Chapter 7: The Little Black House

Let her say it so scary, my heart is pounding.

When we returned to the firewood room in the backyard, I nodded at Li Yang. Li Yang asked the woman, "Auntie, master, can we enter?" ”

The woman took out a small and delicate mirror, adjusted the angle in the sun, and called Yang Shanshan over: "Nier, you just stand here, hold the mirror, don't move." This gossip mirror is turned on, and the yin in this room is too heavy, so it can pick the yang and shine the yin to keep it safe. ”

Yang Shanshan walked over and held the mirror steadily.

Li Yang held the lotus lantern, and I took the lantern and walked into the house one after the other.

As soon as I entered, it was like arriving in another world. The blackness here is like substance, like a tightly wrapped black mist, which cannot be condensed. Li Yang walked in front with a lamp, the lotus lamp was burning and burning, and the five-colored light was reflected, which looked very fantastical, like a red lotus flower floating in the dark.

It was very cold in the house, and this cold was not simply a low temperature, but a cold that showed through the shade, and a cool wind blew everywhere. Walking here, you can't stop at all, once you don't move, your whole body can shake uncontrollably, and the cold air will drill into your bones like ice water from the outside of your skin.

"Li Yang, Li Yang, I'm on your thief ship." I couldn't resist the cold.

Li Yang walked slowly in front, shining with the lights as he walked, and he said, "Do you know why I called you in?" ”

"Are you afraid?"

"Yes, I was scared. Lao Liu, you are a person with abundant talents, just like a magic lamp to ward off evil spirits. I can break in by myself, but with you, I can be more down-to-earth in my buddy's heart. You should help your brother, brother can't forget, you know it in your heart, and remember every stroke. ”

I sighed, "Okay, that's what I'm going to do." No matter how beautiful the toilet is, its destination can only be the toilet. ”

Li Yang laughed and didn't speak. After chatting and interrupting, the terrifying atmosphere was reduced a lot.

We walked for a while, and the things in the house came out one after another. This should be a very old house, the floor is full of tattered debris, what cardboard boxes are broken newspaper plastic bags, and we also see a large table of eight immortals. This kind of table is very rare now, carved from mahogany, and there is a pattern engraved on it, and when you touch it with your hand, it is thick with a layer of ash. On the table was a very old-fashioned copper kettle, and a few glasses, and when you touched them, the tentacles were cold, and the surface was almost freezing.

Through the faint light of the ever-bright lamp, in the darkness, you can see many vague shadows around, which are all old-fashioned bamboo wall cabinets, the red paint peeling off, and the original color is almost invisible.

"Come and see this." Li Yang called me.

He stood in front of the wall holding a lotus lantern, and a huge landscape painting hung on the wall. The white rice paper has long been yellowed and looks very old. I also leaned over the lantern, and the two lights shone faintly together. This painting catches the eye of a huge pine tree, green vines and old trees, and its branches are winding wantonly on the paper, full of ancient charm. Under the pine tree sat a middle-aged man dressed in white and tied in a bun, half-lying and half-sitting, with his legs crossed, with straw sandals and a rattan cane beside him. There are four lines of poetry written on the inscription, and Li Yang shines on it with a lamp, reading word by word: "The body is like a crane, and there are two letters under a thousand Panasonics. ”

He turned his head and asked me, "Lao Liu, do you know what kind of poem this is?" ”

"Familiar."

"I remember it was written by a Zen master in the Tang Dynasty. Probably it means describing a state of practice. ”

"Oh." I said, "The female master didn't also say that her mother was a cultivator, and this room was the place where she practiced during her lifetime." ”

"Forget it, don't study those, grab your things and leave quickly. I always felt like something wasn't right here. I said again.

He nodded. We continue to move slowly, in addition to this landscape painting on the wall, there is also a picture of the Bodhisattva sitting on the lotus, the page is yellowed, the Bodhisattva has long been unrecognizable, revealing a vicissitudes of desolation.

The house is actually not big, we looked around, but we didn't find any coffins.

I wondered, "Is there a secret door?" ”

Li Yang shook his head: "Not like that." ”

"Why didn't the female master explain it earlier, where is the coffin? And let us not move anything, where can we find this? "This hellish place makes me a little nervous.

Li Yang suddenly had an idea: "Look up." ”

We held the lamps and looked up together. It's okay not to look at it, but it's really scary to death. On the beams of the room, four chains were hanging, and a red coffin was being locked, hanging it in mid-air.

The coffin was small, probably less than a meter long, and could not have been used to hold people. Its position is quite immoral, two meters above the ground, and you have to step on something to open it and take out what it contains.

Li Yang put the lotus lantern on the table of the Eight Immortals and beckoned me: "Come and take a hand." ”

", what do you want to do?" My eyes widened.

He coughed: "What else can I do, lift the table under the coffin, and I will step on it to open the coffin." ”

"However, the female master said that she couldn't touch the things in the house......"

"There will be no disapproval of the king's order outside. It's just a table, and it can't collapse the sky. Hurry up, take your things and leave. ”

I had no choice but to go with him to carry the Eight Immortals Table. The table was dead, and it creaked when it was raised, and I was afraid that it would fall apart. Finally lifted it under the coffin, Li Yang held on to the table and flipped over.

