Mountain Village Horror_Chapter 43: The Cave of the Locust Tree
The fourth aunt and grandmother walked outside as she spoke, and as soon as I turned around and saw that Cheng Ke was still there, talking to the little girl in a low voice, the little girl's face suddenly became ugly.
I thought it was strange when I saw this, so I wanted to ask what was going on, but I didn't expect the little girl to see me coming, so she panicked and turned away and left.
Cheng Ke straightened up and looked back at me, before I could speak, Cheng Ke said first: "Don't be jealous, I'm not interested in such a young girl." β
"Who's jealous." I whispered, "I just wonder, you didn't see it, how did you know about the little girl inserting peach branches and dripping blood as soon as you came in?" β
Cheng Ke smiled slightly: "Those two fierce beasts guarding the door, fueling a 'evil' and an 'evil', it is estimated that this family is used to being honest and often bullied by other peers, so he swore to make his family more fierce, so he used the fierce beast to affect the emotions of his family, and became more competitive and not suffered, but the gains outweighed the losses, and the force was too strong, resulting in the loss of children and grandchildren."
And as soon as the little girl went out, I could see that she was different from her mother, with a kind of yin qi on her body that would only be had if she used the ghost raising technique, but it was not heavy, and I could see the traces of their threshold, which was newly removed, so I understood, the little girl must have learned the ghost raising technique recently.
Then look at the wounds on her feet and hands to know what kind of soul summoning technique she used. β
Cheng Ke is really smart, which makes me admire it, but I don't want to show this admiration, so I pretend to be disdainful and say: "I can also see that her foot is injured, but I don't know as much as you." β
Cheng Ke still has the usual expression of "don't care about you", attached to my ears, the cold breath mixed with the smell of sandalwood, pounced on my ears, making my ears hot, and my body trembled slightly: "But, do you think that little girl can really learn that kind of ghost raising and spiritualism by relying on her own comprehension?" β
I only cared about the red face and red ears, and suddenly heard him say this, and the heat on my face subsided: "You mean that behind this little girl, someone instructed?" β
Cheng Ke's slender index finger was on my lips, and he was cold: "It's not simple, I don't want you to bother with it." β
My heart jumped, and I quickly took a step back: "Do you have something to say?" What kind of hooligans are you playing in broad daylight......"
Cheng Ke hooked his thin lips, and his smile was evil and good-looking: "No, I will only play hooligan." β
"You two can't leave?" The fourth aunt knocked on the door, a little unhappy: "The days are still very long, and every moment has to be sticky, what kind of system." β
I hurriedly turned around to leave, but Cheng Ke held my hand tightly and said leisurely: "No matter how long the time is, I don't think it's enough." β
An unknown feeling slowly spread in my heart, and the feeling of his hand being held by him was inexplicable, as if familiar, like, accustomed to it......
Of course it's not good, I hastened to remind myself that the contract, just the contract, just the contract!
Turning around again, the little girl was behind the window upstairs, peering at us, with a pair of clear eyes, as if with a deep hatred, staring at the back of the person cold.
I was slightly stunned, and the little girl noticed that I had seen her, and immediately turned around and disappeared.
Although this little girl looks no different from the little girl who sells seafood, for some reason, I always feel that the two of them are a bit similar.
When they arrived at the second uncle's house, the second uncle and Lulu had already returned, and the two of them were facing the coffin, their eyes were straight and hooked, as if they had seen through the coffin board, looking at the contents of the coffin.
Cheng Ke said in a low voice: "This coffin is loaded with new goods." β
"New?" What is the old goods, of course I remember, it is the child corpse jar that was stuffed in by the strange man in the circle last time, if the groom doesn't come again, presumably the child corpse jar will also be removed, but what new goods can be put in?
Cheng Ke touched my head and said, "Let's see what the second uncle has to say first." β
And the fourth aunt had a hot temper, and she took the lead in entering the door, with a tiger face, and said: "The matter is so big, why don't you know to say a word to your hometown?" β
The second uncle turned around, and when he saw that the person was the fourth aunt and grandmother, his face changed suddenly: "Fourth aunt? How did you get here? β
The fourth aunt and grandmother kept a straight face, and tore off the wreath spirit banner at the door, and sneered: "If you don't come, I don't know if you still have such plans." β
"What can we do?" The second uncle was probably too nervous, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "The elders are also old, and since Lulu is fine, of course I don't want to alarm you." β
"Cunning, you!" The fourth aunt and grandmother threw the spirit flag on the coffin with the domineering attitude of the Empress Dowager Cixi: "The spirit flag is afraid that the soul will get lost, your family is fine, you want to lure the ghost to the door?" There is something that you know in your own heart. β
The fourth aunt and grandmother looked like a master who liked to take care of things, and the second uncle had a completely miscalculated expression, and only continued: "Fourth aunt, this matter is your own family matter, you are still ......"
