The earth has fallen asleep, except for the gentle breeze blowing, and the deserted streets are silent only by the cold light of the moon.

Xiang Huairen looked at the surrounding environment and sure enough, as the driver said, he didn't find anyone with lights on along the way, and although the carpenter village is called the carpenter village, most of the courtyard walls and houses are made of mud, and some walls are less than one person tall because they collapsed, so Xiang Huairen can see who has not lit the lights.

Xiang Huairen walked under the big locust tree according to the route provided by Yan Wei, looked at the locust tree and Yan Wei said, made sure that he was not wrong, and looked at the stone bench under the locust tree, secretly thinking that this should be a place for the people in the village to cool off in summer, so he ignored it, bypassed the locust tree and walked inside, walked about thirty meters away, and there was indeed an alley on the right, Xiang Huairen walked to the innermost part of the alley and looked at the black wooden gate more than two meters high, and secretly determined that it was here, so he was about to knock on the door, but the hand that was about to knock on the door was taken back, Thinking that he had forgotten to ask the old drunkard how to lure the ghost keeper out, he had no choice but to think about it himself, and after hesitating, Xiang Huairen knocked on the door, and then took three steps back and looked at the wooden door.

The whole alley was silent except for Xiang Huairen's breathing, there was no other sound, the door did not open, Xiang Huairen saw that no one opened the door and knocked on the door again, took three steps back, and waited for a while The door still did not open.

After repeating it several times, Xiang Huairen lost patience and wanted to see what was going on inside, so he put his face on the door, and looked in along the crack in the door: the earthen house with the lights off, the stout ancient trees, and the paper money all over the ground, suddenly a green and faint eye appeared in front of Xiang Huairen's eyes and looked at him along the crack in the door, and the two looked at each other, so frightened that Xiang Huairen took a few steps back and sat on the ground, "Squeak~ya~" The heavy black wooden door slowly opened.

An old man came out, with only a few scattered white hairs on the top of his bare head, his long face was covered with deep wrinkles, and his high cheekbones made his already small eyes deeper and sunken inward, adding a hooked nose to give people a very strange feeling, at this time the old man was holding a green lantern with a skinny hand and grinning at Xiang Huairen with a toothless mouth, if it weren't for Xiang Huairen seeing the old man's shadow through the green and faint light, he would have regarded him as a ghost a long time ago, After learning that the other party was a person, Xiang Huairen patted the soil on his buttocks, stood up, and said to the old man with a smile: "Good evening, grandpa, hehe!" I'm C, you're M", after scolding Xiang Huairen, he didn't dare to stop for a moment, and he ran away with enough strength.

But when he ran to the old locust tree, Xiang Huairen found that there was no sound behind him, turned his head while running, stopped, Xiang Huairen scratched his head, and muttered in a low voice, "Is it that I ran too fast, he can't catch up", and went back, and when Xiang Huairen returned to the door, the dark wooden door was closed again, with the experience just now, Xiang Huairen didn't dare to get too close to the door, and stood ten steps away from the door and began to curse.

After a while, the wooden door was opened again, a gust of wind blew through Xiang Huairen and couldn't help shivering, but he didn't see the figure of the old man, although the door opened Xiang Huairen didn't dare to move forward half a step, the ghost knows if he could come out alive after entering, Xiang Huairen could only continue to scold, five minutes later Xiang Huairen was really speechless, and secretly thought, "I'm scolded like this, you don't come out?" Never mind! Let's go back and ask the old drunkard what to do! ”。

Having made up his mind Xiang Huairen withdrew from the alley and began to walk back, when passing by the locust tree, Xiang Huairen's afterglow seemed to see a figure under the tree, so he turned his head to look and found that there were indeed two children, two children, a boy and a woman dressed in Tang costumes, sitting on the stone bench with their heads down, about four or five years old, their faces were round and very cute, but the strange thing was that the two children were pale and rubbed the round red rouge on both sides, Xiang Huairen squatted in front of the two children and said, "Little brother and little sister, why don't you go home at night?" ”

The two children did not speak but raised their heads and looked at Xiang Huairen resentfully, Xiang Huairen was panicked by the two children, and looked away, suddenly Xiang Huairen was shocked, he found that the two children had no shadow under the cold moonlight, remembered what the driver said, "There is no figure in the carpenter village now", Xiang Huairen slowly raised his head, did not dare to make too much movement, endured the stinging sensation from his eyes and looked at the two children, only to see that the two children exuded a majestic ghostly aura, Xiang Huairen knew that he had encountered dirty things, The two resentful spirits still looked at Xiang Huairen resentfully, and Xiang Huairen squatted and didn't dare to move.

