When it was almost evening, Lei Baoquan, Li Bai and Jin Guo found Uncle Li's house, and Uncle Li was sitting downstairs in the shade at this time, concentrating on cutting his toenails.

"Uncle Li, are you busy?" Li Bai greeted happily.

Uncle Li raised his head when he heard the sound and looked at it, and was also very surprised to see that it was these three people, and said enthusiastically: "Ouch, why are the three of you free to come today?" ”

"Didn't I miss you, I came back to see you." Li Bai sat next to Uncle Li, hugged Uncle Li's shoulders and said.

Uncle Li couldn't close his mouth with a smile: "You kid is poor when you talk." ”

"Uncle Li, have you eaten? The three of us would like to treat you to a meal. Jin Guo said.

"Eat?" Uncle Li looked at the three people suspiciously, "How did you think of inviting me to dinner?" ”

"Look at what you said, you helped us so much last time, we have to show it." Lei Baoquan said.

Li Bai nodded frequently on the side: "Yes, yes, especially the time when I was on the ghost, but it scared me, thanks to you." ”

"Hey, it's all trivial, it's not worth mentioning." Uncle Li waved his hand and said, "However, where are you going to eat?" ”

The three of them laughed, and Jin Guo said, "It's the farmhouse restaurant in the town." ”

"It's good there, the roast chicken there is really a must, it's not early, there will be more people later, let's go now." Uncle Li said with a smile.

The three of them saw that Uncle Li was really a straightforward person, and they didn't pretend to be polite at all, so they followed Uncle Li with a smile.

Uncle Li had just taken two steps, turned around and shouted upstairs, "Old woman! Old woman! ”

Uncle Li's wife poked her head out of the window and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"Dinner was not at home, and a few came... A few fans, there's dinner tonight. The three of them laughed when they heard it, this Uncle Li is really catching up with the trend, and even the "fans" know it.

Uncle Li's wife "puffed" him, and said uncontrollably: "Fans? What about yuba, what do you think about eating hot pot? Do whatever you like, come back early! ”

Jin Guo smiled and asked, "Why don't you call your aunt to go with you?" ”

"What do you call the old ladies to do when they eat? Your aunt talks a lot, if you ask her to go, you will just listen to her nagging for this meal. ”

The four of them came to the farmhouse restaurant in the town, it was not dark yet, but there were already many customers here, and after ordering, the four of them chatted.

"I heard that you later arrested the owner of the flour mill?" Uncle Li asked.

"Well, Uncle Li, you would never have thought that it was his cousin who killed Zhu Decai." Li Bai said.

"What's unthinkable about this, why can't people do it now? For the sake of money, you don't even want your own life, and you still care about other people's lives? Alas, it's really not as good as we were then..."Uncle Li sighed.

"But Uncle Li, are all your skills ancestral?" Li Bai asked curiously.

As soon as he heard that others were interested in his craft, Uncle Li himself was quite proud, and said: "Of course, this kind of 'craft' is not something that can be learned if you want to, you have to find someone who is destined, and you have to be able to endure hardships." ”

"How can you be considered a destined person?" Jin Guo asked.

Uncle Li looked at Li Bai: "With his physique, people who can naturally see that kind of 'friend' can be regarded as a destined person." It's a pity that this kid doesn't want to learn from me, right? ”

Li Bai smiled and said, "I forget it, it's easy to see this thing, and if I deliberately deal with this thing every day, I guess I'll go crazy." ”

"Don't always do this thing, let the 'friend' hear it upset." Uncle Li said.

Li Bai looked around cautiously and agreed.

After a while, the dishes were all on the table, and Uncle Li, who was watching, drooled and said: "When I was young, when I went out to do white things, people would always invite me to have a good meal, but now I have fewer jobs, and I come out to eat less often." ”

"Then you eat a little more today." Lei Baoquan said, "By the way, do you want to bring you a bottle of wine?" ”

Uncle Li waved his hand again and again: "Don't, I haven't drunk wine for a long time, it's not a good thing, I missed something because I was drunk when I was young, and I never drank it again after that time." ”

A few people chatted while eating, and Uncle Li talked about his past from time to time, which made everyone laugh.

Halfway through the meal, Uncle Li suddenly asked, "I just remembered, why didn't I call the old horse today?" Is he on duty? ”

"Uncle Li, I was about to tell you about this, Uncle Ma... I'll have to ask you for help. Jin Guo said.

