Chinese knocks on the door are particular, the normal knock should be a meal and two knocks, the first time is to say that someone is coming, the middle pause is the time left for the owner to react, and the last two are to urge the owner to open the door.

This kind of non-stop beating can only be done by running mourning.

Especially in the dead of night, the sound is unusually harsh.

I remember Sister Yu's instructions and ignored it, but the voice was very persistent, and it kept clapping, and with the sound of knocking on the door, I vaguely heard someone calling my name.

"Open the door, second baby!"

"Second baby, it's me, open the door!"

"The second baby is coming out!"

……

I was sweating profusely when I heard it, and I was familiar with these voices, all of them were villagers from Sanchawan!

I once suspected that they had been tricked into the pools at the bottom of the river, but the sound was clearly theirs, so could it be said that they weren't dead?

I crept out of bed, didn't dare to turn on the light, and touched the downstairs with the faint light of my mobile phone, the door was smashed and shook slightly, and it sounded like many people were banging on the door at the same time.

A shout with an accent in the dialect of my hometown came into my ears, I stood in the room and was distracted, and my hand unconsciously reached towards the doorknob, and the moment I touched the door lock, a cold feeling of metal spread to my brain along my fingers, and I couldn't help but shiver, and my brain suddenly woke up.

Even if they didn't die, how did they know that I was here, Chengdu is thousands of kilometers away from my hometown, so many people choose to come over in the middle of the night at the same time, this is not normal, those things outside are not people!

When I was in Sanchawan, I met the ghost lady because I didn't listen to my grandfather's words and opened the door in the middle of the night, and Sister Yu also told me not to open the door after twelve o'clock, and it was already more than one o'clock in the morning, if I opened the door in a daze just now, I didn't dare to imagine what I would see.

Thinking of this, sweat came down from my head, I looked at the door lock tremblingly, the cold feeling of touching my fingers still lingered in my fingertips, remembering what Sister Yu said when she left at night, she must have moved her hands and feet on it.

The knocking continued until the middle of the night, and I sat on the floor with my back against the door with my legs crossed until I saw light outside the window and heard the lock loose, and I got up from the ground.

Sister Yu's expression changed from serious to relaxed the moment she entered the room, carrying two bowls of hot and sour noodles on the table, and I asked if I was hungry.

I shook my head and asked Sister Yu how she knew that something would happen last night, but Sister Yu asked me instead, how many days did you leave Sanchawan yesterday?

I've done the math, it's the fifth day, but what's wrong with that?

Seeing that Sister Yu didn't speak, I couldn't help but fall into deep thought, in five days, the villagers of Sanchawan had disappeared in the night of the first two days after I left, if these two things had to be related, it would be ......

"The first seven!"

I blurted out, looking at Sister Yu with wide eyes and incredulity, "He, are they really all dead?" ”

"You must know it better than I do." Sister Yu said.

I felt my throat tighten, "But why are they pestering me?" ”

"I don't know where to go, maybe you take other people's things."

I smiled bitterly and said that I didn't have it, my grandfather and I were still helping them, and they couldn't take revenge like this.

"Everything must have cause and effect, after people die, there are three sevens, yesterday was only the first seven, and there are two seven and three seven, before that, if you can't end their grievances, the next thing is afraid that this door can not stop it."

After Sister Yu finished speaking, she sucked hot and sour noodles, I had no appetite at all, I sat at the door stunned, I couldn't figure out the reason, if the soul of Sanchawan really entangled me, then what I and my grandfather did was the same as helping my grandmother cross the road and being defrauded of medical expenses.

At noon, Sister Yu asked me to go to the door to buy lunch, and not long after leaving, a beggar in ragged clothes and smelling all over came into the house.

I was about to send him out with change from my pocket, when I heard the beggar say, "Where is Sister Yu?" ”

As soon as he heard that this was still a regular visitor, he said that Sister Yu was not there, and took out a five-yuan piece and handed it to him and asked him to leave quickly.

To be honest, the five yuan is very distressing, in our hometown, it is a dime or two cents, five yuan is enough for me to buy a bowl of noodles at the door, but there are only five yuan in my pocket, Sister Yu loves to be clean so much, if he comes back and smells the smell of the store, he will definitely be unhappy.

