The old wizard is highly respected, and almost every family in the vicinity has been helped by him to a greater or lesser extent, and the death of such a respected old man is naturally a major event in people's minds.

Coming to Pan Changhong's house near the top of the Pan family's courtyard, the huge courtyard was already full of people who came from all over the place, the people who came first and were assigned the task were setting up firewood and lighting a fire in the courtyard that was not blocking the road, pulling wires everywhere to install electric lights, and the body of the old wizard who had just died had also been parked in the hall, and the brazier in front of the funeral bed was burning money paper, and more than a dozen Pan women of different ages were crying around the funeral bed.

Seeing us coming, the men of the Pan family greeted us and moved their stools to arrange for us to sit by the fire that was lit.

"What's going on, why did this Grand Duke Pan leave so suddenly?" First went to the outside of the hall, looked at the old wizard's body, and after going to the fire and sitting down, Man Ye asked a man from the Pan family.

The man shook his head and said, "Actually, we don't know, we were still asking Brother Changhong yesterday, and he also said that it was nothing, just take care of it, but he left today, and I don't know what's going on." ”

"Then these days, no one in your family has seen the old man's house, don't you know the situation?" I asked again.

The man who was about the same age as my father shook his head and said, "No, I saw the old man four or five days ago, and it looks like what Brother Changhong said. ”

The person named Pan Changwu also nodded and confirmed the former's words, saying: "Although I didn't talk to Pan Dagong yesterday, my spirit seems to be very good, and there is no need to do anything at all, even today is still good, until dinner in the evening, I heard that the old man is not very good, and it has only been four or five hours now." ”

"Then it's really too sudden, what the hell is going on?" Seeing that everyone didn't understand the situation, Man Ye had no choice but to sigh.

Listening to the conversation of the elders, I couldn't help frowning slightly, feeling strange from the bottom of my heart.

Could it really be the eldest son of the old wizard who deliberately concealed the true condition of his father's body from everyone?

But if you think about it carefully, it shouldn't be, even if for some reason, Pan Changhong will hide it from outsiders, especially from me, and he won't hide it from his own family, not to mention that Pan Changwu saw it yesterday, and today the whole Pan family didn't know the situation, and he suddenly heard that people couldn't do it at night.

In this case, it can only be a sudden deterioration of the situation.

Soon, however, new discoveries led me to disprove this perception.

Because, the youngest son of the old wizard, and two daughters who are married in other places are present.

In fact, when I came, I had already seen the old wizard's youngest son, but I didn't recognize it, and no one explained it at the time, so I thought it was someone from the Pan family who had only come back recently, until under the guidance of the Pan family, I came out to thank the people who came overnight, especially the people from our Li family, that I learned that this man in a casual suit who looked less than forty years old was the old wizard's youngest son Pan Changmiao.

Pan Changmiao has been working in the provincial capital all the year round, and he has already settled down in the provincial capital, and he rarely returns to his hometown, so not many people know him.

Coming back from the provincial capital, even if it is faster, it will take more than four hours, is it that as soon as he heard that his father was not good, Pan Changmiao rushed from the provincial capital to his hometown non-stop, just in time to see his father for the last time, and the old man choked his breath? The daughters who married to different neighboring counties also heard the bad news from their father and rushed over immediately?

Theoretically, this makes perfect sense, but I don't know why, I have a vague feeling in my heart that the old wizard's death may not be sudden, but the children who are outside have received the news in advance.

But after all, this is someone else's family matter, no matter how much you think about it, it is impossible to say it directly, now that the old people are gone, it is even more unlikely that I will have this plan, so I sat with him for a while, and from the conversation of the elders, I learned that Pan Changmiao and the two daughters of the old wizard did arrive around eleven o'clock, and more and more people came to visit, and after the courtyard was almost unable to sit down, they followed my father and they prepared to go back.

Although the old man left in a hurry, almost everyone felt sudden, but in the middle of the night, he couldn't help much, and staying in the yard only took up space, so that the people who came behind had no place to sit.

