I blurted out and asked, "Are there really ghosts in this world?" ”

Sun Chuansheng stopped, he turned his head to look at me, his expression was a little complicated: "You have encountered so many things tonight, and you still don't believe that there are ghosts in the world?" ”

I said, "At first, I believed it, but now that I think about it, the more I think about it, the more wrong it becomes." ”

Sun Chuansheng: "What's wrong?" ”

I said, "I always feel that the old lady I saw at the beginning may not be a ghost, she just pretended to be like that and deliberately scared me and Boss Lu." And that tree, now that I think about it, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it, except for the gum on the bark. But I just can't explain why my body suddenly lost control. ”

Sun Chuansheng frowned: "You shouldn't be a suspicious person, why do you think so?" ”

I smiled at him, "Actually, I'm quite suspicious. ”

"Since you are suspicious," Sun Chuansheng said, "why did you believe me so easily?" Just because I'm so similar to my second brother? Have you thought about it, maybe I don't know your father and your second uncle at all, maybe it's not a coincidence that I can meet today. Perhaps, I pretended to be your father's acquaintance to approach you, some ulterior motives, or maybe I would be against you. Have you thought about these things? ”

I spread my hands: "I really didn't think about it that much. But I don't think you should do anything to me, I saw it when you ran away with Boss Lu on your back just now, you have more strength than me, and your body is better than me, if you want to be unfavorable to me, you will start on the old locust tree, and you should not wait until now. But ......"

Sun Chuansheng: "But what? ”

I sighed and responded, "However, I am still skeptical about the fact that you are my third uncle. ”

Sun Chuansheng was stunned for a moment, then smiled helplessly, and reached out and patted me on the shoulder twice: "That's right." In the future, if you are lucky enough to enter my industry, you will know that in many cases, some people who claim to be friends are actually your enemies, and some people who claim to be partners are actually your competitors. If you want to be alone in this industry, you must be more vigilant and careful. ”

When he said this kind of thing, he always had a somewhat didactic tone, and I used to be very disgusted with others talking to me like this, but I didn't feel any rejection of his words.

This is really a very strange thing, I obviously don't know him well, but when he stands in front of me, I have a feeling that I have known him for a long time, and I have an almost natural trust in the person in front of me.

Sun Chuansheng continued to walk in the direction of the old tree, and this time he quickened his pace, and I could only trot all the way to follow him.

While walking briskly, he was able to keep his breath steady and speak to me slowly: "You must know that everything has a spirit, not only on the living things, but also on the dead things. That blood locust actually died a long time ago, but because it absorbed a lot of sun and moon essence when it was alive, it was able to die without dying. ”

With that, he pulled out a small ball the size of a fingernail from his pocket, which looked smooth and reflected a soft sheen in the moonlight.

Then he said to me, "Look, this white porcelain bead has a spiritual rhyme on it, can you feel the spiritual rhyme on it?" ”

I immediately shook my head.

Seeing my reaction, Sun Chuansheng also frowned, he took back the white porcelain beads, and said to me: "Everything has a spirit, and the 'spirit' here refers not only to the spirit rhyme, but also to the spirit body. For example, some old jade and porcelain are easily occupied by spirits, and most of the spirits attached to antiquities are evil spirits......"

He chattered and said, I followed him, and listened silently, but the more I listened, the more I wondered, although I couldn't tell why he told me this, but I had a vague feeling that he seemed to be teaching me, and he spoke very carefully, as if he was afraid of missing something. I even thought that maybe after he finished the whole paragraph, he would take the school test for me.

Buzz –

Before Sun Chuansheng could finish all his words, there was a rapid beep in his pants pocket.

Sun Chuansheng took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and as soon as he connected it, I heard a very loud voice on the phone: "Have you seen him?" ”

Sun Chuansheng glanced at me quickly, and responded to his phone: "No." Then he avoided me and walked quickly into the distance.

Maybe the call involved some privacy of Sun Chuansheng, and he didn't stop until he was far enough away, and I just stood where I was, waiting for him from afar, and he deliberately covered his mouth when he spoke, as if he was worried that I would see his mouth.

After about four or five minutes, Sun Chuansheng put down his phone and walked over to me.

I asked him, "Did you make an appointment today?" ”

Sun Chuansheng was stunned for a moment, and then asked me with a frown: "What did you hear?" ”

I said, "I heard someone on the phone asking you, 'Did you see him?' so I thought you might have made a date." ”

Sun Chuansheng nodded, didn't say anything, he put away his phone, beckoned to me again, and motioned for me to continue to follow him.

It was only then that I found out that the small earthen house where Sun Chuansheng lived was so far away from the old locust tree, and when I fled into the field with him, I was probably too panicked in my heart, so that there was a mistake in my judgment of time, and I felt that there seemed to be an interval of three or four minutes between leaving the old locust tree and stepping into the door.

