Liu Shishi was still a little unhappy: "Why did I invite it, I can say it, Mrs. Wang's death has nothing to do with me." ”

Li Huaishan sighed and said to him: "The autopsy report of the hospital has come out, and no one will say that the old lady's death has anything to do with you." You have invited a guardian to help keep the spirit, and everyone in the village will consider you to be doing good deeds. If you're not happy to be a good person given a chance, what do you think? ”

Even if Li Huaishan said so, Liu Shishi still seemed to be a little unsure, turned his head, and threw an inquiring look at the fat man.

The fat man nodded at him: "It's okay, just treat them as if they were invited by you." ”

With the fat man's words, Liu Shishi finally settled his mind and nodded at me and Li Huaishan respectively.

I originally planned to go directly to the old lady's house, but Li Huaishan said that he still needed to prepare something, and jumped into the house like a smoke.

When I saw Li Huaishan take out the key to open the door, I remembered that I didn't know where the key was when I closed the door just now, and if Li Huaishan didn't have a key on him, we wouldn't be able to enter the house this time.

I don't know what I've been doing these days, I'm always so careless.

Li Huaishan didn't know what to toss in the house, he didn't come out for a long time, and seeing that there was still a period of time before noon, I was not in a hurry to leave, so I asked the fat man about Lao Hu.

The fat man also heard from the people in the village that Lao Hu seemed to be a very rich person in the past, and her wife was also famous for her beauty.

As for why Lao Hu and his woman became the way they are now, the fat man can't say, he just heard from the people in the village that in 9697, Lao Hu seemed to be bankrupt, and then something happened to their family, and when Lao Hu came back with his woman in the millennium, it became what it is now.

Because before the millennium, Lao Hu had been roaming outside with women, so the people in the village actually didn't know what happened to him outside, and many things were chasing after the wind.

Speaking of Lao Hu's matter, the fat man's tone was also a little embarrassed, what to say, fate is like this, when you are good, you can't go to heaven, and when you're down, you can't hate life is better than death, the key is that you don't know what life you can be like in the sky, and you don't know when you will fall from heaven to hell.

I feel that when the fat man said this, it seemed that he was not talking about Lao Hu, but about himself.

It seems that this family is also a person with a story.

When it was almost eleven o'clock, Li Huaishan walked out of the house with a small black leather bag on his back.

The leather bag looked deflated, and there shouldn't be much in it, but when Li Huaishan walked, it barely shook it, obviously the contents were very weighty.

I raised my chin at Li Huaishan: "What did you bring?" ”

Li Huaishan's answer was very brief: "Redeem the good things given by my mother-in-law." ”

As soon as he said this, I understood, the thing in the leather bag should be the flying claw I got back from Shiling Street, when my mother-in-law handed over the flying claw to me, she said that this thing originally belonged to Li Huaishan.

Liu Shishi said that a few fellow villagers came to him for dinner at noon and asked us when we were leaving, and I waved at him and asked him to lead the way.

In order to make the villagers feel that Li Huaishan and I were indeed the guardians from outside, Liu Shishi first led us out of the village from a small road to the east of the village, and then took us from the entrance of the village facing the main road.

Mrs. Wang's home is not too far from the entrance of the village, after entering the village, turn left, go straight for three or four hundred meters, you can see two iron gates that are rushing to the village road.

Liu Shishi said that the door to the east was his house, and near the iron gate to the west, seven or eight villagers had gathered.

The villagers were talking loudly, and it sounded like they were arguing, and I listened to them for a while, judging from the content of the few words, these people should be relatives of Mrs. Wang, and they were arguing over who should keep the vigil.

The fat man leaned towards me, raised his chin at the person standing at the door, and whispered to me, "These boys have all grown up under the watchful eye of Mrs. Wang." As soon as the old lady's body was brought back, they hurriedly ran back to their house to hide, and it was estimated that the villagers could not look at it and forcibly brought them back. ”

I couldn't help frowning: "Mrs. Wang watched grow up?" ”

The fat man smiled: "You can't blame these boys for not being filial, that Mrs. Wang is a strange person, I heard the people in the village say that the younger generations of their family are very afraid of her, and even when they usually walk the village road, they have to deliberately bypass her door." ”

Liu Shishi muttered: "I didn't see that Mrs. Wang was weird, a very good old lady." ”

As we spoke, we had already walked to the door of Mrs. Wang's house.

A few people who were still arguing just now saw someone coming over, and quickly silenced them.

The gate was open, and when I stood at the door, I saw a lot of people gathered in the courtyard, most of them were old people, and only a small number were middle-aged people in their forties and fifties.

