Chapter Ninety-Five: The Ghost Village
The shop was empty, and no one heard the shouting and came out, so Lao Tang wondered: "Why is there no one in this shop, but the door is open and the lights are lit?" Xu Xiaolin said: "Could it be that what the branch secretary said is right, the people in this village have already died?" Lao Tang said, "This lamp is still on." "I also feel very strange, judging from this shop, it should be occupied, after all, this kerosene lamp must be lit by someone, and it is impossible for it to be known by itself, right?
At this moment, Xu Xiaolin wandered in front of the counter and suddenly called us over to look. I asked him what was wrong?
She pointed to the counter and said, "Look at this counter, there is dust everywhere. As soon as we heard this, we hurriedly walked to the counter to take a look, and sure enough, as Xu Xiaolin said, the counter was covered with a thick layer of dust.
Seeing this, we were all stunned, is this still like a store where someone lives? All of us look at me, I look at you, and suddenly we all feel that this shop is weird.
Just imagine, if it is a place where people live permanently, how can there be a thick layer of dust on the counter?
I saw that the dust on the counter looked like no one had touched it for a long time, and there was not even a fingerprint.
Not to mention that this is a pharmacy, it is the most hygienic place, but wherever there are people living in it, even ordinary people's homes will not be like this, right?
But if there is no one living here, what about the burning kerosene lamp on the counter?
We couldn't figure out what the hell was going on. Lao Tang said: "him, he is paralyzed, we won't really get in**, right?" When Xu Xiaolin heard this, she looked around and became a little scared, and said to me, "Why don't we go out first?" I nodded, and since it was empty, it was useless to stand here stupidly, so I turned around and left.
But just as we turned around and were about to walk out of the pharmacy, suddenly a back door in the back of the pharmacy was opened, and there was a message
There was a "creak" sound. Several of us were startled by the sudden sound of the door opening, and immediately looked back, and then saw that a door in the back hall of the store was really opened, and at this time an old man walked out of the back hall, about fifty or sixty years old, wearing a long coat, a dress before the Republic of China.
Seeing that this old man was dressed up in a completely different era, I immediately opened my eyes in the sky, and when I saw it, I chuckled in my heart, this old man is really not a person, but an old ghost.
At this time, Xu Xiaolin wanted to step forward to greet the old man, but I blocked it, shook her head slightly, and signaled her not to speak.
When Xu Xiaolin saw me behaving like this, she immediately understood my intentions, and quickly retreated, I turned around and hugged the old man, and said, "Excuse me", and then turned around and planned to take everyone away quickly.
However, at this moment, the old man stopped us and shouted, "Friends, since you have entered the shop, why are you in a hurry to leave?" When I heard this, I turned back to him and said: "People are humane, ghosts have ghosts, you and I are separated by different roads from yin and yang. "I'm telling him that I've seen you're a ghost, so don't be busy if you still want to be a **.
Hearing my words, the old man was obviously stunned, and after reacting, he laughed and said: "It's okay, it's okay, there are few outsiders in our Taiping Village, whether it's a person or a ghost, if you enter the village, you're a guest, how to talk about bothering and colliding, all the little friends might as well go into the store and sit down, I'll pour you a cup of tea!" I smiled: "Thank you, old gentleman, for your kindness, but we have to do things in our own hands, so it is inconvenient to stay for a long time." "The other party deliberately wants to keep us, how can I really listen to him and stay and drink his tea, you must know that this old man in front of me is an old ghost.
The old man didn't plan to stop, and continued: "Taiping Village is not peaceful, tonight in the middle of the night, you have no lights and no fire, I'm afraid you can't get in and out of the village, it's better to stay and have a cup of tea, and it's not too late to leave when it's dawn." I sneered and replied, "Walking on the barren mountains at night, pedestrians holding their own lights, there are lights and fires, how can they not go out." The other party's words are meaningful, meaning
"Lip color", saying that we have no lights and no fire, we can't get out of this village, if I say that there are indeed no lights and no fires, then we really answer his words, and we won't be able to get out.
What I mean by answering is that when we walk at night in the wilderness, pedestrians have their own yang fire, so that with yang fire in our bodies, no matter where we go, ghosts and evil cults cannot trap us.
This is in line with the principle of yin and yang, there is such a sentence in the yin and yang line, saying that the barren mountains walk at night, pedestrians hold their own lights, the lights are lit in a taboo place, and the lights are extinguished.
