"Can I meet your daughter Zhizhi?" Xing Ruyi turned his head and looked at the fallen bed.

The old woman looked up, looked at Xing Ruyi for a while, and nodded slightly.

Xing Ruyi got up, walked to the bed, and gently pulled the bed curtain away with his hand. But on the bed, there was no girl, only a puppet made of needlework and thread.

"Auntie, is this your Zhizhi?" Xing Ruyi pointed to the puppet and asked the old woman.

The old woman nodded first, and when she saw Xing Ruyi's expression, she walked to the bed. As soon as his eyes touched the puppet, he screamed and fainted.

Xing Ruyi blinked, blinked again, and looked at the fox she put on the table with innocent and inexplicable eyes: "What's the matter?" What the hell is going on? ”

"Her daughter is gone." The fox turned into a human form, walked up to Xing Ruyi, stood side by side with her, and looked at the puppet on the bed: "This puppet is sewn by this old woman from her daughter's underwear. ”

"How do you know it's someone's daughter's underwear?"

The fox glanced at Xing Ruyi, and instead of answering, he reached out and let the puppet float from the bed. Then, with a wave of his hand, many charms appeared around the bed, including the bed.

"It's—"

"These are invisibility talismans, judging from the power of the talisman, the Taoist priest invited by this old woman is also a somewhat cultivated. It's a pity that the cultivation is still a little shallow, and the Zhizhi girl was still found by him. As for this puppet, it has a stand-in attached to it. This charm and the invisibility charm came from the same person's hand, and as for this method of using puppets instead of Zhizhi, it should also be taught by that Taoist priest. ”

"I'm getting more and more confused, I thought I came today to catch the banshee, but the banshee didn't see it, but one more male ghost came out. Hey, you've been practicing as a fox for nearly a thousand years, don't you see that middle-aged man is a ghost? ”

"He's not a ghost."

"It's not a ghost, it's a human."

"He's not a human either."

"Neither a ghost nor a human, what is that, a demon?"

"The Walking Dead." The fox fluttered out two words: "Neither living nor dead, neither demon nor evil, neither demon nor monster walking corpse." ”

"Sounds amazing." Xing Ruyi wiped his chin and said, "This walking corpse, is it the same as a zombie?" ”

"It's different, zombie zombie, and it still has a zombie word."

"Indeed, zombies seem to be jumping and walking, and that man, who can still talk to me and drive a carriage, looks like a normal person. Apart from...... Except for the very special smell on his body. At first, I thought it was the smell of roses and the body odor of the man himself, but now that I think it was a special smell of corpse smell and the scent of roses. What happened in this courtyard? ”

"Let's go and ask the village chief." The fox waved his hand and moved the fainting old woman from the ground to the bed, and then hugged Xing Ruyi's waist: "Close your eyes!" ”

I closed my eyes and opened them, and there were two stunned people in front of me. A man in his forties, also in his forties, holding a tea bowl in his hand, motionless. Another woman, sitting at a table with a needle and thread in her hand, was sewing and mending clothes. At this time, his eyes were wide open and motionless.

"You...... You are ......" With the sound of the tea bowl falling to the ground, the man finally moved, but it was the kind that bounced up from the stool in an instant: "Are you a demon or a ghost?" ”

"We are human beings, people who know magic." Xing Ruyi took the fox's hand and sat down, "Have you ever seen a demon like him who looks so good?" Also, have you ever seen a ghost like me who looks so good? ”

"You're mages?"

"Hmm!"

"You're here for the haunting of our village?"

"Or else?" Xing Ruyi asked rhetorically, holding his chin with his hand: "You think we are bored and came to chat with your village elder." ”

"No, no, no, I don't dare think so. Hurry up, my mother, and go pour tea for the two mages. The village chief pushed his daughter-in-law.

The woman was stunned, the sewing needle pricked her hand, she bowed her head and agreed, quickly put the clothes back in the basket, and stood up.

"No, we're not thirsty." Xing Ruyi waved his hand: "Let's get down to business, right?" ”

"Get down to business, get down to business." The village chief wiped the sweat from his head: "I know what you want to ask, don't worry, I will say everything." ”

"So proactive?"

"It wasn't me who took the initiative, but the Taoist chief instructed him when he was leaving, saying that if one day, a girl came to inquire about the affairs of the village, let me honestly tell me what happened. The Taoist chief also said that only that girl can solve these problems in our village. As soon as the girl appeared, I knew that our village was saved. ”

"Dao Chief? What kind of Taoist leader? ”

"It's a Taoist who can draw charms. You've been to Zhizhi's house, right? Those charms in their house were drawn by the Taoist master. Not only their family, but we all have it, but I see, those talismans are different. I'm talking nonsense, I don't actually know how to read talismans, but I compare the lines on those talismans, and the twists and turns are not quite the same. ”

"What the hell is going on in that yard? As the village chief, why do you sell it to other people's mothers and daughters, knowing that the yard is haunted? ”

"I can't help it." The village chief patted his thigh and sighed, "If I don't trap them, our entire village will suffer." It's better to go into two pits than to go into hundreds. ”

After the village chief finished speaking, he also seemed to feel that what he had just said was a little inappropriate, he raised his eyes and looked at Xing Ruyi, and saw that Xing Ruyi did not want to accuse him or scold him, so he continued.

