As I approached the crowd, I couldn't help but hear that.

"Ah Leng..."

"Shhh

I pressed Xiaoqing's shoulder and winked at her. I heard another person say, "I heard that it was a corpse..."

"Then why don't they take the dead man and burn it?"

"Then who knows, this is a trouble, tonight, no one will go out."

"Oh, who dares to go out, I don't go to work the night shift..."

I gently patted the shoulder of a person on the edge of the crowd, "Fellow..."

The man shrank his neck in fright, looked back at me, then at Xiaoqing, and stroked his chest with his hand, "What's the matter with you?" ”

"Oh," I smiled, gesturing at the crowd, "What's the matter?" ”

"It's just..."

I interrupted him, "Is it convenient to take a step to talk?" ”

The man nodded.

Xiaoqing helped me and limped to a secluded place, and I took out a cigarette and handed it to the man.

"Tell me about it, big brother."

The man took a puff of cigarette and puffed out two puffs of smoke from his nose, "A person died in our village the day before yesterday, and the corpse was deceived last night..."

"Corpse?!" I asked, feigning surprise.

"Be quiet," the man looked around vigilantly, and said in a low voice, "This thing can scare people to death, you say, the dead man disappeared from home, and was found lying on the riverside in a shroud early in the morning, not a corpse, what else could it be?" ”

I said in my heart, what these people are talking about is really the dead corpse we dealt with last night, according to this, the dead body is from their village? I don't know how that dead body was used by those bastards, ran out of the house in the middle of the night, and robbed me and Old Man Yang...

"Do you know where the corpse guy lives?" I asked.

"How?" The man was stunned by my question.

"Nothing," I laughed, "I asked casually." ”

"It's on..."

The man told me a general location, and I asked him where they lived in the village, the snake breeder, and I didn't think about it, it was also that place.

Back in the car, I said, "The corpse I dealt with Ah Feng last night was actually a person who had just died in their village. ”

"Master Leng wants to go to the dead man's house to have a look?" Morningstar asked.

"Well, I want to know how the dead body was driven to the road in the middle of the night to intercept me and Old Man Yang. Snake keepers also live in that area, anyway..."

Yuxin drove the car slowly along the narrow village road and came to an intersection. I looked at the little barber shop at the intersection and said, "This should be it."

Just now, the barbershop master swept his hair out, and I hurriedly lowered the window and asked, "Excuse me, do you live in this area if there is a snake breeder in your village?" ”

The master pointed with his finger, "Go in from this intersection, go all the way east, go to the end, and see a few old houses in the distance, which is the snake farm." ”

"Oh, thank you, master."

"You're welcome..."

"Let's go..."

The car couldn't get in at all, so I had to stop in a small open space not far from the intersection, and a few people got out of the car, but Xiaoqing helped me, turned from the intersection, and walked east. As I walked, I saw a small pile of paper ash on the ground, which looked very new, and there was no sign of rain, so it should have been burned in the morning.

"Look..."

I pointed to the ground, then looked up and saw another pile not far away. In the middle of the two piles of paper ash is an alley heading south.

"The dead man's house should be south from this alley." I looked at Yuxin and Morningstar, "Shall we go to the snake farm first, or to the dead man's house first?" ”

Yuxin has always been afraid of snakes, when I showed Xiaoqing's family the ancestral grave, I just picked out a piece of the snake's dead skin from the grave, and Yuxin was scared to the point of discoloration... Now that she went to the snake field, as soon as she got off the car, Yuxin looked quite nervous...

Morning Star said, "Xin is afraid of snakes, let's go to the dead man's house first, and wait until I go to the snake field, and I can go with Ah Leng." ”

Yu Xin smiled, and her face finally had a little blood.

"Okay, let's go." I said.

"Xiao Lengzi, you are eccentric!" Xiaoqing pouted.

"What's wrong?" My face is flat.

"I know to ask for the opinion of your two beautiful women, I don't know to ask my sister for my opinion, I helped you all the way thanks to my sister, so big, so heavy, I am so tired that I can't breathe..."

"Heh," I laughed, "Okay, if you have an opinion, then you go to the snake farm, and we'll go to the dead man's house." ”

"Just go!" Xiaoqing's chin lifted, and then fell, "I'm not going..."

"What's wrong?"

"I'm afraid of snakes..."

I smiled at the other two girls and said, "Then you can just hold me up." ”

"Humph!"

"Don't hum around, explain first, wait until you don't have my permission, don't talk nonsense, if you dare to be surprised, I'll take you to the snake's den..."

"Humph!"

We walked south along the alley, and after walking for a long time, the alley came to the end, and a large compound appeared in front of us, with the open gate diagonally facing the alley, and on the walls on both sides of the gate, there was a word 'mourning' pasted on each side... Looking around the courtyard, there are many people around...

"This should be it." I whispered, "Let's go, go in and have a look." ”

When we came to the courtyard, we approached the crowd step by step, and no one paid attention to us, we were all concentrating, and we didn't know what to see. Southerners are generally shorter, standing behind the crowd, I don't have to tiptoe, I can look over, I see near the door, there is an altar table, in front of the table with his back to the crowd, standing a man in a Taoist robe...

"Xiao Lengzi!"

