After a while, white-faced ghosts began to emerge from the black hole. These people are vain in their steps, standing in long lines, and they do look a little floating. The strange thing is that each of them is carrying a large pot in his hand.

The first in the front row reached the entrance of the cave, stretched out his thin arm, and handed a piece of paper money to the troll with a mace on the left side of the hole.

The troll with the mace didn't make any moves, and the paper money floated up on its own, and then merged into the mace.

"One, hurry up and get out. The troll's mouth came out with a muffled voice, urging the ghost who had paid the money to get out of here.

When the imp heard this, he immediately sped up, left the hole, and walked towards the village.

This was followed by the second, third......

In a short time, more than thirty pale ghosts had already stepped out of it, and their direction was all towards the brightly lit village streets.

Lin Chen found out that at this time two days ago, the residents in the village had basically turned off the lights. But today, as if waiting for these ghosts, the lights in each house are bright, and the village is illuminated like a city that never sleeps.

"Skillful hands, why is the village so bright today, how does it feel as if you are waiting for these ghosts to come to the door. Lin Chen asked puzzled.

Li Qiaoshou nodded and said, "They are just waiting for those ghosts to come to the door." ”

"Waiting for the ghost to come to the door?" Lin Chen didn't know what Li Qiaoshou meant.

"At the end of each month, the gates of the ghost city are wide open, and a hundred ghosts walk at night. But all the ghosts are not empty-handed, and each ghost will carry a large pot of water and exchange it with a family. Li Qiaoshou explained.

"And what's going on, what are they exchanging?" Lin Chen asked.

"What to exchange no one knows. ”

"Nobody knows? ”

"All I know is that every time they find a family in the village and ask if they need water. If he wanted to, he would pour water into the family's water tank and ask the family to tell him a story, it didn't matter what the story was, but it had to happen to him. In the middle of the night, the ghost will leave on its own, and the kettle will turn into a piece of dead wood. ”

"That's it?" Lin Chen frowned and asked.

"Yes, that's all. ”

"You've met your peers. The little blind man's words suddenly sounded in Lin Chen's mind.

"You're the dead ghost!" Lin Chen replied to the little blind man in his mind.

At this time, Lin Chen found that two people in white filial piety clothes walked out of the passage, but they did not pay the paper money, but walked straight out, and then disappeared into the darkness in the distance.

The four trolls guarding the entrance of the cave also turned a blind eye to this, and didn't even snort.

"It's all this time, Ah Feng and Shuang'er won't come back today. Li Qiaoshou's voice was full of anxiety.

At this time, a ghost came out of the black hole, and after paying the paper money, he walked straight to Zhao Muzhou's house.

When they got to the door, the ghost knocked on the door like a human and asked, "Excuse me, do you need water?"

Lin Chen noticed that when the ghost knocked on the door, it knocked four times.

Zhao Chong's voice came from inside the house: "No need, you can go to someone else's house." ”

The ghost's movements paused significantly, but instead of forcing its way in, it turned around with the water and headed towards the village.

"So easy to talk?" After the ghost left, Lin Chen sighed in amazement.

"Well, but it seems that there have been forced into the house before.,But I was escorted back by a few ghosts wearing filial piety clothes.。 Li Qiaoshou said.

"It seems that this ghost town is still a very reasonable place, and at the end of the month, the door-to-door water delivery service will be implemented, and the ghost will be sent to supervise the quality of service. Lin Chen praised.

Li Qiaoshou barely squeezed a smile and did not speak.

Just when the two of them were a little discouraged, Lin Chen found that a pale-faced female ghost came out of the black hole, because of the night vision ability of the little blind man, so Lin Chen could see it relatively clearly, this woman and Zhao Chong's face was somewhat similar.

As he observed, the ghost had already come towards Zhao Muzhou's hut.

When the ghost approached, Li Qiaoshou whispered in surprise: "It's Shuang'er!"

Only then did Lin Chen carefully observe the soul of this pair, with a melon seed face, scattered hair, big eyes, and thick eyebrows, but the eyebrows were relatively close to Zhao Chong.

Shuang'er was holding a big pot in her right hand, and she didn't know where her small body got so much strength, Lin Chen could already see that the pot was full of water dangling.

