In the dead of night, next to the old well in Zhangjiagou, the words of the old bachelor startled me.

The old well in front of me is not far from the old locust tree where Zhang Fugui hanged himself at the head of the village, and I still remember Zhang Fugui's bloody corpse.

And about this old well, Zhangjiagou has spread a lot of legends, some say that this old well is suppressed under a big rat, some say that the following suppression is the fox fairy for the disaster, and some even say that there is a big python that is thicker than the water tank living below.

I remember when I was a child, I used to come to the village with my friends to play, and the old well had not been discovered until one day, when a villager dug up a manhole cover, and after the manhole cover was lifted, the old well could see the light of day.

No one knows how long the old well has existed, but when it was first discovered, the well water emitted a strange fragrance, at first the villagers thought that they had found Jiuquan, and rushed to grab the well water, if this is Jiuquan, then our village will be haired!

Within two days, a foul smell came from the well, and a bunch of dead snakes floated on the surface of the water every day.

Everyone didn't know what was going on, but there were dead snakes in the well water, and the villagers didn't dare to drink anymore for fear of poisoning.

One day after school, one of my friends proposed to go to the old well to pick up the dead snake to play, I readily agreed, and it passed, who knew that when I stood by the well and picked the dead snake with a branch, I didn't know who pushed me in the back, and I fell into the well.

Fortunately, I had already learned to swim at that time, so I clung to the wall of the well and cried, until the adults who came to pull me up, and there was also a child who was also pushed into the well, and the child was stupid when he pulled it up, and he had brain problems until now.

It was at that time that my grandfather told me the allusion that "one person does not enter the temple, and the other does not look at the well", which once became a shadow of my childhood.

Because of this incident, the villagers covered the old well with branches, and after a long time, no one walked here, and the surrounding area was overgrown with weeds, but just now, I almost planted it again?

"What's the matter with your baby, sleepwalking in the middle of the night and jumping into the well?" The old bachelor asked.

The old bachelor's words reminded me, I remember that I dreamed of a very beautiful woman in my dreams, and this woman I had dreamed of for seven days in a row, and she was not ashamed to call me Xianggong, and she was ashamed to do that with me, she obviously asked me to get the cash box, why did I jump into the well in a blink of an eye?

During the day, the old bachelor once said that Zhangjiagou's retribution is coming, and there will be a death tonight, is that damn person me?

Thinking of this, I was scared, so I told the old bachelor about the dream, although I don't believe much in this old god, but after all, someone just saved my life, right?

When the old bachelor heard me say this, he frowned, and then he lay down in front of me, staring at me, his nose almost together.

"What are you looking at?" I'm a little stunned.

"Your Yin Tang is black, this is evil!" The old bachelor said seriously.

"Evil?" I broke out in a cold sweat. "How could I fall for evil?"

"How do I know how you're going to fall for evil?" The old bachelor muttered. "Could it be that the fox fairy is doing it? It shouldn't be, you are yang, and you have no grievances with this fox fairy who was killed, it just wants to find someone to bury with it, and it shouldn't look for you, there is a problem with this, and there is a big problem. ”

The old bachelor muttered as he walked towards the back of the village, and I hurriedly chased after him and asked, "What should I do, old bachelor?" ”

"How do I know what you're going to do?" The old bachelor said angrily. "I saw that someone would die, but I didn't expect that the person who was going to die was you, and sure enough, people died for money, and birds died for food."

The old bachelor's voice became quieter and quieter, and his figure gradually disappeared, and soon I was left alone under the moonlit night.

I glanced at the old well behind me and walked quickly towards my home, where there were two white lanterns hanging at the door of Zhang Fugui's house, and I could vaguely see the faltering candlelight in his family's mourning hall through the cracks in the door.

When I got back to my room, I lay on the bed tossing and turning, and I couldn't understand why the woman in my dream was hurting me.

The old bachelor said that I was evil at the same time, but also said that I was yang, and I shouldn't have messed with the fox fairy, I have never provoked the fox fairy from beginning to end, is it because I was greedy and stole Zhang Fugui's box, so the fox fairy wanted my life?

But it's not right to think about it, because if the woman in the dream is a fox fairy, she herself guided me to get a rich cash box, otherwise how would I know that the money box would be hidden on the beam of his house?

