After listening to Jiang Yu's description, my heart is complicated. Maybe everyone has a secret, a secret that they don't want to tell.

I rolled over and couldn't sleep.

The moonlight outside was just right, shining through the window of the hut, and I slowly got up and walked to the window.

It's quiet outside, but it's very eerie in this village.

"You...... Can't you sleep too? This sudden woman's voice scared me. On closer inspection, it turned out to be a woman with glasses squatting by the window outside our house.

Seeing that I was startled, she immediately said apologetically, "I'm sorry...... I didn't mean to scare you......"

"Just a little scared...... Because of the corpse outside today...... I can't sleep......" as he spoke, his voice getting quieter and quieter. I walked out of the doorway and saw her leaning against the wall, her hands pitifully clasping her knees.

Seeing her like this, I had to comfort, "Don't be afraid! With us here, my name is Chen Qi? What about you? ”

"Liu Yu."

"Then I'll call you Miss Yu, right?" I smiled, "By the way, do you know all those people today?" ”

She pursed her lips and shook her head, not daring to look me in the eye. Thinking of the way the man in the suit stared at her today, he was probably afraid of that person.

"How do you feel about our group?" She looked up and nodded.

"It's good, it feels very safe."

"That'...... What about the man in the suit? ”

He ...... He didn't know. "Seeing the way she wants to talk and stops, I don't think I can ask anything.

"What are you doing in this village?" She changed the subject and asked me in turn.

"Me?" I chuckled softly. "Guess?"

Apparently she didn't expect me to reply to her like that, and was stunned for a moment.

"What about you?" I asked back.

"We ...... We are...... Oh no...... I'm here to explore. ”

I smiled at her, "Adventure...... You're so daring. ”

It seemed that the man in the suit must have asked her to talk, but that made me sure they must have come here with some ulterior secret.

"It's late, rest! In the middle of the night, it should be the time for the activities of the paper people......" I said lightly. She seemed frightened and quickly stood up.

"That'...... All right...... I'll go back first. With that, he hurried to her house.

"Chen Qi, I didn't expect you to have two brushes! How clever is the cliché? Jiang Yu's voice sounded behind me. At some point, he got up and stood in front of the window.

"What about two? I've got a lot more to do! I turned around and quipped.

"As for the guy I saw on the road today, ask the villagers tomorrow! I hummed and looked at the village.

The paper man at the door seemed to be smiling lowly......

As everyone knows, something more troublesome is about to come to us.

The next day, Jiang Yu woke up early, and I was woken up. It is said that someone was burned to death by an incident last night.

That man was the one of us who had entered the village. The short-haired woman. It was just the first day I entered the village when this happened. The village chief walked into the crowd with a cane and cursed.

"Are you his companions?" The gray-haired village elder asked the man in the suit with a bad attitude. The man in the suit seemed to be disgusted and took a step back, "I don't know, but he was with us all the way." ”

I walked past the onlookers and walked forward, but fortunately I didn't eat breakfast, otherwise I would have vomited.

This is still the white-skinned and beautiful beauty of yesterday, and now it seems to have become a charcoal roast. The flesh was turned outward by the fire, and the whole person curled up together. On the side, there is also a paper piercing man who has not been burned.

Vaguely, there is still "greed" written on the head of the paper piercing man. Is it artificial?

"Oops! Iniquity...... Who gave the paper man a light? In the crowd, I don't know who exclaimed. Draw all of our eyes to that paper eye.

In ancient times, superstition believed in attracting ghosts. So you can't draw eyes on paper piercing people. This is a strange rule of paper art.

And the eyes on this paper piercing man, the empty whites of the eyes were dotted with ink with two points, and it was these two points that suddenly made it vivid, as if it was alive.

The lewd man stood aside with the villagers, and the glasses woman seemed to be panicked and kept covering her mouth. The previous corpse did not frighten her, but it was the death of the short-haired woman that frightened her.

"Village chief, I want to ask you, has anyone gone missing in the village in the past few days?" Jiang Yu stood up from the corpse and looked into the eyes of the village chief.

"Nope! That's all there are for us, and I don't know if anyone goes missing. The village chief kicked the ground with his cane and replied in a resolute tone. The villagers next to him also chimed in.

"What about outsiders?"

When he said this, the villagers closed their mouths and looked at the village chief, but the village chief's eyes were erratic, and he secretly aimed at the man in the suit, and the man in the suit was silent.

"Aren't you?" The village chief raised his head, snorted, and turned his face away, they were all a little weak-hearted.

In the end, no useful information was asked. I just think this village is weird and mysterious. It seems that many carry secrets with them.

That afternoon, I walked around the village alone, and the villagers were somehow on the lookout for me. It's not friendly at all. As for the invitation to be a guest, it is even more impossible, just looking at the paper at the door is oozing panic, and I don't know what else is in the house.

Jiang Yu and the lewd man ran to see the corpse from yesterday, and according to him, the corpse had disappeared. Someone must have been cleaned up, and the man must have been following us, keeping an eye on our movements.

Night soon fell. The village fell asleep again, as silent as a dead man.

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"Do you know why this village is called "Huangquan Village"? ”

Our group of outsiders, because of this matter, was directly arranged by the village chief. Just as each of us was bored in the same thatched house, the lewd man spoke.

A gust of wind blew in outside, and it made me feel refreshed.

"Why?"

I shrunk my neck and opened my mouth curiously.

"I remember someone said......" Before he could finish his sentence, the man in the suit suddenly coughed. It seems that something can't be said.

"Go on." Jiang Yu also opened his mouth. The lewd man smiled indifferently.

"The story of Huangquan Village. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this village was located in a remote area. It was difficult to communicate with the outside world, so the imperial court sent special personnel to the village regularly to collect the taxes paid.

