Volume 1: The Rise of the Witch Clouds_Chapter 17: The Man Behind the Scenes
The fourth uncle with a cold expression brought what he needed, a talisman seal, a peachwood sword, which should be his magic weapon, and the black jar containing the little evil ghost was also caught in his hand, and he wanted to rely on this to find a ghost keeper.
Seeing that the fourth uncle began to get up, I also wanted to get up and follow, the fourth uncle shook his head and was not allowed, and asked me to honestly keep a vigil for my grandmother, and he would definitely find out the person who harmed my grandmother.
But I still wanted to follow, and after being confused for so long, I wanted to figure out who controlled all this.
My father is more towards the fourth uncle, and he is sad about the departure of my grandmother, seeing that I am stubborn, he wants to beat me when he is anxious, and for so many years, he beats me in the most direct way to express his emotions.
"You rebel, have you caused less trouble?" My dad pointed at my nose and scolded.
The fourth uncle said that he would come back soon, and after speaking, he didn't explain anything, pushed open the door and walked out.
didn't let me go, I was annoyed and hateful, kneeling under the spirit shed and clenching my fists, the more I thought about it, the more anxious I was, I couldn't stay any longer, it just happened that Li Honghua pushed the wooden cart to pull her husband's body, while my father helped, I ran out of the spirit shed, my mood was agitated, and I ran outside in the dark.
But it was quiet outside, and the fourth uncle didn't know where to go, and I was suddenly a little confused.
When my father found out that I had escaped, he called my name angrily behind me, and I was afraid that if he caught me, I would definitely be beaten again, so I hurried forward for a while.
Probably for fear of alarming others, my dad shouted a few times and didn't continue.
Without the whereabouts of the fourth uncle, I stood in the dark for a while, and I could only ask Xi'er for help.
Xi'er still had an opinion about the fourth uncle, and when she appeared, she said angrily, "How do I know where that stinky Taoist priest has gone?" He is a cultivator, and he pays the most attention to hiding the breath of his body, and I can't sense him. ”
Seeing that I was at a loss, Xi'er floated up to me and said, "But you don't have to worry about him, if you want to fight, that stinky Taoist priest is very powerful, and no one is his opponent!" ”
Just when I was confused, a strange "squeak" sound suddenly came from the grass not far away, Xi'er turned his head to look, and the voice called out happily, "Maomao!" ”
Randomly, she crouched down and reached out to greet her.
An object flashed from the grass and threw itself into Xi'er's arms, but it was a small weasel, not much bigger than a mouse, and its four hooves could be faintly seen to be snow-white, completely different from other weasels.
I was startled, it seems that this is the weasel that was driven into the mountains and forests by the fourth uncle, and turned back while the fourth uncle was no longer there.
Xi'er hugged the weasel and kissed and hugged her, looking very loving, completely ignoring my anxious death, and after a while said to the weasel, "You are worried about me, and you came to me again, or do you have a conscience." ”
The weasel, who was very psychic, curled up in his paws, shook his head, and chirped twice in reply.
I didn't expect such a smart weasel.
Xi'er and the weasel were intimate enough, so she put it down, as if she just remembered me, "Maomao thought I was trapped and kept guarding the door, maybe it knows where your fourth uncle went." ”
Then she squatted down to talk to the weasel, but the weasel seemed to be scared by the fourth uncle last time, shook his body, and didn't want to tell us at all.
The weasel's eyes shone brightly in the night, like a bright jewel, and I squatted down like Xi'er and tried to say to it, "The last time my fourth uncle chased you, it was because he thought you were a ghost who hurt people, and I promise you that he will not hurt you again." ”
The weasel's paws scratched in the air for a moment, and seemed to understand my words, and looked up at the stream, as if to ask for her opinion.
Seeing that I was in a hurry, Xi'er pursed her lips and nodded a little against her will, and it circled twice at Xi'er's feet, heading straight to the northwest.
