That Liu Cheng told me that the hollow core copper bell will only whine when the demons and monsters are near, and as soon as I pulled out the copper core, it sounded, indicating that there must be something unclean around here, so frightened that I hurriedly took a flashlight and shone it around.

I kept praying that it would not be the land lord, but I just glanced around, and I didn't see anything unclean, and my heart said that it might be a wandering ghost passing by, but this hollow copper bell kept ringing, so I didn't dare to stay outside anymore, and I crawled to the house.

But no matter how fast I ran, the brass bell kept ringing, indicating that the unclean thing was not just a passing wandering ghost, it must have been following me, and I simply stopped and looked back, and finally behind a walnut tree not far away, I saw a person who was hiding, and shouted boldly, "I saw you, my relative is Duangong, I know the people below, if you follow me again, I will let Duangong take you below." ”

The demons and monsters are most afraid of the people below, and I count on using this to scare the lonely ghosts who follow me.

After I finished speaking, it took another three or four seconds for the man behind the walnut tree to walk out, and I shot my flashlight directly into her face, recognizing who she was, and was stunned for a moment before I shouted in surprise, "Sister Yingying?" ”

Some time ago, she appeared in my room every night, and she didn't show up for a few days, I thought she wouldn't come, seeing that it was an acquaintance, she was not as scared as before, but she didn't dare to approach, just looked at her from afar and said, "You haven't come out recently, my family has offended the land lord, if the land lord finds you, maybe I will take you down." ”

Chen Yingying appeared some time ago and never moved, just like wood, but this time when I talked to her, she reacted, buried her head and hummed, "Your grandfather asked me to protect you, so I followed you." ”

I was pleasantly surprised when my friend who had died spoke again, as if Chen Yingying had come back to life.

I shone the flashlight on her, but found that there was no shadow under her body at all, and the light of the flashlight passed directly through her body, and I immediately understood that the reason why Chen Yingying in front of me could speak was because she was not a corpse, but a soul, which is what people in the village often call ghosts.

The old man in the village said that if you want to determine whether a person is a human or a ghost, you only need to use a light, and those with shadows are people, and those without shadows are ghosts.

"Aren't you soulless, how did you become a ghost?" What the man said at the beginning, and the grandfather hung her body on the tree, even if I am stupid, I can know that Chen Yingying may be soulless, and that Liu Cheng also said 'People can live without a soul', I can conclude that Chen Yingying is soulless, I am afraid that not only Chen Yingying, but also those orphan girls and widows taken care of by grandpa should also be soulless.

Chen Yingying raised her head when she heard this, but for some reason, she looked at me as if I was not as down-and-out and generous as when I was alive, her face was a little shy, and she twisted for a while before saying, "Your grandfather promised me to you, you will be my man in the future, your grandfather said that the lonely yin does not grow, the only yang is not born, and I can only come out with a man, although I don't understand, but now that you are my man, my soul can come out." ”

I was young at the time and didn't know anything about getting married, but I was still stunned when I heard this, Chen Yingying was a whole round older than me.

That sentence is not long, and the solitary yang is not born, and my grandfather also told me, I don't understand Chen Yingying, and I don't understand it, what I'm struggling with at this time is not this.

However, my grandfather married Chen Yingying, who was twelve years older than me, to me, and it was still a ghost, I always felt too casual, I felt a little embarrassed inexplicably, so I said to Chen Yingying, "Don't tell others that grandpa married you to me." ”

Chen Yingying hesitated for a few seconds, and then said with some grievances, "I won't say it, I won't grow up, but you can grow up, I'll talk about it when you grow up." ”

"Don't talk about it when you grow up." Young and ignorant, and a little comparative, I think why can other people's daughters-in-law be living people, and my daughter-in-law is a ghost? It's just that I don't know that my words make this Chen Yingying, who followed me to protect me, sad.

"Okay." Chen Yingying's face was full of grievances, if she could cry, I was afraid that she would have shed tears a long time ago, I also realized that I had gone a little too far, but I didn't want to entangle with Chen Yingying more, so I took the hollow core copper bell back to the house.