The beggar took the money in his hand and was stunned, his lips twitched, as if he wanted to speak but couldn't speak, and I noticed that on his palm, three fingers were missing.

"Why are you here?"

Sister Yu returned to the store at this time, and her eyes flashed a trace of gloom when she looked at the old beggar, and the old beggar said flatteringly: "Take the wild red sheep with the head, the big melon has no skin, can you accept it?" ”

"How many times have I said that you don't accept what you carry, don't come back in the future."

Sister Yu was about to bang people when she said that, and I realized that this unkempt old man was not a beggar, but a shepherd.

The shepherd is also a branch of the Bao line, the ability is not as good as the Bao people, perennial in the countryside and deep mountains and old forests to find the next grade of the heavenly spirit treasure or large and small melon, some ability, they call the heaven and earth treasure sheep, according to the good or bad divided into red sheep and black sheep, usually are self-leading, encounter can not solve the treasure will find the treasure people, sell an information fee.

Other things under the "Heavenly Spirit and Earth Treasure" are called "melons", which are roughly divided into "big melons" and "small melons" according to their rarity and preciousness, but there is no specific boundary, just like ginseng, it is still a small melon within ten years, and a big melon is more than a hundred years old.

The old shepherd said that the big melon without skin and the wild red sheep meant that he led an ownerless red sheep between the big melon and the next treasure, and he couldn't hold it himself, and he wanted to sell it to Sister Yu.

Sister Yu is Ji Zongbu's outlet, specially collecting news about the treasure of heaven and earth for him, a hundred-year-old ginseng can barely be called a big melon, worth a thousand gold, but the old shepherd is close to the treasure of the earth Sister Yu actually doesn't want it?

"This time the limelight is true, I just came back from there, I didn't go to the second house, it's a drop in the bucket for you, so you took it easily?"

Seeing that the old shepherd had no intention of giving up, I asked curiously, "What is it?" ”

The old shepherd stared at me a little wary, "Which one are you, why haven't I seen you?" ”

"He is the eighth master's apprentice."

Sister Yu said lightly, and the old shepherd's buttocks jumped up from the ground as if he was loaded with a spring, stroked the hair covering his eyes, and stared at me with wide eyes, "You are the apprentice of the eighth master?" ”

I nodded noncommittally, and the old shepherd grabbed my arm as if he had seen a savior and said, "Young owner, the old man can't untie the pot at home, you can just take it, just give me some chew." ”

I was very embarrassed by his call for a young owner, and when I saw that Sister Yu didn't pay attention to him, I said, "I don't know anything, I'm just curious about the red sheep you said." ”

The old shepherd's eyes lit up when he heard this, "It's a good thing, young owner, dog spirit wow!" ”

Dog spirits?

It's the first time I've heard this word, but I'm embarrassed to ask directly, wouldn't this not only lose the identity of the young owner, but also sweep the faces of Ji Zongbu and Sister Yu.

"This dog spirit is called the dog god in the folk, and legend has it that in front of a dog that is tied up hungry and crazy, put delicious food, and when its desire to eat is the strongest, cut off its head, and the dog's soul comes out of its shell at this moment, and the dog spirit will be produced." The old shepherd licked his lips and said.

I frowned when I heard this, dogs are the most loyal friends of human beings, and when I used to have dogs in the countryside, it was too cruel to do so.

As if sensing the change in my face, the old shepherd said, "This dog spirit is only the size of a weasel, and if someone sacrifices to it, then it will protect the family from all evils, and if the severed dog head is buried in the courtyard of the enemy's house, the dog spirit will tear apart all the living people of the enemy's house." ”

It turned out to be a thing that was both good and evil, although this method of revenge was too cruel, but it could make people invincible, wouldn't it be exactly what I needed?

I immediately moved my mind to look at Sister Yu, Sister Yu trimmed her eyebrows and frowned slightly, looked at the old shepherd and said, "The dog spirit is the guardian saint of the house, you have forgotten even the most basic rules?" ”

"How dare I, this dog spirit is a wild dog spirit, hiding in the deep mountains, I'm afraid I'm guarding some treasure!"