Confused, I opened my phone and looked at it several times, confirming that it was a number that I didn't even recognize.

When the monk came back after the transfer, I told him about it. He was puzzled for a while, and muttered: "This is really weird, obviously targeting you, but you have no grievances, why do you keep an eye on you?" ”

"What do you mean by staring at me, didn't she say that she would let me go after transferring the money?" I asked.

The monk shook his head and said, "How can you believe their words, it is estimated that the wave has subsided, and a bunch of things will be made again." I suggest asking carefully, otherwise it will be too dangerous to drag on and on. ”

"So how do you ask? That's not something you can see if you want to see it. I said with a wry smile.

The monk said that he had a way and asked me if I could withstand being discharged from the hospital today, and I said of course it was no problem. I have been in bed for six days, and the wound is estimated to have healed almost completely, and there is no need to lie in the hospital again.

He took me to the hospital for discharge, and the doctors and nurses didn't stop me, because it was really much better, just don't move too much when walking. But I was left with a scar on my face, three wolf paw prints, on my left cheek, diagonally down.

After I was discharged from the hospital, the monk took me to a hotel in the town and opened a double room for me.

When he came in, he put the slippers neatly in the door and put them on as if they could be put on as soon as they came in. I asked what this was for, and he explained: "I originally thought that Li Xuemei should have let the old woman eat cleanly, but now it seems that it is not so simple. I even think that their main target is you, and you have to make things clear. You sleep here at night, and I'll explain some things to you. ”

He put away the two water glasses in the bathroom, one for me to use, and the other for me not to touch. In addition, he told me very carefully that when I went to bed at night, I could only sleep on one side, and the pillow on the other side should be placed neatly, and I could not touch it. I wondered if the monk had made this room seem to be for two people, but he told me that he would not stay here at night.

"I suspect that someone has been staring at you, it is likely that Li Xuemei ......" the monk said very seriously, "although I don't know what they want from you, but if you continue like this, something will happen to you sooner or later, and I can't always be there to help you." So I want to take the initiative to attract the person who is staring at you, and you can talk to her clearly at night, it stands to reason that there is no injustice or hatred, why should I hold you back? ”

I think about it, it's definitely not a way to go on like this, I don't even know where to provoke the old woman and Li Xuemei.

"Then how can I get Li Xuemei to come over?" I asked.

The monk suddenly took out a handful of hair from his arms, and when I saw this hair, I couldn't help but touch my breast pocket. Jiang Xue's previously cut hair was hidden in my breast pocket.

"This is the bangs and hair on Li Xuemei's corpse, which can attract her."

The monk looked around the room and placed the handful of hair on the chandelier.

I was worried and asked if something was going to happen, and the monk thought about it for a while, then he sighed and said that he would definitely come, but he could only try to solve it.

At this time, I had no choice, and after the monk left, I lay on the bed, not daring to mess with everything that the monk had just laid out.

The sun was setting, and I closed my eyes, scared. I don't know what time it was, but suddenly there was a sound of footsteps in the house.

I was facing away from the door, unable to see what was going on behind me, but panicked. There was no sound of the door being opened before, but now there was a sudden sound of footsteps, which felt weird no matter how you thought about it.

The footsteps came all the way to me, and then Ting. Through the reflection of the glass, I saw a woman standing behind me, but I couldn't make out her appearance. She climbed onto the bed and reached for her hair at the chandelier.

I swallowed, scared, but things had to be figured out. I opened my mouth and asked, "Are you Li Xuemei?" ”

She didn't speak, the room was so quiet that I could only hear my own breathing. I had the courage to say, "I have no grievances with you, why are you targeting me." If I offend you in any way, I will definitely try my best to compensate you. Things always have to be explained, let me not know if I got into this kind of thing in vain, and I am also wronged in my heart, do you say this is reasonable? ”

At this moment, an ordinary woman's voice suddenly came from behind me, but it sounded very cold.

"You didn't mess with us."

I breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said, "Since I didn't mess with you, can you let me go now?" ”

"I can't."

Her answer made my heart twitch hard, and I said anxiously, "Why not?" I didn't provoke you, but you suddenly wanted to kill me, what is the reason? ”

She said calmly, "You have a wive, and we need her." In the next few days, the old woman will go to inform you that if she will come back, you may be able to live; If she doesn't come back, it can only wronged you. ”

I was shocked when I heard this, why did I have anything to do with Jiang Xue again?

Could it be that in the days when I left, Jiang Xue had a conflict with this old woman?

After Li Xuemei got her hair, she turned around and left, my body was covered with cold sweat, I got up and wiped it with a towel, I was very panicked. Jiang Xue has already said it, and even said it clearly, and she will not have anything to do with me again in the future. Now that I'm in danger, will she come back?

At this time, I suddenly didn't want Jiang Xue to come back.

Although Jiang Xiu made his own decisions about that matter, I felt that I owed Jiang Xue a debt. This old woman and Li Xuemei definitely want to hurt Jiang Xue, otherwise they wouldn't have threatened Jiang Xue to come back by letting me be a hostage. She's just been seriously injured, and she's definitely still very weak, and I don't want anything to happen to her.

Just now, when the monk left, he gave me his phone number. I called him and told him what had happened. The monk was silent for a while and said, "What do you mean...... You were once married to a dead man, so you have a dead wife, and now the old woman and Li Xuemei need to find your dead wife and most likely hurt her. So...... You want to protect her, don't you? ”

I said yes.

