When everyone in front of the grave heard the voice, they all turned their heads to look to the side, and saw a strong man wearing a camouflage jacket with a black vest inside, and a navy blue wooden box on his back, gnawing on an apple and looking at us with a smile.

- Zhao Shouquan!

He said that his mother-in-law would come back when she went out of the funeral, but he didn't expect it to appear.

Liu Daxian's funeral speech also stopped, squinting his little eyes and showing a little curiosity.

The village chief also saw Zhao Shouquan and shouted, "You go, outsiders are not welcome in our village recently." ”

Zhao Shouquan was still unkempt, and there was a fresh scar on his vicissitudes of life, as if he had just fought with someone not long ago, he heard the words of the village chief and did not leave, but walked to us, glanced at his mother-in-law's grave, and said, "Nine nails? Yo, who made this rule, don't want to live anymore? ”

"Who are you from our village's ancestors? Talking nonsense here, believe it or not, I'll cut you! A villager shouted.

Liu Daxian stretched out his hand to stop the villagers, and straightened his bent waist, "You young boy is talking wildly, but you are talking about why the Nine Nails can't bury people?" ”

Zhao Shouquan took a bite of the apple, "The Nine Nails is the method of one of the Taoist branches, the 'Qin Bone Daomen', which pays attention to fighting poison with poison and turning the place of evil into a blessed land. Although the village is backed by the mountain and the water, the mountain does not see the dragon vein, and the water does not see the river god. ”

Liu Daxian showed a surprised gaze, "The donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth, didn't you just say that you can't bury people?" ”

"Hehe, of course it's okay to bury people, but what if you bury people who aren't people?"

"Not human?" Liu Daxian was slightly resentful, "What are you talking nonsense about?" ”

"That's it, if you don't believe it, just bury it like this, anyway, it's your village that suffers." Zhao Shouquan said: "I came this time for one purpose, to take Xu Sanhuo away, other things have nothing to do with me, and I don't bother to discuss with you." ”

This time it was my turn to be confused, wiped away my tears and frowned, "Where are you going to take me?" ”

"Peony City."

"Why should I go with you!"

"Your mother-in-law confessed to me before she died, otherwise you think I am willing to take care of you?" Zhao Shouquan smiled disdainfully, "Sanhuo, look at these people, they all have to die in less than a month, if you stay here, sooner or later you will be killed by the shadowy things." ”

The villagers were frightened when they heard this, looked at each other, and finally focused their eyes on Liu Daxian, after all, Liu Daxian has been famous in Shiliba Village for decades, no matter which village has a problem, he is looking for him to solve it, and the way of our village's funeral is set by him.

Liu Daxian narrowed his eyes, "Oh? You can tell me why the people of this village died. ”

Zhao Shouquan bent down and looked at Liu Daxian, the corners of his mouth raised, "Who are you?" Why should I tell you! ”

"What arrogance! The young baby is looking for death! ”

Liu Daxian suddenly stretched out his hand and clasped Zhao Shouquan's neck, he was really angry, green tendons protruded from his neck, and the people present hurriedly stepped forward to pull Liu Daxian away, so as to persuade him.

Zhao Shouquan looked indifferent, touched his neck, looked at me and said, "Sanhuo, go back and pack up your things." ”

"I'm not going with you." I say firmly.

"Disobedient?"

Actually, I didn't have any feelings with the people in the village, but I grew up in this land and never left, and suddenly let me go to a city with a stranger that I had never heard of.

I thought to myself, "You look amazing, can you help me catch the ghost in the coffin of the ancient tree?" ”

"I'm here to take you away, not to save people with kindness."

"Then I'm not leaving."

"Hey—"

I opened my eyes wide and looked at Zhao Shouquan for a few seconds, then he smashed the apple in his hand to the ground and said, "Damn, okay, Lao Tzu will help you once!" But well, you have to come with me when you're done. ”

"Deal."

Originally, the people in the village were very unhappy with Zhao Shouquan's actions, but as soon as they heard that he could catch the ghost who killed Xiao Si, they looked at Zhao Shouquan with suspicion.

Zhao Shouquan took my hand, turned his head to Liu Daxian, who was panting in the crowd, and said, "Three meters and one knot, dog blood chicken head, three animal sacrifices, and two tails occupy the place, you know what I mean." ”

Liu Daxian, who was still angry just now, heard Zhao Shouquan's words, his fierce eyes turned into surprise, he looked back at his mother-in-law's grave, and was silent.

Zhao Shouquan followed me back to the village, and the village chief happily welcomed him to his home and had to invite him to dinner. Zhao Shouquan didn't say anything polite to the village chief, and ate a lot of good wine and food, and Liu Daxian didn't know what to do, which must have something to do with Zhao Shouquan's words in front of the grave.

After eating and drinking, Zhao Shouquan took me and the village chief back home, and then I suddenly remembered that there was a sleeping mute girl on the kang, and hurriedly asked the village chief for the name "Yin Shu".

The village chief shook his head and said that there was no one surnamed Yin in the village, and he had never heard of the name "Yin Shu".

