Chapter 55: The Portrait
When Xie Xiaolou heard this, he immediately rushed to the window to look out, and sure enough, he saw a large flat downstairs densely covered with "people". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"These are... Xie Xiaolou looked at it intently and felt that there were a few people who were a little familiar.
Wu Ziyi seemed to think of something, retracted suddenly, and muttered in his mouth: "It seems to be... The old people in the village... ā
After being reminded by Wu Ziyi, Xie Xiaolou found out that this was indeed the case, and several faces had been seen during the day.
There was a gust of wind blowing outside the window, and Xie Xiaolou couldn't help but shiver.
"Ahh Wu Ziyi suddenly screamed behind him.
"What's wrong?" Xie Xiaolou turned his gaze from the window and saw Wu Ziyi's chilling appearance.
"You... Look at that ... Wu Ziyi said in a hurry, and his finger slowly pointed to the wall behind Xie Xiaolou.
"Hiss~" Xie Xiaolou turned around and looked up, and couldn't help but gasp.
High on the wall hung a black-framed black-and-white photograph.
But it's the old village chief!
The old village chief's withered face looked at everything in the living room with a smile.
Immediately, the air around them froze.
"Ahem...
The two were silent for a while, and were awakened by Chenchen's cough.
"Are you awake?" Xie Xiaolou hurriedly walked to the sofa and saw that Chen Chen had already opened his eyes.
"Let's get some water." Wu Ziyi immediately handed over the water bottle.
Chen Chen's face was pale, and he groped for a white talisman, Xie Xiaolou recognized that it was the Chen family's secret technique "Chenzhou Fu", and then Chen Chen stuffed the talisman into the water bottle, and took a big sip of the talisman paper.
Xie Xiaolou glanced at Wu Ziyi, not knowing what kind of trick Chen Chen was doing.
But this strange trick obviously worked, Chen Chen put down the water glass, wiped his mouth, and asked, "Where is this?" ā
When he learned that this was the village chief's house of the old Wujia Village, Chen Chen's already pale face became even more ugly: "Oh no, you have all fallen for the trick." ā
Seeing Xie Xiaolou and Wu Ziyi's puzzled looks, Chen Chen swallowed his saliva and continued: "The people in this village all died a few years ago. ā
Xie Xiaolou frowned, and hurriedly ran to the window, only to find that the large flat below was empty.
"So what we saw yesterday during the day and just now..." Wu Ziyi thought thoughtfully, "But no, you said that they all died a few years ago, but there was nothing unusual when we came here during the day yesterday. ā
"The village chief... There is a problem with the village chief. Chen Chen sat up and leaned back on the sofa, "Think about it, I was deceived by the village chief, and the village chief also knows that you are here to find me... ā
"The only one who is in a hurry to kill us now is ... The Underworld! Xie Xiaolou finally understood the meaning of the word "underworld" that Chen Chen said in the mountains, and coming to this old Wujia village to exorcise ghosts is a bureau set up by the underworld!
Chen Chen nodded: "I was rushed by the ghost here, injured my yang spirit, and ran into the mountain in a daze." "Actually, Chen Chen feels that the soul resentment here is not very big, so the spiritual power is not very strong, but there are too many of them, and he is not learning the authentic dragon descending realm exorcism technique, so although he barely saved his life when he was constantly rushed by ghosts, he was also nine deaths.
"You didn't know what was going on here before you came?" Xie Xiaolou asked curiously, after all, Chen Chen is also from Yuanling, how could he not know that the village here had become a deserted village a few years ago.
Chen Chen sighed: "This old Huangjia Village is already a forgotten corner, and even people from Xinwujia Village rarely come here, let alone other people," Chen Chen said here, raising his eyebrows, "By the way, how did you come here, there should be no driver willing to come." ā
Xie Xiaolou was surprised to learn that Chen Chen had taken a car to Wujia Village and then walked over, and then told them about the twists and turns of looking for a car.
"Fat driver?" Chen Chen thought thoughtfully, "Even if you give eighty, no one will come... ā
"Don't say anything about the useless pulls, they ... Upstairs! Wu Ziyi didn't know when he stood at the top of the stairs and shouted at the two.