However, what I didn't expect was that just as we got up and were about to go back, the old wizard's eldest son stopped me.

Judging from the old wizard's recent attitude towards me, I never thought that this peasant, who didn't look like a peasant, would talk to me in private, and I was a little stunned.

After reacting, I asked my dad to go back first, and I will go back later, and then I went out of his yard with Pan Changhong, walked dozens of meters to the left, and came to a small bamboo forest.

"Xiao Nian, my father...... Let's go. Just when I was a little unsure of Pan Changhong's intention of asking me to speak alone, and I didn't know what he would say, he spoke softly with a flat expression, as if he had called me over to tell me the news I already knew.

And judging from his bland expression and tone, it seems that he has long known that his father will pass away and is mentally prepared.

"Uncle Changhong, please mourn and change ......" I didn't know how to speak for a while, so I had to follow his words to comfort me.

"There's nothing to mourn about, those emotions have long since passed." Took out a cigarette and handed it to me, lit one himself, and after taking a deep breath, Pan Changhong said calmly, sure enough, it confirmed the conjecture, he had long known that his father would die.

"My father has a few words for me to convey to you, some of which are about the bottle you picked up at Gwanghae's house, in fact, most of these words have already been said by him, but the time was not right before, and even if he did, you might not believe it, so he didn't say it. Avoiding you doesn't mean anything else, I just don't want you to see the true state of his body. ”

I suddenly felt as if I had done something wrong and was found out, and I didn't know what to say.

After a slight glance at me, Pan Changhong smoked a cigarette and continued: "The first sentence is that my father completely understands you, and under that circumstance at that time, it is normal for you to suspect that he is the one who caused all this, because our river may have the ability to harm people in these ways, but my father is the only one, plus he has said something to you, which is easy to cause you to misunderstand, and it is normal for you to be suspicious, so he understands you, and he doesn't blame you at all, because if he were replaced by you, he would think the same way." ”

Sure enough, the old wizard had known for a long time, and I suspected that the hand hiding in the darkness was him......

I felt an indescribable bitterness in my heart.

Yes, I did suspect that the old wizard was that man. Knowing that the mother and son were buried together, and if they didn't get it right, it would become what he called "mother's resentment", he didn't insist on the right choice, but compromised with the Liao family, and drew my attention to the Liao family, repeatedly emphasizing that the person behind the scenes was not easy to mess with, and persuading me to give up the investigation until the end of the point, which was enough to become a reason for me to suspect him.

What's more, judging from Liao Yuting's vague memories later, and the harvest I asked Pan Guanghai afterwards, the probability of strangers appearing in Pan's courtyard during that time was very low, and it is more likely that someone who knew or even knew Liao Yuting was in contact with him, so as not to arouse Pan Guanghai's vigilance, and after learning that I had found a strange bottle, the old wizard also went to my house to see it, and asked me to hand it over to him later, these ...... It's hard for me not to be suspicious of him.

However, these were all things before, and my suspicion of the old wizard had weakened a lot after I found out later that I had seen a huge black abyss in the mountain bay.

Because that kind of means really doesn't seem like he can have as a wizard.

It was only at that time that the misunderstanding had been completed, and the old wizard's attitude towards me had changed greatly, and the change that he had avoided made me realize that he had already known that I doubted him and had the intention to resolve the misunderstanding, but at the same time he suffered from the lack of chance, he also raised a trace of doubt again, which caused such a situation.

Unexpectedly, the main reason why he didn't see me was because he didn't want me to see the real state of his body......

"Actually, it's not wrong for you to suspect my father, because things have changed like that, and it does have something to do with my father." Seeing that I didn't speak for a long time, Pan Changhong said calmly.

I quickly looked up at him.

Seeing the meaning of inquiry in my eyes, Pan Changhong shook his head and said, "Don't ask me, because I don't know why he said that." I also asked him at the time, but he refused to tell me, saying that it was better for him to take him to the coffin and go to hell to suffer in silence, and he didn't want to say it. ”

"But I can guess some, it should be that he saw that Guanghai's daughter-in-law was tricked and wanted to save her life, but she did something bad with good intentions and attracted the devil."

