Chapter 34: The Damned Land
Chen Qianning, who was holding my hand, said quietly behind me: "You said the same thing last time, your words can always make girls feel at ease."
I looked back at her, "Last time, last time I said that in the building?"
Seeing that I looked back at her suspiciously, Chen Qianning said, "Ten years ago, the water park, the haunted house, do you remember, Xiaomeng?" Her smile was still so beautiful, as if she was recalling the best memories of her life.
Luckily, I don't have a big white tongue, and if I had him, it would definitely fall out by now.
Oh my God, Chen Qianning completely evoked my long-lost memory, yes, ten years ago, ten years ago, I did something that seemed very dirty with my current eyes, I fucking promised someone else's girl a lifetime, and now they have come to cash in. However, I'm definitely not a pervert who plays with the Light Source Project (Girl Raising Project).
Ten years ago, I did spend a happy day with a little girl in that broken park, but at that time, it was like a child in my mind, and I didn't take it seriously at all, and then I forgot about it.
Look at Chen Qianning's chest, how could I have thought that the child at that time could be like this, damn, Chen Qianning could be her? It's a coincidence.
At this moment, Chen Qianning opened my dusty memory, but I can't think about it much now. In this ghostly place, my main task now is to quickly find that bad old man and pull out the door, so that Bai Wuchang can accept him, and it is not too late to recall these past in the future.
But Chen Qianning doesn't seem to think so, compared to men with thick lines, women are always more sentimental and eager to know the result, even if they pretend to be calm on the surface.
Chen Qianning saw my reaction, I thought she should have found out that I had thought of her, but I didn't jump up happily as she imagined, or hug and recognize each other enthusiastically, as if I was very disappointed, and I actually had a move to let go of my hand holding her.
I can't let go of her at this moment, if she makes a mess for me at this time, we both have to hang here. So, I grabbed her hard and tried to let go of my hand, grabbed the back of her neck and kissed her gently on the forehead, because I thought this would reassure her, and it would not be too late to frustrate her when things were done.
My forehead kiss seems to be very effective, Chen Qianning is really quiet, and she seems to be shy, her cheeks are red, she lowers her head like a kitten and lets me lead her, and peeks at me from time to time. To be honest, if this were a different environment, such a picture would be quite warm, but at the moment, I really don't have time to care about it.
The bricks and tiles in the yard have long been eroded and dilapidated, and they are overgrown with weeds, and it is easy to stumble if you don't pay attention. I don't know where the breeze blew made Chen Qianning and me cool hair.
The porch in the doorway is not long, but it is not short. Because there are no windows in the porch, the whole porch is pitch black, and nothing can be seen. But the small room at the end, the papier-mâché window let in a little moonlight, and it felt particularly bright by the porch, even brighter than the outside.
I took Chen Qianning and touched the wall with my hand to go inside, only to feel that the wall was numb and leprosy, I don't know if there was something carved on it. I turned on the flashlight of my mobile phone and shone it on the wall, and a big head with red fangs seemed to be looking at me, which startled me a lot, and Chen Qianning was also startled.
I looked closely, and above the wall was a carving of a demon, and I saw that this guy had two hands, six legs, and the extra four legs seemed to grow from his ribs, and he stood still on six legs, making him look like a big centipede, holding a steel fork in one of his two hands, and a bloody human head in the other. His mouth is not upper and lower, but rather a kind of predator-like jaw that opens left and right, both of which are smooth lower and have fangs open on top. There are no eye sockets, and the eyeballs are round and dripping, like a skeleton, and the two large holes are full of eyeballs.
This sculpture is disgusting to look at, and I guess even the art exhibition during the day is quite scary, let alone the two of us in a dark porch in this ghostly house.
Seeing Chen Qianning's face turned white with fright, I quickly turned off the flashlight. Out of sight and out of mind, that ghost thing is a stone carving, and it can't come down and bite us.
Approaching the end of the corridor, Chen Qianning and I were shocked to find that there was a coffin inside, Chen Qianning let out a light "ah" and quickly covered her mouth.
I was also shocked, I have never seen a real coffin except on TV when I am so big, and the death of relatives in the past is also in an urn, and it is the first time I have learned such a large "urn".
This coffin is also an ingot-shaped coffin with a big head and small feet and two upturned heads, and the black paint on the outside of the coffin shines in the moonlight. When we approached the coffin, we found that the carved patterns on the coffin were extremely complex, like peeled musculature, and I don't know if it was carved later or the wood itself was coarsely textured, which reminded me of the watermark on the white impermanence Yin coin, and I didn't feel disgusted.
I don't know how long the coffin has been here, but someone must have taken care of it, because there was no dust on it. I don't know if it's a dead person in it, anyway, I'm not interested or brave right now, and I don't want to open it to see.
Chen Qianning said to me tremblingly: "Brother Meng, this is too scary, let's leave quickly."
I heard her call me "Brother Meng", and the long memories seemed clearer in my mind, and I finally remembered why she said that the injury on my hand was bitten by a tiger. Damn, after all these years, there's no way I'm going to honor her, because to me, it's just a good-natured joke.
Besides, in the current situation, it is impossible for me to "continue the relationship" with her.
I pulled her around the coffin to look at the openwork window. The sash is fixed to the window frame and is not movable. And although there is not much ash on this sash, it has already turned into rotten wood, and it should be easy to break if you kick it hard.
At the head of the coffin, there was a tablet on the ground, and we squatted down to take a look, and it read "The position of the eldest son, Na Shun Ping". I remembered the name on the edict of Bai Impermanence's Soul Hook, Na Shun Pi, what is their relationship? I just don't know if this so-called eldest son is the son of Na Shun Pi.
Chen Qianning and I walked for a long time before turning around this oval courtyard, not counting the corridor connected to the middle courtyard at the entrance, there are a total of five doorways and corridors, among which the corridor in the middle doorway is the longest, and only at the end of this corridor there is no room and no coffin.
There was a coffin at the end of each of the other three corridors, and they were all sons of the Nashun family. I wonder why the owner of this family wants to leave his sons at home, is it that all four of this man's sons died young or died young, why none of them have ever had a family, and the coffins are all parked together.
With this doubt, Chen Qianning and I walked around, and I wanted to find a side door on the square wall to enter, but I didn't find that there was a door in the square courtyard in the middle, which is really fucking weird, there is a use for repairing this set of walls, and I don't know how these four coffins were transported in, and who took care of them.
I looked at the square courtyard wall in the middle, and it was three meters high, and it was not so easy to get up without a ladder.
Chen Qianning looked at the wall, then at me, and said, "Brother Meng, there is no entrance here, let's go out, this wall is so high, we can't jump in, let's think of a way from somewhere else." It's been so long, and I don't know if Master Jinghai will call the police."
I thought about it, yes, I forgot about this guy, I told the old monk Jinghai that if we don't go out for an hour, I will slam the door and call the police. Thinking of this, I quickly looked at my watch, it has been more than forty minutes, and my mother's yard is big enough. So, I hurriedly went out with Chen Qianning again.
I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart, this wall was overturned, and I still had to go to the main gate in the end, which was really boring, as boring as when I came all the way to the door of the Venerable Master in Beijing.
After Chen Qianning and I climbed out of the courtyard wall of the villa, the alley was quiet, not to mention that the wind and grass were blowing, and there was not even a little bit of insect calls, the silence was terrifying.
The hammer he bought halfway was leaning against the gate, but the old monk Jinghai had already lost sight of where it was going.