The deafening sound almost shattered my head, and I forgot all about struggle and resistance, and all I could see was the old black crow squeaking in the sky. The village chief walked up to me amid the shouts of the crowd and took off my sunglasses, causing an uproar and exposing my grey eyes.

The villagers were more resolute in their shouts of worship to the heavens, and I could see their hidden fears, and now I tried to explain everything in vain, but I really didn't understand it in my heart.

"Whew......" my voice trembled, "Village Chief, why did you do this to me?" What am I doing wrong? ”

The village chief stood in front of me, held his sunglasses and said, "I have already given you a chance, not only did you kill Wang Laosi if you didn't leave, you are a brute!" Our village has raised you for so many years, can you survive until now without these people? Eighteen years ago you should have died, you would only bring misfortune, eighteen years was like this, and still is! ”

"What the hell are you talking about?"

The village chief's cheeks twitched, and he turned his head to the villagers and said, "Burn him and sacrifice to the sky!" ”

Two villagers came to my side with torches, they were still a little afraid of me, carefully looked at my eyes, lit the dry firewood under my feet, the flames spread and rose rapidly, so hot that I wanted to hook my legs and feet, but my legs were tied and I couldn't use my strength.

I'm going to die... That's how I died.

The flame was reflected in my pupils, and I seemed to see the bits and pieces of the past eighteen years in the flames, the happy time of living with my mother-in-law, climbing around the ancient trees in that yard......

"Click!"

The gloomy sky suddenly pierced a thunderclap with a terrifying sound, and then the villagers dispersed in amazement, pointing behind me and shouting.

I looked back and saw that there was a red-clothed female ghost standing in front of the grave of my mother-in-law in the dark night, with long and almost curved nails, and a pair of bare blue and purple feet, unlike the last time I saw her, when there was already a pair of blood-red eyes in her rotten eye sockets, and blood was dripping down from the corners of her eyes.

"Hell... Hell! ”

The villagers began to riot, and the village chief shouted to calm down, but no one listened to him anymore, and a heavy rain poured down from the sky, and the dry wood under my feet and burning pants were drenched by the rain.

Wet and wet, I watched the villagers scatter in all directions, leaving only the village chief and a few strong men in front of me, and in the gloomy rain, the torches were extinguished, and they couldn't see me, but I could clearly see every corner, even the traces of one of the men who were scared to pee his pants.

The female ghost slowly approached me, and the village chief and the strong men kept retreating, and finally the village chief shouted: "Xu Sanhuo has given it to you, don't make trouble with our village again!" ”

With that, they also fled in a hurry, leaving me alone in the graveyard, watching the female ghost with her hair scattered gradually approaching me.

Her steps were very slow, but I began to struggle desperately to untie the hemp rope, and I didn't know who tied the rope, it was so tight, I couldn't break through it with my own strength!

"Assert ......"

The female ghost let out a terrifying laugh, which made me creepy, she walked through the graves one by one, and seeing that she was about to come to me, I burst out with an infinite desire to win, and secretly scolded Zhao Shouquan in my heart why I had to leave today.

The thunderstorm was blowing, and the female ghost stepped onto her mother-in-law's grave, and the small three animals and charms placed in front of the grave were all washed away by the rain, and suddenly, a hand stretched out from the grave and grabbed the female ghost's ankle!

The female ghost lowered her head and tried to break free, but she couldn't break free from the outstretched hand in the grave like I was tied to a stake, and she let out a roar, "Why? ”

No one in the grave responded, and when I saw the muddy hands sticking out of the grave, I remembered the poor girl in the yard - Yin Yaoyao!

Is it really her in the grave? What is she doing, save me?

I did not dare to delay any longer, and continued to struggle while the female ghost could not get close to me, and I saw a short old man come out from behind the tree, and quickly run to me and begin to untie the twine.

"Why are you here?"

Liu Daxian didn't speak, his hands and feet were not very sharp, it took a long time to untie the rope, and from time to time he looked up at the female ghost behind me, and the rain wet his already rickety back.

Finally, the rope opened, and I fell from the firewood into the mud, propped up my body and pulled Liu Daxian to run home.

The female ghost let out a terrible scream behind us, she must not be willing to let us run away like this, Liu Daxian and I got into the forest between the village and the Guping River, because I was not sure if there would be villagers at home, and meeting villagers at this time was not much worse than meeting a female ghost.

We ran for a long time, and the muddy road was difficult to walk on, until we were exhausted and rested under a big tree.

Liu Daxian coughed violently, running was too heavy a burden for an old man like him, and he almost had no breath.