The four legs of the table immediately began to shake, and I secretly complained: "Li Yang, be careful." ”

He stood on the table, cautiously walked to the coffin, and snapped his fingers at me: "Hand me the lotus lantern." ”

I handed the lamp over, and he held it in one hand and opened the lid with the other. I looked up from below, looked at it for a while, let the fire above make my eyes water, and quickly closed my gaze.

He stood there, no matter how he fiddled, he couldn't open it, and he lowered his head and said, "Lao Liu, I have to trouble you to come up and help me hold the lamp, one hand is too hard." ”

I pressed the table and smiled bitterly: "Brother Li, what should I do if the table collapses if I go up again?" ”

Li Yang said: "If it collapses, think of other tricks." Now we can only take one step at a time and say one step, hurry up, don't ink. ”

I had no choice but to climb up cautiously. I didn't dare to flip directly onto the table like Li Yang, so I could only climb up little by little, crawling onto the table, and my whole body was covered in dirty ashes. I scolded, "You go and buy me clothes." ”

Li Yang smiled: "I'll buy you a set of Armani." ”

I stood next to him and helped lift the lamp. Li Yang began to twist the coffin lid, the combination of the coffin lid and the coffin is not complicated, that is, the four corners are tied by the coffin nails, as long as they are pulled. However, it is indeed more strenuous to operate with one hand.

Li Yang pulled out four nails and gently opened the lid of the coffin, which emitted a musty smell that had accumulated for many years, smoking the person to death.

I lifted the lotus lantern and shone it in, and something appeared in the faint light of the fire, and the sight of this thing almost scared me to pee.

This is a pair of women's embroidered shoes, red, embroidered with a moire pattern along the upper. On the upper, two large peonies are embroidered. Li Yang looked at me, I looked at him, we really couldn't figure it out, what can a pair of embroidered shoes have to do with life?

Li Yang put his hand into the coffin, took out his shoes stubbornly, and stuffed them into his satchel. I touched him: "There's something down there." ”

It was a long and slender talisman written on yellow paper, and it was painted with cinnabar. Li Yang carefully invited the talisman out and put it into the mezzanine of the bag.

There is still the last thing left in the coffin, which is an ancient book of stringing. It was only a few pages, it was broken, and there was a strong smell, and the musty smell in the coffin was mainly emanating from this thing. Li Yang flipped through it lightly, and the words on it were all written with red dye, each word was very large, and one hundred and eight crosses could be written on one page. These words are all in traditional Chinese, and there is no punctuation mark in the middle, so I can't read a sentence at all with my background in Chinese studies.

Li Yang closed the book and was about to put it in his bag, when the flame of the lotus lamp in my hand suddenly went out!

None of us were mentally prepared, and it was immediately pitch black. Luckily, there was a permanent light on the table, and although the light of the fire was unknown, it was our only lighting tool.

I patted Li Yang beside me and motioned for him to get off the table quickly.

At this moment, there was a sudden "snap" in the darkness, as if something had fallen to the ground. Li Yang said in a trembling voice: "Lao Liu, that book has fallen." ”

I felt a little furious in my heart, and coughed: "Pick up the book when it falls." ”

"No, you don't know, it seems that someone snatched the book from my hand just now."

My heart was pounding and I pulled him off the table and onto the floor. I took the lantern to the lotus, and the wick of the lantern was rekindled.

One of us held a lamp, and it shone in all directions, and the ground was empty, and the book was gone.

"Forget it, if it's gone, it's gone." I was a little scared: "Let's go." ”

Li Yang said: "Will that book be important? ”

"How do I know about Lu Dao?" I thought for a moment and said, "If there really is some kind of external force, we can take away the embroidered shoes and talismans, but we won't let the books go." Does it mean that this book is important to it, and for us, it is dispensable? ”

Li Yang said: "It's not easy to come here and confirm the accuracy." He took out his mobile phone, leaned in the firelight and dialed the phone, and after a while, the old man's voice came: "Yangyang, it's noon, how are you doing?" ”

Li Yang said: "Uncle, are you in the hospital?" ”

"Yes, your uncle and his family are here too. What's wrong? What's wrong? ”

Li Yang said: "You ask my grandma, what things are needed to give her life." We're afraid we'll have to take less, and we'll have to come back again. ”

"Okay, you wait."

The two of us snuggled together, anxiously waiting. The temperature in the room was so low that I shivered from the cold, and I couldn't stand it.

At this time, the phone came: "Yangyang, your grandmother said that the monk left a total of three things at that time." A talisman, a book and a pair of embroidered shoes. The continuation of life mainly depends on talismans and shoes, it doesn't matter if the book arrives, it is a token, but it is better to have it, she wants to return it to the monk with her own hands. ”

After hanging up the phone, I said with a cold air: "If there is no book, there will be no one, let's leave quickly." ”

Li Yang was unwilling and turned around to leave. At that moment, I suddenly saw a vague black shadow standing in front of the closet, fleeting.

Seeing that black shadow, I chuckled in my heart, this black shadow felt very much like the "old fairy" on the female master.

I looked at Li Yang and decided that it would be better not to say it, more things are better than less things. The female master also said that if you don't see it, you should not see it.

As we walked out, I subconsciously glanced at the closet, and the door suddenly creaked open.

Li Yang stopped, looked at me, and held a lotus lantern to shine in.