The old lady said that if he was not there one day, he would have to burn his copy of the Three Kingdoms to him.

I never thought this would be the last thing the old lady said to me.

Soon after the old lady left, I lay down on the bed and took a nap, and then I heard movement outside the door, and looked out of the door in a blur, and was frightened.

Because the big black cat, which was frighteningly old, reappeared, crouching in the doorway, and faintly saw the black halo on its body in the bright light.

The big black cat's striking eyes kept staring at the head of my bed, and its tail kept wagging, as if it had noticed that I was awake. It meowed and turned away, took a few steps and turned back and screamed again, still like asking me to go with it.

I suddenly realized that I might be dreaming, so I held my breath and stopped breathing, I didn't want to continue this weird nightmare.

After a while I woke up from my sleep, covered in a cold sweat.

I had the same dream for two days in a row, which made me feel a little unusual in my heart, and I was more worried, the big black cat was a psychic animal, did my dream be a dream day and night, or was it a big black cat?

The next day I woke up and went to Huzi and asked him and me to go to the back mountain again, and I thought that the big black cat might still be in the cave in the back mountain.

Now that the yellow cripple is dead, I and Guo Blind have already had a conflict openly and secretly, and I can't expect him to help at all, and most of the caves in the cliff of the back mountain are strange, I remember when I came down from the cliff, I vaguely saw a piece of white stuff from the quagmire of the cave and quickly disappeared.

I didn't dare to go up so rashly, Huzi wanted to go up to check but I refused, we shouted a few times at the bottom of the cliff and didn't see the big black cat come out of it. According to the terrain mentioned in the feng shui secret record, I found two feng shui terrain where the mountain ghost spirit often stagnated, and I didn't find any trace of the big black cat, so I returned with Huzi and returned to Mingyue Village.

Huzi said that he touched the treasure jade on his neck and said, "I don't know what's going on, I always feel like something is staring at us in the wasteland just now, and the temperature is very cold." ”

I didn't feel like something was staring at us, maybe it was because Huzi had been with me for a long time and became a little suspicious, but the wasteland below the winding mountain road was indeed cooler than the rest of the mountain.

Maybe it's because the ancestral tomb of Futuling was buried there before, which caused the yin qi to be heavy, maybe it was the big red coffin in the cave that was passive, and the feng shui of Longbao Mountain was broken, which caused the temperature to be low.

When I returned to Mingyue Village, I saw several villagers running towards the back of the village in a hurry, and Huzi stopped a woman in her forties and asked, "Aunt Six, what are you doing here?" ”

The woman said, "I don't know, I heard that the old lady is no longer good." ”

Huzi and I glanced at each other and hurriedly ran towards the old lady's house.

When I arrived at the door of the old lady's house, I saw that the courtyard was full of people inside and out, and I was at a loss, so I pushed everyone away and walked inside.

In the hall facing the door, the old lady was lying on the funeral bed, wearing a black printed shroud and an old-fashioned black gentleman's hat on his head, sleeping peacefully.

In the hall, seven or eight elderly people in the village were arguing about something, and Wang Laohan was among them. When they saw me standing at the door, they looked at the old lady in a daze, and their voices were a little quieter, and one of the old men said, "Then do as you say, the people in the village are still waiting." ”

The old man pushed Wang Laohan and asked Wang Laohan to step forward, Wang Laohan straightened his clothes a little awkwardly, stood outside the door of the hall with his chest straight, and shouted: "The old lady returns to heaven, and she will die at the end of her life, and she will be happy and sad at the age of 100!" ”

When the people in the village heard Wang Laohan shouting that he was happy and mournful, they all had smiles on their faces, and they talked about how the old lady had been a teacher and helpful in Futuling over the years.

I grabbed Wang Laohan by the collar and carried him to the door, glaring at him with red eyes.

"Yang Hao, what are you going to do as a wild boy, beating people, beating people!" Wang Laohan shouted loudly.

"Yang Hao, what are you doing here? Don't mess around! The old man in the room asked.

I pushed Wang Laohan away, looked at the man and said: "The old lady was talking to me last night, and she died today, and a good person said that it was gone, and before the reason was investigated, you were going to announce that it was a joy and mourning, who gave you the power?" ”

Several old men looked at each other, and one of them pointed to a pile of hemp rope on the ground behind the door and said, "You have to ask the reason, this is the reason, the old lady committed suicide." ”

I looked at the pile of hemp rope behind the door, and then at the old lady's neck, and sure enough, there were two clear strangulation marks that were covered by the collar of the shroud.

"The old lady can't have committed suicide, he was looking for me last night." I said.

"Do you think about what he told you, did he speak in a tone like an explanation?" The old man asked.

I remembered what the old lady said last night, it was indeed like an explanation of the future, but why did he commit suicide for no reason, how could an old man who had not lived for a few years commit suicide?

