At about 11 o'clock at noon, we set off from the hotel, and it took a full hour to finish the usual only ten minutes of walking, and came to the iron pot fish shop, but what we didn't expect was that when we knocked on the courtyard door, it was Liu Shangang who opened the door for us.

As I walked into the courtyard, I asked Liu Shangang, "When did you come?" ”

Liu Shangang smiled: "It's only been a few minutes since I arrived." Originally, I wanted to invite you to dinner at noon, but when I called the owner to book a table just now, he said that you had already booked. Then I thought, anyway, you are richer than me, and you should please this meal. ”

Come to rub the rice, come to rub the rice, and so many words.

I didn't break Liu Shangang, and went into the house by myself.

In fact, the tables in the store are all stoves, and a fire is lit in the middle of the stove, and an iron pot is placed in the pot, in which fish and vegetables are cooked, and diners gather around the stove and eat directly from the pot.

By the time we arrived, the fish in the pot was already seven or eight times cooked, and the mellow aroma of the fish mixed with the salty and sweet sauce wafted out of the pot, which made me feel hungry.

Luo Fei had always said that she wanted to eat the iron pot fish here, but after she came, I felt that she was far less excited than I imagined. In fact, I noticed it when she came to my house, and when I saw her this time, her smiling face was obviously much less than in the past, as if she had a lot of concern.

I beckoned everyone to sit down, took some drinks, and while the fish was still good, everyone chatted about you and me.

I asked Luo Fei: "I see that you are not quite right this time, do you have something on your mind?" ”

Luo Fei sighed and said, "Recently, my cultivation has hit a bottleneck, and when my master died, he left me an ancient manuscript of the Ghost Gate Technique, and I only recently started reading that book, but when I looked at it, I found that I couldn't understand it at all." But those techniques are the most important inheritance in our ghost gate. Alas, sometimes I really feel like I'm so stupid that I can't do anything. ”

This matter involves the inheritance of the ghost gate, and it is inconvenient for me to mix it more, but I just said: "This kind of thing is magic, you still have to understand it slowly, and you can't be in a hurry." ”

At this time, Luo Tai suddenly asked me: "Let's get some liquor and drink it, how can you eat without wine?" ”

Liu Shangang was more familiar with the situation in the store than us, he ran to the counter and took a bottle of liquor to Luo Tai, and then asked about Wang Dapeng.

A few of us talked about the shadow murder in Dianzi Village, and then discussed the plan of action.

Liu Shangang said that in order to facilitate observation, it is best to find a house to live in Dianzi Village, and we usually do not come out during the day, but at night, we come out to investigate. Wang Dapeng said that his third uncle's family had returned to their hometown, and the house happened to be empty, and the place was not far from the east end of the village, so we could live temporarily.

Later, Liu Shangang took paper and pen from the counter, and he asked Wang Dapeng to state the topography and architectural arrangement of the village, drew a sketch on the paper, and circled several locations that could be used as secret sentinels.

While we were discussing the plan, a pot of fish had already been eaten, and Luo Tai himself drank a pound of liquor, but he was not drunk at all.

I paid according to the price list on the counter, and took change from the counter drawer to give myself change, and Xian'er and Luo Fei cleaned up the table after eating.

The snow had almost stopped, but the road was still difficult to walk, so we took the bus to the stop sign near Dianzi Village and walked for another 20 minutes before coming to the west entrance of the village.

Liu Shangang said that he had studied the environment around Dianzi Village before, and that the east, south, and north directions all led to other villages, and only the west side was a field, and it would be slightly safer to enter the village from this place, because the terrain of this field determined that the other party would not set up a secret post here.

After arriving at the entrance of the village, Liu Shangang asked us to stop and wait, and he stuffed my backpack into me and entered the village alone.

It took him more than an hour before he returned, saying that there might be dark posts in the southeast and southwest directions, and that he should try to avoid them when entering the village.

This time, Liu Shangang became the one leading the way, and he led us around the village for a long time to turn left and right, and then we came to a house near the east end of the village.

Coming to the gate of the courtyard, Liu Shangang patted Wang Dapeng: "Is this your third uncle's house?" ”

Wang Dapeng was a little absent-minded all the way, and he didn't know what he was thinking, he was slapped by Liu Shangang, he shrugged his shoulders first, as if he was taken aback, and after a while, he came to his senses, looked at the iron gate outside the courtyard, and said with some surprise: "Yes, this is my third uncle's house." No, Liu Shangang, how do you know where my third uncle lives, I don't think I've ever mentioned it. ”

Liu Shangang sighed and said: "I knew that I was going to come to Dianzi Village, so I investigated it in advance, since the Chinese New Year, there are two houses in the east of the village that have been vacant, this is one of them, and the other is next to the east entrance of the village. ”

Wang Dapeng became more and more surprised: "Ah, how come you even know this?" When have you ever been there? ”

Liu Shangang said: "I haven't been here. Don't talk nonsense, do you have the key to your third uncle's house? ”

Wang Dapeng shook his head.

