Everything was as Zhong Kui expected, there were no bones in the coffin.

The absence of bones in the coffin was already very strange, and it was even stranger that there was an empty coffin here in broad daylight. Also, why did Chao Xin look abnormal when Zhong Kui wanted to check the backyard?

This question appeared in Ran Qin's mind, looking at Chao Xin leaning to the side, looking very innocent and pitiful, it was the lame foot that caused his body to tilt. His leg was crippled by a stick during the ** period, and an inch-long scar on his face stretched from the corner of his mouth to the top of his nose. Without the scar, the whole appearance looked more shrewd, and the scar distorted the face in half in that position, highlighting an indescribable feeling.

Zhong Kui checked the coffin and closed it again, staring at Chao Xin aggressively with a sharp gaze: "Okay, now you should tell the truth." ”

Chao Xin's face stiffened unnaturally, and he raised his fingers and dug his nostrils at random. It is not difficult to tell from his bony rolling eyes that he is trying to hide something.

Ran Qin stood aside silently to see what he wanted to do.

Zhong Kui handed the obsidian to Chao Xin, "If you don't tell the truth, I can only help you with this, and if something big happens to your family, don't blame me for not advising you in advance." As he spoke, he hinted that Ran Qin should leave here.

Chao Xin heard Zhong Kui's words, thinking about all the strange things that happened before, and couldn't help but feel chills in his heart. The vest was hairy, the pores all over the body were prickly and scattered, and the complexion became pale.

After getting Zhong Kui's hint, Ran Qin immediately set off to leave.

She was in front, Zhong Kui was behind, and she didn't pay attention to Chao Xin, who was as stunned as a wooden chicken pestle. The two of them walked a few steps to the gate of the courtyard, and he counted silently in his mind for about a few seconds before the lame man called out to the two of them...... One second...... Two seconds...... Three...... Before three seconds, Chao Xin's voice broke through the voice behind him: "Hey! Master Zhong, Chief Ran, you ...... Wait a minute. ”

Zhong Kui, who walked to the courtyard of the outhouse, turned to look at Chao Xin with a pretended puzzled demeanor after hearing his shout, "What else is wrong with Chao Xin?" ”

"Hey! Don't you want to hear the truth? It's inconvenient to talk here. He glanced nervously at the black lacquered coffin that had been covered, shook his legs, and hurriedly walked out of the backyard, "You two go to my study to talk." Seeing that Zhong Kui and the two of them stood in place and had no intention of leaving, he slowly rehung the lock, locked the backyard door again, and deliberately pulled the lock with his hand to see if it was firmly locked when leaving.

Zhong Kui and Ran Qin really looked away, this Chao Xin is really true, and the real person does not show his face.

It is not difficult to see from the layout of the whole study that he is also a calligraphy lover, the layout of the study is purely classical, in a small space, one wall is hung with a lack of yellow portraits of ladies, and the other side is hung with a variety of regular script, cursive, official script, font and other inscriptions of famous great people.

On a desk in the center of the study is an antique brush holder with several awls (brushes) in it. A row of storage shelves full of painting scrolls are placed in the appropriate position, and a Taishi chair that looks like an antique makes the study more poetic.

The first to show a look of surprise was Ran Qin, with her sharp observation, how could she not observe that Chao Xin, a seemingly rough and clumsy lame man, was still ......

Zhong Kui froze in place, habitually looking around.

"Don't laugh, just sit down." Chao Xin's sincere tone pulled another chair in the corner and sat for Zhong Kui.

"Okay, okay." The two agreed, casually looked at the chair and sat down. Straight to the point is Zhong Kui's nature, he doesn't care what your background is, he wants to do things well and leave.

Chao Xin beckoned someone to bring two cups of tea, but he didn't let the person who brought the tea into the study, and closed the door of the study mysteriously after taking the teacup.

The light dimmed as the study door closed, and in this space that was too quiet and dreary, although there were three people together. Ran Qin couldn't help but feel a chill all over, she pulled the chair next to Zhong Kui, and felt slightly better.

"Okay, I'm straight, what do you say I don't like to beat around the bush." Zhong Kui broke the silence and spoke first.

"Well, you ask me to answer."

Ran Qin didn't seem to notice that the conversation had begun, and her eyes fell on the dim yellow light bulb in the study. The heart says; Seeing that the conditions of this family are good, why are you so stingy that you didn't change to a larger light bulb. That way, you can at least increase the brightness a little more, and it won't feel oppressive and gloomy!

Looking at her unpredictable demeanor, Zhong Kui knew that Ran Qin was afraid of the mysterious atmosphere here. Everything in the study is ancient, doesn't it mean that the older the thing, the more evil it is? That's what she's afraid of. "Ahem! Get down to business, you take notes. He coughed lightly twice, stopping her chaotic thoughts in time, and saw that she had already picked up her notebook and began to prepare to take notes.

Only then did he turn his gaze back to Chao Xin and asked, "Who is that coffin?" ”

"It's my uncle's."

"Why do you want to get home?"

"Aren't you afraid of sports? At the time of the movement, many people's coffins were used to make urine buckets......"

"Huh! How did you get this coffin home? And where was the original location of this coffin? ”

"I pulled it back in a cart, and my uncle was buried in the woods of the mass grave. That forest is actually the garden of our hometown, and it is also the ancestral grave of our Chao family. Later, after various movements, the garden was divided and the ancestral grave was excavated...... The only coffin left for my uncle has not yet been found. ”

Chao Xin's words not only frightened Zhong Kui, but also frightened Ran Qin, who was taking notes. Dare to feel that this guy made the hole in the woods of the grave hill, so what happened to the fire in the woods that night?

"Did you light the fire that night?"

"Yes, my uncle gave me a dream, saying that someone was going to harm him, and asked me to destroy the evidence."

"Shhh After talking about your uncle for a long time, what is your uncle's name? ”

"Chao Dekui, who used to be a groom of a Kuomintang officer, later saved the officer's life, and the officer gave my uncle a promotion and gave him a lot of money."

"Chao Dekui?" Zhong Kui pondered, and suddenly remembered another thing that Xiao Chrysanthemum had told him before, that is, he was blackmailed by the gatekeeper when he went to the gate of hell. At that time, there was a Kui Ye named Kui Ye, could it be that Kui Ye was Chao Xin's uncle? "Where's your uncle's bones?"

Chao Xin shook his head and said, "When I pulled the coffin back, I didn't look closely at the situation in the coffin, and then I found a warlock who claimed to be able to exorcise evil spirits and demons, and asked him to give me an estimate of an auspicious day and bury my uncle in the backyard." The warlock came to our house, pinched his fingers, and when he had finished speaking, he called for me to take some glutinous rice and garlic and go to the backyard to check it out. When the coffin was opened, a puff of black smoke came out, causing the warlock to scream and run away without even asking for payment. ”