Chapter 17: A Knock at the Door in the Middle of the Night

At this point, I was almost on the verge of collapse.

It's messed up enough, why is there another one?

On the day of the incident, I looked in the hall from afar, and although I didn't see a face, the clothes and body were the same person.

How can this stand in front of me again in the blink of an eye for a few days.

Was she the one who died that day?

I looked at her timidly, and stumbled:

"Sister, no matter what is going on with you, I saved you after all, you ...... Let's see what happens."

The girl in the red dress sneered:

"Little brother, you are such a strange person, you dared to get out of the car to save me at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night a few nights, how come you treated me as a ghost in a few days?"

I nodded awkwardly and started the car.

On the way, I kept observing the girl in the red dress through the rearview mirror, and she kept sitting behind her and looking down to play with her phone.

I cleared my throat and asked:

"Sister, what are you doing in the middle of the night?"

The girl in the red dress didn't raise her head, and replied in a low voice:

"Go to the Funeral Home"

"————"

I hit the brakes to the bottom with one kick.

The car slammed forward, and the girl behind it let out an "oops".

My throat is dry.

"To the funeral home??"

I didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, quickly opened the front door, and ran away.

Half of his body got out of the car, and glanced at her with his peripheral vision.

The girl in the red dress covered her head with her hands with a painful expression, and her hands were full of blood.

Is there blood on demons?

I continued to look at her with one foot out and one foot in the car.

The girl in the red dress was in a hurry.

"There's something wrong with you! You're so daring, what kind of last train are you driving?"

I gasped for breath and didn't say a word, still staring at her closely.

The girl took out a tissue and put it on her head, and in a short time the tissue was soaked with blood from her forehead.

"I have been abroad for a few years, and my boyfriend has stayed at home, but I have not been able to contact him in the past month, and I flew back to find that he passed away a few days ago"

The girl spoke softly, and when she said the last sentence, she was already crying.

"I was a childhood sweetheart with him, I had a deep relationship, I couldn't think about it, and I wanted to commit suicide twice and was saved by you and another driver"

I breathed a sigh of relief and retracted my feet sticking out of the car.

"Then why are you going to the funeral home in the middle of the night?"

"I died twice and didn't die, I also wanted to open, I bought a ticket to go back the day after tomorrow, and I wanted to go to the funeral home to see him before leaving"

After the girl finished speaking, she took off the bloody tissues and replaced them with a few new ones.

I went back to the driver's seat and stopped talking to each other, and the atmosphere was awkward for a while.

I feigned a cough and slowly started the car again.

After the car entered the city, the girl got out of the car, and before parting, he stuffed me with a very thick envelope.

When she was gone, I opened the envelope and saw that there were two thick wads of bills and a note:

Thank you for saving your life, in fact, I want to express my gratitude tonight before I took your car into the city, if the other driver who saved me is your colleague, please pass that money to him and say thank you for me.

I closed the note and put the money in order, scolding myself all the way.

I've been really scared lately, and the girl who knelt down in front of the bronze bell a few days ago must have been like a fat man for the first time, just a person in the same costume.

Early the next morning, I threw a thick dozen dollars on Xiaoliu's bed.

When Xiao Liuyi saw so much money, his mouth opened into an O-shape.

"What's the matter, brother, our company has paid bonuses?"

"Hmm" I heard that you saved people a few days ago, and the bonus that God gave you.

Xiao Liule couldn't close his mouth, turned around and put the money away.

I froze in place, watching him put the money away and didn't continue to ask about the source of the money!

I've lived for more than thirty years, and my mind is so simple, he really was the first.

"I'm going to go to Tiger Waist Mountain, maybe I have to stay for a day, if I don't come back, you can help me drive for a day"

Xiaoliu asked suspiciously:

"Why are you going, you're still going to lie to the old man, and take another 200?"

I looked at him in vain and said:

"Your own business, you just remember to sign me in and help me drive"

"Okay, it just so happens that I'm giving out a bonus, brother, I'll ask you to rub it well"

After Xiaoliu finished speaking, he hugged me and went down to the restaurant.

