I believe everyone understands the truth of nine out of ten bets, and as for whether gambling will hinder oneself and one's family, the decision is entirely in one's heart. Besides, Tang Shiwen's father is also in his sixties, and he should feel these things the most.

"The more your luck fails, the more you gamble. I think you still have some ways to persuade people, or do you think of a way to make the old man break this thought? He Feng continued.

"Leave it to fate! I can't do everything. "That's true, I really don't have the energy to take care of everything.

As I spoke, I also came outside.

After waiting for a while, Tang Shiwen went out and took us to the town market.

Their house was fine, although it was not a street shop, but it was not far from the market, and we walked in the direction of her cousin's house while looking at the things in the market.

Zhuang Yan is still a little novel, and she picks up everything she hasn't seen before.

These things are too ordinary for me to be attractive. I just think that this Anhe town is too peaceful, and few pedestrians and vendors on the street speak. It's like no one knows anyone, everyone is busy with their own things.

"It's so quiet here, there's no noise on the streets in broad daylight." said to Tang Shiwen.

Tang Shiwen smiled and said: "It wasn't like this before, I also recently went home, so I feel that the town is much quieter." Right! Uncle Li. ”

The last words, of course, were said to the vendors.

The vendor looked up and grinned, "Donnie! When did you come back and how long will you stay at home this time? ”

It should be Tang Shiwen's milk name, and the voice is very peaceful, and there is nothing wrong with it.

"I left after two days, and I took two friends down to shop, and they said that they didn't go to the countryside to catch the market, and they wanted to come and see."

Tang Shiwen chatted for a few sentences, but Uncle Li can always talk to death in a few words, a kind of demeanor that we haven't left......

Walking forward on the street for a while, Zhuang Yan found that she was a little delayed, and she was embarrassed to look at it again. Patting the ash on his hand and saying, "Tomorrow you can go shopping with me!" Let's get down to business today. ”

We picked up speed, and in less than thirty minutes, we arrived at the southern end of Anhe Town, Tang Shiwen's cousin's house.

We didn't call the door, we just walked around the outside of the house.

Her cousin's family is a little worse, and there is a cousin who is the eldest and has been working outside for a few years, and usually only comes back during the Chinese New Year. I haven't gotten married yet, and I haven't brought a prospective son-in-law to my family. The old couple is in their fifties, in good health, and there is no illness or disaster. This happened to this cousin, who was guarding his home and preparing to kiss him. Originally, there were a few girls who had a good impression of him, but after this happened, no matter who he went to to propose, it was almost the same word, 'Think beautifully.' ’

The house has three floors, the top floor is also a cool place or storage room, the second floor is for people, and the first floor is for guests to eat and raise pigs and chickens. It's five o'clock in the afternoon, and the old couple should be on their way home from the field.

Zhuang Yan frowned, and used my usual thinking posture again.

I knew she was seeing something.

"Usually, when there is no one at home, doesn't he call? Belch...... I mean your cousin. Seeing that Tang Shiwen didn't reply, Zhuang Yan made up the question again.

"I know, I'm thinking, I don't think I've heard from my neighbors that he's calling during the day. I heard my aunt say that they went out to work in the fields, and because of their cousin, they were only called back once by the neighbors. Tang Shiwen recalled.

"How long has your cousin been like this?" I thought Zhuang Yan might ask this question, so I asked it for her.

"It's been almost half a year! Every time Lao Tang and I went home, my uncle-in-law would come to our house to talk about it. Three months ago, I also went to Xinxing Hospital for a while. Seeing that it couldn't get better, the money was not spent, and there was no choice but to take it home and continue to lock it. ”

Zhuang Yan nodded, and Yao spoke.

"Miss Childe, there is something evil in this town, do you feel it?"

I replied thoughtfully, 'Tell me about it.' ’

Yao's voice was not loud, for fear of alarming the nearby souls.

"All the way from town, I felt that almost every family had a soul at home. There are both strong and weak abilities, and in terms of Childe's ability, direct contact is nothing. I'm afraid they'll gather here...... Could there be some ulterior motives. ”

'Are you sure?' ’

"Because there aren't many places to pass by, why don't you go shopping again, and I'll feel it again." Yao means that on the road we walked just now, we sensed the existence of souls in many households, and the whole Anhe Town, is it like this, she still has to feel it.

I said that there was a strange and indescribable feeling on the street just now, could it be related to the situation that Yao sensed?

Zhuang Yan and Tang Shiwen said: "Sister Tang, I see that the things on the street are a little fresh, or you go home first, I will ask Yang Feng to accompany me for a walk." ”

She wanted to take Tang Shiwen away so that she could communicate with Yao.

Tang Shiwen looked at the two of us, agreed with a smile, and told us again, if we couldn't find the way, just ask the old Tang family how to go. Almost everyone in the town knows her family.

After explaining the route home, Tang Shiwen went back first.

"I think there's something weird about this town, but I can't tell." Zhuang Yan muttered to herself.

"I didn't feel it when I first arrived, but when I was on the street just now, I thought it was weird." A question comes to mind,

We looked at each other, and a chill made me shudder, most people in this town should have problems.

We're not shopping, we're moving fast.

