Chapter 119: Ghost Market at Night
I took an opportunity and handed the crumpled note that my second uncle and grandson had given me to Master Hongyu.
The Venerable Master Hongyu looked at me, but he didn't look at the note, but he already understood what was going on, so he took the note in his hand and went to talk to his second uncle.
As I listened, I realized that the education here was quite backward, and that the little boy was illiterate, so it seemed that the note was not written by him at all.
When the Venerable Master Hongyu asked the second uncle if he knew a man named Wang Yu, the second uncle frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head, saying that most of the people in the village were surnamed Wang, but he had never heard of such a name.
At this time, the village chief Sanzhu walked in with a large bowl of water and asked what was wrong, and the second uncle asked him if he knew a person named Wang Yu?
Sanzhuzi also shook his head: "Except for the daughters-in-law who married from outside in our village, they are all surnamed Wang, and there is really no one with this name." ”
I saw that they didn't know, and I didn't know why I was pumping in my head, so I asked him: "Then did your village have a name called Wang Yu before, this name is quite ordinary." ”
But these two natives of Wangjia Village couldn't remember that someone in the village had called this name.
We were chatting in the house, and I heard a dog barking, and I thought it was someone who had come here, but after listening to it for a long time, no one came in, and the people in the house chatted as if they hadn't heard.
As the barking intensified, my scalp began to tingle, and I was now certain that the barking was not the barking of the living dogs in the village, but the barking that I had heard in the dead of night that no one else could hear.
Just when the barking was too calm for me, I faintly heard what seemed to be someone's shouting, followed by the noise of people coming and going.
I thought that no one else could hear these sounds, but I didn't want the three pillars to prick up their ears first, and look confused, and then the people in the room stopped talking, but they all pricked up their ears and listened, and the shadows on their faces made me understand that this time they heard it too.
The second uncle's little grandson ran in at some point, snuggling up to his mother's side, his big eyes flashing with a strange light.
I wanted to pull the little boy and talk to him so that I could know who had told him to give me the note, but I didn't want to, and when he saw me, he hid, and the panic on his face was no less than that of a ghost, and I had to stay away from him.
"Kerr, let's go out and have a look." As he spoke, the Venerable Master stood up and walked out.
I hesitated to follow him, my hand already in my pocket, clutching the little gourd tightly.
"Well, sir, when are we going to throw out the miscellaneous grains we have prepared?" The daughter-in-law of the second uncle looked timidly at the Venerable Master Hongyu and asked.
"After a while, if someone you don't know walks in and throws it on the ground." The Venerable Master Hongyu said that he had already walked out.
I looked at my second uncle's daughter-in-law curiously, I don't know when the Venerable Master Hongyu asked them to prepare miscellaneous grains, but my master, why didn't he prepare some for me, if this is useful, I can also use it, can't I?
When I turned around, I saw that the little boy was staring at me with those big eyes, grasping something in his pocket with one hand and stuffing something into his mouth with the other.
Isn't that raw food, how can he call this child raw, I was so surprised that my eyes widened, and when the child saw me looking at him, he turned around and hid behind his mother.
At this time, the Venerable Master Hongyu greeted me, and I hurriedly followed him out, and when I saw outside, I saw that the fence of the farmhouse was brightly lit, and people came and went.
The Venerable Master Hongyu didn't know what he had found in his pocket and stuck it in his collar, and he strode towards the outside of the fence, and I watched him stick something into his clothes, and I wanted one to come, but he ignored me.
Obviously, it's not a good place to go outside, and there is such a street for no reason, do you still need to ask, but what's wrong with my master, I suddenly became stingy, others don't give me a copy, and he doesn't prepare a copy for his own use, which can't help but make me angry.
When he came to the fence door, the Venerable Master reached out to open the door, and a gust of wind blew in front of him, whirling, rolling up the sand and dust on the ground, and pounced on the Venerable Master, who couldn't help but take a step back and stabilize his mind, and then he was about to open the door of the fence courtyard again, and another gust of wind swept up the sand and dust on the ground and rushed towards him.
I couldn't help but walk over in wonder, didn't some villagers go out yesterday and bought things, why don't you let Master Hongyu go out now, is there anyone else who can go to this ghost market?
When I stood in front of the Venerable Master and stretched out my hand, I saw the expectant gaze of the Venerable Master, and I tried to hold the handle of the fence door and gently pulled the fence door open.