The carpenter village under the cold moon is surprisingly quiet, at this time there is not even the sound of the wind, the only sound is Xiang Huairen's heartbeat, under the bleak moonlight, Xiang Huairen doesn't know how long he squatted only to feel that his legs have been numb, but the two resentful spirits still have no movement, Xiang Huairen saw them like this, slowly stood up, turned around stiffly and took the first step, the second step, the third step, Xiang Huairen's nerves and muscles have been tense since he knew that the two children were not people, At this time, he couldn't stand the always oppressive atmosphere, and when he took the third step, he began to run wildly, and the two resentful spirits saw that Xiang Huairen was about to run, and floated directly to both sides of Xiang Huairen's body, and one of them grabbed an arm and lifted Xiang Huairen into the air and flew towards the courtyard of the ghost keeper.

Xiang Huairen knew that once the ghost keeper caught him, he would definitely be more than lucky, so he struggled desperately in the air, and the two resentful spirits saw that Xiang Huairen was not honest, and increased the strength in their hands, and actually inserted their fingers into Xiang Huairen's flesh and skin, and Xiang Huairen, who was in pain, did not dare to make a single move.

When they arrived at the sky above the ghost keeper's yard, when there was still a height of two or three meters from the ground, the two resentful spirits threw Xiang Huairen on the ground, and Xiang Huairen who fell was surging with blood but did not dare to make a sound, at this time the old man was standing on top of Xiang Huairen's head, holding a green lantern behind his back and looking at Xiang Huairen with a smile, a puff of smoke slowly came out of the old man's mouth and drilled into Xiang Huairen's nose, and gradually Xiang Huairen lost consciousness.

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When Xiang Huairen regained consciousness again, opened his eyes suddenly, but was horrified to find that his head was full of all kinds of corpses, he wanted to scream but couldn't make a sound, and his limbs couldn't move, after a while, Xiang Huairen regained his composure, he knew that the more panicked he was at this time, the more he couldn't think of a way, and through the faint green fire on the wall, he began to look at the surrounding environment.

Xiang Huairen's place seems to be in a cellar, he is lying on the wooden table as a "big" son, his limbs are obviously unrestrained but he can't move, the wooden table next to him is full of all kinds of torture instruments, the top of his head is full of corpses, each corpse is as dry as if it has been drained, and his mouth is wide as if he suffered a lot of pain before death, but the two corpses directly above Xiang Huairen's head are different from other corpses, the two corpses are a man and a woman, the man is wearing orange overalls, the woman is wearing a red shirt, the two hug each other, It looked like a couple, and Xiang Huairen couldn't see anything, so he looked away.

Suddenly, Xiang Huairen seemed to see something familiar, in the earthen wall two meters away from his feet, there was a groove that seemed to have been dug out, and there was an oil lamp in the groove, and there were two corpses in Tang costumes sitting in a wooden basin behind them, looking at the size should be the bones of a child, Xiang Huairen remembered the two resentful spirits who had just caught him, and was thinking about something, when there was a sound of footsteps above his head, and after a while, the weird smiling face of the old man who raised ghosts appeared in front of Xiang Huairen, and his mouth did not move his throat but made a hoarse voice, "Little ghost, are you awake, how are you?" Is it comfortable to sleep from me? ”。

Xiang Huairen wanted to speak, but his voice couldn't make a sound, the old man who raised ghosts ignored Xiang Huairen, looked at the corpses on top of his head, and giggled, "Boy, see, these are my masterpieces, how about it?" Surprised? Hahaha~, woo~woo~", the old man who raised ghosts turned from laughter to sadness, and stroked his wrinkled face with his thin hands and said mournfully, "I'm only thirty years old, so I've changed like this."

