If you find it, you will leave, and if you can't find it, of course, you will stay. As for how long I stayed, it was a test of my friendship with Chen Xiaoqiu and my conscience, and outsiders could not estimate it. Even if I'm gone, I can come back every other day.

This is a change to an ordinary person, and what I say is certainly not a threat. But as a "stranger", that's the threat.

According to the security guard, someone like me, who has a little ability to catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits, will always make a big disturbance in Huixiang, causing Huixiang people to be implicated, and there are also deaths and injuries.

I don't know if it's true or not, I just know that Huixiang people believe this. Security guards, Xiangzi, and people in the hospital will be afraid when they see me now, and there shouldn't be many outliers like Chen Zi'an in Huixiang.

My slightly blunt words made the old man a little stunned.

He looked at me carefully for a long time before he let out a long sigh.

The boss didn't come back, he rested his hand on the table, knocked on the table, and thought about it for a long time before he spoke: "I know, young man, you can hear that cry, you should be a capable person, at least you have learned to use both hands." If you stay in Huixiang a little longer, you should hear what our people here have to say about people like you. ”

I wasn't very satisfied with this beginning.

But the conversation must have a beginning before it can continue.

The old man's heart seemed to be entangled in a lot, and after saying this nonsense, he shook his head helplessly.

"Have you heard the story of the village next door? The story of the crooked neck village. The old man looked at me this time, looked at me, and did not look away from me.

I was a little taken aback and nodded, "I've heard a little." ”

I'll tell you a rough story about the old security guard.

The old man nodded and shook his head from time to time, and when I finished speaking, he said, "That's a story in the middle of the crooked neck village." The story I heard when I was a child was the story before the village of Crooked Neck. ”

His diction is not so precise, and the story is told logically afterwards.

The story he is talking about, in simple terms, is "the origin of the crooked neck village".

According to the old man, it was all the story of the previous dynasty. It was also a "stranger" who arrived in Huixiang and passed through Crooked Neck Village. The man was chased and killed by the enemy, fled here, hid in the village for several days, and was found by the enemy. In a few days, that man was clever and fooled all the people in the village, believing that he was a good man, framed by traitors, hunted down and killed by powerful and domineering people, and had a singing and crying experience. The villagers were blinded by him and helped him hide his whereabouts. He was placed in a cave on the hill at the back of the village. The cave was a naturally formed cavern, and there was no living thing except bats. The people of the village helped him lure away the people who came to chase and kill, so that he could stay in the village with peace of mind and spend the rest of his life. He righteously refused, saying that he would clear his name.

“…… After that man left, the village lady was peaceful. After that, there was a disaster in some places, and some people fled to Huixiang. Huixiang himself can't eat enough to help these victims. The place where these victims want to go is not Huixiang, but a big city of abundance. When they were about to leave Huixiang, some people rushed to Huixiang to buy some people for the rich, and also selected some men and women with good foundations, and wanted to send them to that kind of place to do the skin and meat business. There was a little girl who was taken by the human teeth. Her parents are reluctant, and neither are she herself. The human tooth will forcibly tie the person away. Her parents had other children and family, and there was nothing she could do. The little girl was clever and clever, and escaped while the people were not paying attention. Crooked Neck Village ...... At that time, it was not called Crooked Neck Village, and I don't know what it was called. The people of the village saw that the little girl was pitiful, so they put her in the cave and let her hide. Renyazi spent money to buy a girl, and if he ran away like this, he would definitely not agree, so he looked for people everywhere. They also made a ruthless move, and whoever wants to hand over people, they are willing to give money. ”

The old man chattered about this, with some emotion, "It's also a coincidence, that outsider is in the team of disaster victims." He was originally because he let go of big words when he left, but now he is depressed and does not want to see the villagers. Hearing what people said about it, thinking of the reward, I was confused, and went to the village to inquire. He deceived the villagers, who believed his nonsense and told him that the girl was hiding in a cave. So he ran to the cave and looked. And when he was sure that he was inside, he took the men of the teeth, and went there and arrested them. The girl was so hard that she saw that she couldn't escape, so she crashed into the cave and died. This man became a ghost, and he was so angry that he was trapped in the cave, so that the people in the cave could not get out at all. They were scared, and the people of the village found out about it and rushed to help. As soon as they broke in, the man came up with a bad idea. He had his teeth cut off the heads of several villagers who came in, and used blood to quell their grievances. The heads of the men were nailed to the cave and their bodies were thrown to the ground, and blood was pouring from the ground. In this way, the resentment was really suppressed. When they escaped, the cave became evil, and the village was inaccumulated, and then the children who were born after them grew up with crooked necks, as if their heads were going to be cut off. ”

This sounds like it is not only related to the Crooked Neck Village, but also seems to have something to do with the rules of Huixiang ghosts killing outsiders and strangers.

Could it be that the guide is a ghost who died in the cave? And the missing people, all of whom were brought to that cave?

I was a little excited.

"The story you heard, that's what came after. The Taoist priest died in the village, and it is said that he died in the cave. The old man continued, "But no one dares to go to the cave. No one goes to that place, no one dares to go, and if you go, you may not be able to come back. ”

Zhuang Huai saw that the story told by the old man seemed to be coming to an end, and asked out loud: "According to what you said, this is the story of the first and middle sections of Crooked Neck Village, but what about the latter paragraph?" ”

The old man pondered for a while, "In the latter paragraph, I listened to my daughter-in-law there. She also heard, it is what happened in the past few years. It is said that the people of the original crooked neck village have moved away, and some lonely souls and wild ghosts have occupied the place in that village. You can see that the houses are empty, but in fact, there are ghosts living in them, and sometimes you can hear the ghosts moving. ”

He said, shaking his head, "I only went to see it once in the last few months, and I didn't hear any ghosts. ”

This old man obviously has some ability, he can hear the ghost cry, maybe he has yin and yang eyes, and he is very confident.

He doesn't agree with the story of Crooked Neck Village.

However, he immediately changed his tune.

"The first time I heard my daughter-in-law say this, it was also when there was a change in the Crying Grave Ridge next to me. You also heard the mourning voice. Originally, the voice could only be heard for two or three days throughout the year, and the days were fixed, all of which were grave sweeping days. At other times, the cries of diamonds are occasionally heard. But since then, the sound of mourning can be heard every now and then. The ghost here seems to have suddenly become ......" The old man couldn't think of a suitable word for a while.

"It's become active." I said in a daze.

The old man muttered "active" twice and nodded, "That's right, that's right." ”

But my heart sank.