"Today is the seventh day of the ninth month, you mean, those ghosts I saw are going to go to the top of the mountain to merge, and then go to the cliff to be buried?" I asked.

The old stall nodded: "That's right." And let me tell you, these two days of the year belong to the Yin people to borrow the way, and the living people to avoid it. No one who knows the inside story dares to appear in the village on these two days. Otherwise......"

"Otherwise what?"

"Otherwise, if the living encounter the cliff burial procession, they will be led by the soul banner to the cliff where the cliff burial is carried out, and the cliff burial will be carried out along with those corpses. That's why I feel weird when you meet that line and you don't get taken away. Now I think it must have been the copper coin on your body that saved you, otherwise you would have followed the ghosts. You've been in the village before, right? Have you ever seen a living person in the village? ”

Listening to the old stall leader's question, the question I had in my heart was finally explained. We have been wondering why the supplies and utensils in the houses in the village are so neatly arranged, not like they look deserted, but there is no one there.

It turned out that they all knew that today was the day of the cliff burial, so they would take the initiative to avoid it on this day.

I couldn't help but get a little angry after hearing this, so I said casually: "Uncle Tan, why don't you put up a notice or anything on the day of your cliff burial?" You said that if someone walks in by mistake like us, doesn't that hit the muzzle of the gun? Don't you cheat people? ”

The old stall glanced at me: "Fart, who said we didn't warn?" Did the donkey at the entrance of the village see it? ”

I nodded and said I saw it.

The old stall head continued: "That's a warning. In the days of the cliff burial, due to the large number of corpses in the village, it will attract lonely ghosts outside, who must want to enter the village and occupy these bodies. But we put a donkey at the entrance of the village and made a ghost sacrifice, which is a sacrifice to those wild ghosts. When they get the benefit, they will retreat. It is also a warning to those who want to come to the village that it is not appropriate to enter the village now. Who knew that you were stupid and bold, and you actually ignored it and broke into the village. ”

"We're foreigners, how do we know that?" I complained with a bitter face, but I looked at the old stall in front of me and asked in surprise, "No, Uncle Tan." Aren't you from this village? Everyone else is out of the way, why don't you dodge? Isn't it all pretentious and deceitful? ”

"Poof......" The old stall suddenly spat out a puff of dry smoke and sprayed it straight into my face.

The smell was so strong that I choked on it.

The old stall snorted angrily and said, "My old stall is so old, and I haven't deceived anyone yet." If you believe it, you kid believe it, and if you don't believe it, get out. You can still catch up with that team now, you pick up this copper coin and try it again, and then you will know if what the old stall boss said is true. ”

I coughed so much that tears came down, and I quickly waved my hand and said, "I'm sorry, Tan Ye, I didn't mean that." I just don't understand why you don't hide. ”

The old stall man approached my face and asked suspiciously, "Do you know why I know so much detail and didn't hide?" ”

"For ...... Why? ”

The old stall pointed to his nose: "Because."

For me, I am the bone picker. ”

"Huh? Are you the bone picker? ”

"It's like a fake. My hands, in the past ten years, have picked up hundreds of bones, not to mention thousands. ”

As he spoke, the old stall showed his dark, dry hands in front of me again. The hands seemed to be covered with grease, and they were skinny. But the nails are very long, and they look very sharp, like a pair of eagle talons.

Looking at the old stall's hands, I glanced at the pancakes I hadn't finished eating.

I was stunned for more than ten seconds, then I couldn't hold back any longer, threw the pancakes, and ran out the door as if flying, and vomited.

The old stall didn't pay attention to me, and I vomited so much that I almost didn't vomit out the bile.

I walked back on my knees, and the old stall was still smoking a dry cigarette as if nothing had happened.

I said with a bitter face, "Didn't you say you were a pancake maker?" How did this become a bone picker again? ”

The old stall said: "I said that I was a pancake seller in my early years, who didn't know me at that time?" The villagers from ten miles and eight villages have come to buy my pancakes. It's just that the business was sluggish later, and I was too lazy to go out to the stall every day, so I changed my career to be a bone picker. If you don't hear clearly, blame me. ”

I waved my hand, "Okay." I don't raise the bar with you, even if I don't hear clearly......"

The old stall kicked the pancake that I threw on the ground: "It's good, just like this, you have spoiled it." I don't want to do it anymore, don't blame my old man for being inconsiderate. Sleep well with me, and I'll be fine tomorrow at dawn. ”

After a lot of tossing, I didn't want to touch his pancakes anymore, even if I was hungry. But something suddenly occurred to me.

My third uncle, Ma Jian and Liang Yue, were separated in Nanliu Village. According to the old stall leader, I was carrying the king's money and touched him again, so I was spared.

So the third uncle, they ...... If you also run into that team, will you be sucked away by the soul attraction banner as the old stall said?

When I thought of this, a layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on my body.

I stepped forward and grabbed the arm of the old stall and asked anxiously, "Uncle Tan, I still have a few companions, they and I have been separated in that fog, do you know where they are now?" ”

The old stall sneered and said, "Do you still need to ask?" The ghost fog is full, and they have no one to lead the way, so they definitely can't get out. And the probability of encountering that group of ghosts is 200 percent. If it goes well, after two hours, their flesh and bones will appear in the valley. ”

"Huh?" I was startled and hurriedly said, "Then you have to save them...... They are big living people, how can there be any reason to follow them to the cliff burial? ”

As if he didn't know me, the old stall head glanced at me and pouted: "You said lightly." Why should I save them? I don't know them? ”

"Uncle, do you want money? How much money do you want, I pay you. ”

The old stall waved his hand: "It's not about money." I'm a bone picker, and on the night of the cliff burial, I just take care of what I have to do. Nothing else has anything to do with me. ”

As soon as I heard this, my head buzzed, and I almost collapsed, so I sent the old man to kneel down, and begged: "

Uncle, you can't see death and not save it, they are all my relatives. Say, as long as I can save them, I will agree to any conditions. ”

The old stall dug up another bag of tobacco and filled it into the cigarette pouch pot. He stirred the tobacco pouch with the nail of his little finger, and then flicked the tobacco scraps that remained in his nails away, and yawned again.

My heart was in a hurry, and I didn't dare to say more, so I could only watch the old man do these actions slowly and methodically.

"Save them...... It's not impossible......"

The old stall finally said slowly.

(End of chapter)

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