Zhao Shouquan and the village chief were looking at the coffin in the courtyard, and I hurried back to the house to find that the kang was empty, but the bedding had been folded neatly, and I couldn't help but feel a little lost.

She's a mute, where can she go if she's gone?

Looking at the white paper of our chat last night on the side of the kang, I picked it up and put it in my pocket, she was the first girl I really came into contact with, and she was so pitiful......

"Sanhuo, come out quickly!"

Before I could grieve, the village chief's shout came from the courtyard, and I hurried out of the house, only to see Zhao Shouquan sitting on the edge of the tree hollow, holding a cigarette.

"What's wrong?"

"Mr. Zhao has something to look for you."

I went to Zhao Shouquan's side in confusion, he puffed smoke and stared at the dark tree hole and said, "Sanhuo, your mother-in-law's crutches haven't been found, have you?" ”

"That's right."

"Have you ever thought that your mother-in-law was killed?"

My head exploded, "What... What the? ”

"At that time, I was in a hurry and didn't think about it carefully, but after listening to the village chief talk about what happened in the past few days, although Liu Daxian is not deep, his vision and experience are still okay. The purpose of the construction of this Yin Huai coffin is to suppress the things below, and your mother-in-law's crutches are the lifeblood of Yin Huai. ”

"You mean, someone killed the mother-in-law and snatched the crutches?" I thought for a moment and said, "What is the purpose of doing this?" ”

"I think there's something else to that crutch."

"Call the police!" I say.

Zhao Shouquan puffed his cigarette holder, "It's useless, the person who killed your mother-in-law is definitely not an ordinary person, even I didn't find out, it's either a demon or a Buddha." ”

"What's that? Why are you involved with ghosts again? I had mixed feelings, "I've been tormented crazy by this kind of thing these days, where are so many ghosts, I haven't seen them in so many years." ”

"Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist."

Zhao Shouquan said: "I can help you get rid of the Yin Huai coffin, as for the things below, it's okay if you don't bother it, just find someone to crush it to death with a boulder, and sprinkle some dog blood." ”

I sighed and said, "Okay, solve one thing and count one thing, can you help me find the murderer for my mother-in-law's death?" ”

"We'll talk about it then."

I felt a sour feeling in my heart, I wasn't too sad when my mother-in-law died, except for being sad, the so-called everyone dies, and my mother-in-law's health has not been good in recent years, but I heard that my mother-in-law was killed, I have no way to be sad anymore, as my mother-in-law's grandson, if I don't take revenge, is it still a human being?

Zhao Shouquan asked the village chief to prepare some meat, incense and candles and other things, wrapped them in a piece of yellow paper and put them in the coffin, saying that the evil thing in the coffin would come back at night, and he could kill them in one fell swoop.

Liu Daxian came to my house in the evening, I didn't see him for a long time, his back seemed to bend a lot, his face was full of sweat, I quickly brought him a bowl of water, and welcomed him into the house.

When I returned to the house with water, Liu Daxian and Zhao Shouquan were talking.

Liu Daxian said: "I have already done it according to your method, this method is not ......"

Zhao Shouquan glanced at me and said, "Just do it, don't say much, tell me what you think of the Yin Huai coffin." ”

"The chicken blood rope and the evil charm are useless, I'm afraid this thing is some years old, I see that the coffin is full of modern gold and silver, and I can't say it, so I am a little confused."

Liu Daxian's tone was much more respectful, it seemed that it should be Zhao Shouquan's words that made him change his mind, and I didn't understand what they meant, so I could only listen stupidly.

Zhao Shouquan said: "The coffin is only 30 years old, but the tree is hundreds of years old, presumably this coffin should be nailed into the tree, or... It is transported from the hole under the tree to the top. ”

"Holes?"

"That's right, since there is a hole, there must be an exit, this is not a small project, it is estimated that it has something to do with the village." Zhao Shouquan analyzed: "Feng Shui pays attention to the situation, although the geographical location of the village is a place of gathering yin, but I always feel that it seems to be artificially created, and many places have flaws. ”

"Building ......"

Liu Daxian pondered for a moment, then raised his head suddenly, "I remembered something." ”

"Oh? Let's hear it. ”

Liu Daxian stopped talking and turned his head to look at me.

I secretly said that these two people, they all want to go behind my back, I recruited them to provoke them? After hesitating for a moment, now the affairs of the family need to be solved by them, and they can't be offended, so they got up and said, "You talk first, I'll go out for a walk, and I'll come back when it's dark." ”

After that, I walked out of the house, the coffin in the yard was still open, and when I passed by, I kicked hatefully, and then went out for an aimless walk in the village.

In the evening, the sunset has just set, the body of the person in the mild light is warm, it is very comfortable, I went down from the river, along the Guping River all the way upstream, the river is churning fiercely, and the sound of the water is loud in my ears.

Not long after walking, I saw a girl by the river, she was wearing a bright red dress, squatting by the river as if looking at the river.

I walked up to her curiously, didn't speak, and squatted to look at the river.

She ignored me.

I couldn't bear it anymore, and secretly looked sideways at her, which didn't matter, and scared me into the mud.

She has no eyes, and her sockets are full of black and yellow rotten flesh!