As she spoke, Yuxin beckoned. I walked up to me, and Yuxin leaned into the car and took out a bulging newspaper bag.

"What is this?" I scratched my head and asked.

Yuxin handed me the bag, "Open it and take a look..."

I opened it carefully, and a black thing appeared before my eyes. I saw that this was a small tripod-shaped thing, three legs, made of wood, I don't know what kind of wood, the outside of the tripod body is engraved with a peculiar pattern. The reason why the color of this tripod is black, it is not burned by fire, nor is it struck by lightning, but it is smoked, and there are three black holes in the tripod, which should be used to insert incense. Anyway, this thing looks like it's been around for a while.

"Is this be..."I shook it with this ding, and said to Yuxin, "Ding Chunqiu's old monster used the 'Shenmu Wang Ding' to practice back then?" ”

Yuxin slapped me, "You'll be talking nonsense." ”

I grinned.

Yuxin said that when she was accompanying Uncle Yang for an injection in the hospital, Master met a boss she knew well, and the boss insisted on inviting Master to his house for dinner. After the meal, the boss took out such an item and gave it to the master, saying that he had once gone to shop for antiques and bought it, which was said to be something used by Taoist priests in the past. The boss has a god of wealth at home, and on the night when the tripod came back, he planned to use it as an incense burner, so he inserted three sticks of incense into the tripod, lit it and put it on the altar and went to sleep.

As soon as he fell asleep, he began to have nightmares, he dreamed that the god of wealth offered in the living room was alive, and he screamed and threw himself at him... When he woke up in a cold sweat, he heard movement in the living room, as if someone was whispering, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to sleep until later. After dawn, the boss thought about it and thought that there was something strange about it, so he put it away and locked it in the cabinet...

"Heh," I looked at the tripod curiously, "so it sees, this thing is quite evil." ”

"Master said that this thing was used by Taoist priests to raise altars in the past, summoning spirits and attracting ghosts, and I don't know how many generations it has been passed on, and it is very spiritual. The boss uses this demon-attracting thing to worship God, and of course God will be angry..."

I nodded, looked at this ding, and said with a smile, "That boss is really stupid, if you have this thing in the future, if you need to summon ghosts or something, you don't have to be so troublesome as setting up a formation to read the Jade Girl's anti-closure technique." Brother Ding, happy cooperation, let's be one..."

As I spoke, I lowered my head and kissed Ding.

"Oh, you're disgusting." Yuxin nudged me.

I stuck out my tongue at her and stuffed Ding into my bag, "It's important to get down to business, let's go, get in the car and go." ”

According to the route of the man who stole the child, I commanded Yuxin to leave the town and head east, and after more than half an hour, I came to a national highway heading south.

Turning south, the car rustled on the wide road, bare trees flashed through the windows on both sides, and from time to time it passed a car carrying New Year's goods or firecrackers. Yuxin drove the car intently, and I quietly looked at the time on my phone, silently calculating the distance. It was nearly eleven o'clock when we came to a very large village.

In front of a small shop on the side of the highway, an old man was sweeping the floor with a broom. I ordered Yuxin to stop the car, drop the window, take out a cigarette, and hand it to the old man.

"Uncle, I want to ask you something."

"Huh?"

The old man seemed to have a bad ear, so he put a horn on his ear with his hand.

"Ask you something!" I said loudly.

"Oh, what's the matter?"

"Some time ago, there were no major traffic accidents in your area?"

The old man thought for a moment and nodded.

"How far is it from the place where the traffic accident happened?"

The old man pointed to the south, and said that he would have to go more than two miles to the south. Continuing south, we came roughly to the location the old man had mentioned.

"Cold, look."

"Huh?"

"There's a road there." Yuxin pointed to the south and far away.

I nodded, "It should be the way, go." ”

When I came to the intersection, I saw that this was a dirt road, quite wide, but extremely uneven, and the deep ditches rolled out by the vehicles were very hard by the severe cold. The car drove very slowly, staggering west for more than an hour, passing through two villages, and we came to a town.

The town was small, not much bigger than the village, and this is probably the town where the man who stole the child had been. After a round and turn, we came to a small restaurant, which must be the same restaurant where the man had been drinking, because there was only one restaurant in town.

The restaurant is small and dimly lit, and the walls look dark due to the smoke and fire all year round, but the floors, tables, chairs, cutlery, etc., look quite clean. Business at the restaurant was cold, and there were no other diners but us. I ordered two random dishes, and when they were ready, I stopped the boss, took out a cigarette, handed it to him, and asked him about the village that the man who stole the child said.

"It's a big village full of old-fashioned tiled houses..."

"Yes."

"Such a village," the boss groaned, picking his forehead, "There are quite a few of them in our area, don't you know what the name of the village is?" ”

I shook my head, glanced at Yuxin, and said in my heart, how to find this.

