Chapter 8 Breaking into the Ancestral House
My first second reaction was to scare me to death, but the second I reacted immediately and hurried towards the grass.
Generally speaking, the ghost who hides in the grass and quietly watches us is not a powerful character, and I think this ghost is so unsightly. It must have been a small role.
It is estimated that Rhubarb didn't expect me to be so brave, and when he saw me taking a step, he hurriedly followed behind. said: "Lin Yang, don't be impulsive. ”
But I seemed to be driven by an instinct in my body, and rushed towards the ghost.
The ghost's eyes saw me rushing towards me, and immediately showed a look of fear, and I saw the grass move, and a black shadow rushed towards the dry toilet.
The aqua toilet originally had a small wooden door, but the black shadow could pass through the door, and it disappeared at the end of the toilet in an instant, without a trace.
It's weird.
Sure enough, there is a saying called "sneaky", and ghosts are indeed "sneaky".
I looked through the crack in the top of the wooden door, and saw that it was pitch black inside the dry toilet, and the moonlight could only illuminate a small part, and no ghost was seen in any way.
Rhubarb also followed and asked, "The ghost is gone?" ”
I nodded, and Rhubarb said, "It's okay. That ghost should just be an ordinary ghost, and it's probably not even a terrible ghost. Lin Yang, why are you so active this time, and immediately rush over as soon as you see a ghost? ”
I shook my head and said, "I don't know, I was still a little scared, but the next second I don't know why, I immediately became like a wolf who saw a rabbit, what a strange feeling...... "It's a throwing catty brother."
The old cat said behind my back, "It's not because of you, but because of Xiao Feng who is attached to you." She may be hungry again......"
I suddenly realized, indeed, since Xiao Feng possessed the body, when I saw ordinary ghosts, my reaction was not fear at all, but I felt very delicious. It seems that Xiao Feng is indeed a powerful ghost, and he wants to eat it when he sees a ghost......
I pointed to the aqua toilet and asked, "What about this ghost?" Do you want to care? ”
The old cat shook his head and said, "Leave him alone, it's not an important person, let's go in and get the blood jade in our hands." ”
I nodded hurriedly and followed the old cat and rhubarb towards the main house of the Bai family's ancestral house.
The main house sits in the north and faces south, in fact, several rooms are generously put together, Wang Chengqian said that the blood jade is in the inside of the main house earthen kang. Actually, it's not very clear.
I looked through the window, and there were two of these rooms with earthen kangs, and the positions were symmetrical, so it was impossible to tell which one was the main house, and I couldn't deduce that the blood jade was buried in that earthen kang.
I glanced at the old cat and asked, "What to do?" Try both? ”
The old cat pondered for a moment and said, "The east is more expensive than the west, let's start from the east." ”
I think it makes sense to even go to the room on the east side and push the door.
Before I could do anything, I saw a long, long lock hanging on the east door, and the lock was rusty, and even the keyhole was already rusted.
At this time, Rhubarb smiled and said, "This house is so old, you should be able to enter it without unlocking it." ”
Before I could understand the meaning of Rhubarb's words, I saw Rhubarb take a step forward and suddenly reach out and pull the big iron lock.
I only heard the sound of "clang", and I saw that the place behind the iron lock followed by the wooden door link was rotten all of a sudden, and it was directly dragged down by the rhubarb. Sure enough, the old mansion was in disrepair and had decayed.
Rhubarb smiled proudly and said, "How is it, isn't my brother very powerful?" ”
The old cat didn't even look at him, raised his foot and said, "Sensei nonsense, come in." ”
The three of us hurriedly got inside, and as soon as I entered the door, I only felt that my feet were slipping, and it turned out that there was already a layer of dust on the ground. The room that went in was a hall, next to it was a cauldron, this kind of decoration was very old, although the Bai family's status was not bad back then, but the decoration inside was quite simple.
The big kang on the east should be in the door that turns into the right side, and we don't care about looking at it, after all, the rhubarb opened the door just now and the movement is quite big, in case it provokes the uncle and aunt, it will be bad.
The three of us hurriedly walked into the room, and as soon as we entered the door, we saw a solid wood table in the room, which looked very gorgeous with dragons and phoenixes, but I was afraid that it had been decayed because of age.
And the earthen kang is just across the table, and there is still a thick layer of dust on it, and at a glance, you can tell that no one has come for many years.
When I saw this room, I looked at the glass outside the room, and suddenly my heart moved, and when we came before, the person I saw in a flower cotton jacket seemed to be here.
He must have been sitting on the kang and looking at us through the glass in the window.
As soon as I thought of this, my heart was a little creepy, and I whispered: "Old cat, be careful, I remember that the old man in a padded jacket I saw before was here...... I always felt like there was someone in the house. ”
The old cat frowned and asked, "Really?" ”
I nodded.
Rhubarb immediately took out the cow's tears from his backpack and asked, "Why don't we take a look?" ”
The old cat waved his hand and said, "Out of sight is clean, since they didn't come to pester us, why bother to find yourself bored, quickly take something and leave, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ”
I think this is the truth, I didn't think about it, so I ran to the earthen kang to pass.
The structure of the clay kang may not be known to many friends now, this kind of thing is hollow, that is, against the window or against the wall to pull out a fortress similar to a bed, and the inside is connected to the large clay pot in the outside room, so that when the outside of the kang is burning, the clay kang in the house can be heated, and the heat can come in from the outside. This is also the first way of heating in the countryside, called "burning kang".
There is also a small hole outside the earthen kang, which can lead directly to the inside of the earthen kang, when the weather is very cold, you can directly heat the fire under the earthen kang through this small window, this hole is now under our feet, if Wang Chengqian is right, the piece of blood jade should be inside this cave.
I looked at the hole and felt that it was dark and nothing, and I asked the old cat, "Old cat, what should I do?" ”
The old cat thought for a while and said, "Which of you two has a longer arm, stick in and see if there is any secret door, if there is no one, we may have to dismantle this earthen kang." ”
I looked at rhubarb, and rhubarb spread his hands, meaning that my hands were longer than his.
I was a little helpless, so I had to say, "Then I'll do it." ”
With that, I rolled up my sleeves and put my hand inside. When I went in, I was very nervous, and the beads of sweat on my head were already dripping down, which was a bad feeling, because after all, I reached out to explore a place that I didn't know at all, and I couldn't know what was in it.
I was even afraid that some monster would suddenly come out of it and bite my hand off.
After fumbling for a while, I realized that I hadn't touched anything special other than the dust on my hands.
Rhubarb and the old cat both stared at me, very nervous, and Rhubarb kept asking, "How is it?" What do you think? ”
I was a little furious when I was asked by Rhubarb, and said angrily: "If you are curious, you come and touch it, why do you have to ask me?" ”
As soon as the words came out, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, and my hand seemed to touch something cold...... This thing was slippery, cold, and wet, not at all like something that existed here, after all, no one had been in this room for more than ten years, how could there be anything wet?
Could it be a rat? Snake?
I had almost all the horrible stuff in my head, but I still didn't think about what it was, and I was so scared that I forgot to put my hand out.
The old cat saw that my expression had changed, and hurriedly asked, "Lin Yang, what did you touch?" ”
I whispered, "Say ...... It's hard to say...... It's cool and slippery, like ......"
But at this moment, the strange thing suddenly moved, it felt thin and long, and it actually wrapped around my hand, and while wrapping around, it also scratched my palm, I was so frightened that I quickly retracted my hand, my body shook, and said, "My mother, I seem to have touched a tongue!" ”