When we were about to reach the door of the house, someone came up and stopped us, and the man asked us what we were here in a strong local accent, and Liu Shishi repeated what Li Huaishan had taught him on the spot.

I heard that Li Huaishan and I were the guardians invited by Liu Shishi, but the man just looked at us curiously, didn't say anything, and opened the door directly to let us in.

But only Li Huaishan and I could get in, and Liu Shishi and the fat man were blocked out.

After entering the house, there was a bed in the center of the living room, covered with a white cloth, and a thin body silhouette appeared under the white cloth, which should be the body of Mrs. Wang.

In addition to us, there were two old men in the room, one was thin and small, with a dry cigarette in his hand, and was silently swallowing clouds and mist, and the other was slightly blessed, looking at the old man who was smoking.

These two old people may have a little hearing problem, when Li Huaishan and I entered the house, the wooden door opened and closed and made a lot of movement, but they still maintained this posture, and it seemed that someone had not noticed that someone had come in.

It wasn't until I walked into the body that the old man, who had a good figure, saw me.

He turned his head and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

As soon as I heard his accent, I knew that he was not a local like Liu Shishi and Black Fat Man, probably because he had lived here for too long, and his articulation was very similar to that of the locals, but the pronunciation was easier to understand.

Without me opening his mouth, Li Huaishan responded next to him: "We are the spirit guards invited by Liu Shishi to guard the old lady's spirit." ”

At this time, the old man, who had been smoking silently, turned his head and said in a slightly angry Mandarin: "I have heard of people crying and mourning to support themselves, but this is the first time I have heard that there are people who specialize in keeping people's spirits." ”

His accent has a slight flavor of Beijing films, but it is mixed with some pronunciation methods of Yunnan dialect, and I can't tell where he is from for a while.

But so far, one thing I can conclude is that there is a large number of outsiders in the village.

Lao Hu, Fat Man, Liu Shishi, and the group of hairy children in the warehouse, after coming to the village, I basically came into contact with these people, all of whom came from other places.

The old man looked me up and down as he spoke, and after a while, he shook off the ashes from the smoke pot, stood up and asked me, "Are you a gentleman?" ”

The "sir" in his mouth should have the meaning of "god stick" and "god man".

I smiled at him, didn't say yes, didn't say no.

He stared at me for a while, then smiled and said to the old man beside him, "Stone boy, don't look at the hippie fortune tellers on weekdays, this time you really invited the right person." ”

The old man standing next to him really didn't have a good ear, pointed to his ear, shook his head, and said that he didn't hear clearly.

The old man with the dry tobacco in his hand looked a little helpless, but he didn't talk to him, turned his head and said to me, "Since the gentleman is here, then we won't show up here." Hey, I thought there wasn't a real gentleman anymore these days, but looking at your momentum, it really doesn't look like a fake. ”

It seems that he is usually more talkative, and after a long series of words, his voice is loud, and his breath is very stable.

With that, he hooked his hand at his companion and prepared to leave.

I asked, "What do you call it?" ”

The old man pointed to himself, and then to his companion: "My surname is Zheng, his surname is Li, when we were soldiers in the past, everyone in the class called him Li Dabaihuo." ”

As he spoke, he led his companion to the door.

When he was about to open the door, he turned to me again and said, "This old lady Wang was a person who did not like to stop when she was alive, and now she is dead...... I'm afraid she won't want to stop yet. Yes, you are a gentleman, you have a way to do this kind of thing, so I won't shout. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he went out of the house without looking back, and then heard him drive the people in the yard away.

It wasn't until the courtyard was quiet that Li Huaishan smacked his lips and said, "That old man just now, it didn't feel right." ”

I looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Huaishan thought for a while, and then said to me: "Leaving in such a hurry, do you think he has a weak heart?" ”

I smiled, "He didn't want to be here for a long time. I keep saying that I am 'sir', but in fact, I just want to find an excuse to leave. ”

Li Huaishan frowned: "You say that...... The people outside didn't dare to come in, and the people inside were in a hurry to get out, so it was possible that there was really something wrong with the body of the old lady Wang. ”

I can't make a direct conclusion about this.

After a while, Li Huaishan said again: "Actually, I can't figure it out, first the fat man, and now these two old men, why everyone thinks you are not an ordinary person when they see you?" I...... I'm also a man of the Way, how can they ...... Ah, yes. ”

I looked at him with a frown: "What's it, what do you want to say?" ”

Li Huaishan snorted and said, "You know what I mean." ”

I do know what he means, isn't he just unbalanced in his heart, and can't figure out why others can value me but not him.

After pondering for a while, I licked my lips and said to Li Huaishan: "This kind of thing mainly depends on temperament. ”

(End of chapter)