Episode 19: Photos of the old house

The boundary of Biluo Village is not large, and Xiong Ming and I quickly crossed the wooden archway and strode into the village.

And just as the two of us entered the village, suddenly a figure flashed and ran towards the room on the far right.

I was shocked and shouted, "Someone! ”

Xiong Ming naturally saw the figure as well, and said loudly: "He is not the child just now, this guy is much larger than that child." Hu Tian, what now? To chase or not to chase? ”

Just when the two of us hesitated slightly, those damn green snails had already followed, and the characteristic "creaking" sound of the tentacles touching the ground couldn't help but make people's scalps tingle.

The sound sounded like the silent war drums of these green snails at this moment, and it sounded like the call of death, and as long as Xiong Ming and I were not paying attention, they would rush up and devour the two of us completely.

Seeing these damn green snails crawling to my feet in minutes, I no longer hesitated, raised my foot and kicked four or five green snails that were about to come out of their shells, and shouted: "Chase!" ”

Xiong Ming responded, "Okay! ”

After saying that, Xiong Ming and I ran towards the room on the far right together.

Xiong Ming took the lead, and when he ran over, the door of the room was open. This kid is really the kind of person who doesn't like to eat a hundred beans, and when he saw the door open, he didn't care what traps were inside, so he rushed in with his head down.

Fortunately, this time there was nothing in the room, Xiong Ming waited for me to rush into the house, closed the door, found a cabinet and two chairs to top the door, and then quickly sealed all the windows with his hands and feet, blocking all the green snails from the outside.

In order to prevent those green snails from crawling in from elsewhere, I put Hua Muling on the bed in the inner room, and then carefully checked it with Xiong Ming, and after making sure that everything was safe, I pulled a chair and sat down, panting heavily.

Xiong Ming looked at me, then at his injured arm, and said with a wry smile: "Damn, this time I really lost Jingzhou." I'll tell you......"

Xiong Minghua was halfway through his words, and I suddenly interrupted him, "Wait a minute! ”

Xiong Ming looked at me in surprise and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

I said word by word, "Don't you think this house is weird?" ”

Xiong Ming looked at me and said, "What's the problem?" ”

I said, "This house, there are three rooms in the front, middle and back, and the two of us have already checked the house inside and out, but don't you think something is missing?" ”

Xiong Ming asked, "What's missing?" Hu Tian, why didn't I understand what you were going to say? ”

I looked at Xiong Ming and asked, "Don't you think there's one less person here?" ”

Xiong Ming suddenly realized: "I understand, you kid is talking about the guy who ran in just now." You're right, we watched the guy run in, but now it's completely gone. Grandma's, didn't he enter this house? Or ......"

I continued, "Or rather, there's another way out of this house!" ”

Xiong Ming nodded and said, "That's right!" It must be like this, otherwise how could a good big living person suddenly disappear. ”

I nodded and said, "If we can guess that there is another way out, then it means that there is something wrong with this village." If you think about it carefully, no matter how small a village is, it is impossible to have only eight houses, let alone install a secret passage in your house. Unless ......"

Xiong Ming nodded and said: "Unless this village was built at that time, it was to hide people's eyes and ears at all, their real purpose is not to live here, but to ......"

Xiong Ming didn't continue, and pointed to the ground with his index finger, his meaning was obvious, and I naturally understood, so he nodded and said, "Since that's the case, then let's look separately and see if we can find out the secret passage." ”

Xiong Ming nodded and said, "Hmm! Master Xiong, I'll turn this place over for him! ”

After speaking, Xiong Ming strode into the inner room.

I just briefly mentioned that this house is a three-room rectangular layout in the south and facing north, to be honest, this kind of house with a structure is very rare, even if the geographical conditions are in a limited area, few people will build such a house.

Because of the poor lighting conditions of such a house, it is more that people think that the house facing north is too heavy, and the rectangular design is also very similar to the tomb, so many people think that it is only suitable for being placed in the cemetery.

Therefore, in the concept of normal people, the houses where living people live almost do not open to the north, and there is no such pattern. If you don't believe me, you can take care of the houses around your home, especially those old residential units.

After a few digressions, let's move back to the house I'm in at this time.

In addition to the house type is a little weird, the rest of the ordinary B&B is not much different, the front room is the kitchen and dining room, there is a shrine covered with red cloth on the inside of the restaurant, I don't know that it is enshrined in the Buddha of the gods.

The atrium is a formal living room with an old-fashioned leather sofa, three chairs, three low cabinets, and an old-fashioned black-and-white TV from the 80s.

The inner room of the house is a bedroom, in addition to a large fire kang, there is a large yellow wood wardrobe, and a dressing mirror embedded in the wall, which is very trendy and looks very incompatible with this house.

After Xiong Ming rushed into the back room, I briefly walked around the front hall, and finally walked to the front of the shrine.

There was a thick layer of dust in many parts of the house, but the shrine was spotless, and it was as if it had just been cleaned, which made me curious.

