I was suspicious when I saw Tofu, so I wanted to scare him, and said, "No, I heard from the older generation that there is a well in the east of the village, which is covered with a bluestone slab, and it is said that more than 50 years ago, a widow was framed and committed suicide by jumping into the well in a fit of rage, and since then it has been haunted." Later, the village invited a mage, saying that it was the widow's unjust spirit, so he covered the ancient well with a bluestone slab. ”

Tofu didn't know that I was lying to him, so he shrank his neck in fright and said, "Ran...... And then what? ”

"And then...... Then the female ghost stopped, but when I passed by the east end of the village today, the big stone slab on the ancient well seemed to have been removed. ”

Tofu is not really stupid, seeing that I am calm, I can see that I am lying, and said angrily: "When Grandpa Dou is a three-year-old child, what a female ghost, I dare to go to her if she dares to come." ”

The well at the east end of the village has indeed drowned, but the female ghost is completely made up by me, seeing that it did not scare the tofu, he patted him on the shoulder and said: "Okay, I'm talking nonsense, sleep, this sound is an animal sound, just like the truth of the baby fish, it is a specialty of this area." ”

Tofu muttered, "Only this place has it?" ”

I nodded, closed my eyes, and went back to sleep. Tofu immediately became interested and said, "So it's still a rare species, you say, if we catch two and sell them to the zoo, can we make money?" ”

I glanced at him and said slowly, "You can earn guns." ”

Tofu was choked by me, muttered two sentences, covered his head and fell asleep, and said nothing all night.

Early the next morning, after breakfast at Uncle Ge's house, I brought a flashlight, and I took the tofu to the old house.

The old house is not far from Uncle Ge's house, it is a two-story earthen building with a wooden structure, and there is a cellar for storing things like rice wine and sweet potatoes. Because the grandfather is an immigrant, so the good location of the village is gone, this two-story small wooden building is located on the side of the ravine, the lighting is not very good, all year round gloomy, even the house is dark during the day.

The door god engraved on the door, in the wind and sun for more than ten years, no one takes care of it, has already retreated to paint red, the old wooden door is half-hidden, not locked, through the crack in the door can see that the inside is black.

Tofu glanced at it, and commented: "Before I went in, I felt that this room was swishing, no wonder you are so gloomy and perverted, co-authoring is the reason for feng shui." "After all, it's daylight, and there's nothing to be afraid of, not to mention this house, I've lived in it for more than ten years, and the structure inside is very familiar, so I pushed open the wooden door first.

I didn't expect that this wooden door had not been opened for many years, accumulating thick dust, as soon as I pushed the door, I heard a long squeak, and then a handful of dust poured down, choking me and tofu straight cough, I couldn't open my eyes for a while, the dust and ashes dissipated, the sun shone into the front hall, and the other half was hidden in the shadows.

The front hall was originally a meeting place, and I remember that some old tables, chairs and furniture were placed before, but now they are all gone, empty, and it seems that there is not much left. I walked back with the tofu, the place to eat, and there was nothing left but a tattered cupboard. In the following time, Tofu and I searched the entire wooden building up and down, but found nothing.

There was really nothing to search, for there was not much left, and it was all rotten, and even the big bowl with the prayer in my memory had gone. I said in my heart: Is it possible to come for nothing? Tofu looked around boredly, and after a while, he suddenly sighed, pointed to one place and said, "Lao Chen, you still have a basement in your house, it's too high-end, is there red wine below?" ”

He squatted next to a square, plank-covered cellar, and I was a little amused, and said, "Fart red wine, it's a cellar, sweet potatoes." ”

Tofu has been a rich second generation since he was a child, and he has never seen these, so he circled around the cellar and said, "I have seen the hole in the ground, but I have never seen the cellar, let's go down and have a look." ”

There was nothing in the cellar at all, and I found nothing, so I was inevitably impetuous, and said, "You haven't seen much, there's nothing to see, let's go." Tofu said with a hippie smile when he heard this: "Menopause is a disease, it has to be treated, you see how beautiful this world is, why are you so irritable." With that, he lifted the wooden lid of the cellar and shone it in with a flashlight.

Suddenly, Tofu exclaimed, "There's someone down there!" ”

Someone?

Could it be another villager who has come to move things? I knew very well that the cellar was empty, and there was nothing worth moving, not to mention that everyone in the village knew that I had come back to collect my grandfather's belongings, so how could I still run over?

Who's down there?

I immediately said, "Whoever you want, block it first." ”

Tofu has always been afraid that the world will not be chaotic, so he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Please okay, see how I treat him." As he spoke, I pedaled down the wooden staircase of the cellar, and I followed behind Tofu, and when I went down, I couldn't help but sigh. Tofu rushed to the man and was stunned, and said, "Hey, it's a wooden man." "Anyway, I'm ready to reach out and touch it.

