When we first met the old bustard. He didn't make a move, and directly used his momentum to press the thin man so that he couldn't move. But today, in the face of the four of us, he didn't even have the ability to fight, he just sat on the ground tired and hungry, panting incessantly.

I squatted down and looked at the bustard by the light of the fire. His face was a little pale, and he was very different from his previous look.

The old bustard smiled bitterly and looked up at the blood bowl on the ground. The blood inside had been sprinkled and spilled on the ground.

He said slowly: "This is also a catastrophe. Or the four of you are bad and good, which is destined by God. Or, without the four of you, it wouldn't have been able to be done. ”

I asked him curiously, "What do you want us to do?" ”

The old bustard has not yet answered. The abbot shouted from afar, "Xu You, how is it?" Is it safe? ”

I looked at the thin man, and the thin man nodded, "Don't worry." The old bustard can't make any big waves. ”

The old bustard glanced at the thin man dissatisfied: "I'm so old, you call me the old bustard?" So rude? ”

The thin man laughed: "Isn't everyone scolding like that? ”

I waved my hand at the abbot: "You can come over." ”

The abbot supported his adoptive father with one hand and dragged the old man with the other hand. The three of them walked over slowly.

When the old man saw the old bustard, his eyes dodged, and it seemed that he wanted to escape, but he didn't dare to walk around here alone, so he seemed hesitant.

The old bustard looked at him with a sneer: "Old man, it's not been a day or two since you wanted to steal my chickens here. How? Finally found a helper today? ”

The old man of the cockfighting looked around evasively, trying to pretend not to care: "Who wants to steal your chickens?" I'm not interested at all. ”

The old bustard smiled: "Are you not interested, or do you dare not ask for it?" My chickens sleep in dead man's coffins. ”

I could clearly see the old man shrink back, looking even more frightened.

Wushuang looked at the old bustard impatiently: "Tell me the truth, what do you want to do?" Why do you have chickens in a cemetery? What is the purpose of doing these crooked things? ”

The old bustard glanced at me and said, "Xu You, I'm doing this completely to help you." ”

I tried my best to suppress the turmoil in my heart. He said to the old man in a calm tone, "Who are you?" Why do you know about me? ”

The old bustard smiled slightly, pointed to his adoptive father and said, "You don't know me." But your dad knows. ”

I glanced back at my adoptive father. The adoptive father was also a little dazed: "I know? ”

Then he looked at the old bustard carefully: "Huh? Don't say it, it's really familiar. Where have you seen it? ”

The old bustard smiled and said, "Twenty years ago, I went to your house. ”

The adoptive father suddenly took two steps back, pointed at him and shouted, "It's you, it's you." It turns out that you are in Zhengzhou. ”

I hurriedly patted my adoptive father on the shoulder: "Hey, don't get excited. Who is this man? ”

The adoptive father waited for the old bustard and said, "He is the master who swept the floor back then." ”

The old bustard smiled open-mindedly: "You recognized me in the end." Twenty years have passed, and I have aged a lot. Sometimes when I meet you on the street, you don't know me anymore. ”

The adoptive father stepped forward and grabbed his hand tightly: "You must help me, help our family, I know you are a good person, otherwise, you would not have told me the truth back then." ”

Wushuang can be called a skeptic, she never let her guard down, but asked, "Good man, why are you raising chickens here?" ”

The old bustard said: "I raise chickens here, on the one hand, to protect myself. On the other hand, it is also to return to the orphanage. ”

I looked at him a little puzzled: "Back in the orphanage?" It's easy to go back to that orphanage. We were there two days ago. ”

The old bustard shook his head: "The orphanage you see is just a façade. A real orphanage is far from that simple. ”

I asked the bustard, "What did you see in the orphanage?" ”

The old bustard sighed and said, "The children in this orphanage are very pitiful. Especially in the early years, the conditions were also very bad. Ordinary people don't have food to eat when they live, let alone these orphans who have no father or mother. When some of them were delivered, they were already starving, and most of these orphans died. At that time, the whole orphanage was ghostly. ”

A few of us cultivators looked at each other and thought to ourselves: I'm afraid that even now, the orphanage is not very clean.

Wushuang asked the old bustard: "The orphanage is haunted, haven't you thought of something to do about it?" For example, ask a Taoist priest or something? ”

The old bustard shook his head: "Now invite the Taoist priest and dance the great god, it's nothing." Everyone knew it. But if you go back a few decades, you're going to lose your head if you do that. Therefore, everyone in the orphanage knows that it is haunted, but no one dares to put it on the table and say it. Just die. However, it's okay that these little ghosts just make some noise at night, which is not harmful. Perhaps they also know that their death had nothing to do with us, the staff of the orphanage, and we have done our best. ”

I looked at the old bustard strangely: "According to this, the orphanage should be quite peaceful." How did so much happen after that? ”

The old bustard's eyes looked at the fire in front of him: "Later we have become accustomed to it. Even when you are on patrol at night, you have to calm down when you hear movement. What dust to dust, dust to dust. There is a wrong, and there is a debtor...... Of course, these words cannot be said in front of people. After a few years, the number of imps decreased significantly. We are all very happy, thinking that these little ghosts have finally let go after so many years, and they are willing to be reincarnated. However, I later learned that we were all wrong. ”

I looked at the old bustard's sad face and asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

The old bustard said, "We all have staff dormitories at that time, which are in the orphanage. One night I was sleeping when I heard someone crying in the yard. I thought it was a kid who was being bullied. So I put on my clothes and walked out.

"The moon was fine that night, and a child was squatting in the yard. I don't know what I'm doing. When I walked over, I realized that he was picking at the mud on the ground and pulling out a piece to fill his mouth. Cut out a piece and fill it in. I jumped down and hurriedly said, "Child, how can you eat this mud lump?" As a result, as soon as I grabbed the child's hand, I immediately felt cold and cold, and my right wrist was numb. Look at the child again, his body is swollen, like a big ball.

"I'm kind of an old man who has been through something. I know that this must be a ghost. The boy grinned at me and cried, "You won't be hungry when you're full." When I saw that the child had become a ghost and wanted to eat his stomach, I couldn't help but feel sad for a while, and I forgot that I was afraid, so I asked the child, "Why are you crying?" The boy said, "I am hungry, and so is the serpent." If we eat the earth, it will eat us. I didn't understand what was going on, so I asked a few questions. The child said that there was a snake nest under the orphanage, and the soul of the child who died was controlled by the snake, and he had to eat one every ten days and half a month.

The boy said to me, "Grandpa, can you help me, I don't want the snake to eat." I asked the child, "How can I help you?" The boy said, "I have no relatives, so the snake bullied me." I'll call you grandpa. You're burning paper at the door. While burning, he called my name and said, "Grandpa has come to see you," and the snake let me go. When the corners of your clothes are tight, I'll grab your clothes. Then don't look back, just take me ∵ to a water's edge, or a shady place under a tree, and let me go. ”

For a while, we were immersed in the old bustard's description. I couldn't help but ask, "What happened?" Did you save this child? ”

The old bustard was already immersed in his own world and did not hear our questions at all. He looked at the burning fire with foggy eyes: "The next day, I secretly cut paper money. In the middle of the night, when no one was around, he burned it at the door of the orphanage. While burning, he called the child's name. After a few minutes, I felt the corners of my clothes tighten, and the kid came. ”