Chapter 15: Night Talk
When the old man and the young man returned to Lao Litou's house, it was already ten ten in the middle of the night.
Lao Li, who was going to sleep directly, heard the gurgling sound of Zhang Fanyang's stomach.
Lao Li said with a smile: "Hungry? I'll go cook you some noodles. ”
Zhang Fanyang replied with a red face: "Don't bother you to get old, I still have steamed buns here, I'll just pad it." ”
"Hey, when you come to my house, you are my old Li Tou's guest, how can you let the guests eat cold steamed buns. I happened to be busy for a long time, old man, and I was hungry, so you should eat with me. You wait, it'll be fine for a while. ”
After saying this, the old man turned and went out of the house, and went to the hall to work.
Zhang Fanyang didn't dare to sit and wait, so he also followed the old man to the hall, and after a while, two bowls of hot noodles were served on the table.
Lao Li Tou took out a small plate of pickles and a bottle of liquor, and after asking Zhang Fanyang, he only poured himself a small glass, and tasted the wine with the pickles.
Zhang Fanyang devoured his bowl of noodles, but found that Lao Litou's bowl didn't move at all.
In confusion, Lao Li Tou picked up his bowl and gave him most of the bowl, then sucked the remaining handful into his stomach, and then continued to eat pickles and sip his wine.
Zhang Fanyang's eyes were slightly red, and he was afraid that the old man would be embarrassed, so he had to whisper thank you, and swallowed his noodles with his head down.
After eating in silence, Zhang Fanyang also controlled his emotions, and then raised his head and asked, "Uncle Li, do you have anything to say to your juniors?" ”
Lao Li raised his eyebrows, put down the wine glass in his hand with some surprise, and carefully observed Zhang Fanyang before he spoke: "It's a delicate and blessed kid."
But your blessings are blessings, but you can't enjoy them. There are many good things, and there will be bad luck after they are finished. This tempered character is a material for doing great things. ”
When I think of what happened to me in the past few years, it is really bad luck after a good thing. But he doesn't know if he does big things, he only knows that all kinds of big things are thrown at him.
Zhang Fanyang looked at Lao Li Tou in surprise, and hesitated for a moment before he spoke: "Could it be that the old man is a fellow senior?" ”
Lao Li Tou shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't lift me up, old man, I just learned some fortune-telling and face-reading skills from my master in my early years, but I didn't learn the slightest skill of subduing demons and eliminating demons." Otherwise, Lao Liu's house would not have been haunted, and it has not been solved until now. It's a little brother, you can't hide your aura, I'm afraid you have the true inheritance of the master. ”
Zhang Fanyang scratched his head embarrassedly and turned the topic to his goal: "Uncle, I want to ask the village chief why he ......"
Before he finished asking, Lao Li Tou directly continued: "That house used to be the home of Lao Liu's son Futian and daughter-in-law Huilan.
Futian and Huilan grew up together, but on the third day of marriage, they were called by people from other villages to sell mountain goods in other places.
Half a month later, everyone who went with him came back, but Fukuda was missing. When asked the reason, they said that Futian was eager to return home, and they had returned home two days in advance.
But Lao Liu's family waited for two more days and no one came back, and the phone changed from being unanswered at the beginning to being completely turned off.
In desperation, Lao Liu's family went to report the disappearance, and then they had to wait. ”
Speaking of this, Lao Li Tou stopped and drained the wine in the cup in one gulp.
Seeing this, Zhang Fanyang quickly picked up the wine bottle and poured him another glass.
Lao Li Tou sighed, threw the cup upside down, and after turning the wine glass upside down, he continued: "One day one month after they reported the case, Huilan suddenly found Lao Liu and said that he had dreamed of Futian's ghost the night before.
He also said that the ghost told her that she was killed by several people who were doing business together, and then dumped her body deep in the mountains, so that she could avenge herself.
But the police had already investigated those people and found no evidence.
So Lao Liu just let her go home when she missed her husband too much and dreamed at night.
But what he didn't expect was that after Huilan left a letter to avenge Futian that night, she wore the red wedding robe she had married and hanged herself on the beam of her house. ”
"Self-...... Committed suicide? ”
Li Laohan nodded, sighed heavily, turned back the wine glass, and after a few glasses in a row, he seemed to have the courage to speak.
