Chapter 241: The Secret Under the Loquat Tree
"Jingle Bell ......"
"Jingle Bell ......"
In the empty courtyard, the soft sound of bells continued to sound, and although it was very faint, this special sound completely reached the ears of those present. The bell came from my pocket, and the bell was lying in my pocket, shaking slightly.
When the soul bell rings, there must be a soul, I walked around the whole house upstairs and downstairs with the soul bell, but I didn't find it, but I didn't expect to suddenly ring the soul bell in the yard, this soul looks very weak, as if it will disappear in the next second, I must hurry up to find it, and then get the truth of the matter from her mouth.
I remembered the woman's cries and cries for help last night, and I had goosebumps on my arms, and it seemed that someone had really died in this courtyard, and there must have been more than one.
Ah Ji and the people in the painting looked at each other, it was obvious that they also heard the bell under my reminder, although they were not as sensitive to the bell as me, but after following me for a long time, they also knew the purpose of the brass bell. Ah Ji asked me nervously, "Boss, is there really anything wrong here?" Has your brass bell summoned the soul? β
I took the bell out of my pocket and began to look around: "Theoretically, that's it, you take a closer look to see if there's anything nearby." β
By this time, I had seen the soul of the brass bell, and I could clearly see that it was a woman, holding her knees under the loquat tree we had just made a fuss about, and her body was hidden by a part of the loquat leaves that had fallen down, and it was impossible to see clearly without looking closely. She wore her hair loose, she was wearing a lounge dress, her exposed arms were covered with bruises, and she was piercing a knife in her chest, and the blood stained the clothes on her chest red, and her whole body was wrapped in a blood, which looked very infiltrating, and even people who had seen so many ghosts and monsters felt very uncomfortable at this time. Sometimes the greatest evil in reality is not the unknown, but the greatest malice of your kind. Someone killed her, but who was the one who killed her? Is it really as I guessed that the owner of the house killed her?
Ah Ji obviously looked at her too much, and his frightened face turned pale and held the ancient painting in his arms, I thought to myself: This is a painting, if there is something it can't even help itself, how can it protect you. Just when I was thinking this, the person in the painting seemed to guess what I was thinking, and actually comforted Ah Ji: "Ah Ji, don't be afraid. I'm here to protect you. β
Step by step, I approached the unjust soul sitting in the loquat tree, and the copper bell vibrated more and more violently, and the sound of the copper bell in my hand became louder and louder, just at the moment when I was about to touch the female ghost. Her body suddenly became transparent and disappeared, and then the brass bell also stopped ringing all of a sudden, and there was no sound again, I sighed, knowing that she had exhausted the last trace of energy and had disappeared, although I still didn't have time to ask the truth from her mouth, but her appearance had already given me a hint.
I can probably guess that her body was buried under this loquat tree, and looking up at the fat and plump fruit on the tree, I regret a little that I just ate so much, maybe it was nourished by the dead to grow so big.
I didn't care about explaining to Ah Ji and the person in the painting, I walked directly into the house, and then began to rummage in the house for tools that could dig the soil, and walked around the house, but I never found anything, and I didn't find any tools that could be used at all, do you want me to dig it up by hand? I began to think about the possibility of digging with my hands, and at this moment, I saw an inconspicuous room in the corner of the first floor, and with my intuition, I walked straight over, the door was closed, I put my hand on the doorknob, and with a slight twist, it actually opened, and I walked in, and it was actually a small warehouse, with hoes, axes, kettles, and the like, which looked like a tool for an ordinary farmer to clean up the yard, but I remembered the appearance of the landlord of this yard, dressed in gold wire glasses, I don't think he has anything to do with activities like raising flowers and planting trees, no matter what he put these things here for, anyway, now that the tools have been found.
But when I saw these tools, a thought also flashed in my mind, although it flashed, but I still said in my heart: Could these be the tools he used to kill and bury people at that time? I felt a chill in my heart, how many secrets did this landlord hide?
I picked a handy hoe and went straight to the loquat tree. Ah Ji saw me rushing to the house alone, worked for a long time, took a hoe and came out, looked at me with a shocked face, and stammered: "Old, boss, you take it." What are you doing with a hoe? Could it be that you want to grow vegetables here? β
Ah Ji is still so naΓ―ve in this situation, so it is not for nothing that she was deceived by the teacher before.
