16: Soul Sacrifice
Sometimes it feels like it's passing so fast, and sometimes it feels so hard.
Looking at Xu Buhuo's back, I thought again that he was retreating and advancing, trying to force me to tell Uncle Qin behind him, or really wanting to deal with this matter, trying to figure out who was behind the ghost.
I think of the several passes in the courtyard to clean up the princess, but one of them has a problem, and it can be explained that it was moved by someone with idle hands, but the fact is that everything is passive.
Especially the hands and feet that moved on the magic circle, obviously checked nothing, but finally collapsed.
A thought suddenly bred in my heart: The person who secretly sabotaged was Uncle Qin?
Why?
I can't figure out what Uncle Qin's purpose is to sabotage all this, so that we can't clean up Mrs. Wang, can there be any benefits to him that we don't know about?
Looking at the threshold of the hall, thinking of the situation where Mrs. Wang was bounced out before, I think that people like Mrs. Wang and Jiang Yan should not be able to enter the old house, because of this, grandma's mourning hall was not damaged, but the layout of the courtyard was passive.
Thinking about this, I am sure that it is Jiang Yan who damaged the arrangement, if Mrs. Wang is cleaned up by us, she will have no minions, so I will be sent to the cemetery in the back mountain, and I will be transferred from the mountain with a move.
Eliminate the suspicion of Uncle Qin, and his heart is finally relieved. But when I looked at Xu Buhuo, who was waiting for me to give an answer at the door, I began to feel embarrassed again, and I didn't know how to explain Yu Pei's passive hands.
Without explaining clearly, he left. If Mrs. Wang comes again, I don't know what to do.
Although the grandmother explained that the morgue would be mortuary for seven days, she did not say a word about what should be done in the seven days, whether to bury or continue to mortuary.
For a moment, I was in a quandary.
In the torment, Xu Buhuo stood up, he didn't turn around, but turned his head to look at me.
"Have you thought about it?"
I stood up, took a deep breath, and said, "I remember, someone has seen this jade pendant, and at that time he said that the jade pendant was a little strange, so I showed it to him, and then gave it to me." ”
Not explaining it clearly will only make things harder, and I'm going to lie again.
"Who?"
"Uncle Qi in the east of the village."
Xu Buhuo obviously didn't believe it, his eyes were fixed on me, and I pretended to look at him calmly, my fingernails clasped the flesh of my palms to relieve the tension.
"He came to worship your grandmother?"
I nodded and asked, "He did all the arrangements before?" ”
"It may or may not be, the only thing I know for sure is that the layout of the yard has been vandalized."
I think Xu Buhuo is deliberately saying this to me.
It's a weird feeling, and I can't say exactly why I think it, but that's how I feel in my heart, and I think he said it to me on purpose.
It was the people who destroyed the layout in the courtyard, and I couldn't help but feel a tight in my heart, thinking that it could be really Uncle Qin?
Thinking of the human corpse insect that Xu Buhu took out before, I asked again: "What will happen if the human corpse insect mother gets into the coffin?" ”
"As a female worm, it naturally lays eggs, and as soon as these eggs absorb the corpse qi, they will completely explode, and then your grandmother will be eaten to the bones, and we don't know anything."
Hearing this, I am sure that someone is trying to stop us, seemingly trying to cause trouble, but in fact there is obviously some purpose that we don't know.
Anyone can exist, and I remind myself to be vigilant that not everyone is going to believe it.
Although the layout in the courtyard was damaged, Mrs. Wang was still hurt, and it was quiet in the second half of the night.
Early in the morning, after my mother took over, I went back to sleep in the new house.
I couldn't sleep well when I was dazed, and a cold wind blew, so cold that I woke up immediately.
When I opened my eyes, I almost screamed.
I was obviously lying down on the bed in my room, but now I was kneeling next to Jiang Yan's grave, my fingernails were full of dirt, and I was digging her grave.
"Boy, keep planing."
Xu Buhuo's voice sounded behind him, and he looked at me with a smile, his expression was like a bad guy on TV, and I was scared to sit on the ground.
"You, I'm ......"
It took me a while to come to my senses, and I was sure that it wasn't a dream, and I came to Jiang Yan's grave to dig the soil in a daze, just like last night.
This time, Xu Buhuo seemed to have been following him.
"Old man, this time it's also a ghost?"
After reading my grandmother's collection of books, I knew that ghosts do possess them, but during the day, the yang energy is heavy, and the yin spirits will not come out.
The truth is, early in the morning, I was possessed by a demon again.
"I still want to ask you what's the matter, I just lay down before I heard the sound of you getting up, I called you, you ignored it, and then came here, before I thought you were a ghost possessed, but I found that it was not a ghost possession, like you instinctively did this."
Xu Buhuo walked to Jiang Yan's grave, stared at the grave where I had dug up a part of the soil, and said, "It seems that someone wants you to dig up this grave." ”
"Go find someone and open the grave."
"We opened this tomb before, and the princess is inside, so she won't come inside again, right?"
"It's better to be in there, and I'll get rid of her during the day."
