After dinner, seeing his mother sitting on the sofa with a brand-new homestead use certificate, and looking so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, Wen Shuo shook his head, not only was he not excited and excited, but also a little frustrated and blamed himself: "It's also an old fritter who has been mixed on the Xianren Bridge for many years, and there was such a low-level mistake."

It's really a lack of social experience and experience. ”

This incident happened suddenly, and it was too weird, if it weren't for Wen Shuo's previous hearing of the supernatural stories told by the old Han Tou in the Immortal Bridge, he had already been invisibly nurtured to the point that he didn't have too much fear of ghosts, and then there was the "nightmare" of talking to the dead old Han Tou, maybe he would have been so frightened that he was at a loss.

And after seeing the bruises on Liu Mao and Yin Tang, he has been pondering and recalling the knowledge of the occult method taught by the old Han Tou in the past, finding out the solution to the problem, and worrying that if the occult method is useless, how to lie in front of Liu Mao and this person. Therefore, Wen Shuo neglected a crucial point - as the so-called no profit can not be early, Lao Han Tou set up a formation before his death, and worked hard to set up a trap for Liu Maohe, but he helped Liu Maohe solve such a big trouble for free...... The money should be collected!

How to recover the loss?

The next morning, Liu Maohe arrived as promised, his face full of red light was a hundred times more energetic than yesterday. After seeing Wen Shuo and Li Qin's mother and son, they were even more enthusiastic with some respect, and were warned and reminded by Wen Shuo in time with his eyes, so he couldn't help but not say thank Wen Shuo for his great powers, and everything was safe at home last night.

So Li Qin thanked him heartily several times, which made Liu Maohe feel uncomfortable, and he glanced at Wen Shuo with embarrassment and apology from time to time.

Liu Maohe drove a motorcycle with Wen Shuo, sent the old household registration page to the Yuntai Street Police Station, and then went to the Yanhe Township Police Station to take pictures to apply for a new ID card, and when he returned to the community, Li Qin was standing outside the door of the unit waiting for them, and in the back bucket of the tricycle next to him, there were brooms, brooms, shovels, basins, mops and other cleaning utensils.

"Mom, you didn't go to work?" Wen Shuo looked surprised.

"I took half a day off. Li Qin patted the handlebar of the tricycle with a smile and said, "Let's go, you ride the tricycle and take your mother to the house to have a look, the old Han Tou has been gone for so many days, and the house has to be cleaned well." ”

Looking at the tools in the back bucket of the tricycle, Wen Shuo couldn't help but laugh: "Mom, we don't live again, what is there to clean?"

"Silly boy, that's your house, even if you don't live there, you have to clean it up often. Li Qin couldn't help but sit on the side of the back bucket of the tricycle, looked at Liu Maohe, and said: "Village Chief Liu, in the future, my family Xiaoshuo will be a member of Liu's camp, you can take care of it a lot, we usually don't live there, and you have to worry about the old house." ”

Liu Maohe, who didn't get off the motorcycle, immediately patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, I don't dare to guarantee a different place, but in Liujiaying, as long as I say a word, children don't dare to throw a small pebble at the courtyard door of your house!"

"That's a good feeling, thank you Village Chief Liu!" Li Qin smiled, and urged Wen Shuo again: "What are you still doing in a daze, let's go!"

Wen Shuo was helpless, shook his head and rode on three wheels.

The old house is located in the northwest of Liujiaying Village, between Yuntai Street, there is a narrow alley and a row of simple houses, which is also the chaos in the process of rapid development of the county at the end of the nineties - the villagers take money to bribe the village cadres, without applying for the homestead use certificate or lease the rural land construction use certificate, next to the road illegal construction and construction of houses, simply build a few, you can do restaurants, car repair and other stores, you can also engage in rent.

In fact, today's Liujiaying Village Committee compound, before the founding of the People's Republic of China was the home of the old Han Tou, his ancestors were famous landlords in ten miles and eight townships, but in the war years, the family was broken and displaced, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, only the old Han Tou returned home alone, but unfortunately because there was no one at home for a long time, and after the land reform during the war, the huge mansion has long been owned by the village collective. Because of the composition and family background, Lao Hantou has not returned for many years, and no one knows what he has done outside, and he himself does not say, so the village brigade did not assign him a homestead and a house, but it is also pitiful that he has nowhere to live, so he temporarily lives in two dilapidated houses next to the horse shed in the compound of the village committee.

After the reform and opening up, Han Kehu went out a few times, saying that he was doing business, and then he really made a lot of money.

At that time, because the laws and regulations were not perfect, and Han Kehu had money in his hands, he purchased the largest homestead in the village outside the village and built three large tiled houses. It's a pity that the tiled house has just been built, and the foundation of the courtyard wall has not yet been dug, and one day, several policemen suddenly came to Liujiaying and arrested Han Kehu. Only then did the villagers know that Han Kehu, who suddenly became rich, was actually engaged in feudal superstition in the south, and it is said that he also secretly left Xiangjiang Port several times to show some wealthy families the external disasters and diseases......

Next, Han Kehu's deposit was confiscated.

Fortunately, his homestead and the house he built were not confiscated.

Han Kehu is helpless, he is already old, and before the reform and opening up, he suffered too much criticism and persecution, his health was already very poor, this time the house was not smooth and was fined and confiscated income, he suffered a blow to his body and mind, he was too lazy to go out again, and he did not have that strength, he simply chose to set up a stall on the fairy bridge for a long time, and saved money a little bit to get by, but he also reluctantly built a circle of adobe walls only one meter and a half high for the house to build a circle of adobe walls, the courtyard gate facing south, is a fence gate nailed up with waste wood, these years of ups and downs, the adobe courtyard wall has long been mottled, the fence gate has been disassembled and replaced several times, and a crooked foot can be kicked and rotten。

Wen Shuo took out the key to unlock the lock, and lifted the fence gate with his hand, which only had a symbolic function, to remove the gap more than a meter wide.