I glanced at her, took the hoe off my shoulder, and then walked under the loquat tree and said to her, "Dig people, the next pull-down scene may cause you discomfort, you can choose to stay away." β
After listening to my words, she came to my side instead, looked at the place where I was standing, and said sharply: "Boss, no, you mean that there are dead people here?" It can't be the female ghost who just appeared, right? I nodded and said to her, "I guess so, aren't you really going to go away?" I'm going to start digging. β
She listened to my reminder and jumped all at once, but she could still see my movements and the big pit that was about to be dug, and then she took two deep breaths and said to me, "You dig it." β
I clasped my hands together and rubbed them together vigorously, and when my palms began to heat up, I picked up my hoe and began to dig hard into the ground under the loquat tree.
Probably because there is so much water here, and the land is very easy to dig up, and it is not very strenuous, and I think that the secret will soon be solved, which is not scary at all, but full of energy.
I dug out the soil with hoes and hoes, and the roots of the loquat trees began to be directly exposed to the ground, looking like human palms, intertwined and struggling to get up from the ground, and the thought that there might be a female corpse buried here, I felt a little disgusted, and I almost had no strength to dig further, but when I thought of the female voices crying at night, and the female ghosts sitting silently under the trees, I felt like they had something to tell me, they needed my help, and I had to persevere. I strengthened my faith and continued to dig hard.
At this moment, my hoe suddenly touched a hard thing, and made a "dang" sound, could it be that it touched the bone, I looked at Ah Ji and I, Ah Ji obviously heard it, and looked at me nervously. I made up my mind, and then used = to poke the hoe towards the place just now, and sure enough, I came across something, could it be her bones, I got nervous, and I added strength to my hand, as soon as I closed my eyes, I thought I would die, and I was ruthless, and fished out that thing.
"Huh." As soon as Ah Ji saw the fished out, she let out an exclamation, and I heard her voice, and I also opened my eyes, who knew that what was dug up was not a human bone, but seemed to be a piece of porcelain, which had been partially exposed. Seeing this, I'm a little weird, what is this thing? I put the hoe down, crouched down, and with my hands I ripped the dirt around the thing, and then reached in and pulled it out with all my might.
After pulling it out, I realized that although it was not a corpse, it was not much better than a corpse, it was a box made of white porcelain, it looked very delicate, but it still gave me a hint of coldness, because this is not a living thing at all.
Ah Ji had already recognized it, after all, she had once had her own one, and her voice was a little hoarse: "Urn." β
I nodded, and directly put the urn flat on the ground and began to look at it, only to see that there was a photo on the urn, although it had been stained with mud, but it was probably not very long after it was put in, and I could still vaguely recognize the appearance of the woman in the photo, and the female ghost who was lured out by my soul bell.
If it is a corpse, it is obviously a homicide, but if it is an urn, the nature has changed, and there is no murderer who is interested in buying an urn for the killed person after killing someone, and there is to be cremated, and to choose the urn, it is obvious that the workmanship of this urn is very exquisite, and a line of small characters is engraved on it, I carefully wiped the soil clean, only to recognize that it is: beloved wife Zhang Jie rest in peace.
I sat stunned on the damp mud floor, looking at the big pit I had dug and the loquat trees that were all exposed to the outside.
Looking at the urn in front of me again, I thought weakly in my heart: This is over, I have made a big mistake.
If I could, I could bury these things back in their original form, so that I felt a little uneasy, but I had covered up the stupidity I had done, and maybe I could have explained to the landlord when he was in a good mood and apologized to him, but it was definitely too late now. I looked at a dark figure not far away, crying and mourning, and my heart became more and more desperate.
I actually dug up another child's grave for him, I can't imagine his expression at this time, but I don't have to imagine, because I can see him right away, I see the landlord is coming from the alley I walked through yesterday, his movements are very urgent, obviously he already knows what is happening here, I can't guess who told him about it, my mind is running rapidly, how should I explain to him when he comes, just say that there are ghosts in the yard, am I here to catch ghosts, or do I just want to plant flowers here, I accidentally dug up this place, and no matter how I explained it, it looked like a retard.
I looked at Ah Ji and asked, "Ah Ji, what should I do, the landlord won't kill me, right?" Ah Ji also looked at the messy yard and the urn that was left alone on the ground with a speechless face, and sighed in a heavy tone: "Alas, boss, take care, I'll withdraw first." With that, she just disappeared. I looked at Ah Ji, who had disappeared, and sighed heavily: "It's just unreliable." "Suddenly, I saw a pair of leather shoes appear in front of my eyes, and then I look up at a pair of suit pants, then a shirt, and then I look up at the landlord's black face. I barely managed to squeeze out a smile that was uglier than crying: "Hello, landlord, why are you here all of a sudden?" β