Story 82 Sishui Village (5)
The old man sighed and said, "I am the only one left alive in Sishui Village, that year I got tuberculosis because of malnutrition, because it is an infectious disease, so I have been isolated and treated in the county hospital, and then I returned to the village after I got well, and the whole village was inexplicably gone, including my father, my mother, and my sister-in-law......
"It's been all these years, why are you still here?" Huazi asked puzzled. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The old man smiled bitterly, "My family is here, where else can I go?" ”
After Huazi and Miao Kai finished eating, the old man urged them to go back to the house to sleep quickly, and repeatedly instructed them not to go out of the room when they heard any sound at night......
They had already learned the strangeness of this village during the day, and now they were asked to come out, and they didn't dare to come out!
But after listening to the old man's story about Sishui Village, the two of them couldn't help but ponder, Miao Kai asked Huazi in a low voice, "Where did you say that all the people in this village disappeared?" ”
Huazi shook his head and said, "Who can say this, but I always have a feeling that these people should not have left this village......
Before he finished his words, he heard the footsteps of Suo Suo in the courtyard again, this time Miao Kai slowly came to the window, stretched out his head to look out of the crack in the window, he looked at it and sat on the ground in fright!
Huazi saw that Miao Kai was frightened like this, and hurriedly came to the window to look out, only to see that under the dim light, some people in rags were walking in from the gate one by one, and then these people kept circling around the seven oil lamps, and then walked out of the gate one after another, and so on, I don't know how many such people walked in and out!
And the most frightening thing is that when these people walked to the place where the light of the oil lamp reached, Huazi and Miao Kai could clearly see that some of them had already had shriveled skin and ulcerated all over their bodies, how could they be half human! What's more, there are only skeletons walking on top of a tattered and dirty clothes......
Where did Huazi and Miao Kai see this kind of battle, one by one they were almost scared to pee, they saw that these people were almost in and out, Miao Kai trembled and said to Huazi, "I think we should go out of the village now, there are all ghosts here!" ”
Huazi nodded in agreement, and the two of them immediately packed up their things and quietly walked out of the door of the West House, but as soon as they arrived in the courtyard, they heard a voice say coldly, "Didn't I tell you not to walk around?" ”
As soon as Huazi and the two of them turned around, they saw the old man Tie Qing standing at the door of the east house with a green face, he was also stunned when he saw the faces of Huazi and the others, and then waved his hand to them and said, Come to my house, the next wave is coming soon!
As soon as the old man's words fell, they heard footsteps outside the door, Huazi and Miao Kai did not dare to delay, and quickly ran to the old man's house, the old man quickly closed the door, and then blew out the oil lamp in the house......
"These people ......" Miao Kai was just about to speak, the old man made a silent gesture with his hand, and the two had to quietly shut up, and those things outside continued to walk around until the fish belly white appeared on the eastern mountain, and then they stopped coming at all.
At this time, the old man asked with an ugly face, "Have you eaten anything from the village?" ”
Huazi said with an embarrassed face, "We were so hungry at noon yesterday that we ate a few dates from the jujube trees in the village......
When the old man heard this, he became anxious, "Do you know that you can't eat the things in this village!" The corn I gave you to eat was all grown outside the village by myself, and I went to break corn for you outside the village yesterday morning! ”
When the two of them saw that the old man's tone was so anxious, it seemed that he might be in trouble, and Miao Kai asked the old man even more nervously, "What will happen if we eat?" ”
The old man glanced at them, and then said coldly, "It will become like those people you just saw, trapped in this village for the rest of their lives......"
The two of them were dumbfounded when they heard this, and they hurriedly reached out to pick their throats and eyes, trying to spit out all the dates they ate yesterday, but they couldn't spit out anything after picking them for a long time.
When the old man saw that they were afraid, he said to them, "It's useless, but it's good that those things haven't seen you yet, and they should still be saved!" ”
"Really?" Huazi asked excitedly.
The old man nodded and said, "Actually, no one can break into this Sishui Village during the day, and the people who can walk in are all travelers who are lost in the mountains at night. ”
"Those people are villagers?" Miao Kai asked cautiously.
The old man nodded bitterly, "Decades ago, these people disappeared overnight, and when I came back, I was just as scared as the merchant at first, because I found that at night, the disappeared villagers would go home one after another, what should I do, my parents and my sister also came back, but they disappeared again during the day, and this lasted for a few days, and I gradually found that when these people came back at night, the smell began to come out, and then their appearance became more and more terrifying, Just when I couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to leave, I found that I couldn't leave the village during the day! And at night there was an urge to go back to the dirt with them! Fortunately, a stranger passed by here at that time, he said that he was Mr. Feng Shui, and told me: I have been poisoned by the corpse too deeply, it is impossible to get out alive, if I stay in the village, there may be a glimmer of life, so he taught me to use seven oil lamps to set up this Tiangang Beidou Array, every night this array can wear away some of the dead souls' attachment to their previous bodies, over time, their resentment will slowly die, so that these rotten bodies will return to dust......"
"Then why can't we eat what the village has to offer?" Miao Kai asked suspiciously.
The old man sighed lightly and said, "The food that grows in the village is full of the grievances of these dead souls, and after you eat them, you will naturally be able to see these dead souls, and I once saw a donkey friend, after eating the fruit of the tree, he became the same as those dead souls, and disappeared into the open space at the west end of the village at dawn!" ”
When Huazi heard this, he asked anxiously, "Then what should we do?" ”
The old man patted him lightly on the shoulder and said, "It's good that they didn't see you, and when it gets brighter later, I'll take you to the entrance of the village......
At half past five in the morning, the old man led Huazi and Miao Kai out of the village slowly, and he said to Huazi and the two of them, "After I send you to the entrance of the village, you will walk 100 steps forward, and you must not look back during the period, otherwise you will really not be able to get out!" ”
The two of them nodded their heads......
After a while, the old man took them to the entrance of the village, only to see that there was indeed a sign standing there, with three big characters written on it, Sishui Village! There was a cornfield at the entrance of the village, which must have been the rations of the old man, and the old man told them again before they left, not to turn back less than 100 steps!
The two of them nodded, and then counted and walked forward quickly... 1… 2、98、99、100! When they reached 100 steps, Miao Kai asked Huazi, "Can I turn back now?" ”
Huazi thought for a while and said, "Let's take a few more steps!" ”
So the two of them walked a few more steps before they dared to look back, but when they looked at it, they found that the Sishui Village behind them had long been quietly gone......
"The End of this Story" (To be continued.) )