After walking for a while, I asked Sun Chuansheng again: "What that person said just now can't it be me, right?" ”

Sun Chuansheng raised his eyebrows at me: "What do you mean?" ”

I said, "Is that the person you want to see tonight?" Are you waiting for me here? But how do you know I'm coming? ”

Sun Chuansheng smiled a little unnaturally: "You think too much." I'm not a god, how could I have known in advance that you would be here? ”

I thought about it, originally after Boss Lu and I finished delivering the goods, we planned to go back to Bohai Bay directly, but I didn't expect Boss Lu to temporarily go to eat fried chicken, otherwise, I would not have been able to see Sun Chuansheng at all.

That...... Will Boss Lu collude with Sun Chuansheng early on?

As soon as such an idea appeared, I denied it, I can't understand Boss Lu's temperament anymore, he can't hide things in his heart, if he really colludes with Sun Chuansheng, he will leak his mouth on the way to transport the goods.

In my opinion at the time, this meeting between me and Sun Chuansheng should be just a coincidence, which is the only reasonable explanation.

After a while, Sun Chuansheng said to me again: "You have to remember that if you want to walk in the industry in the future, you can think about some things, but you can't say them." Think more, talk less, and ask less. Also, your temper needs to be changed. ”

I frowned: "What's wrong with my temper?" ”

Sun Chuansheng: "You old family members all have a common characteristic, that is, they are full of evil spirit. Now you can't control it, and once it comes out, you become very irritable. So in many cases, you will get angry for no reason, and in severe cases, you will even hurt people for no reason. ”

He's right, I do feel inexplicably angry when I'm too nervous, when I'm scared, when I'm surrounded by too many people, and when I'm drunk, and I do hurt people because of it.

And every time I encounter something that I can't accept, the irritability in my heart becomes especially strong, because every time I feel nervous and fearful in my heart.

I said to Sun Chuansheng, "But how can I change it?" What does it mean to have a bad breath leaking? ”

He only answered the first question: "If you can enter the family smoothly, someone will naturally help you change, if you can't get in...... Then we'll have to think of something else. ”

I wondered: "Didn't you say that whether you can enter the house or not depends on my wishes, how can I ......?"

Sun Chuansheng interrupted me: "Because you don't necessarily want to go back." Tonight, you will witness something, and after this testimony, maybe you don't want to go home. ”

I asked him, "What do you want me to witness?" ”

Sun Chuansheng was silent for a moment before he said in a very slow voice: "Witness the essence of this industry, if one day, you really enter the old family, the moment you step on the threshold of the old family, it will be regarded as officially entering the industry." ”

I also wanted to ask him what he was doing with that so-called "business", but before I could open my mouth, he took the first step and said to me: "The yin qi in front is very heavy, from now on, you should not speak again." ”

After saying that, he handed me another piece of "milk candy": "If you feel uncomfortable after a while, take it in your mouth." ”

I looked at the candy cube in my hand, and my heart twitched, the smell of this thing was so horrible that no matter how uncomfortable I was, I would never eat it.

When Sun Chuansheng saw the embarrassed expression on my face, he shook his head helplessly, but he didn't say much.

After walking for about ten minutes, I could already see the old locust tree standing in the middle of the road in the distance.

At this time, Sun Chuansheng opened his mouth and said to me again: "There are many unjust ghosts trapped in the body of the old locust tree, and when I overtake them, you stay by my side and don't walk around." ”

After saying this, he talked about the origin of the old locust tree.

He said that the old lady I saw with Boss Lu before was indeed a very fierce ghost. In the Qing Dynasty, she was the stable woman in the Mabutun area, and more than a dozen villages around her asked her to deliver babies, and in those decades, the babies delivered by her were hundreds, if not thousands.

But in the Guangxu years, there was a great drought in North China and East China, in that era, drought was hunger, hunger was death, and the local area was also affected.

Lao Wenpo was originally a good person, but when she saw that the newborn babies had become rations in other people's rice pots, the strong grief and anger distorted her human nature.

Later, she wandered from village to village, looking for opportunities to steal children under the age of three from home.

The next morning, she strangled the children to death with hemp rope and stuffed their bodies into an old locust tree at the end of the village.

At that time, the locust tree had been stripped of its skin and eaten up its leaves, but it could still stand, and Wen Po felt that it had aura, and she thought that maybe the children's bodies would be put in the hollow of the tree, and when the famine passed, the children would come back to life.

No one knows why Lao Wenpo has such childish ideas.

Sun Chuansheng said that perhaps in the eyes of Lao Wenpo, these children who were hidden in the tree hole by her are better than those who were eaten, at least they still have a whole corpse.

Later, as more and more dead children were found in the tree hole, the villagers finally found out what Wen Po had done.

But after the incident in the east window, Lao Wenpo disappeared inexplicably, and the villagers tried to find her, but she seemed to have evaporated from the world, and there was no news at all.

Until this famine passed, the children who were hidden in the tree cave did not wake up, but the villagers found the stable woman on the tree, her body was hanging on the treetop three or four meters high, no one knew how she went up, and did not know when she died, only that she had been hanging here for a short time, and the body had shown signs of drying.

Sun Chuansheng said that the cause of Wen Po's death has always been an unsolvable mystery, maybe she committed suicide, maybe, someone else, or something else killed her.