When he went out from Gao's house, Xing Ruyi noticed the well that the village chief had mentioned earlier. It was a small well that was rarely seen in her original world. The wellhead is slightly higher than the ground, and the size of the wellhead can barely fit into a skinny child. There is still a derrick on the well, but there are no ropes on the derrick, and there are no wooden barrels for pumping water next to the wellhead, so I think it has been abandoned.

When there was still some distance from the wellhead, Xing Ruyi already felt obviously uncomfortable. That discomfort does not come from physiological, but psychological.

This kind of psychology is shared by many people. For example, when you pass through a mass grave, even if the sun is high and there are many people around, you will still feel hairy and uncomfortable, and you will even be unable to control your eyes, looking around, scared and expecting to see something.

Xing Ruyi approached the well with this inexplicably tangled and uncomfortable psychology. Because it had rained, there was water near the wellhead, and the water was slowly seeping into the well. The place where the wellhead is high above the ground is cut with a round stone, and it looks quite regular from a distance, but when I get closer, I find that it is concave and convex, and there are even some gaps between the stones and the stones. I reached out and touched it, and the stone was cold and sticky. Just as Xing Ruyi was about to withdraw her hand, a strand of hair wrapped around her finger. She pulled it off and noticed that the hair was tightly tangled.

Xing Ruyi observed it and found that the hair was caught in the crack of the stone. She first tugged at the part wrapped around her finger, and found that the hair was very tightly tangled, and there was a feeling of wanting to tighten the flesh. I really didn't have a problem, so I thought about pulling all the hair out of the cracks in the stones, and slowly processing the ones that were wrapped around my fingers. She used all her strength, but she couldn't pull her hair out, but let herself be pulled by that force and lay directly on the wellhead.

Descending from the well, she saw a pale face. The face looked like it had been soaked in water for a long time, its eyes bulged like frogs, and its lips were black and purple.

"Ahh Xing Ruyi screamed, holding her hands on the edge of the well, trying to get up, but the hair that had been spread on the water danced towards her, and a strand of hair was wrapped around her neck.

"Come down! Come down and stay with me! ”

The strange sound, accompanied by the open eyes, drilled into Xing Ruyi's ears. While struggling, she scolded the fox in her heart: "Stinky fox, dead fox, I'm going to die, you don't care about me." ”

After scolding in my heart, I felt the hair wrapped around my neck tremble, and I shrank back into the well. Xing Ruyi hurriedly got up and touched his neck with his hand. There was another shallow strangulation mark on his neck, which was left by the strand of hair just now. In addition, on her arms, hands, and wrists, there were also many traces of entanglement with hair.

She sat by the well, looked at the fox, and asked with a complaint, "Did you do it on purpose?" ”

The fox shook his head: "My spiritual power is damaged. ”

"That's right!" Xing Ruyi patted his head: "I'm sorry, I forgot, I just remember that you are an old fox who has practiced for thousands of years, and I forgot about the damage to your spiritual power." So, I just scolded you in my heart, didn't you hear it? ”

"I hear you."

"Hear me?" Xing Ruyi grinned: "Then you're angry?" ”

"Nope!"

"Why not? Is it because you like me, so you don't get angry with me? ”

"It's not." The fox said seriously: "The old man disdains to be angry with the child. ”

"Child...... Well, compared to you, I'm a kid, and I'm a kid who's been generations younger. Xing Ruyi was relieved, pointed to the mouth of the well and asked the fox, "What was that just now?" Is it also caused by resentment? By the way, when I was lying at the mouth of the well, I saw a woman, not a little girl, a woman who should be older than me. Is it possible that this died in the courtyard of the Gao family, and there are others? ”

"Want to know?" The fox asked, looking at the strangulation marks on Xing Ruyi's neck.

"I want to know." Xing Ruyi nodded: "I promised the village chief, and I also promised Zhizhi Niang, this promise and promise must be done." If this murderer is just that high ascension, it would be fine, with your thousand-year-old Taoism, you can easily abuse him into scum. But if there is something more fierce hidden in this courtyard, which we have neglected, wouldn't it be to harm more people. ”

"I see."

The fox walked to the mouth of the well and smelled the disgusting stench that was coming from the well. He put his hand over the mouth of the well, and in a few moments he grabbed something from the well.

Xing Ruyi was a little stunned when he saw that thing. Because what the fox was holding was a puppet, and it was a puppet that was almost soaked in the well water.

"This is the thing I just saw?" Xing Ruyi also smelled the unpleasant smell and covered his nose with his hand.

