Chapter 243: Shame on the Face
Zhang Laohan said this, his wife seemed to understand, and there was a smile on his face all the time, and that smile was from the heart, not contrived at all.
Seeing the simple and simple love between Zhang Laohan and his wife, I always had a smile on my face.
At this time, the water on the stove was already boiling, and Zhang Laohan's wife had rolled out the noodles, and the moment the noodles were put into the pot, the warm water vapor immediately steamed up all over the room.
Due to the cramped kitchen, Zhang Laohan could only withdraw from under the stove, while her wife took his place, came to the iron pot, and stirred it in the pot with a pair of long chopsticks.
Zhang Laohan came to me and said to me: "Let's go, let's go out and chat, stay here, we will affect the old lady's work, and if she gets angry at that time, she will be fierce." β
As he spoke, he pulled me out of the kitchen with a smile on his face.
At this time, the sky became a little overcast, and it seemed that it was going to rain, but the temperature was still very high, and the heat became muggy.
After arriving in the courtyard, Zhang Laohan fetched some cold water from the well, saying that the well water here is very sweet, let me drink a little to relieve the heat.
In fact, I drank the water in the well just now, not only is it not sweet, but it is also slightly sour, but I didn't say anything, I took a sip of water, and said that the water is indeed quite sweet.
Zhang Laohan smiled: "Isn't it, I just said that the water at home is sweet, but when my son came back, he always said that the well water was sour and there was a problem with his tongue." β
I smiled and asked him, "Are your children usually not around?" β
The old man said: "They all live in the city, they want to take me to live in the city, I can't get used to it, it is better to stay here." Just last month, my eldest son, he mixed well, wanted to do his filial piety, he bought the ancestral house of Wang Er Mazi in the east of the village, said that he wanted to build a big house for us, let us live in it, I didn't expect that the place was dirty, my son said that the village was not peaceful, let me move out, but our family has lived here for generations, and there has been no problem. Besides, there was a disturbance in the village, we left, what should the rest of the village do, what do you say? Anyway, I don't agree to go, I have no choice there, so I invited the masters, you see, I have to trouble you all the way to this trip. β
After making trouble for a long time, Zhang Laohan in front of him turned out to be the employer's father.
Looking at his simple dress, I really didn't think about it.
After he said this, he pointed to the coffin in the courtyard and asked, "Who is this coffin for?" β
I said, "It's for the evil corpses, but it doesn't necessarily work, and if it doesn't, I'll have to carry it back." By the way, Grandpa Zhang, how much do you know about the zombies in Wang Er Mazi's ancestral house? β
Hearing me ask, the old man smiled: "I said, why don't you stay in the house and come to the kitchen to find someone." It's been a long time, is it a set of words? β
I also smiled and said, "It's not a clichΓ©, I just want to understand the situation." β
"That's right, that's right," Zhang Laohan said: "No matter what you do, you must first understand the situation, you doll, do things firmly, unlike the horse wife in our village, who has little ability, what else do you have to do, what kind of fun, put your life into it." β
I frowned: "Who is Mrs. Ma?" β
I heard Zhang Laohan say: "A goddess in the village, in the past, when the family was sick or evil, they would go to her to see, at that time she was still quite effective, and helped a lot of people, but she also had so much ability, and the things in Wang Er Mazi's ancestral house were not one or two...... Hey, she's just too conceited. β
I asked Zhang Laohan again: "How did that goddess die?" β
Zhang Laohan thought for a while and said, "Oh, it seems that she has fallen into an evil spirit, she did a ritual at the ancestral house, and people went crazy that night." She had no children and no daughters, and she had been living at her nephew's house since she had gone mad, and one morning her nephew went to the town to do some errands, and no one was looking at her, so she jumped into the well and died. β
Obsessed? Isn't there a zombie on the side of the ancestral house, how could the goddess fall for evil?
Listening to Zhang Laohan's story, I can probably be sure that things are not just as simple as zombies.
I thought about it for a while, and then asked him, "Except for the goddess surnamed Ma, is there anyone else in the village who has been evil?" β
Zhang Laohan waved his hand and said, "It's gone, except for Ma's wife, no one in the village has ever been offended." The ancestral house of Wang Er Mazi's family is also quite far away from the village, just on the hill over there, after the accident, only Ma's wife has been there alone, it seems that as long as you don't go there, there is nothing to do. β
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to a small hill to the east of the village.
When I came here before, because the sun was big and the yang energy was sufficient, there was no disappearance on the mountain, but now that the sky is overcast, I can see a faint layer of black gas entrenched on the mountain when I open the eyes of the sky.
That kind of breath is a concrete word for yin qi, indicating that the yin qi on the mountain is very heavy.