"Daddy, I'm back. Shuang'er walked to the door and called softly.

Hearing this sound, the door was immediately opened, and it was obvious that Zhao Muzhou and Zhao Chong had been waiting at the door for a long time.

Shuang'er didn't rush forward, but carried the kettle and entered the house step by step, Zhao Chong glanced at the grass where the two were at the door, and then stood at the door and did not enter the house.

Lin Chen and Li Qiaoshou quietly walked around to the door, and then followed Zhao into the house.

At this time, Shuang'er was lifting the kettle she had brought and pouring water into the tank. Zhao Muzhou sat at the table and looked at his daughter.

Zhao Muzhou turned his head and suddenly found that Zhao Chong was followed by two people, so he asked, "Ah Chong, who is behind you?"

"Oh, Brother Zhao, it's me, Lin Chen. I heard that Shuang'er and Ah Feng might go home tonight, so I came over to take a look. ”

As he spoke, Lin Chen took out a wine jug from behind his waist as if he were playing a trick.

"Last time, I drank so much good wine from Brother Zhao, and I was a little reluctant to go. Today I brought a jug of wine, and I have to drink some wine if I am happy. ”

Of course, this was discussed by the three of them when they came, that is, no matter whether Ah Feng and Shuang'er come back tonight or not, Zhao Muzhou must be drunk, otherwise Ah Chong will not have a chance to leave at all.

"Little Brother Lin has a heart. Zhao Muzhou smiled happily, but after seeing the person behind Lin Chen, it was obvious that his voice was a little different.

"It's skillful, you're here. ”

However, Li Qiaoshou did not speak, and kept staring at Shuang'er who was pouring water, until Lin Chen poked him with his elbow, and Li Qiaoshou came back to his senses.

"Uncle Zhao, I just wanted to come and see Ah Feng and Shuang'er. ”

"Well, since you're here, sit down. Zhao Muzhou motioned for Zhao Chong to go to the back room and move another stool.

After a few people sat down, Zhao Shuang'er's water had already been emptied, and after putting the bucket next to the water tank, he sat down at the table.

"Dad, you better tell me about the past. For some reason, Zhao Shuang'er didn't even look at Li Qiaoshou.

Seeing this, Zhao Muzhou didn't say much, because Ah Feng and Shuang'er were like this when they went home the first few times, I don't know if this is the rule of the ghost town, or let her daughter complete the tasks assigned by the ghost town first.

"When your mother was still there, I liked to make you little puppets the most. Once, your mother took you to the capital, and when you saw the big tiger puppet there, you didn't leave. It's a pity that your mother didn't bring much money, and she didn't have extra money to buy for you. You, you sat alone in the street and cried......"

Lin Chen took out a few cups from under the table, Ah Chong poured water into a few cups, and Lin Chen silently poured wine into Zhao Muzhou's cups.

"Brother Zhao, don't patronize and say, come, have a drink. Lin Chen raised his glass.

"Well, okay, have a drink. Zhao Muzhou smiled and drank the wine.

"Later, when your mother came home, she made a tiger puppet by herself. In order to make a puppet for you, your mother cut all the pillows. Just for this, your father and I pillowed the wood for more than ten days. And then ......"

In this way, Zhao Muzhou was talking about the past while drinking the wine that Lin Chen poured for him, while the other three symbolically handed the water glass to his lips and sipped it, and Zhao Muzhou, who was patronizing his daughter, did not notice it at all.

"Lin Chen, have you found out?" the little blind man suddenly asked in Lin Chen's mind.

"What did you find?" Lin Chen asked curiously.

"The vitality in Zhao Muzhou's body is passing at an accelerated pace. The little blind man said.

"What!" Lin Chen was taken aback when he heard it, "Why can't I see it." ”

"Because thou hast walked too low, with my eyes. ”

After hearing the little blind man's words, Lin Chen closed his eyes, and then opened his eyes again, and he had already changed to the little blind man's perspective.

I saw that at this time, Zhao Muzhou's body was emitting a very subtle green light, drifting outward little by little, and the final direction of these light points was the bucket.

"What's the situation, this green point of light is his vitality? But why is he the only one whose vitality is dissipating, and it is still absorbed by that bucket? Is it because of Zhao Shuang'er? But Zhao Muzhou is her father!"