"It's all their fault", the old man's expression became angry again, pointing to the corpses full of corpses above his head and saying angrily, "It's just that they don't help me, they sneer at me every day, laugh at me for having no wife, no children, kill my parents, and scold me behind my back for being a mourning star, they all deserve to die, they all deserve to die!" Hahaha".

The old man who raised ghosts began to laugh wildly again, and after a long time, the old man stopped laughing, opened his mouth at Xiang Huairen, and a stream of black gas flew from Xiang Huairen's mouth to the mouth of the old man raising ghosts, and the old man raised ghosts regained his weird smile and said unhurriedly, "Who sent you?"

After the black gas came out, Xiang Huairen coughed a few times, found that his throat could make a sound again, and pretended to be confused and said, "No one sent me here, I originally came to this mountain to play, but I got lost, and I came out after dark, I wanted to borrow a night from you, but I was startled by you and scolded you."

After hearing this, the old man who raised ghosts still had that expression, "It's okay if you don't say it, when you die, I will turn your ghost into my slave, and I'm not afraid that you won't say it when the time comes."

As he spoke, the old man picked up a sharp short blade from the table next to him and said, "Boy, have you heard of Ling Chi?" It is commonly known as a thousand knives, cut off your flesh piece by piece, so that you can enjoy the whole process of death, so that the greater your resentment, the greater your resentment, the more fierce you will be after being a ghost, and the happier I will be, haha", said The old man who raised ghosts slowly put the short blade on Xiang Huairen's eyes and said, "I'm not a professional either, let's start here", and slowly increased the strength in his hand.

Xiang Huairen saw that the old man who raised ghosts didn't joke with him, and hurriedly shouted, "I said, I said, a Taoist priest sent me."

When the old man raised ghosts heard Xiang Huairen speak, he said, "Daoist? But a white-haired old man with short hair."

Xiang Huairen hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes!" It's him, he's him, and he's at the entrance of the village right now."

The old man who raised ghosts asked suspiciously, "Just him?" ”。

Xiang Huairen rolled his eyes and said, "Yes! He is the only one, in fact, I was also forced, I didn't want to help him, but he didn't know how to catch my family, coerced me to lure you into one of his formations, if I didn't agree, he would kill my family, grandpa, you have a lot of spare me."

The old man raised the ghost in an angry voice in his throat: "Shut up! Don't call me grandpa".

Xiang Huairen hurriedly smiled and said, "Yes, yes, yes!" Big brother, don't be angry, you let me go, how about I deal with him with you? I know that you alone can kill him easily, but wouldn't one more person have a better chance of winning? ”。

The old man who raised ghosts didn't make a sound, and Xiang Huairen continued, "You pretend to chase me, I'll take you to avoid the formation, how about leading you to that stinky Taoist priest's place?" ”。

The old man who raised ghosts frowned and thought about it, Xiang Huairen began to cry when he saw a scene, "Wow! Mom and Dad, you must not have anything to do, if you have three long and two short, how can I live! Ah~~".

Seeing that Xiang Huairen was so sad, it didn't look like lying, the old man opened his mouth, Xiang Huairen's left hand was inhaled into the mouth of the old man raising ghosts, and his left arm was able to move, Xiang Huairen still cried in his mouth, but his heart began to snicker, the old man raised ghosts leaned his mouth to Xiang Huairen's right hand again, but this time he didn't inhale the yin qi, but let out a hoarse laugh in his throat and said, "Boy, do you think I really believe your words?" Hahaha, don't pretend, I just haven't seen a living person for a long time, play with you, today you and that stinky Taoist priest came just right, my resentful spirit twins have eaten seventy-nine ghosts, and there are still two ghosts left to make up enough nine hundred and eighty-one to become a resentful spirit, since I haven't found the ghosts of the parents of those two children, I can only use the two of you, hahaha."

Suddenly, there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground outside, and the old man who raised ghosts put away his smiling face and didn't care about Xiang Huairen and said to himself, "I actually sent it to the door", and then walked to the groove at Xiang Huairen's feet with a green lantern and said, "Children go, go out to play with Dad", two children suddenly appeared on both sides of the old man raising ghosts, Xiang Huairen was shocked that he really didn't guess wrong.