Although he couldn't figure out the specific details of the people in front of him, when he heard the sloppy old man ask about it, Cadre Wang had scruples and hesitated to say it.

The old man surnamed Liu poked the forehead of Cadre Wang with a cigarette stick and said with a bad face: "Grind and grind, what can't you say?" You big village, without these strong laborers, you will do the work in the fields? ”

These words can be said to have directly hit the sore spot of the Wang cadres, the village is not big, a total of 100 households, a sick man, which one is not the pillar of the family? Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the time when the sugarcane in the field is ripe, and it is time to cut the sugarcane......

At the beginning, he organized people to go down to the river, although it was to find Achang, who had never seen anyone alive or dead, but now if something really goes wrong with these people, the village will almost collapse by half, and he, a sesame official, can't afford the consequences......

Gritting his teeth, Cadre Wang cried and mourned, dragged the corner of Old Man Liu's ragged clothes, and said with a treacherous expression as he walked: "Old man, this illness is strange, I begged Langzhong in ten miles and eight villages, some say it is infected with wind cold, and some say that it is wind heat!"

Later, the western doctor in the town came to see it, and he only said that the low-grade fever did not go away, but fortunately, he couldn't see the reason, and he didn't dare to prescribe medicine...... I was bedridden all day, but fortunately, the sugarcane in the field could be boiled out with some syrup, so I relied on this hard-poured sugar water to hang my life, just like that, I vomited all day long, and some of the bile was vomited out, like thin straw seedlings, I only had one breath left during the day, and at night, I was talking nonsense very vigorously...... The old people in the village all said......"

When Cadre Wang said this, he opened his mouth several times, but stopped talking.

Old man Liu took a puff of cigarette and squinted: "What are you talking about?" ”

Cadre Wang looked around with a strange expression, and saw that there were not many people on the path at the entrance of the village, so he patted his thigh and whispered with a bitter face: "Say that this is provoking something unclean...... Oh my God, how is that possible? We're all schoolers, science! ”

Speaking of the last two words, Cadre Wang deliberately accentuated his tone!

Old man Liu suddenly stopped, bent down unhurriedly, and the cigarette stick tapped lightly on the mille-feuille cloth shoes under his feet, knocking off the cigarette ash in the cigarette pouch pot.

The gangster's white-soled cloth shoes were worn and old.

The air was damp and stuffy, and there were heavy clouds, which made it a sign of heavy rain.

Glancing at the cadre playfully, Old Man Liu said casually: "That's you, not us!" ”

On the side, Old Man Du wiped his gold-wire glasses, and he was happy: "Since you know science, how did the fragrant gray and yellow paper by the river come from?" What the hell is burning? Okay, Cadre Wang, don't fight with us on the official face haha, what do you say! ”

was punctured, and the commune king's face turned red, and he stiffened his neck: "It's not to save people, dead horses are used as live horse doctors...... In the end, it's not useless...... I'll just say it's feudal superstition......"

……

The thunder tore through the dark clouds, and a few drops of rain like beans fell and hit people's noses, slightly cool.

In just a moment, the rain suddenly turned into a downpour, stirring up the yellow mud in the ground.

Gray tiles, green bricks, clay embryos, mixed with wooden old houses, simple but not monotonous.

Under the heavy rain, through the alley, knocked on the mottled old door, after the door opened, there was a faint residual smell of herbs lingering in the nose, this is the home of the second child of the Zhang family.

The old woman in the door stared at the group of strangers in front of her with her toothless mouth blankly glazed with cloudy eyes and a toothless mouth.

Cadre Wang didn't say much, only half of the cat went in, hooked his head and looked eagerly inside, and the cry of a whining woman was coming from inside.

Old man Liu looked solemnly with his hands behind his back, looking straight into the depths of the house, letting the rain drip the locks of gray beard and hair.

The old monk who had been shrugging his eyelids and the old god was there also opened his eyes slightly at this time.

Cadre Wang didn't understand what these people were doing, standing and not going in.

As if seeing through the doubts of the commune cadres, Old Man Liu looked at the depths of the old house with a smile and said, "Don't worry, I'm afraid of scaring it away......"

This was not clear, but the old man Liu didn't say more, and asked the old woman kindly: "Old sister-in-law, can you tell my brother about the birthday of the patient in the house?" ”

The old woman pursed her lips and was a little wary, until the commune cadre explained impatiently for a long time.

Old man Liu took advantage of the eaves to block the rain, and touched a corner of the oilcloth bag he was carrying.

Wang cadres saw it clearly, it was a palm-sized piece of yellow paper, on which a pattern of the word "town" was drawn.

Then, the old man Liu grabbed another pen and wrote a few small characters on the yellow paper, which the commune cadres recognized as the eight-character birthday in the mouth of the old woman.

After writing, Old Man Liu sent his hands to the old woman's palm and instructed: "Put it close to the patient!" Old sister-in-law, believe me! ”

The old woman seemed to understand something, her hands were shaking, and she nodded with tears in her eyes.

Cadre Wang looked at it with a puzzled face: "This ...... Old man, you are ......"

The girl named Ye Qing took a handkerchief and wiped the water stains on Old Man Liu's face with a smile: "After being entangled for so long, the soul of the living has been worn very weak, and the three souls are unstable, Master Liu is afraid that the soul of the living person will also be taken out when the thing runs, so he used the soul suppression talisman written on the eight characters of the person's birthday just in case......"

As she spoke, the girl put the handkerchief in her hand towards Old Man Du's forehead, but Unexpectedly, Old Man Du dodged away with disgust, and shouted dissatisfiedly: "Little girl is eccentric, I don't use the things that the old turtle grandson used!" ”

The old monk on the side glared and came over with a smile, but he didn't think that Ye Qing's girl had already put away her handkerchief and giggled with her mouth covered.

The old monk wiped the rain from his bald head lonely, recited the Buddha's name, and then the old god was there and didn't care about the world, and shrugged down his eyelids.

Suddenly there was a resentful scream in the room, followed by the panicked cries of women and children.

Old man Liu pushed the door when he heard the sound, turned a few doors, and entered a room.

Because of the rain, the room is a little dark, against the old wooden bed against the wall, the second child of the Zhang family has been thin, is angry to break free from the shabby bedding wrapped around the body, the face is gray, the eyeballs are half-hung and turned up, at first glance, it seems that there are only the whites of the eyes, weird and hideous.

Physiognomy, this is called dead.

Seeing someone coming in, the second child of the Zhang family smiled at Old Man Liu with extremely resentful eyes, and the smile was extremely weird.

Cadre Wang retreated again and again in shock: "What are you doing, why are you still crazy!" ”

"Evil Barrier!" Old man Liu suddenly blew his beard and glared at him.

The second child of the Zhang family was suddenly quiet, stunned, his face was sluggish, and then he looked at the old man Liu's eyes, and the original resentment gradually turned into fear, and he shrank into the wall with his legs.

Outside the house, lightning and thunder, torrential rain, the wind howled, the rain blew open the wooden window, and the splash of water fell on Old Man Liu's face, which was particularly fierce......

When there was no way to retreat, the fear in the eyes of the second child of the Zhang family finally turned into a strange scream......