And before I met the white fox, I had already dreamed of a woman in the fox fairy temple.

I couldn't help but think of the old saying again, one person doesn't enter the temple, and the other doesn't look at the well.

"Is it because I slept in the Fox Immortal Temple the night I went back to the mountains and ran into something unclean?" I thought to myself.

When I was a child, my grandfather once told me the meaning of "one person does not enter the temple, two people do not look at the well", grandpa said, two people do not look at the well, that is, two people traveling together, if you are curious to look at the old well on the side of the road, one of them is likely to suddenly have a bad idea to push the other person into the well, seeking money and killing people, which means to remind us that the heart of defense is indispensable.

And if a person does not enter the temple, it has a deep meaning.

In ancient times when the traffic was not developed, it was very inconvenient for people to travel, and there were few inns on the road, so those pedestrians who urgently needed to hurry would consider whether to go in and stay for a night when they saw a temple in the wilderness when it was dark, but many people often preferred to sleep in the open wilderness to endure the wind and rain rather than enter the temple. First, it is because of the chaos of soldiers in ancient times, and the security in various places is not good, especially in the mountains far away from the suburbs, where many robbers gather. If a person enters the temple and is unlucky to encounter robbers, it is inevitable that both people and money will be empty. Second, even if there are no robbers in the temple, it is not suitable for a person to enter the temple, not to mention that the ancients were superstitious about ghosts and gods, and the temples dedicated to ghosts and gods were not for the living to live. Thirdly, there are no villages around the wilderness, only a lonely temple, don't you think it's strange?

You must know that the function of the temple is not only for people to believe in ghosts and gods, pray for incense, but also have a role to ward off evil spirits! Especially when you are alone, you are less courageous than when you have a companion by your side, and a person's yang energy is limited, and the broken temple is already gloomy, and it is inevitable that something unpredictable and evil will happen after entering.

When my grandfather told me about this paragraph, he warned me that if I had to live in the temple in the future, I must not look at the main god in the temple, but my grandfather did not tell me the reason, which also led to me never daring to see who was sitting in the temple when I saw the temple after that, but I saw the statue of the human fox face that day because of that spring dream.

The old bachelor once said that the white fox is the fox fairy of the fox fairy temple in the back mountain, and when I was dreaming in the fox fairy temple, I dreamed of a woman in white, and the woman told me that her name was Xiaobai, what is the relationship between Xiaobai and the fox fairy?

I stayed up all night and didn't dare to sleep, the next day I got up early and rushed to the fox fairy temple in the barren mountains of the back mountain, I took a deep breath and walked in, knelt in front of the fox fairy statue and said: "Fox fairy Niangniang, I met the heavy rain on the road a few days ago and spent a night in your treasure land, not intentionally offended, and should not be greedy for beauty in the dream, please let me go in large quantities, if you know Xiaobai, please tell her to stop pestering me, I am afraid." ”

After saying that, I kowtowed a few times and quickly got up to leave the Fox Immortal Temple, but when I turned around and walked out of the temple gate, a gust of wind suddenly blew from the back of my neck into the collar, and a biting chill made my whole body can't help but have a layer of goosebumps, I couldn't help but sneeze, only to feel that there was a pair of eyes staring at me behind me.

When I returned to the village, it was already dark.

After Zhang Fugui's family was wiped out yesterday, the old bachelor once said that Zhangjiagou's retribution is coming, and there will be a person who will die at night, such a big thing happened in Zhangjiagou, even if the old bachelor is used to talking nonsense, the villagers have to be wary of his words, so get up early in the morning to see if there is anything wrong with the neighbors around.

As a result, no one died.

In other words, the old bachelor's words that last night there would be another death in the village did not come true.

But in fact, only I know what the old bachelor said is right or wrong, because if he hadn't come to the rescue last night, then I would have been the one who was found dead in the old well at the head of the village today.

Last night, Captain Wang of the police station searched the entire village door to door, but he did not find the cash box containing 200,000 cash, and now he took his apprentice Xiao Chen to Zhangjiagou together, ready to continue the investigation.

Zhangjiagou is a poor and remote country, and the conditions for handling cases are limited, and the only clue that can catch the murderer at present is the missing cash box.

But when Captain Wang pushed open the door of Zhang Fugui's house, a strange thing happened.

The bodies of Zhang Fugui's family of three are gone.