Chapter 23: Retreat

I'm feeling cold, Xiaoxingjia Village really wants to invite a master, so, can you find out that we did it?

After eating, I hurried to Zhang Hong's house, he was looking at the clay villain on the table, saw me coming, and said excitedly: "Qiangzi, I also have a cursed villain." As long as there is craftsmanship, smash one, I can pinch one again, and I will kill them! ”

I sat down next to him with my head bored and lit a cigarette: "Something happened in Xiaoxingjia Village, do you know?" ”

"What's wrong?" He asked.

I told him about the things I heard at the dinner table, and Zhang Hong pouted when he heard it: "Are you afraid?" What master can they invite, and what master can beat my master? ”

"The third uncle is now in retreat, and there are enemies coming to the door, so don't make trouble at this time." I said sullenly.

Zhang Hong didn't care: "Don't worry, I know that there are indeed a few big immortals in these ten miles and eight villages, but they are all gods." After I got to know Master, I felt that none of them were opponents, and I believe me, I will definitely not be able to find out about us. Now the first thing is that I have to think about how to get revenge on my mother-in-law and their family. ”

He picked up the clay figure and used a knife to carve the eight characters of birth on his leg. I snatched it up: "You're done!" Can this node be stopped? The villain cursed, so that the gods did not know the ghosts, as if they were juggling. Now as long as something happens to their family, they know that you did it, what does this trick mean? ”

Zhang Hong thought for a while and said: "Okay, after this limelight, I will definitely take revenge on the shame." ”

I took the clay figure and said, "I'll hold this thing for the time being, I'm not at ease when I put you here." ”

Zhang Hong smiled: "Qiangzi, look at your cowardice, no wonder the master doesn't accept you as an apprentice." ”

"I can't help it, I know it in my heart, and I can't tell you. In the past few days, don't go to Xiaoxingjia Village, their family called you to go, don't go, it's the Longtan Tiger's Den now. I said.

Zhang Hong stretched his waist and scolded me for talking a lot of nonsense, saying that he knew.

After I went back, I paid close attention to the movements in Xiaoxingjia Village.

Two days later, I heard that their village had really invited a master. Because the two villages are not close to each other, it will take a long time for them to have any news. Luckily, my sister works in the village factory, where there are migrant workers from all villages, and it is a distribution center for gossip news, and she comes back every day to tell us something new.

The master invited by Xiaoxingjia Village is not the gods and goddesses we are familiar with, it is said that the village director of their village found it when he was rushing to the big market.

Daji not only sells all kinds of things, but also has divination, fortune telling, and dancing gods, and local and foreign fairies are open there to do business. The tall man found in their village is from other places, I don't know where he came from, and I don't know what he looks like, but it is said that he is quite tall.

When the man arrived at the village, he went directly to the spring and told the villagers that the spring was polluted and would take a long time to purify, and that it was deliberately sabotage.

The people of Xiaoxingjia Village were furious, and they were all begging the masters to find out the culprit, and it didn't matter how much money it cost to purify the divine spring again.

This master lived in the village committee guest house, and he ate and drank well, and he practiced at the sacred spring every night, and watched the lively crowds around him.

Speaking of this, my sister smiled: "Brother, what age did you say, and there are still people who are so superstitious." ”

I laughed alongside him twice.

My mother said: "You little children don't know the depths, there are many such things in our countryside, and there are many taboos, so don't take it seriously." ”

This morning, I was sleeping in a daze. The phone rang, and when I picked it up, it was Zhang Hong calling.

I irritated and asked him what he was doing.

Zhang Hong cried on the phone: "Qiangzi, come over quickly, hurry up!" ”

He hung up the phone.

I sobered up, rolled over and sat up, hurriedly put on my clothes and went to his house.

When I arrived at his house, the courtyard door was wide open, and there was no sound inside and outside.

I shouted a few times, but there was no movement.

I have a strong premonition, and I feel numb for no reason at this time, this is going to be an accident. I walked to the door lightly, and with a gentle push, the door squeaked open.

I probed in: "Zhang Hong, old Zhang?" ”

He shouted twice, but there was no response, and then an indescribable smell wafted over. It was a musty smell, but I couldn't smell anything rotten, and it gave me the illusion that there were lepers here.

I covered my nose and walked in, shouting Zhang Hong's name as I walked, and shouted twice, and a weak voice came from the back room: "Strong, strong son......"

I came to the front of the house, pushed the door in, and inside was the bedroom. The window was covered with thick curtains, and a man was lying on the kang, wrapped in a thick quilt.

