I put the frame back in the dilapidated house and walked towards the village. The house had obviously not been inhabited by Joone for a long time, and I had no way of knowing for sure whether the old man on the frame was the same as the one I had seen, after all, it was just a painting.

I decided to go to the village and ask about it. Tang Yingxuan and the group of children didn't know where they had gone, in the huge village, I walked back the way I came, and after walking for a while, I finally returned to the door of the family where the funeral was being held, and there were still many villagers outside the house.

I looked around and couldn't find the woman who used to speak Chinese. The woman told me that it was the seventh day of the death of the deceased in the family, and I remembered the rumor that Selpel had told me that the souls of the people in the village who had died from the place where they had been found in the desert coffin would return home on the first seven days.

The custom of the first seven is widely spread among the people, but the name and specific operation of this custom are different in various places. Those who gathered outside the deceased's house, some of them may be relatives of the deceased, some may be villagers who are not related to the deceased, and they are all sitting on the ground. Some were crying, and some were muttering words I didn't understand, as if they were chanting scriptures.

I waited for a while, and the woman I had spoken to before came back, and instead of seeing me, she was staring at the house, and when she approached her, she sighed to herself: "This guy is so pathetic. ”

Finally, the woman saw me, and she walked up to me with a frown and asked me why I hadn't left yet. Soon, she spotted the dust on my shoes. She was a little surprised, and hurriedly asked, "Have you entered that desert?" ”

The woman apparently believed the rumor, and in order not to cause unnecessary trouble, I shook my head and said that I was just outside the desert for a while. I didn't go to the place where the village chief found the coffin. The woman breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, I was not lying, I wanted to go to that place to observe, but due to the dusty weather, I could not go deep into the desert.

"Hurry up and get out of the village, in a few hours. It's getting dark. The woman persuaded, "Tonight is the first seven of this young man, so let the outsiders leave the village, lest they be frightened by what they should not see." ”

The woman said. Turning his head to look at the house again, he followed the woman's gaze, and saw that the dead man was still lying quietly on the long plank, as before. His body was covered with a black cloth, and the sunlight was blocked by clouds, and the black cloth on the deceased's body blended in with the gloomy environment of the room.

"Ma'am, can you tell me how this lad died?" I asked.

The woman gave me a blank look: "Didn't I tell you, the yin spirit in the coffin is still in the desert, and this guy just passed by that place and provoked the yin spirit." ”

Naturally, I didn't believe the woman's words, so I continued to ask: "Even if you provoke the Yin Spirit, there is a reason for death in the end, right?" ”

The woman didn't seem to want to answer my question, she was a little perfunctory: "I'm sick and dead." ”

"Sick to death? What disease? I asked.

The woman was completely impatient, and she turned her face to me: "Why are you so annoying, this is a matter in the village, and it seems to have nothing to do with you!" ”

Me: "You don't seem to be from this village either, do you?" ”

This woman has a different temperament from the rest of the village, but I don't tell from that that that she may not be from this village. I relied on the woman's words, and he always used "young man" instead of the deceased's name when addressing the deceased.

The woman's Chinese is very standard, and she is likely to be an out-and-out Han Chinese, even if she is not, her understanding of Chinese is not far from that of the Han people. In Chinese, if a woman and the guy are from the same village, they must know each other, even if it is out of superficial etiquette, they should call the person by their name, not replace them with the guy, unless the woman is much older than the guy.

Speaking to people outside the village, it is true that the word "guy" is used in the past, but when the woman is talking to herself, she still calls the deceased like this, which shows that the woman and the deceased do not know each other, but the woman came to attend the funeral of the deceased, which is a bit unreasonable.

It is rare to meet a person in the village who speaks Chinese so standardly, and I pay special attention to her words and deeds.

The woman was obviously irritated by me, and flushed on the woman's face: "I am from Kuta Village, but I have never lived in Kuta Village, and this time I came back to attend the funeral of this guy." ”

The woman still explained to me that she was from the border province, called Doha, but when she was very young, she went to study in other provinces and was admitted to a medical university in another province. She learned her fluent Chinese when she was studying, and after returning to the border province, she worked as a doctor in Fanshi and rarely returned to Kuta Village, so she was not particularly familiar with the villagers of Kuta Village.

The deceased was Doha's neighbor in Kuta Village, and Doha and her parents rushed back to Kuta Village to attend the funeral.

I nodded, and that was the way to go.

The woman pointed to the way out of the village and told me to leave the village as soon as possible. Naturally, I wouldn't leave so easily, I hadn't asked anything I wanted to ask yet, and the woman saw that I refused to leave, and asked me slightly angrily what else was going on.

"Ms. Doha, I have a few questions for you."

Doha knew that if she didn't answer my question, I wouldn't leave easily, so she had to let me ask.

"There's an outsider who is leading a camel, did you just see him?" I asked.

I want to know if Tang Yingxuan has left this village, Duoha thought about it, and said that she was not sure if the person she saw was the one I said, most of the people in the village had their own camels, and she didn't go back to the village often, so she wasn't sure, she described to me the appearance of the person she saw, and I quickly determined that she was talking about Tang Yingxuan.

After confirming, she pointed to the way out of the village. Just ten minutes ago, Tang Yingxuan left the village with a camel.

"Is there an old man in the village with a wounded face?" I asked again.

Doha replied, "No, everyone knows that I am a doctor, and if any old man is injured, they will definitely come to me as soon as possible." ”

Doha had been in the village for seven days, and the customs in this village were different from the rest of the village, and their funerals lasted for seven days, during which the bodies were not buried, and the people would gather around the deceased to chant sutras until the spirits of the deceased had returned home for the first seven days.

Doha didn't want to come back, but the deceased was her neighbor, so Doha had to stay in the village for seven days out of favor. But in the past seven days, no one has come to see Doha, and in the past, when Doha came back, someone would come to Doha. They are all from the same village, and Doha does not charge money for everyone to see a doctor.

And this time, Doha is also idle.

Doha had a point, the old man I saw was badly injured, and the flesh on his face had been ripped off so much, he should have come to Doha as soon as possible. I was even more confused, but before I could ask more, a strong wind blew around me. The village is close to the desert, and there are many grains of sand floating in the air, and everyone covers their mouths and noses.

In the wind and sand, I saw a few children, who were the same children who had just run away in fright. They quickly spotted me, and just like they had just reacted, they ran out of the village. I didn't care so much, so I chased after it, and my intuition told me that there was definitely something wrong with these children!

I followed the children and kept running, and the wind and sand were so strong that my eyes got a lot of sand. The children were not running fast, and I kept following them, and finally, when the wind and sand gradually became smaller, I quickened my pace and stopped the children when they were about to run out of the village.

Sépor was still waiting for me here, and when he saw me coming, he hurried to my side and asked me why I had been gone for so long.

Several children stood still, looking at their feet, each of them trembling, obviously frightened.

I crouched down in front of a child and asked, "Kid, why did you run away when you saw me?" ”

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