As soon as he said this, I understood that the so-called flat ghost thing is to let the ghost thing borrow the body of a cow to return the yang.

Chen Laohan continued: "Later, my grandfather bought a Yin talisman from the corpse keeper, which was originally used to refine the corpse, but it was pasted on the cow that folded the yang life, and it became a fragrant dumpling in the eyes of evil ghosts. In the middle of the year in the middle of the year, my grandfather took advantage of the peak of the yang in the afternoon to lead the cow to the fort, and at night, there was a yin wind on the side of the fort. My grandfather said that as soon as the wind stopped, the ghosts in the fort would be gone, and the things that were pressed under the fort would be useless. ”

I interjected and asked, "What's the town under the fort?" ”

Chen Laohan shook his head: "I don't know, then my grandfather took my father to dig out that thing, but I wasn't there, and I didn't see what it was." ”

I nodded, and motioned for Chen Laohan to continue what he had just said.

Chen Laohan: "I also learned after I was a little older that night, all the ghosts in the fort were on Lao Niu's body, because Lao Niu used five years of yang life to change the yang energy of his body, and relying on this yang energy, he was able to suppress all the ghosts on his body." The ghost goes to the cow body in order to return the yang, in fact, for them, the cow body is a prison, and they can't get out if they go in. Later, we kept this cow all the time, and when it gave birth to a calf, the yang energy on its body also spread to the calf with the bloodline, and the ghost thing was also surrounded by this yang energy, and ran into the calf's body together. ”

I said, "The ox in the yard is its offspring, right?" ”

Old Man Chen sighed: "Yes." Rhubarb has no offspring, and of their branch, it is the last. ”

When he said this, Chen Laohan's eyes were extremely gloomy, and he didn't seem to be talking about rhubarb, but about himself.

After Chen Laohan eased up a little, I asked him: "Boss Huang said that if the cattle in the village live past the age of twenty, bad things will happen, is this true?" ”

Chen Laohan nodded: "I don't know what's going on, since my grandfather leveled the ghosts in the fort with oxen, our family's cattle and the people in the village have been connected by luck." If the ox is healthy, there will be a plague in the village, if the cow is sick, the people in the village will become full of energy, if the ox has lived past the age of twenty, it will be lucky, on the contrary, the people in the village will have a bloody disaster. ”

There is such a thing.

I rubbed my chin and asked, "If the old ox in the yard dies, what will happen to the ghost thing attached to it?" ”

Chen Laohan said: "Originally, they should have left the cow and returned to the fort. ”

I immediately frowned: "Originally? ”

Chen Laohan sighed: "When Chen Dafa's family of five died tragically, I wondered, there must have been a few ghosts who left the cow body in advance, but after that, the village has been very peaceful, I think it may be that I thought too much, so I didn't care anymore, who knew that Rhubarb was also happy to be twenty years old......

Halfway through the words, Chen Laohan didn't seem to be able to continue, and I didn't rush to urge him, just stood by and waited quietly.

After a long time, Chen Laohan continued: "Rhubarb has no queen, if it dies after twenty, I'm afraid the ghost thing pressing on it won't return to the fort." ”

I frowned and said, "Even if your rhubarb dies of old age before the age of twenty, I'm afraid those ghosts that press on it won't go back to the fort." ”

Chen Laohan raised his head, looked at me in surprise and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

I said, "In the past, ghosts could be trapped in the fort because there were things buried in the fort, but now that the things are useless, can they go back?" ”

Chen Laohan: "They will definitely go back, my grandfather said that if the ghosts fail to return to the yang, they will definitely go back to the place where they used to be." ”

I became a little irritable: "But even if they can go back and there is nothing to control them, they will still come out and hurt people." ”

What I said, Chen Laohan must have thought of it early in the morning, and he nodded at me very calmly: "So this time I contacted Hu Nanqian, and I also wanted her to find someone to help suppress the ghosts in the fort." ”

I asked him again: "Uncle Chen, do you think that the widow of the king in the village is evil, and it is also because of Rhubarb's age......

Before I could finish speaking, Chen Laohan interrupted me: "I didn't say that she was evil, maybe she did too many bad things and was retributed." ”

Chen Laohan's reaction exceeded my expectations, and I looked at him in a daze, but he looked to the side.

After a long time, I suddenly thought of a very important thing, and blurted out: "Uncle Chen, you and Chen Dabang can't be relatives, are there many people surnamed Chen in this village?" ”

Regarding my question, Chen Laohan only said one sentence that made people scratch their heads: "Poor people must have something to hate." ”

Obviously, the answer was not the answer, but I vaguely felt that he seemed to have something to say.

After finishing it, Chen Laohan said to me again: "Okay, what should be said and what shouldn't be said, I almost said everything." I'll leave the rest to you. ”

I have one last question: "What are the ghosts in the fort like, and are there any fierce gods among these ghosts?" ”

Chen Laohan waved his hand: "There must be no fierce god, if there is really a fierce god in the fort, it will not be able to level at all with my grandfather's Taoism." But there seem to be some ghosts, and I don't know the specifics. ”

I nodded and said nothing.