Wang Laohan said at this time: "A few of our old buddies are idle, I want to find the old lady to go out to enjoy the cool, listen to him commenting on the story, and when I entered the door, I saw him hanging on the beam of the house, wearing a shroud, there are no pleats on the shroud, and the bench is lying next to it, what else can he do if he doesn't hang it himself?" ”

After Wang Laohan finished speaking, an old man next to him said: "The old lady has no children and no daughters, he also hid in Futuling because of the war, there are no relatives in the county, the old lady has a good face, he is the most respected in the whole Futuling, if the foreigners do not pass on the ancestors in Futuling for three generations, they will not be able to enter the ancestral tomb, and the people who commit suicide will not be able to do it. A few of us are the oldest people in the village, and after listening to the old lady's comments for decades, we are grateful to him, but the rules in the mountains cannot be changed, not to mention that he is happy and mourned, he can't be buried in the ancestral grave, burn the corpse and push the pond, the taboo is the taboo! ”

"Yes Yang Hao, the old lady has taken you with him since childhood, do you think the old lady should be completely buried in the ancestral grave of Mingyue Village, or burned in the pond?" Wang Laohan asked a little angrily.

"Who the set the rules, what age is it!" Huzi said behind me.

"The rules handed down by the ancestors are not unbreakable, it depends on who has this majesty, your grandfather is the head of the village, if he says that he can break the rules, he can break them, and he has to burn incense and swear in front of the ancestors' graves and the temple of the mountain god, and he will bear the consequences alone, otherwise you will bear the rules in the mountains?" The old man said.

While he was talking, Li Fugui stood at the door at some point, he looked at the old lady lying on the spiritual bed expressionlessly, and then kowtowed to the old lady in front of everyone.

Li Fugui said: "Please cry and mourn the brazier, the money is mine, and the old lady's funeral should be done decently." ”

"No need, I'll do the final thing." I said.

Li Fugui said: "If you can't come, you will be buried tonight, and you can't delay until dawn tomorrow at the latest. ”

Li Fugui left after speaking, and he didn't allow me to talk at all.

"That's fast, the village chief also agreed that it was a happy funeral, go to the town's white house to buy filial piety cloth, and invite a mourner by the way, the money will be counted on the head of Village Chief Li." Wang Laohan hurriedly urged everyone to be busy.

An old man in the hall looked at me who was hanging aside and said: "Yang Hao, you really can't do the funeral thing, send the funeral in the middle of the night, pay attention to three steps and one cry, five steps and one number, seven steps and one singing, if you can't cry, you have to cry, and if you don't cry well, you have to bring a charge of unfilial piety, you haven't experienced these things." ”

Everyone began to get busy under the arrangement of Wang Laohan and a group of village elders, and the old lady's funeral could not be sloppy, and the whole village had to follow the body to see him off.

"How so?" I looked at the old lady who died on the mourning bed, and I suddenly felt that I was so weak that I didn't even have the authority to do something for the dead in my own way.

"Xiao Hao, let's go first." Huzi pulled me and whispered.

I nodded and followed Huzi out of the crowd.

Huzi took me to catch up with Li Fugui, and he asked: "Grandpa, the old lady knows so many things, and her mentality is very good, why did she hang herself, don't you check?" ”

Li Fugui said: "What if you find out? ”

I said: "If we can't find out, bring the murderer of the old lady to justice, at least those of us who respect the old lady need to know the truth." ”

Li Fugui snorted, he stopped and looked at me and said, "Do you know what the truth is?" There are too many people in Futuling who want to know the truth, and as a result, they will only die faster, don't think that after reading a book for a few years full of justice, you think that you are a savior. ”

"I'm not a savior, at least I won't take the initiative to harm people, some people don't know how many innocent lives have been harmed in the ten years of catastrophe, why bother to hide in a small mountain village to be powerful!" I said with some annoyance.

"What did you say?" Li Fugui's eyes showed murderous aura and approached me.

"Grandpa!" Huzi hurriedly blocked in front of me, and he said to me with a sideways face: "Xiaohao, don't say it, my grandfather must also have a hard time, and every family in that era had a scripture that was difficult to read." ”

"So he can take the lead in harming others?" I looked at Li Fugui without fear and said.

Li Fugui laughed coldly, glanced at me and said: "It's better that you still don't know some truths, otherwise you will regret it in the end, I see that you are not afraid of death, but you don't want to bother my grandson." ”

After Li Fugui finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the head of the village, and I asked again: "Do you know who killed the old lady?" ”

Li Fugui didn't look back until he disappeared from my sight.

Huzi said with an ugly face: "Xiaohao, we are brothers, but don't always make it difficult for me, my grandfather is also thinking about the safety of the village." ”

"I ...... Forget it, let's not talk about it. "I wanted to speak and stopped, looking in the direction of Guo's blind man's house." I have to go to Guo Huaiyi. ”