We haven't eaten since last night, and we fought with the big rat spirit, busy all night, now the sky is almost dawn, the stomach is already empty, as soon as I drink tea, the stomach is even more hungry, the whole stomach, all of a sudden, cooing, I quickly put down the tea bowl, no longer dare to drink more, Baoguo and Tianning do not dare to drink tea, then Song Borui saw that we don't drink tea, so he asked us: "Why don't the three virtuous nephews drink tea?" ”

Baoguo has no heart, he is a rectum, he said to Song Borui: "Old man Song, we really don't dare to drink this tea, since yesterday at noon, we haven't eaten a drop of rice, and there is only that little oil and water left in the stomach, this tea is more powerful than poison." ”

When Song Borui heard this, he hurriedly said, "Come on, hurry up and serve the food." Then he said to Yang San and Old Man Yang: "My three virtuous nephews, for Zhuangzi, have made such a great effort, and they haven't eaten until now, it's really our sin." ”

After Song Borui finished speaking, someone went to prepare the meal, and after a while, he said that the meal was ready, and the old man Song Borui led us to eat, and when we got there, we looked, good guy, a big table, the table was full of food, fried and fried everything, as soon as we smelled the fragrance of the food, our stomach growled, Song Borui said: "Don't be polite to the three virtuous nephews, don't care about our two old men, you eat hard, the three children, the clerk you also accompany the three virtuous nephews to eat." ”

We were all hungry, and we sat there and didn't care so much, we just shook off our cheeks and ate, and this meal didn't taste good until our stomachs were round. After eating, I remembered to drink, there is something in the stomach, it is much more comfortable, our stomach back then, obviously stronger than the current stomach, no matter how much we eat, there will be no indigestion. In fact, many years of memory to people, is to starve, there was a second stunned, eat a meal for three days, at that time his grandmother's family was a landlord, this person went to his grandmother's house, is to eat hard, can not eat in the yard jumping, and then eat, until the throat and eyes, is considered to be full, and then three days do not move, slowly digest the food in the stomach, this kid has a mouthful of sesame teeth, we all call him the flower whip, (our local non-venomous snake, good at swallowing eggs, a snake thicker than chopsticks, You can swallow the whole egg and find a way to break the egg in your stomach. Every time I ate the eggs, I couldn't run away, and I was stoned to death. The second stunned person is similar to a flower whip, too greedy. ）

Song Wenshu filled us with wine, drank the wine slowly, and everyone started to do home, Song Borui said: "There is one thing I don't know whether to say or not, nephew?" ”

I saw Song Borui's embarrassed look, so I said, "If Old Man Song has anything to say, you can say it." ”

Song Borui opened his mouth, sighed, closed his mouth again, and said, "Old Man Song, if you have anything, can you just say it?" ”

Song Borui said: "I don't know where to start with this matter, Song San, you go and bring the silver hairpin." ”

After the person named Song San agreed, he turned around and walked out, we people continued to drink, and after a while, Song San came back, holding a gray-white thing in his hand, and then Song Borui said: "Virtuous nephew, take a look, it was this silver hairpin at that time, do you know?" ”

When I heard this, I took the silver hairpin from Song San's hand, just touched the silver hairpin, and felt an inexplicable coolness, I was stunned, this silver hairpin was a little wrong, I took the silver hairpin in my hand and looked carefully, this silver hairpin is thick at one end and thin at the end, there are traces of polishing, very sharp, at the sharp end, the top has been blackened, and there seems to be some traces of knocking at the other end.

When Baoguo saw this, he said to me: "Senior brother, how did you make this silver hairpin so roughly, it must have been made by a wild road in the countryside." ”

I looked at the silver hairpin, shook my head and said, "No, no, this thing is like a thing, but I can't remember what this thing is for, let me think about it." ”

At this moment I remembered a terrible thing, when I threw the silver hairpin on the table involuntarily, and my body hit a spirit, and my action startled everyone on the table, and I stood up and said, "Where did this thing come from?" ”

As soon as Song Borui saw my expression, he said, "Nephew, do you know this thing?" ”

I pointed to the silver hairpin and said, "It's not a silver hairpin, it's a soul-fixing nail that nails people's souls, which means that this soul-fixing nail is pulled out from the top of a dead person's head." ”

Song Borui was surprised when he heard this, and said: "The virtuous nephew is really well-informed, this soul-fixing nail is indeed pulled out from the top of the dead man's head. ”

At this time, Song Wenwen asked me: "Brother Zhendong, what is the Soul Fixing Nail?" ”

I said: "This soul nail is extremely vicious, not for the dead, but for the living, they want to harm the living, and they are afraid that the living will become evil ghosts and revenge, and they are afraid that someone will notice, so they will secretly stab this needle from the Baihui point on the top of the person's head, directly into the person's head, generally not too much blood, the hair Ichigo will not see anything, so it is said to the person to die violently, because the deceased has no scars on the body, and there are signs of poisoning, it is generally considered to be a horizontal death, and will not be investigated." Because of this silver nail, the three souls and seven spirits of people are fixed, so people will not become ghosts and seek revenge on the living. Old Man Song, where did you get this soul-fixing nail? ”

Song Borui said: "It's hard to say, this matter has to start from many years ago, our yard is big, presumably the virtuous nephew has also seen it, our yard is a large yard with a small yard, there is a spare yard in the northwest corner, the idle yard is closed all year round, and it has not been opened for many years, I asked my father what was in that yard, and my father asked me never to go to that yard."

At that time, I was seventeen or eighteen years old, reading the book of Confucius and Mencius, I can say that I had a lot of courage, and I never believed in ghosts and gods, and once I stole the key to the house and took advantage of the darkness to get to that courtyard. I still remember the scene of that day, although the yard is uninhabited all year round, the housekeeper changes the lock every year, so the lock in that yard, although slightly rusty, can be easily opened.

I opened the door of the yard, which had not been opened in a long time, and made a strange creaking sound that made my scalp tingle when I listened to it. But relying on the guts, I didn't retreat, but continued to go in, the yard is similar to most yards, there are a few main houses, there are a few side houses next to it, the yard because no one lives all year round, the weeds in it are overgrown, and some weeds are more than half a person high. The whole courtyard gave people a sense of desolation, as if it was not a place for living people at all, and I couldn't help but feel a panic in my heart.

But the more panicked I was, the more curious I was, what secrets were hidden in this courtyard, I walked towards the courtyard, carrying a lantern for patrolling, the lantern was not very clear, the shadow was abundant, I gave myself a bit of courage, and said loudly: "There are no ghosts in the world, and mediocre people disturb themselves." ”

I shook my head, carried the lantern in the grass and continued to walk forward, when I walked to a place, I found that the place, and other places, this place has no grass, bare nothing, I was a little strange, but I didn't think much about it, so I continued to walk forward, and when I walked to the door of the house, I pushed open the door with my hand, a burst of dust fell, I quickly retreated, and waited for a while, the dust fell clean, I dared to go to the house, that room has not been lived in for a long time, I have been a forbidden land for as long as I can remember, that yard is a forbidden land, I took a look around the house with a lantern and found that there were calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, which must have been a quiet place, but unfortunately those calligraphy and paintings were covered with dust, and I couldn't see what they were, so I looked around, and there was nothing special in the house.

So I turned around and prepared to go back, just then I suddenly heard a cry, that cry was very small, it seemed to come from a long distance, first it was sad and sad, the cry was a little vague, like something stuffed in her mouth, but it could make people feel that she was very painful, I heard this cry at that time it was a spirit, not afraid of ghosts and gods because I didn't meet it. ”