On the way back, Mr. Shen probably noticed Zhao Yan's embarrassment just now, so he used his weakness as an excuse to let Li Ruomei sit in the co-driver of the carriage, and let us all be crowded in the back.

Not long after the car walked out, Mr. Shen opened his mouth and said to us: "After you go back, don't talk nonsense, someone asks what's going on, you say that Ruomei suddenly fainted with low blood sugar, and the five of us can know about other things, do you hear?" ”

Everyone nodded.

Teacher Shen looked at Zhao Yan in the rearview mirror: "Especially you, Zhao Yan, as the captain, you must dispel the suspicions and concerns of your classmates." ”

Zhao Yan replied, "Okay." ”

Teacher Shen turned his head to look at Li Ruomei, and then said, "Don't be afraid, it will be fine in the future, I will find someone to solve the problem." I just don't want anyone else to know, because even if what you two see is true, it's going to cause unnecessary trouble, you know? We are here as a guest, so it would be nice to finish the work as soon as possible and return to the school safely and soundly. ”

Li Ruomei nodded again.

Teacher Shen continued: "Zhou Hua, I won't pursue your matter, just treat the tomb as if there is nothing out of the tomb when you tidy it up." But Sun Art, you! Go back and write me a check, no less than 1,000 words, review the mistake of taking the girl out to play in the middle of the night, read it in front of the class at dinner, do you hear. ”

"Huh? Mr. Shen, this is not good, it is too embarrassing, I will show you alone, okay? "The big waist still wants to bargain.

"No way!" Teacher Shen was very firm, "You have to know that the focus should fall on Ruomei's hypoglycemia, no problem, right?" ”

The big waist is still ashamed, but thinking about it, it is indeed his own fault, and Mr. Shen is also doing this for the good of everyone, so he agreed. I seemed to have seen everyone smiling on their faces at night, whispering as he read the review.

After that, everyone occasionally talked about gossip on the road, but more often they were in a daze or looked around in a daze, probably because they were tired and sleepy after such a toss.

When I returned to the station, I saw that the students were very happy for this rare holiday, drying quilts, washing clothes, drinking and playing long cards, without thin bamboo poles and mules, it was time to see the construction site. Teacher Shen looked back at it and said to us: "Usually, it's not that I don't let you rest, but if you have an extra day, the school will increase a lot of expenses. The sooner it is finished, the sooner we will go back. Then he let us go back to rest, urged the big waist to write an examination, and went back to the dormitory myself.

After we went back, we told the truth to the two of them, because after the four brothers came to the school, they have always been together, and they are very iron, and there will be no secrets, but we also told them what the two Teacher Shen meant, and they also nodded and said that Teacher Shen was right, after all, there are many boys and girls on our construction site, and there is a problem with passing it out, we are nothing, after all, we have slept together for several nights, and it is not certain whether the girls can sleep well at night.

Soon it was dinner time, and the big waist read the review, and sure enough, many of the girls in the audience looked at Li Ruomei and smiled, and she was embarrassed. Fortunately, everyone really didn't think much about it, and after listening to it, Mr. Shen symbolically criticized the big waist, and repeatedly emphasized that he was not allowed to go out at night in the future, and if he was found, he would have to be punished and so on. But usually nothing happens and no one runs outside, everyone is tired to death during the day, and they don't hurry up to sleep when they have time.

Who knew that after eating, Mr. Shen asked me to go to his house and whispered to me, "You bring the silver hairpin from the cemetery and wait for me at the door." ”

I didn't know what he was going to do, but I did as he was told, went to the warehouse, and found it.

When we set off together, it was about seven o'clock, it was almost dark, there was no light in the village, Mr. Shen held an oil lamp in his right hand, and a small bag in his left hand, and knew that it was stuffed with silver taels at a glance, and walked forward with me, I didn't know what he meant, I wanted to ask, just said the word "Mr. Shen" Shen, he turned back to me and made a silence. I had no choice but to go with him. But I had another hunch that something was going to happen.

The village is not big, and after a while, I walked to the door of a house, the village is full of acquaintances, and every household is closed only when they sleep, and they are usually too lazy to close it from morning to night, so Mr. Shen opened the door directly and went in.

After entering the door, we went straight inside, crossed the yard and entered the house before greeting: "Lao Liu, is Lao Liu at home?" ”

Lao Liu? Who is it? I thought to myself, what did he bring me to find Lao Liu. On our construction site, there seems to be no migrant worker surnamed Liu.

This living room is also very simple, in the middle of an old-fashioned carpenter's table of eight immortals, four chairs on each side, facing the door of a desk with incense burners and candles, and a clock hanging on the side wall with more ash than glass, this thing is rare in ordinary people's homes. There are two colorful paintings hanging on the back wall, which seem to be paintings of someone, and I can't see what they are without turning on the lights.

"Yo, Mr. Shen, there's a young man, come on, come and take a seat." As the oil lamp in the middle of the living room suddenly turned on, a middle-aged and elderly man appeared in front of us.

