.'s house, and the old Taoist priest and I can go by ourselves.
When I arrived at the door of my husband's house, the old Taoist priest nodded to me, and I went to knock on the door, and when I knocked on the door, I stood on the side of the door, and I remember the smell clearly last night, but I didn't want the smell to rush again.
The dilapidated door creaked open, and when the gentleman saw me and the old Taoist priest next to him, he nodded and said lightly: "Come in."
After speaking, the old Taoist priest and I followed him into the old house, this time, the gentleman did not close the door, the outside sunlight shone in through the door, making the light inside much stronger.
"Sir, you called us this time, but what do you have to say?" When I saw my husband and the old Taoist priest enter the room and sit down, they looked at each other again, and if I didn't know their identities, I suspected that they were interested in each other.
Instead of looking back at me, he turned his head to look out of the house. The sun outside is nice and makes the whole village look full of life, but it doesn't have the temperature of the sun.
After a long time, Mr. let out a light sigh: "Housheng, have you found Meng Yun, what did she say?" ”
This question made me stunned for a moment, and then I turned my head to look at the old Taoist, about Meng Yun, it is still up to the old Taoist, after all, he knows more than me, and only he knows what happened on the last night in the provincial capital.
The old Taoist priest saw me looking at him, nodded at me, and then said to the gentleman: "The Meng Yun you mentioned is dead." ”
To my surprise, Mr. was not curious, as if he had known the answer for a long time, but just closed his eyes slightly and muttered a few words: "Life, it's all fate, no one can avoid it, and neither can she." ”
Hearing Mr.'s words, I was even more inexplicable, did Meng Yun have any secrets, Mr. would think so, and until now, how did Meng Yun die, and the old Taoist priest didn't tell me.
"Sir, what's going on, why can't I understand it?" I looked at the old Taoist priest and Mr. in the house, and I always felt that these two people were very similar, and they knew something, but they didn't tell me, which made me a little anxious.
"Alas, you go and toss, I can't toss anymore, I can still save the fifth life of the Lin family for half a month, if you can't toss this half a month, let's leave quickly." As she spoke, she rubbed her broken leg, and I realized that the plaster cast on her leg was still there, and I really didn't look closely at it last night.
When I was about to say something, the gentleman had already made a gesture to invite us out, and the old Taoist priest got up and pulled me out of the house, and as soon as we went out, the gentleman "slammed" the wooden door shut, shaking off a layer of dust.
I'm a little confused, last night it was Mr. who asked me to bring the old Taoist priest to her, why after meeting today, Mr. turned his face after saying two words, and it was equivalent to saying nothing.
Some looked at the old Taoist priest dumbfounded, and the old Taoist priest turned out to be calm. It stands to reason that they have been swept out of the house, at least they have to have some emotions, but the old Taoist priest has no unhappy mood at all.
"Dao Chief, what should I do next?" I asked the old Taoist priest helplessly, he was brought by me to see Mr., and now I am embarrassed to make it like this.
The old Taoist priest gave me a blank look, didn't say anything, just put the blanket on his shoulders, turned around and walked back, and in desperation, I had to follow behind the old Taoist priest.
When the fat man saw me and the old Taoist priest coming back, he directly greeted him and asked, "Daoist, Xiao Qi, what did Mr. call you to say, did you find a way?" ”
The old Taoist priest and I didn't pay attention to the fat man, just sat in the hall of the fat man's house, the old Taoist priest sat there quietly, and I didn't know what he was thinking, I just stared at him in a daze, the fat man saw that the situation was not right, sat next to me, gently touched my shoulder with his shoulder and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Qi, what's the matter with you and the Taoist, why does it look very wrong?" ”
At this moment, the fat man and his father ran in panting, pulling the old Taoist priest to run out, and said as he ran: "Dao Chief, hurry up and help, it's all messed up over there." ”
The appearance of the fat man's father made me and the old Taoist priest a little baffled, and even the fat man didn't know what his father wanted to do, so he had to quickly shout: "Dad, what's wrong?" ”
"Isn't this the corpse of your new brother Xincheng lost, Mr. said that the next thing is gone, let's find the Taoist, the Taoist hurry up, it's all messed up over there." The fat man's father held the old Taoist's hand and never let go, but when I heard that Mr. let him come, the old Taoist priest and I were also relieved.
It seems that the fat man's father went to find Mr. first, and then Mr. asked him to come to the old Taoist, and the old Taoist told me before, and the next thing was handed over to us to toss, and he didn't care.
When the fat man and his father came to Xincheng's house, almost the whole village gathered here, those who worked outside this time stood on one side, and the others stood on the other side, and the people on both sides were very noisy, and the children could be heard crying and adults crying from a distance.
