After lunch, a few people looked at all the yards carefully, and Xiaoguo secretly wrote down in his heart the household utensils that needed to be moved in.

At the back of the house is an orchard.

In the garden, there are some unripe jujubes, apples and other seasonal fruits.

The west side of the house is a large bamboo forest, and at the end of the bamboo forest, there is a pond, this pond is next to the rock cliff at the bottom of the mountain, which is obviously dug by man, and water is diverted from the river to here.

Xiaoguo walked back and forth along the embankment of the pond, and the guess in her heart was confirmed, which made her feel excited.

"Uncle Meng, I plan to stay here for a night, you can't live without people at home, take advantage of the fact that it's still early, go back to the town!" Xiaoguo said to Lao Meng.

"What? Guo'er, are you going to stay? No, no! Not to mention that there is no bedding here to protect from the cold, it is just a rumor...... No, I can't keep you here! Lao Meng resolutely objected.

"Uncle Meng, I have prepared the bedding in the carriage a long time ago, and I can guarantee that it will never be hurt! Moreover, the legendary ghosts only appear at night, so what is the use of us simply coming here for a walk and leaving? Besides, since we have bought this Zhuangzi, this is the place where you and your father-in-law will live day and night in the future, is it possible that you have to find another place to stay at night? Xiaoguo patiently explained.

"That's right, Uncle Meng, Master is here to hunt ghosts this time! How can you walk if you don't catch it! Nuan'er stood on Master's side without hesitation.

She touched Ming Ze with her elbow: "Senior brother, do you want to stay and watch Master catch ghosts?" ”

Ming Ze nodded firmly and said, "Where Master is, I will be there!" ”

"But?" Lao Meng thought about it again and again, and sighed, "Uncle, I mean, in the future, we will talk about it when we move in together!" Now, no matter what, I can't leave you children here alone! If you insist on staying tonight, I won't leave!" ”

"Auntie is at home to take care of Xiaode, is it okay?" Xiaoguo worried.

"Xiaode doesn't have to get up at night to drink medicine now, and he can sleep until dawn! Fruit, you don't have to worry about that! A smile appeared on Lao Meng's face at the mention of his son, but it quickly disappeared and was replaced by a cautious and serious expression that did not smile.

"Since everyone is going to stay here at night, you need to prepare something to use, right? While the sun is still strong, let's go to the peach forest to fold some peach branches, make some peach wood bows and arrows, and use them for self-defense! Nuan Er saw that there was another person in the adventure team, and she danced and proposed.

"That's right! Right! Lao Meng thought so and agreed.

"We're going to get ready now, but instead of harming the peach trees, we're going to move the nets and harpoons from the wagons around here! Find a clean room, lay out the futon, take a short nap, recuperate, and have a great night of work! Xiaoguo smiled.

"Who's afraid of that?"

"Can you catch ghosts with these things?"

Nuan'er and Lao Meng asked in unison.

"Master wants to do this, naturally she has her reasons, Grandpa Meng, junior sister, let's do it!" Ming Ze said righteously, he still trusted the master mysteriously.

Everything was ready, and the four of them found two adjacent rooms, one for Xiaoguo and Nuan'er, and one for Lao Meng and Mingze, closed their eyes and rested, just waiting for the arrival of the evening.

Except for Xiaoguo, the other three were in a stirring mood, how could they really sleep.

Finally stayed up until twilight, they got up from the collapse, there were still a lot of meals left at noon, a few people simply heated and ate a little, then sat quietly together, waiting for the sound of "ghost cry" to appear!

Time passed little by little, until the star rose to the sky, and there was not the slightest trace of ghosts, let alone the cries of those ghosts.

"This ghost won't know that Master is going to catch it and scare it away, right?" Nuan'er joked.

"Yes! Listening to the words of the people in Zhuangzi, as soon as it gets dark, the ghost cry appears, and now it's late at night, why haven't you heard it yet? Lao Meng wondered.

"Wait, don't worry!" Xiaoguo said confidently.

In the blink of an eye, another half an hour passed.

"Master, are we going to wait? Will it not come tonight? Ming Ze also said.

Xiaoguo glanced at the sky and secretly thought: Will it be that he will be shocked during the day and not come out tonight?

She was just about to say that everyone doesn't have to wait, let's go back to the room and sleep!

Then I heard a few faint voices from the west, the cry of a baby.

The sound grew louder and louder, first with a few intermittent sounds, and then slowly joined together, as if dozens of babies were crying together.

"Master, here!" Nuan'er said excitedly.

Lao Meng only felt chills all over his body, and shivered a few times in a row.

"Let's go, let's go ghost hunting!" Xiaoguo took the torch that had been prepared and walked out.

Ming Ze and Nuan'er followed closely behind her, and Lao Meng sighed resignedly and chased after her.

Xiaoguo led them through the bamboo forest and stood still by the pond.

The baby's cry was close to his ears, and he stuck the torch in the crack of the stone, and Xiao Guoguo made a silent gesture to the few people behind him.

She stooped down to take the net she had left here during the day, and with her other hand she held a harpoon, and by the hazy moonlight, she crept closer to the water's edge.

The other three, with their hands trembling with excitement and fear, each holding a fishing net or a harpoon, followed her example and tiptoed after her.