"What you just saw should be the female shady attached to this puppet. People die as ghosts, ghosts cultivate as evil, and if they are cultivated to the extreme, they are Shura. In this world, there are lives every day, and people die every day, so many people have died, but there are few who have seen the hell. Do you know why? ”

"Because not everyone can see ghosts." Xing Ruyi pointed to his eyes: "Unless you have a pair of yin and yang eyes." ”

"No, people in the world can't see ghosts, in addition to their own cultivation is not enough, it also has something to do with ghosts. This new ghost has no skills, and he doesn't even have the most basic scary skills. Most of them are also well-behaved, and the moment they become ghosts, they follow the ghosts to the underworld to report. A small number of ghosts, because they are attached to the mortal world, or have regrets in their hearts that cannot be calmed, choose to use dreams to tell their relatives. There are also a very small number of ghosts, because of their grudges, they will become evil ghosts, and they will practice evil by sucking the yang energy of the living.

This evil is between regret that cannot be calmed down in my heart and resentment. If you want to go from ghost to evil, it will take at least a few decades. Also, ghosts cannot remain in the world in the form of ghosts, because each place has a jurisdiction over ghosts, and once discovered, they will be detained at least and their souls will be scattered. ”

"So, this demon is a parasite, and this puppet is where she is parasitized." Xing Ruyi stared at the puppet: "Then how can I invite her out?" ”

"Just drop it twice." The fox said, slamming the puppet to the ground.

In an instant, the wind and clouds changed color, and the sky that had been clear instantly became dark again, and the entire Gao family compound was even darker. Xing Ruyi felt that it was not good, and was about to lean towards the fox, but before he could move his feet, he fell into the familiar arms of a certain fox.

"Stand, don't move."

"This is so powerful, and it can manage the weather."

"If your ghost art is cultivated, it will be even more powerful than her."

"And what will become of me?" Xing Ruyi asked in a low voice: "The word ghost art always feels like a side door that comes from the wrong way." I don't think I'm going to be a monster if I keep cultivating. If that's the case, I'd rather not cultivate, I'd rather be a mortal for the rest of my life. Anyway, you have lived longer than me, and you have mana, and with you protecting me, nothing will happen. ”

"Then let's not fix it."

Seeing a black wind coming, the fox hugged Xing Ruyi's waist and spun in place, kicking the black wind away with her feet.

The black wind fell to the ground and turned into a girl dressed in black. The girl's eyebrows were clear and beautiful, and she didn't have the slightest relationship with the female ghost she saw on the well. Well, I can't say that it is the slightest, the nose is still quite similar.

"Who are you? How did you end up in this well of the Gao family? Xing Ruyi asked, seeing that the black shadow girl hesitated, she hurriedly added: "Don't be afraid, we didn't come to arrest you on purpose, we just wanted to find out what happened in this Gao family compound and whether it has anything to do with you." ”

"Are you also from the Gao family?" The girl in black asked.

"Do you look at us like people from the Gao family?" Xing Ruyi did not answer the rhetorical question.

The girl in black stared at her and the fox for a while, and shook her head slightly: "You are not, the people of the Gao family, everyone has a ghost in their hearts, so they will not be like you." ”

"What about you, are you from the Gao family?"

"Yes, but I regret that I am." The girl in black moved her foot: "I married him blindly and dumbly, and neither of us met each other before we got married." When we got married, I was sixteen and he was seventeen. On the night of the candle in the cave room, the moment he lifted my red hijab, we were all stunned. Because he is a good-looking handsome man, and in his eyes, I am also a very cute little girl. He had attended a private school, unlike most of the men in the village. Most of those men were vulgar and not very sophisticated. He is different, he speaks very well, he does things very well, and most importantly, he loves cleanliness, and he never thinks that he is a man, so much more expensive than a woman. When it's hot, he wipes my sweat. When it's cold, he will get into the quilt early, warm up one place for me first, and then go to warm another place himself. I never thought he would treat me like he did later. ”

"He's changed his mind?"

"It's not that he changed his mind about me, I can only say that I'm in his heart, it's not that important. After three years of marriage, I never conceived a child. My mother-in-law, who was originally good to me, became more and more critical. In desperation, I had to take a concubine for him. When the concubine entered the door, he promised me that he would love me alone for the rest of his life. Accepting a concubine is just to leave a queen for the Gao family. ”

"You believe it?"

"How can I not believe? We have been married for three years, he has never lied to me about anything, of course I will believe him. The girl in black sighed and said, "But the human heart is flesh after all, and the concubine is also a human being, a living person, a person who knows cold and heat." She wasn't as good-looking as I was, but she was better at farm work than I was. When I was washing and sewing at home, she, her in-laws, and her husband were all busy in the fields. They were together during the day, and at night, they were together. Whether he is genuinely willing or falsely subservient, they are all in this together. The night was long, but I could only stay up by the lonely lamp. Because my mother-in-law said that if I want to be sensible, I shouldn't get tired of him and let the Gao family die. ”

"It's not a person's business to have children, what if he can't give birth? Isn't it wrong to blame you for it? ”

"It's wronged, I'm really wronged." The girl in black said, smiling lonely, with a bit of mockery in her smile.