Li Qin pushed a tricycle into the courtyard from behind.

In the huge courtyard, a narrow road paved with waste bricks and less than one meter wide leads directly to the entrance of the hall, and a narrow road of the same width extends to the southwest in the middle of the narrow road, leading to the corner of the southwest wall, where the open-air thatched house built with waste bricks is built.

There are more than a dozen elm, jujube, and pomegranate trees growing in the courtyard, and now is the time when the branches and leaves are luxuriant, covering the yard with patches of rich greenery.

Sitting south and facing north, the three-room tiled houses that could be called "big" in the past are now low and dilapidated compared to the surrounding houses, and are not as tall as those illegally built stores on the roadside. Because when Han Kehu's homestead was built, the location was still outside the village, and the nearby houses and courtyards were only built in the past few years.

Liu Maohe, who arrived first on a motorcycle, waited at the gate of the courtyard until Wen Shuo and Li Qin entered the courtyard, and then followed into the courtyard, quite a bit of an attitude of sending the Buddha to the west, and said enthusiastically: "Don't be in a hurry to clean up the two of you, look around inside and outside the house, familiarize yourself, and then think about what else you need, just say ......."

Wen Shuo's eyebrows were raised imperceptibly, but he deliberately let Liu Maohe see it.

Liu Maohe had a trace of doubt.

Walking to the door of the house, unlocking and pushing the door, Wen Shuo just stepped in with his front foot, and then retreated, raised his hand to block his mother, frowned seriously and said, "Mom, don't go in...... Well, you'd better go back first, I'll clean up here......"

"What are you doing?" Li Qin said with some surprise and a little dissatisfaction.

Liu Maohe, who was standing in the back, shuddered even more - there must be something strange in this old Han's home.

So Liu Maohe wanted to turn around and leave.

He was apprehensive about this evil thing, and he was afraid that he would be contaminated with something dirty.

Wen Shuo smiled bitterly and said to his mother: "Mom, I know you are not superstitious, but the old saying is not true, if you believe it, you don't believe it, you don't believe it, before the old Han Tou taught me some of the old generation's exquisiteness, he is now just past the first seven, and he lives alone all the year round, so it is inevitable that there is still his breath at home, at this time you are an outsider, and a woman, women belong to yin, one is easy to be contaminated with yin, and the other is that if you enter the house, you will also be disrespectful to the dead, so I think it is not appropriate for you to enter the house, it is best to avoid it......"

Having said that, Wen Shuo knew in his heart that in fact, his mother, like many women, had always been suspicious of these things.

Sure enough, Li Qin showed a look of horror and said, "Then, let's come back in a few days." ”

"Uncle Liu and I are men, it's fine. Wen Shuo smiled and said, "Besides, Old Han Tou is over the first seven, and this family can't always be angry, some people often come and go, and when the yang energy is enough, dirty things won't come in and live." ”

"Oh, what a mess, it's all feudal superstition...... I'll go back first, delay going to work!" Li Qin chattered dissatisfiedly and left in a hurry.

Watching Li Qin's figure disappear outside the courtyard gate, Wen Shuo turned his head and looked at Liu Maohe, who looked puzzled and palpitating, and then turned around and walked into the dimly lit room, opened the small window for ventilation, and looked at the environment in the house- On the north wall of the hall facing the door, there is an old painting, about 1.5 meters high, 80 centimeters wide, in the distance, there are clouds and mist in the distance, the mountains are undulating, the morning sun is rising, and the small river under the mountains is meandering; an old man with an ancient style, wearing a blue robe, long hair wrapped in a green scarf, a few strands of long hair and clothes fluttering in the wind, holding a book in his right hand, holding a palm-sized yin and yang gossip mirror in his left hand, it is more like a fairy wind and bones, walking slowly and slowly on the mountain road, beside him is a strange rock, there are starry wildflowers among the lush vegetation, there are colorful butterflies, a tall old pine leans out in the air at the bend of the road behind him, there are cranes stopping and falling under the pine, and there are cranes swimming here......

The whole painting reveals a refreshing and pleasant artistic conception.

Below the painting, a stone table is placed against the wall, a square old hall table, a small incense burner and two small candlesticks on the long table, and old Taishi chairs are placed on both sides of the table.

Other than that, there is no other furniture in the hall.

The ground is paved with red bricks, which have turned black and shiny because of age.

The hall house, the west house, and the east house all have doors that communicate, so there is no side door to the three houses, and only the hall house has the main entrance open to the outside.

Liu Maohe hesitated at the door for a long time, before wiping the beads of sweat on his forehead and cautiously walked in, as soon as he entered the room, he felt the coldness invade his body, he shivered, and couldn't help asking: "Shuo, what you just said to your mother, is it true?"

Wen Shuo turned his head to look at Liu Maohe, and after a few seconds, he shook his head with a wry smile and said in a non-questionable manner: "How much grudge did you have with Old Han Tou before?"

"What?" Liu Maohe looked confused.

"Or, what did you have a festival before?" Wen Shuo sighed, and muttered in confusion: "People and ghosts have different paths, ghosts and people are different, no matter how generous a person was in life, he will have a small belly and chicken intestines when he turns into a ghost, how can he ...... Alas. ”

Liu Maohe said tremblingly: "Shuo, you, don't say half a word, what's wrong?"