Xiaoguo walked to the shallow water, aimed at a certain place, slammed the net, and stabbed it at a place with a harpoon, only to hear a piercing baby cry, Xiaoguo quickly tied the opening of the net, and said with a smile: "Haha, I caught a little ghost!" ”

When the three people behind him heard this, they hurriedly surrounded him.

Then I saw a net, a thing with four legs, which looked like a fish and was struggling in the net.

It was about a meter long, and several people carried it to the torch, looked at it carefully, and marveled.

"It's a ghost?" Nuan Er kept circling around it.

"It is indeed a ghost in the mouth of the people of Zhuangzi, one of them, but it is not a real ghost!" Xiaoguo explained, "Its name is the giant salamander, because the sound is similar to the cry of a baby, and it is also called a baby fish. Listen to the sound, there should be at least a dozen of its kind in this pool! ”

"So, all the noise and screaming here is caused by these things?" Lao Meng was shocked.

"Not really, it's because of them!" Xiaoguo said with a smile, "This kind of animal that looks like a fish and is not a fish, the guts are actually very small!" Just now we were in the water, and the noise we made was enough to make the other baby fish dodge, and they must not dare to come out to forage for food for a long time! ”

"Sure enough, the baby's cry was gone!" Ming Ze was surprised.

"What should I do with these things? Slaughtered? Lao Meng stared at the big thing in the net and hesitated.

"You don't have to kill them, this species is extremely rare, it's better to leave them alive! All we need to do is renovate the pond and they'll find another place to live when they see how often humans come and go! Xiaoguo hurriedly said.

"It's good! Tomorrow I will hire some bricklayers to repair the yard and the broken fence, and dig this pond again! Lao Meng said.

Xiaoguo nodded and said, "Uncle Meng, you are familiar with this place, so I have to trouble you!" ”

"Guo'er, if you treat your uncle as an outsider like this, your uncle will be angry!" The haunted thing came to light, and Lao Meng's tone became relaxed.

"Xiaoguo won't dare in the future!" Xiao Guo smiled and quickly admitted her mistake, she thought about it for a while, and said, "Uncle Meng, Zhuangzi here is a rare place of pranayama and recuperation, so we spent a very small amount of money to buy it. If you let the original owner know that the haunted thing is an oolong, and if you don't get it right, it will cause unnecessary trouble, when you are looking for a craftsman bricklayer, you should be cautious, try to find someone who is honest and strict, and it doesn't hurt to pay more! ”

"Uncle knows what to do!" Lao Meng said solemnly, "Don't worry, Guo'er, this Zhuangzi will be indispensable in the future, and it will have to be haunted for a few years!" ”

Seeing that Lao Meng understood her voice, Xiaoguo smiled at him knowingly, and said, "The human heart is much more terrifying than a ghost!" With Uncle's words, Guo'er can leave with peace of mind! ”

Nuan'er on the side heard it in the clouds, but Ming Ze looked thoughtful.

The giant salamander in the net was put back into the pond, and several people returned to the wing, planning to make up for it again while it was still dawn.

Xiaoguo was dazed and wanted to fall asleep, so she listened to the fish all the time, tossing and turning on the floor, gently pushed her, and said, "Master, are you asleep?" ”

Xiaoguo said vaguely: "What? ”

"How do you know that the ghosts on this Zhuangzi are these baby fish?" Nuan'er asked, and had already gotten up, and there was a great tendency to not understand the key to these things, and she refused to give up.

Xiao Guo resisted his sleepiness and explained: "I only know that the ghost is fake!" At the beginning, I was only fifty percent sure, guessing that the so-called ghost should be a baby fish, and I came here to see the specific ecological environment before I was determined! ”

Nuan'er thought about it, and asked unwillingly: "What happened to the mysterious disappearance of the little concubine?" And what is the explanation for her words before she disappeared? Also, what caused the successive unfortunate events in their family? Could it be that there are other ghosts here? ”

Xiaoguo yawned and said patiently: "If I am not mistaken, the concubine should have been secretly removed and persecuted by the wife of the former lord of Zhuangzi!" As for what she said before her death, there are two possibilities: one is that she overheard the plan of the lady to harm her, so subconsciously, there was some kind of related illusion, the maid was sent down, so I don't know what happened in the inner room at night; Another possibility is that the maid was bought by the lady, and the words of the so-called concubine before her disappearance were all instructed by her to make up to fool people! ”

The intrigue between women is simply pediatric for Xiaoguo, who loves to read palace douwen.

Seeing Nuan'er's two big eyes, looking at herself brightly in the dark, full of disbelief and shock.

Xiaoguo's pride suddenly increased, and the more she spoke, the more excited she became, she simply rubbed her eyes, and sat up: "Presumably, the concubine's sudden madness, and the miscarriage of the fetus are all the handiwork of that lady!"

Originally, all this was planned seamlessly, but I never thought that because of the increase in rain this summer, some baby fish sneaked into the pond to perch along the waterway, and at night they resembled the cry of a baby, so that the servants on the Zhuangzi who had done a bad thing were frightened, and mistakenly thought that it was a ghost to return to the village to ask for their lives!

The rumors became more and more realistic, and they reached the ears of the lady with a ghost in her heart, causing her to be overly frightened, and the fetus slipped off, and the word retribution was also answered! As for the former master's loss of his errand, it must be just a chain reaction of fermentation of this series of things! ”