Uncle Li saw that the three of them seemed to be thinking about something, and asked, "What's wrong with the old horse?" ”

"Uncle Ma has been sick for the past two days, with chills and dizziness all over his body, and when we went to see him, his face was pale." Li Bai said.

Uncle Li swallowed a mouthful of food and said, "I don't know much about seeing a doctor." ”

"It's not for you to see a doctor, we suspect ... I suspect that the old horse doesn't seem to be sick..."Lei Baoquan said.

"What's the reason for that?" Uncle Li was puzzled.

"We all think he's a ghost." Li Bai said in a low voice.

Uncle Li laughed out and said with a smile: "Do you think everyone is like your kid, and they hit ghosts wherever they go?" ”

"Uncle Li, we're not joking, last time we went together to bury the dead man and beast you burned, on the way back, only me and Uncle Ma felt that someone was following us behind us, but we couldn't see anyone, and we didn't care at the time. After we left, Uncle Ma began to get sick, and he also said that when he slept at home at night, he would hear someone walking around in the living room..."Li Bai said in a low voice, feeling like he had experienced it himself.

Uncle Li also listened carefully, thinking about something while listening, until Li Bai finished speaking, Uncle Li swallowed another bite of food, chirped and said: "Hearing you say this, the old horse may really hit the ghost, but it doesn't seem that the problem is serious." ”

"Not serious? You don't see the appearance of Uncle Ma, this kind of weather is surrounded by quilts, and he is shivering with cold, and the whole person looks empty. Li Bai said.

Uncle Li looked at Li Bai with disgust and said, "I'll just say that young people like you haven't seen anything in the world, so you think it's serious?" Have you ever seen someone who has been haunted by a demon and is about to commit suicide? Haunted by a demon who wants to kill? Or even a ghost who went to the graveyard to dig up dead bodies and eat meat? That's what makes it serious. ”

When he said this, Li Bai was holding a piece of meat and sending it to his mouth, and when he heard Uncle Li say this, Li Bai vomited out the meat that had just entered his mouth in disgust, and said with a grin: "Uncle Li, when we eat, can we not talk about such an unappetizing topic?" ”

Uncle Li rolled his eyes and said, "Don't worry, this matter is easy to solve, will you go to his house tonight?" ”

"I was going to go back to Yungang City after eating, but since this kind of thing happened to Lao Ma, we will help him solve it here before leaving." Lei Baoquan said.

"That's good." Uncle Li said, "Tonight, you go to his house." Didn't he say that there was movement in the living room at night? Then sprinkle a thin layer of flour on the floor of the living room, and then go into the house and sleep, and do not come out whatever you hear, and I will go to the old horse's house tomorrow morning. ”

After listening to this, the three of them didn't know why Uncle Li asked them to sprinkle flour, but since he said so, there must be his reasons.

After eating, the three of them sent Uncle Li home, and then returned to Lao Ma's house, Lao Ma had just gotten up from the bed and was nibbling on bread.

Lei Baoquan hurriedly handed over the packaged dishes and said, "I brought you some, you can't always eat bread when you're sick." ”

The old horse smiled and said, "I thought you had forgotten me." Then he devoured it.

The three of them were not idle, they went to the kitchen to find flour and began to make it according to what Uncle Li said, and the old horse who was eating on the side looked strange and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Uncle Li said to spread a layer of flour on the floor of the living room, and then wait for him to solve it tomorrow morning." Li Bai replied.

Lao Ma nodded: "So, this is catching ghosts?" ”

Jin Guo said while saying, "It should be counted." ”

The old horse laughed when he heard this, and said, "It's the first time I've heard of catching ghosts with flour when I've lived so long." ”

A few people sprinkled flour, the old horse also finished eating, the four of them entered the old horse's bedroom, the old horse said embarrassedly: "I really wronged you, I can still sleep in the living room, now..."

"It's okay, it'll be all night." Lei Baoquan said.

The four of them divided the place, because Lei Baoquan and Lao Ma were older, so they slept on the bed, and Li Bai and Jin Guo claimed to be young and in good health, so they made bunks on the floor. The four of them made their beds, lay down early and began to sleep.

It was past eleven o'clock, and more than an hour had passed since the four of them lay down, but everyone had not fallen asleep yet, and they were all worried about the situation in the living room.

Suddenly, the sound of "stepping" footsteps came from the living room, the sound was not loud, but it was obvious, and the four of them sat up in unison.

"Did you hear anything?" Li Bai's voice was very low, and he listened to it very clearly.

"There really are footsteps." Jin Guo next to him said.