I didn't want to stay, but when I heard the Evergreen Daoist say this, I was curious, who was the person who wanted to kill him?

"Lao Yan, beware of bull-nosed and old tricks." Seeing that I was hesitant to leave, the old fat reminded me in a low voice.

"Probably not."

I said to Lao Fei: "From the tone of his voice just now, I sensed a strong intent to die, maybe someone will really kill him tonight." ”

"Is he dead or alive, it's none of our business, what do you care so much about?"

Lao Fei didn't care, persuaded me not to meddle in things, and finally came to a proverb: "Those who know a lot of people have a lot of right and wrong, and it's none of their business, let's slip away." ”

I smiled bitterly in my heart, and found that Lao Fei and I have been with me these days, and they really have a tacit understanding of running away.

"It's not that I don't want to go, but I ......"

I frowned and said helplessly, "Do you remember what Yan Xiaoying looked like last night before she went down the mountain?" Her eyes were full of hatred, and her whole person didn't look like usual at all. ”

"You mean...... The one who is going to kill the bull's nose...... It's her? The old fat was surprised, and his last face couldn't believe it.

"I'm not sure."

I nodded and shook my head and explained, "We all know the person who the Evergreen Daoist said he was going to kill. Think about it, the people we know together can be counted with both hands, Li Guodong and the professor needless to say, the most likely are Mrs. Yan and Yan Xiaoying. ”

In fact, I think there is a chance that it will be Yan Xiaoying, but there are no absolutes in everything.

After I reminded him like this, Lao Fei suddenly felt like an enlightenment, and woke up: "It turned out to be her, but what kind of hatred does she have with this bull-nosed old way?" You have to kill. ”

"I don't know, but I should know tonight." I said.

Since we guessed that person was Yan Xiaoying, Lao Fei and I naturally wouldn't leave again, no matter what the reason, the three of us are all people who have experienced life and death together.

Although the acquaintance time is very short, there are things between each other, so naturally they will not care.

What's more, although the Evergreen Daoist in front of him looks like he is in a state of dying and waiting for death, the ghost knows if he will secretly have a different mind? You know, he's not an ordinary person.

Changqing Daoist was busy working in the stove room, and Lao Fei and I stood under the pine tree in the courtyard, and Lao Fei leaned into my ear and whispered: "Lao Yan, why don't we strike first and cripple this old guy?" ”

"Don't mess around, let's figure it out."

I glared at the old fatty, and I didn't know if he was missing a tendon in his brain, why was he so impulsive?

Changqing Daoist set up a small table in the courtyard, thinking that he was making vegetarian food, but unexpectedly, there was fish and meat, so it was not rich.

In this regard, the former explained that this may be the last meal in his life, so he has to eat something good, and people who were executed on death row in ancient times had a severed head meal.

Lao Fei and I listened with a burst of disdain, but don't say it, the dishes cooked by Lao Dao are really delicious.

Fill your stomach, the sun has set in the west.

The atmosphere suddenly became eerie and eerie all over the col, and there were nightingales wandering in the woods behind the house, cooing and screaming.

It's an ominous sound, and every time this bird wanders around the house, nothing good happens.

The older generation said it was a partridge bird, the embodiment of death, and that as long as it was in a house where it cried, someone would die.

Although these are feudal sayings, Lao Fei and I still feel uncomfortable when we hear this weird cooing sound. Generally, when people hear this kind of partridge bird, they will take a bamboo pole to catch it.

But the Changqing Daoist didn't, just sighed lightly, as if he had aged many years all of a sudden.

Then he went into the stove room, and a few minutes later came out with a basket made of bamboo strips, and said to us, "Two little friends wait here, and Lao Dao will go and bring some food to the neighbors, and then he will be back later." ”

I got up and asked, "Did the Taoist go and bring food to the woman in the room across the col?" ”

Changqing Daoist nodded: "That's a poor woman, she sold her body here more than twenty years ago, and was later exposed and escaped. But some time ago she came back, only this time she didn't dress fancifully, but went insane and didn't remember anything. ”

Although the people of Changqing Dao also know how to heal, they are helpless against the crazy woman, pity her for being lonely, crazy, and three meals a day will be delivered on time, and it has been going on for more than half a month.

I thought to myself, if no one had brought food to the mad woman, she would have starved to death.

I think that the mad woman must have a deep memory of this place before she went insane, so even if she is crazy now, the physical memory will bring her back here.

Thinking of this, I had a little more affection for the Changqing Daoist, and said to him: "Let's go with you, it's boring to stay here anyway." ”

"I'm going to you two, I don't want to smell that disgusting stench anymore."

Old Fat shook his head next to him and refused.

The Evergreen Daoist and I walked around the col and came to the dilapidated house inside the gate.

At this time, it was starting to get dark, there was no light in the room, the darkness was very terrifying, and the Changqing Daoist turned on a flashlight and handed it to me.