I glanced at Xiaoqing, Xiaoqing stuck out her tongue, pointed with her finger, and whispered, "It's this kind of liar who pretends to be a ghost again..."

I shook my head, noncommittal, and looked at the table, where I saw a bowl of rice, a few pieces of rune paper, and a rattle. The man in the robe bowed forward, and after a while, the man turned around, and I looked at him, and I saw that this man was about thirty years old, with a square face, holding three incense sticks in both hands, standing on his chest, with a serious and solemn expression.

"Let it go," the man said.

The crowd moved out of the way, and we moved aside. The man wearing the robe rose and fell twice on his chest, then raised his foot and took a step, five steps in a row, the man froze, took out a handful of rice from the robe, and threw it into the sky, and the people next to him dodged one after another, and the white rice grains fell in all directions like a goddess scattered flowers, jumping on the hard cement floor.

The man turned around, walked back step by step, and inserted the incense into the rice bowl. After inserting the incense, this person holds the bowl in one hand and the bell in the other, stomps his feet, sits cross-legged on the ground, puts the rice bowl in front of him, holds the bell in both hands, and shakes it up and down and left and right like a nervous one...

Shaking and shaking, the man put the bell in his arms, his head drooped down, and he didn't move, and the onlookers didn't even dare to come out... After a long while, the man let out a long breath as if he had just woken up from a big dream, then raised his head and opened his eyes...

At this time, a man walked out of the crowd, "Dao Chief, how is it?" ”

"Your brother drowned in the river, right?" The 'Taoist' asked.

"Yes, he drank too much wine and fell into the river."

"Hmm," the 'Dao Chief' nodded, "He said his ID card fell on the riverside. Because he was so drunk, he couldn't remember what his full name was after he died, and he couldn't remember the date of his birth, and the little ghost guarding the door of the underworld didn't allow him to enter the door, beat him back to the sun, and asked him to go to the river to find his ID card..."

"ID card?" The man asked.

"Hmm," the 'Michijo' nodded.

The dead body was obviously chasing me and Old Man Yang and ran to the river, but this person actually said that he was looking for some kind of ID card... The set he just made was a traditional, witchcraft-like spiritism called 'Ask Mi'. Looking at his troubled appearance, if I didn't know the truth, I was really bluffed by him...

"Dao Chief, what should I do then?" The man asked, "Do you want to find his ID card?" ”

"If you can find it, of course it's best," said the 'Taoist', "but it's okay if you can't find it, you use a piece of red paper, write your brother's name and eight characters on it, fold it, stuff it into his mouth, and go into the crematorium with him, and it's all right." ”

"Oh oh..."

This 'Dao Chief' let out a sigh of relief and thumped his arm, "This Dharma event has consumed a lot of my vitality..."

"Don't worry, Dao Chief, I've got the money ready, I'll give it to you when I finish the banquet and leave..."

The 'Dao Chief' nodded, and the man lifted him up from the ground and said respectfully, "Dao Chief, please in the house..."

I poked Xiaoqing lightly with my hand.

"What?" Xiaoqing asked stupidly.

"Stop them." I whispered.

"Them?"

I snorted with my mouth.

"Oooh... Hold it! ”

Xiaoqing's voice was loud, and when her voice passed, everyone looked over, and the man and the 'Taoist' didn't leave.

"What?" The man asked.

Xiaoqing wanted to speak, but I helped her with my hand and said, "Big brother, do you need my help?" ”

"Help?" The man asked, confused.

"That's right." I said, "I heard you just say, do you need my help to find your ID card?" ”

"Can you... Found it? ”

"Try it..."I said, "I can't hide it, I can also do some spells, and this chief is a fellow person, listen to this chief, it's best to have an ID card, so, I want to try, see if I can find your brother's ID card, where it fell on the river..."

Ordinary charlatans are very good at using people's words. In the conversation, you will inadvertently reveal your details. Then, to say it to you, it makes you feel extremely accurate, very magical... I think that this 'Taoist chief' should have taken out the deceased's ID card before doing it, so he fell on the riverside with nonsense...

"You can spell too?" The man asked.

"What, don't believe me?!"

Xiao Qing was excited, took a step forward, and let go of the hand that was holding me. I was not mentally prepared at all, as soon as my right leg was strong, the thigh was in sharp pain, and I fell to the side with a 'oops', and the morning star was quick and came to help me.

Yuxin pointed at me and said lightly, "He is my brother, born with a disability, he has to be supported when he goes out, in order to make up for his physical defects, he worshipped a master as a teacher and learned some spells." ”

Some of the people looked at me with mixed meanings, while others were full of sympathy. Morning Star on the side stiffened his face and forced a smile.

I wiped the cold sweat on my head with my hand and said, "I don't want money, I see this long 'ask rice' psychic, and it's itchy for a while, so I want to try my skills, and it can be regarded as helping you, what's the matter, are you still afraid that I won't be able to find your brother's ID card?" ”

The man thought for a moment and nodded.

"Okay, which is your brother's mourning hall?"

The man pointed to a side room, "That one." ”

"Is his body still in there?"

"Yes."

"Well, I'm going to the mourning hall to have a look."

The man didn't stop me, and Morning Star helped me. When I came to the door of the mourning hall, I was about to push the door, when suddenly, I felt that the door was a little strange...