Fa glanced at the little red snake in the glass jar and bottle, smiled, as if he was very proud, and then put it in his satchel.

At the same time, Xue Chunshan's body on one side fell to the ground on his back with a "clang", causing everyone to take several steps back.

"What are you doing in a daze? Don't put the body in the coffin and carry it back! Fa Dian bent down and pulled out something inserted in Xue Chunshan's chest, and I saw clearly that it was a small wooden stick a few inches long.

Later, I learned that this seemingly ordinary wooden stick is famous, called "willow nail", since ancient times, "peach wood sword" and "willow wood nail" are two major weapons to drive away ghosts and catch evil spirits, "peach wood sword" can chop ghosts to death, "willow nails" can nail ghosts.

may have been shocked by the scene in front of them, but most of them still did not slow down, until the second time that Zhang Lihai woke up like a dream and ordered his subordinates to carry the corpse.

Han Jianjian and I work at the Yellow River Water Conservancy Station, and we are considered to be contemporary corpse collectors in the Yellow River.

On the way back, I couldn't help but ask Fa Dian: "Master! He...... He's dead now? ”

Fa Dian gave me a blank look: "You asked this, didn't he die the night before yesterday!" ”

"But...... But I'm alive again! ”

"! Death is death, how can you still live? Fa Dian patted the glass bottle in his bag, "It's this thing that is doing it, the corpse is nothing more than a skin!" ”

"Snakes?"

I remembered the red snake that bit the party secretary of Lao Wang Village after the heavy rain before, and it was really strange to say that which snakes never appeared again.

"You...... You don't know this thing? Fa Ying asked me suddenly.

"Do you mean snakes? Before......"

Before I could finish my sentence, I was interrupted by him: "What a snake! I don't believe you don't know what this stuff is! ”

Although I had only known each other for a few hours, I could tell that the old monk liked to be witty, and he didn't take his words too seriously.

Soon returned to the village, the black coffin was carried into Lao Xue's house again, and the funeral that had not been completed before was continued.

Fa Dian told them that the body had to be cremated as soon as it was dawn, not past 12 o'clock at noon at the latest, and no one could be cremated during the cremation process.

It is also the cremation site, and no one can be left behind...... I was stunned at first, this is not the first time I have heard this sentence.

The matter has been resolved, Zhang Lihai and Hao Minyuan and they rushed back overnight, but Fa Dian stayed, in his words, the matter in the village has not been resolved, and he will stay for a few more days.

After tossing in the middle of the night, when he returned to the village branch compound, it was already half past one in the morning, and Han Jianli went home directly with Zhou Yinuo. I actually admire this kid, after falling in love with someone's daughter, he has a clear goal, and he has been working hard for the goal, and he has a posture of entanglement like a poisonous snake.

This time, Fa Dian became the benefactor of the whole village, and Zhang Lihai repeatedly told Zhou Laohan before leaving that he should also entertain him well for the sake of the District Public Security Bureau.

Zhou Laohan hurriedly cleaned up the house next door to Fa Dian and asked him if he needed anything.

"Is there any wine? Better get some side dishes! Fa Dian said with a grin.

"Ahh Old Man Zhou was cleaning up the clutter on the table, and just picked up an ashtray, and fell on the table with a "click", "Master, you ...... What do you want? ”

Fa Dian repeated it again, and Old Man Zhou nodded a few times.

"It's okay with the wine, the dishes...... This point...... I have a few packets of peanuts at home......"

"That's good!" Fa Dian smiled, turned to me again, and said, "Boy, you also accompany the old monk for me to drink?" ”

I wanted to refuse, this day of tossing can be described as physically and mentally exhausting, seeing that there are still a few hours before dawn, where do I have the leisure to mess around with him, not to mention drinking with a dirty monk, it feels awkward to think about it.

Before he could open his mouth when he refused, he continued: "I know that your kid doesn't understand, just right, I'll tell you about it, old monk!" ”

As soon as I heard him say this, I quickly changed my words: "That's okay! I'm not sleepy anyway! ”

Let Wu Jinghan sleep first, and Fa Dian and I went to the village branch office to wait for Zhou Laohan.

"Master, aren't monks supposed to keep the five precepts! Why do you still drink? I asked, half-jokingly.

Fa Dian is hehe Yile again: "I put the Buddha in my heart, and I don't care about the face, I haven't heard such a sentence, the wine and meat have passed through the intestines, and the Buddha has left it in his heart." ”

I couldn't help but glance at him, thinking: There are so many ways, it turns out to be a wine and meat monk!

