Chapter 0001: Fenling Searching for Cats
Ghost Month, it is the season of fire in July, the sky has just been dark, the breeze is blowing, and the slightest coolness is cold, Xu Shu can't help but shiver. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Little Taoist, are you afraid? Then we'll go back now, it's not my cat anyway. Zhang Ling'er held a torch and stared at Xu Shu and said.
The torch is homemade, tied with a circle of toilet paper and lit, and then melted the red wax into the toilet paper to act as a torch, but not vertically, otherwise the hot wax will drip on the hand, and the torch may be thrown away.
The homemade torches were bright, the breeze blew, and the huge flames flickered, but they did not hinder the lighting.
The fire shone on the face of the eight-year-old Xu Shu, a trace of childishness hung on his face, and there was a stubbornness.
"How can the little Taoist priest be afraid!" The girl Yu Jing looked at Xu Shu with adoring eyes, at least she believed in Xu Shu, otherwise she would refuse to go to Fenling with Xu Shu to find a cat like other friends.
Xu Shu's black cat "Sheriff" was lost, and Yu Lao Liu in the village saw that the sheriff had gone to Fenling, and Xu Shu, who had been looking for him with his partner for most of the afternoon, decided to go to Fenling to look for it.
Xu Shu had heard from the people in the village that black cats would come to Fenling to eat corpses, but Xu Shu didn't believe it, after all, he had never seen it with his own eyes.
Fenling is a hill with a winding Fenjiang River in front, Shanggang Village to the east, and Xiagang Village to the west.
A long time ago, there was a dispute between the two villages of Shanggang Village and Xiagang Village over the right to use Fenling, and they also alarmed the relevant part to come forward to mediate, however, the dispute has not yet been mediated, but the people of the two villages have fought, and the police station came, arrested the two leading troublemakers and locked them up, and finally the two troublemakers talked in the detention room and decided that the right to use Fenling should remain the same.
In fact, Fenling is a barren hill, there are no big trees, no crops, and the posts are full of barren grass, in fact, there is nothing to fight for.
Later, there was a man in the village who had not yet lived a Jiazi in vain, people said that this was a short-lived ghost, should not be buried in the ancestral grave, so buried in Fenling nearby, although the people of Shanggang Village had opinions, but could not prevent the deceased from going up the mountain, so after that, there were short-lived or premature deaths in Shanggang Village were buried in Fenling, and the same is true in Xiagang Village, so now, Fenling has actually become a veritable "grave ridge", which is already a mass grave.
The place where the short-lived or premature dead are buried is originally heavy with yin qi, not to mention a mass grave formed in this way, and the yin qi is stagnant enough to hurt the living.
At this time, when night fell, three eight or nine-year-old children actually went up to Fenling to look for cats, which was undoubtedly death.
Holding a torch and looking around, everywhere he could see was the barren grass that was about to wither, as well as the tombstones erected in the barren grass, Xu Shu swallowed his saliva, stiffened his head, and deliberately raised his voice and shouted: "I am a little Taoist, my father is a Daoist Xu, isn't it just looking for a cat in the mass grave, what is there to be afraid of, if you are afraid and not righteous, you can go back, I will find it myself." ā
Originally, Zhang Ling'er planned to retreat, but when she heard Xu Shu say this, although she was afraid, she couldn't bear a bad name, so she rubbed her chest and shouted: "Okay, let's take a look around, I can't help it if we can't find the sheriff." ā
Zhang Ling'er meant that she would go back if she couldn't find it, and this was really a helpless move.
Standing in the barren grass and mass graves in Fenling, you can see the lights of Xiashangang Village and Xiagang Village in Fenling, and the farmers living in the mountains live a life of sunrise and sunset, and now it is time to make dinner.
"Sheriff, sheriff......" Xu Shu had the courage to call the name of the black cat in Fenling.
Usually the sheriff is very well-behaved, and he will go out for activities only in the village, but today I don't know why he came to a place like Fenling.
"Sheriff!" Yu Jing's voice was trembling, a little girl was in a mass grave, she would inevitably be afraid, and she didn't dare to go too far away from Xu Shu, and even Zhang Ling'er walked next to Xu Shu.