The man wriggled under the covers, like a weird bug.

Don't look at it as broad daylight, but the doors and windows in the house are closed and the curtains are drawn, not only is it stuffy and breathable, but there is a strong smell of mildew, so that I don't want to go in at all.

I turned on the light on the wall casually, the light was on, and the man in the quilt screamed and said weakly: "Qiangzi, turn off, turn off the light!" ”

Hearing that the voice was Zhang Hong, I quickly turned off the lights and whispered, "Zhang Hong, is it you, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Come here......" he said weakly.

I hesitated, covered my nose and tiptoed over, came to the bedside, and whispered, "Zhang Hong, what's wrong with you?" ”

The quilt slowly lifted, revealing a face.

When I saw this face, I took two steps backwards and almost hit the table behind me.

This face is full of bulging orange pus, one by one, about to bulge or not, I don't know if it's an illusion, in the dark I can actually see that there is pus flowing in those small pus.

Zhang Hong was broken, and his face looked like a ghost. The pustule also extended to his neck, and it grew all the way down, because it was covered with the quilt, and I don't know if there were any other parts of the body.

Zhang Hong weakly stretched out a hand from the quilt to grab me, but that hand was also full of pus, most of which had been scratched, exuding a strong musty smell, and stretched out tremblingly.

I subconsciously took a step back, breaking out in a cold sweat: "Zhang Hong, what's wrong with you?" ”

Zhang Hong couldn't catch me, he lay on his back on the bed, hugging the quilt tightly as if he was afraid of the cold: "Qiang, qiangzi, I'm afraid I'm going to die, since yesterday, I've been sick." First, I had a nightmare that I saw a little red devil scratching me everywhere and biting me when he caught me...... When I woke up, these pustules grew from the place where I was bitten, and they broke when I scratched them, and they were painful and itchy...... Oh mom, sin. ”

I was afraid of being infected by what was on his body, and I was afraid that he would be too sensitive, so I inadvertently took a few steps back.

I said, "Your illness is too strange, and the timing is coincidental, could it be ......?"

"That's right," Zhang Hong turned his face to look at me: "It's the ghost of the gang in Xiaoxingjia Village." Oops, oops, it hurts me, it tickles me......"

"What then?" I didn't have a trick: "Otherwise, let's go to Xiaoxingjia Village and turn ourselves in." ”

Zhang Hong looked at me, his two eyes were hidden under a pile of pus, and he actually shone with a strange light: "Qiangzi, we are also dead now if we turn ourselves in, and our reputation is also stinky, you must not go!" ”

"What then? I watched you suffer like this! "My eyes are red.

Zhang Hong's throat moved, and he said with difficulty: "Find, find master, go find my master." ”

I thought, yes, look for the third uncle.

After so many days, he is about to come out of retreat, and if we don't look for him, we will be squeezed to a life-and-death situation.

Zhang Hong lay on the bed and hummed, I slowly withdrew from the house, and waited until the courtyard was shining on my body with the sun shining on my body, and then I took a long breath.

I squatted in the corner, my head was covered in cold sweat, and I stayed for a long time, and my mind was buzzing with some negative energy.

This time I'm really going to find the third uncle, even if I scold him, I don't care, it's important to save people.

My third uncle once sent me a location. I braved the sun to enter the mountain and walked for a long time with navigation until I reached a hillside.

No wonder the signal here is very strong, and there is a signal tower on the hill not far away, and the third uncle may have chosen this place for the retreat.

Look at the location should be nearby, the sun is hanging in the sky, and a layer of smoke is rising from the sun. I stood under the stone and looked around, there was no ghost, and the surroundings were quiet, how could there be the shadow of the third uncle.

Since I had come here with great difficulty, I couldn't go back like this, so I checked around, and I was drowsy from the sun and my mind was foggy.

As I walked, I found that there was an inconspicuous cave underneath the hillside. The opening of the cave was hidden behind a fallen dead log, and many roots and weeds that did not know how to extend from there grew and almost enveloped the cave. If you hadn't passed by here and felt cold, you wouldn't have seen a hole here.

The caves in the deep mountains have a characteristic, which is extremely cold and exudes a cold air outside.

I stood at the entrance of the cave, pulling at the weeds with my feet, and barely looked inside, and there was a black forest inside, I don't know how deep and wide it was.

I took out my phone and took a photo, but the light was useless and couldn't shine inside. I hesitated for a moment and shouted softly: "Third uncle, third uncle......"