It means that when the yang fire is there, there are no taboos, and if the yang fire is extinguished, you can't go any further, otherwise something will happen.
When the other party saw that I saw his thoughts, he stared at me hatefully, and said angrily: "I have practiced medicine all my life, in order to help people and save people, if you don't believe me, then try it yourself, see if you can get out of this Taiping Village, hum!" "Although I don't know if he is for our good or not, but the other party is a ghost after all, and we can't listen to ghosts, right?
At that moment, I took everyone around and walked out of the pharmacy, and as soon as I got out of the pharmacy, Xu Xiaolin anxiously asked me what was going on, what was the old man talking about?
I told them that the old man was a ghost and wanted to keep us, saying that we would not be able to leave this Taiping Village tonight.
When Xu Xiaolin heard this, her face was full of panic and asked me, "Huh? Could what he said be true? I smiled wryly and shook my head, indicating that I didn't know if it was true or not.
At this time, Lao Tang said: "It doesn't matter if what he said is true or not, how can a ghost be so kind, I still don't believe it, and such a small village can't get out." "Actually, I also think that the old ghost is deliberately trying to scare us, the purpose is to keep us in his shop.
Lao Tang said: "Do we still want to continue to inquire about the family, or will we just leave the village?" Xu Xiaolin didn't take the initiative and looked at me, obviously she met a ghost as soon as she entered the first house she found in the village, and she was already scared.
I thought about it, the reason why we came to the village was to inquire about the situation in the village, it is impossible to meet a ghost and run away in fright, right?
You must know that I am the one hundred and eighth generation descendant of the Maoshan faction, so if I am scared away like this, will it not make my peers laugh off their big teeth.
Thinking of this, I said to them, "Go on, I want to see if this village is a ** or a village of people." In this way, we did not return the same way for the time being, but continued to walk towards the village.
There was a bluestone road in the village, lined with houses from a hundred years ago, and after walking some distance along the bluestone road, there was a house with lights on in front of us, so we planned to go over to find out the situation.
When we came to the house, we first listened to the movement, and it was very quiet, as if no one was there, but we knocked on the door and asked, "Is anyone home?" The room was still silent and no one answered, so I asked, "Is anyone home?" After shouting three times in a row, there was no response from inside the house, and we couldn't help but wonder, is there no one in the house?
At this time, Lao Tang stepped forward and went to knock on the door again, this time he slapped more vigorously than me.
"Bang bang bang" slapped three times in a row, and to our surprise, the door was not locked, and it was directly slapped open by Lao Tang and opened a small crack.
We were stunned, and Lao Tang said, "Do you want to push it away and take a look?" I nodded, and we slowly pushed the door open, and looked inside, the furnishings were very old, and it was really empty, and there was a kerosene lamp lit on a small square table, which felt as strange as the previous drugstore.
Seeing this, we didn't dare to go in, quietly closed the door, and left. After a few dozen more steps, there was a light shining through the crack in the door of another building, and we continued to knock on the door.
This time, a woman's voice finally came from inside, asking, "Who?" "We were all a little happy to hear someone answer, maybe we had met someone this time.
So I replied, "Hello fellow, we are from outside the mountain, and it is too dark at night to get lost, can you open the door and ask for a way?" After a while, the door opened, and a woman in her forties came out and invited us in.
First of all, I opened the eyes of heaven to look at this woman, and found that she was also a ghost. I spoke to her right away
"Excuse me", and then quickly retreated with everyone, turned to leave. Xu Xiaolin asked, "What's the matter, is that woman also a ghost?" I nodded, and then said, "It seems that this village is really **, there are lights everywhere, but either there is no one in the house, or there are ghosts." Xu Xiaolin shuddered and said, "Then what should I do, I think let's get out of here quickly, anyway, we already know that this is Taiping Village, so it's a big deal to come back tomorrow during the day." I nodded, thinking that her suggestion was also good, it was night now, and the yin qi was already heavy, and something would definitely happen if you stayed in this village for a long time, so it was better to leave for the time being.
After saying this, we were about to turn around and walk back, when we were stopped by Lao Tang, and I asked him, "What's wrong?" Lao Tang pointed to a brightly lit shop in front of him and said, "This shop ......" I said, "Don't inquire anymore, Miss Xu is right, let's turn around and leave the village first, and come back at dawn." Lao Tang said: "I don't mean that, I mean this shop is very familiar!" Don't you look like the pharmacy we went into when we entered the village? ”...