This is a full two hours, and the downstairs is very quiet from beginning to end, and it is this silence that makes us worry in our hearts.

My dad smoked cigarette after cigarette, and my mom kept frowning, including me, and she didn't dare to say a word, not even panting too loudly, as if there was any movement, Lao Chai would be in danger. In these two hours, the balcony of our house was as quiet as the yard of Mrs. Li's house, and it was so quiet that it made people feel anxious.

Two hours later, Lao Chai Tou still didn't come out, but the siren sounded in the family yard of the post office. A police car, followed by a green pickup truck, roared into the family and stopped at the entrance of the alley of the unit building.

Soon, many people jumped out of the truck, and the police officers in the police car also pulled the cordon and rushed into Mrs. Li's house with the people on the green truck.

When my mother saw this battle, she was stunned for a moment, and then worried: "Dad, you said that nothing would happen to Lao Chai Tou, right?" ”

My dad looked at the police car downstairs with a cigarette in his mouth and a frown, not responding to what my mom said.

After they rushed into the yard, they immediately removed the black cloth above the yard, and then we saw clearly that there were many small black mounds in the yard, and on each mound there were long wooden signs.

My mother couldn't help frowning: "Why is it a grave?" ”

My dad still didn't speak, and silently lit a cigarette, I think, my dad must have remembered Xiao Zhang, Xiao Zhang personally said that he had entered Mrs. Li's house, and knew that Mrs. Li had a daughter who was strangely ill, that is, he must have known that the yard of Mrs. Li's house was a small grave, but he deliberately didn't tell my dad.

And I still have a feeling that at this moment, my dad seems to be more worried about the safety of Lao Chai Tou than me and my mom.

As soon as the black cloth was removed, the voice of the old firewood came from the house: "Burn the black cloth, find four unmarried people to come in, and carry the children out." ”

I was secretly relieved to learn that Lao Chai was fine, and I saw that my father also took a long puff of cigarette.

These people seem to have cooperated with Lao Chai Tou many times, and as soon as he finished speaking, four people entered the house. The rest of the people made a fire in the courtyard and lit the black cloth.

When the black cloth burned, thick black smoke rose, and many people were lying on the balcony to watch the excitement, and the matter that Mrs. Li's yard was full of graves soon spread in our small county.

It wasn't until the black cloth was burned to slag that the four people who had entered the room came out with a stretcher, which had been improvised with table legs, and an old sheet on the outside, and it was unknown what was on the stretcher.

The four of them carried the stretcher to the green pickup truck, unloaded the things on the stretcher, and carried the empty stretcher into Mrs. Li's house quickly.

These four people carried back and forth many times, and once because they were running fast, the sheets covering the stretcher almost fell off, and I saw a dirty arm showing out of the stretcher, and I knew that there was a person on the stretcher, and I knew this person - Lu Wenbin, Liu Shangang also mentioned him to me a while ago.

I recognized Lu Wenbin's clothes, it was a black short-sleeved hanging, and on the cuffs of the short-sleeved hanging, there was a white pattern like a "check".

This time, the four men didn't come back, and I saw them get out of the truck and rush to the base of the wall, which was just blocking my view, and I couldn't see what they were doing, except for a very rapid vomiting sound.

At this time, the old firewood also came out of the house, and when he came out, he was dragging a coffin behind him, which looked to be some years old, and the coffin board was covered with moss.

Lao Chai dragged the coffin to the courtyard, returned to the house, took out a red cloth and covered the top of the coffin, and burned the red cloth and the coffin together.

The fire on the coffin burned more and more, but the red cloth spread on the coffin was lit after a long time, and the red cloth was as red as blood, and I suddenly remembered the woman with the black umbrella, and the female ghost who appeared last night, and the red dress they wore on their bodies was also so red, as red as blood.

The flames quickly spread on the red cloth, and Lao Chai Tou let out a long sigh of relief, and said a few words to a leader-like person beside him before leaving Mrs. Li's house.

I have seen this leader-like person, and when Lao Wang's family had an accident, it was also the tube building he took people to.

When Lao Chai Tou spoke, the person who looked like a leader had always been very humble and respectful.

And my parents' eyes when they looked at Lao Chai Tou also became a little respectful, but in the respect, there was also a doubt about Lao Chai Tou's identity.

After it was completely dark, another truck came to the family yard, and more than a dozen people ran over together, and carried down two large searchlights from the car, and they placed the searchlights in the northwest and southeast corners of Mrs. Li's yard respectively.

Those two beams of light were so bright that people couldn't open their eyes. Out of nowhere, the old firewood got a bottle of liquor, and he sprinkled it on the small grave bags, and then lit the wine with matches.