After the weasel ran away, Xi'er whispered to me, "Help you this time." ”
I thanked her in the dark, and then we followed, and when I followed the weasel, I felt a sigh in my heart, the fourth uncle had also seen the feng shui in the village, and he had said that the northwest of any settlement area, because it was blown by the northwest wind all the year round, was a fierce place in geographical location, and the homes of Cai Lanlan, Li Honghua, and He Dasheng were all in the northwest of our village.
In the northwest, people who are not hard can not be suppressed, and many villages that understand feng shui must be held in the northwest with a tower.
The weasel led us to a house in the far northwest corner of the village, stopped, stood up, and looked ahead. There are three dilapidated tiled houses, and in addition to a thatched hermitage, it looks even poorer than the rest of the village.
When I saw this house, my mind went blank for a moment, isn't this Zhao Youzong's house?
That is, the father of the little evil ghost Tongtong.
No wonder his son drowned and then made a ghost, who lived on the horn of the great murderer in the village!
Suddenly I didn't feel right, how did the fourth uncle find Tong Tong's home when he wanted to take the person who was refining the little ghost?! And at this moment the door of his house opened.
Could it be that this person who raised a little ghost is Tong Tong's father, refining his child into a fierce and evil little ghost?!
Just when I wondered if I had made a mistake, the voice of the fourth uncle came from the courtyard, and the voice was cold and emotionless.
"Did you raise this little ghost?"
I was nervous, leaned against the wall, and crept forward.
The fourth uncle stood in the courtyard, holding the black jar with one hand, and when he felt me come in, the fourth uncle turned his head suddenly, his eyes flashed, and he was a little scared.
But seeing that it was me, he didn't care about me, and turned his head to point at Zhao Youzongdao.
"Why do you want to refine imps and harm people? Did you kill all these people in the same village? ”
At this time, I saw a person sitting in the middle of the room from a distance, it was Zhao Youzong, I don't know what the expression on his face was, I always felt weird and resentful, unlike most people, there was no electricity in his house, and an oil lamp from the seventies and eighties was lit on the table, and in the flickering flames, this room added a bit of weirdness.
Zhao Youzong's eyes stared at us deadly, and his voice was hoarse and slow, "The nosy man has finally come to the door." ”
In my memory, Zhao Youzong rarely spoke, always had a gloomy and sad face, and formed three distinct forehead lines on his forehead, because he had lost his son and run away from his wife, and few people took the initiative to talk to him.
It may have been a long time since he spoke, and at first glance, his voice seemed unnatural.
"A cult like you, no matter how well you hide, you will be found one day."
The oil lamp responded to his uncertain face, the corners of his mouth moved, and he said slowly, "You have found it, so what, I raised the little ghost, what can I do?" ”
The fourth uncle didn't know that Tong Tong was his son, and he didn't react much, but I had goosebumps all over my body.
The fourth uncle standing in the courtyard said coldly, "Then in this way, the people in the village are also harmed by you?" ”
Zhao Youzong shook his head, "I didn't hurt anyone, no, if I hurt anyone, it's because he deserves to die." ”
He speaks a little upside down, even incoherently.
At this time, I couldn't help it anymore, walked to the fourth uncle's side, and said to Zhao Youzong, "Tong Tong is your son, how can you train your son to be a little ghost!?" ”
The fourth uncle didn't expect that there would be such a relationship between him and the little ghost, and he was stunned for a moment, but gritted his teeth and said, "It turns out that I am so mad, and it is not an exaggeration to ask for your life today." ”
Zhao Youzong was still sitting on the chair, and suddenly said loudly, "Son, that's not my son, he's a wild seed!" ”
I suddenly felt like he was a completely different person.
"Make it all clear, and if it really makes sense, I might be able to spare your life." The fourth uncle regained his composure.
Zhao Youzong didn't speak again, I always felt that today's Zhao Youzong was calm and terrible, no longer like the obscene and sad Zhao Youzong on weekdays, he sat on the chair, as if waiting for us all day.
He looked up at the fourth uncle, hissed and kept repeating, "Why should I tell you to spare my life?" Spare my life? Who are you? Why do you think you have such a great ability? ”
The fourth uncle took the jar, his hands hung down, and he seemed to be about to make a move, "I'll let you tell me later." ”
Zhao Youzong saw that the fourth uncle wanted to make a move at this time, so he reached out and grabbed a huge copper bell on the table next to him, and slowly shook it after grabbing it in his hand.