I clapped his hand and shouted, "Don't move, this is a statue, don't touch it." ”

Tofu's hand shrunk, his mouth slurped, and he stared at the idol in a circle. This is a wooden statue of a tall god, dressed in black clothes and black armor, hanging a red cloak, with angry eyes and round eyes, all beards and hair, holding a sword in one hand, one foot raised, and a little green devil under his feet. His body was covered with a layer of red silk cloth, which was already covered with dust.

This statue has stood here since I can remember, and every fifteenth day of the new year, my grandfather would incense it.

Tofu looked at it for a moment and said, "Lao Chen, something is wrong, if I'm not mistaken, this is the idol of Zhong Kui eating ghosts, and ordinary people don't worship this at home." "When I was a child, I was ignorant, and I didn't feel abnormal, and now when I look back at this statue, I feel weird.

Zhong Kui, the folk worship to the door god, during the New Year, in the door god painting, there is often the image of Zhong Kui eating ghosts, and then a little bigger, it is to worship the physical god statue, which is generally enshrined in the palace view to be worshipped, like this height of the ghost eating statue, the individual home will not be worshipped, to offer is also for Guanyin and the like.

How could grandpa have a statue of Zhong Kui stepping on a ghost standing here?

Tofu's imagination has always been rich, smashed his tongue, looked at the empty basement, and said, "Could it be that your old Chen family is haunted?" Seeing the cellar all boxy, empty, and with no light in sight, gave me the illusion of being back in a burial chamber. If I knew that I wouldn't come down, Lao Chen, let's go out quickly, the more we stay, the more panicked we become. ”

Tofu's words made me feel a shock in my heart.

Like a burial chamber?

Actually say that my house is like a tomb? Although the place was dilapidated and homeless, the Tofu statement still made me feel uncomfortable, and at the same time, I began to take a closer look at the statue in front of me. I'm no stranger to it, but it's the first time I've looked at it so closely.

Why did Grandpa worship such a statue?

And still standing in the cellar?

Could it be that there is something unclean in this cellar? I looked at this statue from head to foot, and when I saw its feet, a thought suddenly occurred to me, could it be that it was standing here, suppressing something? Thinking about this, I decided to move the idol, so I reached out and hugged the waist of the idol, and pulled it up with the intention of moving away, but this time, it didn't move.

This wooden statue was frozen!

In this way, my suspicion was immediately confirmed, there must be something under its feet. Immediately I squatted down to check, and found that the entire base of the idol was not made of wood, but stone, so it was difficult for me to get rid of it alone.

Underneath the pedestal, there is a slightly sunken pit, which is the mark of the stone pedestal pressed over time. I didn't have any tools at hand, so I turned my head and looked a few times, and found that there was still a short-handled hoe on the side, which was the same small hoe used by children to dig wild vegetables in the past, which had rusted, but it was barely usable.

Tofu rubbed his hands and said, "The old man has robbed the tomb for most of his life, maybe he buried some treasure in the cellar." "My heart said: Baby? If it's a baby, do you need to use Zhong Kui to keep it? Maybe there's something evil buried underneath. That being said, I know that if I don't uncover this mystery, I'm afraid I'll never know what my grandfather did back then, and even if it's really an evil thing, I can only dig it out first.

Immediately, I waved the short-handled hoe to dig the ground, sure enough, only did not dig twice, then I heard the sound of the bell, the short-handled hoe seemed to touch something like a stone, I quickly swept away the surface of the floating soil, and took a closer look, there was indeed a polished bluestone slab under the soil. The bluestone slab is relatively large, and I have only excavated the middle part now, and I have to widen the excavation area to see the whole picture.

While I was digging, Tofu found a half-rotten shovel out of nowhere, and followed him to shovel dirt next to it, more active than me, obviously thinking about what treasure I could dig up. I didn't say anything, let the tofu sweat like rain, and after a while, the whole bluestone slab was exposed.

The slate is about four centimeters thick, polished into a rectangular shape, and there is obviously something covered underneath, I don't say a word to the tofu, with the strength of the shovel, the bluestone slab is pried open half, but I see that under the bluestone slab, a dark hole is revealed, and the moment the slate is removed, a cold, smelly wind suddenly blows up.

Tofu and I hurriedly stepped back, avoiding the strange smell for the time being. Tofu saw that my face was not good, and he didn't say anything. I wondered, what is the place under this bluestone slab? Why did Grandpa cover it up?

After a while, the strange smell almost dissipated, and Tofu and I got to the entrance, tilted the light inside, only glanced at it, and instantly my heart was shaken, because under this bluestone slab, there was a hand-excavated earthen room, the size was not large, and I could see the situation inside at a glance.

I saw that there was a desk inside, and there was a row of black wood cabinets, and facing the desk and the black wood cabinet, it was an unpainted coffin!

Tofu gasped in fright and said, "Lao, Lao Chen, there is still a dead man's coffin under the ground of your house?" ”