Chapter Twenty-Six: The Night Search
On the night of Qixi Festival, the mother and son spider, the old woman!
Teacher Wang was confused: "Xin Man, were they bitten by a spider?" ”
Old Man Ma and Xing San had no time to pay attention to her, and Old Man Ma asked Yue Wanqi where they had a spider silk marriage, and then got up and left. Sentence 3 followed.
I said to Teacher Wang: "It's possible, don't worry too much, Xinman's grandfather specializes in spiders, and it's absolutely fine to have him." ”
After that, I followed.
Su Feiyong and the two quickly followed.
After leaving the school gate and getting in the car, the old man Ma reported the address Yue Wanqi said, and the group drove there.
Old man Ma told Xing San to call her wife immediately, telling her to leave the house immediately, not to go back, and not to go to Xing Xinman's room.
He was worried about another spider. I said, "The spider I killed last night is so big, how dare these little girls dare to catch them?" ”
In particular, I don't know if the one killed last night was only the "mother" or the "son", if it was the "son", then the "mother" spider would not be even bigger.
"They must not have been like that when they were first caught, go to the place where they performed the ritual first and see if there are any clues." The old man said.
When I came to the place Yue Wanqi said, it was not very remote, but there were not many residents around, and they were all some buildings for unknown reasons, which seemed deserted. There are several dilapidated buildings waiting to be demolished. We followed what she said and walked towards one of the buildings.
Those little girls are really too bold, and they don't care about playing with an old woman of unknown origin at night, and they are really not afraid of danger when they come to this kind of dangerous building.
A clearing was cleared inside, and it was probably the place where they got married that night.
We looked around and there was nothing, empty.
I found a few drops of blood in the clearing and asked the old man to come and take a look.
The third sentence also came over. These few drops of blood are the only traces left here, but it is not certain whether they were left by Xing Xinman and them.
Xing San regretted: "If I usually care more about Xin Man, I won't know that she came here to get these things, it's all my fault, it's all my father's fault!" ”
"That's it! The boss is not a small person, what are you crying about? It's not surprising that the little girl is curious about this! It's just that the old woman who instructed them has ulterior motives," said the old man, glancing around, "There is nothing famous here, it's not too early, let's go back first, find a place to have a good meal, and then go and find another spider tonight." ”
We went back to Xingsan's house, Xingsan's wife stayed in the convenience store opposite the house, and when she saw us coming back, she quickly asked what was going on, why did she come out, and what happened to Xinman?
Xing San explained to her what happened.
Old man Ma unceremoniously explained to Su Feiyong that they were looking for a place to eat nearby.
In a nearby hotel, Old Man Ma was really not polite to Second Master Nawei, and generously ordered a table of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and ate and drank heavily.
Xing San and his wife were worried about Xing Xinman's affairs, and they didn't have the slightest appetite.
"Ma, what should Xin Man do! What the hell is going on with her now. The third sentence said worriedly.
"It's hard to say, wait until tonight to find out the other spider, don't worry, with me, what can she do." The old man said while eating.
The third sentence is to believe in the ability of the old man Ma, but the state of the old man is really not reassuring.
After eating, the group first went to an acquaintance's house near the three families to settle down, the old man Ma originally intended to rest in the hotel, but seeing the anxious appearance of the three couples, he was embarrassed to say.
As night fell, the old man went to find the traces of another spider. The blood spider silk is formed at night and melts during the day, and the spider must also be diurnal and nocturnal.
The third sentence should go with him. The old man said: "That ghost spider doesn't know what it is, you follow me to see you, how can you find it." ”
He turned to the inseparable Su Feiyong and the others: "Don't follow the two of you, I can't control you if something happens in a while, just follow me." ”
He looked at me as he spoke.
I was stunned, I hadn't thought to look for it with him from beginning to end, and when I saw it last night, I knew how powerful it was.
"Mr. Ma, I'll forget it, with my body, anyone can be better than me." I said.
"Don't be verbose, you are my apprentice, who will go if you don't go."
He really called me as an apprentice.
There's no way, whoever told me to ask for help, I can only give him a face and pretend to be his apprentice.
The lights in the house were not turned on, and it was pitch black. At night, the wind poured in through the half-open windows, and the curtains swayed.
Holding the key given by Xingsan to open the door, I asked, "Since you don't know what that spider is, why do you call it a ghost spider?" ”
"Everything is everything, there are many things that are not clear and incomprehensible, and everyone has to be entangled in its name, when is it a head, but if there is a strange thing that cannot be named, it will be regarded as a ghost, you kid learn a little, in this way, what is called a ghost is not necessarily a lonely ghost."
"So this 'ghost' is the general term for all things weird?"
"Let's just put it that way."
"What's that ghost woman?"
The old man looked at me with a smile and didn't make a sound, seeing that I was talking around the bush.
I pushed the door open, and it was pitch black, and the spider didn't know where it was. I had to stand aside, pretend to be respectful, and let the old man take the lead.
He went into the house, turned on the light, and I followed.
"How do you kid know about the ghost woman?" The old man asked.
I showed a helpless wry smile: "I came to you for help, how much has nothing to do with the ghost woman, the old woman who listened to the girl during the day suddenly made me think of the ghost woman, old man, what is this ghost woman?" ”
Old man Ma didn't answer immediately: "You want to know about the ghost woman and I'll tell you later, this time it's really likely to be related to her." ”
The old man walked upstairs to the room, and I followed. His goal was clear, and he went straight to Xing Xinman's boudoir, where the ghost spider was most likely.
The door of Xing Xinman's room opened, and the room was dark. Because she couldn't see the light of day, her room was lit with a dim night lamp day and night, but for some reason it wasn't lit. Could it be that it was closed when the wife of the third sentence left? She didn't have a reason to do that.
The old man stared at the dark room with a serious expression, and motioned for me to give him the backpack.
He took out a small square wrapped in red cloth from his backpack, handed it to me, and said in a deep voice, "Take this amulet." ”
I pinched this small box, and the contents were paper, presumably rune paper. Even if this thing is useful, it can only ensure that I don't have to worry about my life, but it has no power to fight back.
I looked left and right and caught a glimpse of a washboard next to it, and picked it up.