The fourth aunt walked straight up to Lulu and said in a very spicy tone, "Come with me." β
There was no expression on Lulu's pale face, and her godless eyes were staring at the fourth aunt and grandmother, motionless.
The second uncle hurriedly pulled the fourth aunt and grandmother: "Fourth aunt, if you have something to say, don't scare the child." β
"It also depends on whose child she is." The fourth aunt raised her hand and was about to push Lulu into the small building, but the second uncle gritted his teeth and blocked in front of the fourth aunt and grandmother: "Fourth aunt, don't worry about this matter." β
"Little bunny, who are you talking to?" The four aunts and grandmothers didn't give in, and the two of them actually confronted each other for Lulu, with tension and a very solemn atmosphere.
I was embarrassed, as a junior, of course I shouldn't say anything, so I had to say to Lulu: "If you encounter any difficulties, you still say it well, what can't the family say?" β
But Lulu just gave me a cold look, and still didn't say anything.
After being stiff for a while, even if the fourth aunt was old and strong, she couldn't support it a little, and suddenly turned around, looked at me, and said, "Lu Qiao, you come with me." β
"What?" I was stunned, and the fourth aunt had already pulled me away and pulled me away: "You fool, here, you are being used as a gun!" Even if you belong to the dragon, you can't bear the evil spirit here! β
The second uncle's eyes were gloomy and resentful, staring at the fourth aunt and grandmother, and the fourth aunt and grandmother unceremoniously replied and dragged me away.
Cheng Ke came over and pulled my hand back from the fourth aunt's hand: "I will hold it myself, so I don't have to worry about the fourth aunt." β
The fourth aunt was in a bad mood, and glared at Cheng Ke with her: "Is Lu Qiao your dog, do you have to lead it?" β
Good fellow, it was really a fire at the city gate that affected the fish in the pond, and I could have been shot while lying in the dirt.
Cheng Ke smiled slightly and said, "Why is the fourth aunt so angry? The second uncle and Lulu have their own ideas. β
"You've seen that, haven't you?" The fourth aunt glared at Cheng Ke angrily: "Then you are still pretending to be nothing!" β
I couldn't help it, and hurriedly asked, "Fourth aunt, what's going on with Lulu?" I also sensed that something was wrong with her, but she was a living person! β
"There are many kinds of living people." The fourth aunt said coldly: "There is a kind of living person, called the living dead!" β
I felt that my scalp exploded all of a sudden, and I immediately remembered the zombies in the zombie movie: "Fourth aunt, so to speak, Lulu has been ...... since she had an accident last time"
"Not only Lulu, but the entire Tanshen Town is being targeted." The fourth aunt frowned and said, "For a while, there will be trouble." β
Of course, I remembered that Yu Ning had died a lot of ghost cultivators, and immediately asked, "Fourth aunt, what kind of mess are you talking about?" β
"For a while, a lot of old people have died." The fourth aunt and grandmother were fast, and said thoughtfully: "What is the specific situation, I am investigating, but what is certain is that outsiders have come to the village, and there must be a plot, so I am looking for suspicious yin qi everywhere, and I found you today." β
My heart sank, I originally thought that something happened to Yuning's ghost cultivator, it was Yuning's situation, who knows, looking at the current situation, it is more likely to be a matter in Tanshen Town, and it has affected the ghost cultivator from Tanshen Town outside!
Moreover, Cheng Ke and I were involved impartially...... said that no one was behind the scenes, and the ghosts didn't believe it.
I glanced at Cheng Ke worriedly, and said, is it related to that immortal life......
Cheng Ke had big peach blossom eyes, and he also stared at the fourth aunt and grandmother, but he was moody, and I really couldn't peek anything out of his good-looking and unreal face.
The fourth aunt also said to herself: "I knew earlier, I ...... ride the electric car out."
