"Brother Li, are we really going to enter that house?"

Standing outside the village, Lu Li pointed to a huge courtyard not far in front of him, looking a little uneasy.

When it comes to the courtyard, many people should first think of the courtyard houses in Beijing and Beijing, in fact, the courtyard-style architecture has been handed down in ancient times, and has a history of more than 3,000 years, and is available all over the country, but it is typical of the courtyard houses in Beijing and Beijing.

The courtyard house in front, because the courtyard wall is very high, can not see the specific area, the whole is built of thick black bricks, the roof is cyan glazed tiles, even after hundreds of years of washing, faded some of the luster, still layer upon layer, complete, like dragon scales.

It is indeed the style of the landlord's house in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty.

"What, you're scared?" Li Changjing glanced at Lu Li and asked with a smile.

"I'm not afraid of it." Lu Li pretended to be calm, pointed behind him, and said in a low voice, "I'm worried that they are afraid." ”

Li Changjing looked along his line of sight and found that Bai Yueling was hiding far away, looking trembling, Bai Baihua was coaxing, and the big man Liu Hui was chatting with a few villagers next to him, the distance was too far, I didn't know what to talk about.

"Get out of here." Xu Huairou stood beside him, his hands on his hips, a pair of eyes staring at the courtyard in the distance, with a curious look on his face, and hummed: "What kind of big snake eats people, it's just that the locals spread it, Miss Ben has never believed in these gods and strange things, if you are afraid, I can go in alone." ”

Lu Li shook his head, he already knew something about Xu Huairou's character, so he didn't bother with her.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I've asked a few villagers." The big man Liu Hui walked over, pointed to a few villagers sitting under a tree in the distance, and said with a heavy face: "I don't know what's going on, they seem to be very unkind to outsiders, no matter what I ask about this house, they don't mention it." ”

"It must be because the house is so scary, so the locals are very taboo." Bai Yueling stood beside Liu Hui tremblingly, and said worriedly: "Why don't we go, from such a distance, I feel that the house is eerie and uncomfortable." ”

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Liu Hui grabbed Bai Yueling's hand, patted the back of her hand, and comforted.

Bai Yueling was waiting for this sentence, she took advantage of the situation to hold Liu Hui's thick arm, her body was closer, her face was crimson, and she whispered: "Brother Hui, let me tell you, I am too timid, if there is any danger, you must protect me......"

"Don't worry, even if I don't have enough ability, there are still your brother, Changjing brothers, and Lu Li brothers here."

Bai Yueling immediately got up unhappy, pouted and said: "Of course my brother is a man who stands up to the sky, but the one surnamed Li and the one with white hair, small arms and legs, can be blown down by a gust of wind, and it is worse than a woman, I want to vomit when I see it." ”

Bai Baihua shook his head and said softly: "Brother Changjing has been seriously injured and has not recovered, so it looks like he is sick." ”

Liu Hui also said: "Yes, although this Changjing brother is young, he is by no means an idle person. ”

Bai Yueling said disdainfully: "A waste that doesn't even have a tire, no matter how powerful it is, how powerful can it be?" I still like Brother Hui, a masculine type like you, who is both strong and tall, giving people a sense of security. In the end, Bai Yueling seemed a little embarrassed, her face turned even redder, and her voice was as thin as a mosquito.

Lu Li's ears were sharp, and he was about to say a few fair words for Li Changjing, but Li Changjing grabbed him and said indifferently: "Forget it, I won't take a few words that don't hurt or itch to heart." ”

At this moment, there were suddenly two terrible screams in the courtyard in front of them, and then, the door of the house was pushed open, and two middle-aged men ran out of it, their bodies were embarrassed, with bruises everywhere, their noses and faces were swollen, and their faces were frightened, as if they had been greatly stimulated.

Li Changjing's heart jumped, looking at the breath, these two men were actually really second-order cultivators, it stands to reason that such a character is already a master in his own right, why would he be scared like this? And what about the injuries on their bodies?

