Only then did the fat man react, and he quickly lowered his voice: "Old ...... Boss, what should we do now...... What to do? ”

"What are you afraid of! Didn't you see that Huang Yixian came in person! He'll be able to settle for sure! ”

"To ...... What if he can't settle it, I'll ...... Am I going to be ghosted...... Ghost on top...... By the way, that ...... The mahogany stake is still in my house, what should I do, I ...... Shall I throw it away? ”

"You dare!" I glared at the fat man, and raised my fist and waved it in front of him, so frightened that he didn't dare to speak, and I took the opportunity to flicker: "You don't have to think about it, that peach tree was originally used to ward off evil spirits, and now put the peach stake in your house, how can there be a ghost who dares to get on you!" ”

The fat cow was right when he thought about it, and he was a little relieved.

At this time, I suddenly heard a ** shouting: "Don't stand here blindly, go and bring the shovels and hoes at home, and quickly clean up all the garbage!" ”

I stood on tiptoe and looked, it turned out that Li Changshui was shouting, not to mention, his words really worked, the crowd of onlookers immediately became commotion, and after a while, most of them left, and after a while, the people who left came back, and they all had shovels, hoes, brooms or dustpans and other tools in their hands.

The big guy didn't say a word, so he stepped forward and started working, Li Changshui led Huang Yixian to sit aside to rest, I was afraid of being seen by Huang Yixian, so I hurriedly hid behind a big willow tree by the river, and poked my head out from time to time to take a look, like a thief, but Huang Yixian kept his head buried in Li Changshui muttering something, and he didn't look at me at all.

Niu Fat Man couldn't figure out what I was hiding, and was very puzzled by my behavior, and I didn't bother to explain more to him, pointed at Li Changshui with his finger, and asked, "Who is he?" It seems to work a lot! ”

"Of course, he is the director of the village committee of Li Village, and he is also the director of the village-run cement factory and the head of the orchard, and he is in charge of the lifeblood of the village's financial collection, who dares not to listen to him!" The fat cow replied.

"It turned out to be the Emperor of the Earth, no wonder ......" I suddenly realized.

Since there was a lot of garbage piled up around the land temple, it would take a bit of work to clean it up completely, so the fat cow and I leaned against the trunk of the willow tree and chatted.

"Boss, do you think there are really ghosts in this world?"

Niu Fatzi asked this, so that I immediately remembered what happened to Master Zuihou when I was a child, and an indescribable sadness suddenly surged in my heart, and I only felt a sour nasal cavity, although eight or nine years have passed, but what happened at that time has always been in my heart, no matter what.

In order not to let the fat cow see it, I hurriedly rubbed my reddened eyes, turned my head to the side, and replied indifferently: "Who knows! Maybe! By the way, what are you doing here in the morning? "I quickly changed the subject.

"It's just that I'm passing by, so I'm not going to sell peach pits!" The fat cow pointed to a fiber bag beside him, which seemed to be full of peach pits.

"You smashed all the peach pits out so quickly?" I was a little surprised, I was a little surprised, I was afraid that the peaches I picked last night would have to be smashed all night to smash all the peach pits.

Niu Fat Man smiled and said, "Hehe, no! I haven't smashed it yesterday, it's still smashed before, and I've dried it out. "In our case, the price of dried peach pits is a little bit higher. I didn't expect him to smash so many peach pits, and they all dried out, apparently without a lot of effort.

Looking at the fat man's excited face, I suddenly admired him, this guy, although he is timid and afraid on weekdays, but in fact, his heart is very strong, and his family is so difficult, but he never complains, but has always held a positive attitude, and helped his father support the almost broken family with his own hands.

Thinking of this, I gently patted him on the shoulder and said, "In the future, our brothers will have blessings and hardships, and your business will be my business!" ”

My sudden feeling made the fat man a little flattered, he stared at me with wide eyes for a long time, and asked in a daze: "Boss, are you okay?" ”

"You're in trouble! I'm serious! ”

"Great, then...... In the afternoon, you can go to my house and help me smash a peach pit! ”

“@#￥%…… Get lost! ”

……

The two of us were chatting between the east and the west, when suddenly there was an exclamation.

I turned around suddenly, only to see that the people who were cleaning up the garbage suddenly covered their mouths and noses, and dispersed, a few women were still vomiting on the side, and Huang Yixian immediately got up and walked briskly towards the Land Temple.

"What's going on?" As soon as I finished speaking, I immediately smelled a foul smell like a carrion, and the fat cow and I hurriedly covered our mouths and noses.

