Chapter 55: A String of Numbers
"Strange, why did the second grandfather go out so early?" Li Ergou's heart was full of doubts.
It's only seven o'clock in the evening, and under normal circumstances, the second grandfather has to go out to summon spirits at about twelve o'clock in the evening.
Today's situation can be said to be extremely abnormal.
Li Ergou couldn't care so much, so he came to the corner with the fat man and quietly hid behind the wall.
It didn't take long for the second grandfather to lock the door, drive the carriage, and hurriedly drive towards the outside of the village.
"Brother Ergou, why don't we go our separate ways, you stay here and go to the yard to investigate, and I'll follow your second grandfather to see what happened." The fat man suggested.
"Okay, then be careful yourself."
Li Ergou thought about it, so he agreed, and went to the second grandfather's house to investigate, it was safer than following him!
The fat man didn't talk nonsense, and chased after the carriage with a dodge.
Seeing this, Li Ergou also began to act.
He remembered that outside the courtyard wall of his second grandfather's house, there was a big stone more than one meter high, Li Ergou did not have that kind of amazing lock-picking skills, nor did he have amazing skills, if he wanted to enter the yard, he had to rely on that stone.
Originally, Li Ergou still felt that after so many years, the stone might have been pulled away a long time ago, but after he looked around, he found that the stone was still there.
Li Ergou first looked around, and after finding that there was no one, he quickly climbed the stone, and then climbed onto the courtyard wall, and with a slight jump, he landed firmly in the courtyard.
However, when he entered the courtyard, he immediately regretted it.
It's not an easy job at all!
The location where Li Ergou landed was the northeast corner of the yard, and the most terrible thing was that there was a group of chickens in captivity here, all of them standing in place, holding their necks high, staring at Li Ergou, an uninvited guest.
Moreover, there is also a wolf dog in the yard, which is baring his teeth at the moment, staring at Li Ergou with fierce eyes.
"Shh
Li Ergou didn't care if they could understand people's words, put his finger to his mouth, and made a gesture of silence.
Then he walked towards the warehouse where the second grandfather put horse feed, and when he approached the room, a strong coldness instantly enveloped his whole body, and Li Ergou instinctively hugged his arms.
It's strange to say that such an important room, the second grandfather is not locked.
Because he sneaked in, it was dishonorable, and he was afraid of being discovered, Li Ergou didn't dare to turn on the lights openly, but just turned on the flashlight function on his mobile phone and shone around.
Just as he was taking a closer look, he suddenly saw a woman in white standing in the corner of the wall, staring at him stunned.
"Who is it?"
Li Ergou exclaimed, his soul was about to be scared out.
He quickly raised his phone and took a picture of the corner, and then found that it was a false alarm, and it was nothing more than a scarecrow placed in the countryside to drive birds in the crops.
Li Ergou breathed a sigh of relief, and just as he was about to turn around and continue to investigate, a bunch of other things next to him almost scared his soul out.
Next to the scarecrow, there were several plastic leather barrels for wine, one of which had an open lid, Li Ergou only glanced inside, and he was nauseous, and then couldn't help it, and vomited directly.
The scene in the bucket is so disgusting that it is not an exaggeration to describe it as shocking.
Li Ergou saw half of the human face at first glance, and then a severed hand, as well as other organs of the human body.
On top of that, the meat was all rotten and smelled of foul odor.
There is no doubt that this is the feed for the big black horse of the second grandfather, maybe even the chickens in the yard and the big wolf dog grew up eating these things.
I just don't know if the second grandfather will eat it himself.
It's just that, judging from the dead aura emanating from the second grandfather, I'm afraid this matter is not far from ten.
The second grandfather is from the underworld, and he is on an errand as a judge in the underworld, if he doesn't eat this kind of thing to cover up the breath on his body, I'm afraid it will be difficult to walk in the underworld.
After discovering these leather buckets, Li Ergou was instantly frightened half to death, he quickly exited the room, changed his target, and walked towards the living room.
The whole house, except for the gate is locked, the rest of the yard is not locked. I don't know if the second grandfather's usual habits are like this, or if he already knew that you Li Ergou would come.
Moreover, the big wolf dog did not bark indiscriminately, and Li Ergou's entry into the living room was quite smooth.
But after entering, he was even more uneasy.
In the middle of the living room, there is a hand-painted portrait of the Lord of Yama, the second grandfather is a judge, kneeling down to the King of Hades in the underworld, which is understandable.
The weirdest thing is that there is a coffin in the living room.
The coffin is about two meters long and more than 80 centimeters wide, and has been painted with blood-red paint.
Li Ergou is no stranger to this kind of pattern, he has seen the same pattern on the sarcophagus that appeared in different places three times.
The fat man once told him that these patterns were not simple patterns, but a kind of mysterious runes, and as for what they did, even the fat man didn't know very well.
Unlike the previous times, this coffin turned out to be wooden.
Why is there a coffin in the second grandfather's house?
For some reason, a terrible conjecture suddenly appeared in Li Ergou's heart.
"The old lady of the yellow skin once said that my father did not die, but was buried in a mysterious place, right? This coffin contains my father? "Li Ergou murmured! muttered to himself.
He cautiously tried to push the lid of the coffin, and then he heard a "crunch", but he didn't expect the coffin to be pushed open by him.
Li Ergou approached the mobile phone, took a picture inside, and found that there was a small cloth man more than 60 centimeters lying in the coffin.
Judging from his appearance, this puppet is obviously a man in his early thirties, and Li Ergou quietly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it was not his father who was lying.
But just as he was about to check the rest of the place, the appearance of the rag doll suddenly appeared in his mind, and then his face changed drastically.
After Li Ergou shone his mobile phone on the rag doll again, the whole person trembled.
The rag doll is so realistic, and it is exactly the same as the photo of Li Ergou's family and his father Li Chengde.
"What the hell is going on?" Li Ergou was completely panicked.
Could such a strange thing have something to do with his father's disappearance? Li Ergou didn't hesitate, and pushed the coffin lid harder, making the gap a little bigger.
Then he stretched out his hand and pulled the doll out of the coffin.
Li Ergou took a closer look and found that there was nothing abnormal, but when he turned the rag doll around, his eyelids jumped.
On the back of the rag doll, a string of numbers was embroidered with black thread.
"1 August 2000."
When he first saw this string of numbers, Li Ergou was immediately stunned, and then a lightning bolt seemed to pass through his brain.
This string of numbers is all too familiar to him!
Isn't August 1, 2000 the day his father mysteriously disappeared twenty years ago?