After the dish was cooked, the large round dark wooden table was served, and Village Chief Luo scooped out some yellow cooking wine-like wine from a wine jar.

Suddenly, the wine in the room was fragrant, extremely tempting, and the saliva of the old ghost Su flowed out of the corners of his mouth.

The village chief of this Luo put the pottery urn containing rice wine on the stove, heated it with firewood, took the urn to the dining table and faced the porcelain bowl that had been placed, stretched out his arm, turned his wrist, shook his hand, and turned around the urn in his hand.

Then he hooked his hand, circled his arms, and took his elbows, and simply took the urn back, and the wine was thrown out of the mouth of the urn, and fell evenly in each bowl, but not a drop was spilled outside the bowl, and everyone applauded.

But he saw that the old ghost Su had straight eyes, and looked directly at the village chief, as if he was blinded by the aroma of wine, or was impressed by the village chief's set of flowing pouring wine, in short, he was dumbfounded.

At this time, the grimaceous mastiff king outside the house, "Providence", suddenly roared again, and the terrifying sound seemed to shake the earthen house.

Village Chief Luo smiled brightly again and said, "This mastiff god is hungry, you have to feed it some meat, this god likes to gnaw meat, there is no way, you eat and drink first, and come back immediately after feeding it." ”

As soon as Village Chief Luo went out, everyone was so hungry by the strange aroma of wine and the delicacy of wild game that they stretched out their chopsticks and picked up the meat and stuffed it into their mouths.

Niu Gang's mouth was stuffed with meat, and he muttered incoherently as he chewed, and then he picked up the bowl to pour wine into his mouth.

Old Ghost Su wiped the sweat on his forehead, and when he saw that Niu Gang wanted to drink, he reached out and put it on Niu Gang's wrist holding the wine bowl, and shouted: "Can't drink!" ”

At this time, I only heard the door ringing, and the village chief of Naluo had finished feeding the Grimace Mastiff King and returned to the house.

Old Ghost Su hurriedly pushed the wine bowl in front of him aside, and quickly picked up the chopsticks to pick up the vegetables and ate them violently, but his eyes were on the village chief Luo.

Everyone had doubts in their hearts when Su Lao Ghost whispered just now, and when they saw him pushing the wine bowl aside and only eating vegetables, they understood a little, and they all pushed the wine away, only attacking those local game.

Village Chief Luo sat down again, and persuaded everyone to eat and drink with laughter.

Everyone said that they were too strong to drink and ate some vegetables and rice, but they all pushed away the bowls and said that the taste was too delicious, and thanked the village chief for his hospitality to everyone.

Sun Er wasted no time in taking out a few hundred-yuan bills, putting them on the dining table, and said:

"I'm a newcomer, and I'm disturbing the village chief, and I'm going to bother the village chief to show us the way to the Devil's City tomorrow, and this money is hard work, please collect it."

The village chief didn't pay any attention to the bills, but looked at the bowls of wine painfully, and even said:

"You babies don't know how to drink, don't you drink such a good wine."

After persuasion again, everyone said that the meal had been eaten, and they were not at the dinner table, and there was no reason to drink.

Village Chief Luo shook his head regretfully and put the dining table away.

By chatting with Village Chief Luo, everyone knew that he was alone, without a wife and children, and usually lived in the East House, that is, the house where everyone ate.

The Westinghouse, on the other hand, stores things, and the guests clean up and clean up the debris on the earthen stove, and put it to the side, so that people can sleep on the earthen stove.

The earthen stove shop in the west house is divided into two shops, north and south, and the shop is large enough, just one bed can sleep six people, and it does not seem crowded. It's just that Li Yulan's sleeping position is awkward, she can only sleep at one end of the bunk, and brings two bulging backpacks, separated between her and Cao Longxuan.

Soon after everyone lay down, they listened to Niu Gang's thunderous snoring, accompanied by the unique wind whistling sound of the Mobei Plateau outside the house, like a "Bombardment Sonata", so noisy that everyone couldn't fall asleep until after midnight, Bai Yunfei fell asleep in a daze.

While he was sleeping deeply, he heard a loud noise, which woke up all those who were asleep.

As soon as everyone woke up from their sleep and was dizzy, they heard another loud bang in everyone's ears, and their ears were deafening.

But by this sound the people could hear it, it was the sound of a gunshot.

At the same time as the shot rang out, the fire of the bullet erupted from the muzzle of the gun, and the room lit up in an instant, although it was not very bright, but it was only a flash for a moment.

But with this shining, everyone seems to see a woman?!

The figure of this woman flashed away, and everyone was dazzled, and they wondered if they had seen this woman, or if it was an illusion?

And the reason why the flower shadow that disappeared in an instant was judged by everyone to be a woman was because she was wearing a woman's flower dress, and she was wrapped in a headscarf worn by a woman, and there was a strong makeup on the side of her face.

Everyone was shocked into a cold sweat, and they all suddenly remembered that this old man Luo Village Chief has always been alone, how could there be a woman in this house, could it be that there is a female ghost to worship?

Everyone was extremely nervous, so they "Teng" sat up from the earthen stove, and some people even stood against the wall, and the situation was mysterious and chaotic for a while.

Fortunately, everyone didn't cover the quilt, and there weren't so many quilts for everyone to cover, so they all lay down with their clothes together, but this also created good conditions for dealing with emergencies.

Don't think about it, everyone knows that this is Cao Longxuan's pistol, and after the gunshot, the shadow of the female ghost disappears.

Now the domestic gun control is very, very strict, and it is impossible for ordinary people to have guns.