Soon Zhou Laohan returned to the village branch with a few bags of peanuts and pickled vegetables he had pickled, and the servants drank around the coffee table.

"By the way, Master, will you tell us about tonight?"

After taking a sip of wine, I couldn't help but open my mouth.

Fa Dian grabbed a few peanuts with his hand, threw them into his mouth, and smiled: "Actually, it's nothing, it's all caused by those two Zhenhe stone statues!" ”

Zhou Laohan's chopsticks fell to the ground with a "click".

I bent down first to pick him up: "Uncle, I'm not in a state tonight!" I can't hold the ashtray, why can't I hold the chopsticks! ”

Old Man Zhou smiled bitterly: "When you are old, how can you compare with young people!" ”

I also smiled, which was a response, and quickly continued to ask Fa Dian: "What they fished up from the river is the Zhenhe stone statue?" ”

Fa Dian nodded: "This year is a strange year, the first half of the year is dry, and the river is flooded in the second half of the year, so a lot of evil things that originally sank at the bottom of the river have come out, and it is destined to have a lot of strange things this year!" ”

With that, he took a sip of wine.

Zhou Laohan was also aroused by curiosity and asked, "Then it's okay now, right?" ”

"Not a big problem! Let's take a look first! ”

I thought about it for a moment, but I still felt confused: "Can the stone statue control the corpse?" ”

Hearing me say this, Fa Dian suddenly looked at me motionlessly, and the peanuts in his mouth stopped chewing.

"You kid really don't know what's going on?"

I shook my head: "I don't know! ”

At this point, I already felt that it was not humorous for Fa Dian to ask me this before.

"You don't know it's Gu worms?"

I shook my head again.

"That's weird......" Fa Dian shook his head in confusion after carefully looking me up and down as if he were looking at a monster. Qiyin

Next, Fa Dian didn't buy it again......

Legend has it that the ancient Dongyi people lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and they had their own sects and beliefs, and they worshiped sacrifices, which I had seen in the underground space of the Yellow River before, but Fa Dian was talking about another equally important sacrifice for them: sacrificing to the river.

The so-called sacrifice to the river, which worships the Yellow River, is another equally important sacrificial activity of the Dongyi people.

As for the specific way of sacrificing the river, it has long disappeared in the boiling water of the Yellow River, but an ancient custom in the river sacrifice ceremony of the Dongyi people has been handed down, which is why Xue Chunshan and Lu Jianguo fished two strange small stone statues.

This custom is that when someone drowns in the Yellow River, the family of the deceased must cast a small stone statue into Hanoi, which is called respecting the river, and it is said that if you do not do this, the soul of the deceased will be controlled by the river god forever, and you will never be able to live again.

Counting this, this belongs to the spiritual artifact, and no one who knows how to touch these things.

As for the red snake crawling out of Xue Chunshan's mouth, it is actually not a snake, but an ancient Gu worm, it is precisely because of the stone statue of Zhenhe hidden in the house that it attracted the Gu worm deposited by the Yellow River, at this time Lu Jianguo also has one in his stomach, under normal circumstances, he will also "cheat the corpse" tonight, but he has been trapped by Fa Ying with a charm, as long as he is cremated on time tomorrow, there will be no more incidents.

I had previous experiences in the underground space of the Yellow River, and I still knew a little about Gu worms, but at this time, Zhou Laohan, who was sitting opposite me, was blindsided.

However, Zhou Laohan raised a very key question: Since the death of the two was not caused by a female ghost, is it true or false that there are female ghosts in the village? We all looked at Fa Ying, wanting to wait for him to give an answer, but the old guy smiled, drank and ate to himself, and said nothing.

After waiting for a full minute, I was a little anxious, and my voice unconsciously raised: "Master! What the hell is ...... in the village Are there any ghosts? ”

As soon as I finished saying this, I heard a "whine" sound outside, like a woman crying.

Hearing this voice, I broke out in a cold sweat instantly, and I knew with my toes that it was definitely not Li Bo and they were making trouble this time.

"Listen!"

I pointed out the door and shouted softly.

Old Man Zhou tilted his head and listened for a few seconds, then shook his head: "There is no movement!" ”

Fa Dian smiled slightly, grabbed a few peanuts and stuffed them into his mouth again, and took another sip of wine: "Let's go!" Watch the excitement go! ”

Zhou Laohan followed the two of us out of the door with a blank face and ran out onto the street.

