As soon as Uncle Zhang left, we didn't have the heart to continue to watch the shrews quarrel, so we followed behind Uncle Zhang and walked towards my uncle's house. When I arrived at my uncle's house, my uncle was still sitting on the ground, not eating or drinking, and it was useless to persuade anyone.

Uncle Zhang squatted beside my uncle at this time and said, "Brother, don't be like this, you still have to eat when you should eat, you can't go on like this." ”

My uncle raised his eyelids, looked at Uncle Zhang, and said weakly: "It turned out to be Brother Zhang, Uncle Zhang is really troublesome to you, let you work all morning, did my daughter-in-law spit out that piece of resentment burn?" ”

Uncle Zhang said: "No, we didn't dig up that piece of black charcoal at all today. ”

When my uncle heard this, his eyes widened and he said, "No? How is this possible? The old people say that the hanged person will have a piece of black charcoal at his feet after death. ”

Uncle Zhang said: "This matter is a bit strange, although I am a carpenter, but I still know a little bit about yin and yang, I heard boldly tell me, your daughter-in-law's incident is a bit strange, according to my opinion, she may not be dead." ”

When my uncle heard this, he stood up and said, "What? Brother Zhang's thing is impossible, when the person was saved, he was already dead, how could he not die? ”

Uncle Zhang said: "Everything is possible, my brother asked me to say, you should eat, wait for the good news." ”

Although my uncle is still sad, but Uncle Zhang's words still worked, I saw a glimmer of hope on his face, people are most afraid of no hope, once there is hope, will be strong to live. Uncle Zhang saw that my uncle had changed, so he persuaded my uncle and said: "Brother, this person is iron and steel, and it is not okay not to eat a meal, so let's eat first, and then wait for our good news." ”

My uncle nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Zhang, I'll go to dinner." ”

After finishing speaking, he walked towards the pot and said, "Uncle Zhang, can you really be sure that there is good news?" ”

Uncle Zhang said: "It's a moment to be able to coax for a while, otherwise no matter how strong a man is, he will collapse." ”

We had been busy all morning, and we were a little hungry, so we went to eat together, and then we went out again to look for it, and until it was dark we couldn't find anything. There was no way, I had to go back to the view, get some food in the view, this day was strange and tired, so we didn't practice martial arts at night, just on the bed, lying down to sleep, just sleeping in a daze, suddenly someone outside the door shouted for help, and then desperately knocked on the door of our Taoist temple, and the three of us woke up at the same time.

Who is this? Knocking on the door in the middle of the night, it sounded like something terrible had happened. The three of us hurriedly put on our clothes, I got up and picked up the ghost head knife next to me, the two junior brothers also hurriedly picked up weapons, the three of us went to open the door together, to be honest, the general mountain bandit or something, it will not be our opponent, and when we opened the door, it was a beggar who knocked on the door, only to see the beggar with a panicked face, and shouted loudly for help when he saw us. We looked behind the beggar, and there was nothing behind him.

So I asked the beggar what happened, but the beggar seemed to be stupid, shouting for help, we quickly let the beggar into the house, in fact, in that era, the food is definitely better than the current cow, especially the kind of rap, commonly known as singing flowers, what to see and sing, they also pay attention to the height of the court, if they go to the reader's house to ask for food, the reader does not give, or insults, they will sing Don't look at the food and bow their heads, and the food is not in the ninth stream. After the bottom of the door is the Buddha gate, the saint asks us at the door. People leave the grass and roots for future generations, and they can't make their hearts black when they read. Usually when the song is sung, the reader will give more things to appease the beggar's anger.

