The yard is not big, and it is clean. Qu Nan tried to push, but the door was open. He knocked lightly on the door, and a hoarse and low voice rang out in the room: "Come in, the door is not closed." ”

Several people glanced at each other, and the fish rushed in. In the low and gloomy hut, Mrs. Liu wore the blue satin shroud and sat cross-legged on the kang.

Seeing them come in, the old lady grinned toothlessly and said, "Please come in, I haven't had a young man here for a long time." ”

Qu Nan thought to himself, just your terrifying dress, who would dare to come to your house if ordinary people are fine? It's not about watching horror movies. But when he looked at Mrs. Liu carefully, he found that there was no ghost on the top of the old lady's head, and although her face was wrinkled, there was no dark aura.

This means that there are two possibilities: one is that the old lady is not targeted by the ghosts, and the other is that the ghosts themselves are manipulated by the old lady, and of course she is not afraid of ghosts.

He looked at the two people's policemen and signaled with his eyes, it's time for you to appear.

Yuan Fengrui and Li Xiaohu glanced at each other, and both of them were a little embarrassed about what they were going to say next. In the end, Li Xiaohu made up his mind, and he cleared his throat twice: "Auntie, we are here to understand some things." ”

The old lady squirmed her toothless mouth and agreed, "Okay." Sit down first. ”

There was an old-fashioned table of eight immortals on the ground, and there were several wooden stools under the table, and several people pulled out the stools and sat in the middle of the room.

The old lady sat cross-legged on the kang, and there were a few young people sitting on the wooden bench on the ground.

"If there's anything, just ask!" Seeing a few people sitting down, the old lady smiled kindly.

The other party was very cooperative, but Li Xiaohu didn't know what to say. He looked at the old lady's shriveled mouth and drooping eyelids, and hesitated not to know how to speak.

Ask her if she's a female ghost?

Whether it was or not, the old lady would definitely kick them out with a broomstick.

Ask her if she is manipulating the imp to harm people?

That's even more unreasonable, even if it's really this old lady who manipulates the little ghost to harm people, she won't admit it!

What's more, as a people's policeman, these ghosts and demons shouldn't be said at all.

Li Xiaohu hesitated for a long time and couldn't speak, only then did he realize that he had thought too simply, and he couldn't help but deeply regret his Meng Lang's behavior - such a reckless question, not only did he not ask anything, but he also startled the snake. It's really better to learn from Qu Nan and the fat monkey, and wait for the evening to explore again, although it is dangerous, but there will be practical gains.

Seeing that Li Xiaohu was speechless, blushing so much that he was comparable to Yuan Fengrui, Qu Nan sighed secretly in his heart, there was no way, he had to speak in person: "Auntie, I heard that there is a black cat that often comes to your house?" It was the pure black cat that looked like a little black leopard. ”

Mrs. Liu's eyelids were lifted, and her cloudy eyes were full of light.

in the next room.

The door was tightly shut, the thick black curtains were drawn tightly, and a rusty lock hung from the door.

In the dark, a black cat tugged at its ears and hooked the corners of its mouth, and its burning and shining cat's eyes showed a disdainful smile, which seemed to be quite disdainful of such a description.

Old Mrs. Liu's eyelids drooped, and she looked listless again: "What about the cat?" That cat comes to me a lot, what's wrong? Whose chickens did it do? ”

The cat next door flicked its tail and grinded its paws against the wall unhappily.

Qu Nan saw the flash of light in Mrs. Liu's eyes, and seemed to hear a rustling sound, and listened carefully, but the sound was gone.

This old lady is not simple! He already knew this fact, and said to the old lady with a smile that was half explaining and half asking: "That cat didn't harm anyone, just ......" He thought about it, and always felt a little difficult to phrase, so he simply picked out the words and said: "Auntie, don't you think that there are too many people who have died in Shihao Village in the past two months, and it's too abnormal?" ”

The old lady grinned toothlessly, "Young man, you are here for this? I told you last time, if it's okay, stay out of here! If it weren't for the fact that I was old and didn't want to leave this place, I would have moved out two months ago! ”

Qu Nan's spirits lifted -- it seems that there is still a drama. The old lady did not shy away from the subject, nor did she try to hide it, listening to what she meant in her words, what else did she seem to know?