I hurriedly asked, "Fourth aunt, where are we going?" β
"Go to the ancestral hall and talk to those old guys." The fourth aunt bit her dentures: "Definitely, it has something to do with that Biluomen." β
When the fourth aunt saw me before, she wondered what kind of Biluomen I was, so I quickly asked, "I heard you mention Biluomen just now, what kind of place is that?" β
"Biluomen is also a group of ghost breeders." The fourth aunt said: "However, they are not ordinary ghost cultivators, raising ghosts is also to make a living, and inherit the bloodline, it is not easy to eat such a bowl of yin and yang rice, to do good deeds and accumulate virtue for the benefit of future generations, but the one who falls into the door is a kind of ghost cultivator who has abandoned reincarnation and offspring and pursued immortality, that is, they have no past and no future." β
"Can people give up samsara?" I was a little incredulous: "The legendary underworld, don't you care?" β
"Their kind of technique is called the art of immortality," the fourth aunt said: "As long as you have that kind of technique, your own body can be discarded at any time, but your soul is immortal, and you can use the body you like at will, and exchange your soul for the soul, that is, let others enter the book of life and death for yourself, encroach on other people's yang life, so that you can alternate your body and get eternal life." β
This is a robbery! Immediately, I remembered the little girl who sold seafood with an expression that didn't match her age: "Fourth aunt, how is the grandfather who sells seafood in our village?" β
"It's been a few months since I've been dead," the fourth aunt replied: "You still remember him, he has been single all his life, has no children and no daughters, and he doesn't even have a fragrance when he is old, or your grandfather helped intercede and was buried in the corner of our Yang family's ancestral grave, with the shadow of the Yang family's ancestors, you can also find a few cards to partner underneath." β
I also want to know, how could that little girl really help her grandfather sell seafood!
"How do you know that there is a Biluomen in the world?" Cheng Ke's peach blossom eyes suddenly turned to the fourth aunt and asked very seriously.
When the fourth aunt heard this question, she completely sneered: "What do you say? Do you think we're so blinded that we don't know anything? Wei Changsheng, the founder of Biluomen, is still from Tanshen Town! β
The art of immortality, also called Wei Changsheng? I also want to know that it must be inseparable from the "immortality" in Cheng Ke's mouth!
I'm really curious, what is that immortality?
"There are not many orthodox ghost cultivators in the world," Cheng Ke said in a deep voice: "I don't know, there are still a few left." β
The fourth aunt's eyes lit up, but they immediately changed to a sneering expression: "If you want to do it, you have already done it, and you still need to wait until today?" β
The fourth aunt obviously didn't answer the question, but I looked at the gloomy expression of the fourth aunt and grandmother, and I knew that I didn't want to ask more, so I had to follow the fourth aunt and grandmother all the way to the west end of the loess slope.
Compared with when I was a child, the village has changed very much now, a river ditch has been filled with loess, a new house has been built, and there is a former wilderness, and now there are also small civil buildings rising from the ground, stepping on that new asphalt road, I really feel dazzled, through a few alleys, and a few four aunts and grandmothers know the villagers to climb relatives, the eyes suddenly opened, the ancestral hall arrived.
The ancestral hall is an old house, with blue bricks and tiles, which looks old and sturdy, and it is still the construction techniques of ancient times.
The vermilion gate is still the same vermilion gate in my memory, and it still has the brass knocker that I used to touch with Lulu when I was a child.
In the center of this quadrangle, an old locust tree was planted, and the fourth aunt directly pushed the door open and shouted: "Who is at home?" β
A short old lady came out of the house, saw the fourth aunt and me, and Cheng Ke, and was stunned: "Fourth, this is ......"
I hurriedly introduced myself, and Cheng Ke also took the opportunity to say that he was the son-in-law of Tanshen Town.
The fourth aunt puffed out her cheeks, went all the way to the hall, and said unhappily: "Yaohui, that little rabbit cub, that's a big rebellion!" β
The short old lady also knew my grandfather and my mother, and she came over to pull me very enthusiastically, but when she saw Cheng Ke behind me, her face changed slightly, and she was obviously the same as the fourth aunt and grandmother, and recognized the yin and yang ghost control technique on my body: "This little girl is capable enough." β
I had no choice but to pull a pure and harmless smile and come out to fool around.
The two old ladies chattered about Lulu's affairs, and they were all talking about some professional terms of this soul technique and that trapping technique, and I didn't understand it, and looked at Cheng Ke standing under the big locust tree, and went over: "What do you see?" β
Cheng Ke stared intently at the branch of the locust tree, and said thoughtfully: "There seems to be something in that hole." However, this is the locust tree in the ancestral hall, and it has endured many years of incense, so I can't touch it. β
I looked up, and I also saw a very high place with a not very conspicuous tree hole, all covered by branches and leaves, the shadow was full of shadows, at that time I was childlike, it was rare to have something that Cheng Ke couldn't do, I was finally able to laugh at the rivers and lakes once, taking advantage of the neatness I was wearing, without saying a word, I climbed to the tree in twos and threes.
Cheng Ke looked at me like that, and Peach Blossom's eyes narrowed: "I didn't expect you to have this kind of ability." β
I replied, "What is this, I have done everything that a little boy dares to do." β
As soon as I said this, I suddenly understood why I couldn't find a boyfriend for more than 20 years, and I couldn't help but feel a little sad.
When I got to the branch, I turned sideways and looked inside, and opened the circle of branches and leaves, and saw that there was indeed something hidden in the hole in the tree, which was really hard to find, and it was thanks to Cheng Ke's good eyes, otherwise, I guess I would have been discovered by other naughty boys, right?
