Chapter 120: Bull Ghost, Snake God, Paper Tiger
Mingyue lit a candle in the corner of each room decently, and observed it for a long time, and there was no phenomenon of turning green or extinguishing, and then she was relieved, Han Xing asked why, Mingyue lied and said that she wanted to make the room brighter.
In the end, Han Xing sprinkled rat poison and snake poison on every corner of the wall, and then began to clean up a few rooms thoroughly.
Mingyue smelled the scorched smell coming in from time to time in the courtyard, and simply asked Han Xing to clean up the animal remains in the yard, and then go to Xiaocui and the stars to help, the most important thing is to fetch a few buckets of water to wipe the furnishings in the house.
There was originally a well in a corner of the courtyard, but where did Mingyue dare to use it, the people in this courtyard died of the plague, who knows if it was the reason for this well? Moreover, among the animals that had just fled in the yard, who knew if there was not a single mouse or cockroach or centipede that ran in?
Han Lin went out to fetch water, and Mingyue began to clean up the house, starting from the simplest small bedroom on the west side.
Looking at the bed curtain that was blown by the wind in the air, thinking that there were not only wolves howling ghosts and ghosts in this room, but also plague labor, Mingyue was still not at ease, so she tore off the curtain on the bed and threw it into the courtyard along the window, deciding to eliminate all the things that left the breath of the past as much as possible, and all the curtains and curtains would be burned.
The curtains in the study are hung very high, Mingyue can't pick the top directly, and it is unrealistic to move the stone table, so I have to move the Taishi chair in the living room, standing on the wide armrest, reaching out to the curtain, the tips of my fingers are still a little bit close, Mingyue can't help but be a little anxious, thinking that this curtain has been eroded by wind for many years, and it may break if it is pulled.
It's one thing to think in my heart, it's another thing to do it, Mingyue didn't tear it off with fifty percent of her strength, and gradually increased her strength, almost her entire body leaned on the curtain, only to hear the sound of "tearing", the curtain broke from it, Mingyue quickly fell back, holding her head with both hands, and still fell dizzy and dizzy.
shouted Han Xing twice, and then remembered that Han Xing was not in the courtyard when he went to fetch water.
Mingyue had to struggle to sit up by herself, Xu fell hard, didn't hold it up all of a sudden, fell down again, and opened her eyes to see a small protrusion between the back of the chess table and the stone pillar, the protrusion was inconspicuous, but on the smooth stone surface like a mirror, it was so abrupt.
Mingyue couldn't help but be curious, stretched out her finger and pressed the protrusion, only to feel the sound of "squeak" slate, before she reflected what was going on, her body was like a stone, "bang" and sank, and she fell on the bluestone stairs that suddenly appeared below, and her internal organs seemed to be displaced, as the wind blew from the moving slate, the candle in the corner of the wall was instantly extinguished, and Mingyue only had time to see the green smoke curling on the candle, and was blocked in the darkness by the closed slate. The hand was not free, and the Lord stretched out the pig's trotters in his arms.
Stretching out his hand and not seeing his five fingers, his eyes were black, his mind was dizzy, and the idea of "the candle was extinguished" occupied Mingyue's entire heart, where is this, will the ghost blame himself for "occupying the magpie's nest", so he "blows" the lamp?
At this time, Mingyue complained about her previous life, what were she doing when she read so many miscellaneous books such as ghost tomb robbing, she scared herself, and she didn't wait for the ghost to come out, but scared herself to death.
Mingyue took three deep breaths, and muttered in her mouth: "All cow ghosts and snake gods are paper tigers, all cow ghosts and snake gods are paper tigers, all ......"
Mingyue trembled and took out the fire fold from his arms, illuminating the environment he was in, and looked at it, the position where he fell was the center of a staircase, downward, there were more than a dozen steps, only two people could pass at the same time, at the end of the stairs, there was a long arch hole more than one person high, two carriages with the same width, deep and far away, there was no end in sight, if there was a pair of monster eyes peeping at the bright moon.
Mingyue stumbled up the stairs, reflecting whether there was any mechanism around the slate to let herself out, not to mention, this mechanism is very simple, just under the feet, as soon as you step on it, the bluestone slab will move to the side, and the opening is the bottom of the chess table, Mingyue will climb up, and want to press the protrusion to close the mechanism, but at the last moment she stopped.
Mingyue looked down at the dark and endless tunnel, there seemed to be a gust of cold wind blowing through the pores of her body, but there seemed to be countless hands pulling her, letting her go inside to find out.
If you don't find out, how can you rest here? How can you rest assured that your mother and sister will live here with you? If you don't find out, what's the difference between sleeping on *?
I don't know where the courage came from, Mingyue ghost envoy used a fire fold to light the extinguished candle, took the clay pot containing "the cleanest thing" prepared by Han Xing for her, carried chili powder and pig's trotters in her arms, and walked down the bluestone steps again, this time the vision was broader, Mingyue saw that on the stone walls on both sides, there was a stone trough every four or five meters, and there was still lamp oil left in the stone trough.
With the candle to light the lamp twist in turn, the oil lamp shook a bright flower, the underground space with the continuous increase of the wall lamp, more and more bright, until the bright moon stepped on the bluestone ground at the bottom, looking far away, far away like a road dozens of meters away, five or six people wide.