Probably seeing that Li Huaishan and I didn't mean to speak, Chen Laohan extinguished the lotus lantern, picked up the lantern again, and took Li Huaishan and me back the same way.

In fact, in my mind, there is another question, but because I don't know if I can ask it, whether I should ask it, I can only keep silent for the time being.

I can't figure it out, why did Chen Laohan spend so much time to take me and Li Huaishan to the depths of the ground, he could obviously put the rune paper in the small secret room connected to the secret passage, anyway, in that place, no matter what we say, we don't have to worry about people outside hearing it.

This question has been bothering me for a long time, and it was not until I saw and experienced more that I understood Chen Laohan's mind at that time.

He needs us to testify for him that their sect once existed.

There will always be a day, with the death of Chen Laohan, there will be no more Shantang in the world, but as long as Li Huaishan and I are still alive, as long as we are willing to mention what happened today, even if it is a little trace of Shantang.

It was also much later that I realized that the greatest sorrow in the world was not gone forever, but that it never existed.

When he came out of the dark passage, the night was already very deep, Chen Laohan walked to the window of the living room, glanced at the old cow in the corner of the courtyard, and sighed lightly: "There are still three days." ”

This is a beginning and an end, but I understand what Chen Laohan means.

There are still three days left in Rhubarb's yang life.

Not only did I understand what Chen Laohan said, but I also clearly realized that after three days, no matter where I was, I had to return here and personally send the rhubarb away.

This weird sense of mission comes entirely from my intuition.

Chen Laohan turned his head and said to me again in a low voice: "There are still three days." ”

I was a little curious: "How do you know there are three days left?" ”

Chen Laohan smiled: "I raised rhubarb, and I know it better than anyone else." ”

If you can see through the longevity of a cow, I'm afraid it's not just about understanding.

I frowned and asked Chen Laohan, "Uncle Chen, do you have anything else to hide from me?" ”

Chen Laohan didn't answer directly, but said ambiguously: "I have already said everything that should be said, and it is still the same sentence, and the affairs of the village will be handed over to you." ”

Probably because we were talking a little louder, there was a sound of churning in the bedroom.

Chen Laohan and I immediately quieted down, and after the churning sound disappeared, there was no snoring from Boss Huang in the bedroom.

I felt that Boss Huang might have been woken up, but he was silent, hiding in the darkness of the bedroom, trying to eavesdrop on the conversation in the living room.

Chen Laohan pointed to the door of the bedroom and gave me a look.

I nodded knowingly, beckoned to Li Huaishan again, and led him to the bedroom.

When I entered the bedroom door, I found that Mr. Chen leaned against the window and silently lit a cigarette.

I stopped and asked, "Aren't you sleeping?" ”

Old man Chen took a long breath of smoke: "I'll accompany Rhubarb." ”

After saying that, he waved his hand at us and motioned for us to go to sleep and leave him alone.

There is a large earthen kang in the bedroom of Chen Laohan's house, which sleeps four people at a time.

Boss Huang is a very conscientious person, as soon as I entered the bedroom, I saw a shadow shrinking in the corner against the wall, trying to reserve more space for the remaining three people.

Li Huaishan didn't want to get too close to Boss Huang, so I had no choice but to sleep next to Boss Huang.

Chen Laohan heated the kang when he was cooking, and at this time there was still a warm breath on the kang, this temperature had a good sleep effect, not long after Li Huaishan lay down, the breath exhaled from his nose became very long, I know, he was sleeping.

But I couldn't sleep for no other reason, it was because the roof of Chen Laohan's house was too high, which made me feel a little bottomless.

With people on both sides, I couldn't sleep, and I couldn't turn around, let alone how uncomfortable it was.

At this moment, Boss Huang, who was behind me, suddenly asked, "Did you go into the kitchen?" ”

His voice appeared too suddenly, and I was shocked on the spot, but I still responded to him in a very calm tone: "Boss Huang hasn't fallen asleep yet?" ”

As if he hadn't heard me, Boss Huang asked me again, "Are you two really making red wine?" ”

It's over, Li Huaishan is already asleep, do I know how to lie, how can I answer this kind of thing?

I thought left and right, and held back for a long time before a few words came out of my mouth: "In short, we are all good people." ”

Because I was a little nervous in my heart, I said this sentence with unconfidence in my tone, and it sounded a little bit like three hundred taels of silver here.

Boss Huang was silent for a moment before he whispered: "Anyway, I don't think Chen Laohan is an ordinary person, and neither are you." ”

I pretended to smile helplessly: "Hehe, we are not ordinary people? Who else could that be? ”

Boss Huang: "I always think that Chen Laohan may be a Taoist priest, well, you are too, and don't look at your age much younger than him, but Taoism should be much deeper than him." Just say if you are a Taoist priest or not. ”

No, this guy's vision is too poisonous, and if I continue to entangle with him, I will show my stuff sooner or later.

In a hurry, I could only deal with one sentence first: "It's not early, go to sleep." Then I closed my mouth tightly, and made sure that no matter what Boss Huang said, I would not respond.

(End of chapter)