Xu Shu turned his head and scolded a little angrily: "Two cowards, so close to each other, looking for them separately, it is easier to find." ā
However, Xu Shu's words didn't work at all, fear was the biggest enemy at this time, and the consequences of scaring the soul were more serious than losing the cat.
After searching for a while, Zhang Ling'er finally couldn't stand this terrifying environment, and said to Xu Shu: "Little Taoist, it's too late, or come and find it tomorrow." ā
Although the black cat is not carried by Xu Shu to sleep every day, it also sleeps next to its bed, and if he is not there for a day, Xu Shu will have trouble sleeping and eating.
"No, I'll have to find it at night, or I'll not be able to sleep." Xu Shu insisted, but he didn't know if it was the courage that came from, maybe it was because he usually saw too much of his father Xu Yi's methods.
"Look, there's movement over there." Suddenly, Yu Jing pointed to the wild grass in the distance in front of him and shouted.
Actually, I didn't see the black cat, but the waist-length wild grass was moving, shaking desperately, obviously not caused by the evening wind.
Xu Shu showed a smile on his face, Zhang Ling'er was even happier, the black cat was about to be found, and he could leave this mass grave and go home immediately.
Although excited, no one dared to run in this kind of place and in this light, and no one usually came up on the mass grave, and only when people were buried, or occasionally someone came to burn paper. Most of the graves here have become shorter, the tombstones have fallen, and some of the graves have not had graves and tombstones at all.
What's more, some snake catchers who wanted to make money dug up some graves and knocked down tombstones in order to catch snakes.
Xu Shu passed through the holes one by one, and even saw the white bones inside, and there was a strange smell in the evening breeze blowing on his back, which was the breath of the undead.
The flames on the torches sizzled in the evening breeze, the hot red wax dripped down, and a crow suddenly flew across the night sky and chirped.
When Xu Shu heard the crow calling, he chuckled in his heart, frowned and thought, how could there be crows at night?
The crow is said to be an ominous bird, and it does not report good news, and the crow is a scavenger, and when the crow appears, someone will mourn.
"Let's hurry!" Xu Shu felt faintly uneasy in his heart, and wanted to find the black cat as soon as possible and leave Fenling.
Xu Shu led Zhang Ling'er and Yu Jing to walk forward quickly, and the flames of the three torches flew backwards, dragging a long tail, as if laughing at the ignorance of the young man.
It was getting closer and closer, and at this time, Xu Shu felt something strange about the necklace hanging under his neck, stopped, reached out and took it out, and looked down, a small sword-shaped ornament seemed to be emitting red light, and there was a faint warmth, a little sticky, a feeling of blood sticking to his hands.
Zhang Ling'er and Yu Jing, who didn't stop at Xu Shu's footsteps, suddenly found that Xu Shu hadn't followed, and they also stopped and turned their heads to stare at Xu Shu, who was stunned, and asked, "Little Taoist, have you decided to go back?" ā
Xu Shu didn't answer, but stared at the swaying wild grass not far away, looked down, but couldn't see what was behind the wild grass, Xu Shu shook his head: "No." ā
Xu Shu let go of the hand holding the sword-shaped pendant, the warmth was still there, and he didn't put it back in his clothes.
"Then hurry up, it's right ahead." Zhang Ling'er is not afraid, but she just wants to end it as soon as possible, so as not to suffer mentally.
The barren grass reached his waist, Xu Shu pushed the barren grass and slowly approached, Zhang Ling'er and Yu Jing turned around and hid behind Xu Shu, their little hearts beating wildly at an unprecedented beating frequency.
Finally arrived, as long as you pushed aside the wild grass in front of you, you could see the black cat hiding under the wild grass and shaking, Xu Shu stretched out his hand to the last piece of wild grass, and then gently pushed it away, lest it frighten the black cat, and fled again.
"Ahh Brushing aside the wild grass and seeing the scene in front of him, Xu Shu also gasped, what appeared in front of him was not a black cat at all, but a sitting person, a woman.