I glanced at Lao Liu, who was definitely not the person working on our construction site.

I sat down with Teacher Shen on the stool next to the Eight Immortals Table, and when I sat down, I regretted that I didn't see if there was any ash first.

Out of nowhere, Lao Liu brought a very old kettle and two slightly earth-colored cups and poured water for us.

"Lao Liu, we came to you because we have something to trouble you." Teacher Shen opened his mouth first.

"Oh, that's easy to say." He looked kind, and seemed to know what Teacher Shen meant.

Then Mr. Shen asked me to hand the hairpin to Lao Liu, and told him about me and Da Yuanzi before. After hearing this, Lao Liu took the hairpin and looked at it carefully, then raised his head and said to Teacher Shen: "Don't worry, I can take this job." ”

Teacher Shen stood up happily and handed the small bag to Lao Liu, Lao Liu did not refuse, took the small bag into the house, and came out with a small cloth bag in his hand, although it looked like a rag, but there were a lot of things densely embroidered on it, and it was difficult to distinguish if he didn't look carefully.

Lao Liu came over to me and said, "Young man, you lead the way, and we will go to the place where you buried the woman." ”

Nothing to say all the way. When the three of us were about to walk to the edge of the forest, Lao Liu lit the oil lamp, illuminated the forest, and quickly fixed his eyes on the tree, pointed to me and asked, "Young man, is this the place?"

I nodded, a little surprised in my heart, it seems that this person is really capable, so many trees can tell at a glance which one has a problem.

I was about to ask him what he wanted to do, but Lao Liu spoke first: "You two just stay here, don't move around." ”

When Mr. Shen heard this, he pulled me and stood near the root of the wall next to the road.

At this time, it was completely dark, but fortunately, the moonlight was still very good, and we were not too far away, and we could see Lao Liu's actions quite clearly.

Lao Liu walked straight to the tree, probably to the place where we first came to stop the cart, stopped, turned off the oil lamp and carefully placed it on the ground at his feet, and began to take things out of his cloth pocket. Because it was facing away from us, I couldn't see what I was digging out.

After a while, Lao Liu seemed to be holding an umbrella handle, holding the silver hairpin above his head in his left hand, and we vaguely heard what seemed to be reading something in his mouth.

To be honest, although I was a little nervous at this time, I was still a little skeptical, is this this old Jianghu who cheated money? I've seen people in the countryside before, and it looks a little similar.

But soon my thoughts changed, and I held my breath when I saw the scene in front of me, only to see that in the moonlight, the woman in red who had appeared in my dreams many times, actually appeared under the tree from nothing, and that scene really seemed to be drawn out of thin air.

As I stared at the woman, the soul-like body turned sharply, revealing a pale face and staring at me with blood-red eyes. Teacher Shen seemed to have a premonition and covered my mouth from behind, so I couldn't shout.

This red-clothed and white-faced face in the moonlight is really too terrifying, and this face is too similar to my dream, every time I wake up from a dream, I can't remember her appearance, but now she is like a real person less than a hundred meters away from me.

At this time, I heard Lao Liu among us shaking the silver hairpin and roaring at the same time: "Come on!" ”

The woman involuntarily floated slowly towards Lao Liu, and the clothes on her body were also swinging.

My heart was pounding, I didn't know what was going to happen next, I had never seen this before, and it was exciting.

Although the woman floated slowly, she lost the fierce momentum she had just turned around, but the two themselves were not far apart. I nervous for Lao Liu.

But Lao Liu was not panicked at all, when there were about two meters left, I saw Lao Liu's right hand quickly open the cloth pocket, and his left hand threw the silver hairpin in.

Lao Liu hurriedly tied the opening, and pasted the rune paper that he quickly took out in his hand, and then turned around and walked towards us.

Although it was far away, it seemed that he was a little proud from the way he walked.

After that, the three of us quietly returned to Lao Liu's house as we had come before. I still sat on the two chairs first, and Lao Liu took the cloth pocket back to the room first, and then came out and sat down after a while to explain to us in detail what happened.

He said that what he had just taken in was a woman's ghost, and that this woman had died a miserable death when she was alive, and that her ghost had not dispersed after her death, but she had no great ability, and at most she appeared in people's dreams. And the forest on the edge of the village is deep and thick, and it is inevitable that a few animals have practiced some Taoism, maybe it is the fox that I and the big waist and my party offended that night, and they are thinking of revenge. The transformation of the female soul is actually the hands and feet of the fox casting spells, in order to scare the big waist and take revenge.

Lao Liu then told Teacher Shen that in the future, he must not let the students who offended the fox that night go to the northern forest, there are many people in the village and animals dare not enter, but when they get there, it is their territory, Teacher Shen nodded and thanked him.

I didn't believe in these things, but what I saw and heard tonight changed my perception of the past 20 years. In addition to excitement, horror, curiosity, etc., I also had all kinds of indescribable feelings.