"I don't know where to start with this."

"Let's start with that yard."

"That courtyard is built by himself. If the girl had come in from the south, she would have been able to see it. At the entrance of our village stood a stone with the name of our village written on it. We call it Gaozhai here, and most of the people in the village have the surname Gao. Although this Gao Sheng is also surnamed Gao, he is not from our village, he is a child picked up from outside by Lao Gao and his wife. ”

"Isn't he an orphan?"

"It's an orphan, isn't this one who has no father and no mother an orphan." The village chief sighed: "Regarding this high promotion, I also listened to what my father and mother said. They said that the day Gao Sheng was picked up, it was just like now, and it was raining. It's like you'll never get down. The old Gao couple who picked up Gao Sheng actually had their own ideas, and they had a biological daughter. When I was more than two years old, I caught a cold, and I had a high fever at night, and when the fever subsided, I became stupid.

He was a fool when he was a child, and when he grew up, he was a big fool. Lao Gao and his wife knew in their hearts that they could not accompany their daughter forever, so they picked him up when they met Gao Sheng. This elevation has grown up. Whether it is a husband or a younger brother for a stupid daughter, he always leaves a support for his daughter. ”

"Then did your father and mother say that where did this old Gao couple pick up this Gao Sheng?"

"I don't know the specifics, and the people in the village have also asked, but Lao Gao and his wife themselves can't say clearly. I guess it's not that I can't say it, but I don't dare to say it. ”

"Don't dare to say it?"

They said they had picked it up outside a house, and that the child was resting under the eaves of the porch, with blood on his face and on the small quilt he was wrapped in. Mr. and Mrs. Gao also said...... He also said that there seemed to be a person lying on his stomach behind the door. When I got closer, I didn't hear the sound of breathing, and I guessed it was a dead man. ”

"They didn't go in and take a look?"

"How dare you. If it weren't for the pitiful child, and the thought that there was a stupid daughter at home, they wouldn't even dare to pick it up. Worried that this matter would be known, the old couple only said a general location, and refused to even reveal where the yard was. ”

"And then? What happened to Mr. and Mrs. Gao and their daughter? ”

"Dead, sick and dead one after the other. When Mr. and Mrs. Gao died, Gao Sheng was only a little over three years old, and their stupid daughter was five or six years old. The village chief recalled: "Lao Gao and his wife died, leaving behind two children, this eldest daughter is a fool, she can't even take care of herself, let alone take care of Gao Sheng, who is only three years old." Just when the big guys were discussing what to do, someone stood up and said that they were willing to help Lao Gao and his wife raise the children, but the premise was that Lao Gao's things belonged to them. ”

"It's not like bullying." Xing Ruyi said: "Where do you want to raise children, it is clear that you are coveting other people's property and finding excuses to grab it." ”

"Yes, the big guys know that in their hearts. But our village is not a rich place, two more mouths, that's a lot of things. Although the big guys know what's going on in their hearts, they understand that if you really want to raise it, you may not be willing. It's rare for someone to come forward, no matter what the idea is, the two children are finally settled. The man, in front of the village chief, oh, it was the village chief at the time, not me. He signed in front of the village chief and took the two children back, and the yard left by Lao Gao and his wife, as well as the things at home, also belonged to him. ”

"Did he treat these two children well?"

The village chief shook his head slightly: "At that time, I was also young, and I don't know exactly what happened. I only know that the stupid daughter of the old Gao family died not long after. It is said that it fell into a well, and when people fished it out of the water, they were all so soaked that they couldn't even distinguish their eyes and noses. Supposedly, this man is dead, and he should be buried properly. At that time, someone proposed that this foolish girl be buried in front of Lao Gao and his wife. The man answered, and when he turned around, he put the man in a coffin and sent him somewhere else. Later, I found out that he took the money and took the foolish girl to match someone with a. That is, after the death of the fool's daughter, the courtyard began to be unpeaceful, and began to haunt ghosts. ”

"What kind of ghost?"

"I don't know, no one sees it. I only knew that in less than a month, the family was all dead. The old man and the child, a total of five people, all of them must not die well. There was a hint of fear in the village chief's eyes: "The only one who is alive is Gao Sheng." ”