I didn't taste any of this meal, and I kept thinking about what Uncle Six told me last night.

"I have to continue to find the secret of the second floor"

The secret he said must be referring to the other two portfolios,

But what does this old Tang's secret have to do with the sixth uncle?

What's even more strange is that this sixth uncle not only knows about the second floor, but he also knows the tiger striped copper coin mentioned by Lao Wu!

His words have always been engraved in my head:

"If you want to survive the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar next month, you have to go to Tiger Waist Mountain to find a tiger striped copper coin"

Even if I don't want to, I still have to bite the bullet.

...........

Tiger Waist Mountain Village.

Coming here again is like a world away.

The villagers in the fields are busy with farm work, and I really envy that their lives are always so simple.

The last time I came to contact the village chief, I got to know him well, and his biggest weakness is greed for money.

So this time, I brought all the wad of money that the girl in red gave me last night.

It's all partial anyway, and if you can use this money to save my life, I'll still earn it.

I got out of the car and went straight to the village chief's house, and at the corner of the village, I met the little brother who drove the cattle last time.

He was holding a water bottle in his left hand and holding the old cow in his right hand, and when he saw me, he still changed from indifference to smile, and from smile to sudden indifference!

As I passed him, I nodded politely to him.

Unexpectedly, the cow driver suddenly grabbed me and poured the water bottle in his left hand down from my head.

While pouring it, he smirked and said, "Pour some soy sauce to be delicious."

I quickly broke away from him and pushed him hard.

An eldest sister who was working in the field hurriedly ran over, dragged him behind her, and said apologetically

"I'm really sorry, my son's head is not very good, didn't hurt you, right?"

I wiped the water on my body and replied depressedly:

"Forget it, it's okay"

I turned my head and continued to walk towards the village chief's house, but before I had gone far, I seemed to hear the eldest sister whisper:

"Son, do you really want to eat?"

By the time I turned back, the two of them had already driven the old cow and drifted apart.

I shook my head, I have been doing a lot during the day lately, and I can't rest well at night, so I'm really tired.

The village chief's compound is still so spacious, and it is a coincidence that the village chief is threshing corn in the compound at the moment.

When the village chief saw that it was me, he stood up with a smile:

"Oh, the little God of Wealth is here again"

I shook hands with the village chief awkwardly and said:

"Uncle Village Chief, you can call me Xiao Li, I'll come to see your old one this time."

The village chief took my hand, smiled from ear to ear, and led me into the house.

"Xiao Li, you've just been gone for a few days, what's the matter?"

The village chief is very smart, I didn't dare to open my mouth directly, so I said to the village chief:

"Uncle Village Chief, I'm fine, it's just that I've been under a lot of pressure at work lately, I think, I'll live in your rural countryside for a night, okay?"

The village chief squinted and nodded with a smile and said:

"Okay, then why not, you can stay for a few more days, I have two houses in this house, and I usually live alone"

The village chief exchanged a few more words with me, and then went to prepare a futon for me to sleep on tonight.

I took this time to go to the commissary and buy some liquor and cooked food.

As I walked back from the commissary, I passed by every house that was busy putting the chickens and ducks in the shacks.

But the strange thing is that the huts of these animals all have locks, and my hometown is also in the countryside, and my family has raised chickens and ducks.

Our chicken coop and duck coop are simple small sheds, and after the chickens and ducks rush in, they can take something and lean the door shut.

Why lock the shack? Is the security in their village so bad?

On the way, I met a child who anxiously asked me if he had seen a lost cow in his house.

I shook my head, and he was dragged back by an old man behind me, and said:

"It's dark, don't look for it, don't want the cow"

When I returned to the village chief's house, the village chief's eyes were smiling when he saw the liquor and cooked food I had brought back.

I sat with the village chief on a small table on the kang and poured a glass of white wine for the village chief.

"Uncle Village Chief, I'm really disturbing today"

"Ahem, don't bother, it's good to chat"

I toasted the village chief with a glass of wine, sandwiched a piece of pig's head meat, and pretended to be careless and said:

"By the way, Uncle Village Chief, I was very interested in what you told me about the demon cave last time, can you say no to me again"

The village chief smiled, pointed his finger at me and said:

"You kids, you're interested in these strange places."