A light came from outside, reflected on my face, and I saw that it was not the usual electric light, but a piece of candlelight.
It reminds me of the horrible dorm room, and when there is such a candle in it, it means that it is haunted.
Now, when the candlelight was reflected on my face, my heart was also raised, and all the jealousy in my heart just now was thrown out of the clouds, and all that was left was fear.
"Go ahead, Kerr." The Venerable Master's voice came from behind me coldly, and I shuddered with fear.
"Don't look back, move forward." The Venerable Master Hongyu seemed to see that I was scared, and said to me in a low voice behind me.
He once said to me that there are three lamps on people's bodies, one on the top of the head, one on each shoulder, this is the yang fire of the person, that is, the lamp of the three yang fires, the ghost does not dare to approach the side of the person easily, if I turn back now, I will blow out one, of course, the yang energy will be weak.
Hearing the Venerable Master's reminder, I walked forward without looking back, while my Master, the Venerable Master Hongyu, followed me.
The people on the street were wearing ancient costumes, and they couldn't tell which dynasty they were, and they were also surprised to see our two people dressed differently, and some children followed us curiously.
"Stranger, where did this come from?" An old man with gray hair and beard greeted him with a cane.
"We ......," I was about to answer, but was interrupted by the voice of the Venerable Master Hongyu behind me.
"We've traveled here from far away, and we don't know where we've gone, so maybe the old man will give us some pointers?" I was surprised by the calm voice of the Venerable Master, and he was not at all afraid.
"We are here in Sandong Town, and these three days are the most lively in a year, and today is the second day, and the guest officer came by coincidence." The old man laughed, but his eyes narrowed and looked at us.
Three Winter Town! I was almost about to scream, didn't the note that the little boy gave me say Sandong in the small northern village, but the village characters were all written in the score, and I couldn't tell whether it was Mucai or the village word.
The Venerable Master Hiroshi coughed lightly behind me twice and turned to me, arching his hand at the old man with a smile on his face.
"Did the old man say that this is Sandong Town? Coincidentally, a friend of mine said that he had an acquaintance in Sandong Town, and I don't know if it was this place. The Venerable Master Hongyu said respectfully to the old man.
"Which one is the guest officer talking about, the old man has lived in this Sandong town for many years, I know most of the people in the town, the guest officer might as well say it, let the old man listen, maybe the old man can help the guest officer." The old man rolled his eyes and looked at me and the Venerable Master, and there was something unsettling in his eyes.
"Wang Yu, do you know the old man?" The Venerable Master said the name that had been circling in my throat all along.
The old man looked at the two of us, and suddenly his eyes moistened, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Two, but you saw a leftover baby?" ”
Seeing him say the name of his second uncle's little grandson, the Venerable Master Hongyu and I froze and couldn't help but ask in unison, "Do you know him?" ”
The old man stroked his beard and laughed: "Yes, that's my childhood playmate, I remember when I was a child, my mother and I were robbed by gangsters in the mountains, I met him in the mountains, and he also helped me take a note out to ask for help, but then I didn't see anyone to save us, my mother died on the mountain, I was forced to be their little minion, and then I escaped from the sky, and I never saw him again." ”
Hearing the old man's words, the Venerable Master Hongyu and I were stunned, what was he talking about, how could that leftover baby come here, and he also sent us a note asking for help.
The Venerable Master looked at the old man and slowly opened his clenched hand, which contained the small note I had given him.
When the old man saw this note, tears welled up at once: "It's this, it's this, I've never seen such a good piece of paper again, and the home on it is exactly what I wrote." ”
Looking at the old man who was already with tears on his face, I shook my head suspiciously, how could this be possible: "Old man, you can't be mistaken, this word, you really wrote it?" ”
I deliberately made the word "character" long to remind the Venerable Master Hongyu that there was something wrong with it, and the Venerable Master Hongyu looked down at the note, his brow furrowed slightly.
The old man reached out and took the note from the Venerable Master's hand, and looked at it carefully as he dwelled it in front of him, saying that it was the distress note he had written back then.
"Is he okay now, is he already as old as me, I didn't expect that after so many years, he still found someone to save our mother and son, no matter what, this love will be remembered in my heart." The old man said and looked at the piece of paper again.
"It seems that we are late, I wonder if those gangsters are still on the mountain?" The Venerable Master Hongyu asked the old man.
I gave him a blank look, did he have a broken brain, those villains, even the children of the year have become old men, and those villains should have been so old that their bones and scum have turned into dirt.