I watched vigilantly around me, there was no one and no female ghost, so I limped and said, "They burned my mother-in-law, I can't continue to stay here, Liu Daxian, you take me away!" ”

Liu Daxian looked at me, and the rain blurred his eyes, "No, the ghosts have not been removed, I can't go." ”

"The people in the village don't care about you anymore."

He said resolutely: "Then I can't leave, I have been catching ghosts and eliminating demons in Shili Eight Village all my life, and even if I die, I have to protect my village." ”

I suddenly didn't know what to say, the stubbornness on Liu Daxian's face had already shown his determination, I sighed, and didn't say a word to persuade him, but asked about what the village chief said eighteen years ago.

Liu Daxian didn't hide it this time, but said: "It's been a long time since that incident, and the ritual of worshipping the heavens in the village also appeared eighteen years ago......"

......

Eighteen years ago.

Late autumn and early winter.

The village suffered a once-in-a-century disaster, and the Guping River was more turbulent than usual, and the water spread up the river, engulfing the woods and flooding the main road in the village. Because the terrain of the village is very high, fortunately no one was injured, but seeing that the river is still rising wildly, the village chief took people to prepare to dredge the river downstream, and called Liu Daxian to help at that time, because he can read feng shui and can pinch and calculate, so no matter what big moves there are in the village, he will be counted upon.

Liu Daxian watched feng shui and chose a place to dredge the river, and the villagers spent three days and three nights to make a way to release the water, but after the water receded, in the once flooded woods, the villagers found a huge bronze sarcophagus.

The coffin is more than three meters long, more than two meters wide, carved with rare and exotic beasts, when Liu Daxian arrived at the scene, he decided that the coffin was a bad thing, and said that the evil thing came from the ancient Pingjiang River and was going to be sent into the ancient Pingjiang River.

The village chief found a few young and strong men, and when he was walking towards the Guping River with the coffin, a woman with a cane passed by and stopped the coffin carrying the team.

The villagers wanted to blow her away, but the woman said that the coffin was a monster in the river, and that it was released that caused the river to flood, and that if the coffin was sent back to the river, the village would be flooded sooner or later.

Liu Daxian didn't think so, he felt that the coffin was the treasure of the river god, and if he didn't send it back, it would cause trouble, and in the end the villagers still listened to Liu Daxian's words and threw the coffin back into the Guping River, and the woman was also driven away by the villagers.

The next day, the woman was found in the woods, sitting on a coffin that had been thrown into the river yesterday!

The news spread throughout the village, and Liu Daxian was also startled on the spot, and hurriedly went to the woods, only to see the woman holding a baby in her arms, the baby was green, like an ancient jade that had just been unearthed.

The woman said, "If you still want to live, you must bury the coffin in the ground of your village, or the whole village will die!" ”

Liu Daxian had never seen such a battle, and he was not sure of his idea, but seeing that the baby in the woman's arms was not a normal thing, he asked the woman to tie up and snatch the baby. The woman was imprisoned in the village that night, but she disappeared the next morning, and the villagers who asked the guards did not know what was going on, and what was even more strange was that the coffin in the woods also disappeared.

Liu Daxian's original intention was to burn the baby to death, but a family surnamed Meng in the village said that they were willing to adopt it, and the baby's skin had become normal after bathing, so the people in the village finally decided to give it to Aunt Meng.

In addition to the eldest mother, the Meng family also has two granddaughters, both of whom are in their twenties and unmarried.

As soon as the baby arrived at the Meng family, within three months, the two granddaughters of the Meng family were both drowned in the Guping River, and Liu Daxian came to the village again, but he couldn't find the two granddaughters were corpses.

And unexpectedly, the woman appeared again.

She rode the coffin to the village at night, just like three months ago, and asked the villagers to bury the coffin, this time everyone was a little scared, according to the woman's words, dug a big pit from the side of the Guping River, and buried the coffin inside.

The woman was entertained by the village and went to Meng's house to see the child she had brought at the beginning, but even when she stayed in the village for a few days, there were always strange voices coming from the Gu Pingjiang River at night.

One by one, the villagers were accidentally drowned in the Guping River.

The villagers all thought that the woman was a demon, and that she was the one who killed the people of the village, and the villagers finally tied up the woman at night and sent her to the cemetery and burned her alive.

At that time, Liu Daxian had already left his hometown, and when he heard the news, he rushed back and found that after the woman was burned to death, what was left behind was not a corpse, but a blood-stained puppet.

At that time, the people in the village wanted to burn Meng Damiang's baby to death, but Meng Damiang said that her granddaughter was dead, and this one child was left, so she refused to give it to them. In the end, under the persuasion of Liu Daxian and the village chief, Meng Damiang saved the baby and took a name: Xu Huo.

Since then, the people in the village have found that Aunt Meng has an extra black cane in her hand when she walks, exactly the same as when the burned woman first appeared!