I nodded in agreement.

"This demon cave, in the west of the village, used to be a field of budding rice, and later a tomb was dug up in this underground."

"Tomb?"

I shouted out in surprise, because Lao Wu didn't say that at the beginning, he said that it was just a narrow and closed tunnel.

"Well, that guy, the boss has a tomb, and a few of them are fat, and they sneaked in, and if I didn't happen to pass by, they would all die."

After the village chief finished speaking, he pointed to the photo on the wall with his hand, "No, it's those muddy boys"

I smiled and said:

"Isn't this Lao Wu and them, I have a good relationship with Lao Wu, I know these people very well"

The village chief sighed and said:

"The relationship is good, it was before the demon cave"

I toasted the village chief with a glass of wine, stepped forward a little more, and asked:

"What's the matter, those things Lao Wu told me, I don't think it's worth much"

The village chief was reluctant to hear it.

"Worthless? Then you're wrong, there are two treasures out of the demon cave, and there are those who tinker with these things, and they came to the village to collect them, and the price is seven figures."

I thought that my alcohol consumption was bad enough, but I didn't expect the village chief to be even more drunk.

Only two glasses of wine were down, and his eyes were straight. At the same time as he said seven figures, he actually made a six-figure gesture.

"Ah, this thing is a little sinister, especially the copper ...... Money...."

As he spoke, the village chief began to tilt backwards, and before he could finish the last sentence, he lay on the table and couldn't open his mouth.

I slapped my thigh, and now it's a bad thing, and I poured too much.

I cleaned up the table and quickly put the village chief down and covered it with the quilt.

The village chief's house was facing two houses, and I settled the village chief and went to the west house.

Getting into the quilt, I'm still thinking about this copper coin, and it's not a way to beat around the bush.

I made up my mind to wait for the day to directly slap this wad of money on the table and have a showdown with the village chief.

I looked at the time, it was twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and I had just turned off the lights and was about to go to bed, when I heard a sharp knock on the door.

"Knock Knock Knock"

I looked up and asked

"Who? Village Chief, are you awake? ”

There was no conversation behind the door, and there was another knock on the door.

"Knock Knock"

I thought that the village chief must have been drunk, and got out of the bed to open the door.

Just as I was about to pull the door open, a sentence suddenly came to mind.

It was at No. 2386 Huaiyuan Road half a month ago, and the eldest sister helped Liu Qing pass the words.

"Knock and don't open"

I hesitated, withdrew my hand, and whispered to the door:

"Is it the village chief? I'm asleep, what's the matter with you? ”

There was still no one on the other end of the door.

"Knock Knock Knock"

I felt something wasn't right and took a few steps back.

Even if it's the village chief in the middle of the night, what is he looking for me for?

I sat back on the kang and stared at the door, ignoring it.

"Knock knock.... Knock knock"

The knocking on the door lasted for a while until three o'clock in the morning.

I tensed my nerves like this, and I didn't dare to relax for a while.

It wasn't until I heard the rooster croak that I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It's dawn.

After the knock on the door disappeared, I was still trembling and didn't dare to sleep, so I sat on the kang wrapped in a quilt for the night.

At six o'clock, the village chief nervously pushed the door and came in.

When he saw me sitting on the kang, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Approaching the kang, he asked me in a low voice, "Didn't you open the door last night?" ”

I nodded with the dark circles under my eyes that I hadn't slept all night and asked:

"What, you didn't knock it?"

The village chief was just about to speak, when the knock on the door rang again.

"Knock knock.... Knock knock"

I was alone in the house when it was dark before, and I didn't dare to be presumptuous, but this time the sky was bright, and my little temper suddenly came up.

I picked up the small bench on the ground, didn't care about the three, seven, twenty-one, opened the door and took my turn.

There was an "oops" behind the door.

I stared wide-eyed, and I was really startled.

It's Liu celebrating!