Chapter 16: Stand-ins

That's what my dad said.

I can't remember whether I sat or not, because of my young age, I fell asleep in my mother's arms in a daze, and when I woke up, it was already the next morning.

When I was a child, I didn't think about it for a long time.

I tugged at the corners of my mouth and laughed, if it weren't for the old beggar's talisman, I might have died, right?

I picked up my backpack and breathed a sigh of relief, it was almost ten o'clock now, and I was embarrassed to call Li Bo and ask him to come out to pick me up.

So I simply followed the address he gave me and looked for it myself.

But after only ten minutes of walking, I was dumbfounded.

Because after going down the mountain road, there is a large cemetery, and there are small mounds on the left and right sides, some of which have erected monuments, some of which are dirt bags, and in the middle is a blue brick path that can only be walked by two people.

Seriously, I just experienced a ghost car, and I'm still a little empty now, but in the wilderness, there is no hotel or guest house, and I make do with it all night in the open space?

It doesn't seem to be very good.

After hesitating, I called Uncle Li ruthlessly, and I couldn't take care of it at this time, what if his old man's house lived close to here, and he happened to not sleep?

I held on to a bit of luck, pinching my phone and waiting, but I dialed two times in a row, but I didn't get through.

When I took down my phone, I saw that there was no signal!

"Damn! What a bird place! ”

I whispered, and I was not afraid of the anger, so I spread my feet and walked forward.

After about ten minutes, four figures appeared in front of me, two adults and two children, giggling and laughing.

I was glad that there were still people wandering around the cemetery at night, and it was really idle.

I hurriedly walked up a few steps, "Hello uncle and aunt, I came to Li Zhuang to find a friend, but it was a little late and I couldn't contact him, can you please show me the way?" ”

I took out the crumpled yellow paper, on which in addition to the line of address and phone number that the old beggar wrote to me, on the reverse side was the contact information given to me by Li Bo.

"Haha, you're polite, young man, you just go straight here," an aunt with a child in her arms smiled at me, her eyebrows were quite kind, and I looked a little familiar.

My aunt stretched out her hand to show me the way, but the road was in the cemetery on the right.

I was a little dumbfounded, she probably saw my doubts, and consciously explained, "This road is the ancestral hall in the village, where no one lives, and it is a place to worship the ancestors." You, you made a mistake at the beginning, you should turn left when you go down the mountain, you don't have to go through the cemetery, and now you can only go back like this, otherwise you have to go back. ”

"That's right, what a waste of time, it's better to go through!"

The uncle took a cigarette butt in his mouth and echoed, "Aren't all maps popular now, why don't you get one, it's not easy to walk on the mountain road at night!" ”

I thought about it, and they did have a point, and instead of discrediting the way they came, it would be better to be bold and take a shortcut from the graveyard.

Anyway, most of the ones on this side have stone monuments, which are more comfortable to look at than the other side.

After thanking the two of them, I gritted my teeth and planned to lift my legs and leave, but the hem of my clothes suddenly tightened, I looked down and found that it was the little girl who was held by a middle-aged woman, with two braids, which was quite cute.

The little girl stared at me and said crisply, "Big brother, can you move it, it hurts." ”

"What?"

I was stunned and didn't react until she clicked on the backpack I was carrying, and I didn't react, probably because I accidentally bumped into her just now, and I changed my hand.

"I'm sorry."

I subconsciously touched her head, my hand was cold, my heart moved, I always felt that I had neglected something, but before I could think about it, the uncle called out to me and stuffed a white candle into my hand.

"It's dark at night, you can take it in your hand, and you won't get lost."

The uncle explained to me with a smile, and I don't know if it was the relationship between the light, I always felt that his expression was a little strange, special, and stiff.

"Hey, I'm so embarrassed," I was a little embarrassed, the white man's things were uncomfortable, and I just wanted to say that my mobile phone had a flashlight, but when I looked down, I didn't know when my mobile phone turned off automatically, and the screen was pitch black.

It's embarrassing, I really need something to light up, after all, the cemetery is not as good as here, there is no light.

“…… Uh, that's thanks," I thought about it, I didn't pull down my face and ask for something, and took out a bag of chocolates from my backpack to stuff it into the little girl's hand, "Oh, my brother accidentally bumped into you just now, I apologized to you, and I gave my brother a ...... smile."

Bending down to approach the little girl, I suddenly stopped in the middle of my sentence, because the corners of the girl's smiling mouth were almost to the root of her ears, revealing a row of sharp teeth, and her eyes were rolling around, and the bottom of her eyes was not ordinary people's clearness, but a little cloudy......

Like, dead man.

"Smack!"

My hands trembled, and the chocolate didn't hold it steady, and I fell to the ground.

At this time, I realized why I felt familiar when I looked at the aunt just now.

On the ghost car, doesn't the middle-aged woman sitting next to me look like this, but she doesn't look so fresh, and she also holds a child in her hand.

The little girl just said that I was crushing her, not because the backpack in my hand hit her, but when I was sitting in the car, the backpack I put on her seat pressed on her.

The moment I reacted, I immediately wanted to run, but the weird thing was that I couldn't move at all!

"Giggles, mom, he's so stupid!"

The little girl bent down to pick up the chocolate, and the bones cracked crisply, and the lumbar vertebrae pierced out of the thin clothes, bringing out a few drops of black blood.

"Hehe, buy it home for you to play with as a man, and we will be able to come out of Huahua on the next Midyear Festival."

Auntie's laugh was high-pitched, and her rotting arm reached out to me, seeing that it was coming to arrest me!

No! I don't care about you!

My eyes widened in horror, but I couldn't move, and what was worse was that the talisman on my chest was searched out by my uncle, torn apart and thrown aside, and the original orange-yellow talisman paper was now gray, even if I didn't understand it, I knew it was useless.

I was so anxious that I secretly hated why I didn't find out earlier, wouldn't it be good to stay where I am and wait for the night!

Just as Auntie's fingers were about to touch me, a deep sound shook them to a halt, and a look of horror appeared on their rotten faces.

"Humph! Don't get out of here! ”

When the words fell, the two big and two small ones instantly turned into four green smokes and drifted away.

The power of imprisonment also disappeared, and my legs went limp, but I still couldn't help but sit on the ground.

"Didn't you come with two cocks? Where did you hear that? ”

The rough man with a foul mouth strode from the other end of the bluestone bricks, and on a cool night, he only wore a black racer-shaped vest and a pair of floral pants underneath.

"You, it's Lieber?"

As soon as I regained my strength, I was still a little uncomfortable talking.

"Tsk, nonsense, fortunately I came to walk at night, if I didn't come, you would be bought back by those two ghost couples to be a stand-in for their daughter!"

Li Bo glared at me, reached out and grabbed me, pulling me up.

"What to buy back, what kind of stand-in, why don't I understand?"

"Heh, that's your stupidity!"