Pedestrians on the road feel like they are doing their own things, and there is no verbal or eye contact with each other. I tried to stop the two of them and ask Tang Shiwen the way to his house, but they all knew each other and pointed us in the direction. Looking at that person closely, it seems that there is no information about soul interference, and it is really no different from ordinary people.

The market is the main area of Anhe Town, it is not big, and the houses are not dense, but the market is a rare large piece of flat land. The vendors also gathered here automatically, and gradually formed a market. At first, it was only a market on Monday, and later the nearby villagers would come to Anhe Town to set up stalls to operate, and gradually formed a rural market attraction. From time to time, some people from the city drive here to buy some green vegetables from farmers.

Greet people on the side of the road, and they can also follow our questions and chat with us, which is no different from ordinary strangers asking for news.

I'm surprised by this, if they are disturbed by the soul, then there should be signs in Yintang, at least like Tang Shiwen's father. I have looked carefully at several people, and none of them have this symptom. If it is not disturbed, it should not be this state, people who know each other in the same village almost do not talk to each other, strangers inquire about the news, but they can answer normally

Finally, an unexpected chat opened our confused heads.

"You're out of town! There is a tradition here, every household invites the gods to sit in the town, and they are blessed by the gods, so the people in this village generally do not like to talk, for fear that the other party will take away their own spirit. ”

"And that said? Do you believe the boss? ”

"I don't believe it, I want to believe it, and I'll be able to tell you this. When it comes to my wife, I believe it more than anyone else. She wanted to see me talk to someone in the village for more than five minutes, and when she came home, she could count me down until midnight. The boss looked a little helpless.

"By the way, how long has this tradition of yours been around?" Zhuang Yan always wants to ask about these traditional things or something.

The man smiled wryly, "Where did the tradition come from, just two years." Just the year before last, a Taoist priest came, saying that he knew how to exorcise evil and avoid evil, and could make the people in the town improve their fortune and reduce disasters. To be honest, I don't believe it at all, I still believe that there is no such thing as a free lunch. ”

"You're right." Zhuang Yan boasted.

The man waved his hand and smiled: "However, he is a true spirit, and at the beginning, few people believed it." Later, Sun Er, who was at the east end of the village, saw that the Taoist priest was pitiful, so he spent money to invite the god to go back. There were a few others, seeing that someone had invited them, and they also invited the gods to go home as if they were the wind. The key is cheap, only ten yuan per wood carving, and it is more than this money to buy a handicraft ornament or something. ”

"How do you know it's spiritual?" I asked.

"Wait until I'm done."

The man slowly pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and handed it to me, I said no, and he lit it in his mouth. He took a deep breath and exhaled the deepest cigarette he had ever inhaled into his lungs, and then set it up for us.

It is said that three or five people in the town invited the gods to the Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest taught them how to worship. If the surface of the wood carving of the deity, which has not been touched for a week, becomes shiny and slippery, it means that the offering is sincere enough to try to buy a few lottery tickets. After that, the Taoist priest disappeared for seven days before returning to Anhe Town. Sure enough, as the Taoist priest said, Sun Er went home and earnestly worshipped, and after a week, the wood carving really appeared in a greasy and slippery state. So, Sun Er tried to buy five lottery tickets, and won a prize of several thousand yuan. At first, no one believed it, but a few people invited the gods of Taoist priests. However, this time, the Taoist priest sat on the ground and started at twenty per statue.

Sun Er actually didn't believe it, but the Taoist priest took the initiative to come to the door to say goodbye, the first group of people to invite God, the Taoist priest calculated that he could offer well, and taught him the steps to buy lottery tickets. Let Sun Er continue to worship as before, as long as the oil does not disappear, he can buy lottery tickets every three days, no more than twice a week, and each time he can only be selected.

Sun Er was suspicious, and tried to buy a five-note machine-selected lottery ticket after three days, and sure enough, the prize was tens of thousands.

This time, the whole town was blown up, and there was an endless stream of townspeople looking for Taoist priests to ask God, and Taoist priests were all satisfied, but this time, the price rose to forty. But the supply is limited, and each family can only invite back one god, and it's useless to have more.

Later, the town exchanged worship experience with each other anytime and anywhere, and learned from each other to improve. However, there are not many successful offerings. Although some people did not succeed in worshipping, they still tried their luck from time to time. Some people have succeeded a few times, and after making a small fortune, they no longer shine anymore. The Taoist priest explained that exchanging ideas with others is equivalent to giving one's own gods to others, so there are fewer and fewer successful people.

However, there were still a lot of prizes in the whole town, which made everyone not work in the fields and devote themselves to the worship of the gods.

Therefore, in the current Anhe Town, there is very little communication between the townspeople, but talking to strangers from other places does not affect it.

I said why Tang Shiwen's father Yintang has a light brown color, it must be Tang Wei who told them not to invite, and then it was itchy to see others winning the lottery. Find an opportunity to peek at the numbers that Sun Er bought a lottery ticket and spend a lot of money to bet...... But except for the consolation prize of five and ten yuan, I have not even won a reward of more than 100 yuan.

No wonder the people in the town don't communicate much with each other, no wonder Tang Shiwen's cousin has become so ...... Maybe he was also opened to the sky?

It suddenly occurred to me that two years ago, the Taoist priest came here, and half a year ago, my cousin had a problem......