Xie Xiaolou and Chen Chen glanced at each other and said, "What should I do?" "He can only deal with living corpses, but he has no experience with ghosts.
"Come," Chen Chen took out a few Chenzhou talismans and handed them to Xie Xiaolou, "I'm too weak now, you take these talismans, remember the spell I told you for a while, and you find a chance to run." ā
"We, what about you?" Xie Xiaolou took the rune paper and looked at Chen Chen suspiciously, could it be that he planned to stay here alone?
Chen Chen didn't speak, and was about to approach Xie Xiaolou to tell him the spell and usage.
"A few of the children met again."
Before Chen Chen could speak, Wu Ziyi at the staircase had already hurriedly ran over, and at the same time, an old voice came from the stairwell.
"You remember... Chen Chen hurriedly said the exorcism spell of Chenzhou Fu as quickly as possible, although this spell sounded not much different from the corpse art, but after all, Chenzhou Fu is still the Chen family's housekeeping skill, it must have its own uniqueness, plus Chen Chen said it quickly, Xie Xiaolou didn't hear anything famous.
At this time, the village chief had already appeared in front of several people and stood with his hands in his hands.
"You don't have to be nervous, I'm not actually dead," the village chief said slowly, "Actually, I'm not the one who wants to deceive the Chen family, it's just... The people of the underworld promised us one condition. ā
As soon as the village chief said this, not only Xie Xiaolou and Wu Ziyi, but even Chenchen was confused.
"Village chief, Chenchen was killed like this, and you still say that it wasn't intentional?" Xie Xiaolou wondered if since the village chief was from the underworld, could this be another trap.
The village chief nodded without hesitation: "That's right, Chenchen was injured by our 'villagers', because he was in a hurry to complete the task given to us by the underworld. ā
Xie Xiaolou didn't understand it now, judging from the tone of the village chief, they were not from the underworld, but seemed to have reached some agreement with the underworld, but since the old people in the village were already just lonely ghosts, why did they say that they were not from the underworld?
"You just said you weren't dead?" Wu Ziyi opened his mouth to ask, seeing that the village chief nodded, he pointed to the portrait on the wall and asked, "Then this... ā
The village chief sighed gloomily and began to talk about the cause of the incident.
It turned out that a few years ago, in order to enable the villagers of Laowujia Village to enjoy their old age in peace, the village chief went to government units and social organizations to raise funds, hoping to slightly improve the living standards of the elderly in the last few years. But when he returned to the village after a year of absence, he found that all the people in the village had died of illness due to a plague that could not be treated in time, and what was even worse was that the old Wujia Village had been abandoned by the outside world, and no one except the village chief knew about it. The village chief felt very uncomfortable, and he didn't care whether he would get sick or not, so he dragged the bodies of those old people together and burned them one by one. Then he made a spiritual table for each family and offered it to him.
"However, from this day on, I found that the villagers would come out every night and live as usual, cooking, playing cards, doing laundry, and greeting me when they saw me. As he spoke, the village chief walked under his portrait, pointed to it, and said, "I hung this thing to let everyone know that we are all the same." ā
This originally terrifying posthumous image, with the village chief's explanation, the three of them looked inexplicably sad.
"Now that the media network is so developed, why don't you tell people outside about this?" Wu Ziyi's tone sounded a little choked.
"What if you tell it? When people are dead, will they come back to life? Anyway, I have no children and no daughters, so it's good to keep everyone together and live like before. The village chief lowered his eyelids, "Later, I learned that it's not that everyone doesn't want to be reincarnated, but that they can't leave the village at all!" ā
Can't get out of the village? Could it be that this old Wujia Village was manipulated by whom?
"So you said before that the people of the underworld promised you that the villagers would send the villagers to be reincarnated?" After listening to what the village chief said, Xie Xiaolou already had a guess.
And the village chief's blunt answer also confirmed Xie Xiaolou's guess: "That's right, and their condition is that I want to catch the Chen family." ā
"The village chief, you are now..." Chen Chen also understood the ins and outs of the matter, but what he didn't understand now was why the village chief's attitude towards them had changed 180 degrees.
"Because I'm being used by them!" Speaking of this, the village chief gritted his teeth, "Everything is done by them, they set up a formation, and they don't let the villagers go out to reincarnate!" ā