I stood still and didn't dare to move, holding the lantern to my chest and looking back and forth about the inside of the house.

The lantern was dimly lit and could only reach a few paces in front of me, and I reached out and looked forward, and found the room very simple, a square table with two wooden chairs next to it, an old radio on the old tea, and nothing else.

If it weren't for the calendar hanging on the wall next to me, I would have almost thought I had traveled back to the 80s.

It's just that why didn't I see Mrs. Huo?

I looked around the room again, and was about to speak, when I saw a black shadow suddenly appear in the corner of the room, and before I could react, I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air from the sharp pain on the back of my hand.

As I leaned towards the door, I looked up and saw a black cat with swarthy hair squatting on the pantry and baring its teeth at me, and there were five bloody paw prints on the back of my hand.

"Old Black doesn't like the smell of you."

A hoarse voice sounded in the room, I wiped the blood stains on my hands, and found that the sound came from the corner where the black cat jumped out, I was stunned, and whispered to the corner: "Grandma Huo? ”

The light from the lantern gradually illuminated the corner as she turned around, and an old woman sitting on a wicker chair appeared in view.

The old woman was wearing a black Tang costume, full of silver hair, her face was snow-white, as if she had applied a lot of powder, her face was full of wrinkles, and only a pair of eyes were black.

"Lao Hei, this is a guest, don't mess around."

The black cat seemed to be able to understand human speech, and after hearing Mrs. Huo's reprimand, she made a whimper in her throat and jumped from the pantry to Mrs. Huo's arms, her body curled up, her face was facing my direction, and a pair of dark eyes stared at me vigilantly, as if she was looking at a natural enemy.

I shuddered a little when it looked at it, and subconsciously moved two steps back, but saw Mrs. Huo caressing the black cat's head and said, "Don't be afraid, Lao Hei is just more sensitive to evil things, and you have unclean things on your body, and it is just a little anxious." ”

Something sinister?

I?

I couldn't help but think of the old man who was called the ghost grandfather by Sister Yu when I first entered the gate, and I opened my mouth to ask what was going on, but when the words came to my mouth, I remembered Sister Yu's advice and swallowed it back.

"Hehe, did that girl tell you not to ask me questions?" Mrs. Huo sensed my thoughts and said.

I nodded noncommittally.

"Tell me, why did you come to me today, there is not much time, no matter what the result is, as soon as the candle in the lantern is extinguished, you can go out."

Mrs. Huo said lightly, I just remembered the purpose of this trip, and I took a few steps forward with courage, raised my left hand and said, "Grandma Huo, do you recognize what these scabs are?" ”

Mrs. Huo was concentrating on brushing the black cat's eyelids and raised her eyes, and when her eyes fell on the inside of my arm, her eyes flickered slightly, and then they drooped again.

"Tell me about it."

I was overjoyed, so I roughly stated what happened that day in the back mountain, which naturally omitted the part of the unjust soul of Sanchawan and the green carp, after all, the two are not directly related, and I don't want to publicize them for the time being.

After finishing speaking, in my expectant eyes, Mrs. Huo didn't say a word, just touched the cat with her hand, and the black cat also enjoyed squinting her eyes, and made a strange "purr" in her throat.

She didn't speak, and I naturally didn't dare to ask, so I just stood there and waited patiently, but fortunately, it didn't take long for Mrs. Huo to seem to have touched enough, put the cat on the ground and said, "Go, bring my baby." ”

Baby? What baby?

I was stunned for a moment and didn't understand the meaning of her words, and when the black cat returned to Mrs. Huo's arms with a rusty bronze mirror in her mouth, I reflected, I didn't dare to talk to me, I was talking about cats.

"Baby, come over here."

Hearing Mrs. Huo's instructions, I walked up to her with a lantern, but I didn't dare to get too close, I was afraid that the black cat wouldn't be able to hold it for a while, and it would come back to scratch me.

"I'm afraid of even a cat, has the basket shop been reduced to the point where people like you are young owners?"

Mrs. Huo's face was not good, and her words were full of disdain, I was a little angry and bloody by her, and said that your cat scratches people casually, and it has become my fault.

I thought in my heart, but I still took half a step forward under my feet, but at this time, the black cat stood on Mrs. Huo's lap and exploded all of a sudden, hunched its back, the hair on its body stood upright, and opened its mouth at me and let out a threatening roar, if it weren't for Mrs. Huo pinching the flesh on its neck at this moment, I am afraid it would have pounced on it a long time ago.

