"I knew something was going to happen."

Lao Chen sat slumped on the ground, staring at the row of twisted bamboo beds in the room with sloppy eyes.

"When the officials brought the female corpse, I felt that something was wrong. People like us who deal with dead people all year round have a very strange ability to know what is going to happen when we see a corpse.

Do you see the bed? The bed was originally occupied by a woman, and when her family brought her in, they lied that she had died of an emergency. But I always felt that it was not like that, because her eyes did not close naturally, but were sewn with needles and threads. When she entered the door, one of her hands drooped down and grabbed the corner of her man's coat directly.

In the evening, there was movement. I looked through the little window, and I saw the woman open her eyes and sit up from the bed. She babbled and sang to the window for the whole night.

The next night, at the same time, she still opened her eyes and sang, and sang and sang that his man came. I didn't come by myself, but I was tied up by something. When he came to this door, he was reluctant to go inside, and begged for mercy with a grunt. After begging for a long time, I still obediently went in. Once he entered, he never came out.

On the third day, someone from the government came to report the case and came to investigate. And guess what, this woman

It is not because of a disease that a man is sick, but because he discourages a man from drinking, he accidentally provokes him to death, and he is choked to death by drowning in the water.

When the woman died, the man was frightened, so he went to his mother for help. His mother protected him, fearing that he would get into a lawsuit, so she gave him an idea, lying that the woman was suffering from an emergency, and she was sent to Yizhuang for fear of infection.

After the matter was ascertained, the man's mother felt that she had no face to see, so she shaved her hair and went to the nunnery. The woman's body was taken away and buried by her mother's family, and the man's left unpaid attention, so she kept sitting here to be gnawed by rats and insects.

When the faceless female corpse was carried in, it felt even more terrifying. She didn't give the same warning as the woman, but I was terrified. In the afternoon of the same day, I arranged for Miaomiao to go to a distant relative's house, thinking that when the case was solved and the female corpse's wish was fulfilled, Miaomiao would come back. As a result, something happened when she came, Miaomiao heard about the faceless female corpse somewhere, and before going out, she secretly ran to see the female corpse.

That night, I closed the door early and wrapped myself in the quilt without even taking off my clothes. Supposedly, I'm not the kind of person who is timid, and a timid person can't do the job of guarding Yizhuang. But that night, I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. It was about the second watch when I heard footsteps.

The footsteps are man's, and they are alive.

The footsteps of the dead man were not the same as those of the living. I was excited, so I sat up from the bed, and said in my heart, I don't know if it's the one who is too long, and the third watch is still running to my Yizhuang in the middle of the night. When I got out of bed and opened the door, I saw my Miaomiao standing in the doorway dressed in blood-red clothes, looking at me with her eyes open.

I originally wanted to curse, but I swallowed it in an instant.

I slowly stretched out my hand and shook it in front of Miaomiao, screaming in my heart, it's over, it's over, I'm entangled in something.

As I was thinking about it, I heard Miaomiao say slowly: I hurt ......, and then turned around and walked outside.

To be honest, I'm really afraid, both afraid of that thing that is entangled in Miaomiao, and afraid that she will hurt Miaomiao. I shook my legs and barely stabbed myself. There was a peach tree branch behind my door to ward off evil spirits, and at that time, I couldn't think about it too much, so I took something directly, closed the door, and followed behind Miaomiao.

Because of the snow, the whole street was white, and I bent my waist, holding the peach branch, and followed Miaomiao step by step. Miao Miao stopped and stopped, as if she was looking for something, and when she stopped, she would chant those three words: I hurt.

At that hour, there was no half of a figure on the street, and when I listened to the voice, I only felt my scalp tingling and my whole body was cold. Seeing that Miaomiao was about to walk to the city gate, I didn't care about anything, so I walked a few steps quickly and stepped forward to stop her.

I didn't dare to look at Miaomiao's eyes, so I could only ask: Who are you? Who are you?

It hurts, I really hurt.

Miaomiao kept shouting that it hurt, and I was flustered, and somehow, I remembered the faceless female corpse who had just been sent to Yizhuang, so I dared to ask: Are you her?

She laughed, and she laughed so suddenly that I fell into the snow.

In front of my eyes, there was a water of blood red. The laughter was right above me, and I was so scared that I didn't dare to say a word to her again. ”

"And after that?" Yanagi asked, looking at the already stupid Miaomiao in the room.

"I don't know." Lao Chen replied sullenly.