"Now that he has passed away, I don't want to talk about his rights and wrongs, and I hope you can forgive him, because he is an old man...... He is really a good person, maybe he has made this mistake in his life, and he has paid for it with his life, if it weren't for this, he would have lived a few more years. Speaking of the back, his eyes were already red unconsciously.

I couldn't help but feel a little shocked in my scalp.

"So...... Didn't the Grand Duke actually die because of his deterioration? ”

"Yes and no, don't worry, listen to me slowly." After throwing away the cigarette butt that had already burned out, and taking out another one to light and take a puff, Pan Changhong said: "The second sentence is that the bottle you found in Guanghai's house is a hoodoo, so my father will not return it to you, it has been completely broken and burned with fire, and he will take it to the coffin, I hope you don't blame him." ”

After a pause, he continued: "The things in that bottle are very yin and evil, and the living can't stand it, but it is something that ghosts like very much, and if anyone can smell the same smell as ghosts, it means that this person is going to die." If the ghost smells too much of this bottle, it will lose its nature and become a controlled puppet, just like the daughter-in-law of Guanghai at the beginning, if the living person has too much contact with this bottle, it will invite disaster and death. ”

"What?" I was completely stunned.

So, when I was at my house and smelled the aroma from the bottle, the old wizard knew that he was going to die?

No wonder he suddenly began to sigh at that time, and he knew that I wanted to know what was going on, but he refused to say a word and went home!

"Uncle, can you tell me what's in that bottle?" When I learned that the bottle was really not a good thing, I immediately felt a little scared and happy.

Fortunately, although I had doubts about the old wizard, I still handed the bottle to him according to the old wizard's words, fortunately, knowing that Xiao Qinghe and the white-faced scholar liked the aroma of the bottle very much, I didn't let them smell it more, otherwise it would harm them and their families, I don't know why.

And something like this...... When Liao Yuting was alive, she drank it as a drink one by one.

After Pan Changhong looked at me, he shook his head and said: "I don't know, my father only found out later that the bottle contained a hoodoo, but he didn't know what it was made of, just said that there should be corpse oil and acacia flowers in it, and there are some things that ghosts like very much, and it shouldn't be something from the yang world." ”

"Acacia flowers, corpse oil...... Although these two things sound very ordinary, since they can have the effects that the old wizard said, it means that the locust flowers and corpse oil in them are definitely not the common locust flowers and corpse oil, as for the ingredients that are not the things of the yang world, don't think about it, they must be more difficult to see...... "When I heard that the old wizard was alive, I couldn't figure out what the ingredients were in the bottle, and I became more and more puzzled and more disheartened.

When he was dying, he couldn't figure out what was in the bottle, and now that the bottle was destroyed, did that mean that I would never know what it was?

Looking at me quietly, Pan Changhong was silent for a moment, and then said: "My father has long known that you will be disappointed when you hear such a statement, but he also asked me to tell you, don't be discouraged, because the owner of that bottle will definitely appear again, so you don't have to worry at all, there will be no chance to tell the truth in the bottle again." According to my father, not only do you not have to worry, but you should also be careful and prepare as soon as possible until that person comes to you. ”

"What! The Grand Duke said that the man would come to me? Does his old man know anything to say that? I couldn't help but be stunned, and my nerves tensed subconsciously.

Pan Changhong did not answer positively, but frowned slightly, and sorted out his thoughts for a while before saying: "In fact, since Guanghai's daughter-in-law became a "mother's resentment" and scared several people in the village to dare not go out easily at night, my father has been thinking about what the purpose of the devil master behind the bottle is, but he has never found the correct direction, until you came back from the provincial capital and began to get involved in this matter, he began to find some clues. ”

"But at first, these ideas were only used as the direction of his thinking, and there was no valid basis for it, until the night you brought the bottle to my house, my father had a whim, and called a hexagram for you......"