After the beggar arrived in the house, we saw the beggar clearly under the light, this beggar was about sixty years old, the hair was messy like a grass nest, the face was yellow and thin, the clothes on his body were almost no longer called clothes, one by one, they were about to break. Exposed from the calf down, wearing a pair of straw sandals, his legs were covered with bloody cuts, and the blood was dripping on them. We asked the beggar what was the matter, and the beggar suddenly collapsed on the ground, pointed to his mouth and said, "Hungry, hungry, I haven't eaten for three days." ”

As soon as I saw this beggar, I wouldn't say anything if I didn't give me something to eat, so I asked Tianning to get the nest head, and after a while, Tianning took a nest head and brought a bowl of water, and the beggar saw that the nest head was green, and snatched the nest head at once, and devoured it, the nest head was sorghum sweet potato noodles, if this thing didn't drink water, it would taste terrible. Because the beggar was in too much of a hurry to eat, the head of the nest choked on his throat and eyes, and he choked the beggar and screamed, pointing to his throat and eyes. I hurriedly brought the water over, and the beggar took it, took a sip of it, and then rubbed his neck vigorously, and finally swallowed it.

In fact, the beggar could have spit it out, but at that time, how could anyone be willing to spit out what he ate in his mouth. I patted the beggar on the back and said, "Uncle, eat slowly." ”

The beggar ignored me, and ate the head of the nest three or five times with water. Then he asked us for a nest, patted his chest after eating, and said, "Oh, it's so good to have a bottom in my stomach, I haven't eaten for three days and I'm dying of hunger." ”

I burst out of a rage and said to the beggar, "So you shouted for help in the middle of the night just to get a stutter?" ”

The beggar looked at the angry man and said, "No, no, don't get me wrong, the monks don't ask for food." I've really encountered something that's scared to death, Xiaodao Chief, listen to me slowly. ”

I pressed the fire and said, "What happened to me, tell me quickly." ”

The beggar said, "I saw a man-eating ghost tonight. ”

As soon as I heard about the man-eating ghost, I was shocked, and I said, "What kind of man-eating ghost, you can explain it slowly." ”

The beggar said: "Here's the thing, I am a person from Henan, last year my family suffered a drought, our family couldn't live, starved to death of three people, there was no way to come out to ask for food, to ask for another war, we have a few people, there is only me this old man, I went to the boundary of Shandong, I saw a child in the cemetery, the child was lying on the grave crying, I went up to ask the child, I didn't expect the child to smile at me, and then there was no more, since that day I had malaria, I thought that I must have met a malaria ghost." ”

There are no malaria ghosts now, but I had them when we were young, and this is a type of plague ghost, usually a seven or eight-year-old child, dressed in red or green, for the children who have died of malaria, they cry on the side of the road or in the cemetery, you go to talk to the child, the child smiles at you, and you come home and get malaria. After getting malaria, he first had chills, cold at the ends of his limbs, and chills on his back and whole body. Goosebumps on the skin, cyanosis of the lips and nails, pale face, muscle and joint aches all over the body. Then the whole body trembled, the teeth chattered, and some people couldn't stop it by covering a few quilts. Then there will be a fever, the complexion will turn red, the cyanosis will disappear, and the body temperature will rise rapidly, usually the more pronounced the chills, the higher the body temperature, which can reach more than 40°C. Patients with high fever are in unbearable pain. Some tossed and turned, moaning and moaning; Some are delirious, empty, and even convulsive or unconscious. Like a ghost, it appears at a fixed time every day.

I said, "You can't have met a malaria ghost and called us for help, right?" ”

The beggar hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, the man-eating ghost I met today is much more terrifying than the malaria ghost, after I got malaria, I can't walk here, and I have malaria, even a strong man can't last a few days, let alone me, a beggar." Three days ago I went to the persimmon grove north of you and started malaria, and I couldn't walk anymore, so I fell into the persimmon grove, and I had only one breath left for the past three days, and tonight I was lying there humming, when I heard the cry of a female ghost, and the sound of picking stones, and the sound seemed to be crying for my child.

I was scared at the time, thinking that it should be unlucky, I met the ghost of the unjustly killed, so I struggled to get up, and when I got up and looked, there was a female ghost walking leisurely not far away, as if she was holding a cloth bag in her hand, I almost went out of my body when I saw the frightened soul, I got a mother, isn't that a bloody ghost? ”