Hearing this, the old man's waist bent down suddenly, and he didn't speak for a long time.

I stepped forward and hugged him, and said with a smile: "Master Li, don't worry, I promise to come back alive, I may have to run outside in the past two years, and when I come back, I will provide for you." ”

The old man's eyes turned red, and he pushed me away, scolding and saying that he was not old yet, and he didn't need me or anything.

When the old man's sourness had passed, he sat down and told me the story of the family.

The protagonist in the story is surnamed Chen, called Chen An, and he was also a corpse digger in his early years, unlike other corpse diggers, this Chen An's family is solid, and he is the only son in the family, it stands to reason that such a person will not choose the business of a corpse digger.

The reason for this is that it starts before he left home.

Chen An had a child daughter-in-law who was three years older than him, which was originally promised to him when he grew up, such things were common in those days, and no one said irresponsible things, but this Chen An was restless, and he had no feelings for his child daughter-in-law, but fell in love with another girl in the same village.

But Chen An's parents, who have watched his child daughter-in-law grow up since he was a child, have long regarded her as half a daughter-in-law and half a daughter, so when Chen An and the girl he liked were found in the night tryst, Chen An's parents blew up and ran to the door of the girl's house and scolded the street for several days.

In the past, the transportation was inconvenient, the society was closed, and it may not be a big deal now, and it may be possible to ease the life in a different place, but in that era, many people have been to the farthest place in their lives is the town, so when such a thing happens, it is undoubtedly equivalent to the collapse of the whole world for the girl's family.

Chen An was tied hand and foot and locked at home at that time, until he came out, he didn't know that the girl had jumped into the river, and his beloved died tragically because of himself, Chen An couldn't accept this matter, and he couldn't kill his parents who gave birth to him to take revenge, so he ran away from home in a fit of anger and never returned to that village.

If it is an ordinary person, he may have to change places to recuperate and start a new life at this time, but this Chen An is not an ordinary person, and he is also an infatuated person.

He searched along the river for a long time, trying to find the girl's body, but in the end the body was not found.

This is more than ten years.

If the story ends here, it will only be a touching love story, far less bizarre than the one that followed - just when Chen An was already accustomed to his new life, his early child daughter-in-law found him.

Chen An's child daughter-in-law is also a hard-working woman, she can't imagine that the man who regards her husband only treats her as a sister in his heart, but even if that man doesn't love her, and even likes other women, she doesn't have the slightest complaint.

After Chen An left, she took care of Chen An's parents while looking for Chen An, and she never got married during the period, and she searched for more than ten years, and when she found Chen An, her parents had already passed away for many years, and she had become an old girl.

After all, Chen An has always believed that the reason why he and the girl ended in tragedy was all because of her child daughter-in-law, so he drove her out overnight, and his words were extremely insulting.

But what no one expected was.

The next day, she hanged herself at the door of Chen An's house, and when someone found her in the morning, her body was frozen.

In the corpse removal village, there are a lot of corpses, so the initial surprise passed, and no one cared too much, but unexpectedly, the next day was ...... An Chen's neighbor died.

Day 3, Day 4......

Every day, a family dies, and Chen An is gone, and the residents who are neighbors to Chen An in the corpse fishing village are all in danger, so within a few days, the surrounding families have been emptied, and Chen An's house has become a ghost house hanging alone outside the corpse collection village.

For so many years, no one dared to go in, not even at night, and no one dared to walk the road next to his house.

After listening to the old man's description, I had goosebumps all over my body, and when I looked up, I found cigarette butts next to the old man, and I didn't even notice that he had smoked so many cigarettes at this moment.

The old man is usually more frugal, most of the time he smokes his dry tobacco, and when he is in a good mood or a bad mood, he will smoke his ten yuan a pack of petite sons.

It seems that this incident also had a relatively large impact on him at the beginning.

"After all that, you still insist on going?" The old man took the last puff and looked up at me.

I nodded, after all, I had already prepared my mind beforehand, and it was certainly not a good place for the old dragon king to think that I had gone to a place where I would probably not live for a few days, so I was surprised but not surprised.

At this time, Du Qing, who had been listening for a long time, came over, took off his coat, took off the vest inside, and handed it to me.

I took it for some reason, but when I started it, I found that the vest was very heavy, and it seemed that something was sewn into it.

"Inside is glutinous rice soaked in rooster blood, and there are a few handwritten vajra talismans from me, I am shallow, so the function is not great, but it is better than nothing, you wear it, it may be able to save your life at a critical time."

I was holding this somewhat stinky vest, and I was a little speechless in my heart, at first I thought that Du Qing was a hidden master, probably a descendant of that mysterious sect, but now it seems that ...... Not quite like that.

But anyway, this is also a piece of Du Qing's kindness, so I said thank you seriously after putting it on.

Du Qing nodded, hesitated, took out a wooden dagger from the yellow cloth bag, and handed it to me.

"Because you haven't practiced, you can't use many things, this is a dagger made of hundred-year-old mahogany, even if ordinary people hold it, it is useless, but it's hard to say how useful it is, it's just for you to use for self-defense, stab and turn around and run, don't be stupid to think about fighting it, otherwise you may die."

"This thing is one of the few good things my master gave me, I just borrowed it from you, you must bring it back to me."

Listening to Du Qing's words with a hint of poverty in his concern, I was a little moved, and repeatedly promised that I would come back alive.

Du Qing sat down and told me a lot of how to distinguish in the face of ghosts, and how to escape in the face of danger, etc., Du Qing spoke very carefully, and I listened very seriously, at the end of the talk, Du Qing looked at me worriedly, and said: "People who have not practiced in the face of ghosts, they really don't have much ability to resist, but now the time is too urgent, and I don't have time to teach you, so I will only tell you one word." ”

"When you see that the situation is not good, turn around and run, stay in the green mountains, and you are not afraid of running out of firewood."

I understood what Du Qing meant, that is, let me not be stubborn, and I really couldn't last three days and fled back immediately.

After Du Qing finished speaking, the old man got up again and pulled me into the house, I saw that his expression was very solemn, so I didn't dare to ask him what he was going to do.

However, when he arrived at the bed, the old man sat on the ground, dragged out a large box from the many debris under the bed, and then gently wiped the dust off the surface with his rough palm, and his face was a little indescribably complicated.

"Click—"

With a great effort, the old man pulled the already rusty lock down, and then opened the box, and a faint smell of camphor wafted out of it.

"You take this thing with you." The old man's eyes looked straight into the box, and his tone carried a hint of imperceptible sadness.

When I saw the contents of the box, I was stunned.

It was a red padded jacket.

"This dress...... Is there any use in bringing it over? I couldn't help but ask.

The old man turned to look at me, did not answer my question, and said, "Yu'an, let me teach you a few words, you keep in mind that if someone asks you at night, you just do what I say." ”

The amount of information in the old man's words was too large, and I was stunned for a while, and before I could say anything when I opened my mouth, the old man waved his hand and sighed: "Don't ask, just listen to me." ”

My heart moved, and I nodded.

The old man's face was relieved, and then he spoke to me, and I listened attentively, nodding my head from time to time, and keeping in my mind what the old man said.

"Okay, let's go to sleep when I remember clearly, it's not too early, let's sleep and go back tomorrow." After the explanation was finished, the old man persuaded with a tired look.