Chapter 22: Confronting the Corpse

When I heard the shouting, I chuckled in my heart, picked up the clothes next to the bed, put on my shoes, and ran out.

Searching for the sound, I ran to the front of the Chen family's house in the middle of the village, and I stopped, and there were two white lanterns hanging on the door of Uncle Chen's house. The left and right swings of the north wind creaked.

When I saw that the door was open, I went in myself. In the center of the door was a long table with an incense burner and some offerings. Behind the table was a white curtain.

I walked inside, and it was a mess, and the bamboo bed behind the curtain seemed to have been struck with a bang. The basin used to burn the paper also rolled far away, and the ashes of the yellow paper were blown everywhere by the wind.

The wind whirred through the hall, and I couldn't help but shiver, and there was a strong yin aura in the room.

"Uncle Chen? Auntie? I yelled into the house, but there was no response. I was about to raise my legs and go out to look for it again, when I ran into someone from the village who came in with farm tools.

Zhao Heitie took a shovel in his hand, walked in violently, and saw a half-grown boy coldly, screamed in fright, turned around and ran.

I smiled and said, "Uncle Heitie, why are you so daring..."

Zhao Heitie looked at me, then patted his head and said, "You are a kid from the Ling family." When did you come back? When you left, you didn't even say hello, so that my kid still hates you..."

I touched my neck a little embarrassed, "My master, you know, what can I do?" By the way, Uncle Heitie, what the hell is going on? ”

Zhao Heitie looked around, lowered his voice and said: "Old man Chen has cheated the corpse, but he can scare a few filial piety guards of the Chen family, which doesn't pull the whole village to take a look." ”

I frowned, "I heard the screams and rushed over, and there was not even a ghost in the room, let alone people." Old Man Chen's body is not there? ”

Before I finished speaking, Zhao Heitie covered his mouth, and said to the air in a nervous voice: "All the fairy brothers who are passing by, don't blame them." ”

I was so covered that I couldn't breathe, and I pulled Zhao Heitie's hand away.

As she spoke, a woman in a big flower jacket was squeezed out of the crowd, collapsed on the ground, and howled at the bamboo bed, "My poor father... I can't live in peace even if I die, I don't even have a corpse..."

I quietly pulled Zhao Heitie aside and asked, "Uncle Heitie, what the hell is going on?" ”

Zhao Heitie said a little impatiently: "Why are you little kid asking so much?" While playing..."

I folded my hands and recited "Amitabha".

I added a little inner breath to this voice, and it was quite deafening when I read it, and everyone in the room suddenly fell silent, and five pairs of eyes looked at me, and their eyes turned from doubt to surprise and then to disappointment.

Maybe they thought that this Buddha name was recited by my master, and then they saw that it was me, a little child, and when they saw that they couldn't count on it, they all withdrew their eyes.

Zhao Heitie rubbed his hands and asked, "Fengzi, you have been with your master for three years, have you learned some skills?" ”

I nodded and said, "The Dharma is boundless, and I have only learned a little bit of it." ”

Zhao Heitie's eyes widened instantly, and he took my hand and said: "Fengzi, you are also a member of our village, and you have been taken care of by the people in the village since you were a child, and now there is such a strange thing in the village, you see ......"

I really didn't feel comfortable being held so tightly by an old man, I withdrew my hand, patted my chest and said, "Uncle Heitie, don't worry." I've got that in mind. ”

It's not that I'm bragging, in fact, I don't know the bottom of my heart, three years is too short, and the things I learned are miscellaneous. It's just that I grew up in the village since I was a child, and the feelings are different in the end. So I'm going to have to give it a try anyway.

"Why... ......"There seemed to be movement in the backyard, a shrill sound from a chicken being choked by the neck. With the sound of wings fluttering, it seems to be doing a dying struggle.

The room fell silent for a moment, and everyone looked at the dark backyard through the open back door with fearful eyes.

One by one, the cries of the chickens were terrible, and they also knocked on everyone's hearts.

Someone retreated unconsciously, I don't know who took the lead, and there was a scream from the crowd, like a signal to retreat, and everyone ran out of the Chen family's house as if they were fleeing.

Zhao Heitie took my arm and ran out, but I broke free, "Uncle Heitie, you go first, I'll go to the backyard to have a look." ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for Zhao Heitie to react, so he ran to the backyard, Zhao Heitie saw that I was alone, but he didn't make a mistake, chopped his feet, picked up the shovel by the door and followed me into the backyard.

The layout of the rural courtyard is similar, the chicken shed is at the west back of the main house, I slowly approach the chicken shed with my feet, and the sound inside is getting clearer and clearer, it is the sound of chewing things, and occasionally there is a crisp sound. The smell of blood was thick in the air. And a lingering breath of death.

Suddenly, a beam of light came from behind him, and a circular light entered the chicken shed, and there was a humanoid thing holding a chicken, munching on it. The corners of his mouth are full of bright red blood, drinking chicken feathers.

Sensing the beam of the flashlight, the humanoid monster stopped moving, looking up and staring in my direction.

By the light of the flashlight, I could see clearly that this was the dead old man Chen. The skin on his face was as rough as pine bark, and his eyes, which had been cloudy, were now pale white, and his mouth let out a roar like that of a beast.

Uncle Heitie's frightened flashlights fell to the ground, rolling far away, and the light dimmed again.

I took out the relics on my chest, held them in my hands, and took a few steps forward, Uncle Heitie grabbed my arm and asked in a trembling voice, "What is that?" It's like a wolf in the mountains..."

I didn't answer, in fact, I don't know how to answer, there are many kinds of corpses, I don't know what kind of situation Old Man Chen belongs to, but I know that what sucks blood must not be kept, otherwise it will suck chicken blood today, and it will hurt people tomorrow.

I put my hands together and recited the six-character mantra silently in my mouth, and the Buddha beads in my hands sensed the Buddha power in my body, emitting a faint light, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark night.

Old Man Chen seemed to sense the danger, roared, and jumped, like a hungry wolf pounced, and pounced on me. Stretching out my hand is a grab, fortunately, in the past three years, I have practiced the basic skills solidly, and the body instinctively stepped back a little and dodged it.

And Old Man Chen's hand inadvertently touched the Buddha's light, and immediately emitted a burst of scorched meat. Old Man Chen let out a dull roar and circled around me. It seems to be waiting for the right moment.

It's just that I'm a little afraid of the little Buddha light in front of me. I didn't dare to relax, I collected my mind, and repeated the six-character mantra in my mouth.

On a snowy winter night, I stood against the corpse of Mr. Chen in the snow......