"Auntie, do you know? Dmitry died last night. Li Xiaohu interjected.

"Dmitry is also dead?!" Mrs. Liu shouted.

Looking at her like that, her surprise was visceral, and there was not much pretense.

Qu Nan nodded sadly: "Yes, last night, right under our noses, he suddenly went crazy and jumped into the fish pond and drowned. Moreover, Qu Nan bent down and pulled up Li Xiaohu's trouser legs: "After he died, the body also arrested Officer Li, you see, this is the mark left at that time." ”

On Li Xiaohu's legs, the blue-black paw prints are vividly visible.

Out of the corner of his eye, Qu Nan carefully observed Mrs. Liu's expression.

The old lady squinted her eyes for a while, then reached out and touched the paw print, nodded and shook her head: "It's true, but it's nothing." ”

This is said without a head and no brain, what does it mean to be true, nothing?

Several people stared at Mrs. Liu, waiting for her to explain.

The old lady smiled, "I know what you're thinking. First, I'm not a ghost, and second, those ghosts have nothing to do with me. Don't worry, I'll tell you everything I know. ”

Mrs. Liu instructed the fat monkey to take a thermos and a teacup and pour water for everyone, and then began to tell.

The first thing she tells is her own story.

When Mrs. Liu was nine years old, a beggar came to the village to ask for food, the beggar had a dark face, was so thin that he was not human-shaped, and he walked staggeringly, and the most frightening thing was that the beggar had a layer of gray snake-like scales on the exposed skin, which looked disgusting. No one in the village dared to approach him.

He lives alone in a small temple at the head of the village, sometimes going out to order food, and more often digging up wild vegetables in the field to satisfy his hunger.

At that time, Mrs. Liu was still a cute little girl. She was kind-hearted and sympathetic to the poor beggar, and often secretly brought the food of the house to the old beggar to eat.

The old beggar seemed to know that she was sick, and although she accepted her kindness, he always told her to leave the food on the ground and wait for her to go far before going to get it.

After more than two months like this, one day Mrs. Liu, oh no, it was still Miss Liu at that time, and when the little girl wrapped a few steamed buns in lotus leaves again and sent them, the old beggar greeted her, took the steamed buns from her hand, and said thank you to the little girl.

From then on, the old beggar began to get close to the little girl.

The old beggar was a Taoist priest. He taught the little girl some simple yin and yang techniques, and after seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, he left the little girl one night.

Mrs. Liu used the skills she learned from the Taoist priest to help many people. But she hadn't really confronted the ghost, or had ever done it directly.

More than two months ago, the animals in the village died en masse, and one after the other began to die.

At that time, she found out that there was a powerful ghost in the village, but this ghost was very resentful, and with her little bit of morality, not only could she not do anything about this ghost, but she couldn't even judge what the ghost was from.

What Mrs. Liu can do is to follow what the old Taoist priest once said, put on the longevity clothes that have been made a long time ago, so that the ghosts will not come to her trouble.

It turned out that the old lady was dangling in a shroud to prevent being haunted by ghosts?

The fat monkey asked, "Auntie, is there any scientific principle for this?" ”

The old lady smiled, her face wrinkled together, like an air-dried eggplant: "What is science?" I don't understand, I just know that this kind of ghost can avoid the ghost to the greatest extent, but it really can't, and the black robe helps me. ”

The fat monkey and Qu Nan glanced at each other and asked, "Auntie, do you mean the cat when you say the black robe?" Also, you drink blood so that the demons don't come to you? ”

The old lady nodded and replied, "The black robe was left to me by the master, but I don't drink blood." ”

She looked at the fat monkey's itchy expression, and added: "The black robe is the black cat, that's what the master called it back then, and I called it that, and sometimes I also called it the black general." ”