A few of us didn't talk nonsense anymore, seeing that there was no one else nearby, they climbed over the wall into the courtyard one by one, and Wang Dapeng also wanted to climb the wall with us, but after Liang Houzai entered the courtyard, he shouted at him: "Don't come in, go home." ”

Wang Dapeng immediately became nervous: "No, you just leave me alone?" What if that shadow comes to me again at night? ”

Liang Houzai: "Don't worry, there is an evil talisman to protect you, and evil spirits can't enter your body." You don't want to come here these days, if you are with us, it will be easy for accidents. ”

Wang Dapeng hesitated outside the courtyard for a long time before I heard his departing footsteps.

Liu Shangang counted the number of people and confirmed that everyone had come in, so he grabbed a few handfuls of snow from the ground and piled them on top of the wall.

He also did this to prevent others from finding out that there were people in the yard.

I didn't expect Liu Shangang to be so meticulous now.

After that, Liu Shangang pried open the door of the house again and let everyone in.

There was no heating in the village, so we relied on our own stoves and clay kang to keep warm, but we were worried that the heat from the chimney would melt the snow on the roof, so we didn't dare to make a fire, so we found some clothes from the closet in the Westinghouse, and everyone was wrapped tightly.

In the kitchen, there are raw chickens and raw fish that we haven't had time to eat in the New Year, and there are also a lot of home-made flour, and there are cabbage and frozen pork in the yard, which are estimated to be enough for a few of us to eat for a few days. In addition, there is a gas tank in the kitchen, so you can cook without a fire.

When I saw that it was almost night, I thought about it, so I still called the master, told him about the matter of Dianzi Village, and also told Liang Houzai and I some thoughts on this matter, when the master learned that we had been lurking in Dianzi Village, his tone became a little worried, but he didn't say much, just told us to be more careful, and try to wait for rescue when we encounter the people of the burial sect, and don't have a hard time with them.

I heard a little bit of mystery from Master's words, and I felt that Master seemed to have some information about the Funeral Sect, but he didn't seem to want to tell me that information.

After hanging up the phone, Xian'er and Luo Fei and I simply got some food. Then there was the long wait.

After dinner, the time should be about six o'clock, the sky is already dark, Xian'er lit the fox lamp, and everyone relied on this little light to identify the environment in the house. Liu Shangang leaned in front of the window, endured the cold wind that came in through the crack in the window, and stared out the window silently.

I don't know what he's looking at, after all, when you look out of this window, you can only see the courtyard.

An hour passes, two hours pass, three hours passes...... Liu Shangang just leaned quietly against the window, without superfluous movements, without superfluous words, if it weren't for the sound of his breathing, I might have mistaken him for a statue.

When it was close to twelve o'clock in the morning, Liu Shangang finally made a move, he wrapped his clothes, rubbed his hands warm, and said to me: "There is an abnormal noise outside the hospital at nine o'clock, it has lasted for nearly ten minutes, we have to go out and have a look." ”

Abnormal noise? But why didn't I hear anything?

Liu Shangang rubbed his hands warmly, and then rubbed his arms and legs, he stayed in front of the window for several hours in a row, and it was estimated that his body was already a little stiff at this time.

It wasn't until he rubbed his body hot that he moved his hands and feet, probably because he felt that his movements were not affected, that he came to the door, lifted the doorknob hard, and then quietly pushed the door open.

At this time, the village is surprisingly quiet, and even the slightest sound of opening the door can be heard far away.

Before going out, Liang Houzai and I carried a dining table into the courtyard and stepped on the table to climb over the wall, which also saved us the footsteps when we rushed up the wall.

When everyone came out of the courtyard, I asked Liu Shangang to lead the way in front and Liang Houzai to the back of the palace, and then a few people tiptoed towards the east.

Because there is still snow on the ground, it is easy to make a "creaking" squeezing sound when stepping on it, and only those places that have been stepped on and the snow has been trampled on will not make a sound when you land.

So before the others move, Liu Shangang had to explore the way, find the place where the snow was relatively solid, make a mark, and let us walk along the mark.

In addition, we did not dare to take the main road, so we could only walk along the relatively difficult path, so that our marching speed was very slow, and it took a long time to walk out of a distance of less than 100 meters.

At this moment, Liu Shangang suddenly raised his hand and signaled everyone to stop.

When I stopped, he turned his head and whispered to me, "Listen, there's movement." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the end of the village road.

I turned my face to the end of the village road and listened with my ears pricked up, but no matter how hard I tried, I could only hear the breathing of the people around me, not only me, but everyone else also looked at Liu Shangang with an inexplicable look, and they didn't hear the sound.

At that time, I thought that Liu Shangang would not be evil, after all, among the people present, except for a Luo Tai who I didn't know at all, he was the only one who was an ordinary person who had no Taoism at all.

Liu Shangang glanced at the expressions on everyone's faces one by one, frowned helplessly, and said, "Let's go a little longer." ”

With that, he ran ahead to explore the way.