As soon as they entered the village, Xing Ruyi and the others felt that the atmosphere in the village was obviously wrong. At this time, it was not yet dinner, but every household lit a fire early, and there were few people in the village.

"Ruyi, don't you think this village is a little strange?" Siniang lifted the curtain of the carriage and glanced outside. I saw a villager looking at them through the crack in the door. The four eyes met each other, and their eyes lightly touched one place, but the man panicked and closed the crack in the door.

"It's strange that these villagers are both curious about us and afraid of us." Xing Ruyi said, and also lifted the other side of the curtain. Sure enough, there were also villagers over there who were quietly watching them through the crack in the door. When their eyes met, the man quickly shrank back, but the crack in his door was still there, and it was not closed tightly.

"When I was at the entrance of the village, I saw the smoke from the grave entering the village, but after entering the village, it disappeared." Li Mao stopped the carriage, "Judging from Xiao's previous experience, what these villagers are afraid of is probably not us, but the smoke from the grave." ”

"A puff of grave smoke is just a storm that can be set off!" Xing Ruyi said and stepped out of the carriage. She found the house she had been in before, and looked through the crack in the door. As soon as his eyes came up, he saw a pair of black eyes that were dripping and rolling.

"See, take a closer look?" Xing Ruyi took a step back, clasped his hands around his chest, and raised his chin at the person in the door: "I see that you are quite bold, do you dare to open the door of your house and tell us what's going on?" Maybe the matter in your village, this girl can help solve it. ”

The man didn't speak, but a few words were clearly written on his face: "Just you?" A yellow-haired girl! ”

Xing Ruyi shook his head, took a step back, and said a few words softly: "Your family just had a funeral, right?" It was your grandmother who died, and she was over 70 years old, which can be regarded as a happy mourning. It's just that the coffin at your home is not very good, and it is made of aged sycamore. As soon as the coffin fell into the pit, a crack was opened, and now your grandmother is soaking in the water, so she is not very happy. ”

"You...... How do you know? The man was startled and pulled the crack in the door a little wider.

"Do you want to know, how do I know?" Xing Ruyi raised his chin: "Open the door first, let us go in and sit." This was bumped by the carriage for most of the day, and the bones in my body were about to fall apart! ”

"Han'er, open the door and let all the guests outside the door come in!"

An old man, smoking a dry tobacco pouch, walked out of the side room. He squinted, glanced at Xing Ruyi through the slightly open crack in the door, and asked the young man to open the door.

"Grandpa, this ...... Is this okay? The young man hesitated.

"What's not to do? This dead horse can be used as a live horse doctor, and besides, I think other girls also have some real skills, maybe the affairs in our village really have to rely on these distinguished guests to solve them. Open the door, shall we? If there is really something, my old man is alone. ”

"Your grandfather is right! It's you, who are young, but you don't have the courage and courage of the old man! ”

"You girl, you don't need to praise me with words. We in the countryside don't have anything good to entertain you. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare! We have all the food and drink in the car. The peach blossoms in the Li family's wine shop in Luoyang City are drunk, do you want a pot, old man? ”

"Peach Blossom Drunk?" The old man raised his foot and knocked the dry tobacco pouch with the upper of his shoe: "This is good wine, and it should be my old man who has oral today!" Han'er, go ahead, let's take out a plate of pickled radishes. Grandpa and this girl talked well. ”

Xing Ruyi saw that there was another story to hear, and gave Li Mao a look, Li Mao hurriedly turned back to the carriage, took a plate of vinegared peanuts, a plate of sauced beef, and put it in front of the old man.

The old man glanced at these things, but did not move his chopsticks, but smoked his dry cigarette with a click: "The girl is not an ordinary person, right?" What you just told Han'er outside the door is true? ”

"Is it true? You have to discern carefully. Xing Ruyi said, pointing to the wing: "This wing, originally your son and daughter-in-law lived. It's a pity that the two of them went when your grandson was a minor. You're afraid of being sad, so you take these two houses and pile them up with clutter. ”

"That's right! There are three generations of my family, young and old, and there are only a few houses in total. The door of this wing is open again, and there are still things that my son and daughter-in-law used when they were alive, and there are also grain farming tools stacked in the corners of the side, and it is not surprising that you can see it. But what does this have to do with what you said to Han'er outside the door? ”

"Don't worry, old man, listen to Ruyi and tell you slowly." After Xing Ruyi finished speaking, he pointed to another house and said, "This house is where you lived before you got old." First, the appearance of this house, new and old, indicates that this house has only been rebuilt in recent years. The front of the door is cleaned more carefully, and even those flowers and plants, you have also carefully cared for them. Supposedly, this house is occupied by your old and deceased spouses, and you will not move out casually. Even if you move out, there must be a reason. ”

"My old man is old, and I'm afraid to see things and think about people!"