Zhang Laohan also looked at the mountain and said, "No one has lived in that place for almost sixty or seventy years, it's normal to have a ghost, but why are there so many zombies?" β
I asked him, "Grandpa Zhang, have you seen those zombies?" β
The old man shook his head: "No, I've never seen that, it was said by the woman surnamed Hu." β
The two of us were talking when the old lady came out of the kitchen with two bowls of noodles.
The three-finger-wide trouser belt noodles are splashed with fried beef minced and covered with a layer of red and clear oil and spicy seeds, wafting out a strong fragrance.
Even though I wasn't hungry, my stomach felt a little empty after seeing these two bowls of noodles.
I probably showed a greedy look at the time, Zhang Laohan patted me on the back, and said with a little pride: "My wife's craftsmanship is very good. β
I'm embarrassed that he's done that.
When I returned to the house with the noodles with Mr. and Mrs. Zhang, Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang both fell asleep leaning on the kang.
After such a long journey, to be honest, everyone was tired.
I told the two of them to get up, and Mr. Zhang set up a round table and beckoned the three of us to dinner.
A bowl of trouser noodles is not a delicacies of the mountains and seas, and there is no particularly complicated cooking process, such a meal cannot be commented on with the eyes of a gourmet, this is an ordinary person's meal, and it tastes like one word: fragrant, especially when the wide noodles are mixed with beef and red chili oil tumbling on the tongue, there is an indescribable pleasure.
Seriously, it's been a long time since I've eaten something so enjoyable.
After eating, we helped the two old men clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and then I called Hu Nanqian and asked her what the specific situation was in Wang Er Mazi's ancestral house.
Hu Nanqian said that as far as she knew, it was a large group of purple stiffs, nothing special. However, she also reminded me on the phone that such a large-scale zombie gathering is a bit abnormal in itself.
After hanging up the phone, I set an alarm clock on my phone, and then I washed up and went to sleep.
As for the matter of Wang Er Mazi's ancestral house, let's talk about it tomorrow during the day.
After a tiring journey, I fell asleep as soon as I lay down, as did Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang, the three of us slept too quickly and deeply, and forgot to turn off the lights before going to bed.
I rarely dream when I sleep, and even when I wake up, I can't remember it.
But that night, I was plagued by nightmares, and kept having all kinds of strange dreams, I dreamed that I failed the college entrance examination, I dreamed that all the mental power I had gained from all these years of practice was gone, I dreamed that I could no longer open the eyes of heaven, and I dreamed that I lost a lot of hair and finally became bald......
In my last dream, I dreamed that Fantian Yin fell from a very high place to the ground, and when it hit the ground, it made a loud "boom", and then it was like a goblet that fell to the ground, and it was torn apart and fragmented sideways.
I was suddenly awakened, sat up from the kang with a sigh, and quickly touched the Fantian seal on the pillow, fortunately, the Fantian seal was still there, and it was intact.
I let out a long breath, a little calmer.
After doing this for a while, I suddenly realized why I had nightmares, and I tried to call Xian'er a few times, but she said "Huh! After that, he ignored me.
I noticed that the light was still on in the room, so I reached out and tried to pull the lamp rope on the kang head.
Just as I was stretching out my arms, there was a sudden muffled sound in the courtyard, which was almost exactly the same as the one I heard in my dream.
I immediately became alert, sank in my breath, and listened carefully to the sounds of the courtyard.
After about a minute, there was another muffled noise in the courtyard.
The sound sounded like something hard had fallen heavily on the ground, but it sounded like someone was hitting the ground with a heavy hammer.
Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang were also awakened by the sound outside the door, and I made a silent gesture to the two of them, signaling them not to speak.
Another minute passed, and the voice came again, this time with a much clearer sound than before, as if something was coming towards the door.
By the time the muffled noise appeared for the fourth time, it had already arrived at the door, and through the layer of paper attached to the door panel, a figure could be faintly seen outside the door.
At the same time, I could also feel that when this figure appeared in front of the door, there was a large amount of yin qi entrenched in the courtyard.
Liang Houzai looked at me and made a lip gesture at me: "Evil corpse." β
I nodded, picked up the Fantian seal and the green steel sword from the pillow, quickly got off the kang, and came to the door.
The evil corpse outside the door should not have cultivated its mind, if it is an evil corpse with a mind, Fantian Yin and Qinggang Sword are separated from it by a door panel, just sensing the Qi field on these two things, it will not stand still like this.
When I came to the door, I could still hear a small rustling sound in the courtyard, which sounded like the sound of shoe soles rubbing against the ground, and it seemed that many people with leg problems were slowly approaching us through the small courtyard.
Liu Shangang took a mountain knife from his backpack and came behind me, and Liang Houzai also came over, holding a spirit talisman in his hand.
After that, I tried to sense the Qi field outside the door, and after making sure that there were no other abnormal Qi fields except for Yin Qi and Corpse Qi, I opened the door of the house, and Liang Houzai threw out a spirit rune at the same time.