Chapter 33: The Eyes Outside the Window
At night, as soon as the pointer pointed to half past seven, Shen Yingxing and Xie Shasha went out of the room, and just walked into the courtyard, but they saw the old woman who got up at night.
There is only one old man living in the red eaves house in the four corners, Lingjun is an old man over there, and Xie Shasha is an old woman here.
As soon as the two went out, they collided with the old woman.
"You're going out."
The old woman held the candle and protected the flame with the other hand, and the light of the fire was mostly blocked, and only the drooping eyes of the old woman could be faintly seen.
"Old woman, we're not going out, we're a little thirsty, and we're going to boil some water to drink."
"It's good not to go out, don't walk around the village at night, it's easy to run into unclean things."
The old woman leaned over, held the candle and turned slowly, and returned to her room slowly.
The two were silent, quietly opened the gate, opened a small crack, drilled out of the gate, and walked towards the entrance of the village.
The roads around are quiet, every house has no lights, and I have been in the village for so long that I have not seen other villagers at night.
Finally arrived at the entrance of the village, Xu Qian and Ling Xun had been waiting for each other early, and the four of them gathered.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but it seems that there is fog in the village, and the night wind blows, and the chill goes straight into everyone's body.
"Let's go see the villagers, don't you think it's strange, in this village, there are no traces of the villagers' activities at night, and the room is not lit."
Listening to Shen Yingxing's words, everyone also noticed the disobedience in the village.
"Then let's go to that house first."
"The first one on the left."
Shen Yingxing pointed to the house she pointed to, the lantern in front of the door swayed in the wind, and it was pitch black.
The people walked towards the house, and the threshold for the door was very high, as if the threshold for the door of the house was very high.
The building in the house is very different, and when you open the door, there is a long corridor, and the night is dark, and the cool breeze blows through the corridor, blowing the lanterns hanging in the corridor to the ground.
Everyone walked through the hallway, and around the corner was a room, the fire in the room flickered on and off, and several people looked at each other and crouched under the window.
The room was quiet, only the light of the fire flickered and the light was reflected in front of the window.
Just as everyone was listening intently, a vague red figure suddenly appeared at the end of the corridor, moving slowly in the darkness.
When the first lantern passed, the lantern lit automatically, and by the light of the lantern, everyone finally saw what the red figure was.
It turned out to be seven or eight children dressed in red, one by one putting their hands on the shoulders of the people in front of them, their heads lowered, and slowly moving forward step by step.
Seeing this scene at night brings an incomparably huge impact to people's perceptions.
The child moved, getting closer and closer, and only then did everyone see the face of the first child, and he stretched out his hand straight, and showed a strange smile with that miserable white face.
"Enter the room!"
Shen Yingxing immediately pushed open the door, and several people entered the room with their waists bent.
The room was around the corner of the hallway, and the small child could not see them.
The room is not big, only a set of tables and chairs and a bed, there are white candles burning on the table, most of the candles have been burned, Shen Yingxing blew out the candles and found a chair to sit down.
Everyone found a chair and sat down, Xie Shasha glanced at it, but through the window she saw a woman standing in the courtyard, with her back to the window, wearing a long red dress and long black hair.
The woman stood silently in the courtyard, her indifferent back like a frozen statue.
Xie Shasha still wanted to get closer to see clearly, but when she slowly walked into the window, the room suddenly lit up, only to see that the white candle suddenly lit itself.
Shen Yingxing reacted very quickly and blew out the candle, everyone's breathing became softer, and everyone felt a line of sight, a line of sight projected from outside the window.
Everyone was staring at the window, not knowing if Xie Shasha was too nervous, she even felt herself hear the slight sound of the breeze blowing through the hem of her skirt.
Then, something slowly rubbed against the window paper, and a moment later, a small hand pierced the thin layer of window paper.
A dark eye appeared behind the window, peering into the room with malicious intent.
Everyone quietly crouched down and hid under the blind corner of the window.
That eye looked outside for a long time, and finally didn't find the person hiding in the room, sighed a little regretfully, and slowly removed his eyes.
But the crowd remained motionless, staring at the window vigilantly.
Sure enough, a few seconds later, black eyes reappeared, still no one was found, black eyes revealed anger, staring straight into the room.
It wasn't until a melodious singing sound came from outside that the owner of the eye left the window completely.
The group waited for a few more moments, making sure there was no sound outside, then they straightened up and lit the white candle in the room.
"What are those kids, ghosts?" Xu Qian couldn't wait to ask.
"I just saw through the window the back of a woman, wearing a red dress, standing there."
Xie Shasha also hurriedly spoke, pointing to the courtyard outside the window and said.
Shen Yingxing walked over and pushed open the window, the courtyard was pitch black, only the lantern hanging under the eaves brought a faint light.
The women in the courtyard had long since disappeared, even with the children.
"Those kids are ghosts." Shen Yingxing explained to Xu Qian.
"Let's go to that house and have a look." Shen Yingxing pointed to the house with lanterns hanging under the eaves.
The rest of the people had no objections, and Ling Xun crossed his arms and followed behind Shen Yingxing.
Pushing open the door of the room, he collapsed through the threshold, the room was dark, and there was a humanoid on the bed, covered with a thick quilt.
Shen Yingxing stepped forward and lifted the quilt, and there was a middle-aged man lying in the quilt, about forty years old, lying peacefully on the bed.
Xie Shasha snorted and probed his pulse again, "This person is dead." ”
Shen Yingxing took out the flashlight and shone it on the man's face, the man's face was blue-gray, the corpse spots covered his cheeks, his eyes were closed, but his face had the same smile as the fairy Niangniang, the same compassion.
"If I look at the other people's houses, I suspect that the village is full of dead people."
After leaving the gate, I went to several houses in a row to check, and the people in the village were all lying peacefully on their beds, they had been dead for a long time, and the corpses were a little rotten and stinky, but everyone had the same smile on their faces.
"Tomorrow morning, let's go to the Fairy Temple to have another look, this copy gives me a complicated feeling, there are too many deceptive things in it."
Shen Yingxing frowned, the others did not have any objections, and unconsciously, she had become the one who gave orders.