Everyone in the village was squatting behind the black cloth, and I saw Qiqi who had just walked past at first glance, and then I saw Song Baiyi. Their faces were already very wrong, Mu was stunned without any expression, his eyes were dull, and he squatted on the ground, like a group of bent corpses.

"Seventy-seven!" I couldn't bear what I saw, it was as if Qiqi had mixed in with a group of walking dead, and she, like everyone else, stared blankly ahead, slowly crouching on the ground. In a hurry, I followed the hole in the black cloth and tore it open in one fell swoop.

I drilled over and rushed to those people, Song Baiyi, who was drooping his head, raised his head, faintly, I suddenly heard a gong, as if it was a broken gong with a cracked opening, and the sound was particularly ugly. A gong sounded, and those who were squatting on the ground slowly stood up.

I took a step back in horror, the scene in front of me was so scary, I was trying to discern the source of the gong, but the people who had just stood up slowly took a step towards me. I saw Song Baiyi looking at me with a smile, his lips seemed to be pulled by a thread, and he twitched back and forth a few times.

His eyes were dull, but he looked at me directly, which was terrifying.

I knew that these people were wrong, but I couldn't turn around and run away. I gritted my teeth, looked away, and as if I couldn't see them, I pulled my legs and walked around the side, heading straight for Qiqi behind.

clang

The sound of the gong, which made people's ears tremble, rang again, and the sound seemed to break people's hearts, and I slammed it in the middle of running, and I felt my heart pounding and irritable. I stubbornly continued to run forward, Qiqi getting closer and closer, but she still stared ahead as if she couldn't see me.

"Qiqi, let's go!" I stretched out my hand to pull her, but before I could hold Qiqi, a shadow more than one meter high suddenly jumped out of the crowd, and the shadow was very fast, and it was in front of my face in a blink of an eye.

My nerves were already tense, and when I saw this shadow, I felt a chill all over my body. I don't know if this thing is a "person" or not.

He was a little over a meter, wearing a green coat and a tattered gong around his neck. It was black like a piece of freshly burned charcoal, and his head was large, but the top of his head was flat, so that it looked like he had only half a head, a grin, and a messy mouthful of teeth.

I had never seen such a person, and I should be very strange to him, but as soon as I saw his head, which seemed to have been cut off in half, I immediately remembered a rumor I had heard in the past.

This thing is not exactly a "person" anymore, in our family, such a "person" is called half an inch. This is something that the goddess raised and then driven, just like the little ghosts raised by the head lowering master in Southeast Asia, dangerous and evil. Half an inch Ding is actually a dwarf with congenital development defects, and the country people believe in all kinds of messy things, sometimes the children born are unhealthy, and they will be considered to bring bad luck to the family.

No one but the goddess would adopt such an abandoned baby. In the past, the village was too poor, and after people picked up abandoned babies, they would take the money from the swaddling clothes and send the babies to the local goddess, who would also give some money. After these babies were sent to the goddess, they were not looked at, and several babies were left in the dark room, without milk, and left to cry and crawl, and finally, the goddess chose one of them to live the longest, and in our words, such a child was hard.

And then, it's brutal. Half of the child's braincase will be forcibly removed, why half of the braincase is removed, I don't know, but the half-inch raised by the goddess basically has no mind of her own, and the goddess can drive as she wants. People along the Yellow River can occasionally see some half-inch Ding running into the river late at night to fish for things, or digging graves in mass graves, and over time, this kind of thing is rumored to be very evil.

I didn't know who raised this half-inch Ding at the time, and when I first found out that something was going on in the village, I thought it was coming for me and Qiqi, but now it seems that this is not the case at all. The other party's target is very obvious, it is the entire Baoliu Village, that is, the Song family.

The half-inch Ding in front of him grinned, and there was a funny but fierce light in his eyes, and he ran around me quickly, grabbing the gong on his body and striking it vigorously. This kind of gong sound is annoying to death, the sound of breaking gongs spread far away in the silent night, I vaguely saw those corpses lying on the ground, began to crawl with the sound of gongs, for a while, the whole Baoliu Village seemed to become hell, evil corpses rampant. Half an inch is like a jackal dog circling around its prey, running around me, and trying to jump over and grab me from time to time.

I don't even have the idea of panicking, I don't care about it at all. After following him for a while, I vaguely noticed that he did not dare to come near me, and as soon as I pondered in my heart, I immediately looked down and saw the ancient bronze mirror hanging around my neck. It's something left behind by the old ghost, and it's definitely useful. I had a little bottom in my heart, and I carried the ghost whip, and when I saw the opportunity, I pulled it out.

