At dinner, Qiao Wei came back with a red face and shivering. From his frustrated face, I could be sure he hadn't found the snake cave - and rightfully so! And seeing him fail, I was also very happy, and the food was very fragrant.

Lao Liu's family is prosperous, and the old man has a group of children and grandchildren, as well as great-grandchildren. There were more people but more houses, so there was absolutely no problem with vacating a cabin for me to sleep in.

Qiao Wei didn't seem to be used to the hard fire, so he set up a spring bed in the hall and slept on it. That's exactly what I want, because I really don't want to sleep on a kang with someone I hate, especially a man.

I was also tired all day, and before nine o'clock I got into the hot quilt on the kang. The fire kang in the northeast burned very warmly and comfortably, and I began to get confused not long after lying down.

Just when I was half-asleep, suddenly the wooden door of the hut creaked, and I immediately came to my senses, sat up and asked, "Who?!! ”

"I'm going~~ I'm scared to death!" From the doorway of the black rumbling came an obnoxious voice - it was Qiao Wei.

I turned on the light, looked at Qiao Wei who was still trembling under the quilt, and my heart was dark, and at the same time, I didn't forget to mock him and said, "Aren't you catching ghosts and killing demons?" I thought that no one in this business knew how to be afraid! ”

"Sometimes people are more scary than ghosts~" Qiao Wei shot back at me with a grin.

"That's a must, because there are no ghosts at all, and who is afraid of things that don't exist?" Not to be outdone, I'm not to be outdone.

Qiao Wei didn't seem to want to argue with me about whether ghosts existed, but wrapped himself in a quilt and went to the kang and said, "Would I like to discuss something with you?" It's too cold in the hall, I see that the place on your kang is quite large, you don't mind if I sleep in the empty place here, right? ”

A mixed-race child actually spoke a northeastern dialect, which was already pleasing enough in itself, coupled with Qiao Wei's pitiful appearance, I really couldn't refuse him.

I nodded, moved to the side slightly, Qiao Wei immediately thanked me, and then thunderbolted his throat to the kang and wrapped himself in a cocoon.

I turned off the lights, closed my eyes, and continued to look for my sleepy bug. I don't know if it's because of Qiao Wei's appearance, but a strange idea popped up in my mind - could it be the ghost of the disappeared family who is causing trouble in the village?

At the same time as this weird, even ridiculous idea appeared, I tried to drive it out of my brain, but my sleepiness was accidentally driven away along with it.

"Qiao Wei, are you asleep?" In the spirit that I can't sleep, you don't want to sleep, I asked in the novel.

"No, I don't. What's the matter? Qiao Wei replied very energetically.

"How can you speak with a Northeast accent as a foreigner?"

"My mom is from the Northeast."

"Does your family know that you are a demon slayer?"

"You know, my whole family is a demon slayer." Qiao Wei seemed to be more energetic, and doubled his volume: "My dad is British, a professional exorcist, and my family has been doing exorcism since my great-great-grandfather's generation. My mother is a feng shui ghost master in the northeast side of the Ba Zhai Hall, and I learned all my crafts from my mother. ”

"Heh, it's still an exorcist family, no wonder you believe in these things, and you've been nurtured in this environment since you were a child."

Knowing his family situation, I can also understand Qiao Weishenme's weird thoughts and actions.

And then, Qiao Wei gave me another surprise.

Qiao Wei said that he didn't believe in Catholic exorcism, firstly because he had never seen the devil with his own eyes, and secondly, because his father received a large amount of money every time he exorcised demons, although he became the second ancestor who did not worry about food and clothing, but in his heart he still could not agree with the practice of exchanging demons for money. In his opinion, the person who really exorcises demons should be a master of the world who does not ask for anything in return like his mother, so he did not go abroad to be a priest, but chose to follow his mother in the Northeast to learn feng shui and learn the craft of exorcism and drawing talismans.

During his study of art in the Northeast, he also really saw ghosts and monsters with his own eyes, so he was even more convinced of this.

I asked him again to come to the village. Qiao Wei's answer surprised me again, not just an accident, but a surprise to be prepared.

He said that his mother disappeared for no reason half a year ago, so he began to investigate the "case" that his mother had taken over in the first half of 2012, but there was no result until now.

Qiao Wei learned about the disappearance of a child in Huoyao Village not long ago at the county public security bureau.

Qiao Wei's mother and Liu Jingyang's mother are acquaintances, Qiao Wei lived in Humwaist Village for a whole year when he was more than six years old, so Qiao Wei came to Humwaist Village in order to find clues, but unfortunately his mother never came. He could have left, but he wanted to take care of something strange, and because his mother was very famous in the local area, the old Liu family could also trust him, so they asked him to help check it.

I knew what all this had happened, and my previous disgust with Qiao Wei disappeared all at once, so I told Qiao Wei about the results of this afternoon's investigation, especially focusing on the family that disappeared in the village, and the reasoning and assumptions I made.

After listening to my words, Qiao Wei sat up suddenly, and then excitedly asked me to go to the second fat grandfather tomorrow to ask where the disappeared family lived before, he said that if the family may not have moved away but died horizontally, if it is really a horizontal death, he has a way to summon spirits to ask.

Although I still think Qiao Wei's words sound very ridiculous, the investigation on my side has indeed reached a dead end, so the dead horse should be a live horse doctor, so I agreed to Qiao Wei.

Nothing happened overnight.

The next day was a sunny day. After breakfast, Liu Jingyang took me and Qiao Wei to Xie's house again, found Erfat's grandfather, Old Man Xie, and asked where the disappeared family lived before.

Old man Xie stroked his beard and blinked his eyes and said, "That family is only two rooms away from my old house, but the old house was picked up decades ago, and the location of his house should be on that wasteland that does not grow hair, but it is easy to find." ”

As soon as Liu Jingyang heard that it was a wasteland, he immediately said that he knew the specific location, so the three of us left the Xie family and went straight to the wasteland.

After going out from the west side of the village, you can see the whole piece of vegetable plastic greenhouse, which makes the place without greenhouse coverage very conspicuous. While taking Qiao Wei and me towards a snowy field about 200 meters away, Liu Jingyang said to the two of us: "I heard from the older generation that Camelwaist Village used to be divided into East Village and West Village, and later the two villages merged into the middle, and the original place where we lived was changed to farmland. In the past, there was a piece of land in the West Village, what was planted and what died, and it didn't play a role in inviting a half-immortal to break it, but later it seemed that it was because the area was not large, so it has been barren. ”

We soon came to the snowfield, which was nearly an acre in size, not too big or small, covered with thick snow, and the land below could not be seen at all.

When Qiao Wei arrived at the ground, he took out a gossip feng shui compass directly from his shoulder bag, and then walked around the snow for a while, and Zuihou stopped in the center of the field.

"You can't be wrong! There are evil spirits in this place! On the ground, because the yin qi is too cautious, not an inch of grass grows! Qiao Wei frowned, changed his usual smile, and said with a serious expression: "Ghosts are afraid of seeing the light, and they can only be summoned when the sun sets or it is cloudy, but ...... The ghosts that live underground here should be very powerful, it is best to make some preparations, if you swallow the ghosts, the Daluo Immortal will not be able to save them. ”