"Jingle bell, ding bell..."
The bell rings sharply and strangely, especially harshly in the stillness of the night.
Zhao Youzong seemed to be doing this mechanically, and there was even a look of contempt on his face.
As the bell rang, I noticed five dark shadows emerging in the darkness of the corner of the room, two of them were very large, with long arms hanging down, standing on either side of the door, and I couldn't see their faces clearly.
The other three came around behind us, and a gust of wind rose up and closed the door.
The fourth uncle was still carrying it with one hand, and he didn't seem to be moved at all, and when Zhao Youzong's bell stopped, he said with a sigh, "The Five Ghost Handling Technique in Witchcraft, it seems that you are not just raising little ghosts, that is to say, taking your life today, but also for the heavens." ”
After the five ghosts appeared, they surrounded us, and although they could not see their faces clearly, they could feel their ferocity and violence, and such ghosts were definitely not easy to deal with.
Xi'er quickly leaned over to my side.
The fourth uncle has a lot of ways to deal with ghosts, probably because he thinks that the five ghosts in the five ghost handling techniques are not easy to deal with, but the fourth uncle still stamped the seal on his left and right hands, and walked up with strange steps (I later learned that it was Yu Bu, which is used by Taoist priests to collect ghosts).
At this time, the five ghosts hissed miserably, and rushed towards the fourth uncle, the yin wind was blowing, and the fourth uncle's robe rose without wind, and the fourth uncle shouted "Come!" The palm of my hand suddenly stretched out in a strange posture, and I felt like a low thunder sounded above my head, and the air seemed to tremble, and the five ghosts were shaken far away. There was fear in his eyes at the same time.
Although the five ghosts he summoned are powerful, he is also afraid of characters who are more powerful than them, such as the fourth uncle at this time.
Zhao Youzong, who was sitting on the chair, didn't seem to expect that he actually stood up, grabbed the bell and shook it fiercely, the bell and the four ghosts have some kind of mysterious connection, Zhao Youzong rang the bell, the five ghosts became even more irritable, and it looked like they were about to break out again.
The fourth uncle suddenly asked me to stand away, and I saw that the fourth uncle still had a calm expression, and I didn't know what means to use, and Xi'er retreated many steps in a row, and was about to retreat to the gate of the courtyard.
Seeing us push away, the fourth uncle suddenly threw out a talisman seal and quickly read a string of ciphertext.
Then there was a loud "bang" in the courtyard, and a lightning-like light appeared, making a noise in the air, a dark blue, as if there was an electric current jumping, and the five ghosts screamed in unison, and disappeared at the same time.
And Xi'er also exclaimed, and instantly hid in the ring, I dare to guarantee that she must be scolding my fourth uncle in her heart, if she hadn't reacted quickly, she would have been hurt by this talisman.
And the fourth uncle stood calmly in the courtyard, seemingly unscathed.
Zhao Youzong really couldn't sit still, it seemed that he wanted to use the five ghosts to kill us in the courtyard, but he didn't expect these four extremely vicious ghosts to be beaten by the fourth uncle's talisman and didn't know where to go.
In fact, the ghosts in these four secret methods are powerful, thinking that when a hundred ghosts surrounded the house before, the fourth uncle just shouted a roll word, and all the ghosts fled in despair.
Zhao Youzong stood up and suddenly pulled the table aside, and the kerosene lamp on the table suddenly fell crooked and went out, and at the moment when the kerosene lamp went out, I saw that the table was densely packed with black jars, and there were no nearly a hundred.
I vaguely saw that Zhao Youzong was bending down and pushing to the altar.
Then I heard the sound of the Suo, and the sound of the Suo was terrifying, and I didn't know what he was in the jar, but it was never a good thing.
I never dreamed that the person behind the scenes was Zhao Youzong, and I kept thinking about it, how could he have so many evil arts? Why harm people?