When the fat man and his father came over with the old Taoist, everyone's eyes were focused on the old Taoist, and for a while, people on both sides began to whisper, as if they were surprised that it was the old Taoist priest who came instead of Mr.
"Okay, don't make any noise, you don't know that Mr. broke his leg, this Dao Chang was found by Mr., and Dao Xing is only higher than Mr." Chen Xin's father looked at the group of people below, afraid that the old Taoist priest would not be able to suppress them, so he directly carried Mr. out.
Mr.'s status in the village is not comparable to ordinary people, although it is said that over the years, they have basically not passed by the door of Mr. a few times, and they don't even let the children get too close to Mr.
However, at this moment, everyone still trusts Mr. very much, and they can only trust Mr. now, so they will listen to what Mr. says.
"Dao Chief, I invited you here today to let you come and have a look. You may have heard in the morning that Xincheng's corpse disappeared last night, this is not the first time, and Lao Meng's corpse was also lost like this last time. "The fat man's father was quite effective in talking in the village, and after he finished yelling, the people below stopped scolding.
I followed the old Taoist priest and followed the fat man and his father into the house of Xincheng, which basically kept the furnishings of last night, and even the coffin lid was still on the side of the coffin, and no one moved.
After the old Taoist priest entered, the fat man and his father turned around and strictly ordered no one else to enter the room, even the daughter-in-law and parents of Xincheng were allowed to go out and wait. Originally, the fat man's father still had to close the door, and last time Mr. let the people who went out to work enter the house and close the door, but the old Taoist priest refused.
Standing on the edge of the coffin, the old Taoist priest's practice is similar to that of Mr., first walking around the coffin three times, and then walking three times back, there are words in the mouth, and the speed of speech is very fast and unclear, the difference is that after the old Taoist priest walked a few laps, two fingers of his right hand clamped the fire paper on the ground, quickly flipped two circles, and the flames rose. Seeing the old Taoist priest like this, I have only one word in my heart: pretending to be forced, the old Taoist priest obviously knows who the corpse thief was last night, but he still wants to pretend to perform here for a while, it is better to directly pull the corpse thief out, anyway, now almost the whole village is gathered here.
But the people at the door didn't know, and when they saw the flames rising, several people outside were inhaling cold air. It seems that the old Taoist priest's hand made those people outside convinced.
The old Taoist priest took out the compass from my canvas bag again and looked at it pretendically. After the old Taoist priest did all this, he shouted to the fat man's father: "Village chief, call the whole village to come over, I already know where the corpse is." ”
As soon as these words came out, it caused an uproar, and everyone looked at the old Taoist priest with disbelief, and the old Taoist priest's face was full of confidence, not like a deceitful person.
Seeing that the old Taoist priest was so confident, the fat man's father hurriedly assigned two people to summon the whole village to come over.
When he went to call people, the old Taoist priest asked everyone outside the door to give up a circle, and he took out an ink fountain from the blanket and asked me to join hands with the fat man, and drew patterns in the courtyard.
It's the first time I've seen the old Taoist's ink fountain, when we were in the village before, I saw the carpenter draw lines with the ink fountain, the ink fountain is relatively large, and the old Taoist's ink fountain is very small, and the line of the ink fountain is not twine, it looks like metal, I still can't recognize it after reading it several times.
Everyone watched the old Taoist priest draw lines in the courtyard, and they didn't know what he wanted to do, and even I didn't know what the old Taoist priest did to draw these dense lines.
A few minutes later, the pattern of the old Taoist priest came out, and it turned out to be a gossip map.
After drawing this picture, the fat man and I felt nothing, but the old Taoist priest was sweating profusely, which made me a little puzzled, although the old Taoist priest personally pulled the line, but just pulled the line and then played it on the ground, and it was not so tired as that.
After waiting for about half an hour, all the people in the village, except for Mr., came, on the one hand, Mr. could be excluded, and on the other hand, the few who went to find people did not dare to approach Mr.'s house for fear.
After seeing the arrival of the people, the old Taoist priest divided everyone into two groups, one group was the family who came back from going out to work, and the others were the other group, which was a good score, and when he first came, the crowd was divided like this.
"Village chief, you go down to count and count, is everyone here?" The old Taoist priest took the compass and asked the fat man and his father like a ghost.
The fat man's father stood in front and looked around left and right, and because there were too many people, he couldn't see clearly, so he shouted: "You all see, if there is anyone who hasn't come, and if anyone hasn't come, give me a squeak." ”
Just after the fat man's father finished shouting, a voice really came out: "Xiao Meng didn't come." ”