"Don't know?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. I was so frightened that all the courage in my body was gone, and I sat in the snow for a long time I can't remember. By the time I came back to my senses, it was already dawn, and I was standing in front of me as a watchman. At that moment, my whole body froze, and it was the husband who sent me back. ”

"What about Miaomiao?"

"Miaomiao...... Miaomiao was reported to the official by me and was found by the official in the government. Lao Chen sighed: "I can't help it." I'm scared, I'm really scared, I'm scared to see that thing again, I'm scared to go to Miaomiao. If you think about it, you can only go to the people in the government. This person said that the people of the government have a strong yang spirit, and they can bring down evil spirits. As a result, I really looked for it. ”

"Where did you find it?"

"I didn't ask, and I didn't dare to ask." Lao Chen rubbed his face: "When Miaomiao was recovered, people were just like now, stupid." As soon as this man was stupid, I knew the thing was gone. Later, as rumored in the city, I hid for fear that Yizhuang would be haunted. ”

"Why did you come back when you hid?"

"It's not that I want to come back, it's that Miaomiao wants to come back. I couldn't stop it, so I had to follow. After all, she's my daughter, and no matter how scared I am, I can't let that thing hurt her. ”

"Anything else?"

"Is the official asking about something else?" Lao Chen lowered his head and thought for a while: "It seems that there is nothing else." The haunted situation of Yizhuang, you also saw it just now, sir, it's not my old Chen talking nonsense. Oh, I guess here, two more things. This first thing is that after Miao Miao was stupid, she secretly ran to the door of a house and stood there. This family, I also inquired, is a house outside the owner of Yuan Ji Buzhuang in the city, and it seems to be one of his concubines. This second thing is somewhat related to this first thing, that is, when I went to look for Miaomiao, I saw a pot-bellied woman, who was also standing outside the house, but only stood for a while, and then the person left. ”

"Potbelly?"

"It's a big-bellied woman with a big belly, the kind who is about to give birth to a baby."

"Can you see the appearance clearly?"

"I didn't see it clearly, it was far away, and I couldn't see it clearly even if I wanted to. Moreover, people are neatly dressed, and they cover most of their heads with hoods. However, I can see the clothes she is wearing clearly, and the material is very good at first glance, and ordinary people can't afford to wear it. I guess it's also raised by the owner of the cloth village outside. ”

"Don't talk nonsense about things that don't seem clear."

"Got it." Lao Chen hung his head.

Liu Sheng lit a candle, held it and searched around the house, and asked, "Where is the faceless female corpse?" ”

"Bury ...... It's not buried, it's that I have changed the place. Lao Chen said, pointing to a corner of the room.

Yanagi walked over with a candle and saw straw piled up in the corner. He bent down, pulled the straw away with his sword, and saw a black coffin. Opening the coffin, he saw the familiar corpse of a woman lying face down, unlike outside the city.

"Do me a favor." Liu Sheng called Lao Chen.

"I ...... I didn't dare to go over. ”

"Help me carry the candle."

"That'...... Okay, but for the record, I will never touch the female corpse in the coffin, nor will I look at her face. ”

"Hold a candle!" Liu Sheng repeated it again, Lao Chen didn't dare to delay, and quickly got up from the ground.

Liu Sheng gently turned the female corpse over, only to find that the female corpse had a face "growing" in the coffin.

That face didn't fit perfectly with the female corpse's face, it was like a layer of paper, and it was a casual one. Liu Sheng gently picked it with his sword, and the face was picked off.

"Look closely, do you recognize this face?"

"This ...... Isn't this Mrs. Yuan? ”

"Mrs. Yuan?"

"It's the wife of the owner of Yuan Ji Buzhuang."

"You're not mistaken?"

"Can't be wrong, I've seen it, and I'm very impressed." Lao Chen recalled: "Speaking of which, it was more than half a year ago. The owner of the cloth farm has a distant relative, and when he eats fish, he somehow gets stuck in a fish bone. He was in a hurry, so he thought of using something to get the fish bones out. He felt that the things on the side were not smooth, so he used chopsticks, but the fish bones were not picked out, and the person was poked to death. At that time, I was called to help, and met the owner of the cloth house and his wife in their house. Because I had heard some things about Mrs. Yuan, I took care to take a few more looks, and I wrote down my appearance. ”

"I see." Liu Sheng took the face, walked out with a sword, and when he passed by Miaomiao's side, he stopped and said to Lao Chen, who was still stunned: "If you want to save your daughter, go to the owner of the Ruyi Rouge Shop." ”

"Ruyi rouge shop?"

"Let's just say that Kyoto caught Yagyu and asked you to go."