It was inevitable to open the grave to avoid it, Xu Buhuo stayed where he was, and I rushed down the back mountain to find the village chief.
As soon as I entered the courtyard of the village chief's house and asked him where he went, the village chief's wife, Sister Hu, scolded loudly, and after listening to a few curses, I learned that the village chief had disappeared in the past few days, and Sister Hu thought that he had raised a woman outside.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that the village chief has never shown up since he invited Xu Buhuo here.
Did he disappear then?
With questions, I found the rest of the members of the village committee, who had helped to open the grave before, and when I heard that Jiang Yan's grave was going to be opened again, they immediately put on a reluctant look and asked me to find someone else.
I don't want to beg in a low voice, go home and get a hoe and go out, just go out and meet Uncle Li next door to the old house, he heard me say that Jiang Yan's grave has a problem, to dig a grave, go back to the house to get a hoe and go up the back mountain with me.
Three people, digging in turns.
The grave had been dug up a few days ago, and this time it was easy to dig up, and when the soil was dug up, I saw a pair of feet inside from the hole in the coffin lid, and I couldn't help but shout, "There are people inside." ”
Xu Buhuo directly used a hoe to pry the lid of the coffin, while I held the hoe high, ready to smash it down at any time.
With a bang, the rotten coffin lid was pried out by Xu Buhuo, and when I saw the person lying inside, I subconsciously shuddered.
"Village Chief."
Uncle Li's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost.
I didn't expect that the missing village chief was actually in Jiang Yan's grave, and he threw down the hoe and was about to rush down to pull the village chief, but as soon as Nazhi took a step forward, he was stopped by Xu Buhuo's foot.
"Don't die."
Looking at Xu Buhuo's hand, there were several needles inserted in the village chief's body, and the top of the needles was still holding the red line, and the red line was pulled under the back, and there seemed to be something underneath.
"Is the village chief still alive?" Uncle Li asked tremblingly.
I shook my head and said I didn't know.
Xu Buyan used a hoe to lift the village chief's clothes, and saw something painted on his belly, bright red, as if he had just painted it with blood. With a slight force, Xu Buhuo removed the needle inserted in the village chief's chest, glanced at me, and signaled that he could go down.
"Be careful, there should be something down there."
After carrying the village chief up from the pit, I hurriedly turned my head to look into the pit, and saw that at the bottom of the coffin was an earthen pot, exactly the same style as the one just dug up yesterday, and the red thread of the needle inserted in the village chief's chest was held in the earthen pot.
I touched the village chief's snort, and I thought he was dead, but I didn't think that he still had a faint breath, so I whispered to wake him up.
"Don't shout, the three souls and seven spirits are gone, and the two souls and five spirits are gone, even if you shout at the top of your voice, he won't wake up."
Lost your soul?
I lifted the village chief's clothes, and there was a magic circle painted on my stomach, the bright red paint was like blood, and a strong smell of blood came to my face.
Who did this to you?
From the magic circle on the village chief's chest, I knew that the person who did all this must be a person, and he was still a person like Xu Buhuo who understood this aspect.
"Tsk, he's been sacrificed."
Xu Buhuo's words made my heart skip a beat, and I asked what it means to be sacrificed.
"The three souls and seven spirits were sacrificed, and now they have been sacrificed two souls and five spirits, if they hadn't been discovered early, by tomorrow morning, the three souls and seven spirits would have been completely sacrificed, and at that time, it would be considered a complete death."
The word sacrifice subconsciously made me think that this was an evil law.
Originally, the village chief's accident was another matter, but his appearance in Jiang Yan's grave made me feel that this incident seemed to be related to what was happening recently.
I thought about it carefully, there are only two possible people in the village at present, one is Xu Buhuo, and the other is Uncle Qin, both of them know this, and they are most likely to sacrifice the soul of the village chief.
"Meridian, it looks like someone is reminding you."
I looked at Xu Buhuo in puzzlement.
"Why did you come here to dig graves for no reason?"
Xu Buhuo deliberately blinked a few times, and I quickly reacted. Twice in a row, I came to dig the grave in a daze, just to let me know that the village chief was in the grave, but things were too weird, I didn't expect it last night.
Thinking of the purpose of asking me to dig the grave, I regretted it for a while, and felt that if I had discovered this intention last night, I would not have been able to save the village chief in advance.
"Old man, who do you think did this?"
I stared at Xu Buhuo, wanting to see any changes in his expression, but he looked calm, looking like he didn't care about himself, and muttered, "Who knows, it may be Uncle Qi you said." ”
Uncle Li next to him interjected and asked what Uncle Qi was, but I hurriedly said that it was nothing and asked him to go down the mountain to find someone to carry the village chief back.
Uncle Qi is Uncle Qin.
Looking at the village chief lying on the ground like a dead man, I couldn't help but wonder if Uncle Qin had made such an evil scene.
Just thinking about it, Xu Buhuo, who ran to the grave, suddenly exclaimed, "Ziwu, come and see if this is your eight characters." ”
I turned my head, Xu Buhuo was picking out a straw man from the earthen pot at the bottom of the grave, and there was a yellow charm on the grass man, and there was a character eight written on the yellow charm.