I reached out and tore off the red cloth covering the idol, and as the red cloth slowly fell, a strange idol with a black and shiny body, his left hand raised high, and his right hand caressing three inches below the umbilicus suddenly appeared.

This idol is very different from our common gods and Buddhas, it is completely a statue of evil ghosts.

It had a pair of short horns on its head, bare-fanged eyes, a thin body, ribs turned out, its left foot erect, and its right foot on three men with pleading faces.

I looked at the statue and wondered, "What kind of statue is this?" Is it the god that the entire Biluo Village believes in? Or is it just a ghost that this family believes in? ”

And just when all my attention was attracted by this unknown statue, Xiong Ming, who had rushed into the house, suddenly ran back, only to hear this kid shouting loudly: "Hu Tian, what do you think I found?" ”

I was surprised and asked, "Have you found the entrance to the secret tunnel?" ”

Xiong Ming shook his head and said, "No! ”

I was surprised and asked, "What is it that you found that excites you so much?" ”

Xiong Ming said and handed me something, I took it and looked at it, it turned out that Xiong Ming found a shabby and yellowed old photo.

The content of the photo is very ordinary, it is a group photo of more than 30 people, and the location of the photo is the open space outside Biluo Village. Every single one of them was laughing, but I don't know why, I always thought these people were laughing a little weirdly.

At the beginning of the period, I didn't find anything strange, Xiong Ming obviously saw this, so he pointed to the person in the middle of the first row and reminded me: "Look at this person, is it familiar?" ”

Under Xiong Ming's reminder, I focused all my attention on this person, and it didn't matter if I didn't look at it, I couldn't help but gasp at a glance, because the person Xiong Ming pointed out to me I recognized was none other than the one-eyed old man we saw in front of the door of the broken tile house in the wasteland a few hours ago.

And the person who smiled brightest next to the one-eyed old man, I actually recognized it, this person's surname is Hu, his name is Hu Zijing, it is none other than my grandfather.

Xiong Ming seemed very satisfied when he saw my jaw dropping expression, and he said with a smile: "It seems that the four girls of the Hua family guessed correctly, the old man you met is really from this Biluo Village." It's just ......"

I didn't wait for Xiong Ming to finish speaking, and then continued: "It's just that how can they be together?" Could it be that the people the old man said he met sixty years ago were my grandfather? ”

Xiong Ming couldn't help but be surprised when he heard me say this: "Your grandfather? Why is this still related to your grandfather? ”

I pointed to the man next to the one-eyed old man in the photo, and said slowly, "This person in the photo is my grandfather, it seems that he came here sixty years ago, and he seems to be very familiar with the people in this village." ”

Xiong Ming nodded and said, "Hmm! Grandma's, the whole thing is getting more and more complicated. What the hell is all this going on? ”

I frowned and thought for a moment, then said slowly, "Okay! Don't think about it yet, now for us, we can only take one step at a time, let's concentrate on finding out if there is an exit! I don't want to die at the hands of those disgusting green snails outside the door. ”

And just as I finished speaking, suddenly the black-and-white TV in the atrium flashed violently, and then a burst of snowflakes came out of the TV with a piercing rustle.

Xiong Ming frowned and said, "How did this broken TV turn on so well?" ”

I didn't speak, but stared at the old black-and-white TV with a puzzled expression.

After a few moments, the TV screen shook suddenly, and then a picture appeared inside the black and white screen.

The screen plays out very quickly, and the action of the characters in it feels like it has been fast-forwarded several times, and it feels like watching a black and white silent movie from the seventies and eighties.

At the beginning of the picture, a person walks in front of the camera, his body blocks most of the lens, this person flickers left and right as if he is fiddling with the camera, and from the faintly emerging background behind him, it is not difficult to find that this video was filmed in this Biluo Village.

The man tinkered with the camera for a while, and it seemed as if he had figured it out, so he turned around and walked forward step by step with his back to the camera, as if measuring something, and after a while, he stopped and began to say this loudly to the people, but because there was no sound in the film on the TV, and the man had his back to me, I had no idea what he was talking about.

After the man finished speaking, he stood in place for a moment, and then seven or eight people walked into the camera carrying a huge black coffin.

The coffin was large and tightly locked with chains the thickness of an adult's arm.

I don't know if it's because the coffin is heavy, or if the iron chain with the thickness of the arm is heavy, in short, these seven or eight strong men feel that they are almost carrying the coffin with milk.

After a few seconds, the man motioned for the brawny men to put the coffin down, and he reached out to stroke the large black coffin, as if admiring his favorite collection.

But at this moment, the camera that had been placed where it was supposed to be well was suddenly moved, and it fell obliquely, and the man obviously realized this, he hurriedly turned back to check the situation, and at this moment, the picture that had been playing suddenly stopped.

The picture is frozen in this way on the frightened and angry face of the man, this face may not be anything to others, but for me, it is enough to make my heart cold, because this person is none other than the one who appeared once in the photo before, my grandfather Hu Zijing.