"Go over and see, what's going on?" I turned my head to the fat man and said, because Huang Yixian was there, I didn't dare to go over.

The fat man ran towards the land temple, and after a while, he ran back quickly, and as soon as he stopped, he immediately gasped for breath, as if he had not breathed fresh air for a long time.

"What's wrong?" I asked urgently.

The fat cow's face was pale, and he replied breathlessly, "Okay...... A lot of dead ...... Dead rats, scared ...... Scared the hell out of me. ”

"Dead rats? What a situation! "I didn't react for a moment.

"There...... Underneath that garbage, all ...... It's all dead rats, all shriveled, and ...... Moreover, the body is crawling with maggots, so disgusting...... "The fat man can't go on, he is afraid of rats on weekdays, not to mention a large pile of rotten mouse corpses."

And when I listened, I felt a little puzzled in my heart, what is going on, rats are very intelligent animals, generally speaking, as long as one mouse dies in a certain place, then other rats will shy away from that place, how can they choose to die together collectively? Could it be that this land temple has become a mouse graveyard?

Out of curiosity, I wanted to go over and take a look, but I was afraid of being discovered by Huang Yixian, so I was hesitating in my heart, but I suddenly found that maybe it was because it was too smelly, many villagers covered their mouths and noses with towels, and some young men even took off their clothes and covered their faces.

Seeing this situation, I had an idea, if I was like this, wouldn't Huang Yixian not be able to recognize it? I immediately took off my shirt and put a mask on my head, the fat man reacted slowly, saw me shirtless, and covered my face with clothes, and asked inexplicably: "Boss, what are you doing here?" ”

"Don't be stunned, let's go, come with me and have a look!"

When the fat man heard this, his face showed fear: "Ah! Still...... Still going? He was visibly stunned by the disgusting scene.

I thought about it, this guy is timid, if something goes wrong, I have to carry him back, the key is that he is a fat man, it is not easy to carry him so far. Thinking of this, I hurriedly said, "Forget it, you still wait here, I'll see for myself!" ”

I walked over alone.

As I got closer, the rotting stench seeped into my nostrils through the clothes covering my face, and I felt nauseous, but in order to figure out what was going on, I had to hold back and try to breathe as little as I could.

In order to see more clearly, under the cover of the crowd, I found a position only a few meters away from the earthen wall, and it was located on the side of Huang Yixian, so that I could see clearly what he was doing. Of course, as soon as he turned his head, he could see me, and he could only pray that he wouldn't recognize me.

I poked my head out and looked inside, although my heart had been prepared, but the scene in front of me still shocked me, only to see that the ground, densely packed with dead mouse corpses, and their bodies were also crawling with a kind of white maggots, this maggot is big, several times larger than the common maggots, two or three centimeters long, chopstick-like thickness, but strangely, these maggots are motionless, as if they have died. And next to the large pile of mouse carcasses, there was the corpse of a big black cat, which seemed to be the same one we had encountered last night. Strangely, its body was also a little shriveled, as if it had been sucked out by something.

At this moment, Huang Yixian was fiddling seriously, he placed an incense burner and a paper basin on the ground, lit three incense sticks and inserted them into the incense burner, and then bent down and knelt on the ground, and kowtowed three times respectfully towards the earthen wall.

Then he grabbed a handful of paper money, put it in a paper basin and lit it, and kept saying something in his mouth.

After a while, the ritual seemed to be over temporarily, Huang Yixian stood up, turned his head and said to Li Changshui, who was standing behind him, "Bring the gasoline!" Li Changshui hurriedly handed over a beer bottle filled with a transparent liquid, but it obviously couldn't be beer.

Huang Yixian pulled out the cork that was plugging the mouth of the bottle, and poured all the liquid in the bottle onto the large pile of mouse corpses, and I immediately smelled a smell of gasoline!

Huang Yixian lit a piece of paper money, raised the burning paper money high, quickly made a few strokes in the air, and then threw it at the pile of gasoline-drenched mouse corpses, and the corpse pile immediately burned.

With gasoline for combustion, and with the dry weather and wind by the river these days, the fire suddenly grew bigger. Although I was a few meters away, I also felt a wave of heat coming over me, and I had to take a few steps back. And Huang Yixian also stepped aside, muttering something to Li Changshui.

The fire burned for nearly twenty minutes before the fire gradually weakened, and then at a glance, the rat corpses had been burned to charcoal, and the smell of rotting corpses had faded a lot, replaced by a scorching smell, although it didn't smell very good, but compared to the smell of rotting corpses, it was a little more acceptable.