"You've got too much dirt on you, and no matter what the outcome is this time, you don't have to come back in the future."

Mrs. Huo said as her eyelids fell on my left hand, and I stretched out my arm in understanding, looking at the six irregular black dots, my heart was pounding.

"Black scale fish pattern, sticky bones and tendons, the goods on the ground don't mess with you, you have to mess with the goods in the sky, I don't know the depth at a young age."

Mrs. Huo sneered, took out the bronze mirror from her arms and walked up and down my arm, when I passed those scratches, her movements slowed down significantly, and I also noticed the expression on her face, which was not very good-looking.

After reading it, Mrs. Huo breathed a long sigh of relief, wiped the beads of sweat on her forehead, as if she had just done something extremely physically draining, and then put the bronze mirror in her arms, looked at me suspiciously, and said, "Who is your mother?" ”

My mother?

I didn't know why she asked, but I thought for a moment and said, "My mother is my mother, housewife." ”

"Housewives?"

A hint of sarcasm flashed in Mrs. Huo's eyes, "I'm afraid that housewife isn't your biological mother, right?" ”

When I heard her babble like this, I was furious, and I pointed my finger at her and was about to have a seizure, but I saw her and said casually: "I am only responsible for telling me what I see in my eyes, whether I listen to you or not, if you don't believe it, you can leave." ”

"And." Mrs. Huo looked at the scratches on my hands and said: "The reverse scales are full of ghosts and gods, Jiangxi Floating Dragon has a real chapter, people and ghosts are afraid, and the living avoid it." ”

As soon as Mrs. Huo's words fell, she saw the flames in the lantern flicker, and the whole room fell into darkness.

"Let's go, be careful when you go out, that thing is always waiting for you at the door."

Mrs. Huo's voice drifted in the darkness, and I wanted to ask her what she meant by what she just said, but she shouted twice but got no response, and the whole room was empty, as if I was the only one left.

Leaving the room with a stomach full of doubts, Sister Yu grabbed my shoulder with her hand when she saw me and asked me how I was doing, and if I remembered what she had told me before.

I said angrily, of course, I remembered, and it was precisely because I remembered these words that I was even more confused.

Sister Yu turned her head to look at the ghost grandfather, and after saying goodbye, she couldn't wait to pull me out, and at the moment when she walked out of the courtyard gate on two legs, a gust of wind blew on the back of my head, I couldn't help but shiver, turned my head and saw that the ghost grandfather was still standing at the door, and just wanted to wave goodbye to him, but I saw him shake his head and turn around and close the door.

This night made me very depressed, as soon as I got in the car, I asked Sister Yu, why are there so many rules, I feel that Mrs. Huo is not anything special except that she is a little whiter and thinner than the old lady on the street, and she must know a lot of things, just say no, why bother so much.

Sister Yu didn't answer after hearing this, and asked me what Mrs. Huo said.

I thought about it and retold everything that happened in the house to her as it was, and after listening to it, Sister Yu's face was mixed, she held the steering wheel in her hand and was silent, sweeping her eyes over me from time to time, and she stopped talking several times, and almost suffocated me to death when I couldn't get up in one breath.

"Do you know what the bronze mirror in Mrs. Huo's hand is?" After a long time, Sister Yu finally spoke.

I shook my head and said I didn't know.

"At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old fisherman who fished a palm-sized bronze mirror in the pond, took the mirror to look at it, and saw a monster with red blood and white bones in the mirror, so he reported it to the government, and the government reported to the imperial court.

At that time, there was a party surnamed Chen Minggong, when he was a child, he learned that the monster in this mirror was actually a human skeleton, and secretly hid it and disappeared for a period of time, and then changed his surname to treat diseases with this mirror, and then was reported to Zhu Youzhen, and was copied all over the door, and this mirror fell into the hands of Zhu Youzhen, and then waited for the Qing soldiers to enter the customs, Zhu Youzhen died in Meishan, and the whereabouts of this mirror are unknown. ”

I was speechless when I heard it, and I couldn't help but think of the bronze mirror in Mrs. Huo's hand, so I asked Sister Yu if the two were the same thing.

Sister Yu nodded, "That bone mirror can see the veins of human bones and the trend of anger, Mrs. Huo must have seen something to say that Jiangxi Fulong has a true chapter, it seems that this time in Jiangxi, you have to go if you don't go." ”