Chen Ge climbed out of the tunnel and looked around.

There were no windows in the house, and a few poultry that had just died were placed not far from the entrance to the tunnel.

"She used the blood of poultry? Can this also deceive the ghosts? ”

The cry of a baby could be faintly heard in his ears, and Chen Ge walked down the stairs to the second floor.

It is obvious that this is a woman's room, with simple furniture, and unlike other houses, there is no coffin in this room, but a wooden bed.

The thick curtain of the bed was lifted, and several bamboo baskets were placed side by side on the wooden bed, and in the basket each baby had a blade of grass on his mouth.

The blades of grass seemed to have a calming effect, and the babies did not cry too much, although they had left their parents.

"Every time this woman surnamed Zhu takes the child away, she actually wants to protect the child?"

Soon Chen Ge found a notebook under the pillow of the bed, and after opening it, a personal name and address were recorded on it.

The person who writes these things may have a limited number of words, and many places are replaced by symbols.

"The woman surnamed Zhu outside looks to be in her thirties or forties, but this book is yellowed and shabby, and it feels like it should have been many years ago." Chen Ge held the notebook, he really couldn't read the words on it, like Chinese characters, but most of them couldn't be recognized: "The address is very vague, but you can distinguish a few people's names, could they be the children who were rescued?" ”

"You're right, they're all children I sent out." An old lady's voice suddenly came from behind him, and Chen Ge immediately turned around with the repeater.

"I'm the one to be scared, right? Or do you think I, an old guy with half my foot buried in a coffin, can threaten you? ”

It seemed that because of the lack of teeth, the sound sounded strange, and Chen Ge took the repeater and walked towards the house, and saw a severely hunched old lady with a wrinkled face in the compartment on the second floor.

She was reclining on the wooden bed in her cubicle, her legs muscles atrophied, barely able to move only her head and one arm.

"Who are you?" The old man looked very old, and Chen Ge couldn't help but use "you" as a title.

The old man looked at Chen Ge, and she grinned: "I am a person who is favored by powerful ghosts. ”

Hearing this, Chen Ge's head buzzed, the word the old man said was very familiar to him!

"You kid makes me feel very kind, you must have dealt with them too." The old people refer to them as ghosts.

"That's right, not only did I deal with them, but I also built a home for them."

"Then you're much better than me." The old man tried very hard to express his kindness: "Sit down, I didn't hear the door, you should have run in from the ancestral hall, I guess you are going to take advantage of the sacrifice to secretly take the baby away?" ”

"Well, that's the plan." Chen Ge didn't get close to the old man, but just put down the repeater in his hand.

"As I thought, people who can be favored by powerful ghosts must have qualities that even ghosts recognize." The old man's voice was flat, but it was comfortable to listen to.

"A quality that is recognized by the ghosts?"

"Yes."

The old man nodded effortlessly, and under Chen Ge's questioning, she told the original story of what happened back then.

It's roughly the same as what Ah Qing said, the difference is that the ghost in the old man's mouth is not an uncontrolled killing revenge, and there seems to be a trace of residual emotion.

The old man had saved the female ghost three times, and the female ghost promised to help the old man do three things that were not excessive.

Usually the elderly will also be treated specially, for example, it will never enter the old man's house, when there are other evil spirits in the village, as long as they threaten the life of the old man, the female ghost will appear and kill it.

"I can understand and even feel happy that she washed the village in blood, and that no evildoer was spared. But what happened next made me feel that something was wrong. The old man was in poor health, and he had to rest for a while: "A red door appeared in the house where she lived, and only she could push it open. ”

After the bloodbath in the village, she let go of her obsession and was supposed to leave. Before leaving, she tried to go inside the door to take a look, but it was just that she saw that something was wrong. ”

"When she came out of the door again, her eyes were full of resentment, and her eyes were full of malice, and she was completely different."

"I don't know what she encountered inside the door, only that she is full of malice towards everything, and she is ready to imprison the offspring of evildoers here, so that they can only be monsters for the rest of their lives, and even all normal people are unforgivable in her eyes."

There was a hidden pain in the old man's voice: "I don't have the ability to stop her, I can only save some innocent children by my own way when she is crazy." ”

"As you can see today, once a year she wakes up and enters the world behind the door, and if these children are left elsewhere, she will kill them, and only with me can I guarantee safety."

"Get through it, just get through the night, and when she comes out of the door, she'll fall asleep again."

The old man didn't know what the world behind the door was, she only knew that the female ghost would go to the world inside the door at this time of year.

"Then why don't you run away? All left the village. Chen Ge said.

"All the people who have drunk the well water will not escape, they will be entangled by her for the rest of their lives, which is why I only save newborn babies."

"Entangled for life? But I heard that more than ten years ago, some people in your village escaped, and they didn't have any accidents. "Chen Ge is talking about Jiangling's father.

"It was an accident, one day more than ten years ago, she entered the door and didn't come back that night."

"The people of the village spent a month in fear and found that she had not returned, and some thought she might have died at the door."

"At that time, there were two voices in the village, one was to stay in the mountain village with peace of mind, and the other was to take the opportunity to escape."

"Later, some of the people who were not physically deformed, secretly escaped, and on the third day after they fled, she returned."

"Among those who fled were my descendants, and I begged her to spare them, and I used up two favors to keep them safe for twenty years."

The old man's cough was getting worse and worse, Chen Ge didn't dare to continue asking, he had already learned enough things from the old man.

"Grandma, you have a good rest, I won't bother. I'm going to take one of those children, it's a pact I made with someone in your village. ”

Chen Ge turned around and was about to go to the bedside to look for Aqing's child, but before he could take a few steps, an old man's voice came from behind him: "Actually, there is another thing I asked you to come over." ”

"Does it have anything to do with the female ghost who jumped in?" Chen Ge had already found the baby with a copper coin hanging around his neck, and he looked cute.

The old man shook his head, his eyes staring at Chen Ge's face: "Have you noticed that your body temperature is slowly getting lower?" ”