"I was also a well-known physiognomy in this area at that time, and occasionally took on some things to check the yang and explore the yin.
Lao Liu felt sorry for the girl and wanted to do a good job for her, so he found me.
As for me, I also calculated the auspicious time and place for Huilan according to the usual steps, and I waited for Huilan to be buried before I could collect the money and leave.
But on the day of the funeral, things started to go wrong.
First of all, the sky was full of dark clouds early in the morning, and there was hidden thunder and lightning. Later, the lid of Huilan's coffin could not be closed.
Seeing that the auspicious time was approaching, I used some small means to forcibly cover the coffin. But when it was time to carry the coffin, everyone felt that the coffin was not ordinary, and seven or eight people reluctantly moved the coffin to the door.
But as soon as one end of the coffin poked out of the door, the rope carrying the coffin suddenly broke, and the coffin suddenly tilted to the side, squeezing a dead coffin bearer between the threshold and the coffin, and by the time he was rescued, the person had already died.
This time it was not lifted, and we chose another time to carry it again, but when we arrived at the door again, something happened, and the person who walked in front of the coffin did not know what he tripped over, and his body fell under the coffin, and a leg was broken by the coffin that fell down later.
At this moment, there was a lot of trouble in the village, and the news that Huilan was unwilling to leave home spread all at once. I couldn't find anyone willing to come over to carry the coffin, so I could only park the coffin in the house, and no one dared to move it again.
Later, Lao Liu asked someone to invite a senior monk in the temple to see, and the monk said that Huilan was already resentful when she hanged herself, and she should have spent some time before entering the ground.
But I was eager for money at the time, underestimated Huilan's resentment, and angered her when closing the coffin, which led to the tragedy that followed.
As soon as Lao Liu heard this, he begged the monk to do more than that, but the monk said that he couldn't do enough to do it, so he could only temporarily trap Huilan's unjust soul in the house as a delaying tactic, and wait for another master to appear.
Who knew that this was more than ten years, and Hui Lan's coffin was still parked in the old house.
Alas...... It's all my fault, it's all my fault for being greedy for money for a while, and I hurt Lao Liu."
Zhang Fanyang saw that Lao Li Tou kept patting his head with his hand, and wanted to snatch the wine bottle from his hand, so frightened that he pushed the wine bottle out of Lao Li's reach, and continued: "Then haven't you found the person who can cross her in the past ten years?" ”
Lao Li Tou was silent for a long time when he heard this, as if he thought of something, his eyes suddenly turned red, and finally said with a crying voice: "I have looked for it, why haven't I found it, I have been helping them find that master in order to atone for their sins all these years."
At the beginning, a few swaggers came, but not only did they not cross Huilan, but they lost themselves. For this, Lao Liu was almost arrested as a murderer.
Later, the name of this ghost house became more and more fierce, and it did attract a few people with real skills.
But when they came up, they said that Huilan had become a terrible ghost and could not turn back, so they could only get rid of it, but they could not cross it.
Lao Liu stopped doing it when he heard it, and came to beat one by one, so that he could no longer find anyone willing to make a move.
Oh, what a sin I am......"
When Zhang Fanyang heard this, he finally understood the reason why the village chief suddenly changed his face before, seeing that Lao Li Tou was as drunk as soft mud, he thought that maybe he should take advantage of the night to go to the old house to explore the truth.
After settling down with Lao Litou, Zhang Fanyang came to the vicinity of the old house again. After making sure that there was no one else left and right, he followed the broken wall into the courtyard.
As soon as he stepped into the courtyard, Zhang Fanyang felt a burst of cold, coupled with the withered and yellowed weeds all over the yard, making this small courtyard seem to be isolated from the scorching summer.
When he arrived at the door, the chill had pierced into the bone marrow, forcing Zhang Fanyang to open his protective qi before he dared to push the hidden door.
But the moment the door opened, Zhang Fanyang was in a trance. The house that was supposed to be uninhabited was lit by a dim candle flame. A graceful woman in a bright red dress was standing in front of the table in the room with her back to him, fiddling with something.
When the woman heard the voice at the door, she turned around in surprise and asked, "Futian, are you back?" ”