Those people were all ruffians and hooligans, and they often punched and kicked villagers who did not turn in on time. There is a family in the village that specializes in paper hand-making business.

Once, the troublemaker, because he could not sell the paper and could not pay his taxes on time, ordered his men to beat him, but he never thought that he would be killed.

Something happened, after all, it was a poor country. secretly put him into the body of a paper figure made of paper, and several people carried him out. On that day, it happened to be the village priest and the people burned him. And warned some villagers not to spread the news.

The villagers were scared and did not dare to squeak.

But on the eve of the seventh day of the first day, all the secret people in the village dreamed of an eyeless papier-mâché man calling their names around their bed.

Later, a Taoist priest was invited, and the Taoist priest said that the paper man was here to find the soul. The paper piercing man without a light was like a cage, and he burned to death in it, and his soul was imprisoned. Can't set foot in the Yellow Springs. Therefore, he is looking for a stand-in soul, a total of seven people.

Those villagers were afraid, so the Taoist priest thought of a way to change the name of the village to "Huangquan" to make him think that he was in Huangquan and take the eight characters of those villagers. Write the eight characters on the paper and attach them to the paper people, but remember not to give it a light. Then he would not be able to find his soul. So this is also the custom of the villagers to put paper at the door.

Although it is a story that has been handed down, the villagers believe it. ”

After listening to this, I felt a chill in my back. I didn't expect this village to have such an evil story. Now that I think about it, the ghost village is nothing more than that, right?

"I said, if you want to find a soul, shouldn't you look for the ruffians who killed him? Why bother the villagers? "I really don't understand the logic." After all, they're threatened, huh? ”

"Why haven't I heard you mention this story?" The man in the suit interjected, and I looked at his expression, and his expression at the moment felt like he was deflated. Unexpectedly, he was frightened.

I looked at the lewd man, and those godless eyes always made me feel uncomfortable, as if I had been seen through.

Thinking of the death of the short-haired woman this morning, could it be revenge? But why is it so coincidental that we outsiders were chosen?

"The reincarnation of cause and effect, what should come does not come, what should go does not go, and there is no escape after all." The lewd man sighed, mixed with a lot of helplessness.

Jiang Yu and I gestured with our eyes, and the greasy relationship between these people didn't seem to be so simple.

While they were all asleep, Jiang Yu and I sneaked out of the hut and knocked on the village chief's door.

The door opened, and it was us. The old man's face was embarrassed, and he hesitated for a moment before letting us in.

There was only one orange lamp in the room, and he sat on the stove with a coat and a long cigarette. I couldn't see his expression at the moment.

"Old man, you should have been the village chief for a few years, right?" The village chief snorted.

"Stinky boy, no big or small...... I've been around for more than 30 years, not just a few years. ”

"Village chief, my friend is not sensible, and there is a lot of responsibility for offending. You know the man Twilight Rain. ”

The village chief raised his head, with incredulity, and then he was restored to his original state. With a wry smile,

"Alas, you can't escape from it...... listening to the old man's words, it seems to be a bit of a story.

"What do you mean by that?" Jiang Yu asked.

"I wonder if you know the story of Huangquan Village?"

"I've heard a little bit about it, I heard one of our friends say it."

The village chief shook his head, his expression dazed.

"The ancestor of Twilight Yuqi is the papermaker who died tragically...... This kid has been clever since he was a child. It's just stubborn, and once he drew his own paper on his eyes, and he made a big taboo. Since then, the village has been at rest.

It was his father who asked someone to save him, and finally left the village. Unexpectedly, he later returned to the village with some friends.

He said that the reincarnation of cause and effect will eventually come......"

"And then?" The village chief stopped. It was as if something terrible had come to mind.

"Oh no, something happened! Come on, come on! At this time, there were suddenly shouts from some villagers outside the door, and the village, which was usually quiet, suddenly fell into a situation of beating gongs and drums. The village chief's gate was also beaten by Peng Peng.

Jiang Yu and I looked at each other, sensed that something was wrong, and followed the village chief outside.

It was a horrible scene. The flames engulfed the hut, and thick black smoke rose up. In the midst of the flames, a man hung in the middle of the room. With a long tongue sticking out, the lower half of his body is surrounded by fiery snakes and burning.

It's a lewd man! Beside him lay a paper figure that was also burning. At this moment, its appearance is hideous, and there are still only two black eyeballs in its eyes.

So the villagers didn't dare to move, no one put out the fire, and just watched.

On the side of the house, the man in the suit and Liu Yu were covered in black and gray, the men in the suit had red eyes, and the six gods had no owner. Liu Yu is the same, clasping his hands on his knees.

Jiang Yu and I stepped forward to ask what was going on.

He seemed to come back to his senses, crawled in front of Liu Yu on all fours, grabbed her shoulders with both hands, how could he still look like a Sven, and said in a vicious tone, "It's you, right?" There's no one else but you? What paper piercing people don't be funny, how is it possible? ”

Liu Yu was taken aback by him like that, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

I hurried forward and forcefully parted them. Liu Yucai cried and said, "I don't know, when I opened my eyes, I saw him hanging on the beam!" There was a fire all around, and there were ...... And that horrible paper man. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, didn't you call me to this village? We've all received the letter. ”

"Letter? What a letter. Jiang Yu grabbed the key word and looked at Liu Yu.

"I sent the letter." The village chief walked out of the crowd and said slowly. The man in the suit turned his head, his eyes full of anger.

The villagers looked at the village chief in confusion.

"Village Chief, what are you writing for?" One of the villagers asked.

The village chief looked up at the sky, spat out a puff of cigarette, and sighed, "Atonement......