I was about to ask Yufeng what was wrong, but Yichen grabbed the corner of my clothes and squeezed his eyes at me to signal not to speak.

I had no choice but to suppress my curiosity and divert the topic and start chatting with them.

I inadvertently glanced at Liu Cuifen on the side, she had been lying in front of the window since we came in, looking out blankly.

I lowered my voice and asked Yufeng, "Old lady, is this sick?" Can it be cured? ”

Yufeng looked into the inner room, then turned his head to look at the old lady, and said in a voice not much bigger than a mosquito: "Whether the old lady can be good or not depends on the underworld tonight." ”

His words made me even more confused, and just as I wanted to ask again, Wang Erzhu came out with two bowls of paste.

"I didn't know you were coming, and I didn't buy some decent food, so you just drank some mush, and you didn't like it." Wang Erzhu rubbed his hands a little embarrassed, and his already hunched back seemed a little lower.

Yichen and Yufeng originally belonged to the Qing Xiu Sanren, and they didn't have any requirements for food. I'm a local, so there's nothing to say.

"By the way, Uncle Wang, do you have twist flowers and pickles at home?" I took a sip of the mush, and suddenly remembered a way I had eaten it when I was a child.

"Eh, I almost forgot if you didn't say so! It's really old, and my head is confused. ”

Uncle Wang slapped his thigh, turned around and walked into the back room again, and after a while, he walked out with a plastic bag and a bowl full of pickles.

"The young man looks like our local wow, outsiders don't know how to eat." Uncle Wang saw that I broke the twist flowers and soaked them in the paste with the pickles, and said with a smile.

At this time, my mouth was already stuffed with soft twist flowers and pickles, and I said vaguely: "Uncle Wang, I am from the southern suburbs, and my grandmother taught me to eat like this when I was a child." Now I'm always in the field, and I haven't eaten the mushy bubble twist at home for a long time. ”

"Hahaha, it's not, the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as the kennel at home."

The four of them drank a whole pot of mush with laughter, I thought at first that Liu Cuifen couldn't eat like that, but I didn't expect that when Wang Erzhu fed her, she actually opened her mouth.

"Alright, it's almost time, it's time to get to work."

After resting for a while, Yufeng looked at his watch, saluted Wang Erzhu, and beckoned Yichen and me to prepare to leave.

Wang Erzhu didn't ask us what we were doing, but just told us to be careful on the road, and then sat next to Liu Cuifen, took her hand and talked to ourselves.

Looking at his eyes, my heart was sour for no reason, and tears flowed down unconsciously.

After leaving Wang Erzhu's house, I glanced back at the locust tree in the courtyard again, and asked the question that I was puzzled about just now: "Yufeng Dao Chief, if Wang Bohan and Wang Yaolong's souls are really in the locust tree, why would they still harm Old Lady Liu?" ”

I remember clearly that Yufeng said that Mrs. Liu became this demented appearance, but it was entirely because she was inexplicably 'caught' on the tree.

Yufeng's fat body was shaken by the cold wind, and he sighed heavily and said, "Hey, in that tree, it's not their children and grandchildren at all." ”

"What?" I exclaimed.

Not their children and grandchildren? That......

Yichen patted me on the shoulder and said, "Actually, I can see that the one in the tree should be a tree charm, right?" ”

Yufeng nodded, acquiescing.

Seeing that I was still puzzled, Yichen continued to explain: "There are two theories about the formation of tree charms, one is that trees absorb the essence of heaven and earth for many years, and the spiritual wisdom cultivated by themselves turns into tree charms; The second is that many ghosts are reluctant to go to the underworld, so they find a locust tree to live in, and over time they merge with the tree and form a tree ghost. ”

After he said this, I finally understood what was going on, and I knew why he stopped me from asking just now.

Wang Erzhu and his old couple have to let them think about it a little bit in order to have the courage to live......

"By the way, what does it have to do with us going to the underworld if the old lady is okay or not? Also, since there is a charm in the tree, why don't you just cut it down. I let out a long sigh and continued.

A cold wind blew, and the jade wind tightened his clothes and said to me: "How can you cut down the tree, as soon as the tree is cut, the tree charm has no place to live, so you can't come out and cause trouble everywhere, I suppressed it with a talisman, and it's okay for the time being." ”

Yufeng sneezed and continued: "As for Old Lady Liu, she has a wisp of soul in her grandson, how to say it, it is the thought of her grandson." Then, this matter has something to do with Xin Lijun, remember what I told you that the location of this accident was in the underworld, right? It was Wang Yaolong who was persecuted. ”

"What?"

"Wang Yaolong?"

Yichen and I exclaimed at the same time, wasn't Wang Yaolong killed by the tree charm? Why did you get involved with Xin Lijun again?

Yu Feng put his hand to his mouth and sighed, and said tremblingly: "Wang Yaolong was killed by the tree charm when he was still a human, but when he arrived in the underworld, he was killed by Xin Lijun again, so you understand, right?" ”

I couldn't help but feel a little dumbfounded, but at the same time, I felt a deep sense of sympathy for this family.

"We're here, hurry up." Yufeng pointed ahead, and sneezed again after speaking.

I adjusted my mood and looked in the direction he pointed, only to see a huge open space, abruptly standing several hump-like mounds, some high and some low, each with a relatively flat top, but surrounded by longitudinal ravines washed by rain.

From a distance, it looks like the Devil's Town in Xinjiang.

Yufeng led the two of us to the front of the two relatively tall mounds, raised his chin and said, "This is it, the location of the Yin and Yang Gate." ”

I looked up and saw that the two stacks were about the same height, like two doorposts, with a 'door' in between.

"Let's go, let's go in." Yufeng said a word and took the lead towards the Yin Yang Gate.

Yichen and I glanced at each other and followed without saying a word.

If you haven't eaten the underworld, don't speak!

After experiencing Yu Qin's incident, I reminded myself all the time that the moment I stepped into the Yin and Yang Gate, I bit my lip even harder.

"Hoo ......"

A gust of wind blew in my ears, and I was already a little chilled by the night wind, and I couldn't help but shiver again.

Although the buildings and streets here are different from those in the underworld of the capital, the eerie atmosphere is exactly the same.

"Hmm."

Just as I looked around curiously, Yichen pulled down my sleeve and hummed to signal me to keep up.

I nodded again and again, and trotted a few steps after it.

Walking along the street for a while, I was wondering if this was the same as the capital, and there was also an underworld bank that sold underworld soil and thrush pencils, when the jade wind in front of me suddenly stopped, and I didn't stop, and almost bumped into it.

When I looked up, a shop with a similar architectural style to the underworld bank in the capital appeared in front of me, but the door number was not written on the underworld bank, but - ghost market.

Yufeng let out a sigh of relief, straightened his clothes and pushed the door straight in.

Yichen and I didn't hesitate at all, and followed Yufeng into the ghost market.

Once inside, I realized that the layout was almost identical to that of the Underworld Bank, except for a dilapidated table.

But when I saw the person behind the table, the whole person was suddenly struck by lightning, and I almost screamed.

It's him!