The monk sighed and said something to Amitabha, saying that since you want to do this, I can help you, but it is also very risky.

"If only I could keep her safe." I said sincerely.

After hearing me say this, the monk said that he would immediately come and pick me up and take me to a place. I didn't have to wait long for him to come to the hotel and take me out and get in his car.

He took me to Li Xuemei's village, and I was surprised to find that Li Xuemei's home had turned into a grocery store. When I asked what was going on, the monk explained, "It's so wicked that it needs more passers-by to come and calm it, so I advocated turning this house into a grocery store." But Li Xuemei's family wants to leave here all the time, even if it is a family, they feel infiltrated. If you want, you can help them take over, and all the money you earn will be yours, and you will be open at least five days a week until Li Xuemei's matter is resolved. ”

I asked if there was any danger, and he shook his head and said, "I don't know, this place is so evil that it might attract something." But this is the only way to save you, as long as you live here, Li Xuemei will definitely not dare you to trouble, but others can't tell. But in this way, your underworld wife can rest assured, do you still accept it? ”

I agreed without saying a word, and the monk took me to say hello to the family. As soon as they heard that someone was willing to take over, they immediately packed up their things and left, and handed me the key without hesitation.

I sat at the counter and found that there was so much stuff here, so much for it. The monk told me to keep the gate closed every day during the day, and to open the door when the sun sets. You can't turn on the lights in the shop, you can only light a white candle.

When the guests come, if the candlelight is normal, they don't sell anything; If the candlelight is flickering, you can sell something.

I wrote down everything the monk said in a notebook, and he said many things to remember. By the time everything was finished, it was ten o'clock in the evening.

"I won't bother you doing business anymore, remember that my name is Zhang Yuan."

I asked what the Dharma name was, and he said that in recent years, the monk came out to take over the business, and when he saw people, he said that he had issued a light to clear the heart and so on, all of which were fake.

I said I had written it down, and Zhang Yuan said that he had something to contact him, and then left. I sat at the counter, and the room was dim, after all, only candlelight could be illuminated. For fear of the wind blowing out the candlelight, the door was not fully open, but a slit was left so that guests could come in on their own.

At half-past ten, a man came and said he wanted to buy candles. I saw that the candlelight didn't flicker when he came in, so I shook my head and said I wasn't a grocery store, and he left in embarrassment.

Then a few more guests came, and the candles were not lit. I wondered, and finally I was sleepy, so I leaned against the counter and slept.

"The owner...... ...... owner"

After sleeping for a while, I heard someone shouting, rubbed my eyes and stood up, and at first glance I saw that the candlelight was flickering slightly, shaking the room to be dark. In front of me stood a middle-aged man, his face was calm, his head was straightened, and he wore a necklace made of wood around his neck, which was supposed to be a souvenir somewhere.

I saw that the candlelight was flickering, and it was a customer who could sell something, so I hurriedly asked him what he wanted. He looked at me calmly, and his voice sounded as bad as that of a bull's duck: "Tightrope balls." ”

I quickly found the steel wool, and he asked me how much it was, and I remembered that the price had been written in a notebook and put it in a drawer, so I told him to wait a minute.

He was not impatient, he stood patiently and waited, I took out my notebook and looked at it, and I was stunned.

It's expensive.

I looked at the notebook and said embarrassedly, "Steel wool ball...... Fifty pieces. ”

"Oh."

He was not surprised, but took out a green bill from his pocket.

There are really people who pay fifty dollars to buy steel wool balls!

Although I wondered, seeing that fifty yuan was so easy to get into the account, I smiled and put away the money and told him to go.

He walked out of the room, and I looked at the book patiently. This price is really beyond my expectations, ordinary steel wool balls are sold for one or two dollars outside, but here it costs fifty yuan a piece. Other things are also frighteningly expensive, such as a candle for fifty yuan and a rag for sixty yuan. Anyway, when I took a closer look, it felt like it was about twenty times more expensive than what was outside.

After reading the book, I looked at the time, it was now eleven twenty in the evening, and I continued to sleep on the table. I didn't sleep for long, and I heard someone shouting about the boss again, and I looked up, but I saw the middle-aged man standing in front of me.

He said he wanted another steel wool ball, and I wondered how long it would take to buy it back, and I wanted another one.

When he paid the money, I leaned back on the table and went back to sleep. But it didn't take long for him to come again, and he still wanted a steel wool ball!

How could there be such a stupid lack in these years, spending a hundred and fifty dollars on a steel wool ball in one night.

I was really curious, and when the man walked out of the store, I secretly followed him out to take a look, only to find that the man had walked far away, leaving a black gray strip where he had walked.

I squatted down and looked at it, and it was clearly ordinary ash, how could it fall from the man's body. I followed lightly, but I saw him walking up the back hill, the mountain between my village and this village.

For a while, I was in the mountains, and there was no one living in the mountains here, because the whole area was a mountain of graves. What is he doing with the steel wool ball and walking up the grave mountain?

Thinking that I couldn't take care of it too much, I went back to the store, and the more I thought about it, the more curious I became, so I opened the drawer to see the money the man had given.

But as soon as I saw the money, I froze.

Where is this money, but a skin as thin as a cicada's wings!