When I came out of the restaurant, I saw that the sky was even more cloudy, and the garbage and debris blown by the 'whirring' north wind were tumbling and flying everywhere.

Yuxin tightened her clothes, "Ah Leng, where are we going to find it?" ”

"I don't know." I smiled wryly.

"Can't you use Qimen?"

I thought about it and shook my head, "This kind of finding a village, there is no way, and it is not necessarily accurate, Qimen is not omnipotent." Then again, if everything is based on magic, there is no point. Let's go, get in the car, and walk around the town to see if we can find the village. ”

We drove out of the town, walked a little west, then north, and after a while, we came to a village, and walked around the village, and we didn't see any woods, let alone any 'luxurious' houses... In this way, I wandered around for a whole afternoon, but I did not find the place that the man had said.

In winter, it gets dark very quickly, and there is still light just now, and in the blink of an eye, you can't see your fingers outside.

"Let's go, look south." I said.

Returning to the previous dirt road, I came to a fork in the road and headed south, and after driving for more than half an hour, I didn't see any village.

"Are you hungry?" I asked Yuxin.

"It's okay, what about you."

"I'm about to gnaw my fingers."

Yuxin pouted at me and asked, "Do you want to go forward?" ”

I thought about it, bit my lip, and said, "Let's go." ”

"Okay." Yuxin shrugged her shoulders, "If you can't find anything to eat later, don't be hungry." ”

I smiled, "Don't worry." ”

I drove forward for a while, turned a corner, and saw a faint little light in the distance ahead, hazy and flickering.

"Ah Leng, it should be a village there."

"Not bad." I was happy, "Let's go, go and have a look." ”

As we got closer, the lights gradually became brighter, and when I came closer, I saw that it was indeed a village. It looked very big, the house was very old, and I said to myself, I don't know if it's this village. After entering the village, I walked a short distance along the stumbling village road and came to a commissary.

I got out of the car and came to the store, bought a few packs of instant noodles, I didn't think it tasted good, so I used my three-inch tongue to talk to the old man in the store, and the old man's funny mouth couldn't close, and with a wave of his hand, he gave us half a cabbage and two eggs for nothing, and let us cook noodles on his stove to eat.

"Yours is yours." Yuxin pouted at me.

I winked at her. Both of them were hungry, and the dinner, although relatively simple, was also very sweet.

"Lad, don't you drink? Have a drink with me. The old man lifted the curtain.

"Okay." I smiled, "Yuxin, go." ”

Coming to the counter outside, by the dim light, the old man and I drank the liquor in one sip, and the cold wind outside howled.

"Uncle, I want to ask you something." I said as the wine was hot.

"What? Go ahead. ”

"Do you have a house in your village that was built alone behind a forest?"

"Nope." The old man shook his head and said, "No." ”

I was a little disappointed, and I said to myself, I don't think I can find that village today.

"Why are you looking for such a house?" The old man was very enthusiastic.

"Huh?" I smiled, "Nothing. ”

"I heard that there seems to be one in the old village."

"Oh?" My eyes lit up, "Old Village, is that village called Old Village?" ”

"Hmm."

"Where is that village?"

The old man pointed with his finger and said that he would go one or twenty roads to the southwest.

"It's a very remote place, so you'd better not go there at night."

"Is it because it's biased?"

"It's not just because it's biased, it's a very evil place."

"What's evil?" I frowned.

The old man glanced at the door, leaned over to me, and said in a low voice, "Haunted." ”

My spine was cold, and Yuxin shivered.

"Really?" I asked after a pause.

"I also listen to other people."

I nodded distractedly, "That's... Thank you, uncle. ”

"Ah Leng, do you want to go to that old village?" Coming out of the sales department, Yuxin asked.

"Of course, what, follow Master Ben, are you still afraid of ghosts?" I smiled and patted the bag, "Besides, we have Shenmu Wang Ding, if there is really an evil ghost, draw it out, and the soul of the fight will be scattered." ”

"I'm not afraid." Yu Xin's jaw curled.

"That's okay, let's go, and the soldiers will go to the old village."

Out of the village, we took a path to the southwest. The road is narrow enough for only one car to pass. After about four or five miles, a small river came from the east, made a bend, and went southwest close to the path, the river was not wide, but it was quite deep, and the ice in the river looked white.

I thought to myself, the man who stole the child was drunk, and if he had gone to the village along this road, he didn't drive the car into the river, it would have been a blessing...

At about eleven o'clock we came to the village of which the old man had spoken. Ming Yuxin parked the car in a vacant lot at the entrance of the village, and I picked up the bag containing the magic utensils and stepped down from the car first.

The village was dark and lifeless.

"Ah Leng, what are you looking at?" After Yuxin came down, she asked nervously.

"This village..."

"What's wrong?" Yuxin asked.

I frowned and whispered, "I think this village is a little weird. ”

"What's weird."

"I can't tell..."