Strange to say, as soon as the black soil met the fire, it immediately turned into brown and yellow ordinary soil, as if the liquor and flame mixed with the strong light of the searchlight purified the black soil.

After dealing with the graves in the yard, the old firewood was completely relaxed, and I saw him let out a long breath, and then he sat down on the ground very tiredly, and smoked a dry cigarette.

After this, the people in the courtyard got busy, and began to clean up the small graves that had been purified, and they took sapper shovels and dug up the graves one by one, and I looked upstairs, and I saw that after the graves were dug up, there was nothing underneath them, just a bare concrete floor. Originally, I thought there would be at least one body dug up from under the grave or something.

Almost all the people who lived in Building 3 witnessed this day, and after that, I heard that many of them chose to take refuge, both to Taoism and Buddhism. In the following month or so, there were often some people dressed as Taoist priests and monks in the family courtyard, as for what these people came to do, whether they were real Taoist priests or fake monks, and whether there were any charlatans among them, I don't know.

As for Lao Chai Tou, he is actually neither a Taoist priest nor a monk, and Shouzheng belongs to the Huang Lao school, but not to Taoism, in other words, the theoretical basis of Shouzheng and Taoism is derived from Huang Lao, but Shouzheng is not a sect, but more similar to a profession. I'll explain this in more detail later.

It wasn't until midnight that Mrs. Li's courtyard became quiet, and the public security was evacuated. I saw Lao Chai Tou also sit in the only police car, and when the police car drove out of the gate of the family home with the siren, I thought that Lao Chai Tou would not come back tonight.

My parents must have thought the same way at the time, and after Lao Chai Tou left, my mother heated up a hot meal and beckoned me and my dad to eat. Looking at the meal full of meat and vegetables, I had no appetite at all, and I wanted to know what Lao Chai Tou was doing at Mrs. Li's house.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and my mother immediately put down the dishes and chopsticks to open the door, and I heard the door squeak and was pushed open, and then I heard my mother exclaim: "Uncle Chai?" Why are you back! ”

"Eat and go, hey, I can smell the wine!" Lao Chai Tou said with a smile as he walked into the living room.

My mother hurriedly added dishes and chopsticks to Lao Chai Tou, and Lao Chai Tou was not polite, poured wine himself, and then began to gobble up food.

Lao Chai Tou's eating appearance is still so ugly, as if he hasn't eaten for a few years, my dad couldn't help but remind: "Uncle Chai, eat slowly." ”

As a result, while eating, Lao Chai Tou replied sullenly: "It's okay, I can't choke." But as soon as he finished speaking, I saw him suddenly straighten his waist, and his expression was very painful to beat his chest, my mother quickly poured a glass of water for Lao Chai Tou, Lao Chai Tou drank a sip of water, and then breathed a long sigh of relief.

This time, my parents couldn't cry or laugh, and they didn't dare to persuade Lao Chai Tou for a while, for fear that he would choke again.

Lao Chai Tou is a person who is easy to be greedy for a cup when he sees wine, but the amount of wine is not large, and after a few glasses of wine, he chatted with my father. On this day, my dad didn't have the same estrangement as he used to be, and it was the first time I saw my dad chatting so happily with someone other than my uncle.

At the beginning, when my dad talked about what had happened in the factory in the past two years, most of them complained, and Lao Chai Tou only occasionally echoed a few sentences, and then ate with his head down. Later, Lao Chai Tou was full, and with the strength of wine, he slowly opened the conversation.

As soon as Lao Chai Tou's conversation box was opened, we were left with only the right to listen, not because we couldn't interject, but because no one wanted to interrupt Lao Chai Tou.

At that time, I had not studied geography, but I also knew that my country was 960 square kilometers. But how big is 9.6 million? I don't know how to measure this number, but Lao Chai Tou knows, he said, when he was young, he followed his master, and with a pair of feet, he traveled all over the country.

Lao Chai Tou has been to Tibet, seen lamas in red robes, been to Guizhou, looked for the descendants of the ancient Yelang country there, and also went deep into the old forests of the northeast when the snow closed the mountains, and also fought mountain ghosts......

It was only then that I realized that the motherland was so big, and there were so many strange things on the land under my feet. That day, Lao Chai Tou said a lot, but that was only a small part of his life experience, and his story could not be finished even if it took a few days and nights.

At that time, I was very yearning for Lao Chai Tou's experiences, and even my parents were fascinated by it.

In the end, Lao Chai Tou talked about the Nanyang ghost raising technique, and talked about the matter of Mrs. Li, how it involved Mrs. Li, I can't remember, I only remember that Lao Chai Tou said: "That old lady Li is indeed not a layman, but a real Nanyang ghost raiser." ”