But this Cao Longxuan is really not an ordinary person, and he didn't know where to smuggle this gun from abroad.

Just when everyone was frightened and quietly prepared for whether the female ghost would appear again, they heard a noise from the next room, only to hear Village Chief Luo shouting and running in in a panic, and asked: "What's the situation, why did you hear the gunshot?" ”

Everyone talked about the haunting, and Village Chief Luo said: "It won't drop, why will there be ghosts?" ”

But when he saw that everyone was all nodding their heads in shock, he hesitated a little, thought about it and felt that it was not peaceful, and said that he went back to the house to offer incense and pray.

He had just turned around and walked two steps, when he suddenly turned around and asked, "What are you doing, why do you have guns?" ”

Cao Longxuan raised the anti-riot electric baton in his hand, which is a high-voltage anti-wolf close-range security weapon equipped by the security company, which can generally be purchased online, and is a sharp weapon for women to prevent pervert harassment.

He pressed the button on the electric baton, and saw a "crackling" electric spark, and then he said: "There is no gun, I just found out that a female ghost attacked everyone, and he used this electric baton to fight back." ”

The village chief of Naluo didn't believe it and said, "What is this black drip? Why can you make a gunshot? ”

Cao Longxuan said: "This thing is very loud when it is fully charged, and this has just been used up twice, and the power is low, so it is not so loud." ”

When Village Chief Luo heard this, he went back to the east house where he was sleeping with a suspicious face.

Frightened by this, all the people in this room did not dare to sleep.

But it's still early before dawn, especially in this great northwest desert region, the dawn time is even later, and it's not a matter of staring at each other without sleeping for a long night.

So Bai Yunfei arranged shifts and asked everyone to take turns to be on duty at night, while the rest continued to sleep.

Because he was scared, and he didn't know what the situation of the female ghost just appeared, he turned the light on all the time, although some people were not used to sleeping under the bright light, but it was the only way.

The first shift was Sun Er's night duty, and after lying down again, Cao Longxuan asked Su Laogui: "Why don't you let everyone drink during dinner?" ”

Old Ghost Su pointed to the east house and whispered, "After I saw a series of actions of the village chief Luo cooking and pouring wine, I felt that something was wrong, and I was so scared that the sweat in my brain came down." ”

Then he told the crowd about his suspicions.

It turned out that when Su Lao Ghost was a child, that is, more than ten years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he listened to several elderly people in the village getting together and chatting.

Some of these old people were in the late Qing Dynasty before the liberation, and they had worked as servants in the government office, that is, today's forensic doctors are almost the same, and in case of cases, they are responsible for examining and disposing of corpses.

After a long time, not only the officials, but also the people who came to find them, such as who had a funeral and needed to put on makeup, cleansing, dressing and burial for the deceased, they were also asked to handle it, and then rewarded some small money.

And these puppets deal with the dead all day long, and they are inevitably contaminated with corpse qi and exposed to obscure and evil spirits, and in order to prevent unlucky things from happening, these puppets will "fill their mouths" before doing things.

The so-called "mouth" is to pour not only their own mouth, but also the mouth of the dead and those ghosts who come to make trouble, so that they are full of food and drink, and they will not come to make trouble, which means peace and auspiciousness.

In addition, before doing these things, "filling your mouth" can also drive away wind and dehumidify, dispel yin qi, and prevent the root of the disease from falling over time.

And this "filling mouth" is actually very simple, that is, using a stove or a fire to simmer the liquor or the Yellow River and so on with fire.

Then put some cups and dishes in front of you, pour the simmered wine into the utensils in front of you with a set of standardized actions, and then chant a few times, and the words are mostly "Ride the crane to the west, go all the way... Reincarnation is not easy, don't bully the idler... Bo wine is sincere, drink it and go..."Yunyun.

He took another bowl and worshiped the heavens and the earth, and then took another bowl to worship the god in charge, and then took a bowl to honor the deceased to get rid of the sea of suffering, and took a bowl to drink by himself, and the rest was placed in its place.

Chanting and singing allows all the ghosts and ghosts to drink by themselves, although they have never known each other in their previous lives, they have been friends in the underworld since then, and they take care of each other.

This was a very common thing, but after the liberation, when new ideas were advocated and these old feudal and superstitious customs were overthrown, no one mentioned these "four olds" again.

The old man who had done a job in the Qing Dynasty in the evening before the liberation, and these old men were also idle, so they talked about it, and finally the conversation rose, so in the eyes of everyone, they used the big teapot as a wine urn, and replaced the wine bowl with a tea bowl, and practiced a set of smooth "filling mouths" like flowing water, and everyone praised it.

Old Ghost Su was also amazed by the old man, so he was always impressed, and he still recognizes it clearly.

At night, the movements of the village chief Luo in soju and pouring wine are skillful and smooth, which is no different from the "mouth" practiced by the old man who did the trick back then.

Except for the different appearances, the rest of the actions Su Lao Ghost felt that they were exactly the same as the "mouth", so he didn't let everyone drink those wines.

He felt unlucky, this "mouth" was not only for worshiping the gods of heaven and earth, but also for the dead and lonely souls and wild ghosts.

The wine poured out by the village chief of Luo with such a set of * actions, even if it has nothing to do with the customs of the work, it also makes people suspicious and avoidant, so the old ghost Su, who has always valued superstition, saw sweat on his forehead and prevented everyone from drinking.

Cao Longxuan frowned after hearing this, and stopped speaking.

In this way, everyone watched and slept in the bright lights, although they did not sleep well, but they barely stayed up until dawn, although they did not sleep well all night, but fortunately they were not haunted again.