"Master, you...... Is that why you asked us to drink? ”

Fa Dian was wearing a pair of cloth shoes that were obviously one or two sizes bigger, and he didn't look like heels, but he was striding like flying, and I barely kept up with my strides, while Zhou Laohan was panting behind us, shouting at us to wait for him.

The strange sound of "woo" grew louder and louder, and in the distance I saw a tall and thin man standing on the crossroads in the middle of the village, and a few meters away from him, there were two vague figures, one large and one small.

Are those two women?

Is this uncle?

My uncle turned his back to me, facing two blurred white shadows, and the two sides looked at each other like this, no! To be exact, six eyes are opposite.

Fa Dian walked behind his uncle in one breath, and actually laughed out loud, and after laughing several times, he slowly spoke: "Song Jianmin, when did you become so soft-hearted!" ”

it! I couldn't help but curse secretly, it turns out that Fa Dian and Uncle have known each other for a long time! Thinking about it again, I couldn't help laughing, my uncle and Fa Dian are the most powerful characters in their circle, just like Ma Yun and Liu Qiangdong in China today, how can they not know each other!

The uncle turned around, there was no trace of strange expression on his face, he first glanced at Fa Dian coldly, and then fixed his gaze on Zhou Laohan's face.

"The affairs of the village don't need outsiders to interfere, have you forgotten?"

Uncle's words were already cold, and his words were even colder.

Zhou Laohan gasped heavily, his whole body trembled, and his voice trembled: "I...... I know, no...... I didn't ask for it! ”

Fa Dian laughed again: "The anger is still so big!" I don't want to take care of your village's affairs...... Just come and see the excitement! ”

After speaking, he walked to the side, supported his cheeks with his hands like a child, and squatted on the ground.

I couldn't help but curse again, this fucking midnight just to run to the street to see the excitement?

Old Man Zhou also leaned to the side tremblingly, staring.

The uncle turned around, raised the small black box in his hand, and whispered to the two white shadows in front of him, "Eat it!" ”

Only then did I smell a faint fishy smell in the air, and I instantly guessed what was in the black box in my uncle's hand.

The guts of the ghost catfish!

It should be the catfish gall that we got from the thirteen ghost caves of the Yellow River before, I remember he said at the time that the reason why he did everything possible to get the catfish gall was for two purposes, one was to cure his uncle's illness, and the other was to subdue the two female ghosts in white, no! In his words, a woman.

I've watched a lot of movies about Taoist priests catching ghosts! I thought that the uncle would be like Lin Zhengying, holding the willow wood sword in one hand and the ghost exorcism talisman in the other, and then rushed up with a loud shout, and after a crackling, the uncle inserted the willow wood sword into the ghost's chest.

Who knew that the uncle was forcing them to take medicine, could it be that he still wanted to kill them with medicine?

Uncle stretched out his hand and looked at the two women, I really couldn't guess what he thought.

Just when I was puzzled, I heard the sound of "woo" as if it had changed its tone, and what made me even more puzzled was that there was also a strange sound in my uncle's throat, I don't know if it was my psychological effect, but I felt that the sound from my uncle's mouth was consistent with the sound made by the female soul in rhythm.

Listen, my scalp is numb: Could it be that my uncle is talking to them?

After about a minute, both sides fell silent at the same time, dead silent.

After that, the two women slowly walked up to the uncle, reached out and took the box, and then grabbed the contents and stuffed them into their mouths.

The female spirit is only about ten meters away from me, and I was a little nervous and scared at first, but after a few minutes, I probably thought that there would be no danger, and gradually my curiosity replaced my fear, and I really wanted to see the appearance of the female spirit.

Strange things happened.

No matter how I look at it, I just don't recognize their appearance, the so-called face is actually a smooth face.

"Snap"

I shuddered with a piercing cracking sound, and when I came back to my senses, I found that only my uncle was in front of me, and the black box he was holding just now was shattered on the ground.

I subconsciously looked around: "What about them?" ”

The uncle breathed a long sigh of relief and said slowly: "The obsession has been temporarily resolved, dust to dust, dust to dust, where to get and where to go." ”

After speaking, the uncle turned around and walked in the direction of his house.

I turned around and saw that Zhou Laohan's face had changed, and his eyes were staring directly at his uncle's distant back.

"It's not hilarious!"

Fa Dian yawned and stood up, walking in the direction of the village branch, this time walking very slowly, there was a sound of "popping" under his feet, it was really hard to believe that the monk who walked in front of us at this time was still walking like a fly just now.