When the two of us entered the room, we saw the mad woman lying on the bed, trembling under the quilt, looking at us with a look of horror.

The Changqing Daoist didn't say anything, put the meal in front of the dressing table, and beckoned me to leave.

I said, "Wait." ”

Then he placed the wooden door that had been placed aside on the ground, found planks and discarded iron nails around it, and patched up the big hole in the wooden door with bricks. Later, he found some rags in the vicinity to seal the windows that were constantly being flooded with cold air.

The Changqing Daoist stood next to him without being impatient, without urging me, but also without stepping forward to help.

After doing this, I feel much better, and the winter is cold, especially at night, and I guess the crazy woman will be more comfortable by sealing the doors and windows.

"Little friends and bodhisattvas have a heart, and there will definitely be good rewards in the future."

Out of the room, Changqing Daoist looked relieved and praised me with a smile.

I shook my head and didn't answer. It's just a gesture, there's nothing to be complacent, and I don't think I'm a good person.

When I returned to the courtyard of the temple, I found that Lao Fei was sitting by the fence and smoking, looking like a beautiful and wandering person.

"Stay here tonight, remember, don't come out at night, no matter what you hear. Tomorrow morning, trouble bury my body in the back mountain. The Evergreen Daoist said to us with a serious face.

I nodded with Lao Fei, but I didn't think so.

At that moment, the Changqing Daoist lit a candle and took me and Lao Fei to live in the side room.

The room was a little cramped, with only a bed and an old-fashioned wooden table, and nothing else.

The Changqing Taoist put the candle on the candlestick on the table, said a few polite words to us, and then closed the door and exited the room.

As soon as he left, Lao Fei leaned into my ear, lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Lao Yan, guess what the wooden box behind the statue contains......

"You...... Just went to open the box and saw it? "I was taken aback.

"No way, things are out there. It's like magic, and it's kind of intriguing, so I opened it and took a look at it when you were going to deliver food to the madwoman. ”

You said with a strange look on your face, and then whispered, "Good fellow, it's a terrible thing, but it's me, and if you open it, you'll be shocked, do you want to know what's inside?" ”

When I saw that Lao Fat was reluctant to say what was in the box, I knew that he was playing a dumb riddle, trying to arouse my strong curiosity and achieve psychologically perverted satisfaction.

No, I didn't expect this guy to open the box and see what was inside. Although I knew that this guy was reckless, I didn't expect him to be so reckless, if this matter was known by the Evergreen Dao people, I don't know what the consequences would be.

Luckily, he probably has something to do tonight, so he shouldn't be able to take care of that.

I knew that Lao Fei was expecting me to ask him, but the more he hung my appetite like this, the more I put on an expression of indifference, and said lightly: "It has nothing to do with what is in the box, let's rest early, maybe I can really see Xiaoying tonight." ”

"Aren't you curious?" The old fat said urgently.

"What's in there?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"A corpse...... No! To be exact, it was a skeleton that had been dead for an unknown number of years, and had been eroded. Lao Fei said with an unnatural expression.

When he opened the box and saw the scene inside, he must have been frightened.

Listening to Lao Fei's words, I was also surprised, and I couldn't believe it and asked, "Are you sure that the box contains a pair of dead human bones?" ”

"How could you be wrong!"

The old fat said in a deep voice: "It is the bones of a child, judging from the height and size, it is only four or five years old at most." ”

I was shocked, I had expected that the wooden box contained nothing mortal, otherwise it would not have been placed behind the statue and enshrined.

Originally, I guessed that it was very likely to be a treasure of the Daomen, or a demon and evil that the Evergreen Daoist had subdued and suppressed, but I never imagined that it contained a corpse, and it was the bones of a child.

"How could it be the bones of a child?"

Lao Fei shook his head and speculated: "The relationship between that child's bones and Lao Dao must not be simple, if you want me to say, that old guy is not a good person at all, on the surface he looks righteous and awe-inspiring, maybe secretly he is insidious and vicious, and he does all kinds of evil." ”

"Maybe there's another reason."

I shook my head, not denying but not affirming the old fat's speculation.

However, one thing can be confirmed is that this Evergreen Daoist is very mysterious, not as simple as it seems, he must have some other secrets.

Lying on the bed/, Lao Fei and I naturally won't fall asleep. The two of them stared at the wooden beams of the roof with their eyes open, listened to the movement outside the house, and waited for the slightest sound of wind before rushing out with their guns and whips.

However, after waiting for more than two hours, there was no movement except for the occasional nightingale's cry outside, so anxious that we wanted to rush out directly to find the Evergreen Daoist.

At this time, the candles on the menorah burned out and went out, and the room was plunged into darkness.

Darkness is always scary, and Tebi is even more frightening in a strange and eerie environment......