There are two grooves on both sides, one large and one small, one deep and one shallow, in the small stone groove on the inside, there is bright yellow powder, smelling the breath, it should be sulfur and other insect repellent drugs and other drugs, the deep groove on the inside is left with gurgling water, the flowing water is cold, but it is not frozen, and the entire underground space always maintains the freshness and coolness of late autumn.
This underground passage is so silent, as if it has reached the underground underworld, without a trace of life.
A turn in front, the tunnel suddenly opened, there were countless stone troughs on both sides, covered with oil paper, Mingyue gently opened a stone trough oil paper, and the white things below flashed, it was actually countless large pieces of salt stones, flashing faint green light under the oil lamp, and there were still sledgehammers and shovels used to smash salt stones.
Mingyue's heart suddenly sudden, why are there so many salt stones here? What is the connection between this and the plague that wiped out the Sun family five years ago? Does this have anything to do with the salt mines in the mountains?
Mingyue was alert in her heart, and carefully observed the stone troughs, there were more than a dozen stone troughs on the left and right, and there were three or four tons of salt stone in each stone trough.
Under the reflection of countless oil lamps, the salt stone flashed faintly with a faint fluorescent light, I don't know if it was the psychological effect of the bright moon or how, the bright moon even clearly felt the cool breeze coming on, with a fishy smell, which made people feel a burst of hair in their hearts.
It was in response to the sentence that what to think about and what to be afraid of, when turning to the last two stone troughs, Mingyue kicked a shovel under his feet, and fell to the ground with a "bang", and suddenly there were two cracking sounds of "Kaka" in the gap between the stone troughs, so subtle, but so clear, like a human bone breaking.
Mingyue looked boldly, only to see a white skeletal arm swaying up, trembling and pointing ahead, with two more "Kaka" sounds, the white withered arm was broken.
The skeleton is possessed!! Mingyue thundered in her brain, almost subconsciously opened the clay pot and splashed it directly at the skeleton, a foul smell overflowed, the skull was suddenly splashed with liquid, and at first glance, it suddenly rolled towards Mingyue like a ball, and its mouth was wide open, as if it was about to swallow Mingyue.
Mingyue didn't have time to think about it, leaned into her arms, and sprinkled the chili powder without saying a word, seeing that she couldn't stop the speed of the skull rolling towards her, she was ruthless, took out the pig's trotters, and stuffed them directly into the skeleton's mouth, and the skeleton stopped rolling when it landed, as honest as a projectile in a child's hand.
Mingyue wiped the sweat on her forehead, stared at the skeleton for a long time, and saw that there was no movement for a long time, so she dared to loosen the pig's trotters and look at the gap between the two card slots that made the first movement.
In the crack, the two skeletons in front and back were entangled in one place, the skeleton that turned around in front was white, leaning forward, one hand desperately breaking the edge of the stone groove in front of him, and the whole body seemed to try his best to stand up.
He was destined to be unable to stand up, because between the two leg bones, he stretched out another pair of dry bone arms, and inserted two long iron cones deeply into the leg bones of the dry bones in front of him, until he submerged in the bluestone, and stuck the skeleton in front of him into the ground without moving.
The two leg bones of the skeleton in the back were also entangled in the dry bones in front of it, and the body leaned back with all its might, as if trying to prevent the skeleton in front of it from standing up.
The clothes worn by the two skeletons have been dried and blown away, and only the dry bones remain, although the dry bones of the two are entangled in one place, they are separated, and it is clear at a glance that the skeletons that have been nailed to the ground are a bleak white; The skeleton entangled in the back is jet black. One white and one black, such a simple color, so distinct, but creepy.
Mingyue was silent for a long time before she figured out the key and let out a long breath. It turned out that everything was done by scaring yourself.
The withered arm was originally stopped in mid-air, and could not be interfered with by external forces, the bright moon lit the candles in the aisle, affecting the warmth and wind speed of the tunnel, and the shovel that kicked down vibrated again, and the dry arm of the air was not able to break directly from external forces; Mingyue was so frightened that she splashed the water in the clay pot and poured the skull, and the skull naturally rolled down like force, Mingyue was standing in a downhill position at the time, and rolled towards Mingyue by herself, these things are just coincidences, and they have nothing to do with ghosts.
After understanding the truth of the matter, and then looking at the skeleton that was doused with urine and biting the pig's trotters, Mingyue felt a sense of irony.
Mingyue looked at the skeleton carefully, and finally determined, nine times out of ten, this black skeleton is Sun Shishi, who disappeared without a body back then, and he is trying his best to protect the salt mine at home from being discovered; The one in front is the person who harmed the whole Sun family, and the Sun family is not a wolf howling in the middle of the night, but the scream of Sun Shishi, who was poisoned in the end.
It's just that the person who harmed the Sun family didn't expect that in the end, he and the Sun family would end up here, leaving only a pile of dry bones, and even his name was left.
The bodies of the two skeletons twisted strangely in one place, you have me, I have you, and at the same time stared at the front, following the direction of their line of sight, on the stone wall in front, countless whiskers-like roots were vertical from the air to the ground, densely turned, piled up all over the corner of the wall, and appeared coldly, making people think that the wall was growing fine human hair in the sky, and they were scared into a cold sweat.
Take a closer look, it turns out that the roots of countless banyan trees are from top to bottom, looking from afar, like long hair born against the wall, indescribable madness, this location should be the location of the hundred-year-old banyan tree at the entrance of the village, these roots are also it.