Chen Yingying has been following me, when I was about to enter the house, the copper bell did not ring, after entering the house, the copper bell was shown to the grandfather, the grandfather said lightly, and then greeted these people in the village who watched the excitement and said, "It's so late, what are you doing here, and if you stay here, I'm afraid that you will be implicated when the time comes." ”

This is too useful, the grandfather just finished speaking, not long after, these people in the village who watched the excitement left my house, after leaving, the grandfather handed the hollow core copper bell to Wang Duangong, and then told Wang Duangong what Liu Cheng told me as it was, and asked Wang Duangong, "Wang Duangong, you said that relying on this copper bell and eating, can you really save your life?" You help to consider it, I am afraid that it will be self-defeating, and when the time comes, it will anger the land lord. ”

However, Wang Duangong's face changed after hearing the two things of the hollow core copper bell and Lei Gong's refusal to beat the eater, and he hurriedly asked me, "Sun Qing, who told you about these things?" ”

I thought something was wrong and replied, "Is there something wrong with a dead man named Liu Cheng in the tomb?" ”

Wang Duangong looked a little excited, shook his head and said, "Of course it's no problem, I'm afraid that person is not an ordinary person." You are not outsiders, I will tell you clearly, outsiders think I have great ability, but I will actually do three things, look at feng shui, choose auspicious days, go to yin, I am also an old Taoist priest to teach, he is only willing to teach me these three things to make a living, said that the ability to catch ghosts and demons can only be learned by real Taoists, this hollow core copper bell and the method of eating to avoid the land lord, obviously belongs to the Taoist priest's ability, the Liu Cheng you said, must be a Taoist priest when he is alive, you are meeting a nobleman, hurry up and hang the copper bell at the door, Cook another pot of rice. ”

Demons and monsters, Wang Duangong knows much more than us, he is sure that this is feasible, of course we have no reason to doubt, the grandfather immediately took a ladder to hang the hollow core copper bell at the door, and then went to the stove house to cook the fire.

When my grandfather was busy working, Wang Duangong said to me again, "Do you want to live?" ”

I nodded, "Yes." ”

Wang Duangong continued, "If you want to live, the next time you see that Liu Cheng again, kneel down and kowtow to him three times, and then recognize him as a godfather, if he is willing to accept you as a godson, he will definitely help with your family's affairs in the future, if he is capable enough, maybe he can save you and your grandfather from the hands of the land lord." ”

In the eyes of rural people, the land lord is a powerful character, no matter how powerful the Taoist priest is, can he really be better than the land lord? So he asked Wang Duangong, "Can a Taoist priest really fight the land lord?" ”

Wang Duangong smiled, "How many big officials below were Taoist priests when they were alive, let me tell you this, if a Taoist priest with a little ability dies, he can casually mix up an official and a half-position below, are you a Taoist priest?" ”

"Awesome." I replied in a daze.

So in my worldview, in addition to demons and monsters, there is another kind of person - Taoist priest!

When it was almost one or two o'clock in the morning, the grandfather had cooked the meal, put it on the table in a proper manner, and was ready to eat at any time, and then moved the grandfather off the bed and leaned on the chair next to him.

A few of us waited in the house, after about two hours, when the sky was almost bright, the copper bell at the door suddenly whined, the grandfather hurriedly made a look at me, I played with Wang Duangong again, a few people quickly picked up the bowl and planed up, ate a bite and then fed the grandfather next to him.

After a while, the man in the shroud that I had seen several times was really standing at the door of my house, first looked up at the bell, and then laughed, "This is a good method." Then he said, "The dead man goes up to the tree, the living man marries the corpse, and the old dog asks for directions, and your grandfather should go with me." But you're eating, forget it today. ”

"Are you the Lord of the Land?" I don't know where I got the guts, so I stopped my chopsticks and asked him.

The man looked at me with a smile on his face and nodded, "Yes, you just came to this place, you have to be a good person in the future, and I won't spare you if you do something wrong." ”

I asked, "Where did my grandfather offend you?" You're going to hold on to my house! ”

Grandpa listened to my words, stretched out his hand and threw it on me, and then nodded to the man in the shroud outside and said, "The little doll is not sensible." ”

He still smiled and said, "You are still young, you don't understand, if your grandfather is a good person, I will naturally not hold on to him." You don't know your grandfather, I must be looking for him because he did bad things, your grandfather is a person who doesn't recognize his six relatives, if you are killed by your grandfather one day, he will scare you to cry when he gets down. ”