Chapter 55: The Ancestral Hall

At this moment, I was tapped on the shoulder, and the stiffness suddenly disappeared, it was a Taoist priest. He looked at my strange movements and gave me a solemn look, which meant to ask me if I had seen something.

I nodded, and wanted to speak, but he stopped me and said to me, "Don't reveal the secret of heaven, just know it yourself, don't say anything!" ”

The little girl had been staring at me since just now, and her black eyes always made me shudder. I looked at the Taoist priest, and he shook his head at me, and I took a deep breath, calmed down, and pretended not to see anything.

The three girls also noticed my abnormality and wanted to ask me, but after listening to the Taoist priest's words, the questions were swallowed back into their stomachs. We made eye contact, and they all knew that the Taoist priest had succeeded in using the ghost eye, and combined with my reaction, it was not difficult to guess what I saw, and Yang Mengqing's face immediately became ugly.

The atmosphere was dull for a while, and I got used to the presence of the little girl, who stared at me for a while, then retracted her gaze back to the book, and her fear faded. I wanted to ask why the little girl asked the priest why she didn't have pupils, but I was worried that it would attract her attention, so I omitted the person she referred to and asked why the priest didn't have pupils.

The Taoist priest understood what I meant, saying that the things of the netherworld could not appear during the day, unless the Tao was extremely profound, but no matter how deep the line was, people were humane, ghosts had ghost ways, and the Heavenly Dao Gang was often like this, as long as it appeared in the daytime, the ghost pupils could not be opened, and from our perspective, it was a hollow, but in fact, it was just a closed ghost eye.

After listening to the Taoist priest's explanation, when I looked at the little girl again, I suddenly felt that it was not so terrible.

The Taoist priest borrowed the ghost eye for me, and we didn't have the heart to guess those clueless mysteries anymore, and the noon sun had passed, and the sky above the canyon was shrouded in dark clouds, and it suddenly became gloomy.

The cloud came suddenly, but we could just take advantage of this time to search the village, and if there was no trace of Yang Mengqing's parents, we would have to think about how to leave this strange place.

Throughout the afternoon, we shuttled through the desolate abandoned houses and found traces of some people's activities, but they were of little value in finding people. Just when we were about to give up, the little ghost who had been following Yang Mengqing had a strange move, it glanced at me, and in my surprised gaze, it floated into the wall of the earthen building opposite the courtyard without touching the ground, and disappeared.

I hurriedly patted the Taoist priest, pointed to the tulou and said, "It's in!" ”

The Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, then realized what I was talking about, and said, "Hurry up, he may want to tell us something." ”

After saying that, he chased after him first, and we didn't dare to slack off, so we also followed. We didn't have the ability to penetrate the wall, so we could only go around to the main entrance of the tulou, and found that this was actually a ancestral hall, and the plaque on the eaves was so pasted that we couldn't see the words clearly.

The decayed wooden door had been kicked open by the Taoist priest, and the light inside was dim, and the Taoist priest had no flashlight, and after we followed, he followed us into with the flashlight.

To be honest, I was a little resistant to going inside, because last night in the courtyard I saw a strange figure in the window on the second floor of the tulou, judging from the ratio of the figure to the height of the window, it should not be a ghost.

The tulou is not large, with a total of three floors, and the outside is a wall made of large solid mud bricks, but the inside is decorated with wood and an old pine smell. There is only one room inside, the scene in it is unobstructed, there is a nine-layer wooden frame more than three meters high in the middle, the first layer is the offering table, there are many old incense candles and oil lamps on it, and then several layers are densely placed with spiritual cards, which should be the spiritual seat of the ancestors of the village for generations, crowded with thick dust, and the words on it are covered.

Out of reverence for the deceased, we didn't touch the spiritual seats, but I looked around the inner hall and immediately saw the little ghost cowering at the corner of the stairs leading upstairs. I looked at it, and it looked at me, then got up and floated upstairs.

I poked the Taoist priest who was looking around, pointed to the stairs, and he immediately understood, and the two of them walked up the wooden ladder one after the other. As a result of the long time passed, as soon as we stepped on it, there was an unsettling creak from the ladder, and the Taoist priest and I seemed to have reached the limit of our weight, so we let the girls stay downstairs.