Li Changjing stepped forward, grabbed one of them, and asked him what happened? As a result, the man was already frightened, and he just shouted vigorously, "Monsters, there are monsters in that house, there are monsters that eat people......" shouted loudly, broke free from Li Changjing's hands, and fled in a hurry with his companion.

"We have already persuaded us, if we don't listen, it's all good in not dying." Under the big tree not far behind him, sat a sixty-year-old man, with a gloomy expression, wearing a shabby thick cotton jacket, smoking a dry cigarette, staring at the direction of the two men with cloudy eyes, looking extremely disgusted.

"Uncle, what the hell is going on, is there really a big snake in that house?" Lu Li stepped forward and asked curiously, "The two people who left just now were injured all over their bodies, could it be that they were bitten by a big snake?" ”

The old man in the torn padded jacket glanced at him, snorted heavily, did not answer, and continued to smoke his dry cigarette.

Lu Li touched his nose, he didn't give up, and wanted to ask again, but Li Changjing stopped him, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, handed it to the old man, and said, "Old man, we don't have malicious intentions, we just want to know about the situation in the house." ”

The old man looked at the cigarette in Li Changjing's hand, obviously a little greedy, swallowed his saliva, and snorted: "You are also like others, go in and catch snake drops?" ”

Li Changjing thought for a moment and said truthfully: "If there is really a big snake inside, then I really want to find it, but I won't hurt it, I just want to ......"

Without waiting for Li Changjing to finish speaking, the old man knocked off the cigarette in his hand with a cigarette stick, snorted viciously, and scolded in the local dialect: "Don't drop your numbness, do you still want to abduct Lao Tzu?" I see you like a dog, I don't know you're a hammer too! It's not uncommon for me to tell you about the situation inside, and if you're not afraid of death, go in and sprinkle! ”

Although Bai Yueling lives on the other side of the Funiu Mountains, she is also from the Central Plains, and when she heard the old man's words, she was so angry that she said indignantly: "If you don't tell, you won't tell, it makes us rarely go in, what a big snake is nothing more than pretending to be a ghost, if we want to know the situation, won't we go in and see it ourselves?" ”

The old man sneered in broken Mandarin: "It's all you outsiders, who come to catch snakes every once in a while, and the Ruan landlord's family was kind to our village back then, there was such a big famine, and there was no food at all, it was all the Ruan landlords who opened warehouses to release grain, so no one in the village starved to death." Later, the Ruan family bullied people, and everyone died, and there was not even a one to avenge them, if it weren't for the snakes raised by the Ruan family's baby, our village would have been plagued by those bandits, ghosts, and sons in the past! ”

"If you don't want to die, get out!" The old man blushed and scolded: "So many outsiders are scared when they run in, I don't believe you have the ability to catch snakes!" ”

Li Changjing picked up the cigarette on the ground, patted off the dirt on it, and said in a harmonious voice: "Uncle, do you mean that over the years, there have been many outsiders who have entered the Ruan family's house, but no one has died?" ”

The old man snorted, "What if there are no dead people?" Like the two hammers just now, they went in and slept all night yesterday, and today they are gone, if you don't want to be like them, hurry away, and we will respond when we see you outsiders! ”

Seeing that the other party didn't want to see him, Li Changjing didn't put his hot face on his cold buttocks, put away his cigarette, glanced at the sky, and found that the black clouds above his head, which were originally only a thin layer, were getting thicker and thicker, and now they were already a black ball, just floating above the village, but in other places, the sky was clear and the sun was shining.

"This cloud...... It's a little weird. Lu Lizheng muttered to himself, but suddenly heard Bai Yueling shouting: "Little white face, you are crazy, you really dare to go in!" ”

Lu was startled, turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw that Li Changjing had already walked to the door of the Ruan family's mansion, and without hesitation, he pushed the heavy wooden door open and strode into it.