I reached inside and pulled out a small oilcloth bag, and inside the oilcloth bag was a small antique rouge box.
The rouge box is a cloisonnΓ© enamel material, it seems that there are a lot of years, maybe it is still an antique, I opened the rouge box easily, there is no rouge in it, but put an old photo of the old age, I looked at the photo, but froze, my body trembled, almost fell off the branch.
Cheng Kezao frowned: "You be careful." β
The thick green leaves of the locust tree covered half of me, and as soon as I moved, the leaves trembled, and Cheng Ke couldn't see what I was doing at all.
I took a deep breath, suspecting that I was dazzled, and stared at the rouge box again, only to see that the photo inside the rouge box was true, it was Cheng Ke, a photo with a woman!
They are wearing old-fashioned clothes with buckle loops, three inlays and three rolls on the stand-up collar, and delicate satin surfaces, all with a graceful bearing, like a period drama that is ignorant of the world, but pampered Miss Gongzi, exuding a sense of luxury and never experienced wind and frost.
I really wanted to know who the woman who was taking pictures side by side with Cheng Ke was, but the position of the woman's face was damaged, as if someone had cut it off with ulterior motives.
Cheng Ke's photo appeared in Tanshen Town, does it mean that Cheng Ke was also a person from Tanshen Town before his death......
"Lu Qiao?" Cheng Ke saw that I didn't reply, and his voice was a little deep: "Are you okay?" β
"It's fine." I tried not to let my voice tremble, but quietly tucked the picture into my pocket.
I don't know why I'm doing this, I seem to be afraid, but I don't understand what I'm afraid of.
Afraid of Cheng Ke's identity, or afraid of the woman whose face was cut off inexplicably?
Who is Cheng Ke, and who is she Cheng Ke?
"Get down!" Cheng Ke's voice became deeper: "It's okay what is on it, don't look at it." β
I don't know how I got down the tree, but I remember that I walked steadily, pretending to be nothing, but I took out the rouge box first: "Look, I found this thing." β
Cheng Ke Qingming's peach blossom eyes looked at the rouge box with a hint of confusion.
I took the opportunity to ask, "Do you have any impressions of this thing?" β
Cheng Ke shook his head and said, "No, but it's a little familiar......
A little familiar, a little familiar, that part of his memory, is it really lost?
I took a breath, and then said with a smile: "That hole is really hidden, how did you find it?" β
The confusion in Cheng Ke's eyes deepened, and he said: "I can't say clearly, but I seem to vaguely know that there is something in there." β
Only the person who put the thing will know.
My heart sank and sank, I never thought that Cheng Ke could actually have something to do with this Tanshen Town, I just felt like I was being swept into a huge whirlpool, and I could only fall deeper and deeper, but I couldn't pull it out!
"Lu Qiao!" Suddenly, in the hall of the ancestral hall, the fourth aunt and grandmother leaned out half of their bodies and beckoned to me: "Come here, fourth aunt and grandmother, I have something to tell you alone." β
I just felt that it was a great opportunity to escape from Cheng Ke's side, and I hurried over: "Fourth aunt, is there something wrong?" β
The fourth aunt pulled me over, glanced at Cheng Ke who stayed under the locust tree attentively, lowered her voice, and said, "After you and him formed the Yin Yang Ghost Fighting Technique, did you do the things of men and women?" β
I never thought that the fourth aunt and grandmother I met on the first day today would ask such a question! I couldn't help but be dumbfounded: "This ......"
"The art of Yin and Yang against ghosts is a secret technique that has long been lost, I don't know how you learned it, but this forbidden technique has its own taboos, not only the contract on Yin and Yang, but also in the intersection of Yin and Yang, to tell you, this is a major matter of life, I can't help but wonder if you are shy." The eyes of the fourth aunt were a little urgent: "Say it quickly!" β
Sexual intercourse? My face turned red as soon as I brushed it: "It's not that I don't say it, it's just that I don't know ...... myself."
"You don't know?" The fourth aunt looked at me like a monster, turned around and took out a bottle from the cabinet in the ancestral hall, and put a red thing in the bottle on my bare arm, and then wiped it with her hands, but the red could not be erased!
I was taken aback: "Fourth aunt, what is this?" Could it be the legendary ......?"
"That's right, it's Shougong Sha." The fourth aunt stared at the red trace: "You...... It's still a virgin! β
Is there such a thing in the world? And also...... Cheng Ke turned out that he really didn't do anything to me......
I breathed a sigh of relief, but the fourth aunt's expression was not relaxed, but solemnized, looked at me, and asked, "But, your menstruation, has it been a long time?" β
My heart trembled: "You...... How do you know? β