Oh

Half an inch was staggered by the whip and rolled to the ground. I took advantage of this gap to pull Qiqi and leave, and at this time, the huge black cloth fell down with a bang, covering all the people underneath. I felt a little suffocated and couldn't breathe. My heart shook violently, maybe my brain was a little confused before, and I didn't remember the origin of this black cloth.

To be precise, this kind of black cloth is the corpse chapel cloth used by the goddess. In recent years, this special method of transporting corpses has completely disappeared in the Yellow River Beach, and the corpse driving in the Yellow River Beach is not the same as the corpse driving in Xiangxi in the usual sense. Some of the floating corpses fished up from the river were rotten and unpresentable, and they had been hanging on the cliff for too long, and when the family members came to find them, the corpses were already miserable, and they couldn't carry them away. At this time, the family will generally ask the goddess for help, take advantage of the lack of people at night, climb up half an inch to get the body down, and then put on a black cloth, and rush overnight, so that the deceased can no longer build a funeral shed or do white things, the family has already chosen a cemetery, and the corpse covered by the black cloth will be directly driven to the cemetery and buried immediately.

In the past, most of the older generations on the Yellow River beach had encountered such things when they were walking at night, and they were very unlucky, and no one dared to approach. A few years ago, I met a middle-aged man in the old Hukou, who claimed that there was an old man in the family who had been a goddess, and he said that the corpse under the black cloth was actually placed on a special small board car. But whether it's true or not, it's hard to say now.

Anyway, I was nervous to death at the time, I dragged Qiqi from under the black cloth to drill outside, a group of people in Baoliu Village were like a bunch of insects, slowly squirming under the black cloth, I was a little hesitant, Song Baiyi's two grandsons bullied me, but how to say, they are all people from Qimen, but at this time I can't take care of so many people, and it is already very difficult to rescue Qiqi. After hesitating for a moment, I was ruthless, left others alone, and dragged Qiqi to run.

There are a few old elm trees at the entrance of the village, and the cicadas are constantly chirping, but at this time all the sounds are gone, and there seems to be something moving in the leaves of the elm trees, and I can't see clearly, my scalp has been numb, and I just want to run out first. Qiqi didn't react at all, like a piece of wood, her body was dead, I was in a hurry, I simply picked her up, and ran away with my head full.

In the blink of an eye, I was about to leave the main road out of the village, and I didn't dare to relax, and I was afraid that Qiqi would continue to sleep like this. Suddenly, I don't know where overhead, a large piece of paper money floated down, as if it was snowing, and fluttering paper money fell everywhere. I swallowed, rolled my eyes, and immediately caught a glimpse of two shadows reflected in the moonlight on the ground behind me.

Someone is following!

That's what I thought at the time, I don't know who it was, and I don't know when I followed behind me silently. As soon as I turned my head, my eyes froze. At most four or five meters away behind him, there are two paper figures made of paper, which are the paper figures we use for funerals here, the bodies of corn stalks pierced together, pasted with paper of various colors, paper people and paper horses, and burned in front of the grave when burying people.

Two paper figures, one is tall, with a mourning stick tied to a white paper strip on his arm, one black and one white, his nose and eyes are drawn with ruler red on his face, and the miserable white paper man with bright red facial features looks extremely infiltrating under the moonlight.

"These paper money was originally reserved for the Song family, but now it is all for you"

I don't know if I was too nervous or if I was hallucinating, but when I turned my head to stare at the two paper figures, I felt that the white paper figures seemed to be talking with their mouths open, and their voice was like that of an old eagle flying over the village at night. I got goosebumps all over my body, and I turned around and ran. As soon as the footsteps moved, a gust of wind blew up, and the two paper figures swayed and floated behind with the strong wind, drifting closer and closer, as if their feet did not touch the ground, and followed crookedly. This thing can't do anything to me, but the diaphragm is very responsive, and I feel weak in my legs as I run.

I kept running, but the wind kept blowing, a black and a white paper figure like a soul, I couldn't shake it off, and finally I was really annoyed, bent down and picked up a wooden stick next to me, and as soon as I turned around, I slammed my head and face.

"Follow your mother! Annoying! "When I scolded loudly, I was actually emboldening myself. The two paper figures were smashed with sticks, and all the paper on the outside was shattered, revealing the corn stalks inside. I vented all my fears and depressions, and smashed the two paper figures to pieces in one go.

"No wonder"

At the same time as the two paper figures were smashed, I suddenly heard the sound of people talking in the wind. It was an old woman's voice, full of yin energy, the voice drifted with the wind, and the air around me seemed to become cold all of a sudden, and I couldn't help but shiver.

"No wonder all evils are inviolable." The voice continued to drift with the wind, and I don't know from the direction of the southeast, west, and west, and drilled into the ear: "The Zhenhe mirror with the seven gates on the body." "