"If this had been two years earlier, you might have moved out of that house for this reason, but with your current age and your open-mindedness, I am afraid that you would prefer to live in it and see things and think about people. It's not the longing for your wife that makes you move out, it's the water that comes from an unknown source. ”

Hearing this, the old man's expression changed significantly.

Xing Ruyi looked at the old lady standing in front of the house, drenched in water, but still pouting, and couldn't help but envy the feelings of the old man in the countryside.

When she got out of the carriage just now, she didn't notice any difference between this courtyard and the courtyard next to it, and was completely attracted by the crack in the door that had not closed in time. But when she looked through the crack in the door, she not only saw Han'er's dripping black eyes, but also saw the watery old lady standing in the shadow behind him.

Judging from the appearance, the old lady and the Han'er behind the door should be close relatives, and when the old man happened, the old lady's aggrieved pouting action made Xing Ruyi identify the kinship between them. It's no wonder that although there are ghosts in this courtyard, there is no trace of ghosts.

Xing Ruyi only glanced at the old lady with a ghostly eye, and the cause and effect of this were understood.

She got up, walked over to the house, and gave her hand a gentle push. The wooden door creaked open, and the smell of leaves falling into the dirt and rotting after a rainy autumn season emanated.

"The day after the old lady was buried, there was a rainy day, which seeped into the new soil and flowed into the tomb. The old lady's coffin was laid by you a few years ago, and it was made of the sycamore wood that you and the old lady planted together. It's a pity that this sycamore wood is not a good wood for coffins, and after being shelved for so many years, the wood has long become bad. On the day of the burial, he was knocked by those rough people again, and a big hole was opened, so the water got into the coffin.

I remember it rained for seven or eight days, right? So think about it, isn't the old lady's body soaked in muddy water for so long? When this person first arrived, the soul was still in the body, and the perception had not completely left, so the taste of soaking in the muddy water was not pleasant.

The old lady was aggrieved, so she came to you when she was recovering in seven days, but you were so sad and sad that you got drunk that night. The old lady has no choice but to come and complain every night, what about you? I can only see my wife, but I can't hear what she is saying. Seeing her full of **, looking at you pitifully, you are in a panic, but you don't know what to do? So, you can only hide out. ”

"That's not right! If this old lady can enter that house, why can't she enter the house opposite? Siniang pointed to the room where the old man's son and daughter-in-law lived before.

"It's simple, because there's a talisman on that room!" Xing Ruyi pointed casually, and Siniang and they immediately saw a rune paper hanging with a red rope, which had long been uncolored and folded into a triangular shape.

"Your son and daughter-in-law should have died unexpectedly, right? At that time, your grandson was still young, and you were always worried that your daughter-in-law would not be able to let go of this child, and she would take the child's soul with her, so you went to ask for this talisman and came back, and hung it outside the house. That small bed should be your grandson, who you called Han'er when he was a child. As for the word Han'er, it should not be your grandson's big name, it is a cheap name given in order to make a living according to the practice of the countryside. ”

"That's right!" The old man had red eyes, glanced at his wife, lowered his head and knocked his eye bags on the table legs: "I can indeed see that old woman in my family, she is a person who has stepped into the coffin on one leg, and there is nothing else that you can't see." I'm not worried that she'll take me away, I'm just not worried about my grandson. His father and mother went early, if I can't see him start a family with my own eyes, I won't be blind. ”

"Don't worry, the old lady is reluctant to take her grandson, let alone take you away, and she also hopes that your old man can enjoy a few more days of happiness in this world. She came to you just to ask you to help her clean up the rainwater from the tomb, so that she could leave clean and refreshing. ”

"Old woman, I can't stand you! When it came, I couldn't buy you a good coffin. Don't worry, this afternoon, I'll let Han'er clean up your house. Don't be in a hurry to leave, wait, when I settle Han'er's family affairs, I'll go to you, let's go on the road together, and we can take care of it. With your temperament, I'm worried that you'll be bullied over there! ”

The old lady also had red circles in her eyes and shed a few ghost tears. She knew that Xing Ruyi could see herself and hear herself, so she hurriedly begged her to bring two words to the old man, saying that her graveyard was not in a hurry, anyway, she had been lying in the muddy puddle for so many days, and she was not too late to lie down for a month. Compared with herself, she was more worried about the safety of the grandfather and grandson.

"You mean, the old man and Han'er have seen that thing? The reason why you stay here is not entirely for the rain in your own grave, but because you are worried that the thing will come back and harm them? ”

The old lady nodded quickly, then glanced a little frightened at somewhere on the door. Xing Ruyi followed her line of sight, and sure enough, two shallow palm prints were found on the wooden door, judging by the size, it should be a woman's.

(Education 123 Literature Network)