"That'...... So what to do? Why is there a funeral like this? Cousin Li Yuan was frightened, if this old man is unwilling to leave, he will not be haunted at home every day, how can this make people live? So, he stammered and asked, "Master, you have to think of a way, why do you have to let my father go...... He ......was embarrassed to say that he insisted on sending the old man away, but he could only say that he let his father go without worry.

Master Liang glanced at him and said, "Didn't I say that? Bring the coffin back first, and then I will choose another day and hour for the old man to be buried. Rest assured, nothing will be delayed...... As for the coffin landing, I'll settle it......"

In this way, Uncle Li Yuan's coffin was transported back to the mourning hall. After that, Tanzi and I also walked around the village for a day and found nothing. Very late, I returned to Li Yuan's house. Tonight, I went back to the house with the altar, cleaned up and went to sleep. Unlike last night, there was not a single toad cry today. It was a long day, and we didn't sleep well last night, so we slept extra soundly.

Today, although Uncle Li Yuan did not go out for the funeral, the family had already prepared a meal to entertain relatives and friends, so the big guy ate and drank at noon, and the banquet lasted until the evening.

At night, Li Yuan volunteered with his cousin to wake his uncle's spirit. However, both of them drank quite a bit. At eleven o'clock in the evening, after they lit a bunch of incense and burned some paper money, the two brothers chatted for a while, and then felt the smell of wine rising, so they fell asleep on the table groggily.

But at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the coffin of Li Yuan's uncle Li Guozhong made a few muffled clicks. The coffin lid, which had been nailed shut, was slowly removed from a crack for some reason. The coffin board moved little by little on the coffin until the entire coffin lid was across the coffin.

At this moment, a figure gradually sat up from the coffin, and after a slight pause, it slowly and straightened up, like a plank. The figure stood in the coffin and jumped out violently, straight and straight, without even bending in the middle.

Li Yuan and his cousin slept very soundly, and the figure was so light that it landed silently, so they didn't know what was happening next to them at all.

In the distance, I saw that the figure did not move its feet, did not lift its legs, and its toes were slightly off the ground, floating forward. Since the gate was locked, there was no other way out, so it floated to the edge of the wall and slowly floated high into the air, over a brick wall more than two meters high......

I was sleeping soundly with the jar when I was suddenly woken up by a croaking of frogs.

The jar tugged at the quilt in a daze, and scolded and said in his mouth: "This grandma's is endless, and before it stops for a few minutes, it will be called again, sooner or later, Lao Tzu will find some dumb medicine to poison your toads, I will let you call again?" ”

Although the jar was not yet sober, I could hear that something was wrong. This time the frog call was just the sound of one, not a "chorus" of dozens of frogs, and the sound of the frog call seemed to be very close to us, as if it was in this room, extremely loud.

I rubbed my eyes and sat up from the bed, and I saw a toad lying on the head of the bed, and it was screaming endlessly.

"I'll go! How did it come up? "The sudden appearance of this toad startled me.

The altar also sat up and shouted: "This and this, why are you still in bed here?" As he spoke, he got up and tried to find something.

As if he knew that the altar was going to be cleaned up, the toad jumped out of bed with a big jump, and lay down in the middle of the room and barked at us.

"Oh, little one, I didn't hit you, you still dare to provoke me?" Tanzi said angrily, "Today I will let you, this little brute, know how powerful your altar master is." The altar picked up his shoes under the bed and skimmed at the toad, but he was dodged.

The toad jumped to the door, and then barked at us again.

The altar said to me: "Poor ghost, don't stop me, don't say that this toad is a beneficial insect, we need to protect it, etc., if I don't break it into ten thousand pieces today, I am sorry for myself." ”

"Yes, yes, as a primate higher animal, it is shameful to say that he can't even take a small amphibian." I said with some laughter.

"You think so, don't you?"

When the altar was about to go down to the ground to move its real character, I grabbed it: "Have you noticed that this toad seems to be waiting for us?" ”

The altar was puzzled: "Is there one?" ”

"Wouldn't you just follow along?" I put on our coats and walked to the ground, and sure enough, I saw the toad jumping out again, and jumped out of a certain distance and did not move, and screamed there, as if waiting for us as if it was urging us.

When I put on my backpack and followed the toad out of the house, I was a little puzzled. The cry of this toad is in the house, and the cry is so clear, it is impossible for Li Yuan's parents, who are a room away from us, not to hear it? Are they used to it? Or do you think it's a toad outside calling, so you don't care?

The two of us followed the toad until we reached the outside of the village. Following a stumbling path outside the village, we came to a small forest not far from the village.

Today is the twelfth day of the lunar calendar, and the weather is good, so the moonlight is still relatively sufficient, and it is not too dark outside.

We followed the toad into the woods, and found that there seemed to be a small clearing not far from the woods, and in the middle of the clearing stood a man.

I looked at the altar and neither of us spoke, but we could see in each other's eyes that we wanted to come up and take a look.

Seeing that the toad jumped directly into the clearing, the altar and I didn't intend to hide it, and walked out of the forest directly and faced the person.

But when I faced the man with the altar and saw his appearance clearly, the hairs on both of our bodies stood on root in an instant, and a chill immediately swept over our bodies, and we shivered several times in succession.

The person in front of us was wearing a blue Tang costume with bright patterns and a pair of black pants underneath. We could tell at a glance that this man was wearing a shroud. Looking at him again, an old man in his seventies had round eyes, his eyes were white, his face was gray, and there were patches on his face...... The most important thing is that we have recognized his identity at this moment, he is Li Yuan's deceased uncle - Li Guozhong.