Soon, I went up to the second floor, and since the floor was also made of wood, I was not sure where I could step on it and where I couldn't, so I didn't dare to move.

The upstairs was divided into three rooms by a wooden screen, and the window facing the courtyard where we had been staying last night was just in the aisle, and from a distance, I saw a shadow standing quietly in front of the window, and because of the light from the window, I could only see that it seemed to be a person dressed in white, exactly the same as the white shadow I saw last night.

I was taken aback, and then the Taoist priest also climbed up and urged me to make way for him, saying that the stairs were about to collapse. I pointed to the shadow, and the priest immediately closed his mouth.

The figure just stood like this, we weren't sure if she was a human or a ghost, and after a closer look, I found that the white shadow's feet didn't touch the ground at all, and the whole body was floating in the air, and a cool air suddenly rose on her back.

"Be careful, this thing can't see the yin qi, but it can stand there, I'm afraid it's not easy, if there is a conflict, Dao Ye is not sure to deal with it, don't alarm it."

Even the Taoist priest confessed, so I didn't dare to provoke it, but the little ghost floated to the door next to Bai Ying and went in at once.

Now I was dumbfounded, told the Taoist priest about the situation, and asked him what to do. The situation is a little tricky, the Taoist priest can't help it, stalemate for a while, the shadow is still motionless, the Taoist priest said to me: "I think it should be fine, we have been coming up for so long for a long time, if she wants to be unfavorable to us, she will not wait so long, and it is not a way to continue like this, so you go over and take a look." ”

"Damn, why didn't you go over, Lao Tzu didn't have your ability, if there was a change, it would be too late to escape, I'm afraid I would hang up immediately."

The Taoist priest sighed and said: "Why are you so stupid, do you think, you go over, if there is really danger, the Taoist can still support, if the Taoist goes over, if there is an accident, it will really be over, is it possible to expect you to save me?" Besides, only you can see it now, and it's useless for Dao Ye to go! ”

When I heard it, I couldn't help but feel a little helpless. "Then you have to keep an eye on it, Lao Tzu's life will be handed over to you!" The Taoist priest looked confident, which reassured me. I sighed, took the flashlight, lay on the floor, and crawled forward, so that I could increase my contact with the floor, and if the floor collapsed, I would not fall all at once.

After grinding for a while, my face was covered with ash, and I was getting closer and closer to the white shadow, and my heart became more and more nervous, but fortunately it still didn't move, so I climbed a little to take a look, and when I was less than two meters away from the shadow, the white shadow suddenly moved. In an instant, I was so frightened that I was about to run away regardless of the head, only to find that it was only the white shadow's clothes blown up by the wind.

In a haze, I saw that there seemed to be a human bone under the blowing clothes, and I couldn't help but be stunned, raised the flashlight and shone it, and found that the white shadow was just a person hanging in front of the window, and the body had turned into white bones, but because of the wrapping of the clothes, it did not fall off.

I breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and explained the situation to the Taoist priest, opened the door where the little ghost entered, and the dust on my face choked me and coughed. When the smoke cleared, I saw the little ghost holding the book, squatting next to a cabinet in the corner of the room, looking at me in a daze.

Although he had adapted to her existence, he was still a little frightened to get close to her so closely, but fortunately, the Taoist priest also rushed in.

The imp's intentions are obvious, she brought us here, presumably for this box. The box was very old, like a wooden cabinet for clothes and bedding, with a rusty lock on the outside, and the Taoist priest pulled the door lock, and when he pulled it, the lock suddenly rotted. I couldn't wait to open the cabinet door, and I was so frightened that I took a few steps back, only to see a skeleton curled up in the cabinet.

The Taoist priest stepped forward to take a look, hummed, ignored the skeleton, and instead took out a yellowed thread-bound thick book from a box next to the skeleton. I hurriedly leaned over to look at it, and found that there were four big characters on the old cover of the book, so I read it out: "Feng, Yang, Shi, Zhi." ”

I didn't think that I had just finished reading, the floor under our feet suddenly made a clicking and breaking sound, I didn't say it was good, I just wanted to run, it was too late, the floor under my feet clicked and broke, we only felt that our feet were empty, and the whole person fell down.